It is indefensible to earn fortunes by giving away the property of others, like the group of individuals behind a popular file-sharing web had accomplished. The vicious attacks and entrapment on the part of Federales, pressed into service by Hollywood who in turned leaned on international law-enforcement to make the apprehensions, is going to extremes.
Friday 20 January 2012
talons or red-herring/black-flag
catagories: ๐ฅธ, America, foreign policy, networking and blogging
Wednesday 18 January 2012
byzantine
catagories: ๐ง , America, economic policy, foreign policy, networking and blogging
Tuesday 10 January 2012
penny dreadful
catagories: ๐ง , America, Europe, foreign policy
Monday 12 December 2011
titanomachy or primus inter pares
In a dispatch from the Swiss edition of thelocal, the central government of the Helvetic Confederacy in Bern is reluctant to share (otherwise befriend America) access to its electronic criminal records database with the United States. The arrangement is not reciprocal, mutual as Switzerland isn’t taking on the whole onerous burden of America’s security apparatus but Swiss authorities are expected to surrender all the vital information of its citizens, in case a native ne’er-do-well ever decides to visit the States, and the only thing that the Swiss people are getting in return for this openness and trust for the US to safeguard its information better than the US can keep track of its own is the right to travel to the States under the Visa-Waiver program, a government web-site that supposedly announces one’s plans and intentions well ahead of time but despite the publicity, one is asked the same stock questions by countless airport personnel coming and going, prodded and frisked just the same.
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, ๐ฅธ, America, economic policy, foreign policy, transportation
Sunday 11 December 2011
blue-plate special or everything’s up-to-date in kansas city
Sunday 4 December 2011
sopapilla oder net neutralitรคt
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, ๐ฅธ, America, language, networking and blogging
Thursday 1 December 2011
the other shoe
The last and latest insult is the natural consequence of unrelenting attacks on the arts and sciences in the States but is now assuming its final form with the failure of the Congressional Super-Committee to trim the government budget. I suspect that no one had much faith that the Super-Committee would succeed, so some analysts saying that the failure was a good fiscal outcome as automatic reductions have been put into motion is not a very genuine endorsement. Perhaps brute enforcement will force some choices and some discipline but programs targeted on contingency of this breakdown are, besides social programs, funding for art programs and research and development. Squandered inspiration and neglected imagination are intolerable wastes, and these proposals, in triplicate, even if overstated, are dangerous and would generate little in return, regardless who champions them. What gain, anticipated and delivered, could even begin to replace what's been lost? The torment in the end, like an overbearing and favoured step-sister however, may be just as listless and a paper-tiger as the tormentor.
Wednesday 30 November 2011
cloudy gray times, you are now a thing of the past
catagories: America, economic policy
Wednesday 16 November 2011
you used to ride on your chrome horse with your diplomat
catagories: America, foreign policy
Tuesday 15 November 2011
utopian gesture
catagories: America, economic policy, Europe, foreign policy, revolution
Sunday 2 October 2011
wallet inspector or nickel-and-dimed
Rarely I think new policies are introduced without calculated unpopularity, and I think that this is the case with the announcement of one of the biggest banks of America (recursively named) that it will begin charging its customers a nominal monthly convenience fee for using their point of sale debit cards.
catagories: ๐ง , America, economic policy
Thursday 29 September 2011
negative reinforcement or forever blowing bubbles
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, America, economic policy, environment, food and drink, health and medicine
Thursday 22 September 2011
marching orders
catagories: America, lifestyle, revolution
Monday 12 September 2011
cogitative bias
catagories: America, economic policy, Europe
try to remember that kind of september
catagories: ๐ฅธ, ๐ง , America, foreign policy, holidays and observances
Tuesday 6 September 2011
9/11^10
catagories: ๐ฅธ, America, economic policy, foreign policy, holidays and observances, labour, revolution, Star Wars
Friday 19 August 2011
manifest destiny
catagories: America, economic policy, foreign policy
Monday 15 August 2011
nom de guerre or incite-a-riot
catagories: ๐ฅธ, America, networking and blogging, revolution, transportation
Wednesday 3 August 2011
sisyphus or the united states of austerity
The American economy, industry and stability has ventured into very uncertain territory. After the enduring the battle of the wills that nearly resulting in a suspension of government services and furlough, I kind of lost interest in the posturing and mime that pushes the crisis but affect no real positive good. Some have described the atmosphere in Washington as bellicose, and though the work of exercizing democracy is not meant to be neat and courtly and hard decisions face America, it seems that the will and welfare of the people is not what's being won by all these histrionics and summoned rage.
catagories: America, economic policy, labour, revolution
Wednesday 13 July 2011
evasive maneuvers
catagories: America, economic policy