Huffington Post contributor and Former Assistant Secretary and Spokesperson for the US State Department P. J. Crowley, who resigned on principle over the shadowy incarceration of font of embarrassment and entrapment, has an excellent and thoughtful entry regarding the disposition of super-powers for a super-power without an operational government.
Thursday 31 March 2011
penny-ante or tin-roof rusted
catagories: economic policy, foreign policy
Wednesday 30 March 2011
in the meantime, in between time, ain't we got fun?
The newest, latent source of worry--though it is hard to tell from the volume of the shouting, is the threat of a US federal government budget impasse. Despite all the suspense dates, reporting requirements, fiat debt-ceilings and endless bureaucracies in place, this body of lawmakers has ignored its own rules, and failing to agree on a fiscal budget, has funded day-to-day operations through a series of so-called "continuing resolutions," an allowance every two or three weeks of a few billion dollars. If no compromise on funding is reached very soon, then the US government will be forced to suspend operations--selectively--or risk defaulting on its obligations--that is, paying dividends on bond-issues, their debt held by foreign governments, outstanding contracts to private business, and social services. I can remember the Government Shutdown of 1995-1996, as I was living near the Washington, DC area and I remember making the trek up there by public-transportation--which always seemed impossibly difficult, but on returning recently for my college reunion, I realized that those distances that seemed so insurmountable and bothersome were greatly diminished--to see a special exhibit at the National Gallery.
They won't smash up our Pierce Arrow,
We ain't got none
They've cut my wages
But my income tax will be so much smaller
When I'm paid off,
I'll be laid off
Ain't we got fun?
catagories: America, economic policy, labour
Tuesday 29 March 2011
betrรผgerisch or we are unanimous, we are legion
A politician from Germany’s Green Party, whose success in recent state-elections certainly has more to do with such long-standing insults as described and corporate steam-rolling autocracy rather than reactionary fears over atomic energy from just yesterday, presents a marvelous and disturbing expose (auf Englisch) on the dastardly ways that big business has at its disposal for keeping tabs on anyone, and introduces it with the prescient words of Kraftwerk’s Computerwelt.
catagories: ๐ถ, ๐ฅธ, networking and blogging
Monday 28 March 2011
meritocracy or redirected from micro-publishing
Sunday 27 March 2011
democritus or up-and-atom
catagories: ⚛️, ๐ช๐บ, ๐ช️, ๐ก, economic policy
Saturday 26 March 2011
licht aus
catagories: environment, holidays and observances
Friday 25 March 2011
portemonnaie or a hole in your pocket
catagories: ๐ง , lifestyle, networking and blogging
Thursday 24 March 2011
ego ideal or black narcissus
catagories: ๐ง , networking and blogging