“I haven’t finished reading the book; I don’t want to know who wins, capitalism or the climate, but I assume it’s capitalism because the book costs $30 and it’s printed on dead trees.”
–Stephen Colbert, interviewing Naomi Klein (23 Sept 2014)
Weak and uneven global economic recovery? Like the remedies applied to the financial system.
The IMF has slightly downgraded economic forecasts and highlighted regional stagnation in its latest World Economic Outlook. It certainly seems that some regions are more positive than they have been, and that seems related to good economic management. It is not easy to be prescriptive in this increasingly complex world, but economic growth rates of …
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Garlic – a wonder food.
Garlic! The French love it. The Koreans love it. We love it. Strong and crunchy raw, or soft and sweet when cooked. Or crushed into a paste with sea salt to be added to anything. Tasty? Yes! And also invaluable as a remedy for common ailments as its antiseptic properties can purge your body and …
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Your money and your life. What kind of deal is that?
EDF wants to extend the life of a 40 year old nuclear reactor which has cracks in it. So, what do you think that’s about? Money. EDF can patch the reactor to get another decade out of it and all the revenue that comes with it. That is small marginal investment for large incremental cash …
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DTRTTRW in yoga pants: FouseyTube
More than 15 million people have watched Yousef Saleh Erakat’s most popular video – the Yoga Pants Prank. It’s funny and it works. Erakat highlights embarrassing aspects of modern culture, like men gawking at women (when they shouldn’t) and women flaunting their booty in public, which encourages men to be misogynistic and other women to flaunt …
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Poor in America: conditions influence behaviour too.
Try being poor. OK, that’s not going to happen. The closest some people come of us come is “slumming it”. Or maybe we eat at a roadside kiosk while backpacking during a year “off” before or after college. Actually not having resources, no cash, no car, no home, no job, no education, no family, no …
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In my lifetime, we’ve wiped out half earth’s wildlife
And more than doubled the weight of humans (not including all our stuff). Will they all be gone when my children are my age? The latest edition of the Living Planet Report is not for the faint-hearted. The Living Planet Index (LPI), which measures more than 10,000 representative populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and …
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Hong Kong is not the Middle East, but …
These pictures make me sad. Hong Kong people are wonderful and in a decade of living there I never felt threatened, not even in Kowloon’s Walled City (admittedly that was in the early 1990s). I believe people are still peaceful, but they are not careless and they want justice and equity, just like everyone else. …
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Think! … before you do the ice bucket challenge, and a few other things
It’s true that I didn’t fancy the idea of getting a bucket of water over my head to avoid making a charitable donation. And it’s true that I could be more charitable. But, this video is a memorable way of delivering the message: Water is precious, look after it. People in Ireland (where there’s relatively …
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Standing up to bullies … works?
A senior legal investigator was fired by the FED for standing up to Goldman Sachs and her bosses at the FED. She got fired for doing her job. What happened? She highlighted the corruption in the FED and Goldman Sachs which was protecting bosses and their cash at the expense of Goldman Sachs clients and …
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