Twenty Things July 7, 2010

Written by Wanda Koo

Twenty Things July 7, 2010

Janelle Monáe

Tightrope ft. Big Boi

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Voices From The Net

" with all these threads i am more and more starting to wonder what your final solution to the "muslim problem" would actually look like? according to you islam must be stopped at all costs right?? does that not translate into a fascist ideology right away the further we go down the road??? "

American Dream Is Elusive for New Generation

For young adults, the prospects in the workplace, even for the college-educated, have rarely been so bleak. Apart from the 14 percent who are unemployed and seeking work, as Scott Nicholson is, 23 percent are not even seeking a job, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The total, 37 percent, is the highest in more than three decades and a rate reminiscent of the 1930s.

U.S. data dogs on quest for sexier statistics

The United States is deluged with economic data, yet the figures cannot conclusively answer even the most fundamental questions: Is the recession really over? Are people living better? Is government serving its citizens well?

How Goldman Sachs gambled on starving the world's poor - and won

By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing. You're wrong. There's more. It turns out the most destructive of all their recent acts has barely been discussed at all. Here's the rest. This is the story of how some of the richest people in the world - Goldman, Deutsche Bank, the traders at Merrill Lynch, and more - have caused the starvation of some of the poorest people in the world, just so they could make a fatter profit.

Human-flesh search engines

Human-flesh search engines — renrou sousuo yinqing — have become a Chinese phenomenon: they are a form of online vigilante justice in which Internet users hunt down and punish people who have attracted their wrath. The goal is to get the targets of a search fired from their jobs, shamed in front of their neighbors, run out of town. It’s crowd-sourced detective work, pursued online — with offline results.

Voices From The Net

" way to man up people, I hope more take the lead since Our country will not. Go arizona and fuck off you worthless president "

Year On Earth

Science...and Art...and YouTube

Middle class families face a triple whammy

The claim made by the IMF's Financial Stability Report in 2005, in a seemingly throwaway remark, was that households had become the financial system's "shock absorber of last resort". In other words, whereas in previous eras, much of the pain of recession and financial crisis was borne by businesses or governments, with families afforded some degree of protection by the pensions system or welfare state, it was now households who were far more likely to face the music.

So Stupid it Hurts to Read:

ISLAM: What Is To Be Done?

In our own countries, aside from the obvious change in immigration policies, so that all Muslim immigration is halted, and naturalization will in the future include a much larger examination of the true beliefs of those who are asked to swear an oath of allegiance to the Constitution, and with a provision that citizenship will be stripped from those who perjured themselves in swearing such an oath, and then to point out that the Shari’a flatly contradicts the American Constitution in both letter and spirit, as the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights, flatly contradicts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of which it pretends to be merely an oh-so-slight “Islamic” variant. ".

Voices From The Net

" Every time I owned a house I got divorced, and never got the house I must add. "

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Economists are Idiots

Voices From The Net

" Since when was a preemptive strike called defensive maneuver??? Let me think.....hmmmmm....Wait, I remember now!

It was Adolph Hitler in 1939 attacking Poland!!! I wonder how that worked out for those guys during the Nuremburg trials....another hmmmmmmmm! "

On Blogs and Economic Discourse

The community of academic economists is increasingly coming to be judged not simply by peer reviewers at journals or by carefully screened and selected cohorts of students, but by a global audience of curious individuals spanning multiple disciplines and specializations. Voices that have long been silenced in mainstream journals now insist on being heard on an equal footing. Arguments on blogs seem to be judged largely on their merits, independently of the professional stature of those making them.

How Do You Value A Life? Economists Are Happy To Show You…

If policymakers went with what our mommies told us when we were little, they would argue that we’re all priceless. The logical extension of this is that if people are priceless little flowers, then any amount of expenditure is justified if it brings about any reduction in risk of death. However, I’m guessing even those that hold tightly to the belief that we are all special snowflakes would agree that a society shouldn’t spend $10 trillion to enact a change that will on average result in 2 fewer deaths per year. Those snowflake-defenders then need to realize that as soon as they make that judgment they’ve put an upper bound on the value of human life.

The Tragic Story of Human Success

The drawdown method that we call industrialism relied for its increase of opportunities upon use of resources that are not renewed in an annual cycle of organic growth. To expect to "do it again" is to expect to find other exhaustible resources each time we use up a batch of them. Only once could the technologically most advanced nations of mankind discover a second hemisphere to relieve the pressure in a filled-up first hemisphere; nevertheless, modern industrial societies have continued to behave as if massive "exploration" efforts could forever continue to "discover" additional deposits of mineral materials and fossil fuels. In short, industrial life depends on a perpetual hunt for required substances.

Maslow’s Pyramid Gets a Makeover

What are the fundamental forces that drive human behavior? A group of evolutionary thinkers offer an answer by revising one of psychology’s most familiar images.

Voices From The Net

" " This is why the border with Mexico should be militarized, and all hispanics deported out of the US, including the ones in prisons. The hispanic people are dysfunctional by American standards. It doesn't matter where they live or are from.

Kenneth Rogoff: Economic Reappraisal

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Early 1900s in Colour

n the early part of the 20th century French-Jewish capitalist Albert Kahn set about to collect a photographic record of the world, the images were held in an 'Archive of the Planet'. Before the 1929 stock market crash he was able to amass a collection of 180,000 metres of b/w film and more than 72,000 autochrome plates, the first industrial process for true colour photography

Batshit Craziness for the Thinking Challenged:

Christian Coalition Wants "Twilight" Books Banned

"We can let our voices be heard, and anytime you do that you have an effect one way or another," Combs says. "These Twilight books are very disturbing books for family values. Teen marriage is not the standard, but the part that is more troubling is the vampire. It's just not normal for young people to idolize a vampire." ".

Voices From The Net

" " Sorry, I have no idea of what you are trying to say. (did your education ever include paragraphs?) Sorry, your post may indeed be a valuable observation, but I simply cannot-- follow your--report(?) (crap?)

Could you possibly present it in a readable format? Perhaps I could even agree if I had the strength to follow all of your B.S. What in the world are you trying to say? 100 words or less? Give us a break, Kitten! Whew! *#*$*%@

I will probably get {banned} for this, but whatever, I' like to understand where you are coming from. Sorry, I'm not really being critical, I just would like to understand and maybe learning something?

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