Broadcast news: the domain of the blue hairs
Sitting in a bagel shop the other day, I overheard a couple of elderly women sharing opinions on a matter that was obviously of great importance to ... . And if it's a commodity, then by definition a buyer doesn't need to pay a heavy price to own it. So as Lydia, Liz ... . But there are no tears here, that's for sure.Brodcast news has become a cheap commod [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 19:15:00
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Baltic Dry Index Continues to Fall, Now 90% Below May Level, Ships Sitting Idle
Despite some calls that a commodities bottom is nigh (see Marc Faber, hat tip reader Megan) ... , a specialized maritime investment bank. ``Demand for commodities is definitely slowing down,'' Yu Mengguo, a senior analyst at Jinpeng International Futures Co., said in a phone interview from Beijing [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 22:08:01
We’re from the government, and we’re here to help
Good Afternoon: Volatile days like today, ones that see poor news flow met with calls for more government action, may defy description for some ... broad-based. Oil continued to drop, and its move below $60/bbl. definitely hurt commodity-related names [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 19:57:16
Buzzwords (1): "Reification"
reify : to treat (an abstraction) as substantially existing, or as a concrete material object.As the dictionary suggests, to reify is to thing-ify: to treat what is not a thing as a thing. (This is the sense the word carries in Marx's definition of commodity fetishism: reification of persons [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 16:50:00
Copper: the Ugly Metal that Trades So Beautifully
Copper is in high demand worldwide, and is definitely a hot commodity for traders to watch as nations like China continue rapidly developing their economies and infrastructure. [more...]
Date: 2008-07-10 07:11:00
As oil stays up, the target on speculators' backs gets bigger
Congress' current favorite definition of an Enemy of the State: ... commodities. Four different congressional committees are taking up the question of why oil is so high ... to limit speculation in energy-futures markets, four energy analysts told Congress." Do you believe [more...]
Date: 2008-06-24 03:18:41
Homo Sacer Quartet
(an article written by our comrades at flesh machine) A boy resides out-of-place. Two pigs charge into the out-of-place ... life out-of-place, on every life that is acted not as a contemplation of privacy and its commodity ... in itself, but about the creation or the definition of a space where juridico-political order [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 09:01:22
Posting your most private information online… Yay or nay?
Mitch Joel, today, in his TwistImage blog revealed some alarming statistics about young teens and how so many of them have electronically ... YOUR kid? Has private information become less valuable and more of a commodity? I would like to hear your thoughts. Is the definition of privacy changing? Should we no longer be scared of posting private [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 15:13:04
If you can’t make assumptions, then don’t bother with JavaScript
If you have not already, then I suggest you read The seven rules of Unobtrusive JavaScript ... distribution, but they are a marketable commodity that at times requires the use of a technology ... a definition that only speaks to a very narrow view. The negative connotation takes focus away [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 02:43:10
TOP 100 HEAVYWEIGHT PROSPECTS AND AMATEUR DRAFT
When the 18 year old Mike Tyson brutally demolished opponents in the mid 80-s, ... commodity. A prospect is not necessarily undefeated even if an undefeated fighter is almost per definition a prospect. If you haven’t smelled defeat your still on your way up. But if your loss [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 23:22:00
A critique of the market as optimal system, and remedies for the meltdown
Why is it that: “The need for a pervasive, permanent role of government in directing investment also emerges from more recent studies of economic ... outcomes rests on Pareto optimality, an absurdly narrow definition of social goals. A proposal ... competition only leads to the right outcomes if everything that matters is a marketable commodity [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 12:48:22
Solutions for primary care
A medical student recently challenged us to "quit whining" about primary care ... (as I have written previously.) As you read this missive, consider the broader definition of primary care ... . We must pay them for all their time. Primary care physicians have only time as a commodity [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 13:48:42
Cloud Computing
Dr. Fuzzy wrote up a post about cloud computing - Cloud Cognition. Is the definition of “cloud computing” too broad? ... machines (virtual) that can be booted up and used quickly. Very cool, but very much a commodity [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 18:13:07
We need a new definition of outrageous
Via FT Alphaville, I read Saxo Bank’s self-described outrageous predictions for 2009 ... to drop 30% to 150. The Commodity bubble is bursting, with speculative excesses so large [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 22:19:10
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Jennifer Aniston Has No Clothes First of all, I'd like to apologize to all you fans of Jennifer Aniston out there who continue to find solace in this woman's wooden acting and lackluster films and her now four-year crusade to let Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt know she's nonplussed about the whole cheating/marriage break-up thing [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 15:43:39
A World to Win
Notes for an introduction to perspectives by Rob Petersen This article was presented to a forum in August last year iand was forwarded to History matters by one of our readers. It present a very interesting perspective on the world and South African situation and we hope that you will enjoy read on. 1 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 05:56:02
The Object of Writing is to Grow a Personality Which in the End Allows One to Transcend Art — Lawrence Durrell
Recently I was answering questions in an e-mail magazine interview, and came to this one: “What do you hope to accomplish with your books?” I stopped typing. I stopped moving. Quite possibly I was legally deceased for two or three seconds. There’s a Zen saying I learned in seminary as ‘Unask the question [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 04:40:43
Part One: An Ecology of Angels.
A Sentience Without FormOne of earliest creatures of an intermediate and indeterminate realm known to our species that encompasses both the formalized range of human ruminations, as well as the intuitive senses held in the intelligence of the heart, (that instrument of cognition being of greater sensitivity than that of the intellect) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 19:58:00
False Diagnosis of Deflation
by Jim Willie, CB. Editor, Hat Trick Letter | January 2, 2009 One of the most bothersome questions from 2005 to 2007 used to be whether the Untied States would ultimately submit to inflation or deflation. This is actually the wrong question. Many analysts in my view are incorrect in their conclusion that the US suffers from a powerful deflation [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 14:01:11
Jimmy Swaggart Dormatories For America
Capitalism contains a fairly efficient and fluid value system: a person, item or service is worth whatever demand for that person, item or service is willing to pay. Any particular commodity in our society is worth more than a comparable commodity if it possesses some quality that the prospective buyer finds useful. However [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 23:41:49
DrumBeat: December 23, 2008
Steve LeVine - Blunder: A New Age for Russia In August, Putin’s Russia seemed unstoppable, specifically after its five-day war with Georgia punctured the appearance of a new era of U.S. power in the former Soviet Caucasus and Central Asia. Georgia seemed the crowning achievement of a several-year-campaign of projecting Russian power over its [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 14:14:56
USDA Issues Final Rule on Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2009 — (USDA) The United States Department of Agriculture today announced details of the final regulation for the mandatory ... agricultural commodities (specifically fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables); macadamia nuts; pecans; ginseng and peanuts. Commodities covered under COOL must be labeled at retail to indicate [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 16:33:08
Programming and Production
I went down a six hour sinkhole last night on a project I’ve been working on for the last week or so, ... not a commodity, but that’s a lesson for a different time. I mention it only because once you start thinking about programming as production it’s pretty easy to think of it as a commodity. Both views [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 19:04:48
A Philosophy For Everyday Living
A Guest Post by John A. WoodPassing The Buck (Shifting the Burden of Responsibility)PREAMBLEA daydream of mine, destined to be unfulfilled, is to know how my grandfathers saw life - in a sense, what their philosophy for everyday living was. What follows, like the grab-bag of personal musings I’ve penned over the past 15 years, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:56:07
Bloggers vs. Journalists Redux, part N
Bloggers vs. Journalists Redux, part N Category: Media Some guy named Mulshine, who is apparently an ancient journalist (remember: generation is mindset, not age), penned one of those idiotic pieces for Wall Street Journal, willingly exposing his out-datedness and blindness to the world - read it yourself and chuckle: [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 04:08:17
Project Humanbeingsfirst Index
Honorific of the day “you are a completely stupid fool, a disgrace to humanity” -- Paul Craig Roberts, United States Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Dec 06, 2008Quote of the day “The answer to 1984 is 1776” -- Alex Jones “The answer to 1776 is the USA Patriot Act” -- The Chairman “The answer to Patriot Acts anywhere is Gandhi ” [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 22:06:00
Project Humanbeingsfirst Index
Honorific of the day “you are a completely stupid fool, a disgrace to humanity” -- Paul Craig Roberts, United States Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Dec 06, 2008Quote of the day “The answer to 1984 is 1776” -- Alex Jones “The answer to 1776 is the USA Patriot Act” -- The Chairman “The answer to Patriot Acts anywhere is Gandhi” [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 22:40:00
Folk Music, The Middle Class Mafia and Life By Proxy
WARNING - This blog post has lots of bad language in it. That is because I am pissed off. If you are offended by bad language then dont read it.I have just read a hilarious blog posting by a Daily Telegraph writer, Emma Hartley, about Folk Music and the fact that Nick Griffin ( aka The Devil) has taken to appearing at folk music gigs.http://blogs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 09:45:00
Confusing Words and Phrases that are Worth Avoiding or how to do bad stuff and not feel bad about it
It turns out that the GNU Org has some recommendations for people who are releasing software using the GPL or General Public License, ... so I am going to add some comical commentary to this page on the GNU Project or Free Software ... don’t confuse people. Even though we want software to be a free for all love fest, we don’t want [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 21:25:39
Money: What is it? How is it defied? and What are its Functions?
The concept of money is actually very interesting. We look in our wallet and see wealth (or nothing like me) ... types of money. The first is commodity money. This is "an item (i.e.- gold or silver) which meets ... or some other commodity money." This is the form of money nearly every nation in the world uses, however [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 19:42:17
Money: What is it? How is it defied? and What are its Functions? -From the Economics Page!
The concept of money is actually very interesting. We look in our wallet and see wealth (or nothing like me) ... types of money. The first is commodity money. This is "an item (i.e.- gold or silver) which meets ... or some other commodity money." This is the form of money nearly every nation in the world uses, however [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 20:02:02
Achievement 2008, Challenge 2009
Sri Lanka closes out its 60th year of Independence, though in the strictest sense it lasts till the beginning of next February when we celebrate our 61st Independence Day. It is a moment to take stock. Due to all the wrong turnings we took and the right ones we did not at and since our Independence six decades ago, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 02:18:07
Intellectual In-Breeding and Mutations of Corporate Governance
Why do people resist change? What causes stasis in organizations? Why do groups run for a while and do really well, then get bogged down? (And why do I feel I can answer this in a blog post?) The meeting of social forces and business forces sets the stage for answering the questions above [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 04:56:23
"Millionaire" Redefined Yet Again
The financial crisis has seemingly spared no one, including the once ballooning number of millionaires. Millionaires are becoming a rare commodity, and it could be said that the title once again means something. While millionaires still worry about the same things normal people do, sometimes [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 19:23:19
The Global Financial Crisis: A Short Course on Commodity Trading
Due to all the recent global financial strife, DBKP wanted to look at one segment of the global financial sector, commodity trading, and how it fits into the world’s economy. Commodities What is a commodity? Lets start ... products, metals, petroleum, gasoline, heating oil, and natural gas. The term commodity may refer [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 21:18:59
What is a bear market rally?
As the global financial crisis plays out, Report on Business writer Richard Blackwell examines and explains the economic outlook and the turmoil in credit and stock markets. Here, we answer your questions daily, with the most recent at the top. What is a “bear market rally”? [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 11:05:51
Romans #177-12.2
Romans #177-12.2-20071223Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 11:48:00
President-Elect Obama's CIA Chief, Leon Panetta: "I Am Not a Spy, But I Saw a James Bond Movie Once!"
The process of selecting a new team of cabinet officers to serve the president elect is excruciating - painful to watch, painful to hear about, and painful to understand. What we have as the Bush administration prepares to hand over the reins to Barack Obama's administration is cronyism at its finest [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 18:25:30
Mandel's Mistakes in Marxist Economic Theory
One of the functions of this blog is to try to stimulate discussion on various aspects of Marxist Theory, ... , and the historical development of economic categories retains its force today. My copy of Mandel's book ... Three - "Money, Capital, Surplus Value" - Mandel looks at the historical material detailing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 22:17:00
Plenty to go around
Since I’m still in the holiday spirit I thought I’d let my warm and fuzzy side out for another stroll… always a scary and unpredictable affair ... place… where one person’s gain must almost by definition be accompanied by another person’s loss [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 14:25:37
Dark Side of Enlightenment 2.0
A recent look back at Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum put me in mind of current “eliminativist” theories of science prevalent among philosophers whose ... of its knowledge products). Bacon repeatedly ties this definition of scientific knowledge to imperial expansion [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 22:48:47
01-12-09 USDA ISSUES FINAL RULE ON MANDATORY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELING
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2009 — The United States Department of Agriculture today announced details of the final regulation for the mandatory country of ... . Commodities are excluded from mandatory COOL if the commodity is an ingredient in a processed food item.The ... . Excluded from COOL labeling are items derived from a covered commodity that has undergone [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 16:07:50
CBS’s Reid Looks at Barack Obama’s New Deal
On CBS’s Sunday Morning, correspondent Chip Reid compared Obama’s economic plan to that of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal: "During the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt started the Works Progress Administration, the WPA. It would put 8.5 million to work...Now a new American president-elect is vowing to put the country back to work [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 22:31:18
Words from the (investment) wise 12.28.08
Investors spent the holiday-shortened Christmas week in an un-merry mood, digesting more gloomy economic data and taking stock of a tumultuous 2008. With the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Index down by 35.8% and 40.6% respectively for the year to date, many investors would be anxious to wave the old year goodbye [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 12:31:33
In The News Today
Jim Sinclair’s Commentary A hint for the market "Wise Guys ... Gold Shares (trading symbol GLD) climbed to 705.90 metric tons on July 11, before backing down ... . Rising ETF holdings are generally described as supportive for a commodity such as gold or silver [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 18:43:51
Developing the Distributist Program: Part Two
by Jay P. Corrin"Here we go on the great adventure of the royal personage in impenetrable disguise" -G.K. ChestertonEric Gill’s Distributist essays dealt chiefly with the problems arising from the use of money in modern society and the necessity of restoring ownership to the working classes [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 09:00:00
Do our banks really loan us money or not?
BanketeeringbyDave PattersonSept 2008The Canadian banks, in collusion with the most senior levels of your government, have engineered one of the greatest frauds in Canadian history over the last 30 years, and stolen over two trillion dollars from Canadian taxpayers, and the tap is still running [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 12:53:00
CFP: Relational Theories of Organization
Call for Papers—Special Issue onTowards a Relational Understanding of Organization and Value: For Whom? For What? To What Effect?Guest Editors: Craig Prichard, Massey University, New Zealand Sarah Stookey, Central Connecticut State University, USA Stefano Harney, Queen Mary, University of London, UKDeadline for submissions: [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 19:56:42
The Spatial Instrumentality of Torture: An Interview with Tom Hilde
It’s no secret Subtopia is greatly concerned with the issue of torture and the movements towards its abolition, but not just the idea of torture or even its practice, but specifically the spatial production of it [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 01:57:00
2009 - The Year Of The Mother
© Copyright CHRISTINE DELOREY 2009 - All Rights ReservedYou see the stars are moving so slowly But still the earth is moving so fast Can’t you see ... your call. Send your love into the future Send your precious love into some distant time, And fix that wounded planet with the love of your healing. Send your love, Send your love……..STINGWe create the f [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 22:54:09
