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cyclical or structural?
Technological unemployment… Is our current unemployment malaise of cyclical or structural nature? According to Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz the answer is more stimulus, more government printed money washing through the economy as if at a luxury spa where we … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew McAfee author, Andrew McAfee MIT, Erik Brynjolfsson, GEA farm technology, Jeff Burnstein robotics, Joseph Stiglitz, Kiva robotics, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Noam Chomsky, Paul Krugman, Slavoj Zizek, steve kroft, technological unemployment, thomas friedman, thomas friedman new york times
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tears and fears: RIP (through) holy land
Attack Jerusalem? Launching rockets on the eternal city? Imagine the irony if a Hamas rocket hits the Dome of the Rock? Recoil time to play in the rubble. Something here about Walter Benjamin’s idea of children playing in trash and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, anselm kiefer, bernard lewis, Caroline Glick Jerusalem Post, David Rubinger, Gershon Baskin, Golda Meir, Heinrich Bunting, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, thomas friedman new york times, tom wesselmann, Walter Benjamin
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who cares what other people think…
Some things never change. Way back when David Ben Gurion said something to the effect…”What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.” So it was then, and so, to a great degree, it is today. … Continue reading
back to each other’s garden
Shake up the status quo.What started off as a bit of a stunt could gather steam, abate, and then come back stronger at a later date. This could be more serious than good natured letting off of steam. Maybe some … Continue reading
coke or pepsi?
Who is more dishonest, the Left or the Right? If Nate Silver was polling this scientifically, he would likely -19 times out of 20 with 5% deposit refundable on the empties- call it leaning with a qualified toss-up. It ultimately … Continue reading
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eyeless in benghazi
It smells funny. Its not the sulphur in a Libya oil field, but more like rotting fish on the Delaware… There would ostensibly have been enough time. The so-called mob, after sacking the KFC franchise, apparently had enough casual spare … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambassador Stevens Libya, Bernard Levy, Heather Childers, Henri Bernard-Levy, J. Christopher Stevens, Jane Whiting Chrzanoska, Kevin DuJan, Le Point Cet Islam Sans Gene, Leon Panetta, Libya Bani Walid, Marc Chagall, Operation Urgent Fury, SEAL Glen Doherty, thomas friedman new york times, Tony Shaffer, Tony Shaffer Fox, Wilhelm von Schadow
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your tax dollars at work….
Reading through the lines here. Prop up the Jordanian regime as much as possible…or preparing the terrain for the “Jordan is Palestine” lebensraum idea. Whatever it is, the alarm bells are ringing and Jordan is vulnerable. Planners and specialists sounds … Continue reading
bombs away: mullah strangelove
So then, just where are they going to drop this thing? (see link at end)…Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin on Thursday that Moscow does not believe Iran will use a nuclear weapon against Israel. “Thus … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Baltzer, Dr. Strangelove, Iran Nuclear Shah of Iran, Iran nuclear weapon, Marshall McLuhan, Muslim population centers Europe, Ray Kelley NYPD commissioner, Reuven Rivlin Knesset speaker, Sergey Lavrov Russian Foreign Minister, Stanley Kubrick, thomas friedman, thomas friedman new york times
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