Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday, 27 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas, and the death penalty : The New Yorker
(tags: law politics texas newyorker deathpenalty crime)
Moisés Naím on the new power of shadow finance | Foreign Policy
Welcome to the new shadow financial system, a world where regulators are hampered and bankers are bold. The "old" shadow financial system, before the bubbles burst, thrived [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Monday, 26 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
Choike – Brave new world emerges from IMF and World Bank Istanbul meetings
"The IMF /World Bank 2009 Annual meetings were, as every three years, held outside of Washington, this time in the city of Istanbul. The meetings came on the heels of the recent summit of the Group of 20 in Pittsburgh, giving follow up [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sunday, 25 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BBC NEWS | Europe | Rich Germans demand higher taxes
"A group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes.
The group say they have more money than they need, and the extra revenue could fund economic and social programmes to aid Germany's economic recovery.
Germany could raise [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Saturday, 24 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BBC NEWS | Europe | Rich Germans demand higher taxes
"A group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes.
The group say they have more money than they need, and the extra revenue could fund economic and social programmes to aid Germany's economic recovery.
Germany could raise [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, 23 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Copenhagen Is a Recipe for Failure – By Bruce Bueno de Mesquita | Foreign Policy
Based on his game theory model/application (which purportedly has a 90% correct track record), says odds of reaching anything better than kyoto are slim and that over time we arent likely to get beyond about 10 "points" (20% over kyoto) reductions.
(tags: [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Thursday, 22 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Charles Kenny on why TV, not Facebook or Twitter, is going to revolutionize the world | Foreign Policy
Charles Kenny says TV variety changes the world, citing the effects of TV on birth and divorce rates among other stats. Don'e fully buy it, but it's interesting
"It's not Twitter or Facebook that's reinventing the planet. Eighty years [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Monday, 19 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Capitalism and financial crashes : The New Yorker
[A]s the Princeton economist Hyun Song Shin pointed out in a prescient 2005 paper. Most of the time, financial markets are pretty calm, trading is orderly, and participants can buy and sell in large quantities. Whenever a crisis hits, however, the biggest players—banks, investment banks, hedge funds—rush to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, 14 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.egyptcarpoolers.com/cms.php?id=public_landing_page
This is an interesting initiative. Site for CARPOOLING! in Egypt!
(tags: egypt carbon transport pollution)
Posted in Uncategorized on Sunday, 11 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
Egypt and beyond: Exile
As soon as the immigration officers at the airport pulled me aside and told me to wait “for a few minutes” I guessed what was about to happen, but I still didn't really believe it. I spent the next few hours in a limbo, with my immediate future in the hands of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, 9 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Afed…First Annual Conference of the Arab Forum for Environment and Development
(tags: arab environment lebanon policy MiddleEast)
The Euromed Partnership in the Light of the Global Economic Turmoil- Carnegie Middle East Center
(tags: europe eu euromed economic-crisis economy trade policy)
Posted in Uncategorized on Thursday, 8 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Carnegie Middle East Center
"like other G20 countries, it has been increasingly exposed to the challenges of globalization. The Saudis have been particularly affected by three markets that have witnessed tremendous volatility in the past two years: international finance, oil, and food commodities."
(tags: saudi-arabia food energy finance economy economics g20 food-security energy-policy)
Study paints rosy picture of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, 7 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
UN calls for new reserve currency – Yahoo! News
he United Nations called on Tuesday for a new global reserve currency to end dollar supremacy which has allowed the United States the "privilege" of building a huge trade deficit.
"Important progress in managing imbalances can be made by reducing the reserve currency country?s 'privilege' to run external [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sunday, 4 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BBC NEWS | Business | Pledge for more IMF help for poor
(tags: imf economy economic-crisis g20 globalization neoliberal poverty)
PM Netanyahu’s UN Speech
critique of Netanyahu's GA speech.
(tags: Netanyahu israel UN politics genocide gaza palestine history Holocaust)
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Egyptians nervous of Israeli culture
Who are these people covering the ME? This's a newsreport?
- Even [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, 2 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What Have We Done to Democracy?
too good to cut up into excerpts
(tags: india democracy development politics economics international neoliberal journalism law)
Headlines
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights defenders, a joint programme of the [..] (FIDH) and the World Organisation against Torture (OMCT), expresses its deepest concerns following the accusations against human rights organisations voiced [...]
Posted in Development, Economy, Energy, Environment, History, India, Politics, globalization on Thursday, 1 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is really too good for me to pick excerpts out of. It really expresses so much of what I believe is wrong with the world and to cut it up would diminish it. While focusing mainly on India, Arundhati Roy, author of the God of Small Things (a book I think is overrated since [...]
