Reckon » Politics http://reckon.ws/wp The whole world's a stage Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:12:29 +0000 en hourly 1 Where trivia and gossip pass for news… http://reckon.ws/wp/where-trivia-and-gossip-pass-for-news.htm http://reckon.ws/wp/where-trivia-and-gossip-pass-for-news.htm#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:38:11 +0000 reckon http://reckon.ws/wp/?p=439
  • Inverted Commas:  Andy Warhol: Interesting Andy Warhol quote via Boing Boing and The Happiness Project:
    "Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.”
  • In all of these cases, U.S. multinationals have offered the same defense: Cooperating with draconian demands to turn in customers and censor material is, unfortunately, the price of doing business in China. Some, like Google, have argued that despite having to limit access to the Internet, they are contributing to an overall increase of freedom in China. It's a story that glosses over the much larger scandal of what is actually taking place: Western investors stampeding into the country, possibly in violation of the law, with the sole purpose of helping the Communist Party spend billions of dollars building Police State 2.0. This isn't an unfortunate cost of doing business in China: It's the goal of doing business in China. "Come help us spy!" the Chinese government has said to the world. And the world's leading technology companies are eagerly answering the call. via Rolling Stone
  • Frame analysis reveals the complexity of mundane social activities and it brings out the arbitrary nature of any fixed, social-domain or activity-based dichotomy between what is "staged" and what is "real". It brings out the reality-constructing capacities of what is staged, but also the staged nature of the everyday tangibly real. Note in this respect for instance that mass-media communication - including especially the solidly real called "news broadcasting" - is saturated by frame laminations which are deliberately and purposefully staged. What's more, an understanding of media communication is rather hard to arrive at, unless one comes to terms with the constructed pretense of an absence of mediation and the audiences' routine submission to an illusion of direct communication - even in situations where such a pretense becomes extremely hard to sustain... via Stef Slembrouck | What is meant by discourse analysis?
    • Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>     A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies. And we are dying now. We will either wake from our state of induced childishness, one where trivia and gossip pass for news and information, one where our goal is not justice but an elusive and unattainable happiness, to confront the stark limitations before us, or we will continue our headlong retreat into fantasy.  - Hedges

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    1. Inverted Commas:  Andy Warhol: Interesting Andy Warhol quote via Boing Boing and The Happiness Project:
      "Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.”
    2. In all of these cases, U.S. multinationals have offered the same defense: Cooperating with draconian demands to turn in customers and censor material is, unfortunately, the price of doing business in China. Some, like Google, have argued that despite having to limit access to the Internet, they are contributing to an overall increase of freedom in China. It's a story that glosses over the much larger scandal of what is actually taking place: Western investors stampeding into the country, possibly in violation of the law, with the sole purpose of helping the Communist Party spend billions of dollars building Police State 2.0. This isn't an unfortunate cost of doing business in China: It's the goal of doing business in China. "Come help us spy!" the Chinese government has said to the world. And the world's leading technology companies are eagerly answering the call. via Rolling Stone
    3. Frame analysis reveals the complexity of mundane social activities and it brings out the arbitrary nature of any fixed, social-domain or activity-based dichotomy between what is "staged" and what is "real". It brings out the reality-constructing capacities of what is staged, but also the staged nature of the everyday tangibly real. Note in this respect for instance that mass-media communication - including especially the solidly real called "news broadcasting" - is saturated by frame laminations which are deliberately and purposefully staged. What's more, an understanding of media communication is rather hard to arrive at, unless one comes to terms with the constructed pretense of an absence of mediation and the audiences' routine submission to an illusion of direct communication - even in situations where such a pretense becomes extremely hard to sustain... via Stef Slembrouck | What is meant by discourse analysis?

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    ]]>     http://reckon.ws/wp/where-trivia-and-gossip-pass-for-news.htm/feed -1     It’s time to embrace American royalty by Glenn Greenwald http://reckon.ws/wp/its-time-to-embrace-american-royalty-by-glenn-greenwald.htm http://reckon.ws/wp/its-time-to-embrace-american-royalty-by-glenn-greenwald.htm#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:25:23 +0000 reckon http://reckon.ws/wp/?p=435
  • American Revolutionaries | Ovation TVThe end of July closes out Ovation TV's American Revolutionaries event.  If you haven't checked it out yet I highly recommend doing so if you get a chance. They're onto something there, and have moved mountains since relaunching in June. After all, they're the only national television network dedicated to the arts and personal creativity.  They've built a multimedia community around a mission to inspire and connect, and have made that community accessible to amateur and professional alike. Here are just a few of the artists featured this week: Monet Matisse Picasso Martha Graham Sylvia Plath Margot Fonteyn John Cale and many more To view the programming schedule and witness the unwavering evolution visit OvationTV.com.
  • A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies. And we are dying now. We will either wake from our state of induced childishness, one where trivia and gossip pass for news and information, one where our goal is not justice but an elusive and unattainable happiness, to confront the stark limitations before us, or we will continue our headlong retreat into fantasy.  - Hedges
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    1. American Revolutionaries | Ovation TVThe end of July closes out Ovation TV's American Revolutionaries event.  If you haven't checked it out yet I highly recommend doing so if you get a chance. They're onto something there, and have moved mountains since relaunching in June. After all, they're the only national television network dedicated to the arts and personal creativity.  They've built a multimedia community around a mission to inspire and connect, and have made that community accessible to amateur and professional alike. Here are just a few of the artists featured this week: Monet Matisse Picasso Martha Graham Sylvia Plath Margot Fonteyn John Cale and many more To view the programming schedule and witness the unwavering evolution visit OvationTV.com.
    2. A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies. And we are dying now. We will either wake from our state of induced childishness, one where trivia and gossip pass for news and information, one where our goal is not justice but an elusive and unattainable happiness, to confront the stark limitations before us, or we will continue our headlong retreat into fantasy.  - Hedges

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    ]]>     http://reckon.ws/wp/its-time-to-embrace-american-royalty-by-glenn-greenwald.htm/feed -1     Legalization and Regulation http://reckon.ws/wp/legalization-and-regulation.htm http://reckon.ws/wp/legalization-and-regulation.htm#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:16:49 +0000 reckon http://reckon.ws/wp/?p=400
  • It's time to embrace American royalty | Glenn Greenwald
  • Only a small fraction of funding by investment banks, mortgage companies, brokerages, equity funds, hedge funds, commodities futures speculators, etc., comes from actual investor capital. The rest—up to ninety-seven percent, in the case of commodities futures contracts—is credit self-created by the banks.

    Where did the banks get this credit? The answer is that they simply cranked it out through their fractional reserve privileges derived from their government charters. In fact the only way money comes into existence in this day and age is through a loan from a bank which must be repaid with interest. The loan is secured by the borrower’s collateral or promise to pay. But the cumulative interest load on the economy grows exponentially. As a part of the federal budget, for instance, interest on the national debt is around $500 billion a year and growing. via Global Research: Impacts of the Financial Crisis: The U.S. Is Becoming an Impoverished Nation

    • Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>     Marijuana prohibition currently costs American taxpayers almost $42 billion a year. Compare this negative cash flow to the projected tax benefits of legalization – between $2.4 and $6.2 billion annually – and it becomes obvious why Milton Friedman and more than 500 other respected economists publicly support the legalization of marijuana. | via Reality Catcher

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    1. It's time to embrace American royalty | Glenn Greenwald
    2. Only a small fraction of funding by investment banks, mortgage companies, brokerages, equity funds, hedge funds, commodities futures speculators, etc., comes from actual investor capital. The rest—up to ninety-seven percent, in the case of commodities futures contracts—is credit self-created by the banks.

      Where did the banks get this credit? The answer is that they simply cranked it out through their fractional reserve privileges derived from their government charters. In fact the only way money comes into existence in this day and age is through a loan from a bank which must be repaid with interest. The loan is secured by the borrower’s collateral or promise to pay. But the cumulative interest load on the economy grows exponentially. As a part of the federal budget, for instance, interest on the national debt is around $500 billion a year and growing.

      via       Global Research: Impacts of the Financial Crisis: The U.S. Is Becoming an Impoverished Nation

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    ]]>     http://reckon.ws/wp/legalization-and-regulation.htm/feed -1     Poems for Times of Turmoil http://reckon.ws/wp/poems-for-times-of-turmoil.htm http://reckon.ws/wp/poems-for-times-of-turmoil.htm#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:20:06 +0000 reckon http://reckon.ws/wp/?p=292
  • To celebrate National Poetry Day, BBC News website readers have been sending in their poems on the credit crunch. via BBC

  • Let there be no mistake: the fundamentals of our poetry are sound. The problem is not poetry but poems.

    From a statement read at an event marking the release of Best American Poetry 2008, held last night at The New School, in New York City. David Lehman is the series editor of Best American Poetry, and Robert Polito is the director of the writing program at The New School. Chairman Lehman, Secretary Polito, distinguished poets and readers—I regret having to interrupt the celebrations tonight with an important announcement. As you know, the glut of illiquid, insolvent, and troubled poems is clogging the literary arteries of the West. These debt-ridden poems threaten to infect other areas of the literary sector and ultimately to topple our culture industry. Cultural leaders have come together to announce a massive poetry buyout: leveraged and unsecured poems, poetry derivatives, delinquent poems, and subprime poems will be removed from circulation in the biggest poetry bailout since the Victorian era. We believe the plan is a comprehensive approach to relieving the stresses on our literary institutions and markets. Let there be no mistake: the fundamentals of our poetry are sound. The problem is not poetry but poems. The crisis has been precipitated by the escalation of poetry debt—poems that circulate in the market at an economic loss due to their difficulty, incompetence, or irrelevance. Illiquid poetry assets are choking off the flow of imagination that is so vital to our literature. When the literary system works as it should, poetry and poetry assets flow to and from readers and writers to create a productive part of the cultural field. As toxic poetry assets block the system, the poisoning of literary markets has the potential to damage our cultural institutions irreparably. As we know, lax composition practices since the advent of modernism led to irresponsible poets and irresponsible readers. Simply put, too many poets composed works they could not justify. We are seeing the impact on poetry, with a massive loss of confidence on the part of readers. What began as a subprime poetry problem on essentially unregulated poetry websites has spread to other, more stable, literary magazines and presses and contributed to excess poetry inventories that have pushed down the value of responsible poems. The risks poets have taken have been too great; the aesthetic negligence has been profound. The age of decadence must come to an end with the imposition of oversight and regulation on poetry composition and publishing practices. We are convinced that once we have removed these troubled and distressed poems from circulation, our cultural sector will stabilize and readers will regain confidence in American literature. We estimate that for the buyout to be successful, we will need to remove from circulation all poems written after 1904. This will be a fresh start, a new dawn of a new day. Without these illiquid poems threatening to overwhelm readers, we will be able to create a literary culture with a solid aesthetic foundation. I’m Charles Bernstein, and I approved this message. via     Harper's Magazine
  • Guthrie Martin agrees. "So many poets I know are so concerned with MFAs and prizes and getting published, making their mark," she said. "For me, having who you are as a poet live on isn't about any particular poem you write or your body of work. It's about how you inspire other people to be interested in poetry. It's just lovely to see people engaged in open, honest, friendly, generous, brilliant discussions of poetry just because they love it that much."  (via UW News)
    • Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>     What does poetry have to do with the serious financial havoc the world has been enduring? Does anyone have time to consider a confection of art — spun from the imagination — while we face the chilling reality of lost homes, tattered businesses, or a compromised future? “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”

    We seem to be able to do so little against the loss and fear and panic. Yet poetry’s realm is precisely here — in the emotional center, where desire and terror and hope and dread converge without easy answers.

    Continue Reading | via Poets.org

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    1. To celebrate National Poetry Day, BBC News website readers have been sending in their poems on the credit crunch. via BBC

    2. Let there be no mistake: the fundamentals of our poetry are sound. The problem is not poetry but poems.

      From a statement read at an event marking the release of Best American Poetry 2008, held last night at The New School, in New York City. David Lehman is the series editor of Best American Poetry, and Robert Polito is the director of the writing program at The New School. Chairman Lehman, Secretary Polito, distinguished poets and readers—I regret having to interrupt the celebrations tonight with an important announcement. As you know, the glut of illiquid, insolvent, and troubled poems is clogging the literary arteries of the West. These debt-ridden poems threaten to infect other areas of the literary sector and ultimately to topple our culture industry. Cultural leaders have come together to announce a massive poetry buyout: leveraged and unsecured poems, poetry derivatives, delinquent poems, and subprime poems will be removed from circulation in the biggest poetry bailout since the Victorian era. We believe the plan is a comprehensive approach to relieving the stresses on our literary institutions and markets. Let there be no mistake: the fundamentals of our poetry are sound. The problem is not poetry but poems. The crisis has been precipitated by the escalation of poetry debt—poems that circulate in the market at an economic loss due to their difficulty, incompetence, or irrelevance. Illiquid poetry assets are choking off the flow of imagination that is so vital to our literature. When the literary system works as it should, poetry and poetry assets flow to and from readers and writers to create a productive part of the cultural field. As toxic poetry assets block the system, the poisoning of literary markets has the potential to damage our cultural institutions irreparably. As we know, lax composition practices since the advent of modernism led to irresponsible poets and irresponsible readers. Simply put, too many poets composed works they could not justify. We are seeing the impact on poetry, with a massive loss of confidence on the part of readers. What began as a subprime poetry problem on essentially unregulated poetry websites has spread to other, more stable, literary magazines and presses and contributed to excess poetry inventories that have pushed down the value of responsible poems. The risks poets have taken have been too great; the aesthetic negligence has been profound. The age of decadence must come to an end with the imposition of oversight and regulation on poetry composition and publishing practices. We are convinced that once we have removed these troubled and distressed poems from circulation, our cultural sector will stabilize and readers will regain confidence in American literature. We estimate that for the buyout to be successful, we will need to remove from circulation all poems written after 1904. This will be a fresh start, a new dawn of a new day. Without these illiquid poems threatening to overwhelm readers, we will be able to create a literary culture with a solid aesthetic foundation. I’m Charles Bernstein, and I approved this message. via       Harper's Magazine
    3. Guthrie Martin agrees. "So many poets I know are so concerned with MFAs and prizes and getting published, making their mark," she said. "For me, having who you are as a poet live on isn't about any particular poem you write or your body of work. It's about how you inspire other people to be interested in poetry. It's just lovely to see people engaged in open, honest, friendly, generous, brilliant discussions of poetry just because they love it that much."  (via UW News)

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  • You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss A few days ago I was sitting in a cafe in Palo Alto and a group of programmers came in on some kind of scavenger hunt. It was obviously one of those corporate "team-building" exercises. They looked familiar. I spend nearly all my time working with programmers in their twenties and early thirties. But something seemed wrong about these. There was something missing. And yet the company they worked for is considered a good one, and from what I overheard of their conversation, they seemed smart enough. In fact, they seemed to be from one of the more prestigious groups within the company. So why did it seem there was something odd about them? I have a uniquely warped perspective, because nearly all the programmers I know are startup founders. We've now funded 80 startups with a total of about 200 founders, nearly all of them programmers. I spend a lot of time with them, and not much with other programmers. So my mental image of a young programmer is a startup founder. The guys on the scavenger hunt looked like the programmers I was used to, but they were employees instead of founders. And it was startling how different they seemed. So what, you may say. So I happen to know a subset of programmers who are especially ambitious. Of course less ambitious people will seem different. But the difference between the programmers I saw in the cafe and the ones I was used to wasn't just a difference of degree. Something seemed wrong. I think it's not so much that there's something special about founders as that there's something missing in the lives of employees. I think startup founders, though statistically outliers, are actually living in a way that's more natural for humans. I was in Africa last year and saw a lot of animals in the wild that I'd only seen in zoos before. It was remarkable how different they seemed. Particularly lions. Lions in the wild seem about ten times more alive. They're like different animals. And seeing those guys on their scavenger hunt was like seeing lions in a zoo after spending several years watching them in the wild. Read the rest of the article here. via Paul Graham | hat tip Hugh MacLeod [gapingvoid.com]
  • The Beauty, Secrets and Utility of Twitter for Business Lots of people laugh at Twitter, call it a waste of time and worse, and, that's just fine with me. While they're laughing, I'm learning, listening, meeting, and enjoying a global view of an endless flow of creative thought - 140 characters at a time...[Continue reading here.] via What's Next | B.L. Ochman The above is from B.L. Ochman's business blog, but I'm posting here with the hope that those who aren't in marketing, tech, or business per se might be moved to sign up and join the conversations, offer their sage advice, and share a little of the priceless mundane with the rest of us. Follow me on Twitter if you'd like.  I've taken to calling it Twitter University after my uninformed, inexperienced knee-jerk reaction upon first hearing about the service.  Now I consider it an essential learning and communication tool (and then some).  Highly recommended.
  • So I tell her all this stuff, and I think, "Okay, we're going to have a conversation about authority or social construction or whatever." That wasn't her question. She heard this story and she shook her head and said, "Where do people find the time?" That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years." via Here Comes Everybody hat tip gaping void
    • Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>     In all of these cases, U.S. multinationals have offered the same defense: Cooperating with draconian demands to turn in customers and censor material is, unfortunately, the price of doing business in China. Some, like Google, have argued that despite having to limit access to the Internet, they are contributing to an overall increase of freedom in China. It’s a story that glosses over the much larger scandal of what is actually taking place: Western investors stampeding into the country, possibly in violation of the law, with the sole purpose of helping the Communist Party spend billions of dollars building Police State 2.0. This isn’t an unfortunate cost of doing business in China: It’s the goal of doing business in China. “Come help us spy!” the Chinese government has said to the world. And the world’s leading technology companies are eagerly answering the call.

    via Rolling Stone

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    1. You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss A few days ago I was sitting in a cafe in Palo Alto and a group of programmers came in on some kind of scavenger hunt. It was obviously one of those corporate "team-building" exercises. They looked familiar. I spend nearly all my time working with programmers in their twenties and early thirties. But something seemed wrong about these. There was something missing. And yet the company they worked for is considered a good one, and from what I overheard of their conversation, they seemed smart enough. In fact, they seemed to be from one of the more prestigious groups within the company. So why did it seem there was something odd about them? I have a uniquely warped perspective, because nearly all the programmers I know are startup founders. We've now funded 80 startups with a total of about 200 founders, nearly all of them programmers. I spend a lot of time with them, and not much with other programmers. So my mental image of a young programmer is a startup founder. The guys on the scavenger hunt looked like the programmers I was used to, but they were employees instead of founders. And it was startling how different they seemed. So what, you may say. So I happen to know a subset of programmers who are especially ambitious. Of course less ambitious people will seem different. But the difference between the programmers I saw in the cafe and the ones I was used to wasn't just a difference of degree. Something seemed wrong. I think it's not so much that there's something special about founders as that there's something missing in the lives of employees. I think startup founders, though statistically outliers, are actually living in a way that's more natural for humans. I was in Africa last year and saw a lot of animals in the wild that I'd only seen in zoos before. It was remarkable how different they seemed. Particularly lions. Lions in the wild seem about ten times more alive. They're like different animals. And seeing those guys on their scavenger hunt was like seeing lions in a zoo after spending several years watching them in the wild. Read the rest of the article here. via Paul Graham | hat tip Hugh MacLeod [gapingvoid.com]
    2. The Beauty, Secrets and Utility of Twitter for Business Lots of people laugh at Twitter, call it a waste of time and worse, and, that's just fine with me. While they're laughing, I'm learning, listening, meeting, and enjoying a global view of an endless flow of creative thought - 140 characters at a time...[Continue reading here.] via What's Next | B.L. Ochman The above is from B.L. Ochman's business blog, but I'm posting here with the hope that those who aren't in marketing, tech, or business per se might be moved to sign up and join the conversations, offer their sage advice, and share a little of the priceless mundane with the rest of us. Follow me on Twitter if you'd like.  I've taken to calling it Twitter University after my uninformed, inexperienced knee-jerk reaction upon first hearing about the service.  Now I consider it an essential learning and communication tool (and then some).  Highly recommended.
    3. So I tell her all this stuff, and I think, "Okay, we're going to have a conversation about authority or social construction or whatever." That wasn't her question. She heard this story and she shook her head and said, "Where do people find the time?" That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years." via Here Comes Everybody hat tip gaping void

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    ]]>     http://reckon.ws/wp/ah-freedom.htm/feed -1     Malidoma Some http://reckon.ws/wp/malidoma-some.htm http://reckon.ws/wp/malidoma-some.htm#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:17:39 +0000 reckon http://reckon.ws/wp/malidoma-some.htm
  • Did you know that William S. Burroughs’ mother was an author too? Graham Rae furnishes an inspired analysis of Laura Lee Burroughs’ writings on the art of flower arranging. The three tomes, sponsored by Coke (the company, not the drug), offer glimpses into her and therefore her son’s world. Read Like Mother, Like Son and the accompanying selection of references to Laura Lee Burroughs in the work of William S. Burroughs. via RealityStudio
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  • What the world needs now? Donkey basketball and in-fighting yesterday afternoon and night in Texas.  Really now, this is what the world needs.  Change to pay the parking meter. It seems John McCain turned in early after an iced tea and chicken fried steak dinner. I burned the midnight oil second night in a row. How goes your team? (Best. Campaign. Ever.) Entranced Stage Left, Tejas
    • Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>     Malidoma now lives in Oakland, Calif. In his workshops, he teaches that it is unthinkable to separate daily life from ritual contact with the unseen world of spirit, or to pursue political change without ongoing spiritual development…

    Q: What venues seem to be a better place to learn real spiritual development?

    A: The best places are multicultural conferences. You have the opportunity to go through racial tensions and cultural differences; you can acknowledge that we don’t trust each other. The next logical step might be a fight, yet, by not fighting and staying with the tension, working through it together, you come to a place where that feeling can be transcended. Unless there has been sweat–people sweating to get through the countless things that keeps them apart–they are probably lying when they say we are all one.

    Read on at Mother Jones | tip of the hat to eve11

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    2. What the world needs now? Donkey basketball and in-fighting yesterday afternoon and night in Texas.  Really now, this is what the world needs.  Change to pay the parking meter. It seems John McCain turned in early after an iced tea and chicken fried steak dinner. I burned the midnight oil second night in a row. How goes your team? (Best. Campaign. Ever.) Entranced Stage Left, Tejas

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  • As the sell-off in global markets continues, RCM's CIO for Europe Neil Dwane believes the aftermath of Monday's events will lead to the formation of a 'new world order', in which the remaining financial giants will flourish. via CityWire
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    Donkey basketball and in-fighting yesterday afternoon and night in Texas.  Really now, this is what the world needs.  Change to pay the parking meter.

    It seems John McCain turned in early after an iced tea and chicken fried steak dinner.

    I burned the midnight oil second night in a row.

    How goes your team?

    (Best. Campaign. Ever.)

    Entranced Stage Left,

    Tejas

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    ]]>     http://reckon.ws/wp/what-the-world-needs-now.htm/feed -1     George Carlin on Voting http://reckon.ws/wp/george-carlin-on-voting.htm http://reckon.ws/wp/george-carlin-on-voting.htm#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:22:43 +0000 reckon http://reckon.ws/wp/?p=17
  • Poetry Animations via YouTube
  • No te salves | Don't Save Yourself | by Uruguayan Poet Mario Benedetti

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYqLe9uCgNo&feature=related[/youtube]

    Don’t remain immobile At the edge of the road Don't freeze the joy Don't love with reluctance Don't save yourself now or ever Don't save yourself Don't fill with calm Don't reserve in the world Only a secure place Don't let your eyelids fall Heavily as judgments Don’t speak without lips Don't sleep without sleepiness Don't imagine yourself without blood Don't judge yourself without time. But if in spite of everything You can't help it, And you freeze the joy, And you love with reluctance, And you save yourself now, And you fill with calm And you reserve in the world Only a calm place, And you let fall your eyelids Heavily as judgments, And you speak without lips, And you sleep without sleepiness, And you imagine yourself without blood, And you judge yourself without time, And you remain immobile At the edge of the road, And you save yourself, Then… Don't stay with me.

     

    hat tip Human Apparatus | Space Collective

  • Captain Beefheart
    "THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS CAPTAIN BEEFHEART" 1/6

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    2. No te salves | Don't Save Yourself | by Uruguayan Poet Mario Benedetti

      [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYqLe9uCgNo&feature=related[/youtube]

      Don’t remain immobile At the edge of the road Don't freeze the joy Don't love with reluctance Don't save yourself now or ever Don't save yourself Don't fill with calm Don't reserve in the world Only a secure place Don't let your eyelids fall Heavily as judgments Don’t speak without lips Don't sleep without sleepiness Don't imagine yourself without blood Don't judge yourself without time. But if in spite of everything You can't help it, And you freeze the joy, And you love with reluctance, And you save yourself now, And you fill with calm And you reserve in the world Only a calm place, And you let fall your eyelids Heavily as judgments, And you speak without lips, And you sleep without sleepiness, And you imagine yourself without blood, And you judge yourself without time, And you remain immobile At the edge of the road, And you save yourself, Then… Don't stay with me.

       

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