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Can We Talk to the Unborn? - By Dr Stephen Juan - 15 years ago
"Haptonomy is a part of the human sciences. It concerns the very base of human existence from which every being flourishes and develops in order to follow his personal way of life." -- Haptonomy *** "The benefits of haptonomy flow onto to the mother as well. For instance, many women have difficulty in labor due to the fact that the birth canal of the pelvis is simply too nby ProjectC - Project C
Unequal societies will remain unhealthy societies - By Michael Prowse - 15 years ago
"I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed." -- James Giuigan Is Inequality Good for You? Unequal societies will remain unhealthy societies, and also unhappy societies, no matter how wealthy they become' By Michael Prowse December 31, 2007 Source We have grown accby ProjectC - Project C
All Men Are Created Equal ... and better damned well stay thay way - By Bill Bonner - 15 years ago
"Education, too, takes on a new look. It is not enough to learn things; in any case, the busybodies are incapable of organizing real, individual learning. What they can organize is education… with the learning removed or standardized to fit into some new larger national standard. 'Educators' can't be bothered with individual students as they actually are, nor even with local cby ProjectC - Project C
United States & the Soviet system - By Jim Kunstler - 15 years ago
"Dmitry Orlov's publisher sent me the galley proof to get a blurb for the dust-jacket, and I'll furnish one in short order because Reinventing Collapse is an exceptionally clear, authoritative, witty, and original view of our prospects. The thesis is that the United States is headed for troubles as broad and deep as the ones that brought down the Soviet system in Russia, though weby ProjectC - Project C
2007 Wrap-Up - By Doug Noland - 15 years ago
'...Some analysts have begun to recognize that U.S. asset and debt markets have not faced such precarious dynamics since The Great Depression. Meanwhile, collapsing U.S. and international interest-rates fuel myriad global Bubbles and inflationary pressures. In short, 2007 has been a continuation of the unfolding “worst-case-scenario.”' 2007 Wrap-Up By Doug Noland December 26, 2by ProjectC - Project C
Fraud and financial innovation - The Economist - 15 years ago
'Today's financial world looks rather more like the era of rootless, trans-oceanic finance that Kreuger entered when he first arrived by ship in New York in 1900, with $100 in his pocket. Once again, credit has ballooned and capital flits around the world faster than any human being can travel; those with the audacity to channel it where it is needed, as Kreuger did, can make unparallelby ProjectC - Project C
The Advertising of Installment Plans - By Sharon Murphy - 15 years ago
"By the end of the 1920s, instalment plans had become the primary way for a middle-class family to attain a piece of the American dream. People who had formerly shied away from acquiring debt now accepted instalment buying as a means to finance modern consumption. This transformation in consumer attitudes resulted from a gradual change in the depiction of instalment buying in advertisements.by ProjectC - Project C
The future of the credit crunch - By Martin Hutchinson - 15 years ago
"...If Trichet is clever, he will move the ECB to slower money creation once US and British real estate prices have stabilized. That will allow Eurozone interest rates to rise moderately, while remaining lower than the crisis rates in the Anglosphere. Then he will be able to contrast the problems in the US and Britain with the favorable outlook for Euro zone inflation under his Presidency ofby ProjectC - Project C
Person of the Year: Jean-Claude Trichet - 15 years ago
"The timeless adage in economics that income is all holds even more true today." -- Henry C K Liu, Part II: Currency Devaluation Depresses Wages Globally, June 13, 2007 Person of the Year: Jean-Claude Trichet FT.com Sun Dec 23, 2007 Source A central banker can never really doze in the sun. But in the usually sleepy month of August, Jean-Claude Trichet, European Central Baby ProjectC - Project C
Putin's Military Might Fails to Keep Pace With His Ambitions - 15 years ago
``Soldiers are mistreated in every possible way. That's why it's so difficult for this army to shift into contract service. You have to treat soldiers differently if they are professionals. Many of the officers aren't prepared to do this.'' -- Baev "We walk, and walking has a quality of its own. We're like cops on the beat." -- General David Petraeus (by ProjectC - Project C
Crisis may make 1929 look a 'walk in the park' - By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard - 15 years ago
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 23/12/2007 Source As central banks continue to splash their cash over the system, so far to little effect, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard argues things are rapidly spiralling out of their control Twenty billion dollars here, $20bn there, and a lush half-trillion from the European Central Bank at give-away rates for Christmas. Buckets of liquidity are being splashed oveby ProjectC - Project C
(Global Debt Crunch) Wall Street-Backed Finance - By Doug Noland - 15 years ago
"...Keep in mind that the economy is only now succumbing to recessionary forces, and we’ve yet to experience the failure of a major financial institution in the U.S. There will be many, and it’s worth noting that Rescap’s CDS prices surged again this week. It’s amazing to watch the massive central bank liquidity injections inflate the value of government and quasi-government backed securitieby ProjectC - Project C
At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star - 15 years ago
By SARA RIMER December 19, 2007 Source CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Walter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor, has long had a cult following at M.I.T. And he has now emerged as an international Internet guru, thanks to the global classroom the institute created to spread knowledge through cyberspace. Professor Lewin’s videotaped physics lectures, free online on the OpenCourseWare of the Massachusby ProjectC - Project C
Failure Beyond Finance - By Jim Kunstler - 15 years ago
"One difference between then and now is that in 1929 a relative small minority of Americans were involved in stock purchases. Today, a relative large number of ordinary citizens own overpriced houses bought using extraordinarily risky loans, and a large number of institutions such as pension funds, banks, hedge funds, and money markets own fraudulent securities based on these house loans, woby ProjectC - Project C
ABP seeks ESG partners - By Andrew Sheen - 15 years ago
By Andrew Sheen 18 December 2007 Source NETHERLANDS – The ABP pension fund has expressed a desire to enter into a partnership with one or more of Europe’s large pension funds to create a flagship body to pursue environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments. ABP's chief investment officer Roderick Munster announced the initiative at an indexation presentation in Amsterdam yeby ProjectC - Project C
Dateline Ukraine: Investing in Climate Change - By Geoffrey Berlin - 15 years ago
"There has been much scientific debate over climate change — whether global warming is caused by humans or natural phenomena, such as sunspots. The principal debate should be over values: Do we continue to dump waste in uncovered landfills or open-air lagoons, to vent methane gas from coal mining — and consume energy in ways that harm our environment?" Dateline Ukraine: Investing iby ProjectC - Project C
Northern Lights Race Across the Sky - By Andrea Thompson - 16 years ago
( The Plasma Universe (Here... too.) ) J. *** "The satellites have found evidence of magnetic ropes connecting Earth's upper atmosphere directly to the sun," said David Sibeck of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. "We believe that solar wind particles flow in along these ropes, providing energy for geomagnetic storms and auroras." Northernby ProjectC - Project C
Regulatory Debauchery - By Satyajit Das - 16 years ago
"Central banks and regulators bear a serious responsibility for safeguarding the functioning and integrity of financial systems. At the moment they are being exposed like the Wizard of Oz – old desperate men (they are mainly men) behind the curtain running from one lever to another in a desperate attempt to maintain illusions." Regulatory Debauchery By Satyajit Das November 27,by ProjectC - Project C
Voyager 2 finds solar system's shape is 'dented' - 16 years ago
By Mark Lawin Dec 10, 2007 Source SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has found that our solar system is not round but is "dented" by the local interstellar magnetic field of deep space, space experts said on Monday. The data was gathered by the craft on its 30-year journey into the edge of the solar system when it crossed into a sweeping region called theby ProjectC - Project C
Magic Wand Finance - By Jim Kunstler - 16 years ago
By Jim Kunstler December 03, 2007 Source For those of you concerned about my sense of pride -- yes, I sure got that eggy feeling all over my face last week after calling for a thousand-point Dow plunge, only to watch it put on the greatest two-day melt-up in five years. I suppose I underestimate the desperate moves of desperate people against the backdrop of an economy (and a financeby ProjectC - Project C
Water Threatens Asia's Urbanization, Prosperity - By Andy Mukherjee - 16 years ago
By Andy Mukherjee December 3, 2007 Source Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The commodity that poses the biggest threat to long-term prosperity in Asia isn't oil, it's water. It isn't so much the likelihood of Asian cities running out of fresh water that should bother the region's policy makers as the bigger danger of being overwhelmed by waste water. The capability to treat dby ProjectC - Project C
Financial Crisis and Economic Hard Landing Outlook in Two Recent Op-Ed Columns - Nouriel Roubini & Paul Krugman - 16 years ago
By Nouriel Roubini Dec 03, 2007 Source This author writes a monthly column for "La Repubblica", the leading italian newspaper. The last column was published in Italian today. An english translation of it is provided here below: Events in the last few weeks have clearly shown that the liquidity and credit crunch that started last August in financial markets in the US and Europe nby ProjectC - Project C
Banks Ask UK Clients Not to Borrow - 16 years ago
naked capitalism Monday, December 3, 2007 Source If you had any doubts that the credit contraction was having real-world consequences (beyond, say, the ease of getting a mortgage in the US), consider this DowJones Newswire story (hat tip Michael Panzner). Banks are not only not willing to lend to each other, but because liquidity is scarce, they are trying to dissuade UK clients from borrowiby ProjectC - Project C
Open source hardware gift guide - 16 years ago
blog.makezine.com Dec 3, 2007 Source It's been a year since our last open source gift guide - this year there is so much going on in the world of MAKE, open source, and beyond that we have a series of gift guides for this holiday season. The first one is our open source hardware gift guide - these are physical things you can buy that fit in to the new and exciting category of hardware wby ProjectC - Project C
Either / Or? - By Jim Kunstler - 16 years ago
By Jim Kunstler November 26, 2007 Source¨ The great debate among those of us on the Economy Deathwatch seems to be whether the debacle we observe around us will resolve as a crash or a slow-motion financial train wreck. It seems to me that at every layer of the system, we're susceptible to both -- in tradable paper, institutional legitimacy, individual solvency, productive activity, reaby ProjectC - Project C
Mandriva Linux selected as “Product of the Year 2007” at the Russian Softool event - 16 years ago
Mandriva has been selected as 'Product of the Year 2007' in the Linux category at the Softool exhibition in Moscow. Mandriva.com 2007 Source The 'Product of the Year 2007' competition was held by the department of information technologies and computing systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Federal Agency of Information Technologies, the publishing house SK Prby ProjectC - Project C
An Embarrassment of Riches, Part II - By Dr. Marc Faber - 16 years ago
"...I wish to add that I am not a "gold bug". I would much prefer to live in a world in which central banks' top priority was to safeguard paper money's purchasing power and its function as a "store of value". I would also much rather live in a world in which the US dollar was a strong currency, and where America was as free as it was in the 1960s, and the econoby ProjectC - Project C
1%-0ff (Time.com - Monday, Nov. 25, 1929) - 16 years ago
"Exclusive of the stockmarket and the protection of business from any contagious slump, three factors entered into the making of this tax cut plan: 1) Budget estimates which tentatively fixed next year's expenditures at $3,830,000,000, a reduction of $111,000,000 below this year's amount, indicative of a surplus at least equal to the size of the reduction in revenue; 2) A secret reby ProjectC - Project C
The cost of politicians - By Martin Hutchinson - 16 years ago
"When government cannot be eliminated, structures should be established that make resource allocation and regulation as automatic as possible, so that politics and lobbying can play little role. ... One could imagine a system, technically democratic, that worked somewhat like the Catholic Church, in which only the President/Pope was elected, for a life term, and election was by a Colleby ProjectC - Project C
Peak Money - By Jim Kunstler - 16 years ago
By Jim Kunstler November 12, 2007 Source The multi-dimensional meltdown underway in the finance sector illustrates perfectly how the complex systems we depend on start to wobble and fail as soon as peak oil establishes itself as a fact in the public imagination. Mainly what it shows is that we don't have to run out of oil -- or even come close to that -- before the trouble starby ProjectC - Project C