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- 0.5 cup(s) Fat free vanilla yogurt
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- 1 tablespoon(s) Honey
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can anyone help me? i am in austria and i bought an hp notebook pavilion zv5250EA. the preinstalled os is windows xp home and the language is ofcourse german. that ...
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Hi dawa,
Though I haven't tried it on a laptop, I understand Kanotix, (based on Knoppix), is really good on laptops. It is also a German distro. I've got their live cd and it's pretty smokin'!
Have you ever burned an ISO image before? Do you have access to burning software such as Nero?
If so, download the Kanotix .ISO from their site and burn its image to cd. If you are unsure how to do that, post back.
Once you have the .ISO burned properly to cd, go into your BIOS and make sure your CDROM is first in the boot order. Then, put the Kanotix CD in and hang on!
Being a "live CD" (a complete Linux operating system which runs entirely from the CDROM) you can check it out and see how you like it. If it suits you, you can then do an HD install which wouldn't be too difficult.
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Well for downloading it, just pick a distro and follow the intructions on the distro's website, which usually is as simple as clicking the link to download.
For example, Fedora Core provides both CD image ISOs and DVD Image ISOs, as do most other distros.
Gentoo on the other hand, depends on whether you want to do a stage-1 install (compile the _entire_ system locally), a stage-2 install (compile most of the system locally), or a stage-3 (don't compile the system at all). Even then though, you start with a CD ISO image.
Once you've downloaded the ISO image, just burn it onto a CD (or DVD if it's a DVD ISO). Make sure you burn it as an image (most burner software in Windows/Linux has that option) and not as a data disc with the ISO as a file.
Keep in mind these are large files (600 - 700 MB for CDs, 2 - 4 GB for DVDs).Emotions are the key to the soul.
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Why bother writing down anything at all when everything and everywhere about me there is nothing but images? I suppose it's because it allows me to produce and re-produce my own thoughts. I'm also old enough to be somewhat suspicious of images, either graven or not.
There is a gem of a book written in 1961 by Daniel Boorstin called The Image or what happened to the American Dream. He wrote:
Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect to liberate us. The hardest, most discomfiting discovery is that each of us must emancipate himself. Though we may suffer from mass illusions, there is no formula for mass disenchantment.
Boorstin talks at length about the "pseudoevents" created by the News Media and techniques of generating attention and interest. He implies that public discourse has devolved into a state which is dominated by illusions created by false images, that as a society we suffer "unwittingly from our own idolatry". He fears that those images are keeping the population in check at the cost of subverting the principles of a democratically governed People.
The NSA analyzes communication information between individuals and tries to establish patterns that would allow them to predict dangerous activities, while the fixation on a single event like the Zimmerman trial serves to keep the attention on what could be argued was an isolated event -one charged with a long and tainted history of race relations and cultural misunderstandings.
It would be interesting to see the pattern shift in the communication mapping that occurs as different news stories are covered; perhaps they can detect a dangerous shift (for those in power) when news stories of corruption and malfeasance or the questioning of spending priorities are aired. Could the information allow for a wonderful information feedback loop that allows Media moguls to tamp down on potential unrest? It doesn't take a supercomputer to see the metadata in not the contents of what the News Media cover but in what is not covered or for how long a particular story runs and reruns.
There is a passage from Anthony Everitt's "The Rise of Rome" where Cicero approvingly attributes to Servius Tullius, the second founder of Rome the key to "taming the revolutionary forces of Democracy",
[The king] put into effect the principle which ought always be adhered to in the commonwealth, that the greatest number should not have the greatest power…While no one was deprived of the suffrage, the majority of votes was in the hands of those to whom the highest welfare of the State was the most important.
We would seem to be so enthralled (in its etymological meaning) on the reliance of large institutions to tell us what to pay attention to and for how long, that those with whom concern over matters of public policy is "most important" do not have to be overly concerned with the majority of votes. The campaign being waged domestically is not military in nature so much as it is political and cultural. Which is not necessarily the worst condition to be in; I would much rather be subject to the interminably moronic political campaigns conducted on the propaganda air waves than those on the ground in a bloody civil strife as in Syria or other places in much more dire straits. But I would also like to think that there is the potential for living in a more Just society.
Although there is no "formula" for a cure from the Mass Psychosis that is projected in the Moronic Media, a good start in developing one would be a personal regimen that includes less consumption of images and a healthy increase in reading, gardening, riding a bike, or whatever brings balance and health to both self and society.
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A senseless affection; there's reason to it.
Just as when doctors try to give to children
A bitter medicine, they rim the cup
With honey's sweetness, honey's golden flavor,
To fool the silly little things, as far
As the lips at least, so that they'll take the bitter
Dosage, and swallow it down, fooled, but not swindled,
But brought to health again through double-dealing
When dark matters besiege our shores we are advised to go about our daily lives and be not troubled; go and shop at the mall, spend your money at the movies, games , and what ever brings you pleasure and distraction. For health to be restored and maintained, the Republic requires you to go about your life undisturbed and serenely oblivious to matters that would arrest your normal activities.
Those in positions of political power will deal, or double-deal, with the bitter truth. That the President had to mention such unpleasantness after revelation about the scope and depth of the government's activities in tracking, collating, and analyzing these very keystrokes I type, and a trillion others coursing through the ether with other images, voices, data , and "metadata", is regrettable .
Arguments about the legality of the activity are almost besides the point, for laws can be written to make it illegal for both the pauper and the plutocrat to sleep on the park bench. More to the heart of the matter, is the role of the citizen qua citizen in a democracy. Implicit in the seemingly ever increasing secrecy that envelopes much of what the organs of our government like the NSA, CIA, and FBI and other agencies are engaged in, is that the main function of the citizen is to function as a drone, fulfilling our designated roles of producing and consuming and not question how these activities alter our freedoms and relationship to each other.
When those in power promote fables instead of the realities of the hard choices, the bitterness that comes in trade-offs between secrecy and security, privacy, protection of liberties, and shifting priorities, we are treated as "silly little things" to be taken care of by our more mature and capable leaders.
Perhaps they think the "dosage" would be too great. We've been fooled, but have we or have we not been swindled?
I don't recall coming across the term Shysterism in any of my political science classes back in my college days to describe a type of government that takes its meaning from the definition of the word Shyster: "someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of low politics or business." The corruption in President Grant's administration in the 1800's covered in the many daily newspapers that used to exist (long since perished but re-emerging in the form of blogs), the muckraking of the early 1900's, and other instances in American political history, suggest that there has always been shysters having a hand in government policy making .What seems unusual in the contemporary political scene, is that it has been institutionalized. Expectations of Congress are so low, that a good number of people feel that it is run by a bunch of Shysters who are shilling for corporate and other private interest to the harm of the collective and common interest. The for-profit media whose primary interest is financial gain and whose decision of what to cover and how to cover a story is carefully gauged so as to not upset those who provide access to power and revenue inflows have no motive to question the game itself, the "ism" as a whole, and are only interested in covering the dramatic interplay of the actors.
A Shyster is by no means of a foolish nature or lacking in intelligence. The defining quality has more to do with moral disposition in that it is skewed toward selfish ends. A shyster does not care one way or the other about seeking some common good, or desire to fulfill a vocation or calling. It reminds me of Coriolanus where Shakespeare uses the historical stage of Ancient Rome to dramatize the tensions between the patricians and plebeians. Menenius in responding to a Citizen who was a member of the OWS of the time tells him "..you slander the helms o' the state, who care for you like fathers, when you curse them as enemies." The audience of Shakespeare day could believe that he was speaking from the heart whereas for the modern-day reader in the age of teleprompters, market research, and targeted single issue politics, it would ring hollow if placed in the mouth of one of our "honorable" Senators. The Citizen's response to Menenius seems to hold up better over time:
Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-housed crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statues daily, to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us."
(Listen to George Carlin's 3 minute gem on "Care for us" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYIC0eZYEtI )
The emergence of Pope Francis onto the world stage suggests the existence of a tradition that has the potential to elevate and inspire individuals out of a complacency that accepts Shysterism as the norm. Whatever the Pope may mean to you, I don't think you could call him a Shyster. In Religion and the Rise of Capitalism R.H. Tawney highlights the contribution of religion in Medieval times by acting as a counter balance to a world that was tilting ever more in the direction of earthly pursuits of money, power, and social status: The Church provided an alternate view in "…its insistence that society is a spiritual organism, not an economic machine, and that economic activity, which is one subordinate element within a vast and complex unity, requires to be controlled and repressed by reference to moral ends for which it supplies material means."
From the donation of Constantine where supposedly the authority over Rome was transferred to the Church to the peace of Westphalia where secular governments reasserted their authority over the State, to the 1980's and its role in providing a public space for Lech Walesa and his Solidarity movement, the Catholic Church has been a force in Western World politics. The degree to which it should engage with issues of public policy is going to elicit differing viewpoints, as it has in discussions of Archbishop Bergogolia's role during the Pinochet years. In comparison with the brutal dictatorships and poverty in some parts of the world Shysterism in the U.S. seems like a benign tumor on the body politic, but something that needs treatment before it turns malignant.
Giuseppe Mazzotta, in his ninth lecture on the Divine Comedy (http://oyc.yale.edu/italian-language-and-literature/ital-310) discusses Dante's De vulgari eloquentia in connection with the disintegration of language that accompanies the pilgrim as he descends deeper into the pit of Hell. Dante's "ethical map" in Canto XI includes a poetical portrayal of fraud and treachery. As Professor Mazzotta points out, whereas fraud is found among the rhetorician and falsifier, the flatterer and the cheat, treachery involves the "deceptive violation of trust that others place in us."
Human nature being what it is, you would expect to find fraud in large organizations, especially governmental bodies. What you would hope is that the political class, the power elite, that so overwhelmingly control the direction that governments take would be content with their fraudulent activities and not resort to treachery, as they have done with the "Sequestration." They know the severe suffering that cuts to social programs will cause on those who are least able to weather yet more economic stress and insecurity. They know this and yet they do it anyway – this fits the definition of treachery. They have loosened the common bonds with their fellow man, they have betrayed the public trust and it's time to call them out.
You can hear echoes of OWS and those who reject the need for austerity in Albert Einstein's letter to Freud on the question of "Why War?"
The craving for power which characterizes the governing class in every nation is hostile to any limitation…I have specifically in mind that small but determined group, active in every nation, composed of individuals who, indifferent to social considerations and restraints, regard warfare, the manufacture and sale of arms, simply as an occasion to advance their personal interest and enlarge their personal authority….How is it possible for this small clique to bend the will of the majority, who stand to lose and suffer…An obvious answer to this question would seem to be that the minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organise and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them…"
You will not hear words like "treachery" spoken in the banal conversation between Brooks and E.J. Dionne on NPR's weakly (sic) Friday political round up or on other mainstream media outlets. Such words will only be spoken when someone finds the courage to turn the weak watered down language broadcast over the public airwaves into a strong, loud, and deafening denunciation; A language is needed that that has the capacity to remove the blinds that have us believing that some magical invisible hand of the market place is at the root of our economic woes and not the treachery of a reigning political elite. A Machiavellian realpolitik that practices treachery in the international arena is bad enough, but when it comes home it is ever so much the worse.
It's time turn away from those who would seek to interpret and construct our world through sterile and false language that conceals the truth – as embodied in Einstein's question to Freud - and turn to poets like Dante to find a language that treats Fraud and Treachery for what it is and not in terms that Gordon Gekko would applaud.
From Canto XI
And fraud, whereby all consciences are bitten, one may employ against a man who trusts him, and 'gainst a man who storeth up no trust. This latter kind of fraud would see to kill only the bond of love which Nature makes; hence in the second circle make their nest hypocrisy, and flatteries, and workers of magic, coining, theft and simony, panders and grafters, and such filth as these.
A Sunday drive with the whole family packed together in the old station wagon staring out the back window at the yachts plying the inter-coastal waterway and pointing out to each other the palatial homes that sat on the beach shore as we drove north on AIA; stopping at McDonald's for hamburgers and fries on the drive home and sitting outside on the tiled cement tables enjoying food as different from mom's tallateli, melongene, or pasta e fagioli as the places we just drove through were from our own neighborhood, and thinking how it would feel to be sailing under a raised bridge out to an open sea as the cars waited for us to pass.
The leisurely Sunday drive seems like an historical moment gone by. With the price of fuel, congested traffic, and the desire to spend as little time in a car as possible there is little appetite for a leisurely drive. And even in those few moments when the family is all together driving to some destination or vacation, the kids are plugged into an exterior "iWorld" far from the interior private world of family (which may be a good thing if the family is dysfunctional - but that's another story).
From the perspective of global warming and resource depletion and all the other untoward effects of oil the death of the leisurely Sunday drive may be a good thing, but from a social perspective I can't help but think something has been lost.
To those familiar with the works of Richard Wolff and his economic analysis of the shift in prosperity from those at the bottom to those on the top beginning in the early 70's and Chris Hedges on the weakening of democratic institutions, it's old hat that there has been a deterioration in the quality of life for which the political and power elites have yet to be held to account. With Vietnam, urban blight, crime, and disco, the 70's weren't exactly idyllic and I certainly wouldn't want to go back to them. But it's more than just nostalgia that makes me think that homo economicus is bringing homo sapien to his knees, that brute force will decide the outcome and that it is futile to raise a voice in protest to those who have no ears to hear.
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]]>Much of what resonated when I read the book as a teenager in the late 70's still resonates. Maybe it's the genre itself that allows a free and easy hand with certain subjects. You get the sense that Heinlein is having fun with his treatment of televangelist and commercialism. His painting of the old, wise, and crotchety Jubal is as an endearing and enduring figure in Science Fiction as is Issac Asimov's Hari Seldon.
The sociopolitical world of today is no less messed up now than it was when Heinlein wrote the book – some would say worse in many respects. But the point and poignancy of the book is not in the science fiction portrayal of an outer world, a world of of technological marvels and descriptions of mind bending kinesthetic powers, but rather a portrayal of an inner world where an individual who was raised by other-worldly creatures at birth is then re-introduced into human society. The awkward struggle to develop an emotional rapport with his own kind is what drives the novel and deals with the question of what it means to be human. When Michael Smith is set upon by an overwhelming need to curl up within himself and withdraw, to fully "grok" what was experienced you can relate on some level.
With the increased frenetic economic activity and the barrage of information it seems more difficult to wait for something in its "fullness of time." You sense the "wrongness" but seem incapable of counter acting it. The home as a "Nest," analogous to that of a bird, a habitat where a "Nestling," has a chance to progress at his own tempo, developing into a fully formed and moral human being, seems strange in an era of foreclosures and the struggle to make a mortgage payment.
The book reminded me that there was a time not long ago when the impulse for self-awareness and understanding – an "enfolding" a "sharing of water" in Valentine Michael Smith's terms – moved many young readers to see the world around them somewhat differently than their parents. I hope it continues to do so.
]]>At President Obama's recent speech at a Michigan engine plan he stated that the right-to- work legislation being pushed by Republican Governor Rick Snyder is "more about politics than economics." The same day saw headlines that his Administration shifted position on accepting corporate donations and now is accepting up to $1 million dollars in corporate contributions. We will have a Presidential inauguration sponsored and brought to you by economic interest. Is there a contradiction here, is this some kind of Orwellian doublespeak or is it just an innocuous coincidence?
Let's say that the President simply made a superficial remark aimed at stoking up his autoworker union base. Does characterizing the battle taking place in Michigan as just "politics" and intimating that it is in no way tied to the wage rates a business will have to pay its workers, seem a wee bit disingenuous? If you agree that there is more going on here than just "politics", the President missed (or purposely avoided) laying it out in a substantive way – a way in which assumed a capacity on the part of the listener to comprehend the complex, instead of assuming that all that could be expected of the listener is a capacity to feel emotionally uplifted. If it is too much in these times to expect meaningful explanations from political leaders and when the media only serves up the same reheated pablum, what is an isolated citizen to do? If you tune into NPR news you are more likely to get a recipe for Portuguese bread, a review of the new Hobbit film, or a piece on the enduring appeal of Legos. No incite-ful news story is going to be heard driving home listening to NPR's economic/entertainment show "Market Place?" Couldn't NPR at least occasionally go beyond the 3 minute attention-span-limiting format and do an in-depth feature? Would it be to much to expect at least a "lite" piece on the interplay between politics and economics.
It seems as though you are on your own; you have to do the homework on your own time. You are not going to get anything worthy of your time listening to the radio driving home. You might as well listen to those mp3 files you downloaded to get through the traffic delays. More than likely after a hard day at work, most people will eat dinner listening/watching the nightly news, put away the dirty dishes and try and draw a bit of release from some form of entertainment, which repeated en mass becomes a form of containment for that little bit of surplus social energy that could be put into progressive social action.
But there is a danger here if things persist. Maybe the political elites should get out their Freud primer. In The Future of an Illusion, Freud begins by laying out a view of life that begins on very basic economics principles and setting those up as a given, before proceeding on to the main topic of religion. Although he uses words like "envy" where a "sense of justice" would be more appropriate, and granted many terms and phrases are laden with psychoanalytical overtones that sound discordant to the modern ear, overall he seems to explain more about what is going on in Michigan than President Obama. Freud writes:
If we turn to those restrictions that apply only to certain classes of society, we must meet with a state of things which is flagrant and which has always been recognized. It is to be expected that these underprivileged classes will envy the favored ones their privileges and will do all they can to free themselves from their own surplus of privation. Where this is not possible, a permanent measure of discontent will persist within the culture concerned and this can lead to dangerous revolts. If, however, a culture has not got beyond a point at which the satisfaction of one portion of its participants depends upon the suppression of another, and perhaps larger, portion – and this is the case in all present-day cultures – it is understandable that the suppressed people should develop an intense hostility towards a culture whose existence they make possible by their work, but in whose wealth they have too small a share. In such conditions an internalization of the cultural prohibitions among the suppressed people is not to be expected. On the contrary, they are not prepared to acknowledge the prohibitions, they are intent on destroying the culture itself, and possibly even on doing away with the postulates on which it is based…It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them to revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
So strikingly dissimilar in many respects and in approach to an atheistic Freud, Walter Rauschenbush in Christianizing the Social Order - a book very much within the early 20th century Social Gospel movement – points to an economic and political order that is similar to Freud. Rauschenbush writes:
In every social order…individuals rise to controlling positions and intrench (sic) themselves in the places they have attained Their effort is to preserve for themselves and their children the power and wealth which they have acquired Knowing the power of the State they seek to control politics. Knowing the power of public opinion, they influence the press and the schools. Their house is built on things as they are; therefore they are against any change – except change that will further fortify their position…The financial and political forces which the upper classes have been able to manipulate in all past eras have been enormous , and the skill with which they handled them was always the best that could be hired…we might expect considerations of justice and mercy to thaw through the icy indifference of class selfishness. But moral suasion is strangely feeble where the sources of a man's income are concerned…The immense power wielded by the rich is an intoxicant that few can withstand permanently. Men defer to them, smooth their way for them, and make them the center of ever occasion. The morbid curiosity of the masses about their doings is unpleasant, but it is an expression of the sense of their importance….
When politicians and the mass media are unable or unwilling to speak intelligently and truthfully, when they speak to "audiences", "target markets", "consumers", and not to citizens (in the Aristotelian sense – those who participate in the exercise of power), then it is time to stop applauding and repeating trite and misleading clips of speeches. Otherwise, we have to resign ourselves to baking bread, watching the Hobbit and playing with Legos – all of which I plan to do while I still can…
Recently I was given an unabridged copy of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Although I have had the "authoritative modern abridgment" by Edmund Fuller version for many years, a version dog eared and worn for having been read and reread, I never thought to seek out the complete work.
Once I began reading it, I was struck by just how much was omitted and how those omissions seemed to speak to me. One passage in particularly seemed to jump out and thought worth reproducing at some length since, like myself, most people only read the abridged version.
The passage comes from the section titled Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima (e) The Russian monk and his possible significance. In it, Father Zossima contrasts the everyday orientation of the lay person with that of the devout monk. He points to the then newly emerging faith in science and progress to contrast with the faith of the monk. For the lay person:
They have science; but in science there is nothing but what is the object of sense. The spiritual world, the higher part of man's being is rejected altogether, dismissed with a sort of triumph, even with hatred. The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says:
"You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires." That is the modern doctrine of the world. In that they see freedom. And what follows from this right of multiplication of desires? In the rich, isolation and spiritual suicide; in the poor, envy and murder; for they have been given rights, but have not been shown the means for satisfying their wants …
…Interpreting freedom as the multiplication and rapid satisfaction of desires, men distort their own nature, for many senseless and foolish desires and habits and ridiculous fancies are fostered in them. They live only for mutual envy, for luxury and ostentation. They have dinners, visits, carriages, rank and slaves to wait on one is looked upon as a necessity, for which life, honor and human feelings are sacrificed, and men even commit suicide if they are unable to satisfy it. We see the same thing among those who are rich, while the poor drown their unsatisfied need and their envy in drunkenness. But soon they will drink blood instead of wine, they are being led to it. I ask you is such a man free?
…it's no wonder that instead of gaining freedom they have sunk into slavery, and instead of serving the cause of brotherly love and the union of humanity have fallen, on the contrary, into dissension and isolation and therefore the idea of the service of humanity, of brotherly love and the solidarity of mankind, is more and more dying out in the world, and indeed this idea is sometimes treated with derision. For how can a man shake off his habits, what can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
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In President Eisenhower's message to Congress in January 14th, 1954 he declared:
The human problems of individual citizens are a proper and important concern of our government. One such problem that faces every individual is the provision of economic security for his old age and economic security for his family in the event of death. To help individuals provide for the security – to reduce both the fear and the incidence of destitution to a minimum – to promote the confidence of every individual in the future – these are the proper aims of all levels of government, including the Federal Government.
How odd it is to read these words from a Republican President and then read the headlines of a Democratic President hosting business leaders and CEOs to discuss problems that corporations may face in the event of looming automatic budget cuts.
By now the strategies and methodologies of using natural disasters to push through public policy is familiar to most readers – especially readers familiar with Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine: The rise of Disaster Capitalism. The ubiquitous use of the term "Fiscal Cliff" by the media serves to frame and constrain public discussion and debate based not on the exigencies of a natural disaster but one that is contrived and man-made. Rarely will one hear the viewpoint that there is no "Fiscal Cliff," that it is a manufactured event aimed at creating a sense of urgency that must be dealt with in a speedy and inexact (unjust) manner. Those viewpoints exist, but they cannot penetrate the corporate main stream media censors. Those viewpoints can be found in the writings of economist like Richard Wolff, Michael Hudson and others, but they do not receive wide exposure, they remain on the margins outside the space where public discourse can influence policy. Discussion is constrained within the narrow parameters acceptable to those in power.
While Democratic principles are being undermined by economic policy, discussions focus on whether additional Federal revenue should come from higher tax rates or closing of loop holes and deductions. It is the election horse race mentality all over again; the spectacle, the salacious, the trivial, anything to conceal more basic fundamental problems posed to individuals in an era of ever decreasing economic security. The issues raised by the Occupy movement are treated as ephemera. A wide-eyed look at the evisceration of economic means of existence for millions of fellow citizens occurring right before us seems to be too painful to bear. It is better to distract, entertain, and deflect attention to less discomforting subjects.
The temporal distance between Eisenhower and Obama is little over a half century but how lost seems the language and concern over the individual. Margaret Thatcher once famously declared that society does not exist, only individuals are real – which of course is ridiculous, but tolerable if only our government would treat the economic well being of individual people, and not corporations as its proper aim.
Wanting to listen to the news while cooking dinner, I turned the radio to NPR news this Saturday, December 1st. The news round-up at the top of the hour devoted less than one minute to the strike by clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation's busiest cargo complex; A strike that is coming at the beginning of the busiest shopping season for retailers and comes at the heels of the historic Black Friday strike by some Wall Mart employees.
And so what does NPR select to spend the majority of the remaining hour after the news roundup? Ricky Martin's regret with not coming out earlier about his homosexuality and a lengthy interview with William P. Young, the author of "The Shack."
If by this time you have not picked up on NPR's ever increasing obsession with steering clear of news containing information that could even remotely call into question prevailing relations of power and dominance than you really need to schedule an appointment with an audiologist. So strenuously studious is NPR news in avoiding stories with substance that it is morphing into version or perversion of "Fresh Air." They might as well just put Terry Gross in charge of the news programming.
You can predict that at end of each hour you will hear a story about sports, celebrities, literature, or art, anything but what has the potential for creating discomfort or dissonance in the listener. You would think that the coverage of contemporary topics that call into question the reigning ideology would provide an endless repository for stories worthy of the name news.
NPR should find within itself some courage and quit being so pusillanimous. Why not have a story on how we have come to be so blase and accepting of 400 individuals owning more wealth than 185 million citizens, or so many many more contradictions that go unexamined in what is punitively the most democratic of all countries.
If you think of ideology as the creation, distribution, and regulation of symbolic forms whose meanings are put in the service of power (John B. Thompson), then NPR news is in danger of becoming little more than an mouth piece for those who stand to benefit by leaving the existing structures of power unquestioned. Wrapping itself up in an au courant cultural cloak is a threadbare attempt to avoid controversy or ruffle the feathers of its corporate sponsors.
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As you can tell, the Army has too much time on their hands. At least we're not at war or anything... (Yes, I realize the AF and the Navy appear to have excess time and money, as well.)Green Class A uniforms out
By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Aug 22, 2008 14:47:55 EDT
The days of the green Class As are over.
The Armys plan to make dress blues the only Army Service Uniform has been approved and soldiers who own the uniform are encouraged to begin wearing it now, the Army announced Wednesday.
The move to eliminate the green uniform is designed to streamline soldiers clothing bags while modernizing the way the traditional blue uniform is worn.
The new wear policy was announced Wednesday in an Army-wide message from Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey and Sgt. Maj. of the Army Kenneth Preston.
The most significant change, aside from the switch from green to blue, is the option to wear a combat service identification badge, something that was not allowed with the blues.
This uniform is part of a larger modular uniform system. Its the culmination of a transformation effort that began back in 2004, Preston told Army Times, referring to the development of the Army Combat Uniform and its introduction in May 2005. The ACU really streamlined the impact on soldiers and, of course, that same thought process was really applied to our dress uniform.
Preston said the blue uniform has come out overwhelmingly ahead in several surveys of soldiers asked their preference for a dress uniform, and in more than 150 forums he conducted over the past two years.
The vast majority of soldiers also expressed a desire to display their combat credentials, he said.
Other changes include:
Soldiers who wear green, tan or maroon berets, soldiers assigned to air assault coded positions and military police on duty will be permitted to blouse their trousers with the black leather combat boot.
The black, tan, maroon and green beret will be permitted with all uniforms. Men and women in the rank of corporal and above will have the option of wearing a service cap, for which there will be a stipend. Commanders will be authorized to determine which headgear should be worn for a particular event.
During the development of the uniform, a grey shirt had been considered, but the Army decided that white shirts will be worn with all Class A and B uniforms because it showcases the soldiers uniform, Preston said.
The new uniform will be available at clothing sales stores next summer.
Soldiers graduating from basic training will get it as part of their clothing bag by the summer of 2010.
Clothing allowances will be adjusted, and every soldier will be wearing the blue uniform by 2014.
We've decided the guy in the photo (provided in the link) looks like a Pakistani fire chief. The guys in the office are thinking a Sam Elliot moustache and a couple of full-size medals randomly placed would complete the outfit. Oh--and a cigar.
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Some facts, Italy borrows money to pay for the interest of it Government debt. Therefore when this happens it clear a country is heading towards bankruptcy.
Will Italy change ? NO. Italy Is the most corrupt country in Europe, tax evasion is the national sport. Cheating is a way of life. Respect of the law is secondary. Italians think that there is no cost to the economy or the system when they cheat, corrupt and evade taxes. Besides tomorrow is another day. Sunday they will go to Church, and Monday the will restart with their ways. 20 million Italians still support Berlusconi and Lega. Berlusconi since 2001 has created 700 billion Euros of Government debt. Where has money gone to ? Infrastructure, no. Education no, Research No. We pay ladies in Government department 10000 Euros a month because they had sex with Berlusconi. We use Government vehicles to take prostitutes to Berlusconi residence. We use state airplane to take minister to watch football game, or stripper to Berlusconi party, This is why investing in Italian Government bond is a joke
Now, time is almost over. Without political commitment (I mean Eurobonds) Italy is doomed to default (There is not enough money in the EFSF) and the cost of financing is an increasingly heavy burden. It is not a matter of explaining the markets the fundamentals of the economy, the next austerity measures... Now is too late. It is only an issue that an institution (Italian government) will not able to afford its payments in the medium term and Germany will not help any longer.
Looking at Trichet today was embarrassing, the inaction of Berlusconi (only empty words) is discouraging and finally, Merkel with her actitude (understandable from a short-term), maybe, will realize that the euro was a good framework for the Germany exports model and that with her position did a big disservice to German firms in the long term.
But with these politicians, the sequence is clear: the situation in Italy will become untenable (it's just maths a government with 120% of Debt/GDP cannot afford a 6% or interest with a GDP growing at 1% during a long time) and consequently the euro will end.
The saddest thing is that, here in Europe, we have spent all the week criticizing the political circus in the US and our situation is purely created by the political inaction too.
What a paradox!
A half-century of "revolving door governments" that last an average of 9.5 months, and the one time we really do need to get rid of a government, the man proves impossible to unstick from his "poltrone" (armchair).
Italy today is the mirror image of Belgium: they have no government for months, yet someone is managing their accounts; we have a "Potemkin village" government that is absolutely not managing anything (and especially not structural reforms).
If 'caro' Silvio has no ideas left on how to lead, its time for him to leave. We can only hope someone else has a plan... but first let's eat.
Does someone know that Germany exports like Italy+France+GB+Spain?Twice than Japan?The problem is GERMANY,NOT ITALY.We must quit the eurozone immediately,and leave it to Germany,Benelux,France,Finland.The new euro will increase to 1,7 against $,while the italian new currency will hold a change of 1,4 to $.This way we will seize part of the markets held by Berlin,and grow healthy,repairing our Deficit/GDP rate.In a couple of years,France,killed in her export to dramatic levels,will withdraw from the eurozone.End of euro,eurozone,back to an overvalued DMARK,that will leave room to breathe to the rest of Europe.Fine dell'eurocommedia.
Who but a raving lunatic, delusional megalomaniac or unbridled masochist would want or dare, to be at the helm of any one of the many collapsing European/Euro-zone nations, in these ungodly & horrendous times?? Especially when the masses live in catatonic denial, arrogantly refuse to be accountable or take responsibility for their actions/profligacies & expect farcical miracles from their leaders??
So...I can't possibly see the U.S. Congress allowing this, but could Bernanke back door and buy some Italian debt? Because if Italy and Spain falls, so does the global economy.
stefano de santis wrote: That Italy must leave the Euro. This man has no clue, Italian currency will not be worth the paper it is printed on. Besides people buy German products because they are good quality and value for money. What products will Italy sell ? This man typically is what we have in our Goverment, just no clue. This fellow will tell you that Berlsuconi did not have sex with minor (Ruby). Berlusconi is not responsble for the corruption of judge.
Mr Berlusconi is not an economist but a premier: His job is to allocate right persons at the right positions at the right time rather than making concrete economic policies for himself.
Italy has plenty of right economists. The problem in effect is that whether they have the guts to run any risk for their sake if Mr Berlusconi asks them to work with him.
I watched his speech , it contained absolutely nothing of relevance , it did not stir the spirit ,there was absolutely no hint of leadership or vigour.The Deputies were fiddling with their phones , looking at papers and were totally bored .
It gave no hope to anyone who might expect that the leader of one of the top 10 economic powers in the world might have some grasp/understanding of what is going on.
This is a golden opportunity for real reform and to prepare the Italian economy for the next 20 years. Let Italy default on some of its debts, reform the burdensome social welfare system, drastically cut the public service sector along with red tape (we all know how far down the ladder Italy ranks in terms of ease of doing business), deregulate the labour market allowing employers to hire the hordes of unemployed youth, and establish a South-Western European euro with Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Greece. This will currency will naturally fall relative to the northern euro allowing the industries of its participants to become more competitive. DO IT. DO IT NOW!! Presto!
When I read the comments of some Berlusconi's supporters here I wonder what might Pavolini have tought of these Minus Habens.
Not even him managed to be so delusional about his then Boss(Mussolini), of which berlusconi is a sad Caricature of.
Berlusconi and his minions should be tried for treason.
Unfortunately the drafter of our constitution were to civilised and Death Penalties for treason has been abolished.
When The Country will come down, and sure as hell it will, I hope to see a repetition of the 28th april 1945.
they deserve no less.
Just a few details shall be pointed out. Berlusconi often said that as a rich man he doesn't have any problem for himself. A lot of his supporters believed or argued that because of it he was more reliable than anybody else, he could govern Italy without any interest of his own, in a way the country actually needed. What we just can see is that he just has no problem in an economic viewpoint; we already knew that. Among his silly comments he said also that stockmarkets...are just like an old unsteady clock, it ticks the right hour only twice a day; he seemed to mean that stocks don't mean anything! On regard of Lega...oh, he really relied more than once on leghisti, although his first government which was backed and sided by them too, just fell down because they U-turned; they simply did for a silly issue of their own, as ever. U-turning, as well as bickering, focusing people's attention on their own clownery, speaking about a kind of autonomous regions they politically never planned anything about (do they aim to federalism or secession? I haven't yet understood), is their usual characteristic, in the remainder they simply play the simple minded or the drunkard, they ought maybe to work as theatre actors in a village event, they seem yet not to realize that politics is not really a farce, it shouldn't at least be. Were these people elected by a citizens' majority? Perhaps they were; I don't know what most people will think next time, nobody in any case is entitled to play the fool or the sly fellow, after people's voting. Furthermore the current electoral law is no democratic in any way. As voters cannot express any individual preference, whenever we vote, just ticking a party list symbol, we never know who the candidate we are choosing is.
@JOE SOLARIS.If you tell me that the DC was financed by the americans,you risk to be sued for plagiarism by monsieur Lapalisse.The point is that America was the biggest democracy in the world,and had all the right of helpiong all the democracies Washington wanted to help,while the KGB was the infamous spy organization of the biggest dictature in the world.Sergio Romano,whose books shows a certain simpathy for France,is not mainly a right wing guy,he is first of all a presigious firma in the CORRIERE,which means in few words that nothing of what he writes can and must touch french interests.So told,his assessments on the KGB are probably wrong:the 989 billions are more.Who in the hell ever valued the ammo and weapons hidden by Pietro Secchia,for example?You do not ansewer to another question.When Sarkozy visited the Vatican in 2010,within few weeks the CEI started am antigovernmental campaign,with decalarations of BAGNASCO on REPUBBLICA,attacks of TETTAMANZI to the major MORATTI,articles of FAMIGLIA CRISTIANA that must have raised the envy of REPUBBLICA.Do you know who and how was paid in the Curia? How much costed the beatificazione of the french marionet JOHN PAUL II,beatificazione that was until that visit in a blind alley?Here some actual arguments to make BRIGHT TONY happy.He wants to speak about today problems.Contento?
When the countries of the eurozone joined the euro,ALL their currencies de facto were revalued.That of Italy,of 27%.I lived close to the Swiss frontier,and suddenly,for a miracle,the swiss franc,the swiss supermarkets,the swiss restaurants that were so expensive the week before,turned very cheap.Anyway,in relative terms,was not Europe revaluating:it was Germany,de facto,who devalued.It's not the mountain,comig toward me,but the contrary.Months ago,i dared to write that Germany and China were exporting in enormous,distiurbing and abnormal quantities,and that this would meant to drill the blackhole were the planet would soon fall.Sorry to tell it,but it's happening,and wasn't so hard to guess.Not only Europe,but the entire world cannot afford two countries that export such enormous share of their GDP,and using a devalued currency to perform this illegal task.Illegal not under some criminal code)or maybe so9but under any economical and political logic.This is the point,indeed.The comments of BANANA REPUBLIC are ridicolous:when we joined the euro,our deficit/GDP was the same of today,and our commercial balance with France and Germany were positive,without having a currency "worth th paper where is printed",as this blogger writes without any competence,and simply for hatred for Italy and/or his government.Now we should follow the superior mind of Bersani and substitute Berlusconi with him.The same are writing the CORRIRE,REPUBBLICA,STAMPA,the gurus of the international media,and "international economists":all against Berlusconi,for astrange case.This man should not only be a sexual manic,a corrupter,a mafious,all the funny names that NIRVANA BOUND creates just for him,the man who screwed Italy,the man who is unfit:now is the man that the "markets" refuse.But he already answered to all those opinion,say to the french government,his emissaries in our "Journals",in our politics,in the international blogs,and to the oil companies and their media considering il Cavaliere a problem to remove.WE THE PEOPLE,AND NOBODY ELSE decide who must lead this nation.Wait until 2013,or shut up.Our freedom and sovereignity don't belong to anybody else,especially to our enemies.Put this clearly in your heads,and find a less strong adversary
The Euro is doomed to extinction. That it was doomed from the start was logical because no currency can be introduced before the foundation of a country (the United States of Europe in our case). The Euro began to founder soon after the honeymoon a the indequate Prodi, Ciampi and the other european apprentice wizards should have known. Berlusconi is not to blame. Among the culprits we can include the left-wing parties and the trade unions.
@BANANA REPUBLIC.How is weather up there in Paris,today?I have two or three small things to tell you.When we joined the IRAQUI COALITION,we spent 37 lives and 2,5 billions in Iraq.But we inherited a 70 million tons/year well called ZUBAIR,covering 70% of our oil import.With the Libyc pople,not with Gheddafi,we signed enormous contracts that the winning rebels will respect:they grant this.With PUTIN'S RUSSIA we signed the enormous SOUTH STREAM contract,that is literally changing the economy of Europe.Now we know why folks like you and someone else are writing calumnies on Italy in this blog.All this burns somebobody's interests and pride.It's those who pays you to defame this Country.Your bosses,BANANA,are frustrated serial losers.And indeed they are losing in the attempted holdup in Lybia.Poor folks,with a squalid soul and despicable intentions,doomed to failure from the beginning:true as sun is sun and shadow is shadow.
I have always wondered how come Italy was considered less risky than, say, Spain; the market turmoil of the last few days proves that I had reason to be perplexed.
True, the Italian economy, on the whole, is stronger and more diversified than the economies of the other "PIGS" and our budget deficit is smaller. In Italy there was no excessive accumulation of private debt, no real estate bubbles, unlike in Spain or Ireland. But our country has three serious problems.
First: our public debt is much bigger than that of the other "PIGS"; it did not balloon before the Great Recession because it has been so high for years.
Second: our economy has been stagnant for many years.
But the third, most important (and most intractable) problem, is that our prime minister is Silvio Berlusconi: a swindler, a cheat, a liar, a corrupt businessman before turning into a corrupt politicion, and probably a person with serious psychiatric disorders, going from his megalomaniac tendencies to his obsession for sex. Only his megalomania can explain why, when the politicians who protected his interests even against the law were wiped away by the investigations of the early 1990's, starting from the ex prime minister and then leader of the so-called "socialist" party Bettino Craxi, he decided to start a political career of his own. His pathological inability and unwillingness to distinguish between Italy's interest and his own are the reason why we are in this mess. He is determined to cling to power until the end, at any cost. Since 1994 he has done anything, and will do anything, to achieve that goal. That explains why he has not done anything significant to protect Italy from the crisis, that at first was not foreseen, then was denied, then was falsely declared overcome. It also explains his cronyism, his demagoguery, his lies, his cronyism, his incompetence; to sum it up, his unwillingness to take any of the harsh measures that are badly needed in order to prevent a possible default, given that that would show that the king is naked and would make him deeply unpopular among Italian voters. Our politicians have never been very good, but at present Italy has by far the worse prime minister, the worse government, the worse politicians of the Western world (with the possible excpetion of Greece, at least until a few months ago; Papandreou is way better than Berlusconi). Certainly much worse than Spain's, Ireland's and even Portugal's.
It was all too easy to predict that he would not say anything substantial last Wednesday. That is why his speech was postponed to a time when markets were already closed, so he could try to arrange a line of resistance for Thursday morning; a line that soon crumbled. If he stays in power he will finish his job of destroying not only the Italian economy, but also Italian politics, Italian society and Italians' savings. Only then, perhaps, will Italians fully realise what kind of person he and his supporters are, and treat them the way Mussolini (hanged in public) and Craxi (who was insulted, vilified and even thrown coins at in public by an angry crowd) were treated.
Like someone said, that would only be his just deserve.
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The huge debt in Italy was caused by left-centre governments beginning from the 70st under the great pressure of the left-wing unions and the Communist party.
Totally false. The debt since 2001 has increased by 700 billion. Therefore Berlusconi between one party and the other, between the Brazilian minor, the Italian minor and now the Moroccan minor created on his own 700 billion out of 1900 billion. Very good going. During the 2 years of Prodi Government debt actually level.
Another example of a miss-informed Italian.
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One of Luchino Visconti's second-tier efforts, the 1954 "Senso" takes place in Venice of 1866, when the Austrian military occupation was being challenged by Garibaldi's uprising, The emotional core of the film is the destructive love affair between an Italian countess with ties to the nationalist rebellion and a younger Austrian lieutenant with no particular political passion.
Yet Visconti never seemed particularly focused on capturing the full emotional power of this doomed union. Instead, the great filmmaker placed his emphasis on style over substance. As a result, the film is a riot of visual opulence, with the splendor of 19th century Venice captured in brilliant production design presented in the three-strip Technicolor process. (This DVD/Blu-ray release provides a crisp new digital restoration.) For any student of cinematography, costume design or art direction, "Sense" is an invaluable source of inspiration.
However, the glory of the film's visual appeal cannot fully compensate for its dramatic deficiencies. To play the Austrian soldier, Visconti illogically miscast Farley Granger with the hope that his presence would guarantee a commercial U.S. theatrical release – which, ironically, never happened. Granger's bland, dreary presence makes the full-throttle performance by Alida Valli as the countess seem thoroughly peculiar – it makes little sense why she would drive herself mad and ruin her life for such a dull man.
This DVD/Blu-ray release includes the severely edited English-language version, "The Wanton Countess," with Granger and Valli speaking purple dialogue composed by Tennessee Williams and Paul Bowles; three short documentaries on Visconti's career are also included in the offering.
"Senso" can be recommended for Visconti fans, but it is strictly an optional purchase for those unfamiliar with the filmmaker's canon.
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