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Representatives from some of the largest urban counties in the country are in Columbus this week to learn how Franklin County has managed economic development in the wake of the Great Recession.
The county will play host to the annual meeting of the Large Urban County Caucus, part of the National Association of Counties.
Commissioner John O'Grady said the conversation will center on the role counties can play in regional economic development.
At a panel presentation today at the Hilton Columbus Downtown, O'Grady will highlight the county's use of work-force training grants to help lure large companies to Columbus, or help existing businesses expand, by connecting them with qualified workers.
The county invested $450,000 from its economic-development fund for the grants last year, which were part of a package of incentives by the county, city and state to attract new developments by Quantum Health, Sid Tool and IBM.
Together, the companies have pledged to create more than 1,300 jobs tied to the projects, and O'Grady said the training grants are an important piece of that puzzle.
The grants also connect companies to the county's Job and Family Services agency and the Central Ohio Workforce Investment Corp. to ensure that many of the new hires are out-of-work county residents.
The meeting also will serve to show off many of the city's amenities that are either county-owned, such as the Huntington Park baseball stadium, or that the county helped build, such as the Columbus Commons and Scioto Mile.
The 90 or so attendees — which include officials from Cook County, Ill., Palm Beach County, Fla., and Fulton County, Ga. — are scheduled to take in a Columbus Clippers game and eat a food-truck-catered lunch at the Columbus Commons.
O'Grady said these developments also are important tools to help the county retain jobs and talent.
"People graduating college are looking for these kinds of attractions," he said. "They're looking to live Downtown."
O'Grady is on the money when it comes to the importance of a dynamic downtown to attracting talented individuals, entrepreneurs and companies, said Matt Chase, the national county association's executive director.
And the idea of working with private businesses to help develop a highly skilled work force also is something he wants member counties to hear.
"Right now, what is most critical in economic development is work-force development," he said, adding that thousands of jobs go unfilled because qualified workers can't be found.
What's most impressive about Franklin County, Chase said, is that officials here looked for gaps the county could fill instead of competing with the city or entities such as the Chamber of Commerce. He said the county's economic-development work will pay off in the long term when more jobs means less reliance on county services and more tax revenue.
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SOMERVILLE, Mass. (WHDH) -- We may not know why a chicken in Somerville crossed the road, but we do know it got stuck in the snow on the other side.
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What would it cost Harry Potter to buy a Happy Meal? Now you can find out.
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U.S. to Harry Potter currency converter
NEW YORK (CNNmoney) - In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone we read that dragon liver sells for about 17 sickles an ounce. Nice to know, but it leaves you wondering (if you wonder about things like this) "Just how much is 17 sickles, anyway?" Now, thanks to the magic of computer programming and arithmetic, we have the answer. In U.S. currency, dragon liver costs $4.82 an ounce. That's actually not too bad compared to the price of, say, foie gras.
You may wonder how we could possible know this. Harry Potter's wizard money is, after all, completely fictional. Dragon liver is, for that matter, completely fictional. To find the answer, you have to look at some of the lesser-known Harry Potter books. Scholastic, the publishers of the Harry Potter series, also published some slim paperback versions of what are, ostensibly, the textbooks used by Harry Potter and his friends at Hogwarts. The secret to our calculator is on the back of those little books, right under the UPC symbol. The price of the book, it says, is "$3.99 (14 sickles, 3 knuts)."
That information, combined with the knowledge that there are 29 knuts in a sickle and 17 sickles in a galleon (which we learned from more careful study of Harry Potter books), told us all we needed to know to build our Harry Potter wizard money calculator.
We used a "lowest common denominator" approach in creating our calculator. For example, when going from U.S. dollars to wizard money, the first step is to figure out how many knuts one would get for the amount of dollars and cents given. The next step is to figure out how many galleons we could get out of the number of knuts we have.�
Once we've changed as many of the knuts into galleons as possible, there will usually be some left over. The next question, then, is how many of those knuts can be turned into sickles. If there are any knuts left over after that step, those just stay knuts. Since knuts don't divide evenly into dollars, there may be decimal points left. Since knuts are the smallest unit of wizard money there is, we just round that amount off. (We round up if it's .5 or greater, down if it's less than .5.) Because of rounding, different approaches to converting dollars to wizard money may yield slightly different results.
So now we can find out the price of dragon livers and silver unicorn horns ($139.82). You can also calculate the price of a Harry Potter action figure (2 galleons, 1 sickle, 8 knuts) or a McDonald's Happy Meal (10 sickles, 6 knuts).
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Well . . . this thread may be ready to move on to a new topic from
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The eponymous scene of On the Side of the Road, a documentary that explores Israeli attitudes toward the Palestinian Nakba, or catastrophe, occurs midway through the film on an unpaved road just outside the West Bank settlement of Ariel. Interrupted by a curious Israeli family out for a pastoral drive, director Lia Tarachansky stops to answer their questions about what she is filming ("what TV channel will it be on?"). As they drive on, the children waving and smiling their good byes, Tarachansky stands alone on the side of the road and suddenly bursts into tears. "I mean, everyone I love is here," she weeps, as she faces the sprawling settlement. "You know?"
Tarachansky, a journalist who works for The Real News, was raised from the age of six in Ariel, one of the largest settlements on the West Bank. Standing on that quiet stretch of road, surrounded by Palestinian villages, she says, "This is where I am from. I don't know anything else." Both statements are heartfelt, but neither is completely true. Tarachansky was born in Kiev, in the former Soviet Union, but raised from the age of six in Ariel. Like most Israeli children she learned nothing in school about the Nakba, or catastrophe— the Arabic name for the dispossession and exile of the Palestinian people in 1948.
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Wednesday, August 7, 2013 | 10:10 AMWhen it comes to writing, a good rule of thumb is to start with your best material, which is why we're going to lead this entry off with the seller's description:
1998 CR-125 Boarded Out to 175 - $1000
Bike is all raced out. Power banded from 1st to 5th gear. Very Fast. Just needs a new piston. No title. Asking $1000 obo.
We're familiar with the process of engine boring, but the term "boarded out" is a new one for us. Perhaps he's referring to the special tuning he gave the exhaust. How else can you explain that 2x4-sized dent in the pipe? Maybe he should have said "boarded in." He also mentions that this bike is "all raced out," which is something we can definitely agree on. This bike's racing days are gone forever, and thanks to the decals on the front fender that resemble a tramp stamp tattoo, so is its dignity. But at least it's still "power banded" in first through fifth gear, which is something the seller no doubt found out at the same time he somehow managed to bend the folding front brake lever.
The Verdict: Judging by the language used in the description (boarded out, power banded, etc.), the ridiculous $1000 asking price and the fact that this bike is definitely not a '98 ('98 CR125s had aluminum frames), it's a safe bet to say that that this person knows absolutely nothing about dirt bikes. The lack of a title suggests that this property might be even hotter than seller's opinion of the machine itself. Steer clear!
The St. Bernard
Remember those old movies with the St. Bernard rescue dogs that wore small barrels of brandy around their necks to give to people they found stranded in avalanches? Wait, you don't? Well, that's what this bike reminds us of, for several reasons. The first is the makeshift fuel tank, which bears a strong resemblance to a barrel of brandy. The second is that there's a good chance that this bike is only operated under the influence of brandy. Why else would the seller choose to install such a small tank on this thing? After all, you don't want to be able to get too far from base camp if you're borderline blacked out on brandy. Finally, we're pretty sure the seller had been slogging brandy for a few hours when he came up with the $700 asking price for this antique.
As much as we'd like to keep making fun of this thing, the fact that it's so clean (except for the brandy barrel tank, which arguably ups its cool factor) prevents us from being too hard on it. Seriously, check the thing out! It's got a skid plate that's somehow not as smashed up as J-Law's rental cars, there isn't an ounce of black spray paint on the plastics (a rare thing for bikes featured in this column) and it even looks like it has new grips. New grips! The hillbilly who owns this baby must be some sort of status seeker!
The Verdict: This thing might be from 1978, but we believe that 400cc two-stroke can still crank out some serious, holler-inducing entertainment. And much like the corner store down the street from the seller's house, shirt, shoes and mullet are purely optional.
Tweaker's Delight
In keeping with one of this column's common themes, the only kind of paperwork that the scooters in this ad come with is thin and rolled around green herbs. Plastic that's been spray painted black is another reoccurring theme, although one of these little beauts does have portions of bodywork that have been sanded down, which puts it in a similar category. Who wants to bet the serial numbers have been sanded off too?
What's with all the missing bodywork on these scooters? Does the seller live in a strange part of the world where specific pieces of scooter plastic are in high demand? Was he yanking off body panels because he thought he'd stashed his stash in there somewhere? Was he trying to lighten the scooters in an attempt to get a few extra mph's in the event of a chase following the inevitable drug deal gone wrong? Even more bizarre is the fact that both scooters are missing seats. What's that all about? Seriously, what's that all about? If you have any idea, use the comments section to fill us in, we want to know!
The Verdict: Do yourself a favor and don't answer this ad. The absolute best case scenario is that you pick up a couple pieces of crap that will never run again because the previous owner has stripped out every single strand of copper wiring, tweaker-style.
Ninja Warrior
After making so many references to black spray paint, you knew there was no way we were going to close this column out without giving you an example, and the Ninja Warrior pictured here is one of the best. Unlike most rattle-can-wielding artists of moto, the seller does not limit his canvas to just the plastics. Nope, the seat gets the flat-black treatment as well, which catapults this extraordinary specimen into a league of its own. If the seller hadn't run into money problems like he mentioned in the ad, we're guessing the rims and exhaust would have gotten the same treatment.
The seller says the bike is ready for the trails, but about the only type of trail those tires are ready for is a paved bike path. Just don't hit any corners because the patch of oil the rear tire is sitting on is sure to make for a slippery situation if you do. The seller says the bike comes with some extra parts, but after looking at the bike's overall condition, we're guessing he meant that it comes with leftover parts following the rebuild he says he did over the winter.
The Verdict: Despite everything we just said, we suggest you snap this bike up immediately if you're in the seller's neighborhood. Shocked? Consider this. The seller says he's got much more money in the bike than he's selling it for. How on Earth do you put more than $1000 into a bike like this? Let alone MUCH more? The only possible explanation we can think of is that he meant it literally. That's right, stashed somewhere in this bike is a stack of Benjamins thicker than Ron Jeremy's chest hair, and it's up to you to find it.
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Missing front number plate, no title = STOLEN!
that CR125 is "powerbanded from first to fifth gear"... i wonder if the guy would sell me just one of them? what's the going rate for a powerband so i can make him an offer?
anybody know of the fifth gear powerband on that CR would fit my YZ250?
RacerX should do a tech article on this subject for guys like me...
Brake lever, not "break lever". Sheesh.
Factory installed powerbands are not interchangeable. However, I do produce and market my own universal fit powerband. It works on all bikes and is guarantied to make your bike faster than your meth dealer's camaro. Please send your credit card number and a naked picture of your wife or girlfriend or both.
Telluwhat: man, i don't know; my dealer's camaro is pretty fast. the rear end's all jacked up in the air, it's got big tires on the back, and the whole car is primer grey. ain't no way anything can beat it!
i'll take two of the powerbands. if they're universal fit, i'll put them both on second gear to really help me get a holeshot.
i can send a picture of both of them naked; in the same picture at the same time....
...i believe that dent in the CR125 pipe is what we used to call a "speed dent"... it was probably a custom modification done by Mitch himself at Pro Circuit. very trick and very rare; worth the asking price alone.
The Ninja Warrior ... those actually look like trials tires ... which, in my experience, are actually pretty awesome for trail riding. I actually used a pair of trials tires to race a hare scramble at Budds Creek before and they worked great.
But he may have also just misspelled 'trials'
Normally straddling a plastic bottle of gasoline and going WFO doesn't give me too much pause, but the Blue Meanie up there would give me a whole lot to think about.
What has me worried about all of these bikes is the absolute lack of quality duct tape. I don't know if you have ever ridden with the cadre of humanity who covet then obtain steeds of these caliber, but I have. To a man, each one of them has a liberal dose of zip-ties and a large amount of duct tape prior to using the black paint.
Maybe that is why those sweet scooters are missing their plastics and seat. Jimmy-bob had taped up a sweet braid pattern on the seat using three different colors of tape, and then found that they work just as well as bar stool tops (again using a liberal dose of color matching duct tape and zip-ties in the single-wide, so he no longer needed the bikes to show off his handywork?
Either that, or he found out that old duct tape and speedos don't mix, and the seat had to be penalized for its sins. Equally likely.
One thing you can absolutely guarantee, alchohol was involved in the "seat incident". Stamp it.
I raced a hare scramble at Budds Creek, as well. I started racing MX in 1990 at Budds; the hare scramble went on the track and looped through the woods to the south...it was super fun...
@telluwhat,- I need 2 powerbands for a 72 Hodaka Super Combat Wombat A.S.A.P. (that's the fast one) I cant get a wheelie in nothing but 1st. She's been bored out to a 155. (I spelt it right) Which ever since I put the 42 mm mikuni carb on, she smokes like hell, I do think the powerband must be cracked,. Thanks, Only nekid picture I have is of my cousin, is that ok? and where do I put my moms credit card number??? Thanks!
What!!! No powerband for 6th gear! What a ripoff!!
I got a nekkid picure of this dude's mom that lives next door. She is big, so that's like having a picture of two chicks. I run external power bands on my 04 RM250. With a two stroke you can do that. I don't run a power band for 5th gear though. The tracks in Houston aren't big enough to need it. I use my 5th gear power band to keep my old lady's hair in a pony tail. They also serve as soft straps when I put the bike in my truck, which is nice because I kept having to repaint my bars until I figured that trick out. The sticker on the swingarm of that CR is a custom piece. It hangs like that to keep the rider under control in the air, like the flaps on stock cars that pop open once they start spinning and taking flight. That cat knows his stuff about motor cross. He is a thinker, a visionary.
Would buy bikes #2 and #4. No questions asked.
@ungarata hell yeah! Those woods trails, south of the mx track, were awesome! When I raced there a lap was about 15-20 minutes long and when we finally exited the woods we did one lap around the oval/flat track and then back over to where the old starting gate was and then back into the woods. I remember parts of the trails back there were like bermed sand chutes that were so much fun and a mud hill section where I remember about 30 bikes piled up, completely blocking the main trail so that we had to find a path through the thick woods around those poor bastids.
Man do I miss those days
On the bike that's powerbanded out: it says that it only needs a piston. Now, if I buy the bike and it needs rings, wrist pin and circlips, do I have legal recourse?
that's cool; when i raced the hare scramble there, we started on the MX track, down at the bottom by the pond. we never went over onto the stock car track, though...we looped through the woods and back onto the MX track.
this was back when the start was the original uphill climb on the east side; the hare scramble didn't use the MX starting gate, though...
of all the races i've ever done, i remember that hare scramble pretty fondly. good fun.
...i meant the starting gate was the uphill start on the WEST side.
one of my best starts ever was coming around the first turn at the top of the hill in fourth place, and the gate was full with 40 riders in the 250s. i quickly dropped anchor and went backwards, but the start was awesome.


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Zone 5 recently sponsored and hosted the preview party to kick-off the Vanguard Designer Showhouse event, which raises money for the Albany Symphony Orchestra.
The annual Designer Showhouse is Vanguard's major fundraiser. The visitors to the Showhouse have enjoyed seeing both historic homes in which beautiful decorative features from the past have been preserved and new built homes exhibiting fine craftsmanship of our own time. This year, "Urban Elegance" was the theme, and our next-door neighbors at 17 Chapel Street showed off their boutique condominiums.
After the preview, folks came over to 25 Monroe Street for the party! The expert designers had this to say:
The modest façade of 25 Monroe Street belies the sleek, modern, sophisticated interior of Zone 5, where the loft-like setting inspires the creative juices for this award-winning communication agency. When the doors slide quietly open you are greeted by high open ceilings, beautiful wood-paneled walls, a gorgeous wood-encased wine cooler stocked with vintage wines from some of the best vineyards, and you know you have arrived at one of Downtown Albany's very best kept secrets! Is this really Zone 5 or is it Hernando's Hideaway?
Floors of bamboo, cork and gorgeously mottled slate lead you through high energy spaces that promise long, challenging conversations or brief but inspiring encounters. An outdoor deck provides views of the Capitol and the hidden beauty of the Arts and Business District of Downtown Albany.
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Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are already lining up their talking points in case there is a government shut down. It is the Tea Party's fault.
According to US News and World Report, Reid said:
"I am extremely disappointed that after weeks of productive negotiations with Speaker Boehner, Tea Party Republicans are scrapping all the progress we have made and threatening to shut down the government if they do not get all of their extreme demands," Reid said in a statement Monday.
"The division between the Tea Party and mainstream Republicans is preventing us from reaching a responsible solution on a long-term budget,"
In the House, Steny Hoyer tossed his oar in, calling Tea Party freshmen congressmen, the "perfectionist caucus." Chuck Schumer has called for Boehner to dump the Tea Party and has even said that if Boehner wants an agreement, he is going to have to abandon the Tea Party and give up on all additional budget cuts.
The Democrats have been on message on this one idea. Get Boehner to abandon the Tea Party.
This messaging has been pretty consistent for the last two weeks. That is the alarming part. The Democrats would be expected to blame the Republican and the Tea Party for a shut down. The messaging for Boehner to abandon the Tea Party is much more alarming.
Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, and Steny Hoyer are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. They are never going to set records for IQ's. They don't need to. A shark is one of the dumbest animals in the ocean, yet it knows how to zero in on its prey and take it down.
The Democrats, like a shark, smell fear in the water. They know Boehner does not want this fight. If given the chance, Boehner will cave. They know this.
This is of course, what they want. If they can split the GOP and the Tea Party, any hope of fiscal discipline will collapse and spending will again go into overdrive.
As Newsmax noted, Democrats are trying to exploit the split between Boehner and conservative congressmen. They hope the divide between the two sides will widen, noting that 54 Republicans defected from their leaders on the last stop-gap budget the House approved.
Will the Democrats be able to pressure Boehner to drop the Tea Party and split the GOP? At this point who knows, but one thing is certain. If this happens, the liberals' Christmas will come in April.
The Tea Party is what is saving this nation from destruction...the Dems are leftist socialists who want to rule over everything and they honestly think they should....which is against everything this nation was founded for...what fools! Some truly cannot see the forrest for the trees and are waging a terrible plight on this naton with their evil and underhanded ways! Reid needs to retire and get out of government; he is warped with un-Americanism and is a disgrace! Boehner must stand for the right things, be strong and not let the left sway him! Nothing is ever going to be easy, however to be just again--we MUST find some shread of trust in some of our government....this is a pretty poor commentary on the evil, corruption and waste to this Nation by our government on BOTH sides! Those that are true patriots had better stand tall and speak up for the ship is sinking fast...the ship of America can only float so long!!!!!!!! To now sink into grave degridation after all the strength of 235 years would be the end for all freedoms in the world....I FOR ONE AM NOT WILLING TO GIVE UP THE FIGHT...ARE YOU?! LOCK AND LOAD AND LET'S GET THIS DONE....WHATEVER IT TAKES!! GOD BLESS AMERICA FOR REAL..NOT THE RATTLINGS OF THOSE THAT SAY THIS BUT MEAN THE FURTHEREST FROM SUCH A BLESSING........
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"U.S. CORPORATIONS ENTERED THE 1970s besieged "In 1971, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sought the advice of Virginia attorney and future Supreme Court justice Lewis Powell about the problems facing the business community. Powell produced a memorandum, "Attack on American Free Enterprise System," that warned of an assault by environmentalists, consumer activists, and others who "propagandize against the system, seeking insidiously and constantly to sabotage it." He argued that it was time for the wisdom, ingenuity, and resources of American business to be marshaled against those who would destroy it." 2 This set the stage for an organized effort by a powerful coalition for business groups and ideologically compatible foundations to align the U.S. political and legal system with their ideological vision." "In the United States, the 170,000 public-relations employees engaged in manipulating news, public opinion, and public policy to serve the interests of paying clients now outnumber actual news reporters by about 40,000--and the gap is growing. These firms will organize citizen letter-writing campaigns, provide paid operatives posing as "housewives" to present corporate views in public meetings, and place favorable news items and op-ed pieces in the press. A 1990 study found that almost 40 percent of the news content in a typical U.S. newspaper originates from public-relations press releases, story memos, and suggestions." "American democracy isn't for sale only to America 's transnational corporations. The Mexican government spent upwards of $25 million and hired many of the leading Washington lobbyists to support its campaign for NAFTA. In the late 1980s, Japanese corporations were spending an estimated $100 million a year on political lobbying in the United States and another $300 million building a nationwide grassroots political network to influence public opinion. Together, the Japanese government and Japanese companies employed ninety-two Washington law, public-relations, and lobbying firms on their be half. " "Corporate libertarianism--an ideology whose claims and promises are as false and self-serving as the claims of cigarette companies that nicotine is non-addictive and cigarette smoke poses no health hazard--has become the dominant philosophy of our political culture and of our most powerful institutions. This is the accomplishment of a persistent campaign that uses the most sophisticated techniques yet developed by the masters of mass marketing and media manipulation. It is one element of a larger campaign to globalize markets and to embed corporate libertarianism and consumerism as defining values of a homogenized global culture. " Korten, Eliminating the Public Interest "To attract companies like yours . .. we have felled mountains, razed jungles, filled swamps, moved rivers, relocated towns ... all to make it easier for you and your business to do business here. -Philippine government ad in Fortune " "The public purpose of what became known as the Bretton Woods system was to unite the world in a web of economic prosperity and interdependence that would preclude nations taking up arms. Another purpose in the eyes of its architects was to create an open world economy unified under U.S. leadership that would ensure unchallenged U.S. access to the world's markets and raw materials. Two of the Bretton Woods institutions--the IMF and the World Bank--were actually created at the Bretton Woods meeting. The GATT was created at a subsequent international meeting." "Although formally designated as "special agencies" of the UN, the Bretton Woods institutions function autonomously from it. Their governance and administrative processes are secret, carefully shielded from public scrutiny and democratic debate. Indeed, the internal operating processes of the World Bank are so secretive that access to many of its most important documents relating to country plans, strategies, and priorities is denied to even its own governing executive directors. In the World Bank and the IMF the big national powers have both veto power over certain decisions and voting shares in proportion to their shares of the subscribed capital--ensuring their ability to set and control the agenda." "In their capacity as international receivers, the World Bank and the IMF imposed packages of policy prescriptions on indebted nations under the rubric of structural adjustment. Each structural adjustment package called for sweeping economic policy reforms intended to channel more of the adjusted country's resources and productive activity toward debt repayment, privatize public assets and services, and further open national economies to the global economy. Restrictions and tariffs on both imports and exports were reduced, and subsidies were offered to attract foreign investors. " "To attract foreign investors, adjusted governments suppress union organizing to hold down wages, benefits, and labor standards. They give special tax breaks and subsidies to foreign corporations and cut corners on environmental regulations. The fact that dozens of countries seek to increase foreign exchange earnings by increasing the export of natural resources and agricultural commodities drives down the prices of their export goods in international markets, creating pressures to extract and export even more to maintain foreign exchange earnings. Falling prices for export commodities, profit repatriation by foreign investors, and increased demand for manufactured imports stimulated by the reduction of tariff barriers result in continuing trade deficits for most countries." "The World Bank and the IMF responded with more loans to cover the growing trade deficits as a reward for carrying out structural adjustment. As a result , the international indebtedness of low-income countries increased from $134 billion in 1980 to $473 billion in 1992. Annual interest payments on this debt increased from $6.4 billion to $18.3 billion." Rather than increasing their self-reliance, the world's low-income countries, under the guidance of the World Bank and the IMF, mortgage yet more of their futures to the international system each year." "Foreign aid, even grant aid, becomes actively anti-developmental when the proceeds are used to build dependence on imported technology and experts, encourage import-dependent consumer lifestyles, fund waste and corruption, displace domestically produced products with imports, and drive millions of people from the lands and waters on which they depend for their livelihoods-- -all of which are common outcomes of World Bank projects and structural adjustment programs. " "Together, the Bank and the IMF have helped build powerful political constituencies aligned with corporate libertarianism, weakened the democratic accountability of Southern governments, usurped the functions of democratically elected officials, and removed most consequential legal and institutional barriers to the recolonization of Southern economies by transnational corporations." "The third institution called for by the Bretton Woods meeting--the International Trade Organization--was stillborn because of concerns in the U.S. Congress that its powers would infringe on U.S. sovereignty. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) served in its stead, with a somewhat ambiguous status, as the body through which multilateral trade agreements were fashioned for nearly fifty years, until the Uruguay round of GATT negotiations quietly gave birth to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on January 1, 1995 . It was a landmark triumph for corporate libertarianism. What the World Bank and the IMF had accomplished in institutionalizing the doctrines of corporate libertarianism in low-income countries, the WTO now had a mandate and enforcement powers to carry forward in both high- and low-income countries." "The key provision in the 2,000-page agreement creating the WTO is buried in paragraph 4 of Article XVI: "Each member shall ensure the conformity of its laws, regulations and administrative procedures with its obligations as provided in the annexed Agreements." The "annexed Agreements " include all the substantive multilateral agreements relating to trade in goods and services and intellectual property rights. This provision allows a WTO member country to challenge any law of another member country that it believes deprives it of benefits it expected to receive from the new trade rules. This includes virtually any law that requires imported goods to meet local or national health, safety, labor, or environmental standards that exceed WTO-accepted international standards. Unless the government against which the complaint is lodged can prove to the WTO panel that a number of restrictive provisions have been satisfied, it must bring its own laws into line with the lower international standard or be subject to perpetual fines or trade sanctions. " "Challenges may also be brought against the laws of state and local governments located within the jurisdiction of a member country, even though these governments are not signatories to the new agreement. The national government under whose jurisdiction they fall becomes obligated to take all reasonable measures to ensure the compliance of these state or local administra tions. Such "reasonable measures" include preemptive Iegislation, litigation, and withdrawal of financial support." "When a challenge to a national or local law is brought before the WTO, the contending parties present their case in a secret hearing before a panel of three trade experts, generally lawyers who have made careers of representing corporate clients on trade issues. There is no provision for the presentation of alternative perspectives, such as amicus briefs from non-governmental organizations, unless a given panel chooses to solicit them. Documents presented to the panels are secret, except that a government may choose to release its own documents. The identification of the panelists who supported a position or conclusion is explicitly forbidden. The burden of proof is on the defendant to prove that the law in question is not a restriction of trade as defined by the WTO." "Under the proposed rules, the recommendations of the review panel are automatically adopted by the WTO sixty days after presentation unless there is a unanimous vote of WTO members to reject them. This means that over 100 countries, including the country that won the decision, must vote against a panel decision to overturn it--rendering the appeals process virtually meaningless. The WTO has legislative as well as judicial powers. GATT allows the WTO to change certain trade rules by a two-thirds vote of WTO member representatives. The new rules become binding on all members. The WTO becomes, in effect, an unelected global parliament of trade lawyers with the power to amend its own charter without referral to national legislative bodies. " "The world's major transnational corporations have had a highly influential insider role in GATT negotiations and are similarly active in the WTO. They are especially well represented in the U.S. delegation, which has had a pivotal role in shaping the GATT agreements. The key to this corporate access is the U.S. Trade Act of 1974, which provides for a system of trade advisory committees to bring a public perspective to U.S. trade negotiations." "The U.S. trade representative's office has chosen to define this requirement to mean only that the advisory committee membership must represent the business community with regard to "balance among sectors, product lines, between small and large firms, among geographical areas, and among demographic groups."' A study by public Citizen's Congress Watch released in December 1991 found that of 111 members of the three main trade advisory committees, only two represented labor unions. An approved seat for an environmental advocacy organization had not been filled, and there were no consumer representatives. The trade panels rarely announced their meetings to the public and never allowed the public to attend. The corporate interest, however, was well represented. The study found that ninety-two members of the three committees represented individual companies, and sixteen represented trade industry associations, ten of them from the chemical industry." "Clayton Yeutter, in his capacity as U.S. secretary of agriculture under George Bush, stated publicly that one of his main goals was to use GATT to overturn strict local and state food safety regulations. He rationalized,"If the rest of the world can agree on what the standard ought to be on a given product, maybe the U.S. or EC will have to admit that they are wrong when their standards differ."' "Governmental delegations to Codex routinely include non-governmental representatives, but they are chosen almost exclusively from industry. One hundred forty of the world's largest multinational food and agrochemical companies participated in Codex meetings held between 1989 and 1991. Of a total of 2,587 individual participants, only twenty-six came from public-interest groups." "A review of the accomplishments of the three Bretton Woods institutions brings their actual functions into sharp focus. The World Bank has served as an export-financing facility for large Northern-based corporations. The IMF has served as the debt collector for Northern-based financial institutions. The GATT has served to create and enforce a corporate bill of rights protecting the world's largest corporations against intrusion in their affairs by people, communities, and democratically elected governments." "World War II did not end the global domination of the weak by strong states. It simply cloaked colonialism in a less obvious, more beguiling form. The new corporate colonialism is no more a consequence of immutable historical forces than was the old state colonialism. It is a consequence of conscious choices based on the pursuit of elite interest. This elite interest has been closely aligned with the corporate interest in advancing deregulation and economic globalization. As a consequence, the largest transnational corporations and the global financial system have assumed increasing power over the conduct of human affairs in the pursuit of interests increasingly at odds with the human interest. It is not possible to have healthy, equitable, and democratic societies."
Basic Economic Conditions sought by the "Electronic Herd" (summary by Chris Lewis): (These are ideal conditions that make local economies "competitive" in a global market.) 1. Low Wage workers. Very low to no- minimum wage laws. Right-to-work conditions. 2. Little to no income tax on Corporations and the Wealthy. 3. Government support for Global Corporations. Build plants, train workers, create basic infrastructure for tax-free Export Processing Zones. 4 . Little to no environmental, work-safety, and plant-safety regulations. 5 . Ability to easily move profits and investments out of the country. No capital controls. 6. No to weak-Union environment. Some Demands Made by TNCs to do Business in a Country under the Global Economy 1. Greatly reduce Corporate taxes and taxes on the rich. 2. Greatly reduce government spending in order to cut taxes. 3. Increase taxes on the middle-class and poor to pay for the necessary government services, such as support for TNCs. 4. Reduce environmental, work-safety, and product-safety regulations. 5. Provide millions and millions of dollars in tax incentives and subsidies to TNCs in order to convince them to locate in your country. 6. Build and support modern industrial factories for TNCs to use rent-free. 7. Create tax-free export processing zones so that TNCs can produce products without paying any taxes at all. 8. Reduce and lower worker's wages by keeping the minimum wage low or eliminating the minimum wage altogether. 9. Reduce the costs of hiring workers by reducing or 10. Allow child-labor at almost any age and under any conditions. 11. Do not enforce maximum work-day hours, such as the eight hour day or the 40 hour week. 12. Use government power to crush and weaken labor unions. Allow companies to hire security firms to harass and intimidate workers and unions. 13. Allow TNCs to freely take their money and profits out of your country. 15. Support global free trade and work to prevent countries from denying companies the right to sell their products despite the brutal conditions, environmental destruction, and exploitation of their workers. 16. Don't restrict or limit immigration. Encourage high levels of unemployment in order to force workers to compete by working for lower and lower wages. 17. Limit and restrict local and national government control over their economies. Encourage global bodies to set economic standards that will benefit TNCs. 18. Limit the ability of workers and citizens to challenge the TNCs and their own government's economic programs which help the TNCs at their expense. 19. Create massive national debts in order to bankrupt governments and force them to be even more at the mercy of the TNCs. Governments can thus say they have no choice but to accept these conditions. See U.S. National Debt Clock 20. Force your citizens to accept lower standards of living and quality of life in order to guarantee higher profits for TNCs. The
Global Cost of Crony Capitalism That was easy to say when the country's markets were rising, its biggest companies were trusted to report the facts each quarter and the rest of the world wanted to look like America. But now that a chunk of that 90's success has been exposed as mythical — and markets have staggered back to pre-boom levels — a sobering question is settling over Washington. If America's corporate prowess and clean markets were as much a source of its superpower status as its military might, could corporate abuses erode a key element of national power? Is America going to pay a diplomatic price for crony capitalism, as so many other countries have? "There's no question it undercuts us,"
said Joseph S. Nye Jr., the Harvard professor who coined the phrase
"soft power" to describe the non-military sources of American
global influence. "We had a model that looked like it worked
better than the European model, certainly better than the Japanese
model — and it stood for no-crony capitalism. Now, that model is damaged,
and, with it, so is a bit of our credibility." Shaken
Markets: The Tech Bubble Burst: On Wall Street the bear has been growling. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 22 percent from its high
in 2000. The tech-heavy NASDAQ index is now down a staggering 70 percent
from its April 2000 peak, all this, despite much positive news.....So
is the virtual wave of accounting scandals taking a toll on investor
confidence? (2002)
US: Inequality Gap Widest Since 1929 The income going to the richest 1% has gone up threefold in real terms in the past twenty years, while the income of the poorest 40% went up by a more modest 11%. In 1979, the top 1% received just 7.5% of national income, compared to 15.5% in 2000. The share of the poorest 40%, in contrast, declined from 19.1% to 14.6%. US INCOME DISTRIBUTION Most Companies Paid No Taxes During the Boom Think about this as you sign that check to Uncle Sam next week: More than 60% of all U.S. companies paid no federal tax at all during the boom years of 1996 to 2000, the General Accounting Office reports. In 2000 alone, 94% of all U.S. corporations paid less than 5% of their total income in corporate taxes, the GAO said in a report released Friday. Among the largest corporations -- the 1% of all corporations that owns 93% of all corporate assets -- 82% paid less than 5% of their income in taxes. And it wasn't just American companies avoiding a bill. About 70% of foreign-owned companies doing business in the United States paid no federal tax in the late 1990s, the GAO said. The GAO report covered 2.1 million returns by U.S. companies and 69,000 foreign-owned companies. The Democracy of Wealth: Rigging the Game The Democracy of Wealth is the situation in Challenging the "Democracy of Wealth" with the "Democracy of Citizens" Korten argues that we must reclaim our local, national, and global democratic governments from the democracy of wealth. Governments should act to serve the broader, public interest--using one man, one vote instead of one dollar, one vote. What serves the wealthy doesn't necessarily benefit the larger public. Only by challenging and limiting the democracy of wealth can people take back their governments, economies, and societies and make them, as Lincoln said, "of the people, by the people, and for the people." Korten's view of Globalization and the Democracy of Wealth "This is the globally competitive market
at work, forcing localities to absorb private costs to increase private
profits. The game of global competition is rigged. It pits companies
against people in a contest that the people almost always lose.
"Embellished by promises
of limitless and effortless
affluence, the vision of a global economy has an entrancing appeal. Beneath its beguiling surface, however, we find a modern form of enchantment, a siren song created by the skilled image makers of Madison Avenue, enticing societies to weaken community to free the market, eliminate livelihoods to create wealth, and destroy life to increase unneeded an often unsatisfying consumption. Contrary to what the corporate libertarians would have us believe, the seductive melodies that beckon us are not produced by inexorable historical forces beyond human influence. The come from the well-rehearsed human voices of the Stratos dwellers calling out to us from their city in the clouds across a great gap that most of humanity can never cross." (Korten, 133) The Bretton Woods Institutions Squeezing Third World Countries through
The new "Global Rules" and the Failure of Structural Adjustment Programs With increasing globalization, we have seen the rules that the World Bank and the IMF imposed on Third World The Third World Debt Crisis
The Growing US National Debt
The Wealthy Own the World and Control Globalization
Latin America environmental ruin terrible, says U.N. From Mexico City's choking smog to the felled trees in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, Latin America's environmental ruin has continued at an "alarming" pace in recent years, a U.N. report said Friday. In the five years since the region played host to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, there has been "terrible" destruction to the environment, said the report released in Mexico City by the United Nations Environment Program. It said nearly half the region's grazing areas have lost their ability to sustain animals and crops in the past decade, and about half of Latin America's mangrove swamps have been polluted by agricultural pesticides. "There is neither the money nor the political will to stop the destruction of the environment," Arsenio RodrDiguez, a UNEP representative for Latin America, told a news conference. The report, part of UNEP's annual report on the environment, warned that between 100,000 and 450,000 species of plants and animals could disappear during the next 40 years in Latin America alone. Some eight out of 10 people in the area lived in dense urban areas, breathing unhealthy levels of air pollution that might lead to problems such as chronic bronchitis, the report said. Fernando Tudela, an adviser to the Mexican government's Natural Resources and Fisheries Ministry, told the news conference, "On all fronts, and in every area, there is a worsening of the situation, a deterioration." The report said one bright spot was increasing cooperation between governments and private environmental groups in detecting environmental problems and working on solutions. Report shows cancer increase after 1979 nuclear accident at Three Mile Island Radiation released in an accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant may have raised cancer rates of residents living downwind, according to a study published in Washington, D.C., today. While a 1990 study said the 1979 accident was not responsible for slightly increased cancer rates near the area because the radiation release was low, this study said radiation doses may have been higher than originally thought. It said lung cancer and leukemia rates downwind of the reactor were 2 to 10 times higher than upwind rates. The study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, the journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, was done by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "I would be the first to say that our study doesn't prove by itself that there were high-level radiation exposures, but it is part of a body of evidence that is consistent with high exposures," Steven Wing, an associate professor of epidemiology and chief researcher on the study, said in a statement. "The cancer findings, along with studies of animals, plants and chromosomal damage in Three Mile Island area residents, all point to much higher radiation levels than were previously reported," Wing said. Last year, more than 2,000 damage claims filed by residents in the area of the reactor near Harrisburg were dismissed in U.S. District Court. While the government and other studies have said radiation releases into the atmosphere were low, Wing said plumes containing higher radiation could have passed undetected. "This cancer increase would not be expected to occur over a short time in the general population unless doses were far higher than estimated by industry and government authorities," he said. However researchers on the 1990 study in a rebuttal said they examined data that showed radiation releases were in the range of official estimates. By looking at the families and lives of peoples from the United States, Ethiopia, South Africa, Italy, Iceland, and Uzebehkastan, we concluded that culture and traditions shape the lives of diverse peoples from throughout the world. Despite wide variation in standard of living and material comfort, the majority of families wanted to improve their children's education. Peoples needs for technological gadgets such as VCRs, TVs, radios, and telephones varies. The size of families, the age at marriage, the hours worked, the time families spend together, the time spent watching TV, the quantity and quality of personal possessions varied greatly. Despite the growth of a global industrial economy, diverse peoples still manage to hold onto their cultures and traditions. The Material World CD-Rom demonstrates that despite the pressure to create a global modern industrial culture, people still live their lives based on their own culture and standards. Despite the power of global development, culture and tradition still shape people's lives and expectations about the future. | Home Page | Readings | Web Resources | Syllabus | Top of Page | Number of Visitors to this site: 11450 by Chris H. Lewis, Ph.D. © 2000 by Chris H. Lewis, Ph.D. |


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