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David Brody is my favorite labor historian of all time because of his extended interest in industrial relations. However, my favorite labor history book ever is one most people outside the field have never encountered. Harry Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital has been treated like a classic 70s socialist polemic (which I guess it is), but it's also a careful reconstruction of the capitalist worldview which has become ever more accurate as America has slipped further into the new Gilded Age.
I've written about Braverman before here and here, but I picked the book up again last week and reread an extended excerpt he has from the efficiency expert Frederick W. Taylor. Taylor, you see, was incredulous that workers didn't want to labor in shops using his system of scientific management because they could benefit greatly if they worked more efficiently than anyone else. Here's Taylor (from Braverman, p. 65):
"I began, of course, by directing some one man to do more work than he had done before, and then I got on the lathe myself and showed him that it could be done. In spite of this, he went ahead and turned out exactly the same output and refused to adopt better methods or to work quicker until finally I laid him off and got another man in his place. This new man–I could not blame him in the least under the circumstances–turned right around and joined the other fellows and refused to do any more work than the rest."
Taylor's solution was piece wages, thereby giving workers the opportunity to make more money if they work harder. This encourages them to think more about their own welfare rather than the welfare of their colleagues. It also gave management the opportunity to cut wages once the workers got used to working at an accelerated output.
I thought of Taylor when I read what Straighter Line is up to these days:
Instructors who offer courses on Professor Direct will be able to essentially set their own sticker prices, as long as they are higher than the company's base price. One professor teaching an online mathematics course with a base price of $49, for example, plans to charge $99. For each student who signs up, the company will pocket the $49 base price, and the professor gets the remaining $50.
Let's cover one aspect of the evil here right off the bat: Paying professors by the student is immoral and anti-education. This gives them every incentive to make their classes easier and grade easier whether students are learning or not.
But let's leave that aside and stipulate that this scheme becomes both acceptable and widespread. How much do you really know about what your course is worth on the market? More importantly, how much do your students know? Here's the multi-talented Josh Boldt:
If I have a broken bone, I know exactly what the doctor will do to fix it. If I am being sued, the value proposition in which I engage with my attorney is relatively understood. I will give him a certain amount of money and he will attempt to win my case. Once my transactions with this doctor and lawyer are complete, we move on with our lives. Here again, there really is no chance for any hidden value or any future compounding of the service I received in exchange for my payment. Both the professional and I can agree on a fee and be pretty confident exactly what we will both gain from the transaction.
And then there's education. How many of you can say that at 18 years old, you knew exactly what value you would receive from each class you took in college?…
It's just not possible. We can't possibly negotiate a fair market price for education because we have no idea what hidden value lies in the information we will gain from a given course. Often we don't realize until semesters or even years later how much value we actually received from a course we took.
Yet no matter who wins and who loses in this ill-informed exchange, Straighter Line would still make money. Frederick Taylor couldn't have planned the bait-and-switch any better. Better to band together and keep control of our jobs.


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Ramona, Zach, Ali, & Paul from our New York store says:
This beauty runs true to size and works for both narrow and wide feet.
We celebrate and honor Angela Davis by naming this striking and confident loafer after her - a loafer that will walk with you all the way throughout the day and into the night. With smooth and supple leathers, and painted bovine hair, on foot molding leather soles, The Davis loafer uses modern materials on a classic style. John gave the super-pointed Presence last a little lift with a diamond shaped 2.75" leather wrapped heel with swooping curves, giving this simple loafer an unusually distinctive profile. If you put The Davis loafers sole-to-sole, and heel-to-heel, John leaves you with a lasting impression straight from his heart. Present yourself well.
Since 1969, the academic, activist, professor, feminist, communist, and revolutionary Angela Davis, has publicly been a vocal supporter of gay rights, women's rights, and race equality and was instrumental in social justice movements. Along with being a member of the Black Panther Party and the US Communist Party, Davis is one of the primary founders of Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization dedicated to abolishing the prison system, believing it to be a new form of slavery. Davis' radical views have been fought with extreme opposition, as she was constantly harassed by the FBI, banned from teaching in California by then Governor Ronald Reagan, and was jailed for 18 months under a suspicion of accomplice to murder. Davis was also the inspiration for political songs written by John Lennon, and The Rolling Stones. Angela Davis recently retired as Professor Emeritus teaching the History of Consciousness at the Feminist Studies Department of UC Santa Cruz.
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This beauty runs true to size and works for both narrow and wide feet.
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Although they felt a little snug across the toes in the store, after wearing them for a few hours around my house, they became super comfy without stretching. I am a Vog 6 without fail, and these were no exception. I even travelled in them (although I don't recommend running for a plane in them the first time you wear them outside).
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Arrogant Swine / Tyson Ho
Sunday, July 21, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PDT)
Event Details
REAL North Carolina BBQ is NOT pulled pork! It is the Whole Hog smoked slowly over hardwood embers so that in every bite you get a little taste of all the pig.
Summer 2013 Traditional North Carolina BBQ makes a home in NYC
John Brown Smokehouse & Arrogant Swine Presents
An NYC Summer Celebration of Traditional North Carolina Whole Hog BBQ, Craft Beer Brewing & Heritage Pig Farming
Tamarack Hollow Farm Glocestershire Old Spot slow-smoked over hardwood embers
All the Proper Carolina Pig Pickin' Garnishes
All You Can Drink Craft Beer provided by Founders Brewery
Live Bluegrass Band!!!
A Portion of all Proceeds donated to Just Food NYC
Tickets are extremely limited and both sessions will SELL OUT.
VIP Tickets get a 45 min Early Entrance and potentially a limited edition tasting (subject to availability)
RAIN DATE will be the NEXT DAY 7/21 SUNDAY. Announcement by Friday!!!
Is the Event held at John Brown Smokehouse or Alchemy Texas?
Nope these are off-site outdoor events and really cool lots we were able to take over for the weekend.
Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?
Must be 21 and older with ID.
What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?
Take the 7, N, Q to Queensboro Plaza Station
Take the N,Q to 39th Ave Station
Take the E, M, R to Queens Plaza Station
What can/can't I bring to the event?
Feel free to bring your dog. We got lots of bones (must sign pet feeding waiver)
Bring your summer excitement and leave your inner grumpy at home!
Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?
Yes indeed! It will let us spend less time checking a list and more time for you to be drinking beer!!!
What is the refund policy?
No refunds but we can try and move you for the next event. Email me and we'll work something out.
The name on the registration/ticket doesn't match the attendee. Is that okay?
Sure just email me ahead of time so the big scary bouncer at the front smiles and wishes you a happy summer!
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When & Where
Arrogant Swine (LIC) - Corner of 28th St & 40th Ave
27-20 40th Avenue
Long Island City,
Sunday, July 21, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PDT)
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 81 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
Accounting Degree Guide
myAccountingDegree.org will be a website for accounting career information, featuring articles and a listing of universities with accounting programs.
This website needs to appeal to university professors who will recommend it to their students. So the look should be professional and academic.
Create website header for http://myAccountingDegree.org/
The text on the header should read:
Title: my Accounting Degree .org
Subtitle: The Accounting Degree Guide
With the ".org" on a separate line below the other words, underneath and to the left edge of the word "Degree". The words "my Accounting Degree" should be clearly differentiated as three separate words.
The header should look professional, the text should be formatted as an attractive logo, and contain imagery that matches the theme of accounting. For example http://images.google.com/images?q=accounting, however we're open to other ideas for images too.
Any color scheme is fine with us as long as it's attractive. We will design the rest of the homepage around the header you create.
The deliverable should be a 968px width by 125px height PhotoShop PSD file and a JPG file.
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Dat WIlhelm Scream :3
Black Talons is a real time tactics game set in the future, where the player leads a company of mercenaries stuck in a war torn star system. The player leads his forces from a battlecruiser where new troops and mechs can be recruited, trained and customized. As the commander of the company, the player must decide which missions to take, and carefully manage his reputation amongst all the existing factions.
Dat WIlhelm Scream :3
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What does it take to make an edible holiday display at Disney?
Disney displays treats good enough to eat
The Walt Disney World Resort is gearing up for the holidays with delicious decorations.
Several of the resorts around the property have been decorated with life-size and edible displays.
The Disney chefs work many hours to create the spectacular showcases at Disney's Boardwalk Resort, Disney's Beach Club Resort, Disney's Yacht Club Resort, Disney's Contemporary Resort and Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.
At Disney's Boardwalk Resort, the life-size holiday gazebo was made from 50 pounds of icing, 402 sugar flowers, 301 pounds of chocolate and 2,012 pieces of gingerbread. The gazebo will be on display until Jan. 5.
A spinning holiday carousel can be found at Disney's Beach Club Resort. The carousel includes life-size ponies made of chocolate and fondant, Disney characters hand-painted and surrounded by snowflakes and a miniature Magic Kingdom castle made from gingerbread.
The holiday carousel took 96 pounds of bread flower, 36 pounds of honey, 100 pounds of eggs, 10 quarts of simple syrups, 50 pounds of dark chocolate and 100 pounds of confectioner's sugar to make.
Disney's Yacht Club Resort houses a holiday village complete with a miniature train and sugar rock mountains. The village will be on display until Jan. 4.
Over at Disney's Contemporary Resort, a 17-foot tall gingerbread holiday tree decorated with ornaments, candy canes and gifts is on display for guests. The design of the display was inspired by the art of Disney legend Mary Blair, who designed the mural in the Contemporary concourse.
It took 136 pounds of honey, 211 pounds of flour, 101 eggs, one pound of sugar syrup, 98 pounds of icing, 151 pounds of chocolate and more than 2,000 gingerbread shingles to create the tree. Jan. 2 is the last day to see the display.
The life-size gingerbread house is back at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa. The house is made with 1,050 pounds of honey, 700 pounds of chocolate, 600 pounds of powdered sugar and takes about 400 hours to bake the gingerbread, and another 160 hours to decorate.
Guests can learn how to decorate a gingerbread house with the professionals every day, except Sunday, in the lobby. It's available to see until New Year's Day.
The one edible display that made it inside the the theme park is at the Liberty Inn Restaurant at the American Adventure Pavilion at Epcot. Santa's Bakeshop is made entirely out of gingerbread including 800 pounds of sugar and more than 1,000 eggs. It will be on display until Dec. 30.


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Marshall Henderson hit tough shot after tough shot.
Curling off screens, running the baseline, firing with hands in his face.
He was a one-man show for No. 16 Mississippi in a 78-64 loss at No. 4 Florida on Saturday night, scoring 25 points on 8-of-15 shooting.
Surely Henderson and the Rebels could have used reserves Nick Williams (foot) and Aaron Jones (knee).
Both were unavailable for the game between the Southeastern Conference's top two teams. Williams and Jones were injured in a loss to Kentucky earlier in the week, and the Rebels weren't the same without them.
"We had to go with some new guys and get as many minutes as we could out of them," coach Andy Kennedy said.
It showed as Ole Miss' bench scored just two points.
Murphy Holloway had 15 points and seven rebounds, but no one else reached double figures for the Rebels (17-4, 6-2).
The Gators were much more balanced in their 10th consecutive victory.
Erik Murphy scored 19 points, and Pat Young added 13 points and 12 rebounds. Mike Rosario (14 points) and Scottie Wilbekin (13) also reached double figures for Florida (18-2, 8-0).
Kenny Boynton had nine points and 10 assists, just shy of his first double-double. Boynton and Wilbekin combined for 17 assists and four turnovers, one of the biggest differences in the game.
Their defense was right up there, too.
"This is my seventh Florida team to play. One of those was the national championship team that had NBA lottery picks on it," Kennedy said. "I don't even remember a Florida team guarding with that intensity. I was really impressed with the way they defended."
Henderson, the SEC's leading scorer, was 7 of 11 from behind the arc, hitting several shots with defenders draped on him.
"I think they will contend for the national championship," Henderson said of the Gators. "We have seen how they have been blowing people out. They executed perfectly. ... I see them being No. 1 the country by the end of the season."
The Gators won their first seven conference games by an average of 28.3 points, and this one looked as though it would be another rout - but Ole Miss kept rallying from 20-point deficits.
Marshall had a lot to do with it.
Even though Wilbekin and Boynton guarded him tight most of the night, he found ways to get off shots. Florida led 35-15 with about 6 minutes to go in the first half, but Henderson drained consecutive 3s that capped a 10-0 run for the Rebels.
"He got nothing easy," Florida coach Billy Donovan said. "He's shooting double-pumpers in. He can have all those he wants. Scottie did a great job on him. Give him credit because he made some really, really hard shots."
With the Gators up 60-39 in the second half, Murphy Holloway drove the lane to start a 13-3 run. Henderson also scored in the spurt.
Still, there was little the Rebels could do to slow down Florida, which shot 51.6 percent from the field, including 11 of 29 from 3-point range. The Gators also had 23 assists on 32 baskets.
The Rebels came in looking for their first win over a top-five team since knocking off the fifth-ranked Gators in the 2001 SEC tournament.
Instead, they lost consecutive games for the first time this season.
Ole Miss came in as the league's top-scoring team, averaging 80 points. The Rebels had 39 with 11:51 remaining in the game. The shot 38.2 percent, were 7 of 17 from behind the arc and finished with five assists and 13 turnovers.
"The reality is we were a little bit thin," Kennedy said. "We didn't get the greatest performance out of some of the guys we needed to carry us, but I was proud they continue to fight. That was our goal: just stay in the game, stay around. I was hoping Florida would have a little drought, just a 2- or 3-minute phase where they go bored. They never got bored."


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Cuacos de Yuste
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Cuacos de Yuste
- Autonomous region: Extremadura
- Province/Island: Cáceres
The monumental site of Cuacos was declared a Historic-Artistic Site in 1959. There are three squares that we must visit in Caucos de Yuste: the Plaza de Don Juan de Austria, shaped like an oval and lined with houses that have wooden balconies and porches; Plaza de España; and Plaza de los Chorros, with a harmonious popular atmosphere. The parish church of Nuestra Señora de Asunción, from the 15th century, is one of the most elaborate and interesting temples in the region. However, a considerable part of Cuacos de Yuste's patrimony is located in its municipality. There we find the hermitages of El Salvador, La Soledad, and Santa Ana. Also, the Gorge of Cuacos, located on the foothills of Sierra Gredos, on a smooth hollow terrain sheltered by Sierra Tormantos, Sierra del Salvador, and Mount San Simón, by which we find beautiful gorges such as "Las Ollas". The monastery of Yuste deserves special attention. During the 15th century, the church and its first Gothic cloister were built. In the 16th century, a Renaissance cloister was erected east of the other one. Its international fame, however, is due to the fact that this was the dwelling place of emperor Charles I, when he left the crown to his son, Phillip II. A small and austere palace was erected for him, in the southern flank of the convent. The order of Hieronymite inhabits the monastery.
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Davis Flight Support is a full service FBO, located at Yolo County Airport (KDWA, formerly 2Q3) in Davis, California. This airfield is conveniently located in Northern California between Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area, and provides a wide variety of services while emphasizing quality. With full-service fueling, car rental, concierge services, catering, and even a hotel room, this company has everything necessary for a comfortable welcome to the Sacramento region. It is open 7 days per week. Business hours phone (530) 759-8766 and after hours phone (530) 383-2505.
Woodland Aviation is leading aviation service provider and an "FAA Part 145 Repair Station and Authorized Service Center", installation facility for a variety of aircraft and a sales center within Davis Flight Support. Their services include turbine and piston maintenance, avionics installations and repair, aircraft sales and brokerage, and parts. Woodland Aviation supports Cirrus owners as a Platinum Cirrus Service Center and top warranty center. It is also a Cessna Service Station with avionics and factory trained service technicians experienced in Cessna aircraft, and has been a Hawker Beechcraft Service Center since 1963 providing sales and service support along with performance upgrades such as Blackhawk and Raisbeck. The company advertises technically advanced services for avionics, composite repairs, turboprop and pistons, and is known for a luxury facility designed for a "Delivery Center" experience. (800) 442-1333
PreStar Inc.
PreStar is a self-service FBO on the north end of the airport. The firm also advertises aircraft rental and maintenance, and flight training.
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A versatile skydiving "dropzone", Skydance offers a full service loft and pro-shop, camp grounds, a diner, showers, team rooms, a bunk room, rentable parachutes and jumpsuits, and free Wi-Fi for novice and professional parachutists.
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A lifelong resident of Long Beach, California, Beverly Broadus-Green has been a lot of things to a lot of people. She spent 42 years as a church choir director, was the loving wife of Howard Green before his death in 2005, and earned a living as a head chef before her retirement. Her specialty dish is cheese and macaroni (not the other way around), because that's what her four sons and six grandchildren never seem to get enough of, especially her son Cordozar Calvin Broadus, better known as Snoop Dogg. But after years of serving so many people, on Easter Sunday 2005 Broadus-Green accepted her true calling to serve the Lord. Now she's an ordained evangelist who travels the country doing her part to build the Kingdom of God. Her primary passion is helping battered women.
"I'm blessed with the discernment to pick up on abusive relationships," said Broadus-Green, adding that helping women and girls is a way for her to help others avoid some of the issues she endured in past relationships. When her children were younger, Broadus-Green's home was the 'open house' of the neighborhood. She spent a lot of time trying to keep her sons – and other young men – out of gangs and away from drugs.
That's why her latest project, YouthBloc.com,is so important.YouthBloc.com is a non-profit 501-c3 designed to teach young people how to start successful businesses, solve problems and apply for business loans. Broadus-Green said it's not enough to tell youth just to say no to drugs and gangs, "they have to have something to say 'yes' to and focus on," she said. Her partner, Marvin Fredlaw says YouthBloc.com is a much needed program in urban areas because public schools do little to teach students how to become entrepreneurs.
"In this economy, [starting your own] business instead of depending on a job is important," said Fredlaw. Broadus-Green and Fredlaw encourage parents to partner with their children to bring their entrepreneurial dreams to reality. For young people who already have a viable business, YouthBloc.com will promote their service or product through its e-commerce website. Although YouthBloc.com is in its infancy, the duo plans to take it across the country by partnering with celebrities and local politicians.
Broadus-Green is also part of the cast of the upcoming reality show "Women Pastors – Ladies In the Pulpit." The show will reveal the incredible challenges faced by female pastors who must balance the responsibilities of home, work and church amid the scrutiny of family members, parishioners and outsiders. "Women Pastors – Ladies In the Pulpit" is expected to premier in early 2013. This weekend, Broadus-Green speaks at the Mt. Zion church in Wilmer Texas on Sunday morning at the 10 a.m, service, then appears at the First Sundays event in Arlington, Texas at 3316 Merrilee Drive (off Davidson Road, behind the racetrack.) from 2-7 p.m.


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James W., the tipster with an eye for good bargains, dutifully shared this shot of the sign outside of the Plaza Motel, which he deemed the "most shady hotel" in Auburn, AL. He assures you it's neither Photoshopped nor a product of missing letters.
They have since taken down the "ho" part, but the rest of the message has still been there for the last nine months. This hotel logo is on the exit sign off I-85 while other much nicer hotels are not.
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Inuit Communities as the New DEW Line: Camels in the Arctic?
December 1, 2007
How can a Canadian social scientist in 2007 set aside economic development, energy security, youth perspectives, mental and spiritual health issues to focus on climate change as it related to hunting, sea ice, and the maintenance of an Inuit [pre-contact?] way of life? What kind of questions were posed in encounters with "Inuit in their homes, in their offices, at the hotel, on the street, [. . .] on weekends as well as weekdays?" How much trust and intimacy can you develop in each community as you seek Inuit to gather impressions when the six-week enquiry is divided between tiny, remote towns, communities and hamlets like Nain in northern Labrador; Kuujjuaq in Nunavik; Iqaluit, Igloolik, Arctic Bay in Nunavut; Yellowknife, NWT and the Inuvialuit in western Arctic Ocean communities like Paulatuk and Tuktoyaktuk reached in twenty-five zigzag flights covering 24,000 kilometres? How does that put people in the picture in our studies of the Arctic? Where is the background context based on Inuit-initiated research? Where are the sources so a public policy researcher can follow through with questions arising from this article? Has this article and lecture by the same name helped in anyway to revisit the distorted history of the Inuit as called for in the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People (1996)? These are some of the questions in response to Griffiths' (2007) article published in the Walrus magazine.
It is misleading to suggest that increased suicide will be a future unintended consequence of the destruction of the Inuit lifestyle without acknowledging the heart-rending on-going tragedy of youth suicide epidemic, with rates that are among the highest in the planet, that directly or indirectly touches every northern Inuit community as well as thousands of urban Inuit in the south. How can any social scientist claim a people-centred ethnography while skimming over key social issues and structional changes affecting Inuit lives such as land claims implementation and human rights concerns regarding access to housing, employment, health and education services (the early exit from schooling). Two or three well-edited and well-researched paragraphs could have briefly traced a critical Inuit social history to dismantle some of the commonly held myths about the north. Readers would have benefited from a more accurate thumbnail sketch of the complexity of Inuit today: linguistic disparities, Inuit governing bodies, local initiatives, the long history of meddling in Inuit affairs by successive waves of interlopers. At the end of the lecture did the assistant from PEI understand that Inuit do not live in igloos anymore and that there are Inuit hunters who are politically-saavy individuals with cellphones and computers who travel frequently to regional, national and international conferences. Did no Inuit in his travels mention the northerly creep of flora and fauna? Would Griffiths not have found both those who are deeply troubled, skeptical or even optimistic about climate change among Newfoundland fishers, PEI farmers, Alberta ranchers, First Nations hunters? Would isolationist southern fishers, farmers and ranchers not also be found to be ruled by immediacy, pragmatic and immediate in their responses to climate change? "As in the Arctic, local opinion tends to be conservative. Quite apart from the collapse of Canadian historical awareness and our ability to interrogate the future, opinion everywhere is presentist in its intent to keep things as they are (Griffiths 2007)." Did Griffiths manage to make meaningful any larger significance derived from local observations he gathered in six weeks?
"Inuit in particular may have something to tell us about civility as we extend it from the domain of human relations to that of nature at a time when the human condition is directly threatened by civilization (Griffiths 2007)."
"A crisis narrative is one that tells of impending disaster, explains why it is coming, and instructs the threatened in what to do. It is presented by others, familiar or foreign, who seek to persuade us of their view of our situation, and of our need to join promptly in the measures they recommend. But for those who already see themselves as put upon by unfamiliar or foreign others, the call to accept a crisis narrative is especially galling. A discourse of disaster that originates with others who are known to be dominant cannot but present a threat to our autonomy, to our ability to set our own priorities, to trust what we observe and experience in our everyday lives. This is what Louis Tapardjuk was talking about in Igloolik. Accepted, crisis narratives legitimate the authority and control of distant experts, officials, and decision-makers. They open the way to large-scale intrusions into our way of life (Griffiths 2007)."
Franklyn Griffiths, George Ignatieff Chair emeritus of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto and co-founder of the Arctic Council, "travelled from one end of Canada's Arctic to the other — from northern Labrador to the mouth of the Mackenzie River — between late April and early June. Seeking out and gathering impressions in encounters with Inuit from Nain to Kuujjuaq and Iqaluit to Igloolik and Arctic Bay, and on out to Yellowknife, Inuvik, Tuktoyaktuk, and Paulatuk, I flew some 24,000 kilometres in twenty-five flights. His initial contacts were with the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK). [. . .] I saw Inuit in their homes, in their offices, at the hotel, on the street, wherever I could, on weekends as well as weekdays. Setting aside economic development, energy security, youth perspectives, public health including the mental and spiritual, and any number of other possible themes, I determined to centre on climate change as it related to hunting, sea ice, and the maintenance of an Inuit way of life (Griffiths 2007)."
James Lovelock (2006) in his fictional horror story of climate change, a sensationalist crisis narrative, The Revenge of Gaia, described a world that's became so unbearably hot that almost all humanity was destroyed and the last remnants of humankind subsisted in the High Arctic where they were forced to relocate. It became so hot there would be camels in the Arctic.
Sheila Watt-Cloutier, "the former international chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, who is seeking to bring the US government before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She and other Canadian and Alaskan Inuit claim that the Inuit way of life is being destroyed as a consequence of greenhouse gas emissions produced by the United States (Griffiths 2007)."
Inuvialuit in communities like Paulatuk and Tuktoyaktuk "are the most clearly menaced by foreseeable change, which could see average surface air temperature rise by as much as 6°C by the end of the century — about three times the expected global mean increase (Griffiths 2007)."
"[T]he Arctic is the world's climate change barometer. Inuit are the mercury in that barometer. What is happening in the Arctic now will happen soon further south." Inuit are adaptable and resourceful, she added. But she also foresaw "a time — well within the lifetime of my eight-year-old grandson — when environmental change will be so great that Inuit will no longer be able to maintain their hunting culture. Global warming has become the ultimate threat to Inuit culture and our survival as an indigenous people." Speaking on her behalf to a meeting in New York, Mary Simon drew Watt-Cloutier's message to a very fine point a couple of years earlier: "When we can no longer hunt on the sea ice and eat what we hunt, we will no longer exist as a people (Griffiths 2007)."
Kusugak's (2006) Unikkaaqatigiit Putting the Human Face on Climate Change: Perspectives from Inuit in Canada publication refers to the fearful possibility of "having to completely reinvent what it means to be Inuit."
Who's Who
2000 Of all Inuit it was the Inuvialuit who first took climate change seriously, this with a path-breaking video co-produced with the International Institute for Sustainable Development and presented to Kyoto delegations at The Hague in 2000. Today, the Inuvialuit are planning for the relocation of coastal communities threatened by intense storm activity and rising sea levels (Griffiths 2007)."
2006 Kusugak, Jose. 2006. Unikkaaqatigiit Putting the Human Face on Climate Change: Perspectives from Inuit in Canada.
2007 Organized by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and held six times a year, the Breakfast on the Hill Lecture Series brings together parliamentarians, government officials, the media and the general public to hear important research on pertinent issues. In this November 22nd lecture, Franklyn Griffiths, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and George Ignatieff Chair Emeritus of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto, presented his findings on climate change, the Inuit and Arctic sovereignty. Entitled "Camels in the Arctic?", this lecture is based on research Griffiths did while traveling in the Arctic.
2007 Griffiths, Franklyn. 2007. "Camels in the Arctic?" Walrus Magazine. November 30.
Kusugak, Jose. 2006. Unikkaaqatigiit Putting the Human Face on Climate Change: Perspectives from Inuit in Canada.
Franklyn Griffiths is George Ignatieff Chair emeritus of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto. He helped establish the Arctic Council.
Jose Kusugak is a past president of the national Inuit organization, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)
Webliography and Bibliography
Griffiths, Franklyn. 2007. "Camels in the Arctic?" Walrus Magazine. November 30.
Griffiths, Franklyn. 2007. "Camels in the Arctic?" Breakfast on the Hill Lecture Series. November 22. Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
CC Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2007. "Inuit Communities as the New DEW Line: Camels in the Arctic?" >> Google Docs. November 30, 2007.
CC Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2007. "Inuit Communities as the New DEW Line: Camels in the Arctic?" >> papergirls. November 30, 2007.
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Memory work: intergenerational stories
August 11, 2007
She's only fifteen but she is already an advocate for her people. Perhaps she inherited some of her great-grandfather's wisdom for she already understands the need to know intergenerational stories. How easy it would be for researchers who prepared documents for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples to make their reports accessible in every possible format so that young people like her could learn and be proud. She emailed me with this request:
Well I am very curious about his because Robert was my great gran father he has now passed on, and I'd really like to read more of this because the reserve we are now in Tsulquate; and the town we live in has really seperated our families with all of the alcoholism and addiction to drugs that has been introduced to us over the years has now grown on the children, youth and has had a very large impact on our elderly that have passed over the years due to being torn from there homeland. I am sure that the elders of our community would be very greatful to get a response as to what was said by my great gran father Robert Walkus Sr. who was a very wise man and a prayer warrior one of the few who has tried to change the future for our youth. I am only fifteen years old but I am very interested in what had gone on back then when our people were forced from our homeland. I honestly think that the youth and children would know more about our own culture, language, and alot of our elderly would still be alive today if we hadn't been relocated. Thank you ever so much for listening and if you would please get back to me . . .
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Mount Tzuhalem on Youtube, June 21, Aboriginal Day
June 23, 2007
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King of Canada: Tom d'Acquino CEO of CEO's
January 9, 2007
The Canadian business community has taken the most active interest in politics at the CEO level than any other business community in in the world (d'Acquino cited in Brownlee 2005: 9 Newman 1998:159-160). And this interest and influence has been on the rise in the last decades. Canada's business community has had more influence on Canadian public policy in the years 1995-2005 then in any other period since 1900.
Look at what we stand for and look at what all the governments, all the major parties . . . have done, and what they want to do. They have adopted the agendas we've been fighting for the in the past few decades (cited in Brownlee 2005: 12 Newman 1998:151).
Tom D'Acquino should know as he is the CEO of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.
While the average North American is becoming increasingly concerned by climate change, a recent report by Pricewaterhouse Coopers has found that fewer than a fifth – 18 per cent – of North American chief executives are concerned about climate change putting them increasingly out of step with their colleagues in Europe and Asia Pacific.
This a current list of the Chief Executive Officers of the Officers of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives:
- Dominic D'Alessandro, Vice Chair Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) and President and CEO Manulife Financial
- Thomas d'Aquino, Chief Executive Officer and President of Canadian Council of Chief Executives
- Paul Desmarais. Jr. Vice Chair President of Canadian Council of Chief Executives and Chairman and C0-Chief Executive Officer of Power Corporation of Canada
- Richard L. George, Honorary Chair Canadian Council of Chief Executives and President and CEO of Suncor Energy Inc.
- Jacques Lamarre, Vice Chair of Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) and President and CEO SNC-Lavalin Group, Inc.
- Gordon M. Nixon, Chair of Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) and President and CEO of Royal Bank of Canada
- Hartley T. Richardson Vice Chair of Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) and President and CEO of James Richardson and Sons, Ltd.
- Annette Verschuren Vice Chair of Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) and President of The Home Depot Canada
Selected bibliography
- Brownlee, Jamie. 2005. Ruling Canada: Corporate Cohesion and Democracy. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
- Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2006.Media and Objectivity: a Selected Timeline of Events
- Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2005. Interview with Jamie Brownlee in response to Globe and Mail article "Canada's top 10% pay 52% of total tax bill."
- Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2007. "King of Canada: Tom d'Acquino CEO of CEO's" Google Docs and Spreadsheet. mirror
- "The Globe and Mail Weekly Appointment Review." Globe and Mail. January 22, 2007. p. B6
- Hackett, Robert A. and Gruneau, Richard. 2000. The Missing News: Filters and Blind Spots in Canada. Ottawa: Centre for Policy Alternatives/Garamond Press Inc.
- Hackett, Robert A. and Zhao, Yuezhi. 1998. Sustaining Democracy? Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity. Toronto: Garamond Press Inc.
- N/A. 2007. "U.S bosses out of step on climate change." Management-Issues
- Newman, Peter. 1975. The Canadian Establishment. Toronto: Mclelland and Stewart.
- Newman, Peter. 1975. The Canadian Establishment. Toronto: Mclelland and Stewart.
- Newman, Peter. 1981. The Acquisitors.. Toronto: Mclelland and Stewart.
- Newman, Peter. 1998. Titans: How the New Establishment Seized Power. Toronto: Penguin Books.
- Olsen, Gregg. 1991. "Labour Mobilization and the Strength of Capital: The Rise and Stall of Economic Democracy in Sweden." Studies in Political Economy. 34.
- Olsen, Gregg. 2002. The Politics of the Welfare State: Canada, Sweden and the United States.. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Brownlee's (2005) publication stems from his MA thesis supervised by University of Manitoba Sociology Professor Greg Olsen. It builds on the work of William Carroll, Wallace Clement and Murray Dobbin. I highly recommend this book for teaching, learning and research on how Ottawa really works. Some of the well-constructed arguments are located in sections entitled: economic cohesion and the structure of corporate capital, mergers and acquisitions, interlocking directorates, a class conscious business elite, public policy formation network, Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Global policy organizations, advocacy think tanks and economic elite, corporate social responsibility and the role of states in the era of globalization. The bibliography is a book in itself. The appendices, Media-Corporate Director Board Interlocks and Think Tanks – Corporate Director Board Interlocks for 2003 provide missing pieces to a puzzle.
I first read this book while preparing to teach a Northern-centred introductory human rights course in Iqaluit, Nunavut. My students were often employees of the Nunavut Government involved in making history as they introduced their own human rights bill. I wanted the inconvenient truth claims in Hackett and Zhao to be illegitimate but their research was unfortunately very robust. I thought I lived in a country whose forms of democratic governance were maturing until I read how we were actually going backwards not forwards in terms of objectivity and mass media.
These recent shifts in media ownership and policy might be seen as the equivalent of a non-violent coup d'etat, a metaphor evoking the inherent link between media power and state power — between the colonization of the popular imagination and the allocation of social resources through public policy and market relations. Communications scholar Herbert Schiller suggests that what is at stake is "packaged consciousness": the intensified appropriation of the national symbolic environment by a "few corporate juggernauts in the consciousness business (Hackett and Zhao 1998:5)
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December 11, 2006
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Somewhere on the Pacific a small lifeboat shared by two unwilling and unlikely passengers rolled with the waves. Pi knew he could do more than just survive once he realized that Richard was dependent on him. Pi could fish. A Bengal Tiger, king of his own ecosystem, would die at sea without the help of the seventeen-year-old. The book really ended there; it didn't matter after that what was truth or fiction. Pi's understanding of power in everyday life was his new reality.
Speechless refers to both the writer and reader. At one level it's about a writers' block being blogged. At another level is refers to deafening silence that occurs when one speaks with too much feeling or mentions an uncomfortable idea in a nice place, a unpleasant reminder in polite company, a divergent idea in a space of group think, another perspective than the Renaissance perspective. But it also refers to robust conversations among political philosophers who understand the power of language and everyday life. Socrates, Plato, Derrida called for renewals in philosophy. They examined what we do with words, the role of memory. Speechless alludes to Derrida's urgent appeal for a renewed democracy, for a revitalized philosophy from a cosmopolitical point of view.
The human eye can distinguish 16 values of grey but that's not including the subtle differences in the colours of grey. We just don't have the time to see the variations.
I began speechless on October 16, 2006. Two months later I have learned what a permalink is and how to make one. It's the equivalent to the old web page's index.html. Now I have to learn where to use it.
The cloud of tags below has grown organically since I first began using WordPress as my main blog host on October 16, 2006. I am building my customized clouds of folksonomies by working on and learning from a number of Web 2.0 feeds. This includes a Flickr account for photo blogging which attracts alot of viewers. I have only a couple of dozen images but one image alone uploaded on October 22, 2006 was viewed 1,179 times over a period of 64 days! I reworked this image again and posted it on speechless under "Wave Algorithms."
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Benign colonialism is a term that refers to an alleged form of colonialism in which benefits outweighed risks for indigenous population whose lands, resources, rights and freedoms were preempted by a colonizing nation-state. The historical source for the concept of benign colonialism resides with John Stuart Mills who was chief examiner of the British East India Company dealing with British interests in India in the 1820s and 1830s. Mills most well-known essays (1844) on benign colonialism are found in Essays on some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy. Mills' view contrasted with Burkean orientalists. Mills promoted the training of a corps of bureaucrats indigenous to India who could adopt the modern liberal perspective and values of 19th century Britain. Mills predicted this group's eventual governance of India would be based on British values and perspectives. Those who adopt benign colonialism as a truth claim argue that education, health, housing and employment possibilities improved conditions for indigenous peoples as settlers, merchants and administrators also brought new industries, liberal markets, developed natural resources and introduced improved governance. The first wave of benign colonialism lasted from c. 1790s-1960s. The second wave included new colonial policies such as exemplified in Hong Kong (Liu 2003)), where unfettered expansion of the market created a new form of benign colonialism. Political interference and military interference (Doyle 2006) in independent nation-states, such as Iraq (Campo 2004 ), is also discussed under the rubric of benign colonialism in which a foreign power preempts national governance to protect a higher concept of freedom. The term is also used in the 21st century to refer to American, French and Chinese market activities in countries on the African continent with massive quantities of underdeveloped nonrenewable envied resources. Literature that challenges the assumptions of benign colonialism claiming colonialist project as it actually unfolded placed First Nations, Inuit and Métis at higher risks of vulnerabilities to catastrophes, to social exclusion and human rights abuses, have not been as widely publicized.
For more see Flynn-Burhoe (2007).
There is a widespread Canadian mythology that First Nations, Inuit and Métis are among those who benefited from settler colonies prempting, improving, managing and governing aboriginal lands, resources and educating, training, developing, serving, monitoring and governing its peoples. Those who adopt benign colonialism as a truth claim argue that education, health, housing and employment possibilities improved conditions for the indigenous peoples since the arrival of settlers. Literature that challenges the assumptions of benign colonialism claiming colonialist project as it actually unfolded placed First Nations, Inuit and Métis at higher risks of vulnerabilities to catastrophes, to social exclusion and human rights abuses, have not been as widely publicized. The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) addressed these claims but the term benign colonialism is still a convenient truth for many. Celebratory and one-sided social histories of the Hudson's Bay Company, the RCMP, and various government leaders such as John A. MacDonald or civil servants such as Indian Agents, northern adventurers, when viewed through the lens of settlers while ignoring the perspective of First Nations, Inuit and Métis contribute to on-going dissemination of distorted histories. Museums, maps and census contribute to these distorted histories by grave omissions.
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"Today, Mill's most controversial case would be benign colonialism. His principles of nonintervention only hold among "civilized" nations. "Uncivilized" peoples, among whom Mill dumps most of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, are not fit for the principle of nonintervention. Like Oude (in India), they suffer four debilitating infirmities – despotism, anarchy, amoral presentism and familism — that make them incapable of self-determination. The people are imposed upon by a "despot… so oppressive and extortionate as to devastate the country." Despotism long endured has produced "such a state of nerveless imbecility that everyone subject to their will, who had not the means of defending himself by his own armed followers, was the prey of anybody who had a band of ruffians in his pay." The people as a result deteriorate into amoral relations in which the present overwhelms the future and no contracts can be relied upon. Moral duties extend no further than the family; national or civic identity is altogether absent. In these circumstances, Mill claims, benign colonialism is best for the population . Normal relations cannot be maintained in such an anarchic and lawless environment. It is important to note that Mill advocates neither exploitation nor racialist domination. He applies the same reasoning to once primitive northern Europeans who benefited from the imperial rule imposed by civilized Romans. The duties of paternal care, moreover, are real, precluding oppression and exploitation and requiring care and education designed to one day fit the colonized people for independent national existence. Nonetheless, the argument also rests on (wildly distorted) readings of the history and culture of Africa and Asia and Latin America. Anarchy and despotic oppression did afflict many of the peoples in these regions, but ancient cultures embodying deep senses of social obligation made nonsense of presentism and familism. Shorn of its cultural "Orientalism," Mill's argument for trusteeship addresses one serious gap in our strategies of humanitarian assistance: the devastations that cannot be readily redressed by a quick intervention designed to liberate an oppressed people from the clutches of foreign oppression or a domestic despot. But how does one prevent benign trusteeship from becoming malign imperialism, particularly when one recalls the flowery words and humanitarian intentions that accompanied the conquerors of Africa? How far is it from the Anti-Slavery Campaign and the Aborigine Rights Protection Society to King Leopold's Congo and Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"?
Here Doyle is referring to John S. Mill cited in "A Few Words on Nonintervention." . 1973. In Essays on Politics and Culture, edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb, 368-84. Gloucester, Peter Smith.
See also WordPress featured blogs Benign colonialism.
Related tags: Tom Kent Royal Commission on Newspapers, Hackett and Zhao, economic efficiency, Power and everyday life, ethical topography of self and the Other, teaching learning and research, wealth disparities will intensify, C.D. Howe, Cannibals with Forks.Selected annotated webliography
Campo, Juan E. 2004. "Benign Colonialism? The Iraq War: Hidden Agendas and Babylonian Intrigue." Interventionism. 26:1. Spring.
Doyle, Michael W. 2006. "Sovereignty and Humanitarian Military Intervention." Hoover Institute.
Falk, Richard. Human Rights Horizons: the Pursuit of Justice in a Globalizing World. New York & London: Routledge.
Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2007. Benign colonialism. >> Speechless. Uploaded January 14th, 2007
Liu, Henry C. K. "China: a Case of Self-Delusion: Part 1: From colonialism to confusionLiu 2003." Asia Times. May 14, 2003.
Kurtz,Stanley. 2003."Lessons from the British in India." Democratic Imperialism: A Blueprint. Policy Review.Mill, John Stuart. 1844. Essays on some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy.
Of these Essays, which were written in 1829 and 1830,
Current debates on colonization and human rights (Falk 2000) raise questions about the notion of benign colonialism. The dominant language, culture and values of colonizers imposed on colonised peoples is often narrated as salutary. Dominant social and cultural institutions contributed to faciliating the entry of indigenous peoples trapped in unsustainable subsistence economies. Previously colonised peoples claim that the colonization process resulted in a parallel process of the colonization of the minds of indigenous peoples. The process of decolonization of memory (Ricoeur 1980), history and the spirit is crucial for the social inclusion (OECD) of indigenous peoples and nations within nations, such as Canada.
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Fantasy Palace, Iqaluit, Nunavut June 27, 2002
December 3, 2006
Fantasy Palace, Iqaluit, Nunavut June 27, 2002@ Flickr
This is a partial truth, more like a flicktion, or a dream, or the virtual than the real. It's not science or art, more like an invention or innovation. Pieces of this a flicktion are scattered throughout my semi-nomadic cybercamps like tiny inukshuk on a global landscape. It mimics visual anthropology but isn't. It imitates ethnography but lacks the objectivity. There are words written, pictures taken of events, dates, settings, stages and characters without an author. Maybe it's the wrong venue in a photo album of beaming faces, stunning scenery, professional photographers, travelers, techies, retirees. But we can all choose to follow each others sign posts in this cyberspace or move on. This is the power of this new social space spun in CyberWeb 2.0.
Cultural ethnographers are supposed to return to their academic spaces, sharpen their methodological tools to a tip that almost cuts the paper they write on (and too often the culture, pop or otherwise they are writing about). You're not supposed to return from the field with their your mind numbed from the frosted words of those who were seduced by the gold mine of benign colonialism, their voices confident, mocking, paternalistic, jaded by years, or decades of northern experience (1970s-2002). Your were supposed to leave the field with the pace of your beating heart uninterrupted inside your embodied self. You weren't supposed to leave your a chunk of your soul in that graveyard in Pangnirtung on the Cumberland Sound. This is just lack of professionalism. Get a grip. Just write that comprehensive, proposal, dissertation. Move on. It's just the way it is.
In this coffee shop sipping a cup of freshly brewed French Roast, (better than a Vancouver Starbucks!), SWF listened with her eyes. She was compassionate but ever so slightly distant. She doesn't seem to realize how much others from the outside can perceive her knowledge. It is what at times makes her intimidating. Her three generation life story is the stuff of Inuit social history. She seems to almost be unaware of how important that story is. She was surprised that the First Nations cared about the creation of Nunavut. I remember our first class together. She spoke so softly but she was so firm, so insistent, modest and dignified. The wails I had heard by the open graves that still echo in my mind, were all too familiar to her. Slowly, insistently she explained to me as if I really needed to listen, remember, register this.
"We do not need your tears. We have enough of our own. We do not need you to fix this. We need your respect. We need you to not make it worse. We need you to listen to us, really listen. Alone, with no resources an elder has been taking them out on the land. She gets no funding. What she has done works. The funding is going elsewhere on projects that are promoted by the insiders. Inuit like her are not insiders."
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Economist Milton Friedman, propagated 18th century values in the Post-WWII global economy. Like Adam Smith he preached the gospel of minimal government, laissez-faire. The triad, Hayek's The Road to Serfdom (1944), Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (1957), and Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom (1962) pit economic efficiency against social justice.
"It is standard doctrine, at least among American economists and in much of the business community, that firms should maximize the stock market value (Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2007. "What is the Role of the State?" in Escaping the Resource Curse. supra note 154, at 3, 28-29)." Under U.S. corporate law, for example, a corporation's board of directors must make decisions that reflect the profit motivations of shareholders or risk liability for a breach of fiduciary duty." (The Yale Journal of International Law. Vol.36:167:184).
A Circumtomato Globe: Devouring the Earth, Extremes of Wealth and Poverty
I compiled this digitized collage, inspired by Deborah Barndt's Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Trail on November 16, 2006. I used a Google earth generated globe to situate as a kind of circumtomato globe. I developed the concept of John Elkington's Cannibals with Forks for the image of a world being devoured by those who choose to make decisions based on only one bottom line.
In its Oxford style debate 2.0 on sustainability and corporate responsibility, The Economist set forth the proposition for debate, "Without outside pressure, corporations will not take meaningful action on sustainability." The final vote count was: Pro 73% / Con 27%.
Henry C K Liu, chairman of the New York-based Liu Investment Group wrote this in his article (2003) about Hong Kong's benign colonialism that seduced Milton Friedman.
Love is blind and infatuation disguises faults as virtues. As Rudyard Kipling fell in love with the pageantry of colonialism and saw racial exploitation as the "White Man's Burden", Milton Friedman, Nobel economist, fell in love with colonial Hong Kong, seduced by the wine-and-dine hospitality of its colonial masters and elite compradores. Friedman mistook Hong Kong's colonial economic system as a free market, despite Hong Kong's highly orchestrated colonial command economy.
The violence of extremes of wealth and poverty is the moral dilemma of the 21st century, not the acquisition of wealth by individuals, corporations and nation-states. The use of that wealth to convince civil society through mass media of a fair redistribution of wealth is unconscionable. In his book entitled The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Times, Harvard Economist, Jeffrey D. Sachs (2005) reveals the gaping chasm between the real and the perceptions of the real in terms of the ways in which the world's wealthiest share their wealth with the world's most vulnerable, at-risk populations. Based on OECD statistics and his own research Sachs claims that the extremes of poverty could be overcome in 25 years if wealthy nations devoted just 0.7% of their GNP (instead of the 0.33% currently provided) official development assistance (ODA) in developing countries. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reported that Canada's official development assistance (ODA) was 0.28% of gross national income (GNI) up from an all time low of 0.22% in 2001. In 2005 the world's most powerful, wealth nation, the United States devoted just 0.22% of its GNP to foreign aid.
Public perceptions reflect support for higher levels of aid. When asked what percentage of the federal budget they think goes to foreign aid, Americans' median estimate is 25% of the budget, more than 25 times the actual level. Only 2% of Americans give a correct estimate of 1% of the budget or less. When asked how much of the budget should go to foreign aid, the median response is 10%. Only 13% of Americans believe that the percentage should be 1% or less. Over 60% of Americans believe that contributing 0.7% of national income to meet the Millennium Development Goals is the right thing to do (Sachs 2005).
In an article published in The Economist in 2005 entitled "The Biggest Contract" (in reference to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's concept of social contract), Ian Davis challenged Anglo-Saxon corporate management to revisit, redefine, re-articulate and reinforce with greater subtlety their relationship with society as an implicit social contract that acknowledges obligations, opportunities and mutual advantage for both sides." Corporate management needs to recast this debate and recapture the intellectual and moral high ground from their critics." Davis argued that like the political leaders in Rousseau's 18th century, corporate management in the 21st century will lose legitimacy if they refuse to serve the public good. Davis rejects the nonproductive binary oppositional environment of public debate on economic efficiency vs social justice. The strongly held belief in Anglo-Saxon economies [1] that the "business of business is business" (to create shareholder value) is as outworn, ideology-based and caricature-driven as is the extreme version of Corporate Social Responsibility" (CSR).
Davis argued that an informed, educated and engaged [2] CEOs and upper-level management should map-out long term options and responses to relevant, evolving, overarching, broad, carefully researched social pressures and issues as an implicit and integral (not merely peripheral) part of corporate strategy rather than depending exclusively on lower-level public-relations tacticians operating with a knee-jerk, defensive, narrow, reactionary, rebuttal stance to individual, local and immediate (at times, ill-defined) laws, (political, ideological, etc) tensions and (environmental, sustainability, NGO) concerns. "Large companies need to build social issues into strategy in a way which reflects their actual business importance." The CEOs should blend and harmonize their supporting efforts, such as trade regimes, with sophisticated, sensitive and successful approaches to risk management, social and economic development issues, access to social services particularly for the most vulnerable populations and resolutions of regional geopolitical conflicts. See The Economist premium content.
"Since 2006 investors have flocked to sign the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) but now find themselves in the firing line for 'greenwashing', as many fail to fulfill their promise to fully integrate and report progress on environmental, social and governance factors. Most Australia-based UNPRI signatory super funds contacted by Ethical Investor admit there is still much work to be done to fully integrate Environmental, Social Governance (ESG) into its investment analysis and decision-making (Wagg and Taylor 2009-05-31)."
1. The Anglo-Saxon shareholder-value model has increasingly taken on global significance.
2. Davis argued that executive managers must introduce explicit processes which include the development of resources such as broad metrics, summaries and analysis of relevant social issues in order to systematically "educate and engage their boards of directors.
For more on this topic see also papergirls.wordpress.com
Selected Bibliography
Wagg, Oliver; Taylor, Nicholas. 2009-05-31. "UNPRI: Greenwash or Green Fix? Ethical Investor.
Barndt, Deborah (2001) Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Trail, Aurora, ON, Garamond Press.
Davis, Ian. 2005. "The biggest contract: By building social issues into strategy, big business can recast the debate about its role, argues Ian Davis." The Economist. May 28.
Elkington, John (1997) Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business, New Society Publishers, Limited.
Elkington, John (2003) Chrysalis Economy: How Citizen CEOs and Corporations Can Fuse Values and Value Creation, Wiley, John and Sons, Incorporated.
Friedman, Milton. 1970. "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits", The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970. Copyright @ 1970 by The New York Times Company.
Liu, Henry C. K., 2003, "China: a Case of Self-Delusion, from colonialism to confusion," Asia Times, May 14, 2003.
Sachs, Jeffrey D. 2005. "Facts on International Aid." The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Times.
Sachs, Jeffrey D. "The Strategic Significance of Global Inequality."
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Elaine Baumgartel
News Director
Elaine volunteered to answer phones during a KUNM pledge drive in 2003 and she's been unable to drag herself away from public radio ever since. And why would she want to? She wore many sets of headphones at the station before becoming KUNM's News Director - local anchor of NPR's Morning Edition, reporter in the KUNM newsroom, and host and producer of the KUNM Call In Show.
As a graduate student in the Communication and Journalism MA program at UNM, Elaine completed her thesis project on the West Mesa murders and coverage of violence against women in the media.
In her spare time, Elaine likes to garden and work with ceramics in addition to spending time with her family.
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It's been HOT in Sydney for the past couple of days! I don't cope with heat very well, so anything above 27C is quite unbearable and uncomfortable to me. All the more reason why I can't wait to leave this Sydney heat behind and head to the Northern hemisphere!
This is one of my favourite summer treats along with all the fresh tropical fruit that are in abundance here during the summer months. Simple and delicious!
250g rhubarb, cut into pieces (fresh or frozen)
150g strawberries, hulled and halved (fresh or frozen)
1/2 juice of lemon
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
small knob fresh ginger, grated
2 tsp manuca honey blend
1 tsp natural vanilla extract
1 cup organic plain yoghurt
Place all ingredients except for the yoghurt in a small saucepan and bring to boil. Let simmer for 10 minutes or until rhubarb has softened. Remove from heat and puree using a stab mixer or a food processor. Leave to cool.
Once cool, stir in the yoghurt and mix well. Place in a container and freeze for a few hours, stirring every half an hour to an hour. You can spoon the mixture into small moulds and freeze them again or just shape it into balls. In any case it'll be delicious :-)


text: Jay Brown: The Life and Times of 'Crazy' Philadelphia Eddie By Jay Brown Crazy Philadelphia Eddie paved the way for tattooers today and his career spans almost six decades. He tattooed in New York, Hawaii, Chicago and Philadelphia where he spent 40 years tattooing. Eddie has seen the changes from the sponge-and-bucket days to the dawn of the sterilization era and beyond. He started one of the first tattoo clubs, owned supply companies and even ran tattoo conventions. In a career as long as Eddie's the adventures were abundant, and he is still having them today... Since his retirement, Eddie has recently stepped back into the tattoo world in full-force with the release of his book, Tattooing - The Life and Times of Crazy Philadelphia Eddie – Mi Vida Loca Vol. I. I was lucky enough to be at the Las Vegas book release, and had a chance to interview this tattoo legend, and get a copy of his new book. I have read the book and I have to say it is absolutely awesome, written in Eddie's own words, you can almost hear him telling the story as you read. As you finish the book Eddie sets you up for the next volume, making you crave more from the King of Tattoo Stories... Jay Brown: When did you get into Tattooing? How old were you? What was the year? Crazy Eddie: The year was 1952. Coney Island, New York... I was 15 going on 70. JB: What was it that drew you to tattooing? CE: As a young man I used to admire and look at people that had tattoos, muscular guys with tattoos and thought that was sharp… My uncle Eddie had tattoos. I asked him where he got them, "In the Bowery." I asked him how much and he said, "50-cents." I had that in the back of my mind and at age 15 I was lookin' for a place to get a tattoo. My family used to go to Coney Island and I spotted a sign in the air that said, "Expert Tattooing, 25 Years Experience, 50-cents and Up." I says, "A-Ha! I found a tattoo place." So I went back the next week with my friends and got a tattoo… JB: You've seen just about everything in your career, any favorite stories? CE: Yes. It's too long. It'd make the whole magazine article. You'll have to buy the book… Okay… My trip to Copenhagen, Denmark… it was heaven, for $20 dollars you could get 144 kroner's… That's a dollar in Danish money. And a bottle of beer was one kroner, so for $20 I could get 144 bottles of beer. The women outnumbered the men eight to one. I got a room that cost me hardly anything that I never stayed in. I asked Ole Hansen the tattoo man over there why there where so many women and he said in WWII when Hitler invaded Denmark, he killed all the little boys, so they wouldn't grow up and kill him. And Denmark is a fishing country, so all the men were always out fishing. I was rich, so I had all I wanted to drink, a different woman every night, a room I never stayed in, after two weeks my hands were shaking so bad, I couldn't get the drink from the bar to my mouth, I had to drink it off the bar. I thought to myself, "I gotta get out of here while I'm still alive…"(Laughs). JB: I remember when I first met you years ago, when Mr. Rosini introduced me to you... I was blown away, I got to meet one of tattooing's greats. Who was like that for you in your day, when you were first starting out? CE: Max Peltz… Brooklyn Blackie who was in Coney Island. Bob Shaw, who became a great friend of mine. JB: You've done it all when it comes down to tattooing, owned shops, owned supply companies, ran conventions. A lot has changed over the years, it certainly has in the 24 years I've been in it, but you've been privy to some 50-60 years. What do you think of the state of tattooing today? With all the supply companies, all the shops, the conventions, the T.V. shows? CE: If I was getting into the business today I wouldn't even be interested in tattooing... It's lost its… its magic. JB: What advice do you have for someone getting into tattooing today? CE: My advice for someone getting into tattooing today is; put your hand in your pocket, get all your money, give it to me… Then go find a big bridge and jump! (Laughs) You like that? (laughs again). JB: What advice do you have for artists that have been in the industry for 10 or more years with all of the changes and a tattoo shop opening on every corner? CE: Have a drink, find a pretty woman and worry about the rest of it later! (Laughs). JB : So I don't want to ask too many questions about your life because the book is out and a lot is in there. What made you decide to write the series of books on your life? CE: My fourth wife, while I was in the hospital with a heart attack, cleaned out my safe and took all my retirement money. So I had to do something so I could earn a few dollars, so I could get a drink. So I decided to write the story of my life. JB: I know I am glad to see you out at the conventions with the new book; in fact I can't wait to see you in spring so I can get the next book. So how does it feel being out on the road doing the book tour? CE: Great! Very tiresome… I'm 74 years old. I should have been gone by now… JB: How does it feel getting the first volume done? CE: Feels great! The enthusiasm from tattooers is overwhelming… Men want the book, and women want me to take them to Hawaii! (Laughs) JB: I hear there are five books in the works. Tell me a little more about that? CE: Five, possibly six… I'm getting about 8 to 10 years per book and I got 58 years. So I'm lookin' at six books and book two is going to the press next week and will be available soon… And then we are finishing on number three in a couple of months. Each book leaves off, I tell you a little about the next book, at the end of the first one I am in my car and ready to drive down the highway a hundred miles (to Philadelphia) where I am going to spend the next 40 years-plus, tattooing and taking many side adventures. So come along… JB: So we can expect the next installment soon and at the end of each one you give us a hint of whats coming next, that's great! CE: Yes. At the end of the second book I say in the next book there's gonna be a shooting, a stabbing, a robbery, a death, a party of a lifetime and the birth of the National Tattoo Supply… It's a continuous story 'til either I finish it or I drop dead. JB: What conventions can we expect to see you at and buy your new books? Where else can you get them? CE: Minneapolis, Houston, Orlando, Ohio, Ink Travelers in Vancouver, WA and Tattoos and Blues, in Santa Rosa for sure in the spring… I'm sure there's more. JB: Tell us about the person who is writing the books? How did it all happen? CE: I was talkin' to another tattoo artist, Timmy Tatts from Collegeville, Pennsylvania, who is a good friend of mine, and I was telling him my ideas and he had a friend [Eric Foemmel] who was a ghostwriter from California. He hooked me up with him here in Las Vegas last year at the tattoo convention, and now we have the one book done and more in the works. JB: Well that's about it, we all look forward to the series of books and I thank you for the interview... As I finished up the interview, Eddie began to entertain another tattooer that came by to get a copy of the book and get his picture taken. He starts to tell another story... "I don't remember what convention it was in the Midwest," Eddie began... "But we were there in the bar, and I lit up a joint right in the bar, you couldn't believe it… It was the time we all decided we were going to go to the girls convention and get our dicks tattooed. It was you, me, Rossini (Rosini)… I can't remember who else…" The young tattooer laughs, as Eddie finishes the story, signs his book and gets his picture taken. I was flattered to have Eddie remember that story and include me in it. They don't call him "Crazy" Philadelphia Eddie for nothing. The book is available exclusively through Eddie's website www.crazyphiladelphiaeddie.com for $30 for the book and $50 for the book and the accompanying audio CD. (Jay Brown is a tattooer and contributing blogger for Tattoo Artist Magazine. Jay can be found at A Fine Art Tattoo Studio in Moscow, Idaho.)


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QUIRKY. Um, yes, that's the word I'd use for this, but not in a good way, I'm afraid. After a few listens I can hear very little in the way of the classics Stokes has created like Zo Pilots and Outfolding, which were experimental, psychoactive, and melodic all at once. This was a huge disappointment for me, sorry to say, and I'll probably get hate mail, but what the heck, it just sounds like noodling to me. Maybe that was the point, and that it's not supposed to sound like ZP or Outfolding. Looks like so far I'm in the minority here on this opinion, so go easy on me people. Sorry don't mean to be a party pooper...
Saul Stokes doesn't use any biscuit tins!
I don't know if I'd call the album "psychedelic" really. The word I always think of when I hear Saul's music is "futuristic," and I'm not completely sure why... there's a science fiction feel to some of the song titles, and of course purely electronic music has a pretty modern feel most of the time. When I listen to Saul's music though I always feel like I'm listening to the kind of music people would listen to it a distant, futuristic utopia. It's bright and crisp and pure but still very human.
balanced with true, unabashed, unironic feeling, that is alien amongst modern electronica.


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Thursday, we're bringing together workers from multiple points in the Walmart supply chain to tell how the world's biggest retailer keeps workers in a cycle of low wages, no voice on the job, and dangerous working conditions. Speakers will include a Walmart associate, a warehouse worker, and a Bangladeshi garment worker. Join us! RSVP and more info on Facebook!
From Walmart Watch:
Walmart wants to open stores in New York City. The company is spending a lot of money to change the debate from the real issue, which is how it treats its associates and creates poverty-level jobs throughout its supply chain. As the world's largest retailer, how Walmart impacts workers across the globe is a good preview of what kind of jobs it is going to try to bring to NYC.
Three workers representing different links in the Wal...mart supply chain will be appearing in New York on Thursday, March 31th as part of Sweatshop, Warehouse, Walmart: A Worker Truth Tour.
Robert Hines worked until very recently in a Chicago-area warehouse that supplies Walmart.
Cynthia Murray works in a Walmart store in Laurel, Maryland.
Aleya Akter is a young woman from Bangladesh who has worked in garment factories since she was nine years old, sewing the clothes sold in U.S. Walmart stores.
Kalpona Akter is a former garment worker and director of the Bangladesh Worker Solidarity Center who was imprisoned after a Walmart subcontractor brought falsified complaints against her.
These three workers would like to share with the community what it is like to work for Walmart, whether directly on the company's payroll like Cynthia or indirectly for a shipper or supplier like Robert and Aleya.
For more information, visit sweatfree.org/walmarttour2
011 or call 212.631.0886
Tour sponsors include Making Change at Walmart (a campaign of the United Food and Commercial Workers), Jobs with Justice, International Labor Rights Forum, United Students Against Sweatshops, and SweatFree Communities.


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One of Nicki Minaj's backing dancers was hospitalised after she was bitten by a snake during rehearsals for the MTV Video Music Awards, according to a U.S. report.
The Super Bass hitmaker is scheduled to perform her new single Anaconda during the music prizegiving ceremony on Sunday (24Aug14) and was rehearsing for the live show with her dancers and a large snake this week (beg17Aug14).
Minaj and her team were onstage as the six-foot (1.8 metres) reptile slithered up to a female performer and sunk its fangs into her, according to TMZ.com.
The dancer was taken to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment and the snake was removed from the stage.
Her injury is not believed to be serious.
It is not known if the animal will still be used in the performance.
Taylor Swift, Iggy Azalea and Rita Ora will also perform at the ceremony, which is being held at The Forum in Los Angeles.