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Downsizing cities: ‘US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive’

In Meltdown Geography, Richard Florida examined how cities in the US and regions across the world would be affected by financial meltdown.  While some urban centres would thrive and grow, … Continue reading

14 June, 2009 · Leave a comment

The Shift Eastward: World's Biggest Banks 1999 and 2009

One interesting indicator of the financial shift eastward and the rise of China is indicated in the first two graphs, just over the fold (hat-tip: Syd Walker). As Michael Hudson … Continue reading

22 May, 2009 · 2 Comments

Israel’s covert war on Iran faces White House opposition

While there are a lot of (likely necessarily) unnamed sources and “officials say” in this piece by Richard Sale featured at Colonel Pat Lang’s Sic Temper Tyrannis, it is more … Continue reading

18 May, 2009 · Leave a comment

Justin Raimondo Calls Out Jon Stewart: Wimp, Wuss, Moral Coward

Justin Raimondo of the indispensable Anti-war.com has caught a recent backflip from the affable Jon Stewart, the host of a comedy show that usually conveys more truth, by way of … Continue reading

6 May, 2009 · 1 Comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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