from Granma, April 6, 2011 THE United States Senate voted April 6 against an amendment acknowledging global climate change and human responsibility for its development. The amendment was proposed by Democratic senator Henry Waxman, who asserted that the content of the document is recognized by the s[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ideas’
As Congress punts, the dollar melts.
Ed. Yesterday’s bizarre behavior of the Republican House may meltdown the dollar. from CNBC. excerpted. In 10 months, the Dollar Index has lost 14% because the world keeps accumulating dollar doesn’t want and sells them. Asian central banks are key. “Asia Pacific banks are renowned for[...]
UPDATE: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei arrested in latest government crackdown
UPDATE April 7: Jon Huntsman, US Ambassador to China — saluted Ai, jailed Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and others who “challenge the Chinese government to serve the public in all cases and at all times”. “Ai Weiwei is under investigation on suspicion of ec[...]
April 6th, 2011 - 10:43 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Kristoff: on faculty unions.
Nicholas Kristoff, NY Times Teaching is unusual among the professions in that it pays poorly but has strong union protections and lockstep wage increases. It’s a factory model of compensation, and critics are right to fault it. But the bottom line is that we should pay teachers more, not less �[...]
April 6th, 2011 - 9:36 am § in Misc.
One last world shaking discovery from Fermilab: The God Particle?
From Fermilab’s Tevatron, once the world’s most powerful particle accelerator and now slated to go dark forever in September or earlier, whenever Fermilab runs out of money to operate it. … The Higgs Boson? “Nobody knows what this is, if it is real, it would be the most significant dis[...]
Paul Krugman: Washington has Written Off the Unemployed
More than three years after we entered the worst economic slump since the 1930s, Washington has lost interest in the unemployed. One-sixth of America’s workers — all those who can’t find any job or are stuck with part-time work when they want a full-time job — have, in effect, been abandoned[...]
April 3rd, 2011 - 7:45 am § in Religion
Sunday Revelation: Bad things and the Deity
from Huffington Post, Rabbi Laura Geller TAOISM: Bad things happen. BUDDHISM: If bad things happen, it isn’t really bad. HINDUISM: This bad thing happened before. ISLAM: If bad things happen, it is the will of Allah. PROTESTANTISM: Let bad things happen to someone else. CATHOLICISM: If bad thi[...]
China ‘to overtake US on science’ in two years
David Shukman Science and environment correspondent, BBC News China is on course to overtake the US in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 – far earlier than expected. That is the conclusion of a major new study by the Royal Society, the UK’s national science academy. The country [...]
April 1st, 2011 - 12:32 am § in Uncategorized
Economy Improving, Price of Turner Oil is Up!
Turner oil breaks artist record A Turner masterpiece of a view over Rome sells for £29.7m at Sotheby’s in London, breaking the artist’s record at auction.[...]
March 31st, 2011 - 9:37 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Will the American taxpayer now be subsidizing students at Yale-Singapore?
Yale Opens College In Singapore As Yale opens its Singapore Campus, shouldn’t we all ask the question …. .. is this the beginning of the globalization of American Higher Education? GE recently got a lot of bad press because it paid no American taxes. The reason for this was that GE IS [...]