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By productive endeavors - I mean the manufacture of goods and creative artifacts. The same is true of the US. I can't help but think we blew our chance to do this when the dollar was at it's low in the last decade.

lol... I am sure you all will be fine. The dollar has been in the shitter for a long time and while we are not doing great, there is still quite a bit of strength in our economy. It's a great opportunity to retool your economy towards more productive endeavors. I might start buying records...

Absolutely. However, considering the language Russia and China were using @ the WEF. I have a feeling we might not like the form this takes. I welcome a multipolar world where the US is not the sole arbiter of international policy though, as long as cooperation is one of the key principles - not...

Yes. Ultimately it would be great if there were multilateral approaches to our current dilemmas. I have hope this will happen, but judging from the results of the WEF in Davos this year my hope is not grounded in reality. I think also in speaking to the social consequences of globalization, re...

Shit! I couldn't resist this opportunity. The village of Fucking Austria: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria

I apologize for reading that into your post concerning Smoot Hawley. For the most part I agree with you Vim. I hope this situation does not devolve into beggar thy neighbor trade policies and currency wars, but it seems China will continue to subsidize their currency. So, will China allow...

There is some new data out now in the US that there is an increase in bee populations and colonies now: U.S. Beekeepers Have More Bees Than Anytime in 3 Years http://www.thedailygreen.com/print-this/environmental-news/blogs/bees/colony-collapse-disorder-88012901 The worst might be over. There...

There might be positive effects derived from protectionism as well. There is no conclusive proof that Smoot Hawley caused trade contractions in 1930's. I.E. correlation does not prove causation. It could be argued that it was the contraction in economic growth and debt overhang from ww1 in...

That's good news.

That is not the Double Helix that peeps are mentioning in this thread. Here is their myspace: www.myspace.com/helixier They don't have any releases yet. fwiw - I love what they are doing musically...

Shipping rates hit zero as trade sinks Last Updated: 5:53AM GMT 14 Jan 2009 Freight rates for containers shipped from Asia to Europe have fallen to zero for the first time since records began, underscoring the dramatic collapse in trade since the world economy buckled in October. Source...

That's alright. Most people don't make much progress reading any of this stuff :D /s

Yes it was/ is. I personally like this line of thought. even though it has very little do with SI: Hakim Bey- CHAOS: THE BROADSHEETS OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHISM * COMMUNIQUES OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHY THE TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE http://www.hermetic.com/bey/taz_cont.html

I agree. I love the graffiti and slogans from Paris's 68. It would be interesting to research whether or not a similarly evocative and creative approach to slogans and graffiti was used in Greece recently. When I started reading the essay which contains the critique I thought i was reading a...

The Great Crash, 2008 A Geopolitical Setback for the West: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20090101faessay88101-p0/roger-c-altman/the-great-crash-2008.html An analysis of the crash from a geopolitical perspective.

I found this critique of the SI interesting: source: http://deoxy.org/rst.htm ...."The Situationist International (1958-1971) was an organization of theoretically oriented, ultra-left, European (especially French) marxists. Many believe, as did the original author(s) of this essay, that the...

ken knabb's website: ( which I just noticed vimothy referenced after i made this comment) http://www.bopsecrets.org/ http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm enjoy!

Thanks for the information vimothy. It looks like Citibank will be the next bank to fall: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122722907151946371.html Also - If one or more of the big auto manufacturers goes bankrupt, I believe the repercussions could be devastating to the economies of the US...

Shipowners Idle 20% of Bulk Vessels as Rates Collapse (Update1) : http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aoE181cv.tds&refer=home#