To go along with the documentary on the Cold War, here is a great one on The Manhattan Project. It’s not a groundbreaking documentary but was worth the viewing time. What I came away with from watching the video was an appreciation for what I think is a predominantly American characteristic which is the ability [...]
February, 2010:
Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle
Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren’t just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy – they’re re-creating the conditions for another crash. From Rolling Stone The bottom line is that banks like Goldman have learned absolutely nothing from the global economic meltdown. In fact, they’re back conniving and playing speculative long [...]
1983: The Brink of Apocalypse
An interesting full length documentary by Channel 4 about how close the west and the Soviet Union came to nuclear Armageddon in 1983. Reagan’s rhetoric, $1 trillion in defense spending, Pershing II missiles, the new cruise missiles, a breakdown in Soviet detection technology (high altitude clouds set off Soviet early warning satellites), the American invasion [...]
Contextless Links
Why so few MP’s are capable of actually cutting a provincial or federal deficit :: Also, fighting deficits require pain. While reading about Ian Fleming, I found out that there are quite a few conspiracy theories about Rudolph Hess’ life and death. On a related note, check out the Wikipedia entry on Spandau Prison. I [...]
Paul Krugman
The New Yorker has a great profile on New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winner, Paul Krugman Their apartment in New York is in the same neighborhood as both Jeffrey Sachs’s and Joseph Stiglitz’s, but since they bought it, a few years ago, they haven’t seen either of them. Krugman doesn’t get out much, [...]
When the church runs out of ideas.
How many times have we seen this format in the last couple of months. TED, Christianity 21, the Nines, a couple other copycat conferences that have numbers in them, now this. A copycat conference with the same speakers, peddling their wares in a fixed format. Tell me again where the fresh idea is? C’mon. There [...]
The New Poor: Years Between Jobs
The New York Times looks at the impact of being unemployed for years not just months as people were in the past. Economists fear that the nascent recovery will leave more people behind than in past recessions, failing to create jobs in sufficient numbers to absorb the record-setting ranks of the long-term unemployed. Call them [...]
Snow Cleanup
I have been enjoying this discussion over snow removal with some enjoyment. As all of Saskatoon knows, we got hit by a massive snow storm earlier this month. We called it a storm but anywhere else it would be a blizzard (although in Cincinnati it was once called a giant lizard). Within three days, the [...]
