Have a look at this article from the New York Times. It’s not that we should become market experts but rather grasp, what I believe, DeLillo is saying about the hyper-globalized cyber-capital economy. These are the “experts” and they can’t really explain what’s going on anymore.
“While China was the first market to tumble, it was not clear what set off the selling. But once it began, it spread first to other Asian countries, then to Europe and the United States.”
Also, the Washington Post has a simple little graphic here showing the near immediate fluctuation in world markets yesterday. This is the piece about the cause and effect ofhe “Mexican Tortilla Crisis”. Furthermore, I wrote an article last month which mentions the Tortilla Crisis. The piece is dealing with cause and effect which is pertinent to our discussion. Be warned, I’m no DeLillo and its blatantly political. Finally, here is a very good “chaos theory for beginners” which is all I could ever hope to understand.
Since we just finished one “Merry Prankster” I thought you would appreciate this article about another. It’s getting spooky how everything is all coming together. Just what the heck was Janice Radway getting at anyways?
“He divides environmentalists into romantics and scientists, the two cultures he’s been straddling and blending since the 1960s. He was with the Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead at their famous Trips Festival in San Francisco”
Who remembers this? This is the young Kirsten Dunst, aka Claudia (1994 Interview With The Vampire), the beautiful little porcelain vampire child. If this isn’t the ultimate expression of “The Uncanny” and “Castration Anxiety” then I don’t know what is.
(AP) Geneaologists have found that civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton is a descendent of a slave owned by relatives of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, a newspaper reported Sunday.
If you need any more evidence that the American public has gotten blasé about torture, consider the hit Fox action drama “24.” The show featured 67 torture scenes during its first five seasons, and most of those depicted torture being used by “heroic” U.S. counter-terror agents.
Top Gear is a wonderfully funny British car program. Their experience in NOLA was less than flattering. They ask, “how can the rest of America sleep at night knowing this is here?”
Only a year ago, bloggers were hardly taken seriouslly by the MSM, let alone the political establishment. Is this still just a fluke or the future of US politics?
Democratic leaders want their activists to focus on beating Republicans. But the grass roots and Net roots believe the political tide is shifting their way, and they can provide the money, ground troops and buzz to challenge Democratic incumbents they don’t like. MoveOn.org had two Bay Area chapters before the election; now it has 15, and they could all go to work against Tauscher in a primary. “Absolutely, we could take her out,” said Markos Moulitsas Zúniga — better known as Kos — the Bay Area blogger behind the influential Daily Kos site.
Mr. Scaife, reclusive heir to the Mellon banking fortune, spent more than $2 million investigating and publicizing accusations about the supposed involvement of Mrs. Clinton and former President Bill Clinton in corrupt land deals, sexual affairs, drug running and murder.
But now, as Mrs. Clinton is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, Mr. Scaife’s checkbook is staying in his pocket.
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