First Tunisia, then Egypt, now Yemen…3,000 demonstrators are confronting police and pro-government supporters in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, according to AlJazeera’s report today. While the army in Egypt urges a return to “business as usual,” it is beginning to look like business, when it does return, won’t be as usual. Here is more discussion [...]
A 26-year old Muslim girl, Asmaa Mahfouz, in traditional headdress, told her facebook friends she was heading for Tahrir Square on January 25. Then she video-blogged the message you see below in Arabic with English subtitles, a call for freedom, honor, human dignity…a call for Egyptians to stand up and say they are free human [...]
The city of Jeddah (or Jeddah or Jidda or Jedda) in Saudi Arabia is one I had never heard of, and I also missed word of the massive floods that hit the city in January of this year. I never even heard of the December, 2009 floods in Jeddah – also pictured in a video [...]
Unprecedented in Egyptian history, apparently, hordes of protesters all over Cairo – and other Egyptian cities – are taking over the city, so to speak, while riot police attack them with tear gas, cars burn and black smoke pours out into the atmosphere, making our CNN journalist cough. While the army quietly looks on, anti-Mubarak [...]
Since the metropolitan area of Brisbane is situated along the floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley, it is prone to catastrophic floods such as the one the city is seeing today – the most drastic since 1974. Brisbane has a reputation for being highly livable, although its European existence began with the Redcliffe penal colony [...]
Read popular books on the new economic model described as collaborative consumption, and explore new ways of thinking about making a living and getting a life.
The Kentucky Enquirer endorses Rand Paul today, which is exciting news! The Kentucky Enquirer is the Northern Kentucky edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer, which itself has a colorful history. Washington McLean, its editor prior to the Civil War period and a prominent Ohio Democrat, was known as a member of the so-called “Copperheads” – democratic [...]
While state occupational licensing standards nationwide are forcing small enterprises out of business, the Institute for Justice is mounting legal challenges in their name. See below for videos showing the plight of the floral industry in Louisiana, interior designers in Florida, farmers in Minnesota and DC tour guides… Occupational licensing standards involve all kinds of [...]
Well, this makes it definitive! Who could possibly doubt the sagacity and the track record of these guys! The UN is bound to follow their suggestion. –The Editors Kazakhstan calls for global currency By Stan Rogers For CentralAsiaOnline.com 2010-09-27 NEW YORK – A global currency under UN control would reduce the probability of another financial [...]
In a stunning reversal of decades of pithy and often trenchant economic commentary, The Daily Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has reversed his key position in support of central bank management of Amero-British economy. Not only has he reversed his views, he has apologized abjectly for his errors. When was the last time we heard a major [...]
Sharing is the answer, according to a book called What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption written by two entrepreneurs, Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers. E-bay and Craigslist and Freecycle only represent the beginning of the trend towards collaborative consumption, which includes car sharing, organized and sometimes high-tech bike sharing, swapping books, movies [...]
Georgia’s HOPE scholarship program, established in 1993 and funded by the state lottery, is said to be going broke, according to Jack Stripling of Inside HigherEd in his September 21, 2101 article – Losing HOPE. State officials are faced with the problem of cutting participation, either by introducing academic guidelines (such as using SAT scores [...]