Posted on March 5, 2009 by thewayofthings
The Sandwich of Knowledge… Kinda like the obelisk in 2001.
One might ask, ‘What are some of the signs of the coming apocalypse?’
…An economic meltdown unlike nothing we’ve ever seen before?
A 10 storey asteroid coming within a smidgen of hitting us as on Monday Mar. 2/09?
All of these are plausible contenders…
But the one that I think really [...]
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Posted on March 4, 2009 by thewayofthings
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Modern Money Mechanics: A Workbook on Bank Reserves and Deposit Expansion” was first written by Dorothy M. Nichols back in 1961 and last revised by Anne Marie L. Gonczy in 1994.
Long out of print, the workbook was designed as a primer [...]
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Posted on March 2, 2009 by thewayofthings
It was 5 years ago, in the New York Times business section, when we read that:
“Shares of Nortel Networks, the biggest maker of telecommunications equipment in North America, plunged 18.5 percent today, after the company said it placed two of its top financial officers on paid leave.“
Today, Nortel is a sad shadow of its former self and [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2009 by thewayofthings
AWAITING DESTRUCTION–Old Pacific Electric cars are piled up like toys at junkyard on Terminal Island, California, awaiting dismantling and destruction. -image from The Los Angeles Times - March 19, 1956
It used to be said that: “What’s good for GM is good for the country.”
Between 1926 and 1950, General Motors (together with Firestone Tire, Standard Oil, Phillips Petroleum, the Mack Truck Company, [...]
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Posted on June 25, 2008 by thewayofthings
Eat the rich! They have more taste. The poor are full of gristle and have low nutritive value.
And, while we’re at it, let’s use the overinflated egos of overpaid CEO’s to generate some wind power. Perhaps use some of their bangled and bobbled trinkets to light our streets, - their liposuctioned leavings to lubricate the machinery for an uprising. …I know it’s just so much hot air, but [...]
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