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The war monks.

This Week at War: McChrystal Plays Defense | Foreign Policy:

The frugal ascetics that run the world.

Poor fuckers!

Google Reader - Featured Reading Lists:
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Want to know what journalists, foodies, and tech bloggers read?

Sure, I do.

Here we have: Tom Friedman, Arianna Huffington, Michelle Malkin, Paul Krugman, Patrick Ruffini, Nicholas Kristof, John Dickerson, Dexter Filkins, Markos Moulitsas, Charles Blow.

Now try guessing how many foreign language papers these ladies and gentlemen are reading ? Nil, zilch.

How many foreign papers ? Tom reads Haaretz (some foreign paper!) and Arianna The Guardian. Jesus, the USers just don't get it.

And Paul Krugman ? He reads Paul Krugman: the conscience of a liberal. The chutzpah.

Have a look at how he lived and how he made live others.

The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia:
The death of Charles Gwathmey has provoked a lot of nostalgic reminiscence about the New York Five, a group of influential architects of which he was part.

Head you lose, tail we win.

Cost of credit card debt soaring :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Terry Savage:
Americans are rolling nearly $1 trillion in card balances from month to month. And nearly half of those cardholders are making only the minimum monthly payments. As you might imagine, those accounts are very profitable to the credit card issuers -- until the cardholders default or file for bankruptcy. Then those write-offs add to the costs that must be borne by the remaining card users.

It looks increasingly like I'd much prefer it wouldn't.

naked capitalism: Is This the Start of the Big One?:
Lack of political leadership. The health care fiasco is going to be a defining event for Obama, in a negative way. His inability to respond effectively to simply absurd distortions of his plan and of the record of public supported programs overseas (including that many are government funded but still privately run, for instance) may dispel the illusion that he is or can be an effective leader. His banking policy, which is vital to recovery, became hostage to Geithner and Summer's deep loyalty to the industry, and his lack or interest in rocking any boats. All Team Obama has done on the banking front is write a lot of blank check, hold some bogus "stress tests" in lieu of doing the real thing, and raise a stink on a few symbolic issues to try to paper over the failure to embark on real and badly needed reforms.

Ed Harrison has called him a black Herbert Hoover. If the economy takes another down leg, it will further confirm his inability to do anything other than compromise and try to spin it as success. The confidence game worked when he was a new President, but nice talk and not much action is already wearing thin. We could use someone at the helm who is willing to plot a course and stick with it, and instead what we have is someone long on charisma and short on resolve.

My next agency doing a presentation.

Cisco Telepresence with CEO of Cisco + Warner Music
Originally uploaded by jeremiah_owyang.

The interpretive manager has prepared the agency and the client team well for this moment and a pleasant and competitive give and take is now taking place.

Sounds like an accurate description of an AQ sanctuary.

U.S. mulls pulling troops from remote Afghan outposts | McClatchy:
The U.S. military commander in Afghanistan is considering pulling American troops out of some remote outposts on the country's mountainous eastern border with Pakistan, where local guerrillas are allied with the Taliban and al Qaida, U.S. officials told McClatchy.

Abandoning U.S. forward outposts, and possibly turning them over to Afghan forces, would be a tacit admission that the presence of American troops has fueled insecurity by embroiling them in local feuds and driving some local tribes to align with the Taliban.

"These (outposts) are costly and dangerous and not doing much to bring security to the people or connect the people to their government," said a U.S. official who's familiar with the region. "The terrain is too rugged, the infrastructure and especially roads do not exist and couldn't be built on short order, and the population is too low and too dispersed."

American commanders had hoped that sending more troops to the border area, coupled with a new Pakistani drive against the militants on its side of the border, could deprive al Qaida and the Taliban of a sanctuary and end infiltration from Pakistan.

WTF else are we doing there ? And why ?

Have these guys no idea of how laughable they are ?

Al Jazeera English - Asia-Pacific - China urges 'respect' for Myanmar:
the country's ruling generals

A clear case of bad conscience!

Israel Is Wary of Calm Days That May End in Turmoil - NYTimes.com:
Israel is flourishing this summer, and one might imagine its people and leaders to be breathing a sigh of relief after nearly a decade of violence and unease. That, however, is far from the case. On every front, Israel is worried that it is living a false calm that could explode at any moment. Its airwaves and public discourse are filled with menace and concern.

Kreuzberg candidate Lengsfeld's election poster.

Mediacenter - tagesspiegel.de:

"We offer more".

Is the day already here when we have to feel sorry for not having Rumsfeld at the Pentagon anymore ?

U.S. to Hunt Down Afghan Drug Lords Tied to Taliban - NYTimes.com:
When Donald H. Rumsfeld was defense secretary, the Pentagon fiercely resisted efforts to draw the United States military into supporting counternarcotics efforts.

Another title could have been: In Afghanistan it's drug money vs oil money:

Yep, kill GDP thinking.

Op-Ed Contributor - G.D.P. R.I.P. - NYTimes.com:
The basic problem is that gross domestic product measures activity, not benefit. If you kept your checkbook the way G.D.P. measures the national accounts, you’d record all the money deposited into your account, make entries for every check you write, and then add all the numbers together. The resulting bottom line might tell you something useful about the total cash flow of your household, but it’s not going to tell you whether you’re better off this month than last or, indeed, whether you’re solvent or going broke.

You have 2 votes:

One for graphics, one for content.

That's the kind of service I expect from my hardware.

This morning starting the machine I found this message on the screen:

I clicked "continue" and this window appeared

Thank you, Apple! How about making all trouble shooting as easy and, yes, pleasant ?

:

Make your own PSD (post sweat drink).

Phys Ed: Are Sports Drinks Actually Good for Kids? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com:
Sports drink recipe from “Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook”
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup orange juice
1/4 cup hot water
2 tablespoons lemon juice
3 1/2 cups cold water

In a quart pitcher, dissolve the sugar and salt in the hot water. Add the remaining ingredients and the cold water. The drink contains about 50 calories and 110 mg of sodium per 8 ounces, approximately the same as for most sports drinks.

A picture that doesn't exist.

Blog: Nukes & Spooks:
This unprecedented photo was then released, but only to Israel's state-owned Channel 1, according to the Jerusalem Post newspaper.

Apparently a bit miffed, the J-Post, as the English-language daily is sometimes known, went in search of the photograph. An official in Netanyahu's office denied that the picture existed. No one else seemed to want to take responsibility for the picture either.

The paper's account, concluded, perhaps a bit conspiratorially: "All material relating to the Dimona nuclear reactor must go through military censorship. In the face of the PMO's (Prime Minister's Office) denial that the picture exists, the further question arises as to whether there was a security breach here, or whether there was a calculation behind the picture's appearance on state TV only."

(The Hebrew-language caption, according to the Post's website, reads: ‘The Prime Minister visits the Dimona nuclear reactor, receives briefing on the scientific programs undertaken there.')

Franz Kafka MBA.

Project Syndicate:
Dixon then told me a revealing story of one of his clients, Majid Khan, a so-called “high-value detainee” who was held for three years in CIA “black sites.” Khan was tortured, Dixon said, though “the government would say that what happened to him is an ‘intelligence source or method.’”

Because Dixon has a security clearance, he cannot discuss those classified “sources and methods.” On the other hand, Dixon continued, “When the government does something to [Khan] that they say is classified, they have disclosed to him classified information. But since he doesn’t have a security clearance, there is nothing that prevents him, unlike me, from saying to the outside world, ‘This is what they did to me.’ Nothing prevents that – except for the fact that he is physically in custody.”’

The “logical conclusion,” according to Dixon, is that Khan “must be detained for the rest of his life – regardless of whether he is ever charged with a crime – because if he was ever released, nothing would prevent him from disclosing this information.

Majid Khan – and there are many more like him – is a classic product of the Bush administration’s disregard for the fundamental principles of the rule of law. Unfortunately, Obama’s administration, for all its lofty rhetoric, appears too willing to perpetuate it.

The Bush years.

Zero 10 Year US Job Creation | The Big Picture:
“For the first time since the Depression, the American economy has added virtually no jobs in the private sector over a 10-year period. The total number of jobs has grown a bit, but that is only because of government hiring.

USers go back to the caves.

Attacks on Homeless Bring Push on Hate Crime Laws - NYTimes.com:
“It’s hard to believe that tunnels that can fill a foot per minute with floodwater could be safer than aboveground Vegas,” Mr. O’Brien said, “but many homeless people think they are. No outsider is going to attack you down there in the dark.”