RE: [Futurework] How Wall Street Wrecked United's Pension

2005-08-08 Thread Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
Agree. Sometimes people have to have boundaries set for them by an independent agent. In this case greed was allowed/encouraged.and now we see what happened. Perhaps this is a lesson for other areas of the economy, viz., housing. arthur -Original Message-From: Lawrence

Re: [Futurework] The collapse of globalism and the reinvention of theworld - Google Search

2005-08-08 Thread M.Blackmore
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:41 -0400, Ed Weick wrote: I've read about half of J.R. Saul's book. I doubt that I'll finish it, partly because I never finish books but also because I don't like the tone of it. It's from too far above, too righteous, too scolding. In what I've read, there were too

[Futurework] Mortgaging the Future

2005-08-08 Thread Karen Watters Cole
Several items on a general theme about chasing and losing the American dream, which is much more than real estate, but in the Bush voodoo economy, home ownership has been the last bastion of economic security and sense of stability for the working classes. KwC A Sharecropper's Society?

Re: [Futurework] Free Trade in Viruses

2005-08-08 Thread Darryl and Natalia
Hi Chris. Yes, I know. This was something that I stated to the list over a year ago from my work out east. I guess the point I wanted to make is that a greater % of livestock will go down due to the, as you point out, the problem is modern economic extremism. I cannot even think of the farming

Re: [Futurework] The collapse of globalism and the reinvention oftheworld - Google Search

2005-08-08 Thread Ed Weick
I'd suggest that there are many books on globalism, but the one I was referring to was J. Ralston Saul's "The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World" published this year. Hutton refers to it as follows: As for globalization, it is not as irresistible as portrayed in the

[Futurework] Globalisation is an anomaly

2005-08-08 Thread Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
From Karen's Casey Report. Comment Globalisation is an anomaly and its time is running out Cheap energy and relative peace helped create a false doctrine James Howard Kunstler Thursday August 4, 2005 Guardian The big yammer these days in the United States is to the effect that

RE: [Futurework] The collapse of globalism and the reinventionoftheworld - Google Search

2005-08-08 Thread Lawrence deBivort
Greetings, everyone, Another book well worth pondering is Clyde Prestowitzs THREE BILLION NEW CAPILATISTS. Separately, I will suggest that globalization is irreversible, but the question is: What kind of globalization? It probably wont be the kind the US wants, but the US is becoming