Two from Harvard Business Working Knowledge weekly newsletter:
Chinese premier promotes ties to US @
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3833t=globalization
Women leaders and organizational change @ http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3796t=organizations
The national
media made much of the disorientation Saddam reportedly displayed when he was
removed from the dugout; one reported that he had hit his head, another
mentioned that in the year before the war he was not really involved in daily
dictatorship and more interested in the long
Here is the
beginning of a weekend magazine article on consumerism though I wasnt sure if it
was more appropriate for the Virginia Postrel post today. Its worth reading through this to get
to the capuchin monkeys.
Also note references
to the cult of workaholism, competitive
consumerism
Probably the unhappiest groups today are those companies who havent
yet inked their Iraq contracts, worried about international competitors.
In the Arab world and elsewhere, there will be someone else who will
arise to stand up to America as those who expressed regret for his capture
We have
not seen an broadcast or announcement from the White House yet, although one should be forthcoming. Since Bush heard
from Condi at 5am it was confirmed and aides rushed in early, they may be
waiting to preempt Sunday news shows. Bush cancelled plans to go to church just
across the
Here is another piece of Women On
The Rise journalism, with an imposing date. Relax, just ovaries are mentioned this
time. - KWC
Women Will Have to Save the World
Marlene Nadle, Pacific News Service, September 11, 2003
President Bush may not face much opposition in Congress to his
Agree, Ray. I
dont even think saving the world is possible, but improving it is.
If we align
ourselves as coalitions around issues, we have short term results. We need a
movement, broadly based, perhaps a Second Revolution.
Mostly I
wanted other FWers who might have an interest to see
Ray, not all who marched in the 60s are on the Right now. Like you, I do
not respect those who opposed something in their youth just to 'go to the
other side' as working adults IF they did so for superficial reasons like
voting with their pocketbook or preferring to socialize with the rich
instead
Conservative
columnist George Will warns about overreaching to establish democracy in Iraq by
comparing notes as Keith has recently about Northern Ireland. But he spends
most of his space here describing Putinisms
dark side.
If we are
comparing, maybe he could also write a column about
Keith, responding
to your comment about the likelihood of a massacre under the present troop
deployment ratio, the Army has been criticized in some quarters for its
heavy-handed tactics. Its also come to our attention that the Israelis have
trained some US troops at Ft Bragg, that some of
Bravo, Ed. Personally,
I see you as a philosopher with a sense of humor, given to occasional rants. Seems like good magic to me. - KWC
EW
wrote: Thanks,
Ray, but I'm not that good. I don't hold, or care to hold, political
office, and I'm aging. But in my opinion, one of the great
Dated for
Saturday, posted 121203 online at 8:37 pm ET @ http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/13/international/middleeast/13MIDE.html?hp
Likud Debate: A
Palestinian State to Save Israel
By JAMES BENNET, NYT, December 13, 2003
JERUSALEM, Dec. 12 In this place that often
Now I dont
want anyone to take this personally, but after it was mentioned here that we eventually
wanted to attract more young minds to FW and the creative process we enjoy here,
I mischievously had to share this, passed on to me from PlanetArk but
originally posted at Reuters. - KWC
Given the House and soon the Senate may pass an omnibus budget bill that
fiscal conservatives are fuming about because of the federal deficit and our budgetary
imbalances, this item summarized by yours truly from The Oregonian front page, below the fold, seemed a tad unjust
and surreal,
U.S. Bars Iraq
Contracts for Nations That Opposed War
By Douglas Jehl, NYT, December 9, 2003, 4:22 pm ET
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 The Pentagon has barred French, German
and Russian companies from competing for $18.6 billion in contracts for the
reconstruction of Iraq, saying
SS
wrote: When Jane Fonda says ---
Because we can't just talk about women being at the table - it's too late
for that - we have to think in terms of the shape of the table. Is it
hierarchical or circular (metaphorically speaking)? We have to think about the quality
of the men who are with
Ray, thanks
for posting Samuelsons piece on polarization. I agree with several of his
points about manipulating public perception, but wish that he had found a
source newer than 1999 (Wolfe, One Nation,
After All) that cited
more than just middle class families. Much has changed since
From Asia
Times @ http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page.html
CHINA
ON THE MOVE
No reason to frighten the analysts
Concerns over China's economy are preoccupying analysts all over
the world. Samuel Baker toured the
country recently and found that visions of disaster are overblown.
Sound
familiar? In case you missed this.
- KWC
Who Wins and Who Loses as Jobs Move Overseas?
By Erika Kinetz, NYT, Business, December 7, 2003
The outsourcing of jobs to China and India is not new, but
lately it has earned a chilling new adjective: professional.
There arent any real surprises here except, whos saying
it and perhaps, the second and third recommendations below, in bold:
Quote: In nation-building, Mr. Dobbins and his
Rand colleagues have concluded that larger peacekeeping forces are better than smaller
ones. Not only do small
Three from Center
for American Progress, Dec. 05, 2003.
COAL IN THE STOCKINGS: With only
twenty shopping days left until Christmas, disappointing retail sales have
suggested to many analysts that this shopping season may not be as good
as some retailers hoped a month or two ago. And the
Currently, the
big money man the Bush2 loyalists love to hate, George Soros pens commentary on
Bush foreign policy. I am
excerpting here from about midpoint in this essay, which appears in the current
issue of The Atlantic Monthly. You
will see some familiar phrases here. - KWC
The
Good morning,
Ed.
Are you
suggesting that historical precedence and overwhelming power (might makes
right?) means that dissent is inconsequential?
Let us not turn
a blind eye to what is wrong just because we cannot stop it for the moment.
Perhaps in
addition to security,
KH
wrote re: Bush state visit with the Queen: It was a
disaster. But Bush got his photos with the Queen. That's what the trip was
planned for 18 months ago long before the invasion was planned and that's what
he got. The rest was humiliation, but Bush is so thankful that Blair -- his
only
Ed, I agree
with you that now that we are there we have the devil of a problem. But the point is the war profiteering contracts
can be stopped now.
If Bush2 can
reverse course on which comes first, an unstable govt and elections or a
stabilizing but unpopular occupation, then they can
Besides the two excellent articles that EW posted this weekend challenging
assumptions about unemployment and productivity, this one also appeared in the
NYT. It refers to a report by an Office of Tax Policy Research at the Univ
of Michigan @ http://www.otpr.org/: How much
of a stimulus
Keith, I
assume the garden has room for that koi pond you wanted. The aviary sounds interesting, only Id
suggest keeping that long beard of yours trimmed before inviting small birds to
cohabitate with you.
Now since youve
made it sound so delightful and quaintly British the way we
Too bad they missed the
opportunity to release these before Ramadan, but am cynically thinking it has
more to do with the US holiday season and the election campaign. A politically propitious time may have
a lot to do with how the rust belt states react to news pending of Bushs
reversal of
Dear Arthur, I
must say I would have written the last sentence differently myself, repeating
the title and finishing the political theme, V is for Volcana, vote and
victory.
But I dont
think this can be called male bashing, if for no other reason than she did
express the conviction that
Here are links
to two projects referenced in the original speech.
http://www.thewhitehouseproject.org/
http://www.vday.org/
Bon nuit, mes
amis.
Whether or not
Bush and Jack Straw were in country to secretly negotiate with the
influential religious leader or not, there is no controlling the free press. I
found the three citations from conservative papers in Spain a bit surprising. Also the Israeli paper.
Okay. So where
is that list of good boys and girls anyway?
Also see at
this website, Asia's Consumer Revolution Deepens
Asia Times November
22, 2003
Impact of declining US capital inflows
By Hussain Khan
TOKYO - The wide range of declining currency inflows into numerous types of
Posted in red
and white above each of the customer copiers at Office Depot,
suburbs of
Portland, Oregon, first noticed Sunday pm Nov 23, 2003:
NOTICE TO OUR CUSTOMERS
During this time of national emergency we will report any and all
suspicious or questionable activity
Heres a
thought for a Monday morning, from another list, shared with me and then to
you.
This seems to
reinforce that a computer and cell phone are not status goods but part of a master-slave relationship.
We have the
Consumption Economy, The New Economy, The Restorative Economy, The
Found this in the OpEd pages of the Washington Post. Challenges a few myths. - KWC
Quote: In
his comprehensive book Not-God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous,
Ernest Kurtz notes that two conflicting impulses have been internalized in
Western cultures -- Enlightenment secularism and its
dont you
have to take challenge the myths, of prosperity, of the bootstrap, of a secure
middle-class?
A New Kind Of Poverty
Anna Quindlen in Newsweek, Dec 1st
issue
Winter flits in and
out of New York City in the late fall, hitching a ride on the wind that whips
the Hudson River. One
Id like to
add a few comments on fundamentalism, the USA version 2003.
Cheney and
Rumsfeld et al are
fundamentalists in regard to an absolutist worldview. They may not share the same spiritual
values and social commonalities with the religious fundamentalists but they are
symbiotic to
REH wrote: In Keith we had the UK version of conservative thought about
marriage while here is the American version. Although I disagree
with Keith's math analogy. (You could make the case that any
group that is not in the majority is somehow unnatural using his
theory.) I do agree more
Another victim
of the Bush tax cuts and foolish myopia. KWC
NYT Editorial:
November 22, 2003
Save
the Conservation Security Program
In the debacle of last year's farm bill, a few programs
emerged that had both common sense and innovation behind them. One that
7,000 US troops wounded in the Iraq War so far. Being charged $8/day
for their food while in hospital?
In the US of A?
Theres a new article about the new
swing voter the military as more military families question the
strategy and competence of the Pentagon under Bush2. Hearing Bush
Keith, Baker makes a good point and Ive seen this argument before,
that as much noise and ballast as they create, the orthodox agenda has not been
very successful in terms of enacted legislation or actually changed that much
on the political scorecard yet.
As we know from other
Following Brian's posting from Greider's The Soul of Capitalism, I thought
some of you might be interested in this broadcast notice.
Have we already discussed Louis Kelso's work on ESOPs?
http://www.cesj.org/binaryeconomics/kelsovision.htm
A QUESTION OF FAIRNESS: A NOW with Bill Moyers Special
As others have
discoursed here, there is a human need to put a face on an enemy. In these
particularly uncertain times, the answer is all too simple for many: identify
an enemy and focus all misbegotten confusion, failure and anger on him/it. This
includes otherwise decent folk,
Some of you may already know about this. If you dont, please check it out.
I cant take credit for this web discovery, but I am passing it along
because I think you will like this idea.
Creative Commons @ http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/
You will need speakers. 1.5 Mb Flash
1. Portal For Nonprofits
Two years ago, multimillionaire Arthur A. Bushkin paid $15 million to create an
Internet portal called StargazerNet, and used it to offer nonprofit organizations a free way of networking,
conducting online chats among offices, and organizing their data. Yet today
Something here we all recognize and are familiar with, and
yet, isnt it frustrating that the POTUS and his support staff have had such a difficult time articulating a vision and
strategy? Could that be because
they embraced militarization as a primary method and have just now learned its
Yes, I
remember something as recently as this summer at 1.1 or 1.2 to 3.1. Does that sound right?
Karen,
Thanks for the reference. What I remember
from basic economics was that military spending does not have the same
multiplier effect as does domestic spending.
Bill
See NOW
Personally, I was relieved to hear a better speech than
usual from Bush, making good use of semantics designed to revitalize the disgruntled
taxpayer. As we enter the holiday
season, what could be more effective with voters than appealing to a higher
mission and raising the spirit of
As Russell Baker noted
in his review of Krugmans book, The Great Unraveling, the trouble with Krugman
as a critic of Bush2 policy is that he actually knows what he is talking about,
unlike most pundits on Economics. KWC
The
Sweet Spot
By Paul Krugman, NYT, October 17, 2003 @
Thanks for
sharing the SF Chronicle article about Wal-Marts shenanigans in obtaining
signatures for ballots, Robert. - KWC
Heres the
beginning of another article, too long to drop in here, but also contains other
details, including making the point that WalMartization has contributed to
While chopping
veggies for a soup to ward off early winter weather in the Pacific Northwest
and the first round of winter colds, I heard a tribute to now-deceased Sen.
Mike Mansfield by the author of a new book about him, and was startled that I
had failed to mention him recently as a man
Keith, while I
dont disagree with your speculations below about prospective warfare plans, its
entirely possible that strategists are reacting to the politically risky
dependence upon Reserve and Guard units to supplement active duty forces. If a draft is reinstated but only calls
up
Karen
We even need irascible opponents, like Thurmond was, to bring color
and individuality to politics so that the general public can see somebody like themselves up there
representing them and not feel distanced or awed by the process that in truth
is operating everyday in their name.
Im adding a
section from the transcript excerpted below, discussing Employee Stock Ownership
Plans. For those interested, please
note the question from San Diego, and the summary remarks. - KWC
Leadership for
a Changing World website info below.
Minneapolis
Can you describe the
See NOW
segment @ http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/defensedollars.html with sources listed at the
bottom of the page.
I wonder how
much of the US growth was military driven.
Bill
I wonder how much of the US growth was military driven.
Bill
Bill, I found it right
after sending you that clearinghouse link. Different writer here.
Cant wait to see the Q3 numbers.
And while thinking about
more money, less accountability, check out the National Priorities
One of the unfortunate
similarities, perhaps, between Vietnam and the current conditions in Iraq is
that troop morale and incidences of increasing hostile acts are leading to
atrocities. For all concerned, let
us hope this does not continue.
Even if just half of these stories trickling out
Keith, combined neighborhood office centers are
already being implemented in small communities and suburbs as part of the redevelopment
industry, wherein small pieces of real estate are converted as you envision, to
lease on a temporary basis, bring revenue and enhancing property values
Following that
last little poison pen mention of the Bush2 global-corporate policy Ooops! -
I meant to say global foreign policy, heres another example of cronyism. We already have a surplus of suspicion
about US preemptive policy and governing agendas. Shouldnt the laws of supply and
Followed from
sojo.net to Orion, found: an excellent article about civil community and
activist groups, local municipalities standing up to corporate personhood
lawsuits, and the applications that citizens can take from these practical
lessons opposing international trade agreements (GATT
See HR 2239 @
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/webreturn/?url=http://holt.house.gov
I consider this the one most important we are facing in this country today;
of course every country that holds elections will be facing the same issue
sooner or later.
Selma
- Original Message -
Sent:
And bolded
here are the hot issues, imho, you will see repeated for Campaign 2004:
The final size of the bill was $87,543,098,000, an amount larger than the annual budgets of seven
cabinet departments. All the money will be added to the year's record budget deficit. The bulk of the bill
And note
the alumni list to the right on this page you provide but also check the names
at About CSIS (private, nonpartisan, tax exempt)
Just on a
hunch, I went to my research files to see if he was a signer on the PNAC*
letters to Clinton and Bush setting the precedent for Bush2
While in orbit this week:
1.
Smaller galaxy being torn apart by much larger Milky Way @ http://www.msnbc.com/news/988973.asp?0cv=CB20
Also see Space.com
2.
Harvard Business Schools
online Working Knowledge, has a new webpage,
Entrepreneurs in their own words
@
Add this from the Practical Futurist blog at msnbc:
I suspect we students of the cyberworld are getting a distant early warning
of a potential electoral disaster that could make hanging chads look
trivial. Newsweek's Steven Levy wrote about the gathering storm around
electronic voting systems
Again, 55,000 jobs added per month is still a loss. Until
100,000 jobs are added each month consecutively, we still have a jobless
recovery.
Also see Economic Policy Institutes Job Watch @ http://www.jobwatch.org/ and
GDP Picture @
Blueprint for a Mess, The New
York Times Magazine (2 November 2003) by David Rieff
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/magazine/02IRAQ.html
Its been
another busy FW weekend. Stephen
Straker posted Rieffs work on Saturday with a succinct note. I made a go at responding late Sunday
And possibly
this seems so because we have been conditioned to look for them as such.
For
example, the wildfires in S. California no doubt remind those absolutely
convinced of that persuasion that it will not be a flood this time, but fire
that destroys the earth. There are
plenty of
Yes,
absolutely, and here is just another indication of how it divides and why we
must pursue a peaceful resolution:
Poll controversy as Israel and US labelled biggest
threats to World peace - 30.10.2003 - 17:41
A Friend To the Other Israel
By Yoel
Esteron, Washington Post OpEd, Monday, November 3, 2003; Page A19
The writer is managing editor of the Israeli newspaper
Haaretz
TEL AVIV -- Was it
only a bad dream? Just seven months ago, my girls, the grandchildren of
Holocaust survivors who
Ray, I can
only speak from my observations and proximity to those who believe that Armageddon
is approaching and is the only way to obtain the any peace on earth: they subscribe
to a victor and the defeated, who should be converted before they die in hell.
I hesitate
to generalize
Repeating
what other colonial powers have done in times past, instituting policies or
systems not possible to do on the home front, the US imposes a flat tax on Iraq
that might be the equivalent of a Superbowl ad: great marketing for a huge
audience. KWC
U.S. Administrator Imposes Flat
The article further quotes Commerce Sec. Evans
endorsing Russias flat tax at the Heritage Foundation and President Bush, in Russia last year to
see President Vladimir Putin, said: The good news is that the flat tax in
Russia is a good, fair tax -- much more fair, by the way, than many
Dimitri Simes of The Nixon Center was just on CSpan this
morning being interviewed on a number of topics covering Russia and confirmed that
Khodorkovsky may have political ambitions. He said that Putin cannot run for reelection next time, the
implication is that K. has to be taken out of
Stephen, I just finished reading this. Thanks for
posting it. It covers the
chronology of the planning process quite well, and though it is critical of the
Pentagon and White House, does not subscribe to conspiracy theories for
motives. I would concur that the
section on neglecting ORHA
Let me also
suggest Benjamins Rumsfelds Folly in Slate @ http://slate.msn.com/id/2090529/
and
Friedmans End
of the West?, in todays NYT @ http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/opinion/02FRIE.html.
From Rumsfelds folly: As foreign fighters pour into Iraq to
attack U.S. troops and undermine
Ed, the
CSM agrees with you.
Kremlins
corporate seizure a war of elites @ http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1031/p01s03-woeu.html
Until now, Putin has
apparently kept the two conflicting Kremlin clans in check by playing one off
the other. But the likely departure of Putin's chief of staff,
Bush Ignores
Soldiers' Burials
By Christopher Scheer, AlterNet, October 30, 2003
On Monday and Tuesday,
amid the suicide bombing carnage that left at least 34 Iraqis dead, three more
U.S. servicemen were killed in combat in Iraq. In the coming days their bodies
will be boxed up and sent
Based on prior
conversations on the list, this should be of interest. Also nice to know that TV reruns can be
health educational material. See
below. KWC
U.S. National Academy
of Sciences Institute of Medicine (IOM) Annual Meeting 2003
http://www.iom.edu/event.asp?id=10244
THE SCIENTIST
Gleaned from
an abundance of interesting items at Public Education Network newsweekly: www.publiceducation.org
Schools With Poor, Minority Students Get
Less State Funds
School districts in Illinois and New York that have large
numbers of poor students get some $2,200 less in state and
Ed, Harry, these
are good comments about the nature of politicians and the publics often naïve expectations
about them and by extension, government.
There are
still politicians with principles around, and Sen. Bobby Byrd comes quickly to
mind, as irascible as he can be. The trouble
Just in time for Halloween - Mark Fiores animated Energy Bill @ http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/fiore/
Please,
Arthur, lets not use the word hero with anyone in politics today. Im a great believer in mythological
heroes, some military heroes, sports heroes, and especially fire fighters,
police, medical and science research heroes, and everyday heroes.
Yes, Byrd has
a colored past, as do
After an
offline query, Id like to clarify something from my last post, in which I
detailed that Sen. Ron Wyden is a Jew, but did not mention religious
affiliation of any of the other names.
The short answer is that I am familiar with Wyden, but not the others mentioned.
In a very
Arthur, I love it that pundit comes from Sanskrit.
Following the trail of one of the quotes below, here is a link to Russell
Baker's New York Review of Books comments re: Paul Krugman's book, The Great
Unraveling: Losing our way in the New Century. IMHO, Baker is himself a
pundit and commentator
Another
reason to be thankful for FW and our predominately spirited exchange of ideas
and information with opinion and learning.
Up in Heaven, Alexander the Great, Frederick the Great and Napoleon
are looking down on events in Iraq. Alexander says, Wow, if I had just
one of Bush's
Somedays, it
is really difficult to be a Pollyanna and believe and hope that people will tap
into their better natures, and evolve towards more positive ways of living with
each other. It doesnt have to be
enlightenment or an utopian state, just better, moving progressively forward
Last in a series. Now mind
you, I am not trying to persecute Christians, many of them believe everyone is right
now, but I am pursuing with journalistic vigor and from personal background
something that I feel grabs people much more passionately than economics and most
policy in the
appears.
The variable might be freq. of
intercourse with the gender of the child being the dependent variable.
arthur
-Original Message-
From: Karen Watters Cole
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003
11:20 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Futurework] Blue Monday
While I am not
denigrating by any means the validity of the human rights issues and the moral
values it derives from, I offer this piece as another example of catering to
one segment of your voter base, while rebuffing others. - . KWC
Open Door Policy
Bumiller: Evangelicals Sway White
The
Globalist: For global citizens. By global citizens. @ http://www.theglobalist.com/
From its mission statement: Our
core editorial belief is that now more than ever, people everywhere are seeking
a better understanding of what connects and divides nations and societies,
economies and
I guess,
Harry, the shortest and sweetest reply I can give you is that many of us are
interested in more than the cheapest price and just the bottom line in our
choices.
By the
way, I think retail cannibalism refers to saturating a market area even if it
means cannibalizing customer
This news
item ties in nicely to the NOW with Bill Moyers report on low wages at Tyson
Foods and other labor issues that Arthur alerted us to yesterday via FW. Tyson also was raided and charged with
knowingly hiring illegals, and two executives plead guilty, fines were
paid. Wal Mart
Some of you may have seen this but given its appearance on the list, I
thought Id forward yet another item of interest:
Iraqs Oil: assessing the potential
Amy Jaffe, the senior energy adviser for the James A. Baker Institute
for Public Policy at Rice University; Yasser Elguindi,
Please see the Christian Science Monitors
Daily Update, October 22, 2003 for the rest of this:
links are live
Israeli strikes launch debate about civilian casualties @ http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/sept11/dailyUpdate.html
Reuters reports that recent strikes by Israeli forces
in Gaza,
There is an old sales adage, undersell, overdeliver.
This works well when you are promising something on deadline. Maybe not so
well in global foreign politics, because it leaves less room for failure.
See below.
- KWC
Diplomatic Diary: Richard Wolffe
Virtual Reality: George W. Bush's political
Thanks, Bill.
For others who didnt explore the rest of the
CSM report, heres more, which gives a bigger picture of the current debate
about the ineffectiveness of current policies. Even if the Peoples Peace Plan does not do anything more
than gather more signatures, it raises the level
in the
coming months. This is not just about collecting weapons. It is about
turning people into permanently employable individuals. (end of excerpts)
***
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:58:36 -0700 Karen Watters Cole
[EMAIL PROTECTED
I see that cousin Ray is
posting items reflecting the coming Cultural War in the US. Heres my
contribution to the same subject.
Newsweeks Fineman writes
that Bush2 will not fire Lt. General Boykin, who has made Christian Zionist
inflammatory remarks about Islam, linking the war on
Following
on that theme of more people feeling stressed due to the disconnect and rush of
life:
See Take
Back Your Life Day/Week @ http://www.education.umn.edu/WCFE/FE/ParentEd/TBYFT.html
and
Parents Reconsider Kids Over-Controlled Lives @
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