6 posts tagged “politics”
wouldn't it be cool if the US would stop accepting the billion dollars or so a day that china invests in us, refusing to trade until it gives up it's wait-until-he-dies approach to tibet ???
"Interest in the case went beyond the art world because of tensions between Paris and Beijing over French President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to meet the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, whom Beijing considers a separatist.
Berge had offered to hand over the sculptures, valued at 8-10 million euros each, if China agreed to guarantee human rights and allow the Dalai Lama back into Tibet. The Dalai Lama says he only wants greater autonomy for the region."
all info here.
update: [from shangai blog]. over 90 percent of chinese peeps wanna ban christies from their country. yikes. how many want to free tibet i wonder?
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked."
is apparently the socialization of private debt.
as Americans, we effectively just each paid
$282.26
while while we were having dinner tonight.
to buy common stock in a failing corporation.
at least send us stock certificates with our tax forms ?!?
this is in addition to bear sterns et all... what is the per person tally of this wall street heist? 1200 ? 1700?
what is the per capita cost for iraq ? $5,000 ? more ? oh my. $9 962.15
what is the per capita cost of our national debt? wow. $29 886.44
what is the existential cost to humanity of a society formed from The Enlightenment going so very horribly wrong, and so very quickly ?
amortized over the life of the universe, effectively zero.
in summary - each american owes $40,000.
to whom? china? unborn children? god?
creationist fundamentalist bitches, take note:
the true original sin is the economic legacy of your voting record.
american politics are so BORING. War, religion, inequality, the fall of an empire in slow motion.
yawn.
meanwhile across the pond...
sarkozy was fascinating enough when a famous author & playright tailed him for a novel. [that would NEVER happen in the US !]
then, soon into office, he goes and marries an aristocratic ex-fashion model gone pop star (she was #1 in charts in 2003).
now, the french 1st lady is putting out a new album... and the lyrics of once song... "Tu es ma came," Bruni edifies her husband and his masculinity by comparing him to a drug:
"More lethal than Afghan heroin, more dangerous than Colombian white [cocaine]… My guy, I roll him up and smoke him." [source]
her guy, being The President.
wow !
and the press? no outrage, no misdirected tabloid love/hate... they're covering her like jackie O. they LOVE it.
this would NEVER happen in the states...
Not good enough for print, apparently - but they did put it online.
click here to read it on trib's site, or click 'comments' to read the full text.
They edited it oh so slightly. but it's probably for the better, as i wrote it at 4:30 am. ;)
update: arctor has chimed in with some infographics and electoral predictions.
