Monday, August 10, 2009

I was just at the cellphone store. There was a guy there looking at phones. I told him, don't buy Motorola, they support illegal settlements on the West Bank. He winced and bought a Motorola anyway, telling me he couldn't afford the other one. I just exchanged my old Motorola for a Samsung. Gotta say the motorola was easier to use.
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  1. anandAugust 10, 2009 at 1:32 PM

    Molly, Motorla, Nokia, Reserch in Motion, Samsung, Palm, LG, and Sony Ericsson all support illegal settlements on the West Bank.

    In fact it is hard to think of a single large American, European, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Canadian, or Singaporean technology company that does do substantial business with Israel. For that matter, many of the largest Latin American and African companies do business with Israel as well.

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  2. MaracatuAugust 10, 2009 at 2:49 PM

    I heard you say that we aren’t going to have a second Great Depression. What saved us?
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    The answer, basically, is Big Government.
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  3. vzaAugust 10, 2009 at 4:21 PM

    Very interesting article:

    A new breed of colonialism is rampaging across the world, with rich nations buying up the natural resources of developing countries that can ill afford to sell. Some staggering deals have already been done, says Paul Vallely, but angry locals are now trying to stop the landgrabs

    http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/wish-you-werent-here-the-devastating-effects-of-the-new-colonialists-1767725.html

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  4. vAugust 10, 2009 at 6:40 PM

    Nice "discovery" vza, here are some pertinent questions -

    The increased food aid has yet to have anything but momentary impact, in limited regions, on a fraction of the affected population. Pointing the finger at the growth of demand begs the question of the 'lack of supply', and the structural features (land tenure, profit seeking, ownership patterns and state-class relations), which shape it. Equally important, even where foodstuffs arrive at the market, they are priced out of reach for the majority of urban and rural workers, peasants and the unemployed. The supply-demand critics fail to apply a class analysis of the 'producers' who determine the price system (according to their oligopolistic market power and criteria for profits) and the consumers (informal and poorly paid formal workers with declining income). Capitalist farmers are in a position to protect and even increase their profits by passing added costs for inputs on to the weaker market power of the consumers, aided and abetted by the neo-liberal free market political regimes.

    The international loans, both official and commercial, and the structural changes, which accompanied them, led to the elimination of protective trade barriers in agriculture and manufacturing. As a result, there was a massive inflow of subsidized agricultural commodities from the US and the European Union, which destroyed small and medium size family farm producers of basic foodstuffs. The bankruptcy of food producers led to massive displacements of farmers and farm workers to the cities and the concentration of land in the hands of agro-business plantations owners who concentrated on growing crops for export.

    THE REAL REASON BEHIND FOOD RIOTS AROUND THE WORLD

    http://notinhisname.blogdrive.com/archive/cm-05_cy-2008_m-05_d-19_y-2008_o-0.html

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  5. vAugust 10, 2009 at 6:46 PM

    In other words vza, if it were left up to some (and believe me when I say people have given them the power to do this), they would do this -


    http://www.youtube.com/v/X8lT-Sn-HqE

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