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• Gawker Book Club: "Global Capitalism Has, At Present, No Better Ambassador Than David Beckham"

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:20 pm

  Tags: Becks, Books, Gawker Book Club, Ghetto Chavulous, Global Capitalism, Posh, Victoria Beckham

  How very, very wrong we were to dismiss insanely prolific celebrity biographer Andrew Morton's "Posh and Becks" out of hand! It turns out that the book contains a trenchant critique, not only of the...

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• Late Capitalism: How To Outsource Your Pregnancy To India, Brought To You By 'Marie Claire'

  Published: July 30, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: End Times, Gawker, Late Capitalism, Marie Claire, Top

  Because our skills are so very very unique and, as globalization fanboy Tom Friedman would say, "untouchable," we didn't really worry about career competition from the, you know, caste of characters... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• World Economic Style.com Forum: Is America Too Powerful? Style.com's Greatest Minds Debate

  Published: August 3, 2007, 6:20 pm

  Tags: Conde Nast, Late Capitalism, Style Com, Wonkette, World Economic Style Com Forum

  Style.com is the internet portal for Vogue and W magazines, which is why its message boards mostly concern favorite models and how Allegra Versace is actually very healthy. But when active poster... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Fire In The Hole: Drive-Thru Pranks Flooding YouTube

  Published: August 9, 2007, 3:40 pm

  Tags: Clips, Fire In The Hole, Kids Today, Kind Of Hilarious Kind Of Awful, The Death Throes Of Late Capitalism, What S Wrong America

  newVideoPlayer("soda_throw_gawker.flv", 475, 376); NBC News blows the lid off the depravity on YouTube. No, not swinger housewives gone wild: There's a rash of videos being uploaded of kids tossing...

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• Greed (Part One)

  Published: August 12, 2007, 2:52 pm

  Tags: General, Videos, Culture, Libertarian, Capitalism

  John Stossel explains that self-interest is not always a bad thing: Tags: Greed, video, Stossel in the classroom

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• Outing BP

  Published: August 29, 2007, 7:14 am

  Tags: Scandal, Corporations, Oil, Criminal Capitalism, Energy, Corporate Crime, Kyoto, Environment, Homosexuality, Ceo, White Collar Crime, Big Oil

  A scandal occurred this spring when the British CEO of BP, British Petroleum, the British petrol giant which branded itself as green; Beyond Petroleum 'its a start', Lord Browne was outed for being gay, and supposedly lying about it in court.The reality is that his resignation had less to do with covering up his homosexuality then covering for

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• Industrial Ecology

  Published: September 3, 2007, 7:42 am

  Tags: Soial Ecology, Kyoto, Environment, Fordism, Automation, Industrial Ecology, Ecology, Green, Capitalism, Bio Fuels

  environmental impacts of capitalism, and we can reduce them through Industrial Ecology. In fact that was how industrial capitalism boomed during WWII, it reduced, reused and recycled. The fact is that capitalism needs to adapt, or die. Thus IE is a closed loop system based on biology and ecology. While technology continues to adapt itself in

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• Sub Prime Exploitation

  Published: September 5, 2007, 10:01 am

  Tags: Housing Bubble, Depression, Banks, Wall Street, Mortgages, Housing, Working Class, Enron, Capitalism, Economy

  like under modern casino capitalism. It is the Enron moment for the mortgage industry.The White House announcement of a Mortgage forgiveness program, after the Fed bailed out the financial markets, is too little too late. Latinos and African-Americans who bought homes or refinanced mortgages in the San Jose metropolitan area last year were

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• Canadian Banks and The Great Depression

  Published: September 5, 2007, 9:38 am

  Tags: Housing Bubble, Depression, Banks, Wall Street, Mortgages, Housing, Bank Of Canada, Capitalism, Economy

  I found this informative post at Market Oracle which made reference to a little known fact about how Banks in Canada and the U.S. faired differently during the great depression.The comments from Market Oracle about Americas current Housing Bubble crash, once again remind us that American Exceptionalism includes massive market failures due to

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• Farmer John's Robot

  Published: September 7, 2007, 7:49 am

  Tags: Cyborg, Farm Workers, Mechanization, Marx, Robot, Migrant Workers, Migrants, Agribusiness, Migrant, Metropol, Capitalism, Farming

  As I wrote in Gothic Capitalism; "the term Robot first appears in the Czechoslovakian science fiction novel/play; R U R (1920) aka Rossum's Universal Robots by Karl Capek. Robot is shortened form of the Russian word for worker, robotnichki, it also refers to work or drudgery."Like that done by migrant workers.Because of the immigration

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• P3 Myth Busting

  Published: September 7, 2007, 5:35 am

  Tags: Public Space, Ed Stelmach, State Capitalism, Alberta, Reinventing Government, Public Private Partnerships

  Dismissing an independent study on P3's the Alberta Government says it has studied P3's and gives them the big thumbs up.A landmark study of private-public partnerships around the globe concludes they don't save taxpayers money, undermine democracy and hurt small business even as Alberta is making P3s a key component of its long-term plans.

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• Goat sacrifice and frequent flyer miles

  Published: September 7, 2007, 3:02 pm

  Tags: Hinduism, Capitalism

  Whenever I am in need of a post topic, I visit my friend the Bible Belt Blogger and he fills me up, today with a BBC story about how an Indian airline was chopping off goat heads to appease the gods. The BBB says:This may be the first time that goats have died to prevent Boeing 757s from experiencing mechanical difficulties. However, I've read

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• The Shock Doctrine & A Sliver of Hope

  Published: September 11, 2007, 4:26 pm

  Tags: Gwot, Disaster, Capitalism, Activism, Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, Taxes, Terrorism, Petraeus, Surge, 9 11

  “There is enormous inertia a tyranny of the status quo in private and especially governmental arrangements. Only a crisis actual or perceived produces real change.”- Milton Friedman (originally posted 09/07.07 at bastard.logic) Regarding the (now-report-free) Petraeus report, and the timing of its delivery to Congress (ie,

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• 'How a Muslim billionaire thrives in Hindu India'

  Published: September 12, 2007, 4:40 pm

  Tags: Islam, Assimilation, Hinduism, Capitalism

  BANGALORE, India -- The world's richest Muslim entrepreneur defies conventional wisdom about Islamic tycoons: He doesn't hail from the Persian Gulf, he didn't make his money in petroleum, and he definitely doesn't wear his faith on his sleeve.A native of Mumbai, Azim Premji has tapped India's abundant engineering talent to transform a family

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• Freegans: dumpster diving for food

  Published: September 13, 2007, 10:33 am

  Tags: Capitalism, Consumerism, Dumpster Diving, Dumpsterdiving, Eating, Food, Free Food, Freefood, Freegan, Groceries, Grocery, Shopping

  have chosen to opt out of capitalism by living off the waste of others. People like Madeline Nelson, who used to work as a corporate executive and is now a Freegan living off her savings and shopping in dumpsters. "We're doing something that is really socially unacceptable," Nelson said. "Not everyone is going to do it, but we hope it leads

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