War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Dude, lose the car. From USATodayTravel: University of Iowa sophomore Jimmy Novak didn’t let $3.50-a-gallon gasoline prices keep him from making a spring break pilgrimage to Daytona Beach, Fla., with his fraternity brothers last weekend. But the prospect of $50 fill-ups did alter his behavior: “We’re squeezing five people in a car to save money…
Don’t we all like surprises: In a move unexpected — after a visit just two weeks ago with the same crowd — US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will pop over to Germany today and then back to DC again for a quick few hours in way-deep discussions on “the global economic outlook and progress on…
As the protests across the US against GOP governmental operations — Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, and on and on — gain momentum against the budget-busting, don’t-give-a-shit attitude of right-wing politicans whose exploits fly in the face of a big chunk of America’s children, who can’t do much learning while hungry. From UPI: Two-thirds of U.S.…
A good, quick guide for keeping track; from CNNMoney: The spike in oil last week could translate to an increase in gas prices of 37 cents per gallon in the coming weeks, according Moody’s Analytics economist Chris Lafakis. He estimates that for every $1 increase in the price of oil, retail gas prices typically rise…
As life continues to unravel, peoples of my age have come to realize the lie of the so-called ‘Great American Dream‘ — the future looks like shit. From the Wall Street Journal on Saturday: The retirement savings plans that many baby boomers thought would see them through old age are falling short in many cases.…
Rare for me to be up this early on a Saturday, yet here I am at 4 AM peeking at a world seemingly gone mad as a hatter. The hourglass is empty The horsemen are prepared The hollow men are marching The wind is softly crying… A millstone’s falling from the sky The clouds are…
As events continue to dramatically unfold in Cairo’s Liberty Square, the US also persists in propping up other assholes around the world beyond Hosni Mubarak, who is clinging to power despite the last two weeks. The US hypocritically loves dictators while crying for democracy. And this bullshit slaps the face of the Egyptian protesters: As…
As the world watches revolutionary unrest spread across a big chunk of the Middle East, one of the most vital and festering problems leading the surge is eating — or not eating. In 1996, The World Food Summit defined food security as existing “when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious…
Egypt is a way-ancient land now exploding via extreme-modern media, but a good reason for all the unrest is as old as time — food. And a near-twist-a-flex attitude in the US, where prices are fairly stable, mainly because American consumers aren’t really paying much for the actual agriculture product. From a NPR report on rising…
The Brits feel the ugly pinch of wasted economics: The UK economy shrank by a shock 0.5% in the last quarter of 2010 as Britain’s recovery from recession faltered. … Economists said the first estimate of GDP for the last quarter was much worse than expected, and meant that Britain could now suffer a double-dip…