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• Multiculturalism as a process of globalisation

  
  1. MajorityRights.com (main blog) — Authority: 493
  “Generally speaking, the protectionist system today is conservative, whereas the Free Trade system has a destructive effect. It destroys the former nationalities, and renders the contrasts between workers and middle class more acute. In a word, the Free Trade system is precipitating the social revolution. And only ...
  14 hours ago

• Book review: Presenting 2nd generation Multi-Sited Ethnography

  
  antropologi.info - anthropology in the news blog — Authority: 114
  Tessa Valo has read another book for us: Multi-Sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis and Locality in Contemporary Research , edited by Mark-Anthony Falzon. It consists of 14 articles. Tessa Valo is currently planning a “multi-sited” fieldwork and has picked four articles that she considered most inspirational. ...
  2 days ago

• "Mother Nature doesnt do Bailouts"

  
  Globalisation and the Environment — Authority: 491
  Thomas Friedman is good. His book "flat earth" is a really excellent read. This column gets to the point. Never a truer word.... We have created a system for growth that depended on our building more and more stores to sell more and more stuff made in more and more factories in China, powered by more and more ...
  2 days ago

• The Obama Deception

  
  Real and "Informational" Bombs — Authority: 100
  Richard Moore is a former American software developer living in Ireland, whose analysis of the global picture is always most remarkable. Here’s his latest missive: The fascist takeover is being facilitated by a particular psy-ops strategy. The right-wing is being hyped up with all sorts of nonsense about Obama ...
  5 days ago

• The decline and fall of corporate culture?

  
  marcus westbury — Authority: 457
  THE dominant cultural form of the 20th century is starting to unravel. What was the dominant cultural form of the 20th century? There are plenty of candidates and no lack of ones that are allegedly under threat. Cinema? Rock music? The album? Radio? The four-minute single? Magazines? Newspapers? Television? ...
  6 days ago

• Buy Nothing Day (Bristol, Leeds...) - Steal Something Day (everywhere)

  
  Earth First! Action Reports - Direct action - no leaders - confront, stop & reverse the destruction of the earth — Authority: 132
  Bristol: To buy, or not to buy... Saturday November 28th is Buy Nothing Day (UK). Its a day where you challenge yourself, your family and friends to switch off from shopping and tune into life. The rules are simple, for 24 hours you will detox from shopping and anyone can take part provided they spend a day without ...
  1 week ago

• How Relocalization Worked

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  One of the most rarely used resources for relocalization projects is the fact that our species has been this way before -- the twilight years of many other civilizations featured the breakup of centralized economic arrangements and the rise of a new localism. Can insights from past examples offer us guidance in the ...
  1 week ago

• Where are we heading in “Modern” Health Services?

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 154
   Where are we heading in “Modern” Health Services ? Although I am aware that there are significant differences between health services in different countries -and in fact within the same country-; as health worker, we all share an underlying commonality to a certain degree. I am writing this article ...
  1 week ago

• China and the world - Nov 17

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  -Obama and Hu aim to agree greenhouse gas targets -Chinas empty city -Chinas Blunt Talk for Obama -Market cornered for rare minerals read more
  1 week ago

• Amway Business Opportunity: Cash Cow Or Dark Horse

  
  Cyber Flopping! — Authority: 147
  Amway Review Amway Inc was started by pals Jay Van Andel and Richard Devos in 1959 with an aim to sell FMCGs through distributors. Their first project, a multipurpose cleaner was accepted well by customers and this led to diversification in product range as well as globalisation. In a matter of 20 years, Amway had ...
  1 week ago

• Preparing for a warm winter in Copenhagen: A guide to the COP15 protests

  
  Earth First! Action Reports - Direct action - no leaders - confront, stop & reverse the destruction of the earth — Authority: 132
  This December the United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP15 will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark. Those organising the conference claim it aims to be a step towards the building of a ‘new global climate treaty’ in an attempt to tackle climate change. But many feel that this meeting is a sham, created to ...
  1 week ago

• Economics on the web

  
  IEA Blog — Authority: 126
  ●  Philip Booth argues in the FT that ethics alone will not stop financial crises   ●  Patrick Basham and John Luik explain why banning tobacco displays benefits the black market    ●  Art Carden asks whether drugs should be legal   ●  David Friedman examines corporate governance   ...
  1 week ago

• Reality check ...

  
  lefthandpalm — Authority: 408
  Today, at PaknSave, I treated Apprentice Demon 1 & 2 to a go on the kiddies dragon ride in the store. Obviously, much fun was had, for the minute or so that the dragon gyrated, flashed and growled. While they were squealing with glee at this, it occurred to me that the $2 I paid to activate it was worth about US$1 ...
  1 week ago

• For this I will endure midget seats, bad air and the unredeemed incompetence of customs officials everywhere

  
  The Wanderer — Authority: 562
  PJ O’Rourke, the acerbic American writer, was at a Kim Dae Jung political rally in South Korea when the kid standing in front of him bit off the tip of his finger and wrote “Kim Dae Jung” in blood on his white ski jacket. That was “the first time I ever felt like a foreign [...]Related posts: Libya: Ancient ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bangalore: Teething troubles on path to globalisation

  
  India: A billion aspirations — Authority: 415
  It has been a rather uneasy transition for Bangalore from “pensioner’s paradise” or “garden city” to the information technology capital of India. Longtime residents often complain of immigrants from other parts of the country ruining their paradise. Such complaints have been common in Mumbai, which has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Action at Mainshill: Tree felling stopped again in solidarity with communities

  
  Earth First! Action Reports - Direct action - no leaders - confront, stop & reverse the destruction of the earth — Authority: 132
  At 10:30 Tuesday morning (10/11/2009) activists from the Mainshill Solidarity Camp stopped a massive harvesting machine from working at the site, and one person locked-on to it by the neck. Work was stopped for 5 hours and the protestor who locked on will appear in Lanark court tomorrow. Today is the 14th ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Gesture from the Invisible Hand

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 623
  The claim that market forces will inevitably take care of energy shortfalls due to peak oil is common enough these days. Unfortunately for such optimistic notions, theres reason to think that in an environment of economic contraction caused by geological limits to energy, market forces may well push money away from ...
  2 weeks ago

• A still lower dollar could be good for the world

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  US workers are overpaid relative to equally productive foreigners. If the global economy is to get back into balance that gap needs closing.
  2 weeks ago

• Beijing First Impressions

  
  Fernando's Desk — Authority: 115
  Just spent four memorable days in Beijing. It was my first visit to the city and I was captivated. The city revealed itself to be disarmingly friendly and creative, quite unlike some of the portrayals I have heard from other travellers. In particular it was a delight to walk around some of the Hutong districts, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Libya: Ancient and modern under a layer of dust

  
  The Wanderer — Authority: 562
  Whew! Comms – which have been patchy on my Libyan travels – are up and running again. For a country that looks like it’s still half-built (unlike Egypt which looks like it’s half-unbuilt and going down, or so I’m told) Libya has pretty decent telecoms and infrastructure. Cellphones are ubiquitous and getting ...
  2 weeks ago

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