The point about yesterday’s piece was not so much about radiation and bombs, but the fragility of our society.
In the interconnectedness of our world, people and places have become specialized. Transportation and manufacturing and finance have their centers and are concentrated at places like Rotterdam and Shanghai and New York. Even more, the world has [...]
Category Archive for 'Economy'
A Radiological Apocalypse
Posted in America, Economy, Environment, Russia, Terrorism, The U.N. on Jun 28th, 2007
I tend to be the collector of obscure facts.
Such as the five percent rule for drug smuggling. The rule is that you only catch five percent of all the drugs smuggled across your border. Sometimes you get more. Sometimes you get less, but generally you only get five percent.
In other countries, like Russia, it’s actually [...]
Think About Giving
Posted in Economy, Personal Notes, Poverty, Society on Mar 2nd, 2007
Too many of us don’t want to know.
Myself included.
We don’t want to know about situations that would make us spend money or time. We DON’T want to know anything that would encourage us to change our lives into something less comfortable.
How many of you think first about yourself when you see an increase in income? When [...]
Ahmadinejad has had a setback. I know that you are upset by this, and believe me. I feel your pain.
Local council elections in Iran have sent a message to the Iranian president that he needs to straighten up and fly right (or, at least a bit more to the left).
True, local council elections don’t have [...]
People routinely think that Israel gets off easy in conflicts like this. They think that the lower body count on the Israel side of the border is the end of the story.
It’s not - and Hizbollah knows this.
This is a much bigger story than can fit in a single blog entry, so I’ll talk about [...]