May 14 2013: I was glad he addressed Thorium, the speech was large scale with no mention of how many homes it would power I thought that was a miss, I think he somewhat undercuts natural gas but this is based on something I saw on Bloomberg's technology show this week which was natural gas fuel cells capable of powering three homes, a moving piston, but the energy market is opening up so fast methane hydrate -flammable ice, wind, solar, geo-thermal, methane, methanes big now for sewage treatment plants and dairies, which of course the biggest new source for energy is reduction of demand, unless maybe build one with a data storage center their energy demand is always growing. His cancer work should be emphasized over counter terrorism.
Apr 30 2013: Capitalism Communism both irrelevant. Macro-economics founded by John Maynard Keynes,Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. is a name to look up. On the modern free-market side you do have Friedrich Hayeck , and the Friedman but I bet they would still except basics of macro-economics.
Apr 24 2013: A country that is officially Communist is set to become the largest economy next decade. To some degree central planning is paying off. Is that Communism though? Well the answer is from where Communism comes from Jean Jacques Rousseau. The answer the serf's in France should not have a master but should reap and so communally. Completely irrelevant to the modern world in good part because of Communism, The Jacobin would have identified as Communist so to Napoleon to some extent they and Oliver Cromwell probably motivated Karl Marx's phrase the dictatorship of the proletariat. In it's first form Co-op's and farmers markets are practices of modern Communism and at some you may still find Communist propaganda. So that brings me to the second evolution of Communism that's your Marx and Engels did anyone read Das Kapital, no I didn't think so. The first chapter alright mirrors Wealth of Nations adds labor as determinant of the value of a commodity pulling it away from rarity which was basically the case in workshop labor because if it did take to much labor you just couldn't make it, with the advent of steam and the Bessemer process the range of things that could be produced by labor increased. As for the rest of it all I know is women are kind of looked on as property I think a negative effect of the industrial revolution undermining the women's status. Something I might Communist nations have done a lot to repair they where trend setters for giving women more rights though never really promoting them to the top job. Which was sort of the third phase of Communism. When Russia led a number of nations into Communism usually rapidly abolishing serfdom. Often improving train lines as an egalitarian means of transit. If you want to see what a functioning democratic western white Communism would look like look at Germany connected by high speed rail planned by the government as their involved in industry you have to be high tech power grids and capacity, transit,
Apr 12 2013: Cyrus, Darius, Caesar Augustus (Octavian), Claudius Augustus, Rabbi Moses Ben Maimonides (RaMBaM), maybe Uthman is that how you say the Caliph's name.
Apr 10 2013: I want to know who this guy is related too. Seriously we can surmise clan or tribe is an important factor in Afghanistan especially in the "tribal area's". It also ties to ownership the embroiderer wants her intellectual property rights or god forbid her daughter to have the household pattern. I'm taking an anthropology class right now it's important. Especially if they do practice a sort of endogamy where they're marrying third cousin so wealth accumulate's on family lines. It's not exactlly capitalism but he's talking about getting to something like 1400's Florence style on embroidery.
I want to hear the Pashtun side and the Northern Alliance whatever tribes they are great things with fish farming for their people. It's to bad they weren't ready for that finance minister to step up.
Apr 10 2013: Yesterday my teacher in anthropology class said that because people at the IMF and UN are political they emphasize high cost visible solutions. As Westerners they emphasize free market values and rules placed on loans such as where to buy with said loans. The result a landscape littered with complex broken down machinery and equipment. Say a guy comes along with a very affordable bicycle powered irrigation system they reject it, instead they sell tractors the people don't have processed gasoline or parts when it breaks down, bicycle easy to repair, tractor complex.
Simultaneously you have to say what is Cadbury doing what about DeBeers, Firestone. The companies that owned countries through commodities, forced capital taxes, and are still buying the commodities. The landscapes changed now I think Russia flooded the diamond market somehow, free trade coffee movement sprang up, I hear Firestone gave a more favorable contract to Liberia when Obama was elected.
One thing mentioned in class I think it was South East South America used to produce a lot more food than it does now could we invest along with Brazil, Portugal, Spain, IMF, UN to restore that maybe save Brazilian rain-forest. Part of what scares me about TED's move to city mentality is it seems Monsanto reliant.
Apr 10 2013: Yesterday my teacher in anthropology class said that because people at the IMF and UN are political they emphasize high cost visible solutions. As Westerners they emphasize free market values and rules placed on loans such as where to buy with said loans. The result a landscape littered with complex broken down machinery and equipment. Say a guy comes along with a very affordable bicycle powered irrigation system they reject it, instead they sell tractors the people don't have processed gasoline or parts when it breaks down, bicycle easy to repair, tractor complex.
Simultaneously you have to say what is Cadbury doing what about DeBeers, Firestone. The companies that owned countries through commodities, forced capital taxes, and are still buying the commodities. The landscapes changed now I think Russia flooded the diamond market somehow, free trade coffee movement sprang up, I hear Firestone gave a more favorable contract to Liberia when Obama was elected.
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Simultaneously you have to say what is Cadbury doing what about DeBeers, Firestone. The companies that owned countries through commodities, forced capital taxes, and are still buying the commodities. The landscapes changed now I think Russia flooded the diamond market somehow, free trade coffee movement sprang up, I hear Firestone gave a more favorable contract to Liberia when Obama was elected.
One thing mentioned in class I think it was South East South America used to produce a lot more food than it does now could we invest along with Brazil, Portugal, Spain, IMF, UN to restore that maybe save Brazilian rain-forest. Part of what scares me about TED's move to city mentality is it seems Monsanto reliant.
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Simultaneously you have to say what is Cadbury doing what about DeBeers, Firestone. The companies that owned countries through commodities, forced capital taxes, and are still buying the commodities. The landscapes changed now I think Russia flooded the diamond market somehow, free trade coffee movement sprang up, I hear Firestone gave a more favorable contract to Liberia when Obama was elected.