Beware of the new racist counteroffensive
by: Sam Webb
March 25 2010
tags: racism, African Americans, labor, Obama, ultra-right
Many people say that racism is simply an attitude or a prejudice of
one people toward another people. That allowed Republican senators to
make the ludicrous claim
Crisis: The Motor of Capitalism
by: André Orléan, Le Monde
Truthout
29 March 2010
http://www.truthout.org/the-crisis-motor-capitalism58234
Capitalism's history coincides with the history of its
crises. Over the 1970-2007 period, there were at least
124 banking crises, 208 exchange rate crises
CeJ jannuzi
Why did we need dogs to develop gesturing. We could gesture to people.
But drove forward that development? There is a really cute program on
TV here in Japan that shows the adventures of a chimpanzee (who is
very socialized to humans) who is paired up with a bull dog. The two
animals
CeJ jannuzi
CB:Nope. Nuclear disarmament is still species-being project numero uno.
Which is why Israel ought to be disarmed. I think they are the only
country that ever threatened to use its nukes
The Great British Tea Heist
Botanist Robert Fortune traveled to China and stole
trade secrets of the tea industry, discovering a
fraud in the process
By Sarah Rose
Smithsonian.com
March 09, 2010
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Great-British-Tea-Heist.html
[This is an excerpt
Carrol Cox wrote:
This was a fascinating post, I learned a lot from it.
But it seems to me the understandings of language and change it
describes could be expressed in other terms than the metaphor of
evolution. Natural selection, applied to human history, including the
history of
Waistline2
Antagonism:
Antagonism means the mutual resistance or active opposition of two
opposing forces, physical or mental; active opposition to a force.
Antagonism is a form of change resolution by
CB: You're the linguist. But to me, the essence of language is
symbolling. Using something to represent something that it is not.
The co-operation of dogs and humans was most likely very adaptive for
dogs. I bet their population is a lot bigger than that of wolves ,
now.
But the theory about
Interesting article, but with a few comments seem in order.
Tea is really a type of camellia bush (a broad-leafed evergreen), which
grows as part of the undergrowth of southern temperate and sub-tropical
broad-leaf evergreen forests across S. Asia. Hence, the great tea cultures
of China, SE Asia,