Politics

“Wake Up, Gentlemen”

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The guiding myth underpinning the reconstruction of our dangerous banking system is: Financial innovation as-we-know-it is valuable and must be preserved.  Anyone opposed to this approach is a populist, with or without a pitchfork.
Single-handedly, Paul Volcker has exploded this myth.  Responding to a Wall Street insiders‘ Future of Finance “report“, he was quoted in the WSJ yesterday as [...]

Tags: banking system, finance report, financial engineering, financial innovation, financial markets, managing money, paul volcker, payments system, wall street, wsj
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Setting Boundaries: 10 Guidelines to Save Earth

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Scientists propose a set of safe limits for human impacts on Earth
The scale of humanity’s impact on the globe is becoming ever more apparent: we have wiped out species at a rate to rival great extinction events of all geologic time as well as contributing to a rapidly acidifying ocean, dwindling ice caps [...]

Tags: atmospheric carbon dioxide, atmospheric co2, carbon dioxide concentration, chemical pollution, climate change, climatologist, earth system processes, extinction events, geologic time, global earth, holocene epoch, James Hansen, planetary cycles, stockholm university
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Where Did ‘We’ Go?

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Mr. Friedman does it again.  This provocative and chilling article further reveals the danger and insanity of the extremes on all sides.  His viewpoint has once again triggered new category ideas on what is essentially a blog about innovation.  For innovation to flourish you need civil discourse, trust and the freedom [...]

Tags: civil discourse, contagion, global civilization, insanity, prime minister yitzhak rabin, short sightedness, thomas l friedman, ugly mood, worthwhile ideas
Posted in Civilization, Consider This, Democracy, Dire Warnings, FYI, Innovation Needed, NY Times, Need to Know, Politics, Shape of Things to Come? | 1 Comment »

Australia plans Copenhagen climate pact compromise

Developing economies shouldn’t be locked into carbon lowering targets under a new global climate pact

Tags: carbon trading, climate change, climate commitment, climate pact, deadlock, developing economies, global climate, kyoto protocol
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Computer Scientists Take Over Electronic Voting Machine With New Programming Technique

Computer scientists demonstrated that criminals could hack an electronic voting machine and steal votes using a malicious programming approach that had not been invented when the voting machine was designed.

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