August 2009
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WatchTwestival Local 2009 video by the Twestival master herself, Amanda Rose.
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WatchCentro-matic updated their site with footage from the August 16th artshow.
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Mashable - Summer of Social Good Conference →
This is a live stream.
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“Both ended up outliving those institutions by decades, but both channeled the...”
– Harold Meyerson, (Columnist in WaPo) on Kennedy & Sweeney (AFL-CIO)
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“Doing jobs we are in no way qualified or trained for has been our greatest...”
– Viktoria Alexeeva, Director of Design and Branding at charity: water in a good article explaining how the organization does what they do best.
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Watchextraawesome:
TED Talks - Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
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“Quella piazza è per me la sintesi fra la purezza estetica, il calore umano e...”
– Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Member of the European Central Bank’s Executive Board and Florentine, on the Florentine’s preferred piazza: Santo Spirito. (where I once lived…sniff, sniff…)
Source: La Nazione.
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Summoning Creativity
EurActive.com, a preferred source for EU news, put out a great article on “whole-brained education” this week. Damini Kumar, the Ambassador of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, rightly states that education is becoming much too focused on one track paths. Math and science tracks are certainly part and parcel to hammering out economically significant innovations. Still,...
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WatchGunslinger by The Medders (@themedders). I’m very proud to say that I lived with 2 to 3 of these guys for a year. memories…sniff…sniff…
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“In its ideological uniformity, today’s GOP looks — O, the irony...”
– Harold Meyerson (OpEd Columnist in in WaPo) brilliantly on the GOP 8/20/09
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“Unchecked carbon emissions will likely cause icebergs to melt. Unchecked...”
– Warren Buffett in Tuesday’s NYT (8/18/09)
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Southern Italy
Addiopizzo is an Italian movement born from saying no to mafia extortion in Palermo, Sicily. It is now the platform for a consortia of businesses all over Southern Italy, or “Il Mezzogiorno”, who are publically stating that they will not pay the pizzo. Pizzo is the sicilian term meaning beak that came to be an expression for exortion fees that la cosa nostra, the sicilian mafia,...
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A Reactive Society
Fareed Zakaria brings up a good point this morning in the Washington Post. America reacts.
This is a thought that I have been stewing over for quite some time. During September 2008 I had a lot of conversations with friends about the looming financial crisis. My thought at the time was that interested parties worked strategically to let the bottom fall out all at once, thereby giving a good...
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“The burning of the Reichstag and Kristallnacht are not arguments against a...”
– Michael Gerson, conservative WaPo OpEd columnist on employing Nazi imagery to emphasize political anger
Source: Washington Post 8/14/09
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Responses to "Shouters" Question
These are the responses I have received so far that address the emotional drivers of the town hall shouters:
New McDonald’s McCafe commercials as a general commentary on society
Glorification of times past and deification of past political figures. i.e. Reagan
Demise of intellectual vitality of the 21st century conservative movement
Movement that still can’t swallow having been trounced...
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Shouters
I’ve been thinking a lot about the emotional drivers of today’s town hall “shouters”. I’ll just name a few off the top of my head: 24 hour news cycles; concern over government spending; ruthless, shortsighted political strategists; too many fake politicians (i.e. Sarah Palin); close to home economic troubles; a black president; a young black president; a black president who commands attention;...
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Buy North American or More North American?
The “Buy American” language of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will continue to come back to bite us.
Today’s Washington Post (8/11/09) “Buying American” Puts Strain on U.S. Trade with Canada
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WatchThis weekend’s watch-with-sugar-cookies TED talk. It’s Paul Romer and he’s talking “charter cities”.
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“Just as there is no excuse for the wanton slaughter of innocents, there is no...”
– John Brennan, Obama’s top adviser on counterterrorism and homeland security, on discontinuing the use of the tag line “war on terror” & moving towards development strategies to combat terror. Bravo! (Source: Financial Times 8/7/09)
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FT "Children of [German] unification fail to end... →
Suggested reading.
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