Anything that I try to say here will simply pale in comparison to what you discover when you check out the Greenpeace simulation of what a sustainable city might look like. Check it out HERE .

There's a very concise interview with Chomsky @ alternet.org about the new South American Bank, headed up by the new left, and of course, about the failures of the IMF and World Bank. It's often hard to ask Chomsky questions that he then gives sizeable explanations (that just anyone can grasp) to in response. 

Chomsky on the fall of the IMF:

The IMF is in trouble now because it is losing its reserves. It was functioning on debt collection and if countries either restructured their debt or refused to pay it, they're in trouble. Incidentally the countries could legitimately refuse to pay much of the debt, because, in my opinion at least, it was illegal in the first place. For example, if I lend you money, and I know you're a bad risk, so I get high interest payments, and then you tell me at one point, sorry I can't pay anymore, I can't call on my neighbors to force you to pay me. Or I can't call on your neighbors to pay it off. But that's the way the IMF works. You lend money to a dictatorship and an elite, the population has nothing to do with it, you get very high interest because it's obviously risky, they say they can't pay it off, you say okay your neighbors will pay for it. It's called structural adjustment. And my neighbors will pay me off. That's the IMF as a creditors' cartel. You get higher taxes from the north.

For second semester, PIRG-PHR re-news a promise to continue advocating for Palestinian human rights and social justice at UWO.  

We have a series of speakers coming to UWO, beginning with a talk by Marcy Newman titled 'Still Too Many Enemies: The Nahr el Bared Refugee Camp and Palestinians in Lebanon.'

When? 7pm, Tuesday, February 12, 2008

***Parental guidance on this one - not safe for children***

My stomach hurts from laughing. This type of logic and fear mongering is used by extremists, here in North America, to convert all those unenlightened souls - including "those who have their own religion".

A Letter From Hell (6min.)

- disclaimer - to my christian friends, presenting this video is not intended to attack christianity as a whole, just to point out the crazies who seem to be rapidly expanding and upping the anti on their recruiting processes. All religions have their extremists.

Two developments that I thought some of the technical folks on the LC would enjoy.

ParIT - ParIT (pronounced as 'parity') offers the technical services for individual users and small- and medium-sized organizations to migrate completely from costly off-the-shelf applications to freely distributed and free-to-modify opensource software. We provide installation, support, customization, and integration of free software in the following areas: Desktop computing; content management systems (CMS); accounting; point of sale (POS); and server environments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YIYAiQGiUQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrbqZJNRX3g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9qklQEsRkg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJNepS7Z4fI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8AOZ8C-Js8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jwYTJpym9k

Time to make a donation. The Real News is going to make its official launch for the US presidential election. It's expanding big time, and it needs our money to do so.

If you're online and want a true alternative to corporate media, this is it. And the only way it's going to work is if we fund it. I've donated to DemocracyNow and I just made my donation for The Real News.

Well, it's that time of year again... Time to dust off the ol'aluminum pole, prepare for the Feats of Strength and compile your list of grievances.

That's right, another Festivus is upon us. A time to come together with loved ones for the feast of The Strike, tell them exactly how they've disappointed you in the past year and then dominate them with your sheer physical prowess before returning the frosted pole to the crawl space for another year... And maybe, just maybe, you'll be blessed with a Festivus miracle.

Wishing everyone a stern and productive Festivus

Must refer people to this fabulous article at alterne.org on my favourite subject: white supremacy.

In it, Alex Jung even discusses my favourite website of all time: blackpeopleloveus.com. It's apparently up again. I thought it had been taken down awhile ago.  I know black people love me, but if you need tips, check out the website for more info on how to become the coolest neo-liberal in town.

Take the 'Buy Handmade' pledge/poll.

More HERE .

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25 word min. requirement...

Merry Christmas

Season's Greetings

Best Wishes

Happy New Year

still too short...

maybe I should just copy/paste one of the 10,000-word emails my spam filter