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Weekend Poetry and Reading
Reader poetry, a new Readers Journal essay on Iraqi oil and a semi-random list of interesting books make for worthy weekend reading. Spend, Borrow, hike TAX Thank you, Jed H., for keeping the site in provocative haiku. Readers, feel free to try your hand at your own haiku; it's a fun challenge. Next up: the wonderful Boomers Storm by D.M. Lambert Boomers listen and do absorb, You did worship, the god of mammon, Don't you see, the horizons cloud, You said that we, could have it all, Now we're not Congress, no we're not, A hurricane gathers, around the land, You went to class, and they did too, Cycles of history, they do flow, The good times of credit, do not last, We the boomers, created the fall, Tide Turns As Kurds Push For Oil Law Amid South’s Sudden Bright Future And a brief weekly analysis of the oil market: Crude Oil Hits Ceiling in Week as Hedge Funds Attack Euro Deschooling Society (Ivan Illich) War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning (Chris Hedges) Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (Chris Hedges) Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire) Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism Get Ready!: Preparing for the Coming Catastrophe Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines How To Bury Your Goods: The Complete Manual of Long Term Underground Storage Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of The Christ Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication China: The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know Now About the Emerging Superpower China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy Conspiracy World: A Truthteller's Compendium of Eye-Opening Revelations and Forbidden Knowledge Democracy: The God that Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order Special autographed book offer: Fellow author (Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects) and blogger (Club Orlov) Dmitry Orlov has just published a limited-edition collection of his most acclaimed essays titled Hold Your Applause! A donation of $21 or more will get you a signed copy of this very limited-run book, and help support Club Orlov. Please check it out and support an independent, informed voice. DailyJava.net is now open for aggregating our collective intelligence. Of Two Minds is now available via Kindle: Of Two Minds blog-Kindle
There's nothing quite like a timely haiku, and frequent haiku contributor Jed H. neatly summarizes the big picture in only three lines: (The structure of haiku is 5-7-5 syllables)
GO, Federal PONZI scheme
The "END GAME" is here!
(Copyright 2010 by DM Lambert).
you are the problem, you did gorge,
the debt you made, is now a rage,
to the piper, it must be paid.
and like a fish, we're all now salmon,
following, a god of lies,
in histories grave, we soon will lie.
moving faster, towards the crowd,
children crying, going hungry,
millions suffer, tents and sundry.
debt to the sky, ahead of the fall,
But thats ok, they said to us,
you are fine, just us, do trust.
debts to the moon, we go to pot,
they say to all, it'll be ok,
clouds do gather, not here today.
generation zero, does try to stand,
what it means, they just don't know,
they filled your minds, all full of glow.
a criminal act, they said to you,
that debts can grow, unto the sky,
a trick they pulled, upon your minds.
unto minds, of men, you know,
they deceive and they do fool,
we're in the mud, and left with gruel.
after the good, does come the fast,
its different this time, they did proclaim,
we knew better, but went insane.
boomers must change, one and all,
we must find, a life without sin,
of he who dies, with the most toys wins.
Courtesy of our colleagues at www.oilprice.com, here is an insightful report on the energy/exploration situation in Iraq:
(Fawzia Sheikh, February 27, 2010)While the Iraqi government has made overtures to its Kurdish counterpart in the north to end an oil standoff, much remains in doubt without an actual law keeping the industry in check - rules which this time the Kurds are pressing for rather than Baghdad.
Crude oil broke through the $80 a barrel ceiling repeatedly during the week but kept falling back as hedge funds placed big bets on the Euro’s decline.
Here is a list of potentially interesting/useful titles I've run across recently.Check them out at your local library if you don't want to own a copy.
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