AMERICAN FLAGS ARE ALREADY MANUFACTURED IN CHINA; WILL TRUCK NUTS BE NEXT?
(Dissident Voice)
David Macaray observes the continuing loss of all kinds of U.S. manufacturing to China, including now the “dog poop” and “fake vomit” novelty industry. He wonders when the Chinese will move as well into the production of a popular item called truck nuts: plastic replicas of male genitalia that are popular ornaments for motor vehicles in the U.S.
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IS THIS DETROIT 1967? NO, IT’S LIVERPOOL 2011.
(Counterpunch)
Then and now, it seems much the same, as illustrated by an essay by Israeli musician and novelist Gilad Atzmon. In the U.K. today as in the U.S.A. of the 1960s, riots are sweeping across the country and both political officials and the mass media are clueless to the “revolt” against societal conditions that underlies these actions, preferring to see in them a spate of hooliganism and lawlessness than can be suppressed with the right amount and type of police enforcement of “law and order.”
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INSURGENTS IN IRAQ SEND A MESSAGE LOUD AND CLEAR: “WE ARE STILL HERE!”
(New York Times)
8 years after U.S. invasion of the country and as aspirations for Iraqis assuming the security of the country still prevalent, the country sees its worst day of violence this year as 42 apparently-coordinated attacks occur across the country, taking 89 lives. A Kurdish member of Parliament says the insurgents are treating Iraqi security forces as it they “weren’t there.”
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A DOLLAR AND A DREAM IN TEXAS: LOTTERY IS A “POOR MAN’S DOW JONES.”
(Houston Chronicle)
In a recessionary economy in which people are doing without gasoline or food because of lost income and the escalating costs of those goods, poor Texans are still supporting a booming petty gambling industry in the state: “If you don’t play, you can’t win” works well when “winning” by ordinary work is out of sight for many.
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TECHNOLOGY CAN PUT A MAN ON THE MOON, WHY CAN’T IT HELP ME FIND MY KID’S BUS STOP?
(Palm Beach Post)
Palm Beach County FL parents (some of them) have an answer to their perennial anxiety about where to take their children to be picked up by the bus. Swedish technician working with PB school district has designed a system by which parents can type their locations into a google map and find the designated bus stop. This system has long been used for locating restaurants and other consumer destination: if you can find a hamburger online, why not a bus stop? (Don’t have googling capabilities? You’re out of luck, have to scramble the old-fashioned way.)
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Quote of the day…
This decision arises from concern for the health and education of our people, the beauty of our landscape and the fostering of tourism, for our peninsula is blessed with beautiful beaches and scenery, fine food, and a free zone. The planet is choking on plastic bags. Everywhere in Venezuela is cluttered with them, from virtually every metre of coastline all the way to the tops of the ‘tepuyes’ (ancient flat-topped mountains in the southeastern province of Guayana), as well as our streets, fences and garbage dumps
Kile Baldayo, the president of the Carirubana local council on decision to ban plastic bag use in this Venezuelan coastal town.
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