Richard’s Forewards 2

  • Nouriel Roubini recommends several drastic proposals. (registration req’d). These include:

    massive and more unorthodox monetary policy easing to defrost credit markets even if this may imply central banks widening collateral and taking greater credit risk; massive and front-loaded fiscal stimulus more on the spending than tax side and with income relief to agents with high marginal propensity to spend (poor, unemployed, state/local governments); rapid takeover of insolvent banks – full nationalization – and their quick clean-up and re-privatization (etc.)

  • New York Times ignores corporate welfare issues.
  • Israel continues to block charity shipments to Gaza.
  • Tom Engelhardt on U.S. foreign policy-speak.

Richard’s Forewards

A cousin in California has been sending out forewarded emails from the internet and other friends of his for years of left news, opinion, and commentary. Some of it leans libertarian, some leans socialist, and some might reflect a conservative talking point in good light. Friends reading his emails knew the Iraq invasion would stir up a hornet’s nest, that the Bush administration was screwing the U.S. and the world up on a daily basis, and we heard Roubini forecasting the economic collapse early in 2008. I have encouraged Richard to start his own blog and post his own gleenings and commentary from the internet himself but he is content with his small but loyal mailing list.

So instead of letting most of his emails lie fallow in my in-box, I will occasionally be forewarding Richard’s forewards here with links and synopsis or maybe just a headline. Feel free to discuss anything posted here below or at the sources.

  • It’s Time to Break up the Big Banks. Richard Whitney on bank nationalization and “soaking the taxpayer.”
  • A Pandemic of Economic Violence. Michael Klare claims we’re “A Planet on the Brink.”
  • Iran and the IAEA. Gordon Prather on the marginalization of the IAEA and the U.N.
  • Continued Military Occupation in Iraq. A socialist critique.
  • Irish kids everywhere (again).

All Tomorrow’s Mayonnaise

And what sandwich shall the poor girl eat
For all tomorrow’s mayonnaise
A BLT from who knows where
For all tomorrow’s mayonnaise

And what will she eat and what will she drink
When lunchtime comes around
She’ll turn once more to mustard’s clown
And maybe some diet coke

And what sandwich shall the poor girl eat
For all tomorrow’s mayonnaise
Why crab and tuna of yesterday’s salad
For all tomorrow’s mayonnaise

And what will she do with Thursday’s chips
When Monday comes around
She’ll turn once more to mustard’s clown
And maybe some diet coke

And what sandwich shall the poor girl eat
For all tomorrow’s mayonnaise
For Thursday’s chips is chicken’s clown
And eggs no longer served

A turkey sub, a bacon cheese
With buns and rye, and wheat
Fit for one who hungers still
For all tomorrow’s mayonnaise

Another City Beautiful Project: 125th Street Pier

The development talked about here is mostly done. Riding your bike around down by the Hudson River when it’s still this cold is kind of insane and lonely.

Ferries are supposed to service this pier but I don’t know if it’s happening yet. I’m not seeing New Jersey hopping on a boat to hit up Fairway when they’ve got giant A&Ps and Shop Rites — or even the rest of 125th Street when they’ve got Walmart but perhaps I’m wrong.