PALLAST at his best: Tinker Bell, Pinochet and The Fairy Tale Miracle of Chile
In 1973, the year General Pinochet brutally seized the government, Chile’s unemployment rate was 4.3%. In 1983, after ten years of free-market modernization, unemployment reached 22%. Real wages declined by 40% under military rule. In 1970, 20% of Chile’s population lived in poverty. By 1990, the year “President” Pinochet left office, the number of destitute had doubled to 40%. Quite a miracle.
Carter: Israeli apartheid 'worse'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/6169107.stm
"Israel does occupy this territory deep within the West Bank, and connects 200-or-so settlements... with a road, and then prohibits the Palestinians from using that road, or in many cases even crossing the road."This perpetrates even worse instances of apartness, or apartheid, than we witnessed even in South Africa," Mr Carter said.
Dowd: The Oval Intervention
December 9, 2006
The Oval Intervention
By Maureen Dowd
He is loath to give up his gunslinger pose to go all diplo. He cleaves to the neocon complaint that it is the realists who are now being unrealistic, thinking the administration can bargain with Syria and Iran, or that the Army can train Iraqi security forces (or, as they are known there, death squads) in a matter of months when they haven't been able to do it in years.
Battlestar Galactica, BitTorrent, and the Day TV Died
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/piracy051305.html
May 13 , 2005 | PART ONE: HYPERDISTRIBUTION
Now we have a paradox: the invention of an incredibly powerful mechanism for the global distribution of television programming brings with it a fundamental challenge to the business model which pays for the creation of the programs themselves. This is not at all BitTorrent's fault: the technology could have come along a decade ago, and if it had, we'd have stumbled across this paradox in the 1990s. This is a failure of the value chain to adapt to a changing technological landscape — a technological desynchronization between producer and audience. Once again, there's no need to find fault: things have changed so much, and so quickly, I doubt that anyone could have kept up. But the future is now here, and everyone in the creative value chain from producer to audience must adapt to it.