Fame “If you get too famous you will go straight to hell.” A Zen saying quoted by Gerry Rafferty (BBC4 24/02/12) in a documentary about the songwriter’s life and tribulations in the music business. A more profane prediction would be that a weird life is in store for you. Judging by the histories of some [...]
Some idiots who love their jobs waffling crap here.
A real strutter he was – walking out of the Paddington Hilton, straight into the stream of traffic – sporting a huge black sweatshirt with ” Graffiti made me rich” printed on the front of it. It is not enough to have your money and spend it, you have to get it off your chest [...]
“Wall Street Fixer Rodge Cohen – Big Banks Key to American Global Dominance” Matt Stoller, the former Senior Policy Advisor to Representative Alan Grayson and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. stoller@gmail.com or on Twitter at @matthewstoller. Sometimes finance executives let slip the way they really feel: that they hold the world in the palm [...]
This will interest all those involved in the world of finance and the stock market, particularly after the GFC. CEO = Chief Embezzlement Officer CFO = Corporate Fraud Officer MBA = Master of Bogus Accounting BULL MARKET = A random market movement that causes an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius BEAR MARKET [...]
In the late 1930s, Allen Willis (pen-name “John Alan”), later a renowned film maker, was invited to a meeting with Paul Mattick in a bar in Chicago, which was unusual, because the American Left don’t meet in bars. Upon arrival, the bartender said, “Hey! You looking for Karl Marx? In that room down there.” Willis [...]
The UN Security Council’s resolution to support an Arab League peace plan was probably vetoed by the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation because both countries have ‘problems’ with their own sizeable Moslem populations living near the Middle East. To avoid giving a signal that more tolerance will be shown to the future [...]
La Marmite and the Paris Commune Eugene Kerbaul wrote a book called “Une Bretonne Revolutionnaire et Feministe” about Nathalie Le Mel who was Secretaire de L’Union des Femmes de la Commune de Paris, 1871. She was involved in a community restaurant project, in Rue Larrey, called La Marmite. During the Paris Commune she also took [...]
Archive material on the eradication of radical history Monsieur, Votre courrier du 20 juillet 2011 adressé à Monsieur Kerbaul n’est parvenu que très récemment à l’association des Amis de la Commune de Paris 1871. Monsieur Kerbaul est décédé en Août 2005, sa femme nous a transmis votre lettre en demandant de vous répondre. Votre question [...]
The fascinating thing about Prof Ray Dolan’s IET/BCS Prestige Turing Lecture, last night at the Institution of Engineering and Technology was that it focused on ideas and theories. It drew together several threads of our knowledge of about artificial intelligence (Alan Turing), problem-solving (Bayes, LaPlace, Bernouilli), decision-making, neuroscience, and even psychiatry, in a way that [...]
