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Monday, June 25, 2012

The G20 includes 19 countries and The European Union

The G20 includes 19 countries and The European Union:

Argentina France Japan South Africa
Australia Germany Mexico Turkey
Brazil India Republic of Korea United Kingdom
Canada Indonesia Russia United States
China Italy Saudi Arabia The European Union


The G20, which includes both developed and emerging economies, closely reflects two current trends that are transforming international relations: 1) the increasing influence of emerging economies on political and economic affairs and 2) the need to find innovative forms of cooperation to meet new global challenges that require collective responses.

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Monday, June 11, 2012

The PENCIL Partnership Program



The PENCIL Partnership Program

VIDEO: PENCIL Helps Bed-Stuy High School Students Write Their Own Futures

Through the PENCIL Partnership Program that connects Fortune 500 companies with public schools, the students participated in a three-hour workshop with volunteers from Deloitte and Touche LLP, a professional services network firm, gaining skills, best practices and feedback from working professionals in the world of finance.

The Pencil Program currently works with close to 400 New York City public schools and more than 100,000 students throughout the five boroughs annually. The program is so successful in enriching student learning, it has become a model for cities nationwide.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Eurozone Unemployment Stays At Record 11 Percent

The eurozone's stagnant economy left 17.4 million people — out of an active population of around 158 million people — without a job. Unemployment rates are also continuing to climb in struggling Spain, Portugal and Greece. The EU's Eurostat office said 110,000 unemployed were added in April alone. In the U.S. the unemployment rate stands at 8.2 percent for May.
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Professor Luigi Zingales:A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity

 University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales on how Europe’s economic troubles may be redefining American-style capitalism; argues the U.S. economy is in danger of falling prey to the problems he hoped to leave behind in Europe.
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 The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith. 

The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection by Adam Smith

 

Why We Need a Buffett Rule

Seven Convincing Reasons

 Warren Buffett, who disclosed that he pays a smaller percentage of his income in federal taxes than his secretary. The Buffett Rule holds that no millionaire should pay a lower effective tax rate than middle-class families.

 

The incomes of the top 1 percent have skyrocketed over the past three decades, nearly quadrupling and leaving middle-class incomes far behind. Rising inequality has meant that the very rich have captured an outsized share of the country’s economic gains.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While many at the top continue to pay lower taxes than those below them on the income scale, the entire burden of deficit reduction falls on investments and services for the middle class.

 

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

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Somebody Blew Up America by AMIRI BARAKA

"Who own the oil Who do no toil Who own the soil Who is not a nigger Who is so great ain’t nobody bigger
 

Who have the colonies Who stole the most land Who rule the world Who say they good but only do evil Who the biggest executioner 

Who own the oil Who want more oil Who told you what you think that later you find out a lie
 

Who make money from war
Who make dough from fear and lies
Who want the world like it is "


One Way of Reading 'Somebody Blew Up America by Selwyn Cudjoe


Ralph Ellison had cause to ask:

Why is it so often true that when critics confront the American as Negro they suddenly drop their advanced critical armament and revert with an air of confident superiority to quite primitive modes of analysis? Why is it that sociology-oriented critics seem to rate literature so far below politics and ideology that they would rather kill a novel [or a poem] than modify their presumptions concerning a given reality which it seeks in its own terms to project? Finally, why is it that so many of those who would tell us the meaning of Negro life never bother to learn how varied it really is? (Shadow and Act, p. 108)  

"Again, Baraka is very specific in his intention. He says: "We cannot in good conscience, celebrate what seems to us an international crusade to set up a military dictatorship over the world, legitimized at base, by white supremacy, carried out, no matter the crude lies, as the most terrifying form of imperialism and its attendant national oppression. All of it designed to drain super profits bluntly from the colored peoples of the world, but as well, from the majority peoples of the world.!" Then he makes an important statement: "For all the frantic condemnations of Terror by Bush & co, as the single International Super Power, they are the most dangerous terrorists in the world!' There are many persons who would not/do not want to believe this, but some of us see Bush's terrorist campaign as a way to scuttle many of our civil liberties and the war directed against Iraq as a very dangerous undertaking." Professor Cudjoe Trinicenter.com


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Thelonious Monk


In A New Biography, Monk Minus The Myth

Monk died more than 25 years ago, but his music is still played and heard around the world. When critical attention came his way, myths were spun around him, many of which remain to this day. Among them: that he was difficult, a recluse, an untrained genius. He was connected to his New York City community, and he played benefits for the social causes of the day.



Mr. KELLEY: Well, there - a few things. One, Monk loved dissonance, and by dissonance, those clashing intervals, you know? Sometimes he'll play, like, an F and F sharp at the same time. Now, on the one hand, that sounds like it's innovative and fresh and new, but a lot of these devices, the dissonance, the kind of off-meter playing, these are devices that he learned from the old-stride pianists in Harlem, people like James P. Johnson and Willie The Lion Smith. He just took it to a more exaggerated place.

And so Monk is very much rooted in these older traditions, and so he would take these old practices, even the bent notes that he played, and he'd take that James P. Johnson and Willie The Lion and, you know, give it a kind of modern twist.

 I find evidence of bipolar disorder, you know, the manic depression, and these cycles of manic depression, as early as the 1940s.



But these examples, the evidence always got portrayed as examples of Monk's eccentricities, you know, that he would be up for two or three days at a time. Then he'd crash. He'd go from house to house, looking for a piano.
This became part of the story or the lore around Monk, but of course no one knew about bipolar disorder in the 1940s and couldn't see it as a diagnosis.


Kelley teaches history and American studies at the University of Southern California.



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