Financial coup d’etat

By periol • March 7, 2009

It is more and more obvious to me that the financial tailspin we are in as a country (and as a world) is some sort of inside job. I don't know who to pin the blame on yet, exactly, but there's more and more evidence that something is very seriously amiss with all the bailout money.

The AIG bailout is the best example. We've poured $175billion down the gaping maw that is AIG, with no idea where it's going, just vague reassurances it's necessary or the entire financial system will collapse. Well, now we have an idea where it's going:

The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that about $50 billion of more than $173 billion that the U.S. government has poured into American International Group Inc (AIG.N) since last fall has been paid to at least two dozen U.S. and foreign financial institutions.

The newspaper reported that some of the banks paid by AIG since the insurer started getting taxpayer funds were: Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE), Merrill Lynch, Societe Generale (SOGN.PA), Calyon, Barclays Plc (BARC.L), Rabobank, Danske (DANSKE.CO), HSBC (HSBA.L), Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L), Banco Santander (SAN.MC), Morgan Stanley (MS.N), Wachovia, Bank of America (BAC.N), and Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY.L).
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Evolution Accelerating

I am convinced that evolution is happening and will continue to happen exponentially within the human race. It could be argued that evolution is the wrong word, because it is a technical word. At the same time, I do believe evolution is the right word for the changes that are going on in our brains and our bodies. I think we're probably not sophisticated enough yet to understand what's happening to us.

I can get away with saying that because we're not sophisticated enough to understand the evolution that we cause in other species. It's happening, now, and the rate of change is accelerating. Because of us.
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Things I learned about relationships in 2008, part 2.

Aren’t we all just fumbling around the darkness,feeling for the switch that isn’t ever there?

And isn’t the act itself, the all at once, sheer absurdity and glorious beauty, of the searching, isn’t that the real life, that the we of us have always spoke so highly of and laughed about, and pored over and wept for.

And aren’t the other bodies in the room with us, the ones that sometimes gently rub up against us or step, unknowingly on our toes and we reach out and stroke and pinch and occasionally swing at and sometimes even strike, not knowing why exactly, all of these things, at the time, they all just feel right.

Aren’t those bodies, the ones that still we come back to and brush up against, and rest our heads… read the rest...