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The Price of 9/11 - Joseph E. Stiglitz

Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2011.
www.project-syndicate.org

LINK: Full article

2011-09-01                 

NEW YORK – The September 11, 2001, terror attacks by Al Qaeda were meant to harm the United States, and they did, but in ways that Osama bin Laden probably never imagined. President George W. Bush’s response to the attacks compromised America’s basic principles, undermined its economy, and weakened its security.

The attack on Afghanistan that followed the 9/11 attacks was understandable, but the subsequent invasion of Iraq was entirely unconnected to Al Qaeda – as much as Bush tried to establish a link. That war of choice quickly became very expensive – orders of magnitude beyond the $60 billion claimed at the beginning – as colossal incompetence met dishonest misrepresentation.

Indeed, when Linda Bilmes and I calculated America’s war costs three years ago, the conservative tally was $3-5 trillion. Since then, the costs have mounted further. With almost 50% of returning troops eligible to receive some level of disability payment, and more than 600,000 treated so far in veterans’ medical facilities, we now estimate that future disability payments and health-care costs will total $600-900 billion. But the social costs, reflected in veteran suicides (which have topped 18 per day in recent years) and family breakups, are incalculable.

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Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University, a Nobel laureate in economics, and the author of Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy.

Bukowski - Relentless as the tarantula

relentless as the tarantula

they're not going to let you
sit at a front table
at some cafe in Europe
in the mid-afternoon sun.
if you do, somebody's going to
 drive by and spray your guts
with a submachine gun.

they're not going to let you
feel good for very long anywhere.
the forces aren't going to let you
sit around fucking-off and relaxing.
you've got to go their way.

the unhappy, the bitter and the vengeful
need their fix - which is you
or somebody anybody in agony,
or better yet dead, dropped into some hole.

as long as there are
humans about
there is never going to be
any peace for any individual upon this earth
or anywhere else they might escape to.

all you can do is maybe
grab ten lucky minutes here
or maybe an hour there.
something is working toward you right now,
and I mean you and nobody but you.

 Appears in Relentless as the Tarantula (1986) and You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense (1986)

El enemigo generoso

Magnus Barfod, en el año 1102, emprendió la conquista general de los reinos de Irlanda; se dice que la víspera de su muerte recibió este saludo de Muirchertach, rey de Dublin:

Que en tus ejércitos militen el oro y la tempestad, Magnus Barfod.
Que mañana, en los campos de mi reino, sea feliz tu batalla.
Que tus manos de rey tejan terribles la tela de la espada.
Que sean alimento del cisne rojo los que se oponen a tu espada.
Que te sacien de gloria tus muchos dioses, que te sacien de sangre.
Que seas victorioso en la aurora, rey que pisas a Irlanda.
Que de tus muchos días ninguno brille como el día de mañana.
Porque ese día será el último. Te lo juro, rey Magnus.
Porque antes que se borre su luz, te venceré y te borraré, Magnus Barfod.

Del Anbang zur Heimskringla
(1893), de H Gering.
-Jorge Luis Borges

La Santa Muerte de Tepito

Ernesto Sabato (24.06.11-30.04.2011)

Ernesto Sabato



Born June 24, 1911(1911-06-24)
Rojas, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Died April 30, 2011(2011-04-30) (aged 99)
Occupation Novelist and essayist
Retired physicist
Language Spanish
Nationality Argentinean
Ethnicity Arbëreshë
Citizenship Argentinean
Education Ph.D in Physics
Alma mater Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Period 1941–2004
Genres Novel, essay
Notable work(s) El túnel
Sobre héroes y tumbas
Abaddón el exterminador
Spouse(s) Matilde Kusminsky Richter (1936–1998)
Children Jorge Federico Sabato
Mario Sabato
Influences[show]
* Franz Kafka, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Existentialism

Chernobyl 25 years later

CNN Segment On Libya Titled "The New World Order"

BELIEVE OR NOT; THE N.W.O. IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER....



AS @MegaWhateverbitch SAID:
" I hear ya, many people don't even know what NWO means! they're too busy playing with their Iphones, making babies and posting crap on facebook about eating TV dinners! Idiots..."

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9 of the Most Expensive Bottles of Water in the World

Finé

Taken from 600 meters below the unspoiled Japanese Fuji volcanic belt, this water costs around $5 per 750 ml. The beautiful frosted glass bottle might just make it worth it for you though..

Tasmanian Rain

Captured from the “edge of world”, Tasmanian rain water comes from water that has never even touched the earth. The water is collected from rain drops before they hit the ground. It costs around $5 per 750 ml.

Lauquen Artesian Mineral Water

Lauquen water comes from the Andes mountains, from a 1,500 foot deep aquifer. The water does not touch air until it is bottled. This magnificently pure water costs $6 per 750 ml.

AquaDeco

If for nothing else, the $12 is worth this beautiful bottle. Ok, maybe not, but the water is taken from pristine Canadian sources and won the 2007 Gold Medal as the year's best noncarbonated spring water.

10 Thousand BC

This water retails for about $14 per 750 ml bottle. The source of the water is a 3 day trip off the coast of Canada and is surely one of the finest, purest and best waters in the world.

Veen

A 750 ml bottle of this still water will cost around $23. It comes from finland, which arguably has the best and most pure water in the world.

Bling H20

With the word bling on its bottle you know this water has got to be expensive. The 750 ml bottle sells for about $40 and is decked out in swarovski crystals and corked like a bottle of champagne.

Fillico- Fillico

Produced in Osaka Japan, is by far the newest on the market of expensive waters. At $219 dollars, which is 23,000 Yen, these bottles are capped with gold King and Queen tops. Fillico water is not yet available in the US yet.

Kona Nigari

Just 2 Ounces of this little bottle will cost you around $33.50. Therefore, 750 ml (Normal size for luxury water) would cost you a whopping $402. This desalinated sea water is collected from 2,000 feet below the surface of the ocean off the Big Island of Hawaii. Known for it’s weight loss, stress reducing, and skin improving qualities this water is most exclusively found in Japan.

Ernesto Sábato (24.06.1911 - Everness)