mobutu and kabila

mobutu and kabila

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8310

The savage satire of `1984′ still speaks to us today

The savage satire of `1984′ still speaks to us today
Independent, The (London), Jun 8, 1999 by Bernard Crick

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990608/ai_n14231422

“One could put them differently, but I see seven main satiric thrusts: the division of the world by the super states; the mass media as an agent of “prolerisation”; power-hunger in general and totalitarianism in particular; the betrayal by the intellectuals; the abuse and degradation of languages for purposes of control; the rewriting of history for political purposes; and the theses of James Burnam (who believed that the social systems of the seemingly totally antagonistic USA and USSR would come to converge in an authoritarian techno-managerial capitalism - perhaps like China today?). “

Who paid the piper? The CIA and the cultural cold war

 ”Through myriad projects, from cash- heavy prizes to magazines such as Encounter and international conferences, the beneficiaries included WH Auden, AA Milne, Nancy Mitford, Mary MacCarthy, Stephen Spender, Jackson Pollock, Isaiah Berlin and George Orwell.”

Monday Book: Intelligentsia and the CIA
Independent, The (London), Jun 28, 1999 by Julie Wheelwright

Who paid the piper? The CIA and the cultural cold war. - Stonor Saunders

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990628/ai_n14226234

Bonnie Woods against Church of Scientology

Bonnie Woods against Church of Scientology

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990622/ai_n14220623

Drawings of Gulag life made in secret by an NKVD officer, Colonel Danzig Baldayev.

http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9906&L=dsch-l&T=0&I=-3&P=17166

His tattoo work seems well know - but why aren’t Baldayev’s drawings of Gulag life on the web? Still no interest?

The web has maded information more accessible - but is it getting to the point that it doesn’t exist if not on the web? Cos the kids don’t read books? I dunno. Just a thought.

Wave goodbye to the nine to five, and say hello to virtual enterprise

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/mar/14/workandcareers.worklifebalance?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

Buy Nothing Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day

Spray toxins into the atmosphere from your factory’s chimneys

Spray toxins into the atmosphere from your factory’s chimneys and they will be filtered out eventually by the lungs of the public.

Servant economy?

a light bulb made from gallium nitride

Independent, The (London), Sep 17, 1999 by Steve Connor

Scientists have developed a light bulb made from a new material called gallium nitride that lasts 100 times longer than those now in use. It should make regular bulb replacements unnecessary.

The everlasting light bulb is being tried out at two sets of traffic lights - on the M32 near Bristol and in Marsham Street, central London’ - to see if it is suitable for the millions of red, amber and green lights.

Was it a success?

Joseph Juran has died today

Joseph Juran, pioneer of quality control, dies at age 103 - New York

“As a result, Dr. Juran’s observation of the “vital few and trivial many”, the principle that 20 percent of something always are responsible for 80 percent of the results, became known as Pareto’s Principle or the 80/20 Rule. You can read his own description of the events in the Juran Institute article titled Juran’s Non-Pareto Principle.”

Joseph M. Juran, a pioneer of quality management whose “Quality Control Handbook” revolutionized how companies around the world made and sold products.

Also: In fact, in pure productivity terms, most of the working day is a waste of time, according the workplace quality guru Joseph Juran. His Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, states 80% of what we produce derives from 20% of our activity.

http://management.about.com/cs/generalmanagement/a/Pareto081202.htm