How Bush-Cheney Policy Screwed Haiti | Mother Jones

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It is hard to imagine what a magnitude 7 earthquake might do to a city that on any ordinary day already resembles a disaster area.  Today, compassionate Americans will wince at the photos, then pick their way among the foundations which offer alms to the Haitian poor. Here is one unlikely proposal to help Haiti, taken from Juan Cole's email listserv this morning:

Memo to Obama on Haiti: "It's reported that Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase combined have set aside $47 billion for bonuses," says an NPR account, according to Cole. "Haiti's annual gross domestic product in nominal terms is about $7 bn. a year. Seize the bonuses. Send them to Haiti."

It'll never happen, of course. But if there were any justice in the world, it would.

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I know little about Haiti, but I am unsurprised by the general tenet of the article

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Soap's 2010 Predictions for Digital

Enjoying in a number of ways, Soaps Predictions for 'Digital' in 2010. Not sure I agree with them all, but hey - they are the experts

Soap's 2010 Predictions for Digital

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Baby Steps for 2010

You may be aware that I made a Commitment for 2010 which involves performing some baby steps towards reducing our impact on the Environment.

The first update for 2010 concentrates on Electricity use. Electricity is the big bugbear in Australia for the environment movement what with the over-reliance on Coal - not to mention the NSW governments ridiculous plans to build yet another coal plant rather than investing in something a bit more forward thinking.

In any case, here is the first update, including some concrete targets for 2010

Why a Football team and a Rock and Roll Band have more in common than may you think

(while watching The Birthday Party Live in Manchester from 1982 & 1983  on Rage in tribute to Rowland S Howard)
Just as a football team without a solid, reliable defensive unit cannot win enough games to win anything, so a Rock and Roll Band needs a bass and drums unit which lays down a base for the rest of the band to 'win' with.
Just as a Rock and Roll Band needs a guitarist of virtuosity to create the excitement  needed to maintain the audience during the gaps between the lead singers frivolity, so the football team needs to creative genius to conjure up the visionary passes, the legendary stepovers, the flicked one-two's.
And so both the football team and the rock band must have the front man to score the goals, both figuratively, lyrically and physically. But without the virtuoso or the rock at the back, the front man is sitting anonymously up the front.

What's your favourite unit?

The bands I'm thinking of above include the Pixies and the Birthday Party among others. The Football teams? Liverpool 1988, but I'm biased.
This years Liverpool team just illustrates the problems of having a front man without the supporting band and the virtuoso.