According to Halford Mackinder , the godfather of modern Geo Politics , who ever controls the world island controls the world.
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The “World Island” being the Eurasian landmass, with about 60-70% of the worlds productive capacity on it.

The whole debt ceiling S+P downgrade thing is just too depressing to go into right now, although I have some definite thoughts on the whole situation.
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Kelly Pavlik my favorite Boxer is going through some personal issues and just abruptly pulled out of a fight he was supposed to participate in this past Saturday August 6, 2011.
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I finished studying the Python Scripting language for 3 hours today. What I learned and how it is applied we will see, but I am at least doing the leg work.

I some times think that humans evolutionary state is one of hunter gatherer , living in a post industrial world.
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I think it is difficult for humans psyche to live in a fast paced stressful world, of strange confining work schedules.
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A world of artificial rhythms, disconnected from our hunter gatherer past.
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As we chase currency instead of wild game to feed ourselves.

Pavlik lost this fight but it was a great competitive fight.

I help a friend out sometimes who has a small startup.  I hang out with the desktop support crew there sometimes, they are a stressed out bunch of macho geek’s who smoke cigarettes and eat the wrong kinds of food, all with knowing nod towards Star Trek and pc gaming.
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These guys are the under appreciated grunts of the IT world who keep the servers, switches, routers and end users computers going.

Kill City is one of my favorite albums of all time.  I would say that it is in my list 75 albums all time.   The original vinyl record was green.
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Iggy recorded this album in 1975 while on weekend pass from a mental hospital he was going to quit his drug addiction.
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 I see Iggy’s kill city as a bridge catharsis from his unsustainable drug(heroin) induced lifestyle to his next stages of art/life and creativity.

I don’t know if it is because many journalists are frustrated writers, but it seems when one of their brethren writes a book they tend to give it rave reviews, and tend to hold writers like William Vollman, and Graham Greene in high esteem to name a few writers that were former journalists.
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PS I think Graham Greene is one of the greatest writers ever.

I wonder if same elites and economic interests that have been defining this form and phase of Globalization for the last 15 years  are still in charge of the direction the process ?
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I wonder if the rise of Germany expansion of EU along with rise of BRIC countries has changed the calculus in any way?

Debt ceiling talks are a big scam to cheat the American people out of their Social Security and Medicare.
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Rating Agencies like moody’s in bed with Wall Street.
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You didn’t hear any of this talk of debt ceilings when wall street was getting it’s bailouts.

Does there really have to be a winner?  I picked the Android because that’s what was available to me, and I am falling in love with it, it is like a  little Linux box. Very cool.