Thursday, November 10, 2011

Light Posting today - begin with "Some Assembly Required"

Busy, busy, day -- posting will be light. As a result, let's start off with some choice morsels from "Some Assembly Required". If you follow the link, go there, and follow his links, why toy will be amused, bemused, and entertained (?) for the rest of the day.
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Uggianaqtuq: Torrential downpours, floods, droughts, wildfires, surprise snowfalls and tornadoes dominated the news for much of 2011. Even now “one of the most severe storms on record” is bearing down on Northwest Alaska, where the native Inuit call the unusual weather “the stranger”. I'm with Brian Williams: “All I know is this didn’t happen when we were kids.”

Engaging the Enemy: The hydraulic fracturing industry is being urged to treat those who oppose fracking as “insurgents” and to follow the military's counterinsurgency manual in confronting them, and to hire former military psy-ops personnel to manipulate the discussion and “overcome stakeholder concerns.” Doesn't the field manual also suggest bribing local warlords?

Good Question: Why is big pharma allowed to kill its customers? Oh, my. If you need ask, you are beyond hope. Maybe there's a pill for that.

Smaller Giants: Walmart has discovered the 'pop-up' store – a 1000 square foot temporary outlet in a mall or strip center, run for a couple of months and then gone. This is attractive to a company that has over 12 million square feet of closed stores to sell or lease. Another niche market where the little guy is facing Goliath.

...on the Way to the Forum: Remember the €1 trillion bail-out fund, the one that was going to save the world a few PIIGS? Eurozone finance ministers are “delaying” decisions on how to proceed after their initial efforts raised only €3bn, and that only with record interest rates.

Once More: Italy is “too big to fail and too big to save.” Well, actually it isn't too big to fail... And Barclays says it has passed the point of no return.
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