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London Mink: June 2010
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010. I arranged to meet with a friend to hear a lecture in the LSE titled "Beirut Normal" by architect and scholar Hashim Sarkis. Approaching the LSE I was surprised by the large number of well-dressed people in front of the doors, chattering happily in Arabic. Are they all Arab architects and town planners, the Zaha Hadid aspirationals? I asked a non-suit person that was watching the scene. "Kaddafi's son is speaking here today". That made more sense. So we were among a cr...The Sarki...
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London Mink: December 2008
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Friday, December 05, 2008. I wrote a review on Waltz with Bashir on my Jerusalem Blog. Thursday, December 04, 2008. Marx on the 73. An idea for a short story/film:. The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation into a mere money relation. The girl in front y are saying: My room is getting refurbished! Yes I'm gonna paint in gold! I love what you did to your eyebrows. Coz you know, before you were a bit ugly, with those round eyes you have. Another...
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London Mink: November 2008
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008. Thinking about the financial crisis. I am taking this opportunity to think out loud. I don't know much about finance: what I know I learnt mostly in the past month. Beyond the prospects of a recession or even depression, there are questions of history and politics that I am thinking about. Colonialism, the spreading epidemic of neo. Is a key factor, and one of the things that make this crisis different from previous ones. Today all it takes is a laptop and a wireless broad...
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London Mink: August 2008
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Monday, August 11, 2008. The day we arrived, we circled the library twice and found all doors closed. The sun was making eyes squint, and the whole place was very quiet. A small red brick villa - but was it really here? Finally we found the servants' entrance, and rang the bell (it is permanently locked; a librarian has to let you in and out). The door opened, and we descended into the scholarly basement. Our air-conditioned summer has begun. Saturday, August 09, 2008. Wednesday, August 06, 2008. Which f...
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London Mink: March 2009
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Monday, March 23, 2009. Going back to the issue of "demand", a simple and obvious observation is that "demand" has little to do with what people really want or need, it is about what keeps this machine going. Demand for what? It doesn't matter, as long as there is someone with cash to buy. So the term is neutral; there is nothing good or bad about demand, except for the fact that "demand" creates jobs, and without jobs, economies will collapse, people will starve. This is no small thing at all. Encounter...
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London Mink: May 2009
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Sunday, May 03, 2009. It seems a lousy job, Somali pirate. You may just hit the jackpot, land on a defenceless Saudi supertanker worth 100 million dollars. Bingo! You make your demands, you split the US$15 million ransom. But ten days later you are floating in the waters of the Gulf of Aden, dead, on your body some 170,000 dollars in waterproof packets. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Grey skies and contemplations. Not much to say. Just your usual mink. View my complete profile. Robert Rapier Energy Blog.
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London Mink: Collapsing demand
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Monday, March 23, 2009. Going back to the issue of "demand", a simple and obvious observation is that "demand" has little to do with what people really want or need, it is about what keeps this machine going. Demand for what? It doesn't matter, as long as there is someone with cash to buy. So the term is neutral; there is nothing good or bad about demand, except for the fact that "demand" creates jobs, and without jobs, economies will collapse, people will starve. This is no small thing at all.
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London Mink: February 2009
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Friday, February 20, 2009. About snow and sex. Cycling on snow sounds like a Yoguslav brass band under your pedals. The man in the Cafe yesterday talked about "tantrum sex". Everybody liked the idea. Monday, February 16, 2009. The market diaries: monetising tomatoes. As I am cycling through the city, and then on Southwark bridge, I enjoying to see London, the familiar beast groaning with traffic. I am following the little rituals I developed over the last few years. Yet as I get closer to the mar...At th...
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London Mink: Surplus City
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Thursday, October 20, 2011. Http:/ surpluscity.wordpress.com/. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Grey skies and contemplations. Not much to say. Just your usual mink. View my complete profile. Robert Rapier Energy Blog. Peak Watch - Dave Cohen's excellent column. A Mother from Gaza. Raed in the Middle. Informed Comment - Juan Cole. Bicycle Empowerment - Namibia.
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London Mink: A trip down south
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Friday, March 06, 2009. A trip down south. There was a food order waiting for me in South London, at the Food Co-op. I usually go there - when I go, every month or two - on Thursdays, so I can chat with C, who has his usual shift then. But yesterday I was in the Library and Friday is my designated running-around sorting-things out day (I'm trying to be a good Jew, finish the chores before the Sabbath). The bus is busy and it proves cumbersome with the suitcase. I change at London Bridge. - Only l...When ...
