the following are a few good books relating to some combination of architecture planning urbanism and identity to help keep you warm this fall and winter. earlier 1 2 the public chance new urban landscapes by aurora fernandez per and javier arpa. the public chance a new publication of at is a remarkable collection of 30 public realm design projects from a......
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in the days leading up to the 2008 us presidential election 43 journalists from 20 countries all participants in the 2008 euromediterranean journalism institute emji shared their views on the us election. after barack obamas win several of these journalists were asked to share their views on the outcome of the race. the views ofarastko ejiae should not be viewed......
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we at various things stuff scored some phone time with democratic vicepresidential nominee u.s. sen. joe biden this weekend and as always it was an informative talk. we started talking about the death of trickledown economics which came into vogue in 1980 with the election of ronald reagan and ended oh just about the end of september. it really came crashing down in 088221......
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25191 hwy 116 duncans mills ca 95430 707.865.9246 we spent the last week wandering along highway 1 in the sonoma coast where the cows dine on lush green hills and enjoy the magnificent vistas.a first i have to show you some pictures of how beautiful the area is. the rocks that line the shore have been shaped into interesting and dramatic shapes by the relentless surf. we wo......
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another installment in the continuing the saga of i675 in the 1970s. it took from the end of 1973 to december 1976 to have the draft eis ready for review. in 1974 budget shortfalls resulted in odot saying the state would not be able to support its share of the interstate until 1980. also during this period changes occurred in local government that would effect i675. dayton elected its first......
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theres been a lot of discussion about the causes of our current financial crisis. i for one do not ever care to hear the wall streetmain street framing again. really is that the best we can do have we no sense of language the credit contraction or credit crunch involved among other things financial institutions that were shot through with shor......
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what makes new yorkavacations so interesting speaking as a traveler and a travel writer is that the city is always cooking up something new. either they come up some new attractions or someone does something which is highly newsworthy or theyre in the middle of a scandal.a if you want specifics consider some of the things to do in new york that have been in the news of late t......
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...into the hands of bankersaand the financial elite.a here are a few graphs showing the effects source httplan ekenworthy .net2008 0309the bestinequ alitygrap h source httpsoc iology.ucs c.eduwhor ulesameric apowerwe alth.html central banking the fed is an age old scheme of mob rule over the money supply.a give me control of a nations money and i care not who makes the law...
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fanboy supercuts obsessive video montages waxy.org tags video funny movies tv supercuts meme lists maps by staff from nndb tags map visualization datavis who rules america social cohesion the bohemian grove in fact every person who has written seriously on the bohemian grove agrees even though they provide evidence that ther......
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draginol has another uninformed rant up at his site. similarly theres an ever increasing effort to have the top 1 pay more and more of the taxes than ever before. even today the top 1 pay 20 of the taxes. and in a democracy who is to argue what is fair if 51 think its fair that 1 pay 20 or 30 or 50 of the tax......
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please note this summary of an interview with noam chomsky on progressive strategy has first been published at common dreams on june 29 2007. as of july 3 2007 it has received 45 comments. i hope you join the discussion at common dreams andor continue it here. to make it more userfriendly i have added more links and references. noam chomsky is one of the key figures on the americ......
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please note this post has also been published at tpmcafe and has received 25 comments as of july 3 2007. i hope you are going to join the discussion at tpmcafe or continue it here. the first half of this title is inspired by tood gitlins criticism of nader running as an independent in the 2004 election from tragedy to farce concluding that his narcissism knows no limits so wh......
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who governs is a widelyhailed classic in the field of political science it was the book that basically made the career of the dean of american political scientists robert a. dahl. in it dahl attempts to discover how government really works in america. to do this he decides to study decisionmaking in a typical american city namely the one outside his office at yale uni......
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