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Bangalore Beats Silicon Valley
An anonymous reader writes "The inevitable has happened. Bangalore, which grew under the shadow of America 's Silicon Valley over the last two decades, has finally overtaken its parent. Today, Bangalore stands ahead of Bay Area, San Francisco and California, with a lead of 20,000 techies, while employing a total number of 1.5 lakh engineers."
to FP!
Oh, I'm a Republican
I got a small schling
I like to bomb niggahs
and make a lot o' bling
I got a bunch o' friends
in high up places
They helps me get dem
government graces.
You think I'm smart
I just know who's who
I couldn't run a fruit stand
without the red white & blue
I fancy myself
A brilliant tactician
But neither me nor m'buddies
Could even pass basic trainin'
See, I'm above all that
A fightin' and shootin'
I just say "Sic em!"
Then run the other direction
Don't need no history
Don't need no schoolin'
I got my ideology
To keep me a shootin'
Liberals! Faggots!
Commies and queers!
Socialist hippies
Full o' pussy tears!
I'll drop some crap
about Jesus the Christ
You'll buy it all
and vote for me twice
'Fact, Jesus is comin'!
Real soon, now!
So we gotta prop up Israel
That ol' sacred cow
Propaganda's m'friend
But I calls it "fact"
Even though I don't read
'Cept for Chick tracts
Facts? No! Don't need em here!
We're conservatives! We work on FEAR!
Don't like what we say?
Well FUCK YOU, bud!
We'll shove it down yer throat
and tell ya it's good!
...the bread is better in Bangalore. Nan and chipati
Add all "we want communism" posts here (Which would be most of the posts on slashdot on such stories).
What / where is Bangalore?
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"Cancun: The Collapse of the Neo-Liberal Offensive"
Immanuel Wallerstein
Cancun is more than just a passing geopolitical battle. It represents the interment of a neo-liberal offensive that started in the 1970s. To understand the importance of the event, we have to go back to the beginning.
The 1970s marks a turning-point in two cyclical rhythms of the capitalist world-economy. It was the beginning of a long stagnation of the world-economy, a Kondratieff-B phase, out of which we have not yet come. And it marks the moment when the hegemony of the United States in the world-system began to decline. Stagnations in the world-economy mean that the rate of profit has gone down to an important degree, as a result of increased competition in the leading industries and a consequent overproduction. This leads to two kinds of geoeconomic battles: a struggle among the centers of capital accumulation (the United States, western Europe, and Japan/East Asia) to shift the burden of lowered rates of profit to each other. I call this "exporting unemployment," and it has been going on for thirty years, with each of the three centers doing better at different times (Europe in the 1970s, Japan in the 1980s, and the U.S. in the late 1990s).
The second geoeconomic battle however is that between the center and the periphery, the North and the South, in which the North seeks to take back from the South whatever small gains they made during the preceding Kondratieff A-period of expansion (ca. 1945-1970). As everyone knows, Latin America, Africa, eastern Europe, and South Asia all for the most part did poorly after 1970. The only area in the South that did relatively well was eastern and southeast Asia, at least until the financial crisis of the late 1990s. But one area of the periphery always does well in a downturn, since there has to be some region into which declining industries move.
In this difficult period when capitalists were scrambling to maintain their income, partially through relocation of production but more often through financial speculation, they started what can only be called a counteroffensive against the gains of the South and of the working classes in the North in the previous A-period. This came to be called "neo-liberalism." The political face of this counteroffensive was to be found first of all in the transformation of the British Conservative Party and the U.S. Republican Party from a party of moderate Keynesians to a party of ferocious believers in the nostrums of Milton Friedman. Mrs. Thatcher's years as Prime Minister and Ronald Reagan's term as President of the United States represented a distinct turn to the right in both national and world policy, but even more importantly a transformation of their own party structures, as the basis of pushing the balance-point of internal politics from the center to considerably right of center. The new conservative policy constituted a pushback on all three sources of rising cost for producers: wages, the internalization of costs to reduce ecological damage, and state taxation to finance the welfare state.
There was an attempt to coordinate this policy throughout the countries of the North by creating a series of new institutions, notably the Trilateral Commission, the G-7, and the World Economic Forum of Davos. The economic policy that was proposed came to called the Washington Consensus. First of all, we should note the Washington Consensus replaced something called developmentalism. Developmentalism had been the reigning world economic policy in the previous period (in the late 1960s the United Nations had even proclaimed that the 1970s would be the "Decade of Development"). The basic premise of developmentalism had been that every country could "develop," if only its state would implement appropriate policies, and the end point would be a world of states all looking more or less the same and all more or less equally wealthy. Of course, developmentalism did not work, could not work, which sad reality became clear to everyone in th
Richard Stallman has endorsed Dennis Kuchinich http://www.denniskucinich.us/
I'm voting for either him or Dean. If people want to see America go into a full blown depression, vote for Bush again you dumb bastards (like we didn't see it the first time???).