TasfromTAS
a blog by tasman stacey
This is a great essay by Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman that can help people get their heads around arguments about fiscal & monetary policy. It’s not perfect, and the metaphor ignores an obvious solution, but still a great read.
In case you haven’t seen it. Only tangentially related to my Accounting exam, but better than what I was looking at before, bluegrass covers of greenday songs.
(via hexington)
60 Minutes on the Plight of Palestinian Christians
Last night’s 60 Minutes segment about the plight of Christians in the West Bank has gotten a lot of attention, in part because of the attempt by Israeli ambassador Michael Oren to intervene with CBS brass while the segment was being put together. (See the 11-minute point in the video above, where CBS correspondent Bob Simon confronts Oren with this fact.)
You can see why Oren might rather the piece hadn’t aired. Things that Palestinian Muslims routinely say about the Israeli occupation may get more traction in America when Palestinian Christians say them. Such as this, from a Christian clergyman: “The West Bank is becoming more and more like a piece of Swiss cheese, where Israel gets the cheese — that is, the land the water resources, the archaeological sites, and the Palestinians are pushed in the holes.”
Also, Oren clearly doesn’t want this document, mentioned by Simon, to get attention. In it an interdominational group of Middle Eastern Christian clergy — Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant — refer to the occupation as “clear apartheid.” (Oren hints that they’re anti-Semitic.)
Finally, the 60 Minutes piece complicates the post-9/11 Israeli narrative according to which Israel and Judeo-Christian America are involved in a common struggle against Islamic radicals, and the occupation should be viewed in that context. Hence the importance of the moment when Oren insists Christians are leaving the West Bank under duress from Islamic radicals, not because of the occupation, and Simon presents testimony to the contrary.
I like to listen to this song when I’m drafting a paper. Will obviously make the content more epic.
Matisyahu sings Thunder - acoustic set.
There are videos on YouTube with a weirdly low number of views. This is one of them.
Also reminds me I should practice my chant.
This is mind-blowingly brilliant.
I can’t stop listening to this song on repeat
Anonymous asked: I agree about Paranville. A great development. While the comments in the Mercury, which is a bogan newspaper, piss me off, the negative comments in the lefty, greeny Tasmanian Times really surprised me. Paranville is good for Tassie!
Oh man I forgot about TT. What a crack up. We have recent and not-so-recent immigrants in Mr Boeder and Stevens hyperventilating that Koreans being able to buy property here is somehow treasonous? and economic oppression? Man I can’t believe Mr Stevens was on my local council.
