Essay
Links and News [2008.01.18]
Categories
- Guardian | Bubble economics Alan Greenspan – the man primarily responsible for the current crisis. Greenspan, always accommodating to the needs of Wall Street, worked on the principle that the best way to cope with the collapse of one bubble was to blow another one. (tags: economics news)
- BBC | Canada puts US on ‘torture list’ The United States has been listed as a country where prisoners are at risk of torture in a training document produced by the Canadian foreign ministry. (tags: news human-rights)
- BBC | Thirteen convicted for India riot More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, died in the riots, although independent groups say the toll was nearly 2,000. (tags: news india human-rights)
- E-Commerce News: Time Warner Starts the Meter in Net Access Experiment Time Warner’s plan includes installing bandwidth meters on new high-speed accounts and giving users access to a Web page where they can track how much they have consumed and upgrade to more expensive plans if necessary. Users will pay on a per-gigabyte basis for bandwidth they use above and beyond their plan. (tags: news tech)
Alan Greenspan – the man primarily responsible for the current crisis. Greenspan, always accommodating to the needs of Wall Street, worked on the principle that the best way to cope with the collapse of one bubble was to blow another one.
The United States has been listed as a country where prisoners are at risk of torture in a training document produced by the Canadian foreign ministry.
(tags: news human-rights)
More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, died in the riots, although independent groups say the toll was nearly 2,000.
(tags: news india human-rights)
Time Warner’s plan includes installing bandwidth meters on new high-speed accounts and giving users access to a Web page where they can track how much they have consumed and upgrade to more expensive plans if necessary. Users will pay on a per-gigabyte basis for bandwidth they use above and beyond their plan.
