Posted by Tarus on Friday, September 24, 2010,
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The Chilean economist, Manfred Max - Neef, defines the present-day economic situation in a very interesting and illuminating way. Bare-Foot Economics is his evolutionary process to how a typical grade-A economist comes to know and understand life on its terms...as it really is vs the bulleted powerpoint presentations of some executive boardroom meeting.
Posted by Tarus on Thursday, September 16, 2010,
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Did you know that blacks were NOT the first to reside in what's commonly referred to as ...Ghettos?
Originally, the word was used to refer to the poor living spaces set aside for Jews throughout western nations, especially in Russia. It is widely believed that the word itself is a derivative of a word in Venetian vernacular, ghetor or ghet, which means slag - an unwanted byproduct of smelting ore for valuable minerals; supposedly, there was a foundary off one of the islands of Venice in which...
