Bob Morris @ Apr 11th 2008 21:07 - Category: Unfiled Tags: New York Dolls;
With original members David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain. From their latest album “One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This” released in 2006.
It’s really good. Website.
Bob Morris @ Apr 11th 2008 18:30 - Category: Unfiled ;
From Dave Marsh via the Rock and Rap Confidential listserv
Ray Davies told me a few weeks ago that the situation as regards civil liberties in the UK is even worse than in the US. My jaw dropped. He insisted he was right. Roger’s the only other one I’ve seen to say so.
Roger Daltrey - CCTV caused hoodies
Roger Daltrey has hit out at the Government over civil liberties.
“I wish young people were treated with more understanding,” Daltrey told NME. “The reason kids wear hoodies is because of all the CCTV cameras. If I was a kid now, I’d be a hoodie. I wouldn’t want them to watch me either.”
Daltrey added: “It’s a horrendous society we live in, and it creates disrespect for the law.”
Bob Morris @ Apr 11th 2008 11:51 - Category: Credit crisis Tags: Alan Greenspan;
Barron’s reviews “Deception and Abuse at the Fed: Henry B. Gonzalez Battles Alan Greenspan’s Bank.”
Greenspan, who left the Fed in 2006 but is still consulted as a genius, might find a metallic exoskeleton exceptionally comforting come May, when the University of Texas Press publishes an unflattering book by Robert Auerbach entitled Deception and Abuse at the Fed: Henry B. Gonzalez Battles Alan Greenspan’s Bank.
Auerbach, a veteran Fed basher, portrays Greenspan as a real-life Professor Marvel — who, through double-talk or “garblement,” transformed himself into a mighty economic wizard à la Oz. Auerbach strongly implies that Greenspan’s 1977 Ph.D. from New York University was obtained in a few months with little more rigor than a matchbook-cover art degree and that Greenspan has kept his Ph.D. thesis secret in order to protect his vaunted academic reputation
Auerbach contends in his book that Greenspan’s invisible Ph.D. thesis is symbolic of a career marked by prevarication, cover-ups and a general aversion to making the Fed more publicly accountable.
I’ve never understood why Greenspan was held in such high regard, and always saw him as a garble-talking weasel who deliberately concealed his extremely reactionary political and financial agendas. Happily, the financial world is belatedly realizing he was a charlatan.
PS You knew Greenspan was an early acolyte of Ayn “Greed is Good” Rand, right?
Bob Morris @ Apr 11th 2008 06:29 - Category: Unfiled Tags: nuclear power;
Pete Domenici (R-NM) is calling for recycling of nuclear waste in the US. Many other countries already do this. If you’re going to have nuclear power, why not use as much of the fuel as possible? There are currently 31 application for new nukes in the US, which will no doubt create monumental opposition as well as support.
Nukes are not a long-term solution, but they do produce huge amounts of cheap no-carbon energy. Oddly, recycling the fuel then makes it become weapons grade, so secure storage is certainly problematic. Matthew Simmons, investment banker to the energy business, says nukes take so long to build and so much carbon is emitted in doing so, that they need to run for decades to become carbon-neutral again.
No easy answers here.
Bob Morris @ Apr 11th 2008 00:46 - Category: Renewable energy Tags: Wind turbines;
They provide 11% of the power for the buildings. Why doesn’t the US have buildings like this?
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