I found today’s job interview process both Marxist and Nazified by my American standards. Consider that I mean I have not gone through this processing in the last 22 years, which made the changes that much more noticable. The final weeks of my 99er status unemployment checks are ending so while it was a blessing some temp agency responded this screening process itself and the reasons for the creation of such infrastructure point toward corporate fascism. Now I know and realize there might be legitimate reasons companies want to screen applicants for suitability but this means maintaining a productivity level without pesky investments in say training, benefits, job safety. Kind of like having your cake and eating it too.
The screening processt though reflects upon the Charolette Iserbyte society.
October 6, 2010 archive
Oct 06 2010
A Marxist Job Interview
Oct 06 2010
Something other than coal for West Virginia
West Virgina’s suicide pact with coal mining makes no sense. The Appalachian state could be a respectable wind energy producer and now Science reports that West Virginia is a geothermal hot spot.
Researchers have uncovered the largest geothermal hot spot in the eastern United States. According to a unique collaboration between Google and academic geologists, West Virginia sits atop several hot patches of Earth, some as warm as 200˚C and as shallow as 5 kilometers. If engineers are able to tap the heat, the state could become a producer of green energy for the region…
The find was a surprise to the scientists themselves as well as to local experts. “Nobody expected West Virginia to show up as a hot spot,” says SMU’s Maria Richards, a geothermal expert and geographer. “Just last year, I thought West Virginia, geothermal energy–I didn’t put the two together,” adds West Virginia’s official state geologist, Michael Hohn, who didn’t participate in the study.
West Virginia could change, but…
Electricity is extremely cheap in West Virginia due to its abundant coal, so geothermal energy probably can’t compete for business from utilities there. But Hohn says the state’s extensive network of power lines makes it a good candidate for exporting electricity produced by geothermal power to nearby states such as Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
Madness to keep burning ‘cheap’ coal.
Oct 06 2010
Ohio Kills Benge for 1993 Murder
Ohio today killed its eighth prisoner this year, setting a state record. Michael Benge was executed for the brutal January, 1993 murder of his lover, Judith Gabbard, at 10:38 am.
The routine of state killing remains so pervasive that it’s unlikely you even noticed this execution, even though it was carried out in your name. Such is desensitization. In fact, there’s very little that was unusual about this execution. The execution ended 17 years of Benge’s confinement on death row. And yet again, it managed to dehumanized each of us.
Oct 06 2010
well said.
Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
~Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
Okay … is it just me … ? Since reading and discussing the many concepts in Tocque’s essay the other day, I’m now seeing either the word compassion, or the idea, all over the place! lol.
A scattering of sentences, maybe paragraphs, from here and there this morning, that leaped out at me as being especially well said… Follow me.
And, please! feel free to add any of your own pearls!
Oct 06 2010
People Power: European Activism & Constitutional Crises
All across Europe recently there have been wave after wave of co-ordinated general strikes and massive demonstrations showing a solidarity and a unity across unions representing different kinds of workers in different countries, different levels of skill, against austerity proposals by governments, that put to shame the levels of public street activism in the US and Canada.
Fresh off a summer lecturing in Greece and France, economist, author, and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Richard D. Wolff, well-known for his work on Marxian economics, economic methodology and class analysis, Yale University Ph.D. in Economics, and Professor at The New School University in New York City, gives his analysis on the massive European mobilizations and strikes. He also compares the US movement to the European one, and find the European workers to be much more advanced in their struggle.
This extraordinary unity is all built around a central demand which can be conveyed by their chief slogan: we are the working people who produce the profits, the goods, and the service of the capitalist economy; we are not going to pay for its crisis. And that’s really the central demand, that if the banks and the corporations and the speculations produced a crisis that working people had no role in-and I want to remind viewers that in Europe they didn’t even have the mortgage kind of crisis in European countries that we had here; it was a crisis of the banking sector, the financial, large corporations, and so on-the demand of the people is, we are not going to be made to pay. You’re not going to solve this economic crisis by having the government borrow money, throw the money at the banks and the big corporations, bail them out, and then make the mass of people pay by cutting government payrolls, by cutting government services, all those things called austerity.
Real News Network – October 05, 2010
European Workers Distance from US Through Action
Richard Wolff: European workers say they won’t pay for crisis while US counterparts talk of ‘One Nation
(transcript below)
Oct 06 2010
North Wales MP’s – U.S. Veterans Courts – PTSD – Justice
An important report on a Europeans review of Veterans, U.S. Veterans Courts, PTSD and Justice and Help for!
This is the type of lead the rest of the World used to look to the U.S. for, we were never perfected but working that way, and many here were once so good at it. Sadly this issue is another that comes out of our recent failed policies of destruction and terror waged on others, DeJa-Vu all over again. But shows that those who deplored our actions recently, and have been turning their backs to us in many area’s including economic, are finding some of the old America and it’s once Leadership Role in the World Community as we try to rebuild what we’ve lost and move back in the right direction!!
Oct 06 2010
Reform of Any Sort Comes with a Margin of Error
The 1961 Luis Buñuel film, Viridiana, concerns the pious exploits of a young nun who lives in a small village. Meaning to do good in imitation of Jesus’ ministry, Viridiana leaves the convent and decides to take charge of the moral education of the village’s paupers. Despite her best intentions, she finds herself exploited, abused, and taken advantage of at every possible turn. Efforts undertaken to educate the village paupers in morality are an exercise in futility, a clear example of throwing pearls before swine. After the combined shock of multifarious trauma, Viridiana (Latin for Green) seemingly succumbs to the sin of the world by the film’s conclusion. Noted reviewer Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote at the time: “The theme is that well-intended charity can often be badly misplaced by innocent, pious people. Therefore, beware of charity.”
Oct 06 2010
Muse in the Morning
 Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
–Christopher Morley |
 In Flight |
Oct 06 2010
Don’t Let the Russ Feingolds Go Down For the Sins of the Blanche Lincolns
In trying to get one-time Obama supporters to volunteer for the November election, I often hear this refrain: “The Democrats have sold us out. I’m tired of their spinelessness, their subservience to corporate interests. I’m staying home to teach them a lesson.” Not everyone responds this way, but enough do to make me worry, because if these people don’t show up and work to get others to vote, it could make the difference in race after neck-and-neck race, as a similar withdrawal of Democratic volunteers and voters did in 1994. As I’ve written, we either get past our broken hearts to help elect the best possible candidates between now and November, or cede even more power to the most destructive interests in America.
Oct 06 2010
DeMint’s GOP would install Morality Police in Public Education …
Ed Schultz covers the latest DeMint Plan
Ed then interviews “openly gay” Rep. Jared Polis (CO);
and then “openly blunt” Rep. Alan Grayson (FL), to get their takes on this new DeMint Lunacy.
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