Cyprus. The country, not the tree. My bad.

http://rt.com/

This website is also fascinating. They carry the Keiser Report as well.

IN this morning's Calgary Herald, there was a full page infomercial about CETA, and one of the lines was about providing access for Canadian workers to  the European Union which is the largest single labour market in the world -- I hope many other readers saw the irony of such a selling point as it also meant those large number of unemployed Europeans would now be able to work here, lowering their unemployment rate and raising ours.  Thank you ninjaferry for the links.

I will watch it.

A major concern of mine is the intergenrational inequalities. Before we had public pensions and health care, the elderly were more likely to suffer poverty.  While the young worker who had a job was relatively well off. 

Today with medicare, pensions, the high cost of buying a home, student debt, the elderly are doing better, while young people often are lacking in money to support their children, and or work two jobs, or a lot of overtime.   Since only the young by and large have children, they two suffere from this reverse of fortunes between the old and the young. Howevr it does not mean the old are stealing from the young, but that we to do something to help the young, as in cheap tuition, and somehow making hpousing cheaper.

dangerous is good :3

another lovely sentient to sup on

Tyler Cowen "The Great Stagnation":