Failed States

I have been on holiday the past week and when I am not working I try to read as many books as I can get my hands on. Since I just finished reading the Shock Doctrine, I would go to the next book on my read to-do list, Noam Chomsky’s, Failed States, The abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy.

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Posted by Carlos Gabaldon on December 31, 2007 | 0 Comments | Filed under  democracy  US    shock

Democratic socialism

I just finished reading Naomi Klein’s amazing new book The Shock Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. In the The Shock Doctrine, Naomi explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world—through the exploitation of disaster-shock

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Posted by Carlos Gabaldon on December 23, 2007 | 0 Comments | Filed under  democracy  politics  shock  




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    I am on the fence with Captcha, it works, but usability can be a problem. Thanks for the l..
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    You don’t like CAPTCHAs?

    Here are some funny ones:

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    Not that I am aware of, but I will splunk Sinatra a bit to see what I find…
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    Is there a way to change the HAML config with Sinatra?..