[DoDo],

Regrettably, your registration for the following forum was rejected: XY Forum

Greetings:
XY Forum Team.

Why?

Because of the email address!

What's wrong with it?

Maybe you think its double registration? Can't be: I find I did register once before four years ago, but that user ID no more exists according to the login page. So, what's the problem?

Greetings
[real name]

Please register again now!

It seems the idiot omitted the basic courtesy of giving the reason for rejection because he couldn't be bothered to actually check what's in his database... But, it seems the strategy of pestering admins until they say "just leave me alone" always works.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

The first one is from speaker.gov; the second sent by email by Sterling Newberry.

Then there is this, from Dean Baker, who suggests that the real numbers are worse than those announced, given that the models used to determine jobs seem to imply that more jobs were created by new firms in recent months than in the same period last year...:

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

NGLS Launches an online NGO Consultation on the Commission of Experts of the President of the General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System

n the wake of the global financial and economic crisis, the President of the UN General Assembly, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, set up a commission of experts chaired by Nobel Prize Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, whose mandate is to reflect on the causes of the crisis, assess its impacts on all countries and suggest adequate responses to avoid its recurrence and restore global economic stability. The "Commission of Experts of the President of the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System" (hereafter referred to as the "Commission on Financial Reforms") will produce a report whose recommendations will be considered in the preparatory process leading to the UN Conference at the highest level on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development called for in the final document adopted at the 2008 Doha Conference on Financing for Development.

The Office of the President of the General Assembly has asked NGLS to consult with civil society groups across the globe and to compile their views into a single report that will be presented to the Commission as an official input to their deliberations. This on-line consultation - open to all civil society organizations - was set up to support this effort.

To accomplish this task, NGLS is undertaking a three-week online consultation (23 January - 13 February) organized around the Commission's four Working Groups themes (financial regulation; multilateral issues; macroeconomic issues and addressing the crisis; and reforming the global financial architecture). After the consultation period concludes, NGLS will prepare a compilation report to be submitted to the Office of the President of the General Assembly as part of the preparations of the Commission's second meeting in March.

The consultation is structured around the four themes of the Commission's working group sessions. These are : (1) Financial regulation; (2) Multilateral issues; (3) Macro-economic issues and addressing the crisis; and (4) Reforming the global financial architecture. NGLS has prepared a general description and lead questions to guide inputs under each of these headings.
After the online consultation closes, NGLS will have 10 days to compile a report to be submitted to the Commission secretariat by 23 February. The report will not be a "consensus document" among NGOs, but a compilation of civil society proposals to reform the international financial and monetary system. The report will list the organizations that have contributed to the process.
NGLS will post substantive submissions on this website. The website will remain active for several months after the release of the report in order to serve as a resource for further dialogue and information sharing.
Guidelines for submissions:
Before preparing the submission, please respect the following guidelines:
1.    Please use the attached form to cut and paste the submission. When ready, press the submit button on the bottom of the page. Submissions should be sent no later than 13 February 2009.
2.    Please distinguish between:
(a)    Broad principles - e.g. the need to democratize global financial governance
(b)    Specific proposals - e.g. a new global reserve currency, how it would work and what it would be used for.
3.    Length: Participants are invited to comment on one or more sub-themes. However, contributions under each sub-themes should not exceed 1,000 words.
4.    Overlap: Some issues inevitably overlap between themes: in such case insert the proposal under the most relevant theme heading and indicate its possible connections with (an)other(s).

A man joins a Trappist Monastery, where monks are not allowed to speak, except for three words every five years.

At the end of the first five years the man stood up and said;

"Need new shoes"

At the end of the second five years he stood up and said;

"Need new mattress"

After fifteen years had passed he stood up and said,

"I am quitting!"

The Abbot said;

"It's probably for the best. You've done nothing but complain since you got here."

I need more pampering.

You can't be me, I'm taken

On the subject of Eton: Boris Johson is THE twit. Of course he is right about music education, but so was Hitler on many things - that does not make Hitler or Johnson, nor Tatcher or Blair a great politician! What a bullying uneducated Eton bastard can one be to ask for City Bankers to give their bonuses to charity. Tax them Boris, and you do not need all the charities that seem to save this country. The more charities a country has, the poorer their people! Got it Boris? Or are your brains far too small for reason?

Boris' friends from the Tories pay less tax then low income earners, they pay less tax then what low income earners give to charities.

Charities do not work, tax the rich! Let's hope that one day this country will understand this and join the rest of Europe, rather than being buried in poverty.

So yeah Fred's covered all the bases of Doom.

::

"Sandblasting Marx"
"A Marx revival seems to be under way, predating the current disarray on Wall Street, even though no clear-cut political options yet seem to propose themselves. [1] Sensible opportunists have welcomed any sign of sympathy for Marxian positions, without wanting to alienate the new converts (or returning fellow-travellers). The big ideological issues--anarchism, the party, economic planning, social classes--are still mainly avoided, on the grounds that they remind too many people of Communist propaganda. Such a reminder is unwanted, not so much because it is accompanied by the memory of deaths and violence (memory is fragile in postmodernity) as simply and less dramatically because such topics now appear boring." This guy is such a treat ...

"The Politics of Utopia"

"Fear and Loathing in Globalization"

"Future City"

"Globalization and Political Strategy"

"The Brick and the Balloon: Architecture, Idealism and Land Speculation"

"Marx's Purloined Letter"

"Marxism and Postmodernism"

"Introduction to Borge"

"Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" ...

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Contents are by subscription, GBP 34 p.a. But a Che Guiverra's biopic is now pay-per-view by cable, two installments, just USD 7.99.

I used to agree that ISP would reduce search costs, that was the technology's greatest contribution to mankind. Every year and every subscriber added since I've fewer reason to believe that's true.

What a grumpy day.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.

The full moon party is in two days. Apparently there are 10 stages including psytrance and drum n' bass stages so I'm set for the night.

you are the media you consume.