A Day Without Rain

Ooooooh, that was a trick title. This is actually a post about LINKS!

...Cause if you remember correctly, that is one of this blog's purposes. So let's link to things!

"The Terrorists Still at Ground Zero." This is an article from Counterpunch yesterday by Alexander Cockburn, a very fine if Trotskyish fellow. It begins by telling us this:

Terrorism flourishes brazenly at Ground Zero, in the new 7 World Trade Center building. Here can be found a secretive entity of fabulous wealth and power. Kingdom and corporations alike tremble at its shadow and make haste to pay it tribute.

I refer to Moodys Investor Services, wholly owned subsidiary of Moody's Corporation, which reported $2 billion in revenues in 2006.On January 10 Moody's, in concert with the other main bond rating firm, Standard and Poor's, gave the United States its top AAA credit rating. The terrorist blackmail threat came in the form of a demand by Moody's that the U.S. government "reform" Social Security and Medicare: "In the very long term, the rating could come under pressure if reform of Medicare and Social Security is not carried out as these two programs are the largest threats to the long-term financial health of the United States and to the government's Aaa rating."

...and goes on to tell us even more. Reccomended reading!

Food Insects Dot Com. I wish this site had more information than it did, because this is a very important and interesting topic. It would be a perfectly fine thing I think if we all ate 30 or 50 times as many bugs as we do, and I'm not even talking about shrimp and crabs. There was a good article on Alternet about this the other day, and it talked about other important things too.

Libcom.org. Libcom as in Libertarian Communism. It was here that I recently found and read the full text of Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, and maybe you should read it too.

Speaking of books, I like this thing: Good Reads. It is a social-site-thing where you talk about the books you're reading. I started mine for the books I am reading as of 2008. But I tend to read like half a dozen books at the same time so I don't know if it will work (in the last week and a half for example I got myself 20 new books and have started maybe half of them).

Well. That should be enough links to last anyone a long time. Good bye everybody, and Goodbye, Fidel.