The Hames Report
These items are brief introductory descriptions to items on "The Hames Report" blog. Click on a "read more" link to see the blog entry and any comments, or visit the blog at fiveliteracies.typepad.com
Alligators basking off the English coast; a vast Brazilian desert; the mythical lost cities of Saigon, New Orleans, Venice and Mumbai; and 90 per cent of humanity vanished. Welcome to the world warmed by 4°C. Clearly this is a vision...
[ Read Post (new window) ]The fatal flaw in the current global warming debate is that most of the key players are singing off the wrong song sheet. Current policy proposals are based on scientific information which at least five years out-of-date. The latest information...
[ Read Post (new window) ]In a previous posting some weeks ago I suggested that the US model of capitalism, fuelled by easy credit, driven by greed, and populated by a deluge of complicated financial products that few people even pretend to understand, is doomed....
[ Read Post (new window) ]The Context:Based on debt and compounded interest on debt, funded by the wealthy seeking even greater wealth, dependent upon easy credit leading to easy consumption, driven by an insatiable desire for more of everything and resulting in unprecedented material comfort...
[ Read Post (new window) ]The whole drama of human history is enacted in a frame of meaning too large for human comprehension or management Last month the acknowledged rate of unemployment in the US rose to a 25-year high of over 8 per cent...
[ Read Post (new window) ]Networks of beliefThe Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people, said Moshe Yaalon, the then Israel Defence Forces (IDF) chief-of-staff in 2002. The war launched by Israel in...
[ Read Post (new window) ]It is 2am and I am exhausted. Barely two hours ago Suna and I were among thousands of other revellers at Patong Beach in Phuket. We had come together for one purpose - to greet the New Year.The air was...
[ Read Post (new window) ]All over the world, in dissimilar cultures and traditions, institutions of higher learning have an aspiration (possibly sometimes felt as a moral obligation) to lead. Often this remains just an unfulfilled goal. There are good reasons for that.As a result...
[ Read Post (new window) ]Starting around 8 years ago, business corporations and governments alike entered an unprecedented period of uncertainty, frustrating ambiguity, and disruptive change. At the time we probably did not really understand what was going on. But what initially seemed like just...
[ Read Post (new window) ]The financial turbulence spreading across the world, which is now infecting both developed and emerging economies, is giving rise to a language rarely used by wary bankers. Phrases like “the largest financial crisis of its kind in human history” from...
[ Read Post (new window) ]