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Graphics handling programs aren’t typically much fun to use, as in slick, cool, stylish… Picasa has pioneered in that arena since version 1.
They’ve really outdone themselves with the latest version (3). Go grab this right now! Make sure you let Picasa handle the JPG files on your computer, giving it permission to be the [...]

Naomi Klein speaks at the University of Chicago, the birthplace of the ideas that are now crashing down all around Wall Street, Main Street, and Washington, D.C. (transcript from DemocracyNow.org):
When Milton Friedman turned ninety, the Bush White House held a birthday party for him to honor him, to honor his legacy, in 2002, and everyone [...]

This morning, Amy Goodman interviewed one of the Congressional Representatives voting on the $700 Billion corporate welfare bailout, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). Amid the wails and cries of crisis, hear a voice of reason. Here are selections from the rush transcript:
This is a copy of the bill which will provide for a $700 billion bailout [...]

The ever-prescient Naomi Klein prognosticates again:
I wrote The Shock Doctrine in the hopes that it would make us all better prepared for the next big shock. Well, that shock has certainly arrived, along with gloves-off attempts to use it to push through radical pro-corporate policies (which of course will further enrich the very players who [...]

UPDATE (9-21-2008):
NEW YORK TIMES financial columnists Floyd Norris and Gretchen Morgenson discussed what bailouts entail. Morgenson said:

“The ugly thing about this is privatizing gains and socializing losses. So when things are going well, the managements make out, the shareholders make out, the counterparties are fine. All the private sector people do well. But when [...]

This can’t be good. If Alan Greenspan can’t find anything good to say about the economy, it must be pretty bad. Not a pleasant thought, but deep recession and/or depression may be just around the corner.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan offered a woeful outlook of America’s economic situation on Sunday, saying the crisis with [...]