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New Economics Post

March 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Europe, Finance, Globalization, Immigration, Law, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/04/new-economics-post/’,size:‘large’} I’ve pub­lished a new post at the Return of the Great Depres­sion blog on how the grow­ing eco­nomic cri­sis in the Euro­pean Union may frac­ture the nascent sense of continental unity.

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New Economics Blog

March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Conservative Pundits, Economics, Europe, Finance, Globalization, Israel, Personal, Politics, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/01/new-economics-blog/’,size:‘large’} I am now a co-blogger on Euro­pean and Mid­dle East eco­nom­ics at the web­site in sup­port of “The Return of the Great Depres­sion” by lib­er­tar­ian, Austrian-school econ­o­mist and polit­i­cal pun­dit Vox Day (blog, col­umn archive).
Of course, I have com­plete free­dom to write what I want, so I encour­age my […]

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Stratfor’s Top Predictions for the “2010s”

February 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Business, China, Economics, Europe, Finance, Globalization, Russia

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/stratfors-top-predictions-for-the-next-decade-china-collapse-global-labor-shortages-new-american-dominance/’,size:‘large’} Sam’s always pre­dict­ing gloom and doom for the US econ­omy (often while mys­te­ri­ously tout­ing that of Israel).  So, I thought I’d share STRATFOR’S TOP PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEXT DECADE: China Col­lapse, Global Labor Short­ages, New Amer­i­can Dom­i­nance.
Indeed, the US does face some real issues (not actu­ally men­tioned by Business […]

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Globalization of Identity

February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Britain, Culture, Economics, Education, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Immigration, Israel, Japan, Language, Law, Personal, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/globalized-identity/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — When I was a pre-teen and teenager, I took ten­nis lessons at Oak Hill Coun­try Club (now closed) in Belleville, Illi­nois, and was later on my high school’s team for two years before my new­found pas­sions for jour­nal­ism and the Model U.N. took more of my time.
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The Death of Food

February 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Europe, Food, Global Warming, Globalization, The Boston Globe

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/08/the-death-of-food/’,size:‘large’} French tra­di­tional cheeses dying out?  Say it ain’t so!
Still another vic­tim of glob­al­iza­tion.
Don’t get me wrong: glob­al­iza­tion has its perks, and I’m not going to be riot­ing at G8 or WTO con­fer­ences any­time in the fore­see­able future, but Big Gov­ern­ment, Big Ag, and super­mar­kets are killing small farms and diversity […]

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The Misandry Bubble

January 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Feminism, Globalization, Immigration, Islam, Law, Politics, Religion, Sex

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/04/the-misandry-bubble/’,size:‘large’} Here is your required read­ing for the day. Here is the nut graph:
The West­ern World has qui­etly become a civ­i­liza­tion that under­val­ues men and over­val­ues women, where the state forcibly trans­fers resources from men to women cre­at­ing var­i­ous per­verse incen­tives for oth­er­wise good women to con­duct great evil against men and children, […]

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World in 2025

December 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Books, Britain, Business, China, Culture, Economics, Education, Energy, Europe, Globalization, Islam, Oil, Politics, Religion, Russia, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/27/world-in-2025/’,size:‘large’} So I recently came across a report writ­ten last year by the U.S. National Intel­li­gence Coun­cil on what the world may look like in sev­en­teen years. Here is a summary:

The whole inter­na­tional system—as constructed […]

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How to Fight Terror

December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Afghanistan, Blogosphere, Culture, Education, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Hizbollah, Immigration, Iran, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Marketing, Media, Palestine, Politics, Religion, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/24/fighting-al-qaeda/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — For­eign Pol­icy looks at how Al-Qaeda recruits fol­low­ers:
…al Qaeda suc­ceeds because, for more than two decades, the net­work has waged a suc­cess­ful infor­ma­tion cam­paign that pushes its mes­sage out to the world as effec­tively asym­met­ri­cal as its use of sui­cide bombers on the battlefield.

The most impor­tant point […]

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Moving to Israel

December 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Boston, Business, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Essays, Europe, Globalization, Health, Immigration, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Language, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Religion, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/23/moving-to-israel-2/’,size:‘large’} Eighth in a series of essays
JERUSALEM — In an edi­to­r­ial, the Jerusalem Post cor­rectly points out the rea­son that more Amer­i­can Jews do not move to Israel:
THE OBSTACLE to Amer­i­can aliya [mov­ing to Israel] is not finan­cial. It is cul­tural. Amer­i­can Jews live their Jew­ish lives dif­fer­ently from anyone […]

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Nationality

November 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Britain, Civil Liberties, Culture, Europe, Globalization, Immigration, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/11/04/nationality/’,size:‘large’} In a prior post, I addressed the cul­tural nihilism in the United King­dom that might be a result of the dis­ap­pear­ance of a “British” iden­tity (as opposed to “Eng­lish,” “Welsh,” or “Scot­tish”). Now, after decades of immi­gra­tion, the French gov­ern­ment has unveiled a con­tro­ver­sial “What is French?” web­site. I […]

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Cultural Nihilism

October 24th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Britain, Business, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Economics, Education, Entertainment, Europe, Globalization, Health, Immigration, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Law, Music, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War on Terror

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LONDON and JERUSALEM — The Daily Mail reports on efforts to change British drink­ing habits (and includes, of course, sev­eral tabloid-worthy pic­tures):
Such scenes are not uncom­mon, which is why Cardiff — one of the country’s worst cities for binge drink­ing — has just banned booz­ing on the streets.
The crackdown […]

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Angry Young Men

October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Education, Environment, Finance, Global Warming, Globalization, Liberal Pundits, Politics, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/10/07/angry-young-men/’,size:‘large’} Thomas Fried­man is start­ing to under­stand why my gen­er­a­tion is so upset:
I am a 56-year-old baby boomer, and look­ing around today it’s very clear that my gen­er­a­tion had it easy: We grew up in the shadow of just one bomb — the nuclear bomb…
But there are now two other bombs […]

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Stratfor Updates

September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Europe, Globalization, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Law, Oil, Palestine, Politics, Russia, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/09/22/stratfor-updates/’,size:‘large’} For pol­icy wonks and international-relations enthu­si­asts, Strat­for Global Intel­li­gence is a polit­i­cal dream-come-true. I usu­ally agree with their analy­ses, but they are still insight­ful when I do not. (Strat­for is a group of hard-core real­ists who some­times dis­count the role that irra­tional ide­ol­ogy plays in the inter­na­tional arena.)
Here are […]

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Rule of International Law

September 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Economics, Finance, Globalization, Iraq, Law, Politics, The Middle East, War

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/09/20/rule-of-international-law/’,size:‘large’} The White House is propos­ing global mea­sures (update here) to pre­vent another eco­nomic cat­a­stro­phe like the one the world is expe­ri­enc­ing:
Pres­i­dent Barack Obama said tougher finan­cial reg­u­la­tions are needed world­wide to pro­tect con­sumers, pro­vide eco­nomic sta­bil­ity and pre­vent future crises.
With the lead­ers from the Group of 20 nations set […]

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Death of Nation-States

July 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Boston, Britain, Culture, Economics, Education, Europe, Globalization, Journalism, Law, Massachusetts, Media, Personal, Politics

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Com­ing Anar­chy offers a hypo­thet­i­cal map of how Europe may look in ten years:
Even if only a few of these microstates were to be born, it could have seri­ous con­se­quences region­ally, transat­lanti­cally and glob­ally. In Europe, it would sud­denly cre­ate a host of rich and poor states, which their previous […]

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