the daily musings, experiences, critical reflections and responses of a desi woman, navigating our world systems, one chai sip at a time.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

What makes cents/ sense?

Articles of interest... interest as in, accruing more knowledge for the stealth, more wealth for the wealthy, in the future of course.

...ruminating to come...


A) If we are in and were in and were heading towards a predicted economic crisis/ recession/ bubble burst, then why did we spend 700 million dollars ON the world's largest EMBASSY? On Monday, Jan 5th, we...
"Inaugurated the largest - and most expensive - embassy ever built."

That's the U.S. embassy in Iraq folks! And here! Gawd even foxnews had some quotations from people shedding negative light on this hypocritical development.

"The idea of an embassy this huge, this costly, and this isolated from events taking place outside its walls is not necessarily a cause for celebration," architectural historian Jane Loeffler wrote in Foreign Affairs in 2007."



B) Speaking of inaugurations... isn't there one coming up? That's right, Mr. Hussein will take the oath before 12 Noon on Tuesday, Jan 20th. That means for peeps in the West Coast, we gotta wake up hella/ hecka early yo. (How's my Bay Area talk working?) So, um, I might not go to work on time, so I can join in some U.S. nationalism and change (all at once), and weep for this black man.

and weep because this country has been in such bad shape.

So, hey! What's Michelle gonna wear? Doh! Seriously? Let's ask Vogue?


C) Old news, but refresh your page please, as some letter writing in some reproductive justice groups is happening...

did you know that... if you are a young immigrant girl or woman, ages 11-26, trying to enter or permanently reside in the U.S. you have to have the HPV Vaccination? Mandatory!

Nothing more exciting than an extra $360 to your immigration application. Thanks medical-industrial-pharmaceutical friends, like Merck, who did much of its clinical testing of this vaccine in India. And here for more mainstream coverage on Merky-waters.



Anyways, enuf for this colored girl whose rainbow is shutting down for the night, shange.

Peace!

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