Human Tetris - amazing game show
Passive Aggressive Notes - 'nuf said
Spring is coming, and what better way to celebrate the blossoms, blooms, and rain than to keep bees! I'm very excited to settle down and keep bees myself. I'm a bit of an apiphile (?) and recommend Betty's Bee School brought to you by the RI Beekeepers Association (of which I am a member). I took the class last year. Well worth the $45 if you've got the interest and passion for hive insects like I do.
The Armenian Presidential elections were held last week - full of third world dramarama. Levon claims they were rigged, but I've been talking with my Armo bretheren up in Canada who argue that it was the private media companies which pretty much all sided with Serzh's campaign that gave Serzh the win. People have been camping in the streets of Yerevan and in Hanreptutian Hraparak (Republic Square) in support of Levon... Exciting amounts of passion for fair election processes and democracy, or another case of people with post-Soviet unemployment & needing an outlet for frustration (and time consumption)? I think it's a lot of both.
I'm pretty sure most of these numbers are bogus and inflated.
And how do we want to measure Progress? GNP? or GNH? or GPI? How long can our current methods of gaining economic progress continue before we use up all of our natural resources and destroy our squishy (delicious) brains? The third world hasn't caught on to this "green is the new black" trend, and their economic development is rooted in the same economic theories and formulas that have corrupted, polluted, and left so many in poverty here in the "developed" world.
Maybe I've been reading too much Kalle Lasn.
Go out for a long walk today! Look around. Do you love what you see?
xoxo
Carla
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bah, commented on the wrong post.
"The Armenian Presidential elections were held last week - full of third world dramarama."
After the 2000 US election fiasco, the only elections Yanks can call third world are the ones held by bat shit crazy dictators where the only choices are giving them another term or be executed. haha
"And how do we want to measure Progress? GNP? or GNH? or GPI? How long can our current methods of gaining economic progress continue before we use up all of our natural resources and destroy our squishy (delicious) brains?"
Good question. I believe for now Armenia should follow textbook Keynesian economic policy and raise the average standard of living higher,(which from the low level it is at now will raise overall happiness) while cracking down harder on illegal polluting by mines and illegal logging.
Nice Blog!
exactly my point in another argument not yet featured on this blog: How dare the US claim to "spread democracy" and encourage "free elections" when our system is royally fucked, from the organization of the voting system to disenfranchisement to the actual voting machines themselves.
I'm with you, Eddy.
OOOhhh... but if you start with the classic economic models, it's so much harder to change later! But - Hayastan already has a very clearly defined corruption policy in place, no?
xoxo
Carla
This just in from Tamar (who has been living in Armenia and nearby countries for the past year)
An Appeal to the International Community:
http://www.a1plus.am/en/?page=issue&iid=58522
"OOOhhh... but if you start with the classic economic models, it's so much harder to change later! But - Hayastan already has a very clearly defined corruption policy in place, no?"
Good point. You can't have rampant corruption and implement a standard capitalist economy; Argentina in 2001 and Russia in the late ninties are proof of that. Is the level of corruption rampant enough to cause a similar economic crash in Armenia? Only the people in power know; however the opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrossian claims 3-4 billion dollars have been squandered. Then again his government was even more corrupt than the one thats currently in power, so he's not a very credible source. Because of how these elections were handled and since the Armenian economy will continue to grow at least over the next few years, I hope there will be a more politically involved and larger middle class formed to bring about the changes our country deserves in the next election.
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