AMERICA’S GIFT TO RUSSIAN GAS KINGS AND QUEENS

The logic is straightforward – NPR reports that the Ukraine government spends about 7.5 percent of the country’s GDP on gas through a subsidy to its citizens. Over 60 percent of Ukraine’s gas comes from Russia. Plus, Ukraine’s gas bill is overdue by more than USD 3 billion. Russia’s increases in the price of gas […]

UKRAINE, CRIMEA, RUSSIA AND US – BIZARRE LOVE RECTANGLE

With Russia’s endorsement and the curses of the European Union, Ukraine and America, Crimea will use the ballot box to decide whether or not it will be a part of Russia. And America is still running with the story of how Russia’s Crimea takeover is an illegal act worthy of sanctions! Yeah. Good luck […]

REPORT: US NAVY SEALS SHOT BIN LADEN HUNDREDS OF TIMES AFTER DEATH

Remember that dead serious White House Situation Room photo taken during the Bin Laden raid? We may now know why Team Obama looked so tense! Source: Daily Mail. song currently stuck in my head: “love the one you’re with (live)” – aretha franklin

THE PAST IS WORSE THAN YOU THINK: SPIES OF MISSISSIPPI

Here’s another reason why many Americans refuse to have a conversation about race—like reconciling a dysfunctional relationship, one or both sides get to discover more about the trifling stuff each other did! Shee, and who wants that?! Except there’s a big difference—what black folks wanted during the civil rights movement was far […]

FDA, STOP PLAYING…

The Food and Drug Administration has some big news: the new food product nutrition labels will feature calorie counts in larger font! Yep. Larger font. This way, you can have a bold look at how many grams of poison you could potentially put into your system… Come on, FDA! I know you guys […]

UKRAINE CONFUSION

I won’t spend too much time writing about the military situation in Ukraine today, but as usual, I want to hit a few points that the mainstream media and American foreign policy critics seem to be silent about. First, we’re talking about UKRAINE, folks! By the turn of the century, Ukraine may not even exist […]

AND THE 1 PERCENT CONTINUES TO TALK

Hearing the words “income inequality” spoken by members of the One Percent and their defenders – like economist Greg Mankiw, most recently – reminds me of the Julia Roberts movie Sleeping with the Enemy where the physically-abusive husband, played by Patrick Bergin, just finished smacking Roberts’ character around the house, and then refers to the […]

THE HOVA DILEMMA

Jay-Z’s paralyzing decision point about the next steps he should take in his upcoming venture with Barneys New York, given the store’s racially-scented harassment of young black shoppers, reminds me of a midnight stroll I took through Battery Park City’s North Cove marina a few months ago where I saw aspiring members of the […]

BLOGKEEPING NOTES – GETTING THERE…

You likely wouldn’t notice this, but I haven’t done much to promote this blog. In fact, with the exception of a very small handful of instances, I haven’t even told my online friends about mentalunrest. Of course I’m not ashamed of my posts, and I’m completely cool with folks finding and sharing my words. But […]

SHINY NEW WIRES WON’T FIX OBAMACARE

I still don’t get why we keep focusing on technology as Obamacare’s main problem, when technology problems are more likely the outgrowth of more fundamental issues. An early lesson I learned as a management consultant is that systems modeled after a crap strategy and equally bad business practices mean you will have chaos on […]