Monthly Archives: December 2010

Ecce Homo: A Critique Of Jesus

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa ut cognoscatis quia in eo nullam causam invenio et purpureum vestimentum et dicit eis ecce homo Jesus therefore came forth, bearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. And he saith to them: … Continue reading

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Some December 25th Notables And The Sermon On The Mount

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Some December 25th Notables 6/5 B.C.E: Birth of Jesus Christ 1642 C.E: The birth of Isaac Newton (Death of Galilio Galilei, adjusting for the calendar) 1776 C.E: George Washington Begins the Crossing of the … Continue reading

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Stability In Yamoussoukro

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (To the people of Côte d’Ivoire) “Fiers Ivoiriens, le pays nous appelle. Si nous avons dans la paix ramené la liberté, Notre devoir sera d’être un modèle De l’espérance promise à l’humanité, En forgeant, … Continue reading

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American Elitism

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa There is a lot that is common knowledge about elitism in America. That it was founded by the Puritans on the Mayflower manifest who had disembarked on the shores of the New World on … Continue reading

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How To Restore Clintonomics?

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Clintonomics is seminally characterized by two features: first, a steady rise in domestic U.S financial and housing asset prices and second, rapid financial globalization around the world. And these two features were intimately connected … Continue reading

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The Politics of Gender (In The United States And In Uganda)

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The Torah, Leviticus וְאֶת-זָכָר—לֹא תִשְׁכַּב, מִשְׁכְּבֵי אִשָּׁה: תּוֹעֵבָה, הִוא. Lev.18,22    Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind; it is abomination. וְאִישׁ, אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁכַּב אֶת-זָכָר מִשְׁכְּבֵי אִשָּׁה—תּוֹעֵבָה עָשׂוּ, שְׁנֵיהֶם; מוֹת יוּמָתוּ, דְּמֵיהֶם בָּם. … Continue reading

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Two Views of an Empire of Liberty

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa “Even those as aristocratic as the wealthy slaveholding planter William Byrd and Francis Fauquier, a colonial governor of Virginia, conceded that all men, even men of different nations and races, were born equal and … Continue reading

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My Federal Reserve Memo On Institutional Racism At The Fed And Implications For America’s Future

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Below is a verbatim version of the internal memo that I had written in response to a request to Federal Reserve employees by then Fed Governor Mark Olson in 2003. I remain the author … Continue reading

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The State Of America And The World

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (This article is an edited version of my responses in an email discussion on the Pickens Plan social network) As the ritual of the State of the Union approaches once again, it could be … Continue reading

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Bernanke On 60 Minutes, Take 2

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (My writing in italics) The Chairman of the Federal Reserve Benjamin Bernanke was on 60 minutes, again. This time to defend more than explain the Fed’s policy of quantitative easing to the rest of … Continue reading

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