Monthly Archives: June 2012

The Individual Mandate

Reblogged from One World: By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa One World welcomes the 5-4 ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States upholding Obamacare while leaving the health safety net open for further reform in the interest … Continue reading

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A “Magnitsky Act” For America?

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (Sergei Magnitsky) Awash in cash, the world is, once again, corrupt. In 2009, a Russian anti-corruption lawyer named Sergei Magnitsky, allegedly died of torture in Russian jails for reporting and fighting against Russian … Continue reading

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Comment: Future Of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) As A Measure Of The Future We Want

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa This morning Helen Clark, Administrator of United Nations Development Program (UNDP), has hosted in Rio de Janeiro a dialog between a few heads of state and some panelists about the future of Gross … Continue reading

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What Is Development?

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, wants to sound like Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel: it must, therefore, it will. I can relate to Elie Wiesel. I am an internally displaced … Continue reading

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Fox And Chicken Coop Economics

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Aesop was an Ethiopian slave who wandered the Greek isles in antiquity dispensing wisdom for the amusement of the people and his owners. The oeikos, was never about Socrates’ search for meaning and … Continue reading

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Obama’s Love Of Country

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa We all know presidents are presidents because they love our country. Syria is a humanitarian disaster. Russia is holding Iran’s hand into a potential Syrian resolution as people keep getting killed in a … Continue reading

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Rio Centro, 2012

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 13, 2012 – Transcendence is a word whose meaning eludes many people. Its metaphysics may be inspirational, and beguiling enough to be aspirational, but its reality is what … Continue reading

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Reforming Monetary And Financial Regulatory Institutions

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Today’s press conference by President Barack Obama about the economy, suggests that the White House has lost confidence in the Federal Reserve as an institution whose responsibility it is to recover the US … Continue reading

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Ister

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (Ister, A Review) At the end of the road of German modern philosophers beginning with Hegel comes Heidegger, the last thinker to explain the then German and European zeitgeist of the rise of … Continue reading

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US Economy: Key Performance Indicators (KPI) And Accountability

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa President Barack Obama, a man who likes to run his government based on the measured performance of his appointees in the various agencies, in his press conference cited the creation of about 4 … Continue reading

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