Archive for the 'Globalization' Category
Now we know the Mall owners are scared, really scared, of new competition (revised 15 November 2007)
Here’s an interesting and important legal decision that will have some very real urban design/architectural implications. It’s yet another example of small, local and very particularized developments eclipsing centralized, consolidated, and homogenized ones.
It’s also interesting from another point of view: what information we get from this lawsuit. Lawsuits are actually very [...]
First, there were several stories of toothpaste containing diethylene glycol (DEG) in China.
OK, well, we have the FDA here right? They investigate stuff like this, so we are safe right?
John Robb’s book Brave New War is out, for awhile now, and I’ve just read some excerpts and reviews. I have every expectation that it is an excellent book, but of course I do have to read it first. I had enjoyed being a frequent commentator over at Global Guerillas and I enjoyed [...]
Some new developments that reinforce an observation I’d made that the emerging world-wide IP landscape will become one that is divided into two differing regimes. One, centered on the USA, is built on strong restrictions on the free transfer of certain types of information. The two cornerstones of this restricted space are [...]
Well this “headline as a question thing” that I had mentioned in my post of May 15th seems to have caught on, or perhaps I have just become attuned to it so I notice it more, in the San Jose Mercury, Why U.S. doesn’t stop tainted food from China, (not technically a question, but it’s [...]
Food Safety has become a hot topic, and it looks like it might play a role in the upcoming election, from some of the sound bites from Hillary. And not a moment too soon, as the long neglect coupled with the effects of our highly centralized (and ever increasingly globalised) food supply are ripe [...]
With, as a special bonus, a pop quiz to test the e_f reader…
Since they passed their pet food test with flying colors, it seems the USDA is considering allowing China to import chickens, for human consumption. Nothing, apparently, can stop the relentless wave of globalized ‘free trade’ certainly not something so stupid [...]
Well, it seems that the number of bees dying is increasing, and has spread to Canada and to Europe. It’s hardly possible that a pesticide is responsible, given the differing usage patterns among EU and North America. The event has already become critical, as just a little less than about 1/3 of the [...]
Well, as expected, another country has joined Thailand in threatening to “break the patent” for Merck’s Efavirenz. Bloomberg has some reporting of the dispute, and it’s filled with sideways adjectives describing the dispute in a quite stilted way. But this is to be expected, after all someone is trying to buck the patent [...]
Courtesy of Yale Global Online, here is a round-up of some top environmental stories. Of course, there is the usual parade of stories about global warming, but one in particular by Rick Weiss at the Washington Post caught my eye:
Rice Industry Troubled by Genetic Contamination
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 11, 2007; [...]
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