A full year of songs: 2010

Here is a great simple song from Donovan... another example of how small songs can be great songs.

And, while enjoying, read “The GPS and the AAAs” at http://bit.ly/ckNpoP

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Lamento Borincano

Aqui va la primera... me reservo el derecho de mejorarla... me reservo el derecho de sustituirla por otra si surgen problemas con permisos.

LA LETRA

May 16, 2010 today is the date!

Today is that day, my sixtieth birthday and I must confess that I find myself more than a bit surprised by that fact.

As a present to myself I will start posting one song played with guitar and harmonica, daily, for a whole year.

I mean if someone could do that with the cooking of Julia Child, how could it not be done with so much beautiful music and that, though so full of sentiments, has the added value of being low in those calories one should be careful with when hitting 60. (ok before that too)

I have not actually checked out whether there are 365 songs that I like and know how to play but, if I get to run low on inventories, perhaps you will be able to suggest some.

See you! Or, more correctly phrased... see and hear me!

PS. If this helps me spread my voice and noise on other concerns I have… the better. Imagine these things one has to do just because one is not a PhD! But, come to think of it, if a PhD I might have to behave like one, and perhaps would not be doing these other things I love.

Bartering Noise for Voice

Here I offer you plenty of noise for getting some voice… what a deal, please take it!

1st Issue Lousy Financial Regulations

In November 1999, in an Op-Ed in the Daily Journal of Caracas I wrote “The possible Big Bang that scares me the most is the one that could happen the day those genius bank regulators in Basel, playing Gods, manage to introduce a systemic error in the financial system, which will cause the collapse, of the only remaining bank in the world”

And the Big Bang, this monstrous financial crisis happened and I know exactly why, and yet, though I have written hundreds of letters to the Financial Times objecting Basel I, II and III they refuse me space to voice my arguments http://bit.ly/fa3JSH

Please have a look at http://teawithft.blogspot.com/,
especially under the label of subprime banking regulations.

You can also find many writings on this subject in
http://www.subprimeregulations.blogspot.com/

http://financefordevelopment.blogspot.com// and of course
http://www.theaaa-bomb.blogspot.com/

2nd Issue, Oil-Cursed Citizens

I come from an oil cursed country where the government is independently wealthy, does not need the citizen’s taxes and therefore treats the citizens as annoying beggars of favors.

The fight against the oil curse is being hijacked by some well intentioned ONGs and international organizations, many of them from oil consuming countries and who unfortunately have no real idea about what the oil curse really means.

As an example of that suffices to say that they establish among their explicit principles that oil revenues should be managed by governments in favor of the citizens, something which of course reduces the citizens to being mere recipients of whatever oil-sowing the bureaucrats feel like doing.

You can read more about this here:
http://theoilcurse.blogspot.com/

3rd Issue The environment.

The more you care or find yourself alarmed about the prospects for the environment the more you should care about that all the scarce resources are invested as efficiently as possible… and this does not seem to be the case with the majority of green groups who seem to want to throw whatever after their own pet-green solutions.

The more you believe there is a silly non-founded alarmism about the prospects for the environment, the more you should demand that all scarce resources invested in green projects meet at least some minimum standards of efficiency … and this does not seem to be the case with the majority of the skeptical who mostly shy away from their responsibility of providing some oversight.

If global warming, cooling, or just environmental degeneration is as real threat to humanity, as it could seem plausible, then even the poorest of the poor have the right as a human being in participating to confront that challenge, and should not be told… “You are too poor, innocent and irrelevant to it all to matter…. Let us the rich and develop handle it.”

You can read more about this here:
http://ourpiedaterre.blogspot.com/

4th… 5th…nth Many issues… which is why I need so many songs.

On the unsustainable Debt-Sustainability
On the lack of representation of the young ones

On the emigrants and the global working community

Points of view from the radical middle or the extreme center

And my one and only book Voice and Noise

Thanks

Per