And now for a link to Terry Milewski

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Milewski's been reporting for CBC an awful long time. Maybe not for as long as Peter Mansbridge or Joe Schlesinger, but he's an eminence in his own right. Anyway, he's in Davos, Helvetia/Suisse/Switzerland at the moment...

Occupy Davos? Leaders greeted by doubts about capitalism

'Capitalism, in its current form, no longer fits the world around us,' forum's founder says

So...I'd like to sit in on any debates between Prof. Klaus Schwab and our current Prime Minister. My suspicion is that they'd be both instructive and entertaining.

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Corporate leaders as feudal lord-like figures?

This is something - if I remember a'right? - that David Brin in particular's been warning against in recent years' worth of blog postings. With cause. He's of the mind that "neo-feudalists" have captured the Republicans. We can argue later over who serves that cause on our side of the border.

And there was a reason that people don't remember the Roman Republic very well at all, wasn't there?