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There's A Property In Panama Where Trump Has Collected Somewhere Around $30 Million Just From Selling His Name To This Property - It's Somewhere Between $30 Million And $50 Million. It Would Be So Easy For A Developer To Slap On An Extra $6 Million To A Trump Licensing Deal And Have That Be A Backdoor Bribe. Who Are We To Say What That Is Worth? It's So Ephemeral. And This Is The Appeal Of Selling Something As Ephemeral As A Brand Name, Is That It Can Be Inflated Beyond All Reason.

Like Russia's Gangsterism And Bush's Cronyism, Contemporary Iraq Is A Creation Of The Fifty-year Crusade To Privatize The World. Rather Than Being Disowned By Its Creators, It Deserves To Be Seen As The Purest Incarnation Yet Of The Ideology That Gave It Birth.

I See The Gap Ads As Being A Great Example Of How Branding Has Changed. Those Gap Campaigns Are Pop Culture. They've Been Incredibly Powerful. They Have Had The Kind Of Effect On Culture That A Hit Band Has. Just Look At The Gap's Khaki Swing Ads, Which Were Music Videos. They Had This Tremendous Impact On The Industry - Suddenly Everything Started Looking Like Gap Ads And It Became Difficult To Know Who Was Co-opting Whom And Who Was Creating Culture.

One Of The Most Disturbing Ways That Climate Change Is Already Playing Out Is Through What Ecologists Call "mismatch" Or "mistiming." This Is The Process Whereby Warming Causes Animals To Fall Out Of Step With A Critical Food Source, Particularly At Breeding Times, When A Failure To Find Enough Food Can Lead To Rapid Population Losses.

A Term Like Capitalism Is Incredibly Slippery, Because There's Such A Range Of Different Kinds Of Market Economies.