Jerusalem

Cool stones, silent stones, and warm stones.
Silent streets, noisy streets.
Quiet nights, noisy nights.

Dark streets, history built in blood
and from Mt. Olives I see the dome.
I can hear the Prayer of my people from the Wall for
the last thousand years to a God who has deserted us.

The stones tell histories, long histories, short histories,
histories of the stones.

In my early years I walked the night in narrow streets,
to go and pray in symbols. The silence
of thousand years spoke in the stones.

I can't forget the silence of the spring.
In the underground, the belly of the mountain
carrying the river of the history of silence.

Only the symbols of the stone
and the exile, the self-exile, my exile
from Jerusalem.

City of a thousand years, a thousand nights,
a thousand days, clear sky, blue sky
of the exile.

Only the silence of the stones, left stones
for a thousand years' silence, in the exile
only the silence is the symbol of the
stones.

Yes Mr Friedman, the world is not flat and they are consequences
From the delays of the Dream Liner of Boeing or GM motors closing production of cars due to the tragic event in Japan. The fiction and wishfully thinking the open trade will have cheap labour brings consumer price down. The lessons are more complicated, with the new religion in 1980´s by Regan and early by Nixon, the market will decided and by this action production will be in a new pedestal.
Clinton NAFTA made tangible and consequence. North Caroline and many textile production move to Mexico, with economic crises and cost in pennies moving to other places in Central America eventually, China and Vietnam.
The workers in this case, many had to move to less well paying jobs or just become unemployment, the economic crises culminated in 2008, from the no regulation. Modern economy depending on commodities, itself finite, Oil, showing a limitation, due to political in the words of the Daily Show: “Why God hate us so much, the Oil we need to run our economy is on the hands people who does hate us so much.”
As the working class become extincted in US and the West in general (Germany and France still have working class), with a non-boundary technology like Internet the next hit is the white collar worker, the data centers in India.
Many Arguments is the US should work on innovation, but like any innovation with the Japan crises many of the Microchips are being stop, the car suppliers had stop producing parts for GM and other car manufactures a consequences of not having a native manufacture base any more. It is not not enough to created innovation, if the tools are not in place, we can not predict consequence is the catastrophic situation in Japan, more over show when you depended to the outside in the delivery and production, the free market fantasy come to end, next stop a more Sustainable Economy, local and green. The ones who had benefit from this model, in the 90´s many of this companies who move out, with the low cost, the managers and share holders, but now everyone is paying a price, minus the same managers they get tax payer bailout.