The newly released Shell Sustainability Report for 2011 says “Population growth and rising living standards are driving energy demand, contributing to increased environmental stresses. As the world becomes more crowded, the stresses between the essentials of life – water, food and energy – will become more critical. Energy production needs water, and providing enough water [...]
It’s an intrigue befitting the machinations of classical colonialism in past centuries, such as the Sykes-Picot carve-up of the Middle Eastern Levant territories, or the betrayal of the Arabs after World War I, or the theft of Mesopotamia’s oil by British capitalists. Only this time, it is Arabs who are helping the neocolonial powers to [...]
Monsanto’s disregard for human health is evidenced by their hazardous GMO crops and herbicides, but a shocking new report has revealed the company’s illegal ‘slave-like’ working conditions. Forcing slave workers to work the cornfields for 14 hours per day and buy their food (most likely GMO) at highly-inflated prices from the company store, Monsanto [...]
Monsanto is not simply a company who sells genetically modified products to those seeking them. This massive corporation is actually very much involved with the passing and proposals of regulations concerning the very GM ingredients they are responsible for. You may think those helping to pass the GMO bills truly believe that genetically engineering the [...]
“Peak Oil” is the theory that the world is running out of “fossil fuels” whose depletion will turn society on its head. However, there still exist dual theories on the origin of oil, neither of which can yet be fully proven. It is of great importance to weigh both theories and their implications. Special interests, [...]
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The slow but sure upsurge of an opposition to bad trends undertaken within NZ and done in the name of NZ is growing . A very important addition to this general but historic movement is the Save the Farms development. www.savethefarms.org.nz It is led by concerned individuals from the business world and others including Sir Bruce [...]
Al Jazeera English Interesting show this one, caught an episode today where they were discussing the need for a global government, like it was no big thing… yikes. I’ll endeavour to post it when it makes it into the “pipes and dump-tucks” of internet land. Here is a good intro but Its all propaganda at [...]
In an attempt to be proactive, or seem proactive, governments and scientists are ‘considering‘ changing the climate. Using man made volcano-like smoke stacks, reflective particles in the upper atmosphere, aerosolized particles dispensed from aircraft …and other such dangerous (not to mention expensive) ideas. Whilst I’m in no rush to usher in a ‘compulsory earth-based religion’ [...]
Watch this movie. On at the Auckland film festival http://www.nzff.co.nz/default.aspx?id=8791®ion=2 Still tickets available for the last two shows. … ooooh but hurry. ========================= The official ‘redband’ trailer for American The Bill Hicks Story www.americanthemovie.com This groundbreaking new documentary uses a stunning new animation technique to tell the story of the modern cultural icon Bill Hicks. Music: “Breathe [...]
… or A history of the Internet The history of the Internet By Melih Bilgil Motiongraphics Documentary with PICOL icons 2009 http://www.lonja.de/the-history-of-the-internet/ History of the Internet from Melih Bilgil on Vimeo. Be the first to like. Like Unlike
We is a fast-paced 64 minute documentary that covers the world politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation. It visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous Come September speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror, corporate globalization, justice and the growing civil unrest. It’s witty, moving, alarming [...]
The IMF is shouting about the need for austerity today, but it was strangely quiet during the build-up of the bubble that got us here. Is advice from the IMF better than advice from a drunk in the street? That is the question that people around the world should be asking as the International Monetary [...]
Michel Collon, a Belgian journalist and author, in his book “Israel, let’s talk about it,” has slammed European media over decades of “lying” to people in order to support Israel. Collon, in his book, has recounted “10 big lies” spread by Western media in order to “justify the existence and actions of Israel”, which are [...]
[ it's all like some hideous geopolitical 'Weekend At Bernies', or something ] It has been years since the United States has had good intelligence on the whereabouts of al Qaeda leader Osama bin laden, although he is thought to be in Pakistan, CIA director Leon Panetta said on Sunday. He also gave a sobering [...]
Our situation is admittedly dire. Oligarchs are seizing more overt control in most countries in the world, the worldwide economy is on course for another – even bigger – train wreck, countries are cracking down on freedom and becoming more tyrannical, we are in a permanent state of war (and see this), and companies like [...]
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Work will begin soon on assessing which state assets, if any, will be put on National’s for-sale list going into the next election, says the Prime Minister. John Key indicated yesterday that any part-sale of Kiwibank would be a public float and not a trade sale and that the Government would want to retain a [...]
by Ray McGovern The times may be a-changin’ – at least a bit – with the United States and Israel no longer able to dictate to the rest of the world how crises in the Middle East must be handled, though the new reality has been slow to dawn on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [...]
This video is more than a historical document concerning US relations with Panama. It is probably the main document in public circulation covering the December 20th 1989 invasion of Panama by US forces to overthrow General Manuel Noriega for being a “drug runner”. [ Mission : Accomplished ] In it you will be reminded many [...]
Elite dominant social themes – promotions – can only function when people don’t understand that they are being promoted. People generally don’t like being manipulated. [ No shit. ] Once they’ve figured it out, the game is up. These fear-based promotions that the elite uses to gather further control and wealth absolutely depend on people [...]
[ ... because he is a not a man of vision or a voice for change or hope or any of that shit - We are living Bush's third term ] The Obama administration has granted secret permission to the CIA to carry out more indiscriminate drone missile strikes in Pakistan, even as protests over [...]
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“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another… a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” —The Declaration of Independence Increasingly, I have no fealty to [...]
[ ... paging Naomi Klein ... ] In other words, the U.S. and other “agricultural powers” would provide Haiti food, “freeing up” Haitian farmers to go work in U.S.-owned sweatshops, thereby ushering in “an industrial era,” as if the cinder-block shells of assembly plants represent organic industrialization. Read the rest here h / t : [...]
The United States is the only country in the world that claims to be superior in every aspect, especially in human rights, and that lie is again exposed, this time by a report from China on the United States, all from US sources. The US is in fact a backward cesspool, the most backward country [...]
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Support for the bail-out of debt-ridden Greece was in doubt last night, leaving the country on the brink of financial meltdown as top German politicians said it should be forced to quit the euro. Riots erupting during workers’ protests over planned public spending cuts, just hours after Greek Premier George Papandreou sought emergency £35billion of [...]
[ New Zealand is a part of this bringing freedom and conquest bullshit & I, for one, feel nothing but shame & disgust Happy ANZAC Day ] A NATO summit in Estonia has culminated with the much-hyped “road map,” an exit strategy for the alliance from Afghanistan after nearly a decade of war. It will [...]
A most chilling report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Russian Academy of Medical and Technical Science for Prime Minister Putin states that a “mysterious die-off” in the United States has claimed over 2,000,000 lives since 2008 and is “more than likely” linked to a “crossover” plant disease linked to genetically modified grains [...]
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