Economics
Every day, we read and watch reporting that favors sensation over substance. Sideshows dominate the news cycle, while real issues of public concern get drowned out by the noise. What passes for news is too often badly sourced and tainted by commercial interests or political bias. That’s why we’re launching […]
Cultures that do not recognize that human life and the natural world have a sacred dimension, an intrinsic value beyond monetary value, cannibalize themselves until they die. They ruthlessly exploit the natural world and the members of their society in the name of progress until exhaustion or collapse, blind to […]
Fighting now in ratchaprarop. Army saw me filming and called my apartment to tell me to stop.
This video is more than a historical document concerning US relations with Panama.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 […]
[This is what the New Zealand parliament looked like before it became a fatter and rounder shape. ] Dear Nick, I write with reference to the enclosed article you [ this one ] wrote in 2005 in which you outlined the fatal flaws of New Zealand adopting an Emissions Trading […]
Protesters angry at Ireland’s multi-billion efforts to bail out its banks have tried to storm the entrance of the Irish parliament and several have been injured in scuffles with police. Read the rest here
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 […]
[ Just another in a long line of reminders that we need new sources of energy. Even -less profitable- ones. ] Still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Katrina after all these years, many who depend on the Gulf of Mexico for their livelihood fear that the massive oil spill […]
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