But that doesn’t mean you can get pissed and end up hitting your spouse. Now that this collective escapism is behind us – maybe we can start to pay attention to things that actually matter. Here’s what you missed while your culture and attention span was being utterly distracted and […]
Economics
Like the Christchurch Press editorial did last week – and like some of the commentors do after the (linked) article below – the article below is also missing the point re ‘why we camp’. As NZ Truth so eloquently put it recently : “They do not understand the banking system, […]
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A University of Zurich study ‘proves’ that a small group of companies – mainly banks – wields huge power over the global economy. The study is the first to look at all 43,060 transnational corporations and the web of ownership between them – and created a ‘map’ of 1,318 companies […]
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This is completely out of control. [youtube]9eOmKyS7Wik[/youtube] Raw Story When thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters marched north to Times Square on Saturday, the New York Police Department was quick to respond with barricades, horses, and arrests. Ryan Devereaux, a reporter with Democracy Now! who accompanied the march, described the police deployment […]
Again, former National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, addresses the decline of American power, real power. Though America’s military advantage is at an unprecedented level, real American influence around the world has almost disappeared. Brzezinski describes our fall from power as “abdication.” Read the rest with video here
The problem, it seems, is a loss of balance. In the pursuit of profit, everything in the world – the earth itself, other species, knowledge and indeed, other people – has been turned into a “resource” to be exploited, often without care or conscience. Read the rest here [ … […]