Ironically, while populationist groups focus attention on the 7 billion, protestors in the worldwide Occupy movement have identified the real source of environmental destruction: not the 7 billion, but the 1 per cent, the handful of millionaires and billionaires who own more, consume more, control more, and destroy more than all the rest of us [...]
Go to post pageIt can’t be this simple, and it isn’t – this is done with austerity and health /welfare budget slashing, but everyone seems to participate, realising it is for the greater good. The Estonians, with little debt, an enthusiastic attitude toward Europe and a stoic approach to austerity measures, are a model EU nation in the midst of [...]
Go to post pageMy goodness. A rational, decent perspective. Astonishing! Ahh Dale Farm, just the mere mention of the name and the machete’s are out. The stream of vile, murderous invective on the #dalefarm Tweet stream had to be read to be believed. Fool that I am I made a comment, well, I was avoiding getting down to [...]
Go to post pageThis is about the broken health lack of care system in the US, where, basically, money means survival. All the riches and ‘freedom’ in the world won’t save your ass if you don’t have access to the right treatment. And when effective medicine isn’t getting out there because the financial incentive isn’t compelling enough, it’s [...]
Go to post pageAn audience, an audience, my kingdom for an audience – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Annabel Crabb is one of the preeminent, (and if not the most popular, certainly listed highly among them), voices in political reporting in Australia. Unlike many of her peers, she has embraced the changes the Internet has wrought in [...]
Go to post pageBrilliantly put : The reason baby boomers don’t understand the protesters is because we grew up with all advantages now being denied the younger generation—and it’s left us totally clueless. via Occupy Wall Street: Why Baby Boomers Don’t Understand the Protests – The Daily Beast.
Go to post pageWhile we argue about politics, and mac vs pc, and social networks – let us have a dose of hard, sad reality hit us. People who claim Obama wants a totalitarian state have no damn idea what that really looks like. It looks like this. This is evil. VIDEO: Footage shows starving N Korea [...]
Go to post pageLabor soul searching – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Well, not much soul left, when will the searching stop, and the change begin? I used to be passionate about politics, and believed labour had something to offer, but now, the diference between parties cannot be found in the Large Hadron Collider!
Go to post pageWe have a woman PM, Julia Gillard.. We have on, not as shiny Caribou Barbie, aka Sarah Palin, (cynically bought in to try to gain the disaffected Hillary Clinton voter base, when Obama won nomination), butwon the role as an outstanding politician (come on, no matter weter you like or dislike her, everyone HAS to concede [...]
Go to post pageGizmodo wants to get rid of Senator Stephen Conroy (well, who doesn’t), and suggests the rather better suited for the job Kate Lundy….I know, someone with some tech savvy, bit weird, but hey, it this crazy idea might just work!! Support Gizmodo’s Campaign For Kate Lundy As IT Minister | Lifehacker Australia. Related articles by [...]
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