Thursday, November 27, 2003
Buy Nothing Tomorrow!
You know what? You don't HAVE to buy something every day! You don't HAVE to go to the mall. You don't HAVE to do exactly as the advertisers tell you. You don't HAVE to follow the present norm of Work, Eat, Buy, Consume, and then Die! You don't HAVE to play that game for the rest of your life!...
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Thursday, November 20, 2003
The Myth of the US Economic Recovery (Part 2)
America, and the world, will pay the price for peace in Iraq. Listen to the pundits and newspaper columnists and you’d be convinced that the global economy has emerged from the shock of September 11 and the Iraq war relatively unscathed. Balderdash. The reality is that America is in deep, deep...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2003
Thought-Ruts & Dualism
Labels mean nothing to me. Folks who don't really know me or understand me try to force me into boxes that they feel comfortable with. And that's fine! But I am a bit concerned at the rise of what I call dualistic thinking. It's a thought-rut that we really need to grow out of. All through the Cold...
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Monday, November 3, 2003
Blowing the Myth of US Economic Recovery
Last week the US posted good GDP growth figures, and the Fed reckon unemployment is waning. So how come 34.6 MILLION people, or one in eight of the population in the wealthiest nation on Earth, are living below the poverty line? Read the story here. Here's an excerpt. ""I would have a real problem...
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Sunday, November 2, 2003
A Brief History of Damon Leigh
Gomedome inspired this post. He recently refered to an on-going conversation we, and others, have been having about tax breaks, and about the type of problems generated by large corporations that are detailed elesewhere in this blog. After mentioning me specifically in a short list of 'conversers',...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Buffet & Soros Predict Massive & Imminent Economic Collapse
I've been writing about the unsustainability of our current economic paradigm for some time now, in this blog and elsewhere. We simply can not continue on our current path for a number of incontrovertable reasons. 1. A system that has been exploitative since the Agricultural Revolution is becoming...
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Monday, October 20, 2003
Oh, But Global Warming is Just Scare-Mongering From the Environmental Left
Well, well, well. The CCN comment to my previous post is exactly the kind of ill-informed, head-in-the-sand reaction I'd expected to this post. Thanks, Sean, for giving me such a rich vien of material with which to work. Firstly, it's interesting that the response is purely focused on climate...
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A Few Words on the Environment
It's time to stop fooling ourselves. We are having a massive impact on our Earth, on our climate, on our store of natural resources, on eco-systems, and on all the non-human beings with whom we share our world. Still in doubt? Then perhaps this will help. The following is a statement put out not by...
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Sunday, October 19, 2003
"Those on the Left..."
...is a label much (mis)used and maligned in certain BN quarters. I need mention no names, I'm sure. So I went off to find out what this term means. This is what I found. Left-wing politics (Redirected from Leftist) "Leftism as a political orientation gained its name during the French Revolution....
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A Few Words on Corporates
I saw the question posed on BN recently - "But what's WRONG with corporates?" You can almost hear the bleating. The blogger then went off at a tangent, talking about his own one-man show and a mon-and-pop store down the street. Profoundly, deeply irrelevent. Corporates, corporations, in the...
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