September 2010
137 posts
August 2010
167 posts
Health Futures Blog: The Crash of 2008 →
The Crash of 2008
Spent the weekend reading “On the Brink”, the crisis management memoir of Hank Paulson, who was Treasury Secretary in the waning days of the Bush Presidency. It fell to Paulson to co-ordinate the government’s response to the crash of 2007-2008, whose effects (26 million unemployed people) continue today.
It isn’t easy reading. Paulson, an ardent free market advocate...
Crowdsourcing Shakes Up Another Industry →
emergentfutures: The Web continues to shake up industry after industry. The latest is academia with its well-established process of scholarly peer review………Now a more open and transparent digital process is challenging this tradition. The New York Times reported yesterday that the 60-year old Shakespeare Quarterly is openings its reviewing to the Web.
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Aquaponics Permaculture (flash animation) →
Aquaponics is the symbiotic cultivation of organic plants and aquatic animals in a recirculating environment utilizing hydroponic concepts and biofiltration for pollution control.
Be sure to click the ‘start pump’ button to see the animation.
If you employ solar panels to run the pumps, it’s a very low cost and sustainable operation. You can do this in your backyard!
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“In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of...”
– Raoul Vanegeim
via mountstnobody, crowstower, pieto
“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is...”
– Noam Chomsky via fyeahanarchopunk, domesticterrorism
“Watching the show Cheaters then Lockup San Quentin and John Stossel. If Alex de...”
– jdickerson
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WatchDamn. You really can’t eviscerate Fox News much more conclusively than this.
via theplaceholder:spytap:hmwt
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Watchfuckyeahnoamchomsky:konsortium: Noam Chomsky Compares Right-Wing Media to Nazi Germany
Uncertain future for Atlanta? →
economist.com, adrifting, bgilliard
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Rad Homemakers on the Stead: Word of the day:... →
Why you need to know about it: Permaculture teaches us how to build natural homes, grow our own food, restore diminished landscapes and ecosystems, catch rainwater, build communities - and that’s just the beginning. Sounds pretty fulfilling to us.
Permaculture is about designing ecological human habitats and food production systems. It is a land use and community building movement which...
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“In truth, our leaders and propagandists know very well that liberal capitalism...”
– Alain Badou via pieto & feastingonroadkill
WatchCommunism - Coronet Instructional Films (1952) Educational film on the Cold War conflict.
via pieto
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WatchCapitalism - Coronet Instructional Films (1948)
A group of teenagers discuss just what capitalism is.
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Dick Cheney's Weather Machine: More Empty Homes... →
No magic bullet answer, but it shows how America is a bubble culture and can over-react to most things.
Banks will bulldoze before they let another option like affordable housing take root.
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WatchKeith Olbermann covers the Koch family, a family of America-hating, treasonous fascists if there ever was one which just happens to be behind the creation of the GOP’s Tea Party wing. The New Yorker story Olbermann alludes to can be found here.
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Remember; we live in a world where the truth doesn’t matter.
Alabama Man Dies In Jail After Being Arrested For... →
This isn’t just some pot head arrested for having a good time (not saying it would be okay if he was, just making the distinction). The man in question had Addison’s disease. From the article:
Marijuana is known to help many of the symptoms of Addison’s disease, including vomiting, diarrhea, weight loss and headaches.
Great, so you killed a man for taking his medicine. Thanks, police state!...
WatchMUST WATCH: The Daily Show’s Profile of a Bigoted Anti-Muslim Leader
technipol: HILARIOUS!
“The colonialization of the plantation of the mind is now complete. It is not...”
– Colonizing the Plantation of the Mind (via azspot)
The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama →
The anti-government fervor infusing the 2010 elections represents a political triumph for the Kochs. By giving money to “educate,” fund, and organize Tea Party protesters, they have helped turn their private agenda into a mass movement. Bruce Bartlett, a conservative economist and a historian, who once worked at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a Dallas-based think tank that the Kochs...
