Since the inception of the White House “War on Terror” we have been fed a constant diet in the media of Middle-Eastern politics and ethnic divisions simplified to the point of reductio ad absurdum. Historical context is conveniently side-stepped with candour in order to present a picture to support our state policy du jour and [...]
Wolfowitz : In the service of his Dark Lord?
I will admit that when I first heard the news that Paul Wolfowitz was being proposed by the Americans for Chairman of the World Bank I was quite dismayed by the choice of a man so tainted by an ongoing and catastrophic war and I could not [...]
I watched Molly Dineen’s excellent documentary “The Lie of the Land” (C4 9:00pm Thursday) on the state of British farming in the aftermath of the ban on fox-hunting and the government’s “Single Payment” scheme this week.
Oddly enough this important issue gets little interest from the media even in the context of tackling climate change and [...]
So another round of the Great Game draws to a close but the good news is that in this round nobody got hurt and its a win-win situation, unless you are an Iranian dreaming of regime change of course.
So Happy Easter everyone and enjoy the holiday break.
Agricultural societies have the unique ability to arbitrarily raise their food supply, simply by intensifying their cultivation. By bringing more land under cultivation, or by cultivating what land they have more intensively, or by the occasional technological innovation, agriculturalists can increase their output. By raising the food supply, agriculturalists can arbitrarily raise their population. Thus [...]
Today is the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery but somehow there seems to be something wrong with the focus of this “celebration”. Shouldn’t it be a day when the British could hold their head up with pride in the knowledge that we were the first major world power in the history of humanity [...]
Well the debate is raging over the C4 film “The Global Warming Swindle” and for the most part the program and the climate deniers are losing, big-time. You see this sort of program does have its value if it helps iron out a few kinks in the way that science is presented to the public [...]
First of all I’d like to make it clear that I am in no way attempting a rebuttal of this program, I have my criticisms but I also have my criticisms of the Global warming/Climate change movement too. Not necessarily because I think their conclusions are wrong but because I think the reasoning they used [...]
Poor old Patrick Mercer seems to have been selected this time for slaughter on the shrine of the politically correct race relations god whilst the news agencies dance around in the flickering firelight howling for his blood like crazed pagan savages. Its the new inquisition and I’m sure I’m not alone in getting very tired [...]
Last night I watched the first in a new series on BBC 2 entitled The Conspiracy Files which kicked-off the series with an examination of some of the conspiracies surrounding 9/11. In all honesty I was quite impressed with the show, it was quite even-handed and took the time to examine individual claims seriously without [...]
Globally we live in an increasingly asset-driven economy, while generally it seems to be going quite well it is from a logical point of view unsustainable. Marc Faber explains vividly with this excellent tale of two tribes :
Irreparable Cracks in the Financial System
Well worth the read if you have the time.
The Press has been having a field day here in the UK over the last week with the Litvinenko murder, its been of the usual quality. Hysterical headlines, unsubstantiated accusations and rampant fear-mongering so one wonders once more whatever happened to good old investigative reporting because the first thing that sprang to my mind was [...]
