Reports from Earth

Eight Olympic bad­minton play­ers were dis­qual­i­fied because they clearly tried to lose a match against each other in the early rounds which would give them eas­ier oppo­nents in later rounds. I think this sounds like a smart strat­egy and this […]

On March 5th, "Kony 2012", a bril­liant, touch­ing and shock­ing, 30min video was posted on youtube, aimed to raise aware­ness of the abduc­tion and abuse of child sol­diers in Africa. The video was designed so well, it hit the soft […]

The ques­tion is not "Is the cli­mate chang­ing?" or "is it get­ting warmer?". These are fairly uncon­tro­ver­sial ques­tions and less impor­tant than these: What if .…not CO2 but other human fac­tors are much more sig­nif­i­cant to our cli­mate? What if .…the […]

When a respected dis­si­dent, some­one who is extremely crit­i­cal towards the gov­ern­ment and usual not shy to blame it for rather sever acts, essen­tially states "this time it's not the gov­ern­ment — relax peo­ple it's not always a con­spir­acy" — […]

The $50,000 Syd­ney Peace award for 2011 goes to the vet­eran Amer­i­can lin­guist, social sci­en­tist, human rights cam­paigner and polit­i­cal activist for what the Foun­da­tion calls an unfail­ing moral courage and crit­i­cal analy­sis of democ­racy and power. Pre­vi­ous win­ners include Arch­bishop […]

One of the con­se­quences of decades of grow­ing cor­po­ratism — gov­ern­ments in bed with large cor­po­ra­tions — is the unbe­liev­able power of the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­try. Decide for your­self if the fol­low­ing state­ments are likely true or at least could be […]

Elec­tronic vot­ing machines have the poten­tial to destroy any democ­racy quickly and silently. By hand­ing over the power of the peo­ple to the hands of a few cor­po­rate or gov­ern­men­tal insid­ers the poten­tial for fraud is obvi­ously enor­mous. Imag­ine a […]

Here are the results of the impor­tant Ames, Iowa straw poll August 2011: A total of 16,892 peo­ple cast votes in the 2011 Ames Straw Poll. U.S. Rep. Michele Bach­mann (R-Minn) — 4,823 (28.6%) U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) — 4,671 […]

Some print­ers sim­ply use ink just to clean their printer heads. This already adds sig­nif­i­cantly to ink con­sump­tion. More­over, the wasted ink accu­mu­lates in the so-called waste car­tridge. NOw, here comes my point: Instead of telling us to empty or clean […]

Here are 5 more video doc­u­men­taries which I found very inter­est­ing and very much worth watch­ing for those who car about the human species.. "Zeit­geist: Adden­dum" ..is a free 2008 sequel  to the well known doc­u­men­tary "Zeit­geist" by Peter Joseph. […]

Here are some rec­om­mended videos which you will not likely see on tele­vi­sion in many coun­tries. You may find many of your own sus­pi­cions con­firmed and pos­si­bly some new pieces of evi­dence  and ideas. All of these can be watched […]

One thing I noticed when I moved to the US — and to a lesser extend  when I moved to Aus­tralia — was the con­sis­tent pres­ence of share mar­ket infor­ma­tion in the main­stream news in both radio and TV. Who cares […]