In recent decades, fuelled by the need for never-ending economic growth in the post world war 2 economic paradigm, science has become "soft" or "semi-science". Modern science increasingly fails at decoupling scientific facts from separating, political or private motifs. Important […]
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 human species has always loved producing things. It loved it so much that it produced things to last only a short time so they could keep producing even more things every year. To further advance the earthling's passion for […]
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 […]
It has been over four years now that one of the biggest cities in the western world has banned any form of outdoor advertising: Sao Paulo de Brazil. Billboards, outdoor video screens and ads on buses and taxis as well […]
With the use of free adblock plugins in internet browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox or Google Chrome it has become easy to fight advertising — at least on the Internet. Think of it, marketing, advertising, public relation are modern names […]
It's unbelievable. We are facing a serious global crisis (global fiat money system collapsing, resource and energy shortages,..) and all our countries' leaders care about is to get us back to the self-destructive high-consumption mode that is actually causing all […]
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 […]
For at least a century many products have been purposefully designed to fail so we can buy them again and again. This rather bizarre business of artificially shortened life cycles to create artificial demands in a wide range of products is […]