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| ECONOMICS |
| Peak Oil and the working class |
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on Saturday, September 03rd, 2005 @ 01:43:54 MST (4984 views) |
| You can be sure the elite have already determined how to maximize their profit from peak oil. For all the blather of the economists, they know that our economy must start contracting as a result of diminishing energy production. And they know that in any form of capitalism—be it free market, state supported or highly regulated—continuous economic contraction is a euphemism for collapse. |
| IMPERIALISM |
| The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race |
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on Friday, September 02nd, 2005 @ 02:45:47 MST (5410 views) |
| So the lives of at least the surviving hunter-gatherers aren’t nasty and brutish, even though farmes have pushed them into some of the world’s worst real estate. But modern hunter-gatherer societies that have rubbed shoulders with farming societies for thousands of years don’t tell us about conditions before the agricultural revolution. |
| POLICE STATE / MILITARY |
| What is the US Spy Base doing at Menwith Hill, Yorkshire, England? |
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on Friday, September 02nd, 2005 @ 02:26:21 MST (8191 views) |
| Menwith Hill is the largest electronic monitoring station in the world. It is run by the US National Security Agency (NSA), which monitors the world's communication for US intelligence. Menwith Hill employs 1,200 US civilians and servicemen to work around the clock inside "hardened" buildings intercepting and analysing communications mainly from Europe, Russia and the Middle East. |
| POLICE STATE / MILITARY |
| Surveillance for Sale |
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on Friday, September 02nd, 2005 @ 01:59:25 MST (4073 views) |
| SAIC's biggest source of income is surveillance especially for the United States spy agencies: it is reportedly the largest recipient of contracts from the National Security Agency (NSA) and one of the top five contractors to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). |
| IMPERIALISM |
| Turning The Hour-Glass - The Empire Against The Clock |
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on Saturday, August 27th, 2005 @ 18:49:12 MST (3868 views) |
| The defeated 2002 coup attempt in Venezuela and Haiti's continuing agony show the US and its allies are as ready as ever to use covert dirty tricks and outright aggression to get what they want in Latin America. For the moment, the Bush regime seems content to co-opt countries benighted and foolish enough to fall for trade-in-your-sovereignty deals. |
| ECONOMICS |
| Riding Down the Curve: How Cities Can Survive the Energy Crisis (Peak Oil, Part III) |
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on Saturday, August 27th, 2005 @ 18:48:15 MST (4583 views) |
| The calculus of the oil economy is relatively simple: if the oil infrastructure can continue bringing oil to market fast enough to meet market demand, then the economy will continue to tick along as it has. If, however, the rate of oil production maxes out but demand keeps growing, then the price of oil will keep rising until it gets high enough to push demand down to what the industry can provide. |
| MEDIA |
| The Legitimacy of Violence as a Political Act? |
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on Wednesday, August 24th, 2005 @ 16:12:02 MST (3982 views) |
| Any rational person would agree that violence is not legitimate unless the consequences of such action are to eliminate a still greater evil. |
| IMPERIALISM |
| Benito Mussolini: What is Fascism? |
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on Wednesday, August 24th, 2005 @ 15:59:16 MST (5405 views) |
| Fascism combats the whole complex system of democratic ideology, and repudiates it, whether in its theoretical premises or in its practical application. Fascism denies that the majority, by the simple fact that it is a majority, can direct human society; it denies that numbers alone can govern by means of a periodical consultation, and it affirms the immutable, beneficial, and fruitful inequality of mankind, which can never be permanently leveled through the mere operation of a mechanical process such as universal suffrage.... |
| SCIENCE / HEALTH |
| Needed: A Global Survival Movement |
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on Wednesday, August 24th, 2005 @ 15:58:09 MST (3498 views) |
| Given the urgency and magnitude of the escalating pace of climate change, the only hope lies in a rapid and unprecedented mobilization of humanity around this issue. . . that some spark might ignite a massive uprising of popular will around a unifying movement for social survival and the promise it holds for a more prosperous, more equitable, and more peaceful world. |
| ECONOMICS |
| On Economics |
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on Saturday, August 20th, 2005 @ 23:23:28 MST (4483 views) |
| A myth of American capitalism, the American dream, is that anyone can get to the top. With what? Certainly not random chance, the touch of the blind, good fairy's wand in the dark? What then? Hard work? Luck? Earnest good intentions? Powerful friends and backing? In the prevalent mythology, what earns success? |
| IMPERIALISM |
| New Pope is a Former Nazi |
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on Saturday, August 20th, 2005 @ 20:40:33 MST (4164 views) |
| The Roman Church Defends its Immense Riches by Supporting Fascism Worldwide. The Vatican has large investments with the Rothschilds of Britain, France and America, with the Hambros Bank, with the Credit Suisse in London and Zurich. In the United States it has large investments with the Morgan Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank, the First National Bank of New York, the Bankers Trust Company, and others. |
| MEDIA |
| Unconscious Mind Theory |
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on Saturday, August 20th, 2005 @ 17:32:50 MST (6889 views) |
| Unconscious thoughts are invisible thought structures that are unwittingly generated from - and maintained by - haphazard, yet routine, assumptions. These assumptions are a part of almost every decision, impression or conclusion we experience. In other words, when you are impressed by a thought (of any sort or magnitude) you are planting new and/or reinforcing old conscious thoughts and unconscious thoughts at the same time. |
| ECONOMICS |
| Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment |
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on Wednesday, August 17th, 2005 @ 00:29:57 MST (2603 views) |
| Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking. If there are no gaps there is no emotion. Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion. When society switches over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing. There comes a time when there are almost no gaps. People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps. Emotion ends. |
| ECONOMICS |
| Termination of the fossil-fuels society |
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on Tuesday, August 16th, 2005 @ 23:14:29 MST (2622 views) |
| Based on today's intensifying trends, warning signs and an understanding of history, one must be ready to see the fossil-fueled phase come to an end most abruptly. When common practices cannot be maintained and too many people suddenly scurry for scant supplies, the desired resource dries up. This causes ramifications that quickly compound whatever triggered the crisis. |
| ECONOMICS |
| Past the Peak: How the small town of Willits plans to beat the coming energy crisis |
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on Tuesday, August 16th, 2005 @ 23:13:40 MST (2897 views) |
| Put simply, peak oil theory states that we've already burned through half the oil that ever existed. Competition for what remains will turn increasingly vicious as the supply dwindles, as we are already witnessing with higher prices at the gas pump and the increasing number of casualties in the Middle East, where the world's largest remaining oil reserves are located. At the current rate of consumption, some experts estimate that the remaining supply will be exhausted by 2042. |
| IMPERIALISM |
| Globalization and the Revolutionary Imperative: from Global Tyranny to Democratic Renaissance |
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on Tuesday, August 16th, 2005 @ 23:13:40 MST (10990 views) |
| The decision-making part of humanity is dominated by a particular ideology - the ideology of economic growth. Our very definition of a "healthy economy" is expressed in terms of the rate at which it is growing. The process of globalization has entrenched the growth ideology even further - as reflected in the modern usage of the term "competitive". |
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