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When was the last time you were invoiced by a bee?
Economists have much to learn. The sooner they do so, the better for all of us. [edit 6Jan2012] I’m not convinced that WordPress doesn’t have some bugs in its TED embedding code. So: belt+braces link to the horse’s mouth… Pavan … Continue reading
Posted in News and politics
Tagged bank of natural capital, environment, injustice, sustainability, TEEB
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The beginning of the end of corporate insanity?
I firmly believe that corporate personhood is a major driving force behind the ills of our so-called ‘civilised’ society. To begin to build a better world, we must first rein in the currently unbridled power and influence of The Corporation. … Continue reading
Posted in News and politics
Tagged boundaries, corporate personhood, fences, injustice, insanity, occupy, The Corporation
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The Story of Broke
Annie Leonard waves her hands around far too much for my liking. But what I do like in her latest presentation is that she’s not just mirroring my own chief grievance (ie: our society is seriously broken and needs fixing) … Continue reading
Time to wake up
Bill Mahler makes a lot of good (and highly amusing!) points in this clip. But one thing that he (understandably) gets wrong is assuming that ‘BP’ still stands for ‘British Petroleum’; it doesn’t. BP is now ‘just’ ‘BP’ – it’s a … Continue reading
Jeju. An island of world peace, preparing for war.
I find it incredible how few things that really matter are even mentioned once in the tediously repetitive mass media ‘news’ reporting. Here’s one such item — about Jeju Island — reported on by Naom Chomsky, emeritus professor of linguistics … Continue reading
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Tagged boundaries, cognition, injustice, safety, security, stupid
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We need a different world
“We are the 99%” Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, News and politics
Tagged boundaries, cognitive dissonance, expose, injustice, sustainability
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Tim DeChristopher is a hero (and the law is an ass)
Tim DeChristopher said: The rule of law is dependent upon a government that is willing to abide by the law. Disrespect for the rule of law begins when the government believes itself and its corporate sponsors to be above the … Continue reading
George Carlin on the American Dream
I think George’s message is simple: time to wake up.
Posted in ... wait, what?
Tagged 'common' sense, cognition, cognitive dissonance, expose, habituation, injustice, stupid
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Tree-huggers of the world, unite!
“What if trees had legal standing?” Christopher Stone, an American law lecturer, asked his students in 1971. A year later, his book Should Trees Have Standing was published. Professor Stone suggests that the idea of a thing holding legal rights … Continue reading
Posted in Bonsai Diary
Tagged 'common' sense, climate change, climate disruption, cognition, cognitive dissonance, ecocide, environment, injustice, law, safety, security, sustainability
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Graped by a wunch of bankers
My hero Douglas Adams pointed out that when you have an infinite number of monkeys, someone’s eventually going to come through the door and talk about the script for Hamlet they’ve worked out. “We have to pay bankers vast sums … Continue reading
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Tagged 'common' sense, banks, bonus, cognition, deniers, efficiency, equality, financial, FUD, injustice
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