From social to economics to politics, to climate and earth changes, the end seems near for centuries of progress...


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In 1927, the Fed lowered US rates to try to help Europe which was then in the middle of an economic debt crisis the same as today ( Read more... )

("At least I'll get my Washing-ton" - http://genius.com/The-who-substitute-lyrics).

The Fate Of Empires and Search for Survival - by John Bagot Glubb:1. The age of outburst (or pioneers ( Read more... )

Here's an economist who looks and talks like Jimmy Carter, but worked as a prime shaper of supply-side Reaganomics, which subsequently destroyed the planet. Like David Stockman, (and like Alan Greenspan every few years), he has largely recanted. Perhaps governments are backing up failing megacorp monopolies, and banks "too big to arrest," by ( Read more... )

A book by Greg Palast - http://www.gregpalast.com/

I have been planning to write a quickie post noting how capitalism is an extension of our ego minds, which repress natural chaos, diversity, quantum/psychic, etc., and creates definitions and categories. In our heads, these quantities are somewhat recombined in synesthetic processes. But, expanding into capitalism, they result in competition for ( Read more... )

VISION for a New America: A Future Without Poverty (See CSPAN for full series ( Read more... )

To learn more about the thought of economist PAUL KRUGMAN, (and about sitcoms), go here: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/22/sitcom-kabuki-trivial/

"The common fallacy that values are things, (or like things), plays into the hands of extremists, who believe that the MORE you have of a value the more virtuous you become, so that all convictions escalate in vehemence ( Read more... )

Trends and prophesies for 2012 and beyond ( Read more... )