Well it looks like Jim Kunstler's biting wit may have crossed one too many lines, ruffled too many feathers, got too close to niggling some sore nerve ending in some establishment haemorrhoidal breach of an anal wall in his truth-telling on the Great Nausea that is American politics. Such that someone has felt the need... Continue Reading →
So, Basically, We’re Trapped With No Way Out
I'm not going to say anything, other than pose the question - "When are people going to accept this and stop trying to fix climate change?" I will leave Bill McKibben to explain the situation: Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry. Not that he reaches the same conclusions as I do. No climate change expert does,... Continue Reading →
The Man Who Lives Without Money
Photo credit: The Man Who Lives Without Money. The Man Who Lives Without Money. I'm not recommending this as a course of action (since I am not prepared to do it myself, until I need to - although I have given the idea consideration), but it is clear to me that one day we all... Continue Reading →
Today I Mourn The World
So, what's so special about today? Nothing really, or nothing that I am aware of. Except that every day is special in its own way. No, I mourn the world pretty much every day. I can remember when life was simple. It didn't stay that way for long but during my early years when there... Continue Reading →
Millennial Disengagement
"Have millennials given up on democracy?" Asks The Guardian Photo credit: Young people demonstrate in Lyon against a new labour code they called ‘an unprecedented offensive against the young’. Photograph: Konrad K/Sipa/Rex Shutterstock "...young adults are deeply sceptical about democracy". They should be. Except that perhaps the system they are basing that opinion on is... Continue Reading →
A Tale Or Two Of Cities
Take a look at the real America. No, no, not the Wall Street version. Not the Post-GFC Recovery mythical government statistics version. But the one that reveals a country on the road to ruin. 'A Country Breaking Down'. Elizabeth Drew's review is quite revealing. You might find a good book title or two, too, to... Continue Reading →
A Statement Of Importance To All
As a proud supporting member of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (the only activism, albeit passive on my part, that I allow myself to engage in these days), I am happy to share the statement (see below and here on Facebook) read out on the State of Food & Agriculture in the Asia-Pacific Region at... Continue Reading →
“Going Full Whig” – Kunstler’s Bombshell
It was around midnight when I penned my previous post on Jim Kunstler's latest article - : Going Full Whig yesterday. It may not be surprising therefore, that I did not possess the mental acuity at that late hour to fully take in what he was saying. So, here I am, back again, less than... Continue Reading →
Scrofula Fever
"Let's Make America Great Again", says Trump. "America never stopped being great", says Hilly Billy Clinton. Kunstler says (and I guess that is why I love him so much): "I guess she’s been traveling around the strip-mall wastelands of Carolina failing to notice the carnage that lays upon this land like a mortal scrofula. America... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 