Starting from today, I am going to repeat all (or most) of my Facebook posts here, as is. Simply because it takes far too long to build fancy blog posts, the things I want to say on both platforms are pretty much the same, I rely on my Facebook newsfeed for inspiration and ideas, and,... Continue Reading →
In Memory Of My Mother
Yesterday, 6 August 2015, my mother was finally laid to rest with a funeral service and burial, almost six weeks after she passed away peacefully in her sleep overnight following her 101st birthday in her home town of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. She had suffered no recent illness or pain, other than what could be expected... Continue Reading →
Don’t be Fossil Fooled – It’s Time to Say Goodbye
Back in February of this year I linked to an article by Paul Gilding titled The Year The Dam Of Denial Breaks, which talked about how by the end of this year the world would no longer be able to see the fossil fuel energy industry as the basis underpinning our energy needs. Actually that... Continue Reading →
Missing The Point, Again. Why?
I am featuring today a great article by Samuel Alexander, author and a research fellow of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at University of Melbourne and a founder of the Simplicity Institute. You can read this very informative article here: If everyone lived in an ‘ecovillage’, the Earth would still be in trouble. Believe me,... Continue Reading →
Magna Carta: 800 Years of Human Rights
So, tomorrow June 15 2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta Libertatum (the Great Charter of the Liberties), the document which forms the basis of law around which democratic rights have been understood since the middle ages. Note: A readable version of this image (6Mb, by zooming) can be found in the Wikipedia... Continue Reading →
Our Choice
I expect that the contents of a previous Facebook post I made today: https://www.facebook.com/bernie.edwards.58173/posts/796016553852058:0 repeated in the quote below, (if anybody actually read it) would have elicited a number of 'shock horrors' from people. It is a mark of the state of the world and our endemic preoccupation with ourselves rather than with what is... Continue Reading →
Re-Righting A Wrong Historical Perception
I recently came across this article which states, and attempts to correct, the incorrect perception held apparently by 87% of modern Europeans, that it was the US army which liberated Europe from Nazi oppression in the Second World War. The RT article is well worth reading, especially if the reader also tends to hold that... Continue Reading →
Fuck Chris Kyle!
Fuck Chris Kyle! Oh, I forgot, he's already been fucked by some other dumb fuck. What's this all about? Well, I'm writing this post in support of Abby Martin, sweet, lovable, artist ( http://abbymartin.org/), reporter (http://bit.ly/1yxFUzk) and occasional T-shirt designer (https://instagram.com/p/2E7BFiOSnI/). She recently questioned the wisdom and virtue of making the recent movie 'American Sniper',... Continue Reading →
Something Stinks. Odious (or should that be ‘Odorous’) Debt?
How else, by what other means, in what specific way, apart from a Zombie Apocalypse, could a modern global society - yes one like we have now - come to a grinding halt and disappear into the mists of time? Yes, we all know - don't we? - about the risks from Peak Oil (which... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 