Wednesday, January 01, 2014

1 Jan - Surfing

English: Own work based on the picture in Carlo Trigilia's book Economic Sociology: State, Market, and Society in Modern Capitalism, p. 68. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Capitalism (Photo credit: Bohman)

Cover of OK Go

China eases one-child policy, abolishes labour camps

10 Reasons Why the Meat and Dairy Industry is Unsustainable

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/10-reasons-why-the-meat-and-dairy-industry-is-unsustainable.html#ixzz2p9EvniHs

Why I don't have a smart phone... yet

Turban Ban in Quebec ( soccer )

“Life in the Emerging American Police State: What’s in Store for Our Freedoms in 2014?”

“A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State”, we in the emerging American police state find ourselves reliving the same set of circumstances over and over again—egregious surveillance, strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, government spying, the criminalization of lawful activities, warmongering, etc.

Scarcity of space is meaningless in a world in which more and more research is distributed online. And many worry that the pressure to publish flashy research in glitzy journals encourages hype and faddishness, and rewards being first over being thorough.

PatternDynamics: Following The Way Nature Organizes Itself to Deal with Complexity

Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals Linked to Fracking Found in Colorado River

Political Analysis – Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth

Christmas is just plain strange...

When you hear something repeatedly from the time you were very young, regardless of how peculiar it is, it becomes normal and you don't think about it.

If you were an alien who'd never heard of Christmas, what would you think of a holiday that features flying reindeer and pregnant virgins?

And would you land in such a place?

Capitalist Dead Horse Flogs 99%

The term Flogging a Dead horse shouldn't need any introduction. Whether Capitalism is a Golden Goose or a Dead horse may require some further explanation.

Capitalism is the New religion, The Free Market is the New Heaven and a belief in Capitalism is an unquestionable stance. Criticise Capitalism and you are declaring the Earth Flat, the Sun revolves around the Earth and are dangerously out of line.