Category: Global Issues Affecting all of Us
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Jobs, Kevin Rudd & Taxes
How the merry-go-round of politics always has a payment window at the door I met Kevin Rudd once a couple of years ago before he was the Prime Minister of Australia. It was at a local restaurant in his electorate in Brisbane. He’s a sharp chap. Clean dress. Quick mind. Academic type. I like him. …
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Antibiotics – Short Term Thinking Kills A Long Term Future
Learn about how modern medicine kills millions of people because of long term shuttered thinking Medical topics are not something I usually blog about, but I liked this one because what has happened here is exactly what has happened in so much of our – human – endeavors, and it stems from short term thinking.…
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A Perspective
How a song can be influential All around me are familiar faces, worn out places, worn out faces. People running in circles, it’s a very, very mad world. And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had. I find…
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More on the New World Order
George Soros and his skill in finance I’ve been following George Soro‘s thoughts for a while and in the book I’m reading now, “The Ascent of Money”, Niall gives him a lot of air time. So when George presented a week long lecture series at the Central European University I just couldn’t resist. And in…
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The New World Order
How financial literacy is not important anymore? Catchy title? It’s sure to attract attention. I’m just about finished a great book called the “Assent of Money” by Niall Ferguson. An excellent read if you want to understand how the financial system works – including your credit card, your home mortgage and your pension – if you have…
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An Inconvenient Truth – 3 and a bit Years On
A detailed critique on recent measurements on Greenland ice melt and how it affects our views on Global Warming I was recently watching “An Inconvenient Truth” by Al Gore again. Again I was reminded of a large amount of doubt and misinformation wandering about the world on the topic of global warming. Like a frightened…
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The End of Royal Dutch Shell?
How the fossil fuel Industry plays with public sentiment only when it has to Today I read of the demise of Royal Dutch Shell – that huge unconscious behemoth employing 104,000 people around the world with 22B profits and revenues greater than USD300B per year. Well it wasn’t the specifically the demise, but the decision…
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The surge of US troops in Afghanistan is fundamentally flawed
The US – again – misreading a nation, or is there another agenda? Why? Because the strategy is short term focused, and forgets about what is really going on: a nation of disgruntled people with not much else to do, except wait for an exceptionally bleak future to roll over them. This disgruntled state is…
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The Little Earth Book – Introduction to Second Edition
Words by James Bruges on how to save the planet I’ve decided to retype this introduction here because it makes a lot of sense. The balance between yin and yang – ancient Chinese descriptions for two distinct energetic states – is shifting. It is through books like this, disseminated via the Internet, that will change…
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The Little Earth Book – Introduction to First Edition
How one little book can change humanity for the good This is the introduction to “The Little Earth Book“, first Edition, written by James Bruges in 2000. The content in these 167 tiny – only 145 x 135 mm – pages is clear concise. Recommended reading to understand WHAT CAN BE DONE beyond the disturbing…
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The Modern Curse that Divides Us from Nature
The Prince of Wales sharing his views on world affairs My views on architecture, the environment and society are underpinned by one unifying idea – the vital need for harmony The Prince of Wales We live in an age when technological ease has become so much a part of the accustomed way of life that…
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Learning to Fail – What It Is All About
You learn more form your failures than from your successes So, where are we at? Socialism came in with a bang in Russia in 1917, and went out bust in 1991. China’s dictatorial social experiement morphed into a quasi controlled market economy that allows a form of social freedom. As the boundaries between the state and human…
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An Observation on the World’s Financial Crisis
Does selling our children’s future justify current incompetence? The involvement of the governments in bailing out private companies means that the governments are selling their future earnings: That means they are binding themselves to the income from taxation from the people of their country. This will result in an even bigger collapse in the near…
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Where Does a Tree Come From?
The earth? The water? The answer will surprise you. Suppose someone showed you the seed of an oak tree – and acorn. Then they showed you a photo of a large, mature oak tree. Then they asked, “where did all that tree come from?” What would your answer be? If you answered “the ground”, think…
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