Capitalism is a game where competitors play by rules on which everyone agrees. The government is the referee, and just as you need a referee and a set of agreed rules for a good basketball game, you need rules to promote competition in the economy. Left to their own devices, firms will use any availableContinue Reading
How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet | The New Yorker
“Oh, yes. Definitely a forgery. Hope it didn’t cost you much.” The possibility of swift change lies in people coming together in movements large enough to shift the Zeitgeist. In recent years, despairing at the slow progress, I’ve been one of many to protest pipelines and to call attention to Big Oil’s deceptions. The movementContinue Reading
It’s A Mad, Mad World
“The opiate of the masses is not just religion, but the propaganda, misinformation, lies and technological distractions designed by the invisible government ruling class to provide the masses with pleasant illusions about their country, society, and material situation. If the masses were to wake up and realize they are being manipulated, oppressed, and corralled likeContinue Reading
Did The IMF Reveal That Cryptocurrency Is The New World Order End-Game? | Zero Hedge
“I wonder sometimes about the people who used to argue that bitcoin’s high value made its legitimacy self-evident; would they now concede with bitcoin’s plunging value that its legitimacy was in question? I’m guessing they probably won’t. Crypto was also an effective distraction from people trying to build precious metals based alternatives to the theContinue Reading
Orcas thrive in a land to the north. Why are Puget Sound’s dying? – Chicago Tribune
BLACKFISH SOUND, QUEEN CHARLOTTE STRAIT, B.C. Bigger and bigger, with a puff and a blow, the orca surfaces, supreme in his kingdom of green. Northern resident orcas like this one live primarily in the cleaner, quieter waters of northern Vancouver Island and Southeast Alaska, where there also are more fish to eat. They are theContinue Reading
Taking a Look Behind Warhol’s Shades
In 1965 Voice co-founder John Wilcock watched Andy Warhol watching by JOHN WILCOCK NOVEMBER 9, 2018 By the spring of 1965, when Voice co-founder John Wilcock tried to make sense of the underground pop culture phenomenon of Andy Warhol, the paper and the artist were intrinsically connected. From Warhol’s paintings to his films to the live eventsContinue Reading
Welcome to Poole’s Land, an Anarchist Commune in the Canadian Rainforest
For nearly three decades, Michael Poole has been living on 17.5 acres of land on the western coast of British Columbia, where he’s started an anarchist commune for young people looking to break away from mainstream society. Aside from a few simple rules—recycle, respect all beings, and steer clear of… see the video at Source:Continue Reading
The Amazon is a Man-Made Food Forest, Researchers Discover
“Unfortunately, the people who tended those food forests were exterminated.” Most of the edible plants in the rainforest were planted by humans over 4500 years ago, new study finds. Modern farmers should look to these ancient forest gardeners for the key to sustainable food production. Ancient humans were practicing a form of agriculture known asContinue Reading
The Political Rebellion Gathers Momentum
… beneath the superficial red-blue divide they are hawking, a broad-based political rebellion against the Oligarchy and their Ruling Class nomenklatura is gathering momentum. People left, right and center are awakening to two painfully obvious realities: 1. the political-social-economic system no longer works for the bottom 95% 2. the system is intrinsically unfair–rigged to benefit theContinue Reading
Google’s “Smart City” in Toronto Faces New Resistance
THE WORLD’S MOST ambitious “smart city,” known as Quayside, in Toronto, has faced fierce public criticism since last fall, when the plans to build a neighborhood “from the internet up” were first revealed. Quayside represents a joint effort by the Canadian government agency Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs, which is owned by Google’s parent company AlphabetContinue Reading