by cameron | Oct 13, 2008 | Podcast
Dr David Skellern is the CEO of NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence. He’s also an engineer and entrepreneur, who sold a company he co-founded (Radiata) to Cisco in 2001.
I caught up with him for 10 minutes a couple of weeks ago for a chat about why ICT R&D in Australia’s top ICT companies is pathetically low and about why Aussie kids aren’t studying IT.
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Conquest
“Secrets of Life” (mp3)
from “End of Days”
(Dark Star Records)
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by cameron | Oct 8, 2008 | Brisbane, Podcast
I’m working on a new project – a video podcast highlighting the best cafes, bars and other hidden gems of Brisbane. Here’s my beta podcast.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy71MHT0qUU&hl=en&fs=1]
by cameron | Oct 6, 2008 | Podcast
My guest on show #350 is American author (who now lives in Ireland) Richard J Moore, author of “Escaping The Matrix“. I was introduced to Richard’s work recently via an article he wrote about Russia, Georgia and South Ossetia.
Richard tells me that the kind of government we have in the USA, UK and Australia isn’t really democracy – and he suggests a way forward to creating the world’s first true participatory democracies.
Here’s a list of sites where you can read Richard’s writing and subscribe to his regular news alerts.
Richard’s “newslog” Google Group
http://cyberjournal.org
http://www.governourselves.org/
http://escapingthematrix.org/
http://www.wakingthephoenix.org/
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Conquest
“Secrets of Life” (mp3)
from “End of Days”
(Dark Star Records)
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by cameron | Oct 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
World Mental Health Day (aka “Blue Day”) is being held on my birthday. Coincidence? I think not.
My mate Efisia has written a great blog post about WMHD which includes the latest stats in Australia about depression and suicide as well as her own struggle with mental health issues. Many of us on Twitter have changed our icons to be blue to promote Blue Day.
From Fiz’ blog post:
One in five people (one in four women, one in six men) suffer from depression at some point in their lives and 62% of them don’t seek help.
If you’re the one in five, do something about it. I started seeing a shrink about 5 or 6 years ago and it did me a world of good. In fact, I think EVERYONE should see a shrink, not just people suffering from depression. We’re all a little fucked up. Just admit it, do something about it, and move on. Mmmkay?
by cameron | Oct 2, 2008 | US politics
On the day when Obama voted YES in the US Senate to the $700b scam, I did some further looking into his connections with Wall Street.
Unsurprisingly, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were big contributors to the coffers of American legislators. The most interesting point from this graph though is that Barack Obama was the #2 recipient of their contributions.
According to The Spagnola Report, “… the two corrupt fat cats that ran Fannie, Franklin Raines and James Johnson served as economic advisors to Obama. So if they ran Fannie into the ground and they advise Obama on economics, how well does that bode for America under an Obama administration?” The Raines connections seems slightly weak but the Johnson one is solid. .
The other interesting news to come out recently was that according to the Center for Responsive Politics, 28 lawmakers had between $598,100 and $1.7 million of their own money invested in the two companies last year.
(link) You have to wonder how much of a factor that was in the FM & FM bailout.
So… yet again I make the case that Obama is as much one of the elite as McCain and, therefore, will represent the goals of the elite more than the goals of the other 99.9% of the American people.
