Writing

Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.

Clive Palmer On Asylum Seekers Jun 2012

Good ol’ Clive Palmer, who often sounds like he’s batshit crazy, actually made some sensible comments about Australia’s asylum seeker policy (another reason I’m embarrassed to be an Aussie…

Australian Aboriginals On “Bottom Rung” Jun 2012

Via @mikeb476: A new international report has ranked the life circumstances of Aboriginal Australians at the “bottom rung” and warned that Aboriginal children are “23 times more likely” to…

How Did I Miss Mr. Deity – Season Four? Jun 2012

I can’t believe I missed the entire 4th season of Mr. Deity! What was I doing in 2010? In case you missed it too, here’s the first episode.…

Brilliant New Pilger Documentary Highlights The Lies We Are Told Jun 2012

John Pilger has a great new documentary called “The War You Don’t See” and it’s up on YouTube in its entirety. I highly recommend it, as a lot…

Christianity In Australia Nosedives Jun 2012

The 2011 Census results are out and of course the first section I opened up pertained to our religiosity as a nation. First the good news: The number…

News Corp’s Anti-Science Agenda Jun 2012

“Big Bang Theory a Bust” is the way News Corp is peddling this two-year old story about Roger Penrose’s “Conformal Cyclic Cosmology” model for explaining concentric circles of…

Afridi & Pollard – Spy Vs Spy Jun 2012

The U.S. government is upset about Pakistan’s recent sentencing of Dr Shakil Afridi – the man who helped them run a fake vaccination program in Abbottabad, Pakistan which…

Fairfax Board Wants To Influence Editorial Content Jun 2012

From the Business Spectator: One of Gina Rinehart’s closest advisers has argued that the Fairfax Media board should have the right to influence the editorial direction of the…

Chomsky: America’s Rank Hypocrisy — Why Is it Only an “Atrocity” When Other Countries Do It? Jun 2012

I’m about 20% of the way into my new writing project “You Are Blind” – a look at how propaganda works in a corporatocracy – and it’s going…

Bill Maher Nails It. May 2012

Chrissy and I both agree that this is the most articulate narrative about Obama’s administration that we’ve heard from anyone in the mainstream media so far. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax15XRL1URQ&w=560&h=315]