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