Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.
I’ve been fascinated with cellular automata since reading “New Kind Of Science” by Stephen Wolfram about ten years ago (wow… where did that decade go???). These days I…
I was just thinking tonight about St Michael’s Grammar School in St Kilda. I remember back in my Ozemail days, around 1996 or 97. We – along with…
I’m still reading this book about LBJ’s involvement in JFK’s assassination (LBJ: The Mastermind of The JFK Assassination by Phillip F. Nelson) and it introduced me to one part…
As the power elite continue to struggle to re-gain control of an increasingly rabid populace, we will continue to see all manner of bizarre suggestions. From Senator Conroy’s…
I just installed this great Chrome extension called “Murdoch Block”. What does this app do? – Blocks websites owned and operated by News Corp Ok cool! Which websites…
The propaganda model is a theory advanced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky that alleges systemic biases in the mass media and seeks to explain them…
If you’ve read my book “The Three Illusions”, you already know that the world we think we see around us is an illusion of the senses. Our eyes take…
Reading the Craig Thomson transcript today and wondering “who is Marco Bolano?”. I must admit, I don’t follow the HSU that closely. As part of my research, I…
Aaron Sorkin, writer of THE WEST WING, THE SOCIAL NETWORK and the upcoming biopic on Steve Jobs, recently gave the Commencement address at Syracuse University. The text is, surprisingly…
This video posted today by Get Up! got me thinking about “fracking”. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYd5_u6ehlA] What is this “fracking” that I’ve been hearing so much about lately? It’s something…