MONEY IS THE CAUSE OF POVERTY

THE MONEY TRICK If all the money in the world was divided out equally, it wouldn’t do any good! In six months’ time it would be all back in the same hands again.’ `Of course,’ said everybody. `But he was saying the other day about money being no good at all!’ observed Easton. `Don’t you [...]

TIME FOR A REPRISE

Aside from credit crunch and crap facts [referring to previous post - if anyone wants to email me about financial information I will respond with as much information as you like] and all that nonsense…. Lets get back to the point. Don’t let Gordon Brown and the ‘britishness’TM nonsense dominate the agenda…

I’VE CHANGED MY MIND

Crap facts… I love the one I got from Douglas Adams about sloths. Apparently, at a certain point where young sloths haven’t quite figured out how to sloth yet they grab their own arms instead of branches and hit the deck. I love that fact. However it has now been superseded in my mind. But [...]

WELL WHAT DO YOU KNOW

Russian news agencies are not exactly renowned for their fairness, muckraking and general impartiality. Hey…that sounds just like their US and European counterparts*. One of John Pilger’s anecdotes [if that is the right word] is about a couple of Russian journalists being taken around an American newspaper during the cold war to see how a [...]

SHOOTING THE MESSENGER [PIGEON]*

An ongoing project I have been doing for over a year now is the website http://exitstageright.wordpress.com It is essentially a news service. What I do is provide links and post stories that I have gathered from all around the world about the mass extinction that is currently underway. It is just approaching 70,000 readers. I [...]

TIDBIT

Apparently when Lyndon Johnson was shown the first pictures from the Mariner spacecraft’s misson to Mars the first thing he said was “But where are the canals?”.

FREE THINKING ALBERT

A little excerpt from Albert Einstein’s biography… BECOMING A FREE THINKER AND SCIENTIST When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much [...]

A SURVIVAL HYMN

AFTER THE FLAGS, BALLOONS AND B*LLSHIT

I have been waiting to see what John Pilger would make of Obamamania. I didn’t expect him to fall for it all, and he hasn’t. In case you didn’t catch it then here is what he had to say…. Beware of the Obama hype. What ‘change’ in America really means – JOHN PILGER My first [...]

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