Excellent graphics from Princeton that pull together the drivers of major issues like the arms trade, government bureaucracy, transport, food, … (Note the date of the data.) INFOGRAPHICS eg: GLASS HALF EMPTY THE COMING WATER WARS
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The New Paradigm
Chatting with a friend, Jerry, recently reminded me of the table sketched out during Be The Change with Chopra and friends. It is reproduced below. The full newsletter August 2006 is here. With the help of science, we are shifting into a new paradigm, not only of the human body-mind, but of our very interpretation …
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We love factory food.
Factory farming is bad. The new movie Contagion, based on the book Viral Storm, dramatises the kind of risk we nurture with intensive farming techniques. The kind of techniques that deliver the variety and volume of food at such low prices that we demand. From The Ecologist: Viral storm: why factory farming is bad for …
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Cosmic Bounce
28 October 2011 is when the cosmic bounce occurs. I like the idea of a cosmic rhythm, a universal pulse. Something like your heartbeat, of the regular spinning of earth or earth circling the sun every year. But bigger and more complex in the unseen dimensions, the world of gravity and emotion. On a universal …
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Victory! Or shame?
Gaddafi is gone. That’s good. And right. Gaddafi is dead. Maybe that’s not right. Almost inevitable in this world. But it was not the best we could have done. The evidence streamed around the world of a battered, bloodied old man, interspersed with rejoicing is an embarrassing show of primitive instinct. All male. Guns. Blood. …
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Who did Irish taxpayer’s bail out?
An unsurprising analysis of teh commitment teh Irish government took on in bailing out unguaranteed bondholders. Read Who are the bond holders we are bailing out? by David Malone author of Debt Generation. The list is good to have, though it is the story that makes you cringe with disgust at the greed and carelessness …
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Is your milk good for you?
A friend of ours, who is an agricultural engineer and farmer, mentioned a strange notion recently while rinsing his milk pails. “Check out the issue of A2A2 milk”, he said. So I did. I don’t drink much milk, though I really enjoy the luxury of the raw milk that he gives us. But my children …
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Feel the cosmic rhythm.
Most of us ignore the spiritual dimension. The pressures of daily life, the pursuit of material objectives, the desire for new things and experiences take up all our thoughts. But sometimes we feel the invisible. We have empathy for another. Or we reflect on friendships, family or love. Perhaps we feel fulfilled by a religious …
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Corporate nation states.
What makes a nation state? It becomes more difficult to define as sovereignty is shared in management of public global assets and for economic and social pragmatism. Think about money for a moment. A nation’s currency might be considered sacrosanct, but the reality of economics is that nations have given up their currencies to save …
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Watch the dead cat bounce.
or here. The Western Economic System (capitalism?) is the cat. 🙁