By Glenn Greenwald As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how to cut Social Security, Medicare, and now even to freeze military pay. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'big picture'
America, the Collapsing Empire
August 8th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: big picture · economy · usa
Small Fires of Anarchy, But Fires Nevertheless
May 6th, 2010 · No Comments
Living in Australia and isolated from much of the world, we should take note of what is happening overseas and not just when we intend to travel, but examples of things to come here. A mate of mine now lives in Thailand and as you probably know, there are escalating riots as the ex prime [...]
Tags: big picture
Earthquake Activity, Natural or Stimulated by Mankind
April 21st, 2010 · No Comments
An explanation for everything is the answer that underlies every question for humans to try and join the dots. Whilst many of us worry about the planet we live on and our impact from an environmental perspective, we should also consider that making significant changes to the Earth through mining and using resources also plays [...]
Tags: big picture · environment
Bubble About To Burst
April 6th, 2010 · No Comments
Reading in today’s news about a new regulatory authority in NSW that will forcibly take over private property to then on-sell to developers may read OK in that larger multiple dwellings (footprint) should be built rather than smaller ones; however, power corrupts ….. ‘ So what is leading this and similar trends and sees the [...]
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America Exploding, Imploding Part 2
March 30th, 2010 · No Comments
On todays news, there was a report of the FBI taking actions against a religious militia in the USA, who were plotting to kill a police oficer and then ambush the funeral procession. This article asks ‘Is America ‘Yearning For Fascism ?’ by Chris Hedges The language of violence always presages violence. I watched it [...]
Tags: big picture · usa
