Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
By Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (Remarks from the Senator’s weekly climate address. His office notes: “Yesterday afternoon Senator Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to deliver his weekly speech about climate change. It was a speech that had been prepared in advance, and which included a general reference to tornadoes in Oklahoma. Tragically, and unbeknownst to [...]
By James Howard Kunstler Whenever the Federal Reserve wants to tweak the dials of the economy — or pretend that it can — it turns first to its sock puppet at The Wall Street Journal, John Hilsenrath, and leaks a rumor of policy change. They like to do this late on Fridays when financial markets [...]
By David Brin Mars One: why did I volunteer? I believe that a one way Mars mission is a viable-enough idea for some people to consider it, even knowing, as I do, that “one-way” has several possible connotations. On the surface, the claim is that eliminating the huge cost of the return flight will allow instead [...]
By David Brin Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) and I have both agreed and disagreed about transparency, for years. In his posting, Crime and Privacy, he has opined, for example, that ”Ironically, the more the government clamps down on individual privacy, the more freedom the residents will have. When the government can detect every sort of [...]
By James Howard Kunstler If the FBI can track down two homicidal Chechen nobodies inside of forty-eight hours of their Boston bombing caper, you kind of wonder how come the Bureau can’t detect the odor of racketeering, insider trading, and wire fraud in this month’s orchestrated smackdown of the gold futures markets, including the parts [...]
By Senator Bernie Sanders I support Gina McCarthy to be the next Environmental Protection Agency administrator. When her Senate confirmation hearing was held on Thursday, the debate among senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee wasn’t really about her qualifications. It was about global warming. It was about whether or not we are going [...]
By James Howard Kunstler What a humdinger last week was in a money world that is chugging toward maximum velocity and turbulence. My readers know (and may be sick of hearing) that I’m allergic to conspiracy theories, but my allergy is not absolute or total and there are excellent reasons to believe that the smack [...]
By James Howard Kunstler For the moment, the trend seems pretty clear. Money from far and wide rushes into the US stock markets because every other conceivable place to stash money produces no return, no interest, no increase, at a time when the value of central bank currencies is slip-slidin’ somewhere south of Palookaville. The [...]
By James Howard Kunstler Things are breaking loose. Holes have appeared in the fabric of fraud and lies that passes for the world money system. They are black holes, gravitationally sucking in the things breaking loose, and as these things cross their event horizons, they will never be seen again. These things I speak of [...]
By David Brin (Continuing this compilation of questions that I’m frequently asked by interviewers. This time about…) Q: Your writing touches on the impact of technology upon humanity, and its power to change our daily lives. Can you expand upon that? Let me ask you (and the reader) this: have you ever flown through the sky? Or walked into a [...]
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