Noam Chomsky Lecture on Power at Deakin University, Australia
It takes courage to speak the truth, speaking truth to power is essential for those in power. I have become clear that the checking of power is a service, as abuses become infinite as those who control lose their way when others conform and give tacit consent without critique, when in truth they do… Continue reading
Plunge in Petroleum and Gasoline Usage
Huge Plunge In Petroleum and Gasoline Usage
Inquiring minds are watching a plunge in Petroleum Distillates and Gasoline usage.
Reader Tim Wallace writes
Hello Mish
As I have been telling you recently, there is some unprecedented data coming out in petroleum distillates, and they slap me in the face and tell me we have… Continue reading
The Climate Council: Australia and the Global Response to Climate Change
Flannery’s work prompted Sir David Attenborough to describe him as being “in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone“.[14]
I was at a alumi event last night put on by La Trobe University here in Melbourne listening to one of Australia’s finest Scientists, Tim Flannery speaking about the reality… Continue reading
Surveillance of Citizens or Global Security?
I remember when I went to the United States passing through transit where I was finger printed and thumb printed. I was asked to look in a camera as well (iris print). I had committed no crime and I had not entered the United States, I was in transit. Yet I… Continue reading
Responsibility to Protect Refugees Worldwide – Why Not?
It seems the asylum issue is not confined to Australian politics, it seems this attitude of decoupling human rights from responsibility is becoming the new normal. Gareth Evans ‘Responsibility to Protect’ doctrine comes to mind in respect of providing asylum to those fleeing persecution.
What I noticed in the Australian context was that refugees… Continue reading
Eco-localisation, Self Responsibility and Responses to Earth Change
It is clear looking over the history of oil that the markets have been manipulated by oil quotas or the threat to flood markets crashing prices. I read about crude oil prices per barrel from 1948 were approximately $2.50 per barrel to approximately $100 per barrel today, all manipulations of volume affecting price and… Continue reading