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Top 25 Censored Stories for 2010
Project Censored has released its “Top 25 Censored Stories for 2010.” The list, compiled annually by sociology students at Sonoma State University, represents news that has been repressed by political, economic, and/or legal pressure on the mainstream media. Here are the stories the MSM has been intimidated into quashing (details on the website or in [...]
Earth 2100: ABC’s worst-case scenario
“Earth 2100,” ABC’s two-hour “journey through the next century to explore what might be our worst-case scenario,” aired on Tuesday, June 2, 2009. Through a graphic novel format, the program follows generations of an American family during a 21st century in which “the ‘perfect storm’ of population growth, dwindling resources and climate change converge . [...]
Population triples in one lifetime. Cause for alarm?
The worldwide average lifespan of a human is about 66 years (64 for males and 68 for females). During that average human’s life, say from 1943 to 2009, the total population has grown from about 2.2 billion to about 6.7 billion. Three hundred percent in one lifetime. Considering that scientists estimate it took about 15,000 [...]
Is it time to do the right thing yet?
“The Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted,” Winston Churchill is said to have quipped. That’s true, but it’s also true that Americans can be trusted to do NOTHING, certainly not the right thing, and perhaps not even the least appropriate of all other possibilities, [...]
Live blogging TEOTWAWKI: Blood feud in Palestine
The Palestinians and Israelis have resumed their “blood feud.” We know that term from tales of ongoing violence and retaliation between families such as Italy’s Capulets and Montagues, America’s Hatfields and McCoys, numerous Albanian families over the centuries, and even mob “families,” such as Chicago’s Capones and Morans, which culminated in the St. Valentine’s Day [...]
Review of World Made by Hand
World Made by Hand By James Howard Kunstler, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008, $24.00 hardcover It’s post-apocalyptic America and the residents of Union Grove, NY are picking up the pieces of their town and their lives. As apocalypses go, this one isn’t so bad. Most townspeople live in quaint homes, sturdily constructed in the late 19th [...]
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