Personal Growth
A Very Short Introduction
What did Rockefeller, Carnegie, Mellon, Hearst, Dupont and Anslinger have in common?
The Laguardia Committee Report New York, USA (1944)
“there are known unknowns” ~ Rumsfeld (no not Wittgenstein)
Hemp For The Future
Maren Krings
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The noes have it:
* Pharmaceutical Industry
* Steel Industry
* Textile Industry
* Paper And Paper Products
* Plastics Industry
* Energy Industry
Compared to a Cult?
Three years on and the cultural landscape with banks, parliament and public relations is back in 2007 mode, – the bankruptcy guard has reassembled.
The Guru is always right.
You are always wrong.
No Exit.
No Graduates.
Cult-speak.
Group-think, Suppression of Dissent, and Enforced Conformity in Thinking
Irrationality.
Suspension of disbelief.
Denigration of competing sects, cults, religions…
Personal attacks on critics.
Insistence that the cult is THE ONLY WAY.
etc.
Is there a right-wing populist uprising?
Should we be ridiculing the right?
“I’ve done everything right all my life, I’m a god-fearing Christian, I’m white, I’m male, I’ve worked hard, and I carry a gun. I do everything I’m supposed to do. And I’m getting shafted.”
Noam Chomsky on why we shouldn’t be ridiculing the right.
Hells Angels
We are mightily blessed. – Hells Angels are in town taking over the last remnants of this godforsaken country that wasn’t already in the hands of angels.
However, while the authorities have no difficulty in identifying the former, a leather vest and a Harley, they seem somewhat disabled in recognizing the latter, a suit (white shirt and a tie) and a luxury SUVs.?
A new home on the web
I have had to give up my beloved spot at Dreamhost because of the economic meltdown in my country. WordPress will fill the gaping void nicely.
- And, Its Gone. [South Park Epsiode]