Imprisonment of scientists is a sign of our times
On Monday six Italian seismologists and a bureaucrat were imprisoned for not warning inhabitants of L’Aquila a mid Italian town of an impending earthquake which killed 309 people in 2009. Scientist around the globe have condemned the sentences stating that holding scientists accountable for things that are actually unpredictable constrains their ability to tell the [...]
Update: 12m15m, All over the globe protestors have hit the streets again. Marking the anniversery of the OWS movement last year hundreds of thousands have entered Peurto Del Sol Square in Madird. Previous post 19 April2012: Twelve years ago we took to the streets in the biggest globalised protest against the corporate rape [...]
Continue reading …The sitution in Greece is looking like complete social breakdown. This fracturing of social cohesion is to aid financial power interests. No more needs to be said, those in power have chosen tyranny not democracy. The future is grim…
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The movie is playing to packed houses, and England is sending the King-to-be to protect their (?) far flung colony in the South Atlantic. Is history repeating, have we gone all 1982? And a Destroyer (HMS Dauntless (huh)) has been sent to accompany Prince William, a very deadly Destroyer armed with guns and missiles [...]
Continue reading …On the 16th the Berlin Occupy movement was subjected to polite subjugation. The uniforms of the Polezei scared me far more than the passive protestors. What ar “They”so afraid of? DemoKratia? People? Freedom? The Greek protestors are getting increaisngly violent using molotov’s and wearing gas masks to protect themselves against the riot police. This is [...]
Continue reading …Update 7th October 2011: Today the Bank of England announced another round of quantitative easing (QE) making this QE2, 85 billion pounds created from thin air to buy “assets” (bonds, securities etc) in the hope some more fuel will spark the economic fires. They are not to worried by the 5 % inflation as they [...]
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Jos is one of the many Aussies trying his luck in london. This is just a little of his story… Wow, so much time has passed and so many things have happened since my last entry I don’t quiet know where to begin. I re-read my previous entry and realised that I have a lot [...]
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