Posted in Current Affairs on Feb 18th, 2012
In Case You Missed It: Canadian Goverment Muzzles its scientists People who know the Harper government will not be surpruised by accusations that his government is muzzling government scientists – whose work is paid for by the people of Canada - in order to control the message about controversial subjects such as oil sands, climate [...]
Posted in Current Affairs on Feb 12th, 2012
In Case You missed It: Satire – sometimes the best antidote to madness Satire is sometimes the best antidote to madness, and if you want a few laughs about the utter stupidity of the times we are living in, I can recommend one movie which, not surprisingly perhaps, is called Idiocracy. It was released in [...]
Posted in Current Affairs on Feb 3rd, 2012
Decadence and Disconnection In the last few days, two separate incidents have reminded me yet again of the extraordinary times we are living in. A veritable “fin de siecle” – the end of an era. The phrase comes France at the end of 19th century – just before Two World Wars, A Great Depression and [...]
Posted in Current Affairs on Jan 31st, 2012
In Case You Missed It – Some Inconvenient Truths about Iran and the Nuclear Question British journalist Robert Fisk has spent his professional life reporting from the Middle East for The Independent newspaper in London. He has broken many scoops and written many stories exposing the lies and hypocrisy of governments in the region and [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Life skills, Sailing, Solitude on Jan 30th, 2012
Are You a Nomad? What’s your definition of a nomad? Someone who travels from place to place? Among the last remaining sea nomads, about 2 – 3,000 Moken live along the west coast of Thailand and Burma I don’t think any definition can usefully include constant tourists – people who go places and then go [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Life skills on Jan 17th, 2012
The Death of Common Sense – a witty obituary and indictment of our time These days there seems to be an absolute dearth of common sense. How many times have you caught yourself saying, “That’s crazy!” when some new regulation is announced, or politicians and economists declare their total faith in endless growth on a [...]
Posted in Current Affairs on Jan 12th, 2012
In Case You Missed It – Now even US citizens can be imprisoned indefinitely without trial So much seems to be happening these days and everyone seems to be so busy and have so little time (so much for time-saving machines!) that I’ve decided to start a new occasional series to try to bring [...]
Posted in Current Affairs on Dec 21st, 2011
I haven’t been this far north, and in Canada. at this time of the year for almost a decade, so forgive me for wanting to celebrate the rising of the sun this morning, December 21st, 2011 at 8.37 am local time in Alberta, western Canada. It’s been quite a shock to see – and feel [...]
Posted in Current Affairs on Oct 24th, 2011
2008 Return to Gau Mukh – the sacred source of the Ganges river It’s hard to describe how emotional I felt when I returned to Gau Mukh – the source of the Ganges river - 25 years after I’d arrived there at the end of my 2000-mile walk from Ganga Sangar in the Bay of [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Life skills on Oct 1st, 2011
Reposted from English Russia Romance of the Hermit’s Life Posted on January 7, 2011 by zontic This 60-year old man is a hermit living in a thick forest somewhere in the Novgorod Region. What made him (and all such people) choose this way of life? Nobody knows…
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