by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 28, 2014 | Politics & Law, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
A TED Talk by climate economist Nicholas Stern posits our environmental future as a technological and regulatory problem, and being merely a matter of good choices over bad. It inspired me to think and address the problem in a larger meta-context of global politics...
by Barry Fagin | Oct 20, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, January 9, 2014, as “Stop waging ‘war’ on youth”} America is a nation at war. I do not mean the “War on Terror” – you can’t wage war against a feeling. I don’t mean the...
by Fulano de Tal | Oct 18, 2014 | Politics & Law, Religion & Spirituality, Uncategorized
The second Gulf War When the events subsequent to September 11 2001 took place, namely the creation of a pretext for the invasion of Iraq, a widespread cynicism developed in the UK regarding the putative evidence of mass destruction and Al Qa’ida. Equally, there was...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 16, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law
I find it frustrating that on so many encroachments upon rights and privacy we have gone from “it could never happen” to “it’s no big deal” in a single generation. The citizens of 1930s Germany were not all that different from you or I or...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 9, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law
I know the narrative is foreign to many, damnwell discomforting or infuriating to others. But when certain people like myself using certain economic assumptions can see government policies implemented, predict their outcomes, and have those outcomes consistently...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 7, 2014 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
This brief, but concerning TED Talk details how peaceful protest can place you in the federal government’s full line of fire. He asserts that the term “Eco-terrorism” was invented by corporate interests, and laws thence structured to criminally...
