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POPSThe Crisis of Global Land Use
Meeting these huge new agricultural demands will be one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. At present, it is completely unclear how (and if) we can do it. If this wasn't enough, we must also address the massive environmental impacts of our current agricultural practices, which new evidence indicates rival the impacts of climate change. Consider the following. Already, we have cleared or converted more than 35 percent of the earth's ice-free land surface for agriculture, whether for croplands, pastures or rangelands. In fact, the area used for agriculture is nearly 60 times larger than the area of all of the world's cities and suburbs. Since the last ice age, nothing has been more disruptive to the planet's ecosystems than agriculture. What will happen to our remaining ecosystems, including tropical rainforests, if we need to double or triple world agricultural production, while simultaneously coping with climate change? Yes, it is an inconvenient truth as the origi
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POPSWhat's with all the zombies?
Call me a zombie pundit, but I agree with "World War Z" author Max Brooks' suggestion that the concurrent rise of zombie pop and political cultures is no coincidence. "Zombies are an apocalyptic threat, we are living in times of apocalyptic anxiety (and) we need a vessel in which to coalesce those anxieties," he says. In fact, I'll go out on a severed limb and take it further: If zombies specifically represent the apocalyptic downsides of immortalized mindlessness, then today’s zombie zeitgeist is not merely a result of scary quandaries created by stupidity. It is a reaction to both those problems and the sense that they can never be thwarted. Here we are, a year after a financial implosion that should have driven a stake in the heart of free market fundamentalism. Here we are, a year after an election that was supposed to pour holy water on Wall Street vampires, exorcise the economy's demons and challenge the ancient mummies of neoconservative foreign policy. Yet here we are,
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POPSMark Morford: How to Stay Relevant More: You might have earned sufficient wisdom (or its ugly stepsister, bitterness) to see right through the grand charade, note the absurdity of it all, the delightful pointlessness, entirely happy to let the high-tech zeitgeist zip right on by, full of sound and fury and a billion useless Tweets, signifying nothing. I agree completely. But only partially. After all, there's nothing better than being fully engaged and relevant and dialed in. Except choosing not to, sometimes. You know?
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POPSDeath and dolls II "Dolls reflect. I mean, they reflect the Zeitgeist. They can (make us) think." ...well, so it is said in http://dollculture.blogspot.com/
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POPSThe Narcissist On Wire & The Savior Of The World But, then, narcissists are never particularly troubled by what impacts other people. Beyond that, though, I was struck by the much larger metaphor between Phillipe Petit and our new President. Our country has elected a man who is preternaturally overconfident and totally self-absorbed. Recall the interview before the election in which CBS correspondent Lara Logan asked candidate Obama if he ever had any doubt about his readiness to lead? His grinning answer, given without a moment’s hesitation was, “Never!” So, it is with utter self-righteousness, that President Obama casually rescinds whatever campaign rhetoric has proven to be inconvenient to his Socialist agenda. Remember how all proposed legislation was going to be transparent to the public and posted on the Internet for all to see? (Except for the pork-laden, so-called “Stimulus Bill” which was pushed into law before even the members of Congress had a chance to read it.)
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POPSThe Enemy Police are educated in the document that people are are anti-abortion, own gold, display an assortment of U.S. flags, or even those that talk about the film Zeitgeist, view the police as their “enemy” and conflates them with domestic terrorists like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph and other domestic militia groups who have been charged with plotting terrorist attacks. The demonization of militia groups is something that we have come to expect, despite the fact that the very same constitution police officers swear an oath to defend outlines the need for “a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State”. George Washington himself was a member of a militia.
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POPSGooglewashing Google - the Monster that threatens to Eat The Media - now defines the purpose of the media. Today, Google's cute little explanation of being "uniquely democratic" is no longer present on that page. A subtly different explanation has taken its place - one which acknowledges that in the new democracy of Web 2.0, some votes are more equal than others. Make no mistake, Google is moving into new territory: not only making arbitrary, editorial choices - really no different to Fox News, say, or any other media organization. None of this would matter, if it wasn't for one other trend: a paralysing loss of confidence in media companies. the New Emergent World Order Manufacturing Consent Zeitgeist -The Movie Zeitgeist - Addendum
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POPS2008 Zeitgeist All the other countries of the world have similar lists and its interesting to see the similarities throughout the world.
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POPSJohn Perkins: Confessions of an Economic Hitman How the corporations get their dirty work done. Corruption, murder, overthrowing governments, and screwing over poor countries for profit. This is how empire is conducted in the modern age. It's corporatocracy. If target politicians can't be bought/corrupted (Perkins' job), in come the assassins ("Jackals"). If they fail, Rome always has it's legions to call on... From the movie Zeitgeist: Addendum .
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POPSZeitgeist of the US Clipped is the preamble to a very short article explaining what is meant by anti-science and some of the ramifications of it. Since there is an undercurrent in the US that is anti-science I thought this would be a nice introduction to this topic.
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