Cara

This made me laugh…. perhaps Yoda would do more good than the current crop of UN officials
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41363156

This interview with Ian Bremmer is several years old (I see his book on the topic was published in 2012) but is interesting nonetheless in the way it teases out some implications of a world without a single leading power. Also interesting is that it appears in the Harvard Business Review, very much the establishment’s business school. I see his…[Read more]

Australia will be joining in the space game.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Australian-gov-t-announces-creation-of-national-space-agency

Now Big Brother can track you down to within 30cm. Leave the mobile phone at home. Better yet, don’t even buy one: why pay for your own surveillance?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/design/superaccurate-gps-chips-coming-to-smartphones-in-2018

This news story sets my suspicion meter onto alert. I have only done a small amount of research into AIDS and HIV but what I have seen makes me question the “official line”. So what exactly have they developed in this study and what precisely is it attacking?
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41351159

Moves by the Spanish government to censor the internet in Catalonia.
https://www.internetsociety.org/news/statements/2017/internet-society-statement-internet-blocking-measures-catalonia-spain/

I had never heard of Numbers Stations… anyone here know about them?

The Eerie Phenomenon of Numbers Stations, in Photos

This is an interesting connection. Makes me think of the Iliad and the war fought for Helen.
http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2017/09/20/going-stag-how-brideprice-influences-participation-in-violent-conflict/

They’re planning something:
Alex Hern, writing for The Guardian: A “category one” cyber-attack, the most serious tier possible, will happen “sometime in the next few years”, a director of the National Cybersecurity Centre has warned. According to the agency, which reports to GCHQ and has responsibly for ensuring the UK’s information security, a…[Read more]

Here is a series of audios on culture and society. In Our Time are 28 min long programmes on cultural topics led by Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4 and they have been broadcast since 1999. They cover a huge range of cultural topics, mostly from a literature perspective.

Obviously they present the British establishment’s view which you can choose to…[Read more]

I came across the thinking of René Gerard and his theories on mimetic violence and scapegoating. Found it interesting to think about his ideas. Here is a series of audio recordings done with him:
http://auticulture.com/the-skapegoat-rene-girard-cbc-series-mp3-downloads/