The Trouble with Vaporware

SUBHEAD: We need to start talking about how we can hold onto our humanity in bitter times; about how we can find reasons for hope and joy.By John Michael Greer on 23 March 2011 in The Archdruid Report - (http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2011/03/trouble-with-vaporware.html)Image above: Promo for videogame "Duke Nukem 3D" in 2008 that never made it past vaporware... Thank god! From (http:

God to fix Peak Oil

SUBHEAD: GOP lawmaker Mike Beard claims god will provide unlimited natural resources for people of the world.By Nick Wing on 16 February 2011 for Huffington Post - (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/16/mike-beard-natural-resources-god_n_824312.html)Image above: "The End of Oil" photo by Edward Burtynsky. SOCAR Oil Fields #4 Baku, Azerbaijan, 2006. From (http://www.city-analysis.net/2011/02/

Peak Oil & Our Financial Decline

SUBHEAD: Going out of business as an advanced industrial civilization with James Howard Kunstler.By James Howard Kunstler on 20 January 2011 in The Nation - (http://www.thenation.com/video/157892/james-howard-kunstler-peak-oil-and-our-financial-decline)Image above: Still frame of James Kunstler from video below.In this fifth video in the series “Peak Oil and a Changing Climate” from The Nation

Praying For Peace•Promoting War

SUBHEAD: If some misinformed fool attempts to point out the consequences of consumerism, shrug him off as a terrorist.By Guy McPherson on 23 December 2010 in Nature Bats Last - (http://guymcpherson.com/2010/12/praying-for-peace-promoting-war)Image above: Imperial Stormtroopers arrest Santa, Emperor to take over Xmas. From (http://gizmodo.com/tag/santa-arrested-by-imperial-stormtroopers).A

Resisting the Green Dragon

SUBHEAD: Religious Group Puts Out 12 DVD Series on Environmentalists' "Spiritual Deception".By Daniel Kessler on 18 December 2010 in TreeHugger.org - (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/12/religious-grren-dragon.php)Image above: Graphic of a green dragon wrapped around a Christian cross. From (http://pictures.augustow.pl/green-dragon-picture.html).The Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, via

Vatican backs worldwide GMOs

SUBHEAD: Papal science advisers support genetically modifies crops to feed the world poor.By Matthew McDermott on 1 December 2010 for TreeHugger - (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/12/papal-science-advisors-worlds-poor-need-gm-crops.php)Image above: Small scale African farming. Photo by Luigi Gaurino in original article.The Vatican's science advisors have come out in support of genetically