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Quantum futures? An upbeat view

Well, its a change from the dystopian visions of energy and food scarcity, peak oil, gas and water and resource wars … This article takes a somewhat qualified “technology will … Continue reading

25 October, 2006 · 2 Comments

Living off the ecological credit card

Juxtaposed with the article above for a study in contrasts … Collapse of ecosystems likely if plunder continues John Vidal, environment editor | Wednesday October 25, 2006 The Guardian …(T)he … Continue reading

25 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Medics beg for help as Iraqis die needlessly

The news from Iraq is grim and heart-breaking. The cradle of civilisation is not just being robbed, but destroyed and decimated. The Anglo-American invasion has to rate as one of … Continue reading

22 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Niger delta: how to lift the oil curse?

by Timothy Sowula | Open Democracy | 19 October 2006 The hostage-taking strategy of militants in the oil-soaked Nigerian south is a symptom of the region’s economic and environmental breakdown, … Continue reading

20 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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