Beethoven must have felt he was in the wrong life, one of the most gifted musicians ever, being overcome by deafness. Surely the gods would not so cruelly tease and condemn a person. So: torment, rage, pathos, and also desolation. And then reality crashing in, repeatedly.… Read More Beethoven’s ‘Tempest’ sonata: exile?
Deregulation basically allowed the financial system to break out of its relatively small, useful role and become a huge parasite, sucking wealth to the already-wealthy and depriving the poor and middle class.… Read More How Ronald Reagan Started the Ruination of the USA
Wind, solar and pumped hydro energy storage can provide all the electrical energy we need, on demand, cheaply, quickly, with minimal carbon emissions.… Read More The cut-through message: wind, solar and pumped hydro are all we need, and cheaper
A 2021 paper by Bin Lu and others in Blakers’ group at ANU uses detailed modelling to conclude that a 100% renewable energy system, replacing 80% of Australia’s carbon emissions, would cost $70-$100 per MWh (megawatt-hour).… Read More Off-river pumped hydro energy storage – summary and sources
To properly stop the machine we need to look more carefully, to find the off-switch. Only turning the machine’s engine off will finally stop the destruction. Where is the engine, the beating heart of this global materialist-consumerist-industrial civilisation?… Read More Unconstrained competitive markets are the heart of the planetary problem
GDP counts exchanges that involve money (adjusted to avoid double counting). Somebody is paid, and somebody pays. GDP doesn’t tell you who paid, just that somebody did.… Read More No Minister, high immigration will cost us $320 billion
Israelis need to attend to themselves. They need to learn how to heal their own trauma, how to return to being humane people, how to break the cycle and create a peaceful population whose peace will endure.… Read More This Israel has no right to exist
Thousands of blinded people stumbled out of the inferno with long strips of skin peeling off, wailing for help, for water, for their mothers.… Read More Blinded by the light
These are men. Most men could be like this. Not everyone can sing like this, but we can all can care for each other and the world as they do. And threaten no-one. I want to put them in charge of the world. Not doing all the work, but as Wise Elders, guiding those who… Read More Wise Elders
I can criticise Israel and not be anti-semitic. I know this because I have Jewish friends and acquaintances who I feel no need to criticise or condemn in any way. No-one else’s necessarily ignorant claims about my thoughts and feelings can change this. The following historical statements are easily verified. Israel was founded on terrorism.… Read More Israel was founded on terrorism
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