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Month: June 2011
Notes from above
We have rehosted disturbingtrends.org (this new one carries on from the ancient blogger blog) with snippets, updates, and links to longer stories on the more indepth predicting future politics (and more historic covering the last ten years or so) blog. In addition other publications: medianightmare.blogspot.com, opensauces.blogspot.com, and weblogtheory.blogspot.com (these shall continue as blogger sites).
Korean Intervention
Korea appears to be simmering and bristling with weapons and threat in the most sustained unresolved civil war that could it seems erupt into further provocations by the North and responses of increasing violence from the South. American forces intervened in this war in the early fifties and US bases have been operational since. It …
Solar Sintering Machine
The world has creeping deserts which have an abundance of sun and sand. Read what one inventor has created, a 3D laser printing machine that makes computer designed objects out of silica.
Libya
While President Obama was rebuked by Congress for the American involvement in the war in Libya, the International Criminal Court in The Hague have indicted Muammar-el-Qaddafi for war crimes alongside his son Seif-el-Islam and his chief of intelligence, Abdullah Senussi. - New York Times
Economic Maladies
The Greek Tragedy threatens to engulf Europe in a contagion of defaults, resulting in loans from other countries / investors not being repaid. Does economic isolation logically follow a default? Would you lend to someone who never repaid their debts? Moreover, when a default occurs the overseas assets of the nation could be repossessed or …
Solar Energy
To claim that solar power is too weak to power the world is simply wrong. We use so little of the solar power that arrives for free from the sun and investment in using more of it efficiently will not have the potential cost or nightmare consequences of a nuclear meltdown. Climate change denial does …
Irrepairable damage
The damage humankind does by overfishing and polluting the ocean is a threat to our existence as well as the food chain for all life. Al Jazeera
The IMF
Granted that the IMF bails out countries and finances deficits against future growth, it is seen as a stabilising force in the world. But to what degree are weapons funding inherently part of this structural adjustment to a nation's expectations? If the IMF did not bail out a country, then what would happen to them? …
Climate Change
Climate changes are directly affecting the wealth and well being of the world. Meantime educational advisers to the Government are asking that Climate Change be removed from the Science curriculum to make more room for core science. Read full post on Disturbing Trends: Predicting Future Politics