Progress dictates that we determine our future based not on history but on future needs. We did not need an industrial sector before we had one. The service sector is the largest employer and supplier of needs. Without technology and medicine, today's world would be pretty awful. Those primary elements of productivity are not the …
Month: June 2013
Primary Industry and the recovery
An argument against the assertion: "In political-economic reality, we're still reliant on fossil fuels" If all economic activity were purely there to convert energy, maybe that would make sense. But economic activity is actually to manage resources necessary for life. We do not have to progress into some kind of mythic space age to be …
Freemarket Trade
The UK faces a question of staying in the EU. Meantime the USA and EU are negotiating a free trade agreement, the largest trade deal in human history. Scotland is facing a referendum on whether it stays with the UK or rules itself, as an independent member of the EU. The possible future relationships include …
UK to urge Global Clampdown on Antibiotics
It is now scientifically and medically recognised that antibiotic use must be extremely limited if they are to remain effective in life threatening situations. David Willetts, the science minister, will propose far-reaching measures that would clamp down on the overuse of antibiotics by GPs and hospital doctors. He will also try to restrict usage on …
Information Freedom
What is freedom if you only think you are free? Politics is hard. If you veer too far from the peoples' hopes that voted you in, especially if you are exploring fascist tendencies, you got a lot of explaining to do. Of course this "war" against "terror" needs to be concluded and maybe the most …
Right vs Left arguments
Why do we comment in political columns? It may be necessary. Democracy depends on well framed usually moderate arguments that sway people rather than extreme arguments that insult intellect and isolate ideas. A fine tipped right wing refutation of an unconvincing left wing assumption makes this interesting. It is worth wading through all the trolling …
Destroying the World
Noam Chomsky talks about how the West attempts to destroy the world - from the other guy's point of view wars waged by America and its brinkmanship are dramatic. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/04/us-disaster-race-noam-chomsky