Is Capitalism A Sin?

This just went out over Michael Moore’s mailing list. If you consider yourself a Christian, read it: For Those of You on Your Way to Church This Morning …a note from Michael Moore Sunday, October 4th, 2009 Friends, I’d like to have a word with those of you who call …

Rise up and take the power back

Working hard on Phenomenon 32 and listening to the new Muse album. The first song, Uprising, is pure poetry. Paranoia is in bloom, The PR transmissions will resume, They’ll try to push drugs that keep us all dumbed down, And hope that we will never see the truth around. (So …

Wer hat uns verraten?

I’ve posted this before, and I’ll probably post it again, but with the coming elections here in Germany this is an important reminder of what the SPD (the Social Democrat Party) actually stands for. It was the SPD and the Greens that went to war against Kosovo, a war as …

The Romans thought their Empire would last forever.

Meanwhile, the mighty forces of peaceful Europe and the Obama-changed United States are fighting for the good of the people of Afghanistan by killing as many of them as they can, banks are growing more powerful than ever before, and huge amounts of low-wage workers are constantly having their rights …

May Day

Today, on the first of May, it would be a good idea to look at the history of the last 150 years. To remember that the current world crisis we find ourselves in is neither the first, nor an unpredictable event that no-one could have forseen. We should look back …

Almost at Desert Bridge again

That update I talked about, that will fix the DPI issues? A couple more days. With the way I managed to cut my finger, and a bit of “normal” work that I had to do, in addition to being rather tired, I’ve had to postpone it a little. Meanwhile, the …

The Religion of Capitalism

Certain types of people – often, but far from always, libertarians – like to refer to socialism as a religion. Some academics are also into this, referring to it as having a “teleological conception of history.” This kind of thinking is right up there with “socialism is a nice idea, …

Change? Sorry, we’re all out.

It’s depressing to see so many people going wild over Obama. It’s nice, of course, to see that what people are expecting of him is all very progressive and left-wing (he was voted as the anti-war, anti-everything-Bush-stands-for candidate, after all, and mostly that’s left-wing sentiment, even if people don’t want …

black is white, war is peace

Reading about the Berlusconi government’s attempts to rehabilitate fascism, I had to think once again about how society is losing its core values. We live in dangerous times: history is being rewritten as we speak, and our most basic concepts of morality are being thrown out the window. Not too …