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Duckpond
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GAZA AND THE GODFATHER
At Democracy Now, Noam Chomsky describes the “symbiotic” relationship between the Israel policy of dispossession...
13 hours ago Duckpond | Topics: Humankind/Planet..., Israel-Pal...
 
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THE GREAT TURNING?
Rudd, post Copenhagen, is apparently thinking in terms of deals between players as nation states.The poor and oppressed...
 
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COSMIC CONNECTIONS
Who knows what consciousness is? But without consciousness how could we experience anything, let alone seek to bind back into...
9 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Humankind/Planet..., Life...
 
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INTERFAITH DIALOGUE
So this is Christmas! Next week sometime anyway. It is a strange cultural dissociation in the Australian summer, although the...
10 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Humankind/Planet...
 
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Duckpond posted a blog entry
GLOBAL POLITY
The Copenhagen Meeting on Climate Change and come and gone. The general outcome was predictable.The deeper question,...
11 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Humankind/Planet...
 
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GOODBYE COPENHAGEN
Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen may well turn out to be a speed bump, not a turning point, along the road to global...
26 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Environment, Humankind/Planet...
 
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ATMOSPHERIC CO2
Carbon dioxide emissions have risen since 2002 in ways not anticipated, suggesting that average global temperatures will rise...
41 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Environment, Humankind/Planet...
 
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Duckpond posted a blog entry
CLIMATE CRISIS POLITICS
John Quiggin was somewhat irritated, even angry, with the climate “delusionists” (as I am) and so invoked a violent...
 
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INHUMANITY AND WAR
War represents the methods of violence taken to a more barbarous level in an overt attempt to deal with the violence of others...
56 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Humankind/Planet...
 
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THE HUMAN STORY
The environmental crisis will continue unabated unless appropriate action is taken, and appropriate action will not be taken...
60 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Humankind/Planet...
 
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THREE FALLACIES TOO MANY
The thought occurs:  Johann Hari, who writes for The Independent, must be a smart bloke. Pay that as a strike in the win/lose...
70 days ago Duckpond | Topics: CENTRAL ASIA, Humankind/Planet...
 
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Duckpond posted a blog entry
VIOLENCE AS STUPIDITY
Aside from dealing constructively and fully with the atmospheric climate challenge, no other problem humanity faces amounts to...
73 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Humankind/Planet..., Natural..., Peace
 
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“LUCY IN THE SKY”
I always thought that the John Lennon song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was a reference to LSD, but not the...
92 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Humankind/Planet...
 
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“THE GAME IS UP”
So claims Chris Hedges at Truthdig. And what game might that be? In short the monopoly game called globalization, masquerading...
100 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Humankind/Planet...