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Distraction, surveillance, peak oil and the end of the Internet

By Allan Stromfeldt Christensen | October 6, 2014

NYC in blackout

Let me be upfront about one thing: I don't particularly want to be writing a blog, from which this article comes. But as I am an unpublished writer completing his first book in this early twenty-first century of ours, for what should be obvious reasons, I am. Why don't I particularly want to be writing a blog? For one, I'm not a very big fan of the Internet, and beginning … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: collapse, Edward Snowden, Internet addiction, NSA, peak oil

Empire serves no one but itself

By Staff Reports | July 1, 2013

painting of Edward Snowden

Humanity has come to a defining moment in its two hundred thousand year evolution: we are at a place where we either have to give up or we have to stand up. Last night, amidst a backdrop of fear-creation by the security state, where you either shut up or face the consequences, my wife and I were talking about standing up to empire and what it might mean. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: civil liberties, Edward Snowden, NSA, Ron Tice, spying

Fear for free!

By Lindsay Curren | June 21, 2013

Protester with sign against NSA

The big brouhaha over former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden's whistle-blowing revelation that the government is tuning in to every last thing We The People are doing has resulted in exactly the effect that an authoritarian government would most want to achieve: leaving us all quaking in fear and paranoia. For my part, I'm neither ready to declare Snowden … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: activism, climate change, Edward Snowden, Naomi Wolf, Occupy Wall Street, plutocracy, Snowden

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