Truth Out is an amazing site with huge collections of articles criticizing the current government.
Discussions from the inept crony Michael Brown to Cheney’s push to legalize torture, and calls to protest against recent unsatisfactory government performance are typical fare.
More comedy!
CNN.com – Bush backs human rights; protesters call him ‘fascist’ – Nov 4, 2005:
“MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina — As thousands of protesters demonstrated against him outside the Summit of the Americas on Friday, President Bush said he viewed his participation as an ‘opportunity to positively affirm our belief in democracy and human rights and human dignity.'”
I think more of our money economy will be replaced in the near future.
We have so much enabling technology, and more to come, that money will simply not matter in so many situations. Inexpensive technology will take care of us.
We might seem to regress as a species to an earlier level of sophistication, but we’ll still have wireless networking and more.
TIME.com: Argentina: The Post-Money Economy
“Buenos Aires, the ‘Paris of Latin America,’ these days looks decidedly Third World. Of course the broad boulevards, late 19th-century buildings and teeming cafes downtown may suggest European gentility. But ten miles away, in the working-class suburb of Quilmes, merchants are hawking everything from homemade turnovers to new and used clothes, custom carpentry, haircuts and fresh produce. The shell of the old Bernalesa metal works has been turned into a massive market, whose four-foot aisles are so jammed that thousands of men, women and children can barely make their way over the dirt floor, past rickety stands of unpainted, unfinished wood — this in a country where shopping used to mean going to the supermarket, or the mall.”
Amazon Mechanical Turk: looks to be a way to make little amounts of money for small jobs that only Humans can do, and it’s all web-based.
The original article on slashdot describing the new site.
Neat stuff!
