A recent article in the technology section of The Guardian describes a Japanese initiative to put musical grooves onto Japanese roads. Here in Ontario, major highways have grooves in the shoulders that make a loud noise when you drive over them, with the intent to inform the driver that they are driving off the road. […]

See… anyone can blog. Want to learn how one of the world’s chief economic researchers feels about things? Or just read the article discussing it…

“The only terrorist most Americans will ever encounter is a policeman with a badge, nightstick, mace and Taser. “ – Paul Craig Roberts, “America’s Police Brutality Pandemic” Paul Craig Roberts is one cranky old conservative and that’s a good thing because when someone like him writes something like that it can’t be immediately dismissed by […]

Get ready for it, the economic restructuring of the so-called “third world” is about to hit those of us lucky to live in the “first world” harder than we’d ever imagined. Here’s a loooooong and in depth review of Naomi’s Klein’s new book The Shock Doctrine – which examines the ‘shock and awe’ strategy of […]