Jobs: First, get rid of expensive Westerners. Second, get rid of people entirely
The Great Recession has been going on since 2008, with no end in sight. A great part of the problem is financial: we borrowed too much money for too long and now don’t have the ability to pay off our debts. That is the reason why governments across Europe have been calling for austerity measures. The argument for austerity is as follows: governments More...
The Impact of Shale Gas on Renewables
A new report by Citi Research suggests that shale gas will be a short lived phenomenon as solar power cost reductions will drive conventional power out of the market. History Future Now wrote about the Ponzi-scheme More...
The Origins of Christianity and the Universe, Pt 2: Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar
This is a continuation of an earlier article, The Origins of Christianity and the Universe: Constantine and the Cosmic Microwave Background, but can be read as a stand alone article as well. Alexander the Great More...
The Origins of Christianity and the Universe: Constantine and the Cosmic Microwave Background
Superficially the Roman Emperor Constantine, who made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire, and the Planck Observatory, which just released the oldest pictures of the Universe when it was a mere More...
Crisis: or an explanation on the origins of the decline of the West
Christopher Marlowe’s play Doctor Faustus was written around 1592 and was based on an earlier German work about Dr Faustus, a talented German scholar at Wittenburg University who was frustrated by the limits More...
Does the separation of pleasure and procreation mean the end of people?
Everybody knows that the world’s population has increased dramatically since 1930 – population 2 billion – to today – population 7.1. Most people also know that, excluding immigration and More...
Who are the losers in the energy revolution?
If you own shares in energy companies that are not focusing on solar energy, you should consider selling now, while people are still half asleep, and start buying into energy companies that do focus on solar. There More...
Seeing Ghosts: merging the real world with the virtual world
Science fiction provides an endless parade of humans living in a virtual reality world. Tron, the classic 1982 Disney science fiction film where the hero enters a virtual world is perhaps the best known original More...
Who benefits from our increased social fragmentation?
Cable television and satellite radio stations have been praised for providing greater choice and criticised for the fragmentation of our societies. New social media apps and websites allow this choice/fragmentation More...
Why China could invade Taiwan – and get away with it
The story of how the Republic of China became Taiwan and its relationship with mainland China is fascinating. How many people in the West know that Taiwan was once a Dutch colony and that it only became part of More...
