The John James Newsletter 50 14 March 2015 YOU MAY NEED TO CUT AND PASTE THESE LINKS Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect Mark Twain The Arctic Ocean is coming close to complete summer meltdown The apparent ‘pause’ in global warming has been no Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 49 7 March 2015 YOU MAY NEED TO CUT AND PASTE THESE LINKS The Great Transition: Shifting from fossil fuels to solar and wind energy by Lester R. Brown The link is to Chapter One. “While France is completing construction of its last nuclear plant, it is in the process of Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 48 28 February 2015 The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate objectivity so entirely from its media – much less dissent. Gore Vidal I have a question: I have been told Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 47 23 February 2015 Americans are too underinformed to digest information that contradicts what they already know. The media prefers to feed Americans a constant stream of simplified information so they do not have to devote more air time or newsprint to explanations or further investigations. This has infantilized the American Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 46 21 February 2015 I can’t run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they’ve summoned, they’ve summoned up a thundercloud and they’re going to hear from me. Leonard Cohen in “There is a crack, a crack in everything – Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 45 14 February 2015 How Many Jews Died in the German Concentration Camps? It has been a common belief that about six million Jews died in the camps. Most laymen presume this was proven at Nuremberg in 1946. The international court did not prove anything of the sort, however, and historians Continue Reading →