Wednesday 22 June 2011

Crouching Tiger Hidden Something Or Other

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I met Ian last night. His blackberry was going off all evening with compliment emails for this shot he took for a client and which made it to the front page of Flickr.  He's usually running around Asia if you need a great photographer. More details here.

Why I Want Quantitative Easing 3 (QE3)


I belong to a small group of informal tinkerers, thinkers, speculators, information terrorists and oddball lunar(tics) who suspect that Barack Obama is the most interesting occupant of the Whitehouse ever. I accept he's not delivered on key promises but this is a war we are in, and earlier promises are casualties of timing not commitment.

It wouldn't be helpful at this point in time to be more explicit but there are bits and pieces of mainstream academic theory and commentary that currently provide circumstantial evidence for the theory that dare not speak its name.

That's weird, I just realised we never ever say what it is we suspect. Just point at stuff that makes sense. It sounds very cliquey and I suppose it is.

Anyway, I read about the social theorists that Barack Obama based his masters dissertation on, and realised it was the most awesomest bad ass idea I've come across in over forty years of thinking about better ways for our planet and species. The idea behind the paper is nothing short of how to torpedo the good ship capitalism before it sails off with every last mineral, flora and fauna that is our obligation as a species to use frugally and share without profit for the collective good. I am good-to-go with QE whatever it takes till the parasite of capitalism finally keels over and sinks.

John Lear of Lear Jets



John Lear is the son of the founder of Lear Jets. I'm cautious about using any sources that have military, government or CIA connections because time and again I've found their information is seeded with disinformation, even though a lot of their testimony is grippingly interesting. John urges us to live without envy, hate or greed and with integrity at the end of this interview so I'm going to post it based on the assumption that he's walking the walk and also because they are important rules to live by. 

I should know, I've broken pretty much every rule I could at some point or other. Most I don't regret. Some I do.