Red Moon, Lunar Eclipse

Sicko

Went and saw Michael Moore’s new film Sicko last night. Well worth it – it’s his best yet.
A searing indictment on corrupt plutocracy running the modern day USA, as well as an important compare and contrast between the free market system and more social systems in other nations.
My concern is that New Zealand is [...]

A couple of observations on the state of the world

On the theme of things “eco”, George Monbiot sums up recent thoughts rather nicely here.
He also manages to pin down the blindingly obvious with this post on Unions and the Labour Party in the UK. Some parallels to be drawn with our free trade pushin’  Government?

Tim Flannery and the new eco-conservatism

Last Tuesday night, it was impossible to get a seat at Tim Flannery’s lecture at Otago University on climate change. It attracted an overflow crowd. I haven’t read his popular books yet but look forward to it, as I have just got the Weather Makers out of the library.
I managed to catch him talking to [...]

Bailterspace?

The high ranking BailterSpace have some new mp3s on their MySpace page after many years of silence.
My pick is Place of R. Some people like music to drive to. This is music to drive space freighters to.

Jack Yan on the downsides and upsides of globalization

My friend Jack Yan just posted a thought provoking article about globalization and the relationship between economy, business and society on his blog.
Jack is speaking at an open to the public session later this year at the Alliance Party conference in Dunedin on these very topics – and based on his above article, it should [...]

New film by Alister Barry

Went to the new documentary from Alister Barry at the Film Festival last night. Alister was there to give a talk and was selling copies of his movies including a new DVD trilogy “The New Right is Wrong” featuring Someone Else’s Country, In a land of plenty and the new one A Civilized Society.
All well [...]