Some items of interest:
- BBC documentary on YouTube. Farm for the future. Recommend skipping 1,2 and going straight to 3,4, and 5 are the best. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Permaculture, etc.
- McCartney: meat free day. If you can't see/experience the failure in the foreground, you focus on climate change.
- Gangs of Rio photobucket.
- Ferguson. Empire at Risk (due to debt). He's still thinking old model. Here's another way to look at it within the old model. The middle class system in the US and Europe has been intentionally gutted (over 30 years) and power, prestige, and (most importantly) stability will recede with it's passing.
- Pakistan. High inflation, stretched critical infrastructure, illegitimate governance, injustice, etc.... The perfect target for systems disruption.
- Somali pirates grab an oil tanker.
- More on in-vitro meat. Pork.
- Senior Goldman Sachs employees loading up on firearms. This is hilarious: "talk of Goldman and guns plays right into the way Wall- Streeters like to think of themselves. Even those who were bailed out believe they are tough, macho Clint Eastwoods of the financial frontier.."
- Doctorow: hyper localized book production. Skip the Shirky stuff and read the exploration of on-demand printing of Google book search results.
- Corruption map.