Go to The Trap 2.

Go to The Trap 3.

Adam Curtis, the documentary filmmaker, wrote and produced The Trap for the BBC in 2008. Whether or not you agree with his viewpoint, the documentary is engrossing.

Curtis has created an intriguing and oftentimes disturbing history about modern political realities, beginning at the end of World War Two and working up to the present. As this 3-part program develops it's as though, in many ways, one has opened a door and stepped into the world of Kafka. It is however not fiction.

This comprehensive presentation on climate change does not sugar coat what is already happening and what is likely to happen in the future.

It is not meant to comfort the comfortable, the smug or anyone else. At the same time there are plenty of things we can do individually and collectively to address what has started.

This presentation covers everything from the melting Arctic ice, to the psychology of climate change, to the impact on business, and various types of energy options.

Remember, capitalism doesn't have an intrinsic morality.
(John Robb, Global Guerrillas)

We can't win—we don't win—without earning their trust, and providing alternatives to the violent lives many are choosing right now.
(Admiral Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, referring to Afghanistan)

Go to A-Z of Climate Change.

I went to Senator McCaskill's health care town hall at the University Missouri Kansas City this past Monday, not because I thought I'd learn anything about health care proposals in this venue but because I was curious about the political theater, not unimportant.

The Swinney Recreation Center has a seating capacity of some 1,550 seats and pretty much every seat was filled on Monday. Once we got through the requisite prayer in this taxpayer funded institution the senator answered questions that the audience had written down on cards.

Moreover, there are no “free market” or “economic” solutions. And since corporations must have physically impossible endless growth in order to survive, corporate social responsibility is a myth. The only socially responsible act that corporations can take is to dissolve.
(Adam D. Sacks, climate activist)

A basic primer on what climate change is, how the science works, addressing "deniers," explaining tipping points, technologies, and future projections. Go to Understanding Climate Change.

Up to 90 percent of U.S. paper money contains traces of cocaine.
(American Chemical Society, August 2009)

God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'
(Ann Coulter, columnist, on Fox News)

I was skimming through a compilation of some of the “mini-mob” quotes the other day, those that have been heard at the health care town hall forums, but often have had little to do with health care.