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Two examples of hyper-hypocrisy

There are times when the hypocrisy of the system that runs our society is so barefaced I have to sit down and have a breather before I can look at it again. Two moments over the past week stand out as major classics of the hypocrisy genre. Number one, in chronological order of me hearing about it and also in terms of the scale of the breathtaking utter crap it involves, centres on my personal favourite scapegoat for all the wickedness in the world, media shitlord Rupert Murdoch. Did you happen to notice, amidst the noise…

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Read more about the article Will we ever finish paying for the GFC?

Will we ever finish paying for the GFC?

When will we be finished paying for the Global Financial Crisis? Or, more to the point, when will our children and their children be finished paying? I’m not sure what the answer is, but I imagine it will be a long time in the future. When the finance industry detonated the world economy back in the noughties, we were immediately told that the institutions and corporations who made this happen had to be bailed out. This was because they were “too big to fail”. While it was true that it was all their fault, and that…

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Read more about the article Rushing headlong out of Eden
Original artwork by Peter Lewis. My collection.

Rushing headlong out of Eden

OF the many ancient myths and legends I have read and been told over my lifetime, the story of the Garden of Eden is perhaps the one I find most compelling. As I child it was one of many Old Testament stories I was told in Sunday school, and it always felt troublesome, as though it was a story that needed to be revisited, re-examined and studied for some extra clues as to what went wrong at the very beginning of the human race. The story as told in Sunday school was quite simple, on the…

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