27 Sep 2009
Nestle milk link to Grace Mugabe

Wanna do something about the disgrace that is Zimbabwe? Remember this the next time you go for a candy bar...

Swiss multinational Nestle buys milk from a farm seized from its white owners and now owned by the wife of Zimbabwe's president.

(link) [BBC News]

19:27 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link

The Myth of the Rule of Law

This is simply the most important political essay I've ever read. And I've read lots of them. The teaser:

The reason why the myth of the rule of law has survived for 100 years despite the knowledge of its falsity is that it is too valuable a tool to relinquish. The myth of impersonal government is simply the most effective means of social control available to the state.

Read this. You will not be disappointed.

09:51 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link

Eco Pyres

Religion, even in it's ritual aspects, does not and cannot remain static.

In India's remote north-east, the people of the state of Bihar have devised a novel and environmentally friendly way to cremate their dead.

(link) [BBC News]

08:45 /Asatru | 0 comments | permanent link

$529M Gov't Loan To Develop $89,000 Hybrid Sports Car

I'm shocked, shocked I say, to discover that "green" stimulus money is going to political cronies based offshore. Shocked.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. We got fooled again.

The WSJ reports that a tiny car company backed by former VP Al Gore has just gotten a $529M US government loan to help build an $89,000 hybrid sports car in Finland. The award this week to California startup Fisker Automotive follows an earlier $465M government loan to Tesla Motors, purveyors of a $109,000 British-built electric Roadster. Fisker's other investors include the Al Gharaffa Investment Co., a Cayman Islands corporation.

(link) [Slashdot]

08:36 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link