The Turtle House: June 2011

Thursday 9 June 2011

Meaning

Why is it so important to us that we consciously know less now, and accept less now of the real world, and its remarkable diversity, than we did ten years ago? What happened in us? What choice did we make to make us this much smaller in meaning?

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Imagining the Truth from Ben Bernanke

'Well, you see, the 2008 recession was really a big one and it's, um, still happening and, um, will be into the forseeable, um, future. You just have to look at Europe...first there was Greece, then Ireland, now Portugal, right now, three years later, next France, then Italy, then Germany. It's pretty clear. America can't pay it's bills. We're stuffed. The machine is broken. Things will get worse for us, but worser for our kids and their kids. It was a really big hit and, well, we did what we could to cover it up. We just have to get used to having less and get used to knowing our kids will,um, have less...and, well, that's about it. Governments will have to get more creative about what they call their taxes so we go on thinking we have a future anything like we do, um, now...hhmmm. Thank God for China. China will do well and as long as it doesnt change its system of economics or politics, we have some hope of, well, getting by on its fringe...but as for what we can do now, or in the future, after so much was taken out, well, we cant do anything about that, because, um, its broken'.

Monday 6 June 2011

australia, the sick country

the elected goverment in australia talks about the righteousness of sending small aghani girl refugees into malaysian prisons. australia is a very, very sick country.

Scramble for oil and gas in South China Sea

Six countries are all scrambling for the South China Sea. China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Taiwan and Malaysia are all making claims to it.

But why now? China estimates there could be up to 213 billion barrels of oil beneath the sea. This would mean China would have the world's second-largest proven oil reserves, just falling behind Saudi Arabia, which has 264 billion barrels.
There are also estimates of up to two quadrillion cubic feet of hydrocarbon natural gas.