http://www.thinkingpeace.com We the Peaceful Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:19:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week my wife and daughter flew down to California to spend a week looking at colleges. She's a junior, so this is about an event that's more than a year away. Yet, despite all that's happening in our world, we're still trying to plan as if life then will be the ... http://www.thinkingpeace.com/2008/04/20/when-the-music-stops/ Since world-wide economic collapses are rare events and since the world has somewhat changed since the last one, we can all be forgiven for not knowing the best ways to prepare. And, since we still don't know if such a collapse is certain or not, we could also be forgiven ... http://www.thinkingpeace.com/2008/04/13/back-to-basics/ Way back in the 20th century, long before this internet thing, I used to publish a quarterly newsletter. In one of the first issues, twenty-two years ago, I wrote: A good friend asked the other day if I was still into "the doom thing." I both cringed and chuckled at the ... http://www.thinkingpeace.com/2008/04/06/doom-thing/ For some time I've been finding it hard to sit down and write. I've tried to ignore it as simple writer's block, figuring the muse would wake up at some point and I'd be back at it. But here's my real problem: I just can't waste another moment thinking about the ... http://www.thinkingpeace.com/2008/03/23/end-of-an-error/ With so many signs of a nation unravelling — the budget-squandering, shame-spawning militarism; the self-serving foolishness of American unilateralism; the kowtowing to religious fundamentalists; the age-old campaign against the rights of women; the rampant "all-american" xenophobia; the fubar demise of our so-called free market economy; and, our idiot inaction in the face of urgent environmental concerns.... — ... http://www.thinkingpeace.com/2008/03/16/all-fall-down/ When we make mistakes here at ThinkingPeace, we go for HUGE. Last week we moaned about the "trillion dollars" Bush had wasted on his idiot wars. But before the pixels had even dried on the screen, Joseph Stiglitz (former chief economist at the World Bank who won the Nobel Memorial ... http://www.thinkingpeace.com/2008/03/02/the-three-trillion-dollar-squander/ CURRY: You don’t agree with that? It has nothing do with the economy, the war — spending on the war? BUSH: I don’t think so. I think actually the spending in the war might help with jobs…because we’re buying equipment, and people are working. —Think Progress Explains a lot, doesn't it? We ... http://www.thinkingpeace.com/2008/02/24/making-money-making-war/ They are pretending to have money and desperately cadging loans from all comers to keep appearances up, but the loans can't come in fast enough. The appearance of confidence is crucial (as it is, of course, in any "con" game) to keep the investors (depositors) at bay. If a bunch ... http://www.thinkingpeace.com/2008/02/18/looking-for-daylight/ The centerpiece of the Bush legacy is a “war on terror” based on a vast disconnect between military expenditures and actual national security requirements that the presidential candidates all fully understand. The question is whether the voters and media will force them to face that contradiction or whether we’re in ... http://www.thinkingpeace.com/2008/02/10/prisoners-of-war/ Back from another hiatus caused by my inability to process Bush and all the damage wrought. For 7+ years we've pointed out the lies and mistakes, we've accurately predicted the inevitable disasters, and we've called in vain for somebody in power to take a stand against this awful, awful man. The ... http://www.thinkingpeace.com/2008/02/06/this-awful-awful-man/