as if prison wasn't bad enough...

Now we're calling the indentured labor done there "green"...

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679603/these-inmates-pay-their-debt-to-society-by-caring-for-the-planet

5 real-life weapons straight out of a sci-fi movie

For those of you keeping score at home...

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/5-real-life-weapons-straight-sci-fi-movie-215550863.html

Myth of "Responsible Capitalism"

This is a profound look at the problems of capitalism:

Eric Hobsbawm: The myth of "responsible capitalism"

http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/04/08/eric-hobsbawm-the-myth-of-responsible-capitalism/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateandcapitalism%2FpEtD+%28Climate+and+Capitalism%29

On the same page there is a ink to "Capitalism and Degrowth—An Impossibility Theorem":
http://climateandcapitalism.com/2011/01/11/capitalism-and-degrowth-an-impossibility-theorem/

This programmed-in emphasis on growth as a part of the economy is, in my opinion, one of the key flaws in any viable economy, and certainly contradicts the view that our own economy is a free market. I don't believe it is. It is an economy carefully planned in every way around a false idea of growth as a necessary condition for money-lending activities.

Our society is simply "planned" in a different way, around the sacrosanct principle of continual growth.

CFP: Materialism and World Politics

Bear 71: Control Society meets Natured Nature?

http://bear71.nfb.ca/#/bear71

Cyber and Drone Attacks May Change Warfare More Than the Machine Gun

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/03/cyber-and-drone-attacks-may-change-warfare-more-than-the-machine-gun/254540/

U.S. accelerating cyberweapon research & Nation’s Biggest Spy Center Settles into Utah

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-accelerating-cyberweapon-research/2012/03/13/gIQAMRGVLS_story.html

http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/Nations_Biggest_Spy_Center_Settles_into_Utah_120319