Sustainable Growth is a world class oxymoron. A “Sustainable Growth” is an insult to the intelligence of those that possess this rare quality. An impossible theorem. This is the first part of a 50 days long, tearing to shreds of the absurdity that sustainable growth is the future of humanity, series on TheTrimTab. We start with a conversation... Click Here to Continue Reading

In the heart of the action with a Chinese Government Officer. Mr. Han Feng, is the Commissar (Administration Chief) for the LaiBing City (GuangXi Province) Tobacco Monopoly Bureau. Mr. Han’s life was a well recognized citizen and public official, living a prosperous and well oiled life in the new China… Until one day, his diary was published... Click Here to Continue Reading

Please click on the image, then click on the bottom right scalable box for a full size rendition with readable text. This work is reproduced with permission from Winston Rowntree at: Please take some time to go through Mr. Rowntree gallery (link above) – he has really good thought provoking comic strips that hit the nail square... Click Here to Continue Reading

Synergetics Dictionary Cards: Card #387

How was the present shaped? Is the 1960 generation responsible for what 2010 looks like? What will the world look like in 50 years? How scary is that to contemplate? Yet, isn’t it going to happen of our own making? Who really is in charge? Is it going in a direction we have consciously chosen? Are truth and integrity at risk? You thought we... Click Here to Continue Reading

Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual’s leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others. Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war. In chrome-nickel-steel,... Click Here to Continue Reading

Once again, we find ourselves in “the war zone”; starting last week, around the clock fireworks and firecrackers are resonating between the city walls, sometimes setting a building ablaze or instantly obliterating a kid’s hopes at ever playing the piano… Hopefully, it is mostly noise, accidents are infrequent, or maybe under-reported.... Click Here to Continue Reading

“Since human thought can calculate in minutes what it takes light to travel in one year, it may be that thought itself expands outwardly in all directions at a speed even faster than light —- maybe in no time at all —- to inter-network the people of our eight-thousand diameter spherical space home.” R. Buckminster Fuller ... Click Here to Continue Reading

INFLATION = AS YOU GET OLDER, MONEY LOSES VALUE OOOPS!   ARE YOU BEING FOOLED?   See also: • Illegaly Piggily: Are Bankers Lying To Us? A graphic representation of the subprime mortgage crisis, derivatives & securitization. • The Same Old Banking Story: Bend Over! A Bucky Fuller’s account of... Click Here to Continue Reading

1. Cosmic: forming a part of the material universe, esp. outside of the earth. 2. Evolution: A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form 3. Irrevocably: Impossible to retract or revoke: an irrevocable decision. 4. Intent: the act or fact of intending: as a : the design or purpose to... Click Here to Continue Reading