Ancient Inca Water Songs
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Joe Costello
Joe Costello has decades experience in politics, energy, environment, and communications. Traveled and worked across the planet. Long a student of democracy, its demise, possible revitalization.
Nigeria, Oil, and the US
Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE In Nigeria, the CFO of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has been arrested for $7.2 billion in refineries maintenance fraud. Phew, that’s dollars not naira, a lot of money even for the
Events are in the Saddle
The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'T is the day of the chattel Web to weave, and corn to grind; Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1847 Life in
Republic = Democracy
God made it easy, God made it easy on me God laid his Es all on me God makes it easy on me some beautiful degenerate dance music for a Friday night from a couple of hooligan Mancunian brothers – no, not those guys Life in the 21st century is reader
Presidents and Peace
SUBSCRIBE Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. 60 years is a long time, the life of a human being. Yet, since the beginning of industrialism, the world has sped up. Today, the rapidity of change in one life, in 60 years, dwarfs
New York and Perpetual War
When everyone goes to your house, they shoot up in your room Most of them are beautiful, but so obsessed with gloom I didn't come here lookin' for no fix, ah-ah no I been houndin' your streets all night long, late baby Just lookin' for
Woza Friday: Zulus and Populists
Woza (Come) Friday, though Friday has come. It’s actually a better song for Wednesday, Tuesday, or god forbid, for you wage-slaves (and aren’t we all?), who "woza, woza Friday my darling" the minute you walk through your employer’s door every Monday morning. Here’s a
Many Minds, One Heart
“SNCC( Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) activities within the broader (civil rights) movement reshaped the republican tradition as it was widely understood in American life. From the colonial period forward, this tradition had depended on the vision of independent yeoman—each with a stake in society—gathering to stand against distant,
Songs for LA
Over the years in LA, I had some great experiences with a number of excellent people. I suppose this all marks some sort of day in US history or just another ring in our political circus, makes you wonder. U.S. Marines arrived in Los Angeles Zombie o, zombie, Zombie
The 60s and US Political Decline
Swab the decks ! Swab the decks! Life in the 21st Century is reader supported, please subscribe to make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE Funnily enough, a couple weeks ago, I youtubed the Gorrilaz Glastonbury show from 2010, a fine set of music it is, and on the side came a link entitled
Corruption
Life in the 21st Century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE Well, I’m loathe to write about this, but I’ll try to make it quick and painless. The FT has a better than most piece titled, How the 90s Shaped Donald Trump’s Politics
Debt, Inflation, & Welfare Queens
It's coming up, it's coming up, it's coming up It's dare! Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. The FT has a big piece on debt - The mounting pressure on bond markets. Is it