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.
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Note to Readers – Three years ago, Life in the 21st Century entered through Nigeria with Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, so it is now appropriate to exit from the Congo. Doubt there will be future posts here, I may start something further down the line
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'Cause your mornings will be brighter Break the line and tear up rules Make the most of a million times no “I myself however, when a young man, was at first led by inclination, like most others, to engage in political affairs; but in that pursuit many circumstances were
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As a life-long Jeffersonian, I never carried a very high opinion of Hamilton. However, many years ago, I read Hamilton's Report on Manufactures and was simply blown away. Few had a more accurate view of what would become the future and how to get there. Unlike Jefferson, Hamilton
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“The most difficult political problem facing mankind is the centralization of power in highly technological societies.” - Lawrence Goodwyn, Democratic Promise, 1976 “There will be a further increase of useful things for useless people.” – Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality, 1970 “It is quite conceivable that the modern age―which began
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When you kiss me Does the lipstick on your lip stick on my face When you miss me In your dreams does your lover have my face Here’s some rock and roll trivia, if there can be such a thing. Not only were the Buzzcocks essential to their era’
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Filthy lucre ain’t nothing new And we all get cash from chaos Haven't wrote, or talked for that matter, much about money in the last decade. I've been following money since the late 1970s inflation. A tender age realization the money question was an issue
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“We pledge 'our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor' to establish the rule of the majority, and end by finding that the minority ― a minority in morals, money, and men ― are our masters whichever way we turn.” – Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth Against Commonwealth, 1894 The NYT has
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“For the foregoing reasons, the court concludes that Google has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act by maintaining its monopoly in two product markets in the United States―general search services and general text advertising-through its exclusive distribution agreements.” – USA v. Google Section 2 of the 1890 Sherman Act
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Here is a good short video on the women of the Afi forest in south east Nigeria. “The magnificent Afi forest in Nigeria’s Cross River State is not only home to endangered animals but also a lifeblood for the people living around it – but the Cross River State has
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Dem belly full but we hungry A hungry mob is a angry mob The rain a-fall but the dirt a-tough A pot a-cook but the food no-nough Cost of living get so high Rich and poor start to cry Now the weak must get strong They singing, Oh, what a
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Downpresser man Where you gonna run to All along that day You gonna run to the sea But the sea will be boiling All along that day - Peter Tosh* *The band here is Sly, Robbie, and “Mao” Chung – Tosh's original. What must have been going through that
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Here the hero came with the head that shocked a royal house Turning king and all into stone It was long long ago, if time means anything Long, long ago - Pindar Well sometimes you just gotsta take what you can get. Having, for much much longer than I care