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.
Come on, Come on, Come on Yeah, Yeah, Yeah And they slag off Noel as lyrically incompetent. Say what you will about the Mancunian brothers Gallagher, they are both funny fucks for one, but in 1994 they were as good a rock and roll outfit as ever took a stage
Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE Over the years reading Roman history, it took some time to understand most writers, both ancient and modern, were quick to dismiss the republic's plebeian assemblies, either ignoring them or claiming various structures
“In the broad application favored by Populists, the ‘money power’ symbolized much more than the gold standard, private national banks, or the ‘lordly capitalists’ of Lombard and Wall streets. The money power was corrosive because it was changing the rules under which Americans acted politically. The new politics of centralized
"How money was created, and on what basis it circulated, defined in critical ways the relationships of farmers, urban workers, and commercial participants in the emerging industrial state. The answers would go a long way toward determining who controlled the rules of credit and commerce, who shared in the
Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE Back decades ago, only from obscure, mostly, though not totally, right wing civil liberties cranks would you ever hear anything about the Posse Comitatus Act. Today, it’s used by the State of California in
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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
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
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
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
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 (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