Journeys through space and time

I hate the phrase “hearts and minds” – it makes me want to puke every-time I read it or see it. “Winning hearts and minds” what a nonsensical phrase.
Men in someone elses country with guns and tanks and bombs don’t win hearts and minds, they piss people off. Did the French think when the Nazi’s [...]

Trying to get our heads around these little facebook icons – after stumbling through some friendly advice from the facebook “help” page – here’s a link to the Somnus-Neu page – feel free to click it and drop in.
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I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. But I do believe in evolution, in this particular sense, I’m not talking about Darwin’s theory of evolution, although I wholeheartedly believe in that. I’m talking about another kind of evolution, a more insidious type of shift.
We seem to have evolved our free-speech to such an extent that it’s [...]

The finance ministers of the G20 can’t agree on how to limit bonuses to bankers – the U.S, the U.K and Canada seemingly would rather do nothing about it what so ever. The BBC report here .
One great idea they came up with,  is to “claw-back” bonuses if they are deemed ill-fitting to the goal [...]

1 Carbon credit is supposedly the offset for 1 ton of carbon.  Credits can be traded ,with the obvious advent of more and more carbon somehow they will become a trade-able commodity if I’m to understand it correctly.
We’ve just witnessed the melt-down of the financial world – which came about primarily through unregulated markets being [...]