Month January 2008

Craig Murray on the US

Last year I delivered a talk on Central Asia at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. As I sat preparing my lecture, I had the television on low in my hotel room because I don’t like complete silence. Gradually…

Thoughts from Davos

Bill Gates calls for kinder capitalism In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, [Bill Gates] plans to call for a “creative capitalism” that uses market forces to address poor-country needs that he feels are being ignored.…

Geothermal heat pump

Geothermal energy can be used to heat homes in the winter and cool them in the summer. [The] ground temperature is warmer than the air above it during the winter and cooler than the air in the summer. The GHP…

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

People who haven’t been to deserts sometimes think they’re devoid of life. Not hardly. Click the above photo to view full-size. And to see the abundance of plant life. The following full-sized photos were also taken at the Arizona-Sonora Desert…

Capitalism’s worst enemy

Amid the mayhem on world financial markets, it is becoming clear that capitalism’s most dangerous enemies are capitalists. No one can have watched the “subprime mortgage” debacle without noticing the absurd contrast between the magnitude of the failure and the…