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Biased Gene Conversion and the Evolution of Bedbugs

A graphic displaying the stages of the evolution of bedbugs (from a long skinny tubular shaped flying bug, to the modern round shaped bedbug). None of the insects are 'fossils' but rather they coexist and intermiediate forms are seen simulataneously ...

From BRENT HERBERT, Portland Indymedia,  15 Feb 2009

Martin Luther King and The Peaceful Revolution

It may still be the case that some people do not properly understand what a 'Great Depression' is and why it would be the case that the only correct strategy to adopt at a time like this is that of 'class warfare'. Under the capitalist system the ...

From BRENT HERBERT, Portland Indymedia,  3 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Federal Reserve

The Derivatives Bubble and the Threat of Hyper-Inflation

Currently it has taken about seven, going on eight trillion dollars to prop up the banking sector. I don't know how much in mortgages poorer black Americans might have held but I am certain it was not seven or eight trillion dollars worth of equity. ...

From BRENT HERBERT, Portland Indymedia,  30 Nov 2008

Tax and Spend Liberalism versus Hyper-Inflation

It has been my decision to intervene in the currently unfolding crisis situation in the hopes of helping to manage the crisis and avert a disaster, for it is true that disasters are not inevitable and can be averted for such disasters involve making ...

From BRENT HERBERT, Portland Indymedia,  29 Nov 2008

A Critique of the Fourth International

The following is intended as a friendly bit of helpful advice to those down on their luck Trots who call themselves the ‘fourth international'. It has been my experience over the years that even a murky and slightly muddle headed Trot is still heads ...

From BRENT HERBERT, UK Indymedia Newswire,  24 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Saddam Hussein

"To Big to Fail"

We live in the age of mega-saurus, the age of enormous globe trotting corporations. Now according to the internal logic of capitalism, what is supposed to be happening is that each one of those megasaurus are to be found plotting to compete with the ...

From BRENT HERBERT, Portland Indymedia,  7 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Federal Reserve

The Great Depression, Hitler, and other stories

Capitalism has been around since about the time of Queen Elizabeth and over the course of the centuries a persistent pattern emerged. Capitalism follows a boom and bust cycle. There would be a great economic boom, followed by a bust and a great ...

From BRENT HERBERT, Portland Indymedia,  4 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Karl Rove,  North American Free Trade Agreement,  Queen Elizabeth II

The Pioneer Effect, and a New Theory of Gravity

A rising, expanding weather balloon Not all objects fall down in the earth's gravitational field. Some objects are seen to be 'falling up'. If an atom of hydrogen or helium is released into the earth's gravitational field, they fall up. Hydrogen is ...

From BRENT HERBERT, Portland Indymedia,  26 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Isaac Newton,  Albert Einstein

The 'Success' of the Surge in Iraq

Public support for the war in Iraq has been steadily falling and for this reason the Bush administration desperately required a good news story coming out of Iraq rather than just more reports of a never ending quagmire. In recent times we have been ...

From BRENT HERBERT, Portland Indymedia,  30 Dec 2007
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Saddam Hussein,  U.S. Congress,  The Pentagon,  NATO

Cheaper than Coal: Developing A Solar Power Supply

According to what I have read recently, the people over at Google are planning to spend tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars on research into renewable energy sources that are 'cheaper than coal'. This has spurred me to begin research on the ...

From BRENT HERBERT, Portland Indymedia,  6 Dec 2007
Related Topics: Google Inc.

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