Brett Hutley's Blog

What’s in your honey, honey?

I just read this fascinating article from Food Safety News about honey. I had no idea that honey was such a dirty business! Apparently over 75% of honey sold in US grocery stores isn’t strictly “honey”. It’s been “ultra-filtered”, a process that removes the natural pollen from the honey. A process whose only purpose appears [...]

Dennis

Being able to determine the origin of foods is rather important, as articles like this make clear: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15618700 I found an ...

13 November 11 at 10:58

Prison versus Princeton

I saw this great info-graphic on The Atlantic comparing the costs of prison in the US with Princeton University.

Detroit – Ground Zero for Economic Collapse

Here is a video showing how badly Detroit has been affected by the collapsing housing market. Towards the end of the video you can see some amazing mansions in the worst-hit areas of Detroit that you can supposedly buy at a massive discount.

Social Collapse – Best Practices

Hmmm…. first I read this transcript from a speech by Dmitry Orlov entitled “Social Collapse – Best Practices”, and then I saw on Boing Boing the post How are you coping with Collapse-Anxiety? The first post describes what might happen if the US collapses in the same way economically as the USSR did in the [...]

US Public Debt

SonyaSunny

Greatings, www.bretthutley.com - da best. Keep it going! Thank you SonyaSunny

17 March 09 at 20:59

Chris

Debt is the biggest issue facing us all. I found this video on YouTube which really opened my eyes to the ...

20 June 09 at 18:46