awakening from this nightmare

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From the rooms of Narcotics Anonymous:
We do recover.
&
Recovery is a continuing moment-by-moment commitment.
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"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven
by power obtainable at any point in the universe…
It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in
attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."
- Nikola Tesla
http://newenergymovement.org/resourcelinks.aspx
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The Drug of War
4/27/6 Written by a fellow scout in the Shadow Recon Platoon of 2-63AR BN
http://ftssoldier.blogspot.com
...If one constantly exposes themselves to extreme situations, then all sensations there after of equal or lesser intensity offer no stimulation. A heroin addict must constantly increase the dose because the mind has grown tolerant to a lower dosage. A cocaine addict must snort more and more to obtain the same rush of endorphins that was felt the first time. This constant increase to obtain a desired effect is met with graduation to a more intense medium or fatality. However, a higher dosage or different medium does not always exist to take the addict to the next level, and even if he were to continue to utilize his current choices, the supply is not always infinite. When the supply diminishes, one is left numb to all sensation, and hence follows an increasingly desperate situation. For the soldier; war is his drug. His mind grows an addiction to its ravenous stimuli from abnormally stressful situations. His time within this medium is finite, and when it comes to an end, he will find it hard to deal with his unwanted addiction. This is the tragedy of all those who have fallen to the drug of war, myself included. Life becomes dull and frustrating. Normal situations make one feel a sense of anxiety, of desperation, as if constantly hoping for a sudden horrible rage to sweep across and take normal right down to hell, where things are violent, and gruesome, and stimulating, and the adrenaline flows. Where veins bulge and the mind sweats, and purpose is abundantly clear, to fight, to win, to love the drug of war. But it is no more. I feel the phantom left behind by this drug milling around in my mind, and I hear its fateful whispers, begging me to take it back to where the drug flows endless. I beat this demon down everyday, and come to grips with my reality...
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International Institute of Concern for Public Health
http://iicph.org/links.htm
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Science for Peace - free online documentary films
http://uoguelph.ca/~sforp
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Project on Government Oversight
http://pogo.org
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Endgame: The Collapse of Civilization and the Rebirth of Community
by Derrick Jensen
http://uoguelph.ca/~sforp/jensen.htm
http://beatingheartspress.com/links.html
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..."...The lion's share of the earth's resources go to the military, not life..."

...Q&A with Sister Rosalie Bertell 11/15/3, world-renown environmental epidemiologist for over three decades. Dr Bertell (PhD biometrics, plus many honorary doctorates), is the founder of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health (Toronto)
http://www.snowshoefilms.com/rbertell.html

...Hydrogen is “okay” if you take it from water, but we don’t want nuclear plants that are going to take hydrogen out of there air for the simple reason that the bi-product for hydrogen automobiles is water. If you take your oxygen out of the air and convert it to water, you’ve taken away what you need to breathe; you deplete the oxygen you need to breathe. It’s different with carbon dioxide because when you put that out into the air, if you have a lot of green plants, it converts it back into oxygen. There’s no way to convert water back into oxygen, to breathe. Okay? So you don’t do these kinds of things. But that’s being proposed. That’s part of Bush’s energy plan. Build more nuclear power plants in order to take oxygen out of the air and run cars with it [hydrogen]. You know, it’s very frustrating to know some of these things and see these plans that are just not going to work. We’ve already lost some of the oxygen in our air. We need it. You know, you have to breathe. These things have to be thought through. It’s not helpful to say nuclear power doesn’t produce carbon dioxide, therefore it’s okay. This is stupid. You don’t take one end-point and find one thing good about a technology and then run with it. You look at the whole picture, cradle-to-grave: everything it produces, everything it takes, every resource it uses. So we don’t need these big transmission systems either. We could get enough energy to run our houses, individual units - our cars are generators, our automobiles are individual generators. We can do these things. There are many viable solutions...I would recommend...Transforming the Global Biosphere, and many other sources and internet sites...
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Transforming The Global Biosphere
Twelve Futuristic Strategies
by Elliott Maynard
http://www.electrifyingtimes.com/elliott_maynard.html
http://arcoscielos.com/links
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"...There can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots earlier..."
Albert Gore, An Inconvenient Truth
http://climatecrisis.net
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2078944470709189270
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http://psf.org
...The numbers of deaths due to suicide are 2 to 3 times the number of line of duty deaths among law enforcement agencies and emergency workers...
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spiritualprogressives.pgh.googlepages.com/calendar
http://peace.mennolink.org
votersfirstpledge.org
http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com
http://fossil.energy.gov
http://dirtymoneywatch.org
http://healthnutsthemovie.com
http://buckthesystemnow.org
http://carnegiesciencecenter.org
http://emergencyafghanistan.com
http://globallinks.org
http://thecriticalvoice.org
http://balconyfilm.com/releasing.html
http://godspokefilm.com
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used vegetable oil fuel
http://smarterfuel.com
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to cancel the debt of impoverished nations
http://dtd-pitt.blogspot.com
http://jubileeusa.org
http://jubileeiraq.org
http://latindadd.org/enlaces.html
http://one.org
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National Wildlife Federation
http://www.nwf.org
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JFK's Biggest Secret Revealed -- But Will Congress Keep History from Repeating Itself?
by Thom Hartmann and Lamar Waldron
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1019-21.htm
www.ultimatesacrificethebook.com. Thom Hartmann and Lamar Waldron are authors of Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK. Hartmann is also a nationally syndicated progressive talk show host and the author of 16 other books in print, including Screwed: The Undeclared War on the Middle Class and What We Can Do About It. www.thomhartmann.com
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http://familiesusa.org
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BEYOND ENERGY ALTERNATIVES
fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/083106_beyond_energy.shtml
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http://nomorevictims.org
http://energybulletin.net
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Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction
http://www.holcimfoundation.org/media/news/20051014_eng.html
...Tsoga Environmental Center and Local Sustainability Catalyst in Cape Town, South Africa <../../awards/ame/bronze_ame.html> by a team led by architect and urban designer Alastair Francis Rendall of Cape Town, South Africa. The project was selected for convincingly presenting a vision of community self-sufficiency. Dr Irurah said the project focuses on provision of food gardens, nurseries, composting and domestic waste recycling: “The project is significant for promoting new jobs and skills transfer throughout the local population and thereby empowering the community’s decision-making capacities to improve the quality of life,” he said...
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George Washington Carver Bioeconomy Prize
http://biowa.us/media/GWCarverAward.pdf
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From:
World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing:
Biotechnology Breakthroughs Can Help Drivers Reduce Fuel Costs
5/9/6 contact Paul Winters 202-962-9237
http://bio.org/worldcongress/media/newsitem.asp?id=2006_0509_01
...production of ethanol from cellulose cost-competitive with gasoline. One recent study shows that biotech processes already being used today could produce ethanol from cellulose for less than $1.60 a gallon...
Improvements to the process through research and development underway coupled with expanded production promise to reduce the cost of ethanol from cellulose to below 90 cents per gallon, according to a Natural Resources Defense Council report...
...biorefineries can also make green plastics and renewable chemicals from grain or other plant matter...a stable supply of less-expensive transportation fuel...
"...hurry a future where consumers pay less for transportation fuel...aggressive policies that move us beyond research to commercialization of advanced biorefineries in all regions of the country.”
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Alliance for Fair Food
http://allianceforfairfood.org
rfkmemorial.org
http://www.speaktruth.org/
http://breathingearth.net
http://rootforce.org
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alerting humanitarians to emergencies
http://alertnet.org
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banking for the poor
http://grameen-info.org

Judge not that ye be not judged.

It's All/One big interconnected crisis/opportunity.
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definition of the word "ecocide"
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ecocide
...destruction of large areas of the natural environment by such activity as nuclear warfare, overexploitation of resources, or dumping of harmful chemicals...
...Heedless or deliberate destruction of the natural environment, as by pollutants or an act of war...
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From:
Battlefield Earth
by Bill Moyers 12/8/4
http://www.alternet.org/story/20666
...conventional, manageable programs like budget shortfalls and pollution - may be about to convert to chaotic, unpredictable, unmanageable situations. The most unmanageable of all...could be the accelerating deterioration of the environment, creating perils with huge momentum like the greenhouse effect that is causing the melting of the Arctic to release so much freshwater into the North Atlantic that even the Pentagon is growing alarmed that a weakening gulf stream could yield abrupt and overwhelming changes, the kind of changes that could radically alter civilizations...
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From:
Addicted to War
Why the U.S. can't kick militarism
an illustrated expose by Joel Andreas updated 3rd edition 2004
http://akpress.org
http://addictedtowar.com
page 58
Why do all the networks sound the same? Why are they all consumed by war fever every time the White House decides to send the troops overseas?...NBC is owned by GE...members of the boards of directors of these corporations also sit on the boards of weapons manufacturers and other companies with vested interests around the world..."Our networks tell you everything you need to know"...the corporations that control the television industry are full integrated into the military-industrial complex...look at the media empire of one of America's premier military contractors - GE...GE has major investments around the world, which it expects the Pentagon to protect...third largest military contractor...billions every year...produces parts for every nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal,...jet engines...eleclronic...secretly released millions of curies of deadly radiation from the Hanford weapons facility in Washington state and produced faulty nuclear power plants that dot the U.S. countryside..."We bring good things to life!"...
...under Wilson, GE got into the media business itself to promote its pro-war message. In 1954, it hired a floundering actor named Ronald Reagan to be its corporate spokesman...in 1986, GE bought its own TV network - NBC...news available to us...filtered through their perspective...
page 61

"I have seen that we do not intend to free but to subjugate the Philippines. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land... I have a strong aaversion to sending our bright boys out there to fight with a disgraced musket under a polluted flag."

- Mark Twain, Vice President, Anti-Imperialist League, 1900

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- Leo Tolstoy
http://hypocrisy.org
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Pittsburgh Campaign for Democracy Now
http://pcdn.org
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Interfaith Global Climate Change Campaigns
http://webofcreation.org/Links/index.htm
http://webofcreation.org/ncc/Regional/Pennsylvania/penn.html
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Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership
http://johnsoninstitute-gspia.org
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From:
Surviving the Singularity
by Paul P. Budnik Jr.
http://www.mtnmath.com/movies/challenge.html
whatwillbe.com
...we are approaching a change so dramatic that it qualifes as a singularity...a point at which all the rules and assumptions that worked before fail......What happens when robots are cheaper than even the most exploited of humans for almost every job?...If we fully emulate the structure of the human brain in silicon will the simulated brain experience consciousness?...
...human consciousness and machine intelligence will become integrated over time...
...to see ourselves in others, all others, not just our family, tribe or nation.
The changes we face call for a new transformation and expansion of values. We need a wider sense of self that encompasses not just humanity but all of consciousness...Our individual consciousness is...a partially isolated wave in an ocean of consciousness that is the physical universe...What will it be like to have a direct neural interface to the Internet and be in direct telepathic communication with anyone who wishes to communicate with us? What will it be like to have the world's knowledge and literature accessible by just thinking that we want to know something?...
The world is dealing badly with the much more limited change we face today. Nuclear weapons, global warming, the AIDS pandemic, genocide, ethnic cleansing, increasing concentration of wealth and terrorism fueled by religious fundamentalism are all terrible problems we are not handling well. These can all be effectively addressed. They are not...because powerful vested interests feel threatened by the solutions...
...The leaders of the United States and some other countries are able to use terrorism, deliberately or not, for political advantage rather than understanding and addressing it for what it is. The result is to amplify terrorism and feed religious fundamentalism rather than encouraging the freedom and understanding that will lead to the natural death of terrorism...
There is no guarantee that we will not fall into a horrible repressive world dictatorship, suffer a nuclear holocaust or purge humanity from the earth through huge unanticipated climate change. We have the power to create something approaching heaven on earth, but that will not prevent us from creating hell as the twentieth century has repeatedly demonstrated...
The one thing that has saved the biosphere of earth during previous changes that created mass extinction is biodiversity. Life on this planet will probably survive humanity, but we may not survive our own folly...The same technology that is making this evolutionary leap possible is making it far easier for huge institutions to dominate our economy, culture and politics. Concentration of wealth and power is dramatically and tragically accelerating. If this continues we will be facing at best creative stagnation and at worst a hell on earth as the powerful seek ever greater dominance.
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From:
Empire's Workshop
Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
by Greg Grandin 2006
http://bookclub.tpmcafe.com/node/29926
page 21
...American soldiers...learned to project their aggression onto their victims...opinions relating the exceptional regard Americans have for human life, even as they were taking it, became commonplace...such as when the commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, General William Westmoreland, famously reported that "Orientals don't value life" the way Westerners did...lieutenant Andrew Johansen last year in Iraq said that Iraqis don't "know the values of human life Americans have..." Such attitudes led easily to cruelty...
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http://nowaroncuba.org
http://energybulletin.net/19334.html
http://permacultureactivist.net
http://bioregionalcongress.org
http://planetdrum.org
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From:
The Duplicity of the War on Drugs
by Lee Rodgers
http://www.serendipity.li/wod/dupl.html
...declaring that America was awash in illegal drugs. The 1980's was a remarkable decade in international events: the Cold War was coming to an end, and the U.S. military-industrial complex was facing spending cuts, with myriad economic ramifications. The U.S. had gone through its longest period of peace since the end of World War I, and many Americans were calling for a Peace Dividend. While it may seem coincidental that the war on drugs was contemporaneous with the end of the Cold War and was punctuated by the Iran-Contra affair, a closer look at the war on drugs reveals disturbing patterns.
Critics of the Cold War have long pointed out that the Cold War was a convenient vehicle for the military-industrial complex to acquire an increasing share of the federal budget, regardless of the decline in threat posed by the Soviet Union. The war on drugs, it has been noted, arrives with all the familiar rubrics of constant threat and ceaseless terror...ex-DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) agent Michael Levine has commented, "with the fade of communism (the Pentagon and CIA) are building a pretext for maintaining their budgets." (Esquire, March 1991, pg. 136) Indeed, after Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, the rhetoric of the war on drugs changed, with the Bush administration declaring victory in the war against drugs late that year...
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http://projectcensored.org
http://www.freedomofthepress.net
http://plentymag.com
http://worldcantwait.net
http://justicewheels.org
http://wakeupcallradio.blogspot.com
http://afsc.org/pittsburgh
http://radio.indypgh.org
http://wrct.org links
http://www.thisishappening.com/OrgPage.php
http://sustainabletable.org
http://factoryfarm.org
http://thefutureoffood.com
http://foodandwaterwatch.org
http://fellow-travelers-advisory.blogspot.com/
http://warontrial.com
http://spiritunfoldingnow.googlepages.com/
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One Year After Bankruptcy Bill, It’s Well Past Time To Crack Down On Predatory Lenders
by John Edwards, former North Carolina Senator and candidate for Vice President
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/14/bankruptcy-bill-anniversary/
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chrischandler.org
http://www.myspace.com/chrischandlerorg
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Making Sweden an Oil-Free Society
http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2031/a/67096
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http://peakoil.net
http://powerswitch.org.uk
http://energybulletin.net
www.thewolfatthedoor.org.uk
www.theoildrum.com - online discussions
www.postcarbon.org
www.globalpublicmedia.com
www.oilposter.org
www.drydipstick.com
www.communitysolutions.org
www.oildepletionprotocol.org
http://transfairusa.org
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Center for Policy Alternatives
http://stateaction.org/partners
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www.publichealth.pitt.edu/globalproblems
http://www.uprisetour.org
http://www.usprobiotics.org/basics/
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PREEMPT, a preventative poultry inoculant
http://msbioscience.com/www/MSBioScience.html
http://www.usprobiotics.org/highlight/ClinicalStudy_February_2004.htm
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http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/today/s_467703.html
Pitt scientists get $1.3M grant for bird flu vaccine
by Jennifer Bails
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, August 25, 2006
University of Pittsburgh researchers said Thursday they have received a $1.3 million federal grant to begin production of a promising new bird flu vaccine they hope will protect people from the deadly virus.

Pitt virologist Dr. Andrea Gambotto announced in January he had genetically engineered a vaccine that protected 100 percent of mice and chickens from illness and death caused by a strain of avian influenza that has decimated poultry flocks and killed dozens of people in Asia...

The vaccine will be created and rigorously tested in Pitt's Good Manufacturing Practices laboratory, a "clean" facility in Hazelwood that meets the federal criteria for making biological products that will be administered to people...
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http://progresspittsburgh.net
http://iheartpgh.com
http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Links.html
farmandranchfreedom.org
libertyark.net
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Community Power Corporation
http://gocpc.com/links_and_pages_of_interest.htm
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Pittsburgh Campaign for Democracy Now
pcdn.org/
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http://www.dep.state.pa.us/newsletter/default.asp?NewsletterArticleID=8256
...Carnegie Mellon University - $96,750. This project will implement a living roof project at Hamerschlag Hall, the signature building at Carnegie Mellon University. The key benefits to the project are reducing storm-water runoff, reducing heating and cooling costs, realizing energy savings, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and encouraging replication.
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http://radiopower.org/liberal_links.html
http://www.mikemalloy.com/resources.php
barrelsofblood.com
OpEdNews.com
BombtheBastards.us
BlueCanyonSatire.com
GlobalFreePress.Com
Bartcop.Com
BuzzFlash.Com
http://911review.org
BushWatch.Com
GWBush.Com
DemocraticUnderground.Com
OnLineJournal.Com
AmericanPolitics.Com
Makethemaccountable.com
The Daily Howler
WhiteHouse.Org
JoshMarshall.Com
OnLineJournalSpecialReport
BettyBowers.Com
AmericaHeldHostile
TheSpiritofFreedom.Com
FloridaFightsBack.Com
BlackCommentator.Com
LiberalsLikeChrist.Org
The FictionalTimes.Com
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Wal-Mart
http://www.sprawl-busters.com/readlist.html
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http://musictravel.free.fr/political
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National Religious Campaign Against Torture
http://nrcat.org/resources
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Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationKejriwalArv.htm
http://www.indiatogether.org/2006/aug/ivw-arvind.htm
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Right to Information Campaign in India
http://righttoinformation.com
http://www.ndtv.com/rti/default.asp
http://www.parivartan.com
http://rti.aidindia.org
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"The need to protect the environment spells survival of the human race and other life forms."
- M.C. Mehta
http://rmaf.org.ph
http://goodnewsnetwork.org
http://nuestrafamiliaourfamily.org
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Wilson Center
Environmental Change and Security links
http://wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1413&fuseaction=topics.links&group_id=6278
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National Council for Science and the Environment
http://ncseonline.org
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http://biointegrity.org
http://openleader.com
http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/pusztai.html
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Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping System
http://fivims.net
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Global Disaster Information Network
http://www.gdin.org/links.html
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Third World Network
http://twnside.org.sg
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8/16/6
http://www.saveourseeds.org/en/frame.php?page=news
...Monsanto to buy world largest cotton seed company
...takeover would give control over the US cotton seed market and make Monsanto the world largest cotton seed producer. A similar attempt had failed in 1998 when it was stopped by US anti-trust regulators. Monsanto would also aquire a highly controversial patent on the production of so called "Terminator seeds"...
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http://www.smallpoxbiosafety.org/pr06english.html
http://comeclean.org.uk/useful_links.php
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http://reliefweb.int
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http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/weednseed/assets/04_Hazelwood_Steering%20Committee.pdf#search=%22%22Ray%20Saunders%22%20Pittsburgh%22
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http://zerowaste.org/resources.htm
http://www.precaution.org/lib/05/prn_zero_waste_resources.051214.htm
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UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
http://irinnews.org
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http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/links_resources/learn_more/#tuberculosis
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"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
- Thomas Edison
http://permatopia.com
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http://biosafety-info.net
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http://www.oilempire.us/apollo.html
...Energy Independence would require a change in the way we live

Solar, wind, biomass and other technologies could only make the US achieve "energy independence" if Americans were to radically reduce energy consumption. These steps would include

* abandoning jet travel (which won't be powered by windmills or solar cells),
* eating food locally and in season (which will be difficult given the near total amnesia in our society about how to grow food or even where food comes from),
* abolition of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer that grows most of our food (it's made from natural gas),
* a shift to a largely vegan diet (which uses much less energy, especially if the consumers are in metropolitan areas far removed from the farms)
* a massive reduction in electricity consumption and
* restructuring communities to end long-distance daily commutes.

Peak Oil will radically change human civilization. Ignoring it as an issue -- until the panic sets in -- means that careful planing to cope with the crises and to use some of the oil as a "bridge" toward a more local, lower energy sustainable society is less likely...
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http://www.brightsurf.com/item/097527631X/The_Big_Wedding_911_the_Whistle_Blowers_and_the_Cover-up.html
http://www.oilempire.us/pentagon-truth.html
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Chore Corps http://www.mtlsd.org/highschool/studentsrequestingcommunityserviceform.asp>
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http://iraqforsale.org
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http://www.defenders.org/habitat/renew/biomass.html
...materials that would be disposed of are acceptable as biomass fuel; materials that would have remained in place for soil holding or composting/ nutrient return should not be used as biomass fuel...
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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:00:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Organic Consumers Association > To: JIM > Subject: Organic Bytes: Food Contamination Alert, Green Schools and more... Hello JIM, ORGANIC BYTES #89 Health, Justice and Sustainability News Tidbits with an Edge! 9/9/2006 Subscribe to this Bi-weekly Email Newsletter: Unsubscribe: Written and edited by Craig Minowa and Ronnie Cummins IN THIS ISSUE * TOWARDS A "DO-SOMETHING CONGRESS" * GOVERNMENT REPORT OFFERS SOBERING STATISTICS ABOUT THE 2006 FARMER
U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service issued updated estimates regarding 2006 farm income. Here are some quick statistics from the report: * Net farm income is forecast to be $54.4 billion in 2006, down from 2005 by $19.4 billion (a 26% decline). * Government payments are forecast to decline $6.2 billion. * The average family farm will generate 86.7 percent of their income from off-farm sources in 2006. In other words, less than 14% of income is generated from the farm, itself. Source:
USDA Economic Research Service
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Features/farmincome/2006/August
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/agbiotechip/Data/Table27_UtilityByCountryUSNonUSNonProfDetail.htm
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agbiotech intellectual property
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/agbiotechip/
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http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/links_ext.php
http://pointoflight.com
http://theopenmind.com/links/index.htm
http://noplacetohide.net
http://wilson.edu/lifeaftercheapoil
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Bush: El mundo no es tuyo [The world is not yours].
http://www.ifconews.org/Chiapas_and_CentralAmerica/Fall2006/flierchiapas.pdf
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http://buber-zen-the-between.blogspot.com
www.culture-and-ecology.com
http://thecommunityengine.com
ThinkProgress.com
MediaMatters.com
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suburbanawakening.org "Ryan Williams satyagra...
http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org/the_new_people/April%2006.pdf#search=%22satyagrahi%40%20%22Ryan%20Williams%22%22
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http://everybodyvote.com

http://trineday.com
http://kathithomas.org
http://thomhartmann.com
http://www.620kpoj.com/main.html
http://thegreatbirdfluhoax.com

Come together

When the earth is ravaged
and the animals are
dying, a new tribe of
people shall come unto
the earth from many
colors, classes, creeds,
and who by their actions
and deeds shall make the
earth green again. They
will be known as the
warriors of the Rainbow
-- Old Native American Prophecy
http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow.html
http://welcomehome.org/rainbow/prophecy/stone.html
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http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/plancolombia.htm
...the lie of the drug war as a smokescreen for multinational corporations' interests in extraction of the rich biodiversity and natural resources of the Amazon and her people...
http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/mosaics.htm
...history of many "fallen empires".….We've been thinking it might be time for another...
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Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
http://mofga.org
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http://growseed.org
http://www.independentfoodproject.org/links.html
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Cooperative Grocers' Information Network
http://cgin.coop/links.html
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http://bike-pgh.org
http://biointegrity.org
http://openleader.com
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Genetically Modified Foods:
Are They a Risk to Human/Animal Health?
by Arpad Pusztai June 2001
http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/pusztai.html
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Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping System
http://fivims.net
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Global Disaster Information Network
http://www.gdin.org/links.html
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Third World Network
Information Service on Biosafety
http://twnside.org.sg/bio_7.htm
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8/16/6
http://www.saveourseeds.org/en/frame.php?page=news
...Monsanto to buy world largest cotton seed company
...takeover would give control over the US cotton seed market and make Monsanto the world largest cotton seed producer. A similar attempt had failed in 1998 when it was stopped by US anti-trust regulators. Monsanto would also aquire a highly controversial patent on the production of so called "Terminator seeds"...
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http://www.smallpoxbiosafety.org/pr06english.html
http://comeclean.org.uk/useful_links.php
http://reliefweb.int
http://zerowaste.org/resources.htm
http://www.precaution.org/lib/05/prn_zero_waste_resources.051214.htm
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UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
http://irinnews.org
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
http://www.theglobalfund.org
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"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
- Thomas Edison
http://permatopia.com
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http://biosafety-info.net
http://oilempire.us/apollo.html

time to change

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"...They make too much money with their technological stagnation and the internal combustion engine..."
- Ralph Nader
http://whokilledtheelectriccar.com
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/electric.html
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Three Rivers Community Foundation
http://trcf.net
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"We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again."
- Sister Joan Chittister
http://inchatatime.blogspot.com
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http://acloserwalk.org
http://onecarenow.org
http://npr.org
http://iraqforsale.org
http://palsolidarity.org
http://electronicintifada.net
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American Blackout
"A muckraking indictment of the systematic disenfranchisement of African American voters"
-LA Times
http://americanblackout.gnn.tv
http://americanblackout.com
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In times of change the learner will inherit the earth while the learned are beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer
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http://stelle.net
http://jumpstartford.com/our_vision/alternatives_to_oil/
http://myspace.com/rainforestactionnetwork
http://globalexchange.org
http://amsam.org
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http://www.debatecomics.org/webpages/arguments/listofarguments.asp?topic=Debt%20Forgiveness
...Propping up a GNP (Gross National Product) by selling the social safety net" spells national emergency. Given that so many countries are experiencing this nightmare, it is an international emergency...
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http://newstandardnews.net
http://spitfirelist.com
http://www.bushfiles.com/bushfiles/fertilize_bushes.html
http://lumpen.com
http://campaignwatch.org
http://ithefilm.com/home
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From:
Rainforest Action Network
Corporate Takeover: an interview with Jim Gollin 5/23/5
http://ran.org/media_center/news_article/?uid=1509
...used confrontational tactics to open a dialogue that ended with cooperative written agreements: In 1999 Home Depot decided that it will not sell old-growth products, and in 2004 Citigroup agreed that it will not finance the destruction of old growth anywhere in the world...
...metaphor of Indra's net-that everything is connected to and reflects everything else-has been particularly effective...When one shines, we all shine, and when one is occluded, we're all occluded. This interconnected type of thinking does not come automatically, certainly not in our culture, so we must continually remind ourselves of it...
...You have to get their attention. What we do is always nonviolent both to people and to property. So it's really an aggressive form of speech designed to make them very uncomfortable. It's a way of getting a conversation started...we found someone who worked at Home Depot who liked what we were doing, and he leaked the code for the intercom systems...We had volunteers go in, punch in the code, and broadcast over the entire store: "Attention, Home Depot shoppers! There's a sale on wood in Aisle 13. This wood has been ripped from the heart of the Amazon basin. There may be some blood spilled on the floor, so please be careful. This wood is leading to the dislocation of indigenous communities, soil degradation, and the destruction of Mother Earth." We did this in 162 stores on the same day. At the Home Depot headquarters in Atlanta the phones were ringing and ringing, and the people who worked there didn't know what to do. It doesn't stop anybody from shopping; it's amusing. And it broke the ice...civil disobedience in direct action...not worried about rattling the teacups...
...corporations are run by human beings walking the same earth, breathing the same air, with the same concerns as you or me. You have to get to that common place with them. They want to feel good when they go to sleep and when they're bouncing their grandchildren on their knees...
...Kinko's and Lowe's sat down at the negotiating table with RAN and Boise. Kinko's said, "Unless you stop cutting old growth we won't buy any of your paper." Lowe's said, "Unless you stop cutting old growth, we won't buy any of your wood." Because Kinko's was the largest customer for Boise's paper and Lowe's for their lumber, it worked...branching out, taking our former adversaries and converting them...
...sadness. We'll still have an opportunity to deal with the inequality between the rich and the poor in fifty years, whereas when we lose the forests and everything in them, they're gone... sadness...In me it leads to activism...to avoid the sorrow...
Thich Nhat Hahn...concept of interbeing was very helpful for me. I remember him holding up a piece of paper, and saying, "What do you see here?" And he said, "I see some clouds and the rain and there's the tree and wood that the paper is made from."
With the Boise campaign we used essentially the same analysis. We asked, "How are we going to get Boise to stop cutting old-growth forests?" It was like pulling out that piece of paper and saying, "Okay, I see Kinko's and Lowe's and I hear the sound of consumers in a marketing campaign." It took seeing how everything interconnects like Indra's net.
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Buddhism
http://tricycle.com/resources/links.html
http://earthsangha.org
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coal, oil and the banks
http://dirtymoney.org
http://ilovemountains.org
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http://dirtymoney.org/sakhalin_oil
Oil is over. Fund the future.
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http://declarationofpeace.org
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://eff.org
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http://www.universalflag.com
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From:
George Bush & John Kerry: Blood Brothers
by Victor Thorn 2/10/4
http://www.apfn.net/Messageboard/02-10-04/discussion.cgi.59.html
...Kerry Commission, described in the Senate Committee Report on Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy as "focusing on allegations of illegal gun-running and narcotics trafficking associated with the Contra war against Nicaragua" in relation to the CIA, Department of Justice, the U.S. State Department, and the office of the President and Vice President. The testimony that took place during these trials (both in open and closed door sessions) was quite possibly the most damning ever against our federal government, yet mysteriously, nearly all of it was suppressed and not widely reported in the mainstream media...
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World Independent News Group
http://69.28.73.17
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http://sarayaku.com/oil
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Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change
http://hdgc.epp.cmu.edu/outreach/outreach.html