Saturday, May 31, 2008

the ephemeral attraction of the status quo

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Here's where you can see how those profiting from the defense of the status quo have deceived by selectively honing in on facts to the exclusion of related facts - not directly but indirectly lying and/or self-deluding.

By letting the deluders run the show, we're enticing ourselves off the cliff.

The oceans do give off carbon dioxide, but they absorb slightly more - they are a net carbon absorber. The oceans do give off more carbon than humans each year, but they absorb even more. Those who say those warning about CO2 are swindlers are themselves the actual swindlers, consciously or not. We are in an historic period of abrubt climate change, with very little time left in which to attempt to prevent Earth becoming worse of a nightmare than anyone could even bear imagining up till now.

Mechanics of global climate change
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=29v4FZvhvcc&NR=1
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The Exception to the Rulers:
Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them
by Amy, David Goodman
http://www.cbsd.com/inventory.aspx?id=1653635
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http://enviroreporter.com/resources.html
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Joy creates, nurtures

So make big happy regardless of whatever...
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farmersmarketcoalition.org/resources
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listserv
lists.easilyamusedinc.com/mailman/listinfo/fmc
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West Virginia University Organic Research Project
www.caf.wvu.edu:80/plsc/organic
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statefairofwv.com
lapaixherbfarm.com
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West Virginia Farmers Market Association
wvfarmers.org
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West Virginia Beekeepers Association
wvbeekeepers.org
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http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/
http://www.alternet.org/immigration/86285/

Thursday, May 22, 2008

reading between the lines

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Nowhere in this article is mentioned that what is being discussed is biological weapons laboratories and production. The words "defense" and "security" are euphemisms. The United States has the world's largest capacity to conduct biological warfare. The implication that we would only attack when threatened is belied by our history.
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Foot-and-mouth plan used flawed study
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080522/ap_on_go_co/animal_disease
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From:
The Defining Moment for Climate Change
by Bill Mckibben 5/11/8
truthdig.com/report/item/20080511_the_defining_moment_for_climate_change
...We’re the ones who kicked the warming off; now, the planet is starting to take over the job. Melt all that Arctic ice, for instance, and suddenly the nice white shield that reflected 80% of incoming solar radiation back into space has turned to blue water that absorbs 80% of the sun’s heat. Such feedbacks are beyond history...
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National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
attra.org
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risingtidenorthamerica.org
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Indigenous Environmental Network
ienearth.org
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saveourvote.com
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Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
peace.sandiego.edu
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johndinges.com/condor/revelations.htm
...1973 to 1980, military dictatorships in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil worked together...used torture, kidnapping, secret prisons and "disappearances" to hide the crimes they were committing against their own citizens. Some...carried out intentional policies of mass murder...Evidence of CIA and Pentagon encouragement and technical support of Operation Condor...
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Acculturation for Justice, Access, and Peace Outreach
ajapo.org
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Slowing Earth's destruction down - be a "downshifter"
edstrong.blog-city.com/imagine_no_possessions_the_downshifters.htm
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International Crisis Group, working to prevent conflict worldwide
crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=1130
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Latin American Drugs II: Improving Policy and Reducing Harm
crisisgroup.org/text/index.cfm?id=5328
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water4gas.com/2books.htm
"...hydrogen-on-demand:
why compress hydrogen in dangerous high-pressure tanks when it is already 'compressed' in plain water - and can be easily and safely released?..."
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Getting to the root of problems by following the money trail
publishwhatyoupay.org/english/links/index.shtml
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pittsburghdarfur.org/links.html
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Raise the Green Roof
engagepittsburgh.org/node/779
...seek strategic partnerships to help influence city and county governments to offer incentives and budget allocations to make green roofs attractive...push for green roofs on both new developments and existing buildings by advocating zoning changes...
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cmu.edu/greenpractices/links_contacts/index.html
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gaiauniversity.org
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commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/adam_werbach/2008/04/birth_of_the_blue_movement.html
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Project Learning Tree
plt.org
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greenworks.tv
actnowproductions.com
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"...Democracy in America Is a Series of Narrow Escapes, and We May Be Running Out of Luck...For all of America's shortcomings, we keep telling ourselves, 'The system works.' Now all bets are off..."
~Bill Moyers
alternet.org/democracy/85521/?page=entire
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Improbable Collapse: The Demolition of Our Republic
improbablecollapse.com/trailer.html
...the events of September 11, 2001 from a scientific perspective...
...Twin Towers disintegrated in a manner that scientists say resembled deliberately calculated implosions...that same day another building, the 47 story WTC 7, completely collapsed within 70 feet of its footprint in 6.6 seconds. These three buildings became the first such structures to ever suffer complete collapse due to fire and damage.

"The dramatic collapse of World Trade Center 7 is something everyone ought to see...It really does have the characteristics of an explosive demolition."
~Dr. Steven Jones, physicist, author of
Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Completely Collapse?
journalof911studies.com/articles/Why%20Indeed%20Did%20the%20WTC%20Buildings%20Completely%20Collapse%20Jones%20Thermite%20World%20Trade%20Center%20J24.pdf
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Fruit Tree Planting Foundation thebestdayever.com/component/option,com_zoom/Itemid,66/page,view/catid,2/PageNo,1/key,5/hit,1/
FTPF.org ...
a unique nonprofit charity dedicated to planting edible, fruitful trees and plants to benefit needy populations and improve the surrounding air, soil, and water. Thier programs strategically plant orchards where the harvest will best serve the community for decades to follow, at places such as homeless shelters, drug rehabs, low-income areas, international hunger relief sites, and animal sanctuaries. FTPF's projects benefit the environment, human health, and animal welfare—all at once! FTPF's goal is straightforward: to collectively plant 18 billion fruit trees for a healthy planet (approximately 3 for every person alive). Fruit trees heal the environment by cleaning the air, improving soil quality, preventing erosion, creating animal habitat, sustaining valuable water sources, and providing healthy nutrition.
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worldenergy.org
pittsburghunited.org/pressroom.php
curbprisonspending.org
criticalresistance.org
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Northside Coalition for Fair Housing
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/15-391-reports/
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Sustainable Economically Efficient Wave Energy Converter
seewec.org
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waveenergy.no
wavedragon.net
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

something from nothing

June GreenWay article for
Hazelwoodhomepage.com :
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Creating a healthy garden

Our world has always been changing, but now the changes are coming faster. The changes are interacting. We need to start taking care of ourselves first. I don't mean that we should become more selfish, just more self-reliant. We each have to work on problems from within our own unique situations.

Pollution is making our soil toxic, and destroying the life in it on which we depend. Not only our food but also our air and water quality depend on a healthy soil. Construction of buildings and roads over soil is limiting the land's ability to provide these services upon which the human species has always depended. And the transfer of waste organic material to landfills, incinerators, and waterways - rather than it's being returned to the soil - is resulting in diminished capacity of all types of life to flourish on what land remains available.

How do we deal with such a gigantic mass of related problems? By starting with one thing at a time, one step at a time. And by using our imaginations to enjoy the future we're making.

If the piece of land you want to turn into a garden has rocks, think how removing each rock frees up valuable turf for life to flourish. What could you build with those rocks? If you've got lots of garbage to clear for your garden, think of how your neighbors will like you better (or dislike you less, as the case may be) if your place is cleaner. If you own this particular chunk of Earth, think how it's sale value will increase the nicer it looks. If you're a renter (like me) and so gardening on land you don't own, realize you still look good working on something positive. You're getting exercise, decreasing pollution, and likely to enjoy a more beautiful and well-fed future.

Rather than get discouraged at how big the project is and with how many obstacles, think of each problem as a challenge. Rocks, along with salvaged Christmas tree stems, old bricks and blocks, railroad ties, poles, fencing, and pieces of wood can be part of the structure of the garden. You can turn an old bathtub into a pond. Old tires (without the rims) can be stacked to make a little round raised bed of whatever depth you choose.

Waste cardboard and non-color newspaper is organic carbon and can line the bottom of plant pots and planting beds. Roots will grow right down into this biodegradable waste. Boxes (both wooden and plastic) and drawers can be planters as long as they have drainage holes. Immovable concrete and metal structures look a lot better when they have plants coming up out of them.

Rather than trying to control everything in your garden space, use what already exists by letting flow the life that's already there. Yes, there are grasses and weeds, so much stronger than the tame plants you want that they always threaten to overwhelm anything you try to grow. But use their life force to your advantage - compost them. You'll never be free of weeds or plant diseases in a compost-fed garden (or in any kind of a garden, for that matter), but, by encouraging as much a quantity and variety of the kinds of life you want you indirectly successfully compete with the weeds and disease. After some admittedly strenuous and meticulous work to separate out the "bad guys" - such as mosquitoes - and encourage the "good guys" - such as a variety of bugs, which work together to keep each other under control while feeding the birds - you'll find your preferred plants bigger, stronger, and (if they're food plants) better tasting than ever.
It's putting your energy toward encouraging the good rather than fighting the bad that distinguishes the organic gardener or farmer from the embattled chemical grower. Rather than chemical warfare with the mosquitoes, either inoculate your pond or birdbath with a virus that keeps them in check (available from garden stores) or nurture creatures that eat mosquitoes (birds, bats, frogs, some kinds of fish).

It's an attitude of flexibility, humility before Nature, and willingness to go with the flow that makes for a successful garden. Old biodegradables are not just garbage - they're future plants if you handle them right. Most of the living things around us are our friends, not our enemies. From the bacteria to the bats, recognizing your fellow life forms as your neighbors will result in a more balanced, productive, and safe community. Stop and think before you cut down that tree, or kill that groundhog, or spray that bug, or mow that lawn. Think what you're doing. Are you helping the community of life or acting on some unnecessary fear? As we are finding out in the international arena, life isn't as simple as constructing a border in your mind between the good guys and the bad guys. We are either going to kill each other with chemicals and warfare, or we're going to learn to love the whole community of life.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Truth can come as bitter medicine.

Chew that root slowly and with relish...
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"After the Revolution, I'll be defending the Republicans."
~Bill Kunstler, attorney

"We're gonna hafta rassle em to the ground."
~Jim McCue
bioeverything.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_archive.html
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Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth
mujca.com
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RFK, Jr. recommending the book:
Witness to a Crime:
A Citizens' Audit of an American Election
by Richard Hayes Phillips -
“Richard Hayes Phillips worked day and night for three years compiling irrefutable evidence
of how the Republicans stole the 2004 presidential race in Ohio. This landmark investigation is a testament to what private citizens can accomplish when government officials fail to protect our right to vote and to count those votes as cast. Every American – Republican and Democrat – should read this book, and join the fight for democracy’s most fundamental right.”
~Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
witnesstoacrime.com/announcement.htm
witnesstoacrime.com/table.htm
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A New Relationship with the Living Earth
gaiafoundation.org/documents/EarthEthics/RupertSheldrake.pdf
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911truthsquads.org
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Not the first coup the United States has experienced
mujca.com/luttwak.htm
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mujca.com/pnac.htm
...Prominent Americans who have called 9/11 a probable inside job include former Republican cabinet members Catherine Austin Fitts, Morgan Reynolds, and Paul Craig Roberts; historical writer and essayist Gore Vidal; and noted philosopher-theologian David Griffin. Among the many other supporters of the 9/11 truth movement are: Ralph Nader, David Cobb, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Ray McGovern, Jim Hightower, Howard Zinn, the Green Party, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, British ex-Environment Minister Michael Meecher, and the late Senator Paul Wellstone. The must-see three-part BBC Documentary, "The Power of Nightmares," puts it bluntly: "Al-Qaeda is a (neocon) myth."See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1327904,00.html ...
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911blogger.com
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Monday, May 12, 2008

figgerin it aht

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Center for Crops Utilization Research
www.ccur.iastate.edu/resources.html
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bioelectromagnetics
altered-states.net/index2.htm?/rife/elecinfo.htm
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Biodegradable Products Institute
bpiworld.org
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BioEnvironmental Polymer Society
beps.org
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blackvoternet.com/drugs.htm
...10-year study that linked top US government officials to arms and weapons dealers...
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U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11

by Eli Lake 4/10/8

www2.nysun.com/foreign/un-official-calls-for-study-of-neocons-role

...official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks...

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"It is possibly true that especially the neoconservatives thought there was a situation in the country and in the world where something had to happen to wake up the American people. Whether they are innocent about the contention that they made that something happen or not, I don't think we can answer definitively at this point. All we can say is there is a lot of grounds for suspicion, there should be an official investigation of the sort the 9/11 commission did not engage in and that the failure to do these things is cheating the American people and in some sense the people of the world of a greater confidence in what really happened than they presently possess."...
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Bio-electric rejuvenation
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=J_D5hBoX7O8&feature=related
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justacitizen.com/KillTheMessenger.html
sibeledmonds.blogspot.com/2006/09/kill-messenger-trailer.html

Saturday, May 10, 2008

The system is killing us all

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"The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself."
~Proverbs 11:25
brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com
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United Farm Workers
ufw.org
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internationalwomensday.com
Global Peace Petition
From Women of the World
to Governments of the world
isis.aust.com/iwd/peace/petition.htm
suekatz.typepad.com
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From:
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan 2/4/7
Disgraceful Bill of "National Conciliation": The last nail into the coffin of fake democracy
rawa.org/events/warcrimes_e.htm
...The hanging of Saddam reflects the fact that if the US has some elements in her lap today and it is in her interests to try to portray them as champions of democracy, it is possible that tomorrow she would identify them as useless and subject them to fate like Saddam, Noriega and the rest of her lackeys...
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Free the Bees
youtube.com/watch?v=5lzWVk2eKmA
vanishingbees.com/blog
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Patent 5,935,054 - Magnetic excitation of Sensory Resonances
Electrotherapy device using low frequency magnetic pulses 5/22/1
illuminati-news.com/patents.htm
patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=8&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&p=1&p=1&S1=5,935,054&OS=5,935,054&RS=5,935,054
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If I was a terrorist
by James Pence
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=G1EXKLVgEx0&eurl=your-inner-voice.com/IfIWasATerrorist.html

If I was a terrorist and I wanted to destroy the American way of life, I wouldn't use planes and bombs to kill folk. Hell's bells! That's too risky; you might get caught or killed or both. Real terrorists get results, and then they lay the blame where it can’t be found. So here is what I would do if I were a terrorist:

I would foreclose on millions of homes; you know - kick folk out of their houses.

I would devalue the dollar so the price of everything would go up.

I would outsource their jobs so they couldn’t find work. I would move the factories to foreign countries; you know, all the good paying factory jobs.

I would make education unaffordable. You know terrorists don’t like having educated people around.

I would make health care difficult to get and let the insurance companies’ just get away with murder.

I would listen to their telephone calls and monitor their emails and use that information to really stick it to them.

Then I would give myself a big ole tax cut, sit back in luxury, and watch them fight over the crumbs. What could the tax cuts be?

But you know what; we live in the United States of America, Thank you Jesus! And the people that represent us would never ever let them get away with that, would they? Would They?
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http://creativetreehousepgh.com/
http://pangeaday.org/
volunteersolutions.org
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My Rights Versus Yours
Trade Secret Protection for Electronic Voting Machine Manufacturers
and
the Threat to Our Fundamental Right to Vote
by Nicole Mace 4/28/8
journal.heinz.cmu.edu/articles/my-rights-versus-yours
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Institute of Global Environment and Society
iges.org
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Debt cancellation a victory for the world
by Desmond Tutu 5/7/8
worldbaltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.debt07may07,0,7762181.story
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bradynetwork.org
...Another tragic gun massacre...Let's bow our heads and have a decade of silence. What are YOU going to do about gun violence?...
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Food for Life Global
"uniting the world through pure food"
ffl.org/ffl_fww_links.php
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Renewable Energy Policy Project
repp.org
repp.org/articles/static/1/binaries/Pennsylvania_USW.pdf
listserv.repp.org/pipermail/greenbuilding_listserv.repp.org
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The Violent Language of Right-Wing Pundits Poisons Our Democracy
by Jeffrey Feldman 5/6/8
alternet.org/mediaculture/84490
...Violence...may be the birth pang of a new political body, but we would never say that labor pains were the cause of a birth. The same is true with violence, which occasionally happens at times of great political change but is not the cause of such change...
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People United Against Nuclear Irradiation

Atlanta WAND

C-10

Nuclear Watch South

Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League

Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force

Beyond Nuclear

Southern Energy Network

Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility

Southern Alliance for Clean Energy

South Carolina Alliance for Sustainable Campuses and Communities

Sierra Club

Friends of the Earth
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energy saving lightbulb mercury question
popularmechanics.com/blogs/home_journal_news/4217864.html
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immigration and NAFTA
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/84061/
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earthrights.org/files/Reports/shockandlaw.pdf
...the power of law and the power of people in defense of human
rights and the environment...the connection between human well-being and a
sound environment...the right to a healthy environment, the right
to speak out and act to protect the environment, and the right to participate in
development decisions...
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New Rule for Toxic Trains: a Disaster Waiting to Happen
action.foe.org/t/3863/content.jsp?content_KEY=4133
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-8185.htm
The Bush Administration's new final chemical transportation security regulation (Fed Register 4 16 08) would allow US railroads to unilaterally select rail routes through or around major target cities for chemical railcars that the federal agencies consider "Weapons of Mass Destruction."
Allowing trains carrying toxic chemicals through populated areas is a serious and avoidable risk...new rule...leaves life-and-death routing decisions entirely in private railroad hands....new rule allows railroads unilaterally to analyze and select hazmat routes using railroad assumptions and calculations that are to be kept secret from the public. They also allow virtually no role for state and local officials to influence route selections...
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skywatch-media.com
architectureforhumanity.org/node/24
warnewstoday.blogspot.com
mothersinaction.org
action.credomobile.com/commentary
earthplatform.com
puttingdownroots.org
imeem.com/hlimoua/music/JpaGT3c9/enya_only_time
http://www.plentymag.com/features/2007/04/a_long_strange_trip.php
realmccainbook.com
goinggreenfamily.com/resources.html
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Saturday, May 03, 2008

The master is the slave of the slave.

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inheritingthetrade.com
highboldtage.wordpress.com
fooddemocracy.wordpress.com
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The War on Bugs
Why We Need to Rise up Against Industrial Agriculture (Again)
by Will Allen 5/3/8
alternet.org/healthwellness/83310
chelseagreen.com/2007/items/waronbugs
...impact that commercialization has had. In the early nineteenth century as the American population grew rapidly, demands on crop output increased. Seeing an opportunity to play upon fears from market demand, chemical companies declared war on...bugs. With precision, pesticide manufacturers delivered a “shock and awe” media campaign, that can only be paralleled to the current blitzkrieg from today’s pharmaceutical companies. Bugs were the threat to the American dream – and there was a cure available to every farmer available in spray, granule, dust, or systemic form that could be applied to your crops...advertisers, editors, scientists, large scale farmers, government agencies, and even Dr. Seuss, colluded to convince farmers to use deadly chemicals, hormones, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in an effort to pad their wallets and control the American farm enterprise...consumers and activists have struggled against toxic food...the time to stop poisoning our food, water, air, and ourselves is now!
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farmsnotarms.org
homelessgardenproject.org
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"routine emissions" "from nuclear power plants"
mothballmillstone.org
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peaceblaster.com/?p=202
...Behind the hunger, behind the riots, are so-called free-trade agreements, and the brutal emergency-loan agreements imposed on poor countries by financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund...
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Judy Wicks, founder of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia; founder of The White Dog Café whitedogcafe.com
...her notion that the strength of her business relied upon the quality and sustainability of its locally grown ingredients. Envisioning how strengthening relationships among independent, community-rooted enterprises could inspire broad and profound cultural change, Wicks joined the Social Venture Network and co-founded the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) in 2001. She is currently writing a book about The White Dog Café and local living economies called “Good Morning, Beautiful Business.” (See www.livingeconomies.org.)
...three community-based events that have happened recently: the Green Forum on Vacant Land Revitalization (held at the Pittsburgh Project in November 2006), the first Urban Farming Lecture Series in Spring 2006 (hosted at Carnegie Mellon University and organized by the Urban Farming Initiative) and the Cooperate Pittsburgh Grassroots Forum (held at the Friends Meeting House in Shadyside in May 2007. Look for Grassroots Forum’s Link on www.holisticpittsburgh.com). The co-organizers and co-sponsors of this latest lecture series and workshop include Carnegie Mellon University, Office of the Vice Provost and the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, the Urban Ecology Collaborative, the Urban Redevelopment Authority, Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, the Penn State Cooperative Ext., Allegheny County, Grow Pittsburgh, the Urban Farming Initiative, the
Green Block Farm Project
theGreenBough.com
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The Myth of America's "booming economy"
by Bill Blum 1999-2000
(Written 1999-2000, but can be applied to any other period in which we're assured that the US economy is booming. Indeed, most of what follows can serve as a descriptive list of America's huge underclass at any time.)
members.aol.com/bblum6/booming
...the world's richest country ...
But ... but what about ... what about ...
* the working poor, the millions who toil at full-time jobs, yet remain below the official poverty level (an unrealistically low figure to begin with), their real purchasing power below 1979 levels
* the husbands and wives each having to work full time so that together they manage to rise a little above the poverty level
* the millions forced to surrender 30 to 70 percent of their paycheck for rent
* those living in severely substandard housing
* the more than a million families who do not have indoor bathrooms or hot-and-cold running water
* the unemployed (the real amount, not the fudged figures announced to the public)
* those who want and need a full-time job, but can only get a part-time job, minus benefits
* those who want and need a permanent job, but can only get a temporary job, minus benefits
* the underemployed -- college graduates and those with advanced degrees working at relatively menial jobs with no
connection to their studies
* the more than 43 million without any health insurance
* the even greater number without dental insurance
* the further millions with inadequate health insurance, including those with Medicare and Medicaid
* the elderly who spend half their income for health care and prescriptions
* the elderly who have to choose between prescriptions and food; (about half the prescriptions written go unfilled because
many elderly people literally have to make this choice)
* the elderly who purchase cat and dog food, but don't own any pets
* the millions with inadequate sick leave or maternity leave, or none at all
* those -- the great majority of employees -- who are lucky to get two weeks vacation, compared to the European norm of five weeks
* those forced to choose between heat and sufficient food in the winter
* those literally dying on sweltering summer days because
they can't afford an air conditioner or are concerned
about their electricity bill
* those whose phone, gas or electricity has been turned off for
non-payment
* the more than a million people who don't even own a phone
* the homeless
* those one paycheck or one illness or one divorce away from homelessness
* those living five to ten people in a one-bedroom apartment
* the millions who go to bed hungry at least part of every month; (A January 2000 report from the Center on Hunger and
Poverty at Tufts University stated that 30 million Americans
worry about where they will get their next meals.)
* those frightened by the welfare reform law of 1996 into not applying for food stamps, welfare or Medicaid
* the 1.8 million souls in prisons and jails
* those who have enlisted in the military to escape dead-end poverty
* those who want to go to college but can't afford to
* those who go to college at the cost of a huge debt hanging round their neck for years
* the illegal aliens working as semi-slaves in sweatshops
* the almost 20 percent of American households who are broke, with
a net worth of zero or less, more than double the number of 30
years ago
* those living on their credit cards, making only the minimum payments each month, as the exorbitant interest piles up year after year
* the more than 50,000 businesses which filed for bankruptcy last year
* the million five hundred thousand individuals who filed for
bankruptcy last year
* the numerous cleaning women and maids who spend four hours on a
bus each day to and from their minimum-wage job
* the middle-class people who maintain their standard of living by working 50, 60, 70 hours per week, by their choice or their employer's dictate, plus a daily two- or three-hour commute, returning home totally wiped out and overstressed
* those hanging on to jobs they hate -- jobs making them sick -- only because of the health insurance and pension
* those forced by their employers to pay more and more of their insurance and pension costs
* those living only on social security
* those living only on welfare
* the more than a million Native Americans living on
reservations, for whom much of the above has to be multiplied

What's booming are soup kitchens and homeless shelters. And a
growing majority of those waiting in line for a meal or a bed
are actually employed.


Written by William Blum,
author of
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
and
Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower (http://members.aol.com/superogue/homepage.htm)


A companion piece to the above
Dancing on the electric grid
By Per Fagereng
Picture this standard experiment in psychology: A group
of rats is placed on an electric grid and the voltage is slowly
increased. After a while the rats feel a burning tingle in
their feet. The experimenters up the voltage some more, and watch
the rats dance and bite each other.
The experimenters are seeking knowledge, and the rats'
pain is presumably worth it. The experimenters don't blame the
rats for fighting each other, or punish the more aggressive ones.
They know that individuals react to pain in different ways.
Now picture the economic terrain as a different kind of
pain grid. Instead of electric shocks, the inhabitants experience
job loss, higher prices, less pay, overwork, polluted
neighborhoods and so on. Controlling the grid are not
psychologists, but CEOs and bankers. Instead of knowledge,
they are seeking profit. And so they up the pain, but not
because they want to hurt people. They are really trying to up
their profits, and the pain is a side effect.
After a while people on the grid do nasty things to
each other, everything from domestic violence to immigrant-bashing
to crime. Unlike the rats, the people get blamed for their
misbehavior...
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hydrogennow.org
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new energy environment extraterrestrial "Stephen Bassett" "Alfred Webre"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Webre
...we are on an isolated planet in the midst of a populated, evolving, highly organized inter-planetary, inter-galactic, multi-dimensional Universe society...on a planet that has been quarantined...now being given an opportunity to join the rest of the spiritually evolved Universe Society in peace, thus an opportunity to avoid environmental global self-destruction or global self-destruction through war...
...we must become "galactic citizens"...
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http://exopolitics.blogs.com/exopolitics/2007/10/kucinich-sees-u.html
...spiritual adviser Chris Griscom, whom MacLaine featured in her then-best-selling book, "Dancing in the Light," describing how Griscom helped her communicate with trees...
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From:
Why You Shouldn't Spend that 'Stimulus' Check
by Max Keiser, Huffington Post. Posted May 1, 2008.
alternet.org/workplace/84019
...America does not have a hard-money economy, it's a debt-based fiat currency economy. All the money in circulation in America has been borrowed and then re-lent. So borrowing more money ($168 billion for the stimulus package) and then re-lending it to Americans, as Bush is doing, only increases the debt load and debases the value of the currency outstanding (against a backdrop of stagnant wages and minuscule interest rates for savers)...
...America's debt problems won't go away. Every dollar spent adds debt and spawns more fiat currency issuance which has the effect of decreasing the purchasing power of the U.S. dollars in your pocket. Bush tries to make up the difference by borrowing even more; borrowing 340 million a day to fund the war and close to 3 billion a day to cover U.S. operating expenses, not to mention Wall Street borrowing over $30 billion a day...
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informationclearinghouse.info
News You Won't Find On CNN
30/04/08

"Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not be told how periods of inflation and depression originate."
~James Abram Garfield (19 November 1831 - 19 September 1881) was the 20th President of the United States (1881), and the second U.S. President to be assassinated. Within weeks of releasing this statement President Garfield was assassinated, after only six months and fifteen days in office.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield

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"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable".
~James Garfield 1831-1881, 20th U.S. President

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"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
~William Faulkner

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"We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid".
~William Faulkner