Saturday, February 27, 2010

The Commons: Elinor Ostrom Wins Nobel for Common(s) Sense

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from Yes! website.  We have to think through how to choose a meaningful life where we’re helping one another in ways that really help the E...

From ocean to ozone: Earth's nine life-support systems

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from New Scientist.  The demands of nearly 7 billion humans are stretching Earth to breaking point. We know about climate change, but what ...

Rural Living May Be Hazardous To Your Health

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from Civil Eats. What I found particularly useful in this article was a link accessing a study of healthy living by county for the US. The s...

Pig Business or Business Pigs? [and related videos]

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from Civil Eats. Read the article which furnishes excellent background material, and then access the U-Tube videos that US agri-biz does not...

Iran Captures a ‘Good’ Terrorist

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from Anti-War. Didn't you know that there are good terrorists as well as bad terrorists? In a July 7, 2008, article for The New Yorker ...

Time out (click on cartoon to enlarge)

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All in the Family--[US] Media Reporting on Israel

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by Alison Weir from Counterpunch.  For a great many of the reporters and editors determining what Americans learn about Israel-Palestine, I...

Greece: February 24 massive general strike – workers’ movement back in action!

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from In Defense of Marxism.  Yesterday Greece was shaken by a massive 24 hour general strike. In some sectors there was a total walk out, a...

How to Stay Awake During Obama Speeches: Play Bullshit Bingo

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from Naked Capitalism. Satire.
Friday, February 26, 2010

Obama to the Business Roundtable: Health Care Reform Will Be Good for Business

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from ABC News. I am posting this article to emphasize who the real rulers are in the US. The Business Roundtable is the most important forma...

Pallet Tim

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from Washinton's Blog. This article provides some shady examples about how the ruling class uses your tax dollars--not theirs--theirs ar...

Scientists Find First Physiological Evidence of Brain's Response to Inequality

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from Science Daily.  The human brain is a big believer in equality -- and a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology...

Ron Paul wins! (So who appears on Meet the Press?)

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dated 2-24-10 by an American blogger carried on RT (Russia Times) website. Let me be clear about one thing--I am no fan of Ron Paul, the Con...

Mainstream Media Questions Inaccuracies in 9/11 Story

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from Salem-News, Salem, Oregon, USA. The mainstream press is showing interest in a taboo, however glaring subject; the inconsistencies in t...

The Truth About 9/11

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by Elizabeth Woodworth from Counter Currents. She provides a good update on the growing world wide skepticism regarding the official report ...

If Fossil Fuel Reserves Rise Carbon Should Be Left Where It Belongs: In The Ground

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by George Monbiot from Counter Currents.  Some people see the prospect of peak oil as good news for the environment, as it might be the onl...

Time out (click on image to enlarge)

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Gypsies at the peak

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from The Oil Drum: Europe. There is an important moral to this simple story.

White House healthcare summit

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from the Guardian. Just in case you missed the live TV coverage yesterday, this is a somewhat cynical, but quite entertaining report on the ...

Dems Retreat, Senate Renews PATRIOT Act

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from Anti-War.  In contrast to health care proposals to extend coverage to uninsured Americans, notice how easy it is to renew the so-called...