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Monday, 05 January 2009
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Jan. 5, 2009 (Truth To Power) -- For several months I have been meaning to write a review of Rob Hopkins' The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience,
but other things got in the way -- like a planetary economic meltdown and
out-of-control climate change that exceeds some of the most dire
predictions by climate scientists. I should have spoken out earlier in
support of this movement, but I didn't. Now, as we commence this new
year, I am.
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Sunday, 04 January 2009
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Jan. 4, 2009 (World News Trust) -- The
promoters of Globalization, in their headlong and single-minded lust
for profit, have exhibited one major flaw, a complete ignorance of the
basic economic principles underlying capitalism. While marginally
lowering prices on products by replacing decently-paid western workers
with third world workers at exploitative wages, they have killed the
proverbial "goose that laid the golden egg."
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 Saturday, 03 January 2009
Dec. 3, 2008 (Archdruid Report) -- Back in 1904, sociologist Max
Weber proposed that the modern period was witnessing “the
disenchantment of the world” -- a process which traditional mythic ideas
that wove meaning into human experience were being replaced by the
alienating and dehumanizing worldview of materialist science. There's
some truth to Weber's thesis, but I'm not sure he anticipated the
inevitable backlash: the Procrustean stretching and lopping of
scientific ideas in the popular imagination that has turned many of
them into substitute myths.
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 Saturday, 03 January 2009
Nov. 26, 2008 (Archdruid Report) -- There have been many times, during the two and a half years I've been writing posts for The Archdruid Report,
when I've found myself staring at a blank computer screen of a
Wednesday morning, wondering what on Earth I can say that my readers
might find even remotely interesting. Happily, such times have been
scarce this November. A passing reference, in my post two weeks ago, to
my dissatisfaction with a presentation on the Transition Town movement
brought a flurry of comments asking me to say more about that; I did so
last week, and fielded another flurry of comments as well as some
lively critiques on other blogs.
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 Saturday, 03 January 2009
Jan. 3, 2009 (World News Trust) -- Lie
#1) Israel is only targeting legitimate military sites and is seeking
to protect innocent lives. Israel never targets civilians.
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 Saturday, 03 January 2009
Jan. 3, 2009 (World News Trust) -- In
times of crisis, most Arabs tune in to Aljazeera television. Sometimes
it's comforting for the truth to be stated the way it is, with all of
its gory and unsettling details, without blemishes and without
censorship. When Israel carried out massive air strikes against Gaza Dec. 27, terrorizing an already hostage and malnourished population, I too tuned in to Aljazeera.
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 Saturday, 03 January 2009
Jan. 3, 2009 (World News Trust) --
The media has recently spent a lot of time talking about the fact that
a candidate to head the Republican National Committee distributed CD's
to colleagues for Christmas that contained a song titled “Barack, the
Magic Negro.” He was largely, and correctly, chastised for his lack of
sense and sensibility. As the chorus grew, though, many Republicans
came out to defend him, denying any racist intent in distributing a
song parody written by a long time friend.
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Friday, 02 January 2009
Israel's
bombardment of the Gaza Strip was predictable, if not preventable.
Israel's crimes against the Palestinians simply could not take place on
such a massive scale were it not for U.S. support. The American people,
therefore, have a responsibility to act and pressure their government
to end its financial, military, and diplomatic support for Israeli
violations of international law -- a necessary first step towards any
viable and sustainable peace.
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 Friday, 02 January 2009
Dec. 2, 2009 (World News Trust) -- Silly, silly me. I must be crazy, but I feel like the
luckiest guy in the world!
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 Thursday, 01 January 2009
Thursday 1 January 2009 20.52 GMT-- The US government has seized control of Citigroup's
staff Christmas party budget and set tight restrictions on the use of
its corporate jet in exchange for its $45bn (£28bn) bail-out.
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 Thursday, 01 January 2009 HSBC and Credit Suisse have been pulled into a US investigation into whether
banks helped customers illegally avoid paying tax, according to a report
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 Thursday, 01 January 2009 Lawmaker claims bank is ‘hiding' TARP money offshore
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 Thursday, 01 January 2009
NEW YORK—The company getting the biggest US bailout operated a scam to
help clients cheat on US taxes, regulators say. It is AIG, American
International Group, the world's largest insurance conglomerate.
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 Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Dec. 31, 2008 (Monthly Review) -- "Edupunk,"
one of 2008's official buzzwords, means someone who is self-educated,
"without concern for schools, corporations, or governments." I shall
now describe Mickey Z
as a hyper-stone-uber-megalo "edupunk." Mickey, nee Michael Zezima, is
a 48-year-old working-class writer, martial artist, vegan, public
speaker, and environmental activist who lives in The People's Republic
of Astoria, Queens. He's just published his 6th book, No Innocent Bystanders, so we sat down to discuss it:
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 Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Dec. 31, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Third time's a charm, maybe?
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 Monday, 29 December 2008
The
big theme for 2009 economically will be contraction
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 Sunday, 28 December 2008
"Class is a dirty word in that it gets close to the truth about
who governs and for whose benefit.” --Michael Parenti
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- Wednesday, 24 December 2008
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