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#OccupyHemp: Don’t let the truth go up in smoke (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.” --Carl Sagan Feb. 21, 2012 -- Upon receiving an invite to the NYC Cannabis March May 5, I found myself meditating upon this concept: If you...
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The Choices We Make (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 20, 1012 -- The misalignment of politics and reality threatens to scuttle both major parties, but it's especially gratifying to see the Republicans...
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Occupy for All Abilities: #PissOnPity (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was done.” --Helen Keller Feb. 19, 2012 -- One Sunday afternoon last November -- in the pre-eviction Liberty Square/Zucc...
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Nuclear Calendar -- February 20, 2012 (FCNL)
Nuclear Calendar -- February 20, 2012 -- Friends Committee On National Legislation Feb. 18-26 House and Senate Presidents Day recess. Feb. 20 7:00 p.m., Trita Parsi, National Iranian Ame...
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PILLOW TALK: Green Screen Girls (Deborah Goodwin)
Yes, girls, I know that I am so lame, but you asked me when I would blog about you! Feb. 18, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- I have two beautiful, brilliant, fantastic daughters who are, thankfully, remar...
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Corporate Power vs. Animal Rights: #DeOccupyAETA (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting ani...
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Is Western Democracy Real or a Facade? (Paul Craig Roberts)
Feb. 14, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- The United States government and its NATO puppets have been killing Muslim men, women and children for a decade in the name of bringing them democracy. But is the W...
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The John Brown Moment (James Howard Kunstler)
Daguerreotype of Brown, ca.1856. James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 13, 2012 -- When Gaia gets pissed off enough at the antics of humanity, she sends in her hit-man, Reality, to sett...
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Nuclear Calendar -- February 13, 2012 (FCNL)
Nuclear Calendar -- February 13, 2012 -- Friends Committee On National Legislation Feb. 13 11:15 a.m., Office of Management and Budget releases the annual federal budget. Posted on the Governm...
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PILLOW TALK: Mike Kelley, I Hardly Knew Ya' (Deborah Goodwin)
Feb. 8, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- I just read of the death of Mike Kelley, a sculptor, performance and installation artist, and punk musician. Detroit-born but LA-based, he was very influential and famou...
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Occupy Your Spine (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it with our art, our music, our literature, ou...
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All Screaming Id, No Brains, No Honor (James Howard Kunstler)
Flying Nuclear Robot. Credit: Irregular Times James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 8, 2012 -- A Martian psychoanalyst observing the U.S. Superbowl on TV would be shocked by the vicious...
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The January Jobs Are Statistical Artifacts (Paul Craig Roberts)
Feb. 6, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Last Friday the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in the first month of this new year 243,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate (U.3) fell to...
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The Real Economic Picture (Paul Craig Roberts)
Feb. 2, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- If you have any money and you want to understand the lies that “your” government tells you with statistics, subscribe to John Williams shadowstats.com. John William...
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Economics Lesson 1 (Paul Craig Roberts)
Jan. 31, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Last Friday (Jan. 27) the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced its advance estimate that in the last quarter of 2011 the economy grew at an annual rate of 2.8...
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Big Brother Internet (Gerald Calente)
Gerald Calente Jan. 30, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Dear friends: I am pleased to bring to you Gerald Celente’s assessment of the threats posed to Internet freedom. Celente’s Trends Journal is one...
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Murmuration (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 23, 2012 -- On last week's podcast, Duncan and I yakked about an important concept introduced by Nicole Foss at The Automatic Earth blog site. Th...
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What Gives (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 16, 2012 -- The awesome exertions of the global banking system to evade the mandates of reality finally yield in a sickening slippage to epochal unwind....
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BOOKS: Three Books to Stimulate Thought (Paul Craig Roberts)
Jan. 12, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Jan. 11 was the tenth anniversary of amerika’s Guantanamo torture prison. National Public Radio commemorated the anniversary by airing critics and defenders of Wa...
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This Ripe Moment (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 9, 2012 -- The narcolepsy of the long Yuletide draws to a close and the world reawakens to its self-spun web of mutually rein...
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December Payroll Jobs Report (Paul Craig Roberts)
Jan. 6, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- The following report is based on the work of statistician John Williams of shadowstats.com: Today’s (Friday, Jan. 6) payroll jobs report of 200,000 new jobs in Dece...
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The Dismal Economic Outlook For The New Year (Paul Craig Roberts)
Jan. 6, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Jobs offshoring, financial deregulation, and 10 years of wars have severely damaged the U.S. economy and the economic prospects of 90 percent of the American populat...
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2012 Forecast: Bang and Whimper (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 2, 2012 -- There's a lot to be nervous about, even if you don't subscribe to the undercooked Mayan apocalypse lo...
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A Normal Life (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Dec. 31, 2011 -- I loathe the mundane. I also loathe the AP style of writing. It is an analog style in a digital age, which, if applied corr...
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PILLOW TALK: Hollandazed (Deborah Goodwin)
A blog by ShapeShiftas' designer Deborah Goodwin Feb. 1, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- I made a perfect hollandaise for the broccoli the other night, inspired by Suzanne's beautiful eggs. (OK, S...