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All Aboard the P (for Patriarchy) Train | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 1, 2015 Trigger Warning: Discussion of sexual harassment and assault. MTA New York City Transit recently teamed with those progressive ...
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Baltic Dry Index Collapses To Historic Low
Coal ship unloading. Eric Kilby/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)Feb. 15, 2015 (World News Trust) -- The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) -- a measure of commodity shipping costs -- fell to an historic low. China has cut ...
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The Mariner's Rule | John Michael Greer
John Michael GreerJan. 21, 2015 (Archdruid Report) -- One of the things my readers ask me most often, in response to this blog’s exploration of the ongoing decline and impending fall of modern ...
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'Omenland'
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Oct. 20, 2014 Did a few loose strands of Ebola seep into the organs and tissues of global finance last week? The U.S. equity markets sure enough puked, the ...
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The Empire Eats Its Own | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 10, 2014 Just watched Alexander Payne’s new film Nebraska, written by Bob Nelson and starring Bruce Dern and Will Forte. I don’t really know what the ...
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Captain Erikson's Equation | John Michael Greer
Captain Gustaf EriksonMarch 26, 2014 (Archdruid Report) -- I have yet to hear anyone in the peak oil blogosphere mention the name of Captain Gustaf Erikson of the Åland Islands and his fleet of ...
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Growing Up In America | Paul Craig Roberts
Aug. 19, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- Terrible things are happening faster than we can keep up with them. Monsanto, widely regarded as a criminal enterprise, is expanding its monopoly over seeds ...
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African Safari Trip of a Lifetime | Joel S. Hirschhorn
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust May 22, 2013 The most amazing thing I learned on my first safari trip in South Africa is that elephants have the most incredible, very long black eyelashes. ...
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Nature’s Capital Is The Limiting Resource | Paul Craig Roberts
Life will perish as the environment perishes Jan. 24, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Only in science fiction can humans escape the consequences of destroying their own habitat. In Robert A. ...
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They Paved Paradise (Honk If You’re An Environmentalist?) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 18, 2013 “In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic ...
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Sandy’s Blackouts Leave 3.5 Million Customers Lacking Power | Mark Chediak, Benjamin Haas and Jim Polson
A fourth day of blackouts for about 3.5 million homes and businesses in the U.S. Northeast taxed the patience of city and state officials concerned that utilities are moving too slowly to repair the ...
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