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Sparrows Don’t Buy Condos | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 8, 2013 “Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don’t speak bird.” - Kurt Cobain Quite often, my walk to Astoria Park -- a green urban sanctuary on the banks of the m...
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Waters Off Northeast US Coast Unusually Warm, Says NOAA | Eoin O'Carroll
Sea surface temperatures on the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf reached the highest recorded in 150 years, says an advisory issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A lobsterman returns an undersized lobster while checking traps in Mount Desert, Maine, in May 2012. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP/File) April 26, 2013 (Christian Science Monitor) -- From North Carolina to Maine, the wa...
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Reminder: There’s Always Something to Do… Right Now | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 24, 2013 “The old proletariat sold its labor power in order to subsist. The new proletarian sells his labor power in order to consume.” -Raoul Vaneigem Recently, while riding the Q101 bus during rush hour, I found it interesting and kinda' fun to watch the driver interact with his regular passengers -- but one exchange really st...
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slavery: a capitalist parable | mickey z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. mickey z. -- world news trust april 5, 2013 in the most remote regions of brazil… slave labor is employed to cut down grand swaths of the precious rain forest to make room for growing eucalyptus, which is then burned by male slaves male slaves, who exploit the body, mind, and spirit of female slaves forced into prostitution male slaves, who help make charcoal for the ...
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The Illusion of Invincibility | John Michael Greer
March 20, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- One of the wry amusements to be had from writing a blog that routinely contradicts the conventional wisdom of our time is the way that defenders of that same conventional wisdom tend to react. You might think that those who are repeating what most people believe would take advantage of that fact, and present themselves as the voice of the majority, speaking for...
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The Gift of the Snow Day | Deborah Goodwin
March 19, 2013 (Shapeshiftas.com) -- We heard starting about Saturday that maybe we were in for some snow. It seemed late. The sap was already running, we were in mud boots, and the car was caked in the stuff. Mostly the snow was gone, certainly along the roadsides the leftover plowed piles were looking dirty and sparse. I was sure that I had flicked work for the last time to go skiing on a weekd...
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Nuclear Calendar -- March 31, 2013 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- March 31, 2013 | Friends Committee on National Legislation March 15-April 14 Quotidian Theater, performance of A Walk in the Woods, about informal meetings between an American and Russian nuclear arms control negotiators in Geneva. At Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda. Tickets available online. March 22-April 8 House and Senate spring recess. (Senate ...
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The Butterfly Effect: Reject Speciesism | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 18, 2013 “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.” - R. Buckminster Fuller A recent New York Times article, entitled “Monarch Migration Plunges to Lowest Level in Decades,” began: “The number of monarch butterflies that completed an annual migration to their winter home in a Mexican forest ...
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WWIII Rages On (From Oil fields To City Streets And Beyond) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 14, 2013 “We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.” - Daniel Quinn Yet another black teenager lies bleeding on the sidewalk -- having become the target of 11 shots fired by two soldiers in Mayor Bloomberg’s Priv...
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Predator Scorecard: Sharks: 7, Humans: 50-100 Million | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 28, 2013 “Our human blind spot is how we treat animals, and by extension, our only home: planet earth.” - Sue Coe It’s the type of story the mainstream media just can’t resist: “Large shark kills man in New Zealand; beach closed” (Associated Press, Feb. 27, 2013). It’s also a valuable teaching moment, re: speciesism, social condition...
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The End of the Shale Bubble? | John Michael Greer
Feb. 27, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- It’s been a little more than a year since I launched the present series of posts on the end of America’s global empire and the future of democracy in the wake of this nation’s imperial age. Over the next few posts I plan on wrapping that theme up and moving on. However traumatic the decline and fall of the American empire turns out to be, after all, it’s just o...
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