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The Religion of Progress | John Michael Greer
April 10, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- To suggest that faith in progress has become the most widely accepted civil religion of the modern industrial world, as I’ve done in these essays, is to say something at once subtler and more specific than a first glance might suggest. It’s important to keep in mind, as I pointed out in last week’s post, that “religion” isn’t a specific thing with a specific...
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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 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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Nuclear Calendar -- Jan. 22, 2013 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- Jan. 22, 2013 | Friends Committee on National Legislation Jan. 22 Israeli general elections. Between Jan. 22 and 25 National Security Advisor Tom Donilon meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Moscow. Between Jan. 22 and 25 Energy Secretary Steven Chu announces his resignation (estimate). Jan. 23 Noon-1:30 p.m., James Acton, Carnegie Endowment; E...
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A Wish List for Krampus | John Michael Greer
Jan. 9, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- It's always a bit of a gamble to sit down at the computer and start writing one of these weekly posts. I don’t know how it works for other writers, but for me, the writing process is inherently unpredictable; I may think I know what I’m going to write, but once the fingertips get within range of the keyboard, all bets are off. A news story off the net, a st...
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Technology Servitude | Joel S. Hirschhorn
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Jan. 5, 2013 Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high tech devices, while driving, while walking, while shopping, while in groups of friends, while in restaurants, while waiting in doctor offices and hospitals, while sitting in toilets -- everywhere. While connected electronically, they are inattentive to and disconnected in physica...
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Nuclear Calendar -- Oct. 8, 2012 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation Oct. 8, 2012 Sept. 22-Nov. 12 House and Senate election recess. Oct. 6-13 Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Keep Space for Peace Week. Oct. 8 11:20 a.m., Mitt Romney delivers a major foreign policy address. Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA. Probably broadcast and webcast on CNN and...
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Nuclear Calendar -- Sept. 25, 2012 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation Sept. 25, 2012 Sept. 22-Nov. 12 House and Senate election recess. Sept. 24-28 Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, "Intensive Short Course on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament for Diplomats." Andromeda Tower, Floor 13, Donau-City-Strasse 6, Vienna. Week of Sept. 24 Nuclear Regulator...
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The AFTA Act of 2012 | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 19, 2012 -- Over the years, I've spotlighted America's telephone system as the single best example of the diminishing returns of technology in everyday life. This sort of negative "blowback" occurs when you apply technological innovation to make a system work better, and you actually make it worse. As I tell it, we've spent ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- May 29, 2012 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- May 29, 2012 | Friends Committee on National Legislation May 19-29 House of Representatives Memorial Day recess. May 26-June 3 Senate Memorial Day recess. May 29 9:30-11:00 a.m., David Albright, Institute for Science and International Security, and Barbara Slavin, Atlantic Council, "Iran Nuclear Negotiations: What's Next?" Atlan...
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Fukushima Radiation Found in Tuna Off California | Common Dreams
May 29, 2012 (Common Dreams) -- Detectable amounts of cesium-137 and cesium-134 were found in bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California about four months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, U.S. scientists reported on Monday. The timing is important because it shows that migrating fish carried radiation much further and faster than either wind or ocean currents. In addition, of c...
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