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Ken Robinson: Industrial model schools kill children's creativity; we must transform the educational paradigm.

Thanks to Sophia for the pointer to the first video. From my notes: the current educational system was built for a different age, in the interests of industrialism and modeled on its processes. Children compete with each other and study separate subjects and are run through in batches — and the most important thing about […]

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Stop Shopping and Rise Up!

Went surfing. Much more fun than shopping. Found this paean to the post-consumer pleasures of Occupy camps, thanks to revbilly.com. Nonviolence Is Creative November 11, 2011 BY REV BILLY Consumerism is violent. The apologists for ads and products, life styles and brought-to-you-by media are disastrously wrong. The thousands of marketing confrontations that a person must […]

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Democracy Now: Ralph Nader on Obama's State of the Union speech

I wish I could say that I didn’t agree with Ralph Nader — after all, I want to have my own views, come to my own conclusions! — but I do agree with him, on every single point, and thank him, for his wide-angled and deeply backgrounded capacity to articulate where we are, where we […]

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Lee Speigel: ICBM site to become national MUFON headquarters?

At last, a creative use of a nuke missile site. If this goes through, then since missile sites are alleged hot spots for UFOs, we’ll have watchers officially watching the watchers! Reminds me of Corbett’s solution to the police state: get photos and videos on your iPhones! But in that case, we watch bad guys […]

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James Corbett: How to resist the police state

This young man once again proves that he has his head on his shoulders. Grateful. And see this. In sum: ” . . .the technology for disseminating information has leveled the playing field between the oppressor and the oppressed like no other time in human history.” So wake up! Once enough of us do, it’s […]

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