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More wisdom from Rumi . . .

Here’s your Daily Poem from the Poetry Chaikhana —   Today I’m out wandering, turning my skull By Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 – 1273) English version by Coleman Barks   Today I’m out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent […]

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Post Petroleum Human resigns from the Matrix

Thanks to collapsenet.com and to Doug, who lives across the street, and who is co-founder of our Green Acres Neighborhood Ecovillage and a core member of Transition Bloomington, for the pointer. My Resignation from the Matrix February 2, 2012 by Aaron McCarty © Copyright 2012 Aaron McCarty. – Please Distribute Widely. I am 32 now…8 […]

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Fulford/Wilcock predictions coming true?

Update, a few hours after this was first posted: See stevebeckow.com, for another story that rings of the same kind of extraordinary fraud or money laundering or whatever it is or seems to be, again, in the trillions. . . Check divinecosmos.com, David Wilcock’s enormous, just completed investigation called “Financial Tyranny” if you haven’t already. […]

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Sara Robinson: On the reborn struggle for the right to practice Birth Control. Plus Colbert's take on it.

When I gave up on the Catholic church because of its position on birth control, leaving that secure dogmatic framework was a terrifying act for this shy young woman way back when. I certainly didn’t place it in any her-storical context. And even now, until I read this piece, I hadn’t thought much about how […]

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Rachel Maddow investigates the latest fishy Romney "win" in Maine

So, is this the election that will prove to even those who prefer to keep their heads in the sand lest they have to start to think, and act, that our so-called “two-party” “democracy” is a mask for the hegemony of the .001%? P.S. Seems to me that, since Citizens United, every headline should read, […]

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Couchsurfing dissolves boundaries through host/guest exchanges

Thanks to care2.com. Couchsurfing to Create a Global Community February 16, 2012 by Katie Kerr They say that you don’t know a man until you have walked two moons in his shoes, but what about spending three nights on his couch? Couchsurfing is building a global community. With 3.3 million users in almost every country, […]

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Noam Chomsky, on the descent of Empire America

I haven’t tackled Chomsky’s latest two-part series elucidating who we are and how we got here yet, but I will and I must. In fact, his kind of complex, intricate work showing interlaced tendrils of geopolitical forces must be not just read, but studied. For bedtime reading, I’ve been plummeting through the new book, Troublemaker: […]

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