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Pointings for May 23, 2012: Reflections on the Chicago NATO Protest

Today I will focus on one topic, a collection of reflections on the Chicago protest during the 2012 NATO meeting this past weekend. It’s hard for me to imagine what it must have been like to have been among thousands of peaceful protestors surrounded by thousands of clanking armored uniforms and their oversized, lethal “toys.” […]

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Urban farming: “Today’s challenge is to bring food back into our cities in a much more visible and tangible way.”

The following article reminds me of the project my son Colin and two partners are initiating here in Bloomington, and hopefully, in crowded urban areas everywhere: gardentowerproject.com. And the fact that this article is excerpted from a book published by New Society Publishers reminds me of a book by local legend Peter Bane that is […]

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Simon G. Powell, on Natural Intelligence

To those who tend to get stuck in small-minded, left-brain “conspiracy” thinking (and I include myself here), let us always remember that whatever is this little bounded dance we’re doing that pits frozen and/or morphing dualities against each other, it’s merely one teensy-tiny node in the infinitely vast and minute self-organizing intelligence of Nature that […]

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Ellen Brown: We can’t stop the big banks. “But we can quietly set up an alternative model, and that’s what’s happening on various local fronts.”

Gar Alperovitz gave an overview on the steadily differentiating web of local alternative economic initiatives. Now here’s another wonderful compendium in the same series, this one zeroing in on sturdy local banking alternatives growing up right under the haughty noses of the 1%. This is another post that I plan to read through slowly, and […]

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“Cobra,” on May 20th Solar Eclipse Meditation: “Our mass effort was a great success”

Since it was “Cobra” from whom I picked up on the idea of a global meditation during the Super Full Moon of May 5th, and again, during the Solar Eclipse of May 20th, I kept checking afterwards to see what “Cobra” would say about whether or not this meditation, “to Reboot the Grid,” had been […]

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