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Is the Mars sky really blue? — and other provocative speculations? realities?

I just watched this 50 minute show (five youtube videos). Well worth it, with one caveat: Kerry and Bill assume that because they were stopped at a certain place next to a fence with no trespassing in a Utah desert means that they have found what they were looking for is not necessarily true. That […]

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Poem “Walking is like imagination, a single step dissolves the circle into motion; . . .”

Here’s your Daily Poem from the Poetry Chaikhana —   An Improvisation for Angular Momentum By A. R. Ammons (1926 – 2001)   Walking is like imagination, a single step dissolves the circle into motion; the eye here and there rests on a leaf, gap, or ledge, everything flowing except where sight touches seen: stop, […]

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Look Again Department: Security cameras can capture real security!

Aaah! this human condition. So great and glorious, so fine and foolish — So glad to BE HERE NOW! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0fAnwX76aI&feature=youtu.be]

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Noosphere Department: How the child’s developing brain mirror’s the growth of the Internet —

— so what we can do to nurture both? Answer: “Pay attention to what we are paying attention to.” Awareness is all. Too much stimulation equals toxic stress; too little, boredom. The amount of stimulation for both the child, and we who are firing synapses in the brain of the evolving internet, needs to to […]

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We-Are-Waking-Up Department: and “just saying NO” to prescription drugs!

Oh my, is this good news! And yes, it may be mostly because people can no longer afford to support Big Pharma, or it may be that we are indeed waking up. In any case, not to take those sacred pills is a radical act in a culture that relies on them to keep us […]

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Ad Executive Tells Truth Before He Dies

I read this and am reminded of the soulless quality that shined through the TV series Mad Men so brilliantly. And I am reminded of the billionaire-funded attack ads in the presidential election just past that did not work! We are waking up together, moving beneath the scrim of advertising and propaganda and brainwashing into […]

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Still trying to figure out what happened to defeat Prop 37 . . .

See update, below. . . . I mean because nobody, but nobody believes that Californians don’t want to label their foods if they contain GMOs. Here’s two articles, the first elucidating all the lies — Did Monsanto Trick California Voters? and the second pointing to all the yet uncounted votes: Did Prop 37 really lose […]

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Newly Re-Elected, President Obama speaks to his young staff —

— his eyes welling with tears, “because . . . what you’ve done shows me that my work is important . . .” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptzAmuoDv2o]

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Ellen Brown: Public Banking is “A Radical Solution Whose Time Has Come”

Ellen Brown weighs in with another of her radically clear, elemental and down to earth analyses of what’s wrong with our financial system and how to fix it. As far as I’m concerned, hers is the single most interesting, refreshing and provocative voice on new economics. It’s the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World […]

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