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Amy Goodman interviews Aaron Swartz’s girlfriend, Taren Steinbrickner-Koffmann

Taren: He would say, “I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.” This is an astonishing interview. (And see this and this and this.) Democracy Now: Prosecutors Unfairly Targeted Dead Activist

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All waste is food department: Swedish town heats 200,000 homes with 300,000 tons of waste

When I lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, that mountain valley trucked all its waste to a landfill in Pinedale, Wyoming. In Bloomington, Indiana, where I now live, I just researched that question and discovered that the city trucks most of solid waste to Sycamore Ridge Landfill, 55 miles away! Plus, Bloomington still picks up leaves, […]

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James Evans-Pritchard: “The world is moving step by step towards a de facto Gold Standard, without any meetings of G20 leaders to announce the idea or bless the project.”

Two days ago, I pointed to an article about a German bank wanting to get some of its gold back. The author, Jim Sinclair, seemed to view this request? demand? as a massive earthquake for the world’s financial system. I countered this article with Tyler Durden, of zerohedge, his muted response and attitude to the […]

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Breakfast with truth-tellers: Cenk Uygar, James Corbett, Sibel Edmonds

This morning, during my breakfast with puppy and ipad, I came across this. Keep watching to the last part of it where Cenk Uygur talks about how not only corporate advertising, but corporate sponsors are a cancer that infects corporate media programming, including the venerable “60 Minutes.” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AuZO31q62g] Then I found myself here, and realized, […]

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What’s most critical to ensuring a future of abundance for all? Hint: don’t look up, look down.

Thanks to Keith Johnson, of Renaissance Farm and permacultureactivist.com, for the pointer to this video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LdWMdc0dXv0#!] This movie trailer illustrates what used to fill me with despair, how we are destroying our topsoil, and thus the basis of all life. Then, I took the Permaculture Design Certificate course, and learned about lasagna gardening. Voila! We […]

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RAP: “The motherhood? It’s another hood . . .”

From upworthy.com. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eNVde5HPhYo#!]

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