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South America to U.S.: ADIOS!

Iceland isn’t the only one to go its own way. Check out South America! Unfortunately, their economy is still based on nonrenewable petrochemicals; but at least they’ve understood how to disconnect from the central banksters that think they run the world, and mostly do. Times, they are a changin’, due to bottom-up empowerment processes everywhere. […]

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Local Action: Join us for permaculture workshop next Sunday in the GANG garden!

The GANG (Green Acres Neighborhood Garden) is now in full array . . We can even play hide ‘n seek . . . This is to announce the upcoming workshop, an all-day affair, when you will learn A LOT! If you want to join us for all or part of this day, please let me […]

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How Iceland got into its current enviable position, and why we need to follow its lead

“What happened next was extraordinary. The belief that citizens had to pay for the mistakes of a financial monopoly, that an entire nation must be taxed to pay off private debts was shattered, transforming the relationship between citizens and their political institutions and eventually driving Iceland’s leaders to the side of their constituents.” I’ve published […]

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The Debt Ceiling Bill and Mercury Rx

Oops! Not that you need astrology to wonder if this latest strange “compromise” in U.S. politics will prove unwise, or will be reversed, or will instigate confusion, or misinterpretation, and so on, but that the votes in the House and Senate and presidential signing are all taking place just as Mercury sits stationary, turning from […]

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Murdoch hacking scandal take down number eleven

Thanks to alternet.org. Former News of the World Managing Editor Arrested in Phone Hacking Scandal Another powerful name has been taken down in the News of the World: former managing editor Stewart Kuttner, who the Guardian describes as paper’s “public face” and “most vocal defender for 22 years,” was arrested earlier today in connection with […]

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Small protests throughout the U.S.A. may signal a growing movement

It may be that the young are too burdened by student debt to lead the charge, but older and old progressive leftists do seem to be recharging their batteries. Thanks to commondreams.org, originally published in thenation.com. Sherry Wolf: Revolution in the Air August 1, 2011 by Anna Lekas Miller Tunisia’s uprisings began in December, quickly […]

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Norway, the U.K. and the U.S.: Three templates for responding to violence

Which shall we choose? Thanks to truthout.org. Three Ways of Looking at a Terrorist August 1, 2011 Michael Nagler, Metta Center For Nonviolence   Please read these words of an American woman living in Norway: “Our public officials have asked us to put compassion first, to nurture each other, listen to each other, put words […]

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Robert Anton Wilson: "Nobody made pranayama illegal yet, because it's impossible to enforce."

I read Robert Anton Wilson’s early book, “The Mind Parasites,” way back in 1973. It really creeped me out, and — I recognized its truth. My own mind had been taken over, and I was beginning to realize it. (What especially helped me during those early years of waking up, was the practice of “self-remembering,” […]

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Uranus/Pluto, 2011, U.S.A: Where have all the flowers gone?

I was one of many astrologers who expected, during these years (2011-2015) when Uranus squares Pluto and pops open the seeds sowed by the rare Uranus/Pluto conjunction of the late fabled ’60s, to see a renewed wellspring of resistance and revolutionary energy, not only globally, but in the youngsters of America. NOT! Why? Bruce Levine, […]

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Ken Wilbur: "I AM" — Quick. Simple. "Infallible."

For those who ask to “wake up,” over and over again. For those who ask to surrender to the “I am” presence as the continuous infinite spacious awareness within which all 3-D imaginings rise and fall, rise and fall . . . Thanks to globalone.tv/videos. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA8tDzK_kPI&feature=player_embedded]

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Animal Power for Habitat Restoration: GOATS!

Update: I just heard from Matt on facebook that “goats are for browsing, sheep for maintaining lawns.” Mea culpa! Thanks, Matt! I’m wondering about all those giant lawns in Indiana, currently cut by faux farmers driving ear-splitting little tractors that spew hydrocarbon fumes. How about trading your toy tractor for a shepherd’s staff? You might […]

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"Our" mad mad mad militarism ransacks the globe

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, here is Sherwood Ross with yet another post that attempts to actually grok the immense scale of the decidedly offensive U.S. military “defense” budget that still (still!!) operates like an invisible rampaging elephant in the global room. Its humongous sharp tusks eviscerate anything within reach including […]

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Amani Ya Juu: for 25 years, helping marginalized moms in Africa

Two days ago, I was on the phone with an artist friend of mine who lives on the desert, next door to her son, at the end of a hot dusty gravel road near Desert Hot Springs, California. Elizabeth and I have the kind of connection that can resume after years with no breaks. She’s […]

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Me and my Shadow . . .

Exactly 21 days after dear Emma slammed free of this dimension and left me in lingering shock, I woke up. Something had shifted within me. I was supposed to get a dog, a particular dog, that very day. I thought I might have a vague idea of what the dog might look like, small, of […]

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NYT columnist David Brooks, mystic!

Here’s a hilarious, and ultimately stirring TED presentation by a “conservative” New York Times columnist that starts out “normal,” with his usual spot-on political and sociological observations, and then subtly transforms, weaving in scientific findings about both the emotional body and the unconscious mind, into universal empathy, mysticism, oneness: the new planetary consciousness. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGfhahVBIQw]  

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Is the U.S. on the verge of revolution?

What is this hush I feel? A sense of expectancy in the air, of “impending doom.” Life as we have known it upended. The bottom falls out to let fresh air in. Thanks to rawstory.com. Author: U.S. may be on the verge of another revolution by Stephen Webster July 29, 2011 On last night’s The […]

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Iceland leads the way, again

I just googled “how Iceland is leading the way” and got “about 2,180,000 results.” Here’s a few gold nuggets to chew on: 1) for years now, Iceland has run mostly on renewable energy. 2) In late 2010, Iceland voted 98% against the banksters — and then arrested them! And, if you’ll recall, it was at […]

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Cirque d'UFO

Some dramatic UFO footage here, mostly from 2009 and early 2010. Plus a crop circle that anticipated the Norway Spiral, and snippets from the likes of Paul Hellyer, John Podesto, Steven Greer, Sheldon Nidle. Thanks to stevebeckow.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMshPOdAJKU&feature=player_embedded]

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