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New Economy: From Earth as Empire to Earth as Homeland

Animated two-minute video in voice of economic hit man whistleblower John Perkins shows essence of how the global empire was built and how it works. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Fzm1hEiDQ]  

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Let freedom ring — for all species!

These folks cut a great whale free from a fisherman’s net. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBYPlcSD490&feature=player_embedded]

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Freedom Flotilla Updates on the U.S. Day celebrates its Freedom

Ye gods, look at the pictures! Many of these U.S. activists are true elders, leading the way for all of us. Freedom Flotilla Updates and Commentary opednews.com Editor’s Note: Updates will be posted in ascending order. Updated: 7/4/11, 1:30 pm, CST On Independence Day eve, the Freedom Flotilla’s Audacity of Hope passengers began fasting during […]

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4th of July, Bloomington Indiana

This morning, on our walk, I was surprised to be the only human visible on the streets. No cars moving or honking, no bikes even, just me and little white dog Emma and the trilling, busy birds. And a wild rabbit or two. We walked through the leafy Indiana University campus towards downtown, our usual […]

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Mark Kimmel: "Live beyond Realization"

Realization, i.e., real-ization = making “real,” (dense, physical), in the third dimension . . . . www.cosmicparadigm.com     June 24, 2011 Mark Kimmel The following post is a joint venture with my celestial friends and Andromedan brothers and sisters. It contains information that I supplied based on my research. Nonetheless it is an important […]

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for Interdependence Day: watch final speech, Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator

Even more relevant now, 71 years after this movie was made. “We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. . .” Happy Interdependence Day to us! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WsR6CFlvHY&feature=fvst]  

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More New Economy News from Ellen Brown: State Banks

Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt, showed us how we can shift our war economy by transforming military jobs. Here she is again, talking about a growing movement by states to get out from under the predatory central banking system. “Fourteen states have now initiated legislation for state-owned banks based on the model of […]

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Ray McGovern: "We remain determined to go to Gaza"

Ray McGovern is one of the American activists on the boat Audacity of Hope in the beleagured Freedom Flotilla 2. An ex-CIA analyst, Ray now works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC. He is a member of the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals […]

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Claudia Kimball: Poem, for America . . .

My dear friend Claudia Kimball has brought tears to my eyes with her comment on the Interdependence Day post. You may “feel similarly.” She writes: I went to a poetry fest here on Vashon Island. A poet, Stormey Webber conducted a workshop where she gave us a bunch of words and asked us to select […]

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David Icke: Lizard kings take us to war

Link below to an effective eleven-minute video as intro to Icke’s views on ancient history to present. Incorporates current news footage and rousing rock music to shake us loose from mind-control. The “lizard” aspect of Icke’s views on the Illuminati is almost impossible to take seriously at first. Take me, for example. It took me […]

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Freedom Flotilla: Americans now behind barbed wire

Update: (A few hours after the original post). It now looks like the efforts of the Freedom Flotilla 2 may be doomed, with the arrest of the captain of the Audacity of Hope and the Greek determination to not let the flotilla float, in this remarkable and courageous confrontation between an international group of scrappy […]

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Celebrate Interdependence Day this July 4th weekend

Finding what is good about our nation and celebrating that, building upon that. “The key to our alternative, what we call the Strategy of Generosity, is our commitment to re-establish trust and hope among the peoples of the world so that we might begin to reflect and act coherently on ending world poverty in our […]

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The Deep, Hidden, Pervasive Costs of War

Today, front page headlines in my gentle, bucolic Bloomington, Indiana newspaper: “Boy, 11, faces murder charge” — for shooting his 6-year-old brother; and “Man sentenced to 85 years for robbery [of an ATV], murder” — in cold blood, to the head, leaving him for dead in his driveway in the rain. Then, on page 2: […]

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Freedom Flotilla passengers speak

Excerpts from: U.S. Ship in Freedom Flotilla Attempts to Leave Greece For Gaza, Despite Threats and Risk of Sabotage July 1, 2011 Democracynow.org The U.S.-flagged ship “The Audacity of Hope” left a Greek port today bound for Gaza, but the status of the 10-boat flotilla remains uncertain. At least one boat has already pulled out […]

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A poem for this splendid day —

Thanks to the Poetry Chaikhana —   This is an exquisite truth: By Hsu Yun (1839 – 1959)   This is an exquisite truth: Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference Is like asking to borrow string when you’ve got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known […]

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Local Action, June 25th: investing in the permaculture part of exopermaculture . . .

I just completed the third of three blog posts that give the flavor of our local neighborhood efforts to increase the number, kinds, and quality of exchanges within our own little corner of the world, in short, our effort to create permanent culture HERE, NOW, within the larger exopermaculture context. The posts tell the stories […]

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DSK up from under? If so, why? Who? How Much, When? Where? Etc.

I find it fascinating that a mere two days after the IMF announces its new head, Christine Lagarde, the case against DSK, who was forced to resign as IMF head, suddenly falls apart. And this, thanks to new information about the accuser by, not DSK’s attorneys, but the prosecutor! What gives? This entire scenario smells […]

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Let's come together NOW

Back in the early ’70s, my friends and I lived in communes; we vowed, in a joking manner, that when we got old we’d return to communes, no matter what happened in between. Our fond visions of sitting in rockers on a big old farm wrap-around porch at dusk, talking, playing music, “hanging out” like […]

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