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January 21, 2013 12:38 AM UTC --
I have been following a thread in which people are weighing in from around the world about the accusations against Aaron Swartz and about prosecutor's use of discretion in the U.S. I thought some . . .
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December 25, 2012 10:58 PM UTC --
This post is likely to make some people hopping mad, but the issues it brings up have to be dealt with.
http://greenbuzzdaily.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-most-popular-letter-of-year.html
I am interested . . .
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December 25, 2012 02:41 PM UTC --
I am interested in feedback on this link on industrial pollution in the U.S.
A heart-breaking cluster of osteosarcoma in West Salem, Oregon, near me, prompted my research that turned up this link. . . .
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December 14, 2012 12:26 PM UTC --
The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) where I volunteer recently had some workshops that included Native Universe, a program exploring ancient ways of knowing. The planetarium show concerning . . .
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December 12, 2012 09:33 PM UTC --
Information from a Ph.D. thesis showing increased risk of osteo sarcoma in young boys from drinking fluoridated water was suppressed by the professor whose student did this research.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/12/AR2005071201277.html . . .
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November 03, 2012 12:56 AM UTC --
I love this story. Kids are something else. They also learned to customize their desktops though MIT guys thought they had programmed to dis-allow customization.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/ . . .
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October 29, 2012 04:51 PM UTC --
Check out this UK town, where efforts to grow-local are seeping out to towns nearby and around the world.
http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/growing-food/town-in-uk-gone-crazy-growing-food.html
There . . .
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September 25, 2012 12:51 AM UTC --
I just made the assertion that Israeli press is more free than the U.S. press, in a comment, and I wanted to post a link.
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/bibi-and-the-bulgarian-proverb.premium-1.464869 . . .
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September 18, 2012 08:19 PM UTC --
Here is a link to a documentary on GMO's.
The House of Reps has some riders that got stuck on the ag bill that fast-track approval of these by the federal government. The USDA higher-ups would . . .
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August 22, 2012 09:54 PM UTC --
Here is a link to a story by Belleruth Naparstek about the physiology of stress and how to re-train the nervous system to deal with it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/belleruth-naparstek/mental-health-note-to-col_b_553096.html . . .
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August 22, 2012 09:36 PM UTC --
Here is a link to a project to connect veterans to food production.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MCW6X8ib1A&feature=relmfu
There are more than this one short in the series.
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May 15, 2012 12:22 PM UTC --
As difficult as it is to trace the behaviors of the U.S./government/Too-Big Bank activities, it is interesting and perhaps self-caring of one' personal resources to do so anyway.
http://www.ronpaul.com/2012-03-26/ron-paul-stop-the-feds-covert-bailout-of-europe/ . . .
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March 29, 2012 06:45 PM UTC --
Here is an interesting case concerning Strategic Lawsuits Against Prohibition.
http://www.theolympian.com/2012/02/27/2007774/judge-tosses-lawsuit-that-sought.html
I am interested in feedback on this. . . .
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February 21, 2012 01:52 AM UTC --
The Fearless Fund is working to help independent scientists record harm from environmental toxins and the importance of all life, including life referred to as alien or invasive. If you are interested . . .
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February 02, 2012 11:16 PM UTC --
Here is a link to some thinking from MIT on initiatives to address world challenges.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/global-environmental-initiative-1219.html
If you go to the bottom and click . . .
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January 23, 2012 02:37 PM UTC --
Stephen Ritz, a teacher in the South Bronx, has extraordinary students who are doing extraordinary things. Maybe they don't have much access to fresh food at home, so they are growing it on the . . .
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January 18, 2012 08:45 PM UTC --
So, here it is.
http://www.care2.com/causes/ows-protesters-detain-sen-carl-levin-for-sponsoring-ndaa.html
I expect we are going to see more of this kind of thing, as ordinary people struggle to get . . .
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July 30, 2011 01:35 PM UTC --
David Blume is another permaculture adept who is encyclopedically (made that up) entertaining. This post is for save-the-world geeks.
http://www.permaculture.com/drupal/node/141
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June 23, 2011 12:48 PM UTC --
I received a link today on the Portland Permaculture Guild list-serve that I wanted to share.
http://farmageddonmovie.com/
The federal government and its henchpeople persist in attempts at impoverishing . . .
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June 20, 2011 11:43 PM UTC --
This little video makes me so want to go to Costa Rica. Has anyone from here been there and can testify to your own stories like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbuIdQA-BE4
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Mary S.
Portland, Oregon
Jade Queen some days, Jaded Queen others
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