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A Day in the Life
by Jean Paul Courtens Read about a real time day in the life of two farmers who bring food grown with love to 850 families in New York. more >>
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A New Revolution-Lilipoh Interviews Nicanor Perlas
by Nicanor Perlas Today, with the increasing dominance of global economic systems and a few superpowers, both supported by propaganda masquerading as mass media, a revolution can occur without the usual external appearance of a state takeover. more >>
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America After the Elections
by Malvin Artley To say that I and most of my friends were displeased with the outcome would be slightly understating the fact. But, I feel it necessary to bring out a few things that people may not have considered around all this and—despite it all—I can see what is coming, and I have to say I still feel quite bright about the future. more >>
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Angels Over Babylon
by Theolyn Cortens Sennacherib has returned
To haunt the empty halls of Ninevah.
Archaeologists have peeled his face
From palace walls and sent
His lion victories to London. . . more >>
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Aquarius Foods in Mid Winter
by Jonathan Pearl Welcome to Aquarius, the middle sign of winter. In Aquarius our focus shifts from Capricorn effort and accomplishment to communicating with society, exchanging beneficial ideas and acquiring knowledge. By learning from others we adopt new ideas that change the very structures that we established in Capricorn. more >>
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Big Melt Meets Big Empty
by Richard Heinberg Since fuel depletion alone will not result in sufficient emission cuts, and since carbon capture and storage is problematic, if nations are serious about climate protection the discussion must center on leaving coal and other low-grade fossil fuels (such as tar sands) in the ground. more >>
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Bioremediation In New Orleans
by Starhawk There are many bioremdiation techniques that are fairly simple, natural, and applicable on a small scale and Common Ground has been working on a proposal to fund and train a worker’s cooperative to put them into practice. more >>
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Carrot
by James Bertolino This poem offers reflections on the coming of a golden spring by a humble root vegetable. more >>
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Credo
by James Bertolino Mystical poetry from James Bertolino's Greatest Hits celebrates the web of life. more >>
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Cutting Carbon Emissions
by Lester Brown The energy transition is gaining momentum. When the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in 1997, the proposed 5-percent reduction in carbon emissions from 1990 levels in industrial countries by 2012 seemed like an ambitious goal. Now it is widely seen as an outmoded, grossly inadequate goal. more >>
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Flower Essence Society Archive
by Flower Essence Society The Flower Essence Society (FES)is an international membership organization of health practitioners, researchers, students, and others interested in deepening knowledge of flower essence therapy. more >>
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Grammar
by James Bertolino We CAN create & inhabit a world of vision & beauty. more >>
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Haiti Earthquake Relief-HELP DONATE HERE
by Margaret Trost "There is no Port-au-Prince anymore. No one can be there without crying. Everyone is suffering. So many hurt. So many dead. So many without food and water. No aid from the Port-au-Prince airport has reached the neighborhoods I've visited. There's nothing. Everyone is waiting. We are the first group to be able to provide any relief to the St. Clare's area. The need is so great. It's very complicated to distribute aid because there are thousands and thousands of people without food and water in the community. We started yesterday. You have to be careful and pass out the food and water safely and compassionately, involving members of the community in the distribution process. This is how it can work smoothly and help the most people. We haven't had any violence." more >>
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Haiti's Father Jean-Juste Imprisoned!!
by Margaret Trost Fr. Jean-Juste, the Coordinator of the Feed My Lambs food program was beaten and dragged from the rectory of St. Claire's Church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Oct.13,2004. Article, plus updates. more >>
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How to be Fuel and Food Rich During Climate Change
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho Biofuels and incineration are bad ideas promoted by big governments. Solar power, anaerobic generation of energy from waste materials, and green algae for carbon capture and sustainable biofuels are good ideas that definitely will work. more >>
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Impediment
by James Bertolino Read this little inspiring 'pocket' verse from James Bertolino's treasure of verses, "Pocket Animals". more >>
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Lemon Chest Compress
by LILIPOH Hot Lemon Chest Compress—to help overcome a lingering cough, a stubborn chest congestion and asthmatic wheezing. more >>
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Let Thanks
by Jed A. Myers An expression of Giving Thanks as an act of Loving Life, in all of its complexities from Seattle poet Jed Myers. more >>
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Lilipoh Archive
Find articles from Lilipoh Magazine reprinted with their kind permission here at Satya Center. more >>
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Love-Lies-Bleeding and Francis of Assisi
by Kathy Edstrom Love-lies-bleeding flower essence helps lift the consciousness beyond individual suffering to identify with world suffering. In offering one’s suffering to a higher purpose, while cultivating compassion for the suffering of others, one’s own pain no longer weighs so heavily on the soul. more >>
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Meditation and the Simple Life
by Swami Amar Jyoti Emptying the mind is the greatest activity. It seems as if you are doing nothing. It seems like escapism and selfishness to those who are egocentric. But only one among millions can do it. Read Swami Amar Jyoti's Satsang to learn more. more >>
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Mind, Memory & Archetype, Part II
by Rupert Sheldrake Rupert Sheldrake explores the role of morphogenic fields in manifestations of collective consciousness -- animal behavior,social networks, human religious rituals, and the conventional wisdom of crowds. more >>
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Mind, Memory and Archetype, Part I
by Rupert Sheldrake The universe is more like an organism than a machine. The Big Bang recalls the mythic stories of the hatching of the cosmic egg: it grows, and as it grows it is more like a gigantic cosmic embryo than the huge eternal machine of mechanistic theory. more >>
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Nature’s Poem
by James Bertolino An offering of another visionary wandering through Nature brought to us by James as we dream through winter of summer days. more >>
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On Gaza
by Starhawk Golda Meir said, “The Palestinians, who are they? They don’t exist.” Today Israel says, “There is no partner for peace,” and “There is no one to talk to.” The oppressed have become the oppressors and done a great hurt to another people. Israel must make amends.
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On the Nature of Capricorn
by Malvin Artley A sign is both a representation and an emanation of a living Being, a Being of immense size, composed of innumerable Lives, of very ancient origin, of infinite wisdom and compassion and composed of Lives who were all once human far back in the mists of cosmic history. more >>
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Out of Step
by James Bertolino James Bertolino's new poem is a meditation upon the synchronous and asynchronous dream-time of love. more >>
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Paper Window
by Jed A. Myers Jed Myer's powerful new poem is a true comment about how the dead from war are all our own children, our own families. more >>
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Peace Enters the World Screaming Hot
by Jed A. Myers Seattle poet and musician Jed Myers helps us hear searing sonic feedback from the core of the soul of the Peace Goddess and introduces us to the immortal, piercing poignancy of the global geophysical Peace Song. more >>
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Planet
by James Bertolino James Bertolino's poetry helps us to remember our connection with planet Earth. more >>
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Planting Daffodils
by Charlotte Boulay The poet sees a mirror of the immortal Divine Juliet in the dying light of late August flowers, the promise of the eternal recurrence of new life arising from the ashes of our manifest density, a promise of rescue in some future configuration of life force energy, from our obtuse allegiance to destruction. more >>
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Prayer: A Challenge for Science
by Rupert Sheldrake As soon as we have the idea that the mind can be extended through mental fields, and over large distances, we have a medium of connection through which the power of prayer could work. more >>
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Released From Prison!
by Margaret Trost Today, 11-29-04, Fr.Jean-Juste,of St Claire Church in Delmas, Haiti, was released after almost 7 weeks of illegal detention. The release follows a sustained campaign of int'l support for Fr. Jean-Juste by prominent religious figures, lawyers, grassroots groups & human rights advocates in Haiti & throughout the world. The release shows that collective action for justice can succeed,& offers hope for Haiti's other 700 political prisoners.
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Richard Katz & Patricia Kaminski Bios
by Richard Katz & Patricia Kaminski Richard and Patricia are authors of numerous articles and books about flower essences, including the best-selling Flower Essence Repertory, now in its fifth edition and translated into sixdifferent languages around the world. more >>
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Rosalie’s Healing Story
by Linde Farmer, R.N Sitting there with our feverish and congested child in the middle of the night, it was all we could do not to panic and rush her straight to the hospital for antibiotics. But because of our commitment to avoid them, we called our anthroposophical doctor, who told us to do three lemon wraps a day. more >>
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Roxbury Farm Food
by Jody Bolluytby Jean Paul Courtens Read what it takes to grow organic vegetables for a community supported agriculture farm. more >>
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Roxbury Farm New Land Purchase
by Jody Bolluytby Jean Paul Courtens Roxbury Farm purchases 100 acres of new land, in cooperation with Open Space Conservancy and the National Park Service, keeping the land in agriculture. more >>
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Saffron Brown Rice with Carrots
by Jane Sherry Serve this dish as a main course or side dish. According to Ayurveda, saffron has wonderful healing qualities for all body types especially as a “blood revitalizer”. more >>
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Sequoia
by James Bertolino James Bertolino's new poem records a wordless conversation converying the fiery spirit of the poet's heart's desires. more >>
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Solar Power Comes of Age
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho Solar power is poised to enter the mainstream energy market with novel materials that boost energy conversion efficiency and bring down manufacturing costs. more >>
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Spirit or Empire? The 21st Century Revolution
by Nicanor Perlas I am introducing the discourse of “spirit” back into social activism because the problems we face, dear friends, cannot be solved by the same kind of mind and heart that created these problems in the first place. more >>
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Sunflower & Love-Lies-Bleeding: A Study in Spiritual Surrender
by Richard Katz The Sunflower essence is a catalyst for developing one's personal identity in relation to a larger spiritual Self. Love-Lies-Bleeding essence has proven to be a powerful balm for those undergoing great physical and psychic pain. When the soul has been stretched to the breaking point, it can enter another dimension of spiritual awareness. more >>
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The Case for Building International Community
by Palden Jenkins We're all God's little children. We have a job to do, building a new culture and civilisation, a new humanity occupying one wee planet on the edge of a provincial galaxy. If we don't, all of human history could come to little or nothing. This is the importance of the international community, and the clock is ticking. more >>
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The Concept of Evil
by Andrew Bard Schmookler The concept of evil is intellectually valid and spiritually important, and crucial to understanding the current state of political affairs in America and around the world. more >>
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The Dark Night of the Planetary Soul
by Curtis Lang The world is in labor, about to birth a new planetary consciousness. Will this consciousness reflect our worst nightmares or our highest aspirations? The choice is ours. more >>
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The Fed's Raising Rates: What It All Means
by Tom Schlesinger A jobless recovery, asset bubbles, massive foreign debt, financial industry scandals, and the end of Social Security as we know it? No problem. The Fed will just raise rates again. more >>
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The Ladder
by James Bertolino James Bertolino's new poem explores the metaphysical epistemology of every day life. more >>
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The Long View: Uranus Uprisings in America
by Nancy Sommers It seems quite likely that the end of the transit of Uranus square to US Mars in February 2009 will signal the end of the hyper-militarism that has colored the tenure of the self-styled War President George W. Bush. more >>
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The Sumatra Earthquake
by Malvin Artley My purpose in this writing is to look at some of the deeper factors at work with this tragedy and to give a bit of perspective on things. Human memory and perception has a tendency to be notoriously short and we, as a species, are more prone to look at events rather than the meaning behind them. more >>
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The Universal Organism
by Rupert Sheldrake and Jeffrey Mishlove Sheldrake's theory that the Universe is a living, evolving, intelligent organism synthesizes the warring views of creationists and evolutionary theorists while avoiding Biblical fundmentalism and secular materialism in favor of post-Newtonian scientific spirituality. more >>
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The Warrior God Changes Direction
by Nancy Sommers A more circumspect foreign policy waits until Bush is out of office, although the mood of the country is clearly already shifting. Unfortunately, planetary indications for 2007 and 2008 suggest a strong potential for Bush to unleash the aggressive Martial impulses writ large in the stars. more >>
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The Wedding
by James Bertolino This epiphanic love poem by James Bertolino startles the mind and opens the heart. more >>
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Through the Eyes of Abundance
by Sheila Foster Marin County California is on its way to becoming the first all organic county in the United States. How did they do it? And how can others follow their example? more >>
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To Be a True Friend of the Jewish People
by Starhawk I can think of nothing more unfaithful to the strong Jewish traditions of social justice than the current climate of vicious denunciation towards anyone who raises criticisms of Israel’s policies. more >>
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To Be Loved By Nature
by James Bertolino James Bertolino's poem guides the heart along the path to unity with nature, and through that unity, reaches the ultimate goal -- self-realization. more >>
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Toward an Activist Sprituality
by Starhawk The integration of magic and activism sometimes means bringing magic into an action -- doing a spiral dance in the midst of the tear gas of Quebec City, or in Grand Central station surrounded by riot cops. It might mean starting our strategic planning with a trance or a Tarot reading, or invoking Water as we work against the privatization of water resources. more >>
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Weather Report Summer 2004
by Jane Sherry This garden is our cathedral, where we pause to reflect upon the inter-relations between earthly life and spiritual realms, and to continuously express our gratitude for the abundance of beauty in our lives. more >>
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What if Foundation Update 2007
by Margaret Trost Margaret writes in her latest letter: "The Education Coordinators at St. Clare’s who work closely with Fr. Jean-Juste, have done an outstanding job identifying and working with the students. In June, 90% passed the state exam so were able to advance into the next grade." more >>
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What Water Says
by James Bertolino James Bertolino's poem guides the heart along the path to unity with nature, and through that unity, reaches the ultimate goal -- self-realization. more >>
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2/08 Global NewsLetter: The Coming Collapse of Globalization
by Curtis Lang 2/8/2008
We are witnessing the slow motion collapse of “globalization”, which is shorthand for a set of political, economic and social policies, including Reaganomics, free trade and the leveling down of global wages, human rights and environmental protection, financial deregulation and corporate oligarchy. more >>
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2007: Alchemical Portal
by Crystal Pomeroy 1/20/2007
It's a year of potential major conflicts around the world. Yet we are entering a window of opportunity for developing sublime aspirations, as we simultaneously charge our personal auras and that of the planet with a flood of light. more >>
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9/11, Deep State Violence and the Hope of Internet Politics
by Peter Dale Scott 6/17/2008
The unthinkable — that elements inside the state would conspire with criminals to kill innocent civilians — has become not only thinkable but commonplace in the last century. Is the American "deep state" somehow implicated with al-Qaeda in the atrocity of 9/11? more >>
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A Depleted Legacy
11/19/1995
The story of the long twilight struggle that ended government subsidized housing in Houston. more >>
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A New Meaning for Car Wash
6/1/1993
Forget "Miami Vice" and high-speed chases on cigar boats and shootouts with South American thugs armed with semiautomatic weapons.The really heavy federal drug enforcement artillery is now being trained on suburban car salesmen." more >>
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A New Middle East
by Palden Jenkins 8/30/2006
The talk is of a new Middle East. But what new Middle East? A Middle East designed in Washington DC or Teheran, built to suit the needs of foreigners? Or a Middle East evolved by the locals, built to suit their needs? more >>
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A Regional MidEast War? Catastrophe Awaits America!
by Paul Craig Roberts 1/20/2007
American politicians and elite opinion-makers are hypnotized by their own arrogance into believing they can win a wider war in the MidEast. It may seen counter-intuitive but peace in the region depends upon political change -- in Israel. more >>
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Against Selfishness
by Steve Breyman 2/10/2005
Bush's ownership society melds a me-first 80s ethos with the crude Darwinism of Reality TV, celebrating the creation of a two-class society founded on power and privilege for the few. more >>
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Alternative Resources Wish List
by Dr. Marsha Woolf 2/2/2006
Today I’d like to bring to your attention a most worthy project that brings clean water, medical care, agricultural assistance and other necessities to the many thousands of Tibetan refugees living in India. more >>
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America's Moral Crisis
by Andrew Bard Schmookler 7/26/2006
This presidency should be seen as a manifestation of the success of a set of amoral forces that have worked for a generation to take over the county. The success of these unscrupulous forces –arising from the political right– is due in part to a more general unraveling of the moral fabric of America. more >>
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Any Kind of Sovereign
by Jed A. Myers 7/3/2007
Jed Myers explores the illusion of the separate self as mental illness in this humorous new metaphysical poem. more >>
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Aquarius Solar Festival 2006
by Malvin Artley 2/13/2006
This year will be a period marked by heightened tensions in the world, but also by the capacity for great insights to come out of that tension. Special effort should be made to spend quiet time reflecting on chosen paths and upon bringing people together.
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BAD COMPANY: Part 2
5/4/1992
Making Money the Old-fashioned Way--
Dealing With the Yakuza and Building
Golf Courses in China
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Bohemian Grove Works: TechnoPaganism & Visions of Excess
by Joseph Nechvatal 10/12/2006
In this series of digital paintings, New York artist Joseph Nechvatal explores the occult world of the Bohemian Grove, and of the neo-conservative ideologues in that fairyland of power and privilege who are dragging the whole world into needless warfare to enhance their political power. more >>
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Bug Power
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 11/13/2005
Waste-gobbling bacteria may be our dream ticket to clean renewable energy. Will the elusive hydrogen economy run on potato waste? more >>
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Bush & Brezhnev: Separated at Birth?
by Curtis Lang 6/1/2006
America is Losing The Great Game of Imperial Conquest. The Reign of Bush the Younger Resembles the Last Days of the Soviet Empire. Seemingly Impregnable and Destined to Rule Forever, Despots Always Fall. more >>
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Bush Has Achieved America's Demise
by Paul Craig Roberts 10/13/2006
When does "collateral damage" so dwarf combatant deaths that war becomes genocide? Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq has cost 655,000 Iraqis their lives -- and arguably ended America's 200 year experiment with Constitutional law.
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Bush Policy Wonks Will Move Markets – and the Economy
1/15/2001
No one expects Dubya to put on his thinking cap, network with policy wonks and forge a set of priorities for his new administration that will rock our collective world. That was Bill Clinton's modus operandi.
Ideas for Bush policies will be coming from a handful of big think tanks in Washington. As in the Reagan era, the most important is the Heritage Foundation.
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California's Energy Crisis – Who's to Blame?
1/31/2001
California's new $10 billion energy bailout plan is being greeted with skepticism by both industry experts and consumer groups. That’s not surprising because the state of California, which has already proven itself to be “the gang that couldn’t deregulate”, has rushed to implement an emergency plan that looks increasingly like a band-aid on a severe gut-shot wound.
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Cancer/Leo Solar Festival Eclipses 2009: July & August 2009
by Malvin Artley 8/6/2009
Get ready for a global reboot!! This Aquarius Full Moon Lunar Eclipse, occurring Wednesday August 5 at 8:55 pm, EST, is the third in a series of such eclipses this summer. This series of eclipses began in 1360 and has foretold many wars and disasters, but there have also been reforms and new social orders instituted. more >>
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Capricorn Solar Festival 2006
by Malvin Artley 1/14/2006
The only thing we have to do in preparation for the re-emergence of the Kingdom of Souls on Earth is to perform to our personal, spiritual best. That may sound simple enough, but rest assured—if you seek to do that, even in half-measures, then the entire weight of your own negativity will stand in the way of your doing so, as well as a portion of your family’s, community’s and national negative imprinting and conditioning. more >>
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Chinese New Year Predictions for 2008 Part 1
by Malvin Artley 2/8/2008
2008 is the Year of the Rat! Expect an important year full of change, reversals, power plays, learning to save for a rainy day, and learning about who our true friends really are. It's a long story, so this is a two-part letter! more >>
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Chinese New Year Predictions for 2008 Part 2
by Malvin Artley 2/8/2008
In this year, especially, take the time to sit by the path you have chosen, wait and watch. The truth you are after will appear. The trick is not to blink, be distracted or fall asleep when it appears. I hope you find it. more >>
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Climate Change: Opening the Window of Opportunity
by Elizabeth R. Sawin 8/1/2007
If moving closer to the heart of things - moving from the symptom of rising temperature to its cause, CO2 pollution - produces the ability to solve multiple problems with a single solution, then what might be the power of reaching even deeper - into consumerism, into our sense that the Earth is ours to dominate, into the assumptions of the industrial age? more >>
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Cold Fusion: Back on the Menu
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 10/21/2007
The implications of cold fusion are enormous. It means that a cheap, much safer and controllable source of nuclear energy is on the horizon. It may be possible to use the same kinds of low energy nuclear reactions to transform existing hazardous radioactive nuclear wastes into more stable, non-radioactive elements. more >>
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Dance of Oil
12/7/2000
It looks as if oil politics could be the vehicle for George W. Bush to define his administration's geo-strategic principles, solidify support in Congress, reward his supporters in the energy "bidness" and unify the country behind his foreign policy, just as it was for his father. That does not necessarily mean a repeat of the Persian Gulf War, but oil provides an ideal vehicle for restating the imperial American policy abroad. more >>
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Day of Atonement
by Jed A. Myers 10/2/2006
Jed Myers' new Yom Kippur poem explores the wonder, guilt, and pity of the human condition in the 21st century, as the temperature rises, and nations fight war after war -- over oil, water, religion, economic philosophies, race, and always, money. more >>
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Deconstructing the Spiritual Nature of Pisces
by Malvin Artley 3/10/2005
Pisces is the sign that most embodies the “World Savior”. Pisces Full Moon marks a finishing up of the year’s preparatory business prior to the inauguration of the high spiritual festivals of the spring and summer. more >>
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Drug Cartels, Managed Violence and the Russian 9/11, Part 1
by Peter Dale Scott 1/11/2006
Drug trafficking from Afghanistan is the main source of support for international terrorism today. Did an international drug cartel affiliated with a Saudi billionaire, Russian banks, and US and Russian intelligence services conspire in the Moscow bombings of 1999? more >>
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Dying for Rain
by Jed A. Myers 12/20/2009
This hymn is dedicated to the poet's heart entangled in a World Wide Web of human desires, full of courage and strength. more >>
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Easter Festival 2006
by Malvin Artley 4/4/2006
The Easter story, as well as the life of Jesus, is a reminder and an allegory of the long evolution of the Soul of every person and of the sure and certain knowledge that we will all eventually attain the same status of the Christ. more >>
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Energy Politics & The Decline of the American Empire
by Richard Heinberg 5/26/2006
With the decline of Washington’s “full-spectrum dominance,” and control of global energy resources, we are seeing the emergence of countervailing power blocs, primarily in Asia but also in South America. This is the end of an era. more >>
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Festival of Goodwill: Gemini Full Moon 2005
by Malvin Artley 5/19/2005
The call has gone out—“Unite! Cast your Light outward into the world and know that your voice will be heard. The ones who wait will hear your voice and see your flame. Lay aside that which keeps you separated from your fellow travelers and walk in concert with them." more >>
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Flower Essence Formulas: Powerful Remedies for Times of Crisis
by Richard Katz 5/29/2009
Flower essences were first developed during an earlier time of traumatic economic and social upheaval, the Great Depression of the 1930s. In the face of today’s challenges, these potent plant remedies can be important allies as we seek the wisdom, inner strength, emotional equanimity and resolve needed to meet a new world crisis. more >>
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Follow the Money
by Curtis Lang 2/10/2005
Eliot Spitzer’s insurance probe promises to shake up business as usual in the $1 trillion industry -- and in Albany, where campaign finance reform may be the only solution to the problem. more >>
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Four Years Ago Today
by Starhawk 3/16/2007
Time to let the rest of the world know that dissent is alive and well here in the U.S.A. Time to regenerate a movement as nature regenerates life in the spring, with the rising energy that alone can turn our interminable trudging into a dance of defiance. more >>
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Fr. Gerry Released!!/Urgent Health Alert for Fr. Jean-Juste
by Brian Concannon Jr., Esq 1/29/2006
We have great news: Political prisoner Fr. Gerard-Jean-Juste, “Fr. Gerry” is right now on a plane in the air from Port-au-Prince to Miami. A cancer center in Florida has agreed to treat his leukemia, so he will get immediate attention for the cancer, as well as for the pneumonia he contracted this week. more >>
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Fr. Jean-Juste Diagnosed with Leukemia: His Message From Prison
by Paul Farmer 1/2/2006
I visited Father Gerry just before Christmas because I had heard reports that his health was deteriorating. He told me first to think of fellow prisoners who may be in worse shape. He also insisted on praying, then singing, then introducing me to some of his jailers. more >>
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Geo-engineering: A Measure of Desperation
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 5/6/2009
There isn’t an urgent need to develop heroic climate engineering projects. We know how to solve the problem: reduce the amount of energy we use, replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources, switch to organic, localised food systems, stop the destruction of forests and replace some of those we have lost. So why take the risk? more >>
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Give Peace a Chance: Noone Can Win the Arab-Israeli Wars
by Palden Jenkins 7/26/2006
Only one kind of disarmament is possible: complete, comprehensive, global disarmament. Owing to the dominance of the strongest and the vulnerability of the weakest, the strongest countries need to take the initiative - ratchet down first, to convince the small guys that they can be trusted not to take advantage. more >>
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Global Food Trade & The New Slave Labour
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 2/24/2006
South African farmers pay labourers in part or in full with alcohol. A steady stream of alcohol is given to the workers throughout the day. Not too much to make them drunk, but enough to make them dependent. more >>
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Global Warming: The Boiling Point
by Maya del Mar 4/1/2005
I believe that if the U.S. people knew the imminent danger, they would insist on change. This is exactly what the oil and coal industries fear, and so with their powerful crony, GW Bush, they are keeping this crucial information from the American public. more >>
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Go with the Flow
by Nancy Sommers 2/13/2007
Bush's surge strategy is like trying to force a river to flow backwards by putting a firehose into the onrushing waters and turning on the tap. Failure is assured, and the result could be to flood the Middle East with blood and fire. more >>
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Green Tea, The Elixir of Life?
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 4/8/2007
Green tea, the everyday beverage for hundreds of millions in Japan and China has emerged as the latest ‘miracle drug' for preventing just about any ailment humans can suffer from. Here's the science behind the news sensation. more >>
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Haiti After Aristide: A Failed Occupation
by Dennis Bernstein 3/1/2005
UN forces are allowing political assassination attempts on former Aristide officials and police massacres in Port au Prince's poorest neighborhoods. The poor eat mud cakes while rape and pillage proliferate. more >>
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Haiti Hurricane Relief Appeal
by Margaret Trost 9/11/2008
"At another food program some 8 miles south of our food program, a security guard shot at the crowd who were desperate for a meal. An unconfirmed report said three hungry people died, 12 were wounded. Some small children were crushed within a crowd of starving young men, women and elderly people. The luckiest and very little babies hold onto their mothers or big sisters in the hope of some food." more >>
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Haitians Helping One Another to Survive
2/9/2010
Johanna Berrigan, a friend of the foundation and Physician Assistant, spent a week in Haiti & says,"When I drove through the streets of Port-au-Prince, I couldn't speak. The devastation is beyond anything you could imagine. But I gained strength by watching how gracefully and with such dignity the Haitians are coping. They are taking care of each other, praying, singing, doing what they can to help one another survive..." more >>
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Have Guns, Will Travel
7/22/1991
Who Is Richard Brenneke and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About George Bush and the October Surprise?
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Health, Human Rights, and GM crops
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 10/3/2005
Adopting GM crops when oil and water are both rapidly depleting under global warming, and when industrial monoculture is showing all the signs of collapse is a crime against humanity and our planet. more >>
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Hope I Die Before I Get Old: Understanding Muslim Extremism
by Palden Jenkins 2/7/2007
To Westerners preoccupied with terrorism and insurgency - that is, assaults on our sense of order and control - what is not seen is the revival of love, humanity and spirituality lying behind Middle Eastern movements at the grassroots level. more >>
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Immigrants' Rights: The New Revolution
by Maya del Mar 5/26/2006
The birth of a national immigrants' rights movement was triggered by the first of a two-year series of eclipses in Virgo and Pisces. Recent mass demonstrations are just the beginning of a long political process. more >>
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Impeach Bush Now! Bypass the Corporate Media!
by Andrew Bard Schmookler 8/1/2007
About half the American people favor the impeachment of Bush and of Cheney. Such public sentiment is unprecedented in American history, and such numbers demonstrate the potential for an unprecedentedly massive social movement. more >>
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Indexing Humanity, Indian Style
by Palagummi Sainath 11/5/2008
117,000 women dead From childbirth, but, take cheer, the market is soaring!
It all happened around the same time. The day the Sensex crossed 19,000, India clocked in 94th in the Global Hunger Index--behind Ethiopia. more >>
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Irrational Exuberance: Deja-vu All Over Again?
2/21/2001
"Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin," explained famous philosopher, Hall of Fame ballplayer, and pennant-winning Manager (for the both the Yankees and Mets), Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, when asked about a long dry spell at the plate.
He could have been speaking for the equity markets' hivemind this week. The Nasdaq composite is off more than 53% from its high reached less than one year ago. After a big January pop, the COMP ended the month 46% off its March 2000 peak, and then proceeded to lose another 16% from its January 31 level.
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Is Bad News Good for the Net?
11/12/2000
The dot-com bubble has burst. The Nasdaq bear refuses to go into hibernation for the winter. “Geek chic” suddenly looks as tired and dated as those Priceline PCLN ads with William Shatner that looked so cool only a few months ago, when Priceline’s stock was soaring.
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Is Social Security Broke?
by Maya del Mar 5/9/2005
The answer is a resounding NO, contrary to what the right-wing spin doctors say. Look at the system's birthchart. Social Security is more stable than the NY Stock Exchange. more >>
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It's Mars Retrograde: Hurry Up and Wait!
by Bill Herbst 11/18/2007
Mars goes stationary on November 15th, thru end of January 2008, so we're likely to be stuck in stop-and-go traffic on the Business Loop for quite awhile to come, with speed traps and breakdowns along the way. more >>
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Katrina: The Spiritual Significance
by Malvin Artley 9/14/2005
What will happen if we have another disaster of this nature—like an earthquake or the like—and it takes place near or in one of the major coastal cities elsewhere in the US? The Universe is giving us warning signs and it's up to us to act! more >>
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Letter from Paris: Yves Klein at the Pompidou
by Joseph Nechvatal 11/1/2006
In an ephemeral seven year career, French artist Yves Klein dissolved the formal art object, explored pure virtual space and created a public persona that anticipated the strategy of Andy Warhol. more >>
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Like The Water
by Jed A. Myers 7/28/2007
New poetry from Jed Myers explores the mysterious intersection between the egoistic self and spirit realms which is the evanescent dwelling place of the human soul. more >>
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Lopez Obrador: Will He Transform Mexico?
by Maya del Mar 9/22/2005
The popular left-wing Mayor of Mexico City is running for President on a platform of people power. Will Mexico join the South American revolt against globalization? The stars favor change --and they favor Obrador. more >>
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Mayan Prophecies Interpreted: The Return of The Ancestors Gathering
by Michael Andrews 12/20/2009
Until relatively recently, the Mayan Elders have been silent about December 21, 2012 and the meaning of their prophecies, but that has been changing. Read Mike's account of the Elders' predictions for 2010 -- and beyond! You'll be surprised and energized when you hear what they have to say! more >>
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Me and My Shadow: The Aftermath of the Lebanon War
by Palden Jenkins 10/11/2006
There are so many global questions to sort out that the international community doesn't know where to start. So it holds necessary changes to a manageable, damage-limiting trickle, applying band-aids where possible. more >>
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Meltdown Strategies: Financial Disaster and Climate Change
by Starhawk 10/14/2008
The environment is not an afterthought: it’s the ground of economy, security and survival. Environmental protection, environmental justice and regeneration must be our top priorities, because they are the only sound foundation for every other endeavor. more >>
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Mexico's Solar Return: People Power Rising
by Maya del Mar 10/12/2006
Mexico is in turmoil. We can see the big theme of Mexico's solar return this next year: A REVOLUTION IN CONSCIOUSNESS. Expect to see “aggressive nonviolent civil resistance.” more >>
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Microsoft.Net: Is it time yet?
7/11/2001
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Oracle chieftain Larry Ellison should be delighted with Microsoft’s new .NET initiative, unveiled last month. more >>
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Mike Gravel: Still Principled After All These Years
by James Ridgeway 7/28/2007
Commenting that his fellow candidates “frightened” him because they refused to take the nuclear option off the table with regard to Iran, he confronted Obama with the question, “Tell me, Barack, who do you want to nuke?” more >>
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Nine Decades of Non-Violence: The Story of Satyagraha
by Palagummi Sainath 10/21/2007
Satyagraha was Gandhi's peaceful protest movement in India that triggered the drive for independence in that country. Here's the story of an old Muslim gentleman who followed Gandhi and has practiced Gandhian precepts for fifty years. more >>
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Obama's Magic Moment -- A View from India
by Palagummi Sainath 11/7/2008
A nation has gone against its historical record. Risen above its worst prejudices in one, emotional, incandescent moment. A small step for world peace and social justice, a giant leap for America.
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Oceans in Distress
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 11/1/2006
Save our oceans, save our planet. Pollution, destructive overfishing and increasing commercial exploitation are threatening the planet’s cradle of life. Learn how you can become an Ocean Defender. Take action now! more >>
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Our Collapsing Food System -- And How to Fix It
by Curtis Lang and Jane Sherry 2/24/2006
The global agricultural-industrial complex is destroying the environment, exploiting farmers around the world, and delivering low-quality, high-cost food to unwary consumers. But a host of alternatives are springing up to provide nutritious food from sustainable farm communities. more >>
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Peering Into the Future: An Agenda for the 21st Century
by Palden Jenkins 2/8/2008
It's 2008, but we are at the first dawning of the 21st century, and much of the world seems to be focused firmly on what can be seen in their rear view mirror. Our problems are global problems, and so are the solutions for a better world. more >>
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Pipeline Through Paradise: Big Oil's Plan to Tap the Arctic
by James Ridgeway 10/20/2007
One quarter of the world's untapped oil and gas reserves lie in the Arctic. Politicians, oil execs, and the media focus on the Middle East and West Africa but most know that the Arctic is the real prize in the ongoing international struggle to control dwindling energy resources. more >>
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Pisces Festival of Salvation 2006
by Malvin Artley 3/14/2006
The basic quality here is one of purification. All issues that have lurked beneath the surface will come up for reckoning. For most people this will mean that relationship crises will manifest. more >>
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Privacy in the Digital Age
3/31/1994
Welcome to the digital frontier, where network by network, metaphor by metaphor, a splendid, global, multimedia palace is being built through trial and error. more >>
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Rescuing a Planet Under Stress
by Lester Brown 12/13/2005
Environmental Guru Lester Brown offers a comprehensive vision for a new, sustainable global society -- but we must transform our throwaway economy of overconsumption before we are overtaken by war, economic collapse and environmental catastrophe. more >>
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Save our Seas Part 1: Oceans and Global Warming
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 1/20/2007
Global warming disrupts the oceanic web of life, and could result in die-off of the phytoplankton that sustain all oceanic life, releasing huge amounts of carbon and accelerating global warming even more. more >>
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Save Our Seas Part 3: Acid Oceans
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 1/20/2007
Global warming and acidification are damaging the phytoplankton at the basis of the oceans’ enormous food web, putting the entire biosphere in jeopardy. more >>
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Shady Customers: How S&L Suspects Profit From the Crisis
7/30/1990
The same unscrupulous real estate developers and high‑flying financiers who built low‑quality, see‑through office buildings and unneeded condos across the country are now poised to buy foreclosed properties from the government at fire‑sale prices.
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Snatched from the Jaws of Victory
by Paula Rothenberg 5/9/2007
The Women's Liberation Movement I remember argued for the need for a radical transformation of all our institutions. It urged women to rethink every aspect of our lives, always asking us to reflect on whose interests were served by the ways in which society was organized and by the values we had been taught to embrace. more >>
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Solar Power for the Masses
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 8/20/2008
Solar cells are getting better and cheaper fast as oil prices soar. Investors are flocking to solar start-ups. Soon it will cost as little to get electricity from the sun as from the grid. Highly distributed small scale generation linked to an upgraded electric grid is the way ahead. more >>
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The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2001
3/1/2001
The coalition of unions, consumer and women's groups who have been fighting the bankruptcy law are just about out of ammo. Both houses of Congress are expected to pass the measure this week, and President Bush has said he's ready to sign it into law. more >>
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The Bipartisan SynFuel Con Job
by James Ridgeway 6/1/2007
Global warming is well on its way to being a godsend for the coal industry.
Lobbyists are busily trying to turn dirty coal into a pleasing green alternative -- walking in the footsteps of Esso and IG Farben. more >>
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The Challenge of Affluence: A Root of America's Moral Crisis
by Andrew Bard Schmookler 3/7/2007
The American ethic of self-indulgence born of our affluence enables people to saddle their descendants with their own debt, running up huge deficits in the national accounts. The habit of yielding to baser impulses makes it easier to support baser policies in the collective realm -- like wars of imperial aggression around the world. more >>
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The Clipper Threat
6/3/1994
Bill Clinton promised voters in 1992 that he would shrink the defense budget, reorder Cold War priorities and rein in America's undercover warriors who had sold guns to the Ayatollah, supported an illegal Nicaraguan war, bankrolled Manuel Noriega and secretly armed Saddam Hussein. more >>
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The Corporate Grip on Food Tightens
by Palagummi Sainath 7/4/2008
We have dismantled vital parts of our agriculture and with it, the livelihoods of millions. At a time when debates in India highlight the un-viability of corporate agriculture, giant corporations are betting the opposite. For them, at least, the current food crisis holds the promise of an undying source of super profit. more >>
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The Decade of Global Transformation and the New American Evolution
by Curtis Lang 3/13/2009
In this newsletter, using research compiled over the last two years from honest and reliable financial experts, environmentalists, independent journalists and famous astrologers, I will give you a bird’s eye view of the current global financial crisis, provide you with a clear outline of its scope, depth and probable duration, and together we will take a look at the BIG picture – the cultural, political, economic, social and environmental changes set to totally transform human civilization during the next decade. more >>
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The Economy is Worse Than It Appears
by Palagummi Sainath 1/11/2009
Maybe there is a need to hold businessmen to the same standards as elected representatives. Especially those dealing with untold sums of public money?
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The Fight Over The BP-Berkeley Energy BioScience Institute
by Institute of Science in Society 7/3/2007
The biofuels boom is already having devastating effects on the world's poorest countries and on planet as a whole by accelerating deforestation and climate change. The $500 million takeover of Berkeley by BP threatens to bring the world's end that much closer. more >>
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The Global Organic Foods Boom
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 10/3/2005
Organic certification standards were initially developed by farmers and farmer organizations but new, third-party, market-driven and government mandated standards threaten to turn the organic food market over to corporate agribusiness. more >>
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The Importance of Plumbing
by Bill Herbst 9/5/2007
The decade of the 2010s will unfold as another lightning-bolt chapter in the recently accelerated evolution of humanity toward substantive change in how we live, work, and play on this garden planet. more >>
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The London Bombings
by Palden Jenkins 8/31/2005
The British people will not be terrorized. We do not seek war. There is a public recognition of the multicultural nature of our country, and we accept and include Muslims and all others as part of our society. more >>
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The Magician
by Dennis Bernstein 7/18/2008
In this poem, memory uncovers a child's perspective and restores the magic of everyday life. more >>
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The Mythos of Consciousness
9/22/2002
Myth is the reality of the Soul, just as History is the reality of the day-to-day linear world. Mythos is the topography, or cosmology, of the Soul. more >>
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The Nature of Scorpio: Scorpio Full Moon 2005
by Malvin Artley 11/15/2005
This Full Moon holds a great deal of frustrated energy within it. The release points are fiery and explosive. The gains to be had in terms of understanding and revelation are formidable, though. Still the mind! more >>
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The New Age of Water: Creating a Water Battery
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 8/20/2008
The most significant scientific discovery of this century could be about highly structured water -- liquid crystalline water, which could be used as a virtually unlimited energy source. Scientists are now working to create a solar-charged water battery that could usher in a new age of hydro-power. more >>
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The New Year's Market Outlook
1/8/2001
Those of us over 30 can only watch in horror and recall the spirit of the 1920s when Broadway musicals were high art, illegal booze was the King-Hell High, jazz was searing and markets were soaring until…well, you know, man, the correction happened -- and happened and happened.
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The Real Grand Chessboard & War Profiteers
by Peter Dale Scott 8/29/2009
The concept of global war as the response to violent Islamic radicalism is flawed. We ought not be in the business of invading and occupying other countries. That’s not going to address the threat. It is, on the other hand, going to bankrupt the country and break the military. more >>
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The Right of Return
by Palden Jenkins 7/3/2007
The question of the Palestinian Right of Return is big and crucial. But the discussion is predicated on factors and notions which do not really help the debate or a solution. This issue needs to be looked at, to some extent separately, in two different ways: the first concerns deep emotional-historical issues and principles, which are being discussed, and the second concerns planning, sustainability and real-life viability issues, which largely are obscured. more >>
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The Road to 2012
by Maya del Mar 4/15/2006
NOW is the time for us to prepare to participate positively in the dynamic process of evolution -- spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically. There truly is very little time. more >>
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The Road to 9/11
by Peter Dale Scott 11/13/2005
How covert US Asian operations financed by heroin trafficking empowered radical Islam. How big oil entangled America in unsavory alliances to control Asian pipelines. How it all led to 9/11. Discover the role of the CIA, Big Oil and the Shadow Government. more >>
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The Rooster Crows at Noon
by Malvin Artley 2/15/2005
Chinese astrology tells us about global and personal conditions and tendencies due to manifest in 2005 -- the year of the Green Rooster. more >>
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The Shame of Being American
by Paul Craig Roberts 7/26/2006
One-third of the Lebanese civilians murdered by Israel’s attacks on civilian residential districts are children. It is impossible for help to reach the wounded and those buried in rubble, because Israeli air strikes have blown up all the bridges and roads. more >>
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The Spiritual Nature of Libra: Libra Full Moon 2005
by Malvin Artley 10/13/2005
Choice must be made. If there was ever a theme for Libra, that is it. There are two basic ways in which we choose—with desire/mind or with inner knowing. The latter involves faith when we cannot see or directly sense what is on our path. more >>
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The Twilight of The Era of Cheap Oil
by Curtis Lang 3/10/2005
We are in the twilight of the age of mass industrialization and consumption, of a long spiritual cycle focused on the development of the individual sense of self. The Aquarian age of community is coming soon. more >>
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The Unbearable Brightness of Being Right
by Rupert Sheldrake 7/3/2007
Visionary scientist Rupert Sheldrake reviews a new book by Daniel Dennett that equates mysticism with fundamentalist religious fanaticism and makes a case for rational atheism. more >>
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The US in 2005 -- Predictions for the Year Ahead
by Maya del Mar 1/6/2005
The U.S. is being called on to let go of many of its ego props and to open to a higher level of spirit. This will be particularly difficult for a nation showing the arrogance that the U.S. is presenting to the world.
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The Year of the Iron Tiger: “The Tiger Leaves the Mountain”
by Malvin Artley 2/21/2010
2010 is the year to bring forth your inner tiger! If you have plans for your life, see where the opposition to those plans arises and face opponents squarely and honestly. There are always those who disagree, but if the design is sound it is time to act decisively -- especially if you know the design has come from within. more >>
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Threats of Peak Oil to the Global Food Supply
by Richard Heinberg 10/3/2005
Farmers on the island of Bali in Indonesia once planted 200 varieties of rice, each adapted to a different microclimate; now only four varieties are grown. Ongoing, massive genetic consolidation is being driven by the centralization of the seed industry which is in turn consequent upon fuel-fed globalization. more >>
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Three 9/11s and the Power of Satyagraha
by Palagummi Sainath 6/1/2007
There were three 9/11s in history. New York 2001. The bloody Chilean coup of 1973, and the non-violent one of 1906 —Gandhiji's satyagraha in South Africa. Two brought bloodshed, destruction, misery, and chaos. But the Mahatma's WMD — Weapon of Mass Disobedience — helped change the world for the better. more >>
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Too Big To Fail? Bailing out Banks, Automakers and More!
by Palagummi Sainath 11/26/2008
Bail out GM? For years, the Big 3 automakers used their power to dismantle public transit, scuttle clean fuel initiatives and enslave Americans to expensive cars, cheap gas obtained through force of arms, and suburban sprawl. Now the bill comes due! more >>
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Towards a Biospheric Ethic
by Edward Goldsmith 9/5/2009
There can be no more truly immoral enterprise than that to which our modern society is so totally committed: namely, economic development or ‘progress’, which involves the systematic substitution of the technosphere for the biosphere. more >>
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Toxic Gumbo: Hurricane Katrina and Environmental Justice
by Steve Breyman 9/21/2005
The Coast Guard estimates seven million gallons of oil got free from at least forty-four factories, tank farms, and other facilities to join the floodwaters of southeastern Louisiana. This is nearly two-thirds the amount of oil left in Alaskan waters by the Exxon Valdez. more >>
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Tsunami of Hope: November 2008 Full Moon in Taurus Newsletter
by Curtis Lang 11/12/2008
If we are to rise up and fulfill our full potential, if we are to achieve our Higher Purpose, we must be willing to stretch ourselves to new heights, to leave our comfort zone and enter a new land with no map or compass. We must find ways to get our leaders to listen, and to make the changes that most Americans know are essential to our future and the future of our children. more >>
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Understanding the Iran Crisis
by Palden Jenkins 1/20/2007
George Bush's plan to "surge" more troops into Iraq could be the perfect way to preposition troops along the Iranian border in preparation for an Israeli air assault on targets in Iran.
Palden dissects this complex chessgame for us. more >>
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UPDATE: Haiti Earthquake Relief-HELP DONATE HERE
by Margaret Trost 1/24/2010
I spoke with Lavarice this afternoon and he told me that over 10,000 people came to the St. Clare's rectory in search of food and water yesterday. The crowd was so large they were not able to make a dent in providing the aid needed. Lavarice continues to put out calls to the UN and other nonprofits asking them to come to the area with tents, water, and food. Some additional aid has trickled in, but not at the pace that's needed. Thankfully, two more trucks full of food and water, paid for with your donations, arrived late last night from the Dominican Republic. Today, the distribution of aid was a little easier. more >>
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Virgo Solar Festival & Pisces Full Moon 2009
by Malvin Artley 9/4/2009
The full moon axis forms a Hard Rectangle with the nodal axis indicating struggles between instinctive and spiritual impulses, difficulties with people in one’s life and a general malaise about the direction things are taking until one sorts out what is actually going on. more >>
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Wanted: Fifty Million Farmers
by Richard Heinberg 11/1/2006
The de-industrialization of agriculture in an era of expensive oil could be managed without catastrophes and could substantially benefit society and the environment in the long run. Here's how. more >>
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Wesak & Taurus Solar Festival 2009
by Malvin Artley 5/6/2009
There is hope for us yet. The next 18 months will be the make-or-break times. I have been sent a lot of emails about the end of the year 2012. That is not the time about which to be concerned. I have always maintained that. The time, if we are to be concerned, is now. The primary thing all of us need right now is a peaceful state of mind. more >>
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Wesak Festival 2006
by Malvin Artley 5/11/2006
The Taurus Solar Festival at Full Moon in Scorpio celebrates Buddha's Birthday. This year's stars tell us the time has come for many of us to step up to the spiritual mark and present the highest gifts of our natures to the world at large. more >>
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What To Say
by Jed A. Myers 12/14/2005
New poetry from Jed Myers explores the ghostly fog of parental cartography, visits blackbirds patrolling the perimeter of dreams, and celebrates the wisdom of child's play. more >>
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What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out?
by Richard Heinberg 12/14/2007
Our global food system faces a crisis of unprecedented scope. This crisis, which threatens to imperil the lives of hundreds of millions, consists of four simultaneously colliding dilemmas, all arising from our dependence on depleting fossil fuels. more >>
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Where We Are; Where We're Headed -- The Road to 2012
by Bill Herbst 6/30/2007
On June 25th, Saturn made its final pass opposite Neptune, and that is very meaningful. Our collective disillusionment, social malaise, and the longstanding sense of being lost in confusion while sinking in quicksand are peaking right now after almost four years of Saturn-Neptune's scandalous revelations, endless deception, and fantasies polarized to realities. more >>
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Whither Next, America?
by Palden Jenkins 2/12/2004
The American Dream seems to have become a nightmare, and no US president or alliance of billionaire magnates can change that. more >>
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Why Bank Rage Is Not Populism
by James Ridgeway 3/26/2009
What’s going on today bears little resemblance to the great surge of political organizing that began in and spread through the South and West in the 1890s. To begin with, it isn’t now, nor is it likely to become, part of any larger mass movement. It’s directed at the worst excesses of the system, not at the system itself. And it doesn’t offer an alternative vision, beyond a few more progressive “reforms.” more >>
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Witches Abhor Torture
by Starhawk 5/6/2009
Witches abhor torture. We still remember the Burning Times, the campaign of torture and persecution carried out throughout Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries against anyone accused of Witchcraft or heresy. more >>
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Words for Children
by Jed A. Myers 8/30/2006
Poet Jed Myers shares a heartbreaking new poem that surfaces the pain of righteous rhetoric transformed into bullets, bombs and polarization in the Middle East. more >>
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