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Amanda Fucking Palmer’s Anarchic Music Model

Posted on June 10, 2013 by

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What? Skip the label? How? Check out her TED talk.

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How Cubans’ Health Improved When Their Economy Collapsed

Posted on April 19, 2013 by

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Urban agriculture in Cuba (image: WikiPedia)

Richard Schiffman | The Atlantic Monthly Apr 18 2013 Sometimes financial crises can force lifestyle changes for the better. When Cuba’s benefactor, the Soviet Union, closed up shop in the early 1990s, it sent the Caribbean nation into an economic…

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I Heart F*ckabees

Posted on January 11, 2013 by

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Also check out my “I Sartre Huckabees.”

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Monsanto’s New Sweet Corn, Another Unregulated, Unlabeled Frankenfood

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

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Organic Bytes #289 Government regulation of genetically engineered crops, already weak, is increasingly non-existent. The latest example of this new hands-off policy is the commercialization of Monsanto’s first flagship product for the produce aisle: genetically engineered sweet corn, containing the…

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Pre-mail: Not just a good idea.

Posted on August 9, 2011 by

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WARNING. This is not email. This is pre-mail. It is a new product being marketed on the internet by the imasupermarketing-genius.com company. Please get your friends to visit our web site by simply telling them our easy-to-remember web address. In…

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United States Is the Laziest Developed Country in the World

Posted on February 17, 2010 by

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Inspired by the Winter Olympics currently being played in Vancouver, the Daily Beast decided to give out virtual medals—for not the most athletic countries, but the laziest. Starting with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s member countries with extensive…

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Social Collapse Best Practices

Posted on February 22, 2009 by

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by Dmitry Orlov – 14 February 2009 The following talk was given on February 13, 2009, at Cowell Theatre in Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, to an audience of 550 people. Audio and video of the talk will be available…

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How Aspartame Became Legal – The Timeline

Posted on February 22, 2009 by

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From Rich Murray – rmforall@att.net 12-24-02 From Norfolk Genetic Information Network (Taken from Welcome to the Spin Machine by Michael Manville http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/2001/04/biotech/ http://www.freezerbox.com/ ) In 1985 Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle, the chemical company that held the patent to aspartame, the…

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The New Economics of Hunger

Posted on April 27, 2008 by

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[P]rices for corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, rice and other grains began shooting through the roof… food [is] becoming the new gold…. For the 1 billion living on less than a dollar a day, it is a matter of survival. In…

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Willie Nelson: Save Family Farms, Save America

Posted on April 27, 2006 by

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[ Nelson argues that [i]f you care about local and democratic control, demand a Farm Bill that curbs the power of factory farms and the influence of lobbyists for large food corporations. If you care about health and nutrition for…

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