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Consumerism?!

    Amanda Fucking Palmer’s Anarchic Music Model

    Monday, June 10th, 2013

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

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    Urban agriculture in Cuba (image: WikiPedia) How Cubans’ Health Improved When Their Economy Collapsed

    Friday, April 19th, 2013

    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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    Dawn's "Fuckabees" I Heart F*ckabees

    Friday, January 11th, 2013

    Also check out my “I Sartre Huckabees.”

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

    Thursday, August 11th, 2011

    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.

    Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

    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

    Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

    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

    Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

    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

    Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

    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

    Sunday, April 27th, 2008

    [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

    Thursday, April 27th, 2006

    [ 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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