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Amanda Fucking Palmer’s Anarchic Music Model
Monday, June 10th, 2013
What? Skip the label? How? Check out her TED talk.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…