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Frackin' Dick Cheney

Update, 7/7/14: Add this to the mix: Five Surprising Places where Fracking Is Taking Off. Remember our favorite archvillian, Dick Cheney, he of the crooked mouth — Retired Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson rips Dick Cheney: He Isn’t Immoral, He’s Amoral — and he of the new heart, but damn! same as the ‘ol heart — […]

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Rescue Department: We know about dolphins, but what about elk, and hippos? And even, some people!

Which brings us back to the question, just what is intelligence? It seems to me that intelligence runs through all of life, through everything, seeking expression via the various senses different species possess, whether animal or vegetable or rock, or spirit . . . How can we say a hippo is less intelligent? Or an […]

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Two Potent Essays for this Independence Day weekend . . .

I tend to read any post written by either of these peace-loving men. Here, Swanson looks at America from “across the pond,” and rejoices that he’s not here to either pretend to celebrate our war-mongering or else hide away from it; and Roland sets the 4th of July into the 9/11 context, where it belongs. […]

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GOOD NEWS: Lawrence Lessig's Mayday.us reaches funding goal; 26 game-changing games; "Corporate Octopus' wins prize!

Thanks to the extraordinary example of Aaron Swartz, Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig had a dream, to reduce the influence of money in politics. This academic was so determined to follow his dream, that he became an activist. And now the dream is coming true. “If Mayday.us had missed the $5 million goal, all money would […]

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WTF? 45 U.S. military bases encircle Iran and have been moving to encircle Russia since 1945

The Secret Back Story to Russia and Ukraine that Americans Never Learned In School Meanwhile, do you wonder why Putin appears to continue to act in a reasonable, responsible manner, suggesting on July 4th that the U.S. meet with Russia as equals? Putin tells Obama he wants better relations in Independence Day message Put yourself […]

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