Author: Daniela
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Saving Normal – Another Point of View
Andrew Sullivan at “The Dish” also shared Allen Francis’ dissatisfaction with the new psychiatric manual DSM-5. Francis’ main point: About half of Americans already qualify for a mental disorder at some point in their lives and the rates keep skyrocketing, especially among kids. In the past 20 years, the prevalence of autism has increased, childhood bipolar has multiplied…
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Roger Doiron – A Subversive Plot: How to Grow a Revolution In Your Own Back Yard
Roger Doiron is founding director of Kitchen Gardeners International, a network of people taking a hands-on approach to re-localizing the global food supply. Doiron is an advocate for new policies, technologies, investments, and fresh thinking about the role of gardens. His successful petition to replant a kitchen garden at the White House attracted broad international…
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Biggest Bag of Wind in Oklahoma
We try to stay away from politics — but just couldn’t pass this one up….Enjoy! TORNADO ONLY THE THIRD BIGGEST BAG OF WIND IN OKLAHOMA THIS WEEK by GARY LEGUM Spackle-brained dick weasel Sen. James Inhofe is bad at so many, many things. He does not understand legally defined standards of treatment for prisoners of war. He thinks…
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Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?
HEIST: Who Stole the American Dream? traces the worldwide economic collapse to a 1971 secret memo entitled Attack on American Free Enterprise System. Written over 40 years ago by the future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, at the behest of the US Chamber of Commerce, the 6-page memo, a free-market utopian treatise, called for a…
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Incredible Footage of Birth of Oklahoma Tornado
Click for Red Cross Statement on the Moore tornado People who wish to make a donation to support the Red Cross response can visit redcross.org, dial 1-800-REDCROSS or text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation. Related articles How You Can Help Victims of the Oklahoma Tornadoes (wnep.com) Red Cross open shelter for Oklahoma tornado…
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Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperative focuses on economic inclusion and building a local economy from the ground up
The Evergreen Cooperative Initiative has been designed to cause an economic breakthrough in Cleveland. Rather than a trickle down strategy, it focuses on economic inclusion and building a local economy from the ground up; rather than offering public subsidy to induce corporations to bring what are often low-wage jobs into the city, the Evergreen strategy…
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This Week’s Rant
It is our intention to keep the tone of this blog generally positive. We want to focus on solutions rather than problems. However, on occasion we all need to vent. Hence, our new feature “This Weeks Rant. ” We’ve started with Chris Hedges’ post “Rise Up or Die” due to its relentlessly depressing tone and…
