Author: Daniela
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Dr. Race Mathews: Cooperatives, social equity, & participation
A prolific writer on cooperatives and how they might contribute to improved economic life in Australia, Dr. Race Matthews has studied what we could learn from the phenomenal cooperatives at Mondragon in Spain, particularly in developing enterprises which enhance equity and participation. His recent research looks at the development of cooperatives in Australia, and how…
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The Right’s Brand Of Populism, Ctd
Originally posted on The Dish: Chait dismisses the idea of Republican populism: [Y]ou could eliminate every business subsidy in Washington, and you’d still have in place a massive income gulf and a wealthy elite able to pass its advantages on to the next generation (through proximity to jobs, social connections, acculturation, spending money on education) that have…
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The Medicine wheel.
Originally posted on johncoyote: The Medicine wheel A Poem by Coyote Poetry Old Native American wisdom. We need to gather as one people to save earth and all people. Wisdom of the Medicine wheel. (I have been lucky. Many kind Native American took me under their wing and taught me how to find peace.) At…
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Lake of Death With Folklore of Danger
Reposted from The New India Express By Joshua Foer and Dylan Thuras I could not speak. I became unconscious. I could not open my mouth because then I smelled something terrible… I heard my daughter snoring in a terrible way, very abnormal… When crossing to my daughter’s bed… I collapsed and fell… I wanted to speak,…
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Malibu Meditations
The pale flat disc of a waning moon lies suspended just above the cliffs as I drive up the coast. I turn right on Malibu Drive, speeding past Pepperdine and into the chill blackness of the canyon. The rocky hillside on my left jumps into the beam of my headlights then recedes into shadow. Gusts…
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Google Earth Reveals Huge Pentagram in Kazakhstan
Al Arabia posted an article about the flurry of conspiracy theories cropping up around the image of a huge pentagram etched into the ground in a remote area of Kazakhstan that surfaced on Google maps. The five-pointed star measures 366 meters in diameter and is situated on the southern shore of the Upper Tobol Reservoir in the…