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  • Biggest Bag of Wind in Oklahoma

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    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…

  • Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?

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    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…

  • Incredible Footage of Birth of Oklahoma Tornado

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    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…

  • Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperative focuses on economic inclusion and building a local economy from the ground up

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    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…

  • Gar Alperovitz suggests what the next economic system might look like.

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    In What Then Must We Do?, Gar Alperovitz speaks directly to the reader about where we find ourselves in history, why the time is right for a new-economy movement to coalesce, what it means to build a new system to replace the crumbling one, and how we might begin. He also suggests what the  next system might look…

  • This Week’s Rant

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    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…

  • Organizing Principles

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    In his article “The Down to Earth Economy” in the Winter issue of yes! magazine, David Korten maintains that, “extreme individualism, greed and violence are pathological and a sign of physical, developmental, cultural and/or institutional system failure.”  He contrasts the organizing principles of Wall Street with those of nature and concludes that we must “restructure…

  • Robert Bly and Poetry

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    Related articles New Books on the Shelf (senzingzen.com) 2013 Poetry Month – Solitude Late at Night in the Woods (senzingzen.com) In the Month of May, Poem by Robert Bly (silverbirchpress.wordpress.com) Robert Bly: By the Book (3quarksdaily.com)

  • Sunday Prayer

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    From a Letter by Roger Ebert Paul Cox wrote me that in his Arles days, van Gogh called himself “a simple worshiper of the external Buddha.” Paul told me that in those days, Vincent wrote: Looking at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and…