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POPSExploring “uncivilisation” - Rethinking assumptions Trend alert: Here is an example of an emerging trend - From EGO-CENTRED; To ECO-CENTRED. This new perspective of the Other goes well beyond traditional environmentalism and is about the whole of life, not just a lifestyle or a belief system.
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POPSNY Accident Lawyer The law offices of Dreyer Boyajian, LLP undertakes a broad range of personal injury cases including structural collapse and fires.
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POPSEco-bridge made from trash collapses in Shanghai "Recycling has its place in our modern world, but this is ridiculous, not to mention extremely perilous if someone has the misfortune of enjoying the view of the river while standing underneath a girder weakened by Styrofoam and/or plastic."
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POPSAre You Ready for 5th Dimensional Consciousness? This is a truly amazing programme. Through a combination of Journaling and 12 gorgeous meditations, you can release any negative baggage and limiting beliefs from the past- permanentlyy- and allow yourself to move into a place of joy and freedom.
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POPSEnergy Flow, Emergent Complexity, and Collapse Do not try to hold on to the bank, let go, and swim with the torrent of change. We are the people we have been waiting for. (Hopi saying.) It was irritating that Pres. B. Obama used that saying during his campaign without attribution.
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POPSGermany’s industry-led recovery falters Business leaders remained optimistic until it was too late last time around. Even the oil companies are losing money. Woodland is becoming the only sure fire capital growth investment. With good management you make an income (timber, firewood, thatching staves, yurts), plus you have guaranteed natural capital growth, as timber and coppice is cut and regrown in sustainable cycles.
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POPSChina or the U.S.: which will be the last nation standing? Here is another usually sober commentator who seems rattled. He concludes: "Pay attention to the weather reports from Washington and Beijing, but meanwhile build local resilience wherever you are. If the roof needs mending, don't dawdle. Just because the sky is falling, that doesn't mean it's time to stop thinking."
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POPSEnedgame (2) Greer says that it is time to start implementing your survival strategy now, or join what he calls the "New Okies". This kind of warning is very unlike the unflappable pragmatist I have come to know. Something has really freaked him out. Still our snow drops came out today.
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POPSEndgame (1) I am reading 'The Ecotechnic Future' by John Michael Greer, who likes to take long term views and consistently argues that transitional change is a gradual process which will have to be dealt with over a generation or two. Recently, the good Druid has become increasingly alarmed by systemic risks in the short term.
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POPSNo Help in Sight, More Homeowners Walk Away In the US, people can leave the bank holding the bag. On the face of it, that is not good for banks or house prices. If banks became landlords, renting out properties to former owners at a rent they can afford, some stability could be re-established. The only price would be ending the illusion that ordinary people could "own" their own homes. They never did. And they would discover that it#s simpler and easier being a tenant, than an owner. Lawyers and estate agents would be the only real losers.
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POPSObama's Strategy of Manufactured Crisis [understanding what makes him tick] Not NEW but bears repeating!!! Obama mentors Cloward-Piven; their strategy -- to create political, financial, and social chaos that would result in revolution blended Alinsky concepts with their more aggressive efforts at bringing about A CHANGE in U.S. government. To achieve their revolutionary change, Cloward and Piven sought to use a cadre of aggressive organizers assisted by friendly news media to force a re-distribution of the nation's wealth. -- Wake up to our RADICAL President America! - Read the full article on American Thinker.
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POPSRegulators Shut Down Banks in 5 States: Totaling 15 Bank Failures In 2010 and American Marine Bank of Bainbridge Island, Wash., with $373.2 million in assets and $308.5 million in deposits. First Regional Bank's collapse followed the shutdown of several large California banks in the last months of 2009. California was one of the states hardest hit by the real estate market meltdown, and many banks there have suffered under the weight of soured mortgage loans. Last year saw the failure of 17 banks in the state. First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co., based in Raleigh, N.C., agreed to buy the deposits and $2.17 billion of the assets of First Regional Bank. The FDIC retained the remaining assets for later sale. In addition, the FDIC and First-Citizens agreed to share losses on $2 billion of the failed bank's loans and other assets. Community & Southern Bank, also based in Carrollton, Ga., agreed to assume the deposits and assets of First National Bank of Georgia.
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POPSText of Obama State of the Union speech: 1/27/10. Opening remarks Like many other Democrats, I was more than pleased with President Obama's assessment of the state of the union. My reasons: minimum high rhetoric, limited ambitions, occasionally even handed between political parties, call to the better angels in Republicans, took on the recent controversial Supreme Court decision, focused on jobs, but did not walk away from health care reform. He showed sensitivity and leadership when it was of paramount importance.
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POPSSimplicity Is Killing Us Western culture tells stories which resolve everything in two simple dimensions of right / wrong, winning / losing. In other cultures, stories are framed to raise open questions predicated on the mystery, complexity and uncertainty of the natural world. And if stories arise from a process of monitoring self signifying intelligence, only indicators, trends, comparisons, inferences and comments can be made. There can be no rights or wrongs, but there are implications and consequences. Thanks Justine and WildCat. (See also - www.openintelligence.wordpress.com for more on self signifying intelligence.)
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POPSThe Demise of America's Middle Class Obama's State of the Union address did not show that he is serious about rescuing the middle class. Us middlers are in real trouble, and there is no big scheme to bail us out like was done with the banksters....just more rhetoric, and politicking! We need Harry back! We need FDR back! We need somebody who is on our side....the people's side!
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POPSREWARD: For a Job Well Done! For better or worse, Bernanke has come to embody both the run-up and the response to the financial crisis that peaked in the fall Advertisement of 2008. Critics blame him for not recognizing trouble signs and for being part of a massive bank bailout; advocates credit him for launching aggressive countermeasures that prevented a financial collapse. Is the world upside down..............or am I standing on my head?
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POPSChemical Annihilation??
Albert Einstein speculated that "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left." Species under threat. Across America, millions of honey bees are abandoning their hives and flying off to die, leaving beekeepers facing ruin and US agriculture under threat. And to date, no one knows why. Michael McCarthy reports Published: 01 March 2007. The Independent: It has echoes of a murder mystery in polite society. There could hardly be a more sedate and unruffled world than beekeeping, but the beekeepers of the United States have suddenly encountered affliction, calamity and death on a massive scale. And they have not got a clue why it is happening. Across the country, from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific, honey bee colonies have started to die off, abruptly and decisively. Millions of bees are abandoning their hives and flying off to die (they cannot survive as a colony without the queen, who is always left behind). Pesticide
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POPSWhite House Nightmare Persists
said Scott Lilley, a senior fellow at the liberal Centre for American Progress, the think-tank that is closest to the White House. “In his State of the Union, Obama has to slim down his ambitions. It should be short and simple and focus on jobs.” The death of the healthcare effort would rob Mr Obama of what he had hoped would be the centrepiece of his first State of the Union message. However, even a more modest agenda looks tough for Mr Obama now. Believing their strategy of total opposition was vindicated by the voters last Tuesday, Republicans are in even less of a mood to co-operate with Democrats than before. The difference is that with 41 seats in the Senate they are in a position to block almost anything Mr Obama proposes " including the Wall Street regulatory measures he announced on Thursday. “Obama has to decide whether he wants to be a transformational president, which looks optimistic at this stage, or merely an effective president,” says Bruce Josten,
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