Al Gore is my Jesus, my Ghandi, my Buddah, my Allah, my last hope.

Informative Article posted on Organic Consumers Association (OCA) Website

Published on Thursday, July 6, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
Written by Jeff Cohen

At least among many people I know, there will be a mass exodus from doing business with AT&T after reading this article that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday.

I just saw Al Gore’s new movie “Inconvenient Truth” . . .

There are realms of my life and work that are apparently separate, but they are beginning to merge in unexpected ways. I do not know where it is leading. I remain cautiously optimistic.

Today at the most war-glorifying, soldier-heroing ceremony ever – the ceremony that repeatedly bellowed the lies of this war of spreading freedom & democracy while protecting our freedom & democracy – we stand in the middle of the parade route and represent the voice of peace. We (including our 77 yr. old elder) are spit on, screamed at, threatened, materials snatched from our hands & ripped up, as we stand on the grounds of peace.

Why is the hard fought, 35 years of work by the alternative organic community at risk?

Sometimes it is the small efforts in life that add up to something much larger.

With the recent victories against the inane California Propositions proposed by Arnold Swarzenneger, it got me thinking about a repeal of proposition 227. Back in 1998 California Proposition 227 essentially banned bilingual education in schools throughout California. This amounted to a vicious assault, primarily against Spanish speaking immigrants, spearheaded by then Republican governor Pete Wilson [...]

Aw heck. The good ‘ol US of A is flunking…

-eyeseetruth

911 Commission Report Card for the Bush Administration

Article on 911 commission report card

It was in 1859, one hundred and forty-six years ago next month, that Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, and it’s been under attack ever since.

I had to re-post this list. Love DOES make a marriage.

“While magic as I understand it is more a craft than an art or a science, the basic principle holds. The medium of magic is consciousness — one’s own consciousness, that of other people, and (more controversially, at least within the worldview of modern industrial culture) that of other-than-human entities of various kinds. The tools of magic are will, imagination, and the innate structures of consciousness itself, constellated through formal patterns of symbol and ritual. The goals of magic are defined by the individual magician.”

–John Michael Greer

The following comes to me via Freepress.net. It is the prepared text for Bill Moyers’ eloquent speech to the National Conference for Media Reform on May 15, 2005. The event in St. Louis was organized and hosted by Free Press.net

Alexander Gorlov’s helical turbine, a device that’s 100 inches long and resembles “an oversize beater from an old handheld mixer,” can harness kinetic energy from any body of water, including canals, open oceans, and rivers.