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Permaculture Rising

Looking at Google trends, the searches for permaculture are not rising. But, news stories about permaculture are.

Amplify’d from www.sfgate.com

11 for 11: Christopher Shein makes permaculture gardening fun for all

Christoper Shein is the Bay Area's resident permaculture design guru and for the last 10 years, he has taught the Permaculture Design class at Merritt Community College's Landscape Horticulture Department, inspiring hundreds of students to build new gardens and integrate permaculture's principles of sustainability into surrounding landscapes.

Shein just signed a contract with Timber Press to write a permaculture gardening book in 2011, with the working title of "The Edible Gardener's Guide to Permaculture."

Read more at www.sfgate.com
 

Finally, a Slightly Amusing TSA Story

The soldier said it best. "I can take over a plane with nail clippers?" URL:  www.redstate.com

Who Benefits from Suppressing Gulf Wild Life Reasearch

Somewhere, rich men are saying to each other, "We don't need no stinkin' swans."

Amplify’d from www.examiner.com

Disappeared Gulf 'Swan Doctor'

World-renown doctor who owned Lakeland Veterinary Hospital and conducted research on paralyzed swans and dead birds since onset of the Gulf of Mexico operation has disappeared, just before due to release his research. Citizen reporters trying to locate him continue to be stonewalled, even someone who has known him for years who says his sudden absence is out of character.

Read more at www.examiner.com
 

Creating Links to Terrorists

The FBI or Homeland Security can hack in to the computers and create links whenever they decide to do that.

Amplify’d from www.twincities.com

The FBI raided the homes of five political activists and an office Friday in Minneapolis as part of an investigation into possible links between local anti-war activists and terrorist groups in Colombia and the Middle East.

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Achieving Balance in the New Police State

This story balances the negative story of anti-war protesters being targeted for persecution as terrorists.

Amplify’d from blogs.lasvegascitylife.com

Fourteen anti-war activists may have made history today in a Las Vegas courtroom when they turned a misdemeanor trespassing trial into a possible referendum on America’s newfound taste for remote-controlled warfare.

The so-called Creech 14, a group of peace activists from across the country, went on trial this morning for allegedly trespassing onto Creech Air Force Base in April 2009.

Appearing as witnesses for the Creech 14 today were some of the biggest names in the modern anti-war movement: Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general under President Lyndon Johnson; Ann Wright, a retired U.S. Army colonel and one of three former U.S. State Department officials who resigned on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq; and Bill Quigley, legal director for the New York City-based Center for Constitutional Rights.

Read more at blogs.lasvegascitylife.com
 

Free Speech? Free Press? Free Blogging? No Way.

Cities "need" money. That means abandoning any pretense of principle and just grabbing what they can.

Amplify’d from citypaper.net

Got a blog that makes no money? The city wants $300, thank you very much.

For the past three years, Marilyn Bess has operated MS Philly Organic, a small, low-traffic blog that features occasional posts about green living, out of her Manayunk home. Between her blog and infrequent contributions to ehow.com, over the last few years she says she's made about $50. To Bess, her website is a hobby. To the city of Philadelphia, it's a potential moneymaker, and the city wants its cut.

Read more at citypaper.net
 

Ostensible Definition of Pwned

This word is new to me. Comes from Warcraft, a misspelling of owned. Pronounce poned.

Amplify’d from www.nationalreview.com
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Con-gress works tirelessly for BP Truth

We don't really know anything. And Con-gress would keep it that way.

Amplify’d from www.humanevents.com
Pelosi Blocks Oil Spill Investigation

The latest version of the CLEAR Act is slated for a floor vote in the House this week as Democrats look for ways to use the Gulf oil spill as a means to pass elements of their unpopular energy agenda.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stripped out authorization for an independent investigation into the Gulf disaster. 

Read more at www.humanevents.com
 

Why We Feel So Safe These Days

Isn't there an old saying, "Anything that requires secrecy, leave off immediately."

Amplify’d from projects.washingtonpost.com

A hidden world, growing beyond control

The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.

These are some of the findings of a two-year investigation by The Washington Post that discovered what amounts to an alternative geography of the United States, a Top Secret America hidden from public view and lacking in thorough oversight. After nine years of unprecedented spending and growth, the result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe is so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine.

Read more at projects.washingtonpost.com
 

Cornering the Chocolate Market

Is this greedy, or just evil? I mean, come on....chocolate!

Amplify’d from www.telegraph.co.uk

Mystery trader buys all Europe's cocoa

The purchase was enough to move the entire global cocoa market, sending the price to the highest level since 1977, and triggering rumours and intrigue in the City.

It is unclear which person, or group of traders, was behind the deal, but it was the largest single cocoa trade for 14 years.

Read more at www.telegraph.co.uk
 
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