Truthout: Actually Existing Capitalism: Wrecking Societies for the Benefit of Big Capital and the Super-Rich

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Actually Existing Capitalism: Wrecking Societies for the Benefit of Big Capital and the Super-Rich "Are all of the socioeconomic issues confronting Europe and the United States - recession or stagnant growth, skyrocketing unemployment, lowered prospects for new job creation, a demand shortage, a widening gap between the haves and have-nots, social malaise - merely consequences of the financial crisis of 2007-08? A strong case can be made that what we have been witnessing since then is not simply a severe financial crisis centered in the developed world but the fact that today's capitalism is simply incapable of functioning in an economic way conducive to maintaining sustainable and balanced growth." "In sum, actually existing capitalism has given up any pretext of being a "socially responsible" socioeconomic system and caters almost solely to the needs and interests of the rich and powerful by enforcing policies that are detrimental to the rest of society. Actually existing capitalism is a system that favors passionately and defends ruthlessly the interests of the 1% over those of the rest of society. This explains why the rich, big corporations and big banks have been doing so well at a time when the ranks of the unemployed keep growing and a sizable percentage of the working population struggles to merely survive. This is not then so much a capitalist crisis as an orchestrated putsch on the part of the most powerful faction of capital attempting to roll back the course of history to the detriment of the working populations. In this context, the economic and social crisis facing advanced capitalist societies today is manufactured by the pursuit of a ruthless class struggle by the economic elites and the national governments they control against labor for the purpose of transferring wealth from the poor and the working class to the rich, making the rich even richer and the poor poorer." http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20558-actually-existing-capitalism-wrecking-societies-for-the-benefit-of-big-capital-and-the-super-rich ~Please Share~ BB

There is so much that we can do. Amish Farm Leads The Way to Local Food Security in Indiana futuregrowing.wordpress.com When you hear about a farm that supplies all-natural, sustainable produce, using 90% less water and 90% less land, one that utilizes the most advanced vertical aeroponic technology on earth, you su...

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Amish Farm Leads The Way to Local Food Security in Indiana

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Heartland couple shares secrets to sustainable living

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Heartland couple shares secrets to sustainable living. www.heartlandconnection.com

Heartland couple shares secrets to sustainable living

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Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage is dedicated to promoting ecologically sustainable living.

Heartland couple shares secrets to sustainable living. www.heartlandconnection.com

Heartland couple shares secrets to sustainable living

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Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage is dedicated to promoting ecologically sustainable living.

Shale gas pipelines growing, but oversight is not. dispatch.com

Shale gas pipelines growing, but oversight is not

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Getting Utica shale gas to processing plants and people’s houses has created a growing web of pipelines across eastern Ohio.? Placed end to end, these pipelines, called “gathering lines,” would extend more than 470 miles — enough to cross the state at its widest point. Twice.?

Moneyless man, Mark Boyle, is going to open a free pub, the Happy Pig. It's a part of a community project to bring the gift economy to Ireland and open a permaculture demonstration and training site.

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Moneyless man, Mark Boyle, is going to open a free pub, the Happy Pig. It's a part of a community project to bring the gift economy to Ireland and open a permaculture demonstration and training site.

http://www.permaculture.co.uk/news/2801144280/worlds-first-moneyless-pub

The World's First Moneyless Pub

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Where else would you find the world's first free pub but in Ireland?! Catch up with Mark Boyle, the moneyless man, and his plans to create The Happy Pig, a free community pub in a converted pig barn.

In 2012, there were 3,527 monthly weather records broken for heat, rain, and snow in the US - even more than the unprecedented 3200+ records broken in 2011.

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In 2012, there were 3,527 monthly weather records broken for heat, rain, and snow in the US - even more than the unprecedented 3200+ records broken in 2011.

Now THAT's extreme weather. via NRDC.

Canada's Yukon Territory announced Tuesday that it has opened one of the largest unbroken wilderness areas in North America to mining and mineral exploration.

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CANADA - In recent years a new gold rush has brought a spike in population and prosperity to towns like Whitehorse and Dawson. But the rush to exploit the Yukon's minerals—which also include zinc, copper, iron, and uranium—has unearthed growing tensions between government and mining interests on the one hand, and conservation and indigenous First Nations interests on the other

Yukon Government Opens Vast Wilderness to Mining

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Canada's Yukon Territory announced Tuesday that it has opened one of the largest unbroken wilderness areas in North America to mining and mineral exploration.

Opposition Builds As Property Rights Are Endangered in Texas Frackquakes: Public Opposition Builds As Property Rights Are Endangered in Texas | EcoWatch

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US - FRACKQUAKES: Public Opposition Builds As Property Rights Are Endangered in Texas

Frackquakes: Public Opposition Builds As Property Rights Are Endangered in Texas | EcoWatch

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By Sharon Wilson and Alan SeptoffThe earthquakes you may have heard about—the 30 tremblers that have struck north central Texas since Nov. 1 and have damaged many homes. The quakes are most likely being caused by

Maules Creek mine halted as protesters chain themselves to bulldozers. www.theguardian.com

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AUSTRALIA - Whitehaven Coal's construction work stopped by courageous people on the frontline protecting Leard State Forest from open-cut coal mining

Maules Creek mine halted as protesters chain themselves to bulldozers

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Protesters say $767m coalmine near Boggabri would destroy forest and sacred Aboriginal cultural and burial sites

How one Nebraska farmer killed Keystone. www2.macleans.ca. The untold story of the Keystone pipeline war

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Here's that Maclean's magazine cover story about the Keystone XL fight in Nebraska that features rancher Randy "Stand With Randy" Thompson (pictured below getting arrested at the White House while protesting KXL).

Again, folks, neither we nor Randy approve or had any input on the unfortunate, reductive headline for this story. Our heartfelt gratitude goes out to everyone working to spread the ‪#‎NoKXL‬ message!

How one Nebraska farmer killed Keystone

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The untold story of the Keystone pipeline war

Judge lets off Haliburton chief for destroying oil spill evidence dailymail.co.uk Former Haliburton manager Anthony Badalamenti, who ordered the deletion of evidence in the aftermath of BP's 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, has been sentenced to just 12 months probation.

Judge lets off Haliburton chief for destroying oil spill evidence

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Former Haliburton manager Anthony Badalamenti, who ordered the deletion of evidence in the aftermath of BP's 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, has been sentenced to just 12 months probation.

Pope Francis: "Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape."

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Gallup poll: Obama unpopular in states with key 2014 Senate contests. Please understand: NATIONAL Polls DON'T MATTER. All that matters is the contested Senate and House races!!! Please, stop getting distracted with all the 'positive' distractions the Left keeps spewing. ALL THAT MATTERS IS KEEPING THE SENATE AND TAKING THE HOUSE - AND THE LEFT IS LOSING THAT BATTLE. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS. STOP GETTING DISTRACTED, PLEASE.

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Please understand: NATIONAL Polls DON'T MATTER. All that matters is the contested Senate and House races!!! Please, stop getting distracted with all the 'positive' distractions the Left keeps spewing. ALL THAT MATTERS IS KEEPING THE SENATE AND TAKING THE HOUSE - AND THE LEFT IS LOSING THAT BATTLE. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS. STOP GETTING DISTRACTED, PLEASE.

Gallup poll: Obama unpopular in states with key 2014 Senate contests

fw.toA suggested Monday why Republicans running in some of the most contested U.S. Senate races this year will be campaigning fiercely against President Obama, even as their Democratic counterparts strive to make the races about

By implementing organic gardening, rainwater harvesting and home solar panels, an engineer in Austin, Texas, practices sustainable living in his daily life.

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By implementing organic gardening, rainwater harvesting and home solar panels, an engineer in Austin, Texas, practices sustainable living in his daily life.

Organic Gardening and Rainwater Harvesting: Sustainable Living by Example

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By implementing organic gardening, rainwater harvesting and home solar panels, an engineer in Austin, Texas, practices sustainable living in his daily life.

Were we crazy to retire off-grid in the mountains? The Globe and Mail

Were we crazy to retire off-grid in the mountains?

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SMALL FARMS - 'The Greenhorns' documentary takes a look at young people going back to the land

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Tom Perkins Is Wrong – Germany’s 1 Percent Were Hitler’s Allies, Not his Victims politicususa.com Venture capitalist Tom Perkins would have you believe America's 1 percent are yesterday's Jews but nothing could be further from the truth

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Tom Perkins Is Wrong – Germany’s 1 Percent Were Hitler’s Allies, Not his Victims

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Venture capitalist Tom Perkins would have you believe America's 1 percent are yesterday's Jews but nothing could be further from the truth

I've been near 'dying' to tell you this: Marliese Roth shared a link. Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt newstatesman.com Is our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists have seen the data – and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions.

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Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt

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Is our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists have seen the data – and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions.

2 min vid. Time lapse of fossil fuel spills the last 35 years, US. HORRIFYING.

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this goes right along with the natural gas release from a 44inch pipe near Victoria, Tx. Lots more to come.

WATCH: This Is One Time-Lapse Big Oil Doesn't Want You To See

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Things that matter. Pass 'em on.

Loving, here. I think there is a strategic place for suicide, in the near future, for some (detail)

[Note to my JW friend, who kindly replied to my earlier post on my brief contemplation of suicide for myself.]

Brother Joe,

Kind of you to share :  Why Go On?—Three Reasons to Keep Living (article in the current JW magazine)
http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201404/

Thank you.

I don't think suicide is necessarily a problem.  In fact, I think it is something,
a strategy, that we need to understand, in this 'end times' world, as having
a legitimate place - I think it does.  I remember a NYTimes story years ago
during the Darfur Genocide we all did nothing to stop - the murders were, typically,
in a town they were exterminating - they had built a big fire and were throwing
the young boys in, alive, to die.  The girls they were brutally gang-raping,
and then murdering...
two sisters sat on the edge of the deep well in town; as the rapists approached
them, they held each other's hands; leaned back, fell into the well, and were
killed - suicide.

I am NOT disparaging the JW article, at all! I'm only saying that there is a place,
too, for suicide in this Satanic, end-times new world. And there are times it should NOT
be done - a mistake. 

The creator has shown me a way to try and help others - helping them find
a way off-empire, to the fringes, to live like a holocaust rescuer; and to advocate
that folks stop having babies. This Mission, Call, is already pulling me away from the extreme
personal pain, depression, thoughts of suicide, tho personally, I'm so ready
to leave. 

But, not too many years from now when
the fascists come for me, to torture, or lock me away in some hole, to beat
me to death as a homeless person and eyesore, will I seek suicide as an
alternative?  I think so. I hope so.  Something I need to learn about, and think
thru.

Earth cannot sustain 10 billion people, where we are headed.  In fact, with the
growing middle classes around the world, it can't sustain 5 billion, and we are
currently at 7.5 billion or so.  That downsizing will be torture, war, starvation,
murder, Fascist fostered genocide.... - unrelenting.  There is a place for suicide in that.

Loving u both

Washington Post: Church should be different from society. Instead, it plays by the same rules: get mine, be first, be right, punish the weak, exclude the different, reward the wealthy.

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Church should be different from society. Instead, it plays by the same rules: get mine, be first, be right, punish the weak, exclude the different, reward the wealthy.

COMMENTARY: Church shouldn't be this hard

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After 36 years of serving churches as a pastor and consultant, I came to a startling conclusion the other day.

Edward Abbey: "If America could be, once again be, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, the the rich would have little power to dominate others." Neither to serve, nor to rule; that was the American Dream.

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Small rocket stove makes for an efficient offgrid or camping stove. treehugger.com

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Small rocket stove makes for an efficient offgrid or camping stove

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Interest in rocket stoves is growing, and with good reason, as they're fast, efficient, and cleaner-burning than most other options. Here's a small affordable model for camping or emergency preparedness.

detail: ROBERT REICH: The TPP is NAFTA on steroids. Make a ruckus.

Robert Reich

STOP THE TPP. Congress is poised to fast-track the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal (that is, move it through both houses without opportunity for amendment). This massive trade pact with 11 Asian and Latin American nations, whose total population is almost 800 million and comprise 40 percent of the world’s GDP, is a high priority for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its corporate patrons because it would strengthen patent and copyright protections abroad, and encourage American corporations to make even more stuff overseas and ship it here. Americans benefit from cheaper goods from abroad only if Americans have the money to buy them. But this massive deal would further erode the jobs and wages of working and middle-class Americans while delivering its biggest gains to corporate executives and shareholders. Moreover, the deal’s environmental and labor safeguards are woefully inadequate, and it would give global corporations further rights to challenge American health and safety laws. I still regret not doing more to strengthen the North American Free Trade Act's labor and environmental side-agreements when I was labor secretary under Bill Clinton. The TPP is NAFTA on steroids. Make a ruckus.

pic. Sobering point: It is NOT the Bible States that are the mass-consumers of fossil fuels and other earth resources. It is NOT the Bible States that are providing the computer scientists, programmers, engineers, scientists that are enabling corporations to rape and plunder what's left of resources on earth. IT IS THE NON-BIBLE, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY-WORSHIPING, STUFF WORSHIPING STATES.

Sobering point: It is NOT the Bible States that are the mass-consumers of fossil fuels and other earth resources.  It is NOT the Bible States that are providing the computer scientists, programmers, engineers, scientists that are enabling corporations to rape and plunder what's left of resources on earth.  IT IS THE NON-BIBLE, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY-WORSHIPING, STUFF WORSHIPING STATES.

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http://nation.time.com/2014/01/22/godless-cities-in-america/

Berkeley paleoclimatologist B. Lynn Ingram, co-author of The West Without Water, says California faces what could be its most severe drought in half a millennium.

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US - Why California's water woes could be just beginning

Why state’s water woes could be just beginning

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Berkeley paleoclimatologist B. Lynn Ingram, co-author of The West Without Water, says California faces what could be its most severe drought in half a millennium.

Taxpayers to pay for fracking pollution if companies go bust. theguardian.com

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UK - Just a reminder that when the inevitable occurs, the frackers immediately declare bankruptcy leaving the aftermath for taxpayers and local councils to sort out

Taxpayers to pay for fracking pollution if companies go bust

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Minister rejects proposal to amend regulations to make companies sign a bond to pay for potential pollution incidents

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