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August 2010 Blog Posts (4)

Faster Than The Wind...





"It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life! "

- Alice



It would seem to defy the laws of Physics... like going directly downwind faster than the wind. Ponder (or is it "pander?") the… Continue

Added by waldopaper on August 28, 2010 at 2:21pm — 8 Comments

Sabotage of GM crops increases



[GMO grapevines destroyed (AFP)]

By Rady Ananda

Food Freedom



Early Sunday morning, French police stood helpless as sixty people, locked inside an open-air field of genetically modified grapevines, uprooted all the plants. In Spain last month, dozens of people destroyed two GMO fields. On the millennial cusp, Indian…

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Added by Rady Ananda on August 17, 2010 at 11:00pm — 17 Comments

Our Avitar

Our Avitar: Their Movie, Our Matrix

Avitar: embodiment; a new personification of a familiar idea; "the embodiment of hope"; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar

of cunning"


Sanskrit avat ra, descent (of a deity from heaven), avatar : ava, downtarati,…
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Added by waldopaper on August 15, 2010 at 6:35pm — 8 Comments

The Answer to Everything

Here’s how it goes:

C 3 = Community, Coercion and Capital



Since we stopped being tribal organizations of hunter-gatherers and embraced “Civilization,” the tripod that has supported Civilization consists of three elements: Community, Coercion and Capital. Community is people;

Coercion is brute force,…

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Added by waldopaper on August 4, 2010 at 12:30pm — 7 Comments

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