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  • Secret and Lies of the Bailout | Politics News | Rolling Stone

    It has been four long winters since the federal government, in the hulking, shaven-skulled, Alien Nation-esque form of then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, committed $700 billion in taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street from its own chicanery and greed. To listen to the bankers and their allies in Washington tell it,…

  • No Local – Why Small-Scale Alternatives Won’t Change The World, Greg Sharzer – Zero Books Blog

    Thanks to my good brother Joseph Carr for passing this book review along. …This is not a book about the successes and challenges of a particular community garden or biodiesel scheme. That research is important, but it’s already been done: there are plenty of detailed empirical surveys of local projects…

  • The Financial War Against the Economy at Large

    …By not raising taxes on the wealthy or using the central bank to monetize spending on anything except bailing out the banks and subsidizing the financial sector, the government follows a pro-creditor policy. Tax favoritism for the wealthy deepens the budget deficit, forcing governments to borrow more. Paying interest on…

  • How reading flip-flops from digital to physical | Books | The Observer

    Robin Sloan, author of Fish, the acclaimed iPhone essay featured here a few months ago, used the term “flip-flop” to define an increasingly common process by which a work of art moves between different formats, and specifically between the physical and the digital. As an example, he gave the digitisation…

  • Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: We think of our mind and body as separate entities that are often at war with each other. Thich Nhat Hanh teaches that the body is a treasure. This audio clip is an excerpt from a talk that he gave on January 1, 2013 at…

  • Emily Raboteau’s Searching for Zion, reviewed. – Slate Magazine

    In her memoir Searching for Zion, Emily Raboteau travels to several continents and countries—including Israel, Jamaica, and Ghana—seeking her own personal Promised Land. While Raboteau, whose mother is white and father is black, may not have been looking to trace her ancestors like Haley, the hope to find some connection…

  • What is and What is not: Parmenides, Negation, and the Limits of Thought | noir realism

    From Parmenides to Spinoza and Hegel and beyond the monism of the identification of Mind and Being, or Cognition and its Object has fought itself out in the struggles of philosophical speculation. Are the wars over? No. Can there ever be an end to these wars? There are those that…

  • Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts: “In Spinoza the whole theory of expression supports univocity; and its whole import is to free univocal Being from a state of indifference or neutrality, to make it the object of a pure affirmation, which is actually realized in…

  • Stupidity – Idiocy – Ignorance

    A short taxonomy: Stupidity: Having no native ability for thought at all. Idiocy: Being able in one thing but incapable in all else.  Ignorance: Not knowing where to start due to lack of information.  All suffer from ignorance at every juncture of life; a good many are idiots having over-focused…

  • The Excellence of Fortitude in the Face of Viciousness

    ‎”I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”

  • Viewpoint: Why Al Jazeera’s Entry into the U.S. Is a Good Thing | TIME.com

    If you say, consider the source and their “overlords,” I’ll say, “I will do that with this station just as do with Fox & MSNBC… whose “overlords” have their own biases that they keep shoving down our throats.” I’ve caught a lot of really good reporting on Al Jazeera over…

  • Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: When I teach, I often tell students that contrary to what they may have been told, there are stupid questions. However, it is still important to ask those questions because it would be more stupid to leave without the answer. An article on the blog…

  • Originally posted on Ray Ferrer – Emotion on Canvas: Here are some of my latest pieces, done for a large installation in NY at Lagond Music School.  Enjoy..               

  • ARE YOU A POST MATERIALIST? | ellisnelson

    ARE YOU A POST MATERIALIST? | ellisnelson

    Top notch overview of this concept over at ellisnelson.com. Kudos! …Ronald Inglehart developed the idea of post materialism in the 1970s as a sociological theory to explain an ongoing transformation of individual values within a society. He argued that as western nations achieved a level of economic prosperity and physical security,…

  • Improving Leadership Through Connected Learning |

    Creating your own personal learning network (PLN) is what authentic education is all about: being open to your possibility by engaging your situation with what others are doing in the world. This goes hand in hand with the the 7 steps for living the life you want and the 12 skills…

  • Alchemy in Jacob Boehme’s Theosophy | Down the Rabbit Hole

    Alchemy in Jacob Boehme’s Theosophy | Down the Rabbit Hole

    During the Early Modern Period the world was undergoing a major transition from a geocentric to a heliocentric cosmogony; from an occult and animistic landscape to a mechanistic and reductionist one defined by mechanistic processes that operated independently of any conscious and creative force. The indeterminate space left vacant between…