…War is Over – If You Want It
Source – oftwominds.com “…The previous arrangement–our socio-economic system for lack of a better phrase–was not sustainable, and so its demise was inevitable. To organize all of human life around the conviction that infinite growth was possible on a planet figuratively shrinking in resources was never anything but a vain fantasy…We now have an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity…
Source – theweek.com – “…A highly unequal society with threadbare benefits and extreme negative consequences for bad luck makes its residents unhappy. A society with all sorts of really nice universal goodies, tons of vacation, and low inequality is a nice place to live, and its residents are happier” What America Can Learn From the…
Source – gizadeathstar.com – “…the US Rothschild Controlled Media has apparently completely blacked out any news involving Iceland’s debt forgiveness. Attempting to search Iceland’s mortgage debt forgiveness only leads to about 359,000 search results with none of them being from the United States. Neither major or minor news outlets mention a single word about Iceland’s…
Source – scheerpost.com “…For instance, 53 percent of Arizona voters said yes to a tax surcharge on incomes above $250,000 a year, specifically to raise teacher pay and recruit more teachers. A whopping 78 percent of Oregon voters approved a populist proposition to put strict controls on the corrupting power of big-money corporate donations in…
Source – yesmagazine.org “…When it comes to college tuition and some conservative politician brings that up, nobody really wants to debate,” says Alexander Fossen Lange, international director of Sosialistisk Ungdom, or Socialist Youth. “We all really agree on public, free education for all.” How Norway Built an Economy That Puts People First – By Isabella Breda…
Source – thesaker.is “…Bolivia went to the polls yesterday for the first election since the coup d’état in November 2019, that removed Evo Morales…This coup was carried out for lithium….Elon Musk was accused of having had a hand in the coup…and his comment was: “We will coup whoever we want. Get used to it!” Bolivia – The…
Source – peakprosperity.com – “To me, the obvious solution is take your oasis, multiply it by 100,000 oases around the world that’s connected to a global community economy, and that’s much more likely to be sharing the wealth because we’re all sharing the same value system. Which is degrowth, becoming more efficient, becoming more localized,…
Source – stuartbramhall.wordpress.com – “…Close to 10,000 US communities have established grassroots community rights groups. Two hundred local jurisdictions have passed community rights ordinances that allow them to restrict toxic and environmentally destructive corporate activities” We the People 2.0 – Directed By Leila Conners (2018) Film Review This documentary is about the community rights movement. It…
Source – yesmagazine.org – “…A walk into the future, in a British city where housing is sustainable, energy is locally owned, food is abundant, and the work week is just three days long” The Sustainable Future Town of Your Imagination – By Rob Hopkins I wake, well rested, in the straw-bale-walled apartment my family and…
Source – .goodnewsnetwork.org – Islam according to the Quran teaches love and compassion for every human being, no matter their religion, says author Adnan Oktar whose television show is watched by millions in Turkey and the Arab world. He believes the problem for the majority of Muslims is that some groups are following traditions and superstitions…
Source – awarenessact.com – “…We live in a completely corrupted world where every government is just a bunch of businessmen working for a bunch of bigger businessmen and none of them give a shit about the people. The sad fact is no one knows how to change it because no one knows how to take…
Source – wakingtimes.com – “…The stakes are incredibly high right now and the future of human freedom is at stake. This is not hyperbole. The Great Reset is coming our way, and while the globalists, central banks and international agencies would like to hijack this and steer us toward a new form of technocratic worldwide Orwellian slavery, the…
Source – themindunleashed.org – “…To some, believing that thoughts or prayers can influence the physical world around them can be dubious. To a quantum physicist on the other hand, thoughts influencing the world around them are something believed in and something that has repeatedly been shown to be true in scientific studies” ‘Global Consciousness Project…
Source – yesmagazine.org – “…An income between $7,000 and $12,000 per year, the ability to pay rent and electric bills, meet regularly with financial coaches, and volunteer at least eight hours a month in the community….After seven years, the tiny home and the land on which it rests are deeded to the resident, mortgage-free, and…
Source – commondreams.org – “…Why do the powerful call these policy ideas “fringe,” or “radical,” or “socialist”?. Money. Many of these initiatives would cost them—requiring either higher taxes on the rich (many could be achieved by repealing the giant Trump tax cut for the wealthy and corporations)—or regulations that might cut into their corporate profits.…
Source – yesmagazine.org – “…The fundamental, timely message of We the People—that meaningful action to reassert control of our health, quality of life, and democracy must be rooted in our local communities—resonates. “Right where we live,” CELDF’s Ben Price says, “is where we need to have democracy the most” A Healthier Democracy Starts Right Where…
Source – themindunleashed.com – “..Nonviolence is the enemy of the state because the state’s solution to all problems is violence. When its citizenry comes up with nonviolent solutions it makes the state obsolete….“It’s no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society” ~ Krishnamurti” The 4 Greatest Enemies of the State –…
Source – davidkorten.org – “…The pandemic has also exposed extreme vulnerabilities in the global market economy, including its long and highly specialized linear supply chains, corporate monopolies shielded from market forces, privatized technologies, and ruthless competition without regard for its impact on people and the Earth….We will prosper in the pursuit of life, or we…
Source – thenation.com – “…For office workers, as the months passed, they began to question the way they had been living before the virus. They missed human contact, but not their commutes…were relieved to shed the artifice of the nine-to-five, the endless meetings, the pretending to be busy at all hours of the day, the…
Source – canadianpatriot.org – “…President Bashar Al-Assad just two weeks ago declared that the Belt and Road Initiative is Syria’s way to reconstruction, and revealed that Syria has six strategic mega projects in this regard. The Iraqi Prime Minister, Adel Abdel-Mahdi was in China in late September and signed many significant agreements to exchange oil…
Source – fee.org – “…The world is getting better every day, and at an explosive rate. This is contrary to mainstream sentiment, where pundits clamor about democracy falling apart, climate catastrophe threatening our very existence, and capitalism failing us. Yet, the proof is in the pudding, as they say. Data show the past decade has…
Source – davidstockmanscontracorner.com – “…The Christmas Truce of 1914 occurred, when Christian soldiers on both sides of the infamous No Man’s Land of the Western Front, recognized their common humanity, dropped their guns and fraternized with the so-called enemies that they had been ordered to kill without mercy the day before…Unknown to the higher-echelon commanding…
Source – yesmagazine.org – “…Blunt, a graduate of Michigan State University’s College of Agriculture who majored in Food Science and Environmental Studies. Growing up in Detroit, labeled a “food desert,” was a major motivation for Blunt to enter the agricultural field. “People deserve fresh food,” Blunt says…The 7-acre farm grows more than 30 different fruits,…
Source – worldcitizen.org – “…Garry Davis founded the WSA following World War 2 that had claimed his brother’s life. His uncompromising public displays began with renouncing his US passport in Paris, but helped disseminate the idea of world citizenship and may have played an important role in the passage of the UN’s Declaration of Human…
Source – yesmagazine.org – “…Our current banking model is based on extraction,” she says. She also spoke on the Bank of North Dakota, saying that it has existed for 100 years, and it is currently in its 15th consecutive year of profit even though it is not mandated to be profitable, but to serve the…
Source – thedailysheeple.com – “…We cannot fix our system until we know how it works. Ethos looks at the systemic issues that work against democracy, the environment, democracy, justice and our own personal liberty”: Woody Harrelson: ‘Ethos’ -Time to Unslave Humanity From criminal conflicts of interest in politics, to unregulated corporate power, to a news…
Source – globalcitizen.org – “…The Scandinavian country has become so good at waste management that it imports nearly 800,000 tons of waste from countries like the UK, Norway, Italy, and Ireland to feed its 32 WTE plants. By not wasting its waste and recycling 99% of it, Sweden is on its way to achieving zero…
Source – phibetaiota.ne – “…Human beings, who had spent centuries evolving away from slavery, were re-commoditised by the Industrial Era. Open source everything, in this context…to learn from our mistakes, and catalyse the re-opening of the commons, in the process breaking the grip of defunct power structures…Sharing, not secrecy, is the means by which we…
Source – gizmodo.com – ‘…Such was the Christmas Truce of 1914. In some places, it continued for more than a day. But the generals, when they learned of it, made sure it would never happen again. And despite sporadic attempts in later years, it never really did”: (The Real Story Behind the 1914 Christmas Truce in World…
Source – dhammabrothers.com – “…In the nameless, faceless anonymity of prison life, where daily life is organized around social control and punishment, Vipassana has offered an alternative social identity based on brotherhood and spiritual development”: (The Dhamma Brothers: A Dramatic Story Of Human Potential And Transformation) Donaldson Correctional Facility is situated in the Alabama countryside…
Source – resilience.org – On some occasions, rare though they are, the slogan “Another world is possible,” becomes reality. ~Raul Zibechi – Nowadays the exit from the so-called economic crisis in Europe has become the main topic of conversation. Various politicians, “experts” and technocrats speak of possible exits from the critical situation in which our…
Source – TrueActivist.com – When there are more foreclosed homes than individuals living on the street, you know there’s something wrong with ‘the system’. Cities like Dallas, Texas and Honolulu, Hawaii have implemented creative concepts to help remedy the homelessness crisis in the States, but until recently, no major Canadian city had successfully alleviated its…
Source – yesmagazine.org – “…Stark boundaries—rich vs. poor, black and brown vs. white—begin to break down as people share parks, trails, libraries, nature centers, and other gathering places”: Philadelphia’s Alternative to Gentrification Spreads Opportunity to All Corners – By Jay Walljasper For decades, the “Philadelphia Story” was about steady economic decline. That story is being…
