This article will rattle your brain and your heart.   Ultimately we, this planet, can not sustain unlimited growth.  There may be some or many refinements that will allow continued ecomomic growth but there is a limit to the carrying capacity of the planet.. No news for many of us who have been thinking these thought since the 60's or 70's but here ( Read more... )

( see Brain Test... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/24/opinion/24krugman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

This is an excellent article about the effectiveness of the right-wing propaganda machine.  Paul Krugman needs a megaphone and we all need to start standing up and saying BAH! to the right wing media infrastructure and start speaking out the FACTS.

http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_accountability/history_corporations_us.html

Another important understanding from the beginning of the American state.  Colonists were not only choosing political and social freedom they were fleeing the tyranny of the English corporation and sought to seriously restrict corporate control and to be able to ( Read more... )

"When you think everything is someone else´s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. Pride leads to violence and evil. The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding" - His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Looking for a way to accumulate quotes here in LJ other than in individual posts...  New ones at the top:

Most people's activities are valueless, if not outright destructive. Dominated by desire and fear, they can do nothing good. Ceasing to do evil precedes beginning to do good. Hence the need for stopping all activities for a time, to ( Read more... )

Last night after rock climbing at Boulders climbing gym with Christine, my climbing buddy of 7 years, I picked up some Tom Ka soup from The Weary Traveler and went back to Christine and Karl's.   We holed up in her TV room on comfy couches, ate soup and watched a National Geographic documentary on Netflix from the 1997 book, Guns, Germs and Steel ( Read more... )