Added by Charles on September 30, 2009 at 11:53am —
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Added by Charles on September 21, 2009 at 11:41pm —
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This was an article from Planet Green's website, courtesy of author Mickey Z. I thought it was amusing. The title of the piece is Green Glossary: Granola.
You realize, of course, I'm not talking about breakfast. Rather, with some help from the snarks at Urban Dictionary, here's the scoop (sorry) on granola and other earthy thangs:
Granola is "an adjective used to describe people who are environmentally aware (flower child, tree-hugger), open-minded, left-winged, socially aware and activ…
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Added by Charles on September 14, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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This is excerpted from a speech that author Mickey Z gave last year on the anniversary of 9/11
What is normal in our country and on our planet? What type of society have we humans cultivated as we sit arrogantly atop the intellectual food chain?
The New York Stock Exchange was shut down by the 9/11 attacks, but once things returned to normal, Wall Street went back to making decisions that impacted horrendously upon the large majority of the globe while the top one percent of America…
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Added by Charles on September 10, 2009 at 1:19pm —
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http://www.welikeitraw.com/rawfood/2009/08/charles-balcer-my-west-coast-raw-food-adventures.html
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Added by Charles on August 17, 2009 at 12:55pm —
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In her excellent 1995 book, Bridge of Courage, Jennifer Harbury quotes a Guatemalan freedom fighter named Gabriel, responding to a plea to embrace non-violent resistance: "In my country child malnutrition is close to 85 percent,” he explains. “Ten percent of all children will be dead before the age of five, and this is only the number actually reported to government agencies. Close to 70 percent of our people are functionally illiterate. There is almost no industry in our country—you need land t…
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Added by Charles on May 26, 2009 at 1:55pm —
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Why do we say such bad things about lemons? Poor lemons. The world would be a sorry place without them. Especially my juices.
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Added by Charles on May 7, 2009 at 4:43am —
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"History can never be made by one man, we must smash this one quickly. History is made only by the masses of the people, this is clear. Even a cursory glance at the fallacious presentation of history by the American capitalist system, will demonstrate just this.
Take George Washington, as bad as he is, put him in the middle of Valley Forge, by himself, surrounded
by the british, he can do nothing. Take Martin Luther King as righteous as he is. Put him in the middle of Birmingham by himself, spe…
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Added by Charles on May 6, 2009 at 1:00am —
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The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act of 2006 (AETA) specifically targets anyone who “intentionally damages or causes the loss of any real or personal property (including animals or records) used by animal enterprise, or any real or personal property of a person or entity having a connection to, relationship with, or transactions with an animal enterprise.”
John 2:13-16: “In the Temple courts (Jesus) found men selling cattle, sheep and doves and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he ma…
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Added by Charles on May 1, 2009 at 12:51pm —
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http://www.mwillett.org/atheism/life1.htm
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Added by Charles on April 10, 2009 at 12:54am —
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I'm featured on Mickey Z's blog today.
http://www.mickeyz.net/news/mickeyz/the_cool_observer_interview_charles_b_aka_chuck/
Mickey Z is a political writer, vegan, and all around good guy who persistently sees through the nonsense being uttered by both political parties.
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Added by Charles on March 25, 2009 at 5:15pm —
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These pictures are graphic.
http://palestinian.ning.com/forum/topics/the-other-side-of-the-story
Incidentally, the U.N. is not recording male casualties:
The United Nations says 320 people have been killed in Gaza, including 62 women and children, and around 1,400 injured.
"[The 62 figure] does not include civilian casualties who are men, even though we know that there have been some civilian men killed as well," UN humanitarian affairs co-ordinator John Holmes said. Continue
Added by Charles on January 3, 2009 at 3:30pm —
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10,000 gallons of gasoline are burned in the US every second.
We’re losing 200,000 acres of rain forest every 24 hours.
2.2 billion pounds of pesticides are used by Americans each year.
100 plant or animal species go extinct each day.
81 tons of mercury are emitted into the atmosphere each year as a result of electric power generation.
Every square mile of ocean hosts 46,000 pieces of floating plastic.
13 million tons of toxic chemicals released across the globe each and every day.
70,000…
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Added by Charles on December 8, 2008 at 2:12pm —
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Barack Obama announced today he will make uber-hawk Hillary Clinton his Secretary of State and retain current President Bush cabinet member Robert Gates, another uber-hawk, as his Secretary of Defense. Those announcements should finally put to rest any hope that an Obama administration would bring substantive change to the White House on foreign policy issues.
Samantha Power’s “monster” is now located in Chicago in the form of the Obama presidential transition team. Obama and his advisers are s…
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Added by Charles on December 4, 2008 at 5:54pm —
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UN adopts Russian proposed anti-Nazi resolution
UN, November 19 (RIA Novosti) - The UN General Assembly on social and humanitarian issues has adopted a draft resolution proposed by Russia on tackling a rise in the glorification of Nazism and the desecration of WWII monuments.
The draft resolution on "combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance," is aimed at tackling the practice in the former Soviet republics of Latvia and Estonia of honoring SS veteran…
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Added by Charles on November 20, 2008 at 8:55pm —
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In case you're utterly bored and looking for something to read...
http://www.welikeitraw.com/rawfood/2008/11/my-way-charles.html
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Added by Charles on November 15, 2008 at 12:43pm —
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Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to help me here because I am not sure what to call her now. Anyways, she and I are not allowed the same right under the state constitution as any other citizen. Okay, so I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen. I mean that would just be wrong, to make so…
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Added by Charles on November 11, 2008 at 12:15am —
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“We are conditioned to respond in socially acceptable ways, i.e. protests, petitions, boycotts, etc. We also have the problem that nature and other species are an abstraction to us. Humans fight for property, for immediate self defense, and for religion. Hominids are a self-centered species. When people ask how I can risk human life to protect a whale, I cite the fact that we do not think it is unnatural or unethical to risk our lives and to kill over property like land and oil. And we accept dy…
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Added by Charles on November 9, 2008 at 8:54pm —
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Obama will not be president until January 20th.
Now, to change something that was included in the latest Mickey Z book a little [though he got most of the figures from Derrick Jensen] , let’s think about this again…
Every twenty-four hours, thirteen million tons of toxic chemicals are released across the globe; 200,000 acres of rainforest are destroyed; more than one hundred plant or animal species go extinct; and 45,000 humans (mostly children) starve to death. Each day, 29,158 children under…
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Added by Charles on November 7, 2008 at 12:53am —
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WHY ANARCHISTS DON'T VOTE
BY ELISÉE RECLUS
EVERYTHING that can be said about the suffrage may be summed up in a sentence.
To vote is to give up your own power.
To elect a master or many, for a long or short time, is to resign one's liberty.
Call it an absolute monarch, a constitutional king, or a simple M.P., the candidate that you raise to the throne, to the seat, or to the easy chair, he will always be your master. They are persons that you put "above" the law, since they have the power of…
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Added by Charles on November 5, 2008 at 6:59pm —
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