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Been watching the right and left political outsiders inching closer and closer to each other on many issues. Here is one of them: http://the-classic-liberal.com/department-homeland-security-pre-crime-scan-malintent/ http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/05/31/minority-report-dhs-looking-to-catch-future-crime/ I will post more examples, I just wanted to get this up before yet another example slips by un-noted.

From disease to addiction, parenting to attention deficit disorder, Dr. Maté’s work focuses on the centrality of early childhood experiences to the development of the brain, and how those experiences can impact everything from behavioral patterns to physical and mental illness. While the relationship between emotional stress and disease, and mental and physical health more broadly, is often considered controversial within medical orthodoxy, Dr. Maté argues too many doctors seem to have forgotten what was once a commonplace assumption, that emotions are deeply implicated in both the development of illness, addictions and disorders, and in their healing. via http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/30/dr_gabor_mat_on_the_stress

CHANGE - Episode 1 - "The Nature of Change" from Green Renaissance on Vimeo .

Urban homesteading  is a growing movement in this country, part of the global re-imagining of culture on the other side of governmental indifference and corporate greed. Concerned about climate change and peak oil? Thinking about localizing your food sources? Wondering how to manage water, waste and energy better? Interested in community building and local self-reliance? Looking for resources for taking care of yourself while taking care of the world? This book will answer these questions and provides an inspirational how-to and why-to for the urban homesteading movement. Richly illustrated with drawings and photographs, and featuring interviews with homesteaders “on the ground”, Urban Homesteading will give you an introduction to urban permaculture, creating a personal sustainability plan for yourself and your neighborhood, and how-tos on the basics of do-it-yourself ecological living in the city. -  http://urban-homesteading.org Excerpt -  http://www.iuhoakland.com/exce...

by Umair Haque via  http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2011/05/the_opulence_bubble.html Here's a question: What if, just maybe, it's our way of life itself that's a bubble? To illustrate why I ask, consider this set of questions: How's your house price doing? Where would your 401K be, if central banks withdrew life support for banks? How steep is a college education this year (hint: on average, 10-15% more than last year)? How are weekly grocery and gas prices doing? Where are commodity prices — not to mention gold — headed? Bubble, bubble, toil, and trouble: these days, it seems, everywhere you look, there's a bubble inflating — or popping. I believe the mini-bubbles above are different ripples in what might call the surface of a superbubble: an opulence bubble. Here's what I mean by opulence bubble: our conception of the good life, as I've discussed with you , has been centered on what I call hedonic opulence — having more, bigger, faster, cheaper, now. Bu...