The acceleration of bad news that is now pulling G’s in our National Cockfight Pit make it increasingly difficult to compose a decent message to the menwomen of Vashon. That’s because Vashon persists in thinking it is immune from, or using its language, cannot affect, national chaos. Do I therefore start writing in capitals with color and hold down the exclamation point key? Possibly. So read carefully now lest I do: Vashon society is dysfunctional, and here’s what the tea leaves in my last cup at the Luna...

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Ellen Brown, who seems to be everywhere all at onecet writes today on how Canada came to fund healthcare with a public bank. The model was the island of Guernsey over there in the English Channel, and it was the cows that figured out how. She also explains the recent onset of degradation of the Canadian system, itself most interesting. Anyway, while musing over what she wrote one could not help recalling all the stuff that William Greider and Tom Greco and that genius Bernard Lietaer have written on the nature...

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The last Greener Times of 2009 suggests that US salvation could be won on the streets of the District of Columbia, and accordingly paints a picture of one million seriously pissed off souls occupying it. That's a lot of urine. Thinking about the logistics has turned up the obvious:  Island mobile units complete with medical, food, and sanitation. Composed of neighbors and friends, a unit once formed could respond to a variety of emergencies as well as that ultimate. Having this come to mind clicks with Joe Ulatoski's ...

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