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	<description>&#34;if you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room&#34;</description>
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		<title>FOCUS: George Soros on the Coming US Class War</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, most feel it cannot happen here. Many dismiss the warnings of someone who has been through such travail. Soros has had such experience. He is enough of a historian to be able to read the signs from the past. We are on the edge of a slippery slope. If activism leads to violence, the 1% control the enforcers. Progressives will lose due to the support of the uneducated of the Reds. Recall the extreme violence of the Civil War. mb]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt the Unfinished Revolution &#8211; Bianca Jagger</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bianca Jagger gives us one of the best descriptions of the current scene in Egypt. mb]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Lie &#8211; Wall Street has destroyed the wonder that was America.   &#8211; The Daily Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can this be turned around? It seems as if all the forces are against us. All the arms of government are owned the forces of evil-of greed which have dominated our past, now present. They want to dominate our future. How can we prevent this without violence? That is the challenge. mb]]></description>
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		<title>EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we enter a new year, what do I think? I don't cotton to the Mayan calendar which gives us about 11 months. I know that we are in deep trouble. Difficult to even start to list all the heavy stuff coming down. For sure I know we have to make some changes. They are changes of great promise. Changes to make our world, all our worlds, a better place to live. I know a few things. First, we must stop being in the Business of War. War is Us. Second, we must stop over consuming our planet. We are going have nothing except a shell over all the extraction going on. Third, the world cannot continue to support the population growth. I know the corporations want more customers and the religious want more souls. How can such crowding of space and resources make us happy. I am happy because I believe in the here and now. But the majority of our world is not happy. That is why we need to change the way we think. mb]]></description>
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		<title>New Confederacy Rising &#8212; In These Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Points to make you think: not equality of opportunity; individual freedom of interference from religious groups; corporate control; tribal feelings; militaristic attitudes; racism; 'P.D.' premillennial dispensation; spiritual warfare; solid, fixed, divine; knowledge and science; 'truth telling'; simple faith.
"There is hope for America. It lies in heaven, and we will find it on our knees", Rick Perry. Astonishing numbers of people want to separate and move to the other side, be it blue or red .]]></description>
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		<title>The Book of Jobs: “A Banking System is Supposed to Serve Society, Not the Other Way Around” &#124; Common Dreams &#124; Joseph Stiglitz</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article is so important it has now been posted twice. I fear we may go to war again. The rational behind the scenes will be to stimulate the economy through supporting jobs in the corporate Merchants of Death. So we go war to save our economy. That will not work. The best chance is if we borrow heavily at the current low rates to stimulate education and infrastructure. We cannot go back to the period of Hunter/Gatherers. It is gone as are the other cycles. Now we to have to create. Creativity is what America is great for. Now is the time for change. Take the historical lessons, know our history-the world's history, and act upon tem. This is a very exciting time. Let us take the high road. mb]]></description>
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		<title>The Vitamin Which Can Cut Your Flu Risk Nearly in Half</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GOOD NEWS1 There is a way to significantly reduce susceptibility to the flu and it is healthy for you, ie non toxic, and easy to use.  It is not sponsored by big pharma so you may not see this news elsewhere.  There is no doubt Vitamin D will work to prevent the flu dramatically better than the flu vaccine.  Interesting new statistics, and ideas about how to stay well in flu season.  The shocker [not] flu vaccination is not one of them.....bill altmiller
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		<title>Global Rebellion: The Coming Chaos? &#124; Common Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think what we have here is a 'globalization of awareness' . Humanity has reached a  near point-of-no-return. It may be we are beyond that point. Let us try to be optimistic and posit that there are some chances for change. We had a burst of hope with Barak Obama's promise. That hope has pretty well disappeared due to the gravity of our problems, his dependence on who were picked to guide him. The financial rape of the world's economy, the plundering of our planets resources and the growth of fascism have thrown humanity into such disarray that the most unsophisticated recognize something is wrong. This awareness, coupled with rapid communication of the internet, have created common concern.
Bit by bit we are seeing, in varying degrees, approaches to revolution. Let us pray for non-violence, evolution instead of revolution. For America, with our attitudes and history of violence this does not bode well. Progressive causes will be lost for fear of lack of security. mb]]></description>
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		<title>The End of the Consumerist Model &#124; Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelbutler.com/blog/mbutler/2011/11/29/the-end-of-the-consumerist-model-adbusters-culturejammer-headquarters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi,
This is a double-header:
Now we have 'The End of the Consumerist Model' which was posted last week on MBCivic by Mike Blaxil and I include again the link.
Now I give you Pat Hunter's comments on Thom Hartman's writings posted in my last MBBlog.
No subject is more important than the realization that the historic model of capitalism must and will change. It is going to be a rough ride. Many, perhaps most people, certainly of the 1%, do not recognize that famous album title, 'Forever Changes'. To survive we must change. The faster the better, the non-violent the best. We went from the Industrial Age to the Financial Age. We are now entering the Cultural Age. Let us hope that the transition is graceful and civilized, that not too many bodies are left in its wake.
Please read all of these, harbingers of our future. mb]]></description>
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		<title>The Need to Relocalize Our Economies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often hear 'to big to fail' about banks, corporations, monopolies, media and so forth. I often wonder if federal governments of whatever persuasion do not have a similar problem. Take North Dakota as an example. A sparsely populated state has been able to protect itself by avoiding size as a mantra. By localizing its banking structure it has taken care of local problems in a local way-knowledge. mb]]></description>
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