A report from the NY Times states that Syria, Oman, Palestine, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan, Saudi Arabia & Morrocco are all suffering from massive increases in the price of food.
Civil unrest, strikes and rioting are becoming widespread as basic food staples have
as much as doubled in the last few months.
“Now we have to choose: we either eat or stay warm. We can’t do both,” said Abdul Rahman Abdul Raheem, who works at a clothing shop in [...] Read more »
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Posted in useful media on Feb 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
Permaculture – originally derived from permanent agriculture, but maybe a better interpretation is permanent culture – will no doubt be an important solution for for many of the survivors of the mess humanity now finds itself in. Local communities providing their needs in harmony with and observant of the local habitat.
The empire’s economic system [...] Read more »
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Posted in heirarchies on Feb 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
This system is heirarchical. Imagine it as a pyramid. Those higher up have more power and wealth. Selfishness and greed is rewarded with more power and wealth. The better someone is at turning the world into resources, and other people into slaves, the higher up the ladder they can move.
By its very nature this [...] Read more »
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Written by William H Kotke, this is effectively two books in one, the first entitled ‘The Collapse of Civilisation’ is another shocking summary of the devastation that civilisation (or the culture of empire) has wrought throughout the planet, while the second ‘The Seed of the Future’
is an attempt to come up with solutions.
Book one includes chapters on the history of disintegration, soil, forest, agriculture, [...] Read more »
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Worldwide, the prices of staple foods have been increasing drastically. Survival Acres has done some research on food price increases over the past 12 months:
The ranges listed below are price increase for the large container sizes (bags or buckets) from 2007 to 2008 (only 1 year):
Hard Red Wheat 58% – 76%
Hard White Wheat 58% – 85%
Corn Whole Yellow [...] Read more »
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The latest book from Derrick Jensen, in collaboration with cartoonist Stephanie McMillan, is not actually a list of 50 things. The title is a parody of all those ‘things you can do to save the world’ books – all the greenwash that attempts to shift the blame for environmental problems onto individuals
and their consumer choices.
The book, in easy read cartoon format [...] Read more »
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The following article was first published in Acres USA v.33, n.9, Sept 2003 1sep03.
Everything I want to do is illegal. As if a highly bureaucratic regulatory system was not already in place, 9/11 fueled renewed acceleration to eliminate freedom from the countryside. Every time a letter arrives in the mail from a federal or state [...] Read more »
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Posted in not 'hope' on Feb 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Urban Scout’s rant about rewilding culture. Read more »
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By William Kotke, reprinted from Truth to Power
Vladimir Putin has indicated full support of Dmitriy Medvedev for the post of President of the Russian Federation. Medvedev, who is presently First Deputy Prime Minister has indicated enthusiastic support for the concept of eco-villages. Medvedev will be the candidate of the Edinaya Rossiya Party.
Medvedev expressed his support [...] Read more »
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