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The Center for Improved Living

My friend Marc Horowitz just started a new projects called The Center for Improved Living, trust me, this dude got GREAT ideas and he is one of my favorite artists. here’s what its about: Everyday, I will post a different action for you to do. All you have to do is post your response in…

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Robert Fisk on Democracy Now

Robert Fisk, the Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent and author of “The Great War for Civilisation“, being interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/KhKNGnpHEYw” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Click Here For Part 2 Click Here For Part 3 Click Here For Part 4

John Perkins at the VFP National Convention

John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, gives a three part speech to the Veterans For Peace National Convention, Seattle, WA in August 2006. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=3968544393356669182″ width=”400″ height=”326″ wmode=”transparent” /] In the first part John discusses, from a hit mans perspective, the reasons and background to why we are at war in…

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2002 Barack Obama Interview: Against Iraq

I think it is too early to decide who got my votes. The internet is going to be such an important part of this election, making people get the facts without digging through the dirt and listening to crap from the mainstream media, this coming election is going to be so much polarized, e.g. go…

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China announces new property law

China is going to pass a law to protect private property rights. Analysts say it is a important leap towards Market Economy. The primary reason why National People’s Congress doing this is to ease the farmers unrest. I guess they read Hernando de Soto‘s “The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and…

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Embracing Humanity: Truth in a Time of War with Howard Zinn

[kml_flashembed movie=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-4661618996030418894&hl=en” width=”400″ height=”326″/] If you are not familiar with Howard Zinn, read his excellent book A People’s History Of United States 1492-present. from the publisher: “Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People’s History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of…

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World’s First Anti-Reflection Coating

New class of nanomaterials could lead to more efficient solar cells, brighter LEDs Troy, N.Y. — A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created the world’s first material that reflects virtually no light. Reporting in the March issue of Nature Photonics, they describe an optical coating made from the material that enables vastly…

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Bionic Eye Implants Could Help Blind People See

A bionic eye implant that could help restore the sight of millions of blind people could be available to patients within two years. US researchers have been given the go-ahead to implant the prototype device in 50 to 75 patients. The Argus II system uses a spectacle-mounted camera to feed visual information to electrodes in…

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A Portable Refinery Powered by Garbage

From Technology Review: “Researchers at Purdue University have led development of a portable “tactical” biorefinery for the U.S. Army that turns a variety of waste streams into a mixture of ethanol and methane gas, which are burned in a modified diesel engine to produce electricity. The unique hybrid design–part gasifier, part bioreactor, part generator–limits the…

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Some news…

Printing in 3 dimension– EoPlex is developing a revolutionary way to print objects in three dimensions: mass-produce tiny gears and switches using a process that builds 3-D objects by layering materials on top of each other, over and over, until a third dimension takes shape. “Electric Slide” on slippery DMCA Slope– The inventor of the…

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