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- Picking Fruits for Your Microclimate
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Category Archives: Writeindependent.org
How to Catch a GMO Shill
I wrote a piece about the difference between heirloom, hybrid, and genetically engineered seeds called Should Companies Patent Life two years ago. I wrote: The problem with genetic modification is that we haven’t rigorously tested the effects of ingesting GM … Continue reading
Posted in ADD and advocacy, Agriculture, Ecology, Money In Politics, Vegetables and Fruit
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Challenging the Giant GMO
At a private residence in Los Angeles this past Saturday, chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall revealed that Steven Druker, author of Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Vegetables and Fruit
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The United Corporations of America
Our government is completely broken. We no longer live in a country that represents the people who live here. In fact, Washington goes out of its way to hurt us. If we were living under a system made “of the … Continue reading
Moochers
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t there a theory that the rich will give charity to the poor, and that is how they will be “taken care of”? Out of pity… That when there are no jobs to be … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Writeindependent.org
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The Bull Moose Party
In the excerpt below, Woodrow Wilson refers to the “new party” or “third party.” In his day, the third party was the faction that supported Theodore Roosevelt and his Bull Moose Progressive Party that ran on a platform of, among … Continue reading
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The New Employment Model
There is a new employment model underway. It’s the authentic production model. When a person is creating their own unique product, art, message, or service and when that good or service could only possibly come from such a worker, he … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Everyday life, Writeindependent.org
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A Benevolent Boss?
I wonder if we will all come to the conclusion some day that the human race is too defective to sustain itself. That one megalomaniac too many, one sociopath with too much power will prevent us from self-correction. Would my … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Writeindependent.org
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No Plan At All
What did we do in Wilson’s time to deal with monopolistic corporations? We were given a false pretext by Teddy Roosevelt, a “plan” that was no plan at all. “And I warn every progressive Republican that by lending his assistance … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Money In Politics, Writeindependent.org
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Big Business
Who runs our government? Big Business. “If the government is to tell big business men how to run their business, then don’t you see that big business men have to get closer to the government even than they are now? … Continue reading
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Cynics, Gurus, Prayers and Greed
Today I met another cynic who doesn’t believe “it” can be done. You can fill in the blank for her. What do you assume can’t be done? Getting money out of politics? Moving the mountain that would get us to … Continue reading
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