Archive for the 'Resistance' Category
‘What I’ve Been Doing Out Here’
February 8th, 2014Becky and I were into our 30s before we started to execute our exit strategy. Our neighbors, Thomas and Catherine, pulled it off and they are only in their mid 20s. I think that it’s a beautiful coincidence that people with core values that are so similar to ours happen to live across the road […]
Iceland Let Banks Fail, Jailed Criminal Bankers and Now Has Only 4% Unemployment
January 29th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: Iceland let its banks fail in 2008 because they proved too big to save. Now, the island is finding crisis-management decisions made half a decade ago have put it on a trajectory that’s turned 2 percent unemployment into a realistic goal. While the euro area grapples with record joblessness, led by more than […]
Legal Pot: The Gateway Drug to State-Run Banking?
January 27th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: If ever a hippie dream existed, it would probably look something like what’s being proposed in Washington by Democratic State Senator Bob Hasegawa. He wants to open a state-run bank specifically to serve Washington’s newly legal marijuana industry. The proposal would solve two real problems: Pot businesses would no longer be trapped in […]
Gallery: Revolution in Kiev
January 26th, 2014Via: LiveJournal: I came to Kiev. I came to see for myself what is happening here.
Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom
January 21st, 2014A buddy of mine did damn near the same thing, except he slept in his lab at the university, as well as his vehicle. He had a Toyota pickup with a shell on the back. This was at a university with a very heavy cop presence. They would have definitely busted someone in a van. […]
Nightmare: Australian Farmer Loses Organic Certification After Monsanto’s GM Canola Planted Next Door by Neighbor
January 7th, 2014Ok, I’m visualizing thousands of Cryptogon readers out there sending support to help these guys win this thing. I kicked it off with AU$15. Via: Safe Food Foundation: Steve Marsh lives and farms at Kojonup in Western Australia. In 2010 he lost his organic certification when GM canola from next door jumped the fence and […]
A Solar Boom So Successful, It’s Been Halted
December 21st, 2013Greed and incompetence at power companies are running up against the unstoppable force of distributed power generation. Not long to go now. Germans laugh at this, by the way. Flashback 2011: Residential Energy Storage with Underground Flywheels — Update 2013: Velkess: New Residential Scale Flywheel Design Via: Scientific American: William Walker and his wife, Mi […]
Britain: £150 Cosy Cob Home
November 26th, 2013If this sort of thing calls to you, see: The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage by Ianto Evans. Via: Daily Mail: Smallholder Michael Buck spent eight months constructing the house using the ancient technique of cob – building with a mixture of sand, clay, straw, water and earth. […]
Store Owner Installs Surveillance Cameras to Spy on Police
November 23rd, 2013Via: Cnet: A Miami convenience store owner is fed up with his employees and customers being allegedly harassed by police. So he installs surveillance video to get evidence against the local cops.
State Obamacare Exchanges Enroll Only 3 Percent of Target
November 12th, 2013Via: Reuters: President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform has reached only about 3 percent of its enrollment target for 2014 in 12 U.S. states where new online health insurance marketplaces are mostly working smoothly, a report released on Monday said. States with functioning exchanges have signed up 49,100 people compared with the 1.4 million people expected […]
