Archive for the 'Resistance' Category
Doing the ‘Absolute Opposite’ of So-Called Green Revolution Techniques, Poorest Indian Farmers Growing Record Amounts of Food
June 2nd, 2013Via: Guardian: What happened in Darveshpura has divided scientists and is exciting governments and development experts. Tests on the soil show it is particularly rich in silicon but the reason for the “super yields” is entirely down to a method of growing crops called System of Rice (or root) Intensification (SRI). It has dramatically increased […]
Maine Doctor Stops Accepting All Forms of Insurance, Cuts Prices for Treatments In Half
May 29th, 2013Via: Bangor Daily News: Dr. Michael Ciampi took a step this spring that many of his fellow physicians would describe as radical. The family physician stopped accepting all forms of health insurance. In early 2013, Ciampi sent a letter to his patients informing them that he would no longer accept any kind of health coverage, […]
Dairy Farmer Acquitted on Three of Four Charges in Raw Milk Trial
May 27th, 2013In fascist America, being convicted of just one of the absurd charges against you is considered a victory. Via: Journal Sentinel: Dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger was acquitted on three of four criminal charges early Saturday morning in a trial that drew national attention from supporters of the raw, unpasteurized milk movement. Jurors in Sauk County […]
Portland, Oregon Rejects Adding Fluoride to Drinking Water
May 23rd, 2013Wow, very well done, Portland! Via: AP: The mayor of Portland, Ore., has conceded defeat in an effort to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water. With more than 80 percent of the expected ballots counted late Tuesday night, the Multnomah County election website showed the fluoride proposal failing, 60 percent to 40 percent. Mayor […]
Missouri Legislature Nullifies All Federal Gun Control Measures by a Veto-Proof Majority
May 10th, 2013Via: Tenth Amendment Center: Tonight, the Missouri State House voted to send Governor Jay Nixon what could arguably be the strongest defense against federal gun control measures in American history. The vote was 116-38. HB436, introduced by Representative Doug Funderburk in February, was initially passed by the House in April by a vote of 115-42. […]
‘Bitcoin Really Is an Existential Threat to the Modern Liberal State’
April 6th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: So far, Bitcoin is not a big deal. Its total value in circulation was $1.4 billion as of this week. That’s equivalent to the currency stock of a small nation — somewhere between Iceland and Uruguay — and just one-thousandth of the total value of U.S. dollars in circulation. The volume of transactions […]
More People Have Access To Cellphones Than Toilets
March 24th, 2013The failure to see human waste as anything less than a valuable resource is THE most maddening nonsense that I’m aware of. The media would have you believe that this is some sort of expensive, complicated, pretty much unsolvable issue when the most basic solution is a 20 liter bucket (or what Americans refer to […]
Dylan Ratigan Quits MSNBC, Help Vets Create Network of Organic Hydroponic Farms
March 22nd, 2013Via: Dylan Ratigan: If you are reading this, you likely know I left a highly-successful, self-titled show at MSNBC last June in search of meaning and purpose in my work and life. I had lost both after 18 years in Manhattan and the chaos surrounding the hollow political debates permeating America’s media and politics. After […]
Ye Olde Sneaker Net: Cubans Evade Censorship by Exchanging Computer Memory Sticks
March 20th, 2013Via: McClatchy: Dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez on Saturday told newspaper publishers from around the Western Hemisphere that “nothing is changing” in Cuba’s ossified political system and that “the situation of press freedom in my country is calamitous.” But Sanchez said underground blogs, digital portals and illicit e-magazines proliferate, passed around on removable computer drives […]
This Is Anarcho-Herbalism
March 15th, 2013Via: Alchemy Works: A society of people who are responsible for their own health and able to gather or grow their own medicines is a hard society to rule. These days we are dependent on the power structure of industrial health care – the secret society of the doctors, the white-male-dominated medical schools, the corporate […]
