Archive for the 'Resistance' Category
UK: Pilots Refuse to Take Part in National Identity Card Trials
May 6th, 2009Via: Guardian: Airline pilots are to become the first group to refuse to take part in the national identity scheme when compulsory trials start at Manchester and London City airports this autumn. The British Airline Pilots’ Association (Balpa ), which represents more than 80% of commercial airline pilots, is to mount a legal challenge to […]
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability by Lierre Keith
May 5th, 2009I’ve listened to a few of Lierre Keith’s radio appearances and talks. This information will be nothing new to those of you who are involved with producing your own food in ways that build top soil. To the rest of you, this will be deep, chilling doom… for your belly. Lierre Keith is absolutely NOT […]
“The Obama DOJ is now squarely to the Right of an extremely conservative, pro-executive-power, Bush 43-appointed judge on issues of executive power and due-process-less detentions.”
April 13th, 2009Via: Salon: It was once the case under the Bush administration that the U.S. would abduct people from around the world, accuse them of being Terrorists, ship them to Guantanamo, and then keep them there for as long as we wanted without offering them any real due process to contest the accusations against them. That […]
St. Francis of Afece and Craptonite: Meet the Sodfather
April 7th, 2009This is a long article about an old time compost freak, nothing more, nothing less. I enjoyed it. One problem: About making compost, the article says, “no meat, cat, dog or human poop.” Please see The Humanure Handbook for clarification on this. You can compost that stuff, no problem, if you know the rules. If […]
Residents Challenge Google Camera
April 3rd, 2009Rather than stopping the car, people should have held up signs that said adblockplus.org as it drove past. That way, Google would go on to blindly promote its own destruction. Sixty foot long penis optional. Via: BBC: Angry residents in Milton Keynes blocked the driver of a Google Street View car when he started taking […]
Gardening Industry Sees Boom as Families Grow Their Own Veggies to Save on Groceries
March 16th, 2009Path to Freedom is soooo good. Here’s the Journal, in case you get lost in all of the quality information on the main site. The Dervaes family was my inspiration to learn how to garden. They have taken urban homesteading to unthinkable levels; certainly beyond what might have been thought of as “maximum” even a […]
Monsanto’s Uphill Battle in Germany
March 8th, 2009Via: Der Spiegel: On the other side stand Monsanto’s many adversaries, a heterogeneous alliance that brings together organic farmers, anti-capitalism activists, churches and politicians with the conservative Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats. The dispute between the two camps revolves around the opportunities and risks involved in green […]
The New Depression: “This is the mother of all postwar crises, which has barely started and remains out of control.”
February 18th, 2009This article starts off well enough, but it goes off the rails. The problem is not “unregulated capital.” There are volumes of regulations related to capital and we don’t need an additional Soviet Ministry of Money Rules. The problem is the composition of the capital in the first place. The problem is the arbitrary ability […]
Wikileaks: A Billion Dollars Worth of Quazi Secret Congressional Reports
February 9th, 2009For those who want to cut right to the chase: Torrents. Via: Wikileaks: Wikileaks has released nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation, from […]
Ron Paul Introduces Bill to End Interstate Raw Milk Ban
February 7th, 2009Via: Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund: On January 28 Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) introduced HR 778, a bill “to authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.” Under the bill, the federal government “may not take any action…that would prohibit, interfere with, regulate, or otherwise […]
