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Topic: Agosto 2008 ad infinity (Read 53259 times)
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Rejoice!
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Howard Zinn:
"The power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below.
... When People stop obeying they have no power; war can't go on when enough soldiers refuse to fight.
"People have the power if they begin to organize, they begin to protest. They can change thins."
Howard Zinn. RIP.
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Rejoice!
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Hi Jag,
Just 4˘ of every dollar donated to Haiti relief goes for food. 40˘ of every dollar goes for military to control the masses. Just 1˘ of each dollar goest to Haiti.
People are getting killed by military and mercenaries for "looting" when all they are starving and thirsty.
I bet there's a land grab just like in Bali afer the tsunami. and the land grab in New Orleans after Katrina and the poor were flushed from the 9th ward. Wash away all the slums and now developers will be able to build some classy resorts. Even more important to developers is the oil and gold in Haiti.
peace and love, R!
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Jag
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Howard Zinn will be missed, I feel A People's History is the best and most definitive history of our country ever written.
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein
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I think I would prefer to plant an Avocado tree: One of the Seven Horticultural Wonders of the World
The world's largest wisteria vine grows in Sierra Madre, California. There is even a festival honoring this mammoth wisteria vine and the plant's namesake. The Wistaria Festival takes place annually in this community in California that is home to the more than 100 year old wisteria vine. {snip}
The masterpiece wisteria vine growing in California is so large that it has received a place in the 'The Guinness Book of Records'. It has been named as "The largest blossoming plant in the world." This amazing wisteria vine is more than one acre in size and weighs 250 tons.
It has more than 1.5 million blossoms every year with 40 blooms per square foot. The branches of this unbelievable wisteria vine reach an amazing 500 feet long. Horticultural experts have estimated the branches can grow 24 inches in 24 hours.
The world's largest wisteria vine is a beautiful lavender Chinese variety. It was planted in 1894 by William and Alice Brugman. The couple bought the plant at a local nursery for 75 cents and planted it near their home. They eventually sold their home twenty years after planting the wisteria. H. T. Fennel bought the home and fell in love with the wisteria vine and began building arbors for it.
The wisteria vine continued growing and became too large for the supports erected by Mr. Fennel. The huge plant eventually began growing onto the house. The roof could not support the weight of the giant wisteria vine and finally the roof collapsed. The house was demolished in 1931. They built a new house close by. New supports kept being added for the wisteria and it was allowed to continue growing. |
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein
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Nicole
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Hello everyone, been away for a while. School is taking up most of my time, and I love it! Had a few health problems, need to have my gall bladder out, The Gall of Me!!!!!!!!!!!!! Blaise and I have been playing some music but not nearly enough. He's busy with his web site and building a studio on long island...That should be finished in two weeks then we will record some songs we've been writing. Jeramiah is still the lost son, I hung up on him the other night; I said "call me when you have something real to say to me" Made me feel horrible, but I can't accept any more bullshit! Work is work and all is fine in that area. We love out apartment and are always happy to get home. The snow has been lovely. It isn't difficult at all, these New Yorkers can go underground...big whoop! Anyway, just wanted to check in and say hi....oh by the way, I would love to have some wisteria, there are some beautiful ropes of it on buildings in greenwich village. ciao for now!
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Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead Archive, scheduled to open soon at the University of California at Santa Cruz, will be a mecca for academics of all stripes: from ethnomusicologists to philosophers, sociologists to historians. But the biggest beneficiaries may prove to be business scholars and management theorists, who are discovering that the Dead were visionary geniuses in the way they created “customer value,” promoted social networking, and did strategic business planning.
by Joshua Green
Fans of the Grateful Dead are big believers in serendipity. So a certain knowing approval greeted the news last year that the band would be donating its copious archive—four decades’ worth of commercial recordings and videotapes, press clippings, stage sets, business records, and a mountain of correspondence encompassing everything from elaborately decorated fan letters to a thank-you note for a fund-raising performance handwritten on White House stationery by President Barack Obama—to the University of California at Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz was understood to be a fitting home not only because it exemplifies the spirit of the counterculture as much as, and perhaps even more than, Berkeley and Stanford, which also bid for the archive, but because the school’s faculty includes an ethnomusicologist and composer named Fredric Lieberman, who is prominent among a curious breed in the academy: scholars who teach and study the Grateful Dead...
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Hi Nic and everybody,
I am still here checking in but completely distracted and monopolized by layers of extended family legal, financial, health stuff. Does this stuff clear up with time or is it more the curse of longevity?
Mark
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"You can't count the miles until you feel them." T Van Zandt
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Tomas
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Whatever happened to the old guest book archives. I wanted to point our youth in that direction for reference and no good link was there?
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Jag
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Whoa Nichole! Hope your well and you and your gallbladder have a mutually agreed upon separation!! Take Care.
Good question Tomas, I believe Eric is MIA and hope he's well.
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein
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I understand that Eric is still involved with Digger Archive and helping a bit at Planet Drum. I haven't seen or spoken with him in a long time. The Guestbook Archives looked corrupted the last time I was there. That was quite awhile ago. I hope the gall bladder found an easy and comfortable path to the outside of Nicole. Hey Hammond, put up your hand.
Mark
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"You can't count the miles until you feel them." T Van Zandt
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Rejoice, consider the locale, the Bible Belt still has draconian laws and a medieval mind set. Not that its much better elsewhere but at least the attempt is made to decriminalize the herb.
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