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By David Brin, An IEET Guy. Consider this headline. $21 Trillion hoard hidden offshore by global elite. Consider that number and consider my prediction that the world’s middle classes will become radicalized, perhaps in the 2020s, or even sooner. My 1989 novel Earth is credited with a fairly high predictive score. In fact, fans maintain…

Janet Howe Gaines For 4,000 years Lilith has wandered the earth, figuring in the mythic imaginations of writers, artists and poets. Her dark origins lie in Babylonian demonology, where amulets and incantations were used to counter the sinister powers of this winged spirit who preyed on pregnant women and infants. Lilith next migrated to the…

Either Or .

This century there will be new things under the sun. I must confess I take great delight in that. I am a connoisseur of ethical dilemmas, and I have a resentment of the kind of people that object to things “because these things might be unethical”. Quite often I find that these people who object…

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Tampa Bay Gay Prostitutes Gearing Up For Flood Of Closeted Republicans

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Rachel I had no business interfering with how you conduct your life. I had no business doing so publicly, for whatever reason or based on whatever hearsay. How you live should be none of my business, and making public statements to this effect was not my position to take. You are responsible for your own…

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Hello, everyone! I’ve been very busy over the last few weeks with a project, that I will explain later that will help the cause. Over the last few weeks, Christine Assange has met with Ecuadorean Officials and the President about asylum for her son. Now, it’s possible that they will make a decision on whether…

I am on the cusp of heading out to San Francisco next month, paid by a very nice and generous man couple for a very worthy cause – explaining why the future, communications technology should be gamified and explicitly sexualized. If this isn’t a hopeful message, I don’t know what is. But I am depressed,…

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Travel advisory: Starting in 2013, in many parts of planet Earth there will be too little food and too much political unrest to make them pleasant destinations. Food is about to get very expensive everywhere: farming states in the US are living through the worst drought since the Dust Bowl; in Russia and Ukraine, heat…

* a third party candidate protest party went on the US ballot for elections in all 50 US states. * This third party clearly and loudly proclaims “we will vote against everything, and we do NOT have a policy” * … we are the absolute protest party. * someone rich would, after putting them on…

(source) Most conservative political figures break down into one of four broad groups. They are Reckless Addicts, Proud Zealots, Stealthy Extremists and Sober Adults. Needless to say, they do not exist in equal numbers. The first three categories can overlap, but in individual conservatives, one flavor tends to dominate. I’ll be primarily discussing congressional conservatives…

America’s 1% are in harmony on the matter that concerns them most — who gets the biggest slice of the pie. Editor’s note: This essay is derived from Jeff Faux’s new book, The Servant Economy: ​Where America’s Elite is Sending the Middle Class , which William Greider calls a “really important book” that tells the…

A Black Swan Fetishist.

*sigh* Beautiful place to meet up, thanks so much for the hospitality, Agnes, Luc and the entire crew. *winks*

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Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret. By Joseph E. Stiglitz It’s no use pretending that what…