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Sanity Reigns (For a Short Time)

Turning Points Posted on October 31, 2010 by JeffOctober 31, 2010

I got a real chuckle out of a whole series of photographs of signs from the Rally to Restore Sanity held yesterday in Washington, D.C. Check them out at the Huffington Post and have a laugh in these difficult times. … Continue reading →

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Vote Wisely on November 2

Turning Points Posted on October 30, 2010 by JeffOctober 31, 2010

I found this little gem today and thought it quite appropriate. Beware the campaign ads of TV. Critical thinking and the ability to read and comprehend really does matter. Vote wisely this coming Tuesday. While walking down the street one … Continue reading →

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Re-Inventing Democracy

Turning Points Posted on October 17, 2010 by JeffOctober 17, 2010

Millions of us will go to the polls in November, desperately seeking to put this country back on the tracks. Something like 92% of Americans think that this country is headed in the wrong direction but we can’t seem to … Continue reading →

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Cancelling Hatred

Turning Points Posted on October 10, 2010 by JeffOctober 13, 2010

For months now, I’ve had an ongoing internal dialogue over whether or not I should vote on November 2. One side of me, the side that says that this country is ruled by the financial oligarchy who pull the strings … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | 3 Replies

The Cognitive Policy Works

Turning Points Posted on October 9, 2010 by JeffOctober 9, 2010

On October 27, 2008, shortly after I started this blog, I posted a piece on the Rockbridge Institute. I’ve been informed that former members of the Rockbridge Institute have organized a new think tank, called the Cognitive Policy Works, which … Continue reading →

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Fall Flowers

Turning Points Posted on October 9, 2010 by JeffOctober 14, 2010

South Florida may be hot and prone to hurricanes, but it has flowers in the fall while the rest of the country watches the leaves fall. Yellow being my favorite color, I have taken pictures of two of my favorite … Continue reading →

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Uncivil Discourse

Turning Points Posted on October 2, 2010 by JeffOctober 2, 2010

I read today that Rick Sanchez, a personality on CNN, was fired Friday over remarks that he made in an interview with Pete Dominick on Sirius Radio. Before going further, I want to make it perfectly clear that I have … Continue reading →

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Activism

  • Institute for Policy Studies

Agrarianism

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Alternative Economic Models

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  • Inclusive Democracy
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  • Media Education Foundation
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  • The Conservation Economy

Anarchism

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Animism

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Architecture

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Art

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Authoritarianism

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  • Eric Hoffer
  • Laird Wilcox
  • Robert Altemeyer

Books

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Building Community

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Christianity

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Civil Disobedience

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  • Nonviolent Conflict
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Class

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Commons

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  • Cooperation Commons
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  • Digital Library of the Commons
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  • In Motion Magazine
  • Institutes for Collective Action
  • Karl Polanyi
  • Levellers Press
  • Neighbor Power
  • New Economics Institute
  • On the Commons
  • Shareable Magazine
  • STIR Magazine
  • The Commoner
  • The Land
  • Wealth of the Commons

Consensus & Hierarchy

  • Co-Intelligence Institute
  • Diana Leafe Christian
  • Governance Alive
  • Laird Schaub
  • N Street Method
  • National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
  • Sociocracy
  • Tree Bressen

Cooperatives

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  • Cooperantics
  • Grassroots Economic Organizing
  • Mondragon
  • SGS
  • Worker's Control

Corporations and Democracy

  • Dave Pollard
  • Move to Amend
  • POCLAD
  • Reclaim Democracy
  • Subsidy Tracker

Critical Thinking

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  • The Fallacy Files

Cultural Criticism

  • Bruce Levine
  • Charles Derber
  • Joe Bageant
  • Morris Berman
  • Phil Rockstroh

Document Collections

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  • Social Criticism Review

Economics

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  • Comstock Partners
  • Continental Drift
  • EconLibrary
  • Economist's View
  • Gar Alperovitz
  • Jack Rasmus
  • Michael Hudson
  • Michael Perelman
  • Naked Capitalism
  • Seeking Alpha
  • Shadow Stats
  • Thorstein Veblen

Ecopsychology

  • Alliance for Wild Ethics
  • Andy Fisher
  • Media Ecology Association
  • Thomas J. Farrell
  • Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy

Favorite Blogs

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  • Blue Ridge Blue Collar Girl
  • Fragments from Floyd
  • Greener Pastures
  • Gus diZerega
  • Loose Leaf Notes
  • The Archdruid Report
  • The Art of Annihilation
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  • Wrong Kind of Green

Gift Economy

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  • Evolver Editions
  • Gift Economy, Anarchism, and Strategies for Change
  • Other Worlds
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  • Reclaiming the Gift Culture
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  • Works & Conversations

Hierarchy

  • Center for Visionary Leadership
  • Jim Sidanius
  • John T. Jost
  • John T. Jost – articles
  • Mountain Quest Institute
  • The Sociobiology of Democracy
  • Tyranny of Structurelessness

Ideas

  • Chet Bowers
  • Reality Sandwich

Indigenous Worldview

  • Center for World Indigenous Studies
  • Cultural Survival
  • Snowchange
  • Tapestry Institute

Interesting Websites

  • Four Quarters
  • Hermitary
  • The Cynic's Sanctuary

Magazines

  • Affinities
  • Cold Type
  • Dissent Magazine
  • In These Times
  • International Socialism
  • Monthly Review
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  • New Politics
  • Resurgence Magazine
  • Socialist Review
  • State of Nature

Marxism

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  • Bichler & Nitzan Archives
  • David Harvey
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  • Kasama Project
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  • Marxists Internet Archive
  • Notes & Commentaries
  • Permanent Crisis
  • Richard Wolff
  • William I. Robinson

Money

  • Common Good Finance
  • Complementary Currency
  • E.C. Reigel
  • Institute for Social Banking
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  • New Economic Perspectives
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  • Reinventing Money
  • The Ecology of Money

Permaculture

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  • Blue Ridge Permaculture
  • Burlington Permaculture
  • Earth Action Mentor
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  • Earthaven
  • Energy Bulletin
  • Fungi Perfecti
  • Institute for Ecological Agriculture
  • Joanne Poyourow
  • Living in the Future videos
  • Living Systems Design
  • Murad’s Permaculture Pointers
  • Permaculture Blogs
  • Permaculture Forums
  • Permaculture Guild
  • Permaculture Politics
  • Permaculture.TV
  • Permatopia
  • Polyface Farm
  • Southeastern Permaculture
  • Suburban Permaculture
  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Three Sisters Farm
  • Transition Blue Ridge
  • Transition US
  • Wild Foods

Poetry

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  • Whiskey River

Politics

  • Against the Grain
  • AntiFascist Calling
  • Arthur Silber
  • Bad Subjects
  • Beams & Struts
  • Black Agenda Report
  • Charles Davis
  • Counterpunch
  • Dandelion Salad
  • David Swanson
  • Doug Henwood
  • Empire Burlesque
  • Jacobin Magazine
  • John Pilger
  • June Terpstra
  • Luddites at 200
  • Michael Parenti
  • Michael Venturi
  • Nieman Watchdog
  • Political Compass
  • Preservation Institute
  • Regressive Antidote
  • Swans Commentary
  • This Can't Be Happening
  • TomDispatch
  • Truth Addict
  • Venezuelan Analysis

Power Structure Research

  • Corporation Watch
  • CounterCorp
  • Dirt Diggers Digest
  • International Endowment for Democracy
  • Left Tracking Library
  • Little Sis
  • Michael Barker
  • Muckety
  • OMB Watch
  • Open Secrets
  • Power Structure Research
  • SourceWatch
  • Sunlight Foundation
  • The Conservative Nanny State
  • Who Rules America?

Resistance

  • Br'er Rabbit and other Tricksters
  • Tricksters

Retirement

  • Ford's Pension Buyout
  • Lump Sum Wisdom

Retort Writers

  • Iain Boal

Right Wing Populism

  • Hatewatch
  • Max Blumenthal
  • Orcinus
  • Sara Robinson
  • Talk2Action
  • The Public Eye
  • Theocracy Watch
  • Yurica Report

Semiotics

  • Marcel Jousse
  • Oral Tradition
  • Semiotics Encyclopedia
  • U California E-books

Social Psychology

  • Dual Inheritance Theory
  • Evolution & Human Behavior Wiki
  • Primer on Evolutionary Psychology
  • The Situationist
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