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Yoda: 3D Ocean Farming — Revolution

01 Agriculture, Earth Intelligence

yoda with light saberThe Seas Will Save Us: How an Army of Ocean Farmers are Starting an Economic Revolution

Bren Smith, Medium.com, 25 March 2016

I’m a fisherman who dropped out of high school in 1986 at the age of 14. Over my lifetime, I’ve spent many nights in jail. I’m an epileptic. I’m asthmatic. I don’t even know how to swim. This is my story. It’s a story of ecological redemption.

Now, after 29 years of working on the oceans, I’ve remade myself as a 3D ocean farmer, growing a mix of seaweeds and shellfish for food, fuel, fertilizer, and feed.

Our 3D farms are designed to address three major challenges: First, to bring to the table a delicious new seafood plate in this era of overfishing and food insecurity; second, to transform fishermen into restorative ocean farmers; and third, to build the foundation for a new blue-green economy that doesn’t recreate the injustices of the old industrial economy.

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CounterPunch: Michael Hudson and Chris Hedges Discuss the Great Ponzi Scheme of the US and Global Economies

03 Economy, 10 Transnational Crime

counterpunch squareThe Great Ponzi Scheme of the Global Economy

So we’ve turned the post-war economy that made America prosperous and rich inside out. Somehow most people believed they could get rich by going into debt to borrow assets that were going to rise in price. But you can’t get rich, ultimately, by going into debt. In the end the creditors always win. That’s why every society since Sumer and Babylonia have had to either cancel the debts, or you come to a society like Rome that didn’t cancel the debts, and then you have a dark age. Everything collapses.

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Eagle: Charles Hugh Smith on What Killed the Middle Class (Government Legalization of Banking and Corporate Crime)

03 Economy, 11 Society
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What Killed the Middle Class?

If the four structural trends highlighted below don't reverse, the middle class is heading for extinction.

Everyone knows the middle class is fading fast. I've covered this issue in depth for years, for example: Honey, I Shrunk the Middle Class: Perhaps 1/3 of Households Qualify (December 28, 2015) and What Does It Take To Be Middle Class? (December 5, 2013)

This raises an obvious question: what killed the middle class? While many commentators try to identify one killer cause (for example, the U.S. going off the gold standard in 1971), the die-off of the middle class is more akin to the die-off in honey bees, which is the result of the interaction of multiple causes (factors that increase the toxic load dumped on bees and other pollinators by modern agriculture).

Read full post with charts and links.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Medical Establishment Seeks to Destroy Those Who Challenge Vaccine Safety — Courts Swinging in Favor of Challengers

07 Health, 09 Justice
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Shaken Baby Syndrome is a medical diagnosis used to accuse parents of killing a baby by violently shaking it, because we know that “vaccines are safe” and cannot cause injury. It turns out the diagnosis is non-scientific, the injuries are not consistent with shaking. Neuropathologist Dr. Squier, who is blowing the whistle on this, is being attacked by the medical establishment. Scientific discussion? No way.

World Renowned Neuropathologist has Career Destroyed for Disproving Shaken Baby Syndrome

The medical theory of “shaken baby syndrome” (SBS) is quickly losing credibility, with many doctors, scientists, and attorneys now speaking out against SBS and the fact that innocent parents have been falsely accused of child abuse. Courts are now re-trying some cases based on testimonies from these doctors and professionals, and some cases have recently been over-turned. The medical profession is fighting back. The reasons are quite obvious. To admit that the theory behind SBS is false, would open the door to major litigation, as the [false] theory has been used to convict thousands of parents of child abuse, and to perhaps remove tens of thousands of children from their homes and families. 

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