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		<title>Thought for a day &#8211; or a life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Don&#8217;t live for what you can get &#8211; live for what you can give. &#160; Better the thought left for reflection -but if we need a musical accompaniment, or a lyrical expression of the thought, here is one. Bless you. Make it shine.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtoddring.wordpress.com&amp;blog=833900&amp;post=544&amp;subd=jtoddring&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BBC speechless as trader tells truth: &#8220;Collapse is coming&#8230; and Goldman Sachs rules the world&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Move your money now &#8211; put it into gold, silver, and if you can, more importantly, a piece of land that can feed your family, tools for self-reliance such as solar and wind energy, seeds and garden tools, a trailer, teepee, yurt or cottage, in case you have to fall back on these.  Equally, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtoddring.wordpress.com&amp;blog=833900&amp;post=538&amp;subd=jtoddring&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Message to the ruling 1%&#8230;.. When Popular Science runs a story about the global domination of the corporate elite, you know you&#8217;re fucked</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science confirming the obvious: a recent study by systems analysts shows a tight knot of control over the global economy by a handful of corporate giants, mostly banks &#8211; and of course, the billionaires who control those corporations. This is why the global pro-democracy movement is exploding around the world: it is unwise, unjust, undemocratic, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtoddring.wordpress.com&amp;blog=833900&amp;post=521&amp;subd=jtoddring&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Occupy Wall Street does NOT need the Democratic party</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people are now calling for Obama and the Democratic Party to get behind (or is that take over or co-opt) the Occupy Wall Street movement; this at best a strategically unwise misdirection of energies, I would argue, and at worst, a dangerously naive idea. The focus on petitioning and lobbying or even emphasizing at all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtoddring.wordpress.com&amp;blog=833900&amp;post=518&amp;subd=jtoddring&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street: The emerging global pro-democracy movement, where it stands, what it means, and where we go from here</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Occupy Wall Street movement, which has already become a global grassroots populist pro-democracy movement, if we have eyes to see, has clearly already won a broad and growing base of support. What is needed now, I believe, is to further clarify and crystallize the issues &#8211; and I would say that many people now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtoddring.wordpress.com&amp;blog=833900&amp;post=511&amp;subd=jtoddring&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The struggle is not between left and right – it’s between democracy and corporatism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We must unite the people now, or the people and democracy both will lose Not only are partisan loyalties and divisions increasingly irrelevant and out-moded, but divisions along ideological lines of left and right are also outmoded and largely obsolete. The major parties function as rubber-stamp agencies, spin doctors and propagandists for the same ruling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtoddring.wordpress.com&amp;blog=833900&amp;post=502&amp;subd=jtoddring&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall St. &#8211; Letters to friends and family, and an overview of what is unfolding now</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is happening is momentus. It could go wrong, it could fizzle out, or it could be co-opted, but at present, by all I can see, it is hopeful: here are a few letters I sent to friends and family on the subject, that aimed to clarify and also to empower and embolden &#8211; peace [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtoddring.wordpress.com&amp;blog=833900&amp;post=489&amp;subd=jtoddring&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Kucinich and Class Warfare: civil war in America or democratic renewal &#8211; these are the choices at hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.&#8221; - Thomas Jefferson “There is a class warfare, all right,&#8230;.but it’s my class, the rich class, that is making war&#8230;.. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtoddring.wordpress.com&amp;blog=833900&amp;post=470&amp;subd=jtoddring&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reclaiming democracy for the common good – and for the survival and future of our children: the political economy of environmental sanity and democratic renewal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 27, 2011, the Global Footprint Network declared as Earth Overshoot Day: the day that humans have used up all renewable resources available for the year. Not good. This obviously cannot continue. Limitless growth in material consumption and “production” clearly cannot be sustained on a finite planet. (We can have limitless growth in culture, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtoddring.wordpress.com&amp;blog=833900&amp;post=453&amp;subd=jtoddring&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public poll on the state of democracy: please respond &#8211; your views and your voice matter!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please answer the following question below, share this poll with friends, and leave your comments as well if you wish. (Naturally, of course you can only vote once! This poll aims to be as democratic as possible!)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtoddring.wordpress.com&amp;blog=833900&amp;post=444&amp;subd=jtoddring&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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