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Ahhh..you mean the Chicago way? As Al Capone once said, “Vote early, vote often.”

what? weird conclusion, probably just a random fox news type insult..I will take it as such..I have voted in every election since Jimmy Carter, and worked for Obama, I am sorry to say, as well as some local Maine organizations…silly..
and you, Steve? How many times did you vote for Bush?
one man one vote is part of the problem, you can’t deny it…[Read more]

the FEd is not p roposing legistlation..The State Dept. is lobbying foreign countries to allow GM crops in, despite all their misgivings..Our government works for Monsanto..

no voting on Monsanto, buddy, it is a company! I watch C-span, but also read Wikileaks documents..
Tar sands from Canada have not been voted on..
I do agree, however, as do the OWS people, that globalization is bad, and cannot BELIEVE THAT congress just passed Bush’s treaties to free trade up with south america – so much for anything left of the…[Read more]

Protest if you like Trace.  But the true power that every citizen holds in a democracy is their vote.  I bet you don’t even bother voting.  Are you registered?  I suspect not.
 
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I guarentee you that if the Fed is proposing legislation affecting GMO’s (genetically modified organisim) for all you fellers who don’t read.) They most certainly request (routinely) responses from Monsanto as well as the rest of the industry before the legislation is voted on.  And if you don’t believe me then you are revealing your own i…[Read more]

Stansberry have been prosecuted and covicted by the SEC for defrauding clients..See web site, Stansberry fraud. It is an aggregator web site for anti-government opinions, sweety..Is that the best you can do?
PS, you obviously don’t use the internet if you think it is hard to control..Many people are spending a lot of time making sure you don’t…[Read more]

I think you have that backwards Heather.  In the age of the internet it is much tougher for the media to controll anything.  That is why News organizations and Newspapers are struggling so. Revenue is down and the internet is the culprit.  Ordinary people now have a very useful tools for organizing.  You no longer need the media to organize.  The…[Read more]

Steve, how much ‘reserve’ the banks are required to hold is now at about nothing, due to the ‘power ‘ of the FED, which they largeley delegated to the banks..That is a big contested part of the Dodd Frank rule, and it looks like the banks are winning, with no ‘skin in the game’ being required AGAIN, despite the debacle of the bailouts. Oh yes, the…[Read more]

The fed is doing what all central banks are task with doing controlling the economy.  And in a gobal ecomomy it is not just the US the Fed has to be concerned about.  I am not making excuses for them.  I submit that maybe this Gobalization notion is not such a good idea after all.
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There is a big difference between the Federal Reserve and the Banks! Make no mistake the Fed is in charge.  They control all the rules, including how much reserve money the Banks are required to hold.  A lot of people do not realize it but every time a Treasury bill is auctioned some one is obligated to buy it.  If foriegn or private investors do…[Read more]

??? romney is not corrupt? (I am assuming you will go repub, Andrew..) ..ok, if you say so..I geuss it’s ok if his church tells him he can’t vote for women’s rights,(big flip flop on that!),  the rights of minorities, or if the tea party forces him to put up some lovely electified border fence and attack Iran so the military industrial complex ca…[Read more]

right, Jordan hit it, Benjamin..
first step, survey (informally – walk it out with a gridded paper) the site, and figure out as many of the existing conditions you can. (how many and what kinds of plants, rocks, water, slope..just go for it..)
While you are doing that, you are thinking about what you want to do, what image is in your head for the…[Read more]

This would be a great opportunity to explore the design process.
Maybe you can even do a little research on design methods and see what works best for you.
 
In general for a basic design process
1 and 2 can run concurrently in your case since you already have a site.
1. Program(create a list/brainstorm of goals that you hope to accomplish,…[Read more]

…and another: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/10/city_in_wisconsion_outlaw_bicyclists_pedestrians.php
This time a town is thinking about passing an ordinance that would essentially ban walking or biking. The article points out that there have been very few accidents. The author comes to the conclusion that the town is secretly run by the…[Read more]

You should go to China… Your head will explode.

I’m not saying that it is just Obama, but here in the US we affect policy at the voting booth. You can pitch a tent on Wall Street and the only way that will do anything is how well it affects how and how many people vote. Whether they are on the right or on the left, there will be a major change of players in Washington with a clear message to…[Read more]

If the sandbox is 10’x10′ and there are 5 toys and 50 kids packed in the the sandbox it gets ugly real quick. If there are two kids in that same sandbox with those 5 toys, a wonderful time can be had by all…
Or another way of saying it; in a world of finite resources, an exponentially increasing population causes everyone to become poorer. It’s…[Read more]