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Taxes
Progressive
with regard to taxation means the wealthy pay more. Regressive means
poorer people pay the most. The non-partisan Institute on Taxation
and Economic Policy just released a report: most state tax systems
are regressive. Middle-income families pay more than twice as much
of their income for state and local taxes as high-income families
do. The poor pay most of all. Taxes on the rich have fallen as a percentage
of income since 1989 while taxes on the middle class and the poor
have risen.
--Source:
"Primary Sources," The Atlantic Monthly, May 2003,
p. 46
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Changes
| Sleeplessness
| Mindfulness
We need to make better people. The ones we have are doing a lousy
job.
Which came
first -- the chicken or the egg?
No eggs without chickens.
No chickens without eggs.
Which comes first -- better people or a better world?
No better people without a better world.
No better world without better people.
Where can we start?
Try starting with your mind.
"Coping
with a changing environment requires the breaking of frameworks
and the establishment of new patterns."
--Zvi Lanir, Praxis.com
"To
sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."
--Abraham Lincoln
"I still believe that peace and plenty
and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool."
--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"But,
today I weep for my country.
I have watched the events of recent months with a heavy, heavy heart.
No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper.
The image of America has changed. Around the globe, our friends
mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned."
-- Senator Robert Byrd, (D-W.Va) "Arrogance of Power"
So
the Sherrif of the Western World gives the bad guy forty-eight hours
to get out of Dodge. And if he doesn't, the posse is ready and waiting.
Is there any doubt in anyone's mind about what happens next?
Impeach
George W. Bush
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Rampant
Legal Corruption |
Arianna
Huffington
Pigs
At The Trough
How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America |
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Arianna
Huffington has re-invented herself into a caring, angry, anti-establishment
critic who has seen how bizarre professional politics has become,
how powerful corporations are making our choices for us, how
the real issues of daily life like education, poverty, insane
consumption levels and systemic powerlessness impacts our lives.
She challenges hyspocrisy where she sees it -- this time out,
it's about the way our best educated, most competent class of
citizens are looting the citizenry and the companies they work
for. They are, she says, no better than pigs at the trough,
and she has arguments to prove it.
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Seeing
Us From Where They Stand |
Ziauddin
Sardar & Merryl Wyn Davies
Why
Do People Hate America |
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A
woman emerged from the dust of 9/11, shell-shocked, and asked
"Why do they hate us?"
Most
of us have a hard time accepting that there are people in the
world who see us not only as dangerous but evil, as an enemy
to be battled and attacked. Is it that we are so innocent and
naive about the impact of our culture and policies and economy
in the world? Or is it that we simply haven't been paying attention?
If
you have a hard time understanding why, this book will help
explain a great deal.
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"It's
a very uncomfortable thing to question the honesty and motives of
your leaders. I'm saying that the men who are controlling our destiny
are lying. Not many journalists or many people want to confront them."
Paul
Krugman, N. Y. Times columnist
quoted by Michael Kelly, What Now? under The Agenda
The Atlantic Monthly, April 2003, p. 19
NY Times # 1 BestSeller,
Again
(I wonder why... Duh! Look at who's in charge and what he's doing.)
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Who's
in Charge Around Here? |
Michael
Moore
Stupid
White Men and
other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! |
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Michael
Moore skewers the pretensions of the status quo with a few funny
and well-chosen words. You may not like or agree with everything
he says, but we rarely see the picture he draws or even recognize
it.
The
villains in our lives are none of the standard targets -- they
are those stupid white men, those suits, those establishment
and ambitious types who are the best educated (? - maybe just
longest schooled?) ruling class in history.
I
wish every
American would read this book.
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"I
for one suspect we do not look at the injustices [committed by America
in the pursuit of our national self-interest and the accumulation
of wealth] because we do not want to look. Like many of the spoiled
elites of history — take the British Raj — we prefer to
think of ourselves as good and decent people while we use our military
and economic prowess to ensure we bend the world to our will."
Chris
Hedges
in a review of The Eagle's Shadow by Mark Hertsgaard
New York Times Book Review
Dec. 15, 2002, p. 25
"There
is no way to use enough life,
Not by excess can you do it
Nor by sparely imagining
Maybe only by working your way through it
Like voltage or a rabbit."
Kenneth
Koch
A Possible World
Knopf
"Backed
by the specious promise of imminent economic recovery and secured
by the guarantee of never-ending war, the legislative measures mobilized
by the White House and the Congress suggest that what the Bush Administration
has in mind is not the defense of the American citizenry against a
foreign enemy but the protection of the American oligarchy from the
American democracy. In every instance, and no matter what the issue
immeditely at hand, the bias is the same — more laws limiting
the rights of individuals, fewer laws restraining the rights of property."
—Lewis
Lapham,
" Notebook: Light In The Window,"
Harper's Magazine, March, 2003, p. 8
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Technology
to the Rescue? |
Jeremy
Rifkin
The Hydrogen Economy: The
Creation of the World-Wide Energy Web and the Redistribution of
Power on Earth |
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Have
you noticed the price of gasoline lately?
Turmoil
in Venezuela, threat of war in Iraq, standard corporate bottom
line greed. It's likely to get worse, much worse. We are running
out of fossil fuels, and then what shall we do?
Jeremy
Rifkin, perennial gadfly, talks about the problems and the potential
of hydrogen, the most ubiquitous element in the universe, and
hydrogen fuel cells as a potential answer.
Read
all about your future here.
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Real
World vs Fantasy |
Helen
Caldicott
The
New Nuclear Danger: George
W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex
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Helen
Caldicott, the Autralian physician who woke us up to the first
nuclear danger through the organization she founded, Physicians
for Social Responsibility, has written a new book describing
the peril we face today. Like Michael Moore, she points fingers
and names names and describes what is going on as somewhat beyond
crazy. She argues spending on nuclear weapons is ineffective
in fighting terrorists holed up in caves.
For
instance, while the U.S. faces no major enemy as was the case
in the cold war with the Soviet Union, our defense budget is
going through the roof.
A
huge number of nuclear devices are still out there, some unaccounted
for.
Flag-waving,"we
can do no wrong" Americans will hate this book. The more
thoughtful among us will become more informed, more aware, even,
perhaps, more active.
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Unhealthy
worlds create unhealthy people,
but unhealthy people have a hard time creating healthy worlds.
Business
as usual just won't cut it. We live in a world based on unhealthy
values, views, behaviors, and systems we cannot sustain. Too many
of our assumptions are inaccurate. Virtually everything in our lives
-- our awareness, thoughts, feelings, behavior -- needs to be re-thought,
and our vision -- our very consciousness -- re-adjusted.
But can
we do that? How shall we do that? Where shall we go from here?
We know
changing our heads and hearts can change our lives. And we know
if we change together, we can change the world. We know we can't
change a bad habit without intending to. We can't grow up by rigidly
holding ourselves in place. We know making that change has to be
one of our purposes. We know applying effort and energy works. We
know we can change our heads around. And we know when we change
our heads around, the rest of us follows our new direction. We know
knowledge, guidance, new ideas, resources can help.
The Grigsby
Educational Trust here presents the New Visions Catalog.
Here is help to think, see, feel, and do differently. If we have
to be better people to get a better world, and we do, we need to
grow ourselves. We need to unlearn some stuff and we need to learn
how to wake up, how to heal ourselves of our wounds, how to get
grounded in a real and realistic set of understandings about ourselves
and the world. We need to learn how to get centered within ourselves,
and how to connect to others, the world, and the larger universe
of spirituality and our hearts and souls. Here is precisely that
help for waking up, healing, grounding, centering, and connecting.
If we
think
we can't, we can't and we won't. If we think we can, we've got a
chance. This catalog is about gaining that power, personally and
together.
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