What to Do About Pornography (Part 2)
Papal Address to Aid Agencies for Eastern Churches
"We All Desire ... Stable Peace and Solid Coexistence"
Asia News:
Pope: peace in the Middle East grows out of respect for human rights and religious freedom
Receiving the assembly of Roaco, Benedict XVI renewed his appeal to the leaders of nations to fight all forms of discrimination "in a concrete way". Christians in the region must seek, despite violence and difficulties, to remain "where they are born."
Hu Jintao to defend yuan at G20
The Chinese president agrees to greater flexibility for the yuan, but for hawks in Congress, it is not enough. Hu is in Canada where he will meet Obama. For the US leader, changes in China’s currency policy are a first step, “but it’s too early to tell.”
Counterpunch:
Winslow T. Wheeler, General Petraeus and His Senate Vassals
Michael Hudson, Europe's Fiscal Dystopia: the "New Austerity" Road
Ralph Nader, Losing It at the Airport Checkpoint
David Rosen, The New Abortion Wars
Anthony DiMaggio, No Repeal of Whaling Ban: US Says It's a Major Loss--For Whales!
Adam Engel, The System and the Drug War
Patrick Bond, What South Africa Really Lost at the World Cup
Charles R. Larson, No Room With a View
Energy Bulletin:
Less is more (original)
Joanne Poyourow, Transition US
Within the body of Transition movement literature, I don't often see references to the Simple Living or Voluntary Simplicity movement. Perhaps the Voluntary Simplicity movement is less active in the places that Transition founders Rob and Naresh have lived. Perhaps it is because at its origins, Voluntary Simplicity focused more on individual choices and individual changes than on community-centric and societal-transformation ones. I can only speculate.
Acres and pains (original)There is a delightfully droll old book by that name lamenting the ways that nature humbles and humiliates farmers every step of the way from planting to harvest. I have been a victim of nature’s whims (my whims really) this spring and I’ve got the acres and the aches to prove it.
The doomer's curse (original)This is the Doomer's Curse: to wallow in despair, to sneer at the happiness of others, to revel in schadenfreude and to believe that he has humanity's best interests at heart. The Doomer honestly thinks that a universal depression (in the emotional sense) would lay the foundation for a better world, but this belief is rooted in his own selfishness, not in a rational socioeconomic analysis.
Gene Logsdon writes that his inspiration for home wine making is not the large industrial-scale wineries of California or the commercial cellars of Europe, both of which produce high-quality wines, but the back yards of German and Italian immigrants in American cities from the late 1800s through much of the 20th century. They would make wine out of “everything from rhubarb to dandelions, but especially Concord and Delaware grapes” (Logsdon 78). I believe Logsdon has observed something valuable and useful that will allow the production of quality wines to continue in eastern North America after cheap energy is no longer available. I want to explore this idea here in Part 3.
Related Links:
Cecile Andrews
Less is More Simplicity with Cecile Andrews
New Society Publishers, Google Books
Porn No More
Pornography Addiction Recovery and Support
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