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It turns out that people who buy e-books don't actually own them after all. Unlike a real book, you aren't allowed to re-sell it. Why not? Because corporate lawyers have thus far successfully argued that the "first sale doctrine" which governs actual books isn't good enough for them when it comes to e-books. This is yet another expansion of corporate property "rights". 

The #1 most censored story is: "Global Plans to Replace the Dollar".  Robert Fisk reported on this story in October 2009, titled "The demise of the dollar".

IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide’s The News, wrote: “In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win.”

On November 17, Democracy Now ran a news story about the historic Pittsburgh City Council vote in their news headlines:

My February talk in Portland, Oregon, will be rebroadcast sometime between December 31 and January 10. To find out which stations play A.R. in your area, click HERE.

A.R. can be heard weekly on 220 radio stations across North America and beyond. Here's the A.R. weekly schedule for the next month:

A groundbreaking International Gathering for Rights of Nature was organized by The Pachamama Alliance and Fundación Pachamama in September, where conscious individuals and organizations who have worked to promote the recognition of Rights of Nature, met to expand this concept around the world. Out of this four-day meeting in Patate, Ecuador, the Global Alliance for Rights of Nature was formed.

I've been a MoveOn member for many years now, and what's most troubling to me is how MoveOn's self-selected leadership continues to manipulate its members in a whole variety of ways that make it impossible for those millions of us to really get ourselves organized and mobilized, which imo is one big reason that we lost so badly yesterday. Here are some examples:

This is the actual text of the ordinance which was passed by the Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) City Council in a vote of 9-0 on November 16, 2010:

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This morning, the Pittsburgh City Council became the first municipality in the United States to ban natural gas extraction within its boundaries. The ordinance isn’t just a ban – it consists of a new Bill of Rights for Pittsburgh residents (which includes a right to water along with rights for ecosystems and nature), and then proceeds to ban those activities – including natural gas extraction - which would violate those rights. 

My latest radio interview is one hour long, on KOWS-FM in Occidental, CA. I was interviewed by Ken Rose on his weekly show called "What Now". You can download and listen to it anytime. Go to PantedMonkey.org, then go to "Season Two", 9/27/10, and click on my name. There are literally hundreds of hour-long interviews there worth listening to.