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Couldn't find a blog on NewsTalkers  - so here is one ... obviously  there's some work remaining on the new interface .... no text list of members to facilitate finding old friends for one ...

  I have begun to publish sections and segments of the Popes letter on OUR network of blogs (NatuRedux.com) as well as on Linkedin & Quora & Newsvine & NewsTalkers and will add my comments over time. Pappa francescos 180 page letter is much less about religion than it is about nature and the planet earth. He proposes some fairly radical yet simple and understandable solutions for...

Way back in 2008, I started on Huffpo and NV as Indy Lib. Folks got confused and thought I was a liberal from Indianapolis. It was actually short for Independent Liberation. So I changed my name to Chucky Stuart, and so it was for several years. I dropped from Huffpo and started on NewsTalkers, trying to find common ground with folks from all ideologies. Well, Chucky was a wimp, so I ghosted...

2016 Sixpick for the highest office in the land. 1. He is loved by everyone - Moderates, Commies, RWNJ's 2. He understands the damage Obama has done and how to repair the damage. 3. He is a voice for the working class and not obligated to big donors. 4. He understands the immigration problem and why you can't have both a welfare state and open borders. 5. He is a...

"Why are you running? You know you can't outrun a bear! "I don't have to outrun the bear ..... I just have to outrun you!"

This is not to be a philosophical essay on intergenerational justice. ( http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-intergenerational/ ) It shall be, instead, spare and sparse and even terse. This is not a question in search of an answer, though answers are welcome, as is dialogue. I am standing beside a stream, a small river. I have a 55 gallon drum of toxic crap to get rid of. I dump it...

Blockadia Rising: Voices of the Tar Sands Blockade from Garrett Graham on Vimeo . Blockadia Rising: Voices of the Tar Sands Blockade is an hour-long documentary film written and directed by Garrett Graham in collaboration with the Tar Sands Blockade and features exclusive video footage shot by the blockaders themselves during the course of over six months of sustained resistance. In...

http://www.democracynow.org - Could the United States face another economic collapse? Writer and broadcaster Thom Hartmann looks back at past financial crises and comes to a startling conclusion. "As long as you don't look too closely at our nation, things seem under control -- the United States looks whole ... but when you go around to the 'dark back side' of the nation, you see the...

I'm very impressed by this man and this short video. I delight in Mr. Schneider's graceful way of weaving scientific, social, political and ethical questions and issues together into such a lovely, concise statement about our human situation with regard to climate change. - J.M. _________________________________________________________ Stephen Henry Schneider (February 11, 1945 -- July...

I have nothing against Donald Trump (/s). He's the best thing that ever happened to the Democrats. I am so glad he switched Parties and now claims to be a Republican. Can you imagine if he was saying all this crazy shit as a Democrat? The Republicans would be having a fucking field day!

[original text in here said I was leaving the forum to get away from the trolls. I changed my mind about that, though it is still unclear that was a wise decision.]