<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine</title><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/</link><description>Toward a Sustainable Future</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:49:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:16:15 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Adapting to  -  not just fighting  -  climate change is taking the heat out of global warming talk</title>
<description><![CDATA[The greedy, evil people who control our  governments were right.  This planet was theirs to disrupt and destroy.   We could not stop them because they were in charge and we were  sufficiently sated by consumerism that we would not stand up to them.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/16/18990927-adapting-to-not-just-fighting-climate-change-is-taking-the-heat-out-of-global-warming-talk</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/16/18990927-adapting-to-not-just-fighting-climate-change-is-taking-the-heat-out-of-global-warming-talk</guid><category>environment</category><category>associated-press</category><category>sustainability</category><category>adaptation</category><category>global-climate-change</category><category>environment-canada</category><category>resilience</category><category>climate-disruption</category><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:48:18 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earon006AA73B-FE05-98A5-AEF8-8C1510C2AEB8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="609" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earon006AA73B-FE05-98A5-AEF8-8C1510C2AEB8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="183" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Corporate Media and the Phoney Baloney IRS Scandal</title>
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There are times when it is crystal clear that the American Media is  passionately in bed with the Corporate Republicans, while still flirting  with Corporate Democrats.&nbsp; Normal people, good citizens, are of no  interest whatsoever.&nbsp;
The IRS "scandal" is bogus.&nbsp; Ob&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/17/18326287-corporate-media-and-the-phoney-baloney-irs-scandal</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/17/18326287-corporate-media-and-the-phoney-baloney-irs-scandal</guid><category>tax</category><category>politics</category><category>scandal</category><category>government</category><category>irs</category><category>obama</category><category>tea-party</category><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:31:04 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earon9C4EFC78-8A65-2B14-7D35-853F1483909F.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="200" width="200" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earon9C4EFC78-8A65-2B14-7D35-853F1483909F.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Gun Ownership, Suicide and The Freedom To Die</title>
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Suicides are increasing in the US, and not only among Veterans.&nbsp; The large majority of gun deaths in the US are suicides, not homocides.&nbsp; Look it up!&nbsp; If you are involved with the gun debate, on either side, and don't know that guns are more likely to be used for &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/07/18108765-gun-ownership-suicide-and-the-freedom-to-die</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/07/18108765-gun-ownership-suicide-and-the-freedom-to-die</guid><category>suicide</category><category>politics</category><category>guns</category><category>homicide</category><category>second-amendment</category><category>right-to-die</category><category>gun-right</category><pubDate>Tue, 7 May 2013 20:53:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earonE3B069E6-7ECF-C0BE-24E7-8653E2F941A7.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="200" width="200" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earonE3B069E6-7ECF-C0BE-24E7-8653E2F941A7.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>It Is Frightening To Say It, But The Empire Is Striking Back with Class Warfare</title>
<description><![CDATA[
As Americans, we do not like to focus on social and economic class.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/06/18089273-it-is-frightening-to-say-it-but-the-empire-is-striking-back-with-class-warfare</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/06/18089273-it-is-frightening-to-say-it-but-the-empire-is-striking-back-with-class-warfare</guid><category>politics</category><category>social-class</category><category>royalty</category><category>class-warfare</category><category>elites</category><category>robber-barons</category><pubDate>Mon, 6 May 2013 21:11:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earonE3B069E6-7ECF-C0BE-24E7-8653E2F941A7.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="200" width="200" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earonE3B069E6-7ECF-C0BE-24E7-8653E2F941A7.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Why Our Wealthy Aristocratic Elites Are Out to Make America Stupid and Reverse the American Revolution</title>
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I am writing, today, inspired by the never-ending flow of news items showing politicians pandering to the phony ideologies promoted by our wealthy elites.&nbsp; We seem powerless, as citizens, to distinguish between reality and the pro-austerity, anti-human paranoia that permeat&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17706087-why-our-wealthy-aristocratic-elites-are-out-to-make-america-stupid-and-reverse-the-american-revolution</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17706087-why-our-wealthy-aristocratic-elites-are-out-to-make-america-stupid-and-reverse-the-american-revolution</guid><category>politics</category><category>racism</category><category>sexism</category><category>gridlock</category><category>aristocrats</category><category>wealthy</category><category>lemmings</category><category>american-people</category><category>elites</category><category>homophobias</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:11:45 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earonE3B069E6-7ECF-C0BE-24E7-8653E2F941A7.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="200" width="200" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earonE3B069E6-7ECF-C0BE-24E7-8653E2F941A7.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>In Our Age of Business Entitlement, It Is Time for Tough Love</title>
<description><![CDATA[
It Is Time for Our "Positive Thinking" to Grow Up!&nbsp; We seem to believe that morality will tame the greed of our business communities and our corporate sociopaths.&nbsp; Sure.&nbsp; They will just come to their senses some day and see all the damage they are doing and become&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17687230-in-our-age-of-business-entitlement-it-is-time-for-tough-love</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17687230-in-our-age-of-business-entitlement-it-is-time-for-tough-love</guid><category>addicts</category><category>politics</category><category>republican</category><category>addiction</category><category>morality</category><category>greed</category><category>tough-love</category><category>gluttony</category><category>amoral</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:56:32 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earonE3B069E6-7ECF-C0BE-24E7-8653E2F941A7.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="200" width="200" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earonE3B069E6-7ECF-C0BE-24E7-8653E2F941A7.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Earon S. Davis, JD, MPH&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Is Sustainable Business Making a Difference? Not So Much. | LinkedIn</title>
<description><![CDATA[According to this annual report, it turns out that Green Business is not all it is cracked up to be.&nbsp; The marketplace is not resolving our gross over-production and over-consumptions of goods.&nbsp; It is just shifting some costs and burying others.&nbsp; We need to look at &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/21/17045635-is-sustainable-business-making-a-difference-not-so-much-linkedin</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/21/17045635-is-sustainable-business-making-a-difference-not-so-much-linkedin</guid><category>environment</category><category>change</category><category>solutions</category><category>green-business</category><category>joel-mackower</category><category>green-business-report</category><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:26:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earon96688D2D-5259-3388-5753-ACBC666778E8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earon96688D2D-5259-3388-5753-ACBC666778E8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Gun Culture:  Tread Lightly</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Yet another attempt by a white male to put our gun culture in perspective . . .
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Social change is difficult. Over the past 40 years, white males have  yielded many unreasonable and unearned privileges, transforming society  into one that is less racist, less sexist &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/20/16044296-gun-culture-tread-lightly</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/20/16044296-gun-culture-tread-lightly</guid><category>violence</category><category>guns</category><category>democracy</category><category>s</category><category>us-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>nra</category><category>gun-culture</category><category>sandy-hook</category><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:55:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earonF286D48B-62EA-2E6B-B542-B2C7B1D18D32.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="200" width="200" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earonF286D48B-62EA-2E6B-B542-B2C7B1D18D32.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Gun Wars:  A Plea for Calm</title>
<description><![CDATA[
&nbsp;
There are more crazies in America today than you can shake a stick at.&nbsp; Let's not allow their fear and paranoia to frighten us too much, though. I want to add that the vast, vast majority of gun owners are extremely  responsible people who are concerned about gun saf&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/19/16021623-gun-wars-a-plea-for-calm</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/19/16021623-gun-wars-a-plea-for-calm</guid><category>violence</category><category>politics</category><category>shootings</category><category>guns</category><category>gun-control</category><category>conservative</category><category>sandy-hook</category><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:56:18 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earonE3B069E6-7ECF-C0BE-24E7-8653E2F941A7.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="200" width="200" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earonE3B069E6-7ECF-C0BE-24E7-8653E2F941A7.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Free Enterprise Blames Obese Consumers for Everything</title>
<description><![CDATA[
If you don't have everything you desire, it is your fault because you  just don't have enough money and can't buy the myriad goods and services  that would make you happy, popular and loved.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/13/15888633-free-enterprise-blames-obese-consumers-for-everything</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/13/15888633-free-enterprise-blames-obese-consumers-for-everything</guid><category>health</category><category>obesity</category><category>boot-straps</category><category>blaming-the-victim</category><category>de-regulation</category><pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:28:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earonF286D48B-62EA-2E6B-B542-B2C7B1D18D32.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="200" width="200" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earonF286D48B-62EA-2E6B-B542-B2C7B1D18D32.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Earon S. Davis, JD, MPH&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>   United Republic introduces The American Anti-Corruption Act.  : Dangerous Intersection</title>
<description><![CDATA[There is a non-partisan movement being launched to remove some of the corrupting influence of money on Congress.&nbsp; To sign your support for the American Anti-Corruption Act, please go to this link:
act.unitedrepublic.org/event/cosponsor/6548/]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/29/15544183-united-republic-introduces-the-american-anti-corruption-act-dangerous-intersection</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/29/15544183-united-republic-introduces-the-american-anti-corruption-act-dangerous-intersection</guid><category>congress</category><category>politics</category><category>change-congress</category><category>united-republic</category><category>american-anti-corruption-act</category><category>bought-congress</category><category>jack-abramoff-nbsp</category><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:14:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earon8DFCFE2B-65CB-09FA-F635-790264CA1680.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="114" width="155" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earon8DFCFE2B-65CB-09FA-F635-790264CA1680.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="89" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>America Can Not Afford to Continue Paying the Costs of Bigotry</title>
<description><![CDATA[
I've been thinking about the terrible toll that bigotry takes on our society.&nbsp; Nowhere has this topic been more frustrating in this election year than when minority groups have been portrayed as "Takers."&nbsp; There are those who believe that one essential difference betwe&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/15/15197607-america-can-not-afford-to-continue-paying-the-costs-of-bigotry</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/15/15197607-america-can-not-afford-to-continue-paying-the-costs-of-bigotry</guid><category>politics</category><category>justice</category><category>prejudice</category><category>poverty</category><category>progressive</category><category>racism</category><category>sexism</category><category>trauma</category><category>conservative</category><category>bigotry</category><category>antisemitism</category><category>sexual-orientation</category><category>givers</category><category>takers</category><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:10:47 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earon60CBE918-62C0-D180-B3CF-9F1C0BF73697.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="200" width="200" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earon60CBE918-62C0-D180-B3CF-9F1C0BF73697.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Earon Davis, JD, MPH&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Our Food Industry Thinks that GMO Labeling Would Be a Disaster.  Why Don't You?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Why are GMO's so important?  The tens  of millions of dollars spent by corporations lobbying against the  labeling of genetically modified foods was surprising to many people.&nbsp; They had not realized that GMO's now dominate our food marketplace and that most mega corporate fo&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/13/15142706-our-food-industry-thinks-that-gmo-labeling-would-be-a-disaster-why-dont-you</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/13/15142706-our-food-industry-thinks-that-gmo-labeling-would-be-a-disaster-why-dont-you</guid><category>food</category><category>corruption</category><category>environment</category><category>choice</category><category>food-safety</category><category>gmos</category><category>right-to-know</category><category>corporate-collusion</category><category>proposition-37</category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:08:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>On Reason, Faith and Citizenship</title>
<description><![CDATA[
by Earon S. Davis, J.D., M.P.H.
I've been giving a lot of thought to the role  of religion in our lives.&nbsp;  For some, it opens the doors of connection  with others.&nbsp;  For others, it seems to close those doors.&nbsp;  This is pretty  much the definition of liberal vs. co&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/13/15141414-on-reason-faith-and-citizenship</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/13/15141414-on-reason-faith-and-citizenship</guid><category>faith</category><category>us-news</category><category>citizenship</category><category>reason</category><category>commentid-us-news</category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:33:45 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earonE3B069E6-7ECF-C0BE-24E7-8653E2F941A7.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="200" width="200" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=earonE3B069E6-7ECF-C0BE-24E7-8653E2F941A7.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Earon Davis, JD, MPH&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Will November Be the End of American Democracy or a Reprieve?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Yes, we need to defeat the Republican-led nutjobs who are trying to  destroy the American Dream, deify the financial elites, and bring  increased feudalism to our nation.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/23/12906669-will-november-be-the-end-of-american-democracy-or-a-reprieve</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/23/12906669-will-november-be-the-end-of-american-democracy-or-a-reprieve</guid><category>elections</category><category>politics</category><category>republican</category><category>fascism</category><category>november</category><category>mandate</category><category>john-birch-society</category><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:07:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Are Progressives Harming the Cause by Attacking Organized Religion and People of Faith? |  | AlterNet</title>
<description><![CDATA[There are many progressives and progressive-leaning Christians who may be pushed away from the Democratic candidates by strident atheism that sees absolutely no social consciousness in religion.&nbsp; The author suggests that true progressive change may be impossible without the &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/22/12895183-are-progressives-harming-the-cause-by-attacking-organized-religion-and-people-of-faith-alternet</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/22/12895183-are-progressives-harming-the-cause-by-attacking-organized-religion-and-people-of-faith-alternet</guid><category>politics</category><category>progressive</category><category>christianity</category><category>christian-peacemaker-teams</category><category>unitarian-universalist</category><category>professor-james-rohrer</category><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:40:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=Earon47C95601-2B4D-6112-2091-7DA3B1FC96E2.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="67" width="95" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=Earon47C95601-2B4D-6112-2091-7DA3B1FC96E2.jpg&amp;width=120" width="95" height="67" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>How Our Middle and Working Classes Got Corrupted by Republican Manipulation of Our Economy</title>
<description><![CDATA[  What pushed our nation over the edge to plutocracy is the intentional  Reagan (Heritage Foundation) strategy of pushing working and middle  class Americans into the stock market via investments, retirement funds.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/10/12668348-how-our-middle-and-working-classes-got-corrupted-by-republican-manipulation-of-our-economy</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/10/12668348-how-our-middle-and-working-classes-got-corrupted-by-republican-manipulation-of-our-economy</guid><category>politics</category><category>republican</category><category>manipulation</category><category>plutocracy</category><category>anti-regulation</category><category>de-regulation</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:52:18 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Plundering America:  The Repeating Cycle of Corporate Plutocracy</title>
<description><![CDATA[Here's one pattern in which our economic system has been manipulated by the financial elites:
1. HugeCorpo is successful and has amassed a war chest for expansion to dominate the marketplace.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/10/12663731-plundering-america-the-repeating-cycle-of-corporate-plutocracy</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/10/12663731-plundering-america-the-repeating-cycle-of-corporate-plutocracy</guid><category>business</category><category>corruption</category><category>exploitation</category><category>plutocracy</category><category>externalities</category><category>exte</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:42:59 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Transcendent Paradox of Self-Awareness:  How Cognitive Dissonance Prevents Most of Us From Understanding Cognitive Dissonance</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Transcendent Paradox of Self-Awareness:&nbsp; How Cognitive Dissonance Prevents Most of Us From Understanding It.
It&rsquo;s not a matter of kindness or hard work or even spiritual awareness.&nbsp; Human stupidity will inevitably catch up with us, and all the more quickly whe&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/25/11887143-the-transcendent-paradox-of-self-awareness-how-cognitive-dissonance-prevents-most-of-us-from-understanding-cognitive-dissonance</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/25/11887143-the-transcendent-paradox-of-self-awareness-how-cognitive-dissonance-prevents-most-of-us-from-understanding-cognitive-dissonance</guid><category>education</category><category>psychology</category><category>philosophy</category><category>human-stupidity</category><category>human-nature</category><category>cognitive-dissonance</category><category>human-perfectibility</category><category>human-primates</category><pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 03:23:58 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Apocalypse Soon: Has Civilization Passed the Environmental Point of No Return?: Scientific American</title>
<description><![CDATA[" . . . the latest global data are tracking one of the most alarming  scenarios, in which these variables increase steadily to reach a peak  and then suddenly drop in a process called collapse. In fact, "I see  collapse happening already," he says. "Food per capita is going down,&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/24/11859083-apocalypse-soon-has-civilization-passed-the-environmental-point-of-no-return-scientific-american</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/24/11859083-apocalypse-soon-has-civilization-passed-the-environmental-point-of-no-return-scientific-american</guid><category>environment</category><category>apocalypse</category><category>global-climate-change</category><category>limits-to-growth</category><category>jorgen-randers</category><category>crisis-already-here</category><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:13:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=Earon75CF3578-7F6C-B4E9-1192-F6ADA49D1A8A.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="90" width="340" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=Earon75CF3578-7F6C-B4E9-1192-F6ADA49D1A8A.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="32" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Occupy Walden Pond; Occupy the Tea Party</title>
<description><![CDATA[
I just returned from a trip to Boston, where I was able to visit  Walden Pond, Lexington and Concord.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/22/11814080-occupy-walden-pond-occupy-the-tea-party</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/22/11814080-occupy-walden-pond-occupy-the-tea-party</guid><category>boston</category><category>democracy</category><category>freedom</category><category>tea-party</category><category>occupy</category><category>walden-pond</category><pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 19:06:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=EaronE257B741-53DC-7DD4-3FEB-62AE77BBD885.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="240" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=EaronE257B741-53DC-7DD4-3FEB-62AE77BBD885.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="72" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Earon at Walden Pond 5/21/12&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Hedges: How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane |  | AlterNet</title>
<description><![CDATA[When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in  the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water  be poisoned. Let the forests die.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/14/11698621-hedges-how-our-demented-capitalist-system-made-america-insane-alternet</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/14/11698621-hedges-how-our-demented-capitalist-system-made-america-insane-alternet</guid><category>future</category><category>capitalism</category><category>marx</category><category>hedges</category><category>self-destruction</category><category>occupy</category><category>walter-benjamin</category><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:28:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=Earon71A9D456-1808-19D8-C820-5F86A26A0B78.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="68" width="95" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=Earon71A9D456-1808-19D8-C820-5F86A26A0B78.jpg&amp;width=120" width="95" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Kadner: Kirk talks about tax cuts due to quality health care - Southtown Star</title>
<description><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) on Tuesday  released a brief videotape of his recovery process from a severe stroke  he suffered Jan. 21.
He speaks in a halting voice, thanks his nurses  and doctors at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and then sends a  message to voters. He &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/09/11619879-kadner-kirk-talks-about-tax-cuts-due-to-quality-health-care-southtown-star</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/09/11619879-kadner-kirk-talks-about-tax-cuts-due-to-quality-health-care-southtown-star</guid><category>politics</category><category>stroke</category><category>disability</category><category>mark-kirk</category><category>rehabilitation-institute</category><category>obamacare</category><pubDate>Wed, 9 May 2012 17:18:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Reclaiming the Moral Center of America</title>
<description><![CDATA[
For many of us progressives, it has been obvious that we are upholding traditional American values that are under attack by powerful right-wing extremists.&nbsp; We tend to express our American values as ethical rather than moral, because the religious right constantly uses the &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/01/11483691-reclaiming-the-moral-center-of-america</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/01/11483691-reclaiming-the-moral-center-of-america</guid><category>politics</category><category>ethics</category><category>voting</category><category>lies</category><category>republican</category><category>christianity</category><category>morality</category><category>values</category><category>immoral</category><pubDate>Tue, 1 May 2012 11:36:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=EaronD23C015E-E783-DF12-0BD3-2BDDEB1DF032.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="200" width="200" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=EaronD23C015E-E783-DF12-0BD3-2BDDEB1DF032.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Earon Davis, Sustainability Advocate and Teacher&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>99% Spring Launches </title>
<description><![CDATA[
April 25—1T Day: Break  the link between higher education and the banks on the day student loan  debt passes $1 trillion. Students across the country will demand  affordable education by taking direct action against banks as well as  administrators/regents/trustees who are i&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Earon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Earon]]></source><link>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/24/11376598-99-spring-launches</link><guid>http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/24/11376598-99-spring-launches</guid><category>us-news</category><category>higher-education</category><category>may-day</category><category>wells-fargo-shareholder</category><category>national-action-dates</category><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:52:42 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=EaronF5E77546-D5DF-0B73-6035-5CD304483128.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="61" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=EaronF5E77546-D5DF-0B73-6035-5CD304483128.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="19" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>