A self described Christian anarcho-capitalist, Shane is an internet and technology entrepreneur, political philosopher and futurist, who currently calls Los Angeles, California home.
Sweet corn, grown with no pesticides or herbicides. My field is never tilled. I cover it with horse manure compost every fall, and I cover that with straw. When I weed it by hand, the weeds are left to decompose right in place as a mulch. Squash and beans grow alongside the corn, and everything is planted by hand.
It can be done. We don’t need Monsanto. We need human labor right there, side by side with the plants. We don’t need massive petroleum powered agriculture, we need people working small horticultural plots, gaining knowledge of their specific land and it’s needs. Our land needs to be enclosed by wild space, fecund and full of birds, and bats, and insects, and snakes, and turtles, and all of the other beings that make an ecosystem function.
We can make a desert of the earth in an attempt to get high yields of low quality crops so a few corporations can temporarily get great financial returns, or we can have people spend their days bringing their food into existence, getting in touch with their bio regions, and building healthy soil and ecosystems for generations to come.
EXCLUSIVE: Videos published on YouTube earlier this week show burly, heavily armed soldiers with no insignia in Donetsk, which has been gripped by pro-Moscow protests.
They're getting pretty good at overthrowing governments and suppressing rebellions, unfortunately. They simply turn up the propaganda machine and throw in a few hundred trained mercs. Before you know it they've toppled and destabilized a sovereign nation into absolute dependency. Dependency which comes in the form of loans, structured to put the country under insurmountable debt, eternally enslaving nearly every single Ukrainian.
18 Stats That Prove That Government Dependence Has Reached Epidemic Levels
“#1 According to an analysis of U.S. government numbers conducted by Terrence P. Jeffrey, there are 86 million full-time private sector workers in the United States paying taxes to support the government, and nearly 148 million Americans that are receiving benefits from the government each month. How long can such a lopsided system possibly continue?
I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday--the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness--is where success, let alone happiness, emerges. - Josh Waitzkin, "The Art of Learning"
"Here's the amazing thing about human motivation: If you can tap into it properly, there's a never ending supply of it. It's like cold fusion for loyalty. And whoever figures out how to harness that energy is going to win." - Rajat Paharia, Loyalty 3.0
"Living on the water requires constant pressence, and the release of control. A boat is always moving with the sea, lurching beneath your feet, and the only way to survive is to sink into rhythm with the waves and be ready for anything". -Josh Waitzkin, The Art of Learning
House of Cards, the Netflix sensation, has a bit of a reputation for trolling real life politicians. It’s probably one of the absolute greatest marketing moves of all time, and it pays off in huge dividends. Their latest target was Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
Monitoring the flow of fiat currencies like the US Dollar and the Chinese Yuan into the digital currency Bitcoin. Data extracted from all major trading exchanges including MT.Gox, Bitstamp, BTCChina, BTC-E, Bit2c, Mercado Bitcoin BR and Local Bitcoins.
One day before Crimea votes on whether to secede from Ukraine and join Russia, Ukrainian officials are accusing Russia of invading mainland Ukraine.
Tomorrow, voters in Crimea will cast their ballots on a referendum that will declare the peninsula’s independence from Ukraine and request annexation by Russia. Ahead of the vote on the widely condemned measure, it’s been a tense, eventful day in the region. Here are the major developments:
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has accused Russia of invading mainland Ukraine. This is the first reported presence of Russian troops beyond the Crimean peninsula.
As many as 50,000 Russian protestors marched through Moscow to rally against Russian action and intervention in Ukraine. Russian authorities suggested that only 3,000 participated.
A vote by the United Nations Security Council to invalidate the Crimean referendum was scuttled after Russia used its veto.
A bipartisan delegation of U.S. Senators visited Kiev to express solidarity with the new Ukrainian government and to renew blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
There were reports of violence in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, where two people were killed and a dozen injured in a shootout earlier this morning.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrovfailed to reach an agreement yesterday evening on how to solve the crisis.
For more of our ongoing coverage, see our live blog below:
Update:
3:24 p.m.: Samantha Power, the American Ambassador to the United Nations,responded to a question about reports of possible Russian troop movements in south Ukraine:
"Obviously if Russia has compounded what it has done in Crimea by crossing into south Ukraine that would be an outrageous escalation."
2:55 p.m.: Reuters reports that today’s opposition protests in Moscow were the largest in over two years. The invasion and annexation of Crimea is popular in Russia, but could also galvanize Putin’s opponents. The Moscow demonstration has been characterized as “a sign that his [Putin’s] intervention in Ukraine might provide a rallying point for an opposition movement that had run out of steam.”
2:07 p.m.: In a potentially explosive development, Ukrainian officials are now accusing Russia of dispatching troops onto the Ukrainian mainland. This would mark the first presence of troops outside the Crimean peninsula.
Ukraine’s foreign ministry issued a protest against the troop landing in the Kherson region near Crimea, and demanded an immediate withdrawal. The ministry said about 80 troops had landed along with four helicopter gunships and three armored vehicles. It said Ukraine “reserves the right to use all necessary measures to stop the military invasion by Russia.”
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs added that “Ukraine reserves the right to use all necessary measures to stop the military invasion by Russia.”
12:37 p.m.: The United Nations Security Council has just voted on a resolution that would affirm Ukraine’s borders and sovereignty. Not surprisingly, the measure didn’t pass because Russia vetoed it. For those keeping tabs, China abstained.
The resolution would have invalidated tomorrow’s referendum in Crimea over its potential secession from Ukraine—at least in the eyes of the United Nations.
Samantha Power, the American Ambassador to the United Nations, had words about it:
In another symbolic measure, the Ukrainian parliament voted to dissolve the Crimean Supreme Council, which led the charge for tomorrow’s referendum.
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One day before Crimea votes on whether to secede from Ukraine and join Russia, 50,000 demonstrators gathered in Moscow to protest Russian intervention in Ukraine.
Marchers carried placards reading “Putin, get out of Ukraine” and others comparing Russia’s move on Crimea with the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland as Europe rushed headlong into World War II.
You could call this a surprise twist. Sweden’s foreign minister was duly impressed:
Meanwhile in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which has been the site of some pro-Kremlin and pro-Kiev clashes, two people were killed in a shootout earlier today. Each side has chimed in as Russia claims the violence is due to ultranationalist Ukrainians and Ukrainian officials characterize the flare-ups as premeditated Russian activity.
Just hours before, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry failed to reach an agreement with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in a meeting about how best to end the crisis in Ukraine ahead of the Crimea vote. Needless to say, this will be an eventful weekend.
The latest Pew Research Center survey regarding the conflict between Russia and Ukraine reveals, “By a roughly two-to-one margin (56% vs. 29%), the public says it is more important for the U.S. to not get involved in the situation with Russia and Ukraine than to take a firm stand against Russian actions.”
Though majorities of Republicans, Democrats and independents disapprove of the Obama administration’s handling of the situation, majorities in each group also want the United States “not to get too involved” in the current conflict, including 50 percent of Republicans, 55 percent of Democrats and 62 percent of independents.
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