tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15481557440378536342012-01-30T07:46:32.163-08:00Comments and Articles on some of the important issues of our times from a bottom up perspective. We're all stakeholders. We're all in this together. Ashes to ashes, mud to mud.The Mud Reportnoreply@blogger.comBlogger455125Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with NewsAlloySubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with Attensa for OutlookSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with FlurrySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily RotationThe Mud Report Comments and Articles on some of the important issues of our times from a bottom up perspective and written by many bits of lucky mud from many places. 'We're all in this together'. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548155744037853634.post-47707727605843224752012-01-30T07:39:00.004-08:002012-01-30T07:46:32.171-08:002012-01-30T07:46:32.171-08:00

It's Moneybags Mitt in the lead, Newt fading fast in second with Rick the righteous and outsider Ron Paul in a dead heat for last heading for the wire in Tuesday's Republican primary in Florida. The sucking sound you're hearing is the sigh of relief coming from Mitt's fellow vampire capitialist buddies on Wall St. Money talks and bullshit walks as the old saying goes. But the 'real' story, IMO,

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Between mid-Janurary and mid-Feburary is the best time to clear-temporarily-blackberries here in Cascadia. mr. mud has been slowly trying to build a perimeter fence around the hideout here in Blackpoint. The point of this fence building exercise isn't to exclude 'others' but to be a greater service to the animal rescue-especially dog rescue-people in the area. Since moving to the Powell River

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Yesterday Canada's facist in chief delivered his red meat loaded agenda to the assembled choir of billionaires in Davos Switzerland. For one thing Harpo touted Canada's strong economic condition within the developed world's economies, which is true. But, of course, he trumpted his government's actions as the major factor in Canada's position when in fact it's a combination of relatively strong

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This just in from Adbusters. Kalle Lasn, editor of Adbusters, was the person who orginally called out folks to Occupy Wall St. Hopefully this will be as huge a success and as groundbreaking as that one continues to be. ADBUSTERS TACTICAL BRIEFING #25...Showdown in Chicago. Hey you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there, Against the backdrop of a global uprising that is simmering in dozens

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Yesterday's post was about the roles human psychology and ecomonics played in the recent disaster at the Burns Lake sawmill. Today's will attempt to show how rapid climate change and the accompanying rapid spread of the mountain pine beetle's habitat also played a big part in the disaster. The mountain pine beetle has been around for millions of years. It's habitat has grown and shrunk many

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The town of Burns Lake is in shock and mourning the death of two members of its tight knit community. The sawmill that exploded and burned to the ground injuring 19 and killing 2 is owned the Burns Lake Native Development Corp. and Portland, Ore. based forest products company Hampton Affiliates. Wilf Adam, the chief of the Lake Babine Nation, said he has talked to several workers who say they

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The American hedge fund, Third Avenue Management LLC, a N.Y. city hedge fund that is the principle bond holder of Catalyst Paper Corporation and Trimark Global High Yield Bond Fund, the next largest bond holder, have loaded the Powell River mill with debt during the past years when pulp and paper prices were high. Instead of re-investing in the mill's infrastructure by buying new equipment that

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Anonymous, a worldwide hacktivist un-organization, has shown in the last few days with its successful attacks on a wide variety of government, security and capitialist websites that it is a powerful force despite it's un-organized hive like nature. In fact it is this un-organization with its horizontal decision making that generates that power and makes it capable of being thought of as 'The Air

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Real libertarians are environmentalists because of the realization that we all have the right to personal liberty. Libertarians, at least the one writing these lines, believe in their personal liberty to breathe clean air, to drink clean water, eat real food and enjoy peace. Liberty to enjoy my life as i see fit' also includes the responsibility of the golden rule 'do unto others as you'd have

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The liar Obama is at it again. Unfortunately many media outlets are saying that environmentalists are buying this shallow political tactic. This morning Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, published an article that's being widely quoted in which he lavishes praise on Obama's decision. It ends with: "Having watched the conventional wisdom get upturned once this year, I’m a little less convinced

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First off, i'm not an expert on feeding birds so i've provided a few excellant links below to sites developed by people who are. That said, there are a few basic things that i've learned from my research online and from my friends who've been at it far longer than i have. When i moved here to Black Point just south of Powell River late last winter i noticed that there were quite a few birds

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Muhammad Ali is 'The Greatest' and one of my lifelong heroes. The conviction and courage Muhammad Ali has shown throughout his life continues to inspire millions of people everywhere. Happy Birthday wishes pour in from around the world, a world that today is sorely lacking in giants like Muhammad Ali. Ali was in his youth the greatest boxer of his time. He was the most popular and recognizable

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Chickens have long ago had most, but not all, of their natural defenses bred out of them in favor of traits like huge eggs and such. i've watched in amazement many times as my free range backyard crew scuttled under my old beater van as soon as the eagles started circling overhead. They don't all just hide. Most of them tightly pack around the rooster but a couple are always designated to keep

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Like Petro States everywhere Canada continues to cut taxes on its rich benefactors and live on the royalities generated by the fossil fuel bubble. This type of scenerio always leads in one direction, the few get richer, the many get poorer. In this specific instance though the value of these short term 'gains' must be judged not only against the social justice inequities but also the long term

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Protestors are protesting and many like-minded others are equally saddened on this the tenth anniversary of the opening of Gitmo, a very black eye for America and another clear reminder of the lies Obama told when running for president. Media outlets are running this story and calling it an example of Obama's broken promises and citing various reasons why this promise was broken. The media

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Conserving is not part of the Canadian Conservative Party agenda, their sole focus is on short term profits for the corporations that support them. Yesterday's open letter by Joe Oliver attacking 'environmentalists and other radicals' clearly shows their one-sided view of reality foremost being the meaning of 'conserve'. The Harperites want to spin Canadians into believing that profit for their

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Poor Mitt Romney can't seem to rise above the 25-30% ceiling in all the Republican polls. Seems at least half the GOP's followers are Evangelical Christians and the vast majority of them think Mormonism-Mitts chosen delusion-is just plain crazy. Evangelical Christians themselves have a close kinship with crazy so most likely are in the know about such things. The topic of Mitt Romney’s magic

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Canada is a huge place. So huge its 35 million people are divided into far-flung clusters both spacially and culturally. Highways, trains and planes connect places, hockey connects cultures. Everywhere, atlantic to pacific to arctic, gets 'Hockey Night in Canada'. Almost everybody has their favorite NHL team depending on where they live or grew up. But the World Juniors are different, everybody

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Check out the crowds, Ron Paul is drawing big huge crowds in Iowa. There's a lot of young people, Independents and Democrats in those crowds. Ron Paul is the wild card in 2012, even Ralph Nader says. “Libertarians like Ron Paul are on our side on civil liberties. They’re on our side against the military-industrial complex. They’re on our side against Wall Street. They’re on our side for investor

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Ron Paul's leading in Iowa with one week to go both because his long time devoted supporters and a new younger disillusioned x-Obama anti-war group are knocking on every door in the state. He's poised to either win or place a strong second, either result is an embarrassment for the GOP's establishment who has rejected Paul because he sees the folly of foreign wars, because of his advocacy of a

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Amish Christmas Lights Read up on the Amish a bit today after getting the Amish Christmas Lights picture/joke by email. Turns out they're very neat in some ways and not what i expected in others. They don't use electricity except what they generate with diesel generators. They'll use modern gasoline driven baling equipment as long as it's pulled through the fields by horses. The Amish are as

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The countdown to the apocalypse is on. We’re one year away from Dec. 21, 2012, the date that the ancient Mayan Long Count calendar allegedly marked as the end of an era that would reset the date to zero and signal the end of humanity. The Mayan civilization excelled at advanced mathematics and primitive astronomy, creating what has been called the most accurate calendar in the world. So, once

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Evidence shows that since at least the neolithic era, losely defined as the end of the last ice age and the begining of agriculture, our ancestors of every culture celebrated the winter solstice and the return of the sun. Almost every ancient culture built their greatest architectures - tombs, temples, cairns and sacred observatories - so that they aligned with the solstices and equinoxes. Out

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Left and right are artificial divisions in what is better modeled by a circular spectrum than a linear metaphor. The linear outlook has the TEA Party and OWS at opposite ends, the circular view has them shoulder to shoulder and over lapping on many issues. The OWS chant, "We are the 99%", is only true if the right-left dichotomy is given the boot. Dividing the 99% into opposing camps is the

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