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Farmers can use toxic and polluting fertilisers and insecticide as much as they like, but if you’re organic you need to be inspected and certified.  That’s fucked up.

Because one day you might have to explain all this shit to an alien and you sure as hell don’t want to be like this poor chap. Strike for better. It’s the only sensible route we have open to us.

The final kicker here is that the 113-per-cent voter turnout happened in the Legal Affairs committee (JURI), which has the responsibility of safeguarding the integrity and trustworthiness of the legal framework as a whole in Europe. Read this, get angry. http://falkvinge.net/2012/03/14/european-parliament-blocks-copyright-reform-with-113-voter-turnout/

From The Traveler, by John Twelve Hawks

Exactly one month ago, Richard (may I call you Richard?), you published these words in an interview which ran with the subtitle “Sir Richard Branson says the future belongs to entrepreneurs who put people and the planet before short-term profit.” I believe that business can be a force for good, and that by doing the right thing…

In the lifespan of an idea there comes a time when each time it is aired it seems more and more ridiculous. Whilst there’s a part of me that wishes bigoted archbishops would shut the fuck up, there’s a part of me which delights in their red-faced, small-minded outrage. Don’t worry, everyone, they’ll all be dead…

NOT the symptom.

There is probably no other word that would be as overused in the media discourse as ‘generation’. I once tried to count the ‘generations’ that have been proclaimed in the past ten years, since the well-known article about the so-called ‘Generation Nothing’; I believe there were as many as twelve. They all had one thing…