notes from outside

Last night, a search for BBC2’s Earth: The Power Of The Planet yielded this little gem about green building in Bend, Oregon. Quite fascinating, even inspiring, I was disappointed that the segment was ‘blink and you miss it’ brief. So much detail not really covered by the cameraman. This is one time the HGTV production […]

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I feel weak, having spent nearly the whole of the day sprawled across my loveseat with Ken Burns’ documentary The War on a seemingly endless loop. This, and I took no promethazine last night. I thought of food, of eating breakfast, lunch, anything as the hours drifted past and the level of natural light in […]

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Courtesy The Indypendent
Kucinich on HR 1955
December 2, 2007
By Jessica Lee, The Indypendent
Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) said that he believes the proposed Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act (H.R. 1955/S. 1959) is unconstitutional.
Speaking to a crowd of supporters in New York City Nov. 29, Kucinich took several questions from the audience, including […]

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Courtesy The Indypendent
Bringing the War on Terrorism Home: Congress Considers How to ‘Disrupt’ Radical Movements in the United States
By Jessica Lee
Under the guise of a bill that calls for the study of “homegrown terrorism,” Congress is apparently trying to broaden the definition of terrorism to encompass both First Amendment political activity and traditional forms of […]

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