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		<title>Peer-to-Peer Themes and Urban Priorities for the Self-organizing Society</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/07/peer-to-peer-themes-and-urban-priorities-for-the-self-organizing-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikos A. Salingaros</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Nikos A. Salingaros, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Abstract
This essay presents desirable social functioning as basically a matter of free individual decision. I discuss two basic polarities: Left versus Right, and P2P (Peer-to-Peer) versus Global-mass-society. Each polarity takes certain distinctions and concerns as key to understanding political life. A self-organizing P2P society is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divine Injustice</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/02/01/divine-injustice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drone warfare can be used to thwart democratic movements, anywhere.
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.

The ancient Greeks, unlike the Jews or the Christians, invested their gods with human failings. Divine judgement, they believed, was neither flawless nor dispassionate; it was warped by lust, vengeance and self-interest. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Design Template for 25-500 Families</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/31/community-design-template-for-25-500-families/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dann Zealley</dc:creator>
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Introduction

  Back in 2008 I spent 6 weeks in Venezuela. I have a Venezuelan friend who believes as I do that permaculture could and should be a driving force for positive change. We both also believe that the Bolivarian Revolution, championed most famously by the charismatic and controversially colourful personality of Hugo Chavez, despite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permaculture and Wall Street &#8212; We Must Tackle the Runaway Fiscal Economy Head On, &#8220;We Must Face Up and Fight&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/30/permaculture-and-wall-street-we-must-tackle-the-runaway-fiscal-economy-head-on-we-must-face-up-and-fight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admire the efforts of the permaculturists at the Occupy Wall Street camp, and I think, judging by his statement way back in 1983 (see below), that Bill would admire them also.

  


Hunger is rising, absolute hunger is rising, food&#8217;s badly distributed, not distributed at all often. The waste of food, the whole deal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shared Patterns of Indigenous Culture, Permaculture and Digital Commons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Bollier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by David Bollier

    Joline Blais
Rarely have I read an essay that knits together some very different commons with such wisdom and depth. Joline Blais&#8217; 2006 essay, &#8220;Indigenous Domain: Pilgrims, Permaculture and Perl,&#8221; is a wonderfully insightful analysis that reveals the underlying unity and logic of commons principles. Her piece appeared in Intelligent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living, Green and Circular</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2012/01/13/living-green-and-circular/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Mae-Wan Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Truly Green Economy needs to be modeled after and embedded within the circular economy of nature to generate and regenerate wealth for people and planet.
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
Note: A fully illustrated and referenced version of this article is posted on ISIS members website and is otherwise available for download here.

  The linear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Freedom Became Tyranny</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/24/how-freedom-became-tyranny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://permaculture.org.au/?p=6793</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rightwing libertarians have turned “freedom” into an excuse for greed and exploitation. 
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.

Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Unmasking the Press</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/14/unmasking-the-press/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The corporate newspapers are the elite’s enforcers, misrepresenting the sources of oppression. 
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.

Have we ever been so badly served by the press? We face multiple crises – economic, environmental, democratic – but most newspapers represent them neither clearly nor fairly. The industry which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unanimous Decision by L.A. Council Makes the City First to Vote Against Corporate Personhood</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/09/unanimous-decision-by-l-a-council-makes-the-city-first-to-vote-against-corporate-personhood/</link>
		<comments>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/09/unanimous-decision-by-l-a-council-makes-the-city-first-to-vote-against-corporate-personhood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor</dc:creator>
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Hey, here&#8217;s some good news to brighten your day. The Los Angeles Council has made L.A. the first U.S. city to officially vote for a constitutional amendment to overturn the 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling that effectively granted corporate entities the same rights as individual citizens. (The ruling allowed unlimited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slash and Burn Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://permaculture.org.au/2011/12/07/slash-and-burn-capitalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Monbiot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now the government intends to strip away protection from our most treasured places
by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom.

What sort of a world would George Osborne like to live in? I imagine him fantasising about the Republic of Gilead in Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Unprotected workers, assigned [...]]]></description>
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