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Cars are Enemy #1 for the nature of cities

Admin July 9, 2021 0 Comments
"Humanity managed for the better part of 400,000 years without cars and did just fine. Julius Caesar, Michelangelo, William Shakespeare, Adam Smith, and Abraham Lincoln lived in cities and never drove an automobile. They didn’t need one, or thought to need one. And you wouldn’t need one either if we could arrange our lives such that you can get where you need to go without a car. What does...
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How Free Markets Work: Socialism for the Rich and Capitalism for the Poor

Admin July 7, 2021 0 Comments
"The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich. Concentration of wealth leads naturally to concentration of power, which in turn translates to legislation favoring the interests of the rich and powerful and thereby increasing even further concentration of power and wealth."...
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HOW WE SEE THE WORLD

Admin July 6, 2021 0 Comments
Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works - what some call a paradigm - that forms the very questions we allow ourselves to ask, and determines our view of future possibilities. -- Frances Moore Lappé
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Stop and Look Around You

Admin July 5, 2021 0 Comments
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” ― Leo Tolstoy
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LEAD SAFE PAINT CERTIFICATION

Admin July 3, 2021 0 Comments
Lead is a toxic metal that is especially harmful to brain development in children under age 6 and babies still growing in the womb. Lead paint also poses a hazard for those who come in contact with it during every stage of its use – manufacture, use, removal, and disposal. Lead Safe Paint® is an independent, third-party certification program that lets customers know that the paint they are...
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The Government needs to incorporate suicide prevention in MCO plans

Admin July 1, 2021 0 Comments
In 2020, 266 took their own lives between 19 March and 30 October while there were 1,080 suicide attempts according to the Health Ministry. The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) is concerned because these figures are just the tip of the iceberg and on the rise. The government needs to incorporate suicide prevention in its Movement Control Order (MCO) plans. Government agencies were flooded...
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Another forest in jeopardy: Proposed mining in Kuala Mukim Tembeling, Jerantut, Pahang – SAM calls to halt project

Admin June 30, 2021 0 Comments
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is concerned about the spate of mining projects being proposed in forest reserves.  The most recent proposal of which an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report has been submitted for public review is the proposed iron ore mining project at Kuala Mukim Tembeling, Jerantut in the state of Pahang. The proposed project intends to excavate iron ore at an...
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The danger of the past was that men became Slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become Robots

Admin June 30, 2021 0 Comments
“In addition to conformity as a way to relieve the anxiety springing from separateness, another factor of contemporary life must be considered: the role of the work routine and the pleasure routine. Man becomes a 'nine to fiver', he is part of the labour force, or the bureaucratic force of clerks and managers. He has little initiative, his tasks are prescribed by the organisation of the work;...
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