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Overcoming Adversity; The Creation of ‘Fluid Ink’

Note: "Fluid Ink" is Taboo Jive's 'Facebook Fan page of the Week' kicking off 2012. Please read Rainer's story of how it all got started and follow her work by finding the link to her fan page at the end of her story below...enjoy! - TJ By Rainer Galea…

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January 3, 2012

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Irrational National Belief and Grief

By Tom Hastings @ Hastings On Nonviolence Propaganda. That's what Hugo Chavez uses to cover his ugly tracks when he imprisons judges who don't rule the way he wants. That's what Fidel used for decades of enslaving the Cuban people and making them feel happy to be in chains.…

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January 2, 2012

Editorials / Extraterrestrial / Media / Religion / Science

Our God Sayeth: We are at the center!

By OcJim Recent polls show that nearly 50% of Americans believe that the earth is less than 10,000 years old. That conviction is either based on an ignorance of science, or a religious belief in some form of creationism, perhaps with a rejection of science. Accordingly the dismissal of…

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December 31, 2011

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Pentagon Investigates Itself: ‘We are Innocent’

By Tom Hastings @ Hastings on Nonviolence The US military message machine never sleeps, is everywhere, and spends $billions on being dominant in the category of conflict turn-to sources for members of the American mainstream media. Editors want experts and they want experts who have been on the ground…

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December 25, 2011

Entertainment / Media / Miscellaneous

Bill Maher: New Rule on Income Gap in America – 12/03/2011

New Rules with Bill Maher are not always sensitive and/or diplomatic but he definitely gives you a little to think about and chew on and laugh about... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=90RzlUjE_Lo

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December 23, 2011

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The Commercialization of the Body Image

By: Daniel Griffith Profit-driven market strategies have been used for the past century or so to dictate human behavior into compactable, superficial roles to sell a product so that we as a society will buy said products to look 'normal' so that we might fit in and be accepted…

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December 23, 2011

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Don’t Rot Your Brain!

By OcJim We have had the familiar panel-type talk shows for decades, including Meet the Press, Face the Nation, and the McLaughlin Group. More recently Candy Crowley, Christiane Amanpour and Fox News entries have entered the showroom, though the latter could easily be labeled as just right-wing rancor and…

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December 21, 2011

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“Spitting Game: The College Hook-Up Culture” – Documentary

  Spitting Game: The College Hook Up Culture opens Pandora’s Box and takes a penetrating look into the social lives of students. Hooking Up, described as a drunken, no strings attached sexual encounter has eclipsed traditional dating on college campuses across the nation. Spitting Game is a provocative and…

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December 21, 2011

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Graffiti Versus Billboards

By: Thomas Donnovan Broken Window Theory first came about in 1982 when sociologists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling first published a paper called "Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety." In summation, Wilson and Kelling conclude that if the physical makeup of a neighborhood goes into disrepair…

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December 21, 2011

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This is Where We Take Our Stand; PBS Broadcast

Dear Friends, I have good news and bad news. The good news: is that This is Where We Take Our Stand, a film about the Iraq Veterans Against the War Winter Soldier/Iraq & Afghanistan Investigation, has now been distributed to every PBS station in the country for broadcast in…

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December 13, 2011