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		<title>Whole Foods</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/whole-foods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few years every time I&#8217;ve had a cold it&#8217;s knocked me down flat &#8211; and the kids bring home a lot of colds. Even working in a job where I can cope easily with a cold, all I was really doing was postponing the recovery period until the weekend. For a variety [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=239&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1 gone, 1 back and 1 idle</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/1-gone-1-back-and-1-idle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m the idle one, if you haven&#8217;t guessed.
The gone one is Ted from Free Range Organic Human who left this parting message (if you haven&#8217;t seen it). I didn&#8217;t agree with every single thing Ted wrote but I have alwas admired the way he approached his own journey with such an open mind. I also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=220&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of the Free Internet</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/the-death-of-the-free-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Idleworm, The Death of the Free Internet. I remember reading how, with the advent of printing presses, the elite in places like Britian were so incensed that &#8216;radical leftists&#8217; and the like were printing their own papers (and the common people were being exposed to dangerous political messages) that they passed laws making it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=213&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EFT and Eyesight</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/eft-and-eyesight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago I was at an Ecoshow talk and the speaker, who was an eco-psychologist of sorts made an aside about how children develop eye problems and start to need glasses at an age when &#8216;it all becomes too much and the don&#8217;t want to see it any more&#8217;.  The assumption that our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=203&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THC kills cancer cells</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/thc-kills-cancer-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SETH group (Scientists Exploring Truth in Healing) are researching alternative cures for cancer &#8211; they seem to have a bit of trouble getting funding (imagine my surprise) but they are making some headway.
Using the same tests used to judge new chemotherapies, the SETH team discovered that this herbal compound kills human brain tumor cells [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=187&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Primitivist Theology</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/primitivist-theology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post I wondered at the lengths Ran went to in his recent essay to deal with issues of ideology and today he posted a comment which answers the question much better than my speculation did.
&#8230; the main reason I wrote the essay was to go into theoryland and get primitivists out. If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=181&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Polaischer</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/joe-polaischer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just received word via email that Joe Polaischer died yesterday. Joe was a great advocate of Permaculture and preparation for energy descent. Decades before most of us worked out that sustainability was important Joe and his partner Trish were out there showing how it could be done with their work at Rainbow Valley Farm.
He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=179&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The comedy disguise</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/the-comedy-disguise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know how long this sort of thing will last but besides the Daily Show and a couple of New Zealand shows that none of you will have heard of, Rugged Indoorsman has a video of a discussion about Iraq&#8217;s oil presented as comedy. Read the text first and see how it just looks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=174&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GE Madness</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/ge-madness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ran has a comment from me about the sheer ineptitude of the science of genetic engineering as it currently stands. It&#8217;s bordering on comical but it&#8217;s also quite insane. The prize for Monsanto et al.  is total control over world food production but the risks are phenomenal. Here&#8217;s a brief description of one example of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=171&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble in Paradise</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/trouble-in-paradise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another post that I seemes to have misplaced, hopefully there are no more.
&#160;
A few days ago Kevin posted this article on  Cryptogon about New Zealand security forces arresting potential ‘terrorists’ in  the New Zealand Bush and about a series of dawn raids that were being made. As  soon as I read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=165&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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