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Seems like we might be at the edge of something big here \u2013 the Occupy Wall Street demonstration is spreading, including to nearby Minneapolis, completely without violence or arrest.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The portion of the 99% that I generally agree with are moving to action. Good to see and probably just the beginning of the unrest that is likely to mark the rest of the century or so until we find some new homeostasis on this little blue-dumpling planet.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Everybody knows that large-brained primates have got to make some serious accommodations to reality or suffer, suffer, suffer.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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So let\u2019s get to work. Let\u2019s all sacrifice the old meaningless, wanton consumption (in all it\u2019s forms) and turn our energies to simple truths.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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The pundits on the tube and in cyber-journalism that I\u2019ve seen are quite critical of the Occupy movement. \u201cWhat do you stand for in 5 seconds?\u201d \u201cGot the solution or are you just complaining?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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I like that there\u2019s a huge range of big problems that are being raised because that\u2019s real. To focus on just one thing is part of the problem. The wars and Wall Street and lack of civil liberties and killing an American citizen without due process and the richest 1% having 26% of the wealth and foreclosures and on and on. Let\u2019s get it all out there. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Got solutions? How about ending the wars now, implementing a simple tax code that\u2019s fair and will generate the income necessary to drastically reduce debt (everybody will need to pay more), putting the unemployed (including lots of soldiers we really can\u2019t afford) to work to make the world beautiful, and focusing on Green living.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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How about a decade devoted to digging out and practicing what is really the most important thing in our lives?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0 Seems like we might be at the edge of something big here \u2013 the Occupy Wall Street demonstration is spreading, including to nearby Minneapolis, completely without violence or arrest. The portion of the 99% that I generally agree with are moving to action. 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