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Spontaneous foolishness that came out with a certain Zen gravitas

“You must follow the string to the spider, then you will know the web — love, your Sensei” – Paul de Morsella

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Andrew J. Bacevich – ‘Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War’

Adopting fashionable attitudes to demonstrate one’s trustworthiness — the world of politics is flush with such people hoping thereby to qualify for inclusion in some inner circle — is akin to engaging in prostitution for promissory notes. It’s not only demeaning but downright foolhardy. – Andrew J. Bacevich, ‘Washington Rules:America’s Path to Permanent War’

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David Meerman Scott quote from book

The content that you create will be a solution to those people’s problems and will not mention your company or products at all! – David M. Scott, The New Rules of Marketing & PR

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Man is awed by a full on Double Rainbow on YouTube (with Epic Music added)

Man (on acid?) is overwhelmed by the magic of a double rainbow. A YouTube remix with Epic Music added

and the original (without Epic Music)

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Ellen Hodgson Brown, from her book ‘Web of Debt’

Interest charges are estimated to compose half the cost of everything. If interest to financial middlemen were eliminated, loans would merely be advances against future production, which could be repaid from that production. Borrowing nations would have to repay the money on a regular payment schedule, just as they do now; and they could not borrow more after a certain ceiling had been reached until old debts had been repaid. But without the burden of compound interest, they should be able to repay their loans from goods and services produced – rents from housing, fees charged for publicly developed energy and transportation, and so forth. – Ellen Hodgson Brown, from her book ‘Web of Debt’ and one example of how a world currency might be possible/used