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Spiritual Energy With Armor
By Escape The Illusion on March 3, 2010 | 3 Comments
Photo essay about the vital energy that is repressed to block emotions and sexual feelings, and the resulting emotional plague. ... -
Who Really Gets Hurt When GOP’s Bunning Blocks ...By Escape The Illusion on March 2, 2010 | 1 Comment
The Department of Transportation furloughed nearly 2,000 employees without pay Monday as the government began to feel the impact of Republican Sen. Jim Bunning’s one-man blockage of legislation that would keep a host of federal programs operating. Bunning’s “hold” also affec... -
A Calamity in the MakingBy Escape The Illusion on February 23, 2010 | No Comments
A major reason for enacting health reform is the fate of elderly and disabled patients—especially the indigent—in nursing homes and assisted-care facilities. Except for the visits of relatives and thoughtful friends, they’re out of sight, out of mind, all but ignored by politicians and media t... -
Fox News scrambles to discredit CPAC after Ron Paul w...By Escape The Illusion on February 22, 2010 | No Comments
Remember the big conservative conference Fox News has been hyping over the past 10 days? The Conservative Political Action Conference’s presidential straw poll, a key marker of the mood among conservative voters, apparently didn’t mean anything to the network. And if it did mean somethin... -
Video game commemorates Austin suidice pilotBy Escape The Illusion on February 20, 2010 | 1 Comment
The smoke over Austin is hardly two days settled and already, many have risen to defend the actions of Joe Stack. And now, there’s this: an 8-bit style video game called “Tax Time,” published on Newgrounds.com, commemorating his deadly attack on a Texas IRS office. In the game user... -
It Takes a Village to Raise a RacistBy Escape The Illusion on February 10, 2010 | No Comments
Researches have found that kids don’t necessarily get their prejudice from their parents — it is the community that fosters tolerance or prejudice. Shortly after white supremacist James von Brunn’s fatal shooting attack this spring at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in ... -
Haiti Beyond the CleanupBy Escape The Illusion on February 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
Haiti experts are warning that unless the international community comes up with new, more imaginative and more inclusive approaches to reconstruction and development in the earthquake-ravaged nation, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country can look forward to more of the same. They see the su... -
Earth’s Oceans: Our Largest Plastic LandfillsBy Escape The Illusion on January 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
Travel through any city, or inhabited rural area, in just about any country. There’s one thing, above all, that you’ll be sure to find: garbage. We are an incredibly untidy species. Garbage disposal is a problem everywhere in our Insta-Life society. There are things we simply can’t throw away ... -
The Year In Pot: Top 10 Events That Will Change the W...By Escape The Illusion on January 4, 2010 | 1 Comment
There has been a tidal shift in politics and on Marijuana laws in America, from Obama lightening up on pot prosecutions to the recognition of cancer prevention properties. #1 Obama Administration: Don’t Focus On Medical Marijuana Prosecutions United States Deputy Attorney General David Ogden issue... -
Why capitalism’s time is upBy Escape The Illusion on December 14, 2009 | 4 Comments
In its basic concept, capitalism should be about people making things for other people, and making a decent wage for doing so. Then the people for whom the goods are made sell them for more than it cost to make them. Some of those sales will be to the people who made the stuff, and some will be to t...
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