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Getting back to basics and help protect and respect Mother Earth where getting our hands down and dirty is a must. Learning to respect not only one another but all living things.

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Sustainable housing for the masses like earth domes, simple, very practical and above all cheap.

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• A reply on Conversation: What entity, group or government through history has been the source of unecessary misery and death to the most amount of peoples?

  Mar 1 2012: Almost like the oposite but both are being done without the consent and full agreement of the majority of the constituents. Almost the opposite and yet they both rob and bring missery to the same constituents just the same. So it is two different weapons used to force, yes force, the sheeple to accept less and less of almost everything to include freedom. And there is really no need to sounding so condescending but I know it's a choice. Besides I've already complemented you on how educated and smart you seem to be so really, there is no need to ridicule nor make fun of others. Thank you my amigo.

• A reply on Conversation: What entity, group or government through history has been the source of unecessary misery and death to the most amount of peoples?

  Feb 29 2012: Wow, I did not expect this response but I'm sure it is true to a very large extent. But the same people that are against abortion for the most part are in favor of illegal and immoral occupations that have killed millions. But since the ones being killed have been brown, poor poeple from other countries and different religions than ours it must be ok. Appalling on both accounts, abortions and the kiiling of innocent poor peoples from other religions and nationalities. Being poor has been a crime for centuries and it is apparently still alive and well. And my proof ot this is simply the disparity and criminal sentencing laws currently on the books for crack vs powder cocain, where the drug of choice for poor people is punished waaaaaaaaaay more harshly that the drug of choice for the more affluent.

• A reply on Conversation: What entity, group or government through history has been the source of unecessary misery and death to the most amount of peoples?

  Feb 29 2012: That is so naive on your part to believe that austery measures are not being forced on anyone. Can you honestly tell me that US taxpayers are not being forced to pay for the bail outs to the same entities that have been directly responsible for the current economic crisis? Did anybody ask us to vote on this? NO, just like we were never asked to vote on those wars of choice. The 1999 repeal of the Glass-Stegall Act is what has brought us to where we are for the most part and the parties responsible for this are the ones castigating us for it with the force price tag. You don't think this being force upon us the 99%ers? Austerity measures that have been bestowed upon third world countries for decades, and almost at gun point, is exactly the same treatment that we are now getting. And when I say at gun point, I mean that corporations and governments have been and are still using "economic hit men' to force others quite literally at gun point to dance to the tune of profits of corporations or else. Does the name John Perkings sound familiar to you? I doubt it. But now this exact treament is what we are getting right here at home and will continue to get some sever austerity measures in order to pay for all the illegal, immoral and unethical wars of choice and bail outs.

• A reply on Conversation: What entity, group or government through history has been the source of unecessary misery and death to the most amount of peoples?

  Feb 29 2012: From your responses I sense that you are Catholic/Christian and a US government puppet. I'm sorry if I'm way off. Too few Native Americans in the Americas? Therefore very few must have been slaughtered? And the Catholic inquisition from 1478-1834 executed only some thousands? I'm sure you are right since the ones in charge more likely than not did not keep tallies on the tortured dead. And again not by accident just like we don't know exactly how many hundreds of thosands innocent Iraqi civilians have died during our very Christian invasion of that country, right?

• A reply on Conversation: What entity, group or government through history has been the source of unecessary misery and death to the most amount of peoples?

  Feb 29 2012: Ouch, come on Pinter did you really have to tell me to stop whining? But it's ok, I am not going to retaliate by bad mouthing you at all. I'm simply surprised you did not call me unpatriotic too. And I mention this since most people who don't agree and never supported the unethical and immoral wars of choice that our government has gotten us into are refered to as being very upatriotic. So it is not that I am whining as you've stated but simply excercising a right I have. Did something I say make you that unconfortable so much so that you had to just tell me to move to Cuba or North Korea as a very cheap shot? I've read your comments in other parts and you strick me as a very well versed and educated man and I respect you for that. But don't patronize me. I think you are much better than that.
  As far as the austerity measures, they are pretty much being forced down the pockets of the 99%ers the world over. It is already happening right here in the US too, slowly but surely. But the good news is that Argentina has proved that there is a way out from the never ending slave cycle of indefinted indebtedness that the IMF, WB and others like wall street have always offered to any country in desperation.

• A reply on Conversation: What entity, group or government through history has been the source of unecessary misery and death to the most amount of peoples?

  Feb 28 2012: Mr. Pinter, I wonder if those millions of people that have died as a result of communism/socialism would compared to the millions of people that have died as a direct result from religious political tyrants and/or democracy. I also wonder how many millions of Native Americans and indigenous people have died as a result of so called Christian invaders in the Americas? But I'm also sure that those casualties have not been accurately accounted for at all since God does not keep tallies of un-christian human benings. Just like the US government only keeps tally of the US soldiers that have died in Iraq and not the deaths of the innocent Iraqui people. Coincidence? Intentional? History is the account of the conqueror, which is very questionable on my history book.

• A reply on Conversation: What entity, group or government through history has been the source of unecessary misery and death to the most amount of peoples?

  Feb 28 2012: Agreed. Just look at how many millions of native americans and indigenous peoples have suffered and died under religious entities throughout the American continent alone.

• A reply on Conversation: What entity, group or government through history has been the source of unecessary misery and death to the most amount of peoples?

  Feb 28 2012: I would agree with this one when one takes into acconunt how and from where the raw materials get extracted from for the production of the automobiles. Which would also paralleled how and from where oil is extracted from in order to feed all the mass produced automobiles and almost any other product for that matter.

• A reply on Conversation: What entity, group or government through history has been the source of unecessary misery and death to the most amount of peoples?

  Feb 28 2012: I woldn't doubt that Edward. I believe that more people have died under Christian nations' ruthless immoral and unethical wars and invasions than from any other religion, and all in the name of God. So sad and appalling.

• A reply on Conversation: What entity, group or government through history has been the source of unecessary misery and death to the most amount of peoples?

  Feb 28 2012: Sounds like you are describing the best democracy that money can buy here in the US, it sure has worked wonders for the leaders and their puppet masters, the 1%ers and the corporations. At this point I'm not sure if communism was any worse than demorcacy. Communism was restraint to a few countries vs how democracy, at least the type the US seems to want to spread at gun point, has been spread to a lot more countries that are now suffering the same fate to the harsh and unethical austerity measures being forced down to the 99%ers the world over.