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Saturday February 18, 2012
House Chamber of The Vermont State House
Montpelier, VT
12 noon-3pm
Peace – Love – Liberty
Join us as we fire up the Ron Paul 
in Vermont and respond to the status quo, party line rhetoric with REAL CHANGE: the message of liberty, freedom and a return to the Constitution...
I started hitchhiking in junior high, on those mornings when I missed the last city bus to school and my baritone horn made bicycling a difficult option. Since then, I've hitched short and long distances in the US and Europe, met all types, and arrived at all sorts of destinations.
I was glad to see Leath Tonino's description of a five-day hitchhiking trip around Vermont in Seven Days. I've never hitched without a destination in mind, as he did, but some of my most magical experiences have come from unexpected intermediate destinations...
Inspired by our friends at Occupy Wall Street and Dr. Cornel West, Move To Amend is planning bold action to mark the second anniversary of the infamous Citizens United v. FEC decision!
Occupy the Courts will be a one day occupation of Federal courthouses across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday January 20, 2012.
Move to Amend volunteers across the USA will lead the charge on the judiciary which created and continues...
Ellen Brown begins a recent essay explaining the genesis of a bill to create bank credit in Minnesota for the funding of infrastructure: "In August 2007, the nation was stunned by the collapse of a major Minneapolis bridge, killing thirteen. The bridge had been rated structurally deficient by the U.S. government as far back as 1990, and it was only one of more than 70,000 bridges across the country with that rating. The American Society of Civil Engineers estimated that it would take nearly $190 billion to fix the country's failing bridges over the next two decades." See:...
It is seven-thirty on a Sunday night. I have just completed the last leg of my trip home from Guilin, China. As I travel across the Arkansas River bridge from the Little Rock airport, headed for the bedroom community of Maumelle, where I live, I notice something conspicuously absent from my drive: Horns; nobody is honking! In China, both in Shanghai and in the smaller city of Guilin, every vehicle has a horn. Every driver is damn proud of their possession and uses it liberally. In fact, I am convinced it is likely the first mechanical device on their vehicle which will wear out.
The...
WDEV and all its Radio Vermont stations are on the air 24 hours a day, with storm-related coverage. Help them with your emails to news@radiovermont.com or calls to 802-244-1777 or toll-free 877-291-8255.
Frequencies: 550 AM, 96.1 FM, 96.5 FM in Montpelier, 101.7 FM, 93.9 FM Morrisville.
The best web-based resources I've found so far are:
http://twitter.com/#!/search/KeithMontpVT
Includes monitoring of scanner traffic and information about street closures and evacuations in Montpelier.
http://twitter.com/#!/JennaPizzi
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Do you own your own home or business property? Think you have a right to own that property? Think again... Sustainable Development, Smart Growth, Eminent Domain and the Kelo "law" BEG TO DIFFER.
Kelo v. City of New London, was a Supreme Court Case in 2005, ruling on the issue of using eminent domain for the reason of economic development. They ruled the town had the right to take land from the private property owner with "reimbursement" (at below market value) for "Public Purpose". Private Property is now subject to the Kelo ruling as president. Property doesn't even need to be labeled as blighted for the Kelo "law" to be used.
Video on Kelo case - http://youtu.be/...
State archivist Gregory Sanford recently drew my attention to an article he'd published in 2007 on responses and plans in Vermont (PDF) after the 1973 oil shock. It begins
We should create a loan program and tax credits to improve the energy efficiency of existing homes and to require new construction to meet energy standards. We should explore alternative, renewable energy sources from solar to wind to wood to hydro. We should use methane from livestock manure to generate power. We should commit to conservation from energy efficient appliances to carpooling. States should be allowed to set fuel mileage...
Last week, the Governing Board of the International Energy Agency, a Paris-based organization that the US and the other OECD countries are members of, issued a statement about oil at their quarterly meeting. It's short and worth quoting in full (emphasis mine):
The IEA Governing Board, at its regular quarterly meeting on 18-19 May, examined oil market developments and their impact on the global economy. Despite a near-10% correction since 5 May, oil prices remain at elevated levels driven by market fundamentals, geopolitical uncertainty and future expectations. The IEA Governing Board expressed serious concern that there are growing signs that the rise in oil prices since September is affecting...
The number of cyclists is increasing, summer and winter, but I still don't often see others bicycling to the State House in January. Even Mary Hooper, Montpelier's bicycling mayor and state representative, doesn't seem to swoop down from her home in the hills on two wheels until the weather warms up. So when I arrived on bicycle last week, I was glad to see the bicycle rack in its usual place, under cover, just behind the first-floor corridor that leads to the coat room and contains the bust of Lincoln.
It wasn't always so. One January a few years ago, the bike rack was behind some yellow, do-not-cross construction tape, in the snow...
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