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      Author: Dave Johnson

      Dave Johnson is Founder and principal author at Seeing the Forest, and a blogger at Speak Out California. Dave is a frequent public speaker and talk-radio guest and a leading participant in the progressive blogging community. He does a regular weekly segment on the popular Fairness Doctrine radio show. A featured contributor at Huffington Post, his work also appears at many other sites including Open Left, AlterNet, MyDD and Common Dreams. Currently Dave is a Senior Fellow with the Institute for the Renewal of the California Dream working on progressive messaging, a Fellow at Campaign for America's Future, where he writes about issues involving American manufacturing, trade, what might be called industrial policy and a Fellow at the Commonweal Institute, where he researches and writes about the relationship between corporations and democracy. Recently Dave helped co-found Carbon Tracing, Inc., the company developing the desktop systems to validate carbon trading in the US. Before starting Seeing the Forest, Dave had over over 20 years of technology industry experience and has previously held senior industry positions including CEO and VP of Sales and Marketing. His earlier career included technical positions, including video game design at Atari and Imagic, and he was a pioneer in design and development of productivity and educational applications of personal computers.
      News Politics Talk Views Is Hurricane Sandy God's Punishment For Ignoring Global Warming In Debates?
      by Dave Johnson News Politics Talk Views
      Is Hurricane Sandy God's Punishment For Ignoring Global Warming In Debates?
      Life Politics Talk Views Democracy V. Plutocracy, Unions V. Servitude
      by Dave Johnson Life Politics Talk Views
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      Go Find Lester

      Go Find Lester

      "Go find Lester." We were typical college kids in the late 70's. Brief moments of intense studying, staying up way too late, eating the wrong foods, smoking and drinking too much, partying like there was no tomorrow, falling in and out of lust disguised as love, rooting for our school and wasting

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      Is America a Failed State?

      Is America a Failed State?

      Immediately following the 2016 presidential election, I emailed four German friends: “After 240 years, the great American experiment has ended, badly.” It’s a grim assessment. I arrived at this discomforting conclusion while raking leaves and talking to a neighbor who served in the Peac

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      A master of words; a man of integrity

      A master of words; a man of integrity

      On that afternoon, I didn’t know what to expect inside Room No. 34. I’d seen Ron several days before, at Piedmont Hospital. I hadn’t even fully stepped into his room when he looked up from his bed. “Ah, Moni Basu and Kevin Duffy!” He recognized us instantly and we had a delightful two-h

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      On Desmond Tutu’s Retirement

      On Desmond Tutu’s Retirement

      While Desmond Tutu delivered a lecture at Glenn Memorial Church at Emory University, I was in a small room in the basement setting up lights and a backdrop for the few moments I would spend with him after his talk. He greeted me warmly and sat down while he waited for me to take his photograph. H

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      A bit of a gripe from Down Under

      A bit of a gripe from Down Under

      [caption id="attachment_64140" align="alignright" width="276"] Johnny Depp in immaculately styled rugged hat[/caption] Johnny Depp has been generating a lot of free publicity back home in the US. Free for him that is – Australia is paying for it. You might remember that in April of this year

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      Toward a Post-Materialistic Science

      Toward a Post-Materialistic Science

      [caption id="attachment_57865" align="aligncenter" width="480"] "Eye of God:" Hubble Telescope image of Helix Nebula[/caption] The latest issue of Explore -- the Journal of Science and Healing -- contains a bombshell of an essay. It's titled "Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science," and it coul

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      Riding The Chitlin’ Circuit

      Riding The Chitlin’ Circuit

      A writer is only as good as his material, and now and then something profound falls into his lap. For close to two years now I’ve been working on a book for the University of South Carolina Press. Early chapters of the book concern the blues. A major part of writing is research. It’s akin to

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      An Environmental Triple Whammy

      An Environmental Triple Whammy

      "This we know: the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." -- Chief Seattle, 1854 On January 31, the Department of State issued its environmental assessment of TransCana

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      Islands in the stream

      Islands in the stream

      Proceedings of the House Sub-Committee on Relocation and Allocation of Personnel Resources Subject to Allocation and Relocation Guidelines. CHAIRMAN: The House Committee on Relocation and Allocation of Personnel Resources Subject to Allocation and Relocation Guidelines will come to order. Mr. Gin

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      The new year ... disappointed again

      The new year ... disappointed again

      Dear friggin' everyone, Yes, I heard all the commotion last night at midnight. The celebration, the fireworks, and of course all the pistols shots, joyously fired off into the crisp night air, their bullets rhythmically thunk, thunk, thunking into my roof. All to welcome in a new year. (And if yo

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      Georgia Bleeding Banks

      Georgia Bleeding Banks

      Only sixteen so far this year from Brunswick on the coast to, most recently, Stockbridge and Atlanta. In Stockbridge it was the High Trust Bank that let people down and in Atlanta it was One Georgia Bank that got acquired by an outfit called Ameris. If it seems like there's not been a lot of fus

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      Since Football Isn't Here Yet, Are You Ready for Some Politics?

      Since Football Isn't Here Yet, Are You Ready for Some Politics?

      Since football season steadfastly refuses to start, the only real diversion left to me right now is politics, my second favorite sport. I thought I might take a shot at sizing things up one last time before toe finally meets leather and the trivial matter of who will be our next president will forfe

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      And Now The News

      And Now The News

      "Local Action Uncensored Georgia Highlight news starts now.” “Good evening. Large rocks have begun to fall from the sky over North Georgia, and the government reports an asteroid the size of Texas will strike the Eastern Seaboard within the next 12 hours essentially wiping out life on Earth.

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      Southern (And Not-So-Southern) Koans

      Southern (And Not-So-Southern) Koans

      Being an erudite, sophisticated reader of "Like the Dew," you probably already know what a “koan” is. Just in case, though: from Zen Buddhism, a “koan” (pronounced KOE-uhn) is a problem or riddle that lends itself to no logical solution; a so-called “unanswerable question.” Its purpose,

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      Atlanta Protesters Disrupt Foreclosure Auctions In 3 Counties

      Atlanta Protesters Disrupt Foreclosure Auctions In 3 Counties

      Wednesday Occupy Atlanta and Occupy Gwinnett successfully disrupted foreclosure auctions in three metro counties, Fulton, DeKalb, and Gwinnett, by shouting, blowing whistles, and drumming until the auctions were forced to move. In DeKalb and Gwinnett police asked the protesters to disperse; in Fulto

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      Duddy’s Permanent Record

      Duddy’s Permanent Record

      Dudley Snodgrass, called "Duddy" was a very intelligent boy. He learned to talk and walk at a young age, and in school his grades were perfect. His mother adored him, his teachers were constantly bragging on him. The other kids called him "Einstein" and "Brain" and some secretly resented him. Some n

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      The Deconstruction of a discredited Gundermenatist Rock Star

      The Deconstruction of a discredited Gundermenatist Rock Star

      Ironically - let us begin with a Joke. Man walking along a road in the countryside comes across a shepherd and a huge flock of sheep. Tells the shepherd, "I will bet you $100 against one of your sheep that I can tell you the exact number in this flock." The shepherd thinks it over; it's a big flo

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      Drill, baby, Drill?

      Drill, baby, Drill?

      [caption id="attachment_9062" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Photograph by Gerald Herbert, AP"][/caption] "What appeared to be a manageable spill a couple of days ago after an oil rig exploded and sank off the Louisiana coast Tuesday, has now turned into a more serious environmental

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      Donald Trump and the Mississippi Plan

      Donald Trump and the Mississippi Plan

      In The Promise of the New South, Edward Ayers tells of James Z. George, a U.S. senator from Mississippi who predicted that, in 1890 (just a year away), the number of African Americans in the state would exceed that of whites by half a million. George was worried about what this meant for the sta

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      Under the Little Big Top

      Under the Little Big Top

      I love a circus, don’t you? When Dan had an office in Montreal, we used to spend a certain amount of time there. One of the things we loved to do was to see Cirque du Soleil. The things they did were astonishing, magical. I remember once there was a man who flew. Really flew. He began by walking a

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