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	<description>The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.</description>
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		<title>By: Clinton Brown</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=26&#038;cpage=2#comment-12747</link>
		<dc:creator>Clinton Brown</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The teacher&#039;s that are &quot;supplementing&quot; this in the curriculum should be fired.  Chances are they aren&#039;t making sure it fits the approved district curriculum as it is not objective in ANY WAY.

I&#039;ve been calling my old district in Omaha and the Sioux Falls school District and they will not be showing this DVD in any way.  Even the curriculum director who had not seen the video said it was full of bias and indoctrination.  That from a card carrying union teacher who is a registered Democrat.  There&#039;s hope yet.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The teacher&#8217;s that are &#8220;supplementing&#8221; this in the curriculum should be fired.  Chances are they aren&#8217;t making sure it fits the approved district curriculum as it is not objective in ANY WAY.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been calling my old district in Omaha and the Sioux Falls school District and they will not be showing this DVD in any way.  Even the curriculum director who had not seen the video said it was full of bias and indoctrination.  That from a card carrying union teacher who is a registered Democrat.  There&#8217;s hope yet.</p>
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		<title>By: MM</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=26&#038;cpage=2#comment-12531</link>
		<dc:creator>MM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This video is a poster-child for private schools.  Feeding kids such a naive view about such complex issues as global economics, production using &#039;toxic chemicals&#039;, supply chains, and the environment (breast feeding?!), and an astonishingly IDIOTIC interpretation of the role of government is itself toxic.  The kicker is the application of sheer *lies* in order to convince an individual whose brain is not even fully developed...  50% of our tax dollars *do not* go to fund the military (in fact the portion of military spending compared to other government spending - currently around 20% - is at 60 year lows), we *have not* depleted 96% of forests in the U.S., and globalization (consumerism) has done more to *improve* lives around the world than any other notion in the last 400 years.  

Journalism is in a sick state, and I am SO glad I was not indoctrinated into this nonsense when I was young.  Please - send your kids to private schools, and do your own research... If you prescribe to this garbage (and worse, force it upon your children) you are the mindless majority, you are the thoughtless masses, you are the fuel for the destruction of individual freedom in our once great union.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This video is a poster-child for private schools.  Feeding kids such a naive view about such complex issues as global economics, production using &#8216;toxic chemicals&#8217;, supply chains, and the environment (breast feeding?!), and an astonishingly IDIOTIC interpretation of the role of government is itself toxic.  The kicker is the application of sheer *lies* in order to convince an individual whose brain is not even fully developed&#8230;  50% of our tax dollars *do not* go to fund the military (in fact the portion of military spending compared to other government spending &#8211; currently around 20% &#8211; is at 60 year lows), we *have not* depleted 96% of forests in the U.S., and globalization (consumerism) has done more to *improve* lives around the world than any other notion in the last 400 years.  </p>
<p>Journalism is in a sick state, and I am SO glad I was not indoctrinated into this nonsense when I was young.  Please &#8211; send your kids to private schools, and do your own research&#8230; If you prescribe to this garbage (and worse, force it upon your children) you are the mindless majority, you are the thoughtless masses, you are the fuel for the destruction of individual freedom in our once great union.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=26&#038;cpage=2#comment-12527</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Only morons would believe this propaganda.</description>
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		<title>By: Floyd</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=26&#038;cpage=2#comment-12522</link>
		<dc:creator>Floyd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ll give you the benefit of the doubt of being wrong instead of bad intentioned.  We have more forests now than ever before.  Trees have these things called seeds see and so loggers re-plant forests.  Old trees are not any more moral than newer trees so I&#039;m not real sure about the tree thing.

Also the government&#039;s job is most decidedly NOT to take care of us.  That is Marxist claptrap -- and a common misperception, but is in no way constitutional.  That is something Hugo Chavez might advocate.

I hope you personally succeed and wish you well.  I hope the DVD bombs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll give you the benefit of the doubt of being wrong instead of bad intentioned.  We have more forests now than ever before.  Trees have these things called seeds see and so loggers re-plant forests.  Old trees are not any more moral than newer trees so I&#8217;m not real sure about the tree thing.</p>
<p>Also the government&#8217;s job is most decidedly NOT to take care of us.  That is Marxist claptrap &#8212; and a common misperception, but is in no way constitutional.  That is something Hugo Chavez might advocate.</p>
<p>I hope you personally succeed and wish you well.  I hope the DVD bombs.</p>
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		<title>By: peter</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=26&#038;cpage=2#comment-12513</link>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Heard the same communist propaganda back in the 1970s. I can remember videos in school showing everyone in the future wearing gas masks.  

I argue Capitalism is freedom... It allows you and i to choose.   Socialism/Communism says don&#039;t worry the government will take care of you..

Look at the pollution issues in Eastern Europe, China and the nuclear disasters in USSR.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heard the same communist propaganda back in the 1970s. I can remember videos in school showing everyone in the future wearing gas masks.  </p>
<p>I argue Capitalism is freedom&#8230; It allows you and i to choose.   Socialism/Communism says don&#8217;t worry the government will take care of you..</p>
<p>Look at the pollution issues in Eastern Europe, China and the nuclear disasters in USSR.</p>
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		<title>By: AikoNeco</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=26&#038;cpage=2#comment-12494</link>
		<dc:creator>AikoNeco</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I need to tell you what I feel, what I think, what I FEAR for our own future, for the future of our little ones. It´s not enough to change “some” things in this “necrotic” system… We have to change most EVERYTHING if we wish a better future for our own children… please…!!! In the U.S.A. as in Canada, Europe, Japan, China and all the developed countries, the present culture of ilimited consuming habits has to be radically changed to the opposite culture of total AUSTERITY.

I think it’s time for all humankind to be conscious about reality. It’s not possible to go on with this irrational level of industrialization. 

Humankind MUST STOP making so many frivolous and unnecessary luxurious products, all dispensable in this necrotic system of ilimited consumption. Our very toxic and contaminating garbage is growing in exponential degree, as well as human population does. Neverending contamination…!!! 

Natural resources will soon be exhausted, so the logical reaction SHOULD BE to walk back the same way that brought us all up to this irrational point of neverending consumption. 

DECREASE IS one of the two alternatives we have, but the ONLY LOGICAL ALTERNATIVE that IS LEFT in this PATHETIC REALITY that INVOLVES US ALL. The another one is to go on in the same very dramatically wrong way we are since ever.

Industrialization has to DIMINISH to the minimun necessary and vital level. 

It’s needed a radical change in all steps of Education to provide the technical, mechanical, manual knowledge to go back to our grandparents’ times or to the style of the Amish people, in order to prepare our children to be able to get their own daily sustenance from mother earth, taking care of it naturally and without agrotoxical and chemical industrialized products. Familiar or community farms, with agricultural cooperatives in small communities should be encouraged to be done elsewhere for the self-sufficiency of goods and supplies. Recycling, restoration, recovering, reparing activities with manual and handicraft labours should be the alternative jobs in the near future for our children, activities of minimum fossil fuels requiry. 

Please, do all what is possible for you to encourage the whole World to STOP PRODUCING cars, electronical supplies incompatible with new ones that forces people all around the world to buy new elements instead, luxurious materials, most everything no biodegradable and with very toxic components, etc.etc.etc. Industrialization should be diminished to its minimun necessary level!!!!! 

Instead, it has to be produced all types of spare parts to recycle, restore, repare, recover all types of things that we have; all types of manual and mechanical elements must be produced for all types of jobs and labours of minimum fossil fuels requiry.  

WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF THE LITTLE NATURAL RESOURCES THAT ARE STILL LEFT… 

NO other alternative energy will be able to sustaine this irrational level of neverending consumption. It’s not enough to go on studying other alternative energies in this irrational and neverending necrotic system of insatiable industrialization. 

We are all destroying our unique Planet, we are destroying LIFE elsewhere, contaminating water, air, soil, and intoxicating PEOPLE with MINING and AGRIBUSINESS activities. 

Latinamerican people, the poor people of the Latinamerican Developing Countries, as well as the poor people in so many developing countries, are suffering since EVER in many ways because of long-term unemployment, intoxication, contamination, physical attacks to push them out of their ancestral lands and to be left excluded in poorer areas. All of our communities in Argentina are suffering the consequences of contamination of our soil, air, water natural resources with mining and agribusiness activities of multinational monopolies. Our yet fertile soils will become deserts in not so long term... What goes on in this world that is driven by selfish madness and ilimited greed of few people that have power ...???  The Economic Power of the First World is taking out all our natural resources and destroying our ecosystems, killing LIFE in the vulnerable biodiversity, contaminating our water natural resources, our soil, intoxicating our people, etc.etc.etc. 

GREED, SELFISHNESS, LIES, HYPOCRISY, are the values and principles that push people of economic power in the First World since ever. 

This is the only truth that explains everything pretty much. 

Whoever doesn’t want to see or understand this… it’s simply because he or she feels the same and shares with them the same purposes: to earn more and more BLOODSTAINED MONEY, to hoard PROPERTIES insatiably, etc.etc.etc.

We need to multiplicate our voices exponentially. We have to awaken more and more people all around the world from the basis of this feudal social pyramid. We need to be more and more people all around the World to take notice of this dramatic situation, that makes us feel this same anguish and distress in order to try to change this suicidal way straight to an abyss without return…

Please, you have to visit these other web sites for more information given by suitable professionals of all around the world.

http://www.crisisenergetica.org/

http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/

http://oilsmokeandmirrors.com/

WE HAVE TO , WE NEED TO CHANGE THIS SUICIDAL WAY STRAIGHT TO AN ABYSS WITHOUT RETURN…!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I need to tell you what I feel, what I think, what I FEAR for our own future, for the future of our little ones. It´s not enough to change “some” things in this “necrotic” system… We have to change most EVERYTHING if we wish a better future for our own children… please…!!! In the U.S.A. as in Canada, Europe, Japan, China and all the developed countries, the present culture of ilimited consuming habits has to be radically changed to the opposite culture of total AUSTERITY.</p>
<p>I think it’s time for all humankind to be conscious about reality. It’s not possible to go on with this irrational level of industrialization. </p>
<p>Humankind MUST STOP making so many frivolous and unnecessary luxurious products, all dispensable in this necrotic system of ilimited consumption. Our very toxic and contaminating garbage is growing in exponential degree, as well as human population does. Neverending contamination…!!! </p>
<p>Natural resources will soon be exhausted, so the logical reaction SHOULD BE to walk back the same way that brought us all up to this irrational point of neverending consumption. </p>
<p>DECREASE IS one of the two alternatives we have, but the ONLY LOGICAL ALTERNATIVE that IS LEFT in this PATHETIC REALITY that INVOLVES US ALL. The another one is to go on in the same very dramatically wrong way we are since ever.</p>
<p>Industrialization has to DIMINISH to the minimun necessary and vital level. </p>
<p>It’s needed a radical change in all steps of Education to provide the technical, mechanical, manual knowledge to go back to our grandparents’ times or to the style of the Amish people, in order to prepare our children to be able to get their own daily sustenance from mother earth, taking care of it naturally and without agrotoxical and chemical industrialized products. Familiar or community farms, with agricultural cooperatives in small communities should be encouraged to be done elsewhere for the self-sufficiency of goods and supplies. Recycling, restoration, recovering, reparing activities with manual and handicraft labours should be the alternative jobs in the near future for our children, activities of minimum fossil fuels requiry. </p>
<p>Please, do all what is possible for you to encourage the whole World to STOP PRODUCING cars, electronical supplies incompatible with new ones that forces people all around the world to buy new elements instead, luxurious materials, most everything no biodegradable and with very toxic components, etc.etc.etc. Industrialization should be diminished to its minimun necessary level!!!!! </p>
<p>Instead, it has to be produced all types of spare parts to recycle, restore, repare, recover all types of things that we have; all types of manual and mechanical elements must be produced for all types of jobs and labours of minimum fossil fuels requiry.  </p>
<p>WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF THE LITTLE NATURAL RESOURCES THAT ARE STILL LEFT… </p>
<p>NO other alternative energy will be able to sustaine this irrational level of neverending consumption. It’s not enough to go on studying other alternative energies in this irrational and neverending necrotic system of insatiable industrialization. </p>
<p>We are all destroying our unique Planet, we are destroying LIFE elsewhere, contaminating water, air, soil, and intoxicating PEOPLE with MINING and AGRIBUSINESS activities. </p>
<p>Latinamerican people, the poor people of the Latinamerican Developing Countries, as well as the poor people in so many developing countries, are suffering since EVER in many ways because of long-term unemployment, intoxication, contamination, physical attacks to push them out of their ancestral lands and to be left excluded in poorer areas. All of our communities in Argentina are suffering the consequences of contamination of our soil, air, water natural resources with mining and agribusiness activities of multinational monopolies. Our yet fertile soils will become deserts in not so long term&#8230; What goes on in this world that is driven by selfish madness and ilimited greed of few people that have power &#8230;???  The Economic Power of the First World is taking out all our natural resources and destroying our ecosystems, killing LIFE in the vulnerable biodiversity, contaminating our water natural resources, our soil, intoxicating our people, etc.etc.etc. </p>
<p>GREED, SELFISHNESS, LIES, HYPOCRISY, are the values and principles that push people of economic power in the First World since ever. </p>
<p>This is the only truth that explains everything pretty much. </p>
<p>Whoever doesn’t want to see or understand this… it’s simply because he or she feels the same and shares with them the same purposes: to earn more and more BLOODSTAINED MONEY, to hoard PROPERTIES insatiably, etc.etc.etc.</p>
<p>We need to multiplicate our voices exponentially. We have to awaken more and more people all around the world from the basis of this feudal social pyramid. We need to be more and more people all around the World to take notice of this dramatic situation, that makes us feel this same anguish and distress in order to try to change this suicidal way straight to an abyss without return…</p>
<p>Please, you have to visit these other web sites for more information given by suitable professionals of all around the world.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.crisisenergetica.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.crisisenergetica.org/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/" rel="nofollow">http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://oilsmokeandmirrors.com/" rel="nofollow">http://oilsmokeandmirrors.com/</a></p>
<p>WE HAVE TO , WE NEED TO CHANGE THIS SUICIDAL WAY STRAIGHT TO AN ABYSS WITHOUT RETURN…!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Adam</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=26&#038;cpage=2#comment-12471</link>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Story of Stuff is a great film and puts out an extraordinary message to people of all ages. It is broken down perfectly into each element of production and consumption for just about anyone to understand. I learned a lot from the video such as the fact that the US consumes nearly triple the amount people in Countries such as Europe consume each year or that the US mines for metals in the mountains and in South Africa. I enjoyed this video and would recommend to anyone and I sincerely hope that the tour for middle and high school students to see this movie gets put in to action as soon as possible and if I wasn&#039;t a broke college student I would definitely contribute to getting this plan into action.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Story of Stuff is a great film and puts out an extraordinary message to people of all ages. It is broken down perfectly into each element of production and consumption for just about anyone to understand. I learned a lot from the video such as the fact that the US consumes nearly triple the amount people in Countries such as Europe consume each year or that the US mines for metals in the mountains and in South Africa. I enjoyed this video and would recommend to anyone and I sincerely hope that the tour for middle and high school students to see this movie gets put in to action as soon as possible and if I wasn&#8217;t a broke college student I would definitely contribute to getting this plan into action.</p>
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		<title>By: chicken</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=26&#038;cpage=2#comment-12467</link>
		<dc:creator>chicken</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Roosters Piri Piri is the best chicken stop in London</description>
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		<title>By: Michael</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=26&#038;cpage=2#comment-12466</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In the 1950 the sovjets also made a (anty-capistalistic) system and that didn&#039;t work out well :p. My mother lives there and she didn&#039;t enjoyed it so much. I live in Belguim and they showed it at school.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the 1950 the sovjets also made a (anty-capistalistic) system and that didn&#8217;t work out well :p. My mother lives there and she didn&#8217;t enjoyed it so much. I live in Belguim and they showed it at school.</p>
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		<title>By: Mariana Sandoval</title>
		<link>http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=26&#038;cpage=2#comment-12435</link>
		<dc:creator>Mariana Sandoval</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>First of all I think that &quot;THE STORY OF STUFF&quot; is a really good idea and also the best conduct (internet)to inform everyone in these days.Secondly these video shows many things that probably no one imagine about the million of stuff that we use daily.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First of all I think that &#8220;THE STORY OF STUFF&#8221; is a really good idea and also the best conduct (internet)to inform everyone in these days.Secondly these video shows many things that probably no one imagine about the million of stuff that we use daily.</p>
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