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The Widespread Abuse Of Prisoners Is A Virtually Foolproof Indication That Politicians Are Trying To Impose A System--whether Political, Religious Or Economic--that Is Rejected By Large Numbers Of The People They Are Ruling. Just As Ecologists Define Ecosystems By The Presence Of Certain "indicator Species" Of Plants And Birds, Torture Is An Indicator Species Of A Regime That Is Engaged In A Deeply Anti-democratic Project, Even If That Regime Happens To Have Come To Power Through Elections.

Real Climate Solutions Are Ones That Steer These Interventions To Systematically Disperse And Devolve Power And Control To The Community Level, Whether Through Community-controlled Renewable Energy, Local Organic Agriculture Or Transit Systems Genuinely Accountable To Their Users.

I Do Believe That Our Ability To Jam The Trump Brand Is Somewhat Limited. I Think We Can Chip Away At It, But Ultimately The Way To Undermine The Trump Brand Is A Better Product In The Political Marketplace, If You'll Forgive The Capitalist Metaphor. I Do Think That The Negative Messaging On Trump Is Severely Limited Because He Is Tapping Into A Very Deep, And In Many A Rightful, Desire For Deep Change, And A Feeling That The Whole System Is So Broken And So Corrupt That You Might As Well Raise A Middle Finger As Some Kind Of Act Of Agency.

Ads And Logos Are Our Shared Global Culture And Language, And People Are Insisting On The Right To Use That Language, To Reformulate It In The Way That Artists And Writers Always Do With Cultural Material,.

And If There Is One Thing We Can Be Sure Of, It’s That Extreme Weather Events Like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan In The Philippines, And The British Floods—disasters That, Combined, Pummeled Coastlines Beyond Recognition, Ravaged Millions Of Homes, And Killed Many Thousands—are Going To Keep Coming.