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  1. Third Paradigm: 3P-056 Faith and Quakes, or Don’t Blame God for Haiti

    Examines the question of theodicy that has puzzled philosophers from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich: if God is all-good and all-powerful, how can evil exist? Gives a brief history, including St. Iranaeus, St. Augustine, and Alfred Whitehead, and proposes a new answer to "Are people born wicked, or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?"

    Reads the poem, "Celestial Music" by Louise Gluck. Demonstrates why the catastrophe in Haiti is an effect of empire, not God. Compares the US military invasion, ala Katrina, to the responses of Iceland, France, Italy, Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Senegal, and Palestine. Presents Haiti’s history in opposing colonialism and the ways they’ve paid for this "deal with the devil" - crushing embargoes, onerous debts, brutal dictatorships, and free-market famines. Suggests that Papa Bush and Baby Bush have more to do with Haiti’s tragedy than God.

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  2. Third Paradigm: Ruthann Richter Interview: Children of the AIDS Crisis in Africa

    Ruthann has been writing about medical issues, including HIV/AIDS, since the early 1980’s. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford University where the she and Karen were roommates. She’s received awards from the American Cancer Society, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Council for advancement and Support of Education and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. In addition to her Africa projects, she is the director of media relations at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she works with media from around the world and covers HIV/AIDS issues.

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  3. Third Paradigm: Barbara Ehrenreich Interview

    In this fun and lively conversation, Tereza tells Barbara that Bright-Sided is a balm to her snarky soul.

    Tereza proposes a support group called Kranky Misanthropes Anonymous, but Barbara has a better group started - the Negateers. They discuss magical thinking in religion and business, ‘tit for tat’ in cancer fundraising, how the office has been outsourced to the home, and the danger of shooting the messenger.

    Tereza relates two stories of being fired for not being a "can-do girl," and asks whether all middle-managers have now become "can-do girls" in this musical chairs jobless market.

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  4. Third Paradigm: 3P-054 Clash of the Continents: Climate Debt

    Relates statistics about per capita carbon emissions to national debt burdens. Suggests that instead of charging "rich" countries a climate debt, we absolve all national debts - saving the global South 200 billion a year. Proposes a US plan for counties to keep 2% of their own income tax for every 2% the county lowers its carbon emissions. This would promote local sovereignty, defund the military, and lower emissions 20% by 2020, 40% by 2030, or even 80% by 2050.

    Reads the poems "Almost a Conversation" by Mary Oliver, and "The Seven of Pentacles" by Marge Piercy. Recommends that Evo Morales, Naomi Klein, Vendana Shiva, and Desmond Tutu read Barabara Ehrenreich, to understand why Americans aren’t rolling in the dough. Uses the case study of Firestone and Mittal Steel in Liberia to explain odious debt, vulture funds, and liability sheltering. From Clinton Callahan’s article, "Beware the Psychopath, My Son," extrapolates that corporations are, by definition, psychopaths as persons without conscience or culpability.

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  5. Third Paradigm: Max Blumenthal Interview

    Max Blumenthal is a Nation Institute Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow and the Nation Books author of Republican Gomorrah, which debuted on the New York Times bestseller list. His recent TomDispatch essay was also published in the Los Angeles Times.

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  6. Third Paradigm: 3P-052 Writing the Wrongs and Other Tails

    Closes out the first year of Third Paradigm by adding a retrospective of (mostly) unpublished writings by Tereza Coraggio to the website. A collection of sixteen poems is called Becoming Yeast: Poems of Transformation. Nine essays on the apocryphal gospel of Philip are called Revolutionary Mystics and How to Become One. Also includes responses to Jeffrey Sachs and to Peter Singer, and proof that Jesus was the code name for an imperialist Roman spy.

    Comments on Obama’s pre-conviction of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in the media. Suggests a trial for the "masterminds" of the controlled demolition that killed the other 2900. Reads three of my own poems, Celestial Effervescence, The Holy Dark, and Thoughts on the Afterlife, plus Morning Prayers by Joy Harjo.

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  7. Third Paradigm: 3P-053 Biblical Blackwater: Sodom vs. the Mercenaries

    Responds to an interview of Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah, with an analysis of the Bible story of Sodom and Gomorrah. If taken literally, God disapproves of homosexuality, but approves of fathers offering teenage daughters to be gang- raped, and then impregnating them himself. If taken allegorically, God retaliates against rebellious nations by enslaving and oppressing them.

    Reads the poems "Beginners" by Denise Levertov and "Up" by Margaret Atwood. Examines the Amarna letters - diplomatic clay tablets sent to the Pharaohs from his Canaanite administrators complaining about the nomadic raiders and outlaws called the Habiru. Examines the evidence for whether Abraham was a mercenary warlord hired through the Pharaoh’s vassal, Kederlaomer, to put down the rebellion of Sodom and Gomorrah. Was Abraham the notorious jackal Abdi-Ashirta, who took the Pharaoh’s territories from the kings of Gezer, Byblos, Jerusalem, Jordan, and the rest of the Canaanite cities?

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  8. Third Paradigm: 3P-033 The Comedy of the Commons

    Takes a critical look at the Tragedy of the Commons Elaborates the true tragedy of the monopoly, which has been taken to new heights by the global land grab in response to food insecurity. Examines how the usurping of land for oil, gas, logging, and mining has led to the massacre in the Amazon, due to the US-Peru Free2Raid Agreement. Introduces Presidents Correa and Morales UN sideshow on dismantling the International Center for Settlement of Investor Disputes.

    Reads Mark Jarman’s poem, Coyotes. Elucidates the US position that favors democracy but backs paramilitary groups and secession to control resources. Reports breaking news on the military coup in Honduras and the popular support that has not been deterred. Talks about the 225 cardboard pigs delivered by Avaaz to the WHO, representing 225,000 petitioners demanding an investigation of the swine flu link to factory farms. With the possibility of State Park closures in CA, develops a plan to turn Wilder Ranch into a working eco-ranch with heritage chickens, heirloom pigs, and dual-purpose dairy.

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  9. Third Paradigm: 3P-051 CHIMPS: Cruzans Hosting Indie Media, Press and Schooling

    Proposes a partnership between Cabrillo College and the Santa Cruz community to start a new radio station focusing on independent news and analysis. Celebrates independent publishers like Anarchist Press and the well-disguised anarchist bookshop Capitola BookCafe. Sets the goal of enabling a self-educated generation, without debt, who know how to work with their hands.

    Reads Monkey Hill by Stan Rice and Wild Geese by Mary Oliver. Quotes from a blog called Touched by a Monkey. Discusses the movie, "The End of Poverty?" by Philippe Diaz and cites research by Susan George on the global South financing the North. Introduces David Rovic’s new feature, "This Month in History and Song." Shows how Cabrillo’s Student Senate is out to break the spine of the textbook cartel. Relates Dennis Kucinich’s State sovereignty solution to healthcare and Jane Hamsher’s admonishment to play hardball. Speculates on a community college exchange for sustainability.

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  10. Third Paradigm: 3P-050 A is for Anarchist: the New Indie Student

    Recaps the book The New Global Student: Skip the SAT, Save Thousands on Tuition, and Get a Truly International Education by Maya Frost. Reports research on study abroad, and her tips for getting around crazy expensive college costs while learning through your pores and having more fun. Tara the Transfer Diva explains how she rocks at Credit Quest. Defines terms like fego and halfpats.

    Reads the poem "The Silence of the Stars" by David Wagoner and a passage from the Tao te Ching translated by Stephen Mitchell to the song "Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean" by Explosions in the Sky. Recounts some history of the Serenity Prayer, adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous. Plays "The Fire Inside" by Bob Seger and "Roam" by the B-52’s.

    Local: Proposes a way for students to make themselves the most sought-after houseguests on the planet, with the help of Cabrillo College. Suggests a radio station in partnership with Cabrillo College and Santa Cruz indie news junkies, and a way to bridge the divide between trade school for dummies and academia for elitists

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