ActivityPub Viewer

A small tool to view real-world ActivityPub objects as JSON! Enter a URL or username from Mastodon or a similar service below, and we'll send a request with the right Accept header to the server to view the underlying object.

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{ "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "OrderedCollectionPage", "orderedItems": [ { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:769535827897229312", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "content": "The March on the Pentagon, which occurred 50 years ago this month, led to the arrests of 1,000 people, including myself. It brought the antiwar movement into the spotlight, and the mainstream. Drawing on the lessons of the black freedom movement, it also showed the power that everyday people can have in changing the course of our country. Now 50 years later America is once again torn by racial and social strife, and I, and millions of others, are once again organizing, marching and resisting.<br /><br />Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s recent documentary about Vietnam calls it a mistake, began by people with honorable intentions. They’re not alone.<br /><br />But those of us in the core of the antiwar movement knew that the war was not a mistake. It was a crime. <br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/24/the-american-war/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/24/the-american-war/</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/769535827897229312", "published": "2017-10-24T12:20:38+00:00", "source": { "content": "The March on the Pentagon, which occurred 50 years ago this month, led to the arrests of 1,000 people, including myself. It brought the antiwar movement into the spotlight, and the mainstream. Drawing on the lessons of the black freedom movement, it also showed the power that everyday people can have in changing the course of our country. Now 50 years later America is once again torn by racial and social strife, and I, and millions of others, are once again organizing, marching and resisting.\n\nKen Burns and Lynn Novick’s recent documentary about Vietnam calls it a mistake, began by people with honorable intentions. They’re not alone.\n\nBut those of us in the core of the antiwar movement knew that the war was not a mistake. It was a crime. \n\nhttps://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/24/the-american-war/", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:769535827897229312/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:769136633420193801", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "content": " \t<br />Laura Bridgeman: What Whales Have to Teach Humans About Capitalism<br />by Vox Populi<br /><br />Any accounting of the commons without acknowledging the presence and interests of others will lead to their continued destruction, to our human detriment as well.<br /><br />The International Whaling Commission meets every four years to decide the future of the whales. That is, it decides which nation will kill how many, and for what reasons (commercial, subsistence, “research”). Stakeholders from around the world are engaged, from whaling and non-whaling nations alike.<br /><br />Notably absent in these discussions on the future of whales, are the whales themselves. But this is not just because they would have a hard time fitting into the conference room. It’s an intentional omission, since whales are a part of the commons: that great, amorphous void which we draw individuals out of, pour refuse in to, and in which lives the nameless, faceless “biomass” that we refuse any real legal or political consideration on a categorical basis. According to our current paradigm, the whales, and everyone else in the oceans, are resources to be protected, conserved or exploited: divided up (albeit unequally) amongst ourselves, and consumed.<br /><br />This might sound like an article about whales, but it isn’t. It’s really about us, and what we chose to believe about ourselves, our societies, and what our future can look like. For perhaps the first time in history, we human cultures of the world are largely united in a struggle for what comes next – an active discussion, a exercise in collective imagination that’s becoming all the more urgent as we watch our current world, and worldviews, fall apart – or more aptly, being ripped apart by late-stage capitalism.<br /><br />Our current system is incapable of addressing the problems within our own species because inequality is embedded within its very foundation. Strategies to dismantle plutocracy and eradicate poverty often involve new ways of managing the commons. However, as long as we try to preserve or manage “habitats” and “ecosystems” for human benefit alone, the resulting devastation of the lives of other species will reverberate into our own in increasingly disastrous and unpredictable ways.<br /><br />Within capitalist models, individuals of other species are not only neglected - their very existence is denied. They are instead relegated to the realm of property, only to be considered or “conserved” when their bodies are seen as necessary for the health of an ecosystem of value; and then, they are lumped into “populations” or “stocks” rather than recognizing them as individuals with interests, deserving of their fair share of resources like any human being.<br /><br />When we begin to consider this legion of individuals of other species, the commons can transform into a system for “mutualizing responsibilities” wherein other species are considered active stakeholders as they participate and benefit from those responsibilities. This can maximize the health and generative capacities of a given area, be it in the ocean or upon the grasslands or within a forest.<br /><br />Let’s go back into that conference room again, with its notable absence of the whales who are being discussed. The changes I’m proposing might sound extreme, but not if we begin with species that we can all agree are intelligent and sophisticated enough to have interests of their own. We can begin by considering whale’s needs, desires, and perspectives as stakeholders. Rather than having conservationists advocating for whales’ protection, we ought to be giving whales a seat at the table – via a representative such as a guardian ad litem - to express what’s in the best interest for these individuals in matters concerning them, such as establishing Marine Protected Areas designed to protect their culturally relevant spaces in the ocean. Whales should also be considered stakeholders where industrial projects, such as salmon farms, may have adverse impacts on their lives. And, one day, whales should be considered stakeholders at the very meetings where their kin are being scheduled for slaughter.<br /><br />This is no quaint idea rooted in sentimentality towards charismatic megafauna. It’s an idea that can save us - all of us – because when other species thrive, we all thrive.<br /><br />Any accounting of the commons without acknowledging the presence and interests of others within these spaces will lead to their continued destruction, to our human detriment as well. But when we consider the perspectives of the other species, whom we rely upon for our survival and vice versa, can we begin to work towards nurturing an environment that is actually sustainable. Doing otherwise will only doom us to repeat history. And it’s already a bit late for that.<br /><br /> <br />First published in Common Dreams. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.<br />.<br />Laura Bridgeman is the director of Sonar, an organization that critically examines the human/nature divide.<br />.<br /><br />The fate of whales is discussed by stakeholders around the world every four years at meetings of the International Whaling Commission, as those in power discuss the fate of much of the world population without offering them a seat at the table. (Photo: Cyrille Humbert/Flickr/cc)<br />", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/769136633420193801", "published": "2017-10-23T09:54:22+00:00", "source": { "content": " \t\nLaura Bridgeman: What Whales Have to Teach Humans About Capitalism\nby Vox Populi\n\nAny accounting of the commons without acknowledging the presence and interests of others will lead to their continued destruction, to our human detriment as well.\n\nThe International Whaling Commission meets every four years to decide the future of the whales. That is, it decides which nation will kill how many, and for what reasons (commercial, subsistence, “research”). Stakeholders from around the world are engaged, from whaling and non-whaling nations alike.\n\nNotably absent in these discussions on the future of whales, are the whales themselves. But this is not just because they would have a hard time fitting into the conference room. It’s an intentional omission, since whales are a part of the commons: that great, amorphous void which we draw individuals out of, pour refuse in to, and in which lives the nameless, faceless “biomass” that we refuse any real legal or political consideration on a categorical basis. According to our current paradigm, the whales, and everyone else in the oceans, are resources to be protected, conserved or exploited: divided up (albeit unequally) amongst ourselves, and consumed.\n\nThis might sound like an article about whales, but it isn’t. It’s really about us, and what we chose to believe about ourselves, our societies, and what our future can look like. For perhaps the first time in history, we human cultures of the world are largely united in a struggle for what comes next – an active discussion, a exercise in collective imagination that’s becoming all the more urgent as we watch our current world, and worldviews, fall apart – or more aptly, being ripped apart by late-stage capitalism.\n\nOur current system is incapable of addressing the problems within our own species because inequality is embedded within its very foundation. Strategies to dismantle plutocracy and eradicate poverty often involve new ways of managing the commons. However, as long as we try to preserve or manage “habitats” and “ecosystems” for human benefit alone, the resulting devastation of the lives of other species will reverberate into our own in increasingly disastrous and unpredictable ways.\n\nWithin capitalist models, individuals of other species are not only neglected - their very existence is denied. They are instead relegated to the realm of property, only to be considered or “conserved” when their bodies are seen as necessary for the health of an ecosystem of value; and then, they are lumped into “populations” or “stocks” rather than recognizing them as individuals with interests, deserving of their fair share of resources like any human being.\n\nWhen we begin to consider this legion of individuals of other species, the commons can transform into a system for “mutualizing responsibilities” wherein other species are considered active stakeholders as they participate and benefit from those responsibilities. This can maximize the health and generative capacities of a given area, be it in the ocean or upon the grasslands or within a forest.\n\nLet’s go back into that conference room again, with its notable absence of the whales who are being discussed. The changes I’m proposing might sound extreme, but not if we begin with species that we can all agree are intelligent and sophisticated enough to have interests of their own. We can begin by considering whale’s needs, desires, and perspectives as stakeholders. Rather than having conservationists advocating for whales’ protection, we ought to be giving whales a seat at the table – via a representative such as a guardian ad litem - to express what’s in the best interest for these individuals in matters concerning them, such as establishing Marine Protected Areas designed to protect their culturally relevant spaces in the ocean. Whales should also be considered stakeholders where industrial projects, such as salmon farms, may have adverse impacts on their lives. And, one day, whales should be considered stakeholders at the very meetings where their kin are being scheduled for slaughter.\n\nThis is no quaint idea rooted in sentimentality towards charismatic megafauna. It’s an idea that can save us - all of us – because when other species thrive, we all thrive.\n\nAny accounting of the commons without acknowledging the presence and interests of others within these spaces will lead to their continued destruction, to our human detriment as well. But when we consider the perspectives of the other species, whom we rely upon for our survival and vice versa, can we begin to work towards nurturing an environment that is actually sustainable. Doing otherwise will only doom us to repeat history. And it’s already a bit late for that.\n\n \nFirst published in Common Dreams. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.\n.\nLaura Bridgeman is the director of Sonar, an organization that critically examines the human/nature divide.\n.\n\nThe fate of whales is discussed by stakeholders around the world every four years at meetings of the International Whaling Commission, as those in power discuss the fate of much of the world population without offering them a seat at the table. (Photo: Cyrille Humbert/Flickr/cc)\n", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:769136633420193801/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:766621143367950342", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "content": "Despite the fact that fruits and vegetables are the only foods that experts encourage us to eat with abandon, all fruits, vegetables, and nuts are considered “specialty crops” by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Less than 5% of land planted with food goes to growing fruits and vegetables. More than 50 percent goes to growing soybeans and corn, to feed animals and refine into sugar.<br /><br />Can’t candy coat this…this is simply f*cked up.<br /><br />Last year over $72 billion was spent on ADHD drugs. Do you see where I’m heading? If I was a parent I would be burning sugar fields in protest. Taking ADHD drugs and consuming sugar is like taking the poison an the antidote in the same pill.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://robynobrien.com/cant-candy-coat-this-this-is-simply-fcked-up/\" target=\"_blank\">https://robynobrien.com/cant-candy-coat-this-this-is-simply-fcked-up/</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/766621143367950342", "published": "2017-10-16T11:18:43+00:00", "source": { "content": "Despite the fact that fruits and vegetables are the only foods that experts encourage us to eat with abandon, all fruits, vegetables, and nuts are considered “specialty crops” by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Less than 5% of land planted with food goes to growing fruits and vegetables. More than 50 percent goes to growing soybeans and corn, to feed animals and refine into sugar.\n\nCan’t candy coat this…this is simply f*cked up.\n\nLast year over $72 billion was spent on ADHD drugs. Do you see where I’m heading? If I was a parent I would be burning sugar fields in protest. Taking ADHD drugs and consuming sugar is like taking the poison an the antidote in the same pill.\n\nhttps://robynobrien.com/cant-candy-coat-this-this-is-simply-fcked-up/", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:766621143367950342/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:765547095741440002", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "content": "<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/10/12/big-wolf-little-wolf/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+brainpickings/rss+(Brain+Pickings\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/10/12/big-wolf-little-wolf/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+brainpickings/rss+(Brain+Pickings</a>)", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/765547095741440002", "published": "2017-10-13T12:10:50+00:00", "source": { "content": "\n\nhttps://www.brainpickings.org/2017/10/12/big-wolf-little-wolf/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+brainpickings/rss+(Brain+Pickings)", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:765547095741440002/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:762258210659770368", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "content": "<br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/the-aberdeen-bestiary-one-of-the-great-medieval-illuminated-manuscripts-now-digitized-in-high-resolution-made-available-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.openculture.com/2017/10/the-aberdeen-bestiary-one-of-the-great-medieval-illuminated-manuscripts-now-digitized-in-high-resolution-made-available-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture</a>)", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/762258210659770368", "published": "2017-10-04T10:21:59+00:00", "source": { "content": "\n\nhttp://www.openculture.com/2017/10/the-aberdeen-bestiary-one-of-the-great-medieval-illuminated-manuscripts-now-digitized-in-high-resolution-made-available-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture)", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:762258210659770368/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:762257858665390093", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "content": "<br />It’s all statistically foreordained, as the NRA is certainly aware. You cannot have untold thousands of demented psychopaths and millions of high kill automatic weapons simultaneously circulating in a violence-worshipping, highly militarized, and brutal video-game society like the United States without grisly mass gun massacres occurring every few years or so. Truth be told, it’s surprising that such spectacular mass shootings aren’t more common. And, of course, the smaller mass shootings are now an almost daily occurrence, as The Guardian tells us.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/04/the-nras-latest-terrorist-attack-on-u-s-soil/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/04/the-nras-latest-terrorist-attack-on-u-s-soil/</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/762257858665390093", "published": "2017-10-04T10:20:35+00:00", "source": { "content": "\nIt’s all statistically foreordained, as the NRA is certainly aware. You cannot have untold thousands of demented psychopaths and millions of high kill automatic weapons simultaneously circulating in a violence-worshipping, highly militarized, and brutal video-game society like the United States without grisly mass gun massacres occurring every few years or so. Truth be told, it’s surprising that such spectacular mass shootings aren’t more common. And, of course, the smaller mass shootings are now an almost daily occurrence, as The Guardian tells us.\n\nhttps://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/04/the-nras-latest-terrorist-attack-on-u-s-soil/", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:762257858665390093/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:760814233037316096", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "content": "now the minimum boost is 500 points?? very disappointed..", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/760814233037316096", "published": "2017-09-30T10:44:08+00:00", "source": { "content": "now the minimum boost is 500 points?? very disappointed..", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:760814233037316096/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:760813464267530240", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "content": "Monsanto is hard at work with its propaganda campaign to convince us all that GM food is necessary to feed the world’s burgeoning population. Its claims are hidden behind a flimsy and cynical veil of humanitarian intent (helping the poor and hungry), which is easily torn away to expose the self-interest that lies beneath.<br /><br />With an obligation to maximise profits for shareholders, Monsanto seems less concerned with the impacts of its products on public health (whether in Argentina or the US) or the conditions of Indian farmers due to its failed GM cotton and more concerned with roll-outs of its highly profitable disease-associated weed-killer (Roundup) and its GM seeds.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.globalresearch.ca/monsantos-violence-in-india-the-sacred-and-the-profane/5581536\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.globalresearch.ca/monsantos-violence-in-india-the-sacred-and-the-profane/5581536</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/760813464267530240", "published": "2017-09-30T10:41:05+00:00", "source": { "content": "Monsanto is hard at work with its propaganda campaign to convince us all that GM food is necessary to feed the world’s burgeoning population. Its claims are hidden behind a flimsy and cynical veil of humanitarian intent (helping the poor and hungry), which is easily torn away to expose the self-interest that lies beneath.\n\nWith an obligation to maximise profits for shareholders, Monsanto seems less concerned with the impacts of its products on public health (whether in Argentina or the US) or the conditions of Indian farmers due to its failed GM cotton and more concerned with roll-outs of its highly profitable disease-associated weed-killer (Roundup) and its GM seeds.\n\nhttps://www.globalresearch.ca/monsantos-violence-in-india-the-sacred-and-the-profane/5581536", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:760813464267530240/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:760467244118450176", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "content": "* MEPs withdraw parliamentary access after the firm shunned a hearing into allegations that it unduly influenced studies into the safety of glyphosate used in its RoundUp weedkiller<br /><br />Monsanto lobbyists have been banned from entering the European parliament after the multinational refused to attend a parliamentary hearing into allegations of regulatory interference.<br /><br />It is the first time MEPs have used new rules to withdraw parliamentary access for firms that ignore a summons to attend parliamentary inquiries or hearings.<br /><br />Monsanto officials will now be unable to meet MEPs, attend committee meetings, or use digital resources on parliament premises in Brussels or Strasbourg.<br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/17879-monsanto-banned-from-european-parliament\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/17879-monsanto-banned-from-european-parliament</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/760467244118450176", "published": "2017-09-29T11:45:19+00:00", "source": { "content": "* MEPs withdraw parliamentary access after the firm shunned a hearing into allegations that it unduly influenced studies into the safety of glyphosate used in its RoundUp weedkiller\n\nMonsanto lobbyists have been banned from entering the European parliament after the multinational refused to attend a parliamentary hearing into allegations of regulatory interference.\n\nIt is the first time MEPs have used new rules to withdraw parliamentary access for firms that ignore a summons to attend parliamentary inquiries or hearings.\n\nMonsanto officials will now be unable to meet MEPs, attend committee meetings, or use digital resources on parliament premises in Brussels or Strasbourg.\n\nhttp://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/17879-monsanto-banned-from-european-parliament", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:760467244118450176/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:760466753225498624", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "content": "<br />Former Reuters reporter Gillam is raising the red flag about the pesticide treadmill we can’t get off<br /><br />You can buy Carey Gillam’s new book here:<br /><a href=\"https://islandpress.org/book/whitewash\" target=\"_blank\">https://islandpress.org/book/whitewash</a><br /><br />EXCERPT: They [Monsanto] bully reporters who don’t follow the narrative. I was told more than once or twice that there were no facts wrong in my story. They said that the problem with my stories was something called false balance. I should not be presenting two sides to a story. I should only be presenting their side.”<br /><a href=\"http://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/17878-carey-gillam-on-monsanto-cancer-and-the-corruption-of-science\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/17878-carey-gillam-on-monsanto-cancer-and-the-corruption-of-science</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/760466753225498624", "published": "2017-09-29T11:43:22+00:00", "source": { "content": "\nFormer Reuters reporter Gillam is raising the red flag about the pesticide treadmill we can’t get off\n\nYou can buy Carey Gillam’s new book here:\nhttps://islandpress.org/book/whitewash\n\nEXCERPT: They [Monsanto] bully reporters who don’t follow the narrative. I was told more than once or twice that there were no facts wrong in my story. They said that the problem with my stories was something called false balance. I should not be presenting two sides to a story. I should only be presenting their side.”\nhttp://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/17878-carey-gillam-on-monsanto-cancer-and-the-corruption-of-science", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:760466753225498624/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:760102967687782400", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "content": "This was an attachment to an email i got this morning; i'll find out the author and edit the post when i find out.<br /><br />\"By very definition, your detractors are not your friends. Negativity bias induces us to concentrate on those who attempt to diminish us, while blithely dismissing those who try to elevate us. Achieving sustained happiness involves counteracting this tendency to bestow disproportionate importance onto those who loathe, insult or in any other way endeavor to emotionally injure us. This is easier than it sounds. Simply realize that hardly anyone, no matter how wealthy, beautiful, strong, successful, or esteemed, has not been subjected to withering insults, demeaning ridicule, sharp rebukes or devastating rejection. It might feel like it is just you and therein lies the power of the detractor. It isn't just you and therein lies your power: the power to know that wounds are part of the human condition. It is also the power to know that those who either modify themselves against their inclinations to appease haters or those who transfigure themselves in accordance to their enemies' low expectations are performing the gravest disservice to themselves. Those who keep standing, smiling and moving forward despite it all are those who are winning and, most importantly, fully living.\"<br /><br />", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/760102967687782400", "published": "2017-09-28T11:37:49+00:00", "source": { "content": "This was an attachment to an email i got this morning; i'll find out the author and edit the post when i find out.\n\n\"By very definition, your detractors are not your friends. Negativity bias induces us to concentrate on those who attempt to diminish us, while blithely dismissing those who try to elevate us. Achieving sustained happiness involves counteracting this tendency to bestow disproportionate importance onto those who loathe, insult or in any other way endeavor to emotionally injure us. This is easier than it sounds. Simply realize that hardly anyone, no matter how wealthy, beautiful, strong, successful, or esteemed, has not been subjected to withering insults, demeaning ridicule, sharp rebukes or devastating rejection. It might feel like it is just you and therein lies the power of the detractor. It isn't just you and therein lies your power: the power to know that wounds are part of the human condition. It is also the power to know that those who either modify themselves against their inclinations to appease haters or those who transfigure themselves in accordance to their enemies' low expectations are performing the gravest disservice to themselves. Those who keep standing, smiling and moving forward despite it all are those who are winning and, most importantly, fully living.\"\n\n", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:760102967687782400/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:760100094656651264", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "content": "Patriots love their country because it does good things; for nationalists it’s our country right or wrong. A lot of stuff nationalists call patriotic couldn’t possibly be more un-American.<br /><br /><a href=\"http://rall.com/2017/09/27/ban-the-pledge-of-allegiance\" target=\"_blank\">http://rall.com/2017/09/27/ban-the-pledge-of-allegiance</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/760100094656651264", "published": "2017-09-28T11:26:24+00:00", "source": { "content": "Patriots love their country because it does good things; for nationalists it’s our country right or wrong. A lot of stuff nationalists call patriotic couldn’t possibly be more un-American.\n\nhttp://rall.com/2017/09/27/ban-the-pledge-of-allegiance", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:760100094656651264/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:760099769874915328", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797", "content": "The break ultimately produced iceberg B-44, visible in radar imagery captured September 23 with the European Space Agency's Sentinel-1 satellite.<br /><br />The new iceberg, afloat in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, has an area of about 185 square kilometers (72 square miles).<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170927104509.htm\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170927104509.htm</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/760099769874915328", "published": "2017-09-28T11:25:07+00:00", "source": { "content": "The break ultimately produced iceberg B-44, visible in radar imagery captured September 23 with the European Space Agency's Sentinel-1 satellite.\n\nThe new iceberg, afloat in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, has an area of about 185 square kilometers (72 square miles).\n\nhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170927104509.htm", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/entities/urn:activity:760099769874915328/activity" } ], "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/outbox", "partOf": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/719564581214625797/outboxoutbox" }