The following are my predictions for the upcoming Oscar nominations, with an asterix next to the predicted winner in each category. I have a feeling that these predictions are going to be the most accurate in a long time, yet still retain a hope that the more independent films can be recognized by the Academy.

BEST PICTURE:
No Country For Old Men *
The Darjeeling Limited
Lions For Lambs
Redacted
Eastern Promises

BEST ACTOR:
Tom Cruise - "Lions For Lambs"
Owen Wilson - "The Darjeeling Limited"
Javier Bardem - "No Country For Old Men" *
Don Cheadle - "Talk To Me"
Ethan Hawke - "Before The Devil Knows You're Dead"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Armin Mueller-Stahl - "Eastern Promises" *
Albert Finney - "Before The Devil Knows You're Dead"
Peter Fonda - "3:10 To Yuma"
Hal Holbrook - "Into The Wild"
Robert Downey Jr. - "Zodiac"

BEST ACTRESS:
Cate Blanchett - "I'm Not There" *
Parker Posey - "Fay Grimm"
Naomi Watts - "Eastern Promises"
Ellen Page - "Juno"
Keri Russell - "Waitress"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Ruby Dee - "American Gangster" *
Amy Ryan - "Gone Baby Gone"
Adrienne Shelley - "Waitress"
Vanessa Redgrave - "Atonement"
Catherine Keener - "Into The Wild"

BEST DIRECTOR:
Brian De Palma - "Redacted"
Werner Herzog - "Rescure Dawn"
David Cronenberg - "Eastern Promises"
Wes Anderson - "The Darjeeling Limited" *
Sidney Lumet - "Before The Devil Knows You're Dead"

BEST DOCUMENTARY:
Body Of War
War Dance
Sicko *
For The Bible Tells Me So
Autism: The Musical

BEST ANIMATED FILM:
Bee Movie
Beowulf
The Simpsons Movie *
Ratatouille
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford *
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
There Will Be Blood
Once
I'm Not There

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS:
Transformers
The Golden Compass
Sunshine
The Mist
300 *

BEST SCREENPLAY:
Wristcutters: A Love Story *
Superbad
Juno
I'm Not There
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
No Country For Old Men
Love In The Time Of Cholera
The Kite Runner
Into The Wild
Beowulf *

 
The influence of Spinoza on Marx can be seen as a rejection of Hegel. Where Hegel proposed a transcendent subject of ideas that moves forward toward a goal through the dialectic, and which Marx supposedly inverted as a movement of matter through history, Spinoza proposed that ideas and matter were equal and simultaneous. There is no predetermined movement of the dialectic, but immanent objects that express themselves in various ways. Applied to Marx, this means that the ability of the proletariat to liberate themselves is not dependent upon the movement of history but the actions of individuals and collectives.

 
With the decline of the global oil supply due to Peak Oil, there is a need to restructure communities in order to be more sustainable. Cities now are unable to exist without oil, but the arcology can be a model that implements a more efficient use of space, waste, and energy that can replace the current urban structure.

 
Permaculture is the belief and practice of living in a way that has no negative impact on the environment, and therefore must have the ability to deal with waste and other by-products. Here is an example of a farm that implements permaculture principles and operates with various subsystems in a way that an organism can contain various subsystems.

 
On November 6th, people have the chance to vote for progressive choices in many parts of the nation. The Green Party has many candidates for local office, especially in New York. If voters want to support peace, ecology, justice, and democracy then they must go outside of the two-party system for a real alternative. Vote Green for a change!