Growing through the asphalt

Ryan Watson & his band 'Unavailable" cover Rage Against The Machine

2012-02-08T10:52:00.001-08:00

Tribe

2012-02-07T09:33:00.000-08:00

"There are no poor or rich people here". Communism?

The tribe is the natural organization for humans. It appeared all over the planet, without someone thinking about it.

Transportation Security Administration

2012-02-07T08:54:00.001-08:00

Stepping into the Fire

2012-02-03T02:34:00.000-08:00

Stepping into the fire

STEPPING INTO THE FIRE is a feature length documentary that tells the story of a seemingly successful man living an unfulfilled life and his journey towards truth and happiness. What if the thoughts, values and philosophies that guided our lives were at the root of our misery and there was ancient and time honored knowledge that could truly heal our soul. This compelling film provides insight into ancient shamanic practices from deep in the Peruvian jungles, and a thought provoking commentary on
human spirituality and wellness.

Khodorkovsky

2012-02-01T12:44:00.001-08:00

"Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s real crime was not stealing Russia’s assets for a pittance in the bandit era of Yeltsin. His real crime is that he was a key part of a Western intelligence operation to dismantle and destroy what remains of Russia as a functioning state. When the facts are known the justice served on him is mild by comparison to US or UK standard treatment of those convicted of treason against the state. Obama’s torture prison at Guantánamo is merely one example of Washington’s double standard."

"The crocodile tears of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the violations of Khodorkovsky’s human rights hide a far deeper agenda that is not being admitted. Washington used the Russian to try to reach its goal of totally destroying the only power left on the earth with sufficient military strike power to challenge the Pentagon’s Full Spectrum Dominance strategy—control of the entire planet. "

Strange noises in the atmosphere, HAARP

2012-01-26T00:10:00.000-08:00

Strange noises reported around North Battleford

Also see HAARP

ACTA

2012-01-25T12:53:00.001-08:00

Ireland and EU to sign controversial ACTA treaty tomorrow

HAARP

2012-01-25T01:58:00.000-08:00

News from Canada:

EU report from 1999:

27. Considers HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project) by virtue of its farreaching impact on the environment to be a global concern and calls for its legal, ecological and ethical implications to be examined by an international independent body before any further research and testing; regrets the repeated refusal of the United States Administration to send anyone in person to give evidence to the public hearing or any subsequent meeting held by its competent committee into the environmental and public risks connected with the high Frequency Active Auroral Research Project (HAARP) programme currently being funded in Alaska;

28. Requests the Scientific and Technological Options Assessment (STOA) Panel to agree to examine the scientific and technical evidence provided in all existing research findings on HAARP to assess the exact nature and degree of risk that HAARP poses both to the local and global environment and to public health generally;

Wikipedia

Suppressing volatility makes the world more dangerous

2012-01-24T09:48:00.001-08:00

Taleb has said again and again that suppressing volatility in markets and in society in general may work for a time. But instead of moderating volatility, it creates rigid systems that prove catastrophically unstable like dams which seem sound until they break.

Link

Johnny Mad Dog

2012-01-19T11:02:00.001-08:00

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Primitives

2012-01-19T01:32:00.000-08:00

From originar:

"Almost universally, anthropologists remark on how ridiculously happy hunter gatherers seem to be. Laughter is far more common in their societies."

http://www.raw-food-health.net/HunterGatherers.html

The zeks

http://www.survivalinternational.org/
http://www.survivalinternational.org/thereyougo

Tales from Earthsea

2012-01-13T04:51:00.001-08:00

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Created by Goro Miyazaki, the son of Hayao Miyazaki.

"Listen to me, Aaren: Everything you see under the sun and stars owes its very existence to the balance: the wind and seas, the powers of earth and light, all these do is well and rightly done within the equilibrium. But now, men hold the power to control the world. Men must learn to do what leaf and whale and wind do naturally. It is for us to keep the balance"

The Secret World of Arrietty

2012-01-12T14:56:00.001-08:00

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Science can't explain this

2012-01-12T09:29:00.000-08:00

Reducing reality

School

2012-01-10T05:44:00.001-08:00

Public School as Kafkaesque Nightmare

Molding Minds

2012 Terrorist Identification Chart

2012-01-10T05:38:00.001-08:00

Fabian Gaete Maureira

2012-01-10T01:12:00.001-08:00

Blog
Flickr
Youtube

Frozen Planet, BBC

2011-12-13T14:30:00.000-08:00

From Affluence to Anxiety

"Early European accounts of this continent's opulence border on the unbelievable. Time and again we read of "goodly woods, full of Deere, Conies, Hares, and Fowle, even in the middest of Summer, in incredible aboundance," of islands "as completely covered with birds, which nest there, as a field is covered with grass," of rivers so full of salmon that "at night one is unable to sleep, so greate is the noise they make" . . . They describe rivers so thick with fish that they "could be taken not only with a net but in baskets let down [and weighted with] a stone."

Nigel Farage

2011-12-13T02:06:00.000-08:00

Fukushima

2011-12-05T02:40:00.003-08:00

And peak oil, Chris Martenson:

Mark Twain

2011-12-02T04:03:00.001-08:00

Mark Twain - Wikiquote

Dai Mahou Touge

2011-11-27T12:08:00.001-08:00

Religion

2011-10-20T11:09:00.001-07:00

Don't swallow your toothpaste

2011-09-28T11:40:00.001-07:00

Kirilian photography

2011-09-27T09:46:00.001-07:00

Kirlian Photography of raw foods
Wikipedia

Bilderberg agenda exposed in EU parliament

2011-09-23T05:31:00.001-07:00

Bilderberg wiki

98 Year Old Man Says Hes Been Smoking Weed Since 1936

2011-09-20T14:42:00.001-07:00

Natural Born Killers

2011-09-20T05:11:00.001-07:00

Natural Born Killers trailer
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Point Break

2011-09-13T01:19:00.001-07:00

This was never about the money, this was about us against the system. That system that kills the human spirit. We stand for something. We are here to show those guys that are inching their way on the freeways in their metal coffins that the human sprit is still alive.

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Robin Williams - Live On Broadway

2011-09-10T00:03:00.000-07:00

Libya

2011-09-07T11:19:00.001-07:00

Yes, I’m saying that it’s all lies

Link found here.

Dan Barber's foie gras parable

2011-09-05T23:39:00.001-07:00

Industrial farms

2011-09-05T02:28:00.001-07:00

A Libyan girl's message to Obama and Sarkozy

2011-08-24T14:45:00.001-07:00

The Libyan People are screaming but world
leaders are deaf to their calls, not only do Libyans
have to endure daily bombardment, the apathy
of the politicians, the deaths and destruction,
but they also have to come up face to face with
with a cruel international media that is only
serving world banking Mafia and , multinational
oil companies.

THIS MEDIA BLACKOUT IS A CRIME AGAINST
MILLIONS OF LIBYANS who are marching and
demonstrating Every day across the country.
Here is the voice of one Libyan girl that will
echo most Libyans perceptions about
western leaders who are actively siding
with terrorist rebels who have displaced tens
of thousands of people, killed and tortured
civilians on a massive scale.
I hope this girl's call will reach the many of
you because I feel as if the whole of Libya
was talking through her.

NATO SLAUGHTER IN TRIPOLI: "Operation Mermaid Dawn" Signals Assault by Rebels' Al Qaeda Death Squads

School is a prison

2011-08-23T23:44:00.000-07:00

Also see John Gatto

The Brest Fortress

2011-08-23T14:53:00.001-07:00

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Brest, Belarus
"On June 22, 1941 the fortress and the city were attacked by Nazi Germany at the beginning of the surprise war code-named Operation Barbarossa, but held out for six days. Nearly all the defenders perished. Brest's Jewish community was decimated under Nazi rule in 1942.[3] The city was taken by the Red Army on July 28, 1944."

Jackie Chan

2011-08-22T23:13:00.000-07:00

De-civilizare: Jackie Chan: Jackie Chan, "I'll Make a Man out of you" from Mulan in Chinese Wikipedia Mulan

London riots

2011-08-16T02:34:00.001-07:00

Divide and impera. Imagine if the rioters all lived in "Riot Village", and knew each other. "Ok so you know who I am, come here if you dare". But if they lived in their village, probably they would not have rioted in the first place. Wait - "Riot Village" cannot exist - outside state control.
This state, civilization - is like Monsanto, growing it's gm corn (the normal person that watches tv and believes it, borrows, stuff like that), and tries to weed out everything else. Everything that is natural. Using a lot of energy (they still have it), to accomplish their artificial cornfield (perfect world). No ecosystem can exist in the Monsanto world.

"King Leopold's Soliloquy", Mark Twain

2011-08-14T10:50:00.001-07:00

Rubber plantation workers, punished for failing to meet quotas by having their hands cut off, Belgian Congo Free State, 1905, photo from Mark Twain’s King Leopold’s Soliloquy.

Wiki: “The baskets of severed hands, set down at the feet of the European post commanders, became the symbol of the Congo Free State. … The collection of hands became an end in itself. Force Publique soldiers brought them to the stations in place of rubber; they even went out to harvest them instead of rubber… They became a sort of currency. They came to be used to make up for shortfalls in rubber quotas, to replace… the people who were demanded for the forced labour gangs; and the Force Publique soldiers were paid their bonuses on the basis of how many hands they collected.”

Constant Siege

B. Traven:

My Potato Project; The Importance of "Organic"

2011-08-14T03:09:00.001-07:00

De-civilizare: London Riots (The BBC will never replay this)

2011-08-09T22:24:00.000-07:00

De-civilizare: London Riots (The BBC will never replay this): "Darcus Howe , a West Indian Writer and Broadcaster with a voice about the riots. Speaking about the mistreatment of youths by police leadin..."

England riots

2011-08-09T01:06:00.000-07:00

Britain tense as gangs roam, violence flares in London, other cities

The Final Empire

"Last of the mohicans"

2011-08-06T05:55:00.001-07:00

James Fenimore Cooper - wiki
Also see "The song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

"Honor be to Mudjekeewis!"
Cried the warriors, cried the old men,
When he came in triumph homeward
With the sacred Belt of Wampum,
From the regions of the North-Wind,
From the kingdom of Wabasso,
From the land of the White Rabbit.

Hiawatha - wiki

Bronx Warriors

2011-08-01T04:41:00.001-07:00

Bronx Warriors
Escape from the Bronx
Also see "The Warriors"

Permaculture

2011-07-24T22:02:00.000-07:00

permacultura.ro

forum

Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves

2011-07-21T21:30:00.001-07:00

Dune

2011-07-19T11:59:00.001-07:00

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Slow Wave

2011-07-15T01:07:00.001-07:00

Slow Wave is an ongoing webcomic that incorporates actual dreams submitted by readers into a fictional narrative, written and drawn by Jesse Reklaw.

2011-07-14T05:35:00.001-07:00

"Communist lies":

Libyan Campaign Was Staged To Start Conquering Africa

2011-07-14T05:30:00.001-07:00

Freedom

2011-07-13T22:40:00.001-07:00

"Humpback whale gives show after being saved"

Against history

Steven Seagal Black Belt Test

2011-07-13T10:00:00.001-07:00

Hells Angels

2011-07-08T00:35:00.001-07:00

LIFE - Never-Seen: Hells Angels, 1965

Black Lagoon

2011-07-01T08:42:00.001-07:00

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Nuclear Trouble Intensifies in Japan and USA 6/26/11

2011-06-27T06:23:00.001-07:00

Neko no Shuukai

2011-06-26T16:06:00.001-07:00

Stuff

2011-06-25T07:40:00.000-07:00

Amazon, unknown tribe:

"There you go"

Greek protest dog:

The Netherlands:

F1 Mirage Ultra Low High Speed Fly By

2011-06-15T12:06:00.001-07:00

DreamKeeper

2011-06-13T15:28:00.001-07:00

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"I think it is very important to have movies like this to help dissolve a lot of racial stereotypes, and share our legends with the newer generation. I was amazed when I saw the depictions of stories I had actually heard as a child, growing up in Tahlequah Oklahoma"

Ho'oponopono

2011-06-08T14:51:00.001-07:00

Ancient Huna.com

Wikipedia

Mitar Tarabich

2011-06-04T17:15:00.000-07:00

Link

Cuba

2011-06-04T14:03:00.001-07:00

Cuba's green revolution

2011-06-04T01:35:00.001-07:00

"Don't feed the animals!"

2011-06-03T04:19:00.001-07:00

Link

Spain

2011-05-29T10:55:00.001-07:00

Richard Proenneke

2011-05-27T12:29:00.001-07:00

Rémi Gaillard

2011-05-26T06:46:00.001-07:00

Joe Rogan - The American War Machine

2011-05-25T12:46:00.001-07:00

Paisan (1946) - Roberto Rosellini

2011-05-24T13:15:00.001-07:00

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Wild

2011-05-23T07:56:00.000-07:00

"We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth, as "wild." Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families we loved was it "wild" for us. When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was that for us the "Wild West" began". ~ Standing Bear

...

"People are fascinated to learn why a pride of lions works, why a troop of baboons works, or why a flock of geese works, but they often resist learning why a tribe of humans works. Tribal humans were successful on this planet for three million years before our agricultural revolution, and they’re no less successful today wherever they manage to survive untouched, but many people of our culture don’t want to hear about it. In fact, they’ll vigorously deny it. If you explain to them why a herd of elephants works or why a hive of bees works, they have no problem. But if you try to explain why a tribe of humans works, they accuse you of “idealizing” them. From the point of view of ethology or evolutionary biology, however, the success of humans in tribes is no more an idealization than the success of bison in herds or whales in pods.

Our cultural excuse for failure is that humans are just “naturally” flawed—greedy, selfish, short-sighted, violent, and so on, which means anything you do with them will fail. In order to validate that excuse, people want tribalism to be a failure. For this reason, to people who want to uphold our cultural mythology, any suggestion that tribalism was successful is perceived as a threat." - Daniel Quinn

Japan

2011-05-23T03:24:00.000-07:00

Link

E-Cat Cold fusion device independently validated producing 800% more energy than input

2011-05-21T01:53:00.001-07:00

Link

"(NaturalNews) Initially met with skepticism due to claims that it works on cold fusion technology, the energy catalyzer has been validated producing 2.6 kilowatts from an input of 300 watts by Swedish technology magazine NyTeknik (http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/ener...). The technology, which was granted a patent in April, is expected to be on the market this fall"

Rachel Goodrich "Light Bulb"

2011-05-20T16:26:00.001-07:00

Burzynski – Cancer Is Serious Business

2011-05-19T00:43:00.000-07:00

Link

Bitcoin

2011-05-16T14:57:00.001-07:00

Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen

Libya

2011-05-06T06:28:00.001-07:00

Mike Ruppert, 2005

2011-05-05T02:07:00.001-07:00

part II

From the Wildernes - blog

END:CIV

2011-05-02T12:22:00.001-07:00

endciv.com

"A tour de force film from Franklin López which does more than justice to Derrick Jensen’s thesis that industrial civilization is destroying life on the planet. Employing all the contemporary audio visual techniques our digital world makes possible for a single brilliant penurious filmmaker, López harvests sounds and images from our demented world to relentlessly show the rape of the mind and the earth. To those outside the small choir who see the message of resistance as obvious, this powerful film makes them deal with it either by denial or acknowledging, yes I see it is obvious.”

"The elders were wise. They knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to lack of respect for humans, too." -
Luther Standing Bear

Animatrix

2011-04-22T12:31:00.001-07:00

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"The Animatrix is a collection of several animated short films, detailing the backstory of the "Matrix" universe, and the original war between man and machines which led to the creation of the Matrix. "

No Worry, No When, No Want

2011-04-20T09:54:00.001-07:00

It’s not uncommon to yearn for a far off utopia due to living in the current chaos of modern life. It seems that we are perpetually compelled to busy ourselves, succeed, acquire, get ahead, be fulfilled and buy luxury items. But does all of this bring happiness?

Have you ever dreamed of living in a paradise – a simpler place of peace, well being and abundance? Perhaps you have visualized yourself with infinite financial resources, living on a tropical island with happy, smiling people. What if there actually was an ideal place of harmony that would bring you peace? Are there people already living in paradise?

Consider the Moken, a nomadic tribe of sea gypsies who live and travel along the coast and islands on the west coast of Thailand and up to Burma. Although in recent years they have had to deal with tsunamis and governmental interference, they continue to live and thrive by following their traditions. The Moken have some unusual characteristics which seem to create an ideal way of life..

1. Time?

There is no word for “When” in the Moken language. They do not time events, measure time passing or focus on timing. Day to day they live in a flowing timelessness. Things happen in the now which is all that exists for them. This can be liberating in many ways. Because the Moken do not constantly measure time, neither do they keep track of their age. They do not know how old they are and, in a sense, are ageless.

Other words missing from the Moken language are, “Goodbye” and “Hello." There are no real endings or beginnings in social interactions. Visitors show up and when they leave they are gone and that is it. Without the notion of time, it matters little when – no word for when - the last visit was or when – see how important that word can be? - the next one will be. There is a constant inflow and outflow of people and experiences that happen with spontaneity and synchronicity. They have no schedules or appointment books and yet they always seem to be where they need to be.

Some questions to ask yourself about time: What would your life be like if you were not on a set time schedule? Would it be possible for you to get things done and honor your commitments? Is time real or do we create it?

2. Simplicity

Want is also missing from the Moken language. In their lifestyle they either give or take, but there is no want. How often do you find yourself saying, “I want this, I want that?” The Moken attitude is that what is needed will be provided. Like the ocean providing fish or the sky giving rain, there are available resources to draw upon as needed. Excess Moken catches of fish are used to barter for other necessities at local markets. There is no lack or a need to store things up for long periods of time. “Worry” is not in the Moken language either. Imagine going a week without worry – little or big – because there is no concept for the idea of “Worry”.

The Moken have few desires. Because they are nomadic they prefer to live in a streamlined fashion without excess possessions. They choose to be free and have no ambition to be wealthy. Many Moken travel about in Kabang, small hand-crafted wooden boats, that serve both as their transportation and living areas.

Some questions to ask yourself about simplicity: How many things do you have? More importantly, do you use them or is your home more of a storage unit? How much time do you spend worrying or planning about finances and/or the future?

The Moken live in sync with the natural world. They live off the sea by using nets and spears to gather food. Moken Children spend a lot of time hunting for coral and shellfish and are able to see very well underwater. You won’t see many overweight or unhealthy Moken children. Neither are they addicted to TV, video games or iPods - instead they stay in step with the rhythms of nature.

3. Natural

The Moken live in sync with the natural world. They live off the sea by using nets and spears to gather food. Moken Children spend a lot of time hunting for coral and shellfish and are able to see very well underwater. You won’t see many overweight or unhealthy Moken children. Neither are they addicted to TV, video games or iPods - instead they stay in step with the rhythms of nature.

In the monsoon season the Moken occupy temporary huts on land. During the devastating 2004 Southeast Asia Tsunamis the Moken lost many houses and fishing boats. The devastation would have been worse, but because the Moken are highly attuned to changing sea conditions many knew in advance of the tsunamis and managed to protect themselves. A large number were spared by taking cover in mangrove forests or setting out to sea away from the storms. It was as if they had a psychic sense that was guiding them.

Some questions to ask yourself about nature: How connected are you to your natural environment? Do you spend more time surrounded by technology and modern conveniences rather than nature? Do you trust your own inner senses – your intuitions and feelings?

4. Change

Change may be the only constant factor in life and it applies to all people. The physical landscape that the Moken inhabit was changed by the 2004 tsunamis. After the physical tsunami there quickly followed a cultural tsunami. Waves of well-meaning people from the outside world and the media descended on the Moken people. Many wanted to help, some wanted to cover a news story, but all inadvertently brought with them modern distractions and technology. Now some of the Moken live on the mainland and have adapted a more Western lifestyle, leaving behind their sea gypsy life. The tsunamis were too intimidating and now some seek out the security and protection of the mainland. The Burmese government is seeking to control the Moken more and more and tourists now come to the area regularly. Can the Moken maintain their ideal lifestyle?

Some questions to ask yourself about change: Do you find yourself getting caught up in/or influenced by others? Are you able to hold onto what you want when unexpected events occur? Is change good or bad?

Perhaps the paradise or utopia we seek is a state of mind. Wherever we live, whatever we do, maybe letting go of worry, when and want will open doors to happier living. All we can ever control are our own attitudes.

Link

Berserk

2011-04-19T00:22:00.001-07:00

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Cowboy Bebop

2011-04-18T14:12:00.001-07:00

"Cowboy Bebop is a truly post-modern show. Not in the tired "Scream" sense of self-awareness, but in its willingness to mix genres and blur boundaries. At the most basic level it's a Space Western. But Bebop is not content to be merely that, so there are added dashes of film noir, gothic horror, creature-feature, black comedy, screwball comedy, spy action, crime, romance, tragedy, action, philosophy, science, spirituality, fatalism, optimism, buddy-buddy stories, slapstick humour, parody-- just about every type of tale under the sun appears in some shape or form during Bebop's run. It's a show where each episode really is different from the last. Were it not for the recurring characters, it would be hard to believe that the brightly-coloured blaxploitation parody "Mushroom Samba" could possibly come from the same series as the bleakly violent "Real Folk Blues"

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Air America Afganistan

2011-04-17T11:03:00.001-07:00

85 per cent of all drugs produced in Afghanistan are shipped out by US aircraft

Human Hunter - Attenborough - Life of Mammals - BBC

2011-04-15T05:37:00.001-07:00

Japan

2011-04-14T07:17:00.001-07:00

The Big Picture

Stuff

2011-04-13T14:39:00.000-07:00

For some time I only throw links around here, I write more on my Romanian language blog.

Things change, what is written remains (that's a problem with this "writing"). I am not the same as I was when I started writing this blog, so I should put this in the title :)

"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR."

Mark Twain

HAARP

2011-04-13T05:59:00.000-07:00

EU site - 1999

" 27. Considers HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project) by virtue of its farreaching impact on the environment to be a global concern and calls for its legal, ecological and ethical implications to be examined by an international independent body before any further research and testing; regrets the repeated refusal of the United States Administration to send anyone in person to give evidence to the public hearing or any subsequent meeting held by its competent committee into the environmental and public risks connected with the high Frequency Active Auroral Research Project (HAARP) programme currently being funded in Alaska;

28. Requests the Scientific and Technological Options Assessment (STOA) Panel to agree to examine the scientific and technical evidence provided in all existing research findings on HAARP to assess the exact nature and degree of risk that HAARP poses both to the local and global environment and to public health generally; "

Perhaps a scientist was too high in the hierarchy, by mistake.

http://euro-med.dk/?p=14363

"JCSE was able to get its gear into Haiti quickly because the systems already were loaded on pallets in Miami in preparation for an exercise that has been canceled."

On modern servitude

2011-04-09T07:43:00.000-07:00

On modern servitude

See also Derrick Jensen and Charles Eisenstein.

Pirates!

2011-04-08T11:04:00.001-07:00

"I am sorry they won't let you have your Sloop again, for I scorn to do any one a Mischief, when it is not for my Advantage; damn the Sloop, we must sink her, and she might be of Use to you. Tho', damn ye, you are a sneaking Puppy, and so are all those who will submit to be governed by Laws which rich Men have made for their own Security, for the cowardly Whelps have not the Courage otherwise to defend what they get by their Knavery; but damn ye altogether: Damn them for a Pack of crafty Rascals, and you, who serve them, for a Parcel of hen-hearted Numskuls. They villify us, the Scoundrels do, when there is only this Difference, they rob the Poor under the Cover of Law, forsooth, and we plunder the Rich under the Protection of our own Courage; had you not better make One of us, than sneak after the Arses of those Villains for Employment?"

When the captain replied that his conscience would not let him break the laws of God and man, the pirate Bellamy continued:

"You are a devilish Conscience Rascal, damn ye, I am a free Prince, and I have as much Authority to make War on the whole World, as he who has a hundred Sail of Ships at Sea, and an Army of 100,000 Men in the Field; and this my Conscience tells me; but there is no arguing with such sniveling Puppies, who allow Superiors to kick them about Deck at Pleasure."

---

"Through splitting and coalescing and men jumping from ship to ship a great continuity existed amongst the various pirate crews, sharing the same cultures and customs and over the course of time developing a specifically 'pirate consciousness.' The prospect that this pirate community might take a more permanent form was a threat to the authorities who feared that they might set up "a Commonwealth" in uninhabited regions, where "no Power in those Parts of the World could have been able to dispute it with them."(20) "

Pirate Utopias
1680
Pirate democracy

Off the grid

2011-04-03T12:39:00.001-07:00

Beware of Homeland Security Training for Local Law Enforcement, by An Insider

2011-04-02T00:34:00.001-07:00

Link

So how does a person qualify as a potential domestic terrorist? Based on the training I have attended, here are characteristics that qualify:

Expressions of libertarian philosophies (statements, bumper stickers)
Second Amendment-oriented views (NRA or gun club membership, holding a CCW permit)
Survivalist literature (fictional books such as "Patriots" and "One Second After" are mentioned by name)
Self-sufficiency (stockpiling food, ammo, hand tools, medical supplies)
Fear of economic collapse (buying gold and barter items)
Religious views concerning the book of Revelation (apocalypse, anti-Christ)
Expressed fears of Big Brother or big government
Homeschooling
Declarations of Constitutional rights and civil liberties
Belief in a New World Order conspiracy

"His Dark Materials", Philip Pullman

2011-03-30T02:44:00.000-07:00

The audio books can be found here, the narrator is the author himself:
Northern Lights
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass

Wikipedia

"Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command these immortal presences. And she rejoiced in her blood and flesh, in the rough pine bark she felt next to her skin, in the beat of her heart and the life of all her senses, and in the hunger she was feeling now, and in the presence of her sweet-voiced bluethroat daemon, and in the earth below her and the lives of every creature, plant and animal both; and she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her."

Kevin Tucker: "Egocide"
John Landau: "Civilization and the primitive"

"We are trained to look everywhere but our own damaged souls. We are trained to look for something, but never to feel."

Muhammad Ali

2011-03-28T23:13:00.001-07:00

"I ain't draft dodging. I ain't burning no flag. I ain't running to Canada. I'm staying right here. You want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I've been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, but I ain't going no 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people. If I want to die, I'll die right here, right now, fightin' you, if I want to die. You my enemy, not no Chinese, no Vietcong, no Japanese. You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. Want me to go somewhere and fight for you? You won't even stand up for me right here in America, for my rights and my religious beliefs. You won't even stand up for my right here at home. "

- Muhammad Ali refusing to be drafted for Vietnam.

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Wikiquote

Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance (1982)

2011-03-27T03:12:00.000-07:00

Google video

Imdb

A movie with no conventional plot: merely a collection of expertly photographed scenes. Subject matter has a highly environmental theme.

"This false self is observable in the frozen facial expressions, stereotypic gestures, and unexamined behavioral patterns of the general public. This false self determines much of our everyday lives, so that we are seldom the origin of our actions."

Wiki

Operation Northwoods

2011-03-25T01:59:00.000-07:00

This is from 1962. Kennedy opposed it. Imagine what they can do today.

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Operation_Northwoods

8. It is possible to create an incident which will demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered civil airliner en route from the United States to Jamaica, Guatemala, Panama or Venezuela. The destination would be chosen only to cause the flight plan route to cross Cuba. The passengers could be a group of college students off on a holiday or any grouping of persons with a common interest to support chartering a non-scheduled flight.

a. An aircraft at Eglin AFB would be painted and numbered as an exact duplicate for a civil registered aircraft belonging to a CIA proprietary organization in the Miami area. At a designated time the duplicate would be substituted for the actual civil aircraft and would be loaded with the selected passengers, all boarded under carefully prepared aliases. The actual registered aircraft would be converted to a drone.

b. Take off times of the drone aircraft and the actual aircraft will be scheduled to allow a rendezvous south of Florida. From the rendezvous point the passenger-carrying aircraft will descend to minimum altitude and go directly into an auxiliary field at Eglin AFB where arrangements will have been made to evacuate the passengers and return the aircraft to its original status. The drone aircraft meanwhile will continue to fly the filed flight plan. When over Cuba the drone will begin transmitting on the international distress frequency a "MAY DAY" message stating he is under attack by Cuban MIG aircraft. The transmission will be interrupted by destruction of the aircraft which will be triggered by radio signal. This will allow ICAO radio[17] stations in the Western Hemisphere to tell the US what has happened to the aircraft instead of the US trying to "sell" the incident.

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9. It is possible to create an incident which will make it appear that Communist Cuban MIGs have destroyed a USAF aircraft over international waters in an unprovoked attack.

a. Approximately 4 or 5 F-101 aircraft will be dispatched in trail from Homestead AFB, Florida, to the vicinity of Cuba. Their mission will be to reverse course and simulate fakir aircraft for an air defense exercise in southern Florida. These aircraft would conduct variations of these flights at frequent Intervals. Crews would be briefed to remain at least 12 miles off the Cuban coast; however, they would be required to carry live ammunition in the event that hostile actions were taken by the Cuban MIGs.

b. On one such flight, a pre-briefed pilot would fly tail-end Charley at considerable interval between aircraft. While near the Cuban Island this pilot would broadcast that he had been jumped by MIGs and was going down. No other calls would be made. The pilot would then fly directly west at extremely low altitude and land at a secure base, an Eglin auxiliary. The aircraft would be met by the proper people, quickly stored and given a new tail number. The pilot who had performed the mission under an alias, would resume his proper identity and return to his normal place of business. The pilot and aircraft would then have disappeared.

c. At precisely the same time that the aircraft was presumably shot down, a submarine or small surface craft would disburse F-101 parts, parachute, etc., at approximately 15 to 20 miles off the Cuban coast and depart. The pilots returning to Homestead would have a true story as far as they knew. Search ships and aircraft could be dispatched and parts of aircraft found.

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Also see 9/11.

Artists donating art for the tsunami

2011-03-24T00:34:00.000-07:00

Link (there are more pages)

2011-03-22T23:56:00.000-07:00

Link

"A factory worker in a dark, gray world assembles devices that promise happiness. In his spare time he tinkers to create something better, and finally succeeds in perfecting his invention, which allows people to see life through rose-colored glasses. But he has to pay a price for his success."

"She who measures"

"This energetic connection with the surroundings was immense; an incredible exchange on all levels was constantly taking place. It is within the context of this immenseness that our words, our 'rationality', our technical pragmatics seem so narrow, so very small. Far from being primitive, these were people enjoying and interested in preserving immenseness. This is no idealism. A concrete experience in nature can demonstrate the incredible power of the outdoors. One may engage in an intense, strenuous experience with others for a few hours (a night hike or some such) and then afterwards meander about in total silence, gesturing at most, exploring movement, smells, and impulses. This will give a taste of how rich it all is. This is what we have lost in our narrow obsessiveness with technicality. What Zen practitioners strive for a lifetime for, our ancestors had by birthright. Sure, they didn't know how to make a waterwheel or how to harness electricity; they didn't want to: they had better things to do! It is even remotely conceivable that they did know of these things, in potential form at least, but saw them as trivial to the process of life..."

John Landau

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"It did not matter anymore if we were in the year 1947 AD or BC. We were alive and we felt it intensely. We understood that the lives of humans were full even before the age of technology, without a doubt more full and rich in many ways than the life of the modern man.
Somehow time and evolution did not exist anymore: everything that was real and had meaning was today, the same as yesterday, the same as tomorrow."

Thor Heyerdahl

The Ballade (by Moebius)

2011-03-22T02:33:00.001-07:00

Peak oil

2011-03-22T00:38:00.000-07:00

1975 movie

"- Today it's oil right ? In ten or fifteen years : food, plutonium, and maybe even sooner. Now what do you think the people are going to want us to do then ?
- Ask them ?
- Not now, then. Ask them when they are running out. Ask them when there is no heat in their homes, and they're cold. Ask them when their engines stop. Ask them when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You want to know something ? They won't want us to ask them, they'll just want us to get it from them."

"They" are not doing all this "for the people". They need oil to maintain control, and to prevent chaos. They want a slow descent into the post peak oil world.

Other things they do, to limit consumption:
- "green laws", "save the planet!", they suddenly care.
- destruction of the economy
- HAARP

Evangelion

2011-03-17T13:06:00.000-07:00

Original series - Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)

Movies:

The End of Evangelion (1997)

Evangelion: 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone (2007)

Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)

I recommend them in Japanese with subtitles.