Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, weighs in on the riots in England and elsewhere and why. Thanks to The Nation via commondreams.org. Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery by Naomi Klein August 16, 2011 I keep hearing comparisons between the London riots and riots in other European cities—window smashing […]
Read MoreI doubt there are any 125-year-old alcoholics. But I do wonder how her lungs held out. Thanks to beforeitsnews.com. 125 Year Old Pot Smoker Claims Weed Was Her Secret To Longevity by Barracuda August 16, 2011 A 125-year-old woman, said to be one of the oldest women in India, died at her home in Orissa, […]
Read More“Intimacy comes from co-creation, not co-consumption . . .” Thanks to hopedance.org, via Ria. A Circle of Gifts by Charles Eisenstein November 4, 2010 Wherever I go and ask people what is missing from their lives, the most common answer (if they are not impoverished or seriously ill) is “community.” What happened to community, and […]
Read MoreBack in the early ’70s, when I was briefly married to my (still wonderful) high school sweetheart and living with him in our Idaho home town, I was feeling at once both utterly “found,” finally with the man I had always loved, and completely “lost,” at odds with both my role as his wife and […]
Read MoreWhy is the MSM so afraid of one small, unprepossessing, truth-telling man? Just like the MSM is afraid of Kucinich. Both are small. Neither relies on persona, or sound bites. Both feel, and sound, and are, real. Maybe this is why. Couldn’t load this, but here it is: www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-15-2011/indecision-2012—corn-polled-edition—ron-paul—the-top-tier
Read More“These books promote critical thinking, revisit the coverups of history, and promote individual empowerment. They should be read widely in order to raise awareness of the situation facing America today, so that we can take back what has been taken from us.” I haven’t read any of these books, but I’ve read others, and I’d […]
Read MoreFor “false flag alien attack scenarios,” see posts today and yesterday. Thanks to huffpost. Defense Industry Faces Profit Losses As Golden Decade Ends August 15, 2011 NEW YORK (AP) — The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down, Osama bin Laden is dead, and the federal government is deeply in debt. This spells the […]
Read MoreYep. Thanks to henrymakow.com. Confessions of a Cancer Industry Insider August 14, 2011 Twenty Year Veteran: “This is a multi-billion dollar per year industry and a “cure” would put a lot of people out of work.” by Geraldine Philips (henrymakow.com) I work for a “cancer research center” and I call it this only because that […]
Read MoreApparently, the Discovery channel programmed a “Curiosity” show that aired Sunday night, August 14, featuring a hostile alien invasion. Was this the context for Michio Kaku’s focus on warlike aliens in the post published yesterday? Was he directed to only focus in that manner? In any case, chalk this Discovery piece up as more (mind-control) […]
Read MoreDavid Icke talks about a worldwide shift in consciousness occurring now, and accelerating, without hanging it on to “2012” as “the reason.” I too, have noticed what he refers to, that the expectation of “2012” keeps people in the little box of the mind, where they hang on to an imagined future event and are […]
Read MoreImagine: we all keep quiet, for one whole day not long ahead. what would happen? Here’s a Daily Poem from the Poetry Chaikhana — Keeping Quiet By Pablo Neruda (1904 – 1973) English version by Alastair Reid Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. For once on the […]
Read MoreFirst, I see where Paul Krugman “jokes” (?) that a fake alien invasion would jumpstart the economy. www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/15/paul-krugman-fake-alien-invasion_n_926995.html Next, I see this video by Michio Kaku. (Geez! Who does he work for? Did he “go to the dark side”? or has he just been an unusually effective apologist all along. Reminds me of Steven Hawking. […]
Read MoreWe have a Raging Grannies group here in Bloomington, Indiana. The last time I saw them sing was at a protest to the widening of a highway that I helped to organize. (Our protest got swallowed by the fed’s DOE engineering juggernaut that continues to massage consumer car culture in an age of peak oil, […]
Read MoreWhile some people’s hearts are still closed, and therefore capable of, and even deliberately seek, rampant destruction, (see last post), others feel the suffering and seek to help. Here are two articles, showing two different approaches to how we help each other in the early 21st century. Both are creative, inspiring, and, you bet, heart […]
Read MoreNaomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine describes how predatory capitalism profits from chaos and destruction, by reaping lots of contracts to “rebuild.” I was among those shocked to realize this. What Klein did not say was that the predators don’t just wait for the forces of chaos and destruction to ignite, but that they actively set the […]
Read MoreYes, let’s launch the question. What if the increasingly corporatized, centralized, and militarized United States of America, like the monolithic Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of yore, broke up into its constituent parts? If so, the question is, what are those parts? The most obvious answer is the states, all 50 of them deciding their […]
Read MoreI know I said I need two days off, and I do. However, this morning I’m moved to publish one post in two parts, a video and a channeling. Seems to me they go together. And BTW: thanks to all those who responded, both in comments here, on facebook, and personally! I very much appreciate […]
Read More. . . from this near-obsessive filtering and commenting upon “the news,” or, I should say, daily sifting through “the olds” for nuggets of real news. Until tomorrow? Or maybe even until Monday? P.S., there are now 577 posts on this blog, so plenty to work your way through, if so inclined, while waiting for […]
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