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"…culture is not your friend, ideology is not your friend… Who’s your friend? Well,..."

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:07:20 -0800

“…culture is not your friend, ideology is not your friend… Who’s your friend? Well, to my mind, the felt presence of immediate experience is the surest dimension, the surest guide that you can possibly have. The felt presence of immediate experience. Feeling is primary. All rationalization and intellectualization and analysis is secondary, and comes out of culture.”

- Salvia Divinorum Scotland - Quotes - Terence McKenna

Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world | Video on...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:42:43 -0800

Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world | Video on TED.com

"…the rapidly melting permafrost is unleashing methane chimneys from the ocean floor along the..."

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:53:23 -0800

“…the rapidly melting permafrost is unleashing methane chimneys from the ocean floor along the Russian coastline. Methane is a greenhouse gas 25 times more toxic than carbon dioxide, and some scientists have speculated that the release of huge quantities of methane into the atmosphere could asphyxiate the human species. The rising sea levels, which will swallow countries such as Bangladesh and the Marshall Islands and turn cities like New Orleans into a new Atlantis, will combine with severe droughts, horrific storms and flooding to eventually dislocate over a billion people. The effects will be suffering, disease and death on a scale unseen in human history.”

- Chris Hedges: A Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction

"Industrial civilization is functionally incompatible with life on the planet, and is murdering the..."

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:48:13 -0800

“Industrial civilization is functionally incompatible with life on the planet, and is murdering the planet. We need to do whatever is necessary to stop this.” The oil and natural gas industry, the coal industry, arms and weapons manufacturers, industrial farms, deforestation industries, the automotive industry and chemical plants will not willingly accept their own extinction. They are indifferent to the looming human catastrophe. We will not significantly reduce carbon emissions by drying our laundry in the backyard and naively trusting the power elite. The corporations will continue to cannibalize the planet for the sake of money. They must be halted by organized and militant forms of resistance. The crisis of global heating is a social problem. It requires a social response.”

- Derrick Jensen — Chris Hedges: A Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction - Truthdig

"…the ‘innocence lost’ narrative is inherently about the proclamation of..."

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:52:00 -0700

“…the ‘innocence lost’ narrative is inherently about the proclamation of victimhood… when the dominant group in a social order proclaims itself aggrieved, insists that it is the marginalized faction, and yet still has its relative power, its guns, its bombs, its police forces, its military, its majority status (in numbers and certainly in influence), that sense of grievance becomes more than mere annoyance. It becomes deadly. The backlash engendered by that sense of victimhood, linked with firepower and the strength of the state apparatus becomes a potential source of real fascism, properly defined and historically conceptualized. It is always the notion of national decline and the need for rebirth that lay at the root of fascism… And it is precisely that, the fascist impulse, which Glenn Beck—a self-proclaimed rodeo clown, who yet commands the respect of millions—is daily nurturing”

- The Avatar of Amnesia: Glenn Beck, Historical Memory and the Evil of Right-Wing Populism | Red Room

"…while I endorse socialist principles, I don’t call myself a socialist, to mark a break with..."

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:27:03 -0700

“…while I endorse socialist principles, I don’t call myself a socialist, to mark a break with the politics associated with the industrial model that shapes our world. I am a radical feminist anti-capitalist who opposes white supremacy and imperialism, with a central commitment to creating a sustainable human presence on the planet. I don’t know any single term to describe those of us with such politics. I do know that the Republican Party is not interested in this kind of politics, and neither is the Democratic Party. Both are part of a dying politics in a dying culture that, if not radically changed, will result in a dead planet, at least in terms of a human presence.”

- The Rag Blog: Robert Jensen

"You can’t avoid the anger boiling over at some point when you have one in eight mortgages in..."

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:33:16 -0700

“You can’t avoid the anger boiling over at some point when you have one in eight mortgages in delinquency or foreclosure, where there’s a foreclosure filing once every 7.5 seconds and the unemployment rate keeps growing. That will have its own tipping point. And the scary thing about that is that historically, at times when that has happened, the right has been able to successfully manipulate those who have been beaten down and use their rage to support … fascism.”

- Michael Moore: America’s Teacher | Naomi Klein

"You need money to survive. …you need it for your life. Money is always necessary for your..."

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:54:00 -0700

“You need money to survive. …you need it for your life. Money is always necessary for your life.”

- Desperate Japanese head to ‘suicide forest’ - CNN.com

"…it’s probably too late to stop it. From here, it escalates, as minor thuggery turns..."

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:02:14 -0700

“…it’s probably too late to stop it. From here, it escalates, as minor thuggery turns into beatings, killings, and systematic tagging of certain groups for elimination, all directed by people at the very top of the power structure.”

- Fascist America: Are We There Yet? | OurFuture.org

Video

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:17:34 -0700

"In his book As If We Were Grownups, author Jeff Golden’s thoughtful assertion is that, ‘We..."

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:48:06 -0700

“

In his book As If We Were Grownups, author Jeff Golden’s
thoughtful assertion is that, ‘We consistently elect [political]
candidates who tell us what children would want to hear.
Children want to hear that everything is okay, that little is
required of them, that they can go out and play or watch TV,
and that they’ll be taken care of and protected. In exchange,
they are expected to be seen and not heard, to pay their taxes,
to take their flu shots, and to not question the authorities.’

Radio talk show host, Mike Rivero, sheds some light on why so many people are apathetic and complacent about changing their beliefs:
‘Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and
fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once
a citizen acknowledges that the government under which they
live is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or
she will do about it. To take action in the face of a corrupt gov-
ernment entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose
to do nothing is to surrender one’s self-image of standing for
principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that
choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the
critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not
to think at all.’

[…]

The specific intention of 9/11 was to terrorize the American
people into supporting the so-called “war on terror,” which
is a replacement for the cold war’s “war on communism.”
It’s a blank check for the US government and the American
military-industrial-complex to attack anyone, anywhere they
want, anytime they want – to support the empire.

— 9/11 truth activist Ken Jenkins

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- The Truth is Not Enough: How to Overcome Emotional Barriers to 9/11 Truth — Global Outlook, 2009.

"A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies. And we are dying now."

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:54:08 -0700

“A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies. And we are dying now.”

- The Rise of Gonzo Porn Is the Latest Sign of America’s Cultural Apocalypse — Chris Hedges

"In the contemporary United States, we are trapped in a … delusion. We are told that it is..."

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:51:00 -0700

“In the contemporary United States, we are trapped in a … delusion. We are told that it is ‘realistic’ to yield to the absurd idea that the systems we live in are the only systems possible or acceptable based on the fact that some people like them and wish them to continue. But what if our current level of first world consumption is exhausting the ecological basis for life? Too bad. The only ‘realistic’ options are those that view this lifestyle as nonnegotiable. …What if the hierarchies our lives are based on are producing extreme material deprivation for the oppressed…? Too bad. The only ‘realistic’ options are those that view hierarchy as inevitable.”

- Robert Jensen — The Delusion Revolution | Adbusters

"the nation they (the founders) envisioned and created was a white supremacist nation. Meaning, it..."

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:24:00 -0700

“the nation they (the founders) envisioned and created was a white supremacist nation. Meaning, it was founded on the notion that whites should rule, that whites had superior ability to rule, that the nation should be a white republic, and that people of color surely should not have equal rights with whites. That point is inarguable”

- Tim Wise — Fact-Checking and Correcting Rush Limbaugh (Or, Reflections on the Easiest Thing I’ll Do All Day)

"President Obama with his tenacious belief in looking forward, not backward, exemplifies a national..."

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:04:17 -0700

“President Obama with his tenacious belief in looking forward, not backward, exemplifies a national mindset to avoid the painful search for truth and justice that could produce still more public disillusionment with government and feed the belief that American democracy is weak at best, and delusional at worst.”

- Dissident Voice : 9/11 Mind Swell

Video

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:40:00 -0700

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the..."

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:20:25 -0700

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter X

‘9/11 was an inside job’ - US poet JerryMazza...

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:07:50 -0700

‘9/11 was an inside job’ - US poet JerryMazza RussiaToday August 02, 2009 | 911Blogger.com

"Despite the layers upon layers of justification Israel cites, there is only one reason it continues..."

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:23:40 -0700

“Despite the layers upon layers of justification Israel cites, there is only one reason it continues its heinous extermination of the Palestinian people — because it can. Because the United States supports such atrocity. Because the United States finances, arms and equips Israel, and — more important — protects it from having to account for any of its crimes. So, who’s to blame here?”

- By Sheila Samples : Information Clearing House - ICH

The Internet

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:14:58 -0700

“About 600 million years ago, the branch of fungi leading to animals evolved to capture nutrients by surrounding their food with cellular sacs — essentially primitive stomachs. As these organisms evolved, they developed outer layers of cells — skins, basically — to prevent moisture loss and as a barrier against infection. Their stomachs were confined within the skin. These were the earliest animals.

“I have long proposed that mycelia are the earth’s ‘natural Internet.’ … recently scientists in Great Britain have published papers about the ‘architecture’ of a mycelium — how it’s organized. They focused on the nodes of crossing, which are the branchings that allow the mycelium, when there is a breakage or an infection, to choose an alternate route and regrow. There’s no one specific point on the network that can shut the whole operation down. These nodes of crossing, those scientists found, conform to the same mathematical optimization curves that computer scientists have developed to optimize the Internet. Or, rather, I should say that the Internet conforms to the same optimization curves as the mycelium, since the mycelium came first.” - Paul Stamets

“It’s not an accident that the internet came into existence during the last hurrah of the age of cheap energy, the quarter century between 1980 and 2005 when the price of energy dropped to the lowest levels in human history. Only in a period where energy was quite literally too cheap to bother conserving could so energy-intensive an information network be constructed. The problem here, of course, is that the conditions that made the cheap abundant energy of that quarter century have already come to an end, and the economics of the internet take on a very different shape as energy becomes scarce and expensive again.” - John Michael Greer