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...once or twice I have found a bee trapped in the more-rich-than-Cleopatra's tomb of a tulip or a day lily, unable to back out of the narrow orifice or to turn around, dead of exhaustion.
Yet bees, one should suppose, ought to be immortal, ought to be exempt from death. For are they not the world's only truly innocent creatures? No living thing dies to give them or their offspring sustenance; when they feed they are giving rather than taking life; and when they resort to their only gesture of self-defense it is an act of suicide.
Coming down off the hill carrying my telescope, it occurred to me, as it had a hundred times before, that I am one of the lucky ones. This is all I have so far in my life wanted or needed. But I cannot help wondering what will become of people like me when the world is cemented over.
I felt fragile and depressed, a last surviving member of a species threatened with extinction.
Paul Kingsnorth wrote:
"I withdraw, you see. I withdraw from the campaigning and the marching, I withdraw from the arguing and the talked-up necessity and all of the false assumptions. I withdraw from the words. I am leaving.
I am going to go out walking." "I am leaving on a pilgrimage to find what I left behind in the jungles and by the cold campfires and in the parts of my head and my heart that I have been skirting around because I have been busy fragmenting the world in order to save it;
busy believing it is mine to save. I am going to listen to the wind and see what it tells me, or whether it tells me anything at all. You see, it turns out that I have more time than I thought. I will follow the songlines and see what they sing to me and maybe, one day, I might even come back.
And if I am very lucky I might bring with me a harvest of fresh tales, which I can scatter like apple seeds across this tired and angry land."
Negotiating on behalf of Nature, for Gaia, is a sacred duty.
Environmentalism is not just a career move. As Paul Sears warned 40 years ago, Ecology is a subversive subject, because ecology will demand that we completely re-evaluate our assumptions. We do not get to rewrite the laws of biology, physics, thermodynamics, and exponential growth for our own convenience.
We need ecological leaders who understand ecology and biophysical laws, and who feel a deep, sacred respect for Nature itself.
Ecologists...
It's been a while since I've seen that word....strange that....;}
....understand that climate change from CO2 is only one aspect of the vortex of calamities that is fast evolving, which derives from the full bludgeoning of anthropomorphic tyranny - habitat destruction, resource extraction, and pollution. The single-minded emphasis on CO2 enables activists and scientists the fantasy that we can solve the problem by switching to green energy.
Even assuming that transition is physically possible - and I seriously doubt it is - that wouldn't be enough to spare our species and all others from extermination. As a mindset it is not merely insufficient - it's a distraction, which ultimately makes it an integral part of the problem, although good luck convincing anyone of that.
RUSSIAN WARNING SHOTS AS SYRIAN CONFLICT THREATENS TO DEGENERATE INTO WORLD WAR By: Thierry Meyssan on: 13.06.2012 [00:19 ] (369 reads)
The message is clear : Moscow is ready for world war if NATO and the GCC do not comply with the international obligations as defined in the Annan Plan and persist in aiding terrorism.
RUSSIAN WARNING SHOTS AS SYRIAN CONFLICT THREATENS TO DEGENERATE INTO WORLD WAR
Posted on June 11, 2012
countryboy wrote:Austerity was invented in Russia long ago.
And Russia can demonstrate it for all the world to see.... :twisted:
" A lone, psychopathic killer views himself as a self-contained society of one; therefore, he feels accountable to no one outside of himself
He is a freelancer (a mirror image of the lawless state itself) who has assumed the murderous agency of state power.
No wonder, we, as a people, so greatly exaggerate the danger these extreme cases pose to us on a collective basis no wonder we insist that the most punitive forms of punishment be inflicted upon individuals afflicted with these rare afflictions that they be locked away in the most secure prisons and executed with utmost expediency
for if we gazed upon them for any length of time, we would notice affinities of mind and action their violent, reprehensible deeds are microcosmic representations of official state policy and cultural norms.
war-syndrome-afflicted mil industrial complex loving idiots.
No need to wait....we're here....;}
#1186. To: All (#1183)
RUSSIAN WARNING SHOTS AS SYRIAN CONFLICT THREATENS TO DEGENERATE INTO WORLD WAR By: Thierry Meyssan on: 13.06.2012 [00:19 ] (369 reads)
The message is clear : Moscow is ready for world war if NATO and the GCC do not comply with the international obligations as defined in the Annan Plan and persist in aiding terrorism.
RUSSIAN WARNING SHOTS AS SYRIAN CONFLICT THREATENS TO DEGENERATE INTO WORLD WAR
Therefore, we clear these overt monsters from sight, lest we awaken to ourselves to the casual and mundane monstrosities required to adapt to this prison of the criminally insane we know as daily existence within late capitalist empire.
The further one afflicted withdraws from the world the larger his fears will loom. Isolation causes the mind to become a self-resonating feedback loop of self-referential fear (e.g., an encampment of peace resisters must be met with violent force to preserve the health of the states social order).
The nature of the Syrian crisis has changed. The process of destabilization that was to open the path for legal military intervention by the Atlantic Alliance has failed. Removing its mask, the United States has publicly announced the possibility of attacking Syria without the approval of the Security Council, as it also did in Kosovo.
It's always like that with Empire just before the 'war'.
Usually, it's the 'Pontius Pilot hands' thingy....;}
The ELite have always used war as the Final Solution.
The problem for them this time is that the Final Solution will never have a weak vanquished opponent on the other side.
And speaking of Pristina:
" The nature of the Syrian crisis has changed. The process of destabilization that was to open the path for legal military intervention by the Atlantic Alliance has failed. Removing its mask, the United States has publicly announced the possibility of attacking Syria without the approval of the Security Council, as it also did in Kosovo.
Washington must be pretending not to have noticed that the Russia of Vladimir Putin is not that of Boris Yeltsin. After being assured of Chinese support, Moscow literally fired two warning shots in the direction of Washington. The continuing violations of international law by NATO and the GCC threaten to unleash a global conflict.
"Kosovo was done because the Imperial City still thought Yeltsin was in control. "
What is actually at stake in Syria is not whether Bashar al-Assad will be able to democratize the institutions he has inherited or whether the Wahhabist monarchies of the Gulf will succeed in destroying the last secular regime in the region and impose their sectarianism, but to determine the lines of separation between the emerging power blocs of NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization)
Positioning himself as a peacemaker confronting NATO warmongering, Vladimir Putin has demanded that the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) ready itself to deploy its blue chapkas in Syria, to both separate the belligerents and combat foreign forces. Nicolai Bordyuzha, secretary-general of the CSTO, has confirmed that he is ready to deploy 20,000 men trained for this type of mission and immediately available 6.
This would be the first time that the CSTO deploys a peace force outside of former Soviet territory. Cut to the quick, Ban Ki-Moon attempted to sabotage the initiative, countering with his own sudden effort to organize a Contact Group. Convening in Washington the Sanctions Working Group of the Friends Of Syria Conference, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defied the Russian proposal and raised the ante in favor of regime change 7.
The presidents directive reinforced the need for caution, counterterrorism officials said, but did not significantly change the program. In part, that is because the protection of innocent life was always a critical consideration, said Michael V. Hayden, the last C.I.A. director under President George W. Bush.
It is also because Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.
no citation, no reference, no source, no annotation, no NOTHING.
Just the fetid ramblings of a sick and disturbed libTURD whore.
I feel your pain SCUM.
It is a basic rule of writing and exposition that those who have serious and solid things to say do so clearly with brevity.
You libTURDS always use a million words to say NOTHING.
LOL!
I'm NOT going to treat you as if you were a functioning decent human being SCUM, because you are not.
LOL!
You jumped the shark by shitting on your own brother.
Which is OBVIOUSLY the real source of your mental and emotional problems. Obviously your brother was your elder. He was obviously LOVED and ADORED by your mother whose love of him you were and are jealous of.
Add this to the fact that your brother's death at ANZIO was a heroic or at the very least a very BRAVE act, you were really able to gen up a white hot hate for HIM and HIS CAUSE.
You always had to live in the shadow of HIS life and death, you had to accept that his life and death were heroic and substantsive as opposed to your own cowardly and meaningless term.
EVERYONE in your family and neighbors knew that you were and are the lesser of the two "men".
I don't debate mentally ill, intellectually dishonest LYING COWARDS.
You aren't even capable of writing a basic third grade level sentence. You just make shit up, you never provide accepted form citations to your absurd made up shit, because it's well it's absurd made up shit.
My ONLY purpose in engaging with you as if you were sane or even decent is to show EVERYONE what SCUM you really are, by dint of letting you gibber away in your own words SCUM.
Bloviate away SCUM.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
THIS certainly has NOT changed in any way has it SCUM?
"I feel your pain SCUM.
It is a basic rule of writing and exposition that those who have serious and solid things to say do so clearly with brevity.
You libTURDS always use a million words to say NOTHING.
LOL!
I'm NOT going to treat you as if you were a functioning decent human being SCUM, because you are not.
You jumped the shark by shitting on your own brother.
Which is OBVIOUSLY the real source of your mental and emotional problems. Obviously your brother was your elder. He was obviously LOVED and ADORED by your mother whose love of him you were and are jealous of.
Add this to the fact that your brother's death at ANZIO was a heroic or at the very least a very BRAVE act, you were really able to gen up a white hot hate for HIM and HIS CAUSE.
You always had to live in the shadow of HIS life and death, you had to accept that his life and death were heroic and substantsive as opposed to your own cowardly and meaningless term.
EVERYONE in your family and neighbors knew that you were and are the lesser of the two "men".
I don't debate mentally ill, intellectually dishonest LYING COWARDS.
You aren't even capable of writing a basic third grade level sentence. You just make shit up, you never provide accepted form citations to your absurd made up shit, because, it's, well, ... it's absurd made up shit.
My ONLY purpose in engaging with you as if you were sane or even decent is to show EVERYONE what SCUM you really are, by dint of letting you gibber away in your own words SCUM.
Bloviate away SCUM.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Rodrigo Rato become known to the outside world as the Head of the now notorious Bankia. It has been Bankias collapse which triggered the current round of Europes on-going bank debt crisis. The Bankia collapse has angered the rest of Europes elite. Just when they thought they had succeeded in convincing people to forget that this was a crisis of private bank debts and insolvency, caused by bankers, and to think instead that the whole problem was a Sovereign debt crisis caused by greedy citizens, along comes Bankia to remind people, in a most unhelpful fashion, that, at root, this is a PRIVATE BANK CRISIS. A crisis of private loans and private debts, created by bankers at private banks for their private clients. Particularly in Spain this crisis is not one of Public debt.
"UNLESS THE FED IS ACTIVELY ENGAGING IN MONETIZATION AT EVERY GIVEN MOMENT, THE IMPACT FROM EASING DIMINISHES PROGRESSIVELY, ULTIMATELY APPROACHING ZERO AND SUBSEQUENTLY BECOMING NEGATIVE!"
There's nothing new about the right way to restructure a bankrupt company; it's been done a million times. But it's done not this time, not in Europe and not in the US. As a result, the whole banking system is now a $1 quadrillion zombie system, held up by zombie money that is injected into it in our name, no matter that if we don't have it. And our grandchildren will be born with a million dollars or so each in debt right from the get-go. And well tell them we love them, and believe ourselves when we say it....
All of which is why maybe we should look forward to a Syriza victory in the Greek elections, or to Finland leaving the Eurozone. Just so the idiot emperors and the idiot clothes they don't wear are revealed as the zombies they are.
The banks that are kept alive with the zombie money will use it to do what they will - rightfully, in the present economic model - see as the most profitable thing to do: bet against, and ultimately bring down, the very system that has "saved" them. This is how perverted the entire scheme has become. The money taken from you by your "leaders" will be, and already is, used to bring you to your knees.
Its sort of like one of those autoimmune diseases, where the body attacks and kills itself, using its own defenses, isn't it, a kind of zombie disease? Then again, at least we seek to cure those .....
There's nothing new about the right way to restructure a bankrupt company; it's been done a million times. But it's done not this time, not in Europe and not in the US. As a result, the whole banking system is now a $1 quadrillion zombie system, held up by zombie money that is injected into it in our name, no matter that if we don't have it. And our grandchildren will be born with a million dollars or so each in debt right from the get-go. And well tell them we love them, and believe ourselves when we say it....
you are making sense.
what slipped into your wheaties jim? whatever it is keep some around:)
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image PARWAN, Jun. 13 According to the latest news as many as 40 US-led invaders and local puppets have so far been killed and about two dozens injured as well as 2 armored tanks and 3 rangers vehicles being destroyed in the battle unleashing
Wednesday morning in Siyagard district of Afghanistans northern Parwan province and is still underway.
Mujahideen officials say the fighting broke out after the combined invaders and minions joint military convoys of about 300 tanks and military vehicles got caught in Mujahideen ambush at about 6:00 a.m. local time on the outskirts of this district. A new report indicates that the fighting is still going on, besides the fatalities caused to the enemies, more than 20 of the joint enemy soldiers have been deadly wounded.
what slipped into your wheaties jim? whatever it is keep some around:)
Here's some of what you've been missing, e....
#1167. To: All (#1166) (Edited)
Finance channels are saturated, debt is unproductive. All new debts taken on are to service old debts rather than afford goods and services. Debts are dead money: the only way to retire them are by way of Ponzi schemes and loan-shark lending. Borrowers cannot find lenders because all sources have been tapped already. Lenders cannot find creditable borrowers. This was the entire point of globalization, to tap all sources of world capital, benefits lasted only until global demand for capital ballooned to consume it.
#1209. To: e_type_jag you are making sense. All (#1208)(Edited)
you are making sense.
Arctic passes 400 ppm CO2....never mind about Climate Change....nothing to be done now....;}
Recently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted that this summer would be consistent with this past winter that wasnt that is, hot. I double-checked by looking at the data from the Arctic. As expected, ice melt was accelerating faster than average.
A few days after that confirming data came through, Jon Gottschalck, head of operations of NOAAs Climate Prediction Center, said, Theres definitely a tilt toward being above normal (temperatures) through the summer. Records we dont want to break
From other NOAA agencies came the conclusions that last year the United States underwent the hottest 12-month period ever recorded. This continued through the first four months of this year, clocking in the period of May 2011 through April 2012 as the warmest on record. Another record continued to be broken also For 326 months in a row the monthly temperatures have been hotter than the entire 20th century average. Thats almost 28 years of data.
What Jesus said was, "Nicodemus, marvel not that I said unto thee, all of you need to be born again." This is very important. Not only Nicodemus needed to be saved. But everybody, including him, needed to be born again. That's why Jesus used the plural. www.chick.com/ask/articles/nkjv.asp
Ah a Jack Chick fan. Me too. Here is the latest HTML: click on arrow to load.
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
"the ruling class is the ruling class because of their magnificent virtue and hard work. They deserve their privilege, power and wealth. And you? If you can't manage to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps -- even though the last bootstrap was destroyed a generation or two ago, and even though you are unable to grasp a bootstrap or anything else since the ruling class cut off your hands -- well, you deserve to die."
Arthur Silber
Here it comes.
The rulers will first try to steal the Election,
then they will try to manipulate it,
then they will try to buy off the winner, or coopt him/her....;}
if when that fails they will go callously brutal on the Bottom 99%'s ass....;}
"The immense psychological toll and the sense of desperation are further underscored:
Highly educated young people are desperate to emigrate. Families are putting their property up for sale to pay debts. Banks long ago stopped lending. Casual conversations between friends end in tears."
Still, I doubt the refusal to give up on the failed myth will be limited to North Carolina politicians, San Francisco New Age aficionados, and avant-garde publishers.
I suspect, rather, that the refusal to recognize and deal with the end of progress will become a massive social force in the decade or so ahead of us, and that the great divide in American society
during those years will not be the one between left and right, or between rich and poor, but between those who have accepted historys verdict on our fantasy of perpetual progress, on the one hand, and those who cling to the fantasy despite all disconfirmations, on the other.
Since refusing to recognize the fact of decline is a good way to get clobbered over the head by one or another of that facts manifestationsa point that the inhabitants of coastal North Carolina are likely to find out the hard way one of these daysthose who choose the path of denial may be in for a very rough road indeed
" But the child was taught that facts, logic and argument don't matter. What matters is obedience, including obedience to the edicts of one's own tribe. For the Nazis, the enemy was Jews and other designated groups.
For us, it is "terrorists," a term used without regard to evidence or specific meaning. But as devoted, obedient tribalists, we know that "terrorists" are bad. We know they mean to kill us. So we need not wonder what the answer to my earlier question is.
About the mother's lesson in the story, and what she taught her son must be done about the despised Other, I asked: If all else fails, what do we do? "Eliminate them?"
In reply to the urgent prompting of government propagandists, most Americans enthusiastically scream: "Yes!!!"
According to the Ruling Class USSAMSM, you'd think there was absolutely nothing going on this week end:
" I wrote about hideous spectacles of this kind in a lengthy piece a year ago: "Caught Up in Nightmare: Killing Jack Rabbits." Here's one pertinent passage:
If we broaden our perspective, and if we look beyond particular developments and attempt to grasp what is happening over a longer period of time,
the nature of the horror that awaits us takes on a clearer shape: The West's ruling class is embarked on a program of killing and elimination. A general caution should be kept in mind.
I'm not suggesting that this program is one that the ruling class has explicitly identified, even to itself, at least not necessarily. The ruling class is intent upon increasing its own power and wealth; in one sense, that is its only concern.
I suppose, in some fantasy world, the ruling class would be content to enjoy its immense power and wealth while "ordinary" people pursue their own lives of contentment. This, of course, is the goal which the ruling class announces, and which it desperately tries to convince both itself and us is true."
100% of U.S. Jobs Added Since 2010 Have Been Self-Employment, Contractor, or Other Jobs Without Unemployment Insurance Benefits
Self-employed workers and contractors are not eligible for unemployment benefits even though they have to contribute to state unemployment insurance schemes. It believe it is government-sponsored fraud to have to pay unemployment insurance when there is no chance of ever collecting it.
I suppose, in some fantasy world, the ruling class would be content to enjoy its immense power and wealth while "ordinary" people pursue their own lives of contentment. This, of course, is the goal which the ruling class announces, and which it desperately tries to convince both itself and us is true.
But we don't live in that fantasy world. In this world -- and, I would argue, in any world where brute power is the final means of settling every dispute, especially when that power is consolidated in the State --
the ruling class seeks power and wealth by dominating and controlling the weaker segments of society. The ruling class may not set out to kill those people it finds unnecessary for its aims,
but if the ruling class can maintain and increase its power and wealth only by eliminating them, it will eventually eliminate them. This is the logic of the ruling class's desires. It is certainly true that the ruling class could change much of this if it wished to:
the productive capacity of both England and the United States could be reinvigorated, and much new wealth could be created and enjoyed by many more members of society. But the ruling class believes that would necessitate the diminishment of its power and wealth, so they will not consider the possibility seriously.
The ruling class dreamed a nightmare, and made it real. We are now caught up in it. For many of us -- certainly for me, and very possibly for you -- the end result is clear: the ruling class intends to kill us. Not today or tomorrow, the ruling class hasn't reached that point of desperation quite yet, but they'll kill us soon enough. We have no value to them; we're superfluous; we're not needed.
#1222. To: mcgowanjm, A K A Stone, TooConservative (#1221)
The ruling class dreamed a nightmare, and made it real. We are now caught up in it. For many of us -- certainly for me, and very possibly for you -- the end result is clear: the ruling class intends to kill us. Not today or tomorrow, the ruling class hasn't reached that point of desperation quite yet, but they'll kill us soon enough. We have no value to them; we're superfluous; we're not needed.
JM, thought of you when I saw this Chick cartoon. Since you are a self described Black, gay, gnostic pagan and Muslim:)
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
Was your mother heavily sedated when she came up with that?
Or did your dad pull it out of his rolodex?
i never asked yet but maybe i should now that you mention it
we have a little boy who is now asking for a sibling to play with.
i've thought that it's probably not a bad idea from a reliability / failure mode or worst case analysis perspective that we do in fact have a backup in case something goes wrong with the existing pre adolescent unit we now have.
she is a somewhat ambivalent but seems to be coming around to the idea.
i have already come up with a nickname for he or she and that is "spare".
the wife is less enthusiastic about that idea.....although she did let me name 2 of our cats "flat" and "dead".
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cant fool them Texan flies.
A cowboy from Texas was at a fund-raising function for Barack Obamas reelection. When Obama discovered the cowboy was from George W. Bushs home area, he started to belittle him by talking in a southern drawl and single syllable words.
As he was doing that, he kept swatting at some flies that were buzzing around his head. The cowboy says, Yall havin some problem with them circle flies?
Obama stopped talking and said, Well, yes, if thats what theyre called, but Ive never heard of circle flies.
Well, sir, the cowboy replies, Circle flies hang around ranches. Theyre called circle flies because theyre almost always found circling around the back end of a horse.
Oh, Obama replies as he goes back to rambling. But a moment later he stops and bluntly asks, Are you calling me a horses ass?
No, sir, the cowboy replies, I have too much respect for the citizens of this country to call their president a horses ass.
Thats a good thing, Obama responds and begins rambling on once more.
After a long pause, the cowboy, in his best Texas drawl says, Hard to fool them flies, though.
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)