Monday, December 26, 2011

So It Begins....











Hello All,


Occasionally i have premonitions of events that may happen in the world. i have never shared them before because i could never be sure how they would be greeted.

So i have decided to swallow my fear and just do it.

Below are the premonitions that i have felt strong about. They encompass the year ahead only.

So it begins.....


Shift of the Poles

A pole shift is coming. This shift is not a reversal, but rather a introduction of what is to come. The shift will seem minor to most places, but the effects of the shift toward Russia will have some consequences. There will be an altering of migratory patterns for some species. As an example, some fish that move in specific patterns in the oceans will suddenly vanish from their destination breeding waters. This shift will have a huge economic consequence for humans that harvest from the sea and the cost to supply it to the world.

This shift will also affect weather patterns. Beware the appearance of the so called "Superstorm". With the shift in the pole, comes the inevitable change in the magnetosphere. This transformation will affect the layers of our atmosphere that dictate weather patterns. Beware the Atlantic seaboard. Storms that normally touch the southeastern states and the Gulf will shift farther up the coast. Population density and evacuation processes will determine the death tolls there.


Earthquakes

California, British Columbia or Mexico will experience violent quakes in mid-July. The devastation will bankrupt the state or province. The damage will extend into the trillions of dollars with substantial human loss. Other hot spots will be Chile.

The amount of earthquakes world wide will increase. It will be the largeness of the earthquakes that will be relevant. Look to find quakes in excess of 7 on the Richter scale in great number.

The possibility of tsunamis are real.


Volcanoes

Yellowstone National Park will experience its first taste of volcanic activity in a long time. The eruption will not be as devastating as other volcanic activity. The disruption of the Park is a prelude to what lies beneath. There is a caldera there that is building and has become a ticking time bomb. Because of its size beneath the surface, this spot has potential to do great damage to the United States and its agricultural way of life as well as the world. As of yet, we have not felt the repercussions of the Iceland volcanoes, but i fear that will be revealed soon this year. If this eruption does diminish the agriculture with in the Unites States, the food costs will affect the world. This will be due to America hording what they have in surplus rather than selling it on the world market.


Country Instability

As the year progresses, there will be more countries that will admit that their financial situation is at tipping point. This is a sad reflection of the world today.

If the American economy takes a large down turn this year, be prepared to see the North American Union take affect quickly. America will pressure its neighbours, Canada and Mexico into amalgamating for strength.

Just as the Soviet Union fell and changed its state to a more socialistic appearance, so may the face of capitalism begin to show its cracks. An extreme vision such as capitalism and communism are fine, but the systems never seem to fulfill their original ideas due to corruption. Signs....collapse of the American dollar. China calling in loans from the United States.


Quote of the Day.....

"isn't it strange? the same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers seem to take economists seriously."

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Sunday, December 4, 2011

WHAT A WAY TO GO

Please be advised that what you are about to read is heavy and of a serious nature. It is meant to make you think about what your life is all about. If you experience a realization or awakening from it, then my words are not in vain.

A Short Essay Of My Thoughts Of What Was and What Could Be For Future Generations….It Is All About Choice.

There was a time in my life when I would have this reoccurring dream. I would be sitting in my car, music blaring. Slowly making my way forward through a fast food drive-thru. As I was receiving my change and handed my burger and fries, there off in the distance a bright flash, a rising cloud. And as the full force of the nuclear blast washed over me, as the icy cold of my over turned coke soaked into my jeans, I would think to myself….What A Way To Go.

Part 1 (Waking On The Train)

I was born in Canada, on the sleepy shores of Georgian Bay. I was raised in the arms of a rural family, starting off struggling. I was born into warmth and a sense of place, a sense of security and plenty to eat. I was born into stories, stories of the value of work and the right way to live. Stories about god and country, community, loyalty, steadfast and resolve. Stories about the role and place of humans on this planet. Stories about our relationship to something we called nature. I was born into stories. No one told me about these stories, they didn’t have to. They were the air I breathed, the water in which I swam, the land on which I walked. They were all around me. We didn’t even know they were stories, we just thought it was the way things were.
My world was a playground. There were lakes to swim in, boats to row, fish to catch, parades to watch, trails to hike, presents to open and family to share it all with.
It was a magical land, Popsicles, pies on birthdays, warm milk. The earth was our merry-go-round, our monkey bars and if we just didn’t look down, the world would be just fine.

I was born half way up the population explosion. I was born on the slope of rising CO2 levels. I was born in the foothills of mass extinction. I was born on the rocky rise of oil production. I was born facing forward, each step forward, upward into the face of progress. A step into a vast and glorious human future. We were moving on up; there was no looking back. Step by step we went to conquer the mountain. But what we were climbing was not what it was. Rather than rising up natural slopes, we were rising on imbalance and short sightedness. In our efforts to progress, to succeed, to overcome, to strive, to change, to manage, we wielded huge new forces across the globe. We walked as giants upon the earth; unaware of the footprints we left behind.
I have walked that path, unaware of my own big feet, enacting the stories of our culture. Not stopping long enough to feel the instability of the slope under foot.

In the 80s the news of the hole in the ozone and climate change first hit me and I began to shake. I stopped and looked around me for the first time. I got scared, I got involved and then the shaking subsided or rather, I just got use to it. Life got more complex with my personal struggles and there was still more climbing to do. So I continued to climb. The tremors were still there under my feet. At night I slept not fitfully, clenched with worries, my dreams assaulted by vague rumblings from the future. In my dreams I would stand at the pinnacle of the present and survey the surrounding terrain and it did not look as I thought it would.
A faint howling in the distance pierces the night, Monsters we have created, lumbering to life are heading even now toward our village. Nuclear weapons biding their time, reaching their purposes unfulfilled as hopeful fingers tremble on near buttons. Bunker busters and tactical nukes, terrorist bombs and suitcases filled with death. Power plant accidents and making waste that could never be rendered harmless. Plutonium launched into space and rockets know to explode. And depleted uranium poisoning the battlefield depopulating the land. Chemical warheads and biological black magic. Anthrax and smallpox and plague. Enough to wipe out the cities, enough to wipe out the world.
And they don’t care who lets them out as long as they get to play. Other nasties lurched towards us on their own, old versions and new ones. Ebola, SARS, swine flu, bird flu and HIV and AIDS. The rebound of tuberculosis, malaria and typhus. Mad cow and cancers that eat away at our lungs, our brains, our breasts our testicles and our ovaries.

The new Monsters peer over the horizon. Good intentions spliced into blind arrogance and numbing greed. Chemicals that make our food bug free, choking our life, our DNA. Frankenfoods and terminator seeds, herbicide tolerance and pesticide laced crops. Patented life that is barely tested, quietly ticking, let loose upon the land. As if their creators, having looked at the world and managed to learn nothing at all. The Monster’s eye grows frenzied, chemicals in our land, our sky, our rain, our rivers, our food, our bodies, our babies.
Rising male infertility rates and chemtrails and ozone depletion. Rivers dammed and salmon doomed. Topsoil loss and fertilizer runoff. Huge oceanic dead zones and depleted fisheries and the ghosts of silent whales scraping over the corpses of silent coral reefs.

The Monsters advance and the forests collapse under their feet, leaving Indigenous cultures homeless, battered, homesick or dead.
Disrupting water and oxygen cycles turning soil into deserts. As tigers and falcons and tree frogs and other species stumble down the path to extinction. Their distant voices lost in the chatter of the chainsaw and coughing insults of bulldozers.
And all the while the climate is changing. Angry summers and persistent floods, belligerent blizzards, grudging droughts and hissing hurricanes. With poles warming and ice shelves calving, permafrost slumping and glaciers receding. Sea levels rising and big cities sinking. As ocean currents halt and super storms gust, deserts expand, rabbits run, locust hoard, the ants march, the mosquitoes feast and rodents overrun. The balance undone. It leaves crops destroyed, diseases vectored, war and rioting and looting. The ocean turns acid as corals and plankton and shellfish dissolve. The disruption of the food chains, the collapsing of ecosystems tonight on the weather channel.

Watch it now while you can because oil is peaking with no clear replacements. Production will falter as the demand keeps increasing and the price which is rising now will just keep on rising. Imagine the impact of the global economy, to the truckers and farmers, to your neighbours, your enemy, yourself. Watch the bidding war change from the trade floor to battlefields. Watch the pentagon plan and the patriots act. Go look out the window; do you feel a draft coming?

World populations fed by the input of oil. The world population is bursting at the seams.
We are poisoning the air, the water, the land. We are driving a high-speed train down a set of tracks that we thought had no end, but are about to realize were never finished. We are taking the planet and trillions upon trillions of its inhabitants with us. And all of this is wrapped tightly in a culture of denials and absurdities so complex, so powerful that we can barely see it through the smog.

The Monsters are screeching at the village edge, so huge and so horrible that we cannot bare to look at them. And we, bound in a cultural straight jacket of our own making, slumber on as they draw near. We are working jobs we hate, consuming products that do not fulfill, distracting ourselves as best we can with television, drugs, food, sex and entertainments. We hope that our leaders will find some answers. Awakening in the still hours of the early morning to the shapeless realization that they will not.
Beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep…..ahhhhh what a nightmare.

There has always been a part of me that has suspected that we would see the end of world, as we know it in our lifetime. It seemed built into the situation, a certainty of population dynamics. The inevitable end to Mr. Malthus musings. (The writer of an essay. “The principle of population.”)

The world looked insane to me, but nobody else seemed to notice so I buried my thoughts and muddled on. Deep inside this was tearing me to pieces. I remember lying awake at night thinking of friends and family and the knowing terror of their futures, but I left it in my heart, hit the snooze button and slept a while longer.

Then I read two books, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn and The Culture of Make Believe by Derrik Jensen. It helped me to recognize the stories of our culture, the beliefs and assumptions and fables that have shaped our lives. The fairytales we have told ourselves and the madness that we have made manifest in the world. Quinn’s book spoke of Hitler and his domination which held a nation captive, of the people, the gypsys, the poor, the Jew, the average German and the order that went along with it all only to be denounced and separated from the glorious end that was the third Reich. We too today, that live inside the global culture are captive to the stories. Stories that surround us like the air we breathe. Stories that we enact at our own peril. Stories that threaten the community of life itself.

Have you heard the one about humans being separate from nature, different, special, the pinnacle of creation? Or about humans being innately flawed, violent, selfish and greedy? How about the one that said that the world was made for human beings to manage, control and exploit as a resource and that the world has no value beyond utility. Or the story about there being only one right way to live and one right way to understand and view the world? Or about how unlimited grow, production, capitalistic greed are all unquestionably good? Or the story that told us that we could have and do anything we want because there are no limits? There were people in the world looking squarely at our stories and the global predicament and seeing what I saw, our culture in its present configuration could not last. I was not alone.
But the transformation, the collapse still seemed far away. It would come one day, but not now. There was time, there was hope. Somewhere there were people taking care of it all. And that’s how it was for me; I lived the average Canadian life. I tried to live the stories I had heard as a child and tried to ignore the rumblings of the future that haunted my depths.

One thing is clear….the global environmental, political and economic situation we live in is critical. The possible scenarios rage into the highly disturbing and the time frame seems, well, imminent.
It is as though we have awakened to find ourselves on a runaway train hurtling wildly down the tracks held in place by powerful cultural stories and fuelled by our desperate consumption, the very heart, bones, blood and flesh of this planet. If we do not find a way to stop this train soon we are going to reach the end of the line.


Part 2 (The Train And The Tracks)

So what do you see when you wake up on the train. I can tell you what I saw. I saw the ground beneath the pavement, the man behind the curtain, the monster under the bed, the reel below the rails. The culture of empire works every moment of every day to distract my attention like a magician using slight of hand. What happens when I look where the conjurer does not want me to look? They see the trick, I see the reality behind the illusion. I see, if I look long enough, that empire has no clothes.

Ride with me a while. Look more closely at the train and the tracks and at the terrains which we are speeding by. If you want to respond affectively, you will need a clearer picture of the whole situation.

For me, four aspects of our predicaments stand out: peak oil; climate change; mass extinction and population overshoot. I started with peak oil. At first I didn’t get it so I began talking to people that did understand. What is it? It is when the demand for oil exceeds the amount of oil that can be taken from the ground. Over the last 150 years we have created a society that is heavily dependant on oil. The problem is that oil is a non-renewable resource. Even when the world first started using it, they knew that eventually it would run out.
At 84 million barrels a day, we are now consuming more than that. Newly discovered oil peaked in the 60s and since then we have been discovering less and less new sources. To put it in easier terms….we are using 4 barrels of oil for every 1 that we discover. There are roughly 33 countries that are past their peak oil limit. The first to go was the United States in the 70s. Remember the energy crisis scare of the 70s?! Scientists are estimating that within the next decade or so that the World will hit its peak for oil.
So what exactly will world peak oil mean to the world we know? All our transportation systems, our means of getting food, our global economic model. (capitalism: this due to its ever increasing desire to expand) The root base of all of this is the existence of cheap energy. In order to not go into a recession or depression, we have to have a continual growth in the money supply, which is based of economic growth activity, which is based on the availability of cheap energy and raw resources. We have built an economy that says it must grow every year or face collapse. So the economy will level off and we will see a global economic collapse because of peak oil.

It seems that if we are poised for a meltdown, our agricultural system is doubly so. The oil we EAT can be calculated based on the distance it takes to get to us. So not only is it based on the petroleum to grow it, but also it’s transport and refrigeration. It’s a system that is dependant on cheap energy. In 1940, an average farmer was using approximately a calorie of fossil fuel to make a calorie of food. Today that same farmer uses 10 calories of fossil fuel to make a calorie of food. That means that fossil fuels and petro chemicals have become embedded in our food supply. If we run out of fuel, that strategy will collapse in a heart beat.
Sadly as oil becomes more precious it seems worth fighting for. Prices will rise, people will fight over it. Eventually countries will go to war to make sure that their country gets everything they need to sustain their cultural empire.

Peak oil got my attention. If the ramifications are true about oil then the situation of natural gas is even more desperate. We have had almost 200 years of cheap energy. Is this going to be a historic turning point? Yes it is. It is breathtaking!!!

Even more breathtaking is what happens when we burn fuel. Scientists use to talk about climate change in terms of centuries, now they are talking about decades, now they are talking about next year. Now, they are talking about now.
Carbon dioxide is one of the greenhouse gases that can get trapped in the atmosphere that help create a heating affect on the planet. it is not the only gass to affect climate change, but in the chain of gases that interact up there, upsetting the levels of one may affect the rest. they just do not know. Imagine the implications. The only good thing about when I began to understand climate change, I spent less time worrying about oil. Some scientist believe we will run out of air to burn before we run out of fossil fuel. In other words, the fossil fuels we burn are helping to create our global warming problem and make the air unliveable, it won’t really matter how much oil is left.

CO2 has risen from 230 parts per million in the 1800s to 380 parts per million today and by 2050 it is predicted to hit 550 parts per million. So greenhouse gases are on the rise, temperatures are on the rise, more floods, more droughts and rising sea levels. It’s been in the news for some time now. How does this impact the impunity of life? Birds are arriving earlier in the springtime, plants are flowering earlier, species are moving farther north changing the ecosystems around us that we rely on.
There is a very strong biological signal of what climate change is doing to us. Crops and trees will grow in places that they cannot grow today. There is an alarming suspicion that they may not be sustainable there. But there is one particular aspect of this that I find even more fearful and that is that carbon goes into the ocean. It is one of the biggest carbon absorbers we have. It changes the acidity of the oceans, which makes it harder for the plankton to form their soft shells. This may cause a plankton die off which is the bottom of the ocean food chain. Plankton as well a corals are not only threatened by rising acidity but by rising temperatures as well. Phytoplankton levels have declined as much as a 1/3 in some of the northern oceans. This has resulted in significant impacts to fish and bird populations. But the reported dangers go beyond straining the food chains, which is bad enough. Phytoplanktons produce half of the oxygen we breathe and they are major carbon sink. When they die, they give off CO2, which means more warming. On top of this, new evidence shows that climate can shift very rapidly. Slow changes can build to a tipping point and the system can move abruptly to a new state.

This is happening in the oceans, where a grand current known as the Gulf Stream conveyor belt is being impacted with possibly disastrous results. The amount of carbon dioxide that we are putting out into the atmosphere, most scientists agree, that we may be at a tipping point. Feed back mechanisms that help maintain the planets temperatures will be stretched too far. The classic one is that as the polar caps speed up in melting, the fresh waters affect the warm Gulf Stream and could shut it down. Europe and North America would experience extreme cold and drought. Such an impact would be a huge agaricultural global blow.

Adding to this, the melting of caps change and accelerates the warming. Ice reflects light, which helps to keep the planet regular. If that ice is gone the sun’s radiation/heat will be absorbed by the oceans. The other thing is that there is a lot of carbon stored in the permafrost and if that begins to defrost, the carbon will get oxidized and turn to carbon dioxide creating more greenhouse gas. This is called a ‘snowball effect’ that will become faster as it goes.
So given that we need to lower our greenhouse gases by a reccomended 70 %, given that we live in a culture where economies must grow or die and given that our carbon increase grows along with our economies and given that countries are working feverishly to emulate the North American way of life, it is difficult to see a way to stop it. I have yet to see a realistic proposal or solution to address this. Talk about a snowball’s chance in hell. What if it is out of our control, as I write this, whether we implement the Kyoto agreement or not?
Economic, political, natural and agricultural systems will be wiped out!!! If we speak of inevitability will it overwhelm the masses? Will we slide into apathy and diversion? Isn’t that where people already are? I don’t think I can afford to look at anything but the truth. Then I have to ask, what are we made of? Who will we be in the face of such truths? If we do not look at these things, generations to come, if there are any, will not be happy with us for refusing to step up and admit our problem and do something about it.

It is not just our human descendants. Millions of species and more are threatened by our behaviour. And for many of them there will be no more generations to come. We are killing off the life forms that give us life. We have black holes in the ocean where no fish exist. Geologists mark geological time by catastrophe. We are in one of those catastrophic extinction periods, but it is human caused. Our changes to our earth caused by us is driving species to extinction 1000 times faster than it should be. Scientists predict that we could lose almost a half of all species within the next century.

It cannot go on. Humans are taking over the planet and everything else is being crowded out, feld, caught cleaned and canned. The numbers show that the culture of civilization is eating itself out of house and home. On land it is known that we consume 40% of the primary productivity of the planet. We use about 2/5 of the planet’s green to feed us and our livestock and the rest is wood for building and fibres for cloth. I drive through the country and see it. Fields that are parking lots, crops with livestock are now billboards and cell phone towers. We are bulldozing and building our way around the globe. It is the same in the oceans. Many people think that the oceans are vast, but we consume about 1/3 of what is created there. Fish stocks have dropped dramatically. The Grand Banks off the east coast of Canada was shut down to fishing. The cod will soon be a mythical animal like the dodo bird.

What about fresh water? Studies estimate that ½ of the world’s fresh water is used to grow crops or water livestock. Watersheds in the country are so highly developed that any small change in rainfall is causing problems with the availability of drinking water for people.
Multiply that with the amount of fuels, herbicides, pesticides, industrial chemicals, air pollution, with electromagnetic waves, human activity and structures of control and domination, empire is literally poisoning every square inch of the planet. Will the planet survive? I am sure it will, but at the cost and it will only resurface after hundreds of thousands of generations. How can I sum up the extinction rate more clearly? I will use a short story. Say you live in a tall brick building. And everyday we go to the basement and knock bricks out and take it upstairs and put it on the roof to build higher. Every day you take bricks and for a long time the building is stable. But it won’t be stable forever because we are attacking the structural integrity of the building….that is what we are doing to the life of the planet. The system will collapse, just as the build would. If I were in that building I would want to get out, but where would I run? Empire now covers the planet and almost all of us are inside the empire, all 7 billion of us.

One of the hardest things to talk about is the human population explosion. Everyone I talk to about it seems to agree that the earth cannot sustain this number. We are approaching our limit to what the planet can create for us to remain if we grow. I believe that equilibrium will be achieved. Nature can be harsh. We are unlike any other species on the earth. We have such a big brain. We can think, solutionize and prepare, but it does not mean we will. Scientists believe that we exceeded a sustainable population during the 1900s. The population of the earth then was just over 1 billion. So today, we have overshot that number by 6 billion. It is not the numbers but the damage those numbers do to the resources that threatens our existence. The earth supports an even greater number of ants than humans. It can do so because they are smaller and do not waste the resources around them. They don’t build and buy 5000 square foot homes, drive 30 minutes to work or have plasma TV sets or fill landfills with non-recyclable plastics.
The United States leaves 32 times more of a footprint (carbon and resource depletion) than all of India. To speak of overpopulation as the reason for our crisis does not seem correct to me. It conjures images of poor and overpopulated 3rd world countries, while the global impact of rich 1st world lifestyles go unexamined. Big feet, more feet and more and more feet getting bigger. And if these feet keep walking, one of these days they will walk right off the edge. It cannot be sustained.

One thing large populations are especially prone to is disease. Mankind likes to think that he is not ruled by nature, but he is. So what do we do when we finally reach the population peak? Humanity has never encountered this problem before. How do you decrease the surface population humanely? This is BIG and it is not being talked about.
This is what I had to face. That like the tree frog, the tiger and all the other species, I too would have to go.
All great civilizations before me had collapsed and they were by choice. What choices do we now have? What would our success look like? What is inevitable? What remains to be created if we only awake to our power? Most importantly, why have we not already awakened?


Part 3 (The Locomotive Power)

There are other issues I could have looked at like global dimming, honeybee decimation, coal plants, indigenous culture destruction, bioweapons, genetic manipulation or chemtrails. The very survival as a species is now in question. I gaze unflinchingly at the way the world is, the information goes right into my body and I feel shaken to my soul. I feel like running away. I feel, at times, I have been hit head on. I know I am not alone. I wish I had some magic potion or an easy fix. I wish I could tell you that everything was going to be ok. But of course I cannot tell you that and probably deep down, you already know that.

36 years after the first Earth Day. 44 years after Silent Spring, the planet is closer to ecological meltdown that it has ever been. If what we want is to stop the destruction of life on this planet, then what we have been doing is not working. We must not just ask ourselves “what do we do?” we must first ask, “how did we get here?” I don’t think we will have much of chance affecting the radical change that is needed.

Talking about how we feel is exactly what we need to be doing. We must also question assumptions. The one assumption I want to question is that scientists can help us understand the situation, like they are automatically equipped to help us solve it. But there are forces in the world that cannot be understood through a microscope. What are the forces that got us to this point and what are the forces that keep us stuck here? I realized that I would have to step outside the culture so that I could see it through a new perspective. Deep inside the multiple entanglements that threaten our world, there rages a boundless blaze of cultural fire. The locomotive power for the cultural train we are riding. An engine not of steam or diesel, but of story and myth. It is time to have a closer look at the cultural empire.

So how did we get into this mess? Many analysts believe that it began some 20,000+ years ago when man began to engage in an unsustainable style of gathering as food production. A totalitarian agriculture, it all belongs to us. We kill off what we deem not fit to eat. We put a fence around the land. We grow only the food we want on the land and no one else can touch it. The surplus from this new way of getting food had immediate affects fuelling a population growth. We grow food and the population increases. So we are forced to grow more food. It’s a race that cannot be won.

If you look at the early cultures that developed agriculture to sustain its society you will find that through investigation, they are shorter in height, teeth are gone due to carbohydrates eaten, they are misshapen and asymmetrical and they show signs of disease. This new type of agriculture both required and allowed more settlement and with that became the beginnings of wealth and inequity. During the pre-agricultural era, people that lived in communities lived in housing all the same size. During the agricultural era you would see a few large houses with granaries and more small houses connected to it. This kind of social inequity began almost immediately with agriculture. We are taught that agriculture and settlement was the natural way we were suppose to live, so it is shocking to learn that it is the fundamental cause of what has dogged us throughout the centuries. Settlements, which begot villages, which begot cities through totalitarian agriculture and the expansion of inequity and wealth. This allowed a culture to develop into the empire of today. The city turned into a powerful cultural symbol of power. To define what a city is you could say it is a human ecosystem that grossly exceeds its carrying capacity of its local environment. Look at any city in the world and show me one that is self-sustaining. Everything in a city is imported there by what ever means is necessary. Often that means is trade, but trade requires transport and transport requires energy and energy comes from somewhere and it eventually runs out. Trade also requires willing partners and people do not always want to trade. When trade breaks down and you need those resources, what remains is war.

So lets stop for a second and regroup. I told you that I had to challenge some assumptions. We have been doing agriculture, expanding, building cities and accumulating wealth for so long now that it just feels how things are suppose to be. But how can a way of life that is destroying its own support systems be considered how things are supposed to be?

Let’s move on. Once or native natural intelligence was combined with the creative impulses of empire that’s when things began to snowball. Using the power of technology we could break through the limits and laws that once held us. We began to pretend we had no limits, thinking that what we wanted was right. But the belief in the power and control is preceded on faulty assumptions about the limits of science. Science and technology are supposed to be neutral. Only they become a help or hindrance depending on how they are used, but this really isn’t true. The difference between nuclear and solar is more than how we use them. Each technology has built in characteristics that determine how they end up being used and who uses them and for what. Military scientists are not looking to make a solar warhead and I am not looking to put a nuclear powered panel on my roof. Because of this misunderstanding, it is easy to get trapped in the myth of the techno fix.

Half the people in the world live in cities that exceed the carrying capacity of their environments. Every time a new problem arose due to population change, a quick fix was in place to alleviate the problem. This did not solve it and the cycle continued. Our crisis at its deepest levels, it is not a crisis of technology, but of meaning and purpose. We act like all we have to do is throw more technology at it, while we fail to see the clearly cultural issues, that due to fantastic failure, we try to keep the system at present going. We have been pretending for so long, we have forgotten what we once knew. You will not survive for long if you don’t follow the laws of life. As we settled into agriculture and civilization, agriculture and civilization settled into us. We fenced ourselves off from nature and instead thought that it was there to control and manage. Our technologies cut us off from our own experience. Our culture then has forced its way between the world and us and it colours our view of it. We become numb to the outside and isolated. War is a good example of this. To kill someone in front of you may be hard to do. To kill someone from the comfort of 30,00 feet up isn’t. This disconnection from nature has left us confused and wounded. The earth is telling us “you have used me.” We would never tolerate that from another human. At what point do we stop and listen? Will we be able to hear? Has disconnection stopped us from hearing? The planet’s voice barely registers. Our minds are clogged with stories.

Central to my understanding is this: all cultures are based on stories. The culture of empire comes with its own set of unique beliefs and impulses. Stories such as: I am the master of my world, you can’t stop me, we have the technology, you can have anything you want and humans have rights. Living with stories like this, is it any wonder we are devouring the planet. Look at a two year old child and try to explain that ice cream before dinner is not right. We are that two year old. Our culture tells us that this is the best; we are at the human pinnacle since we began to walk upright so any other alternative can’t work. If another culture does not reflect the style in which we live then they are deemed to be not as advanced as we are. Do you need a historical example? Slavery in America, the deconstruction of the Native Americans, the Inquisition or the accent of Rome.
The worst story of them all is the one about how we are superior to all creatures and that we are independent of them.

We need to remember who we are. We can get trapped inside of stories of culture and fantasy that blocks us from our own greatness. Humans can either integrate themselves or be a part of the ecosystem or they can block it all out. It does not have to be this way. Not all cultures have followed the empire. Inherent human characteristics have always been mediated by the larger society. We carry the traits of our ancestors with us. We look around us to see how things affect us at that moment. The long-term issues are not really relevant or comprehensible to most. This is why most don’t see climate change or oil depletion. There are other forces that play out over the long term that we can’t see like exponential growth and population dynamics. Nobody intended to overpopulate the world, nobody intended to pollute the ocean or put holes in the ozone. It is individual actions accepted by the whole.

Culture tells us that we can live apart from nature and its laws without limits, without rules, but doing so has left us and the planet battered and beaten. It isn’t working out the way we were taught it would. So why do we continue this way? The first thing to note is that all these historical forces are still all in play. It is sobering and sad to think that we are trapped in an economy that must grow or die. We are corporately controlled my media that tells us what to think.

“Rational people will go quietly and meekly into a gas chamber if you only allow them to believe that it is a bathroom.” Zigmund Bowmont.

And I have lost all hope that my government is capable of looking clearly at the situation. And sadly, our educational systems leave us totally unprepared to question the dominant culture. I was never encouraged to question how or why our culture creates disconnection. If you live in a world where your food comes from a grocery store and your water from a tap, you will defend to the death the system that brings those to you because your life depends on it. If your experience is that your water comes from a stream and your food from a land base then you will defend that stream and land base to the death because your life depends on it.

Systems of manipulation and exploitation, structure of disconnections and delusion, institutions of domination and deceit, I had to ask, who would create such things? Only people who had become totally disconnected from the world, people who had forgotten who they once were. Almost everything that we see, hear, taste, touch and smell is mediated by humans and machines. It gives us an inflated sense of our own importance and warps true reality.

Our animal bodies want and require a real relationship to the earth, to the water wind and soil, to the animals, plants and fellow humans that comprise the community in which we were born. But we have become stuck in the hall of mirrors and we begin to lose our sanity. We become fragmented in our isolation…schizophrenia, multiple personalities, and depression. You then begin to see the illusion of self-importance is key. Through that invincibility the empire was born. The feeling or belief in nature becomes unimportant and becomes something to be conquered rather than coexist with.

I stop, I listen. The disconnection of the world is everywhere. On the bus I see children with ear buds in their ears listening to music to shut out the world around them so as not to deal with it. The window displays in stores and television ads shows and encourages this disconnection, keeping us away from what we need, keeping us chained to empire.

Over the years I have begun to break away from the culture and reconnect myself to the living earth. I still have a ways to go. It has not been easy, but it is still one of the most rewarding things I have ever done.

I have also learned to view this culture through the lens of addiction. The addiction is continually seeking more of what we don’t really want and therefore never being fully satisfied. All that is left really is to hit bottom. The choice will be either shift or die. That is why we are in no hurry to change or course in life. If hitting bottom is what is needed, then surely it will come to pass in a harsh way. Again I stop and listen as I move through the landscape of empire. Denial is so thick you could cut it with a paper knife. Denial takes tremendous energy and if you have to work hard to not acknowledge that this culture is killing everything, then you won’t have much left over. It is the energy that I freed up when I stepped away that has made this essay possible. The more I let down my defences, the more I have the power to look deeply at the world. And when I look I see the story of ‘somehow’, a fantasy that keeps us passive in face of the world situation. Somehow is not real. It is a fictitious belief of a way to get from here to there. As world events break through our walls of denial, voices of helplessness and resignation fill the air. This system feels like a madhouse. With resignation, the only thing to do is try to make the madhouse as comfortable as possible.

We have looked now at the train that is hurtling us to destruction, at the tracks that constrain us and the locomotive power that drives us there. And we see more clearly now where we are headed and it all adds up to this. This culture is not only killing the planet, it is destroying us as human beings. A powerful creative tension arises when we hold two things at the same time, a clear assessment of where we are and a clear vision of where we want to go. I don’t see that the culture of empire has either. Trapped in a fantasy of domination and control, any clear assessment will be trampled under foot. And the mad march towards the scam of progress, traumatized by disconnection and abuse, the people of empire hold visions that are unhinged and insane. Born and raised in captivity, we are now so institutionalized that few of us can even see the prison bars. But we all know our cell numbers. Waking on the train, we find that we don’t know where we are and we don’t know where we are going. We can hear the whistle blowing and we can see the world go speeding by. Some of us want to stop the train; we want to get off before it reaches the end of the line. But we have no clear idea how to get from here to there.

Part 4 (Walkabout)

The secret plan is that we are going to go on this way as long as we can. It like in Nazi Germany, everyone knew that the Jews were not going off to secret picnics in the woods, but no one talked about it. And no one talks about this either. As civilization has provided more and more for us, it has left us more and more infantile so that we are less and less able to think for ourselves, less and less able to provide for ourselves and pushed us into more of a herd mentality. We take our cues from the people around us.

The situation is desperate. It’s a world wide eco slam where climate, extinction and oil fight it out. It’s clear that the empire life is unsustainable…. simply it means it can not be maintained. 30 years ago we looked at the future and said if we don’t act, 30 years from now we are going to be in trouble. Well its now and we are because we didn’t. The fundamental laws of life have been broken and the consequences are apparent. Remember the secret plan, the dominant culture is not going to stop until it destroys itself. It is built on a foundation of faulty assumptions. I can see no way that it can be reformed. It can only be discarded so that something new can grow in its place. We have to look at this.

Before there was science, humans knew how to relate to the universe. Then came science and they said, no no, I will show you how to run the universe. People have to understand that we are part of the living community. Not the masters or the guardians of it. We are just another of it’s species with the power to destroy the community.

I have read many books about the world’s current situation and I have noticed one thing, The Happy Chapter. After an entire book of dire prognostications and dark facts, comes the chapter that says ‘if we only do this, this and that, we will find the solution.’ Even though there is so much to give us concern, there is something to give us hope. I don’t like happy chapters, they lull me back to the sleep. They suggest somewhere, some how someone is handling it. I can just go on with my life and hey, we got 30 years or so right? That’s lots of time. I am sorry folks, but I think time is up. I have no happy chapter to offer you, no list of quick and painless fixes. No plan to keep this train rolling on this track, I see no way for that to happen. If there is going to be a happy chapter, we shall have to write it together with the rest of the community of life on the pages of the living world. Maybe the future generations will look back and ask, “what happened to those people? How did they lose sight of such basic things?”

There is a new story in the world. The story of the Great Turning. The turning away from the old culture of domination and the turning to a culture that is life sustaining and life renewing. All over the planet people are telling this story. Will we be the monsters of our great-grandchildren’s nightmares or will we walk, as the Great Turning says, as heroes and healers of those still unborn voices? Will we be reviled for our destructive ways or will we be lovingly remembered in the songs of our descendants as they recount the stories of this lost and very wounded tribe that stepped back from the abyss and walked back to the community of souls. We get to choose, who are we going to be?

Look! Is this who we are, consumers, shoppers, workers? Does our identity lie in Nelson ratings, SUVs and box office receipts? Are we on this earth to sell cheeseburgers to each other and yell at our children, drive around in clown cars and fall asleep in front of the tube? Are we destroying the planet just to be somewhat comfortable for a little while? I keep having to remind myself this culture is not humanity. It is only one out of the tens of thousands that use to exist on this planet. That this culture has overrun the world means nothing about its rightness or its destiny. It means we only live in system of social evolution that strives for short-term power rather than compassion or for sanity or for long-term survival. I think that we are much more than we have ever been allowed to believe. Denied the connection and meaning that nourishes us, we’ve grown stunted in the shallow soil of this culture. It is time to revitalize that ground of our well being. As the whole culture collapses, we will have an opportunity to come back to what we should be.

We are in a time of initiation folks, a mass initiation of our culture. A vision quest of the collective mind. This cultures current ideas of adolescence must be sloughed off and take up the responsibility of the interdependence and nourishment of the community of life. This is the purpose of initiation. Stepping into this new culture of maturity and taking our rightful place in the community of life. And we will fall back in love with the world. We can do this only if we choose to. Only if we lay down our weapons of this insane war against the world, only if we surrender control and move back into relationship.

You want unlimited growth? You can have it, all you’ve ever asked for and more. Growth and relationship and experience, in self-awareness and spirit and love, in community and connection. Growth and purpose and meaning grows with vision when we step back into the community of life. We will find out immediately what has been true, that all of life is on our side. We’ll have polar bears on our team and condors and tigers and salmon. We will walk with the wind and the water and mountains under foot, stars overhead. The tigers blood will course through our veins, the horse’s breath will fill our lungs. We will be more connected to real power than we ever dreamt possible. Power with, not power over. The power of a species that has passed through initiation and into maturity.

Our descendants are watching us. How will we be? Its time to be thoughtful and come together to learn about the world as it really is, reading between the lies, doing the math, studying the world situation. There will be a quiz. A paradigm shift is required to question our deepest assumptions and hold our old culture carefully in our arms and with care wait until it breathes its last. Step into a new story, walk away from the pyramids, step out of the crumbling building. Choose your favourite metaphor, choose your own adventure. But choose, its time to be truthful. Billions of sensual pulsing animal bodies that are trapped and used and starved in cities and shopping malls and traffic. What would happen if we let ourselves feel about all this? The entire community of life is counting on us. Where do we take a stand? When do we find the courage to let ourselves feel what is going on? Our feelings are the swiftest path back to our forgotten selves. It is time to be open and humble. There are huge forces at work in the world seen and unseen. Its time to ask for help. Ask your ancestors, ask the gods, ask your god, go outside and lie on the ground and ask the earth and the sky and then listen for a response. Listen to the voices of soil and stone, wind and water, the voices of trees and the birds. The world will tell us what it knows if only we be still and listen. And then speak. Its time to show up in our own lives and tell the truth. Its time to talk about the world situation, we are all in this together. What a relief it will be to discover that we are not alone anymore. Its time to act with great intention. There is plenty of work to do. Save trees and stop bulldozers and stand up at city council meetings and say your truth. Join a community and move from agriculture to perm culture and grow your own foods. Learn about medicinal herbs. Find your work and do it.

But what about that speeding train? How will the Great Turning turn? We can wait for that train to crash on its own taking us and the world with it. Or we can come together and dismantle the tracks of a culture that no longer serves us. This may seem like an impossible task, but if the alternative is extinction, then we have nothing to lose. We humans once knew how to live on this planet, some still do and that’s the good news. It can be done. We can do way way better than empire.

Let’s jump off the train and build a boat. The train and its tracks are too rigid and almost makes it impossible to steer. The boat, ah the boat is a very different thing. Boats set sail into the unknown, subject only to the wind and the wave and the weather. Boats can be lifeboats preserving wisdom and understanding. Boats can be arks saving the world as the floodwaters rise. And boats can be adventure, carrying us away from the shores of the current paradigm and to a future of those unseen shores of a future not yet written. Find your people and build a boat, find your community and preserve the life of a piece of land. Or set sail on a wider journey to disrupt the destruction, healing the wounds, grafting connections and changing minds. Build it now, the ice is melting, the water is rising. We will have to let go of the shore. I do not know if I will survive the crash of the industrial civilization or the effects of climate change this culture has unleashed. I do know this, I have a choice about how I will meet it. I have a choice, we have a choice. I can meet it with a burger in my hand, fries in my mouth and a cold coke spilling on my jeans or I can meet it with consciousness, integrity and a sense of purpose that is my birthright. This is my course, this is my choice, this is where I will stand. I will show up and tell my truth. It is hard to stand alone in heavy waves, but if you sail with me our crew will be made strong indeed. Together we can go forward together and find that new land. What A Way To Go.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Evict Evict Evict....Death of Democracy





Vancouver....Evicted, New York....Evicted, Toronto.....Evicted. Montreal.....Evicted.....etc.


Pick any city in Canada, North America or World Wide and you will find pretty much the same thing happening to the "Occupancy Protests."


The courts in Toronto has decided that your democratic right is not as important as noise levels for people that live near St. James Park. The court in Toronto has decided that your democratic right is not as important as people being afraid to go to the park.


So what's next???...maybe the courts will stop you from speaking in public. Maybe the courts will stop you from writing down your opinions. Maybe, just maybe, the courts will stop you from thinking at all. (i am pretty sure that we are almost at the level now really.)


You don't think so??? Let's find out shall we....Ask your parents what the lack of technology did for them? I am sure they will tell you that they survived quite nicely without it. I am sure they would say that there was less government interference in their everyday lives. I am sure they would say that there was no such thing as chronic consumerism. That there were less childhood illnesses, less mental problems, less obesity, less allergies, less disease and less crime. So explain again how technology and government control has benefited you?


Let's start with your morning....you are a slave to your alarm clock. You rise at the same time designated to you each day. The first think you do is check your calls missed or your emails. You shower, dress and stop at the same place for coffee each day. You get to work at the same time by design and you begin EXACTLY where you left of the previous day. At the end of the day you get into your vehicle and drive in the same boxed traffic that you always have. Your food, entertainment and weekend chores are dictated by what you think you need to do. You buy the brands asked of you, you watch the channels shown to you and you do the chores in sequence.

You are a law-abiding citizen and you follow all the rules and pay up all the fees and licences asked of you by the government with no questions asked. (why exactly do we need a fishing licence, a dog tag licence or a permit to park???) PRETTY DAMNED CLOSE AREN'T I?!!!
SO WHAT you say...its the way it is. Why is it the way it is? Why do we just accept it to be that way? How did it get that way?
I am sure you think that these "Occupancy People" are fighting a losing battle, that they are freezing their tails off for something that will never change. Well you are wrong! Change begins within the individual.
And instead of laughing at these souls that are trying to make a point, you should be supporting them.
Well what is their point??? It's pretty clear if you have been paying attention.
They want what we all want, but are afraid to admit it. They want to be released from the burden of consumerism and the gains of the few and the growing despair of the many. They want equality. Not such a bad idea if you ask me.
HOW CAN I MAKE A DIFFERENCE you ask? There are 2 things you can do. The first is to stop and think how the 'haves' have accumulated so much and how the 'have nots' seem to be falling behind in our world. The second thing you can do is find a way to make it know to the government, the corporations and the world that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
HOW OH HOW....??? By just STOPPING! Stop overspending, Stop being materialistic, Stop burying yourself in front of the TV set, Stop participating and giving over to the 'haves'. You don't have to carry a sign, walk down to the financial district and chant Cum by ya. Just STOP supporting the corporations and government that have you by the short hair.
Can you do that? Can you live without a little comfort to support? If you don't, you may be sitting in line at a soup kitchen or cooking over a fire to survive.
Check out the cost of Gas, Hydro, Food and Taxes.....when was the last time you seen them go DOWN??!
We are the ready-made disposable society and they are playing on our desire for the big easy to keep us poor and dumb. And so far.....THEY ARE SUCCEEDING.
It's only going to get uglier my friends.....ARE YOU PREPARED?

Saturday, November 5, 2011

G8 Still Dogging Us

Hi Everyone,
The G8 swindle is still dogging the Canadian Public. You remember...the BIG BUCKS spent on our behalf to draw industry and tourism to Canada??!!!
In the news was John Baird and Tony Clement...2 of my UNFAVORITE members of Parliament. They finally admitted that the funding was handled wrong and THE NEXT TIME it won't be.
What the hell kind of statement is that????
Boys Boys Boys....there should be no NEXT TIME!!!!
Say i go to the bank and borrow money for a new car. The bank manager will have TONS of paperwork there for me to sign! Papers for the loan, papers for interest, papers for insurance and papers for my first born puppy if i default. I would sign my life away just to drive around town and be severely accountable for it if something went wrong.
Now a new scenario.....G8 has an overblown budget. Money is not tracked by a paper trail to hold those who used it accountable.
"Auditor general raised concerns
In her last report released soon after she retired in the spring, former auditor general Sheila Fraser reported that money for the legacy fund was diverted from a border infrastructure fund without MPs knowing. When they approved $83 million for the border fund, they had no idea $50 million was being used to pay for 32 projects in Clement's riding.
The audit also found that there was no documentation from Baird’s department or others involved in the summit to show how the 32 projects were chosen out of 242 proposals. "
THAT, MY FRIENDS IS GRAND THEFT!! How can you just take money from one place and send it to another?? IS THAT CREATIVE ACCOUNTING??? How can NO PAPERWORK be visible to account for this elephant in Muskoka?
If the government diverts funds without reporting it, they say THEY WON'T DO THAT AGAIN. If a bank diverts funds without cause, WE BAIL THEM OUT. If i spend money mistakenly dropped in my chequing account by the bank...THAT IS THEFT AND I CAN BE CHARGED!!!
What is wrong with this picture???? And YOU wonder why the activists are sitting in the parks across Canada freezing their BUTTS off to protest???
Canada just lost close to 60,000 jobs. Where is the tourism and industry you promised us before the G8/G20 that would come out of it??? Liar, Liar pants on fire!
It's ok! Harper will throw the nation a bone and give you a tax cut that won't really amount to much once you figure out the fine print....and he will wipe the memory of this stain away again.
OK here is one to remember.......Prime Minister Harper say that he WILL NOT USE CANADIAN TAX DOLLARS to help bail out Greece! This is important...please remember you read it here when Canada sends cash over there in the next 6 months.
Enough said.....
QUOTE OF THE DAY......
"'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that. "
Glenn Beck

Friday, October 28, 2011

Trash Isn't Trash Anymore...Its Choking Our World

Have ya walked down your street on garbage day lately??? It is one of the most disturbing sights our city has. The consumerism of the North American Culture is out of control. We buy not because we need, but rather because we see! We have been trained that way....we buy carelessly with no regard for where it goes after its life with us. we buy items that are packages in packages and we toss it out like it will miraculously dissolve HARMLESSLY INTO THE ENVIRONMENT!


SHAME ON YOU!


I live in a university town and it is worse. Students, who are the future of this country, have no regard for the state of the land and what is happening to it. Fast food containers are tossed to the ground before getting on a bus like leaves falling off a tree.
So let's talk trash....shall we?
The largest landfill site in the world is officially closes. Not due to environmental issues or the degradation of a sanctuary that surrounds it....no no. It's due to the fact that the state that it is in says it cannot allocate any extra land. The dump i am speaking of was the Staten Island landfill that stretches some 2,200 acres.
We, in North America, consume 5X as much as Mexicans, 10X as much as Chinese and 30X as much as Indians. NO WONDER our society is obese.
Trash is nasty....but the worst offenders are the plastic people. You know who I am talking about....the ones that drink water from a bottle.
Here's a STARTLING REVELATION FOR YOU....ever piece of plastic ever made still exists on earth today! PLASTIC and the breakdown of it is killing our animals (and us), destroying the environment with foreign chemicals and damaging the atmosphere we breathe in.
The largest accumulation of this damage is happening in our oceans. (Mother Nature says...."don't mess with the oceans, they are the blood and veins of the earth." so here are some fun facts.
* for every square mile of ocean there are 46,000 pieces of plastic floating in it.
* there are two 'plastic islands' floating around the oceans. one in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific.
* the "plastic soup", as it is called by environmentalists, combined is bigger than the plankton population in the oceans.
* combined, the two are equivalent to a surface 3X the size of Texas.
CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?!!!! Yes you can.
SO....the next time you go to the supermarket, have a look at all the excess packaging that your food comes in. Remind yourself of the harmful chemicals that plastic can break down into. And tell yourself, NO, I WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO THIS!
AND FOR ALL YOU PLASTIC WATER BOTTLE PEOPLE THAT THINK DRINKING BOTTLED WATER IS SAFE....think again. The only safe container to drink out of is GLASS. It is a natural product that recycles well and breaks down safer within the environment.
I hear you..."ya ya ya" you say. "Our plastic is recyclable." WRONG. The logo you see on the bottle means that it is MADE of recycled plastic. And ya can only make so may other plastic items out of it until it is no longer reusable.
Enough said...........
QUOTE OF THE DAY......
"The plastic of yesterday is the plastic of today and tomorrow. People say the only thing that lasts are death and taxes....well let's add PLASTIC to that list."

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Beavers, Seats and Protesters....What Do They Have In Common...MY ANGER!

~BITE ME~












so ya voted for the same idiot to get back into power this last election as ya did the last time. this time the idiot got a majority.
KNOW WHAT I SAY....ya get what ya vote for?!!

with this wonderful majority government, our PM say we can do great things. we can help Canadians through the rough times ahead.
SO HOW ARE THEY HELPING......???? the best way they know how.
By spending money the most ridiculous and frivolous way they can.
Lets see what they're up to shall we....

Kiss My Beaver.....
Let's replace the Beaver with the Polar Bear.
"A Conservative senator says it's time Canada was symbolized by something more majestic than a buck-toothed rodent. She says the polar bear is Canada's "most majestic and splendid mammal," and a powerful symbol in the lives of aboriginal peoples in the North." this conservative senator has a name....Nicole Eaton. (ya think she's trying to shed her ugly heritage? The Eatons made big money off the fur trade. she should be thankful)
maybe Eaton and the conservatives need to realize that the North American Indian also holds the beaver in great respect. and that to have our emblem changed means that we would have to change our currency. how rich does Eaton think Canada is?
KNOW WHAT I SAY....STOP SPENDING MONEY YOU DON'T HAVE ON FRIVOLOUS SHIT!!!!! you know what i mean....like EXTRA MPs...30 to be exact.

Let's Add More Fuel To The Fire......
Yip here's the next one....another thing that the Conservatives think you need and will push through with a MAJORITY.
the population in some areas has jumped dramatically, so whats the solution to this growing problem of space, food and cost of living....ADD MORE REPRESENTATIVES OF COURSE.
"Expanding Commons comes at a cost:
He acknowledged that expanding the number of seats in Parliament will come at a cost — $11.5 million for each election and $14.8 million in operations costs for the House of Commons. He didn't elaborate on what expenses he was including in that figure. " EXPENSES????? YOU MEAN the expense accounts that the government can't control now???
I DON'T REMEMBER ASKING FOR MORE representation....in fact, I asked for representation to do what they were elected to do and REPRESENT WHAT I WANT IN THE HALLS OF GOVERNMENT. NOT what the 'big business conservative cronies want!
There are a mere 31,752,842 Canucks in this country!! if I was a child and started at birth paying, by the time i am 80 yrs old and see 20 elections that would cost me $579. that's just for elections. add on another $35 to that for annual maintanence in Ottawa. and another $2 for expense accounts. that is a total of $616 out of my pocket and yours.(AND EVERY OTHER CANADIAN HERE that would be $19,559,750,672!!!! FOR WHAT....so they can make decisions for me that i don't agree with?? (and that does not include their pension)
KNOW WHAT I SAY....they want more politicians.....????? THEY CAN LOWER THEIR OWN SALARIES AND USE THAT MONEY TO PAY FOR THEIR OWN ADDED SEATS!!!!! (no thanks, I'm not buying today)

Protesters Unite And Disrupt.......
NOW....on to other things...HAVE YA NOTICED that people are protesting big finance in cities across Canada? WELL I AM GLAD OF IT!!! its been too long since we got our arses away from our 250 channel TV sets and started to see what is going on. people in cities across Canada are getting ready for the winter to protest. local officials in Toronto are worried that the protesters may cause disruption.
"Margaret Dougherty, a City of Toronto senior communications adviser, told CBC News that although the city hasn’t granted permission to protesters to occupy St. James Park, and there have been a handful of complaints from residents about noise and being able to access the park, the city is trying to "respect the rights of a peaceful protest."
BIG BUSINESS is sucking the life out of your "i need more" life and paycheck and all you can do is worry about people noise and using the park???!!!!! WOW! that is one of the most shallow things i have ever read.
wake up....you stunned Torontonians and start by helping out the cause. make a pot of coffee and bring it over to them. ask what they are doing. maybe you will realize that....they are doing it for you too.
Enough said.....
QUOTE OF THE DAY................
"For in reason, all government without the consent of those governed, is the very definition of slavery."
Jonathan Swift

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The Speech : Economic/ Self Destruction





So much of what we do to each other must have the rest of creation shaking their heads in disbelief. It is a fact is that someone born here is no more special than someone from Mexico. Someone born in New York is no more special than someone who lives in Havana. Someone who is black is no more special than someone who is white, the body is just a vehicle for the consciousness to experience. If you go down to the sea shore and pick up a droplet of water in your hand, how can you believe that that droplet is any more special than all the rest of the droplets in the ocean in front of you.
So when i began to understand all this and appreciate this other explanation to dogmatic religion and "this world is all there is" science. I began to ask a question. How come this explanation does not seem as credible as the other two? How come the other two get all the "air time", no questions asked? And the alternative to both of them is condemned by reflex action. (changing the way we do and think)
The answer that I came up with was clearly, some people don't want us to have access to this information. but who and whay? I began to ask other questions. I can't recall any one who wanted wars, who had any interest in war, who felt that war was horrific and avoidable. So i thought, how come the world has been awash with wars then? why? Then i kinda looked at this economic system that controls the world. A system that is SO SANE (in the eyes of the ones driving it) that the more successful it is, the quicker it destroys the planet. It's the perfect environmental and human assessing. It insists that we take even more things, make even more things, consume even more things and throw away even more things to worship the real god of the modern world, economic growth. It insists that 20% of the population can consume 80% of the resources and leaving the other 80% to get by on the other 20%.IT'S CRAZY... of course it is!!! But it is the economic system now that controls your life and mine and 6 billion others.
So I thought, what's behind this self destruction, who and why? I started to look at some of the other conventional wisdom that we pass on from generation to generation as the only way to do things in this world. The system that i just described is dismantling this planet, you ask any politician what we do to get out of this mess we have created and they will say we must have more growth to raise money to spend on the environment. If I said to you the best way to put out a fire was to pour gasoline on it, you would say i was out of my mind, but that's what the politicians are doing when they say more growth to sort out the environment.
It's conventional wisdom to make animals into a commodity, to be made as fat as possible, as quickly as possible with less food to feed them with. To condemn animals to a life time of pain, fear and suffering in the name of economics.
You are considered SANE if you judge your success in health care not by how many people are healthy....but by the number of diseases you can treat. Why? WE ARE TREATING MORE PEOPLE THAN EVER BEFORE....why? Why are so many people so ill?
It's conventional wisdom that rising housing prices are a sign of our economic success when hundreds of thousands are homeless because they cannot afford to buy a home.
You are SANE finally if you think its fine to support a system that is so successful that every year there is more suicides, alcoholism, drug addiction, pain, suffering, fear and homelessness than the year before. WE'D BE IN REAL TROUBLE IF THIS SYSTEM WASN'T WORKING WOULDN'T WE?
That is our SANITY, but its the ultimate INSANITY...so who's behind it and why?
I began to realize too, that against the background of this utter self destruction on this planet is stunning wisdom. And I see the difference between cleverness and wisdom. They are not the same thing. This system is very clever but its not very wise and its the lack of wisdom that is the problem and has created our crisis.
I began to see that what we call wisdom is not found in the " in this state of the art...letters after their name system", but rather in the native peoples that the the SYSTEM would see as backward. A piece of Native American wisdom for you...." when you have cut down the last tree and poisoned the last river you will then know that you cannot EAT money." THAT'S WISDOM!
In 1854, the United States made an offer for a piece of native land. And under the system I have been talking about and under the values that have been indoctrinated into us... what should have happened was the Chief would have thought ' I have a good one here, I am in the drivers seat. What I will do is duck and weave, put up the price and just when I think they will pull out, I will put out my hand and say YA GOT A DEAL.' And people would think, what a great businessman he is, that Chief is a player.
But there is another Value System on this planet also, a value system that said this in terms of this Chief. "How can you buy and sell the sky? We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle on the water. How then can you buy them from us? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people, holy in the memory of their experience. We know that the white man does not understand our ways. He is a stranger that comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his friend, but his enemy. And when he has conquered it, he moves on. He kidnaps the earth from his children. His appetite will devour the earth and leave nothing but a wasteland. If the beast were gone we would die of a great loneliness of the spirit, for what ever befalls the earth, befalls the children of the earth." It is SO GREAT TO THINK that these words were spoken in 1854 when you look at what has happened since. It is SO SAD TO THINK that they were never heeded.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Pill ME .....

Hi All,
The summer was great! Been busy but I'm back!!!

I watched a docu recently that really disturbed me. It was about the Pharmacutical Companies and how they have taken over the airwaves without any medical knowledge.
Shocking really!!! The power of the advertising dollar is incredible.

So here it is!! THE FACTS OF THE MATTER....
1. ADVERTISED DRUGS have been related to over 100,000 deaths in the USA alone.
2. Over 1 MILLION people have been hospitalized because of them.
3. Drug Companies spend more money on advertisement than Pepsi and Budwiser. In 1994 alone they spent 265 million dollars....in 2004 they spent that in the first 5 months.
NOW lets get a little deeper shall we??!!!

4. Most new drugs replacing old drugs for the same thing, (allergy medication) have shown to be no more affective or better than the old one. only 14% of the "NEW DRUGS" had proved to be more affective. GOOD EXAMPLE...PROZAC's name has been changed to SARAFEM to now treat PRE-MENSTRAL DISORDER. aka...period cramps.
5. Old drugs are spun as new ones with a slight chemical change to avoid losing the patent.
6.New drugs to replace old ones on the market are marked up 3X the price.
NOW for some really aweful stuff.....

7. The media uses ever changing health guidelines to scare consumers into looking into the "new pill cure".
8. Drug companies advertise HUGELY on network television.
IT GETS WORSE....

9. Drug companies are inventing new syndromes or diseases to pedal their stuff. "Generalized Anxiety Disorder" (shyness) or "Adult ADD" (stress and over worked). LAST TIME I CHECKED....SHYNESS WAS NOT A DISORDER.
10. Child suicide rate has increased 3Xs in 10 yrs.
SO HOW IS THIS AFFECTING THE WAY YOU LOOK AT MEDICATION??
....its a brainwash! ASK YOUR DOCTOR.

11. Doctors and hospitals are bombarded by over 100,000 "Drug Representatives" annually.
12. It is ILLEGAL to accept gifts from drug companies, but the drug companies provide dinners, trips and other things and drop the cost under their "EDUCATIONAL BUDGET". This allows the payolla to be bypassed.
13. FREE DRUG SAMPLES.... yes all those Name Brand samples and gadgets in your doctor's office are courtesy of the Company that pedal their stuff.(your next visit, ask your doctor if you can see his pen?)

SO HOW DO THEY DO IT? HOW DO THEY MAKE US BELIEVE THAT WE NEED THE MEDICATION?
easy.....have a good look at the adds on tv! no one looks sick, in fact, they look wonderful with the world. The people in the adds are middle to upper class. They are happy! WHAT YOU DON'T NOTICE IS....the quickly spoken side affects of the drug.
They promote a new found syndrome they create and push the idea that "you may be someone who feels like this, ask your doctor."
SO, now you go to the doctor with the preconceived idea and ask your doctor about the drug. HE SAYS...YA I have heard of it! in fact, i have a free sample here for you to try! (courtesy of the drug company) TA DA!!!!! GOT YA.

SO NOW FOR A FEW DID YOU KNOWS.....did you know that most of these new syndromes are driven by the drug companies to get you to buy. shaking leg syndrome.
did you know that most of the people that seek these drugs could do other things to fix their problems through DIET, EXERCISE OR ENVIRONMENT???!!!! WOW!!! WHAT A CONCEPT.
So WHY DON'T THEY.....??? cause its too easy to just PILL ME!

well I am done......

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
"Drugs are a crutch for people that can't cope with reality."

its all mine people!

Sunday, July 10, 2011

In The News And Other Things....




Hi Everyone,
Been a while eh??!! Well the world has been kinda boring the last little while so I took a break....BUT I'M BACK!
IN THE NEWS....
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warned both parties that if they did not reach an agreement to INCREASE the country's debt ceiling limit it would bring catastrophic consequences to the country's economy.
well Timothy....you just need to know how to budget better. "DO I WANT IT OR DO I NEED IT" simple statement to ply your economics by: bring troops home (save you millions); shut down un-needed military installation (save you billions); take away benefits of food and travel expenses for congress and the senate (save you millions); shut down the industrial military complex (debt gone)
SEE TOLD YOU IT WAS SIMPLE!
NOW IF YOU DIDN'T LIVE THRU THE LAST GREAT DEPRESSION....you may have another soon. countries are so economically entwined with one another that if the big cahoona goes down...we all do. is that really fair? NO. do we need a one world government to fix it? NO NO NO. what people need is to stop being greedy and demand that your government do the same.
well you are saying 'come on A&E, what the hell do you mean?'
I'll tell ya....here's my view.
STOP....spending beyond your means! do you need a house with 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms? do you need that big SUV? do you need that extra food in the fridge that you will just toss out anyway? do you need all the little gadgets that are suppose to give you time back to do other things? do you need that 18th pair of shoes? would it be awful for someone to see that same dress again this year that you could wear?
ARE YA GETTING MY POINT PEOPLE??
make a list of all the EXTRA things you have that you could live without. put them in the spare bedroom and for 1 week TRY AND LIVE WITHOUT THEM. my guess is that 75% of you will laugh and say "why should i?" 22% of you would say "i can do that!" and fail. And 3% of you would be successful and maybe think about narrowing down the 'i want list' a bit.
why do you think that these percentages are so unreal? they are probably very accurate if it was a real poll. my question to everyone is.....WHY IS THE 75% NOT THE ONES THAT WOULD NARROW DOWN THE 'I WANT LIST'????
BECAUSE...we have lost the will to become more self-sufficient like our previous generations and opted for the governments of the world to provide for us. I HAVE A WORD FOR THIS....we are the "SHEEP GENERATION". DUMBED DOWN AND HAPPY TO BE SO.
we have replaced HAPPINESS with HURRY. we have replaced GOALS IN LIFE with CONSUMERISM. we have replaced CONTENTMENT with BLIND GREED. but worst of all....WE HAVE LET THE ONE ORGANIZATION THAT HAS LET US DOWN SO MANY TIMES IN THE PAST LEAD US THEIR.....government/big business.
COME ON PEOPLE....WHO GETS THE POLITICIANS ELECTED? WHO CONTROLS THE POLICIES THEY MAKE? WHO CONTROLS WHAT YOU EAT, WHAT YOU DRINK, WHEN YOUR DAYS OFF ARE, HOW YOU DRESS, YOUR HEALTH AND WHAT YOU CAN BORROW?
MAYBE the world needs a depression, just MAYBE it needs to be knocked on its ass, just MAYBE then we will see that living free, healthy and debt free isn't such a bad thing after all. MAYBE....getting back to what is TRUE is what the world needs.


Well That's What I Think!





QUOTE OF THE DAY......

"it's only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything."








The Dali Lama

Friday, April 29, 2011

Those To Remember.....Deb Gibbons

In Memory Of Deb Gibbons
Deb is at the end of her struggle with cancer. She is in her 45th year. She is a woman of strength and courage. Deb is clinging to an existence that she will release soon. She has come to terms with her human shell and knows that she may transcend to another place where peace of spirit will comfort her.
Please keep Deb in your thoughts...for we all know that it could just as easily be one of us.
We are born, we live, we breathe to be
We grow, we learn, we struggle to see
That all in life is not what it seems
That life is really about living your dreams
And in the end, we are but a shell
Of the Spirit within that does dwell
And the Spirit is released to breathe and fly
Leaving this earth, knowing it tried.

We will miss you Deb.....BE AT PEACE.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Who Takes The Lead??...OIL Of Course

Good Morning,
As the world cried for justice just a few weeks ago for Libyan Rebels, now the powers behind those people are close to sitting on their hands and washing them of the middle east rebellions.
the Americans did strike with bombs in Libya, but now have decided that "maybe its not the place to be!"
in a little publicized statement that Qaddafi made late last week, he said that any country that opposes his rule and sides with the rebels will not be looked on kindly when the dust settles and oil flows again. WELL?? HOW ABOUT THAT?
Cuba for the longest time, was a sworn enemy of the USA, did they invade and bomb them? did the free world jump in too?......NOPE! Egypt decided that they would rebel and rid the country of a dictator...did the USA and the free world step in?......NOPE!
has the USA and the free world run to the aid of Yemen AND ANY OTHER PEOPLE THAT ARE CURRENTLY REBELLING TO RID THEIR COUNTRIES OF DICTATORSHIP????......NOPE!
WHY IS THAT, YOU MAY ASK? O I L! O I L! O I L !
Libya is in a strategic position for oil and the pipelines that carry it. Heaven forbid we compromise our energy position??!!
i understand the need for FREEDOM! i understand the need to want a BETTER LIFE!
BUT ULTERIOR MOTIVES.....to engage on foreign soil is just wrong.
Just LOOK who has joined this coalition to HELP THE REBELS.....every oil deficient world power that is having energy problems. (and some because they haven't the political balls to say NO.)
the moral of the story......would these countries that need to protect their oil futures be happy about the fact that if the shoe was on the other foot, THAT THEY BE BOMBED OR INVADED???? probably not. so what to do?
KNOW WHAT I SAY.....NO BOMBING, NO TROOPS, NO FUNDING, NO PARTICIPATION. Stay the HELL out of their backyard and you won't get your hands slapped for trespassing.
ANDDDDDDD....fix your own messes at home first. work on alternative energies (no nuke), fix your healthcare, help the old people, ensure that people who retire will have a pension after working all their life. PRESERVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE!
sure Qaddafi is an Alzheimer patient ruling a nation, sure he needs to be slapped, sure his time has come, sure Libya needs some sense of democracy. LET THEM FIGURE THAT OUT! its called....HUMAN EVOLUTION AND STRUGGLE...(we were bred for this)
Quote Of The Day......

"in war, no one wins. our ability not to see this is only blinded by our human need to be supreme. what we can't see is that there is no race, creed or colour....we are ALL of the same genus HOMO SAPIEN."
Me
Nuff Said.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Arresting Silent Protesters??..What Is This World Coming To?

good morning,
well Chalk Up another blow for the ANTI-NUCLEAR CONSCIOUSNESS!
IN A STUNNING MOVE yesterday, 4 protesters were arrested for carrying on a peaceful protest....YOU READ IT RIGHT!! in fact, IT WAS A SILENT PROTEST.

QUOTE :"The disturbance began just after 9 a.m. ET when the protesters chained themselves together at the front of the meeting hall, then attached themselves to a nearby table with a second chain. Others held banners reading, "No nukes are safe. Stop Darlington."

QUOTE :"If you're not prepared to move we'll adjourn the hearings until such time as we can proceed in an orderly manner and a fair manner," panel chairman Alan Graham told the group before the panel left the stage."
HOW SAD IS THAT?!!! the PROTESTERS were chained together and then chained themselves to a table in front of the hearing panel in silence. How much more orderly does Alan Graham want....there was only BANNERs and SILENCE.

QUOTE :"Greenpeace spokesman Shawn Patrick Stensil said there was nothing stopping the panel from proceeding with the activists silently standing in front of them."

"They're just bearing witness to the fact that these hearings are moving forward while ignoring one of the greatest threats to future generations of Ontarians — that is a Fukushima-scale [disaster]," Stensil said."

apparently your right to protest is "NO LONGER ALLOWED."
IF an agenda about BIG BUSINESS and PROFIT is hindered by a few protesters with silence and signs....what would they do with a loud, in your face city or country protest???
i think having them arrested was wrong!!! if you don't want the opposition to show up at a PUBLIC HEARING, THEN DAH!!!!! DON'T HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING!!?
THE GREAT IRONY HERE IS : the silent protesters protesting a silent killer that has no way of being cleaned up!
Maybe Alan Graham needs to pay attention to the cost of cleaning up a disaster and its long term effects verses the greed and need for energy.
MAYBE what the government and the energy industry needs to promote is :A LIFESTYLE CHANGE....one that is more in tune with the environment.
there ya go Ontario Government....sink the billions into alternative energies instead, so the population can be around a lot longer to keep you in your cushie jobs.
All the panel has to do is look at the current headlines to know what kind of outcome will ensue if there is a nuclear problem.
- Darlington is beside one of the largest fresh water reservoirs in the world.
- Darlington recently had a water leak into that reservoir.
- Ontario's food belt is just north of lake Ontario, a prime position for contamination.
- The mass populace of Ontario lives and works close to these nuclear areas.
- Nuclear problems will affect not only ontario, but possibly the neighbours to the south.
- contaminated water and lands cannot be cleansed.
-the long-term cost will bankrupt the nation.
- PEOPLE DON'T WANT IT!!!!!
GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AND TRY AGAIN!!!

Nuff Said!

Monday, March 21, 2011

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Riots In The Middle East Have Leaders There Running Scared

isn't it interesting that country after country in the Middle East has taken to the streets in protest of their long time repression...one country after the other! is anyone seeing the BIG PICTURE HERE? i think i do. it has been the dominance of dictators and rulers that have been seated there by Western Powers that is now driving these protests. People....like you and i, are tired of just getting by while the Captain's of Industry and Politics tell them what they need. WOOOHOOOO for "THE LITTLE GUY!!!"
in a very predictable move...the King (who the hell has a king anymore? is this the middle ages?) of Saudi Arabia just announced that he was going to go on a spending spree and dump millions into the economy. he wants to boost employment, raise minimum wages, build low cost housing and give government workers a pay raise. ME THINKS THE KING IS A TAD FRIGHTENED...would you agree?
King Abdullah is old and he does not want to face an uprising of the young and oppressed. i don't think his health would survive it. so he opted to appease the masses by throwing them a bone. (while he lives in luxury) i don't feel this is a heart felt attempt to fix the problems that thrive in his country. there is a huge gap between the HAVES and HAVE NOTS. it is just a way to stave off civil unrest. i hope the people are not gullible.
WE KEEP HEARING ABOUT THE "NEW WORLD ORDER". well here it is.....people are waking up to the fact that oppression isn't all its cracked up to be and they are realizing that they can change things!!!
VIV LA CHANGE....i say!
this is your new world order....just not the kind that the DOMINATING CORPORATES WANTED. shitty for them......people do have minds and they are slowly breaking out of the hypnotic spell of MATERIALISM as a DIVERSION from the TRUTH.

Quote Of The Day......

In every age, no matter how cruel the oppression carried on by those in power, there have been those who struggled for a different world. I believe this is the genius of humankind, the thing that makes us half divine: the fact that some human beings can envision a world that has never existed.

~ Anne Braden

WOW!! I Told Ya So.....

So it seems that Japan has a huge and deadly problem on their hands. reactors that are not cooling down after multiple days and attempts. brace yourself world! Japan has been monitoring levels of radiation and they are finding food that has above normal levels. GUESS WHAT PEOPLE??? if the food has it....so will the soil. RADIATION just doesn't dissolve away ....it hangs in there quietly for the long term damage. ASK the people that lived near Chernobyl!
California reported that radiation was detected that came from Japan. the Canadian government said that the levels detected in British Columbia were nothing to worry about, in fact they said that it was equal to what we would be exposed to on a daily basis. REALLY? isn't that what the Japanese said to their people the day they announced that they were having issues with the cooling???
Japan right now is a ROCK IN A HARD PLACE.....why? well i will tell you why. they assured the world that their nuclear facilities could withstand an earthquake. (at the 7 level). the quake registered almost 9. EXPLAIN SAFE NOW? not only have they endangered their own people, but their neighbours as well. they are trying to dig out of this crisis and it will cost them BILLIONS. unfortunately, these leaks are not going to help their EXPORTS. WHO WOULD BY ANYTHING FROM JAPAN RIGHT NOW FOR FEAR OF CONTAMINATION???? will they survive...economically, its slim.
RADIATION knows no boundaries, no race, no religion. IT KILLS WITHOUT BIAS.
IT MAKES ME WONDER.....does CANADA still want to add new nuclear reactors to its soil?? I SAY.....LET THE PEOPLE VOTE ON THAT!!!! ASK OTTAWA...there was another quake there this week!!!
do we GAMBLE and opt to be materialistic to maintain a lifestyle that is doomed to fail anyway? OR DO WE SAY NO....and use another kind of power option that has been sitting in some research closet and not patented yet, for fear that the BIG COMPANIES lose their strangle hold and profits over us?
I AM VOTING IN THE ADVANCED POLL..... I SAY NO!
WHAT WILL YOU DECIDE?
OH AND JUST SO YOU KNOW.....the Pickering Plant in Ontario leaked contaminated water into Lake Ontario. Do you still want generators shipped to Sweden via the Great Lakes now? I DON'T! NOT IF IT MEANS contaminating the largest FRESH WATER DEPOSIT in the world.
Have A Nice Day!