Thursday, August 06, 2009
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
In 1998, i was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Ivory Coast. i lived in a village of 1,500 people. 98% of the people lived in mud huts with Straw roofs. I lived in a cement block house with no running water, electricity, or any other amenities in I can think of, just four solid walls, and a roof over my head, plus a bed and mosquito net. Well, I basically observed that every man, women, and child in that village knew how to build their own mud hut (Adobe/cob), and all the materials were free from the forest or the village. On average, each house lasted about 30 years before they rebuilded, or longer. Every man woman, and child had access to the forest for any materials they wanted, also hunting rights, and rights to the wild bananas and other foods, if you could beat the monkeys to them. They all went to the their fields in the morning, a long walk, worked hard all day. They would come back home home to a natural home cooked meal, that took a lot of labor. Basicallly the women would spend all day fetching water, fire wood, and pounding and cooking food, by hand, or making oil, drying fish, and etc. Everyone was in great shape, all of those bastard guys had six packs ( So jealous). So i never saw these Aids, emaciated people they cover on the news. I wish i had paid more attention to how they bulit those houses then, I just kinda, took in life, and watched the world go by for three glorious years. One of the best experiences of my life. So this was in West Africa.
The other night, i went to visit a friend of mine. She lives in So Cal. Her husband is a Kenyan Bee keeper (Top Bar hives). They just had a baby. At any rate, they pulled out their front lawn, planted millet, tomatoes, and potatoes, in the back they planted kale, fruit trees , corn, and every thing else you can imagine, plus chickens. We were talking, and without comments from me, my friend's husband started talking about Kenya, and how they decided they wanted to go back, his wife is American ( White). So I asked why, hell I knew, just wanted to hear from them. He said, i have 30 acres of land in Kenya from my Grand father, my brother has another 30, i lived on the edge of lake victoria, I have access to fish, and farmalnd. One months rent here, would be enough to live like a king in my home land. And besides, we don't talk about living green in my home, we are Green. When we build a mud house, we know it's is not permanent, and nothing will be left behind, the mud and straw will eventually return to the Earth, after 30 years or so. No trace of me or anyone else. Why should we have permanent buildings like you guys in the US, when we ourselves are not permanent, i don't understand these houses/buildings in the States.
Well, he didn't have to convince me, i saw what he was talking about 11 years ago on the opposite side of the continent, but it made me think about our predicament even more. I think the meek may really inherit the earth. All the countries which have been abused by Western powers via: Slavery, coloniazation, neo coloniazation, Unfair extractions of natural resources, and etc. . These countries have been denied fossil fuels essentially when you really look at it. Therefore, they've been forced to live at a very local level, building their own house and etc. They are already ready living in Peak oil for the most part. If life is a ten story building, and The US is on the 10th floor, and back woods African countries are on the first first floor. Tell me, who has farther to fall in a post industrial world? We do of course, maybe we get what we deserve, maybe this is karma working itself out? i don't know, but what I do know is that eventually, the cultures which have maintained their ability to construct housing , farm,. and etc without fossil fuels will inherit the earth,. May it be so. My ten cents."
- internet post from somebody
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
The funny thing about this article is that I could close my eyes and throw a rock and I'd bet you my little left toe that the person hit by the rock will be able to discourse at length about how to survive with no money. As I got into my 30s I realized that this artist/survival ethic extended itself to young families with kids just as much as it did to the single, 22 yo male with nothing to lose.
Having spent more than my fair share of time in the heart of the city, living that life I can tell you that there is something to be said for creativity and ingenuity. But also there's something unmentioned in this article and it's your peers. In Portland one of the main things that allows a no-account, little shit musician to get drunk and laid three nights a week while living off of craigslist gigs is the fact that everybody does this exact same thing. Thus there is no peer guilt, or at least it's highly mitigated by the crowd.
For example, just off the top of my head (and I'm a few years out from the cutting edge of urban survival):
-smokes...go to the tobacco store, buy rolling tobacco in bulk. currently 5.50 an ounce of good shag
-brew your own beer or go in with somebody who has the equipment, pay for the ingredients. or just buy at the store and avoid the bar altogether. last time i did it, worked out to 30 cents a bottle including the price of the bottle for some high grade double hopped belgian beer
-trader joes (local grocery), kettleman's bagels, etc, etc, all toss their food in the dumpster and it's basically perfect. in fact, the employees inside know that if they take care to keep the toss away shit in good shape their store will be respected, even appreciated. a conservative estimate would say at least 200 places do this. huge bags of bagels are a dollar, three bags for two dollars. frozen dumpster food if you get it quick is still fuckin frozen and in perfect condition.
-for shelter you rent a fucking room. and yes i know very well adjusted families with kids who do this by simply renting two rooms in the same house. this has been going for close to two decades, that i've seen.
-food stamps, unemployment, craigslist gigs, day labor and barter systems are ubiquitous to portland. there would in fact be no portland as we know it without these institutions.....so yeah it's going to turn to shit like everyone else but....
-a huge amount of people are constantly running around trying to make co-ops and urban farms and every other fucking thing to make the best of shit, eventually this has forced the monied class to live with the reality of the rest of us. the cops do still shoot people on a regular basis, but i know from first hand experience that if they come to your dumpy little co-housing situation and you treat them with respect they will be totally reasonable (i've seen this w/ blacks, whites, whatever). and this happens specifically because the city shits their pants as a collective whenever something oppressive happens. sure it still happens, but it's better than just rolling over and accepting a foot in your ass.
-the point to all this is not to say that portland is better, though it probably is, but rather to point out that the whole reality of portland and other similar cities comes from the fact that starving artists basically paved the way for how to get it done.
I would submit that most 'artists' are actually just narcissistic assholes in pupa form, however IF they do in fact live by the creative ethos then there might in fact be something survival-worthy in regards to a general sense of creativity.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Alas, as we all know, “Hammer Time” can’t last forever. And, after his entourage of 300 helped the poor rapper blow his loot, Hammer filed for bankruptcy and spent the final years of the millennium as a comical footnote in the book of one-hit wonders.
- Joel Bowman
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
When she stopped he asked "What part of that is going to help me fix this machine?"
-ME forum
Monday, July 06, 2009
- J H Kunstler
- Wiki
Sunday, July 05, 2009
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
- Tolkien
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
as much as X Y and Z do". In the real world, on average, X Y or Z
will just by natural processes seem to be more advantaged in the
narrow way being considered. And X Y and Z use the same strategy, and
may be looking at different aspects of advantage. This provides a
rationale for permanent ratcheting up. The distributions that natural
systems generate are considered unfair by capuchins and humans, which
leads to being pissed off at the world and others a lot of the time.
-dj
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Sunday, June 07, 2009
J. Jones
Sunday, May 03, 2009
among the small investors and business people I talk with, my impression is that these folks are strongly addicted to the dopamine rush they get when they buy and sell. The rampant hysteria over Obama's bailouts/social medicine/gun- ban is a fear of an encroaching socialism that will cut them off from their drug/addiction that the last administration affirmed. You just can't get the same hit with that socialistic- methadone gack they're pushing over at Obama's free clinic.
Anyway, the market-dopers/ elite will take us to the wall with their capitalist-market- crack, then, when it can't be sustained any longer, in an act of addictive transference, they will dump free markets smack for war. Like a junkie pushing the spike in for one last glorious hit, they will launch the missiles. The orgy of our free markets will be maintained by, or even, superseded by, the ultimate rush that is the orgy of war. War is the ultimate dopamine rush, and the only logical progression/ alternative to a free market crack addition.
Everybody else gets to go along with the resulting misery, just like the codependents in the home of an alcoholic/addict.
All the talk about sustainable this or that is just so much denial that prevents us from facing the truth about our free-market addiction. The elites seize upon and affirm with each other the socially acceptable lies and flimsy rationalizations (carbon-credits/ offsets, hydrogen economy, hybrid cars, etc.) that support their destructive behavior and help drag their codependents (you and me) along with them down the shit hole.
Hamlet
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Imagine an 18-year-old child crouching in a muddy ditch somewhere in France. Someone blows a whistle. He leaps out of the ditch and runs headlong into a Maxim gun and is blown to pieces. Why did he do it? Because the willingness to die for an abstraction, or someone he has never met, increased the fitness of his ancestors.
People are NOT "born to be good," OR "born to be bad," people are born to act in ways that increased the fitness of their ancestors. What they do tomorrow depends upon genes/environment (not genes).
We are entering a many-decades period of declining resources. Capitalism can't run backwards. When the supply lines collapse, people will arm themselves and take to the streets.
Now the Unites States will look like 1933 Germany. Rush Limbaugh-types will form personal armies and march on Washington. The people who are running our government must either take what they need from another country by force else or they will be overthrown.
Now the Unites States will look like 1939 Germany. Perhaps we will invade Canada like Hitler invaded Poland. Ultimately, it will be a global war of all against all for the remaining resources.
- Jay Hanson
Thursday, March 05, 2009
John Gray
Saturday, February 21, 2009
"How is everybody?"
Yeah, this was California flair that I had this evening. I attended a back bending workshop with Todd Tesen from LA, California. He is a tall man with a lot of muscles. He must have been a weight lifter in his former life, I thought. So many strong muscles. Really.He said the first words in a for me rather strong US accent and I knew at once - this is not an intellectual. He is a light-hearted man who brings a lot of fun. So it was.
Suddenly this healthy man stood behind me while I was doing downward facing dog. I do not know what he did, of course it was an adjustment, a new one for me. My hands lifted up from the floor. I felt like a feather. OMG, such a strong man, I thought, he can lift me up so easily.
Todd is a comedian: He showed us how people usually do hanumanasana (split pose) and how wrong the hip position usually is. He pretended to be a sort of ballet dancer, while showing the pose to us. It really made me laugh. Then he did it the correct way. Afterwards he bound together his long hair.
It was a show. I liked it to see, how he went on his knees when he came out of urdhva dhanurasana.
- Ursula
Monday, February 16, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Money is the new secret of a happy job
By Lucy Kellaway
Published: December 14 2008 19:59 | Last updated: December 14 2008 19:59
Last week, I sent an e-mail to a friend who had just lost his job. “I’m so sorry,” I wrote. “Your bosses are morons to have got rid of such a genius as you. I can only suppose a queue will shortly stretch round the block as less brain-dead employers clamour to take you on. Hope you are OK.”
The e-mail was heartfelt except for one word, and that was “shortly”. I don’t expect a queue to form for my friend shortly. Even geniuses are not getting snapped up quickly – unless they happen to be security guards, social workers, accountants or teachers.
In a trice, I had a message back. He said he had had a brief panic about the mortgage and school fees but otherwise was really rather cheerful. Indeed, he was in such high spirits that he even sent me a funny anecdote*.
I could not help comparing the tone of his message with one that I got the very same afternoon from another friend who works for a company that has also been celebrating Christmas with some savage job cuts. Never, she said, had her morale been as bad. The weight of work was crippling as she was now doing the jobs of three people. There was talk of pay cuts. The office was spookily quiet, too; since most of her friends had been sacked, there wasn’t even anyone around to moan to. Worst of all was the fear that her job would be next.
It is tempting to conclude from these two messages that, if there is one thing worse for hitherto successful, well-paid people than being fired, it is not being fired. Those who have been axed don’t need to take the sacking personally, and not working in the days before Christmas can be rather jolly. Whereas for those who have not been fired, the not-so-festive season this year is an orgy of fear and drudgery.
There might be some truth in this now but it is not going to stay true for long. The grimness of the unemployed will get worse as no queues form to take them on, while the grimness of those in work will, in time, start to recede. This is not because the economy will improve – it is because the grimness itself will bring on a sounder and altogether more realistic approach to work.
Over the past decade, the rich, professional classes have developed an increasingly unhealthy attitude to their jobs. We took our jobs and our fat salaries for granted and felt aggrieved if our bonuses were not even bigger than the year before. We demanded that the work be interesting in itself and, even more dangerously and preposterously, that it should have meaning.
The result of all these demands was, of course, dissatisfaction. We had climbed to the very top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and discovered that, at the top of the pyramid, the air was very thin indeed. As an agony aunt, I found that by far the most common problem readers submitted came from rich and senior professionals who had all their basic needs more than catered for, leaving their souls in torment. Help me, I’m bored, they cried. Or, worse: what does my work mean?
In the past few months, anguish of this sort has vanished. When one’s job is at risk and one’s savings are a shadow of their former selves, the search for meaning at work is meaningless. The point of a job becomes rather more basic: to feed and house (and, at a pinch, to educate) one’s family and oneself. If we can do this, then anything we manage over and above this is a bonus. Once expectations have fully adjusted to this new reality and we see earning money as the main reason for work, greater satisfaction will follow.
Low expectations have an awful lot to be said for them. In surveys women turn out to be more satisfied at work than men, in spite of earning less for the same jobs and doing most of the work at home too. The reason is simple: women’s expectations of working life are lower. Similarly, Denmark is the happiest country in the world in spite of having a cold, dark climate and a top tax rate of 68 per cent. The stoical Danes do not expect so much of life and, expecting less, find what little they have rather nice.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Germany, Lord Esher felt sure, “is as receptive as Great -Britain to the doctrine of Norman Angell.” How receptive were the Kaiser and the Crown Prince to whom he gave, or caused to be given, copies of The Great Illusion is not reported. There is no evidence that he gave one to General Von Bernhardi, who was engaged in 1910 in writing a book called Germany and the Next War, published in the following year, which was to be as influential as Angell’s but from the opposite point of view. Three of its chapter titles, “The Right to Make War,” “The Duty to Make War,” and “World Power or Downfall” sum up its thesis.
[pp. 24-25 THE GUNS OF AUGUST, Barbara Tuchman]
which is reasonably likely if I don't relocate off Oahu - and if I'm
not, y'know, vaporized - I'll use broken glass to sever an artery.
Once thing about suburban rubble, you'll be able to find shards of
broken glass, and it's the sharpest edge there is; it's what they use
to cut cells in half for electron microscopy. Broken plate glass has
a single-molecule edge, I think. And I can attest that bleeding to
death is not only painless, but even slightly euphoric - I lost 60+%
of my blood once to an arterial bleed."
-DJ
Monday, August 18, 2008
- Roger of Howden, 12th Century
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008

In just 5-10yrs we could be looking at an almost total cessation of oil exports. And from what I've read the US might only be producing 3MMBD instead of the current 5MMBD.
That is the end of America. Period.
And people here argue about whether there will be war soon. You can bet your firstborn there will be war. BIG WAR. When this fucker kicks off it will be the last BIG war of mankind. Nukes and all. Everyone will give it all they got because whoever is left standing at the end will get the prize....oil. The losers will starve.
- Korg
Monday, July 14, 2008
Some of the best remote viewers involved in the early RV research at SRI and the government's RV program--Pat Price, Hella Hammid, and Joe McMoneagle--all used unstructured methods. Russell Targ, both in his books (such as Mind Race and Limitless Mind) and workshops (which I have attended twice) strongly advocates a "keep it simple" approach, stating "All that is necessary to remote view is to quiet the mental chatter and describe the images which come to mind."
- Banded Krait
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
- Noam Chomsky
- somebody's amazon book review
Friday, June 20, 2008
- Nafeez Ahmed (author: The War on Truth), speaking about Al Qaida
BOXING DQ’S FOR SELF-DEFENSE
Boxing AKA the Sweet Science, as we all know, may be a science but it’s not all that sweet. Let’s face it; what’s sweet about a sport that has as its ultimate goal to render you unconscious via blunt head trauma? As sour-intentioned as the “sweet” science is there is an even more unsavory side—the area of illegal blows, disqualification shots (DQs). These DQs have no place inside the ring (sorry, but you’ve got to keep your teeth to yourself, Mr. Tyson) but for the street, well, that’s another story altogether. Pure boxing, with zero illegal shots added to the mix is already a formidable self-defense art; add the DQs and you’ve got a leaner, meaner street ready animal.
Below we set forth a primer on how to take the already efficient standard boxing arsenal and add the bad intentioned shots back into the mix to make it a street-ready self-defense option. We’ll only touch on a few of the higher-percentage shots; for a great deal more information on this topic see our exhaustive instructional set The Complete Pugilist.
- Location, Location, Location—Just as in real estate, where you land a blow can spell all the difference between man-stopper and a missed opportunity. You can take any of the blows in the standard boxing arsenal (the jab, cross, hook, uppercut) and target “verboten” areas on your opponent and have a nice effect. Aim for the soft targets of the throat and kidneys; these are far easier to hit than most imagine.
- Below the Belt—Outside the sport rule-set but no need to exclude it from the street arsenal. A well-placed uppercut south of the border is mighty effective.
- Rabbit Punching—Blows to the back of the head are particularly damaging and forbidden in the sport of boxing, which means this is a prime tool for the street-boxer. Rabbit punches are best delivered while engaged in a clinch. To deliver an effective rabbit-punch, think of a short choppy hook hitting your opponent directly on the back of the head or neck. BTW—The term rabbit punch comes from a technique used to kill rabbits caught in traps. Once the live rabbit is removed from the trap a sharp blow to the back of the neck and our live rabbit is now a past tense live rabbit.
- Roughing Inside the Clinch—Once two boxers are clinched the fight is strictly regulated for the sportsman, but for the street-boxer a whole new world of hurt opens up. We’ve got the previously mentioned rabbit-punches, knees to the groin and/or thighs, foot stomps, short-choppy head-butts, you’ve even got Mr. Tyson’s ear lobe hors d`oeuvres available. There is a wealth of mayhem to be inflicted inside the clinch; dish it out well.
- Thumbing—Modern boxing gloves are manufactured with the thumbs attached to the body of the glove to prevent “accidental/incidental” thumbs to the eyes. The street-boxer has no such glove restricting his fifth digit so; he should utilize this opposing appendage with extreme prejudice. Thumb the eye while roughing inside the clinch, fire your jabs with an open palm and your thumb extended targeting the eyes and/or throat. Another nice little roughing use of the thumb inside the clinch is to jam it hard up and into your opponent's armpit—it won’t stop the fight but it’s just one of the many disconcerting multiples you can throw.
- Combinations, Combinations, Combinations—The best of the best in the sport of boxing throw combinations; the street-boxer would be wise to emulate that tactic. Be overwhelming in your offense—be overwhelming in your defense. Be overwhelming in your counters. Do not look for the Sunday punch or the KO, instead strive to be the proverbial buzzsaw, strike fast, strike often, and then strike again.
There are many (many) more illegal shots/inserts that we can cull from the boxing arsenal but these half dozen will serve you well when the game is not inside the ring, there is no referee to stop the fight and the stakes are higher than a mark on your record. Train hard; train safe!
Thanks everyone and have a great weekend!
Mark Hatmaker
- L. Tolstoi
Thursday, June 19, 2008
5 million, or 5 billion people mean nothing, nada, zip to TPTB. They
can control the masses.
It is not even necessary to 'handle' them with all these messy
stuff. Just block the exits and keep the supplies from reaching in.
5 million or 5 billion, the masses die on the vine.
In ancient China, when the pesky peasants rebel every year because
they were hungry, the Chinese Emperor hired Mongol horsemen to quell
them.
And, as I have mentioned before, when the Taiping peasant rebels
tried to overthrow the Manchu dynasty, the Manchus called up Western
troops to silence the masses.
There are lots of trained soldiers around the world who will kill
someone for $5 a pop. TPTB will have no difficulty to find someone
to shoot to the mobs.
P. Kwon of Cal.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
-George Soros
Saturday, June 14, 2008
> with a small amount of discipline the action can be directed
> towards a productive result. Naturally, those having superior
> abilities would tend to rise in rank.
This is not true. The ability to gain and hold power over others is
itself a skill and does not require any other ability. I suggest you
become active in local politics and watch closely.
Jay Hanson
Thursday, June 12, 2008
It is inseparable from human nature to HOPE and FEAR. In speculation, when the market goes against you, you hope every day will be the last day – and you lose more than you should had you not listened to hope.
The successful trader has to fight these two deep-seated instincts. He has to reverse what you might call his natural impulses. It is absolutely wrong to gamble in stocks the way the average man does. Instead of hoping he must fear; instead of fearing he must hope.
He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.
-Jessie Livermore
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Friday, June 06, 2008
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Saturday, May 31, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Smile at them as you open your wallet, say a kind word as you open your wallet, extol their finer points as you open your wallet, recite poetry as you open your wallet, promise the earth as you open your wallet, to save time just open your wallet, if you don’t have a wallet, gee that’s tough. Whatever you do, don’t wear a waistcoat.
- Malty
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
they are little more than lizards walking around on their hind feet.
Although fantastically complex arguments are given for doing this or
that, it's really quite simple. A binary decision switch is thrown
subconsciously and then sometime later (from seconds to as long as it
takes) a plausible excuse is invented to rationalize the decision.
- Jay Hanson
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Mais l’orgie et la camaraderie des femmes m’étaient interdites. Pas même un compagnon. Je me voyais devant une foule exaspérée, en face du peloton d’exécution, pleurant du malheur qu’ils n’aient pu comprendre, et pardonnant! – Comme Jeanne d’Arc! – ‘Prêtes, professeurs, maîtres, vous vous trompez en me livrant à la justice. Je n’ai jamais été de ce peuple-ci; je n’ai jamais été chrétien; je suis de la race qui chantait dans le supplice; je ne comprends pas les lois; je n’ai pas le sens moral, je suis une brute: vous vous trompez…’
But orgy and the comradeship of women were forbidden me. Not even a companion. I could see myself in front of an angry crowd, facing the firing-squad, weeping with the unhappiness which they would not have been able to understand, and forgiving them! - Like Joan of Arc! - ‘Priests, doctors, masters, you are mistaken in handing me over to justice. I have never belonged to this people; I have never been a Christian; I belong to the race which used to sing under torture; I do not understand the laws; I have no moral sense, I am an animal: you are making a mistake…’
(Rimbaud, Une Saison en Enfer, tr. Oliver Bernard)
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
symbolic consciousness of it is the struggle to get power to fortify
himself. Other animals must simply use those powers that nature
provided them with and the neural circuits that animate those
powers. But man can invent and imagine powers, and he can invent
ways to protect power. This means, as Nietzsche saw and shocked his
world with, that ALL MORAL CATEGORIES ARE POWER CATEGORIES; they are
not about virtue in any abstract sense. Purity, goodness, rightness—
these are ways of keeping power intact so as to cheat death; the
striving for perfection is a way of qualifying for extraspecial
immunity not only in this world but in others to come. Hence all
categories of dirt, filth, imperfection, and error are vulnerability
categories, power problems."
~Ernest Becker
Sunday, April 13, 2008
- Howard Zinn
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Great Letter!
I was on the scientific faculty of a "well-known American university" for 10 years. Academic freedom is a fairy tale, and universities are essentially corrupted by their funding. Here's why:
- A faculty member is a nobody if he/she doesn't pull in enough grant money. To get, say, $100,000 in grant funding, we had to get $167,000, of which the administration immediately took away $67,000 ('overhead'). This 'overhead' determined your stature with the boss ('dean').
- 90% of the grants in my department were with either federal agencies or the military.
- The administration's evaluations of faculty were largely based on grant income (not teaching or research). Untenured faculty without grants were fired, period.
- Even tenured faculty were considered 2nd-class citizens (low pay, lousy assignments) if they had no grants. It was a grim fate.
To promote 9/11 Truth, a professor would have to throw it all away: no grants, no research, low pay, crappy treatment. Also, his administration would desperately try to shut him up, out of fear of losing university-wide grants.
This is why so few academics have spoken up, and amounts to corruption of what should be a free-thinking part of society. One has to admire the courage of people like Steven Jones (and he left BYU, remember?).
Great letter, Christian, and my heart is with you as you rattle the cages at BU. It takes guts to do what you have done.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
“Take stock of those around you and you will...hear them talk in precise terms about themselves and their surroundings, which would seem to point to them having ideas on the matter. But start to analyze those ideas and you will find that they hardly reflect in any way the reality to which they appear to refer, and if you go deeper you will discover that there is not even an attempt to adjust the ideas of this reality. Quite the contrary: through these notions the individual is trying to cut off any personal vision of reality, of his own very life. For life is at the start a chaos in which one is lost. The individual suspects this, but he is frightened at finding himself face to face with a curtain of fantasy, where everything is clear. It does not worry him that his "ideas" are not true, he uses them as trenches for the defense of his existence, as scarecrows to frighten away reality.”
~JOSÉ ORTEGA y GASSET
Monday, March 10, 2008
profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion
becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the
scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables
and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back
of the theater."
~Frank Zappa
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
"Any individual who rises to the national political level is, of necessity and by definition, committed to the authoritarian-corporatist state. The current system will not allow anyone to be elected from either of the two major parties who is determined to dismantle even one part of that system."
- Arthur Silber
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Monday, February 04, 2008
Friday, February 01, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution."
Aldous Huxley, Tavistock Group, California Medical School, 1961
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
In your car, driving, anywhere, anytime, is where you are most likely to get hurt or killed. Terrorist crap is irrevelent compared to driving. The idiot on your tailgate is much more dangerous to you than Usamabama Muhamabed will ever be.
Pay attention when you are driving. Death is at your fender, countless times every day. Pay attention when you are driving and drive like a person of sense.
Or you won't get to live to see doomsday. Wouldn't that suck !
Being in a car , on a road, is the most dangerous thing you do.
Probably.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
- Hegel on the global police state:
- "The progress of man toward the realization of freedom has been and will continue to be costly; wars and conflicts of all kinds, being the essence of the dialectical process, create misery for mankind. But, again, happiness is not the goal of man, the goal is freedom, and this can be accomplished only through an understanding of the process of and through subjection to the state, the material means by which the Idea progresses. As the state is necessary to the march of the World Spirit and is a means to that end, so the individual is a means to the end of the state which serves that purpose."
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Friday, November 02, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007
The fundamental difference in this, between people like The Viking and people like me is that he feels he lives in a safe, fair place, where everything is orderly and above board, and good is rewarded, bad punished. For myself, i feel profoundily ill at ease in the world of human society. i see it as The Matrix, a lie, a system rigged to punish original thought and integrity, and to reward stupidity and servility. My whole life’s experience has led me here; whether that qualifies me to see clearly, or merely explains why i’m wrong, i myself cannot judge. We all think we’re right, of course.
My parents were ill-meaning buffoons. My first memory of school is, age about 5, being run into by a girl in the playground; we both fell down, she started crying; a teacher came over, pointed at me and shouted accusingly, “I saw what you did!” And so on. At every stage of education, my teachers have largely been dysfunctional morons. i did badly at school, my brain not really waking up till i was 19. i found university to be largely a self-serving system of bullshit, in which patronising lifers stifled any real thought or learning, encouraging servility either in the overt form of Literary Theory or, slightly more subtly, giving bad marks to anything that deviated too far from the official line. The exceptions had either been sacked or relegated to tiny offices and treated like scum.
i’ve been unemployed for two years, and temped - mainly at minimum wage data entry - for another three. i’ve been rejected for about 250 jobs.
Looking at myself from the outside, how could such a temp not distrust authority? 95% of the ‘authority figures’ i’ve met were fakes. i’m not enough of a Gnostic to hate the physical world; but the world of human society seems almost purposefully designed as a prison.-Elberry
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
Sunday, September 09, 2007
-- Quentin Crisp
Note that this (US Dollar Index) chart spans the entire Bush Presidency. Quite a report card, isn't it? Talk about "Dead Country Walking."
The Herculean market manipulation effort by our government over the past couple of years is more than apparent. Clearly, they are near the end of their string, as well.
To the Technical Analysts among you, this chart literally screams that the dollar is about to plunge beneath 70. Once that happens, the game very likely is over and they will nuke either Tehran or Des Moines, depending upon which they believe will get them the most mileage. Regardless, things then will spiral out of control and the world as we know it will be over.
-Conspiracy PenPal
Here's a question: Will hypermobility (and the possibility of permanent, irreversible joint damage) help you drop some drunk in a bar on his ass faster? Let me know. I'm on my way to a bar.
Saturday, September 08, 2007
-Mike Shedlock
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
It is clarity that is liberating, for you cannot abandon desire unless its causes and effects are clearly seen. I do not say that the same person is reborn. It dies, and dies for good. But its memories remain and their desires and fears. They supply the energy for a new person.
- Nisargadatta
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Thursday, August 30, 2007
-Andrzej Kalisz
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Monday, May 07, 2007
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Edward Wilson: The United States of America. The rest of you are just visiting.
- The Good Shepherd
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
-Joseph Russo
Monday, April 16, 2007
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Firearms are useful for defense against crime. Little more. Those who think they could band together to defeat the Globalist Powers are mindless nincompoops or crypto-Zionist provocateurs like Jeff Rense. Anyone with a bit of ground force military experience knows that scattered rabbles of rebels are over rated in a true total war. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya and such like were not total wars. The American Civil War was a total war (or became one by the time Sherman marched to the sea). In a total war, such as where a government seeks to survive AT ANY COST – protesters are not tolerated, news is controlled or shut down, things like the Geneva Conventions are thrown totally away. Total wars resemble what took place on the German Eastern Front during WWII. Actually they more resemble the Battle of Verdun in WWI. If you don’t know what I mean, then you should study them.
By early 93 there was said to be 3 million militia volunteers who were arming, and practicing to defend liberty because of Ruby Ridge and Waco. By 95, because of the Oklahoma City attack, and an economy that was picking up, those potbellied heroes scattered to the winds. Units that once had 200 men fell suddenly to 12 and so on. But that was just as well. During 1994 I asked many of them what their local plan of action was. Almost every one stated that their MASTER PLAN was, in the event of a Government show down, to retreat to their individual homes, and trailers, and to die defending their guns. Anyone who has read even a modicum of military history knows that such a plan was little more than collective suicide and the romantic self-aggrandizement of bigmouthed potbellied men.
While North Vietnam had the whole communist block behind them, the Afghan rebels had refuge in Pakistan, and even the Iraqis have helpful friends in Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, an American revolutionary force would have no safe haven, nor even the French army and navy that they had in the Revolutionary War. Canada will not offer safe haven. Mexico could give a rat’s ass about helping a bunch of armed gringos with an attitude. Not only that, but the US government or the Globalists are ready to attack such a force with a total war – not the playacting wars they have leveled at third world rebels. Why? Because the USA has one of the most dangerous nuclear forces in the world – not to mention a lot of other really powerful arms and abilities. The Globalists are not about to ALLOW all that power to fall into the hands of a rabble of Constitutionalists. Do you think they have spent over 150+ years, countless lives of their victims, and vast treasures just to lightly throw it all away to a pack of small-arms-rebels? Believe me, in that fight they will be so dirty, so evil, so violent that it would make Stalin blush!
There was a war fought against the early members of the N.W.O. right here in the USA. It was called the American Civil War. Even though the South was weaker in manpower and arms, because of its valor and abilities the conflict started out with an almost 1 to 1 odds. It was slightly in the North’s favor, but only if it could hold out long enough for its naval power to starve the South of arms. A modern war today would not be anything like that. Today’s odds would be more like 30 to 1 against the freedom fighters. And anyone who knows anything about wars, knows that 5 to 1 is usually certain defeat for the lesser.
In a modern civil war the dark powers WILL use Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical warfare (NBC war). This is not going to be your grand pappy’s musket skirmish line. Back in late 93 I recall one of the big discussions on the patriot radio programs was where to by an NBC protective suit. As if, if a few guys could scrounge those up that all would go well. Since my brother had gone to a full NBC school I knew how utterly foolish these patriots were. Though it never reached the World press, my brother’s military class was privy to a deadly chemical attack launched by the Egyptians on the Israelis during the 73 war. The attack followed the very same format that was S.O.P. for the US Army at the time: 1st salvos are an LSD gas. No, (repeat NO) gas mask, filtering system, or suit is able to prevent a few molecules of LSD from seeping in. It only takes a few such molecules to render soldiers silly. In the case of the Israelis who where hit at the targeted bunker, all had lost their senses and had then taken off their gas masks. That’s how the LSD gas works. 2nd Salvos were a nerve agent, a blood agent, and mustard gas. So the 1993 patriots were day dreaming how they would withstand a “gas attack”, not knowing at all that by US Army S.O.P. such an attack would involve 4 agents, not one, and the likelihood of anyone surviving it was about nil (just as it was for the Israelis at the bunker attacked by the Egyptians). As I recall they patriots also wanted to buy atropine shots to protect themselves from nerve gas. My brother told me the story about a military officer at his school who accidentally got a small whiff of VX Nerve gas. It took almost 100 atropine shots just to keep him alive long enough to get him to the hospital!! The single atropine shots that are issued to soldiers in the field are worthless. They are little more than psychological armor.
Are small arms and .50 cals and such like really the stuff of taking on the N.W.O.? Yes, but only if the N.W.O. wants to stage a media show like Afghanistan or Iraq. Even Fallujah was little more than a retard effort. Here is how I would have dealt with the town: 3 AM, large planes swoop in and drop anti-personnel mines in a ring around the town. 5 AM saturation bombing from as many B52s and B1s as is possible around the clock. During this time arty is brought up and takes over by nightfall. 6 AM next day, powerful ground force moves in behind mine-sweepers. That would not be a media show. That is almost the way the US Army dealt with small German villages near the end of WWII who offered any resistance. Some were bombed and others were shelled flat. The Arab has never actually seen real warfare.
The truth is the N.W.O. is looking for a fight with American patriots – not quite yet, but soon. The fight they plan for will look nothing like the media war shows you have been used to seeing. It will involve truly sinister and scientific means to exterminating you and your families. If Robert E. Lee was here today, he’d suggest you seek a court house in Appomattox immediately! What you face today and the odds against you are many orders more dangerous than what he faced in Virginia in 1865 when he surrendered his army. Are guns of any real worth defending freedom? Not in a real all out conflict – and that his how American civil wars are fought: total and all out.