some cult sci-fi for our evening field work

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I know it can seem not scholarly, but this is part of my doctoral work and full of things to ponder about our cultural conditioning and our psychological landscape in general, but if you have to pick between watching last night's offering and this one, you should go with last night's. There were a ton of indian allegories in it that none of us should miss.

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moving forward

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After a bungled start, it's finally here.

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icke is not the only target of opportunity in this travesty

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Salvia, a legal entheogen, is gettin' it and so is the Zeitgeist Movement. I had to go to the link and endure the video to make certain this was not some ugly publicity stunt, like with certain websites now feigning DDoS attacks to draw more eyeballs. So I guess we are free to hope this will help draw more crowds for Zeitgeist: Moving Forward's opening in a couple days....

Jesus. This is too much like dystopia on steroids.

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epic fail

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They always want to know what would motivate people if there were no money.

I always give the same answer.

Self respect.

He didn’t really nod or say anything, just kept looking at the ground, frowning. I felt like I could watch his faith in humanity slipping from his grasp as I became the god knows how many-ith person to tell him ‘no’. I was simultaneously watching the system crush his spirit, and being the perpetuator of the system in this instance.

With everything I talk about egalitarian values and I make stupid videos about capitalism or whateverthefuck to ‘raise awareness’. And I’m not saying I don’t enjoy doing those things, and the fact that people enjoy them is just amazing to me, but when it comes down to it, when a real human being reached out to me for help today, I said no.

Self respect.

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oh, natch

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I get stoked it'll be coming out in a month or so, and, no, it won't be coming out until mid-January. Uh-huv course.

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rub your hands together

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Because....

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the love that you withhold is the pain that you carry

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I have been listening to an old Alex Collier interview and I thought I ought, in the name of decency and fairness, to call your attention to something he said in Part 3. So the image link is just the one... and I imagine you will catch the salient line immediately upon hearing it.

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Oh, duh, I just found the whole interview in one. It took place in 1994.

I finally understand why he's been so reluctant to come out in public lately. He must have taken oceans of shit for this interview. I just really want you to hear him saying back in 1994 what our window of time was going to be... and consider where he says he got the information.

Though, you are missing out on some beautiful speech if you skip the rest of this.

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I've changed my mind. Please listen to the whole thing. Ignore whether you find the space alien stuff credible or not, and listen to this guy. Just listen to him.

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[Frantic from Area 51....]

[Zeitgeist....]

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i would have frustrated the living snot out of hobbes

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Even as I agree with him about the absolute monarch part. That is the best, the sanest, form of government. Yes, yes, of course, it is blaringly apparent that the monarch has to be King Arthur at the very least, but that does NOT distract from the point. If you don't have that, you have THIS. No matter what.

In the prisoner's dilemma, I wouldn't confess, wouldn't rat out my partner. And neither would my partner, or he/she wouldn't have been my partner. We both would rather die than break the vow to save all sentient beings. Besides, people forget that the cops didn't have a case to start, and if nobody opens their mouth, that's an end to it.

You know that old saw about absolute power corrupting absolutely?

It's hogwash.

Not if you've picked the right monarch. You say the right monarch can and will be corrupted at some point? Easy. Take him or her out. If the people have means of training and testing their young, the right ones naturally rise to the top. There would be the perfect replacement for such an UNLIKELY eventuality.

Did it ever occur to you that the absolute power hogwash has been used by the corrupt to insure their corruption can keep on being sanctioned by the powerful? I bet not. Democracy does not prevent corruption. It enables it. Think about the pinheads out there doing their Hatfield and McCoy acts like there's no tomorrow. Babies... with candy... but not for long... and every time they get more it's also not for long. That is democracy. The only reason to have it is to enable oligarchy.

The only reason to have a monetary system is to enable oligarchy—wasichu kind of oligarchy, not oligarchy made purely of true merit. Everyone I've ever told about this wants to know what would motivate people to go to work if there was no money in it. Self respect. Most humans don't like themselves if they are not contributing somehow. Inevitably next they want to know who'd pick up the garbage and man the sewage treatment plants. People who wish to ensure people don't get sick from dread diseases and people who don't want to live in a garbage patch. And, besides, as the Zeitgeist people insist—and they are not wrong—technology already is capable of handling all that for us. It's only capitalism—and communism and socialism—dictating we continue to do almost everything ourselves... for pay, for a personal return. We don't need money where self-respect is more than enough to cover it.

You should not have to pay to live your life, and neither should those who are too lazy, or too weird, or too whatever to work. They will always be with us, only much less so if they don't have to pay to survive as comfortably as possible, and it could in fact be that they would contribute stuff then that is impossible for them now. Everyone could... only nothing would be stopping them. What business is it of yours to starve the unlucky or the lazy or the unlikeable? 99% of the crime in the world is about the dog-eat-dog nature of our societies. Without this money bullshit there would be seriously few prisoner's dilemmas to work out. There would be no more resenting the living snot out of people who aren't, or can't be, killing themselves to make a buck... OR people resenting the living snot out of people LUCKY enough to have jobs at all.

Nobody would have to sell dope to have a decent standard of living.

There would be no more G20 meetings to protest.

There would be no more wars to keep the dollar from crashing, even though it rightfully should have crashed long ago. The energy barons would immediately cease ruining everyone's lives and the planet's. There would be no more impediment to using the full physics to provide limitless energy that doesn't harm a thing to maintain.

What elite we might have then would be made up of people who love living things, whose hearts are filled with the love of justice and equity, whose courage—physical and moral and spiritual—would be so immense that their power, the oligarchy that would form around them, couldn't be anything but beneficial and happy for everyone.

All that is required is a people who insist on it... to the point of physically making it impossible for things to be otherwise. If everyone in the world would rise up against anyone or any group seeking to subjugate or otherwise harm us, all these agonies we lie to ourselves are but human nature would disappear forever.

One duty of an absolute monarch would be population control. While it is certain that people would automatically stop reproducing so insanely in such an environment, there still would be a need to ensure the human population does not outstrip the planet's ability to support us. That would mean in the beginning that many would have to be sterilized. Maybe something like China's one kid rule, only both parents are sterilized after the birth of the one kid. And later everyone gets sterilized after two. Whatever. When there is no monetary system, no one, anywhere, needs to make a huge brood to try to optimize their ability to survive. It's already optimized.

Another would be to cut down any packs of greedheads, beta males, seeking to subjugate others and return us to a mess like we have now. I don't know if a problem with this would persist past a few generations, but the male ego is a tricky thing and does not always want to adhere to the good teachings, prefers to bounce off them instead of embrace them. In native American societies this was pretty much handled by the loss of standing it cost, and would be in a global society too, but there would not be much to stop a gang of them from trying to topple the social structure instead of trying to live up to the demands of good character. So there might always be a need to have a means to dispose of this action.

Otherwise, we might not need ANY governing at all.

We certainly could work toward that. Even better than absolute monarchy... a world where everybody knows the right way to deal with everything and does.

Maybe I want to buy one of Scott Horton's "nonarchist" bumper stickers....

BTW, these notions have been in my head, pretty much whole, for about fifty years, and no one has ever managed to train them out of me... though too many to count have tried.

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july newsletter

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I think this will be a lot easier to take and much more helpful than the netcasts. Those just drone on too long and don't give people enough context. So I will start posting these as they come out. You are welcome to use any and all of it as you see fit.

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night and day

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What an instructive difference....

Bankers jailed, sued as Iceland seeks culprits for crisis
By Haukur Holm (AFP)

REYKJAVIK — More than a year and a half after Iceland's major banks failed, all but sinking the country's economy, police have begun rounding up a number of top bankers while other former executives and owners face a two-billion-dollar lawsuit.

Since Iceland's three largest banks — Kaupthing, Landsbanki and Glitnir — collapsed in late 2008, their former executives and owners have largely been living untroubled lives abroad.

But the publication last month of a parliamentary inquiry into the island nation's profound financial and economic crisis signaled a turning of the tide, laying much of the blame for the downfall on the former bank heads who had taken "inappropriate loans from the banks" they worked for.

On Wednesday, the administrators of Glitnir's liquidation announced they had filed a two-billion-dollar (1.6-billion-euro) lawsuit in a New York court against former large shareholders and executives for alleged fraud.

"I think this lawsuit is without precedence in Iceland," Steinunn Gudbjartsdottir, who chairs Glitnir's so-called winding-up board, told reporters in Reykjavik.

"It is about higher figures than we have ever seen," she said, adding that she expected Glitnir to file more lawsuits going forward, but that "it is unlikely any will be this big."

Glitnir said it was suing "Jon Asgeir Johannesson, formerly its principal shareholder, Larus Welding, previously Glitnir's chief executive, Thorstein Jonsson, its former chairman and other former directors, shareholders and third parties associates with Johannesson for fraudulently and unlawfully draining more than two billion dollars out of the bank."

The bank also said it was "taking action against its former auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for facilitating and helping to conceal the fraudulent transactions engineered by Johannesson and his associates, which ultimately led to the bank's collapse in October 2008."

Glitnir's suit, filed in the New York state Supreme Court on Tuesday, blamed most of the bank's woes on "Johannesson and his co-conspirators," who had "conspired to systematically loot Glitnir Bank in order to prop up their own failing companies."

Johannesson, the former owner of the now-defunct Baugur investment group with stakes in a number of British high street stores including Hamleys, Debenhams and House of Fraser, said he was shocked by the lawsuit.

"The distortions and the nonsense in the lawsuit are incredible," he told the Pressan news website.

Glitnir's administrators "can get a 10-year-prison sentence for misusing US courts in this manner," he insisted.

The bank's chief administrator Gudbjartsdottir took his comments in stride.

"I didn't expect him to be happy with the lawsuit," she said.

In addition to its New York suit, Glitnir said it had "secured a freezing order from the High Court in London against Jon Asgeir Johannesson's worldwide assets, including two apartments in Manhattan's exclusive Gramercy Park neighbourhood for which he paid approximately 25 million dollars."

Gudbjartsdottir said Johannesson had just 48 hours to come up with a satisfactory list of his assets.
"If he does not give the right information he faces a jail sentence," she said.

Four former Kaupthing executives, who all live in Luxembourg, have meanwhile been arrested in Iceland in the past week and Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant for that bank's ex-chairman, Sigurdur Einarsson.

Former head of the bank's domestic operations, Ingolfur Helgason, and former chief risk officer Steingrimur Karason were arrested late Monday on arrival from Luxembourg, just days after former Kaupthing boss Hreidar Mar Sigurdsson, along with Magnus Gudmunsson, who headed the bank's unit in Luxembourg, were taken into custody.

The 49-year-old Einarsson, who lives in London, said late Tuesday he had no plans to travel to Iceland to be arrested.
"I'm absolutely flabbergasted about the latest news," he told the Frettabladid daily.

"There is in my opinion no need for the arrests or custody rulings, and I will not of my own free will take part in the play that it appears is being staged to soothe the Icelandic people," he said.

"I'll put the human rights I enjoy here in Britain to the test and will not therefore come home (to Iceland) to these conditions without being forced," he added.

Tell me, what is it about us that we cannot be sensible, sane actors in the world?
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bottomless pit

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After dreaming this morning that I was sitting across a toy desk from President Genghis P. Yoo, who was talking on a toy phone, playing with little bell-like gizmos that were attached to the old-fashioned fashioned toy and pretending to be trying to get through to someone, and then interacting with his multifarious teen advisors, finding myself not the least angry with any of them, just sort of taking in the pathetic and callow adventure in progress, I got up and began my day.

I decided to do a quick skim of some of my news pages, and was quickly stopped by the discovery that one of my favorite favorites has joined with Kevin Zeese and his phantasmagorical array of progressive nonprofits, that yet another site built to capitalize on our biggest concerns has been cranked out, and I became depressed.

I didn't mention this part of it yesterday.

That professional activists end up attaching themselves to nonprofits so they can be paid to call attention to themselves. On the one hand, they can hardly be blamed for this, needing as everyone does to feed themselves, but on the other, I must remind you, none of this is directed toward effectiveness. It is directed toward the generation of a long circus and the price of admission is called a "tax-deductable donation". This is particularly aggravating when I have to report also that I have seen numerous allusions to the "parent companies" for various of the most popular blogs on the internet lately. So we now have in full swing the mirror of American Corporatism—for profit and nonprofit—in charge of the internet.

It isn't that they do utterly nothing. It's that they only do wimpy things like petition campaigns, file nuisance suits and make wild boasts about them, throw their energies into formulating things like drives for constitutional amendments, stuff that can keep garnering donations for decades with virtually no possibility of giving relief in our lifetimes... or in anyone's.

So, despite his name meaning "coffee" in Boont, I disrespect the living snot out of Kevin Zeese... and the list of names attached to his gravy train. Some of them are, or maybe we oughta just go ahead and say "were" because, yes, they are very soon to be were-leading-lights in the various efforts to combat the criminality running America... or if they manage to stay known as leading lights, it DEFINITELY is delusory... like Obama's change-we-can-believe-in thing. Brad Friedman is only one of the stalest of this bunch. David Swanson is in it. Now David DeGraw is in it. Many more.

This is VERY depressing. We are in very bad trouble.

Maybe I will write more about this, because it has tentacles, all manner of ways to put you back to sleep if ever you start to snap out of the trance you think is your awakening, or maybe I will just leave it at this warning and leave you to google and ponder on your own.

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Pfeh. Try to actually uphold the law and you get called names like this. What would they call anyone who tried to prosecute all our war criminal presidents? Seems to me we need to get all the publicity this guy can possibly generate, and if this is a maverick... we're doomed.

Anyway, funny this should pop up right after I got finished listening to this little ditty about the immorality of paper money. So I bothered to make it into a playlist for you for your convenience and ease. Half hour well spent....

I'm not managing to get that page with that great piece on it to load, but it's cached, so maybe you want to read The Money Myth Exploded again, after you've listened to that little lecture. If you STILL don't catch the drift, Peter Joseph explained it all eloquently in Zeitgeist Addendum. I really can't recommend you spend that two hours strongly enough.

I mean, SINCE we're taking our heads out of our asses here, we should damn well cut to the chase....
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maybe you want to bookmark this page

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They netcast every other Wednesday and I never am on top of it. Luckily, you can listen whenever you think of it, whenever you feel like applying your attention to a world with no money and no politicians....

the perfection of optimism

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Let's do it.

zeitgeist radio

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... starts at 3pm, Eastern and noon, Pacific. Listen to Peter Joseph planning a better world. If you can't listen live, I think you can listen to it on demand whenever yer ready. Just click the image and see.

zeitgeist movement radio is on right now

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Okay, 2pm Pacific, they're no longer speaking live, but the link will let you listen to it in replay, and I will try to post each time a new installment comes up.

Someone emailed me this link and all I can say is that I think they ought to be more constructive and join the Zeitgeist Movement.

i made a playlist of last night's zday discussion

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So if you missed it, you lucked out!

[And the NYT took note.]

and why?

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BECAUSE WE GOTTA MAKE THIS FAST!

zday: another experiment in live streaming -- over now

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We should do it for these people and everyone in the world. I wrote these people with the pretty song that I'd back them if they either took out the word "Bible" or added "Koran" and "Sutra" in successive verses. Except for that one thing, I think this is a gorgeous song.

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It's over for this year, and I got to see most of it. I really, really dig these guys. Struth.

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They're back. Hope we didn't miss too much.

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Well, the stream cut out a few minutes ago, and it does not seem that anyone knows it's gone but us watchers... I'm hanging tough, but looks like we gotta hope somebody got this conversation on video so we can see it later. Dammit. Dammit. Dammit.

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Okay, we're so totally happening. About four hours Peter says. If you lose your stream, it should start back up of its own, but also reloading either my page or the stream also works. This seriously rocks. It's important stuff.

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It's happening, but the program doesn't seem to have started yet. They are either having some trouble getting everything hooked up there, or so many people are tuning in that it keeps coming up with the "off air" signal. Hang tough. It comes back.

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Spozed to start at 7pm Eastern... which means 4pm Pacific and probably go live a few minutes before.

dirt simple

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They stressed by any means necessary, even unconventional... which is good, because there is only one way and it is unconventional as heck.

OUTLAW MONEY.

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And, you know, just a few months ago we laughed John McCain right out of the running for saying exactly what Obama just said today. Obama has been identical to * so far. Identical... only black... and suave with weird ears... and articulate. The only way out is to outlaw money.

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Speaking of which, there will be a live webcast of the gathering for

ZDAY

tomorrow, today -- Sunday, 15 March -- starting sometime in the afternoon.