here's yer sign

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Each and every one of those nonprofit "progressive" sites that fly up in response to constitutional crises and election fraud and gun control and financial meltdown and torture and illegal wars and toxic planet and wilderness preservation and wildlife preservation and forest preservation and water preservation and feeding starving people and treating AIDS in Africa and watershed reparations and you goddam name it are going for THIS. This is what they are about.

Sean Penn recently came out and quite nearly said as much... trying manfully to get the point across without sounding like a foaming conspiracy theorist bliss ninny lefty... and HE would know... in case you are skeptical of my bona fides in this matter.

WHAT does it take to open people's eyes that they can't simply throw money at things? That this world is up to us?

A cast iron frying pan upside the head?

Wait! Wait! I have one of those!

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They make it so damn easy for us to be ignorant—and we snatch at that chance, it being such a relief from the constant pressure from fear and outrage and unease and opprobrium and struggle to get from outta bed in the morning to back into it at night.

And I do mean whether they are progressives or arch conservatives.

LISTEN to her. The only way to get power is to take responsibility.

No excuses.

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There actually is one good organization to support. Can't accuse Watson of just paycheck-mongering, and then playing dirty politics to increase it instead of performing on your trust. I wish we had a couple billion more like him.

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love, 99
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ye have always been many and they have always been few

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We are shirking our way back to this. I was going to say we are working our way back to it, and there are many ways that applies, especially since shirking this hard is much more arduous than work, but, well, now, I guess I've gone with both. The ONLY reason you work this hard to shirk your very human being itself is because you dread physical harm, dread the angry glare of the space lizards who nowadays maybe don't care what your position is on the matter of Mary's virginity, but are quite near to burning you at the stake for impeding their hypnodrome with shit like 9/11 Truth or defying the TSA. So you need to THINK about your status as a walking dead human, realize there are fates worse than death and you're in one.

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You know, I don't think I ever mentioned how pissed it made me to keep hearing and reading hairdos and commentators speaking of Egyptians having lost their fear, quite as though these hairdos and commentators didn't have at least as much fear to lose.

It's a fucking emergency that they lose it, but not even staring it in the face gets that through to them.

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love, 99
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sorrow

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I am not going to know if AJ is covering this wall-to-wall until I get home. Those people would not be dead if not for the perfidies of people WE empower. That's always the lynchpin for all the most horrible things. Our empowerment of sociopaths. We have birthdays with gorgeous views and pie and ice cream and good movies and a nice warm fire in the wood stove and they die because of it. Don't try sophistry on it. Try looking at it.

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Tell me, have Barackhenaten and/or Count Olaf been coming out with statements about these every few hours?

Libyan forces fired machine-guns at mourners marching in a funeral for anti-government protesters in the eastern city of Benghazi Sunday, a day after commandos and foreign mercenaries loyal to longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi pummeled demonstrators with assault rifles and other heavy weaponry.

A doctor at one Benghazi hospital said 15 people died in Sunday's clashes. Earlier he said his morgue had received at least 200 dead from six days of unrest. The doctor said his hospital, one of two in Libya's second-largest city, is out of supplies and cannot treat more than 70 wounded in similar attacks on mourners Saturday and other clashes.

The crackdown in oil-rich Libya is shaping up to be the most brutal repression of anti-government protests that began with uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. The protests spread quickly around the region to Bahrain in the Gulf, impoverished Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula, the North African neighbors of Tunisia — Libya, Algeria, Morocco — and outside the Middle East to places including the East African nation of Djibouti and even China.

Gadhafi has been trying to bring his country out of isolation, announcing in 2003 that he was abandoning his program for weapons of mass destruction, renouncing terrorism and compensating victims of the 1986 La Belle disco bombing in Berlin and the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Those decisions opened the door for warmer relations with the West and the lifting of U.N. and U.S. sanctions. But Gadhafi continues to face allegations of human rights violations in his North African nation. Gadhafi has his own vast oil wealth and his response is less constrained by close alliances with the West than Egypt and Bahrain, which are both important U.S. allies.

Britain has called reports of the use of snipers and heavy weapons against demonstrators in Libya "clearly unacceptable and horrifying," and criticized restrictions on media access.

Libya's rebellion by those frustrated with Gadhafi's more than 40 years of authoritarian rule has spread to more than a half-dozen cities. Benghazi, Libya's second largest city with some 1 million people, has been at the center of unrest

Getting reliable information about the chaotic situation is difficult. Journalists cannot work freely. Information about the uprising has come through telephone interviews, along with videos and messages posted online, and through opposition activists in exile.

In a Saturday report, the official Libyan news agency said authorities have arrested "dozens of foreign elements trained to strike at Libya's stability and security." It said an investigation already was under way. It also said authorities were not ruling out that those elements were connected to what it called an Israeli plot to destabilize countries in North Africa, including Libya, as well as Lebanon and Iran.

Before Saturday's violence, Human Rights Watch estimated at least 84 people had been killed.

Jamal Eddin Mohammed, a 53-year old resident of Benghazi, said thousands marched Sunday toward the city's cemetery to bury at least a dozen protesters. They feared more clashes with the government when they passed by Gadhafi's residential palace and the regime's local security headquarters.

"Everything is behind that (Gadhafi) compound; hidden behind wall after wall. The doors open and close and soldiers and tanks just come out, always as a surprise, and mostly after dark," he told The Associated Press by telephone.

A man shot in the leg Sunday said marchers were carrying coffins to a cemetery and were passing by the compound when security forces fired in the air and then opened up on the crowd.

The latest violence in Benghazi followed the same pattern as the crackdown on Saturday, when witnesses said forces loyal to Gadhafi attacked mourners at a funeral for anti-government protesters. They were burying 35 marchers who were slain Friday by government forces.

The doctor at a Benghazi hospital said at least one person was killed by gunshots during the funeral march, and 14 were injured, including five in serious condition. He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, as did several other witnesses in Libya. He said some of the latest casualties were hit by machine gun fire.

On Saturday, witnesses told The Associated Press a mix of special commandos, foreign mercenaries and Gadhafi loyalists assaulted demonstrators in Benghazi with knives, assault rifles and other heavy weapons.

On Sunday, defiant mourners chanted: "The people demand the removal of the regime," which became a mantra for protesters in Egypt and Tunisia.

Hatred of Gadhafi's rule has grown in Benghazi in the past two decades. Anger has focused on the shooting deaths of about 1,200 inmates — most of them political prisoners — during prison riots in 1996.

A similar scenario took place in other eastern cities, including Beyda, which once housed Libya's parliament before Gadhafi's 1969 military coup toppled the monarchy.

Protests spread to the outskirts of the southern city of Zentan and west to Mesrata, Libya's third-largest city.

However, the capital Tripoli, a city of some 2 million people, remained a stronghold of Gadhafi support, with security forces swiftly curbing small protests that erupted in the outskirts. Secret police were heavily deployed on the streets, as residents kept their opinions and emotions secret.

Residents on Saturday reported receiving short messages on their mobile phones warning about taking any action against Gadhafi, national security and the oil industry, which are among "red lines" in Libya that must not be crossed.

The U.S.-based Arbor Networks reported another Internet service outage in Libya just before midnight Saturday night. The company says online traffic ceased in Libya about 2 a.m. Saturday, was restored at reduced levels several hours later, only to be cut off again that night.

People in Libya also said they can no longer make international telephone calls on their land lines.

Abdullah said smaller protests were staged Saturday night on the outskirts of the capital Tripoli, a stronghold of support for Gadhafi, but demonstrators were quickly dispersed by security men. Besides Tripoli and Benghazi, the U.S. State Department in a travel warning to American citizens listed five other cities that have seen demonstrations.

Supporters of the Libyan uprising also demonstrated in Switzerland and in Washington on Saturday, waving flags and burning Gadhafi's photo.

In Egypt, exiled Libyans and members of the country's Press Syndicate have sent urgent medical supplies to Libya. Ayman Shawki, a lawyer in the Egyptian border town of Matrouh, said members of the powerful Awllad Ali tribe whose members live in the border area have volunteered to move the supplies to Libya.

Are ye gettin' it on yer network news? Is AJ all over these?

I mean, could be and I just don't know about it... but... I'm guessing the drama has been downplayed or flat not mentioned.

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love, 99
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i'm sorry

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If you think this rocks, there's just no hope.

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love, 99
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nice way to start my day

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I may just pile up links in this post today. I've been doing that a lot lately... so all you unconcerned types on the feed are probably missing many bits... including all the times I go back to make something clearer or flesh out the scene after I've gotten more coffee, amassed more brain cells, or the winds of inspiration blow back through. These are the hazards of just letting the cyber gods deliver up your content. I just think you oughta remember to stop and smell the roses every so often.

Phil left me this song in comments in the middle of the night, and so it was here for me when I got up. This is amazing because Phil is so totally into head banger heavy metal blast yer brains out music. I have to try to put eardrum warnings on his stuff... but this, now this is the kind of music we should all be listening to around the clock, and since it's Festivus, et cetera, I let you in on it.

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Dump BofA....

No... really... do you want a BANK ACCOUNT where they dictate how you spend
YOUR money? It's like I said when my mother first told me you had to put money in
to get money out: That's the craziest thing I ever heard.

This is a GOOD thing....

Senate Republicans on Saturday doomed an effort that would
have given hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants a path to legal status
if they enrolled in college or joined the military.
It would have given them a limitless supply of cannon fodder for
conquering the world.
[I know, I know, they've got it anyway, but THERE AREN'T ANY JOBS and the continued lure
for more immigrants keeps driving wages ever lower.
IT'S ONLY DRIVING US ALL FURTHER DOWN.
Come up with a better idea. The whole world is turning third.
Wrong direction.]

Got out of the tub just in time....

"The repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell' will be implemented in a common sense way,"
said Ohio Republican Sen. George Voinovich. "Our military leaders have assured Congress
that our troops will engage in training and address relevant issues before instituting this policy change."
This sensitivity training for hardened old Marines ought to be loaded with giggles.
My formal congratulations to queers everywhere! You are nearing "normal" at last.

Latest update on the perennial Biden vs. Biden thing....

Antiwar's antiwar Horton holds forth....

Heavily-recommended listening for all too frightened proto-flakes....

Florida definitely seems to get the most visits from space aliens....

[That would be about Jebby for sure.]

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

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Do not help them. Do not support them. Do not spend your energy and passion and intellect on earnest analyses of the twists and turns of their political fates. They are doing evil. Do not be part of it. Support instead those who try to speak the truth. Stand with them. It is their fate — not the fate of the petty, brutal power-seekers — which will determine the meaning of our times and the future of our species.

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love, 99
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the too frightened proto-flakes are in for a big surprize

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My home planet is on its way to get me at last.

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love, 99
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not unrelated

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The piece at the image link was posted immediately after THIS ONE... and I'm telling you, they are not unrelated. I don't understand why people are so willing to just sit back and let our "leaders" get us into this shit. I just don't. Maybe just too many of us too inhibited to don the tinfoil suits to combat the pacification waves, but this is seriously not funny for us, man. It isn't like WWII, when nobody had weapons capable of inflicting damage here, but the sheep don't seem to be getting that idea.

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Tangential, but also probably not unrelated:

Japan spots Chinese vessels near disputed islands: report
2 hrs 30 mins ago

TOKYO (Reuters) – The Japanese coast guard has spotted two Chinese vessels attempting on Sunday to enter waters near islands in the East China Sea that are disputed by the two countries, Kyodo News reported.

Two Chinese fishing patrol ships were sighted around 7:45 a.m. on Sunday (6:45 p.m. EST on Saturday) repeatedly trying to enter waters 44 kilometers off a group of islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, Kyodo reported, citing the Japanese coast guard.

Relations between Asia's two biggest economies soured in September after Japan detained a Chinese skipper whose fishing boat collided with Japanese patrol vessels off the disputed islands, which are near potentially rich maritime gas reserves. He was later released.

Think about kissing someone or something.

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love, 99
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you'd think this would have been splashed all over left groupthink

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But you'd be wrong.

Hungary, Austria, Ireland, England, Greece, Spain, Italy, Argentina... all over the world....

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love, 99
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i'm jealous

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Where are we in our opposition to our government's actions?

Big German protests pressure Merkel before CDU meet
By Annika Breidthardt Annika Breidthardt – Sat Nov 13, 12:12 pm ET

BERLIN (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people marched in cities across Germany on Saturday to protest against government policies and social inequality, a day before a key meeting of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU).

German union umbrella group DGB, which organized the demonstrations, said nearly 100,000 people had marched in Stuttgart, Dortmund, Nuremberg and Erfurt, voicing their displeasure with Merkel's coalition for offloading the costs of the financial crisis.

"We don't want a republic in which powerful interest groups decide the guidelines of politics with their money, their power and their influence," Berthold Huber, head of IG Metall, Germany's largest trade union, told demonstrators in Stuttgart.

He demanded higher wages and the introduction of a mandatory minimum wage to give workers a share in Germany's economic upswing, which is outpacing those of its European partners.

Merkel's CDU hold their annual congress from November 14-16 in Karlsruhe, which will be watched closely for signs of nervousness in party ranks.

Merkel's center-right coalition with the Free Democrats (FDP) has been dogged by infighting and made little progress on its campaign promises in its first year in power, leading to a slide in its popularity.

CDU delegates will vote to re-elect Merkel as the head of the party on Monday and while the result is not in doubt, a drop in support for her leadership would highlight the level of dissatisfaction with her in the party.

Merkel has been criticized by some CDU members for not being conservative enough. Her center-right bloc now trails the center-left grouping of Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in opinion polls.

Merkel addressed that criticism in an interview with the Welt am Sonntag newspaper to be published on Sunday, saying: "Those with conservative values have always had a home in the (CDU/CSU conservative bloc) and they will always have it there but they also have to ask themselves about the incredible pace of change today."

Labor Minister Ursula von der Leyen told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that the party should consider holding a formal vote when choosing future candidates for chancellor in what could be seen as a challenge to Merkel.

Von der Leyen is a candidate to become deputy leader of the CDU and is seen as a possible successor to Merkel, whose term expires in 2013 but who could decide to run for a third term.

Germany suffered its biggest postwar recession in 2009 but has rebounded strongly this year on the back of robust exports.

She is under pressure from her coalition partners to press ahead with tax cuts promised during the election campaign but shelved as the government shifted its focus to budget consolidation.

Last week, tens of thousands protested against the extension of lifespans of Germany's 17 nuclear power stations, and a plan to build a multi-billion euro rail station in Stuttgart despite widespread opposition has also prompted protests.

Where?

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love, 99
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the upside of destitution

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I think a bunch of pundits missed the punchline in this editorial:

... “Welfare as we know it’’ was replaced by punishment. States went prison-crazy.

But the current fiscal crisis has blown a hole through all that razor-wire. State budgets suddenly cannot afford prison systems, which universally choke off funds for education, transportation, and infrastructure. Some states, like California, consider simply releasing prisoners because jail time in mega-prisons costs too much. And, equally suddenly, the whole system has become morally dubious as well. While a famously over-exuberant economy was built on the lies of bankers tied to an artificially inflated housing sector, the prison boom depended on racist and class-biased “criminology’’ that was, in fact, steadily debunked by penal experts. Just as irrational assumptions of “risk assessment’’ prompted mortgage brokers to understate the risks of home ownership, they led prosecutors, in a parallel noted by Berkeley law professor Jonathan Simon, to grossly overstate the risks to society of huge numbers of defendants. The housing bubble, Simon shows, devastated neighborhoods by littering them with abandoned properties. The prison bubble devastated neighborhoods by depriving them of fathers and husbands.

The American double-binge has come to an end. In Simon’s image, the era of the “big house’’ is over, whether the McMansion in the suburbs or the mega-prison in a field....

Too busy gloating over the figures in the first half to notice.

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love, 99
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i'm cleaning up my blog

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Thought maybe I had all kinds of sage things to say to you today, but just managed to blurt out the most urgent of it in the one post. While waiting for the rest of what I had to say to bubble up, I began dealing with the completely outrageous list of fleeting cleverisms that turned up as labels here over the years, and lumping stuff I'd separated out for our convenience back together again, because they are, like, so, way so, ancient history. If you have historical urges that I've thwarted thus, sorry man, but most of it wasn't posted such that it was very googlable anyway. If it's life and death, you can wade, or maybe I can even help you wade, but that goddam label list was dizzying and making it HARD to deal with my label thing at all.

Along the way, I came across some seriously, seriously dead posts, with no living links and no context left to put something back together, so I deleted them. I know there are tons more of that ilk, and may someday have the spit to tackle that, but it was the most urgent to get a grip on the labels. Done.

I also changed some of the sidebar image links to ones that are more suitable for NOW, and tried to find as many dead guys over there as I could, and hope you are remembering to notify me when/if you come across anything over there that's pft on us, so I can do something about it and keep from aggravating future visitors.

I recently added some fancy ass feature to my feed, that included the ability to "email the author"... but... I have a sneaking suspicion that feature does not work. This may be due to newness, but if yer ever in the mood to try that feature, please do, and we can see if it works or not for real. I've gotten a couple of invites to things from the "no reply" thing, but I'm unsure if that's my feed emailer or some organizations' emailers. Basically, I have a loathing for useless "features" and will nix the sucker if it doesn't work for you guys out there in feed land.

Also, while about my business today, three cool links came my way: [1] It Pays To Riot; [2] Sour Grapes Over Putin's Manliness and Involvement With the People of Russia; and [3] A Peutiful Image of the Sun's Corona in Eclipse. So those things ought to make up for my hours and hours of housecleaning while you were left hanging.

xoxoxoxox

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mister north popped in to remind me of my weirdness

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Which ended up reminding me of the rut I'm in and the even worse ruts many more are in. This time, the age-old in-a-rut problem is so much worse than usual. I might just be in one because even as lifelong habit needs must be dropping off, and is, new habits definitely helped me live through my period of no-resort-to-my-wits, and even newer ones have helped me deal with my lifelong problem with absentmindedness... which has gotten worse... much worse, lately. I know some of it is to do with some monster stressors in my personal life as well as in the life we all share, all are. Plus, I'm still dealing with my lifelong need to improve things for people. I can't improve things for people! Yes, I can put it out there to give them the idea, and even be there to help them process that idea into something that really does improve things for them, but I cannot improve life for anyone else.

I'm no good for anything until I get over this. Look what a horrific trap that was in all my years yonder! OMG. Ignoring the sage advice of Sure, you drag a drunk out of the road, but you don't talk to him, I kept dragging drunks out of the road and talking to them, thinking I was saving sentient beings. I was merely becoming ever more drained by sentient beings and helping them in a way they should not be helped. Not if you're me. If I were into helping for drill, it would have been jake, but that is not my bag. I let the thing from childhood come up and cloak itself as enlightening being. It's a wonder the buddhas didn't put me in the hospital or break my car to help me stop fucking up that badly.

I try nowadays to start my day with the newest installment of the Keiser Report. It is very weird that someone like me would get so much out of something that is essentially aimed at the world economic situation, but there's so very much more than just that inhering each broadcast/netcast. As I was watching this one today, I noticed the number of views was only 321, and as I'm writing it's risen to 326. I realize the video may only have gone up on YouTube in the last hour or two, and that it is available on the RT site and broadcast to whatever analog stations carry it and on Livestation [which ROCKS, if you don't have it], but still, I find this impossible to believe. The number is way too low, and I think YouTube is purposely doing this to any number of truth-telling videos. But anyway, I find myself listening to Max and Stacy with regularity because their bluntness and heart make them worthy of all our attention, make them actually doing something that can help the masses. This is something too rare.

You will never guess another real thing that has come to my lights lately. I'm still aghast. So you can't even guess, but I'll just tell you: I'm finding waaaaay more worthy of note news on sites more out there than even your average independent, Truther, or Libertarian sites. No shit. I move my bookmarks around in their order on the drop down menus according to their usefulness to me. This has been shifting more than would be seemly and it is NOT all about my shifting ideas about what is useful. This means people must now resort to those they have always found the most unbelievable to find anything believable, anything REAL. Sorry state of affairs.

This is irrefutable proof that the controllers have so muddled the consensus that us weirdos who can't be hypnotized or dumbed down enough are the only ones left on whom you might rely for evidence of the actual. You have to disregard your suspicions about UFO abductees, channelers, crystal freaks, pyramid power hitters, space warriors, 2012ers, the works, to find bits of the actual... sometimes even huge chunks of it.

You can spend your time with those whose prose validates your agony over the awful things in the world, and who could blame you for that? Except it's just the equivalent of petting you when you're depressed, not going to give you any energy at all.

This Neil Kramer fellow helped point back up the thing I've been wrestling with for quite a while; to wit: that the bombardment of bad news helps keep people too low to function as adults, actually makes most sane people want to curl up in little balls and melt away. The problem of balancing a cogent view of the world as it is and getting energy to have a positive effect on it is HUGE. It always has been, but it has been made exponentially worse in recent years, and the exponent just runs harder and faster by the day. No brakes being applied.

Whatever. The world sucks³. We have to fix it. As I said last night, Terance's way might be the only chance we have left, and if you are a straight person who's really just a frightened proto-flake, get the hell over it. How could a visit with a sacred medicine be ANY worse than sitting there befuddled while we slaughter innocents in their sleep?

It couldn't, and it might give you the spiritual vitality to HALT the slaughter.

What happens if we all were mentally free enough to start laughing at displays of wealth and privilege and power? What if this "elite" suddenly became as universally risible as they have made "conspiracy nuts" and "New Age Bliss Ninnies"? We could DO that. What if suddenly, instead of dissing the snot out of the MSM and Tea Partiers and Hatfields or McCoys, we ALL started making it socially unacceptable to be Angelina Jolie, David Rockefeller, Lloyd Blankfein, Bibi Netanyahu, Prince William, Hillary Clinton, Dick Cheney, Arianna Huffington, David deRothschild, Al Gore, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, EVEN just total nobodies you see driving assholishly-expensive cars? Are they going to use their Active Denial weapons on you for giggling and deriding their utterly profligate and nonsensical blather?

Could you screw up the courage to do THAT much?

Get all your friends doing it?

Well, could you?

It would be the lucid thing to do.

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It occurs to me after some muddling around my hut that I should point out that these "controllers" are only able to control through your consent. You must withdraw that. We must explore how. It's VERY close to Michael Parenti's thing about the dominant paradigm, and our stupid habit of making liberal complaints where radical analyses belong. The controlling paradigm is deadly... not just to us... but to the PLANET. Don't give me your crap about the planet healing itself X number of millennia after we've suicided our species and all the rest. IT'S A COPOUT. It's just the admission that you do not plan to bestir yourself to make ANYTHING better.

You can't keep whining that you are too depressed and too overwhelmed. It is your place as an adult to remedy this, and Terance made a fucking awesome point for all you bedraggled sorts with good-for-nothing good hearts! Eat a peyote button! Munch some magic mushrooms. SNAP OUT OF IT. Or should I say SNAP INTO IT?

This goes against my Zen training to declare, except insofar as it conforms with the unshirkable duty to use what works. The ancients meant to use the cultural lexicon at hand, to not get stuck in what historically worked but has turned into mere dogma for charlatans to fumigate you with, but this is an emergency and sacred medicine IS a lexicon that people of all cultures are able to understand, if they do it right, don't just eat the stuff without the proper orientation, situation and guidance. Like Terance pointed out, some of us are just too frightened to get anything out of it even if we do it, but those of us who are after real self-knowledge, genuinely sick enough of not being up to the world around us, will get on the right subject instanter.

We need instanter... immediately.

Even if everything you ever heard about 2012 is complete blather and only going to be turned into another opportunity for the controllers of the controlling paradigm to fuck with our heads, SOMETHING hugely negative this way cometh and we can't survive that in any positive sense if we don't start getting the courage for this right away.

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No, really. STOP BEING TOO LATE....

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a straight person is just a frightened proto-flake

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Terance holding forth on psychedelia. You probably want to turn the sound down on this a bit. He's much easier to hear if he doesn't seem to be screeching... that unfortunate voice... the volume... and you don't want to wake up everyone in the neighborhood with his gleeful subject.... He was a fantastically entertaining speaker... and brilliant.

I am at the point where I finally think Terance was RIGHT about psychedelics being the ONLY way. We really don't have any time left, and so get to it. For all those of you who have done psychedelics and are STILL letting all this shit come down, take some more.

And I really don't think LSD is the way you want to go. You have to get EXACTLY the right type and that's not so easy to be sure about. Peyote. Psilocybin. Ayahuasca. Get yourself to an expert and do it.

AND TURN OFF YOUR TV.

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if we lived in russia

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Maybe Code Pink would have done the trick....
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code pink take note

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There might be more meaningful ways to go about this....
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Yuh, I know how hard it is to let go of yer deepest hopes enough to see truly. I so do. When he made that speech I was standing in the middle of my living room in my happy home with 86, and my breath hitched and jerked, tears started flying out my eyes when he got to "I am my brother's keeper. I am my sister's keeper." So I know what it costs to see reality. Don't think I'm not every bit as hurt as you are. Don't think it for a moment.

Don't even listen to the crap about how he told us he was going to do all this. He did not. He said a thousand different things, a thousand different ways, a thousand different times and, doing so, ensured we couldn't stop hearing the thing that nailed us to begin with. Even the bunch of times he'd disappointed me egregiously in the Senate, even knowing he wasn't the man who'd speak those words and mean them, those words still made me feel there was a chance.

But he's been president for over a year, and he hasn't stopped proving there is no chance since the day he took the oath. We are adults. It's time to SEE.
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are you ready yet?

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If not, when?
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not their prezident

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The people of Georgia seem to be about as effective at protest as we are.

Used to be that governments just about everywhere paid attention to protests and made some accommodation to get that blot off their landscapes, but I guess that was just a short window in history or something. And, of course, you have places where mass protest really is more effective because the protesters aren't willing to just go home, denied. They press it until the offenders coöperate, or are ousted, but, well, this involves quite a bit of pain, and not infrequently loss of life, to accomplish. Power does not cede itself unless it is forced, forced as in the use of violence or the strong likelihood of violence being used on it by dint of sheer numbers. It doesn't just go, oh, they don't like what I'm doing, I guess I better stop. That just never is the way it goes. Power wants power over that too.

So even though the evil jackass tool, Saakashvili, is thoroughly reviled in Georgia, and they protest in big numbers all the time, he just says, nope, yer stuck with me till 2013 and, uh, for some completely opaque reason that seems to hold. No, really. So shortly after the huge success of our American-backed Rose Revolution, suddenly the people are completely helpless? Is that right?

when do they step back to realize they are a COMPLETE failure?

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It's way past time. I once respected them, despite my loathing for pink, for being out there, standing up against the crimes and tyrannies, but, of course, they have managed only to become a circus to the minds of most adults, even those who sympathize with their sentiments. Enough.

It's not protest anymore. Not even a little bit. It's pure circus.

the name of this sculpture is "i can't help the way i feel"

I came across this again late last night, and remembered seeing it sometime last year when it first was unveiled. I'd been disgusted about what passes for "art" and quickly surfed away... but last night I saw the title of the piece for the first time. It really is art most profound.

Oh yes you can.