Thursday, July 5, 2012
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Rest in peace Andy
Andrew Samuel "Andy" Griffith (June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012) was an American actor, director, producer, Grammy Award-winning Southern-gospel singer, and writer. A Tony Award nominee for two roles, he gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan's film A Face in the Crowd (1957) before he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead characters in the 1960–1968 situation comedy The Andy Griffith Show and in the 1986–1995 legal drama Matlock. Griffith died on July 3, 2012 at the age of 86. (read more)
Monday, July 2, 2012
Sunday, July 1, 2012
The Inherent Frailty of the Currently Accepted Economic Model
The growing social
and economic instability in Western Europe as exemplified by the turmoil in
Greece and Spain and that is likely to spread to Italy as well as the severe
economic dislocation of millions of American citizens is indicative of a
deep-seated malaise that haunts the very nature of the economic paradigm that
lies at the heart of modern capitalist-based economies. There are a number of seminal issues that lie
at the core of the problem.
Economic success has
become intimately linked with the continual expansion of global markets on a
planet possessing finite resources; this dependence flies in the face of
reality. It is not difficult to predict
the inevitable future outcome of such a strategy – eventually human societies
will devolve into the brutal economics based on scarcity. This is a prospect we should not wish on
future generations.
The underlying
motivating force for participation in economic life has been stripped of its
humanity. This has been particularly
evident in the unscrupulous and cavalier machinations of the financial sector
that has effectively impoverished so many of the world’s people and at the same
time rewarded the very few who have risked the livelihoods of the many to
enrich only themselves. The blatant fact
that these individuals have walked away unscathed is a demonstration of the
inherent corruption of the system.
Furthermore, in the
United States, politics has become inextricably tied to wealth. The Supreme Court has sanctioned this
relationship by establishing that corporations are people and that money in the
form of political contributions is equivalent to free speech. These are by no means accidental legal
pronouncements, for they represent a strategy of retrenchment in order to
solidify and codify the ascendant position of the affluent class. This effort has been breathtakingly
successful.
This kind of
reassertion of the inherent power of wealth is now being acted out in Europe as
well. This tendency has unfortunate
repercussions for future generations, for the economic model upon which the
system rests is bound to implode. An
economic system in which human compassion and the central concern for the
well-being of all members of society are purged from consideration is bankrupt
by nature. It will necessarily lead to
an amplification of a two-tier system in which only a very small minority of
individuals exerts inordinate and extreme economic power over everyone else –
this is a new version of the blighted model that dominated societies at the
beginnings of the industrial age. In the
so-called democracies, it is allegedly the will of the people that determined
future policy. If that relationship is
real then it would be unfortunate, indeed, if the collective voice of the
people echoes the will of the powerful and fails to question of the validity of
the harsh and unforgiving economic realities as determined by fiat.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Friday, June 29, 2012
Lonely Tears
Half-sitting, half-laying
His hat in the street
A few coins twinkle there
Nearby, a drummers beat.
His eyes barely open
For what's there to see
A businessman passes
Throws two quarters, maybe three.
Out of guilt or compassion
I'd say the former not the latter
For his eyes never left his watch
As though he doesn't even matter.
But the old man doesn't care
He's already learned how to cope
What he really requires
Is for us to give him hope.
A bard in me, I say to you
You that cannot see his pain
For it does indeed show itself
Time and time again.
If you peer closely
At the corner of his eye
Ah, but first you must sit a spell
And let the sun creep through the sky.
Until time then rewards
It now begins to swell
A lone tiny tear
Has finally climbed the well.
Slowly it builds
Its journey long
Vibrating in rhythm
To the drummers song.
It finally falls
Sliding over the cheek
Pounding through the stubble
Gliding where it's sleek.
Hanging from the chin
Posing in its singularity
And showing all
In utmost clarity.
Only a man
With a broken heart
Cries with
Lonely tears.
His hat in the street
A few coins twinkle there
Nearby, a drummers beat.
His eyes barely open
For what's there to see
A businessman passes
Throws two quarters, maybe three.
Out of guilt or compassion
I'd say the former not the latter
For his eyes never left his watch
As though he doesn't even matter.
But the old man doesn't care
He's already learned how to cope
What he really requires
Is for us to give him hope.
A bard in me, I say to you
You that cannot see his pain
For it does indeed show itself
Time and time again.
If you peer closely
At the corner of his eye
Ah, but first you must sit a spell
And let the sun creep through the sky.
Until time then rewards
It now begins to swell
A lone tiny tear
Has finally climbed the well.
Slowly it builds
Its journey long
Vibrating in rhythm
To the drummers song.
It finally falls
Sliding over the cheek
Pounding through the stubble
Gliding where it's sleek.
Hanging from the chin
Posing in its singularity
And showing all
In utmost clarity.
Only a man
With a broken heart
Cries with
Lonely tears.
Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi: What is the Link? on Vimeo
Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi: What is the Link? on VimeoCCTV's Margaret Harrington hosts Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education. Arnie and Maggie discuss their recent travels to Italy to take part in and to view an opera on the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident, entitled "La cortina di fumo" ("the smoke curtain"). Arnie and Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Shirin Ebadi first participated in a symposium about the "Smoke Curtain" regarding the governmental smoke curtain that covers the truth about nuclear power accidents. Ms. Harrington and the Gundersens discuss the impact of the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima Daiichi disasters on the environment and people's health.
Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi: What is the Link?
Fairewinds Energy Education
Thursday, June 28, 2012
The feeling of discourse
An MRI study reveals that emotion, not fact-sharing, promotes social interaction and facilitates interpersonal understanding. What researchers discovered is that emotions ‘synchronize mental networks’ between individuals. Synchronized network activity focuses attention on shared experience and produces a common framework for understanding. Sharing other people’s emotional state during discourse enables us to perceive, experience and interpret what others say in a like manner ..without separation [ link ].
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
David Suzuki on Rio 20, "Green Economy" & Why Planet’s Survival Requires Undoing Its Economic Model
As the Rio+20 Earth Summit — the largest U.N. conference ever — ends in disappointment, we’re joined by the leading Canadian scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster David Suzuki. As host of the long-runningCBC program, "The Nature of Things," seen in more than 40 countries, Suzuki has helped educate millions about the rich biodiversity of the planet and the threats it faces from human-driven global warming. In 1990 he co-founded the David Suzuki Foundation which focuses on sustainable ecology and in 2009, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award. Suzuki joins us from the summit in Rio de Janeiro to talk about the climate crisis, the student protests in Quebec, his childhood growing up in an internment camp, and his daughter Severn’s historic speech at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 when she was 12 years-old. "If we don’t see that we are utterly embedded in the natural world and dependent on Mother Nature for our very well-being and survival ... then our priorities will continue to be driven by man-made constructs like national borders, economies, corporations, markets," Suzuki says. "Those are all human created things. They shouldn’t dominate the way we live. It should be the biosphere, and the leaders in that should be indigenous people who still have that sense that the earth is truly our mother, that it gives birth to us. You don’t treat your mother the way we treat the planet or the biosphere today." [Includes rush transcript]
The Union: The Business Behind Getting High - Full Movie - High Quality
As i strongly feel the TRUTH shall set you free, it is of vital importance that people begin to question the lies and motives behind their governments and the policies they use to enslave and control you and your children.
You will never find the solutions to your problems by continuing to support decisions based on greedy stupidity.
Please watch this and share it with others.
STAND AGAINST CORRUPTION and be 'Not Afraid'.
You will never find the solutions to your problems by continuing to support decisions based on greedy stupidity.
Please watch this and share it with others.
STAND AGAINST CORRUPTION and be 'Not Afraid'.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Voices of the Future: We need to change our ways
Voices of the Future: We need to change our ways - YouTube: June 21, 2012: 11-year-old Ta'Kaiya is outside the Rio 20 plenary urging world leaders to act now, and calls the society to the Earth Revolution.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Saturday, June 23, 2012
the final frontier
Look at this image.
Do you see it?
Reflected in the visor of Joseph R. Tanner
on Space Shuttle mission STS-115,
something large floating in space.
Download this image to your computer,
then enlarge the visor area of the helmet
and you will see a huge alien spacecraft.
The truth is out there, way out there.
(recorded today in france)
(recorded same day in NYC)
Friday, June 22, 2012
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
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