Thursday, May 3, 2012

Elections - Think Local

photo credit: Time Magazine A Blast from the Past - Note how well third party or alternative candidates have done. by murph I have refrained from saying too much on this blog about the coming election, and like the last election in 2008, the very low probability about whether it will even be held. Remember back in 2008 there was some speculation whether there would be a contrived crises and elections would be put off? It didn’t happen then and I really don’t expect it to happen this time around. It would seem to me that we are going to have only a choice between two candidates that have no significant difference in foreign and domestic policies and economic policies. Ron Paul has only one thing that seems to really differentiate himself from the others, (the dismantling of the federal reserve) and that seems to be going over like a lead balloon. I am currently convinced that Paul has no chance; the financial folks are simply not going to allow that to happen. The Libertarian party candidates so far simply have nothing really new to say about anything and do not even adhere to their own party platform and haven’t enough traction to have a chance. ANY candidate that would actually dare to stand up and advocate any real changes and improvement in our national predicament can not get coverage in the mass media and in today’s world, has no chance at all. Carl Denninger, of The Market Ticker, had some very pertinent comments on this in his Saturday April 29th postings that talks about this. Here is a quote from that posting; “How about these ideas -- all of which are very Libertarian? · All the fraudsters who were involved in the 2007-08 financial collapse are going to be investigated and where possible indicted and imprisoned, starting with those who ripped off the most money. How many jobs and homes were lost in the last few years and how many people would vote for a candidate that said this and actually meant it? I'm willing to bet there's not one person in America of voting age who was not impacted personally by this series of scams and frauds or has a family member or close friend that was. Oh sure, you won't get any Wall Street votes with this platform plank, but they're the 0.1%, not the 1%. · The banking system will be put on a One Dollar of Capital basis when I am elected, preventing you from being ripped off again, and wage and environmental arbitrage will be ended through the Constitutional process of tariffs to end the abuse of people and the environment that happens to also offshore our manufacturing jobs. Again, how many jobs have been lost and how much looting has taken place? Couple this with my monetary inflation and income graphs and you have an instant winner -- show the people that they have had 10% or more of their purchasing power stolen annually for the last decade! · The monopolists in the medical system will have their privileges revoked and the free market will be restored. The drug that is available for $2 in Canada but costs $25 here will be able to be imported by anyone who wishes; your cost for medical care will collapse. You won't need insurance for other than catastrophic events such as a heart attack as everything else will be affordable on a minimum wage job. Yes, you won't get one vote from the pharmaceutical industry this way (or one campaign dollar) but you will get votes from Seniors and everyone else who currently can't afford reasonable medical treatment and who has seen their insurance expenses go to the moon. Incidentally that's all the small business owners, self-employed and once you educate people, those who work for big businesses and union employees as well! · With those steps along with a real foreign policy (see my link here) we could actually balance the Federal Budget. Not the weasely crap that Johnson parades around with claiming he'll submit a balanced budget (but note he doesn't say he'll veto one that is not balanced when the bills get to his desk!) but a real balanced budget that allocates funds only from what's actually taxed. · Yes, I recognize that this will result in an immediate 10% or so economic contraction in GDP -- once. But the cleaning out of the bad debt in the system is both necessary and healthy. See 1920/21 for what happens when you do the right thing -- the asset price crash comes, as does the bankrupties,(sic) but immediately following that is economic recovery, realignment and progress.” Now, of course, all of these ideas would also get no play in the mass media, the only place you would hear about it would be on the internet. Just like with the current Ron Paul blackout. It appears to me that the political elites and the financial elites are so intertwined that this kind of reformation is currently impossible. The appearance that this intertwining is going to eventually collapse this nation, and others as well, is completely immaterial. These folks are not stupid, they know damned well what will be the outcome of the continuance of our current policies. I therefore have to conclude that it is deliberate. These folks in power evidently have a vision of the outcome of these policies that has nothing to do with national and population health. It is some kind of a New World Order agenda that we have only a hazy and incomplete picture of and thus a whole bunch of speculation by us peons. I suspect that Denninger’s projection of a 10% reduction in GDP is minimalist. I suspect it would be a lot more, and while true it would be just once, it would be a disaster for some time. Contractions like that last for quite some time. During this campaign, I notice that no candidate wants to deal with the actual issues of constitutionality, energy, environmental degradation, and actual population well being. Even Ron Paul is mostly a single-issue candidate, seemingly thinking that his fix will fix all that ails this nation. I will posit that there is no single fix for what ails this country and for that matter, the rest of the world. In my life experiences, there simply ain’t no silver bullet, no panacea to cure all that is so deadly wrong with western culture in particular. Western culture has existed since the Roman times by looting other areas of the world. Empires, including the present one, have developed sophisticated wealth pumps into the elites pockets that create impoverishment in the subjected countries, wars and environmental disasters. It also appears that this has taken place throughout history, even pre Roman. The difference is that the world was rather sparsely populated and the worldwide damage was limited to regional areas. Now, it is a total worldwide problem. I see no means for this to end, unless by some kind of outside influence. Alien interjection? Even with that----? Even with that, we have what sure appears to me to be what we call ”human nature” to contend with; desire for power, desire for wealth, selfishness, greed and all the other assumed negative attributes of being human. And this is taking into account those few individuals in the world population that do not buy into that mode of thinking. My experience is that many of the folks that claim they do not buy into it, when the chips come down, actually do. When self-interest is threatened, we are going to resist, or at least talk about resistance. No political candidate at the national level is going to base a campaign on the rejection of what appears as the primary parts of “human nature”; limiting of greed, selfishness and the desire for wealth. No politician in our present day and age is going to advocate policies that are contrary to the elitist’s desires. He can’t possibly win. Every one of the panaceas I come across are false thinking. Everything is too interconnected for a silver bullet to cure what ails us. It would take a massive change in attitudes and the consequent change in policies that are not on the horizon that I can see. We can play around with all kinds of speculations about what the elitist’s agenda’s are and how to counter it. But we are doomed to failure if we do not have a huge attitude change about human’s role and place on this planet. There will be no changes until the majority of the population realizes just how much they have been manipulated by a very few members of the population. Those few people that do understand this, are simply not influential enough to affect significant change. Along with the national elections going on, States and local elections are also taking place. Our organization here, (Citizens Action Group, CAG) held a “meet and greet” the candidates forum. We did it a bit different. Each candidate could speak briefly on what they considered the 2 most basic issues on a local basis. Then, it was one on one question and answer period where the folks in attendance got to circulate around and talk to as many candidates as they could. IMO, it was one of the more successful forums I have attended. I found it amazing how little each candidate really understood the local issues, with a few exceptions. I actually talked with a judge running for that office that did seem to understand a lot of it. Some of the candidates for different offices seemed to be in some kind of outer orbit that I simply could not fathom. Of course there was the usual “got to create jobs” and the got to have “growth” bunch. Only 2 candidates seemed to be able to grasp that “growth” was the problem, most of them not understanding that resources for “growth” were limited and that actual sustainability was important with no growth, you know, the standard business Chamber of Commerce position, the “if you ain’t growing you are dying” position. With a couple of candidates I asked how growth could occur with resources becoming a limiting factor. They sure didn’t want to deal with that question. I also asked what they wanted to do about the herbicide problems. They only looked confused, like “what problem?” I asked one candidate about aerial spraying. He just laughed, said he wasn’t into conspiracies. Now I will admit that from personal exposure, at least at the local level, most of the folks that take on political office spend a huge amount of time at long meetings and study concerning what they are in office to do. They also must spend a lot of time going out and meeting their constituents and believe it or not, they also have personal issues and a life to live too. With a very limited amount of time available they simply can’t get up to speed on every issue that other folks are concerned with. It is very easy for them to depend on “authorities” to give them the low down and never check out that information. Which means that many actual critical issues are never brought to their attention and the contradictions of information. At the local level, they don’t have the money to put together staff that has checks and balances concerning their information. So a lot of bad decisions are always going to be made. And, god forbid if they advocate something that is unpopular with their constituents, regardless as to whether it is the best decision. Got to admit that I couldn’t do it. Got to admit that I am cynical enough that I probably will not bother to vote for anything above the local elections where some control over events are possible. Not only do I have very limited real knowledge of national candidates positions, (limited to national MSN pronouncements) but I also assume they are never going to tell us what their real positions are anyway. We have been lied to so much I don’t really understand how anyone can accept what they say. Very short memories? Sorry for the long rant. Nothing new in this post. Just putting it together in a condensed fashion.

59 comments:

freeacre said...

Please excuse the confusion at the top of the post. Stupid Blogger refused to put in the spaces required.

Anonymous said...

Sats

Hmm, Romney is alleged to be Senior of the NWO's man whilst we are still waiting for Obama to settle into the White House so he can get rid of the Patriot Act in his first 100 days of office. So there is a lot of ballyhoo being generated over this version of no choice or that version of no choice. Whilst there is a lot of fluff going on waiting for Joe six pack to make an informed decision the number of really informed is not as inconsequential as some would have us believe. The Avazz movement is quietly heading up towards 15 million members worldwide and has had success in altering some decisions which were to be imposed above peoples heads. They have become such a pain in the elites side that the predictable retaliation has now started proving that real people power does not depend on the election of bums and those in real power do not waste their time attacking the ineffective. I will copy their latest in full although I expect that many of you have already seen it by now.

“Right now, the Avaaz website is under massive attack. An expert is telling us that an attack this large is likely coming from a government or large corporation, with massive, simultaneous and sophisticated assaults from across the world to take down our site.

We were expecting this. Our people-powered campaigning has been fearless, and we've taken on the world's worst actors head-on, in ways that genuinely hurt them - from the Syrian and Chinese regimes to Rupert Murdoch, Big Oil and organized crime. The Syrian dictatorship called our campaigner 'the most dangerous man in the world', and a UK inquiry recently revealed emails between Murdoch's news corporation and top levels of government saying the Avaaz campaign against Murdoch was their biggest concern. Many wondered when these people would come after us.

And it's begun. We have urgent campaigns on oceans, forests and Syria we need to run, but the attack has been going on for 36 hours straight, threatening our ability to keep campaigning. Because of top-notch security, our site is still up, but it's not enough. We need to show these actors that when they attack Avaaz, they're messing with people. And people-power can't be intimidated or silenced, it only grows stronger. Use the tool to the right to donate to an Avaaz defence fund to take our security to the next level, and show our attackers that whatever they throw at us only makes us stronger.”


Over the last year, Murdock in particular has taken an arse bashing at the hands of Her Majesty's Government. Bowed and repentant at being caught out seems to be his current position. There seems to have been some curious moves over the last six months in particular. There was the catch and release affair with Geithner. Whatever happened to the evidence he was supposed to have provided to those with the authority to do something about it? Then there was the BS rumours flying around that the inner circle was about to implode; Gates facing thirty counts of treason and so on. Then there was the business of that guy from the IMF who was banged up for a while for allegedly fondling a hotel chamber maid. I have no idea if this was for real or if it was a rerun of the Michael Jackson trial. Personally I suspect that he was the bit of meat thrown to the hounds in order to let the fox get further away.

One way or another it seems to me that if people are to make inroads into the injustices meted out to them then their only hope is to side-step representative government.

darius said...

I always read intently what you post as most of it resonates.

But... could you PLEASE learn to use paragraphs to make the reading easier on old eyes?

rockpicker said...

Why don't our representatives represent us? Should we fire them,
and hire a new, illiterate crew?
How long before the corporate
stooges, the back-stabbers
and mercenary shills entice,
coerce, bribe, blackmail
and otherwise compromise
the greenest, and noblest, horns?

And what are we to do? We
who work hard for our shrinking pieces of pie. Who used to look
forward to the work, because,
even after exacted taxes
evaporated in aerosoled air,
the work stood years with visible worth and the money that was left
paid bills, filled gas tanks,
sent kids to school
and bought us a modicum
of sovereignty.

Now the jobs are gone and no one
has spare money. Not because
the oil played out or the bears
drowned or the rains stopped
or drummed incessantly
but because the banks decided
to shut 'er down.

Just like that.
The music stops.
Not enough chairs.

And the unsupportable wars
drag on, and the kids, with degrees
and loans, supporting themselves
on nine-dollar jobs, move back in.

Dissent is so felonious
Earth groans and Sun assents,
but death is so formidable
even plates cannot move us.

Hotspringswizard said...

Darius, There has been a recent change in the " compose " format on Blogger ( maybe due to the change Murph mentioned to Google ) which is causing the lack of spaces in the post. I experienced the same problem with the last article I posted to my blog.

I sent a complaint to blogger but have received no reply, or any advice on how to get the content to post correctly. It looks correct with spaces when the content is put in the compose space, but then when it gets posted any spaces are gone. I don't know how to get the content to post right now. If anyone knows how to do it with this new format I'd appreciate any advice on that.

I agree with the many points you have made in your post Murph.

I was watching RT tv today and recommend this video of the latest installment of the Max Keiser show. Max also interview Geralde Celente in it. Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0YeKkkQIxA&feature=player_embedded#!

Anonymous said...

Sats

If everybody threatens to move their site to Worldpress.com that should buck Blogger's ideas up.

murph said...

Darius, HSP, SATS and all,

As HSW said, he is also having problems with the new blog formatting. I have tried a couple of times to change the formatting and it's no go so far.

Changing the blog over to another portal would be next to impossible for me to do. Someone with a bunch more expertise on the computer would have to help or do it for me. Keep in mind that for the most part I am a technology dinosaur.

SATS, I haven't the time today to investigate this AVAAZ site, I don't recognize the name at all. When I have some more time I will take a look at it.

I have noticed that many of the financial sites and some of the political sites are predicting a real problem coming soon. Not new news, but its urgency seems to be ramping up. If the sites are making accurate predictions, hang onto your hats, it's gonna get real interesting real soon.

Since this is an election year, I expect political rhetoric is going to bust out all over even more than it has so far. At the national level, I haven't read or heard anything that soothes my spirit. Maybe that is intentional? We may yet live to see a honest to god collapse take hold.

Anonymous said...

I actually DID have some hope when Obama was running for pres and got elected. After 8 long years of this country being subjected to the 1st Living Brain-Donor President, I think most people were taken-in by someone who stepped up to the mic and could speak the English language properly.

Well, that'll learn me.

Obummer should be making little rocks out of big rocks -just as Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Rice, Powell, Fith, Wolfawitz, Pearle and the rest of the fuckers of the Neo-Con Gang should be.

But, the Telepromter-In-Cheif will probably get the nod from TPTB come November and nothing will change for the better for us slugs.

Man, we're doomed.

But hey, it probably won't be boring, eh?

-Randy

rockpicker said...

Take a look at Steve Quayle's alerts today.

http://www.stevequayle.com/start2.html

Anonymous said...

SATS

Murph and everyone who is not aware of AVAAZ:

http://avaaz.org/en/

Short and simple.

Anonymous said...

HSW- take a look at this site and the side bar with videos. Interesting one on drones.

http://aircrap.org/fukushima-site-emitting-massive-radiation-plumes-reactor-4-bad-state-world-huge-trouble-nuclear-analyst/334505/

Bexar

Hotspringswizard said...

I checked out that drone video Bexar, thanks for the link. Right at the end did you note that the military person at the drone operation facility said that alot of their drone training operations take place in Afganistan. Like I mentioned here before from the evidence I have seen Afganistan is the perfect live/real world training opportunity that the US is using for refining the development and operation of drones. The terrain there is highly variable with sparsly populated poor inhabitants who can be killed with no accountablility and easy deniability.

The drones are coming is no joke. That one mule drone they showed in the video moves like something that is alive when they tried to kick it over. Just gives you an erie feeling of the kind of world we are sliding into these days. You know this technology will clearly be used when really large scale protest and conflict rise up within the US population as the economic situation degrades.

murph said...

According to some articles and supposedly accurate informants, the US govt is preparing for armed rebellion. I assume there will be hell to pay if that happens. Every individual would have to answer to what side they are on, and what will they do when it comes. I'm also concerned that citizen groups will turn on other groups in the society. Meanwhile the elites smack their lips with satisfaction and prepare another survival meal in their bunker.

Hotspringswizard said...

Excellent post here:

http://hipcrime.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/what-if-collapse-happened-and-nobody.html?source=Patrick.net

What If A Collapse Happened And Nobody Noticed?

Hotspringswizard said...
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Hotspringswizard said...

Murph, I got the " compose " content to post correctly with spaces at my blog. What I did is when you go to the " compose " format page, click on " options " at the right, then I set the " compose mode " to " show HTML literally ", and I changed the " line breaks " to " press enter for line breaks ".

After I changed both of those settings it works correctly. I don't know if both changes were needed or if changing just one or the other was what fixed the problem. Since its working I'm just leaving the settings as I have them.

I used the edit feature to fix the previous post I did that was all bunched up. Maybe you can edit your most recent post to put the spaces back in. Hopefully this will fix the problem for you also :-)

rockpicker said...

Brasscheck picked up on the recently released Pentagon manual explaining that the detention centers are for housing and re-educating political dissidents.

Chicago is not going to end well...

http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/government-corruption-1/pentagon-prepares-re-education-camps--for-american-citizens.html

rockpicker said...

French version of dwarf toss.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/06/france-elections-2012-hollande-beats-sarkozy_n_1489482.html?ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=050712&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief

rockpicker said...

Chris Hedges, again.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_peoples_bishop_20120507/

freeacre said...

I don't know about you guys, but I've just about had it with the news. I was reading Information Clearinghouse, and I couldn't even get through the headlines. The continuing financial drama, the endless political bullshit, the worsening Fukushima event, and on and on until now I read that capsules of powdered babies is being sold in Koren. That does it. I'm up against the wall.
We are having a new front porch put on our house. I am so gonna love it. And, I plan to go and get my fishing license tomorrow, and the next day, I am going fishing.

I have spoken.

Anonymous said...

SATS

All I can say Freeacre is that I got there before you.

Greece could be the tipping point to bring the whole show down over here. The birth place of democracy is saying why should we lead a life of austerity so that the already mega rich won't feel disadvantaged, and they are right of course but the knock on effect will be horrendous if it comes about this way. Another interesting thing to watch is how the new French guy gets on with the Germans. The old French guy he is definitely not.

Meanwhile we all like playing with our computers and there are boffins busy working in the background to help us by growing magnetic bacteria in order to make our hard drives work faster. But with 64 Gb memory sticks already available why does anybody even see a future for hard drives? And why have the letters RFID suddenly popped into my head?

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17981157

Immerse yourself in the nature Freeacre and don't think of us or the greater issues whilst you are hauling the big ones in.

Aho

Hotspringswizard said...

Going fishin for Trout perhaps Freeacre?

Hotspringswizard said...

David Seaman on RT tv today talking about the attempts to pass legislation in the form of CISPA to essentially " wiretap " the internet:

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/cispa?before=1336273829

Anonymous said...

Wow -that fishing idea sounded so cool that I went looking for fishing license info for Glenbeckistan. Well, it looked pretty inexpensive and there are so many beautiful places close by to go fishing, but, most places are catch and release and the areas that allow you to keep the fish have a warning. The fish are contaminated. Way too much murcery to be considered for consumption.

Crap.

But hey, as long as everyone is making tons of money fucking-up the rivers and lakes around here, who cares, right?!

Money is the ONLY important thing on this
entire
fucking
planet, right?!

Shit.

-Randy

rockpicker said...

Money, and Power.

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/2112/509/CIA_HQ_Insider:_30,000_-_100,000_Russian_Troops_Scheduled_To_Arrive_In_America_Within_The_Next_7_Months.html

Fuck!

rockpicker said...

This is precious:


Church Ladies With typewriters are at it again!


They're Back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences (with all the BLOOPERS) actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services:


The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.
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The sermon this morning: 'Jesus Walks on the Water.' The sermon tonight: 'Searching for Jesus.'
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Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.
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Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community. Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say 'Hell' to someone who doesn't care much about you.
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Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.
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Miss Charlene Mason sang 'I will not pass this way again,' giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.
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For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
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Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.
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Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.
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A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow..
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At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be 'What Is Hell?' Come early and listen to our choir practice.
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Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
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Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
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Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered..
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The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.
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Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.
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The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
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This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
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Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10 AM . All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B. S. Is done.
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The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.
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Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM . Please use the back door.
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The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM . The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.
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Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.
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The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new campaign slogan last Sunday: 'I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours.

murph said...

LOL Yup, those are cute. Not sure what conclusion we can draw from them.

freeacre said...

LOL... those church bulletins are funny. I haven't been to a church service since I moved to Oregon - eight years. Don't feel the need, since we have the forests, lakes, and and streams for divine guidance...

I know how you feel, Randy. Outside Dayton, NV, my now deceased step-son and his family couldn't build a campfire in a State Park due to high mercury from mining tailings. Here in Oregon, though, it's still pretty pristine. I didn't have too much time to fish. but at least I had one on. Threw the hook at the last minute. Felt good, though....
Might want to make sure you've got some essentials. Large M's and possible X flares over the next several days from the Sun. Could affect the grid. Stay tunes..

Anonymous said...

for many the contaminated fish are one of the canaries in the coal mine. its nowhere near diaspora but there is indeed a ramp up of emigration to better places that do exist...

There is a huge emigration from the USA and Canada to South America. Thousands of my readers are in this process and they share a lot about their reasoning with me.

I see several main themes behind this movement.

#1: Lower cost of living.

#2: New expanded horizons and reduction of stress.

#3: Escape from government intervention.

#4: Escape from bad weather and the traditional options of Florida and Arizona are no longer attractive.

#5: Fed up with big business… national distribution and dehumanization of service.

#6: Fear of high medical costs.

#7: Fear of lawsuits.

thats a clip from a recent gary scott daily. link to the letter... http://www.garyascott.com/2012/05/09/21061.html

i subscribe to this guy's dailies because he offers good info for free across a broad range of international interests.

fair warning: he is a copywriter which means he's marketing his goods which are the various seminars and tours he and his wife promote. take what you need and leave the rest... p

Anonymous said...

m, fa... check the spam box... p

freeacre said...

Take a look at all the earthquakes so far today:

http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/

murph said...

P,

There were a couple of spammed comments that I unspammed.

This new format sucks, frankly. Leave it to Google to fuck things up royally.

Changing over to another blog site probably is not an option for us. This is becoming a larger pain in the ass every week.

rockpicker said...

freeacre; There has been a substantive drop-off in the number of large quakes since before the super moon. Only one red quake since before the 1st of May. Kettler posted that the ET's were responsible. They're holding the plates together and letting the pressure off slowly. Otherwise, we'd have had a bunch of bell-ringers by now. Don't know if I believe him, but that's what he's saying, and the number of 'red' quakes has dropped off markedly from what was going on all winter and early spring.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php

rockpicker said...

How did they know he died?

http://zen-haven.dk/wild-elephants-gather-inexplicably-to-mourn-death-of-elephant-whisperer/

rockpicker said...

Our legally elected representatives passed laws and oversaw regulatory bodies that presumably protect us, the American public. But now the way is being cleared to allow a body of international regulators impose new and improved regulations, with no democratic input by we, the serfs.

Agenda 21, man. It's real!

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/05/15/obama-has-signed-3-new-executive-orders/

Anonymous said...

Murph
Seems that survival acres is having trouble with google too. Some I read in the past have also and switched to another provider.
What is going on, control and censorship? Tracking our every move?
Sounds to me like some one or some group is concerned about what is going on with the web.

Bexar

Anonymous said...

Look at what may be coming to a street corner near you.

http://rt.com/news/big-brother-street-lamps-286/

U.S.A. ... Land of the free home of the brave, or is it land of the brave home of the free? I can't remember anymore. Where in the he'll am anyway?

Bexar

redacted said...

Mr Bexar,

You are taking part in a very exhaustive and planet wide psychological experiment to determine the best way to handle rogue governments and stupid populations of backward planets. The outcome of these experiments are designed to determine if a planet is worthy of being allowed to continue to evolve.

Anonymous said...

m... i saw my 12-9:14 post to the page and then it just went poof, gone. sorry maintenance is such a pain in ass. blogs have been very instrumental in forwarding exposure. so maybe google bought blogger to kill it... p

murph said...

P,

I just checked the spam folder and nothing in it.

You may be right, it might be that blogger is being killed off.

If this continues to get worse, not sure what we will do. Maybe time to end the blog if it continues to deteriorate.

Club Orlav has some very interesting observations concerning the internet, privacy, surveillance and access lately. Also some very interesting data on gas fracking.

Our situation nationally sure seems to be deteriorating at an alarming rate. Wonder where this will all end.

Anonymous said...

Sats

Re Blogging isn't what it used to be, I thought I would just slip this in from Avaaz. I think they have run three or four successful campaigns to maintain internet privacy and each time the the same stuff comes back reformatted.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_cispa_corporate_global/?slideshow

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_cispa/?slideshow

Anonymous said...

Sats

By the way, the way to test whether any comments have fallen into the spam box is after posting your comment and making sure it is up, close the browser down then go back in and open the comments section of the blog site. If your comment has disappeared, it is ion the spam box.
I do this as a matter of course now.

rockpicker said...

Murph; It may not end with drones, but surely they will play a significant role in our demise.

http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/offensive-technology-1/instruments-of-war-to-be-used-domestically.html

murph said...

RP,

Frankly, I think these power hungry bastards would just as soon pass a law that if you stepped outside of your house you had to be naked, just to make sure your not hiding bombs on your person.

This is not gong to end well

rockpicker said...

Just opened this.

"David Segal info@demandprogress.org

7:51 PM (3 hours ago)

to me
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G,

More than 50,000 Demand Progress members signed up as grassroots supporters of a lawsuit against indefinite detention that was spearheaded by journalist Chris Hedges and the activist group Revolution Truth.

Well, less than 24 hours before tomorrow's vote on the NDAA, a federal judge has ruled in our favor, issuing an injunction that asserts that indefinite detention is unconstitutional.

A huge victory, for certain: But we need to keep fighting, as the government is likely to appeal the ruling.

If you're on Reddit, will you vote up this link to make sure the whole world knows about tomorrow's vote on indefinite detention?

Thanks! Let's keep fighting and win this thing once and for all.

-Demand Progress"


Presumably, celebrations are in order.

freeacre said...

Yea Chris Hedges!! I'd vote for him to be President.
:)

rockpicker said...

Me too!

It's only a temporary injunction, but it's a start, and without someone challenging the political machinery, we'll be disenfranchised
in a manner similar to what happened to the Germans during the thirties.

Daniel Ellsberg was part of this effort, as well.

Anonymous said...

Hey all - just clicked on The Arch Druid Report and his latest post had a lot of interesting insights and information on a subject that was brought up not too long ago around the fire:

Activism and protest movements.

His main point I think was that most of today's protests and activisms don't do squat because those activist don't practice what they preach.

Which reminds me of something that George Carlin said of environmentalist "they want to make the world safe for their Volvos."

-Randy

rockpicker said...

Another heads-up on Fukushima.

http://www.naturalnews.com/035894_Fukushima_evacuation_radiation.html

murph said...

RP,

That link about Fukushima also has multiple links within it. Hell man, the sun, the economic meltdown, the asteroid recently found headed this way may all be irrelevant.

The big problem is that we have no idea if that kind of information is simply scare tactics to keep our attention from other things or is for real.

Has anyone seen lately a table showing the various levels of radioactive exposure and the anticipated health affects on humans and animals. so far I haven't found one.

Problem with the Fukushima article is that if it absolutely factual, there is no where to go to escape it if it blows. It will contaminate the whole world, except maybe for small areas, and underground of course. May take some time, depending on levels of radiation, for the effects to start showing up.

I wonder why they don't encapsulate the sites? hmmmm

rockpicker said...

Murph; Rense has the most complete coverage of Fukushima of anyone on the planet. He has devoted much time and space on his site to the subject. I have listened to Chris Busby, Arnie Gunderson and Helen Caldicott, and they are all in agreement as to the seriousness of the situation. We've been cooking in radiation for over a year, and it's going to get a lot worse if building four collapses.

I think stabilizing building four and keeping the sfp hydrated is the best we can hope for at this time. Encapsulating it is not even being discussed. Removal of the spent fuel rods to a safe location would be ideal, but I think it's way too hot for that work to take place.

Hell of a way to boil water, eh?

murph said...

RP,

I agree that Rense does seem intent on covering the subject. Again, I ask just how reliable is the information?

We have a radiation meter that indicates that we have a just barely over background exposure. Freeacre also bought a bit of foreign produced food (Asian) that also shows a bit over background, specifically, kelp and clams.

From the information from Rense, it is supposedly so hot an area that removal of the stored rods is nearly impossible. If true, we can say with good probability that somewhere down the line they are going to contaminate at least the whole of the northern hemisphere if they are not removed, and this contamination would be substantial and long lived. According to the news, Japan is at least shutting down the rest of the reactors.

I do think, from the available information, that we have a much more serious problem than is being broadcast from the MSM. Not surprising I suppose.

Anonymous said...

just a thought but if the powers that be wanted the reactors fixed they would be fixed, can't tell me the entire might of the world cannot take care of the situation in japan. its ludicrous, just more bullshit from the inbred's with the money=power. those people are so stupid, i mean in a spiritual sense i might feel sorry for them because the hell they create for us munchkins is nothing compared to the hell they live in now and don't know it. the fact that love is absent in their sphere and the shallowness of the high gained from being complete assholes i think is only a sliver of awareness away from mind death....whats coming i think is a paradise for those that have walked the red path or whatever one calls it, the name means nothing, right? we know who we are and thats good fucking enough.
we are love as one
thanks for being tribe
aho

mf

rockpicker said...

Man, if this doesn't make your blood boil...

http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/law-enforcement-corruption--abuse-1/my-brothers-keeperthe-rise-in-police-violence.html

rockpicker said...

Murph; Have you checked out the air filter in your rig? I saved one from Oldensouls' vehicle, but I haven't had a chance to test it.

Anonymous said...

SATS

Ach, Donna Summer is dead. I can't say I was a great fan but I did think it was curious that someone with so much money could have a 50 year long bad hair day. Tina is still knocking them in the asiles of course but there not many of the original Motowners left now. The ones that are have outlived Detroit which is a bit of a sad observation. Donna's greatest hit was “I Feel Love” especially the remixed and remasrered version. A fantastic tune, a great driving rhythm but I always felt the lyrics could have done with a bit of working on, coming in with 40% fewer words than “We are the Cheeky girls”. Still entertainers like these give pleasure to a lot of people and if everyone who enjoys whatever it is they do, chips in a bit for what they receive then I for one don't begrudge them their wealth. Then I thought maybe we should also chip in something extra for the bankers, after all the money they provide us with gives us a lot of pleasure too. God, I am a laugh a minute aren't I? Did I hear No?

What I really wanted to tell you about was that I had a dream. Did somebody else say that? Thinking about it, the original was “I have a dream” which is a completely different use of English. It is said that everybody dreams but if I do then I never ever rember mine. But I did last night, clear as anything. It was in two parts seamless stiched together as only happens in dreams. The first was about the difficulties some are reported to be having with Google and that bloggers are transfering to other portals. I wondered, in my dream, if this could be the start of the information lock down. The second part went over some parts of Britian that I am farmiliar with. If you don't know where they are then you can look them up, if you are interested enough. On a certain morning people woke up to find that the Wirral peninsular had been completely sealed off by para-military types. From the River Mersey to the River Dee there was coiled barbed wire with highly armed robo cop types standing behind it. People were allowed in but nobody was allowed to leave, even the ones who had chosen to go in. There was great confusion about what was going on. Then reports started coming into the detained area that the area to the north of Scotland's Great Glen had been similarly secured and people from all over were being transported in. The north of Scotland is an enormous sparsely populated area and is separated from the rest of Scotland by three great lakes or lochs as the Scottish call them. The largest of these is Loch Ness of monster fame. That is where the dream ended or as much of it as I can remember. Then I thought Britain is an island and if the famous “they' wanted to destabilise it then then all they have to do is cut off food imports then sit back and watch the tournament. The fittest that survive could be used as flunkies. Maybe I have been watching too many anti war movies lately and maybe the Google thing is topical. Who knows these things.

Changing the subject, Chris has been getting on at me for ages to get my hair cut so yesterday I happened to be in an ethnic part of town and I went into a Turkish barber shop. I think they were quietly playing pass the parcel trying not to be the one that got the white honky. There were three barbers and I was thinking of asking them if they could sing and I would fill in the missing bits, I get a kick out of you came into my head. In the end it didn't seem appropriate. They made a good job of my hair. At least Chris likes it. But looking in the big mirror as the hair kept falling away, I had a Dorian Grey moment – oh dear. Then I thought, if the Venus de Milo was left out in the rain for fifty years, it wouldn't be the same either.

Navigating back to Donna Summer, I sure take my hat of to her, if only because I have a better hair cut.

Anonymous said...

SATS

Apologies for what I said about Donna Summer and her limited lyrics. This morning I woke up and remembered the:

“What you do
What you do
What you do
What you do
What you do”

and the

“You and me
You and me
You and me
You and me
You and me”

bits.
So weighing in at a hefty nine words it is a relative epistle.
If anyone knows a regular song with less words than “We are the cheeky girls” they can claim the prize. Instrumentals don't count.

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