Every year, around the end of January, my daughter in Alaska
comes for a visit; and it's always the highlight of my year to say the
least. This year she brought with her,
my number one granddaughter whom I haven't seen for several years, so it was
more of a family reunion albeit a small one.
While making ready for their visit, I reminded myself to not
bring up the kinds of things I normally blog about, so as to not come off as a
total conspiracy nut and risk alienating my granddaughter.
The girls had a short list of things they wanted to do while
here, redwoods tour, wine tasting tour, and a photo safari to the Golden
Gate bridge for starters.
Good thing they were planning on staying a few days.
Following a full day of activity, I treated my ladies to
dinner at a premiere eatery. We began
discussing the following day's itinerary, and I thought it a great time to use
the NOAA satellite app on my phone to get
an idea of what kind of weather to expect.
When the streaming satellite feed loaded, all my best intentions faded
away as I looked at the on-going methane leak at Porter Ranch just outside Los Angeles.
It looked like a huge malevolent tornado covering the
western US, touching down precisely at the Porter Ranch area. It took but a moment to understand what we
were looking at, and it was decidedly not normal. Before I could put the phone away my
granddaughter asked "What's all that
yucky yellowish stuff?" Knowing
she was too old to condescend, or lie to; I had but a single option. "Well
dear, I think that ismethanepouring out of the ground, going on three
months or so by now, just outside LA."
Just as I said that, our waitress returned with appetizers,
and caught the whole exchange. Staring
at the streaming images, she said, "Wow,
that's gonna mess us up real good!"
2016 must be the year
of understatement.
I was able to divert the conversation to something more
proper for mealtime in an effort to stave off gramps being seen as a conspiracy
nut a bit longer; but it was hard to push those images from my mind.
90 days and counting
the methane has been gushing into our atmosphere.
Is there a plan to stop it?
Sound familiar?
Here we go again...
Fukushima is of
course still spewing radiation into the air unabated. The pacific ocean is nearly a dead zone, as
is the gulf of Mexico, thanks to BP
corporation. Although the majority of
the Deepwater Horizon leak was
finally decreased dramatically; it indeed is still leaking, as are many of the
nearly 3000 oil drilling platforms peppering the gulf. After the oily gulf was carpet bombed with a
censored number of tons of corexit; the only thing it is now suitable for is more
drilling. It wasn't theirs to
destroy.
What of the real human cost, measured in sickness,
bankruptcy and death attached to these types of disasters? What is it doing to our DNA, (along with GMO "food.")
Why do we continue to pretend that these things are normal when they're
literally killing the planet, and us, a breath at a time. Co2 levels continue to rise and all we can
manage is to deny & argue the issue
instead of fixing it. Just fix it!! Unknown to most is the fact that methane
is like 22 times more deadly &
dangerous than Co2.
Here's a question, exactly what is our atmosphere becoming; now that massive amounts of
radioactivity & methane are being
added to the already toxic industrial pollution? Then there's the predominantly black city of Flint, Michigan where
the population was knowingly exposed to
lead in their drinking water, so the 1% could stuff more money in their
pockets. How about that? Business as usual. Your silence is your approval!
We have known for some years now that Fracking pollutes our
drinking water to the point it is actually flammable; and that it also triggers
swarms
of earthquakes. Business as usual, How come we still allow this to continue? Your silence is your approval. If we who are damaged by all these disasters
do not stand up and speak truth to power, who will?? If we do not act to stop such disasters and
minimize the damage; that will be our legacy of shame for all time.
Then there is the recent Japanese volcano that erupted,
fifty some miles from anothernuclear plant. Of course the Japanese government rushed to
assure the world there was no danger.
You believe that? Of course they
don't tell the truth, almost nobody does!
The same media machine (owned
by 6 corporations) that bombards us with coverage of ISIS,
totally ignoresFukushima,
and the death of the pacific ocean.
The Earth, Air, Lakes
& Oceans are not theirs to destroy!
With all the presidents-in-waiting
clamoring for all the camera time they can get, how come none of them address these issues, not one. First of all; what they're doing is "debating" like hockey is ice
dancing. Secondly, if elections really
changed things in any perceptual way, it would be illegal. Right wing/left wing - makes no difference
whatsoever, they're both wings on the same buzzard; and the flight plan never
changes! Voting is a psychological
prophylactic: it gives you a sense of security while being screwed. At the last "debate" the Larry Sanders clone and his six morons couldn't
even walk on stage without looking like
a bunch of keystone cops. You have the
right to vote for the clown of your choice, but not much else these days.
Super bowl 50 was, as usual, an over-hyped disappointment, (especially
with me being a panthers fan.) The Mt. Dewpuppy-monkey-baby super bowl commercial
has no doubt left a generation scarred for life. The halftime performers pranced about on a
high tech stage of moving, flowing images &
designs. You may have noticed the
subliminal propaganda in the opening act; a huge red, white & blue hurricane. Kinda hard to miss. I hope the Carolina
quarterback who walked away rather than fall on his own fumble got fined a
bazillion dollars. I found that selfish
arrogant act somehow symbolic of so many of the things that are seriously wrong
in the world today.
Its as if we have another virgin world we can move to once
this one becomes uninhabitable. Not only
is there no place to go, we no longer have the means to get anywhere since the
space program was gutted & we began
paying the Russians for rides to the international space station. Yeah, so many things are seriously wrong
these days.
As this great shift of the ages continues to unfold it's
perhaps helpful to remember that everything is in a state of transition. The old is falling away to make room for the
new, and it isn't doing so gracefully.
In times of chaos as we're seeing we should also remember the three F's ... Flight, Fight, or
Freeze. Flee if you must, Fight if you
can, but whatever you do, don't Freeze.
If you forget this, it's conveniently written on the lid to the mayonnaise
jar, "Keep cool - Don't freeze."
As I ponder over my memories of visiting with my
granddaughter, and thinking of the kind of world I would have her live in; it
occurs to me that I was wrong, I do want her to know of the
things I write about. I want her to know
that her grandfather pushed back against the great shining lie. If the tag of conspiracy theorist goes with the turf then I'll wear it as a
crown, to distinguish me from those who froze.
There I was surfing the Netflix for something life affirming
to help wash away a growing sense of Orwellian dystopia, and I found it. A documentary called "The Tiger and the Monk"
which told of the Buddhist temple in Thailand
that is a sanctuary for tigers, and showed the life they share with the
monks. It was beautiful, and
engaging. There was just this one
problem - Its a giant polished turd!
As I soon discovered when I Googled the place, the government stepped in and shut them down for
animal abuse & exploitation. The monks claim that since they are
prohibited from working for money, caring for the animals requires donations
from tourists who travel there for a selfie with a tiger. Truth is, the place was a "tiger mill" and the monks were
caught selling tiger cubs to
rich folks wanting exotic pets.
That's the exact problem that's led to the things we must
put up with everywhere we turn these days.
Nothing is real anymore, no
matter where you go it's just the same thing everywhere, giant polished turds!! It's
why there is so much glitter and gloss in media and advertising, no
substance. The traditional marketing
motto of "Sell the sizzle, not the
steak" has become "All
sizzle - no steak"
These times we are witnessing take their toll especially hard
upon the more spiritually oriented as we watch humanity being herded away from our
evolution as a species; into the corrals of conformity and obedience. It requires both courage and determination to
resist the creeping resignation and psychic numbing that sets in, encouraging
apathy and inaction. What keeps us going
day to day and month to month is something called "Stress
Inoculated Resilience" and kinda like the enamel on our teeth, it
helps protect us from overwhelming decay.
It's a matter of training the brain to resist the strain.
"These days if you aren't depressed, you're
not paying attention"
So, there I was, 2 days before Christmas, at the
local VA clinic for my annual checkup.
Two hours of poking & prodding, needles and
nonsense. Toward the end of the yearly
ordeal comes the list of questions I now know by heart; except this year they
have a new final question..."Are
you feeling depressed, like there is no hope for the future?" To which I replied, "Oh, you've been
reading my blog!" - "What I am is skeptical about the future, even pessimistic about the future when I see such widespread apathy
about the many and serious threats to the future." - "A month or so after I got my new
electric wheelchair, "ISIS
" deliberately targets people in
wheelchairs during the Paris attack. Kinda takes the enthusiasm out of going out
in public with my new mobility."
I mentioned that these days even without terrorists
there is an awful lot of hot lead in the air with the weekly police shootings
of unarmed citizens; all the more reason to shop online! I may also have made a
reference or two to Fukushima,
and the ongoing epidemic of dead marine mammals washing ashore here in California. It was clear to see that my comments had left
the doctor and attendant at a loss for words.
They stammered about a bit before
changing the subject.
I get that a lot, because I tend to speak without
filters, except the ones about needlessly hurting someone's feelings. Why must our daily dialogue with each other
always rely upon these filters and subconscious self monitoring of our thoughts
and feelings before we speak them?
Why do we so often conceal our true self, even from those closest
to us?
We use these filters and self censorship to form
the make believe protocol of consensus reality, and when we elect to
break that protocol it is considered rude!
Yes, yes, it's so very rude to speak of how things really are; and to speak your truth can be
costly. And by the way; money is not free speech, it's just worthless paper, and THAT
is what all the polished turds are hiding.
"The
longer I live, the stranger life gets"
- Jim Lassiter
-
Between the fall of the roman
empire andColumbussailing it took 13 centuries to add 200 million souls to
the population of the planet. In the nervous now; that many are added
every 3 years! In the next 9 years 600 million new arrivals are going
to be expecting their own piece of this paradise. Thinkfood, water, land &
resources.
There
are 360,000 births every day, that's 15,000 every hour, 250 births a minute,
that's
4 births every second of every day.
Now
compare that to departures:
There
are 151,600 deaths every day, 6,316 every hour, 150 deaths every minute,
that's
2 deaths every second of every day.
Black Friday posted a new all time record this
year: the most gun sales in a single
day.
The lines for guns were longer than those for the
new star wars movie. Might as well kill
"Christmas" and "Holidays" completely off and
from now on just call December "Black Month."
In the first
336 days of 2015 there were 356 mass shootings.
88 people die from gun violence every
day in the United States. Doesn't sound very united to me, but
that can change,
If we really want it to.
In the 3 years since Sandy
Hook; 555 children under 12 have
died from gun violence,
That's
one child every other day for 3 years!
What about the microbiologist brain drain? Over 125
dead in last 14 years, most died within the first 3 years after 911... just astronomical
odds. Likewise the over 800
environmental activists who have died just in the last ten years. Have you never wondered who is killing the
microbiologists and environmental activists?
It's strangely funny how the global warming deniers
have all changed their tune. Our weather going from record highs to
record snows in just one week is maybe part of the reason why. Twisters for Christmas throughout the Midwest,
19 states under flood alert, as a four year drought rages on in California.
Then there is that big giant methane leak at the
fracking operation near L.A.
that the mainstream media isn't telling you about. Seems they fracked their way right into a
massive underground methane reservoir...and can't stop the leak. Sound familiar? In case you don't know; methane is 22 times more
harmful to our environment than co2 is, yet very little is actually said about
that; ignore that man behind the curtain.
We've become addicted to our earthbound creature
comforts, we're more concerned with having than being. We're good little consumers, who wants a hover
board?? How about your very own
drone, more than a half million were sold during the Christmas buying season,
and by the way, there is a $25,000 dollar fine for flying an unregistered
drone.
As I struggle to comprehend all I see unfolding
around me, I'm reminded that life consumes life at every level of nature, not
just ours. Conflict and aggression are
just part of the way this place is.
There are few instances in nature where different species co-exist
peacefully; in fact most wild creatures kill their own kind on a regular basis. It is perhaps enlightened to walk a peaceful
path, and a bit unrealistic to believe the day will come when everyone
does. I don't think we're there yet. Not even close.
I see my own thought processes changing recently as
there is a growing list of things I simply cannot abide around me, such as
violence, conflict, politics, and movies with subtitles. I feel myself detaching more from the
material world, and growing weary of pointing out all the looming threats to
humanities future. I am well aware that
the rubble from all the decay must be swept away before new foundations can be
built; it just seems like the collapse of this dying paradigm is happening in
slow motion as the spin doctors feverishly polish their turds.
The powers that shouldn't be prefer that we
all remain in a constant state of fear and self limitation because it just
makes their job so much easier that way.
They don't want us getting creative or curious, just complacent. A mind gripped in fear only knows fear, not
much else gets through. We can reject
all that if it leaves a bad taste in the unconscious mind, and liberate
ourselves from fear. It's a simple
choice, a decision to be more engaged with life and those closest to us. It is choosing to engage life and either finding
or creating your own happiness without waiting for the world to fall into lock
step with us. It's about being
pro-active in creating the world we would have our progeny inherit; regardless
of what the turd polishers are up to.
We can reject the dying paradigm of giant polished
turds and government by terrorism whenever the pain of remaining the same
becomes greater than the fear of changing.
We can choose to make people & relationships more important than money. I'm not suggesting we get rid of money, just
that we quit elevating it's acquisition to our highest priority in this
incarnation. There are some hopeful
signs in the ethers; such as the prince of pills Martin Shkreli getting
arrested for fraud. He was the ass clown
who increased the cost of cancer meds from $13.50 to $700.00 a pill. Another example, Bill Cosbyfinally got arrested; So there is some justice!
"The
cosmos is unfolding precisely as it should ~
Our understanding, is
not a requirement."
There are more connections in the human brain than
there are stars in the milky way galaxy!
The galaxy is comprised of roughly 80 billion stars while the human
brain has over 100 trillion brain cells...and we currently are only using just
ten percent of that total capacity.
The Milky Way produces about seven new stars a year;
an all time low as the galaxy we live in ages to the point where new stars can
no longer come to life. I mention this
because what goes on down here on Earth is mostly of little concern to the rest
of the cosmos. I find it helpful to keep
that in mind, helps the perspective as we endeavor to find and create meaning
in our little ant lives.
In a recently televised interview; noted environmental
scientist professor Guy McPherson said "I can't imagine there will be a
human being on the planet in 2030; but the habitat for humans will be gone
before that."
For some perspective, most experts are now saying that if we
stopped all environmental pollution tomorrow, we wouldn't see any improvement
for thirty years; that's how bad it is, and since we won't be ending all
pollution tomorrow it's just going to get even worse. If both estimates are correct, then 15 years after
humans are gone, the environment will begin to show some signs of improvement.
Fifteen years to human extinction, now there is an attention
getter. No amount of backpedaling will
ever get back what we've lost. This then
would be the cost of so many years of sweeping everything under the rug of our
consciousness as we went about our lives as if everything was just dandy.
It isn't hard to see how things have gotten so dismal.
Fracking not only toxifies the ground water table so much
it's flammable; it also creates swarms of earthquakes in most cases; and yet
it's still
legal even as protests are quashed, and the protestors paid into
silence. Business as usual.
The pacific ocean is a dead zone because of Fukushima,
and yet the Japanese still continue dumping radioactive waste coolant water in
staggering amounts amid deafening silence from world leaders. How many dead whales, dolphins and sea lions
must wash ashore along the pacific coast every day; before the problem is acknowledged
and addressed?? We're just now seeing
the early impact of Fukushima
upon the environment. It isn't going
away any time soon; Google "Halflife".
Why do we keep allowing the very worst of humanity to rise
to leadership positions, generation after generation? Why do we keep allowing these psychopaths to
double down on their worst mistakes, every single time, regardless of the
future impact upon our progeny? How is
it we can have 16 people running for president and not a single one has spoken
out about the impact of Fukushima?
Keeping pace with the increasingly dystopian nature of
reality, American police have become virtually indistinguishable from elite
military units. To compliment their
military style tactical uniforms many police departments also have tanks & armored assault vehicles left over from
our wars of conquest. One big problem
with this is that when you dress cops like soldiers and give them soldier toys
to use, their behavior is going to reflect these changes. Police are supposed to have a very different
job description than soldiers. When they
turned cops into combat troops the old job description for cops was tossed out
- we have soldiers now, get used to it.
Every week now we have yet another unarmed innocent civilian
shot dead by police; and the victims aren'talways black. Case in point: the February murder of David Kassic who was first tasered, then shot dead by
hysterical police woman Lisa Mearkle;
all captured on video. After stopping
Kassic for an expired safety sticker officer Mearkle tasered him to the
ground. When the 59 year old Kassic
would not stop convulsing (as humans tend
to do when tasered), she shot him twice in the back, killing him. Upon viewing said video no sane person would
call it anything but murder; and yet the officer in questioned was exonerated by her department!!
Do you know what its called when the penalty for even the
smallest infraction of the rules is being shot to death on the spot? We call that a police state, and that's what America
has become.
Do you know why things got this bad, its because we allowed
it, that's how!
We passively allow the planets largest pesticide
manufacturer to make the food we eat, even though they refuse to label or
discuss these products. That doesn't
seem strange to you? When Monsanto is
done poisoning our food, they'll start genetically modifying pot seeds next; if
they haven't already. Now there's a thought for the
pondering!
Here's another one; Do you think maybe the chemtrails have
something to do with why nobody gives a fuck about anything anymore? There are literally so many vile, disgusting
things going on in the world just now, you'd think our collective heads would explode from the cognitive
dissonance & we'd be filling the
streets in protest. Instead we're just the
walking dead; going thru the motions to get to payday, never thinking much
beyond that. Why do we permit this
insanity? Isn't there some kind of
criteria we could use to screen out these parasites? You'd think there would be, right?!? Not so much.
Tricky Dick taught
us that legal is what you get away with.
Now whenever anyone starts talking about actually changing
things up a bit, I think everyone just automatically gives up without trying,
simply because we're programmed to believe we can't fight city hall...and a
hundred other similar things that got crammed in our heads from birth. People think changing things would be super
difficult, and complicated, but that's just more propaganda.
I wonder what would happen if the American people ever
reached the same consensus at the same time.
What if millions of us just
said "no more!" with a single voice while filling the streets
and bringing commerce to a halt for like a week, just to make a point? By now we should know that our protests (feeble as they are) always fall on deaf
ears. Cut off their flow of income for a
few days and I guarantee they'll listen.
Deprive them of their income for a little longer, and they'll be ready for
compromise.
Here are 3 examples!
We've recently seen this tactic work nicely with the forced retirement of a racist Missouri college professor when the entire football team went on strike in protest. Faced with loosing a million dollars per game, the powers that be gave in. Hit them in the money! The CEO who jacked up the price of cancer meds to $750.00 @ pill has also resigned under tremendous public pressure. Perhaps the best example came yesterday with Sea World's announcement that they are ending the killer whale shows due to public pressure and shrinking ticket sales! In the press release they indicated much of the protest resulted from the documentary film "Blackfish".
This is a tactic that will work ... we just need the numbers people. What do ya say, are you tired enough of this shit to finally stand up in righteous indignation; or have the chemtrails taken that out of you?
My daughter, and # 1
granddaughter are coming for a visit next month; and I find my anticipation
of the reunion has dusted off memories of being around my grandmother, (and the heavenly blueberry muffins she used to make)...and
I realize that I am not living in the world she envisioned for me, not even close. Like always, she never really had much of a
say in how things are done.
I said that bringing about change doesn't have to be
complicated and difficult, and here is one way we might conceivably bring it
about ... The Grandparent Test.
Here's how it would
work. Before new policies, politicians
or energy technologies could be permitted they'd have to pass the Grandparent
Test, which is beautiful in it's simplicity.
If it is something that a grandparent would not want in their grandkids future; it doesn't happen. No bribes, no legal loopholes, no
bullshit.
Think we could do that in under 15 years??
Grandma always used to remind me that in America,
anyone could grow up to be president;
however the reality is that the only president not picked by the illuminati,
was Jimmy Carter. What if those who
would be president had to pass the grandparent test to gain that office? Do you think maybe we'd get better results? Can the love of a grandparent trump evil
greedy bastards? Maybe it's the only
force that can! Maybe if there was just
more time we could find out.
If we could just
evolve fast enough.
Now of course being a grandparent can't be the only criteria, because clearly congress,
government & big business are full of
them; most of whom are also lawyers! Government & congress are supposed to be
representative of the nation's citizenry in general, yet few of us are
lawyers! Why so many lawyers in
congress? Its like having special
interests representing themselves, not us.
How about dumping all those greedy white lawyers and stacking congress
with scientists, environmentalists, and salt of the earth grandparents who love
family more than power and wealth. woulda,
shoulda, coulda.
It's hard not to dwell upon the kind of world my
grandchildren will inherit, and the way our generation has failed theirs. We had our shot at turning things around
during the summer of love nearly fifty years ago, and we blew it.
We let the bastards intimidate us right out of our future,
and humanities evolution.
Part of the blame here falls directly upon Timothy Leary; who had the opportunity
to galvanize every one of us back then, but instead he sold out and backed
away. I can imagine the kind of world
this might have become if on that sunny San Francisco day he'd said, "turn
on, tune in &take over"
instead of urging us to get stoned and drop out. He conned a generation into forsaking their
stake in the future. Nice job there
Timmy!
There is enough Helium-3 on the moon to supply 70% of
earth's energy needs with clean fusion energy; so why aren't we up there mining
it instead of polluting our planet with toxic fossil fuels, and starting serial
wars for petroleum? Why do we silently
finance wars of conquest across the globe, sacrificing our young men and women
on the altar of greed? If we spoke with
a single voice, we could divert that money to fully funding our schools, giving
back their music and arts programs. I
think that would pass the grandparent test faster than everlasting wars.
Is Guy McPherson right with his estimate of human
extinction, maybe yes maybe no, but certainly he very likely knows much more
than most of us do. Whether we bring
about our own demise, or fall to some HELE (Human Extinction Level Event) such as
coronal mass ejection, asteroid impact, gamma ray burst makes little difference
in the end; We'll still be gone. With
that said, whether we meet our doom in 15 years or 150; we still need to make
some drastic, quick changes around this place.
It is long past time to dump these depraved, greedy bastards
who use us as a renewable resource; We need to be investing everything
we have towards more life affirming ways of being on this planet. We need to restore the balance with nature,
act in concert with Gaia not against her.
We need to heal together. We need
peace.
If we should find
that creating the world we'd have our grandchildren inherit is just too much
work, too much inconvenience, then we may as well embrace the race to
extinction and party like it's 2030 - and hope for a better incarnation next
time.
...So, should we now take out your family?
