tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57879476752840550142024-03-05T20:53:30.920-08:00Shift Shapers-Shaping the ShiftYou're here because you know something. What you know, you can't explain; you can just feel it - something's wrong with the world.
Our scorched, flooded earth, greenhouse sky and strangled seas can't be hidden any more. Even the hyper-economy is now a non-living corporate "person", stalking another jugular vein of oil.
We didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. But we can tear away the veils and see the desert of the real. Welcome to the ShiftShapers tribe.WaySeers D&Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04662851949804948045noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787947675284055014.post-73581880563778367152014-11-05T11:40:00.001-08:002014-11-05T11:40:55.345-08:00Want to Stop GMOs? Stop Callling Them "GMOs", and Call Them What They Are<pre wrap=""></pre>
by Jor-El<br />
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There it is in the headlines: Governor Brown signs AB 2470 - CA Seed Law Bans Local Gov't from Adopting or Enforcing Ordinances to Regulate Seeds or Crops - i.e., NO GMO BAN IN CALIFORNIA <br />
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It's true. Monsanto has a new best buddy & bff in the governor's mansion. Meanwhile, county after county in California either ignores or pushes back against citizens who want to institute moratoriums or ordinances banning the planting of genetically damaged crops, in hopes of beating the new Jan. 1 deadline instituted by AB 2470. <br />
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Frankly, I'm tired of having the grass roots pure food movement be
regarded as a bunch of irrelevant losers - especially when there is a
Democratic super-majority warming the seats in Sacramento. <br />
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But on the other hand, we have allowed that to happen time after time,
without learning from failure after failure. Let's get a clue. We aren't
doing this right. <br />
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For starters, we use the industry's language in talking about their
tampered seeds. We call them GMO, as if in the minds of voters that is a
bad thing. Their seeds are Genetically Damaged - they admit this
themselves, in explaining the methods they use, which are far from
precise. They rip open and damage the chromosome, then implant the gene
they want, then leave it there along with the injury. "Engineering"
implies a precision placement, an improved function. This isn't
engineering, it's just damage. At best, the "M" in GMO stands for "Manipulation".<br />
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Do you dumpster dive? No? Then why eat something that is damaged goods?
Who wants to eat food whose genetic manipulation is solely to allow it
to live under a cascading shower of Roundup and 2-4d? Food that is
guaranteed to be saturated with contaminants?<br />
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We need to catch on to something: The American public is not a science
class, it is a herd of sheep. Information & entertainment involving
the current top stars get thousands of times more Twitter tweets and
YouTube hits than anything else. Is that bad? Are we better than the
people who want to ogle at the stars? It's just what is, and we'd better
get on that bandwagon. A lot of ocelots and panthers were spared from
hunting after a group of models and Hollywood stars hit the red carpet
wearing fakes, and making statements about the poor endangered cats.
Where are our spokesmodels? Where is our Susan Sarandon, our Leonardo de
Caprio to warn about genetic damage & contamination, the scourge of
Roundup?<br />
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We have a perfect additional bandwagon effect just waiting for us to use: Europe, the land of health care, solar energy, really good transit and employee benefits, also bans genetically damaged crops. Just another reason why we're behind Europe in doing the right things for the environment, and why we need to come to our senses. Buy European food, and it will be undamaged. We need to have people from Europe also be our spokespeople, about the reasons why life is better without the danger of Roundup-saturated, stomach-damaging food.<br />
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Until we stop being assuming the American public is a bunch of climate and genetics scientists, stop buying into the vocabulary of Monsanto, and start doing things that will shake
and rattle the public, we will continue to be branded as losers, and we
will be getting what we deserve. Unfortunately, millions of ignorant
innocents will be unwittingly eating something they don't deserve. WaySeers D&Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04662851949804948045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787947675284055014.post-40691412554860234262012-11-05T11:17:00.002-08:002012-11-05T11:21:16.718-08:00<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://occupydenver.org/peacefulvalleyeviction/">If You're a Bank, the Police State Has Your Back. If Not, Put Your Hands Behind Your Back.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All of this, just to evict a 63-year old disabled woman
from her home. What's worse than a police state? What's worse than the
corrupt banks? It's their grotesque, hybrid offspring: the police state
doing the bidding of a corrupt bank.</span>WaySeers D&Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04662851949804948045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787947675284055014.post-30160271074243888122012-10-05T17:13:00.000-07:002012-10-05T18:11:24.010-07:00<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You might ask, how is an article from 3 years ago still factual and what difference does it make now?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because ShiftShapers contacted some GMO safety whistleblowers connected with the University of California who had done the research, and still today decline to talk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because these truthtellers have been taken to the woodshed by Monsanto and its surrogate bullies at the UC, and don't want to talk about it any more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because the University of California still insists that genetically modified (GMO) crop seeds are the safe, sane salvation of the world's food supply and by the way, UC biotech students' career aspirations. All this, while in the back room where the GMO safety research is being done, the UC threatens with legal action any researcher who attempts to reveal the true negative results of their findings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Still not convinced? Check out this one, published Oct. 2, 2012. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"A new paper by the French group of Gilles-Eric Seralini describes <b>harmful effects on rats</b> fed diets containing genetically modified maize (<b>GMO corn</b>, variety NK603), with and without the herbicide Roundup, as well as Roundup alone...<br /><br />"The Seralini publication, and resultant media attention, raise the profile of fundamental challenges faced by <i><b>science in a world increasingly dominated by corporate influence</b></i>. These challenges are important for all of science but are rarely discussed in scientific venues.<br /><br />"<u><b>History of Attacks on Risk-finding Studies</b></u>. Seralini and colleagues are just the latest in a series of researchers whose findings have triggered <i><b>orchestrated campaigns of harassment</b></i>. <br /><br />"Examples from just the last few years include <b>Ignacio Chapela</b>, a then untenured Assistant Professor at Berkeley, whose paper on <i><b>GM contamination of maize in Mexico</b></i> sparked an intensive internet-based campaign to discredit him. This campaign was reportedly <i><b>masterminded</b><b> by</b></i> the Bivings Group, <i><b>a public relations firm specializing in viral marketing – and frequently hired by Monsanto.</b></i><br /><br />"The distinguished career of biochemist <b>Arpad Pusztai</b>, <i><b>came to an effective end</b></i> when he attempted to report his contradictory findings on GM potatoes. <i><b>Everything from a gag order, forced retirement, seizure of data, and harassment by the British Royal Society were used</b></i> to forestall his continued research. <i><b>Even threats of physical violence have been used</b></i>, most recently against <b>Andres Carrasco</b>, Professor of Molecular Embryology at the University of Buenos Aires, whose research identified <i><b>health risks from glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup.</b></i><br /><br />"<u><b>Regulator Culpability</b></u>. In our view a large part of the ultimate fault for this controversy lies with regulators. <br /><br />"Regulators, such as EFSA (the European Food Safety Authority) in Europe and the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and FDA (Food and Drug Administration) in the US, have enshrined <i><b>protocols with little or no potential to detect adverse consequences of GMOs</b></i>.<br /><br />"<i><b>GMOs are required to undergo few experiments, few endpoints are examined, and tests are solely conducted by the applicant or their agents.</b></i> Moreover, current regulatory protocols are simplistic and assumptions-based (RSC, 2001), which by design, will miss most gene expression changes..."<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The letter is signed by more than 60 scientists, connected with different universities world wide, including Neil J. Carman PhD, representing the Sierra Club. (To read in detail the supporting information and footnotes, please use the link provided above.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">A cynical take on life? A stark political landscape? Welcome to world view of Ayn Rand. It is also the enthusiastically held world view of Paul Ryan, chosen this week as the Republican party's vice-presidential nominee for 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ryan has gone pubic on video many times promoting the ideas of Rand, 20th century author of Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and The Virtue of Selfishness. Her rather lengthy books pit self-made characters against the forces of Collectivism. The rich do everything for the poor, and the poor have no gratitude. Government poverty programs not only are a problem, they are the enemies of liberty. You get the picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Flash forward to 2012, and Ryan the VP candidate now has to bring forth a "regular guy" image and and deny his real plan to take our elders' Social Security and Medicare and throw it down on the Wall Street gambling table. Get ready for lots of veils to be thrown over us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Several well-researched reports have come out during the past week about Paul Ryan's strange ideology and radical actions in Congress. Enjoy as<b><u><span style="background-color: black;"> </span><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/who_is_paul_ryan_20120817/?ln" style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">David Sirota pulls a veil</a><span style="color: yellow;"> </span></u></b>from Paul Ryan's "I'm For the Little Guy" song & dance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Understand here, that <b style="color: cyan;">ShiftShapers</b> takes very little interest in the daily, ugly, money-engorged horse race of 2-party campaign politics in the U.S. Candidates on both sides have broken promises. Some get in office and make so many concessions to their opponents that we may as well have voted for their opponents and been done with it. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>What concerns us and interests us is the work of pulling apart our denial of the disasters we are creating, and tearing away the veils put over us by people who would have us create even new ones. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We aren't dealing any more with old-time corruption- being hoodwinked by snakes in the grass, working in cahoots. We've got people picking our pockets while leaving us - and much of the world - sick, broke, hungry, and one suspicious look away from pepper spray or prison</span>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: large;">“The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid.
Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated
military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in
power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we
are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of
security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that
wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's an everyday scene in the 'hood: Police in Anaheim see a young man running away from them, and shoot him in the hip. He goes down. Had this been 20 years ago, an ambulance would have been called and that would have been the end of the story, other than making up some excuses for discharging a weapon on a fleeing suspect. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's what things have come to, in the United States of today: Police shoot the young man, he goes down, then they come up from behind and finish the job by putting a bullet in the back of his head. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No ambulance is called. For a brief eternity, witnesses in the neighborhood shout pleas to the officers to call an ambulance. More neighbors gather, astonished by the scene. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Police do make a call, but it is for the riot squad and a SWAT team. The neighbors, including children, are subjected to a barrage of rubber bullets and the attacks of a police dog. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Later, on the news, the report is all about how the police "stood off an unruly crowd."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to the new century. Or, as the narrator in this video says, welcome to the <b><span style="color: white;">New World Order. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Events are still unfolding in Anaheim, but this is by far not the only community to experience execution-style police shootings. </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Try googling on</span><span style="font-size: large;"> <b style="color: cyan;">"police shoot unarmed man in head"</b></span><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">, and you will see dozens of incidents across the country. Only in one of those incidents - the BART shooting of Oscar Grant - is an officer charged with anything more than an improper procedure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Are all those <span style="background-color: black;">officers lone gunmen, or are they performing hit-man duty?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Author, educator and peak oil authority<span style="color: white;"> Richard Heinberg</span> has a prediction for us, in the title of his latest book:<i><span style="color: cyan;"><a href="http://www.postcarbon.org/book/364387-the-end-of-growth"> The End of Growth.</a></span></i> He visited </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;"><i>"Shift Shapers" on KBBF-FM 89.1,</i></span><span style="color: lime;"> </span>which we have podcast on Blog Talk Radio (see link, above)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since the U.S. hit peak oil production in 1970, its growth has been propped up by computer innovations, the use of 3rd world labor to replace U.S. workers, and recently by a toxic soup of financial schemes pumped out by Wall Street.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Those new schemes caused a series of bubble-&-bust cycles, each trading on debt. The latest one had investors betting that U.S. real estate values would grow forever, so fast that even bad loans would soon be made good by the property backing them. The bubble burst, leaving a global economy poisoned by trillions in bad mortgages, and declining resources for generating a recovery.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, don't expect that new smart grid or solar & wind farms to curb our use of fossil fuels. Expect paralysis as the fuel supply winds down and prices soar.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What do we do when we can't count on government and global corporations to provide what we need? Be the kind of community that provides its own needs, suggests Heinberg. Local currencies are promoting local trade. "Transition" groups are growing food on former lawns. Wise city councils are making sure water and other essentials will be provided as oil declines. Widespread shock turns to community preparedness and people helping each other. We become<span style="color: cyan;"> Shift Shapers!</span></span><br />
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<br />WaySeers D&Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04662851949804948045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787947675284055014.post-35859827150562322372012-01-15T12:39:00.000-08:002012-08-19T12:21:47.271-07:00Occupy Wells Fargo! - The "Santa Rosa 7" Throw Themselves On the Machine<div style="background-color: black; color: lime; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">What do you do when you find out the parent company of your local bank branch, is investing in private prisons, betting on a growth of inmates in a time of declining crime rates? - And they are supporting new laws designed to bring in fresh inmates and more profit every year - starting with immigrants and climate change refugees?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once you've connected those dots, you might not want business as usual. You might want to stand up and shout about it. When thousands of people stand up with you, it's a movement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On January 6, the <b style="color: cyan;">Occupy Movement </b>in Santa Rosa, California, joined up with immigrants rights advocacy organizations, and called a halt to business as usual, at <b style="color: cyan;">Wells Fargo Bank</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a day when the spirit of <b><span style="color: cyan;">Mario Savio</span> </b>-- a campus occupier in 1964 who spoke up and became the fiery orator of the Free Speech movement - once again called for people to throw themselves over the levers of the machine, and bring it to a halt. Activists closed two branch offices that day, with seven among them arrested. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was not so much a demonstration as a community. <b style="color: cyan;">Mario Savio </b>wasn't accompanied by a marching brass band, nor did the Free Speech Movement draw people from all walks of life and across four generations. But these are days when people from all walks of life, if thry're willing, see things through new eyes are moved to occupy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Chicano farm worker organizer <b style="color: cyan;">Cesar Chavez</b> said that a march is a prayer n motion. And in keeping with the view of spiritual intentions, this march was led by a group of Aztec dancers named <b style="color: cyan;">Coyolxauqui.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a day to tell the world to look and listen, and find out what "business as usual" means when your bank holds stock in private detention centers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Advertise on TV, persuading people to commit more crimes, so they can come and enjoy your accommodations? No, what you do is contributing to racist state senators, who pass laws designating new crimes, that target an scapegoated group of outsiders - undocumented immigrants. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Being undocumented wasn't a crime in Georgia, Arizona, or Alabama, until those states were lobbied by private imprisonment firms, such as <b style="color: cyan;">GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA)</b>. Now anyone who only looks undocumented can be picked up and detained, in private prisons that - by the way - get funded by the same laws. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Round up your scapegoats, fill up the prisons, and watch their Wall Street stock prices go up. Stock owned and managed - by the way - by <b style="color: cyan;">Wells Fargo. To the tune of $100 million dollars <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=GEO+Major+Holders"><span style="color: lime;">CLICK HERE</span></a> to see Yahoo Finance Report.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"Corrections"</b> and <b>"incarceration" </b>are user-friendly euphemisms for throwing people into jail. An even better one is <b style="color: cyan;">"detention."</b> <i>Oh, we're just keeping you late after school, taking a little of your time. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The new community stamps <b><span style="color: cyan;">GEO Group and CCA</span></b> with the real nature of their business: They are imprisonment companies. And their brand of imprisonment has a record of abuse, according to government records obtained by the <b style="color: cyan;">ACLU</b> and <b><span style="color: cyan;">Frontline</span></b> news program. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">According to government documents obtained by the <a href="http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/documents/sex-abuse-immigration-detainees/" style="color: cyan;">FRONTLINE news program and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)</a><span style="color: cyan;">.</span>”immigrants held in U.S. immigration detention facilities filed more than 170 allegations of sexual abuse over the last four years, mostly against guards and other staff at the centers."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We're seeing a new community move forward - one in which everybody is somebody. One that tears away the veils of deception and abuse, putting in their place a localized culture where everyone works together for common intentions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this special edition of <b><span style="color: cyan;">Shift Shapers</span></b> we hear a Evelina Molina and Mauricio Velasquez interview Kareem Sanchez and Bianca Jordan, with background music of the Occupy Santa Rosa band. They also interview <b style="color: cyan;">Rick Theis</b> and <b style="color: cyan;">Kim Caldeway.</b> <span style="color: cyan;">Mario Savio</span> and <span style="color: cyan;">George Carlin </span>show up in spirit - possibly summoned by the Aztec dancers. In the studio, Daniel Kerbein interviews two people who were arrested that day: Jesse (who only gave his first name), and Tony Del Monte. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The <b style="color: cyan;">“Santa Rosa Seven”</b> were arrested, some involved with Occupy Santa Rosa, some involved with the other affinity groups in solidarity that day. Jesse calls it "getting their feet wet." </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; line-height: normal;"><b style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">1. invoke an internal and external threat -<span style="color: lime;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: lime;">People who are afraid are willing to do things that they wouldn’t otherwise do.</span><br style="color: lime;" /><span style="color: lime;"> </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; line-height: normal;"><b style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">2. establish secret (unaccountable) prisons where torture takes place - </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: lime;">In a secret system, the government does not have to provide any proof of wrongdoing by those it holds, so it can incarcerate anyone it wants. </span><br style="color: lime;" /><span style="color: lime;"> </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: cyan;">3. develop a paramilitary force -</span> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: lime;">A private military force — under the exclusive direction of the “commander in chief” with no accountability to Congress, the courts, or the public — blurs the line between a civilian police force and a militarized police state. </span><br style="color: lime;" /><span style="color: lime;"> </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: cyan;">4. surveil ordinary citizens -</span><span style="color: lime;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: lime;">People who believe they are being watched are less likely to voice opposition. To scare a population into silence, the government need only monitor the activities of a few to make everyone fear that they are being surveilled. Every closed society keeps a “list” of so-called opponents it tracks. </span><br style="color: lime;" /><span style="color: lime;"> </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; line-height: normal;"><b style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">5. infiltrate citizen’s groups -<span style="color: lime;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: lime;">Spies in activist groups put psychological pressure on genuine activists by undermining their trust in one another. They may also disrupt legal activities, undermining the effectiveness of group efforts. </span><br style="color: lime;" /><span style="color: lime;"> </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; line-height: normal;"><b style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">6. detain and release ordinary citizens -</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: lime;">Detention intimidates or psychologically damages those arrested and also lets everyone know that anyone could be labeled an “enemy combatant” and “disappeared.” </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; line-height: normal;"><b style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">7. target key individuals - </span></b><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">People are less likely to sp</span><b style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: lime;">eak out when those who are highly visible, like journalists, scholars, artists, or celebrities, are intimidated or have the livelihoods threatened. Targeting those who are especially visible makes it less likely that people will speak out and robs society of leaders and others who might inspire opposition. </span><br style="color: lime;" /><span style="color: lime;"> </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; line-height: normal;"><b style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">8. restrict the press - </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: lime;">The public is less likely to fi nd out about government wrongdoing if the government can threaten to prosecute anyone who publishes or broadcasts reports that are critical of the government. </span><br style="color: lime;" /><span style="color: lime;"> </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; line-height: normal;"><b style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">9. recast criticism as espionage and dissent as treason - </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: lime;">People who protest can be charged with terrorism or treason when laws criminalize or limit free speech rather than protect it. </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="color: cyan;" /><span style="color: cyan;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; line-height: normal;"><b style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">10. subvert the rule of law - </span></b><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The disappearance of checks and balances makes it easier to declare martial law, especially if the judiciary branch continues to exercise authority over individuals but has no authority over the Executive branch.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; line-height: normal;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“It will be a dark time, but for those who survive, I suspect it will be rather exciting.”</span><b><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> -<span style="font-size: x-small;">James Lovelock </span></span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: cyan;">1. Perceive and believe</b></span><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Don’t fall into the deadly trap of denial or of immobilizing fear. Admit it: You’re really in trouble and you’re going to have to get yourself out. Survivors don’t candy-coat the truth, but they also don’t give in to hopelessness in the face of it. Survivors see opportunity, even good, in their situation, however grim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The phases of the survival journey roughly parallel the five stages of death once described by Elizabeth Kubler Ross in her book <i style="color: white;">On Death and Dying</i></span><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">:</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;">denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> In dire circumstances, a survivor moves through those stages rapidly to acceptance of his situation, then resolves to do something to save himself. Survival depends on telling yourself, “Okay, I’m here. This is really happening. Now I’m going to do the next right thing to get myself out.” Whether you succeed or not ultimately becomes irrelevant. It is in acting well – even suffering well – that you give meaning to whatever life you have to live.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: cyan;">2. Stay calm – use your anger</b></span><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> In the initial crisis, survivors are not ruled by fear; instead, they make use of it. Their fear often feels like (and turns into) anger, which motivates them and makes them feel sharper. Survivors also manage pain well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: cyan;">5. Celebrate your success.</span> </b>Survivors take great joy from even their smallest successes. This helps keep motivation high and prevents a lethal plunge into hopelessness. t also provides relief from the unspeakable strain of a life-threatening situation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: cyan;">7. Enjoy the survival journey.</span> </b>It may seem counter-intuitive, but even in the worst circumstances, survivors find something to enjoy, some way to play and laugh. Survival can be tedious, and waiting itself is an art. Survivors use the intellect to stimulate, calm, and entertain the mind. Singing, playing mind games, reciting poetry, counting anything, and doing mathematical problems in your head can make waiting possible and even pleasant, even while heightening perception and quieting fear. Survivors engage their crisis almost as an athlete engages a sport. They cling to talismans. They discover the sense of flow of the expert performer, the “zone” in which emotion and thought balance each other in producing fluid action. A playful approach to a critical situation also leads to invention, and invention may lead to a new technique, strategy, or design that could save you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: cyan;">10. Surrender.</b> Yes you might die. In fact, you will die – we all do. But perhaps it doesn’t have to be today. Don’t let it worry you. Forget about rescue. Everything you need is inside you already.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: cyan;">11. Do whatever is necessary.</b></span><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Survivors have a reason to live and are willing to bet everything on themselves. They have what psychologists call meta-knowledge: They know their abilities and do not over– or underestimate them. They believe that anything is possible and act accordingly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: cyan;">12. Never give up!</span> </b>Survivors are not easily discouraged by setbacks. They accept that the environment is constantly changing and know that they must adapt. When they fall, they pick themselves up and start the entire process over again, breaking it down into manageable bits. Survivors always have a clear reason for going on. They keep their spirits up by developing an alternate world, created from rich memories, into which they can escape. They see opportunity in adversity. In the aftermath, survivors learn from and are grateful for the experiences that they’ve had.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: lime; font-size: large;"> Those who would survive the hazards of our world, whether at play or in business or at war, through illness or financial calamity, will do so through a journey of transformation. But that transcendent state doesn’t miraculously appear when it is needed. It wells up from a lifetime of experiences, attitudes, and practices form one’s personality, a core from which the necessary strength is drawn. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: white;">These are the days</span> </b>when people start looking to leave a legacy, some great thing they can do that leaves the world with a powerful example of how much a little charity and justice can accomplish.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: white;">These are the days</span> </b>when people begin to know in their guts and hearts, that it’s time to pull off the freeway of the rat race and do something for the other humans on this planet.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: white;">These are the days</span> </b>when people all over the world have had enough of rule by “strong men” who in the end are as vulnerable as the rest of us.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These are the days when once and for all, we see the pathetic and cruel things that our nations are doing to others in our names, and we can’t hide from it any more.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: white;">These are the days</span> </b>when we poke our heads up out of our self-created gopher holes and notice that something big is coming our way. Something really big. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These are the days when people are learning the skill of talking with plants and listening to animals.<br />
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</div>WaySeers D&Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04662851949804948045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787947675284055014.post-51393952960631141212011-06-16T11:45:00.000-07:002011-11-11T16:24:14.860-08:00Stop Saving the Planet!<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/xhCY-3XnqS0?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br />
<div style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Has anyone out there gotten as sick of the <b style="color: white;">"Save the Planet"</b> meme as I have?</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This slogan started out as a people-friendly way to personify environmentalism by portraying the earth as a stray pet needing rescue from the planet shelter. "Please! This poor innocent earth will be euthanized unless you recycle!"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Science tells us the earth has been here <b><u>8 billion years,</u></b></i><b> </b>through ice ages and an asteroid collision. We can’t destroy it, so what's the hoopla about saving it? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It's useful as a way to distract us from the real crises we face. When we put our attention into "saving" this rock-solid planet, we unwittingly sidestep massive issues of collusion between government and corporations, then play right into political and media campaigns that distract and isolate us. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here's a short list of what we have dumped into our own habitat: <b>Nukes, GHGs, carcinogens, GMO crops, oil spills and nanoparticles.</b> Are these ever discussed around the water cooler? If we lift the veil, we might affect this year's bottom line. So, we accept the partnership - make it our job to help keep the veil in place. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If not the planet, then what do we want to save these days? Our way of life? Maybe the habit of living within that way of life, but really - our way of life itself?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Something in our collective soul understands that our "way of life" is based on killing others for their resources and putting them to work for us at starvation wages. That model will never provide a foundation for true prosperity, or for anything else that is lasting or good. Somewhere in our hearts we know this.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s coming into our consciousness that we don't really want to save our civilization or our way of life. Our mainstream way of life is only about money, guns, surveillance and shopping. It makes us isolated and unhappy to live that way. This dilemma of consciousness can alternately drive us to chaotic energy (e.g. Egypt, Syria, Greece) or put us into a drowsy and hypnotic state (the U.S.). </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">To "save the planet",</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> we just have to do something for it once in a while. A little favor, a bottle into the recycle bin, like we’re throwing a quarter to a beggar.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have news for you: The planet is no beggar. It's our landlord. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Planet Earth is our fierce master, a once-peaceful dragon now grown impatient with a people that would poison and defecate in its own nest. It is already coming after us, with a juggernaut of water from the ice caps we melted, along with the cruelest summer heat waves imaginable. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maybe a signal from our galactic center is getting through: This planet doesn't need to be saved. We need to save ourselves from what we've done to its weather patterns, from what we've done to our own habitat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We are also seeing that government and corporations have led the way in bringing these consequences, but have no intention to change anything. Corporate power has deafened government's ears. To them it is as though we're in a bad dream, where we open our mouths to shout in protest, and no sound comes out.</span></div><div style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">We will find our voice when we</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> move into the new form of humanity that we're called to become. As we find ourselves abandoned by our big box consumer world, we can also consider that a release from imprisonment. We are in the unique and exciting position to create what we need for ourselves and each other, off the grid with our families and our neighbors. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember that part about our consciousness bringing heightened energy states? We'll need spiritual resilience to ride that, a strength that comes from our spiritual source. For you that may be Christ, the Buddha, the Medicine Wheel, whatever calls to you. To the Maya that source is Hunab Ku, the center of our galaxy. According to shamans, the galactic center communicates its energies to us and will do so increasingly over the coming years. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of this I'm sure: My spiritual source isn't guiding me to save a planet, but to save my community and my own soul. Our spiritual sources are guiding us to remove our veils and become the new, spiritual humanity. </span></div>WaySeers D&Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04662851949804948045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787947675284055014.post-54128635908736170582011-05-22T22:32:00.000-07:002011-07-11T13:53:14.249-07:00Pole Reversal and the Birth of a New Species: Homo Spiritus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://galacticculture.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/tr10.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://galacticculture.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/tr10.gif" width="264" /></a></div><br />
<div style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In <b style="color: white;">"Beyond 2012-Catastrophe or Awakening?"</b> author Geoff Stray describes a 2012 hypothesis of Jass Rasool, a biophysicist and corporate coach, gave a talk in 2001 at the Mysteries of the World Conference, in Marlborough, UK, in which he pointed out that we are currently experiencing the most active solar cycle on record, and that the eleven-year sunspot cycle has just jumped forward a year, so that the current phase will terminate in 2012. That the Schumann resonance (electromagnetic waves in the cavity between Earth's crust and the ionosphere) is said by some researchers to be rising in frequency, combined with recent discoveries by the Japanese scientist Hiroshi Motoyama that the frequency around psychics increases to a level of seventeen herts, leads a "switching on" of some of the massive amount of genes with officially unknown function (so-called junk DNA), which he calls "species DNA,"leading to mass telepathy and telekinesis. This would be the birth of a new species: <b style="color: white;">HOMO SPIRITUS. </b></span></span></div>WaySeers D&Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04662851949804948045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787947675284055014.post-32820701213390596192011-05-21T19:27:00.000-07:002011-07-11T13:56:51.893-07:00Post-Carbon: Preaching "Transition" to Choir? Try This for Framing<div style="background-color: black; color: lime; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I like the ideas of the Transition movement, and the tireless work of Rob Hopkins, its founder. But I had to comment on Rob's posting of last week. An excerpt of Rob's posting:"Although it is peak oil and climate change that initially inspire Transition initiatives and form the underpinning for much of the initial awareness stage, might it be ...where continued focus on those issues could be counterproductive?</div><div style="background-color: black; color: lime; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: black; color: lime; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Beyond a certain point it could be that continued highlighting of the issues actually risks dividing and alienating people rather than including them?" He also points out his Transition group's laudable work with town councils and chambers of commerce.</div><div style="background-color: black; color: lime; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; color: lime; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My comment: Rob, I agree with you about the limited usefulness of peak oil and climate change as framings for the concept of transition. For an expanded, refreshing -- and I might add urgent -- view of our environmental & economic future, I recommend viewing <b style="color: cyan;">"Zeitgeist the Movie - Moving Forward"</b> which is posted on this site. The message? Everything that was built on the global, unsustainable model is now in collapse.<br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; color: lime; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div style="color: cyan;"><u><b>Not about to collapse. Headlong into collapse. </b></u></div><br />
We need to get busy and we need to get things in place now. The premise of Shift Shapers Radio is, <i><b style="color: cyan;">"Don't expect the Safeway truck to keep showing up."</b></i> We have moved from the realm of predictability in obtaining our necessities, into the realm of limited predictability. Our show is bilingual, broadcast into the Latino community, and they get it. The people at the bottom know things are falling apart. Why? Because you feel it immediately when you don't have the safety net.<br />
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I suggest framing it the way it really is. <u><b style="color: cyan;">We are already in transition</b></u>, we just haven't for the most part put our local economies and food/fuel/shelter production into place. You don't need a framing once people understand the urgency we face.<br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: black; color: lime; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I would add that I also appreciate the dilemma of understanding we are in a state of collapse and actually behind the transition 8-ball, when we need to work with city governments and chambers of commerce, who count on things remaining the same and planning only for gradual change, far off into the future. In these settings, you are far from preaching to the choir. I would contend that you are actually preaching to the resistant, just not in the form of a Tea Party Republican. </div>WaySeers D&Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04662851949804948045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787947675284055014.post-41195210679813323222011-04-12T10:27:00.000-07:002011-04-12T10:27:53.603-07:00A Wake Up Call - Enviro Laws Trampled at U.S.-Mexico Border<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">I'm personally getting tired of community activists, particularly environmental activists, declaring they can't<span> </span>say or do anything about issues affecting the lives of forced migrants, that it's someone else's problem, we just have to allow blatant miscarriages of justice to occur a few blocks from the office where we lick our donation envelopes. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">OK, fair enough. I have something that may be of concern to you. Let's look at the U.S.-Mexico border wall. Think of an environmental law, and it's been violated putting up that fence. <a href="http://arizona.sierraclub.org/conservation/border/realid.asp">32 laws</a> trampled without a hearing, without even a peep. And oh yes, <a href="http://arizona.sierraclub.org/conservation/border/borderfilm.asp">6,000 people have died there</a>. If Homeland Security</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> can do that at the border, using immigration as an excuse, they can do it anywhere, using anything as the excuse. Want to protect and preserve our hard-fought environmental laws? Start at the border.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">So, Mr. & Ms. Environmentalist, I'm curious: After the Homeland Security End Game has accomplished its job, after all the "removable" migrants have been cast out from our midst, how long do think it will be before End Game Management and Prisons, Incorporated turn their binoculars on you? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Do you seriously believe that a government entity that can pre-empt all constitutional and environmental law under the excuse of immigration, will stop with immigration? Are you really that dumb? I think not, just a little short-sighted, and lacking a good wake-up call. If you've made it to the end of this rant, consider yourself awakened. </span></div>WaySeers D&Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04662851949804948045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787947675284055014.post-43165334158505222362011-04-12T10:10:00.000-07:002011-06-12T15:15:15.782-07:00No Place for "Secure Community" Raids inOur New Neighborhoods<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since ShiftShapers is a blog about building resilient communities in transition, what do issues involving arrests and raids on forced migrants, have to do with community building? I'm figuring you don't actually have to ask that, but if you just want our take on it, here it is:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">All forms of community building and environmental protection are doomed from the start if you allow government shock troops to roam the streets, raiding homes and removing parents from their children, all the time selling us the story that they're protecting us from terrorism and drugs. When really, they've made open deals with private prisons and are out to supply them with fresh clientele. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do we want to build so-called "secure communities", where Homeland Security recruits local law enforcement to pull people over on trumped-up vehicle code violations, so they can throw the driver & passengers into an immigration holding tank? Or worse, a criminal jail cell, with no probable cause and no charges? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is certain that we can never, <i>ever</i> build the kind of community where we want to live, a community of the future, on top of such a rancid, rotten structure of fear and denial. Seriously, is that the community where you want to live? Well I've got news for you, it is the community where you <i>do</i> live. Welcome to the world of Homeland Security's End Game, "Secure Communities".</span></div>WaySeers D&Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04662851949804948045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787947675284055014.post-16839187721159229032011-04-11T14:58:00.000-07:002011-04-11T14:59:40.820-07:00OK, So What's This "Shift" Got To Do With Me?<div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;">It has come to our attention that</span> <i style="color: lime;">"being green" </i><span style="color: cyan;">isn't going to stop what's unfolding right under our noses right now. Lots of us have been recycling our cans, putting in the twisty light bulbs and maybe even joining conservation activist groups. Many of us who are unemployed (about 30% in the US these days) would still prefer to have a green job, getting paid to help save water and energy. All to the good. </span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;">Meanwhile global warming marches on, half of all the world's wealth has gone into the pockets of the richest 1%, and forced migrants flee from Mexico (where the world's richest man lives) across the fortified US southern border wall. Our Congressional reps endorse a full-speed headlong gallop off the cliff of peak oil, and Homeland Security steps up its 10-year <a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dhs/endgame.pdf"><i style="color: red;">"End Game"</i></a> </span><span style="color: cyan;">surveillance and deportation of any forced migrant without a driver's license. And of course, what little national wealth is left is drained by two trillion-dollar wars in the Middle East.</span></div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you've been strangely uneasy about the state of the world these days, seeing the big picture become a bit unstable (or a lot unstable), you are not alone. The premise of this blog, <i><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers">our podcast</a></i> and our <i><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shift-Shaper-Pole-Reversal-PR-Blog-Talk-Radio/116693841744650#%21/pages/Shift-Shaper-Pole-Reversal-PR-Blog-Talk-Radio/116693841744650?sk=wall">Facebook page</a></i> is that we have entered a global period of dramatic shift, where we leave the dimension of reasonable predictability about our communities and resources, and move into the dimension of limited predictability. (Even the phrase "pole reversal" might not just be a metaphor. The North Magnetic Pole has been moving generally southward, a little more each day.) We've entered a period when our environmental protection, our jobs, our information needs and much more, are no longer being supplied by the global economy, global corporations, or our governments, which are gridlocked and dysfunctional at every level. If we want it, we must create it locally.</div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="color: cyan;">Ultimately, our very survival may depend on it. Having any quality or dignity to our survival <i>will</i> depend on it. </span> </div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: cyan; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That's the premise. Our mission is to bring our listeners and our readers first a sense of urgency, then bring you activists and visionaries whose work is to move you -- to take responsibility for bringing together your community, and take action in preparing a transition into sustainable neighborhoods and transformed local economies. Or, if you like, you can just get entertained and educated. <b><br />
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</div><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;">We interrupt this empire... with a little</span> </span></span><span style="color: lime;"><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">'Shift' shaping.</i></span> <span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The shift is not only coming, we are already in it. And some of us are actively shaping it. </span></span>WaySeers D&Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04662851949804948045noreply@blogger.com0