December 2008
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Global Guerrillas: THE RESILIENT COMMUNITY: The... →
good stuff to think about for 09.
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DARPA Unveils Cyber Warfare Range →
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The Apocalypse is Coming: What You Need to Pack ;) →
never thoght an ipod touch would be considered necessary for “collapase” gear. heh.
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The Secret Sun: 2008 in Review: The New Pyramid... →
new pyramids are showing up everywhere, like the one above taco-bell by my house.
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Technology Review: The Year Online →
“The business of social networking, cloud computing, and a flaw in the fabric of the Internet top the most notable stories of 2008…”
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Reconciling Violence and Compassion →
….one who finds themselves unable to reconcile violence and compassion, is a danger to themselves and everyone they encounter.
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I am very thankful for everyone in the Tumbl-verse...
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Food needs 'fundamental rethink' : BBC →
[Professor] Tim Lang warned that the current system, designed in the 1940s, was showing “structural failures”, such as “astronomic” environmental costs.
The new approach needed to address key fundamentals like biodiversity, energy, water and urbanisation, he added.
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Banished Words List 2009 : Lake Superior St. Univ. →
once a year this list gets published and it’s high time to get rid of the word/phrase …green or going green.
also included is Maverick, Bailout and more 08 classics.
Fuck you ‘08, Loving the ‘09!
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Global Systems vs. Local Platforms : GG's Robb in... →
Within resilient communities, we will see the establishment of platforms that make it easier to grow/sell food, produce/share/sell energy, trade, share ideas/methods (social software), produce products (fab labs), collect/share/sell water and much more. For example, to accelerate the ability to share/sell energy within a community, smart grid technology and microgrids provide an excellent avenue...
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The Secret Sun: Looking for Signs at the End of... →
love this intro:
When you reach the end of an age, the myths and the symbols that once defined that age begin to turn against it. Often in horrifying and merciless ways.
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Burj Dubai - The New Tower of Babel →
here’s to Dubai’s 2009!
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My 2009 survival strategies at Klintron’s Brain →
it’s that time of year. Plan your 09, or lose out.
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“This summer, as Mr. Obama visited in London with David Cameron, the head of the...”
– Obama’s Zen State, Well, It’s Hawaiian - NYTimes.com
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MIKE CONNELL, GOP 'IT GURU', KILLED IN SOLO PLANE... →
Karl Rove ordered the hit.
Connell was described in a recent interview with the plaintiff’s attorneys in Ohio as a “high IQ Forrest Gump” for his appearance “at the scene of every [GOP] crime” from Florida 2000 to Ohio 2004 to the RNC email system to the installation of the currently-used Congressional computer network firewall.
Connell and his firm are currently...
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And Now… A New Star Will Appear in the Sky and... →
i think if the “messiah” appears now, he wouldn’t choose an American TV show to say hello.
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Harun Yahya's Dark Arts
via Seed
A collage connecting Darwin to Hitler from Harun Yahya’s The Atlas of Creation, top; Adnan Oktar, bottom.
“The main aim of science itself is to help art,” Oktar told me. It is “a tool which we use to make our world more beautiful every day.” This combination of vivid piety with superficial science draws on a tradition of Turkish religious literature that...
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European futurists balk at universal doom and... →
as BS says, though: “it isn’t all doom and gloom. (((Not all, you know, just like… lots. Kind of like Doom Lite and Semi-Gloom…”
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Katrina's Hidden Race War →
if you thought the horror of the hurricane was it, these brazen attacks make the story even worse. lynchings occured that are still not prosecuted, this is despicable and unacceptable.
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“How do you disempower a corrupt system? By empowering yourself. How do you...”
– The Cleaver: Way Of The Infinite Explorer
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THRIPS - "Official" Site →
bad-ass stoner rock from frisco. former members of Dirty Dirty and SHAT, etc.
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Wikileaks Posts Secret Bomb-Stopper Report; Did... →
is some information too dangerous to publish? should all information be free?
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George Bush: “I’ve abandoned free-market... →
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Masanobu Fukuoka
brainsturbator:
“…if modern agriculture continues to follow the path it’s on now, it’s finished. The food-growing situation may seem to be in good shape today, but that’s just an illusion based on the current availability of petroleum fuels. All the wheat, corn, and other crops that are produced on big American farms may be alive and growing, but they’re not products of real nature or real...
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Assessing the threat and the opportunity - John... →
great place to get started on Robb’s thought regarding future warfare and resilient communities. the links on the btm of this post really flesh things out nicely.
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“The New Deal, for instance, cost an estimated $32 billion in its day, which...”
– Bailout payout tops $8 trillion
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The Islamic Economic Collapse →
nice fertile fuel for future bombers, but notice the same happening in the ol’ US with the tanking economy and the correlative of Homeland Securities’ (proper and associate depts) expanding payroll. Whatta set-up.
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Citibank’s Computers Down, Blocking Account Info →
Wow, computers from over 2,000 years ago are up and running and Citibank can’t get their act together… :) . But seriously, maybe a good time for them to cook their books while no one is watching.
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“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look...”
– Charles Manson (via getthefuckoutrightnow) (via thisshouldbeit)
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“We still think that “the path to success” is based on getting a...”
– Merry Holidays with James Howard Kunstler | Beyond the Beyond
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Experts Predict a Possible Terrorist Strike with a... →
“Megaterror Attack Likely By 2013, Say Experts.” It’s a good bet this headline caused thousands of Americans to stop in the tracks of their morning routines.
Even by the tough post-9/11 standards of a.m. bummers, it was a gulper. On Dec. 4, the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism convened a press conference to declare that our...
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Scientists develop software that can map dreams →
A team of Japanese scientists have created a device that enables the processing and imaging of thoughts and dreams as experienced in the brain to appear on a computer screen.