The forces and systems of repression are very organized. We must peacefully organize too (even more than we already are). There are 198 peaceful ways to beat what we are facing and turn this world around. Here they are: https://clearblueskyoutwest.com/2017/08/17/198-methods-of-nonviolent-resistance-marching-is-only-one-of-them/ We can't afford to wait for others to change their mind. A wise man once …
A friend of mine just reminded me of a wise shift of perspective that is pretty helpful. Each of us encounters much adversity each week. We see those challenges as an annoyance, but the truth is they may be just what we need. As the zen masters would say, if befuddling teachers didn't exist, we'd …
Continue reading WHO IS THE TEACHER? AND WHO IS THE STUDENT?
Thanks to whoever posted this: "It is just like when the tobacco lobby owned Congress, smokers' rights beat everybody else's rights. Restaurants, planes, elevators, hospitals. . . It was a smoker's right to smoke anywhere and a non smoker's obligation to deal with it. That dysfunctional situation took decades to go away. We …
NO GUN In the spring of 1993, I had the good fortune to be a member of a crew building log cabins in the middle of the Tobacco Root Mountains in Montana. It was my job to hand strip the logs with a draw knife. I had some serious callouses and worked some long …
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U2 - Joshua Tree tour - Full concert - Kansas City - 9/12/17 FILMED IN 4K w HQ audio - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fCPj5YhKAe4 -------------- U2 - "Where the Streets Have No Name" video Short downtown LA version (4:13) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4qairkoPEUQ Official version downtown LA (7:13) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GzZWSrr5wFI Studio version (HQ audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWUXcmoPZxw&sns=em U2 - "I Still …
Trying a little of this on the river this evening (except all flat water -- no rapids, rocks or waterfalls. Other than that it'll be the same though). 🙂. Watch this short video of these guys going over waterfalls and down chutes. Truly amazing. (Fast forward to 1 minute in). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33wq_VbNpzE&sns=em
"The siren howled, but I just sat there for a few seconds staring at the big, back lit, red screen with the word 'launch' on it." ‘Gut instinct’ told Lt Col Stanislav Petrov that apparent launch of US missiles was actually early warning system malfunction. Check out the article from the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/18/soviet-officer-who-averted-cold-war-nuclear-disaster-dies-aged-77?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
"The elites face an unpleasant choice. They could impose harsh controls to protect the status quo or veer leftward toward socialism to ameliorate the mounting economic and political injustices endured by most of the population. But a move leftward, essentially reinstating and expanding the New Deal programs they have destroyed, would impede corporate power and …
Continue reading PULITZER PRIZE WINNER CHRIS HEDGES DESCRIBES THE CROSSROADS WE HAVE REACHED
