Medieval Spanish ghost town becomes self-sufficient ecovillage (by kirstendirksen)
Graham Hancock talks about his banned TED talk on the Lifeboat Hour with Mike Ruppert 17/03/2013 (by revolutionloveevolve)
Published on Mar 19, 2013
Interview with Graham Hancock about the censorship of his TEDx talk ‘The War on Consciousness’, psychedelics and the global awakening on the Lifeboat Hour with Michael C Ruppert.
Mr Hancock talks, near the end, about how inspired he is by the people of the USA and the amazing awakening going on among us. Not with the government, but with the individuals who make up the social networks of today. I found that inspiring. I also liked how he said that mainstream media is dead and now, when we want news we use methods like these… Absolutely. A very good lifeboat hour.
"One possible answer is that it’s simply worth reminding everyone that there’s broad scientific agreement on very basic climate change questions — and that global-warming denial is a fringe view. In an e-mail, Nuccitelli put it this way:
The reason our paper is particularly important is because research has shown there’s a strong correlation between public awareness of the consensus and support for climate mitigation. However, the public is very misinformed on the issue, with the average American believing that scientists are split 50/50 on the cause of global warming. So it’s critical that we close this consensus gap."
The reason our paper is particularly important is because research has shown there’s a strong correlation between public awareness of the consensus and support for climate mitigation. However, the public is very misinformed on the issue, with the average American believing that scientists are split 50/50 on the cause of global warming. So it’s critical that we close this consensus gap."
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Scientists agree on climate change. So why doesn’t everyone else?
Because big money is sponsoring denial just like for decades big money sponsoring cigarette smoking as safe. The big money sponsorship comes from, quite logically, those who have the most to lose if everyone truly got behind doing something about climate change! Who would that be? Well, all the big oil companies are actually tied to big banks… but all of that is subject for another post.
"Tar sands pipelines will not pass through [our] collective territories under any conditions or circumstances,” the tribes said at a press conference."
— ‘Environmental genocide’: Native Americans quit talks over Keystone XL pipeline — RT USA
"Of more than 4,000 academic papers published over 20 years, 97.1% agreed that climate change is anthropogenic"
— Climate research nearly unanimous on human causes, survey finds | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Noam Chomsky: Can civilisation survive really existing capitalism? (by MyUCD)
One of the world’s leading intellectuals and political activists, Professor Noam Chomsky has been awarded the UCD Ulysses Medal, the highest honour that University College Dublin can bestow.
The award was inaugurated in 2005, as part of the university’s sesquicentennial celebrations, to highlight the ‘creative brilliance’ of UCD alumnus James Joyce. It is awarded to individuals whose work has made an outstanding global contribution.
Professor Chomsky was presented with the UCD Ulysses Medal by the President of UCD, Dr Hugh Brady, following a public lecture hosted by the UCD Philosophy Society and the UCD School of Philosophy at University College Dublin on Tuesday 02 April 2013.
Professor Chomsky really connects the dots with this speech given at Univ College Dublin on April 2nd, 2013.
As to the question being asked… At about 15 mins:
“There have been serious debates over the years about whether capitalism is in principal consistent with democracy. But if we talk about really existing capitalist democracy certainly not. Really existing capitalist democracy – RECD for short – They are radically incompatible. That’s easily demonstrated.”
“It seems to me unlikely that civilization can survive RECD and the sharply attenuated democracy that goes along with it. “
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“Let’s keep to the most critical immediate problem that civilization faces: there are plenty of them but this is the primary one: environmental catastrophe. “
And then he gets into the environmental issues due to really existing capitalist democracy (RECD) and covers all the hotstuff: Global Warming (pun not intended) and how remarkable it is that so many scientists actually agree it’s real. He talks about ALEC, Koch Brothers funding activists groups, the campaign supporting deniers, the Heartland Institute, IPCC and how MIT thinks they drastically underestimate the numbers (so do I!), public opinion in the USA, Donors Trust, etc etc. VERY GOOD speech.
This will be STOP’s movie of the week.
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Donors Trust Funds Climate Denial Groups
According to IRS tax returns, between 2002 and 2010, Donors Trust provided over $90 million in funding ($90,989,710 to be exact) to 84 groups that deny the scientific realities of climate change. Between 2004 and 2010, the partner group Donors Capital Fund, provided more than $28 million in funding ($28,490,862) to 75 groups that deny the scientific realities of climate change.
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Who is Donors Trust? | DeSmogBlog
That’s alot of money to convince deniers to keep denying. It seems to be working.
Why are there no billionaires organizing on par against the Koch Bros for Mother Earth? Why why why?????
"Organic farming has been hijacked by big business. Local food can have a larger carbon footprint than products shipped in from overseas. Fair trade doesn’t address the real concerns of farmers in the global South."
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Hijacked Organic, Limited Local, Faulty Fair Trade
ACK!!!!
Some of this I knew, some I didn’t. Very interesting.
"The global community must use the same voice to insist that Guatemala and the transnational governmental and corporate interests that influence its contemporary conduct safeguard and respect human rights and protect their defenders, and adopt inclusive and democratic development policies that inure to the benefit of its impoverished masses. - By Lauren Carasik"
— Unfolding Repression in the Shadows of the Guatemalan Genocide Trial
"The confrontation between protesters, who are mostly local indigenous Xinca, and mine owners, Canadian Tahoe Resources, escalated on April 3, when the mine received an operating license, precipitating a peaceful occupation of privately owned land by protesters five days later. Despite violent evictions by the private security guards, demonstrators continued their peaceful resistance to the mine they believe will deplete their water supply and contaminate what remains."
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Unfolding Repression in the Shadows of the Guatemalan Genocide Trial
Evincing impatience with the peaceful opposition, private security forces opened fire on protesters last Saturday, injuring six people and triggering an escalation in hostilities. Preliminary reports indicated that the mine’s executive, Alberto Rotondo, ordered security forces to attack the demonstrators, and later to cover up the crime.In response, local groups kidnapped and disarmed 23 security forces. In a tremendous show of force, the government responded by sending over 8,000 government troops to the area. The ensuing operation to free the hostages left one protester and one police officer dead. Subsequent raids by the authorities led to the arrest of at least 15 people. Under the State of Siege, civil liberties are suspended - the rights of peaceful assembly and to bear arms are suspended, homes can be searched without cause, and the state can engage in the indefinite detention of citizens without judicial review and access to counsel. Human rights advocates fear that suspending constitutional rights will unleash further repression and shield the government from accountability for its tactics.
All because the people who live there already don’t want a Canadian corporation mining there, as is their right! ”Under international legal standards, development projects must be implemented with the consultation and consent of the affected indigenous groups and local opposition to the mine has been overwhelming.”
Please read this article - it’s one of the connect the dots kind of pieces.
A banned TED talk from Graham Hancock where he talks about ayahuasca and how we are being kept from evolving our consciousness by the powers that be and the collective dream-state they have instilled in the masses that manifests itself as the phobia of mind expansion. MUST WATCH
Yes indeed a MUST SEE video. Psychedelics imho don’t cause false or fake experiences, they open doors of perception into another reality - the one we cannot normally see. But that is only the catalyst in this story. My fav quote:
… everybody realizes that a promise of a society over monopolistically based on this state of consciousness has proved hollow. And that this model is no longer working. That it is broken in every sense of a way that the model can be broken. And urgently we need to find something to replace it. The vast problems of global pollution resulted from the single minded pursuit of profit. The horrors of nuclear proliferation. The spectre of hunger that millions go to bed every night starving - that we can’t even solve this problem despite our alert problem solving state of consciousness. And look what’s happening in the Amazon the lungs of our planet this precious home of biodiversity. The old growth forest being cut down and being replace with soya bean farms so that we can feed cattle so that we can eat hamburgers… only a truly insane global state of consciousness would allow such an abomination to occur.
Wow! My kinda guy right there! His story is about consciousness changing in a deeply and profound way and I agree 100% that is what has to happen in order to save our world.
TED - big FAIL on censoring this and yes you did censor it. And yes, you are right, your excuses for that were clumsy at best.
(via etherealexpression)
mmmmmmmmm
Easiest Bread Recipe Ever… (may not be the best tasting ever but haven’t had any complaints yet)
BEER BREAD
3 cups flour self rising flower
1/4 cup sugar *optional*
1 12oz can beer (experiment w/diff flavors)
1/4 cup melted butter
Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Mix dry ingredients - *optional* Include melted butter OR Pour melted butter over mixture after putting in greased loaf pan.
Pour into a greased loaf pan.
Bake 1 hour, cool on rack for at least 20 minutes.
Could A Sustainable Source of Energy Be Right Beneath Our Feet?
The idea began over a decade ago when The Facility came up with a method of dampening the noisy rattle of parts of London’s aging railways, while harnessing the energy that created the noise to generate electricity. The initial idea eventually spawned a floor which can produce energy from the daily stamping of pedestrians. They explored a few different paths, including embedding a series of tiny tubes beneath a rubbery floor, similar to that in a children’s playground. When walked over, liquid in the tubes would shift and be forced through turbines, which would then generate the power. Although the juice harvested from this system would be relatively small, in areas of high foot-traffic like subway stations it could be used to power low-energy devices like displays, ticket machines and turnstiles.
Capturing Energy Efficiency one step at a time
The only thing holding us back from figuring this out… entrenched corporate power dedicated to the status quo.
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In July 2012, three Republican senators and one Democratic senator wrote a letter to Lisa Jackson, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) top administrator at the time, requesting that the agency reject a proposal to strengthen safety measures at facilities that hold dangerous chemicals.
Sen. David Vitter (R-Louisiana), Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) asked the EPA to reject a 2012 request from a federal advisory committee to revisit the proposal and “reduce or eliminate … catastrophic risks” at facilities that hold large quantities of dangerous chemicals, especially those near residential areas. The proposal first appeared at the EPA in 2002 in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Why Can’t EPA Tighten Safety Regulations at Chemical Facilities Like West Fertilizer?
Senator Vitter, a vocal critic of the EPA and key signatory on the 2012 letter opposing the proposal, received nearly $600,000 in direct campaign contributions from the petrochemical and gas industries from 2007 to 2012, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
During the past 15 years, Vitter and Senator Landrieu’s home state of Louisiana had the nation’s highest rate of accidents at chemical facilities that hold large amounts of anhydrous ammonia, a poisonous gas, according to data compiled by the Center for Effective Government.
Hmmm, Thanks TruthOut! I hadn’t seen this anywhere else, did any of you?
THE NATURE OF THINGS
Season 2012-2013, Episode 9, Feb 7, 2013
Shattered Ground
Fracking, while a bonanza for gas and oil production, is caught in a backlash of suspicion and alarm. What’s happening underground it seems can shatter more than just rock.
This link was provided to me via mail to share here, but I think this video is not available to those of us in the USA. So, to my dear Canadian friends, check it out and see if you can view it.
I found it interesting that CBC has a YouTube channel and I can watch any video posted there EXCEPT the Shattered Ground preview. It has not been made available in my country.
Isn’t that interesting?
Wonder why this Canadian show or preview on YouTube about fracking wouldn’t be shown in the USA. hmmmm
