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10月26日

Humanity

“But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and
aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.”
– Albert Einstein
10月25日

Running out of time

 

"The group's biannual Living Planet Report said the natural world was being degraded "at a rate unprecedented in human history".   It warned that if demand continued at the current rate, two planets would be needed to meet global demand by 2050."

"They added that if the world's population shared the UK's lifestyle, three planets would be needed to support their needs."

 

From ABC, Humans living far beyond planet's means: WWF

"If everyone around the world lived as those in America, we would need five planets to support us."

"People are turning resources into waste faster than nature can turn waste back into resources."

 

That last quote is the big one.  Like everything else, the Earth has to be able to replenish itself.  We are not allowing it time to do so.  We, especially Americans, want everything now, now, now!  It's all about "me, me, me!"  But we cannot sustain this kind of living.  Everything in America is defined by materialism: success, happiness, and even life itself.  We have to adopt a new outlook on life in general.  We need to conserve and care about the environment....you know, the thing that allows you to exist.  I know that some people won't care about this revelation or even think that there is a problem.  But that is because they are STUPID.  We have all got to understand that we are part of the Earth's ecosystem, and that the ecosystem has a balance that has to be maintained for our own survival.  We are not respecting that balance. 

10月16日

Short term profits

The Republican policies that have generated such dramatic profit margin gains for some very large corporations in a very short time frame WILL come back to bite us in the ass eventually.  The Daily India sees it.  Why not our media?  Why isn't anyone in our country asking the hard questions, or any questions at all, for that matter?  Our media simply takes the president at his word that the economy IS actually doing well, growing and all that.  They shouldn't take his word on that any more than they should on any other issue.  It's all about profit, greed, power, right now, and damn the future.  They can make their own buck, right?  A market cannot stay up forever, and a market that shoots dramatically higher will drop that much harder.  That's just the way things have always worked.  The housing market is beginning its "correction" (read: housing bubble will burst, leaving thousands homeless and penniless) as we see economists projecting huge property value losses in some of the hottest real estate markets of recent years.  The DOW is at a record high, but how long will it stay there?  Does anyone know if those stocks are overvalued as compared to profits or earnings?  Does anyone know what that means?
 
The US bond market, which no one outside of Asian banks or Wall St pays any attention to, is confusing economists to no end.  That is the market that plays a large role in the international strength of the dollar, and no one knows what to make of it.  With so much of our consumer goods coming from overseas, our quality of life, indeed our very livelihood, depends on the international strength of the dollar.  However, read this article.  I find the timing surrounding the predictions of the ups and downs of the bond market particularly interesting.  Apparently, no one ever had more than a 5 or 8 year plan when they were plotting out our economic future.  Surprise.
 
10月4日

October 5 - Day of Mass Resistance

 

Go to the link above to see if there is an event near you.  And that goes for all my readers.  I looked through the list and there are protests planned everywhere from Alabama to Canada. 

 
 

My stuff...

Pentagon in nature.
 
 
My balcony garden.
 
 
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