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No Network Connection: Tears In Heaven

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“We hope to explore and use space for more resources to promote human development.”   -Li Benzheng (Director, China’s Lunar Program)

Filed under: American Dream, capitalism, civilization, collapse, cultural crisis, freedom, geopolitics, global collapse Tagged: capitalism, civilization, collapse, Colonialism, Corporate State, Earth, Empire, freedom, geopolitics, human nature, Reality, religion, Russia, Shamanism, Siberia, Veronika

The Heat Is On!

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“…cram a bunch of rats in a cage, they’re gonna fight.” Heretick

Dateline: Arapahoe High School, Colorado, December 2013

The forces of command and control that underpin and reinforce the corporate state are more evident daily across the globe and across the nation.

Filed under: 9/11, Agriculture, American Dream, American Exceptionalism, Anarchy, Aristotle, capitalism, civilization, collapse, cultural crisis, democracy, freedom, geopolitics, global collapse Tagged: Aristotle, capitalism, civilization, conspiracy, Corporate State, Earth, Empire, freedom, geopolitics, human nature, Occupy Wall Street, Reality, religion, terrorism, thought police

A Thanksgiving Prayer: Give Me Liberty, Give Me Security, Or Just Gim’me More

It is long passed the time for our many-tentacled and exploding Republic of Fear to return Lady Liberty to those squishy French people who loaned us the statue so many moons ago.

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Disabled and Dying In the World of Plenty

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A Guest Post by FIDO

After looking at my meager Social Security Disability check and looking outside of my front door of my hole-in-the-wall apartment, I wondered: Is this it?

Filed under: American Dream, Body-politic, capitalism, cultural crisis, democracy, global collapse Tagged: capitalism, collapse, conspiracy, Corporate State, Empire, Financial Crisis, freedom, Reality, religion

The New Dark Ages: Amerika 2020

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 ”America thus enters its new dark age.”  James Kunstler, The Snapback

Filed under: Agriculture, American Dream, American Exceptionalism, Anarchy, Austerity, Christianity, civilization, collapse, Colonialism, cultural crisis, Curriculum of the West, democracy, Dominionism, earth, energy, evangelical, fascism, Financial Crisis, genocide, geopolitics, global collapse, GMO foods, inverted totalitarianism, Islam, Monsanto, Presidential politics, privatization, progress, rationality, social contract, Spectacle, terrorism Tagged: capitalism, Christianity, civilization, collapse, conspiracy, Corporate State, Earth, Empire, freedom, geopolitics, religion, terrorism

Through A Glass Darkly: 1 Corinthians 13:12

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While the mayor of Mecca is bent on destroying the city’s cultural and material legacy, building the infrastructure for a city of the future, the residents of Senegal are fighting one another in the streets for potable water.  In the meantime the folks in the Bay of Bengal are cleaning up what’s left after Tropical Cyclone Phailin, whose speeds were as fast as a Formula One race car, just as our friends in the US Midwest are still digging out from their early October surprise, while Canada is making plans to bury its nuclear wastes at the bottom of Lake Huron.

Filed under: American Dream, American Exceptionalism, capitalism, Christianity, civilization, collapse, commodification, Corporate State, cultural crisis, freedom, geopolitics, global collapse, GMO foods, Hedges, private property, Russia, sexuality, Siberia, social contract, Spectacle, State, thought police Tagged: capitalism, civilization, Colonialism, Corporate State, Empire, freedom, Russia

Where Do We Go From Here?

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In a world evaporating before our eyes, what have we left to concern ourselves with?  This might be the most demanding question of the past century.

It’s strange how all indicators looked so good to Americans back in the fifties.  The halcyon years. There was no such thing as hope back then…

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Filed under: 9/11, Africa, Agriculture, American Dream, American Exceptionalism, Anarchy, Austerity, Body-politic, body-subject, capitalism, censorship, Christianity, CIA, civilization, collapse, Colonialism, commodification, Corporate State, cultural crisis, democracy, earth, energy, espionage, fascism, feral, freedom, geopolitics, homeland security, human nature, Islam, Karl Marx, nature, Obama, peak oil, primal humanity, progress, Protest, rape, rationality, Riots, social contract, Spectacle, State, terrorism, thought police, treason Tagged: Africa, capitalism, Christianity, civilization, collapse, Colonialism, conspiracy, Corporate State, Earth, Egypt, Empire, Financial Crisis, freedom, fundamentalism, geopolitics, human nature, Libya, MENA, natural disasters, primitive, Reality, religion, terrorism, Time

Just One More Time Around the Horn… Of Africa

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Between a third and half of the [Kenya's] urban population live in poverty, and given the pace of urbanisation, urban poverty will represent almost half of the total poverty in Kenya by 2020…. In Nairobi, the capital city, 60% of the population live in slums and levels of inequality are dangerously high, with negative implications for both human security and economic development. (Urban Poverty and Vulnerability In Kenya, Sept 2009)

Here’s my first question: what is a f**king shopping mall doing in Nairobi, anyway?

Filed under: 9/11, Africa, American Dream, American Exceptionalism, Anarchy, Colonialism, commodification, Corporate State, freedom, genocide, geopolitics, homeland security, Riots, Somalia, State, terrorism, treason, whistleblowers Tagged: Africa, capitalism, civilization, Colonialism, conspiracy, Corporate State, Empire, freedom, geopolitics, Libya, MENA, terrorism

A State of Exception . A State of Grace . A State of Denial

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How are we to make sense of this ongoing war of words?  How do we understand the cocky swagger, the egoism of this continuing and unabated national self-importance of American Exceptionalism? The bobbing-head-doll leading this parade — our charade of international self aggrandizement — continues to demonstrate why such an attitude is so very dangerous — for our own health and the health of the planet.  To take oneself so seriously as to thoughtlessly LORD it over the rest of the globe is dangerous in any hands and in any framework.

Filed under: American Dream, American Exceptionalism, homeland security, Nietzsche, Occupy Wall Street, progress, terrorism, trust, whistleblowers Tagged: capitalism, Colonialism, conspiracy, Empire, freedom, Occupy Wall Street, Oil, terrorism

A Simulacra of Community: Building Trust and Loyalty

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I must take  minute here to vent some of my frustration and my deep disappointment.  I have spent over two years providing all of you with my thoughts, opinions, humor, and faith; and I have given you a place to congregate, talk, rant, rave and share your musical interludes.  OK, a few times I got pissy in the beginning, but I thought I was building trust and loyalty.  I never really asked for anything, and never expected I would.  It was not my intent in starting a blog.  But, then this movie thing happened, and I figured, sure, my fellow bloggers will certainly chip in. Well, only three out of the 500+ have pledged something to the project. But, the silent majority has done nothing; just silence. But, I suppose I was right from the beginning; a virtual community is not a community of real people, its just a silly simulacra of community.  My deepest thanks to those of you who pledged some money to the teaser, and to those of you who have planned to pledge but have not yet had the opportunity.

Always, Sandy, kulturCritic

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