Thoughts while watching, "Winter Soldier"- interviews with Vietnam vets

We got to get it together. The things that are going on right in front of us and which, by lack of action, we are complicit in supporting are horrific and unacceptable. I speak for myself when I say this. People, we are being led by a destructive oligarchy. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are frightfully similar to the Vietnam war. No offense, but I see very few people here on Facebook concerned about anything of significance to our survival as a people, a planet or a nation. Lenin said, "If you don't get involved in politics, politics will get involved with you". If you really think about all the senseless killing and environmental destruction that has been going on for the past couple of centuries it really puts things in perspective; why are we letting evil people run the damn show?

A note from a friend: thoughts for the day.

A friend of mine sent me this message on Facebook about a week ago:

"I must be spending too much time on facebook as your angry (though dead-on) comments have seeped into my subconscious. Had a dream last night that you were yelling on the street about oil spills and dead geese!"

I must be doing something right! ; - j
I got to say, as much as I like to enjoy my time on this planet and
as much as I feel very grateful for what's left of the earth, it is pretty
disturbing to witness the incessant environmental assaults and human and
animal rights abuses that are occurring at a dizzying rate these days. Not only that
the events seem to be accelerating in a cascade of bad sh*t. (Literally: my tap water in Brooklyn
smelled like sewage this morning because it drizzled for a couple of minutes. When that happens in NY the sewers flood and spill over into the water supply. Lovely!)


Well here's my latest facebook interaction which pretty much sums up my mood today:

My post:

F*cking BP. It looks like the dispersants (Corexit) they put in the ocean may likely be KILLING the very MICROBES that would naturally break down and eat the oil.

Yuisa Dávila WHAT THE FLUFF??!!!!! DONT THEY HAVE SCIENTISTS THAT COULD HAVE/SHOULD HAVE WARNED THEM OF THIS????!!!!! IM ABSOLUTELY SICK WITH THIS!!!!!
E.l. Copeland well man the other oil spill in michigan day before last isnt even being covered it was 800k gallons right into the drinking water

Djibril Toure yup it was cheaper than skimmin it off the surface..inglorious basterdz


MY RESPONSE:

‎@E.L. dude I heard about that. Supposedly there's an effort to stop it from getting to lake Michigan. To all: we need to keep putting the word out about these things and raise awareness and discussion. For the health of our planet to become a priority there has to be a big popular swell of outrage over these events and our government's failure to aggressively push towards a sustainable energy infrastructure. The cats running the show at the moment are content to let this place go to hell. It would seem that they are convinced that money and class advantage will allow them to remain untouched by the catastrophic events that are sure to pass; in large part as a direct result of their tolerance, support or aggressive pursuit of a fossil fuel based energy system and an oil and war economy. Things are very real.

That's the rub. Till next time friends.
Stay up!

P

Climate change and the state of the earth.

Climate change is so real and what to do about it? We see so many signs of trouble ahead but the world as we know it ( waste, want, destruction, war, stupidity) carries on without a hitch. The earth is distabalizing and the people with the most influence are supporting more and more waste and damage. And here we all are just trying to get by, pay our bills, advance our careers etc... man,
we better wake up. When you speak in these terms most people probably feel like it's an over-reaction. This summer is way too dry. There's no more snow in the Alps... f*ck.
I feel like anytime spent aside from organizing and working towards trying to save what little planet we have left is the only thing really worth doing. We are so connected through various social networking sights and the internet but more fragmented than ever. It's one big popularity contest and nobody seems to give enough of a crap to work together to do something about the state of the world and society.
I'm not trying to be a doom sayer but things are strange, people.
Stay up...

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