Thursday, May 19, 2011

FYI

Posted by Mickey Z on 05/19 at 04:23 AM

  2. Good morning Mickey. The u.s. wants to build a navy base in Jeju Island, off the coast of S. Korea. Of course, a number of the protestors have been arrested.

    Gangjeong village resident Professor Yang Yoon-Mo is now in his 45th day of his hunger strike while in jail for trying to block a construction truck.  He has vowed to die in jail unless base construction is halted.

    It has been said this base is right on China shipping lanes and will escalate any tensions currently existing. Another illustration of how insane america is and has always been.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  05/19  at  11:28 AM

  3. Remember when Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa said that the US could keep it’s military base in Ecuador...if Ecuador was allowed to open one in Florida? Logic is usually more equitable than reality.

    Posted by Rick (the Cartoonist) from England  on  05/19  at  12:19 PM

  4. Nuremberg, truncated: “You’re a human being first, and an imperial hall monitor/heavily-armed stormtrooper/Fox News host second.”

    E Pluribus Bellum Dept: in America, if there’s a war, there’s a way. Next, we’ll try to install a military base on a passing asteroid, so it can broadcast the Pentagon Requirimiento across the cosmos.

    Posted by Zen Prole from Pac NW  on  05/19  at  08:19 PM

  5. Hi Joe, Rick, Zen, Mickey, and all…

    The US has so many bases on foreign soil that there is not a consistent count of them...maybe 700 in 130 countries, plus all of those hidden in the Black Budget.  Rick, I remember that escapade in Ecuador. Here in my tiny town, there are plans for a new multi-million dollar military training facility. No money for the homeless, hungry, medically needy… but lots of money for the killing machine.

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  05/20  at  09:37 AM

  6. RMJ...yeah, I just don’t know what’s wrong with americans sense of outrage that is damn near non-existent. It appears John Q. Public is intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, metaphysically, SHUT DOWN!

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  05/20  at  12:24 PM

  7. Indeed, we are a nation of lazy cowards and once the big collapse hits, most of us will line up behind the most brutal faction again.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  05/20  at  02:26 PM

  8. I’m absolutely baffled that people see no sense of urgency about anything, locally or internationally.

    One might expect people to be at least concerned with what’s happening right in their backyards, literally, but they are not!

    The other part of this, I don’t get a hint that anyone is trying to change their thinking about anything, as if the information the society and its forces have given, forced upon people, is valid.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  05/20  at  03:13 PM

  9. Good morning everyone.

    How much time, how many lifetimes must we waste.

    Knowledge is infinite if right learning is chosen, to be in balance with the natural world that we are part of.

    What has popularly passed as knowledge has maintained that which we need to transcend. Evolution does not need to be many lifetimes. An inner revolution is needed that won’t immediately have the appeal of carrying the garbage.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  05/21  at  05:29 AM

  10. I’m guessing the only chance at transformation is when it all crashes down. Until we can distract ourselves with toys, nothing else seems real.

    http://transitionvoice.com/2011/05/blessings-of-a-dying-paradigm

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  05/21  at  05:33 AM

  11. I can’t believe it; there I was absolutely CONVINCED that the Rapture was going to be today, and the roads were FULL of Christians with those fish symbols on their cars.

    What do we have to do to get RID of these fundamentalists?

    Posted by subgenius from hell-A  on  05/21  at  08:22 PM

  12. Subgenious from hell, 10

    Tell them you’re the real jesus christ and you won’t have them as disciple.

    If they ask why, hold up your left hand and silently stare at them.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  05/22  at  12:53 AM

  13. Since the world didn’t end, I’ve just put up a new post. The beat goes on…

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  05/22  at  05:19 AM

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