Their record in regards to terrorism is not the shiniest.</div>
On the 7th of July 2005 London was hit by a series of explosions. You probably think you know what happened that day. But you donâ™t.
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- Location:Oaktownbootyville, CA
The entire documentary is viewable at the site.
HOUR 1 examines how Judaism and the Roman empire shaped Jesus' life. Jesus was an ordinary Jewish resident of his time, but new archaeological findings show that Jesus was probably not the humble village peasant often portrayed Nazareth, where he grew up, was about four miles from the cosmopolitan urban center of Sepphoris, one of the Roman provincial cities
HOUR 2 explores the period after the crucifixion of Jesus and traces the beginnings of the Jesus Movement, in those early years before it was called Christianity
HOUR 3 follows the story of the first attempts to write the life of Jesus--the Gospels: The Gospels were products of social and religious reconstruction in the period after the war, ranging from roughly 70 to after 100 C.E. The program looks at how these stories were passed down before they were written.
HOUR 4 chronicles how the Christian movement - as it became separate from Judaism-would face new challenges
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Previously in O,DIKTO?:
-Bill Moyers: His Kung-Fu Is BEST!
-Fat on Frontline
-Young Christians who've actually read the Bible quitting the GOP
-The only thing worse than hypocrisy...
-The Amish kids throw the wildest parties (DVD review)
- Location:Bump City, CA
- Jammin' to:Twisted Sister - Oh Come, All Ye Faithful
In Debt We Trust
"IN DEBT WE TRUST is the latest film from Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector," director of the internationally distributed and award-winning WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception), an expose of the media's role in the Iraq War. The Emmy-winning former ABC News and CNN producer's new hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans are being strangled by debt. It is a journalistic confrontation with what former Reagan advisor Kevin Phillips calls "Financialization"--the "powerful emergence of a debt-and-credit industrial complex." While many Americans may be "maxing out" on credit cards, there is a deeper story: power is shifting into fewer hands.....with frightening consequences.
"IN DEBT WE TRUST shows how the mall replaced the factory as America's dominant economic engine and how big banks and credit card companies buy our Congress and drive us into what a former major bank economist calls modern serfdom. Americans and our government owe trillions in consumer debt and the national debt, a large amount of it to big banks and billions to Communist China."
Danny Schechter is also featured on The Real News Network:
-Media & The Bailout Failure
-One Nation Under Debt
Previously in O,DIKTO?:
-Econopocalypse 2008, or "Why is the sea retreating like that?"
-Let it burn... because I own next to no fuel!
-SHUT UP! YOU SUCK & ARE WRONG & IT'S GONNA COST MORE THAN WE CAN COMPREHEND, SO SHUT THE FUCK UP!
-Where does money come from? it comes from debt
- Location:Bump City, CA
- Jammin' to:Schoolhouse Rock - Tyrannosaurus Debt
Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere -- so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive -- that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
-Woodrow Wilson, 1913
Where does money come from? Why doesn't your government own it's own money? Why does your government borrow all it's money from private banks at interest? What is "fractional reserve banking?"
Our money system is a big fucking ponzi scheme, based on debt. Debt that can never be paid back. Because if it did, the supply of money would disappear. No debt, no money.
Our economy is based on IOUs. And IOUs taken out against IOUs. This is how the housing market collapsed, massive numbers of people unable (or too fucking smart) to continue paying the debt on houses that ad less value than the debt itself.
If you use money and carry any kind of debt, you need to watch this video. Your kids, as well. It's not like they're going to get this lesson at school.
Especially when suicide is growing more and more popular as a response to crushing debt. And not just in America. In India, farmers drowning in debt (from turning to corporate chemicals they thought would save their farms) are killing themselves with the very pesticide that have destroyed their land and enslaved them to Monsanto.
-Woodrow Wilson, 1913
Where does money come from? Why doesn't your government own it's own money? Why does your government borrow all it's money from private banks at interest? What is "fractional reserve banking?"
Our money system is a big fucking ponzi scheme, based on debt. Debt that can never be paid back. Because if it did, the supply of money would disappear. No debt, no money.
Our economy is based on IOUs. And IOUs taken out against IOUs. This is how the housing market collapsed, massive numbers of people unable (or too fucking smart) to continue paying the debt on houses that ad less value than the debt itself.
If you use money and carry any kind of debt, you need to watch this video. Your kids, as well. It's not like they're going to get this lesson at school.
Especially when suicide is growing more and more popular as a response to crushing debt. And not just in America. In India, farmers drowning in debt (from turning to corporate chemicals they thought would save their farms) are killing themselves with the very pesticide that have destroyed their land and enslaved them to Monsanto.
Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out. The Cowichan Citizens Coalition and its "Duncan Initiative" received high praise from those who previewed it. I recommend it as a painless but hard-hitting educational tool and encourage the widest distribution and use by all groups concerned with the present unsustainable monetary system in Canada and the United States.
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Previously in O,DIKTO?
-SHUT UP! YOU SUCK & ARE WRONG & IT'S GONNA COST MORE THAN WE CAN COMPREHEND, SO SHUT THE FUCK UP!
-Dollars, Oil, & The Big Wipeout
-"Fuck Horatio Alger & His Books
-Up Against The Wall, All Of You!
-I Think I Shall Call It "Bush League Housing"
-Calls Warfare: Just Wage It!
-Meet Your Ruling Class, New York
- Location:Bump City, CA
- Jammin' to:Pink Floyd - Money
www.911weknow.com
No more!
We're gonna fight back!
We want the truth out!
We want our rights back!
Change is loose, it's breaking out!
Previously in O,DIKTO?
-Sept. 11th Documentary - Loose Change
-Dollars, Oil, And The Big Wipeout
-David Lynch on Loose Change
- Location:OaktownOUTRAGEVILLE, CA
- Jammin' to:Remo Conscious - Loose Change
No more!
We're gonna fight back!
We want the truth out!
We want our rights back!
Change is loose, it's breaking out!
Previously in O,DIKTO?
-Dollars, Oil, And The Big Wipeout
-David Lynch on Loose Change
- Location:OaktownOUTRAGEVILLE, CA
- Jammin' to:Remo Conscious - Loose Change
But please, STOP DRINKING THIS CANCEROUS CHEMICAL THAT THE CORPORATIONS MAKE SO MUCH MONEY OFF!
And for HEAVEN'S SAKE, please don't give this stuff to your kids. That's borderline abuse.
If you consume aspartame in any shape or form, PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO! And for Pete's sake, STOP PUTTING THAT TOXIC SHIT INTO YOUR BODY!
Excellent documentary showing how dangerous artificial sweetner Aspartame is. From its history, to its effects this video is enough to shock anyone into really looking at there food labels next time they shop. Aspartame is a toxic food that came into the world as an investment By Donald Rumsfeld, while ignoring the deadly effects the tests showed. Take a good look at this video, it could save lives.
See also http://myaspartameexperiment.com/
Every can of diet soda you swallow is building up permanent levels of toxic chemicals in your body that will never go away because the body is incapable of clearing them out.
I resist the urge to either laugh or shout at people who ask me for a Diet Coke at work, if only because it would get me fired. But here on my LJ, I can rant.
If you drink diet soda because you think it'll help keep you skinny (or even more deludedly, as part of a weight-loss program), you have been sold a bill of goods. You are participating in a lie, and you are also the person being lied to.
You are paying a premium to the corporations for a fantasy, and the reality is slowly poisoning you.
Drink water. Drink green tea.* There are plenty of affordable options. Believe it or not, YOU CAN GET BY WITHOUT CANNED SODA, SUGARED OR OTHERWISE. YOU HAVE IT IN YOU TO NOT BE A MINDLESS CONSUMER OF CORPORATE PRODUCTS THAT KILL YOU.
But stop babbling about how you want to be healthy and get in shape when you have an aspartame cola in your hand. Bad enough you're lying to yourself, but someone else might believe you and pick up on your bad habit, and then you get dinged for spreading the gospel of corporate poisons.
* Avoid fruit juice, tho. I mean, if you're gonna squeeze an orange and drink the juice, that's one thing. But that 12 oz glass of commercial OJ is REAL high in sugar.
- Location:Oaktownbootyville, CA
There's another excellent documentary from the CBC out there titled Cuba: The Accidental Revolution featuring David Suzuki. It's not currently available on the web but if you come across it, do check it out.
The solution to our upcoming Long Emergency and the perpetual decline in remaining fossil fuels will not come from barricading ourselves behind walls, stocking up on ammunition to hoard what we have against our neighbors, and trying to be the last one standing.
It will arise from us coming together, rebuilding our communities, and learning just where it is that food comes from. And making that our happen locally.
The solution to our upcoming Long Emergency and the perpetual decline in remaining fossil fuels will not come from barricading ourselves behind walls, stocking up on ammunition to hoard what we have against our neighbors, and trying to be the last one standing.
It will arise from us coming together, rebuilding our communities, and learning just where it is that food comes from. And making that our happen locally.
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil http://www.powerofcommunity.org/cm/inde
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Previously in O,DIKTO?
-There Is No War On Terror
-Things That Can't Go On Forever... DON'T!
-Where does money come from? it comes from DEBT
-2016, we're running low on oil. What might that look like...
We're running out. And we don't have a plan
- Location:Oaktownbootyville, CA
- Jammin' to:Kirsty McColl - In These Shoes?
-Richard Heinberg, author of Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines, Sr. Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute
"Oil Smoke & Mirrors" offers a sobering critique of our perceived recent history, of our present global circumstances, and of our shared future in light of imminent, under-reported and mis-represented energy production constraints.
Through a series of impressively candid, informed and articulate interviews, this film argues that the bizzare events surrounding the 9/11 attacks, and the equally bizzare prosecution of the so-called "war on terror", can be more credibly understood in the wider context of an imminent and critical divergence between available global oil aupply and and global oil demand.
The picture "Oil, Smoke & Mirrors" paints is one of a tragically hyper-mediated global-political culture, which, for whatever reason, demonstrably disassociates itself from the values it claims to represent.
While the ideas presented in this film can at first seem daunting, it's ultimate assertion is that these challenges can indeed be met and surpassed, if, but only if, we can find the courage to perceive them.
Rule number 1 of survival: "Perceive and Believe: Don't fall into the deadly trap of denial or of immobilizing fear. Admit it: You're really in trouble and you're going to have to get yourself out."
Previously in O,DIKTO?
-Where does money come from? It comes from debt
-2016, we're running low on oil. What might that look like?
-We're running out. And we don't have a plan
-When Fascism Comes to America...
-America. We Love Our Wars. And More Are Coming.
- Location:Oaktownbootyville, CA
- Jammin' to:Disturbed - Land of Confusion
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness.
Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream.
But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary.
The consequences of inaction in the face of this global crisis are enormous. What does Oil Peak mean for North America? As energy prices skyrocket in the coming years, how will the populations of suburbia react to the collapse of their dream? Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of tomorrow? And what can be done NOW, individually and collectively, to avoid The End of Suburbia?
[52-minute version]
Previously in O,DIKTO?:
-James Howard Kunstler & "The Geography of Nowhere"
-We're running out. And we don't have a plan
-Not with a bang, but a whimper: the collapse of Suburbia</>
- Location:Oaktownbootyville, CA
- Jammin' to:Rush - Subdivisions
Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere -- so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive -- that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
-Woodrow Wilson, 1913
Where does money come from? Why doesn't your government own it's own money? Why does your government borrow all it's money from private banks at interest? What is "fractional reserve banking?"
Our money system is a big fucking ponzi scheme, based on debt. Debt that can never be paid back. Because if it did, the supply of money would disappear. No debt, no money.
Our economy is based on IOUs. And IOUs taken out against IOUs. This is how the housing market collapsed, massive numbers of people unable (or too fucking smart) to continue paying the debt on houses that ad less value than the debt itself.
If you use money and carry any kind of debt, you need to watch this video. Your kids, as well. It's not like they're going to get this lesson at school.
Especially when suicide is growing more and more popular as a response to crushing debt. And not just in America. In India, farmers drowning in debt (from turning to corporate chemicals they thought would save their farms) are killing themselves with the very pesticide that have destroyed their land and enslaved them to Monsanto.
-Woodrow Wilson, 1913
Where does money come from? Why doesn't your government own it's own money? Why does your government borrow all it's money from private banks at interest? What is "fractional reserve banking?"
Our money system is a big fucking ponzi scheme, based on debt. Debt that can never be paid back. Because if it did, the supply of money would disappear. No debt, no money.
Our economy is based on IOUs. And IOUs taken out against IOUs. This is how the housing market collapsed, massive numbers of people unable (or too fucking smart) to continue paying the debt on houses that ad less value than the debt itself.
If you use money and carry any kind of debt, you need to watch this video. Your kids, as well. It's not like they're going to get this lesson at school.
Especially when suicide is growing more and more popular as a response to crushing debt. And not just in America. In India, farmers drowning in debt (from turning to corporate chemicals they thought would save their farms) are killing themselves with the very pesticide that have destroyed their land and enslaved them to Monsanto.
Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out. The Cowichan Citizens Coalition and its "Duncan Initiative" received high praise from those who previewed it. I recommend it as a painless but hard-hitting educational tool and encourage the widest distribution and use by all groups concerned with the present unsustainable monetary system in Canada and the United States.
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Previously in O,DIKTO?
-"Fuck Horatio Alger & His Books
-Up Against The Wall, All Of You!
-I Think I Shall Call It "Bush League Housing"
-Calls Warfare: Just Wage It!
-Meet Your Ruling Class, New York
- Location:Bump City, CA
- Jammin' to:Pink Floyd - Money
"And I want you to think about that when you think about those young men and women who are over in places like Iraq spilling their blood in the sand, and ask yourself What is their last thought of home?
"I hope it's not the curb-cut between the Chuck-E-Cheese & the Target store. Because that's not good enough for Americans to be spilling their blood for.
"We need better places in this country."
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Dood, TED talks: making you smarter, 20 minutes at a time.
Previously in O,DIKTO?
-We're running out. And we don't have a plan.
-And she brings out a real human brain, too!
-Not with a bang, but a whimper: the collapse of Suburbia
- Location:Oaktownbootyville, CA
- Jammin' to:Rush - Subdivisions
Worldwide instability, economic recession & depression, endless gas-station lines, VIOLENCE at those long, temper-straining gas-lines...
We need to start taking stock of our lives and start making other plans. Life as we have known it in America, chugging fossil fuels like beer at a college kegger IS NO LONGER AN OPTION.
Are you making other plans?
We need to start taking stock of our lives and start making other plans. Life as we have known it in America, chugging fossil fuels like beer at a college kegger IS NO LONGER AN OPTION.
Are you making other plans?
"It is very important for us to think today about what we can do to move away from the oil age And hopefully we'll develop a policy to move away from oil today, rather than waiting until a story like this in 2016 forces us to give up oil
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- Location:Team LexiMonkey HQ
Here's the entire movie, subtitled in Polish. It interferes with the segment about Azerbaijan, but that's only a small part.
Don't fucking blather to me about biofuels. Not when The World Bank's leaked secret report says that up to 75% of the current world food crisis is due to diverting agriculture away from feeding people to keeping the fucking cars running.
Biofuels are a crime against humanity, not an economic option!
The plan we don't have, it's the how are we going to live when the cheap, abundant oil that has made nearly every aspect of our lives possible becomes rare, hard to get, and expensive? plan
It's the Given that there is nothing on the technical horizon that even comes close to replacing oil in terms of our energy needs, what are we going to do when suddenly there isn't enough of the stuff that makes the entire project of civilization as we have constructed it possible? plan that we don't have.
There's always more elective war. That's pretty much been our operating plan for the last century plus. All we have to do is scale things up.
Some of you have children.
Good. The coming oil wars will need foot-soldiers to keep all of your your cars running. SOMEONE'S going to have to occupy Saudi Arabia when it collapses under the weight of it's own contradictions. Lexi & I don't have kids, it'll have to be yours.
Or we would, as a society, make other plans.
One way or another, The Long Emergency is real. And it is blossoming for us. It will be a way of life for the foreseeable future.
And we don't have a plan.
Previously in O,DIKTO?:
-"If we weren't meant to feed cars before people, why would we have so much paved road?"
-Americans will riot over gas before we riot over food
-Not with a bang, but a whimper: The End of Suburbia
-If I can't bike with a broken collarbone... [MAJOR anti-personal-automobiles rant]
-Automobile = Pollution + Terrorism + Jellybutt
- Location:Team LexiMonkey HQ
- Jammin' to:Asylum Street Spankers - Put Magnetic Ribbons On Your SUV
-Sinclair Lewis.
From the talk by Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot:
"I wrote THE BOOK for an older person and a younger person in my life. The older person is a mentor of mine who is the daughter of Holocaust survivors. And we would sit around chatting about news events, and she kept saying, They did this in Germany. They did this in Germany.
"At that time, I thought this was a nutty thing to say, really extreme, really rhetorical, and I just disregarded it. But she kept saying, They did this in Germany. They did this in Germany.
"And she wasn't talking about the later years, National Socialist outcomes. She was talking about the early years, 1930, 1931, 1932, when Germany was a modern parliamentary democracy. A fragile one, but it would have been very recognizable to us.
"Germany in the early '30s had pop stars and Bauhaus architecture and Paris fashion. Civil rights organizations, gay rights organizations, sex-education organizations, 'page 6' writers, gossip columnists. And it was a deomcracy.
"So she was talking about the very early pressures on a democracy, legal pressues on a democracy, by people intent on shutting down that democracy. And I kept brushing this off until finally she sat me down and gave me a stack of books, and she almost physically said READ.
"And I started reading. And honestly, my hair stood on end. Because I saw that she was right, she wasn't being rhetorical at all. That in fact, not only were there tactical echoes from the past, but that what I was seeing was actual scenes recurring, images recurring, language, sound bites recurring in modern events in America..."
- Location:OaktownOUTRAGEville, Ca
- Jammin' to:Disturbed - Land of Confusion
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