Involuntary servitude Perception management Pre-emptive narrative inversion Wise elders Critical inquiry Confidence men ("con men") TNT: The Naked Truth Echo chamber of lies Misalignment of priorities The fallacy of misplaced concreteness Transnational capitalist class Public relations propaganda Tell-Lie-Vision (TV) True cost economics Public intelligence in the public interest Knowing who knows Delayed negative feedback Not … Continue reading Terms + Phrases + Concepts: Transmit + Circulate + Evolve (on-going editing)
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NEVER FORGET: CIA Coup of Iran in 1953 + British + Oil / Professional Liar’s Club (Starring Kermit)
+ Documentary: American Coup - https://www.journeyman.tv/film/6673/american-coup+ Book: All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer + Richard Helms, ambassador to Iran / professional liar (perjurer) Related:+ Video from 2019: US Secretary of State / Ex-CIA Director Mike Pompeo: "I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds … Continue reading NEVER FORGET: CIA Coup of Iran in 1953 + British + Oil / Professional Liar’s Club (Starring Kermit)
California Wildfires (and Water)
What Western States can learn from Native American wildfire management strategies (2019) - https://theconversation.com/amp/what-western-states-can-learn-from-native-american-wildfire-management-strategies-120731 Book - Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resourceshttps://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppfn4 18 min documentary about the history of getting water to Los Angeles via aqueduct - link
Outer Space / Occupy Mars / Get Real
"You see men sailing on their ego trip.Blast off on their spaceship.Million miles from reality.No care for you, no care for me"- So Much Trouble in the World by Bob Marley & The Wailers NASA astronaut Scott Kelly spent a year in space. His recollections of this unprecedented test of human endurance, and the physical … Continue reading Outer Space / Occupy Mars / Get Real
“On Silence” by Aldous Huxley
The twentieth century is, among other things, the Age of Noise. Physical noise, mental noise and noise of desire -- we hold history's record for all of them. And no wonder; for all the resources of our almost miraculous technology have been thrown into the current assault against silence. That most popular and influential of … Continue reading “On Silence” by Aldous Huxley
JD Bernal quotes for our time
Two important quotes mentioned in the book JD Bernal: the sage of science by Andrew Brown "The scientists are not masters of the destiny of science; the changes they may bring about may, without their knowing it, force them into positions which they would never have chosen. Their curiosity and its effects may be stronger … Continue reading JD Bernal quotes for our time
Mean-Green: Our Green Illusions Susceptible to the Marketing of “Climate Capitalists”
100 Companies = 71% Of greenhouse gases - linkNames and locations of top 100 people helping to destroy environments - linkSuper-rich's pollution (Nature magazine) - linkThose profiting from climate change - linkCorporate control network - linkGreenIllusions.org + author talk at GoogleWorld's largest polluter? - link"Climate capitalists" (large amount of links/content) - link
78 Questions to Ask about Any Technology
“78 Reasonable Questions to Ask about Any Technology” is from the book “Turning Away from Technology” by Stephanie Mills and originally derived from 76 questions that were written by Jacques Ellul.+ A great video commentary by Jacques Ellul called “The Betrayl by Technology” can be found here.+ And a related talk (2014) from Qatsi Triology … Continue reading 78 Questions to Ask about Any Technology
Bushcraft notes from multiple books
PDF linked here (30 pages/148kb) Related: + Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by William Hamilton Gibson (1881) + PrimitiveWays.com + Bulletin for Primitive Technology (1991-2015)
Cannabis Link-bomb
[Work-in-progress] “Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man..” and “In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume.” – Francis L. Young (Drug Enforcement Agency judge, 1988, after 2 weeks of medical testimony ) Top links to circulate1. Nature.com … Continue reading Cannabis Link-bomb
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