Monthly Archives: May 2016
A Memorial Day action to undertake
Originally posted on The Brooklyn Culture Jam:
National security adviser Walt Rostow poring over a map of Vietnam with President Lyndon Johnson. (National Archives Photo) In 1968, Republican operatives working on behalf of Richard Nixon persuaded the South Vietnamese delegation at the Paris Peace Talks to turn their backs on an otherwise acceptable peace offer…
The Red Nose campaign–whitewash for tax cheats?
Originally posted on The Brooklyn Culture Jam:
on a computer or TV screen near you. already. Are any of you seeing lots of these ads? If you spend time online or waiting to buy groceries at Walgreens, or you watch a lot of NBC TV, you’re getting bombarded. Walgreens, NBC and Comic Relief are all onboard…
Wet Bulb Temperature Soon to Become Leading Cause of Death
Originally posted on Kevin Hester:
As our Abrupt Climate Change Catastrophe becomes more extreme the leading cause of death on the planet will be humans hitting their Wet Bulb Temperature. Robertscribbler has written about this phenomenon here: ‘Never-before-seen high temperatures and high humidity are resulting in thousands of heat injuries and hundreds of heat…
Where your job went and why it won’t come back
A week or so ago I posted a fancy-pants essay by Kevin Hester, one of my buds in the NTHE movement (near term human extinction for the uninitiated). It used the language of the anti-capitalism movements, including the Occupy Wall Street folks. The thesis of Hester’s article was that capitalism is dying because the planet […]
The Battle of Fallujah claims another victim
This is the story that flashed across my FB feed a few mornings ago. It had all the tear-jerk potential that you’d want in a story from Fox News 10 (the affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona). To be fair, Fox isn’t the only entity picking this story up and we’ll get to that later. Anyway, to cut to […]
Vote theft in 2016 Primary(update)
From my friend Elliot Crown, who has been protesting about Hillary Clinton for several months. This chart, vetted by folks in the activist group NY Primary Problems, shows discrepancies between exit polls in primary states and the actual counts of votes. As Elliot’s post reminds everyone visiting the NY Primary Problems page, there have been unique […]
The Pain You Feel Is Capitalism and the Living Planet Dying.
Originally posted on Kevin Hester:
We have exceeded all of our planetary boundaries and we have psychopaths at the helm of our sinking ship, armed to the teeth. They will fight to the bitter end. Nowhere on the planet do I see a political party planning for the collapse of society and our biosphere. We…
Daniel Berrigan, Presente!
Father Daniel Berrigan, the Jesuit priest/activist/poet/playwright/convict, passed away yesterday at age 94. I had met him several times (and had his support of my own projects) over his lifetime. I felt a real loss here, though I haven’t seen him in ages. Thanks to my friend Schuyler Rhodes, I had the pleasure of having dinner […]
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