Wednesday, 28 March 2012


American Propaganda Assimilates Another Big Bad Wolf

The tactics of crash and burn oil exploitation is a well known method of extracting wealth and resources from under-represented and badly governed regions and countries of the world. The most recent efforts were well documented, Iraq was the most heavily televised war campaign since film recording began. With images, graphics and extensive footage being shown on You-Tube, mainstream media channels and sources as varied as international reporting, official military recordings.

With the recent viral epidemic of the Kony 2012 video on You-Tube, Facebook and other social media platforms, Alex Jones of Inforwars.com reveals that not all the middle Americans are buying the fact that another despot in the developing world needs to be absconded by the American military machine. Interviewed live on the street, many questioned about the quality of the video said that it was good that celebrities endorsed it and that taking this guy out was a “major priority.” It was later revealed that the character in question may have been missing for up to 6 years, and the video itself goes on to ask for funding for a project which has little to do with the region or the capture of the portrayed villain.

So what it the agenda here you might ask? Some may say that the recent discovery of oil on the borders of Uganda and Democratic Congolese Republic indicate the reason for a heightened interest. One might even speculate that the exact use for the video might be to enable President Obama to be guaranteed another term of office through military and moral support for such endeavours as to capture this villain. Which ever the reasoning, it is obvious that the ability for internet viral campaign to be incendiary and to target possible political and financial gains is emotionally and psychologically disturbing.

We should ask ourselves are we evolving into a new species, or are we de-evolving from our potential, and if our potential for betterment is limitless, what are our current limiting factors? As technology has grown and our dependence on it is evident, what will happen if the continued greed for “more” results in there being more for less people, not only in current human society but in the global future. For the last dozen millennia humanity has been driven towards survival, through varying archetypes, societies, spiritual and demographic changes, and now we are approaching a global age, an age of constant connection and awareness for those who are “plugged in” to the techno-sphere, and can help shape the dawn of collective consciousness.

Civilizations rise and fall, but tribal tendencies have shown that communities grow and shrink, but the stable ones are those are often cut off from their surroundings for periods or have a shared perspective and aim, a shared goal or belief. Although these tribes may be happy for a short while, they often result in extremism or eccentricity when looked at externally or presented with extreme environments. As the underlying drive for survival should be replaced with a need for conserving nature and resolving the conflict caused by unnatural processes of superfluous systems of biased language, currency and de-constructive corporate and military agendas, which are causing a growing rift between societies animal like entities and its ideal state of balance and harmony in existence.

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Monday, 26 March 2012

Economic warm spots for the 21st century


Economic warm spots for the 21st century

Living on this planet you might think that the 21st century will have profound impact upon the global climate in all senses. Essentially you would be right on the ball. Not only has the geopolitical spectrum been confronted and expanded, it has also been contracted and compounded. Economically the carbon neutral and green industries have been finding a foothold amongst the corporate giants, but nowhere near the vision that previous global visionaries had hoped for. Unfortunately it is still the oil rich and financially manipulative who control the mass of the worlds resources and are working around the clock to secure more than their fair share.

Unfortunately it is the Chicago Economics and Fiat Currency which are basic blocks to start the change that is needed for a carbon neutral and ethical global environmental strategy, economics is part of the puzzle as are scientific endeavour, business procurement methods and the construction of cities many varying infrastructures, and their legal, financial and social devices. The basic building of knowledge and wisdom inherited from the Chinese, Greek and Indian philosophers, have given us a sound stage on which to build upon. It is up to us to work on the good and working principles that can help further a balanced and integrated approach to development.

The entrepreneurial and often brutal western strategies have caused many problems, and have now spread to the rest of the world, bringing destruction and poisoning methodologies in the place of where there was much hope. It is not the way of the explorer to take more than an ecosystem can handle or push it past its tipping point, but it is the way of the corporate or the financial speculator to constantly gamble on the inability of a system to recover. Hence it has become the accepted way to do business, to wait in line for the down trodden and those fallen from the apple cart to come begging for loans and redevelopment from those who were more often than not involved with the problems being caused in the first place.

As the carbon being released into the atmosphere is reaching peak levels compared to any other time in history it is essential that we are able to slow if not halt the continual amount of denial and obstruction for practical solutions. The developing world has its excuses, and has been growing faster than ever anticipated, with the aid of western technology, much of which is not implemented ethically or sustainably. Hence it is fundamentally the responsibility of the entire world now to take charge of it's effects on the systems we live in and develop a trajectory for solving the problems we now face with climate change and possible tipping points which are being reached. The ice caps and glaciers of the world can only absorb so much thermal energy before the entire systems are put into constant decline, and it is our job to pronounce the carbon criminals who are pushing the worlds future into a far too warm ascent.