The Earth vs. John McCain

John McCain wants to increase "domestic independence" by lifting the current ban on offshore drilling, believing the action would lower oil prices and improve the national economy. Feigning popular concern, he considers the drilling a form of “energy exploration,” even though it would surely provoke more environmental problems. And yet, McCain voted for the ban during his first presidential campaign.

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A dark thought

Submitted by DaxTheDragon on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 15:41.

It seems that many people (most, if that 73% figure is even remotely accurate) think that a magic pipeline would appear out of thin air leading directly from these proposed refineries to their fuel pumps, instantaneously.

Now I'm far from an expert on these matters, and I am having a hard time wrapping my head around this, but apparently the price of fuel is based on speculation of a future supply and demand, or some such. So let's say they do start drilling in these areas, and fuel prices magically drop, (because of what these so-called "speculators" are speculating.)

Bush leaves office looking like a hero... and it wins the election for McCain. Ow... it hurts the head.... makes you wonder just what these guys are up to... Anyway, thanks for the article, Spiralyst... perhaps it should be a main article on RS!

one-d

Submitted by Daniel Pinchbeck on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 23:21.

i also said you were welcome to expand on it and add some element of positivity or new analysis. i don't want us to put out the same left wing doldrum material without some new angle or transformative option. There are 100 sites doing that already, and I don't think we should bother.

"Will the transformation."-Rilke

I need your smoothness

Submitted by vivifidal on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 23:12.

to balance the edgevipedness of my not so pretty but so possible vision of the future we wish to avoid in such a way that we can make it not so insurmountable as to vanish below the treshold of cognitive dissonance. I am begging you...for the sake of humanity consider just for a moment how bad things could become in a very short time, then releasing doubt that says we are powerless against such forces, engage in this transformation through will as Rilke ordained. Cimi

whats mayan is yours..

Submitted by vivifidal on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 23:17.

I pretty sure you get it now, not it in the litereal but in the transformational as in the similar Tarot card

don't say I didn't tell you so...

Submitted by vivifidal on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 18:04.

I already predicted all this on the cosmically stressed election thread, didn't I, hmmm

Well, I guess I'm glad I'm

Submitted by DaxTheDragon on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 09:20.

Well, I guess I'm glad I'm not alone in my prediction... (sometimes I wish I was, though. Then I could just pass it off as being paranoid.)

Bill Hicks said: "Don't worry, don't be afraid, ever. This is just a ride." And here we are, truly riding the galactic currents towards the impeding eschaton. Perhaps what ever comes of this will be what will propel us into that final decent into Novelty that Terence McKenna always talked about. It's a long, dark way down, we can't really see the bottom, but what will be unveiled when we get there? What will things looks like when we pass through the Object At The End Of (our) Time?

Sorry, maybe I'm sounding a bit over-dramatic... I'm just trying to be a little optimistic is all.

how about a membership drive for Newt's little cryptofascist

Submitted by vivifidal on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 11:48.

organization? You see where I'm going with this?

yes but how ?

Submitted by Daniel Pinchbeck on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 23:25.

yes i agree 100 percent, but how do we do this?

i have been trying by creating more mass media formats with cartoons - www.iclips.net/2012 - but it still feels far too distant and intellectual.

when we launch evolver, i want a discussion area where we analyze different "deprogramming" strategies. The only one i have heard that may have worked was the rainbow family going down to feed biloxi mississippi after katrina, staying there for months, and replacing government services that never arrived.

"Will the transformation."-Rilke

dude, I'm in panic mode...

Submitted by vivifidal on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 22:52.

I have all kinds of non-distant deintellectualised boots on ground strategies but I am getting Cassandradised to the hilt. The non-violent warriors need to train and spar but with the countdown for effective action spilling sand out of the fragmented hourglass of our window of opportunity faster than tirds through a bullemic on a laxative purge we need to get down to it! Love the Rainbows btw and a shout out to Food Not Bombs!

we can do that on the side

Submitted by vivifidal on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 18:14.

but right now we need to move fast and bring down the beast before it gets out of hand and this requires a little bit of hardball. Stay low , get inside then yank the plug, we can't rely on average Joe's to see through Gingrich's carefully crafted scheme, there is much too much at stake.he's got pocket aces on the river and we've got squat. If Gingrich wedges back into the political limelight oil shale is the least of our concerns, read the American Solutions agenda.

you will all be herded into the back of a rail car...

Submitted by vivifidal on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 22:39.

read history and be sure to go back more than 50 years, when really scary bad people get power, really nice people get ground between machine gears and spit out like a paste to feed the machine. What kind of drug are you on that prevents you from grasping the concept that that evil people will juice you like a lemon then grind your bones to make their bread?