Dismantle Civilisation

By Paul Craig Roberts, at CounterPunch.

The title of my article comes from the sermon of the Episcopal Bishop of Washington DC, John Bryson Chane, delivered on October 5, 2008, at St. Columba Church. The bishop’s eyes were opened to Israel’s persecution of Palestinians by his recent trip to Palestine. In his sermon he [...] Read more »

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by Stephen Lendman.
The world community is silent and lets Israel do as it pleases – despite repeated international law violations, willful acts of aggression, grievous harm to four million people under occupation, including 1.5 million under a medieval Gaza siege, now under attack.
Reports were that EU nations and Russia called for (but didn’t demand) an [...] Read more »

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We’d pretty much agree with Jim’s predictions:

Introduction
There are two realities “out there” now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let’s call it the Status Quo) is that our problems of finance and economy will self-correct and allow the project of a “consumer” economy to [...] Read more »

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Article at ratical.org by Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D.
If we are to talk about sustainability, we must, first of all, really understand that unsustainability means CANNOT AND WILL NOT SURVIVE AS IS. In other words, we have no choice but to change the way we live as a human species. You will either be a contributing part [...] Read more »

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By Jan Lundberg at Culture Change.
Will Obama be a Greater Gorbachev?
Culture Change Letter #221 – Housing starts in the U.S. are down 47% as of 13 months ago. Prices of commodities, not just oil, are falling because of job losses unseen since 1947. Oil is still very costly when subsidies are included. The prior recoveries [...] Read more »

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Thanks to Tierra-y-Vida for this. Something to contemplate, as the new year approaches. Many of us are looking to accelerate the transition to a new cultural renaissance in 2009, while others are revolting around the world in anger that the promises made by capitalism and globalisation turned out to be lies, while the american dream [...] Read more »

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Parts 1and 2 of capitalism at the expense of all life  are posted on dismantle civilization here.
 
by Juan Santos
 
This is the Day of Reckoning. This is the Time of Purification. This is the end of the “world”, the end of the city-state, the end of city life, of “Civilization.” The early Christians called [...] Read more »

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I’ve just been reading a very interesting article on the Oil Drum local, introducing ideas of how to store home grown foodstuffs without boiling or other heating methods.
I’d been meaning to write an article about the joys of the humble pumpkin, simply because they are so fantastic for keeping. Hard skin heirloom varieties keep in [...] Read more »

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By Jon Ronnquist, at Information ClearingHouse.
Here at last then is the defining moment of our time, our legacy to whatever lies beyond this cataclysmic failure of the human race. For the want of understanding, the kingdom was lost. And all this in what could have been the golden age of mankind.
Call it scare mongering, call [...] Read more »

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More great insights from Sharon Astyk. Ponzi schemes are illegal, but what is our economic system, or how we are treating the ecology, other than a giant Ponzi scheme, where today is being paid for by tomorrow. Crazy.
This point I’ve written about a number of times – but somehow I’d never quite fully grasped the [...] Read more »

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