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Surfing a Swiftly Tilting Planet

January 31st, 2011

For seven days and seven nights
Man will watch this awesome sight.
The tides will rise beyond their ken
To bite away the shores and then

A fiery dragon will cross the sky
Six times before this earth shall die
Mankind will tremble and frightened be
for the sixth heralds in this prophecy.

The great star will burn for seven days,
The cloud will [...]

Nearing The End?

June 9th, 2009

After having written a book and blogged for nearly four years now, and found myself now to be much preoccupied with the reality of living with the world in its present precarious state, I really wonder how much more I have to say here. At what point has one proved their thesis [...]

Zombies, Food Security and Little Shifts

May 18th, 2009

“Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.” – Henry Kissinger

‘Food security’ is a phrase one hears more often these days. When mainstream news or government sources discuss the topic, it’s generally in terms of subsidies for big ag, testing GMOs in Africa, [...]

Notes from the Surf XXXVI

May 9th, 2009

Pertaining to my recent post, 2012: A Perfect Storm?, here’s this from Wired: The 2012 Apocalypse – and How to Stop It

Time: Barack Obama’s New World Order

CFR Unveils Global Governance Agenda

Who Wants a World Government?

Gordon Brown’s plan for an army of teen volunteers. Sounds eerily familiar: Don’t [...]

2012: A Perfect Storm?

April 12th, 2009

“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” – Pablo Picasso

Much is being written about 2012 and what changes that year will bring. The Mayan calendar and various other religious and spiritual prophecies have seeped into popular culture to the extent that much of the world [...]

Notes from the Surf XXXV

April 3rd, 2009

We are in the midst of planning a vegetable garden here in Hawaii. Here’s a video of Richard Ha speaking about food security on the Big Island.

Still quite a bit of scurfuffle about HR 875′s Food Safety Modernization Act mentioned in my last entry. To be fair, [...]

The White House Organic Garden: Helpful or Hypocrisy?

March 21st, 2009

As I was gathering information for my recent post Our Contaminated World: Making Nature Illegal, I ran across and bookmarked this website, The Who Farm, which hoped to encourage the White House to plan an organic garden.

Imagine my surprise to see Michelle Obama actually breaking ground the other day, to the [...]

Our Contaminated World: Making Nature Illegal

February 27th, 2009

This is the second of three articles.

Due to the current economic crisis, people are going back to gardening in droves these days. Elizabeth Hart at Reality Sandwich recently posted Grow Your Own, quoting Thomas Jefferson as saying, “Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens…They are the [...]

Our Contaminated World: Genetically Modified Madness

February 26th, 2009

This is the first of three articles.

Among the variety of issues one should be aware of in today’s crazy, mixed up world is the increased manipulation and contamination of our air, food and water supply, as well as the continued pushing of often unnecessary and potentially dangerous [...]

The Oligarchy and Globalization: A Wolf Changes Clothes

February 5th, 2009

From Wikipedia: “Oligarchy (Greek Ὀλιγαρχία, Oligarkhía) is a form of government where political power effectively rests with a small elite segment of society distinguished by royalty, wealth, family, military powers or occult spiritual hegemony. The word oligarchy is from the Greek words for “few” (ὀλίγος olígos) and “rule” (ἀρχή arkhē). Such states [...]

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