http://surfingthetao.com Striving to increase awareness of our spiritual natures as well as the news, technologies and agendas in our world which influence them. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:59:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://surfingthetao.com/2009/06/09/nearing-the-end/ "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, tighter ... http://surfingthetao.com/2009/05/18/zombies-food-security-and-little-shifts/ 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 count ... http://surfingthetao.com/2009/05/09/notes-from-the-surf-xxxvi/ Check out Favorite Links for the whole list. Have fun. Disclaimer: Links are provided as a courtesy to the curious; we take no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the information. Please report any broken links. If you want to add your link, email me at ... http://surfingthetao.com/2009/04/22/links-added-42209/ “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 will ... http://surfingthetao.com/2009/04/12/2012-a-perfect-storm/ 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, here ... http://surfingthetao.com/2009/04/03/notes-from-the-surf-xxxv/ 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 ... http://surfingthetao.com/2009/03/21/the-white-house-organic-garden-helpful-or-hypocrisy/ For those who follow the small world of Surfing the Tao, my switch from Wordpress 2.1 to 2.7 went effortlessly but my theme does need updating. After some complaints about the difficulty of reading with the water background I believe I have found a good compromise. I hope ... http://surfingthetao.com/2009/03/16/switching-themes/ Welcome to my third installment of Links Added. Check out Favorite Links for the whole list. Have fun. ;) Disclaimer: Links are provided as a courtesy to the curious; we take no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the information. Please report any broken links. If you want ... http://surfingthetao.com/2009/03/10/links-added-31009/ Aloha all, I am finally upgrading my Wordpress installation to 2.7.  I have been extremely delinquent in this task as I am still way back on 2.1.  So expect some downtime and weirdness here for a bit until it all gets settled. May also see a new theme here depending on ... http://surfingthetao.com/2009/03/08/upgrading-wordpress-expect-downtime/