The debate on global warming is going in the wrong direction. It does not take a scientist to look up the pictures of the ice caps to see the recession over the last 30 years. Since we can not debate that they are shrinking and weather monitoring has definitively shown and increase in global temperature we have to prepare rather then argue about the cause.
This little film shows Tuesday's simulcast between the London and New York OCCUPY communities. I flew out to the encampment at St. Paul's Cathedral, and we sang the 99% song together, across the Atlantic - what a wonderful moment! That made the whole London visit worth it - when Londoners held up a sheet to show the Stop Shopping Choir from Wall Street.
Join critically acclaimed author, KtB editor, and OccupyWriters.com founder Jeff Sharlet and the unstoppable evangelists of anti-consumerism Reverend Billy and Savitri D for a discussion about religion and politics in the Occupy movement and beyond.(more)
I visited the occupation of Wall Street late afternoon yesterday, after recording this Freak Storm sermon. What an unusual time we live in. Tropical storms and people storms sweep through the public squares. Climate change and national debt are Devils releasing deadly energy. Leaders in politics seem like ciphers, drained of energy.
I spent several hours sitting in front of the White House this past weekend. It was a nice day, save for a little rain. It happened that on that same day, 242 other everyday normal individuals (mothers, fathers, teachers, students, clergy, and even a WWII veteran) chose to sit there with me, calm and peaceful, in front of the of the Presidential Mansion.
Believing that the Earth is our god, government, economy and culture - all wrapped into one big institution - that is simple common sense! When we draw our last breath together, all the functions of living will be mixed together in that one breath. There won't be separate powers anymore.
Alarmist? Pessimistic? Radical? … are things so bad?
In recent days we have challenged the devils in the Deutschbank in Dusseldorf, and the ING and UBS in Amsterdam, and HSBC in Liverpool - laying our hands on the cash machines and calling our demons. What are these exorcisms? Why these muscular hexing prayers at the ATM? Of course the big banks have their famous bad practices - redlining, foreclosures, demolitions of communities.
What if there is a switch in our brains that Bond-like villains can flip with impunity, sending us into spasms of shopping? Horribly, this is now an American fact of life. Yes - corporate researchers have discovered a circuit in our brains that actuates our shopping.
Sometimes people come up to me and ask “The Church of Earthalujah...what is that? Is it a political rally? Is it a real church? Is it a comedy sketch? What is it?!”
Why do we offer Fabulous Sainthood this week at our Earthalujah! church to a hero of the housing rights movement, Ms. Marina Metalios? Aren’t housing and the environment two different issues?
Announcing our doom and damnation? That’s as American as apple pie. We tell pollsters we believe in ghosts, angels and the Second Coming. The current style of apocalypses dates from the days of Jesus’ death 2000 years ago. The rapture was supposed to be hours away.
In April we experienced 600 tornadoes in the US. Last year the count for April was 110. The six fold increase is an astounding climate change. But how did 600 twisters happen? And why? In our public reports such basic questions are strangely restricted.
As most children as a child I was very concerned about the environment, nature, humanity, the animals. I was terrified by the thread of the atom bomb and people and animals dying of pollution.
When a truck passed me while driving to school on my bicycle I would keep my breath in as long as I could to not to inhale the poisonous exhausian gases. I was convinced it would expand my longevity.
Interesting article discussing the upcoming MINI ICE AGE attributable to such factors as solar minimum, galactic and magnetic reversal cycles that human presence has very little influence to direct.
I've been having a feeling lately... that maybe oil is more than just a fossil fuel. It may be the lifeblood of the planet.
Maybe oil is the insulation or lubrication of the planet, The planet is getting warmer, Maybe it is because of omissions, maybe its because oil dissipated the heat from the core of the planet.
MUST READ article posted on a First Nations website regarding the upcoming pole shift...
"We onkwehonwe know this is the return of the skyworld on its regular journey through the cosmos. The skyworld is where we came from 5 suns ago as recorded by the Maya...." http://thahoketoteh.ws/2011/01/the-skyworld-cometh/
These last days here in Florida, I’m roaming around inside big groups of Americans who are singing together. Christmas carols. On Christmas day itself, something about the words in those songs stopped me. Lines like “Joyful all ye nations rise, join the triumph of the skies!” and “The stars in the sky look down where He lay...” "And heaven and nature sing!"
On Black Friday/ Buy Nothing Day – we enjoyed our annual turn on national television, cutting into the heavy-breathing shopping reports with our alternative Christmas. A comment like “But if we stopped shopping – what about jobs?
You see the damage to our planet each day and wonder what is the one thing I can do? The biggest thing you can do is quite simple: Stop eating animals and animal products.
"If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty." - Paul McCartney
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
