I was wondering about your thoughts on this Swine Flu scare... ?

Watching this gives me hope, and not the false one that we all speak of, but the actual one that comes when people take action in their world and get off their asses to do something. And from such a young person, this is astounding. i am happy and proud of her... Who is she?

The Girl Who Silenced The World For 5 Minutes.



Severn Cullis-Suzuki (born November 30, 1979 in Vancouver, Canada) is
an environmental activist, speaker, television host and author. Born to
writer Tara Elizabeth Cullis and geneticist and environmental activist
David Suzuki, she has spoken around the world about environmental
issues, urging listeners to define their values, act with the future in
mind, and take individual responsibility.

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I was taken back by surprise at the amount of responses to my Life After Death post... It seems that we must spend quite a bit of time on it in our thoughts...

So I pose another one for me, and for you...

What is next for you?

What is the dream that lies undone? The deed that didn't happen, the lost something... What comes next???

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the seminal book by George Orwell, society is oppressed, with Big Brother bearing down on all citizens. News and Politics are delivered as NewSpeak, and the Thought Police is always on the lookout for those who oppose the New World Order…(the term seems childish doesn't it?)

In many ways, 1984 was prophetic. Many people feel that the Orwellian world, this seemingly impossible world of police states and loss of individuality is naught. That what is represented in this fictional work would never come to pass. Orwell made sure it was painted well. He designed a myriad of ways for the intelligent man or woman to catch this before it could begin. He gave us the clues to the how bleak future. But he forgot something. No. Worse, he could not have imagined it in his wildest dreams. He couldn't imagine us liking it.

Orwell could never have imagined the ‘marketing’ of such a terrible thing as human tracking. He lived in a world that was still proud of its heritage and strengths. His brethren and families close to him had been in a world war, facing yet another. How could they have known that in the future, Big Brother would not rule by force but with the unflinching complicity of its citizens? How could he know that Big Brother did not need to cast a dark stare from the TV screen? Just give the people technology that enslaves them and sell it to them as a luxury. Let them enslave themselves with pleasurable distractions.

From the simplest of devices, one can find the subtle hints of this. Want to know where your friends are? Look them up on GPS of course! You can see exactlywhere they are going. Isn't that just the coolest thing? Or how about this? If grandma or little Billie should get lost, we can use PLD (Personal Locating Device) or Digital Angel (now there's a name) embedded in their arm in the form of a tiny RFID chip to find them and bring them home? Isn't that great? And we can stop terrorism in its tracks by having this little thing in all of us, to make it harder for the terrorists to attack Amerika. Isn't that just swell? Don't you want to sleep well, knowing that everything is under your control?

No. Orwell could never have predicted that marketing something terrible could still result in sales. The numbers don't lie. People like these contrivances of technology. They are only fed the things they want to hear: Find Friends, Flirt, Meet, Engage! But avoided are the words, Tracking, Papers, National Identification, Slavery or Human Rights. These things, these terms, are made to feel passe, old school. And to say them you are labeled a conspiracy case.

What have we done? Where did this all go wrong? As I sit and write this, the G20 are saying that a global currency is at hand, and that these nations are in fact welcoming such a shift. After all, they argue, the world has become smaller. We need to lose a bit of sovereignty to become a global community. International co-operation to end this financial crisis will require all citizens to agree and adapt to this New World Order. The good will overshadow the bad. That's what they tell us. And most people on the street agree.

And as I get ready for bed, Korea has begun fueling their missile, and Japan prepares to shoot it down. Israel want to go into Gaza again. The US says that Israel may preemptively strike Iran at any moment. And no one in the real world is talking about it. Instead, they are chatting with their "friends" on Myspace about how cool it is that the iPhone can tell you what song is playing (without questioning the technology behind it) and none of them... With few exceptions (and I mean a few) will ever write a letter to congress or their senators. Too busy uploading pictures, writing, playing, wanting... and buying.

I bet old George is wishing he'd been around to release a revised 1984 right now. It's new title would be... Two Thousand Nine.

Claude S.

http://vodpod.com/watch/1484594-anything-box-all-t...

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After all that talk about life after death, I had a dream and it was to do this video. So I collected some photos from the Peace era, some nerve, and set out to explore the dream... And this came out. See what you did? You influenced me.

So, the new topic is... What is the most memorable dream you've ever had?

http://vodpod.com/watch/1473463-anything-box-worth

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I thought you might like this... These pics were taken in Berlin. It was a trying time, but we got through it with humor, friendship and music. Tell me what you think...

Have you ever been away from home for a long time? What happened?

This question has been coming up as of late for me, and I'm not sure why. Mortality. I had never thought about it before. I drowned when I was young, and I had an experience, so everything inside me should be screaming 100% that there is more. And yet, with all my beliefs and my spirituality... I find myself wondering about this...

How about you? Has this come up lately?

Right now before your very eyes corporations are trying to control what sites you visit, how search results are given to you, and in fact the amount of bandwidth you are allowed to use for free. That's right, the last possible means for a free thinking society is about to be attacked, and most people think it's a joke. After all, somebody will speak up and complain about it right?

Somebody who? That somebody needs to be you! Yes you.

It's about time we all sat down and put Twitter away for just a moment and wrote a little note to congress about how utterly pissed off you are about Internet Censorship or the nicer term "Internet Neutrality". Tell them to just fuck off. Tell them that you are an American, that you live in a country where free speech is your right, where freedom of the press is about reporting truth and not corporate agendas.But it cannot happen without you, for it is up to you and me as individuals to see how wrong this is and stop them. And we need to do this while there is no time left. People sometimes think I am a fringe Conspiracy Theorist. Seriously, I am not. I am a factualist. I believe in facts, figures and actions. Just listen to this guy telling congress how he wishes the Internet had never been invented.




And listen to his thin argument for the Internet as a tool for Cyber Terrorism. In fact, I want you to know that if they succeed, you may never hear, read or search for rants like this ever again. Some of you may applaud this. Fine, you have a right to your opinion. But when yours get taken away as well, you will have wished you walked in my shoes. The time is now.
 

U.S. population: 306,051,178

World Population: 6,768,012,488



I want you to keep these numbers in mind. They are right now valid. I’m not going to get into the details. Get out a calculator and do the math. I’m only giving you the solutions. They are simple. We could implement them tomorrow. Everywhere. Add your own!



1. The 20 Dollar Plan. Everyone pays into a Pay Pal account 20 bucks of their hard earned money for the benefit of the country. This is People Money. The Fed cannot touch it. The Congress then has a country wide vote on what the Top 10 Needs of the country are and we all electronically vote (a Real Reality TV show). The bill is paid. Done. Then we can do it again every six months. How fast can we solve things now?

2. Government Operated Fast Food. Government employs the same amount of employees as McDonald’s, but serves up better regulated food, and the profits of the venture goes into the country’s deficit and the needs of her people by vote of the people. Say, better Education? Affordable Health Care? Everyone has food, and we contribute to the country’s wealth. The Fed is out! Gary contributed
the basis for this idea… Love you, Bro!!!

3. Fifteen Percent (The 15% Plan) of ALL manufacturing and educational grants must be given to US companies. You can outsource 85% of your telecommunications staff to Country X if you want, but if you want to be a company earning US dollars in the US, you need to give her people jobs and put money into the country that fills your pockets. Otherwise, get out and follow the rules of whatever country you want your children to grow up in. We the people demand it.

Remember: The government serves us. They are the waitress at our table. It is We The People who have to get up off our overwhelming fat asses and order what it is we want. Then tell her to make it great or there won’t be a tip. Ah....  Nice to feel better. Still in pain, but brain is working well.

Man, I feel so stupid. I have only had it for a while (it actually got out of the crash without much more than a scratch), and today was the first warm day. So I decided to try my bike (looks just like a Vespa) and practice. Because of my lack of skill of course, I crashed into the bushes, which would have been OK if the bike didn't fall on me and drag me for a bit.... OUCH!!!!The damage to the bike? Just a few scratches. The damage to me?My ego is broken, of course, but it can be repaired with a little luck and a car. No more fucking scooters, OK???? Seriously, I'm scarred for life. Then there's my already scarred shin, which was just about healed from an injury a few years back. Re-opened. And my left knee, which hurts because a scooter fell on it. And my hip, which hurts so bad I cannot even tell you. I may have to go to the hospital. We'll see...
 
Yeah, it looks like a scratch, but it goes deep, and it hurts...
 

I hope that tomorrow I won't hurt as much as it does right now.Anyone want to buy my bike? :)  Brooks... You were right.