Sunday, August 07, 2011

Global Self-Defense

Posted by Mickey Z on 08/07 at 02:59 PM

  2. Hi Mickey...Beautiful photo.  I like your new article - but I don’t know about the part where you say we are not alone. That seems a bit too optimistic for me up here. We are a small minority.  Hopefully it is different in other places and in other countries… The rest of the article is right on. Keep our tool boxes filled with everything we’ve got. And yes, when the day comes it will be citizen against citizen, while the fat cats and those in power sit back and enjoy their victory.  In a way, that is what is already happening.

    Joe...from yesterday. Yes. The problem is that there is a big difference between being for ‘peace’ and being ‘anti war’.  That is the issue here. Almost no one is opposed to war but everyone says they are for peace. (Yesterday morn here there was a chipmunk playing with a baby rabbit. They looked happy and peaceful.)

    Sort of off topic...there is talk around the country to increase the use of ‘smart meters’ to measure water and electric use.  Seems to me that that might not be a good idea. There is some evidence that there are health hazards. The pollution of the environment with EMFs and other kinds of radiation is a growing problem. (Radioactive fish have just been caught in the Connecticut River upstream from the Vermont Yankee Nuke Plant.)

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  08/07  at  04:27 PM

  3. Thanks, RMJ. I agree but sometimes I write in the desperate hope that it will provoke action or else I’d just say: everything is fucked up and it’s WAY too late to change anything.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  08/07  at  05:51 PM

  4. Good morning Mickey and RMJ...I wonder if the outer condition represents the inner condition and at some level people experience this and are further depressed into lostness, further shackled emotionally, intellectually, shutdown, even more vulnerable.

    Locally, they are selling the military with a navy blue angels air show this month. This time it’s not free, people must pay a fee to have air pollution, noise pollution, dangerous levels of vibrations, disturbing every damn thing living. It’s billed as entertainment..., now that’s insanity! Few people see anything disturbing about this. There’s going to be a protest and the usual, some people are trying to prevent others from enjoying themselves. Others will repeat, all that noise is the sound of freedom. They will never know their bondage, let alone liberate themselves from it, and that’s an easy one.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  08/08  at  02:37 AM

  5. sometimes the self-defense have to be based on the curent condition and we have to pay more attention on the enemy.The chances of success depend on a large number of parameters, related to the severity of the threat on one hand, but also on the mental and physical preparedness of the defender.Thanks for your sharing.
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    Posted by fairytale from   on  08/08  at  05:09 AM

  6. Hi all, great photo Mickey, maybe humanity will turn from a strange looking caterpillar into a butterfly?

    Joe, a minor silver-lining...if there are planes “entertaining” crowds...at least they’re not bombing people in some part of the world.

    Posted by Rick (the Cartoonist) from England  on  08/08  at  06:45 AM

  7. Good morning Rick, Joe, fairytale, Mickey, and all…

    Mickey about water - I just read an article in today’s paper about a cancer cluster in Williamstown, Mass. Seems the drinking water in the schools might be the source of contaminants.

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  08/08  at  07:03 AM

  8. I don’t think we’re alone.  We’re just not organized and The Powers That Be are trying to ensure that we stay that way.

    Posted by Charles from Jersey City  on  08/08  at  02:08 PM

  9. Anyone else enjoying the revolt in London? In the World Cup of Totally Justified Revolts, the US has yet to score a goal. And there’s no consolation round.

    Today I learned of the D.C. demo for October. A nice list of demands, but the nonviolence Stalinists are out in force (rim shot, please). There’s nothing like telegraphing what you will/won’t do, especially in the face of 30+ years of failure, intensely so over the last decade.

    It’s looking like a Monty Python quest: “You must cut down the tallest tree in the forest...with a herring!”

    Posted by Zen Prole from Pac NW  on  08/09  at  07:37 PM

  10. If anyone is wondering what kind of society results from decades of conditioning, dig these two stories about the London riots:

    “U.K. far right promises vigilantism in riots”

    “London riots: hundreds answer appeal to clean up streets”

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  08/09  at  07:52 PM

  11. Americans will not take to any streets because:

    A. they can’t find the streets
    B. people are terrorized about being shot in the streets
    C. they’re waiting for a cell call
    D. sports wrap-up isn’t over
    C. not sure who actually started riots...it might be some developer who knows they will get the job to redevelop...that would be the case in Brunswick, Maine also known as Peyton Place.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  08/10  at  03:36 AM

  12. Z) All of the above?

    P.S. A new post is now up.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  08/10  at  04:04 AM

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