Dirty Wars

[andrew]

Here is a link to Scahill's doc.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_4Khapvqhc

My guess is that the only reason we are being told about this is because the global power brokers want us to know. 

The 100 year anniversary of  World War 1 is coming up. 

Any takers? My bet is that they won't be able to stop themselves.

[Edward theurj Berge]

I saw this film. Speaking of Scahill, he and Greenwald are teaming up with Taibbi at First Look Media. This is going to be some really good expose reporting on the power brokers.

[andrew]

Here is Sammy talking about the doc:

http://www.samharris.org/blog

On Ukraine: does any body really believe that the western power brokers DID NOT provoke Putin during his 40 billion dollar party? There are so many covert agency players today that it would be totally naive to think that they were not involved on the ground last week . The Russians certainly believe it. 

John Kerry's remarks today are a joke in light of America's invasive wars over the last 50 years. 

The lizard brainstem is on the March!

[andrew]

On Taibbi: for all the crimes this guy exposed and documented the Justice Department consistently refused to prosecute. Well fine, just don't expect to have any credibility with 6 billion other people. 

There is no moral high ground for America anymore . Even Chomsky believes every prez. since J.F.K. should be in prison. Sure, but we would have to imprison pretty well every world leader according to that standard (which i don't necessarily disagree with). But it does shatter the myth of progress, doesn't it? 

[andrew]

We should expect that these usual suspects are involved in the Ukraine drama: 

http://www.longtailpipe.com/2014/02/ukraine-throws-off-russian-back...

Now, reasonable people would probably concede 

that the petrochemical industries over the last 200 years have given civilization the highest standard of

living ever achieved on the globe. But now, as we approach peak oil, and near the deadly threshold of

atmospheric carbon pollution; is that industry going to destroy the very civilization it has helped to build?

Is the near future not much more than energy and climate change wars? 

[andrew]

Hey guys, 

my apologies for interrupting what is mostly enjoyable discussions on abstruse, philosophical abstractions. 

Gwynne Dyer is a Vancouver based political pundit and i offer up this link which i mostly agree with.

https://www.straight.com/news/597731/gwynne-dyer-vladimir-putin-ukr...

[Edward theurj Berge]

As you may know, I've long championed political engagement as one of the more significant spiritual enactments. So while I too enjoy and engage in "abstruse philosophical abstractions" I'm also very much involved in political awareness and activism. So I personally welcome topics like this. I'm also not much interested in putting such political views in kennilingus boxes or altitudes.

I also appreciated Sam Harris admitting to changing his view on US military involvement abroad after seeing Scahill's documentary.

[andrew]

Hey theurj, 

how about this: you folks are trying to lay the groundwork for a new meta ontology of being? 

Okay, i'm glad you don't mind me jumping in here. I'm also not interested in framing the worlds economic and political events in colour codes. 

Here are some links to the petrochemical hypothesis of world events: 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/russia-gas-ukraine_n_48768...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream

On Sammy: when one writes a book about morality and then views a doc. showing U.S. special forces hacking bullets out of pregnant women to try to cover up a botched covert-op; well, it's enough to leave one almost speechless. I'm happy he sees the moral valley in the war on terror.

[andrew]

This guy at truthdig says it better than I do:

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/before_crimea_there_was_iraq_af...

Anyway, if the upper line of the bell curve of carbon sourced energy started around 1850 and plateaued in 2001 then Sept. of that  year was probably the gauntlet thrown down for the way things are going to be for the descending 150 year line of that  bell curve. I'll grant the upper curve brought amazing things but i see one hell of a lot of shadow on the downward slope.

These images describe what i mean:

coal fire image in australia

[andrew]

Anyone up for annexing the Ukraine? 

Half the country to the Russian fracking companies and half the country to the Western fracking companies.

[andrew]

Thorium could be a low carbon bridge technology so these reactors are starting to get some press:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power

Even if we could fuel this civilization with  a cleaner alternative that still leaves half of the problem unaddressed. The toxic money supply that grew up with petroleum. Rebellious teenagers both, eh?

[Edward theurj Berge]

I must admit that these stories do set the underlying context for intellectual endeavors like a meta-ontology. Bryant is very much into the infrastructural basis for politics, and these stories deal directly with that topic. Meta-ontologies generally do not, and are irrelevant if they do not.

[andrew]

Another link for the petrochemical hypothesis of world events:

http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-03-03/global-riot-epidemic-d...

And in light of this:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/jul/19/ec...

How many mafia oligarchs (east and west) does it take to rule the world? 

There is just something that feels naggingly staged with recent events. 

Up next: links to billionaires manipulating opinion on carbon pollution and spending a fortune doing it.