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Category: now
- Labels: control, corporations, corruption, money, now, politics
Infinite space…
infinite time…
infinite possibilities
The Big Brother nightmare of George Orwell’s 1984 has become a reality – in the shadow of the author’s former London home.
It may have taken a little longer than he predicted, but Orwell’s vision of a society where cameras and computers spy on every person’s movements is now here.
According to the latest studies, Britain has a staggering 4.2 million CCTV cameras – one for every 14 people in the country – and 20 per cent of cameras globally. It has been calculated that each person is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily.
Use of spy cameras in modern-day Britain is now a chilling mirror image of Orwell’s fictional world, created in the post-war Forties in a fourth-floor flat overlooking Canonbury Square in Islington, North London.
On the wall outside his former residence – flat number 27B – where Orwell lived until his death in 1950, an historical plaque commemorates the anti-authoritarian author. And within 200 yards of the flat, there are 32 CCTV cameras, scanning every move.
The message is reminiscent of a 1949 poster to mark the launch of Orwell’s 1984: ‘Big Brother is Watching You’.
The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) produced a report highlighting the astonishing numbers of CCTV cameras in the country and warned how such ‘Big Brother tactics’ could eventually put lives at risk.
The RAE report warned any security system was ‘vulnerable to abuse, including bribery of staff and computer hackers gaining access to it’. One of the report’s authors, Professor Nigel Gilbert, claimed the numbers of CCTV cameras now being used is so vast that further installations should be stopped until the need for them is proven.
One fear is a nationwide standard for CCTV cameras which would make it possible for all information gathered by individual cameras to be shared – and accessed by anyone with the means to do so.
The RAE report follows a warning by the Government’s Information Commissioner Richard Thomas that excessive use of CCTV and other information-gathering was ‘creating a climate of suspicion’.
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- Labels: big brother, control, now, police state, propaganda
“Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow,
a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
and then is heard no more:
it is a tale told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.”
Macbeth
. . .
Heaven…
heaven is a place…
a place where nothing…
nothing ever happens…
Swords to ploughshares is a concept in which
military weapons or technologies are converted
for peaceful civilian applications.
The phrase originates from the Book of Isaiah,
who prophesies of a future Messianic Age where
there will be peace amongst all humankind:
They will beat their swords into plowshares and
their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not
take up sword against nation, nor will they
train for war anymore. Isaiah 2:4 & Micah 4:3
The ploughshare is often used to symbolize
creative tools that benefit mankind, as opposed
to destructive tools of war, symbolized by the
sword, a similar sharp metal tool with an
arguably opposite use.
In addition to the original Biblical Messianic
intent, the expression “beat swords into
ploughshares” has been used by disparate
social and political groups.
One of the greatest efforts in this vein has
been various peace movement goals. An example
might be the destruction of nuclear weapons
and the use of that technology in the development
of power sources. Nuclear fission has been
applied to many civilian purposes since its
use at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and nuclear
fusion requires further research before it
can become practical to the same degree.
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau
(11 June 1910 â 25 June 1997)
was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist,
filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and
researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water.
He co-developed the aqua-lung,
pioneered marine conservation and
was a member of the Académie française.
He was commonly known as “le Commandant Cousteau”
or “Captain Cousteau”.
Happy 100th birthday,
from the people of earth.
World War Two lasted 44 months.
The American Civil War lasted 48 months.
The Vietnam War went on for 103 months.
U.S. forces attacked Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001.
As of today, the war will complete its 104th month.
The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion occurred on April 20, 2010 on the semi-submersible offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico.
Survivors described the incident as a sudden explosion which gave them less than five minutes to escape as the alarm went off. After having been on fire for more than a day, Deepwater Horizon sank on April 22, 2010 in 5,000 feet of water. 115 of the 126 member crew were recovered, and eleven remain missing.
Although initially the undersea wellhead appeared to be contained, on 24 April it was found that the wellhead was damaged and was leaking oil into the Gulf. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry described it as “a very serious spill, absolutely.” BP plans to use remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to close the well at depth; up to 19,000 barrels of oil a day is estimated to be leaking from the wellhead. The valve closing procedure was estimated to take 24 to 36 hours as of April 25; oil cleanup was being hampered by high waves on April 24 and 25. By April 25, the oil spill covered 1500 square km, and was only 50 km from the Chandeleur Islands, ecologically sensitive barrier islands already damaged by Hurricane Katrina. (read more)
The Banks made
38 Billion dollars
from overdraft fees last year…
…balance your checkbooks people !!!
You are what you think…
think good things.
You create your own reality…
what will you create?
You are completely responsible…
for every person on the planet.
There are no victims…
there are no excuses.
I’ve been having the same dream over and over…
in my dream I seem to be eating snakes.
It was interpreted as wanting sexual intimacy…
go figure.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has one of the highest levels known of plastic particulate suspended in the upper water column. As a result, it is one of several oceanic regions where researchers have studied the effects and impact of plastic photodegradation in the neustonic layer of water. Unlike debris, which biodegrades, the photodegraded plastic disintegrates into ever smaller pieces while remaining a polymer. This process continues down to the molecular level.
As the plastic flotsam photodegrades into smaller and smaller pieces, it concentrates in the upper water column. As it disintegrates, the plastic ultimately becomes small enough to be ingested by aquatic organisms which reside near the ocean’s surface. Plastic waste thus enters the food chain through its concentration in the neuston.
Some plastics decompose within a year of entering the water, leaching potentially toxic chemicals such as bisphenol A, PCBs and derivatives of polystyrene. (read more)
You say you are Pro-Life?
Then you’ll march with me to Stop War!
And you’ll protest with me to End Executions!
And you’ll stand on street corners and Distribute Condoms!
And you’ll do everything you can to Fight the Global Arms Trade!
- Labels: arms trade, birth control, execution, now, pro-life, war
Ohmmmmmmmm……….
Ohmmmmmmmmmm…………
Ohmmmmmmmmmmmm…………..
(repeat)
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.
In this context, “almost surely” is a mathematical term with a precise meaning, and the “monkey” is not an actual monkey, but a metaphor for an abstract device that produces a random sequence of letters ad infinitum. The theorem illustrates the perils of reasoning about infinity by imagining a vast but finite number, and vice versa. The probability of a monkey exactly typing a complete work such as Shakespeare’s Hamlet is so tiny that the chance of it occurring during a period of time of the order of the age of the universe is minuscule, but not zero. (read more)
- Labels: action, cosmos, mathematics, now, possibilities, time
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
…Albert Einstein…
- Labels: acceptance, energy, enlightenment, now, peace, secrets
If the Republicans will stop
telling lies about the Democrats,
we will stop telling the truth about them.
- Labels: belief, liberal, now, perspective, philosophy
Some people think there is a future
some people think there is a past
they are wrong
there is no “past”
there is no “future”
there is only the eternal NOW!!!!!
- Labels: delusion, enlightenment, mystery, now, perspective
War
is
a
family
squabble…
stop it!
Things to do before I “kick the bucket”
—————–
Build an ultra-light amphibian
Go snorkling in the Caribbean
Go flying over the desert again
Build a hydroplane boat
Four-wheel up the mountain trail
Go sailing on a Caribbean schooner
Jump out of an airplane again
Build a three wheeled motorcycle
Go scuba diving in the Caribbean
Publish a book of my photographs
Drink rum on the St. Croix beach
Ride my motorcycle across the country
Go fishing with my kids again
Bone up on my sailing skills
Take the time to save the world
Go on vacation with my wife
Spend a day at a nudist camp
Buy a sailboat and sail away
Find an island and live there for awhile
Run around naked on the beach
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You’re gonna die…
You better get moving
This is a “Magic Eye” 3-D image
to see the secret message
click on image to enlarge and
focus your eyes at a distance
as you look at the 3-D image
Oberon is now on island time.
I just arrived in la la land
a.k.a. St.Croix, Virgin Islands.
Yowzaah! Daddy needs a vacation!
“Venus disarming Cupid”
François Boucher
1751
“War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength”
George Orwell-1984
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Some guy on the news told me I should expect
a “terror attack” to happen anytime soon now.
I was surprised by involuntary spasms of fear,
as if splashed with buckets of ice cold water.
I thought to myself, this is how they do it,
it was beginning to sound like they had it all
planned out like some kind of perverse TV show.
Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country…Hermann Goering.
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so…Unknown.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever…George Orwell.
- Labels: big brother, censorship, control, fear, now, propaganda
