2.18.2012
Climate change killing mighty trees in Alaska, researchers say msnbc.com
msnbc.com -
But the yellow cedar experience also underscores the increasing importance that climate change will play in managing forests, said Paul Schaberg, a USFS plant pathologist from Burlington, Vt.
'I can't find ANYONE in history that's done what we need done here.' SL (vlog, Transcript)
Poor Audio on this - I suggest you read the transcript below while watching.
It was months ago that I had the realization that during a mild depression like I'm in now, while exploring the reasons for my depression, realizing that what I was trying to figure out how to do neither Gandhi, nor Jesus, not Martin Luther King had succeeded in doing. This was quite a realization for me. As usual, such profound realizations are immediately of benefit but take a long, long, long, long time to unpack in terms of their full implications - years, many years in my case, often. In the last several days I've begun a process that will probably last a week for part of my time each day, anyway.
I'm thinking more deeply about the people throughout history that have had any impact whatsoever on moving others in the direction of sanity, Loving. Having done that for a few hours in recent days I find the realizations I'm seeing depressing. Maybe surprising only to me, but depressing, and enlightening. I'm not thinking of anyone, with the possible exception of Teresa of Calcutta, that has had a significant success in moving groups of people out of insanity, out of affloholism, and into sanity, Loving, Universal Brotherhood. Gandhi before he died was deeply depressed, as near as I can tell, profoundly, near totally saddened by what he viewed as his life failure. His goal, he suggested, was never to ultimately the liberation of India. He said on numerous occasions that he would sacrifice that in a moment if he thought it was not ultimately leading to a massive, broad increase in brotherhood (my words not his) but that's what he was indicating. And he realized before he died that he had not caused a mass movement toward brotherhood. Rather all he had done was achieve the short 'use' of brotherhood to achieve the aims of Head and Flesh, the liberation from Britain.
And I guess I'm realizing for the first time why he found that so depressing. It wasn't some superficial moralizing. It was the brother realizing that he had not cured the disease, but he had pushed back some symptoms, but not cured the disease, and he could see where the disease would lead.
Well, Jesus you say, He was a great success. He moved masses of people. No, not in the direction that He wanted. In fact his teachings have been used infinitely more successfully by the forces of Evil, the church for example, than the forces of Good, the handful of Saints throughout the ages.
Not Martin Luther King, Jr. Almost immediately with his death, the Goodness that he embodied evaporated from the others who it had infected. Oh, but we revere Dr. King; we just built a memorial to him. No, we revere him the same way we revere Jesus, in our own image of Head and Flesh. No. Dr. King's spirit is dead. Knowledge of him in our Head and our Flesh is there, but his Spirit? For all intents and purposes, Dead. The Spirit of Gandhi for all intents and purposes is dead. The Spirit of Jesus for all intents and purposes is dead. Whereas he would have had it proliferated, and stay dominant on the planet.
No one has remotely achieved the only salvation for humanity now that we've brought ourselves to the edge of the cliff of global environmental armageddon.
For your interest maybe, it will not happen the you'll find that Loving's gone and blown his brains out, or anything similar. That's not what this is about, that's not where this is headed. I hate to see how bleak it is, but more than that I hate not to see the Truth, because in the Truth, if there is any hope for any constructive action whatsoever, its to be found in an understanding of the Truth.
Over the next week or so I'm sure I'll be reporting out on this work that I've just scratched the surface of, of reflecting on people and movements as it relates to a mass movement from the insanity of Head in charge, to the sanity, the only sanity, the Heart being in charge. And this is the first of those reports.
Obama's Christlikeness Validated by Scribe-Santorum Questioning it AP
The Associated Press -
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - White House candidate Rick Santorum on Saturday questioned President Barack Obama's Christian values and attacked GOP rival Mitt Romney's Olympics leadership as he courted tea party activists and evangelical voters in Ohio, ...
Cardinals' ascension clouded by absence of Cristlikes CBS News
CBS News -
Pope Benedict XVI elevated 22 men to the rank of cardinal in a ceremony at the Vatican Saturday. But the joyous occasion was overshadowed by difficult days for the church.
Global warming puts food security at risk Zee News
Zee News -
In addition, the scientists say global warming will have greater impacts than previously thought on the El Nino Southern Oscillation, a tropical phenomenon that has global impact on climate and food production.
Obama's geeks v GOP billions Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald -
NEW YORK: Barack Obama's re-election team is building a vast digital operation that, for the first time, combines a database on millions of Americans with the power of Facebook to target individual voters to a degree never seen before.
Boldest nuclear cutters recently? It's been GOP The Associated Press
The Associated Press -
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration's consideration of severe cuts in nuclear weapons generated a flurry of GOP criticism - "reckless lunacy," hissed Arizona Rep. Trent Franks.
2.17.2012
Palestine: Israeli army killed 114, including 15 children, in 2011 The Muslim News
The Muslim News -
Furthermore, the Israeli Navy continued its attacks against the Palestinian fishermen and carried out 69 attacks last year leading to the injury of six fishermen.
Obama team praises fallen reporter Anthony Shadid USA TODAY
USA TODAY -
By David Jackson, USA TODAY The White House is paying tribute to Anthony Shadid, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Middle East correspondent for The New York Times who died Thursday after an asthma attack while on assignment in Syria.
The inside story on climate scientists under siege The Guardian
The Guardian -
Though other prominent scientists, such as Nasa's James Hansen and more recently Texas Tech University's Katharine Hayhoe, have also been targetted by contrarian bloggers and thinktanks demanding their institutions turn over their email record, ...
2.16.2012
Obama Peacemaker: West Considers Iran's Offer to Talk Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal -
By JAY SOLOMON And LAURENCE NORMAN A call by Iran for a quick resumption of nuclear negotiations with world powers drew a cautiously receptive response from US and European officials on Thursday, opening a potential avenue for reducing the mounting ...
GO BILL! Bill Gates pressures Obama over new mining and energy anti ... The Guardian
Bill Gates pressures Obama over new mining and energy anti ...
The Guardian - 5 hours ago
Bill Gates is putting pressure on the Obama administration to prevent major US energy companies from neutering legislation aimed at stamping out corruption ...
Global Climate Change Deal Ignores CO2 Emissions Huffington Post
Huffington Post -
A recently announced climate change agreement between the United States and several other countries aims to reduce pollutant emissions, but it is drawing some concerns from a conservation group that claims it doesn't go far enough.
No one listening to the Pedophile guys? Catholics' support for Obama mostly unaffected by contraception flap The Star-Ledger
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com -
By Star-Ledger Staff Catholic leaders may be battling President Obama over insurance coverage for birth control, but a new Gallup poll shows the president's support among rank-and-file Catholics is so far mostly unaffected.
'You watch as the universal cure for Cancer is permanently crippled, by the church. You react how?' SL (detail)
Do you hate the church?
YOU HATE WHAT THE CHURCH DID!
YOU TRY TO UNDO THE DAMAGE!
What the church has done is infinitely worse, more deadly, more cruel, taking the Universal Cure for CANCER OF THE PSYCHE, HEARTLESSNESS, and adulterating it into a Drug that does exactly the opposite.
YOU BET I'M OUTRAGED. WHY AREN'T YOU???
YOU HATE WHAT THE CHURCH DID!
YOU TRY TO UNDO THE DAMAGE!
What the church has done is infinitely worse, more deadly, more cruel, taking the Universal Cure for CANCER OF THE PSYCHE, HEARTLESSNESS, and adulterating it into a Drug that does exactly the opposite.
YOU BET I'M OUTRAGED. WHY AREN'T YOU???
Nazi Israel Tortures Gaza GHETO: Israel strikes Gaza targets Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish Telegraphic Agency -
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's Air Force struck what the military called two "terror activity sites" in the Gaza Strip.
G.reedy O.ld P.igs Poster Child: Christie vows veto gay marriage law Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times -
New Jersey lawmakers are expected to pass legislation Thursday that would legalize same-sex marriage, but Gov. Chris Christie's vow to veto the measure could force a drawn-out battle similar to those that have roiled California and other states that ...
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