short answer, no.
the political system and the internal propaganda are perfectly set, allowing the illusion of choice to pacify the populace, while maintaining near seamless avoidance of substance.
best newspaper in english in china? twitter ... five minutes in the morning, you know more about what's happening than any combination of newspapers could possibly give ...
only deeply flawed minds are attracted to government and politics ... we MUST learn to ignore them, for our attention is their food, and they need to be starved of it.
a fifty year drama .. in the newspaper every day of my entire life .. it's not that i'm fed up, though i am, but by now i think it's n energetic manipulation by deviant space beings ... i mean, what the heck else can explain it??
rock bands in iran, skiing in iran, art in iran, definitely jeans and modernity ..a fabulous country, with a sometimes weird government .. sort of like usa and israel in that regard...
america seems to be harboring a lot of self-hatred and guilt, given its extreme tendency to create anti-american feeling around the world at an accelerating rate
dear governmental class and workers at #nsa .. i am deeply sorry, but you have to change your ways and your worldviews because humans aren't going back in the box
get over it, move on, evolve .. and anyway, you secretly know that living in fear is killing you. and us.
csn only agree .. watching america is like watching a junkie friend slowly suicide himself, nothing can be done to stop his addiction, no amount of "tough love" or care or passion can forestall the inevitable overdose .. say goodbye, move on
compassion for others is indicative of a level of consciousness .. pretty sure few in america have it, given the 10's of thousands their representative government kill abroad every decade.
climate IS change ... a constantly adjusting change machine ...
i don't think the issue has yet been properly framed ... global warming >> climate change >> ???
i don't have the right buzzword, but the fundamental problem is not living in alignment with nature ... apart from indigenous cultures, who in the world anywhere else even has that concept?
"science" is no substitute for the subtler consciousness required to actually perceive nature and its flow.
anoushka shankar is even more famous than half-sister nora jones .. in india .. sitar and fusion
indian music, composed for the time of day, the season of the year, induces higher states of consciousness ... so much more sophisticated than any other music in the world ..
between this, and the emir of kuwait arresting people for criticizing him, i think we can conclude there has been no substantial social change in the "middle east"
the debates are just show business, highly managed (read the contract between the two camps?) and part of the distraction industry, a mechanism for avoiding anything of serious consequence.
questions of style, and scorekeeping, really don't serve the american public.
can anyone yet see that the american presidential "race" is just a fake cosmetic election with previously vetted candidates both of whom are acceptable to business as usual ?
like a bald man with a combover, which points out the obviousness of the baldness, the usa's addiction to secrecy is only pointing out that it has much to hide.
barbara marciniak once wrote that the middle east was a hologram created by subtle beings whose food is the energy produced by emotional agitation .. something like a hollywood film for them ...
hard to argue with that, seeing what goes on there, endlessly
one cannot really understand politics and political leadership without understanding collective consciousness ...
there is no transformation of a culture from simply changing who sits in the seat ... the collective consciousness of the culture has to evolve ... country after country, all systems, shows this ...
analysis of the skin of the orange tells nothing about the nature of the fruti
business-as-usual doesn't care who wins the american presidency, the dollars will continue to flow ... implicit is, they don't care what happens in syria, as long as the dollars continue to flow
the way modern government works in a mediated culture is your sentence here ......
"If unreliable intelligence personnel with an axe to grind can leak enough to the newspapers, and if the latter prove gullible, then a public record can be created for a false idea, which in turn can be quoted by Congressmen and -women and cabinet officials, and ultimately can become the basis for military action."
please excuse me for a comment ... the translations seem just a bit too literal.
by way of explanation, rumi is often translated very precisely, yet all mystic meaning is lost, and for me, the best translations are by coleman barks, who doesn't know the original language, but knows mysticism.
this poem is about bliss, about samadhi, about transcendental awareness, and how that begins to coexist with normal waking state as the growth of consciousness continues .. "reality" infused with divinity is the true reality.
are "FEMA camps" real in america? supposedly built to house/jail thousands of usa citizens?
it's not "brain dead" ... it's living inside a bubble for one's entire adult life ...
short answer, no.
the political system and the internal propaganda are perfectly set, allowing the illusion of choice to pacify the populace, while maintaining near seamless avoidance of substance.
second this ... and since "fascist" can have a corporate component, it is time to define the term
best newspaper in english in china? twitter ... five minutes in the morning, you know more about what's happening than any combination of newspapers could possibly give ...
such a patronizing speech ... like a dad, explaining the way of the world to his eighth grade child ... embarrassing for america
life in a corporatocracy ...
only deeply flawed minds are attracted to government and politics ... we MUST learn to ignore them, for our attention is their food, and they need to be starved of it.
a fifty year drama .. in the newspaper every day of my entire life .. it's not that i'm fed up, though i am, but by now i think it's n energetic manipulation by deviant space beings ... i mean, what the heck else can explain it??
the disease of addiction to quantification .. all sorts of unsavory results
america has become such an embarrassment to itself … and seems addicted to continuing … secret guilt at play
rock bands in iran, skiing in iran, art in iran, definitely jeans and modernity ..a fabulous country, with a sometimes weird government .. sort of like usa and israel in that regard...
and america, the american government, supports the all the way
let the mid east take care of the mid east ... unless of course there is a larger secret agenda for america's intervention
12. create brand name enemies that may or may not have any real existence beyond the existence of the brand name
11. bomb and invade other countries willy nilly under the public propaganda program of protecting the homeland citizens
the gag order on lavabit is immensely galling ... and the sign of the disease spreading in america
haven't been able to listen to any obama speech for many months now, i am sick of feeling conned.
so we understand the nature of the american media...
may we never again have expectations for anything different
america seems to be harboring a lot of self-hatred and guilt, given its extreme tendency to create anti-american feeling around the world at an accelerating rate
still wondering if the sahara could power europe
dear governmental class and workers at #nsa .. i am deeply sorry, but you have to change your ways and your worldviews because humans aren't going back in the box
get over it, move on, evolve .. and anyway, you secretly know that living in fear is killing you. and us.
csn only agree .. watching america is like watching a junkie friend slowly suicide himself, nothing can be done to stop his addiction, no amount of "tough love" or care or passion can forestall the inevitable overdose .. say goodbye, move on
compassion for others is indicative of a level of consciousness .. pretty sure few in america have it, given the 10's of thousands their representative government kill abroad every decade.
this suggestion is just not the american way!
next, you'd want them to stop droning pakistan, africa, half a dozen other countries ...
then, horrors, you'd want them not to use them in america!
my god, slippery slope, defined!
how can this NOT be a war crime?
if not ignorance .. then intentional?
i used ignorance as a way of describing lack of understanding of cause and effect.
intentional is worse, that is approaching evil, and a tough thing to admit about one's country. usa is evil. ok, i can buy that.
how does ignorance rise to the top in american politics?
poor chump american soldiers, sent into that psychological situation for no reason at all by people eating steak in dc restaurants
gagged at "chain of command", "gentleman's agreement" .. could not proceed ...
cool outfits in that club
climate IS change ... a constantly adjusting change machine ...
i don't think the issue has yet been properly framed ... global warming >> climate change >> ???
i don't have the right buzzword, but the fundamental problem is not living in alignment with nature ... apart from indigenous cultures, who in the world anywhere else even has that concept?
"science" is no substitute for the subtler consciousness required to actually perceive nature and its flow.
the cheers for the emphasized support of israel during the #sotu adress today shocked me .. what IS the leverage that little country has on usa?
america is corrupt.
nice that russia is standing up to israel, not many examples of that in the world
obama, like all presidents, is the pr frontman for business as usual ..
do you think the usa powers behind the scenes are going to let china have afghanistan's mineral wealth?
do you think usa powers behind the scenes are ready to let israel grow up?
i don't
mlk would excoriate obama in 2013, for sooo many actions.
making america less safe, one drone flight at a time.
embarrassing
the headline implies a legitimacy and a purpose that i cannot understand ..
not war .. invasion
end? of what? surrounding iran? claiming minerals or oil? keeping the territory out of chinese hands?
what the heck was it all about, that it can end?
do most of his countrymen consider him a monster?
my thought has been that his popularity, at least until mid 2012, was a lot higher than western media suggested.
blood on his hands, sensing a dark fate ahead of him, he tries to ameliorate his circumstances.
anoushka shankar is even more famous than half-sister nora jones .. in india .. sitar and fusion
indian music, composed for the time of day, the season of the year, induces higher states of consciousness ... so much more sophisticated than any other music in the world ..
not even poor taste, an accurate observation of the circumstances of the times.
it has become embarrassing to be an american
what we oppose is strengthened ... human wisdom 101
Things begun, can never be undone ... It's good to do nothing, more often than we think
between this, and the emir of kuwait arresting people for criticizing him, i think we can conclude there has been no substantial social change in the "middle east"
don't vote, it only encourages, them, would love to see a massive don't vote campaign
there is a better way. propping up the dysfunctional system in place is not the way to get there.
the debates are just show business, highly managed (read the contract between the two camps?) and part of the distraction industry, a mechanism for avoiding anything of serious consequence.
questions of style, and scorekeeping, really don't serve the american public.
another way it was politicized ... blaming a film
the downside of the cult of individualism is that it allows fear to leak in.
can anyone yet see that the american presidential "race" is just a fake cosmetic election with previously vetted candidates both of whom are acceptable to business as usual ?
"taste" and american politics, hard to imagine.
it does seem at times like australia, uk, and usa are in a white-people-against-the-world mindset ...
and btw, it is really time to stop giving attention to politicians .. that attention is their only currency, and it is time to cut them off.
it's the american way, guns, drones, subject separate from object, christianity, science, 'democracy", it's all a package ...
like a bald man with a combover, which points out the obviousness of the baldness, the usa's addiction to secrecy is only pointing out that it has much to hide.
so sad.
barbara marciniak once wrote that the middle east was a hologram created by subtle beings whose food is the energy produced by emotional agitation .. something like a hollywood film for them ...
hard to argue with that, seeing what goes on there, endlessly
ah, omar, you knew of course, that life is too short to be busy
wonderful comparisons in this article ... thanks
depends on your level of emotional maturity
"since" is maybe the wrong word .. it sets up a meaning that is not coherent with the rest of the poem... imo
one cannot really understand politics and political leadership without understanding collective consciousness ...
there is no transformation of a culture from simply changing who sits in the seat ... the collective consciousness of the culture has to evolve ... country after country, all systems, shows this ...
analysis of the skin of the orange tells nothing about the nature of the fruti
business-as-usual doesn't care who wins the american presidency, the dollars will continue to flow ... implicit is, they don't care what happens in syria, as long as the dollars continue to flow
No connection between the minds in government and the minds of citizens ... a self-destructing reality
we are all still such self-centered children on this earth ...
it is time to admit that the usa is the enemy of the entire world ...
the way modern government works in a mediated culture is your sentence here ......
"If unreliable intelligence personnel with an axe to grind can leak enough to the newspapers, and if the latter prove gullible, then a public record can be created for a false idea, which in turn can be quoted by Congressmen and -women and cabinet officials, and ultimately can become the basis for military action."
as sufis know, entire collective consciousnesses have to be evolved in order for any real change, apart from the names on top, to happen.
takes time, attention, and belief.
the two factions of america's single party, the republicans and democrats, as they are called, are not so different as you seem to think. imo
institutionalized fear looks like this
israel doesn't care anymore, having totally lost the pr war in the world. a sign of demise.
cnn should not be given any attention at all
an important distinction .... rule OF law, vs. rule BY law ... the us government practices the latter
lovely stuff ... in our era, we have what? oh yes, american idol. and "reality" shows.
iran seems one of the more intelligent countries in the region
people vs governments, the theme of 2012, globally.
there is no reporting on afghan casualties, on afghan life, nothing about the local governments as you note ...
it seems it's a usa military colony.
and why is the usa there after all these years? not the mythical al qaeda ... it must be the minerals, and keeping them from china
example #10,000 of israel losing the pr war. disgusting.
one of america's great skills, demonizing an "other".
belief, as opposed to direct experience ..
applicable in many arenas
he's just a show business personality, shouldn't be taken seriously.
i like the fact that the STRAFOR leaks expose the toxic personality types at the heart of institutions ...
iran, fabulous land, light, history, people, food, art ...
america's need for an enemy is constant, reflects badly on its self-confidence.
please excuse me for a comment ... the translations seem just a bit too literal.
by way of explanation, rumi is often translated very precisely, yet all mystic meaning is lost, and for me, the best translations are by coleman barks, who doesn't know the original language, but knows mysticism.
this poem is about bliss, about samadhi, about transcendental awareness, and how that begins to coexist with normal waking state as the growth of consciousness continues .. "reality" infused with divinity is the true reality.
wondering if you have a practice...
give them respect, communicate, see what happens. heck, go to iran.
we underestimate the destructive qualities of ego .. on both sides.
the downside of polls-as-news, a huge staple of american media (the polls ARE the news, too often) is that most people are dumb.
so what good are polls?
agree .. but that seems inevitable, maktub, it is written
netanyahu has devoted his life and identity to a point of view. if he were to change his mind it would be equivalent to suicide of that identity.
global whole-system pov tells me this is good for the world ... as a whole
in a contest for spin and propaganda, i would pit india against anybody.
you don't mention the aerial bombing of tel aviv, etc ... there might well be hostile air forces in the neighborhood.
looked more like a celebration (from afar) than it did a message to scaf .. lost opportunity?
the ignorance of the hammer-minded, they don't see that everything creates its opposite
i despise this ..
if it was ordered by obama ...
buddhists say, life is suffering
christians say, my kingdom is not of this world
sufis say, beyond the three worlds
yogis say, the Self is separate from activity
and yet we try to fix the world
🙂
they are talking the republican national committee, whoever decides who gets nominated ..
there is no intent to talk to "people"
that would refer to "backsliders" as the christians say
North Tehran has always been nice ... Did you go south down the hill?
America's culture of individuality distorts the role of ego ... "being tough" is one of the unfortunate side-effects
my twitter stream had reports 80,000 in cairo and live fire on the crowd at night ... so much for twitter