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Hemlocker...

...I try not to get too depressed - and my new Shanti! blog is an effort to go the other direction.

Thanks for reading!

D

posted by DamonLeigh on August 4, 2005 at 3:11 AM | link to this | reply

scoop...

...I'm seeing reports of Iraqi police taking out Sunni Muslems in Iraq, quite openly using police guns and vehicles. I've just posted (in my Soundbites blog) about discussions in the Pentagon around the 'Salvador option', which means creating and training death squads.

And the one phrase that keeps coming back to me is - divide and conquer.

Thanks for reading.

D

posted by DamonLeigh on August 4, 2005 at 3:10 AM | link to this | reply

PassionFlower...

...well, yes and no.

Do you know about Gaia? James Lovelock developed a theory, well repsected now, that the planet acts as a living organism, and is able to keep itself in balance over vast timescales. Very simplistically, too many trees give off too much oxygen and absorb too much heat, so the planet enginners an ice age that eventually takes out the trees, drops the oxygen levels, but then the ice reflects too much heat, and so the balance has to shift the other way.

This is useful, as it removes the need to 'save the planet'. The planet is old enough and big enough to look after itself. However, if we're not very careful, we'll be such a destabalizing influence that the planet will start to rebalance things in the simplest way possible - and that may be to make life on Earth impossible for humans to survive, for it is only humans who are trashing the place. Then, as you say, we're fucked.

For a more optimistic view, check out my new blog, Shanti! Shanti! Shanti!

Thanks for reading, m'dear - and stay safe!

D

posted by DamonLeigh on August 4, 2005 at 3:07 AM | link to this | reply

Xeno-x...

...there's times I could cry.

Thanks for stopping by.

D

posted by DamonLeigh on August 4, 2005 at 3:01 AM | link to this | reply

damon

I get sick every time I read about more deaths in this "noble cause." Passionflower's comment--in bold, no less--was pretty depressing. The whole thing is going to burn soon anyway, so fiddle away. Hemlocker

posted by Hemlocker on August 3, 2005 at 1:12 PM | link to this | reply

DL it is a very sad situation only getting worse

one week it is "rah, rah" by some Army talking head about a withdrawal and then the next week it is carnage.

When Bush was told of the deaths he said, they "have died in a noble cause and a selfless cause." And then the Bushwhacker went on to say,  he has a "strategy for success in Iraq" by hunting down insurgents.

If that is the case what have we been doing the last two years?

Bush has a plan, General Meyers has a plan, Rumsfeld has a plan, the General in Iraq has a plan, heh here is a plan, GET ON THE SAME GODDAM PAGE.

posted by scoop on August 3, 2005 at 12:50 PM | link to this | reply

there is no satisfaction what so ever in being proven right

How true Damon...sad, sad mess, and no accountability or truth.

posted by MysticGmekeepr on August 3, 2005 at 11:50 AM | link to this | reply

Hi Damon...although I'm in complete agreement with you

I am a Christain and believe that this is the destiny for our race of beings...This war will eventually become WWIII and culminate in those bloody, all-consuming battles spoken of in Revelations. At some point of course, the end comes...the end of all things as we know it.

I do believe in bible prophecies and can easily see that almost everything is in place in order for these things to occur.

We've pretty much f**ked up our planet anyway with our careless, opulent, wasteful, greedy behaviour and I doubt it would sustain life much longer anyway. Recent scientific studies alarmingly indicate that the ocean off the coast of California has ceased replenishing itself and is dying.

Global warming has caused such a rise in surface and water temps that the US is now facing the worst hurricane season in history and we've already broken every record with 7 named storms this year. I wrote about this yesterday.

 www.noaa.gov has just revised its predictions for the hurricane season and is expecting unprecedented hurricane activity within the next few months. There's a huge hole in the Ozone over the arctic circle...how does one repair such a thing?

I say, laugh, love, enjoy your life, your family...contribute what you can to making your little part of the world a better, cleaner, safer place.

posted by Passionflower on August 3, 2005 at 11:24 AM | link to this | reply

it's so sad

posted by Xeno-x on August 3, 2005 at 11:11 AM | link to this | reply