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Global Guerrillas: Leaking LegitimacyOver the last month, it's become increasingly clear that there is a coordinated information operations campaign in place to downplay the impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The US government and British Petroleum have imposed a scientific and media blackout to prevent the gathering of the information on the oil leak needed to generate precise estimates (

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Below is the text of a letter I sent to podcaster KMO of the C-Realm podcast, which he read at the end of episode 205, released on May 12, 2010. _____________________________________________________Hey KMO;Enjoying the new blog (ETC J).I was just re-listening to your dialogue with Doug Lain talking about your convo with Frank Rotering, and then there was this NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/

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Over the next few weeks, I'll be reviving this blog as a location for direct commentary on podcasts and other media items of note. Feel free to join in the conversation.

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i'm far more afraid of the organizational skills and proselytizing power of the right-wing Christians than of the internecene debates of Islam. when the oil starts to run out and society gets weirder, Colorado is a lot closer than Iran. So, if the Ukraine can have a nonviolent revolution through better pre-planning and organization, why can't we? (or is the secret story really that the power

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"So how do we explain the differences between Japan and the west? The heart of the matter lies in their different ethos. Individualism animates the west, now more than ever. In contrast, the organising principle of Japanese society is a sense of group identity, a feeling of being part of a much wider community. Compared with western societies, Japan is a dense lattice-work of responsibilities and

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"Demand [for energy] is rising around the world; supplies are not growing fast enough to satisfy global requirements; and the global struggle to gain control over whatever supplies are available has become more intense and fractious. Because the first and second of these factors are not likely to abate in the years ahead, the third can only grow more pronounced."Link"It's time to leave the stone

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"For most Americans under 40, the dread that saturated the 1980s is indelible. It was part of the fabric of their childhood."In reading this article over at Salon, I suddenly had a realization: perhaps the lack of hopeful vision to be found in the Left today has its roots in the generational, um, cloud of doom that the 30 and 40 and 50 somethings lived under during their/our "formative years." I

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I'm not a regular reader of TechCentralStation, but I found this article to be of interest."'What they set themselves to achieve instead -- often not recognizing fully what they were doing -- was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming ages of barbarism and darkness. If my account of our

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Remember what I was saying about the US projecting hard power when its soft power starts to dwindle?"Indeed, by some calculations, the United States spends more on defense than all other nations in the world together [emphasis mine]. This is a circumstance without historical precedent. .... On a day-to-day basis, what do these expensive forces exist to do? Simply put, for the Department of

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If you have an economy based in oil, and the oil is running out, and the rest of the world is trying to move away from that economy.....it seems that one option (of course, not the only one) might be a multipronged plan of obfuscation and covert action, to buy your national economy time and opportunity to change itself before either the external controlled forces (e.g. Europe, China, Iran) gather

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It's an old article, but well worth reading. Fascinating (in the gut-tightening sense) even if it isn't 100% accurate."In this power game, least understood is the role of preserving the dollar as the world reserve currency, as a major driving factor contributing to Washington's power calculus over Iraq in the past months. American domination in the world ultimately rests on two pillars -- its

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link"It would be nice if the "remote viewing" Tibetan monks were right (assuming the India Daily story is true), but I am not counting on alien interventionists to save the world from a really bad end in 2012 or any other year. More to the point, I am expecting that we are going to be finding out the hard way just how screwed we are, and that we've no one to blame for it but ourselves, and that

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it's disturbing to consider how INaccessible much of the world's spiritual thought is to the average American. not physically - sure, anyone can find a book or a website. but intellectually? how does enlightenment appeal versus video games, high-speed internet access, immediate gratification? too much or not enough, this is the dichotomy we have built - but spirit is outside it, a third choice in

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Fear is an inordinately powerful force. Those who are afraid will too often suspend rational thought in favor of whatever options will make them feel safer, stronger - fight or flight. But what of the nebulous threat? or the impossible situation? Global warming, a shaky economy, Peak Oil, terrorism - Americans are being spoon-fed a steady diet of fear, with no point of focus, no specific enemy to

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