2011-02-26T04:08:19Z User 112 kamakandala@msn.com http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v112/ OrgSpace NewsLog

Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about a science book Don't know much about the french I took

But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you love me too
What a wonderful world this would be

Don't know much about geography
Don't know much trigonometry
Don't know much about algebra
Don't know what a slide rule is for

But I do know that one and one is two
And if this one could be with you
What a wonderful world this would be

Now I don't claim to be an "A" student
But I'm trying to be
So maybe by being an "A" student baby
I can win your love for me

Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about a science book
Don't know much about the french I took

But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you love me too
What a wonderful world this would be

Sam cooke
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The Spirit Is Alive and Well.

The Spirit Is Alive and Well.]]> http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v112/__show_article/_a000112-000251.htm 2010-11-12T02:22:47Z 2010-11-12T02:22:47Z

Once upon a time, somebody lived here, and this was a thriving locus of attention and interaction.

Once upon a time,
somebody lived here,
and this was a thriving
locus of attention
and interaction.
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Picked this guy up from the middle of a strip of Two Lane asphalt. I was out on a little drive around through the Mojave Desert Preserve. Looking for Tomorrow.

Picked this guy up from the middle of a strip of Two Lane asphalt.
I was out on a little drive around through the Mojave Desert Preserve.
Looking for Tomorrow.
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Had a fire over in the Bosque down by the River last week. Embers were blowing over so everyone in all the houses up and down the line this side of the drainage canal were out hosing down their yards and roofs. (If the plural of hoof is hooves, why isn't the plural of roof, rooves?) Hot embers...

Had a fire over in the Bosque down by the River last week.
Embers were blowing over so everyone in all the houses up and down the line
this side of the drainage canal were out hosing down their yards and roofs.
(If the plural of hoof is hooves, why isn't the plural of roof, rooves?)
Hot embers were a blowin' in the wind.
The firemen got it all under control, eventually.
It started in the late afternoon, early evening,
and lit the night sky up orange.
Things happen, just like that, that have the potential
of turning your life around real fast.
Don't hurt to be ready to move fast
with what you think is important to you.
J.A.
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Interesting stuff. . . . . "What Babies Know and We Don’t" The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life by Alison Gopnik Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 288 pp., Reviewed by By Michael Greenberg http://librarykvpattom.wordpress.com/201...

Interesting stuff. . . . .

"What Babies Know and We Don’t"
The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
by Alison Gopnik
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 288 pp.,
Reviewed by By Michael Greenberg

http://librarykvpattom.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/what-babies-know-and-we-dont/

"The most elusive period of our lives occurs from birth to about the age of five. Mysterious and otherworldly, infancy and early childhood are surrounded later in life by a curious amnesia, broken by flashes of memory that come upon us unbidden, for the most part, with no coherent or reliable context. With their sensorial, almost cellular evocations, these memories seem to reside more in the body than the mind; yet they are central to our sense of who we are to ourselves.. . . . . .
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Think Government Is Corrupt? You May Face 10 Years In Jail South Carolina forces "subversives" to register with the authorities or do hard time http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/february2010/020810_government_corrupt.htm Paul Joseph Watson Propaganda Matrix Monday, February 8, 2010

Subversives who think government is corrupt and should be controlled by the people face 10 years in prison and a $25,000 dollar fine if they fail to register with authorities in South Carolina, in another chilling example of how free speech and dissent is being criminalized in America.
The state's "Subversive Activities Registration Act" is now officially on the books and mandates that "Every member of a subversive organization, or an organization subject to foreign control, every foreign agent and every person who advocates, teaches, advises or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States ... shall register with the Secretary of State."
Of course, the right to overthrow a government that has become corrupt, abusive and completely unrepresentative of its electorate is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence - that's how America came to be a Republic in the first place - advocating or teaching that the people should "control" the government via their elected representatives is a basic function of a democratic society, but this law effectively makes it a terrorist offense.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness," states the Declaration of Independence.
Under the sweeping terms of the law, members of tax protest organizations, the Tea Party movement and the States' Rights movement based in South Carolina are all domestic terrorists if they fail to register their dissent with the authorities.
It is important to stress that the notion this law somehow only applies to "Islamic terrorists" is completely at odds with the fact that federal and state authorities now consider the main terror threat to be from informed American citizens exercising their constitutional rights in opposition to the big government agenda they are being subjected to.
As we saw with the MIAC report and a plethora of similar training manuals which were leaked over the last decade, police are being trained that libertarians, gun owners, Ron Paul supporters and anyone who is mildly political is a domestic extremist and a potential terrorist - these people are the real target of the subversives list in South Carolina.
The infamous Phoenix Federal Bureau of Investigation manual (page one, page two) produced in association with the Joint Terrorism Task Force listed "defenders of the U.S. constitution" and "lone individuals" as terrorists. Will anyone in South Carolina who defends the Constitution, the very bedrock of what America stands for, have to register with the authorities unless they want to be locked up for a decade?
Of course, since nobody is going to register as a "subversive" with South Carolina authorities, their failure to "comply" with the regulation will later be used against them as a means of eliciting criminal charges, in what represents a clear end run around the First Amendment.
The government isn't going to just come out all guns blazing and ban free speech, they are simply going to make anyone who refuses to register for permission a criminal for failing to adhere to a separate mandate.
Just like people in places such as New York and Chicago were told that they had to get a license to purchase a gun - at first the process was a mere inconvenience but now the licensing process means they have to jump through 200 flaming hoops and the second amendment has effectively been outlawed in these cities.
They won't hesitate to pull the same tricks with the First Amendment, and it's already happening with calls to license Internet users and force them to get government permission to run a website.
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Homo Sapiens c. 21st century A.D. Thinks that we (he and she, such as we are) are pretty hot stuff. We're all here, in this little site, are we not, in the belief that the best is yet to come. Perhaps, just perhaps, we've got a little ways to go, just to get back to where we (such as we a...

Homo Sapiens c. 21st century A.D.
Thinks that we (he and she, such as we are)
are pretty hot stuff.
We're all here, in this little site,
are we not, in the belief that the best is yet to come.
Perhaps,
just perhaps,
we've got a little ways to go,
just to get back to where we (such as we are)
have already been.
Kinda got derailed back there some time ago.
Maybe the best IS still yet to come.
It is, however, gonna be maybe a kinda rough ride
gettin' there.
Only thing is, there is no other way to go.
Keep the vision crankin',
and make it become.
Just a thought.
Dissident opinions notwithstanding.
One thing we know for sure, is that Nobody Knows.
JA

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/the-brain-2/28-what-happened-to-hominids-who-were-smarter-than-us/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C

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Saturn in the Kennel of Virgo. Venus an hour ahead of the Rising Sun.

The spinning Sapphire in Blue light revolves in synchronicity with her sister gems around their bright star. The urban civilizations of the bipedal ape have chewed the forest of the planet up into near oblivion. The mania for black gold, yellow gold, and white gold drives the dynamic of population relocation. Many things are being written and many movies are being made, all presenting variations on the theme, the meltdown, not only of glaciers and icecaps, but of human populations. Shall a new civilization emerge in the Arctic lands that evolve from the tundra? Shall technological and creative capabilities cope in an effective manner with the needs of the populations who make it and take root in those areas? Shall there be great wars between migrating populations, or shall they all recognize one another as the last sailors on the only ship we got?
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/could-methane-t/
Very Best Wishes,
J.A.
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I see in various headlines that there are various arguments going on

in global real-time internet sessions about whether or not
this phenomenon commonly referred to as global warming,
is actually occurring, and if it so, what is causing it,
and if it has been ascertained
that the madness within humans has brought this about,
what if anything can or should be done about it?
Let us simplify the debate.
We are fried.
The only question then becomes one of how long this shall take.
Let us propose one human lifetime. Say seventy or eighty years.
Or if one might like to reckon time
according to the contemporary counting system,
pose the question as,
What do you think the Earth will look like in 2100?
Parenthetically, if you think there is going to be anyone left around
who will still be functioning within that calendrical system?

What will be the progressions and realignments
of dry desert areas to moist rainy portions of the evolving landscapes?
Where will the plants grow and what kinds of plants will they be?
Ocean currents will change placement, and direction and intensity.
As much as is likely so for prevailing wind patterns.
No one can now really tell
what the overall number for the planetary population will be,
or how, actually, they will live.
A new technologically superior civilization
may comprise some number of the perhaps half a billion people
who occupy the planet.
Indigenous peoples in many places are already well equipped,
mentally and practically, to keep their traditions alive.
None of the current publicity stunt climate conferences
are going to affect one Iota of anything
that is contributing to the currently evolving methane hydrate catastrophe.
Might want to build those windmill farms in territories
near and around the Arctic circle.
Ever notice that big swath of desert
cutting across all of northern Africa through the Arabian peninsula
and across the Middle East and into the Gobi?
Now let’s just suppose that that whole ribbon of sand and rocks
nudged north some ten degrees latitude,
some twenty degrees latitude, or thirty, or what?
That’s on the Eurasian side.
No telling what might come around on the once lush continent of North America.
All lines in the dirt formerly known as boundaries will no longer exist.
The great California breadbasket might dry up like a canyon on Mars.
The Mississippi would become like the Rio Grande,
a thin ribbon of water winding through a desert.
From the Rockies, to the Great Lakes, to the shores of the Potomac,
tumbleweed territory.
The Amazon, sub-Saharan African, southeast Asian,
and Indonesian rainforest belt,
with the richness of wind currents and moisture
that have nurtured its profuseness until now,
will adjust in some unforeseeable way
to the overall set of changing weather patterns.
Moisture and humidity should be readily available
in this transitional phase of planetary evolution.
Where the rain will fall, no one yet does know.
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J.A.]]> http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v112/__show_article/_a000112-000243.htm 2009-11-27T20:42:32Z 2009-11-27T20:49:19Z