Wehrmacht    

An German anti-tank weapon seen in a Bundeswehr exercise in Lithuania in 2018.  That's right.  See any of the better angels of our nature?  I'm sure they are nice boys, thinking about the photographer or their girlfriend or…

Johnny’s Bad Dreams 

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.  –Edgar Allen Poe

Adjunct professor “limited-term lecturer” Joseph Walther hadn’t seen the “thousand yard stare” for over 30 years. During the first week of class Peep recognized it on one of the…

http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums/8104_0/permaculture/permaculture-tinkerers-presentation

which goes with this:…

The Journey  begin here:  …

"Things like “doubt” and “certainty” are almost meaningless in Slipspace."

Slipspace is all the space around you that is not being used. There are fine points here about molecules, but Slipspace is a place where certain ideas get…

A high school friend in response to something I recently said about Arizona said "things haven't changed at all but we now have a Politician for a Sheriff". I would prefer to differ with that. 40 years ago, the local Sheriff lived out where we lived, in a trailer park. The place was called Colonia del Sol. Some things never change. The name for example. But boy oh boy, that place sure has changed.…

[GMO grapevines destroyed (AFP)]

By Rady Ananda

Food Freedom

Early Sunday morning, French police stood helpless as sixty people, locked inside an open-air field of genetically modified grapevines, uprooted all the plants. In Spain last month, dozens of people destroyed two GMO fields. On the millennial cusp, Indian…

Our Avitar: Their Movie, Our Matrix

Avitar: embodiment; a new personification of a familiar idea; "the embodiment of hope"; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar

of cunning"

Sanskrit avat ra, descent (of a deity from heaven), avatar : ava, downtarati,…

Here’s how it goes:

C 3 = Community, Coercion and Capital

Since we stopped being tribal organizations of hunter-gatherers and embraced “Civilization,” the tripod that has supported Civilization consists of three elements: Community, Coercion and Capital. Community is people;

Coercion is brute force,…

The common black and yellow-striped "potato bug", a very familiar insect to home gardeners, is the most serious insect pest of potatoes. Both the striped beetle and the black-spotted, red larva feed…

The War Fetish and the Weapons Industry

Memorial Day, 2010

"Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane,

And I'll pike oot his bonny blue een;

Wi ae lock o his gowden hair

We'll theek oor nest whan it grows…

'Little Bunny Foo Foo

Bop 'em on the…

Just a brief note because everybody’s busy and yadda yadda. Every two days at Tech I walk in/out the door and look up Lille Street and see two phantoms at the top of the hill.…

...though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so...

John Donne

We all must die. I am not advocating murder. Here’s the

deal:…