Far off in the usual cacophony of background noise, there is the dark rumbling sound of Empire. Amidst the hustle and bustle and the sound of money, the strident noise of capitialism at work, there is an ominous gutteral rumbling, a deep, dark groaning sound of a tortured planet and it’s human and non-human habitation. And it’s getting louder every day. (more…)

In case you need more convincing, and you can afford the gas, you might want to think about attending the Petrocollapse Conference October 5, 2005 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Now that Katrina is downwind somewhere, we are dealing with the “after-action” reports coming from the damaged areas. Many of these reports simply do not match up with the widely circulated rumors and “facts” that we all heard.

First off, it’s probable we will never know the whole truth concerning what actually happened, how many deaths there were and what the individual experiences were “really” like. The after-action reports are rather different then what we heard or read about before - they are downplaying, rather dramatically, the number of dead, the number of rapes, the cases of violence, etc., and this “good news” is making a fair number of people angry. (more…)

I’ve not written much lately. Been doing a lot of work around the place and a lot of thinking. I’m getting more disillusioned then ever about the survival of the human species. There seems to be an incredible lack of common sense and clear thinking permeating (and pre-empting) every so-called “crisis”. It’s like a plague that is jumping from one person to the next, affecting reason and logic, sanity and sane thinking.

As usual, the American reaction to Hurricane Rita was a knee-jerk over-reaction, which has already caused the death of 24 elderly people when the bus they were riding in blew up. What is it about Americans that causes us to react so stupidly in the face of crisis? It wasn’t always this way. The Texas coast is NOT New Orleans with its levies and below-sea level urban sprawl. Yet the panic set it - the wind and the rain was coming and a mass evacuation was ordered. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

The gun confiscation from private citizens in New Orleans has been stopped by the Court - but this was another knee-jerk by over-zealous authorities who once again, thought they were “protecting” people by disarming them (illegally) and leaving them prey for the predators.

What’s going on? Have we become so stupid to have fled common sense? It’s not just the so-called “authorities” (who obviously aren’t authorities on anything), but people too have become incurably blind to reason and clear thinking. (more…)

The March on Washington is still on, with the same level of hope and expectations as all other Washington marches — zip. I???ve never participated in a march, although I did attend a protest once. It didn???t do any good then either and I learned my lesson. I???m not aware that such actions ever do any good.

But something needs to be done, so I support any effort to stop the Washington juggernaught, but is this even possible? I think this statement sums it up nicely -

“On numerous occasions over the last nine years the Court has wanted to simply wash its hands of Interior and its iniquities once and for all. But doing so,” he concluded, “would constitute an announcement that negligence and incompetence in government are beyond judicial remedy.”

The only remedy that remains for Americans (including the grossly disenfranchised Native Americans, as noted above) is to overthrow this present government. (more…)

Not many blog updates lately, been busy getting my own little “sustainable acreage” built. I’m also doing a lot of work on the website, having to learn CSS and Dreamweaver at the same time. If you’ve noticed the site has been broken, my apologies. Seems like you can’t “fix” something only to break it (and learn what you’re doing wrong in the process). So right now, my time is being spent on the website upgrade that I’m finding necessary. That plus clearing new ground for a large greenhouse is taking priority. I’ll post interesting stuff as I find it or you can make a contribution if you like to sales@survivalacres.com ~Survival Acres~

I spotted this - and posted it in it’s entirety.

G’ Day All.

So World War III has begun, and I’m in the bad country. Our President is totally F’ing mad, he and his millennial dispensationalist raptureists backers are trying to fulfill an ancient religious prophecy about an all-destroying battle between good and evil, and the most powerful propaganda industry in history is strangely backing him up, pretending he’s sane and reasonable, leading Americans on a cult of global-scale murder-suicide that may very well leave our country in ruins. How did we come to this?

Bush is already being set up as the scapegoat, like Hitler before him, so Americans can pretend we’re all good people who just got a bad ruler by some fluke and we were “only doing our jobs” or “we didn’t know.” But nobody is born with an urge to conquer and exterminate, with an active resistance to empathy, with an inability to psychologically adapt. People like this are made, and in a healthy society they’re seldom made and never given influence. In America we crank them out by the millions and tend to make them our leaders and congress critters. Wishful-thinking lefties say the American people are against this war, but I don’t see it. I see every part of the government and every large business going along with the war, and I see a majority of people who either actively support it, or refuse to give any attention to politics, or secretly feel good about “their” side ruling the world and are happy that they don’t have to admit it, happy the system is set up so they can benefit from brutality just by continuing to behave normally, whatever that term may mean. (more…)

Perhaps I am wrong, but with all the news on a existing and soon-to-be critical energy crisis - where is the emphasis on abandoning the false gods of economic growth?

I see no evidence (yet) that this is occurring. It is as if this is the only “solution” even being considered, yet it leads to a never ending race of resource extraction and population expansion with a finish line of absolute disaster. (more…)

Should we continue to expect more from Government? Steve Hill writing for Truthout thinks so. Arguing in support of “better” government, Steve says -

The better conclusion is that government, done correctly, really has an indispensable role to play. An efficient and effective government can improve our lives, whether in times of crisis or over the long haul.

I think he’s dead wrong. (more…)

I’ve read where the levy that broke and flooded New Orleans was simply a failure, or was struck by a barge and there are even rumors that it was deliberate. Today, I read this:

EXPLOSIVE RESIDUE FOUND ON FAILED LEVEE DEBRIS!
Ruptured New Orleans Levee had help failing
By: Hal Turner September 9, 2005 3:36 PM EDT

NOTE: This story has been UPDATED as of Saturday, September 10, 2005 @ 11:40 PM EDT The updated info is incorporated into the story and appears in bold type

New Orleans, LA — Divers inspecting the ruptured levee walls surrounding New Orleans found something that piqued their interest: Burn marks on underwater debris chunks from the broken levee wall! (more…)