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I’ve finished Part 4 of the Top 5 Events of 2012 — focusing on Mercury retrograde during the presidential election of 2012. Here is a short letter introducing the new edition, and here is a direct link to the recording in the Old Player.
Lovingly,
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Eric, thanks for the great podcast that contains warning yet is not all doom and gloom. More from astrodem, please.
Heard one “news” comment about “The Colbert Report” with the “t” in report pronounced. Guess that is another bit of proof that some might view him as conservative. (But, wait, it’s on the Comedy Channel…right after the “Fake News.” Duh.)
On Good Morning America today in a report about the current status/poling/bullshit of the Repulbican candidates, the news reporter/commentator referred to the Pub activity as their version of “speed dating.” Certainly describes the length of the attention span.
Graffiti: I, too, share your hope and fantasy that the revolution is beginning, or even has begun. We may not hear about it on MSM (except for the occasional pithy statement that is far from objective in language), but it does seem to be happening.
What I pray for is the ability of humans to make a choice at this crucial time to move forward, in a very, very different way to a new life, new “economics.” I cringe every time I hear someone wishing that things would return to the way the were. So, light the candle, offer the mantra, pray without ceasing. Send good thoughts. Take part in the change.
Thanks, Eric and PW.
JannKinz
graffiti — thank *you* for bringing up this point about “hidden” protests. i was about to make a comment about how “we have the internet now!” — so it’s harder for governments to hide what’s going on. but as you pointed out, china had kept an iron fist on the internet in that country.
and our own government in the US is toying with legislation that could give the big media companies their own sort of control… since corporations control our gov’t, this is something to watch and shout about. seems to me that an open internet is pretty crucial to keeping this revolution ball rolling.
Thanks, Amanda. 😉
graffiti — that was a Tunisian, not an Egyptian. And Saturday was the one-year anniversary of his self-immolation. his name was Mohamed Bouazizi…
🙂
That was cool, Eric. The Declaration of Independence is fierce.
I have a fantasy that the Occupy movement is not just Occupy, it is the American branch of a global uprising that started with that fruit vendor in Egypt who set himself on fire.
And I like to think it will end with a new order of things all around the planet.
So when we get around to writing a Declaration of Independence for our global, we’ll have to call Eric in to do the text.
Several years ago I met this college professor at a dinner party. He was not of Asian descent but somehow he had lived a lot of his life in Asia and had ended up a professor of Chinese culture at a west coast college.
He told us around the dinner table that China was all the time being convulsed by riots and protests, but only a tiny fraction of that ever became known in the west, because the government is very expert at quashing protests and because it also controls the media and the Internet.
He said that China was actually a very unstable place because of all this unrest. Farmers were angry at having their land seized by the government, which takes the land land to build factories. And workers are angry at the sweatshop conditions.
This was five or six years ago, and it really made an impression on me. Because if this professor is correct, it is possible for widespread unrest and protests to go on for years and years before they reach a tipping point where they cannot be ignored or suppressed anymore.
I think maybe we are all of us now like China. We have these protests going on all over the world but the media either doesn’t cover them, or dismisses them as unimportant, while the powers that be try to suppress them or dismantle them as quickly as possible.
I mean, for crying out loud, sixty thousand Russians went out into the streets of Moscow last week to protest dirty elections. Sixty thousand !!!!
And people continue to protest in Egypt, and Syria, and London, and in the remaining Occupy encampments.
I think it has started, I think it’s global, and I think it is going to upend the existing power structures.