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Earthtribe-Gather 2012-08-22T22:26:22Z User 112 kamakandala@msn.com https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v112/ OrgSpace NewsLog Modern Day Slavery

Photographing Modern day slavery
By Lisa Kristine
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/08/17/modern-day-slavery/
“From backbreaking labor in brick factories and underground mines, to sex slavery, to textile mills and farms, Lisa tells the story of the people featured in her heart-braking photographs. . .
]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v112/__show_article/_a000112-000255.htm 2012-08-22T22:26:22Z 2012-08-22T22:26:22Z Eclipse - 2012

Eclipse, 2012
All the pages of this morning’s newspaper have been turned.
The comics and the crossword,
Did the Cardinals Win last night? Update on the weather,
and what to look for in the sky tonight.
Any neighborhood shootings last night?
Anyone whose star crossed a bullet through moonlight?
All through the streets of the City,
All of us belong to one of twelve houses.
Horoscopes are on the crosswords page.
One twelfth of us are going to have this kind of a day.

I am born in the sign of harvest woman. I am born with Dawn.
My Solar Disc is rising with her.
Dawn pulls my heartstrings,
And my native season is late summer – early autumn,
As a cooler breeze washes across the fields
Following the warmest days of summer,
And as the first blush of yellow, orange, and red
Tints the leaves of summer’s sea of green.

Mythical characters – goddess of Love, Feathered Serpent –
And all of many others – are spoken of in stories around the globe.
Imaginary men and women, centaurs and flying horses –
Hippopotamus as Great Bear, and the Hunter and his hound,
Remind us that there are things we do not know about
That play a role in our lives,
And these creatures from our most distant past might say
That if we pay attention, we might see some connection
Between What is going on in the sky, the directions in our lives,
And the meanings we create.

The ancients would not have known Uranus or Neptune,
As far as we know, but they spent countless hours
following what they could see.
They would have had the time and silence
to make observations that many of us
Currently do not hear.
If you want to know about the stars and the planets,
It’s about listening.

There was no sea of fluorescent lamps stretching towards the horizon
in every direction from the surface of the stone platform
at the top of the Yucatan pyramids.
There was only the dark or moonlit carpet
Of the jungle canopy from above.
And at every other megalithic site on Earth,
Men and women had time to follow the sky
And there was darkness all around.
To follow the stars and the planets, enter the darkness,
And Listen, to the place in your heart,
where they were seeded when you took your first breath
and made your first cry into this strange universe.
And hopefully,
your name will not be in tomorrow morning’s newspaper,
and you can read what your sign has in store for you.

John Ashbaugh
May 20, 2012
]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v112/__show_article/_a000112-000254.htm 2012-06-04T10:10:53Z 2012-06-04T10:10:53Z Passing Thought

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
]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v112/__show_article/_a000112-000252.htm 2011-02-26T04:08:19Z 2011-02-26T04:08:19Z WaVeLeNgTh

The Spirit Is Alive and Well.

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

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.
]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v112/__show_article/_a000112-000250.htm 2010-09-30T02:34:17Z 2010-09-30T02:34:17Z Who Wins?

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.
]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v112/__show_article/_a000112-000249.htm 2010-09-22T02:15:46Z 2010-09-22T02:15:46Z Hanging Out.

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.
]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v112/__show_article/_a000112-000248.htm 2010-06-04T03:30:39Z 2010-06-04T03:30:39Z What Babies Know

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.. . . . . .
]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v112/__show_article/_a000112-000247.htm 2010-02-23T16:27:01Z 2010-02-23T16:27:01Z And Then . . ?

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.
]]> https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v112/__show_article/_a000112-000246.htm 2010-02-10T03:39:33Z 2010-02-10T03:39:33Z Boskops

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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