Colin Mackay
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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2013-06-19 07:31:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
Get apocalyptic: Why radical is the new normal »
Feeling anxious about life in a broken-down society on a stressed-out planet? That's hardly surprising: Life as we know it is almost over. While the dominant culture encourages dysfunctional denial -- pop a pill, go shopping, find your bliss -- there's a more sensible approach: Accept the anxiety, embrace the deeper anguish -- and then get apocalyptic. We are staring down multiple cascading ecological crises, struggling with political and economic institutions that are unable even to acknowledge, let alone cope with, the threats to the human family and the larger living world. We are intensifying an assault on the ecosystems in which we live, undermining the ability of that living world to sustain a large-scale human presence into the future. When all the world darkens, looking on the bright side is not a virtue but a sign of i... more »
2013-06-19 07:28:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Coalition of the Willing
'Coalition of the Willing’ is a short animated film about an open source approach to the war on global warming. Written by Tim Rayner and directed and produced by award-winning British film maker Simon Robson, it was made by an international network of artists totaling 77 people. Coalition explores how we could use the internet to leverage activists, experts, and ordinary people in collaborative projects to fight climate change. Mixing swarm activity with social revolution, it makes the case for a new generation of online activism to tackle the great challenges of our time.
‘Coalition of the Willing’ won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Hampton International Film Festival. It also won Best Short Film at the 2012 San Francisco Green Film Festival, and the Waverley Award for Best Environmental Short Film at 2011 FlickerFest Sydney.
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2013-06-19 06:15:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Some things Australians "believe" in polling. Might be food for thought if any politicians are actually developing policy.
2013-06-19 05:30:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Schneier calls for government surveillance whistle-blowers
Bruce Schneier summarizes what we do know — and the more that we don't know — about U.S. government surveillance of its citizens and encourages whistle-blowers to come forward, to reveal the full extent of government surveillance and abuses of power if we hope to avert the establishment (rather entrenchment, perhaps) of a militarized police state.
Much of this information is no surprise to anyone who has been aware of ECHELON, TIA, and related programmes, or the FISA scandal surrounding NSA's massive interceptions of AT&T calls following 9/11. Nor is the rather subdued public response to this latest PRISM scandal surprising— sad, but not surprising. People have become inured to the collection and abuse of their personal information by corporate interests; sadly, too many are willing to give up libert... more »
2013-06-19 05:30:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
End of Democracy: NSA and Present Shock
As CNN urgently demands his attention on the PRISM fiasco, Rushkoff presents at the Personal Democracy Forum on his theme of Present Shock, an inability to embrace the present, of "living in an always-on world where everything happens at once".
He discusses how digital technology has shifted our attentiveness and how this has permeated the fabric and institutions of our society, how it has been used successfully for campaign fundraising but "it has been really bad at helping us develop a sustainable approach towards governance".
Incidentally, he subsequently published a blog article on the PRISM affair that is worth reading; it's entitled: Ed Snowden - Human Hero Intervenes on Machine Logic
— http://www.rushkoff.com/blog/2013/6/10/cnn-ed-snowden-human-hero-intervenes-on-machine-logic.html
2013-06-19 03:46:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
"The religious right consistently promotes policies that defund any kind of government efforts to improve the conditions of working families. They support politicians and policies that strip poor, working and middle class families of social support. Everything from food stamps to public education to health care are on the chopping block, while they encourage expanded government funding for a large panel of “faith-based initiatives” that are ostensibly intended to transfer the social welfare role from the government to religious organizations. In other words, transferring even more public money and power to religious entities. "
2013-06-19 01:25:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
2013-06-18 07:14:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
#atheism
Mother-wombs Post No.2
The scene that follows, in the story of the gods, is the aftermath of Shepherds’ raping the women of their flock.
In order, however, for you to have been able to imagine those unfortunate consequences, you should have known that the girls who were born into the enclosures, fathered by gods, did not leave the grounds on reaching puberty, as it happened with the boys, but remained there doing what their mothers and grand mothers had been doing: producing “sons of gods” (in addition to producing “slaves of the gods”).
At this point attention must be drawn to a passage in the Epic of Gilgamesh which is obviously a remnant of earlier versions of the epic.
The passage relates the first encounter between the savage Enkidu and the Shepherd Gilgamesh.
Tablet II (Alexander Heidel translating)
11. They met on the mark... more »
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