hmmm it didn't post the whole thing but anyway, I'm looking forward to reading more of your stuff!

one world-one revolution

Part of a of a talk given at Occupy Wellington, New Zealand, on October 27 2011 which I totally agree with:

"Some conspiracy theories, such as many of the shadowy financial cabal conspiracies, only serve to mystify capitalism and falsely suggest a level of control that doesn't actually exist. Additionally, they remove any sense of our own power, whether real or potential. A theory which suggests such overwhelming power and control over the entire way we live our lives is actually a catalyst for inaction if a group has such a high level of control over everything, then there's not really anything we can do about it. On the contrary, capitalism is not a static system, it is dynamic and changing and constantly adapts in response to threats. The threat of working class power has resulted in a number of changes to the functioning of capitalism over time, including the introduction of Keynesian and Neoliberal economics in the late 1930s and 1970s respectively.

Even if conspiracy theories can sometimes seem relatively harmless on the surface, they play a role of absorbing us into a fictional world, somewhat like a dungeons and dragons enthusiast. Once you are in this fictional world, it becomes really easy to get lost in it and to be defensive when challenged, even when challenged on a logical, rational basis.

I'll quote British political blogger Jack Ray:

So what is the alternative to this conspiracist world-view? For that, we need to look at history. The history of how social change comes about is not always easy to find. It suits those in power to downplay the role of mass movements, so the dominant narrative is often one that ignores the long term grassroots organising that has happened, and simply focuses on legislative change enacted by the Government of the day. But a people's history is out there often in the form of first hand accounts by those who took part in these movements, such as those for homosexual law reform, of the 1970s strike wave across New Zealand, of the movement against native forest logging and so on.

One thing, from looking at this history, is abundantly clear. Mass action is vital for mass change. If you look through history, time and time again, it is when large groups of people have got toget

you realize surface temp and temops aloft are drasticly diferent

its 70 at the surface its 0 at 10,000 (cloud base) at 30,000 where the pland]=es are its -40

its very simply explained its ice crystals

SE, I used to think the same thing about chemtrails until last year. My area of central Florida has been 'sprayed' so heavily this past year it's insane. Every time it starts to cloud up like a storm is brewing and the temp. starts to drop like a natural winter cold front is coming a few hours later those tell-tale criss crosses start appearing in the sky. My son and I have literally walked outside and it was black as night with the potential for rain and walking out of a store a while later every cloud in the sky is gone. Poof. Just GONE. But guess what IS up in the sky? Chemtrails.I have videos of these things and tons of pictures.

Contrails disappear after a few hundred feet, chemtrails stick up there and slowly disperse over a matter of hours. Naysayers like to talk about them as being 'mare's tails' as they disperse. Bull. I've never seen so many 'mare's tails' in the sky before in my life and I've always been a cloud watcher. There's nothing natural about the streaky mess in our local skies lately. We've only dipped below 50 degrees maybe four times this past winter. February is our coldest month and what am I wearing right now? Cotton shorts and a halter top. All our windows are open and have been for the past two weeks.

La Nina, my ass.

I look forward to your blog posts, Jakk. I look forward to your writings. My two children (10 and 12) are virtual schooled at home and we know all too well the indoctrination that can take place in brick-and-mortar schools. My children would come home from school with religious pamphlets stuffed in their bookbags and they did not go to a parochial school. But the megachurch around the corner from their school certainly knew how to advertize and they wrangled the teachers into their propaganda march. We're not atheist but we don't like indoctrination of any kind. We teach our kids to ask questions and not believe everything they see or hear just because an adult says it's so and not just about religion- about everything.

Can't wait to read your blog posts in the future, they sound great. I agree with what you said about dreads being more than a hairstyle, because that's actually how they started out in my eyes, and it became about more than that, changed my opinion on it. But, you know, for everyone who admires Che Guevara, there's a person with no knowledge of him wearing a shirt with his face on it. Same thing, I suppose.

Agree with what you said about conspiracies too. It's annoying being told you're a brainwashed idiot because you don't believe conspiracies just because they're conspiracies. In my opinion, believing the official story without any evidence or questioning is bad, but so is believing a conspiracy without any evidence or questioning. If you look for dodgy stuff, you will find it, because the mind sees what it's looking for.

I do have to say I'm one of those people who believe greed is a natural trait of humanity though. I don't see it as a good excuse, because it's easy to rebel against it, block it out, overcome it, but I do think we're born with (or at least, taught in such a constant way that it becomes a part of us from the moment we're exposed to life) this never-ending pit of desire, whether it's power, wealth or control.

Anyway, sorry for rambling, but I love your blog post.

This is by far probably the most honest blog I've read... real talk:)

really look forward to reading the blogs as they progress it will be great to have more thought provoking blogs like this

on the conspiracy theory part i find the chemtrails one funniest since they are just water vapor caused by wing loading squeexzing water vapor out of the air making it condence into visible vapors

i fly gliders and when i do aerobatics at higher g's you can get the same wing tip vortices on the right days when the dewpoints just right. and when you try to explain that to them they claim that thry claim that its aluminum and thats why it lingers in the air so long..like metal even a light metal is lighter then air haha but water vapor will stay at the level it condences at just as a funtion of pressure density temperatutre etc

all completely explainable and understandable if you study meteroology even in its most basic form.

some conspiracies might be right on or at least have some truth..some do make sense to a point but many or most are rediculouse.

the weird part is the truths are stranger then the consopiracies often and are less accepted by the masses..lol