too scary for words

Fukushima Today

deserted streets of Futaba
banner- "Nuclear energy is the energy of a bright future”

Arkadiusz Podniesinski, the noted documentary photographer of Chernobyl, recently visited Fukushima. His photos and commentary depict a scenario of ruination and anxiety, a sense of hopelessness for the future.

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_72562.shtml

bernie

Thomas Merton

"We live in the time of no room, which is the time of the end. The time when everyone is obsessed with lack of time, lack of space, with saving time, conquering space, projecting into time and space the anguish produced within them by the technological furies of size, volume, quantity, speed, number, price, power and acceleration.

The primoridial blessing, “increase and multiply,” has suddenly become a hemorrhage of terror. We are numbered in billions, and massed together, marshalled, numbered, marched here and there, taxed, drilled, armed, worked to the point of insensibility, dazed by information, drugged by entertainment, surfeited with everything, nauseated with the human race and with ourselves, nauseated with life.

As the end approaches, there is no room for nature. The cities crowd it off the face of the earth. As the end approaches, there is no room for quiet. There is no room for solitude. There is no room for thought. There is no room for attention, for the awareness of our state.

In the time of the ultimate end, there is no room for us…"

   --Thomas Merton

and a happy new year

GeezerNation temporarily indisposed

zappa of course

last train outta Starkville

bwahahaha.....

Misc. Rock

Mr. Pollard of Guided by Voices fame.......

the most useless tool in the entire history of human civilization

DragStreetFire

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, “You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done."
   ---George Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) 

John Trudell: 1946-2015

“He got a fast horse. Comanche warriors made sure he got their best. Hoofbeats thunder through the Time Ripple, cracking open the curtains that divide the spirit worlds, casting sparks back our way. Let’s gather them up and build fires.” — Greta Montagne 

The great Santee Sioux poet/philosopher/warrior passed December 8, 2015 after a long bout with cancer. He was at peace, surrounded by family and friends; many had tirelessly helped care for John thru this transition. He lived a magnificent life. He was 69.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/09/john-trudell-human-being/print/ 

the invisible man

Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
   --George Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) 

Revolution Blues

Why should things be easy to understand?
— Thomas Pynchon (1977)

a Sunday nutritional tip

Blessed be the Donald

back to the future

Roll it

View from the East

We, then, sprang up like wild grass in a desert, multiplied, and roamed the streets of Rabat, Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, calling for a revolution. We wanted democracy for our sake, not Bush’s democracy tinged with blood; we wanted equality, change and reforms and a world in which Gaza is not habitually destroyed by Israel and children of Derra could protest without being shot; where leaders do not pose as divinities and relish the endless arsenals of their western benefactors. We sought a life in which freedom is not a rickety dingy crossing the sea to some uncertain horizon where we are treated as human rubbish on the streets of western lands.

http://www.ramzybaroud.net/forget-daesh-humanity-is-at-stake/