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‘King of the High Wire’ Nik Wallenda: “It took every bit of me to stay focused that entire time. My arms are aching like you’d never believe.”

Talk about concentration! Nearly three minutes of total, unremitting, unwavering mind/body focus. Staring down death. Moving forward while absorbing and responding to atmospheric conditions — moving air, shifting vibrations in the wire. Notice how he grounds his entire body to the wire through his softly sliding feet. Wire-walking since he was two years old, Nik […]

Robert Jensen, on closing “the gap between our self-righteous proclamations of inherent benevolence and the self-serving policies that ignore the aspirations of others”

Another clear, concise, and and obvious (to anyone not corrupted by power or money) essay by Robert Jensen. I mean, duh! Thank you! Terror v. Surveillance? Keeping Americans Safe in Two Simple Steps June 24, 2013 by Robert Jensen Common Dreams In the frenzy over Edward Snowden’s leak of classified information about government data-mining surveillance, […]

Fooled by Fake Democracy or Fueled by Earth Democracy: WE DECIDE.

Mike Adams details a kind of dystopia that appears to be reaching its climax as brilliant, myopic NSA scientists take over government, engineer super machines to rule, decide who lives and dies, and ensure compliance through blackmail. Okay, that’s the bad news. The good news is that we can transform from dystopia to utopia, or, […]

More: Snowden as (invisible) Paul Revere, fabulous farce, and white house petition fully loaded

Update: Please see Laura Bruno comment on my first Snowden post from this morning. She may be right. I may have been snookered. Or not! In any case, it’s worth investigating what’s going on, starting tomorrow, with a “nuclear terror” whistleblower journalist, David Chase Taylor, who for two years has been seeking asylum in Switzerland. […]

Let us transform Common Cents into Common Sensing

In my 1972 Ph.D. dissertation, which I originally titled “This Is Not A Book About Wittgenstein,” and which was retitled into something bland as a condition of my passing the oral examination and getting the degree, I lamented the loss of real “common sense,” that is, sensing-in-common. Instead, I pointed out how positivistic philosophy and […]

Still ruminating — on Snowden’s — and his generation’s — psyche

My internal need to slip inside the fragile skin and stalwart psyche of Ed Snowden while lying in bed early this morning apparently led me straight to this article, describing the discussions that led to his decision to leave Hong Kong. For Snowden, A Hasty Exit Started with Pizza Inside a Hong Kong Hangout I […]

Ruminations on Snowden’s epic journey, early morning, day two

Update: Please see Laura Bruno comment below. For live (sometimes minute by minute) coverage, go to the guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/24/edward-snowden-booked-on-plane-from-moscow-to-havana-live-coverage I presume that by now you’ve already learned that Snowden wasn’t on that plane he had booked out of Moscow that, however, baited his horde of ravenous journalists who are now heading for Havana without even […]

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‘King of the High Wire’ Nik Wallenda: “It took every bit of me to stay focused that entire time. My arms are aching like you’d never believe.”

Robert Jensen, on closing “the gap between our self-righteous proclamations of inherent benevolence and the self-serving policies that ignore the aspirations of others”

Fooled by Fake Democracy or Fueled by Earth Democracy: WE DECIDE.

More: Snowden as (invisible) Paul Revere, fabulous farce, and white house petition fully loaded

Let us transform Common Cents into Common Sensing

Still ruminating — on Snowden’s — and his generation’s — psyche

Ruminations on Snowden’s epic journey, early morning, day two