Across the Nation People Join Together to Say F-U to Big Oil
In the aftermath of the worst Environmental Disaster in United States history, people are standing up and saying “Bump that it’s time for change”. From The Gulf Coast to Washington, DC non-profit and grass roots organizers are using their voice to speak out against the oil spill in the gulf coast and future investments in dirty and unsafe forms of energy.
Yesterday activists marched from the capitol to the White House with a banner stating “This is your Crude Awakening”. the banner was targeted towards President Obama in response to his recent support for off-shore drilling.
On May 26 an unprecedented coalition of experts from communities harmed by oil operations plan to confront shareholders of Chevron at their annual meeting in Houston, Texas. This is in conjunction with the release of the Annual Report “The True Cost Of Chevron”. The report highlights environmental, human rights workplace violations by the oil giant. Many within the coalition fear that without proper regulations, Chevron could cause the next big disaster.
The oil spill and frustrations on false solutions comes right as Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman introduced the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act in the United States Senate. While the bill is being promoted as a bill to support Clean-Energy many groups in the environmental sector are frustrated that the bill still includes support for off-shore drilling.
The White House and the Obama Administration have been trying to counter-attack negative press on the government response to the oil spill by sending out statements on actions the administration is taking to fix the oil spill. The Environmental Protection Agency created a widget (on the left hand side of this site) that offers the most up to date information on the impact of the oil spill plus answers to frequently asked questions.
The market works on supply and demand, if people demand cheap petrol for their cars, the oil companies will supply it. If people don't change, the behaviour of the oil companies will not change, and neither will the behaviour of the government.
When people start demanding, (not just politely asking, and acepting the answer), clean energy, and change their buying habits, such as buying smaller cars, and using them less, looking at all the products they buy and where they come from, start putting their's and other's health, before convienience, then things will change, and not before.
This is not a complex question, (although I've seen many with vested interests try and say it is), it is not a political question, it is something that people need to do, or it will be business as usual for the polluters and the government.
I agree - to a point. There was a guy who figured how to run a car on water but they put an end to that. Wish I remembered his name - if I do, I'll post it later. Then there was Nikola Tesla, who figured out a way for us to get free electricity and they shut him down too.
Many, many people want to use less oil and gas but we have no other option if the moneyed interests shut down the people who invent things that will put these mega-corporations out of business. So yes, we can use our cars less and turn off the lights more, but those who live in a cold climate like I do are dependent on gas/oil to heat our homes in the winter.
It's sort of like herbs, which are weeds and plants that grow in the wild. There's no money in it for Big Pharma, so they find ways to badmouth herbs and then laws are created to make them outrageously expensive, etc. The FDA recently declared walnuts to be a drug. There's lots of info on NaturalNews about this type of thing; it's really happening, IMHO.
We've put up with too much for too long. I used to have a mouth full of mercury fillings and to this day the Dental Assoc says that mercury is harmless. It's horrendous to do that to a little child! It's one of the most toxic metals and known to poison a lake if just a little bit gets into it.
I've also seen the corporations try to shut people down, but to allow this to happen is the victim stance, They may be able to shut down one person, but to shut down millions of people, no , I do not believe 'they' can do this.
When the electricity company and government, wanted to build a diesel powered, power station, in my town, the people banded together and said no, this is not what we want, this is a dirty, noisy, polluting way to generate power. We petitioned, blocked acess to the land that this power station was supposed to be built on, we constantly called and wrote to our local politicians, and now we have wind turbines, with more being built in the coming years. Our land taxes have increased to pay for this, but this is a small price to pay for a cleaner environment.
No-one here shrugged their shoulders and accepted the corporate and government plan for our town.
It amazes me that a country, such as the US, one that was founded on revolution, and people power, now just rolls over and lets corporate interests and power hungry politicians have their way with the very land that sustains you.
You can't seriously tell me, that if millions of Americans started demanding clean energy sources, and refused to buy from unethical corporations, that the whole industry wouldn't change. Just the same as if millions of people demanded that their food be grown without chemicals, even if it cost a bit more initially.
I have a large dog, who is terrified of one very small, but very aggressive chicken. Everytime she squawks and chases him, he runs away, hides, and sits in his kennel shaking. The chicken is the corporations and the government, the big dog is the people. If the big dog would only wake up from his victim mentality, one chomp and that chicken is history.
Yes, I agree and I think the only hope we have is of all joining together and I think that's what those in power are most afraid of.
However ... we'd freeze to death very rapidly if we didn't have power when temp. goes to -40C and lower where I live. So it'd have to be a gradual process. I want to move somewhere warmer but now I'm sure glad I didn't move to Louisiana or Florida.
Your never know Mira, someone may just invent a way to heat houses using clean renewable energy. This is the sort of research that we all, (everyone in the world), should be investing in. Its not like there is another Earth to go to if we stuff this one up.
Spud, I was thinking about your story about the wind turbines and a light bulb went on in my head. You and your community had to imagine a solution before it happened. I was thinking about quantum physics and how what we focus on comes to be.
Have you heard of the book "The Intention Experiment" or the movie "Pay It Forward?" Let me know if you think I'm "out to lunch" - what if all of us on this forum joined together in an Intention Experiment, focussing together on a clean, healthy earth with plenty of good food for all and all individuals empowered and working together?
Another thought is that we could use social media like Facebook and Twitter for this.
Hey Mira, No, I don't think your out to lunch on this :)
I do a lot of energy work myself and have improved my health, and my own life greatly, because of this. I studied Mathematics and Quantum Physics, (a few years ago now), and have always had an interest in the way the universe works and the nature of energy and matter.
I think what you are suggesting is already happening to some extent, there is a change in consciousness taking place in our world, and I do think that it is a positive one. There are changes taking place in how people think of the environment, and although slow, this change is consciousness is very real.
There are those that preach that most people are asleep or sheep-like, but though 20 years ago, this may have been the case, I (and this is just my observation), don't think this is the case now. There is a lot of conflict in the world on a conscious level, and at an energy level, right now. Even on CZ I see those that want to push the agenda that people are powerless, that there are shadowy groups that control them,(these controllers are never named, just vague references to "TPTB", the "elite", or just "them" and "they") and the world is doomed, all except for a small few, a few "enlightened ones" etc. I don't think this way.
I think there is a great deal of hope, and I also think that the changes in consciousness are already happening, and doing things, such as you have suggested, can make a difference, and can raise consciousness. I don't know that it would require a co-ordinated action, the fact that many people are already using intention to change the level of consciousness, is already showing results, but it certainly can't hurt either :)
The reason that references to TPTB(the powers that be) are made in this fashion is to simplify the body of study into easy terms for reference. The body of work has been gone over and over on sites such as curezone There is systematic evidence showing how these influences work, what the power structure is and how it operates and who is implicated. In order to save time one simplifies this body of work into to a root expression. The root reference in many circles is the "elite" or "TPTB." There are others as well.
We see a kind of sweeping dissent is some cases, for anything that flies contrary to the herd view, being swept under the carpet. There is a sensibility of denial is some for ALL conspiracies, no matter what evidence is offered in their support. There is a categorical dismissal of relevancy of Conspiracy by some in our society. It is important to note too, that there are actual agent provacateurs whose job it is to do this and lead others into the same stance. Then there are those who are uncomfortable examining such data (fear) and still some yet who have been conditioned to have a knee jerk reaction when they even hear the word conspiracy. This latter group is the end result of social engineering in regard to shutting down critical examination of government agencies of control and the elite that they answer to.
It is a well known fact (by those who have actually examined and verified it) that the CIA created the term "conspiracy theory" as a derogatory emotional trigger phrase to brand people who examine and share this kind of information It is meant to image them as a "kook," a fringe element and now we see this has been taken further into delegating such people who engage in informational dissent as a terrorist (the new buzzword designed to hault info sharing).
Many people have low self esteem in our society (for reasons I have gone into depth in other posts) so the notion of emotional trigger words such as "conspiracy theorist)is leveraged on these psyches . By labeling the information sharer in a negative light, others don't take them seriously. The other psychological mechanism at work here is to shame people from engaging in the examination of critical info sharing that flies contrary to the official view point.
Even a brief study in this area will reveal and verify much of what I am sharing here. This has been gone into great detail by some great thinkers. What we see flyin in opposition is a mere dismissal of Conspiracy without an actual evaluation of the data. Data is presented and then we see emotional trigger words offered as rebuttal and personal opinion based on conditioning aired in weak opposition. This is not a proper weighing of data at an equal level
The depth of study required to easily understand this is not even that difficult. But some degree of comittment is necessary just as in any subject. All I have seen is a flat out dismissal of all info presented here on curezone by a few that run around and run interference on info sharing and do so in many interesting, albeit predictable, ways. The favorite way seems to be thepredictable mocking of conspiracies and to belittle those who would share such "lunacy." This is why I have made this point showing where this notion comes from.
So when opposing such info, we often see something akin to this... " I have evaluated such conspiracies and have found them to be untrue." It is important to go deeper than these surface brush offs. Which conspiracies and what information did the person go on to make that conclusion? How did one reach their conclusions? What data do they believe instead and why? That would be a much better and more credible analysis vs an off hand dismissal and then a barrage of emotional trigger words and word jostling to move the focus away from the the data, effectively shutting down the examination of information.
As far as Consciousness goes this is a huge area of experience and study for me. Are people more conscious than they were? Define what being conscious is? I use the term to mean that conscious people have awareness of who they are and what their potential is. In with that (shadow side ---polarity) what is influencing them. Once aware they come off of auto pilot and begin creating reality based on their own journey rather than scripts that have been installed as part of conditioning. They examine things from a fresh and open view past status quo and politically correct influences and all other filters.
So is the mass public awake and aware on large? Well there are still many people lined up to be exterminated for profit due to cancer (that they manifested through influence and ignorance) etc. I would call that a lack of awareness. Other may use a metaphor like "being asleep."
I can go into many examples of conditioned beings that are still not off of auto pilot.
Here is an example of our (fast food)society which is "waking up in droves" (sarc) ;-) You tube is full of such examples of higher awareness. Just look at people's spending habits. Look at our garbage dumps. Look at our media presentations. Look around.
Thank you IC, for your insightful post. I personally have felt that a few people in this forum have tried to dismiss my opinions and make me look like a nutcase. I've noticed that they've done it to others also--yourself included.
I've wondered where these people are in a state of denial or whether they are simply controllers or whether they have an agenda to prevent any intelligent discussions of the issues at hand.
I recently watched a couple of the "John Lear tells All" videos, which I posted earlier on this forum. One of the first things he talks about is how he got banned from a forum because someone didn't like what he was saying and they kept rebutting him and switching to different user names. Now I found that very interesting. There's more to it, I'm just giving the "bare bones' of it.
There is definitely a very different feel on this forum than over at Barefoot (where I like to hang out) because of the few who keep tearing down others' opinions. This is supposed to be a discussion forum, not a "shoot down and ridicule anyone who doesn't agree with me" forum.
And yes, I have noticed that it causes the reaal issues to be lost in the shuffle and the most real issue for me is to move forward, hope for a better tomorrow, maybe even a group "intention experiment", which I still think is a good idea.
If we just keep dwelling on the problems (which I agree, it's important to understand what the problem is), but if we focus on being against something, we focus on the problem and it comes to be even more. So we need to focus on a healthy world with people working together, etc., and individually raising our consciousness is good, but I think it would work better if many minds were focussed on this, in a positive way.
It almost looks like you're saying "I am right, how I think and what I feel is the only thing that is right, and everyone needs to agree with me so that we can all be better people."
Its almost cult-like.
Curezone is not a cult, and even though I think the majority of people here would probably agree with your way of thinking and your 'OPINION'(as in NOT FACTS), there are always going to be those who dont agree with you. Thats life. Thats a reality. This is only one forum, it's an alternative forum, so that way of thinking is most likely expected here.
That doesnt mean that your way of thinking should be expected everywhere, or that your way of thinking is even the best way of thinking.
It doesnt make people that disagree with you bad, or disillusioned, or imply that they have an agenda, nor does it mean that they are wrong or their 'OPINION' is any better or worse than yours.
It simply means that they dont agree with you.
I have agreed with much of what is written here, I think BP, the current administration, and others, are totally at fault. They have all helped to create one of the worst disasters that we will ever know.
I feel bad for all the aquatic life that will perish as a result of this, as well as all the birds and people that will die as a result of of the total lack of ignorance.
But then, I also feel bad for all the millions of cats and dogs that are put to sleep every year in this country because of the ignorance of people in general.
I dont think anyone here disagrees with the fact that BP has created a catastrophe that will affect us and society for a lot of years to come, and they should be held completely accountable for their actions.
What I dont agree with is much of the BS surrounding submarines, secret assasinations, and plots to exterminate mankind.
If you want to live your life in some kind of Conspiracy fiction novel, thats up to you.
But please dont try to make anyone who disagrees with you out to be anything less than just that, someone who simply disagrees with you.
"It almost looks like you're saying "I am right, how I think and what I feel is the only thing that is right, and everyone needs to agree with me so that we can all be better people."
Its almost cult-like."
Say what???????? That's the exact opposite of what I'm saying!
In case that was directed at me, there's no need to put words in my mouth, I'm fully capable of expressing myself :)
I absolutely don't think that we all need to agree!!! I just think that there should be respect toward everyone's opinions and they shouldn't be told, every time they disagree with you, that they're pushing a Conspiracy agenda. Each of us are individuals capable of thinking for ourselves - right?
That's the point of a discussion. Not everyone who disagrees with your opinions is pushing an agenda! And it's extremely judgmental to say they are, which I think is what you're saying here?
That's my point - no one's opinion is any more valuable than anyone else's, so I think you're misunderstanding me on that point.
This is how people get goaded into group think. The sentiment is... "If you share such information you must be a kook."
Who wants to be a "kook?"
So the average person with low self esteem (most people in our society of fractured psyches) runs back to the safety of the herd (group think).
TPTB tweak these perceptions like masters. Propaganda and social engineering has deep influence in our society. It always has historically as well. Now there is just more tech and sophistication behind it
It is an age old method for shutting down the examination of critical info.
A read up on Edward Bernays is a great introduction into the art and Science of spin and how it used as a very powerful social engineering tool.
Have you ever seen many people here with an opposing view actually give evidence of why they have come to their conclusions (backed up beyond conjecture)?
or
Do you see the information sharer come under the microscope instead of the data they share(in true Spanish Inquisition style)?
or
Do you see the information labeled as "goofy' without any evidence as to why?
These are all very tell tale clues and you are picking up on them quite nicely.
Posting on this forum has become a real education for me.
I'm on day 18 of an orange juice fast, nothing but herbs and orange juice, so my mind is getting clearer by the day.
"Have you ever seen many people here with an opposing view actually give evidence of why they have come to their conclusions (backed up beyond conjecture)?"
Exactly! It's happening often time here!
"Do you see the information labeled as "goofy' without any evidence as to why?"
Exactly and why should we trust the opinion of an unknown stranger anyway? How do we know what level of consciousness they're at and what their ethics are?
"Be careful with the clarity you gain. You might just get labeled a Conspiracy "kook."
;-)
However the freedom you will enjoy will be well worth it."
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True freedom comes when you no longer take anything personally. Freedom comes when you're able to say what you think even though you know you'll probably get ridiculed and attacked for it.
In a way, I take the personal attacks on me as a kind of backwards compliment. The closer one gets to the truth, the greater the resistance becomes.
I think you're wrong (shudder!)
I'm not sure what you and IC are getting so worked up about.
I think when I was posting alone, the plan was to ignore me. And that was ok. I have no problem posting my thoughts and opinions. Unlike you and IC, I dont need to feel accepted and approved by others to feel comfortable with myself.
I think when someone else started posting and agreed with my opinions that was when the resentment kicked in for a few of you.
Again, just because others dont agree with you doesnt mean they have an agenda.
You say you realize that others will disagree with you and that not everyone will share your opinion, but it obviously bothers you. Or else you and IC wouldnt be playing the schoolyard games that you are playing.
>This is fun, I'm waiting to see how you try to twist my words again ...<
I'm glad you're having fun at the expense of those who are suffering in the gulf.
You keep going around in circles and won't address all the specific concerns about your posts and the specific questions I ask you.
"I think you're wrong (shudder!)" -- you're entitled to your opinion.
"I'm not sure what you and IC are getting so worked up about"
I can only speak for myself. I mind it when personal attacks and judgments are made of other human beings.
"I think when I was posting alone, the plan was to ignore me. And that was ok. I have no problem posting my thoughts and opinions. Unlike you and IC, I dont need to feel accepted and approved by others to feel comfortable with myself.
I think when someone else started posting and agreed with my opinions that was when the resentment kicked in for a few of you."
Again, just because others dont agree with you doesnt mean they have an agenda"
I have absolutely no problem with you stating your opinion and others agreeing with you. There was no plan, I'm simply responding to the personal attacks and judgmental statements.
"You say you realize that others will disagree with you and that not everyone will share your opinion, but it obviously bothers you. Or else you and IC wouldnt be playing the schoolyard games that you are playing."
I have no problem with others disagreeing with me. What evidence do you have to make a judgmental statement like that? How is it schoolyard games to try to stop disrespectful behaviour?
I can still allow myself to have fun in my life while others are suffering, and still feel compassion for them and support them in whatever way i can.
The fun for me is in learning about the behaviors here, which I didn't understand as well before.
True freedom comes when you no longer take anything personally. Freedom comes when you're able to say what you think even though you know you'll probably get ridiculed and attacked for it.
In a way, I take the personal attacks on me as a kind of backwards compliment. The closer one gets to the truth, the greater the resistance becomes.
Ridicule is one of the main weapons against dissent.
Just keep doing coherency checks on all the info shared and then examine the sources of the information. Hit that button that reveals a person's posting history. This will reveal certain patterns and potential agendas. Also observe timing, the creation of new characters that just leap in out of nowhere to help mock or spin data, whether people honestly discuss information or do they seek to shut down sharing through attacking the messengers (whether subtle or blatant)
This site is a real clinic in these regards. Remain open and observe.
Roll with it. ;-)
When someone hangs in one forum or forums that have a certain theme and their only mode of operation is to mock key posters or the type of information shared. What is that saying?
It's certainly a learning experience and helping me to grow.
"When someone hangs in one forum or forums that have a certain theme and their only mode of operation is to mock key posters or the type of information shared. What is that saying?
Seems like an odd hobby? ;-)"
I was just thinking that too; I mean, these people post constantly!
I enjoy your posts and analyses; thanks for your kindness!!
True freedom comes when you no longer take anything personally. Freedom comes when you're able to say what you think even though you know you'll probably get ridiculed and attacked for it.
In a way, I take the ridicule as a kind of backwards compliment. The closer one gets to the truth, the greater the resistance becomes.
I would love to know more about this if you get the chance to tell more about it or where I can find this info.
"The patterns are revealing themselves quite nicely. ;-)"
Yes they are; I feel that my point is made now :). I feel that I won't need to give so much input into that aspect of this forum, going forward.
"If one is attached they are not free."
I totally agree. Freedom, for me, starts with gratitude for whatever is happening in my life this moment. It's a letting go of what I want and a realization that life is giving me whatever I need to learn. It's a lifelong learning process.
I'm just at the end of a 21-day orange juice fast -- just orange juice, distilled water, and high doses of herbs. There's something about fasting that "changes my mind".
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