Free/Cheap Oil/Energy Peak graph look see

Latest update on Peak Oil Nightmare Upcoming now
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2820

The first of the projections we call the "symmetric" projection. It simply assumes that oil production will decrease in the future in a manner similar to the way that it increased in the past. This method assumes that 2006 is the peak year; 2007 production will be equal to 2005 production; 2008 production will be equal to 2004; and so on. Thus, the future is expected to be a mirror image of the past.

The second projection is what we call the "analyst average" method. Here, we average five projections assuming peak in the 2005 to 2007 period - two made by Ace, one made by Bakhtiari, and two made by Robelius. We have adjusted all of the projections to a "total liquids" basis for this comparison (that is, including ethanol and other liquid fuels that are similar to oil), so that they are comparable to each other and to the historical data.

Figure 1 shows that the projection methods produce fairly similar results. Both methods show production declining fairly rapidly:
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2820

Clear Light .EU updates/upgrades Huxley & Watts!

Effing the Ineffable *NEW*
A close reading of Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception and Alan Watts' The Joyous Cosmology. Draws on linguistics, conceptual dynamics, philosophy, and perceptual theory in an effort to reconcile the contradictory aspects of the texts within a nondual framework that necessarily subverts language.

Huxley leaned toward the latter camp. In his view, however, time was running out for the actualisation of this potential. Man was at the precipice of unmitigated disaster. As Jay Stevens writes, a way had to be found to heal the gap between homo faber, man the wielder of increasingly ingenious and dangerous tools, and homo sapiens, man the smart monkey who had mastered the planet but not his own inner flaws - flaws that were now threatening to bring the whole evolutionary game to a precipitous close.¹⁰ Accompanied by the writer-philosopher Gerald Heard, Huxley began an investigation into the esoteric wisdom traditions of the East in the hope of formulating a remedy to these ails. This culminated in 1945 in the publication of The Perennial Philosophy, an annotated compendium of the perceived similarities between widely divergent mystical experiences of centuries passed. Central to Huxley's philosophy was the theory put forward by Bergson that the brain and the central nervous system operated as an eliminative system that screened much out of consciousness, leaving only that necessary for practical survival. In the twentieth century, however, Huxley felt that a way had to found which would bypass Bergson's 'reducing valve' and tap the unlimited potentials of the brain. The mystical experience, in Huxley's view, broached this issue squarely. How to achieve the experience was an entirely different matter.
http://clear-light.eu/effing_1.htm

Alpert & Metzner on early 60's with Gary Bravo on Psychedelic Explorations..it never lets UP!

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March 2008

PSYCHEDELIC EXPLORATIONS: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT LEARY, THE HARVARD EXPERIMENTS, MILLBROOK, AND THE SIXTIES

By Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner
With Gary Bravo

Paperback ISBN 9780907791386

http://www.synergeticpress.com/forthcoming.html

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Samantha Powers on Bush Admin disasters

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Samantha Powers writes
The most counterintuitive, as well as the most politically difficult, premise of the manual is that the American military must assume greater risk in order to gather much-needed intelligence and, in the end, achieve greater safety. The emphasis of the 1990s on force protection is overturned by the assertion of several breathtaking paradoxes: “Sometimes, the more you protect your force, the less secure you may be.” “Sometimes, the more force is used, the less effective it is.” “Sometimes doing nothing is the best reaction.” Sarah Sewall, a former Pentagon official who teaches at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (and a close colleague of mine), has contributed an introduction that should be required reading for anybody who wants to understand the huge demands effective counterinsurgency will place on the military and the voting public. “Those who fail to see the manual as radical probably don’t understand it,” she writes, “or at least what it’s up against.” continued here

Lovelock, Brand, Moore? bizarre promoters of Nuclear Power

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Or you could be sitting next to scientist and Gaia theorist James Lovelock, a supporter of Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy™, which quotes him saying, “We have no time to experiment with visionary energy sources; civilisation is in imminent danger and has to use nuclear—the one safe, available, energy source—now or suffer the pain soon to be inflicted by our outraged planet.”

If you sit next to Lovelock, you might start by mentioning that half the farms in this country had windmills before Marie Curie figured out anything about radiation or Lise Meitner surmised that atoms could be split. Wind power is not visionary in the sense of experimental. Neither is solar, which is already widely used. Nor are nukes safe, and they take far too long to build to be considered readily available. Yet Stewart Brand, of Whole Earth Catalog fame, has jumped on the nuclear bandwagon, and so has Greenpeace founding member turned PR flack Patrick Moore. So you must be prepared.

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/316

from

Published on Thursday, June 2, 2005 by the Inter Press Service
Nukes-Against-Global Warming Strategy Scored as Too Costly
by Stephen Leahy

BROOKLIN, Canada -

The Rocky Mountain Institute, a non-profit energy research organization, has calculated that improvements in energy efficiency are six times more cost effective than nuclear power and eliminate the need for all existing nuclear plants and any future ones.

''All of this could be done without any changes to our way of life,'' said Hoffman.

Why the push for nuclear power? In Hoffman's view, because ''the nuclear industry are major donors to Bush Republicans and have a direct channel to power in Washington.''

© Copyright 2005 IPS - Inter Press Service

http://www.eroei.com/articles/2005_articles/_nukes-against-global_warming_strategy/

from Reuters:

Japan quake sends tremors across nuclear industry

Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:33PM BST

By Barbara Lewis and Peter Dinkloh - Analysis

LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A Japanese earthquake that forced the closure of the world's biggest nuclear plant has highlighted the energy source's dangers, just when support had been growing.

Worries about security of energy supply and the urgency of fighting climate change had helped to overcome years of opposition to nuclear power after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Generating nuclear power does not produce any of the carbon emissions blamed for warming the planet.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKL2489828520070724

Joanna & John chat about "Sacred Cows": getting on with Open Source "religion" UPgrades

FROM SACRED COWS TO SILENT KNOWING

Five Talks with John Lash beginning July 2007. These discussions challenge unexamined beliefs and ideas received from culture, religion, education, and the media, and propose how we might attune more deeply to innate knowing and the wisdom of human instincts. See Sacred Cows.

WonderFull! AweFull!

Five Talks with John Lash:

FROM SACRED COWS TO SILENT KNOWING

These discussions challenge unexamined beliefs and ideas received from culture, religion, education, and the media, and propose how we might attune more deeply to innate knowing and the wisdom of human instincts.

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LATEST BROADCAST - July 16, 2007
The Cyberworld Demystified: Savior, Trickster, or Just A Gadget? Comments on IT and the cult of technology.

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Beautiful Material!

UPCOMING BROADCASTS:

July 26, 2007 - The Arc of the Species: The Noosphere and the Myth of Ascending Evolution

August 5, 2007 - Against Christianity: The Illuminist Option in Buddhism and Gnosis

August 16, 2007 - Gaia's Way: The Psychonautic Adventure as a Path of Coevolution

August 26, 2007 - 2012 and the Next Age: Trauma and Mutation in the Piscean Endtime

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Battle of Bands Beatles vs Stones Cinematic Shoot-out Double-Feature!

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Opening Night Extravaganza!
West Coast Premiere Of Ultra-Rare 1964 Beatles Documentary!
Beatles vs Stones Cinematic Shoot-out Double-Feature!

http://www.modsandrockers.com/schedule.200707131930e.html#stars

Saturday July 14, 2007 - 9:00pm
Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood

Ultra-rare 35mm screening of Otto Preminger's cult classic!
First Hollywood screening in 25 years!
Special "Skidoo" Guests!

SKIDOO

This is the first 35mm screening in Hollywood of this ultra-rare Otto Preminger cult classic in over 25 years. This infamous acid-comedy stars Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing and Groucho Marx in his last film. Several of the cast and crew – including Otto and Groucho – took acid trips as pre-filming research! Event will be attended by special guests from the Skidoo universe! Never on VHS! NOT ON DVD!

Buy Tickets Now!

More Info...

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http://www.modsandrockers.com/schedule.html

ignorant & impotent Bush/USA terrorists bombing people

bomb the Brutes! get on Amazon
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Tom (TE) says- As the Europeans are well aware, air power -- given the civilian casualties that invariably follow in its wake -- is intensely counterproductive in a guerrilla war. "Every civilian dead means five new Taliban," was the way a British officer just returned from Helmand Province put it recently.

However, an air-power strategy fits American predilections to a tee. As a Reuters piece aptly headlined the matter, the Americans in Afghanistan are "hooked on air power." Americans have long been so. After all, with the singular exception of various Central American proxy wars during the Reagan years, air war has essentially been the American way of war since World War II.

from

Tom Dispatch

posted 2007-07-09 09:37:45

Tomgram: Carnage from the Air and the Washington Consensus

[Note to Tomdispatch readers: After a July 4th break, Tomdispatch is back -- with a favor to ask. In addition to everyone who bookmarks Tomdispatch, 18,000 of you now get e-mails letting you know whenever a new piece has been posted. (Many tens of thousands more read pieces from the site reposted elsewhere.) Most new readers sign up for those emails thanks to word of mouth, a formidable force in the on-line world. For those of you who already are hooked on TD, I wanted to urge you to lend the site a word-of-mouth hand (if you'll excuse the mixed metaphor). Why not write perhaps 10 people you know who might benefit from getting Tomdispatch regularly, urging them to go to the "sign up" window at the upper right of the main screen, put in their e-mail addresses, answer the confirmation letter that will quickly arrive in their in-boxes, and so join the TD crew. For those of you with a few extra minutes, who are willing to spread the word, my thanks in advance. Tom]

"Accidents" of War

The Time Has Come for an Honest Discussion of Air Power
By Tom Engelhardt

John Urry on Global Complexity, Human Rights & Cognitive Liberty

what? A Way Out! Universal Global Health/Dental Care, global G.I. Bill and Universal Gaia Education, A secular Space, Cognitive Liberty, and Human Rights for all on earth. Bucky showed that the Innovations produced from this way more than pays for itself up to 11 to 1 invested ...

NEW CITIZENSHIPS

Thus globalisation seems to involve some weakening of the power of the social and a corresponding development of ‘post-national’ citizenship (Rose 1996). Soysal argues that national citizenship is losing ground to a more universal model of membership located within an increasingly de-territorialised notion of a person’s more universal rights (1994: 3; Bauböck 1994). This post-national citizenship is especially connected with the growth of guest-working across many societies, greater global interdependence, increasingly overlapping memberships of different kinds of citizenship, and the emergence of universalistic rules and conceptions regarding human rights formalised by international codes and laws (such as the UN, UNESCO, ILO, EU, Council of Europe, Geneva Conventions, European Human Rights Convention and so on). Overall Soysal suggests an increasing contradiction between rights, which are universal, uniform and globally defined, and social identities, which are particularistic and territorially specified (1994).

John Urry continues here

http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol5/number2/html/urry/index.html

from

Journal of World-Systems Research, Vol V, 2, 1999, 311-324
http://jwsr.ucr.edu/
ISSN 1076-156X
©1999 John Urry.

Conference Program - Mobilities, Space, and Inequality, Basle 2007

14 May 2007

Mobilities, Space, and Inequality. IV. Cosmobilities Network Meeting in Basle, 7.-8.9.2007 The social arrangements of space and social inequality have always formed intriguing associations, yet the dynamics introduced by modernization, globalization, migration, and social change in relation to space and inequality have not received sufficient attention in the social sciences. Developments in communication and transport technologies are offering new possibilities of social arrangements and inequality structures in time and space. As a result, new spatial settings and functional overlappings are possible, e.g. working from home, travel time as working time, long distance relationships, etc. Accordingly, spatial mobility constitutes a number of different types of mobility. Of interest are not only the different types of mobility but also their relations to each other, as well as to social inequality structures and their dynamics more generally. The conference program and paper abstracts are online now. The Venue The conference takes place in Basle at the Departement of Sociology at Basle University. For further information, including online registration, rail and airport connection, please visit the conference website: http://soziologie.unibas.ch/cosmobilities/index.htm

http://www.cosmobilities.net/index.php?id=220

Wow! Fitjof Capra UP levels Bateson, Varela, & Autopoiesis! Cognition is the Living Process

FC speaks at ISSS on lack of Intelligent Design in policies of US govt., US Media, & US Senate/Congress & The Academy!
see last i minuite of talk
01:30: 00!!

Sunday,
8:00p.m. Fritjof Capra, "Complexity and Life" [Digest as HTML] [MP3 audio]
(90 minutes, 42 MB)

full site for audios & texts
http://isss.org/world/en/node/66

OMG! Nelly Furtado! sings Say It Right.. hot hot

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Say It Right lyrics


From my hands I could give you
Something that I made
From my mouth I could sing you another brick that I laid
From my body I could show you a place God knows
You should know the space is holy
Do you really want to go?



Say It Right lyrics

Megalithic legacy Neolithic conf. in Malta 3-11 November 2007

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Conference, tour, and workshops:
On approaches to understanding the origins of our megalithic legacy
The Caraffa Stores, Birgu, Island of Malta
3rd - 11th November 2007
http://www.metageum.org/



Metageum '07: This week-long event comprises three threads centred on the theme of understanding the consciousness of the people who built the megalithic temples::

* Conference: An international, inter-disciplinary conference on different ways of approaching the thinking and imagination of the Neolithic people who built the megalithic temples in Malta and elsewhere in the world.
* Workshops: A series of experiential workshops enabling us to make the imaginative leap into the Neolithic worldview.
* Tour: A tour of Malta's megalithic heritage.

It takes place on the Vittoriosa Waterfront on the Mediterranean island of Malta, an island noted for its exceptional legacy of prehistoric temples.

Presenters

Paul Devereux

Erik Davis

Benny Shanon

Prospective webcast: Glastonbury Radio is hoping to broadcast the event live on the internet, and is currently seeking commercial sponsors to make this happen. Glastonbury Radio's live webcast of the Megalithomania conference in Glastonbury (19th-20th May) proved to be very popular with the online radio audience.

erik davis reports on Bardo Theory: Costa Rica "Mind" conf. PKDick

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Erik Davis Reports
It seems as if all those Philip K. Dick novels were coming home to roost, and if the rest of the journey was more of your typical commercial airline hell, it remained permeated with the woozy disorientation caused by mistaken identity and the arbitrariness of the archons who rule these transit zones.

It may also be one of the most useful. Early in Waking Life, the Ethan Hawke character quotes Timothy Leary to the effect that, even if nothing of us survives death, the last few minutes of the brain's electrical activity may be experienced by the dying person as an entire life racing in time-lapse—or, as the film itself suggests, a nearly infinite labyrinth of dreams. From this perspective, the traditional teachings of bardo navigation may come in handy despite the basic reality of brain-death: even if we are only riding that last wave to flatline, it pays to know how to surf.
http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2007-06-29-1929-0.txt

See also film on the Bardo Process during the Dying Process...how long does Dying last anyway? the extreme DMT probably kicks in. Maybe the homicidal Aztecs were getting off on the DMT squirt when one's beating heart was cut out and they drank the living blood?

Tim Leary wrote some on the Time Dilation Time manipulation during simulated Dying or very
high dose psychedelic trips ....in
neurologic now online here
page 40

http://www.noveltynet.org/content/books/neurologic/40.html

get Deleuzed! DeLanda on a Roll! part 4/of 5

Manuel DeLanda is the closest we have to a second generation Gregory Bateson, Marshall McLuhan, bucky fuller, etc. The rare fantastic Public Speaker...but
super rational, very psychedelic.

what? 4/5 talk parts
Transcendental Reservoir of Essences? Not! No way Jose!


see other 4 parts on Youtube....