Vote for your say @ Copenhagen and tell Abott to get stuffed!

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Well Abott is an absolute moron but that doesn't mean we have to sit back and let another right winged, abhorrent Liberal destroy more of humanity and the earth. Click on the link above and show your vote to push the 'actual' leaders of the world (i.e. voted in by the majority of their country's citizens abott not by some desperate, squirming and confused wanna-be's in the festering liberal party) to make substantial and influential decisions in Copenhagen.

The ETS is vitally important to the future of this planet (the whole planet abott, not just your own backyard which I hope for your sake is built several kilometres from any coastal areas). Rudd should go to a double dissolution election as soon as he can manage; as we all know, the Liberal Party, whether the 'leader of the moment' is arrogant abott or hemorroid hockey, don't stand a chance in an early election, or any election for that matter, including their own repetitive and dull internal ballots they insist of spending their limited brain power on organising. This way, abott can add his idiotic and power-hungry objection to the ETS to his long list of failings on his soon-to-be-needed CV. Let's continue to make our own positive changes in relation to leading sustainable, humane and happy lives and let's force the leaders to agree on a 'corporate world' action plan to repair and prevent the Climate Change effects caused by the mass of emissions and ill environmental policies world-wide.
Later lefties. x

Interesting article Re: Parker Palmer's ideas on Self-Reflection

This article by Sarah van Gelder, Yes Magazine is an important reminder of the necessity of self-reflection and an understanding of the inner landscape of our minds, as "When we leave them unexamined, we get a lot of darkness in the world as people fail to examine their underlying spiritual dynamics in relation to their work and other responsibilities."

in reference to:

"When we leave them unexamined, we get a lot of darkness in the world as people fail to examine their underlying spiritual dynamics in relation to their work and other responsibilities."
- Parker Palmer: Know Yourself, Change Your World by Sarah van Gelder — YES! Magazine (view on Google Sidewiki)

YouTube - 2008 Latest Edition - Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year

YouTube - 2008 Latest Edition - Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year

Yes I have been converted (temporarily) to a bit of a techy head whilst studying HTML and other such components in my Network Media course at RMIT. And despite my new found knowledge for writing HTML which is useful, if I was desigining websites 15 years ago or my zest for blogging (i know also about 8 years beyond the 8 ball)...but this video about technology in general and the rapidity of changes that have occured and continued to occur was really interesting in relation to Web 2.0 and society in general.

Catherine Deveny | Chadstone shopping centre

Catherine Deveny | Chadstone shopping centre

Interesting article that only reaffirms my distaste for large shopping complexes in the burbs which on the single occassion of me visiting did certainly destroy various parts of my soul. Albeit it was midnight shopping two days before Christmas which was probably enough to send me into a dark depression, however, the lighting, atmosphere and crowds of emptiness that somehow received some form of instant gratification from being in such a place was disturbing to say the least. I did also attempt to re-visit the setting of this debilitating, repressed memory one Sunday to take my daughter to the movies...however it ended in a fit of tears and tantrums (and not from my poor, suffering child!) The vast space of nothingness that surrounded me whilst trying to weave through the weary crowd and attempt to actually find the cinema 'complex' was painful enough; and after circling several food courts all full of multi-national sharks and a cafeteria waft of further repressed memories of the stale food at boarding school - I discovered the sheer pleasure of such a place equates to paying almost double in ticket prices to see a narrow selection of American B Grade 'block-buster' films (or is the B for Banal?). At this point, I protested loudly, stormed off and spent the following hour attempting to find my car in the several, identical carparks - full of huge, endless carbon foot printed 4wd's to store the shopping and facade of money and attitude- that await you upon the exits (if you survive and get out). Anyway, moving on, the article by Catherine Deveny (above) explores this topic with a tone appreciated by me also. In the meantime, I will endeavour to grab the christmas presents in the local shops by my house and catch a film at my regular local venues of the Palace Cinemas where the films are actually worthwhile and the tickets are $9! And apologies to my daughter for taking her to such a place and my resulting monologue the whole drive back to our house.
later x

To buy or not to buy

That is the question.......
To be expanded upon at a later date.
Watch this space for more riveting details about my life!

in reference to: Australia's Housing Affordability Crisis (view on Google Sidewiki)

SoulPancake | How can humans and the natural world co-exist?

SoulPancake | How can humans and the natural world co-exist?
Very cute animation on how we should be thinking about the landscape and our built environments...

Speaking of the G.F.C. who will win the Grand Final?

Oh perhaps I have confused two separate but equally important issues in society right now.  The feisty Victorian AFL club has now been eradicated by the need for yet another fear campaign.  Who will win? It would appear from history, the need for paranoia rather than a happy story will triumph in the end.  Hence the football club headed to its 3^rd consecutive Grand Final tomorrow has lost its title to the doom of the Global Financial Crisis.

Speaking of the G.F.C. – did we really need another acronym? It seems to me that there is a certain level of convenience that leads to the fear campaigns spread through western societies by politicians and the multi-nationals that apparently own us now. If all major global issues are automatically given a corresponding acronym to appease their repetitive mentioning on the nightly news, was is Climate Change not called C.C.?

With the bombardment of fear spread through our systems from swine flu, ‘Global’ recessions, terrorist threats, population growth and salmonella from kebab stores, one has to wonder is any of this actually as imminent as politicians and nightly ‘current’ affairs shows threaten us with. Was it not only two long years ago that our P.M. (Prime Monster) was simply making up fearful threats so he could justify a war and scare ‘us’ (not me) into voting for him in 3 consecutive elections?

Paul Keating infamously stated that “it was a recession we had to have” and despite the backlash to this comment, the fact remains the same. Why is economic downturns and the cyclical nature of the financial sector suddenly coming as a shock. Not to mention why the effects of corruption, greed and inadequate public policy are seemingly coming as a surprise. I think the de-regulation of the markets and the notion of ‘free trade’ was not intended to result in 2 multi-nationals owning the world.  Wasn’t there more to it than that?

One may even find that the convenient results of such extreme paranoia and repetitive notions is that large corporations who continually make millions if not billions in profits each year can suddenly increase their prices and say ‘it’s the G.F.C’ or sack thousands of employees in one hit and give the CEO a million dollar pay rise for steering the company into recovery the next day.  And if you have a good, hard and honest look at the American economy, is it not the trillions tyrannical Bush spent of wars to blame for the economic aftermath we are now ‘all’ experiencing.

Written by Clare Peterson

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