glance of the home page & LBN since yesterday it screams "Critical Mass" ....anyone else feel it?

between Fukushima and Libya is a nightmare

:hug: These are scary times. If you weren't worried then there would be a problem.

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what's she's talking about?:eyes:

Everyone else here seems to get it.

But it sure smells of information overload. The poor MSM seems a bit overwhelmed by all that's going on. I do a fair amount of history research, and the period we're in now reminds me a lot of the 1930's - 1934 in particular. I'm sure folks picking up their daily newspaper felt very much the same as you (and I) do.

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i heard the announcement of another soldier killed in Afghanistan. A war plane crashed in Libya. it is somewhat overwhelming. yet somehow the world is going to keep turning. the sun will rise and set, the moon and the tides will maintain their routines. i also just finished "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn. i highly recommend it. it really affords a perspective. the fact is that we've been pretty fucked up for a very long time.

were in school. As a matter of fact my 20 yr old son is now reading it again, this time for pleasure.

indeed we have been at fucking things up for a long time. :crazy:

--you have to keep fending it off all the time, and yet who can say we don't need all the information we can get?

But yeah, I think it's fair to say between Libya and Fukushima, there's serious overload. When situations go critical, you take on the anxiety of it all. These are two equally tense fronts.

People will tell you, "well, just don't pay attention to it." That seems too passive and trusting to me. I'm doomed to want to know. To seek truth. To make sense of it somehow. Because the big picture DOES affect us all. There's no place to hide. Hiding in a little microcosm is a delusion.

We are the watchers, the witnesses, and for many here, the activists. And yet we still have to protect ourselves, protect our nerves, take breaks, "refresh."

These are tough times. I think it's OK to acknowledge that.:grouphug:

as much as all these kind of things cause me anxiety, I still would rather know.

I've always been the glass is half empty kind of gal anyway. Always felt the need to ration the half that is left because I might need it later.

a bunch of friends and i were at the bottom of Barr Trail getting ready to hike up Pike's Peak. Al Gore was one of them, and i said to him, "hey, Al, THREE WARS?!?!?!! wtf are we doing? how do we stop this?" he said, "we're gonna do something." this crap is infecting my dreamworld, my only safe place from the insanity......

wishing you peaceful ones

the stuff dreams SHOULD be made of :)

These hits from just the first three months of 1967. We had North Korea firing at South Korea, Reagan waging war on protestors at UC, disaster on launch pad at Cape Kennedy, massacres in Vietnam, disastrous losses to US forces in Vietnam, use of chemical warfare in Vietnam in the form of "herbicides," CIA infiltrating student movements, Ford recalls almost 250,000 cars, civil rights movement murder trials in Mississippi, underground nuclear tests by both sides in cold war.....



1967 Jan 19, North Korean artillery batteries fired on and sank ROKN PCE-56 off the north Korean east coast killing 39 South Korean sailors.
(AP, 3/27/10)(www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/dmz-list.htm)

1967 Jan 20, Clark Kerr, president of the UC system, was fired by Gov. Reagan and the UC Regents for being too soft on student protesters at Berkeley. In 2003 Kerr authored vol. 2 of his memoir: "The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the Univ. of California.
(SSFC, 2/17/02, p.M6)(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F6)

1967 Jan 27, During a launch pad test of the Apollo I (AS-204) mission at Cape Kennedy, a flash fire suddenly broke out in the vehicle's command module and killed its crew, Lt. Col. Edward White, II (U.S. Air Force), Lt. Col. Virgil "Gus" Grissom (U.S. Air Force) and Lt. Cmdr. Roger Chaffee (U.S. Navy). The fire consumed the command module mere seconds after the crew had reported it.

1967 Jan 29, Thirty-seven civilians were killed by a U.S. helicopter attack in Vietnam.
(HN, 1/29/99)

1967 Jan, Ernesto "Che" Guevara began organizing the National Liberation Army in Bolivia.
(SFC, 5/12/96, Z1p.4)

1967 Feb 14, Ramparts Magazine published an ad in the NY Times and Washington Post saying: “In its March issue, Ramparts magazine will document how the CIA has infiltrated and subverted the world of American student leaders over the past fifteen years.”
(WSJ, 1/23/08, p.D8)(www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mackenzie-secrets.html)

1967 Feb 15, Thirteen US helicopters were shot down in one day in Vietnam.
(HN, 2/15/98

1967 Feb 21, Ford recalled 217,000 cars to check brakes and steering.
(HN, 2/21/98)

1967 Feb 22, More than 25,000 US and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, aimed at smashing a Vietcong stronghold near the Cambodian border. In order to deny the Vietcong cover, and allow men to see through the dense vegetation, herbicides were dumped on the forests near the South Vietnamese borders as well as Cambodia and Laos. The operation continued to May 14.
(HN, 2/22/99)(AP, 2/22/07)(HN, 2/23/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Junction_City)
1967 Feb 26, USSR performed an underground nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan, Semipalitinsk, USSR.
(http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/Monitoring/Arch/sts-table/sts-table.html)

1967 Feb 28, In Mississippi 19 were indicted in the slayings of three civil rights workers in 1964. Samuel H. Bowers and 6 others were convicted on federal charges in 1970. Bowers was released in 1976.
1967 Mar 2, The US performed a nuclear test at its Nevada Test Site. The Rivet III test was part of Operation Latchkey.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Operation_Latchkey)

1967 Mar 3, The US performed a nuclear test at its Nevada Test Site. The Mushroom test was part of Operation Latchkey.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Operation_Latchkey)
1967 Mar 5, Mohammed H. Mosaddeq (b.1882), former prime minister of Iran (1951-53), died in Iran following a period of house arrest. He had been ousted in a military coup organized by the CIA and British intelligence.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mossadegh)

http://timelines.ws/20thcent/1967.HTML




rdb

we stared back then with the anti-war protest and No Nukes?

time to make these grey hairs count for something