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OSPREYXIV

(74 posts)
32. "The (counter) Revolution has been televised."
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 03:43 PM
Nov 2012

(Apologies, I'm formatting hand-held)

The Koch brothers are just the tip of the iceberg.
A counter-revolution, engineered in slow motion, occurred outside the temporal frame that's been presented by the corporate media. On TV, it's always "Now!" It infantilizes the masses. History is what happens outside the margins of the screen and past the printed newspage. Every issue on the table today has been there since 1970. Been there. Got the t-shirt. Their agenda: to repeal all Roosevelt-era legislation (TR and FDR!!).

Since Reagan, what amounts to the Standard Oil trust was resurrected and a lobby representing a bloc of western extraction industries dictates to Congress and the President how to vote, controls foreign policy and encourages the myths of social/cultural/historical revisionism that use fear to impede all progressive legislation.

After Reagan's inaugural, the nation's electrical grid was re-committed to using stripmined coal to power its boilers. All EPA controls of their ruinous practices disappeared along with Carter-era plans for rationally developing electrical power. The development of "TVA 2.0" a study of how the lower Mississippi Valley could be developed for hydroelectric power, called "Gather at the River," was shelved. All plans, gov't support for solar, wind, etc. got tossed on January 21st, 1980. IMHO, that's "The Empire " George Lucas has been referring to all along in the Star Wars saga.

Freedom from foreign oil, freedom from oil, freedom for all, freedom from all enemies, foreign and domestic depends on free energy.
We have just been given what's probably our final warning and it may be too late. As Pogo once said: "We have met the enemy...and he is us."
The Chinese are not our enemies. The Russians are not our enemies. We are our all own worst enemies, planet-wide. There must be a quantum leap in energy production that puts a stop to the burning of fossil fuel to keep us fed, clothed, etc.
The caloric production ratio of agribusiness in the developed world is +/- 17:1. Seventeen calories of oil energy (minimum) are required to produce one edible calorie. Multiply by 3 to get meat. Do
the math. (Arable land, water, fertilizer, tractors, harvesters, trucks, packaging, ads, your gas, cooking heat, etc. X energy required to operate each subsystem X people on the planet, then project that number out from today as a trend line on a log scale. See where we're going here?

We don't have time for a revolution and we don't have any more time for their counter-revolution.
We do need a design revolution. The computer- driven mass mind that is evolving right before our eyes just might save us. As Captain Jack Aubrey always said to Stephen Maturin: "There isn't a moment to lose!" We are all crewmembers on board this spaceship, mortal creatures on a tiny speck in a vast and infinite Universe.

That universe is driven by electromagnetic energy carried on vast plasma currents. The physics we are being force-fed is hogwash. The Big Bang is a creationist fairy tale. It keeps things like they are.
We can wake up or we can drown in our own bilgewater as the oceans heat up and the land dries out. Plant more trees. Trees make it rain. Make it rain trees.

Rebuild the railroads. Re-engineer the machine tools of the agricultural industry for the coming drought (solar-driven, drip-irrigated, modular greenhouse tents). Use the aero-space industry's global intellectual assets to create a real-time biospheric, oceanic, and atmospheric all-planet monitoring system that's available to all 24/7/365.
Malthus was dead wrong. There's more than enough to make all of humanity successful.
Peace. If it isn't love, it's fear.
Good luck and Godspeed!

if the Republicans lose the first post-Citizens United presidential campaign, that is VERY important renate Nov 2012 #1
Somebody posted this pic : gateley Nov 2012 #2
Tis graphic deserves its own thread, gateley. yellerpup Nov 2012 #6
Okay. Will do! gateley Nov 2012 #9
... gateley Nov 2012 #11
+1 nt ProudProgressiveNow Nov 2012 #63
This proves nothing. sadbear Nov 2012 #28
You're probably right gateley Nov 2012 #33
The Kochs Are Like Characters from a Coen Bros Movie Yavin4 Nov 2012 #30
OWWWW! My eyes!!!!! calimary Nov 2012 #34
As I said in that thread... awoke_in_2003 Nov 2012 #45
Yeah, the hell with you two jerks Lifelong Protester Nov 2012 #48
I won't be happy until they are corpses. Marmitist Nov 2012 #62
and faith in the will of the people will be demonstrated. grasswire Nov 2012 #3
The billionaires will accurately conclude it was due to the lack of control over alternative media RomneyLies Nov 2012 #4
Or that Romney/GOP were not conservative enough!!! lol life long demo Nov 2012 #31
Roe v. Wade and Obamacare will remain settled law. ancianita Nov 2012 #5
But even if we win, steps need to be taken to root out the major causes of this near ladjf Nov 2012 #7
So true. But maybe this will give us the balls to do so world wide wally Nov 2012 #8
But, unfortunately, we will need more than "balls". We would need (1) a strong public ladjf Nov 2012 #12
Very true - there'll be no major change if Repubs maintain a majority in the House muriel_volestrangler Nov 2012 #59
"The (counter) Revolution has been televised." OSPREYXIV Nov 2012 #32
Great post. Thanks, OSPREYXIV JDPriestly Nov 2012 #35
Welcome to DU, OSPREYXIV! This is MOST interesting! calimary Nov 2012 #41
On the subject of 'science-deniers': muriel_volestrangler Nov 2012 #60
Fair enough. But what in particular rang my chimes was calimary Nov 2012 #66
Science is based on observation, not theory. OSPREYXIV Nov 2012 #68
+10000 felix_numinous Nov 2012 #51
I don't think so. Beowulf Nov 2012 #10
Exactly, Beowulf Doctor_J Nov 2012 #21
Welcome to DU, Beowolf! calimary Nov 2012 #43
Thanks for the welcome, Beowulf Nov 2012 #44
Well, hell, good to welcome you here anyway! calimary Nov 2012 #49
Amen........GET TO WORK goblue316 Nov 2012 #55
They can a-Ford it. OSPREYXIV Nov 2012 #67
White conservative republicans are outnumbered. It's as simple as that. bushisanidiot Nov 2012 #13
I can't remember where I read this, but I read it in a few places. charlyvi Nov 2012 #20
And the thing is, there is no "white vote". We are split. It's all of the other demographics bushisanidiot Nov 2012 #23
I know this poor white girl has voted Dem all her life. charlyvi Nov 2012 #25
Really? White conservative Repukes are a minority in TX Doctor_J Nov 2012 #22
Nah. It's not like progressive ideas are getting passed. cui bono Nov 2012 #14
One step at a time world wide wally Nov 2012 #16
Not a chance Doctor_J Nov 2012 #24
The biggest change will Wellstone ruled Nov 2012 #15
Wally, you might want to cut back on the hooch Doctor_J Nov 2012 #17
Then I'll just take two aspirin and move to Jamaica world wide wally Nov 2012 #18
+1 cui bono Nov 2012 #26
Exactly. This is why this election is SO important! n/t ProfessionalLeftist Nov 2012 #19
None of which is guaranteed: Get Out the Vote! eallen Nov 2012 #27
When Romney is giving his weasel-worded concession speech, then I'll celebrate. calimary Nov 2012 #46
Please don't count this one over yet jimlup Nov 2012 #29
What makes you think the authoritarians are going to give up that easy? TrogL Nov 2012 #36
Exactly. zentrum Nov 2012 #42
COUNT THEE NO CHICKENS!!! They're putting gremlins in the Ohio voting machines. Squinch Nov 2012 #37
An Obama win will be used as evidence that CU is legitimate bigbrother05 Nov 2012 #38
Agree completely, but... zentrum Nov 2012 #39
Exactly. Here's the link: calimary Nov 2012 #47
As I just posted in another thread, silvershadow Nov 2012 #40
The republicans believe in serfdom...they are the barons we are the serfs. Mkap Nov 2012 #50
well heaven05 Nov 2012 #52
Wait a min..... mgardener Nov 2012 #53
I agree that a simple beginning is not a revolution won, but winning against the odds they've world wide wally Nov 2012 #54
These "we've won!!" trolls are really tiresome Doctor_J Nov 2012 #56
Who said "we won" ? world wide wally Nov 2012 #58
That would be you Doctor_J Nov 2012 #61
I only said the Teabaggers would be "obsolete" and that is very possible. I also said that hopefuly world wide wally Nov 2012 #64
What really scares me though...... AverageJoe90 Nov 2012 #57
Welcome to DU! The Republican party would have to change blazeKing Nov 2012 #65
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