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… While we stand aside and look?

Via Ecochickie, reminded that it’s Bob Marley’s birthday. A little Redemption Song for good measure. Still relevant after all these years. Amazing.

Great acoustic version of Won’t Get Fooled Again by Pete Townsend.

This is for Schmulik.

Ralph Bernardo of Disinformation posted this trailer clip for “War Made Easy” and thought it worth sharing:

Syncronicity is the oddest thing… this morning a friend sends me a link to a clip from a classic Simpson’s episode. The one where Homer eats fugu, poisonous blowfish at a sushi restaurant. Just an hour ago, I went and got my haircut and the young Japanese stylist and I were talking and (without any prompting) she told me that her father was a chef in Tokyo and his specialty was fugu. If it were anything but fugu, I’d toss it off as coincidence… funny. Order amongst the chaos…

Anyway, here’s the clip. Enjoy:

Spent the weekend really digesting a lot of MLK information… which I’ll be posting throughout the week.

Here’s a nice version of U2’s song Pride (In the name of love) by John Legend.

I’d seen this posted all over, so here it is here. The Story of Stuff… Here’s the trailer, and go watch the whole thing… it’s an eye opener.

Speech by Martin Luther King Jr. on the war in Vietnam, but applicable to all war. Timely and timeless.
Note his comments on those who would equate dissent with disloyalty… “a dark day…”.

Brother Daniel posted this and it is worth posting again…

Do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the birth of new things. Before the new things can be born the old must perish. This is a dangerous realization, because it tells us that we must eventually part with much of what is familiar to us. And that hurts. But that is part of the script of life. Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new…

The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequences to him and to those whom he loves. This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. Their deeds may be small, and almost always unnoticed, unmarked by history. Their names are not remembered, nor did these authentic humans expect their names to be remembered. I see their authenticity in an odd way: not in their willingness to perform great heroic deeds but in their quiet refusals. In essence, they cannot be compelled to be what they are not.

–Philip K. Dick

Finally got part 4 up and running on Google Video… Enjoy.

Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.

Part 3!