
makewidgetobject({"title":"Mickel Adzema, aka SillyMickel","link":"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com","description":"Things I Amplify from the web","language":"en","item":[{"title":"Facing the Horror - The Media Comforts, But Covers Up: Apocalyptic Wake-Up Call, Part 2 of 7","link":"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com\/2012\/01\/18\/facing-the-horror-the-media-comforts-but-covers-up-apocalyptic-wake-up-call-part-2-of-7\/","clogauthor":"Mickel Adzema","authorimg":"http:\/\/avatars.amplify.com\/wp-content\/\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/\/2011\/05\/50-8340-the_second_prasad-11.png","dateposted":"2012-01-18T18:41:25-05:00","dateago":"1w ","description":"<description><div style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<h1 class=\"posterous_autopost\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Facing the Horror - The Media Comforts, But Covers Up: <\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\r\n<h1 class=\"posterous_autopost\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Apocalyptic Wake-Up Call, Part 2 of 7<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\r\n<div class=\"posterous_autopost\"><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"posterous_autopost\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/MSbAAViddYE?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/MSbAAViddYE?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\\\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000a0;\">Continue with <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/29\/apocalyptic-wake-up-call-apocalypse-emergency-how-can-you-turn-away\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apocalyptic Wake-Up Call: Apocalypse Emergency, How Can You Turn Away?<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: red;\">Go to Post That Precedes This:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/27\/apocalypseno-intro-reversing-babel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apocalypse - No! Intro: Reversing Babel<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/chapters-complete\/ch-2-apocalyptic-wake-up-call\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: black;\">Invite you to join me on Twitter: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: black;\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: black;\">friend me on Facebook: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: black;\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/description>"},{"title":"Things Too True to Be Told: Apocalyptic Wake-Up Call, Part 1","link":"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com\/2012\/01\/15\/things-too-true-to-be-told-apocalyptic-wake-up-call-part-1\/","clogauthor":"Mickel Adzema","authorimg":"http:\/\/avatars.amplify.com\/wp-content\/\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/\/2011\/05\/50-8340-the_second_prasad-11.png","dateposted":"2012-01-15T14:34:33-05:00","dateago":"2w ","description":"<description><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/5ffToL69oaI?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/5ffToL69oaI?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\"><\/embed><\/object>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Continue with<\/span>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/29\/apocalyptic-wake-up-call-apocalypse-emergency-how-can-you-turn-away\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apocalyptic Wake-Up Call: Apocalypse Emergency,\r\nHow Can You Turn Away?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Go to Post That Precedes This:<\/span>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/27\/apocalypseno-intro-reversing-babel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apocalypse - No! Intro: Reversing Babel<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/chapters-complete\/ch-2-apocalyptic-wake-up-call\/\" target=\"_blank\">\r\n<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Invite you to join me on Twitter:<\/span>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">friend me on Facebook<\/span>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/description>"},{"title":"Apocalyptic Wake-Up Call: Apocalypse Emergency, How Can You Turn Away?","link":"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com\/2012\/01\/12\/apocalyptic-wake-up-call-apocalypse-emergency-how-can-you-turn-away\/","clogauthor":"Mickel Adzema","authorimg":"http:\/\/avatars.amplify.com\/wp-content\/\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/\/2011\/05\/50-8340-the_second_prasad-11.png","dateposted":"2012-01-12T14:11:31-05:00","dateago":"2w ","description":"<description><h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/5ffToL69oaI?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/5ffToL69oaI?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\r\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Apocalyptic Wake-Up Call: Your Child Will Die...How Can You Turn Away?<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/secretvaultlikeagrave.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2147\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"secretvaultlikeagrave\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/secretvaultlikeagrave.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/waterfall3.jpg?w=300\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/waterfall3.jpg?w=320&#38;h=304\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"421\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/strong>There are topics you will rarely if ever ear in the mainstream media. It is not that they\u2019re not true; it is that these true things are\u2026well, is there such a thing as too true? Truth that the vast majority of people will either not hear, or will distort, will deny, will conveniently find hard to understand\u2014that is, they will retreat into confusion\u2014and so many other things. Obviously, by the title, you already know the kinds of truths I\u2019m referring to.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/MSbAAViddYE?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/MSbAAViddYE?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/strong><\/span>\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Your Child Will Die, How Can You Turn Away?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/streamsource.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/streamsource.jpg?w=338&#38;h=320&#38;h=509\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"605\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Our species has never been confronted with such truths\u2014facts about the inevitable demise of our entire species in short order, unless something on a massive scale is done. And it seems our systems have no capacity for it. For indeed such an event has never occurred on our planet in its entire multibillion year history. [<em>Footnotes 1 and 2<\/em>]<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>So the fact you are even listening, fully aware of the title, proves you are one of the few who are opting to know the truth\u2014however disturbing\u2014rather than turn your head, as an unbelievable number of people are currently doing, to the <em>likelihood<\/em> of apocalypse\u2026.sorry, that\u2019s not something people want to know. But ecocide, planet death, apocalypse will be a certainty unless people get the courage to do something, which necessarily of course starts with LOOKING at the problem! <\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/pandorasboxcantfaceitelderguy.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2148\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"pandorasboxcantfaceitelderguy\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/pandorasboxcantfaceitelderguy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>OK, I\u2019ll try again, this isn\u2019t easy for me either. The cumulative scientific evidence relating to the fate of this planet has been accelerating in the direction of there being little to no hope that there will be much, if any, life on this planet, at some point only twenty to fifty years from now. So as I was trying to say above, many people are currently turning their head to the likelihood that we will all be dead in what will probably seem the fastest decades ever. <\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/swXfR8CIgww?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/swXfR8CIgww?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>What makes this likelihood so disturbing is that many people know this and yet don\u2019t care. Some even get a charged up thrill, or sense of power at the prospect. And many others just can\u2019t wait! <a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/1350003l.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"display:inline;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/1350003l.jpg?w=395&#38;h=212&#38;h=262\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"311\" align=\"right\" \/><\/span><\/a>Sadly they have certain misguided religious beliefs\u2014for example, \u201cthe rapture\u201d\u2014that have rationalized and made desirable this most abominable thing\u2014wiping out the efforts and strivings and occurrences of billions of years and over eight billion human souls alone in current time, and negating the passionate struggles of billions of humans prior to us who wanted more than anything else to leave the world a better place. But take a cynical\u2014maddened\u2014generation or two, and they may as well never have lived.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/052211_rp9gh66765_trgt2025.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2149\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"052211_RP9gh66765_TRGT2025\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/052211_rp9gh66765_trgt2025.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Why am I saying this? If you have children, or grandchildren, even if you might not see it, what kinds of parents exist now that blithely turn away from <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/trust-father-sonboyjumpintomanshands.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-2151\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"trust-father-sonboyjumpintomanshands\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/trust-father-sonboyjumpintomanshands.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a>the trillion-alarm fire that is already waging, which will consume their beloveds in ways too horrible to contemplate? <strong><\/strong>I do not understand it; for in any other situation where they would be threatened, <strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/sita.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"sita\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/sita.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/strong>wouldn\u2019t many even risk their own lives?<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I need to say this because, despite the madness surrounding us in the minds of people stressed with problems of all kinds that are now at unprecedented levels, I have faith in God and in the nobility of Humans at their base. I believe that more and more will not only face this horrible darker-than-night cloud looming and rushing us from the horizon, but will deem it to be the one worthy thing left to do, whichever way it goes.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I am using my God given skills of communication and intellect, along with a lifetime of study into the human mind and its healing, to try to reverse our current plunge.<a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/occupy_hong_kong.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-2154\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"Occupy_Hong_Kong\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/occupy_hong_kong.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a> I know there are others like myself right now attempting to wake up the noble spirited, the heroic among us, who once convinced will add whatever unique qualities God has blessed them to this once in a multibillions chance to be good, kind, brave, hard working, sympathetic, heartful, strong, God-loving, life embracing, laughter-, song-, and children-loving humans again.  [<em>Footnote 3<\/em>]<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/occupy-oakland1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2155\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"OCCUPY-OAKLAND(1)\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/occupy-oakland1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>To be humans again, not greedy beasts of prey with green in their eyes and their blood, who have been taking over this planet for several decades now, for idiotically selfish ends. <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20060426175855_atanis-224x300.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2156\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"20060426175855_atanis-224x300\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20060426175855_atanis-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>So maddened are they, we have already seen the first incredible detonation of their unconcern for this planet\u2014all God\u2019s creatures on it, and even their own offspring\u2014in this collapse of an entire global economic system in what seemed practically to be overnight in 2007. So insane they, we have seen the consequences of their greedy craving in the increasing radiation of the planet, through accidents like Fukushima, and the dying of the oceans\u2014our oxygen source\u2014with the Gulf Oil Spill.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/p01.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-2157\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"p01\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/p01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"477\" \/><\/a>So when I think the media is soft peddling this dire and vital truth of the approaching death of all as if providing the opium of pleasant reverie to a sick person, instead of providing the truth and giving the person the less pleasant and more strenuous options of fighting for one\u2019s health; when I think of them as deciding for us, as if we are dying children, who they think they are being compassionate to when saying what amounts to \u201cyou\u2019re going to be just fine,\u201d and such, even as we, the children, take our last breath, I think of that syrupy mealy-mouthedness, that \u201ccomforting,\u201d as enabling us in an addiction and even covering up the suffering that might get us well. Taking a look at the media in this light, I am offended and feel disrespected. For I am not one who appreciates being pampered and protected from upset when it means that it will guarantee my death, do you? <\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/new-image1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"New Image\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/new-image1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>For if a great many people do not quickly and radically reverse their lives\u2014and no I\u2019m not talking boy scout recycling efforts. I am talking about the gearing up and urgency that would need to be far greater than that of the last world war\u2014how can it not be seen that the Nazi holocaust will seem a tea party alongside what\u2019s coming?<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/chile-volcanoeruptionlightning.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"Chile-Volcanoeruptionlightning\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/chile-volcanoeruptionlightning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/SmT36LL3FCI?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/SmT36LL3FCI?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Continue with<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/30\/apocalyptic-wake-up-call-we-take-our-prodigal-souls-ever-home\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Apocalyptic Wake-Up Call\r\nWe Take Our Prodigal Souls Ever Home<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Go to Post That Precedes This: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/27\/apocalypseno-intro-reversing-babel\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Apocalypse - No! Intro: Reversing Babel<\/span>\r\n<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/iDfS5razITQ?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/iDfS5razITQ?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/strong><\/span>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Footnotes<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1.<\/span> On the subject of not being able to handle such a huge concept as mass extinction, my correspondent phrased it this way:<\/strong>\r\n<blockquote><a href=\"http:\/\/openintelligence.amplify.com\/2010\/03\/20\/the-pyschology-of-tragedy-extinction-im-afraid-havent-got-time-for-it\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The psychology of tragedy\u2014Extinction? I\u2019m afraid haven\u2019t got time for it.<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Mar 20, 2010 2:18pm by Open Intelligence. \u201cThe economy works by making people selfish. Mass extinction is merely collateral damage.\u201d <\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The link shared\u2014to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/simon_barnes\/article7069143.ece\" target=\"_blank\">an article by Simon Barnes<\/a> writing for <em>The Sunday Times<\/em>, of London, on March 20, 2010\u2014reads: <\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Species are going extinct because humans can\u2019t see it happening, and therefore we can\u2019t believe it is happening. It is as simple as that. <\/strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bp-oil-spill-pelicans11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2164\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"bp-oil-spill-pelicans1\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bp-oil-spill-pelicans11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><strong>Believing that the elephant will no longer be around is like believing that one day the sun will rise in the west and the stars will fall as rain. <\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>We can only really get a handle on the short-term. A generation at most. Long-term planning means the next year or two. Our minds can\u2019t cope with anything longer. That\u2019s why we choose to govern ourselves by means of a comfortable timescale. Four years, five years: that\u2019s Politician\u2019s Time. <\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Extinction is a happening thing, as I have pointed out more than once before. But it is happening in slow motion: you don\u2019t see a monkey turn into a man, and you don\u2019t see an animal go extinct. It\u2019s just that one day you notice that they haven\u2019t been about for a few years. The current rate of extinction is one species an hour, <\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Which brings us to the disaster of Cites\u2026.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Read more \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Extinction? I\u2019m afraid we haven\u2019t got time for it<\/em><\/a>\u201d at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/simon_barnes\/article7069143.ece\" target=\"_blank\"><em>http:\/\/thetim.es\/fJOE7L<\/em><\/a> [return to text]<\/strong><\/blockquote>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/fanimals-animal_portraits_1-screenshot.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2163\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"fanimals.Animal_Portraits_1-screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/fanimals-animal_portraits_1-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">2.<\/span> The idea that there was no other time where any human lived knowing of the very real possibility of ending our species in its lifetime was criticized as follows:<\/strong>\r\n<blockquote><strong>No other time has been like this, but there have been plenty of times in the history of the human species where we have been met with the ability to and possibility of our ending\u2014from when we were a few dozen leaving the mythological savanna of Eden to the discovery of the forging of Bronze to the hypothetical Event that led to the Dark Ages, the Apocalypse has been Nigh. It ain\u2019t happened yet.<\/strong><\/blockquote>\r\n<strong>I responded: I have no idea of what time in our evolution that, other than modern times, our species even knew that it was a limited species on a limited globe and had any idea that its actions could wipe out what it thought of as itself as a species when we did not conceive of ourselves as a limited species in any of those time you speak of. We, with our science and technology are able to know of those times and ourselves. But hell, only in the last five hundred years did we find out we lived on a globe or lived in a solar system! Before that how could anyone in any culture know where either their ability to roam ended or their species no longer existed! <\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>So you miss the point, which is, \u201cno other time\u201d did humans live \u201cKNOWING\u201d that THEY could bring, not only themselves, their families, or their cultures to an end but THEIR ENTIRE \u201cSPECIES,\u201d to an end \u201cin\u201d\u2026their \u201clifetime\u201d (not to mention the other estimated five-hundred million species). From <a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com\/2010\/05\/24\/no-other-time-was-like-this-we-live-knowing-of-the-very-real-possibility-of-ending-our-species-in-our-lifetime\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cNo other time was like this. We live knowing of the very real possibility of ending our species in our lifetime.\u201d<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>3. <\/strong><\/span><strong>I wrote a considerable amount on this in the Nineties, including at least one online book directly taking up the topic titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primalspirit.com\/emerging_perinatal_book.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Apocalypse, Or New Age?<\/a> . Another book, available online, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primalspirit.com\/primal_renaissance_book.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Primal Renaissance: The Emerging Millennial Return<\/a> is extremely important to this topic, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primalspirit.com\/falls_thesis_contents.html\" target=\"_blank\">Falls From Grace<\/a> (a published thesis as well as online book) is also relevant. It is no coincidence that at that time, the Nineties, we had a Democrat in the White House.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>But since Obama has come in to office alone I have put up a number of sites to help raise awareness on this and related issues. I have been setting up and working on websites for purposes of education and support (<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/apocalypseemergency\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apocalypse Emergency<\/a> , <a href=\"..\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apocalypse-NO<\/a> at <a href=\"..\/\">apocalypseknow.wordpress.com<\/a> , <a href=\"http:\/\/angelsinnature.wordpress.com\/\">The Great Reveal by SillyMickel &#38; the PlanetMates<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/angelsinnature.wordpress.com\/\">angelsinnature.wordpress.com,<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.synthasite.com\/from-the-horse-docx.php\"> Apocalypse Know<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hark.com\/collections\/clwhkhsjzd-sillymickels-calling-the-noble-in-spirit-wake-up\">SillyMickel\u2019s Calling the Noble in Spirit: Wake Up Sounds<\/a>). And I\u2019ve been expressing these ideas in blogs (<a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.wordpress.com\/\">SillyMickel\u2019s Blog of the Obvious Unspoken Things<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.wordpress.com\/\">sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.wordpress.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickel.blogspot.com\/\">SillyMickel\u2019s Blog: Things That Want to Be Said <\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickel.posterous.com\/\">Truth Will Out<\/a> , and <a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickel.livejournal.com\/\">Sillymickel\u2019s Journal\u2014The Things Nobody Seems Willing to Say<\/a>).<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>But I had been writing about these things on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/sillymickel\">SillyMickel MySpace Blog<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\">Facebook <\/a>. I\u2019m quite active, especially of late, tweeting about this and related topics on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/sillymickel\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel<\/a>. And since the 90s I\u2019ve been discussing these issues on my oldest website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primalspirit.com\/\">Primal Spirit<\/a>, where I have been trying to raise awareness.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I have a youtube channel where I place videos to educate on this\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/sillymickel\">SillyMickel &#38; The Planetmates http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/sillymickel<\/a>. I have got seventy-plus online audio casts in several Hark collections where I take up this subject: the aforementioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hark.com\/collections\/clwhkhsjzd-sillymickels-calling-the-noble-in-spirit-wake-up\">SillyMickel\u2019s Calling the Noble in Spirit: Wake Up Sounds<\/a> , as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hark.com\/collections\/wkmpbjhlmz-sillymickels-mystic-crystal-revelations\">SillyMickel\u2019s Mystic Crystal Revelations <\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hark.com\/collections\/kgyrnphczd-history-unspun-the-smoke-lies-and-revelations\">The Once and Future NewsHistory Unspun\u2014the Smoke, Lies, and Revelations <\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hark.com\/collections\/fkmzkckwnn-look-at-us-gods-roflhao-silly-mickels-madcap\">\u201cLook at Us! God\u2019s ROFLHAO!\u201d<\/a> , and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hark.com\/collections\/bpyfnzkgvt-michael-jackson-and-the-authentic-life\">Michael Jackson and the Authentic Life<\/a>.\r\n<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/indigenous2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/indigenous2.jpg?w=327&#38;h=320&#38;h=493\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"493\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>In addition to places mentioned, I\u2019m discussing the spiritual aspects of the changes we need to make on the sites, <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/primalspirituality\/\">Primal Spirituality<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/fallsfromgrace\/\">Falls From Grace<\/a>; and the philosophical paradigm shifts needed are scattered in the various places as well as, specifically, at <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/matterismindstuff\/\">Matter as Metaphor<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/sillymickeladzemaslife\/\">.<\/a> The political perspectives on these changes are found on a number of sites mentioned, as well as on <a href=\"http:\/\/culturewarclasswar.wordpress.com\/culture-war-is-class-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">Culture War, Class War<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/sillymickeladzemaslife\/\">Smoke, Lies, and Revelations<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freewebs.com\/culturewar\/\">Culture War<\/a> . Eventually the websites <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primalreturn.com\/\">Primal Return<\/a>, and <em>Natural Self<\/em> will contain the resources that we have in mind for them as well.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Join with me or not as you will. I mention my efforts only to indicate the efforts of one person who has been awakened to this horrifying vision. Keep in mind there are others doing far more than me, for a longer time, and at greater risk. Volunteers working with Greenpeace, Earth First, and similar organizations place their bodies directly in front of the attackers in a manner just like those prodemocracy activists living under dictatorial and totalitarian regimes who, Ghandi-style, stand in front of tanks and place their bodies before onslaughts of anti-aircraft weaponry (as happened recently in Libya). <\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>There are others whose work also deserves more attention than mine, and in other places they are and will continue to be mentioned. But for purposes here, you get the point: The point is that no one can know how great are the forces of light arrayed against those of darkness on this issue, for the moneyed interests do not find it at all helpful to their side to allow the media to broadcast or highlight these efforts. Rather, the media will exaggerate the activities and viewpoint of the opposition to these efforts, those that support the continued march toward Doomsday whose road they collect heavy tolls from people on which make up the obscenely exorbitant and evil profits they receive. They blow up the activities, viewpoints, and (mis)information in the exact same manner as in the past year or so they have, for example, amplified attention of, even promoted, Tea Party rallies attended by, mostly paid, hundreds while ignoring true grass roots action, as in Wisconsin, where a rally of two hundred thousand barely was mentioned. This is perhaps the meaning of the saying, \u201cThe revolution will not be telecast.\u201d<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>In this obscurity of our efforts and its results lies our hope. For we simply will not know until later, maybe not even until an \u201cafterward,\u201d assuming there is one, just how great are the efforts of the unheralded numbers involved in this undertaking.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Finally, looking over my efforts alone, one might even be thinking I am overdoing it. But consider that I believe what I\u2019m saying: A trillion-alarm emergency, the lives of my loved ones at stake. Now, if you knew what I knew, would you do less?<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/bush2527shitler.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/bush2527shitler.jpg?w=168&#38;h=200&#38;h=278\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"278\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>But this isn\u2019t about me, I am only mentioning my work alongside the fact that I felt finally like I could speak out in this country only when Obama was sworn in as President. Who knows how many efforts are going on, how many kinds of things people are doing to stave off this Unthinkable Nightmare? Now, not with Bush in power, when finally we have the world and its efforts, however difficult they still will be, at least not being actively undermined by a Bush administration, we have a time where we have more hope that our efforts will succeed based upon the good will of the participants, without worrying excessively that the mighty U.S. will at some point either secretly or overtly throw the grandest of all monkey wrenches in to shatter the work of the good people of the world working heartily on the side of Life.  [<em>return to text<\/em>]<\/strong>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Continue on this site with<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/30\/apocalyptic-wake-up-call-we-take-our-prodigal-souls-ever-home\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Apocalyptic Wake-Up Call:\r\nWe Take Our Prodigal Souls Ever Home<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Go to Post That Precedes This: <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/27\/apocalypseno-intro-reversing-babel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apocalypse - No! Intro: Reversing Babel<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Invite you to join me on Twitter:<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>friend me on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><\/p><\/description>"},{"title":"Apocalypse - No! Intro: Reversing Babel","link":"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com\/2012\/01\/02\/apocalypse-no-intro-reversing-babel\/","clogauthor":"Mickel Adzema","authorimg":"http:\/\/avatars.amplify.com\/wp-content\/\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/\/2011\/05\/50-8340-the_second_prasad-11.png","dateposted":"2012-01-02T21:53:56-05:00","dateago":"4w ","description":"<description><h1><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/tower-of-babel1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: inline; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"tower-of-babel1\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/tower-of-babel1_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"tower-of-babel1\" width=\"612\" height=\"462\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n<h1><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Apocalypse\u2013No! Intro:\r\nReversing Babel<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/clearing-the-debris.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: inline; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"clearing the debris\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/clearing-the-debris_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clearing the debris\" width=\"589\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p align=\"left\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/firstlight.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: inline; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"nuclear_explosion_color_3\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/nuclear_explosion_color_31.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"nuclear_explosion_color_3\" width=\"196\" height=\"244\" align=\"left\" \/><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"display: inline; border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/firstlight.jpg?w=211&#38;h=320\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"239\" align=\"right\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cApocalypse Emergency\u201d\u2014the audio and text of it, as in the upcoming post\u2014is the preface to my book, <em>Apocalypse\u2014No!<\/em> which is being revised and uploaded here at the present time. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The unrevised version of it is titled <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/apocalypseemergency\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Apocalypse? Or Earth Rebirth?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Some of it was published in 1999 in the book, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.primalspirit.com\/emerging_perinatal_book.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Apocalypse, or New Age?<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/screen-shot-2011-01-03-at-15-19-461.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: block; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-01-03 at 15.19.46\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/screen-shot-2011-01-03-at-15-19-46_thumb1.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Screen shot 2011-01-03 at 15.19.46\" width=\"595\" height=\"414\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A \u201cwebmap\u201d of some of my online works on this topic is at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com\/2010\/05\/31\/re-the-book-apocalypse-or-earth-rebirth-a-webmap-owners-manual-something-wonderful-is-going-to-happen\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Re the book: \u201cApocalypse? Or Earth Rebirth\u201d \u2013 a webmap, \u201cowner\u2019s manual\u201d ..Something wonderful is going to happen<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/outerworldgodcommandsadamexpelledfromedenliveincaveoftreasures.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: block; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"OuterWorldgodcommandsadamexpelledfromedenliveincaveoftreasures\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/outerworldgodcommandsadamexpelledfromedenliveincaveoftreasures_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"OuterWorldgodcommandsadamexpelledfromedenliveincaveoftreasures\" width=\"629\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a> <\/strong>\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Apocalypse\u2014No!<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/ecocide.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: inline; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"ecocide\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/ecocide_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ecocide\" width=\"179\" height=\"244\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/chakrasinspaceanimation.gif\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"display: inline; border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"chakrasinspaceanimation\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/chakrasinspaceanimation_thumb.gif\" alt=\"chakrasinspaceanimation\" width=\"261\" height=\"210\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Apocalypse\u2014No!<\/em> goes back and forth between the horrors that are possible and, well, let us say, this unique situation with the potential so strong to bring Humans to raise themselves up and be led by their better angels more than any other time. What it will mean could be exciting and triumphant beyond belief as humans come out of their puerile adolescent phase and become united and shaped for millennia by this great struggle. We could also die trying our mightiest, which has a nobility to it. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/102911_occupydenver37-sjpg_900_540_0_95_1_50_50-sjpg_.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: block; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"occupydenver_LKM_103011_014.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/102911_occupydenver37-sjpg_900_540_0_95_1_50_50-sjpg_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"occupydenver_LKM_103011_014.jpg\" width=\"606\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/alfred_whatmeworry.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0 none; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/alfred_whatmeworry.jpg?w=132&#38;h=200&#38;h=200\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"233\" align=\"left\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Currently we are looking like the stupidest beings ever to dream the dream of thingness and duality. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/ows-protesters-01-200-150x150.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: inline; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"OWS-protesters-01-200-150x150\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/ows-protesters-01-200-150x150_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"OWS-protesters-01-200-150x150\" width=\"207\" height=\"207\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>It\u2019ll be scary and interesting, and you\u2019ll be helped if you have a strong faith in a Higher Power. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Beyond that, it will be the biggest adventure that that the entire globe ever faced together, and the outcome could be just about anything. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/392303_10150357188006862_526281861_8706485_874135450_n.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: block; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"392303_10150357188006862_526281861_8706485_874135450_n\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/392303_10150357188006862_526281861_8706485_874135450_n_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"392303_10150357188006862_526281861_8706485_874135450_n\" width=\"606\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Reversing Babel<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/tower-of-babel-19-jun-091.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: inline; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"tower-of-babel-19-jun-091\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/tower-of-babel-19-jun-091_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"tower-of-babel-19-jun-091\" width=\"225\" height=\"305\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/twin_towers_1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: inline; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"twin_towers_1\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/twin_towers_1_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"twin_towers_1\" width=\"207\" height=\"313\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But don\u2019t get the popcorn, you won\u2019t be sitting for this one; no one will. Indeed, if we succeed, we will look back at such terms as \u201ccouch potato\u201d and wonder at the lost, unfulfilled lives they describe, which will seem a strange thing in a future that will require all of us to come together in a way that we haven\u2019t seen since before\u2014metaphorically speaking of course\u2014The Tower of Babel. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111115_zuccotti-slide-mlkb-articlelarge.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: block; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"20111115_ZUCCOTTI-slide-MLKB-articleLarge\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111115_zuccotti-slide-mlkb-articlelarge_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"20111115_ZUCCOTTI-slide-MLKB-articleLarge\" width=\"605\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So success could be wondrous beyond all belief; at the same time the odds will be against us, and even certain segments of humanity will want to monkey wrench our positive efforts.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/protester-street-movement-police.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2124\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"protester-street-movement-police\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/protester-street-movement-police.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/tom_miller_at_kent_state_shootings-2-lrgr_.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: block; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"Tom_Miller_at_Kent_State_Shootings-2.lrgr\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/tom_miller_at_kent_state_shootings-2-lrgr_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tom_Miller_at_Kent_State_Shootings-2.lrgr\" width=\"607\" height=\"411\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #0000a0;\">Continue with\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/29\/apocalyptic-wake-up-call-apocalypse-emergency-how-can-you-turn-away\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apocalyptic Wake-Up Call: Apocalypse Emergency,\r\nHow Can You Turn Away?<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/chapters-complete\/ch-2-apocalyptic-wake-up-call\/\" target=\"_blank\">\r\n<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Invite you to join me on Twitter:\r\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">friend me on Facebook: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/u_nLNa6Ns64?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/u_nLNa6Ns64?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/strong><\/p><\/description>"},{"title":"Facts We Don&#8217;t Want to Look at, Which Will Kill Us - Dr. Helen Caldicott on Fukushima and the Perils of Nuclear","link":"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com\/2012\/01\/01\/facts-we-dont-want-to-look-at-which-will-kill-us-dr-helen-caldicott-on-fukushima-and-the-perils-of-nuclear\/","clogauthor":"Mickel Adzema","authorimg":"http:\/\/avatars.amplify.com\/wp-content\/\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/\/2011\/05\/50-8340-the_second_prasad-11.png","dateposted":"2012-01-01T21:11:57-05:00","dateago":"1mo ","description":"<description><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/144152-second-blast-at-fukushima-mar141.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2072\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"144152-second-blast-at-fukushima-mar14\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/144152-second-blast-at-fukushima-mar141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"357\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Over one million have already died from Chernobyl, says Dr. Helen Caldicott. Also, she says deaths from Fukushima will be far greater. It is already one hundred thousand excess deaths in North America. It will go into the hundreds of thousands, minimum.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>She says a few days after Fukushima, \"I got this horrifying, horrifying vision, feeling that this was like descending into hell. And that there's nothing anyone could do about it, or will be able to do about it. And that the results are irreversible.\"<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The nuclear industry is a front for the weapons industry.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The nuclear industry is banking on the fact that \"solid\" cancers will only be showing up in extraordinary amounts in twelve to sixteen years.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Nuclear waste has a half life of 25,000 years. It needs to be guarded that long. It is still deadly after 250,000 years. <\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Dr. Caldicott has been an expert in this field for many years and has written a number of books on it.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/hIcYy5INLNQ?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/hIcYy5INLNQ?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/strong><\/span>\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Helen Caldicott Bio:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<strong>Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott  discusses with Earth Focus correspondent Miles Benson what the Fukushima  disaster really means for the health and future of the people of Japan.  Dr. Caldicott also explains the links between nuclear power and public  health in the United States and Europe. Dr. Caldicott received her  medical degree from the University of Adelaide Medical School. In 1977,  she joined the staff of Children\u2019s Hospital Medical Center in Boston and  taught pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 1978. She  served as President of Physicians for Social Responsibility, an  organization of 23,000 doctors committed to educating others on the  dangers of nuclear energy from 1978-1983. She also worked to establish  similar groups focused on education about the risks of nuclear energy,  nuclear weapons and nuclear war. One such group, International  Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War was awarded the Nobel Peace  Prize in 1985. She is the author of seven books including: Nuclear  Madness (1979); Missile Envy (1984); If You Love This Planet: A Plan to  Heal the Earth (1992 and 2009); The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush\u2019s  Military Industrial Complex (2001 and 2004) and Nuclear Power is Not  the Answer to Global Warming or Anything Else (2006). The Smithsonian  Institution named Dr. Caldicott as one of the most influential women of  the 20th century.<\/strong>\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Personal Note:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<div class=\"comment-body\">\r\n\r\n<strong>This is how I feel about those who want to  quibble over the figures of the ongoing apocalypse upon us from  Fukushima (which is only one of many we need to face, as my readers  know).<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>I believe this discussion is like arguing over the size of the  kitchen table while the house is burning down. I encourage everyone to  do their research. As Caldicott said, the nuclear industry is banking on  us not waking up until the solid cancers show up in 12 to 16 years. But  people have already died and are dying in droves.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>People who would be alive except for Fukushima\u2026\u201dexcess deaths.\u201d And  you could be one of them, more soon than you want to believe. It is up  to you whether you want to face it or not. I have no stake in this.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>There are many who are courageous enough to face this. I\u2019ll let  others deal with the folks in denial. We don\u2019t have time for that. We\u2019ll  try to save them either way. We don\u2019t require any fucking \u201cconversion\u201d  on this or anything. I\u2019m getting nothing out of this but the feeling of  doing the right thing in an emergency (mixed in with the slings and  arrows from those who attack because they are terrified of knowing).<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong> <\/strong><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/19\/fukushima-alert-apocalypse-now\/\">http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/19\/fukushima-alert-apocalypse-now\/<\/a><\/strong>\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #0000a0;\">Continue with\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/27\/apocalypseno-intro-reversing-babel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apocalypse \u2013 No! Intro:\r\nReversing Babel<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Invite you to join me on Twitter:\r\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">friend me on Facebook: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/description>"},{"title":"Apocalypse Emergency: The Most Heroic Humans Ever! Or Suicidal Apes and Our Future as Mars","link":"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com\/2011\/12\/31\/apocalypse-emergency-the-most-heroic-humans-ever-or-suicidal-apes-and-our-future-as-mars\/","clogauthor":"Mickel Adzema","authorimg":"http:\/\/avatars.amplify.com\/wp-content\/\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/\/2011\/05\/50-8340-the_second_prasad-11.png","dateposted":"2011-12-31T20:28:45-05:00","dateago":"1mo ","description":"<description><h1><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/392021_10150372904262001_671967000_8853531_1471345243_n.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2048\" title=\"392021_10150372904262001_671967000_8853531_1471345243_n\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/392021_10150372904262001_671967000_8853531_1471345243_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Apocalypse Emergency: We'll either be the most heroic humans ever or be know throughout the Universe as \"Suicidal Ape\"<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/dancedeath1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2050\" title=\"dancedeath1\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/dancedeath1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"470\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong>\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Suicidal Apes and Our Future as Mars<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/317004_10150363071620658_572805657_8804589_667246355_n.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-2049 alignleft\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"317004_10150363071620658_572805657_8804589_667246355_n\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/317004_10150363071620658_572805657_8804589_667246355_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a>If you care about your children, you\u2019ll \u201cman up,\u201d \u201cwoman up,\u201d \u201ccowboy up,\u201d whatever\u2026anything but cover up\u2026and face the horror, become the noble humans we are <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">capable of being, and join with others to pull off the most heroic actions of all time\u2026<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/nasareleasedmarsface.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/nasareleasedmarsface.jpg?w=320&#38;h=251\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"227\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Or else we\u2019ll be deemed throughout the Universe as \u201csuicidal ape,\u201d and our portrait will be no different from Mars. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The better angels of our beings urge us to pay attention to what is being said in the audio clip and writing below. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Consider the Topic and then that By the Ending I Was Feeling Euphoric,\r\n<\/em><em>Having Just Stared Deeply Into the Most Horrible Likely Future Conceivable. <\/em><\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">MEANING: <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Either you really should be checking this out...\r\nOr I Should Be Getting Checked Out... but seriously folks...<\/em> <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/laun-tm.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2051\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"laun-tm\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/laun-tm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bp-ecocide2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-2052\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"bp-ecocide2\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bp-ecocide2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a>Now you\u2019d THINK this would be a morose piece. I am the author and I fully expected this to be a wake-up call that only the brave or the Goths would listen to. But honestly, I have to confess that the writing that came out of me and that I then expanded upon further in the reading over of it afterward was beautiful and led to a conclusion that inspired me (that\u2019s not supposed to happen!) and left me feeling calmer than I have been for a long time.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/384954_325581040789755_100000135866875_1527619_1675843428_n.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2053\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"384954_325581040789755_100000135866875_1527619_1675843428_n\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/384954_325581040789755_100000135866875_1527619_1675843428_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hark.com\/clips\/rmcffzyvrk-apocalypse-emergency-apocalypse-or-new-dawn-by-sillymickel-adzema\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Apocalypse Emergency: <\/em>The Apocalypse Will Kill Your Child, How Can You Turn Your Head?<\/a>\u201d  \u2013 audio presentation by SillyMickel Adzema<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.entertonement.com\/widgets\/img\/clip\/rmcffzyvrk\/1\/1_88af6986_ac78_11de_8ad9_0015c5f4d265\/blank.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Apocalypse Emergency: Apocalypse? Or, New Dawn? by SillyMickel  Adzema sound bite\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" \/><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.hark.com\/swfs\/player_fb.swf?pid=rmcffzyvrk\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"460\" height=\"55\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allownetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/cdn.hark.com\/swfs\/player.swf?pid=rmcffzyvrk\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"460\" height=\"55\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.hark.com\/swfs\/player.swf?pid=rmcffzyvrk\" wmode=\"transparent\" allownetworking=\"all\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object>\r\n<\/a><a style=\"font-size: 9px; color: #ddd;\" title=\"Listen to Apocalypse Emergency:  Apocalypse?  Or, New Dawn?    by   SillyMickel Adzema on Hark.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hark.com\/clips\/rmcffzyvrk-apocalypse-emergency-apocalypse-or-new-dawn-by-sillymickel-adzema\">Apocalypse Emergency:  Apocalypse?  Or, New Dawn?    by   SillyMickel Adzema<\/a><a style=\"font-size: 9px; color: #ddd;\" title=\"Listen to Apocalypse Emergency:  Apocalypse?  Or, New Dawn?    by   SillyMickel Adzema on Hark.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hark.com\/clips\/rmcffzyvrk-apocalypse-emergency-apocalypse-or-new-dawn-by-sillymickel-adzema\"><\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You REALLY might want to listen to the audio above. It is a loose reading of this \u201cApocalypse Emergency\u201d; is more entertaining than simply reading the text; is more conversational; contains extra information; and is framed by the feelings of the author\/ audio presenter. I think it is altogether more accessible than the text alone, and I think an easier and more fun way to take in this part. The text for it appears in Chapter Two of Apocalypse-No! the book, and it will appear in upcoming posts as well.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Click for audiocast by clicking player above or the link to the audio site below:<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\r\n<h3><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hark.com\/clips\/rmcffzyvrk-apocalypse-emergency-apocalypse-or-new-dawn-by-sillymickel-adzema\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Apocalypse Emergency. The Apocalypse Will Kill Your Child, How Can You Turn Your Head?<\/span><\/a> <\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">- audio presentation by SillyMickel Adzema<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">What\u2019s in the Audio?<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ok, Ok, so you want to know what\u2019s in here, especially the audio? I\u2019m tempted to say \u201cgrab bag\u201d and split, figuring to let Higher Power decide who gets to hear this. <a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/rings_doom1szd-half.gif\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"display: inline; border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/rings_doom1szd-half.gif?w=282&#38;h=400\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"522\" align=\"left\" \/><\/span><\/a>Sure this is in me; but there is more here in this audio than I, well at least thought, was in me. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">No, I\u2019ll give you the poop: It\u2019s about a frightening global predicament that everyone seems to be aware of, but which few people are giving the attention and seriousness it deserves. I liken it to a thousand-alarm fire going off right now, with everyone looking away. I talk about why people would do that, why the media would be inclined to shy away. Basically it\u2019s understandable because we simply have no way of comprehending the magnitude of what is happening and how fast, since no living thing on this planet in its multibillion year history has had to face what we are. [<em>Footnote<\/em>]<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/ecocide.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2054\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"Ecocide\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/ecocide.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I found compassion, not blame.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/www-fantasygallery-net-h-p-kolb-300x196.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2055\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"www.fantasygallery.net-H.P.Kolb-300x196\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/www-fantasygallery-net-h-p-kolb-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a>I use spiritual fantasy and real world analogies to help us get a handle on what we\u2019re facing. In jumping into these \u201cwaters,\u201d I expected to be emotionally beat up. <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/09.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-2056\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"09\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>But instead I came to many understandings, and found I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bull-leaping-crete.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"bull-leaping-crete\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bull-leaping-crete.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>the positions of many who aren\u2019t helping right now somewhat through their eyes, and found compassion, not blame. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now that I think of it, I am having the realization that the reason for my <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/images-3.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"images (3)\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/images-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>serene, compassionate, and loving feelings while doing this parallels why I felt there was hope in the end. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/georgebushshowing.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"display: inline; border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/georgebushshowing.jpg?w=168&#38;h=200\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"297\" align=\"right\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I realize that facing dire challenges\u2014and this being the most dire of all\u2014brings out the best in Humans. It always has. Though this has been put off so long we might not do anything substantive till it\u2019s too late, I realize that a political change away from the <a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/bush-entport.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/bush-entport.jpg?w=270&#38;h=320\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"333\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>George W. Bush debacle in Washington may be having unknown but positive ripple effects around the world. In essence, it is only now that either Americans or those around the world can feel they can apply themselves to tackling this biggest of all challenges, for the previous US administration was disheartening and disillusioning to people of the globe who cared about the crisis, and of course to us in America, who felt that any efforts we could make would be quickly outswamped by the massive anti-environmental policies (sneakily disguised in environmentally positive sounding labels). <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/ecocidess.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2058\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"ecocidess\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/ecocidess.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"472\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Not that everything has changed and corporations are back on their heels in their attempts at thwarting our wills to life; still, when Bush was US president, it was hopeless. It is very disheartening when your own government seems to consider your life completely expendable when it comes to short term gains for the Bushie\u2019s\u2014the corporate and \u201cfilthy rich\u201d FOB\u2019s. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The ending lifted me.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As for the ending which lifted me up in a way that I haven\u2019t felt in a long time on this matter, I can only say that my long term study of humans\u2014as a depth psychotherapist and as a student of other cultures across all time periods, that is, anthropology\u2014informed my conclusions, shaped them, and took me to visions of possible futures that I did not expect, but seem, if not as likely, then at least as worthy of the human spirit as we deserve. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/globalvillage.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"GlobalVillage\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/globalvillage.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"499\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We\u2019ll be tested and found worthy\u2026or deserving of our grave.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And for all we\u2019ve done it seems we have called down upon ourselves to be tested and to be found either worthy, or deserving of the grave we\u2019re digging. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I\u2019ve said too much. The piece is complete in itself, and if you dare, you may find yourself strangely invigorated. At least I hope you get some, if not a lot, of the benefits and positive attitude adjustment that I received. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111026_337_oakland-slide-jwxj-blog480.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2061\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"20111026_337_OAKLAND-slide-JWXJ-blog480\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/20111026_337_oakland-slide-jwxj-blog480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cWe\u2019re all in this together.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I left the piece feeling so much love and unity with all humans and living things, for I knew that at no other time in the history of the world was the truth of the saying \u201cwe\u2019re all in this together\u201d more patently true. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/the-lede-feb-17-updates-on-middle-east-protests.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2062\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"the-lede-feb-17-updates-on-middle-east-protests\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/the-lede-feb-17-updates-on-middle-east-protests.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hark.com\/clips\/rmcffzyvrk-apocalypse-emergency-apocalypse-or-new-dawn-by-sillymickel-adzema\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Apocalypse Emergency: <\/em>The Apocalypse Will Kill Your Child, How Can You Turn Your Head?<\/a>\u201d  \u2013 audio presentation by SillyMickel Adzema<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.entertonement.com\/widgets\/img\/clip\/rmcffzyvrk\/1\/1_88af6986_ac78_11de_8ad9_0015c5f4d265\/blank.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Apocalypse Emergency: Apocalypse? Or, New Dawn? by SillyMickel  Adzema sound bite\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" \/><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.hark.com\/swfs\/player_fb.swf?pid=rmcffzyvrk\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"460\" height=\"55\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allownetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/cdn.hark.com\/swfs\/player.swf?pid=rmcffzyvrk\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"460\" height=\"55\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.hark.com\/swfs\/player.swf?pid=rmcffzyvrk\" wmode=\"transparent\" allownetworking=\"all\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object>\r\n<\/a><a style=\"font-size: 9px; color: #ddd;\" title=\"Listen to Apocalypse Emergency:  Apocalypse?  Or, New Dawn?    by   SillyMickel Adzema on Hark.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hark.com\/clips\/rmcffzyvrk-apocalypse-emergency-apocalypse-or-new-dawn-by-sillymickel-adzema\">Apocalypse Emergency:  Apocalypse?  Or, New Dawn?    by   SillyMickel Adzema<\/a><a style=\"font-size: 9px; color: #ddd;\" title=\"Listen to Apocalypse Emergency:  Apocalypse?  Or, New Dawn?    by   SillyMickel Adzema on Hark.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hark.com\/clips\/rmcffzyvrk-apocalypse-emergency-apocalypse-or-new-dawn-by-sillymickel-adzema\"><\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Click for audiocast by clicking player above or the link to the audio site below:<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\r\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hark.com\/clips\/rmcffzyvrk-apocalypse-emergency-apocalypse-or-new-dawn-by-sillymickel-adzema\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Apocalypse Emergency. The Apocalypse Will Kill Your Child, How Can You Turn Your Head?<\/span> <\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\r\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">- audio presentation by SillyMickel Adzema<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<hr \/><strong><span style=\"color: #0000a0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/chapters-complete\/ch-2-apocalyptic-wake-up-call\/\">\r\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\r\n<div id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:45a9e202-49ba-496f-a079-d9efea179ba4\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"width: 448px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0pt;\">\r\n<div><strong><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/nWYK-_yZoiI?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/nWYK-_yZoiI?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/strong><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #0000a0;\">Continue with\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/chapters-complete\/ch-2-apocalyptic-wake-up-call\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apocalypse \u2013 No! Chapter Two:\r\n<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/chapters-complete\/ch-2-apocalyptic-wake-up-call\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Apocalyptic Wake-Up Call<\/span><\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/planet-earth.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2063\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"planet-earth\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/planet-earth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"527\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Footnote<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1<em>.<\/em><\/span> The idea that there was no other time where any human lived knowing of the very real possibility of ending our species in its lifetime was criticized as follows:<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<blockquote><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">No other time has been like this, but there have been plenty of times in the history of the human species where we have been met with the ability to and possibility of our ending\u2014from when we were a few dozen leaving the mythological savanna of Eden to the discovery of the forging of Bronze to the hypothetical Event that led to the Dark Ages, the Apocalypse has been Nigh. It ain\u2019t happened yet.<\/span><\/strong><\/blockquote>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I responded: I have no idea of what time in our evolution that, other than modern times, our species even knew that it was a limited species on a limited globe and had any idea that its actions could wipe out what it thought of as itself as a species when we did not conceive of ourselves as a limited species in any of those time you speak of. We, with our science and technology are able to know of those times and ourselves. But hell, only in the last five hundred years did we find out we lived on a globe or lived in a solar system! Before that how could anyone in any culture know where either their ability to roam ended or their species no longer existed! <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So you miss the point, which is, \u201cno other time\u201d did humans live \u201cKNOWING\u201d that THEY could bring, not only themselves, their families, or their cultures to an end but THEIR ENTIRE \u201cSPECIES,\u201d to an end \u201cin\u201d\u2026their \u201clifetime\u201d (not to mention the other estimated 500 million species). From <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com\/2010\/05\/24\/no-other-time-was-like-this-we-live-knowing-of-the-very-real-possibility-of-ending-our-species-in-our-lifetime\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cNo other time was like this. We live knowing of the very real possibility of ending our species in our lifetime.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #0000a0;\">Continue with\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/chapters-complete\/ch-2-apocalyptic-wake-up-call\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apocalypse \u2013 No! Chapter Two:<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/chapters-complete\/ch-2-apocalyptic-wake-up-call\/\" target=\"_blank\">\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000a0;\">Apocalyptic Wake-Up Call<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Invite you to join me on Twitter:\r\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">friend me on Facebook: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/description>"},{"title":"Ecocide  -  How Dare We Be Species-Suicide Bombers Taking ALL Life Down With Our Own?","link":"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com\/2011\/12\/27\/ecocide-how-dare-we-be-species-suicide-bombers-taking-all-life-down-with-our-own\/","clogauthor":"Mickel Adzema","authorimg":"http:\/\/avatars.amplify.com\/wp-content\/\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/\/2011\/05\/50-8340-the_second_prasad-11.png","dateposted":"2011-12-27T17:47:59-05:00","dateago":"1mo ","description":"<description><h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/ecocide-earth1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"ecocide-earth1\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/ecocide-earth1_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ecocide-earth1\" width=\"585\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\r\n<h1><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Species-Suicide Bombers - How dare we sink to becoming the biggest mass murderers of all time, by a multi-multi-trillionfold?<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">The End of the World<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A correspondent of mine emailed me to recommend a book by John Leslie titled, <em>The End of the World<\/em>. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/new-image.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:block;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"New Image\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/new-image_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"New Image\" width=\"624\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">More people living now than the grand total of humans who have ever lived!<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/ccotw.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"ccotw\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/ccotw_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ccotw\" width=\"388\" height=\"564\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>She said the book makes a disturbingly solid case for our extinction, saying that we are among the last generations of humans. Part of this reasoning involves a complex mathematical determination of our trajectory, which includes the interesting calculation that there are twice as many humans alive, right now, THAN THE GRAND TOTAL OF HUMANS THAT HAVE EVER LIVED. That last is a provocative finding, to say the least. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now, I haven\u2019t read the book, but just his premise got me to thinking. Of course, what I know confirms his conclusions in spades, but I couldn\u2019t help feeling irked by his all-too-familiar perspective. For, to me, it is not just about our species. It is not just about our extinction. It is not just suicide, but murder. My correspondent, \u201cOpen Intelligence,\u201d has used the term, \u201cecocide,\u201d to make this kind of point. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/screen-shot-2011-01-03-at-15-19-46.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:block;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-01-03 at 15.19.46\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/screen-shot-2011-01-03-at-15-19-46_thumb.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Screen shot 2011-01-03 at 15.19.46\" width=\"620\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com\/2010\/06\/09\/ok-were-commiting-species-suicide-but-how-dare-we-become-species-suicide-bombers-killing-all-other-life-with-us\/\"><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Ok we\u2019re commiting species-suicide;\r\nbut how DARE we become species-suicide-bombers killing all OTHER life with us<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Recently, I checked on the actual number of species that currently are on our planet, and the number was estimated at five-hundred million SPECIES. <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/smmn20l.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"smmn20l\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/smmn20l_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"smmn20l\" width=\"451\" height=\"332\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>I think the whole problem IS that we only see \u201clife\u201d in terms of \u201cour\u201d life\u2014our species. Indeed, some people think in terms of life being only for those of their religion, nation, social group, tribe, family, or even just oneself\u2014all of which aid the murder of those who are \u201cnot life.\u201d <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So, Leslie is apparently thinking along the lines of many others who are not seeing the tragedy we are perpetrating to those other than our species, which is a milder form of the bigotry and prejudice we hold for one human against another type of human. I think that is a shame. [<em>Footnote 1<\/em>] <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/pike-the-earth-2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:block;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"pike the earth 2\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/pike-the-earth-2_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"pike the earth 2\" width=\"592\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But then we cannot seem to even wake people up to saving themselves or their children, so how can we get them to empathize with the trillions upon trillions of other lives and the multi-hundred-millions of other life forms we share this planet with? <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/1016196341.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:block;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"101619634\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/101619634_thumb1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"101619634\" width=\"594\" height=\"437\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I guess that is my problem with his approach: It comes from my feeling that \u2013Ok, we are committing suicide, but maybe we fucking deserve it. <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/9241173_3414_625x1000.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"9241173_3414_625x1000\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/9241173_3414_625x1000_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"9241173_3414_625x1000\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>But how DARE we \u201cblow up\u201d\u2014like a species suicide bomber\u2014without a second thought for their pain or their lives\u2014which we are only too dumb, and ego- species-centric, bigoted to see, let alone empathize with\u2014as simple \u201ccollateral damage,\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/squirrel-friends-animalscutelovewildlifeanimalkiss-0234b807ffd68088bcbc8b2247324e1d_h.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"squirrel.friends.animals,cute,love,wild,life,animal,kiss-0234b807ffd68088bcbc8b2247324e1d_h\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/squirrel-friends-animalscutelovewildlifeanimalkiss-0234b807ffd68088bcbc8b2247324e1d_h_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"squirrel.friends.animals,cute,love,wild,life,animal,kiss-0234b807ffd68088bcbc8b2247324e1d_h\" width=\"265\" height=\"213\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> innumerable multi-bijilliion-trillions of innocent souls\/ life forms and hundreds of millions of other entire species of them with us. That is murder of the highest degree, and an evil that this planet has never imagined before this time. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But, again, I see the point of talking to people where they are coming from as a starting point, as Leslie is doing. But shouldn\u2019t we try to raise as much awareness as possible of, to me, the much greater evil that we are committing, <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/deepwaterhorizononfireafterbpoilspil11.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"DeepwaterHorizononfireafterBPoilspil[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/deepwaterhorizononfireafterbpoilspil1_thumb1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DeepwaterHorizononfireafterBPoilspil[1]\" width=\"380\" height=\"346\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>for those who can hear it? I say, if we want to kill ourselves off, fine. But how dare we sink to becoming the biggest mass murderers of all time, by a multi-multi-trillionfold? We are currently making the Nazis look like Mother Theresas by comparison. If there will be a history of our species by an alien race after we are gone, I do not doubt that the words \u201cFukushima\u201d and \u201cOil Spill dead zones,\u201d will have the same kind of black potency that \u201cAuschwitz\u201d and \u201c<strong>Dachau<\/strong>\u201d currently have for us.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/fukushima_nuclear.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:block;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"Fukushima_nuclear\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/fukushima_nuclear_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Fukushima_nuclear\" width=\"611\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Continue with\r\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/chapters-complete\/ch-1-eight-billion-neros\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Apocalypse \u2013 No! Chapter One:<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #004080;\">Eight Billion Neros Fiddling<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Footnote<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1.<\/span> On the subject of not being able to handle such a huge concept as mass extinction, my correspondent phrased it this way:<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/openintelligence.amplify.com\/2010\/03\/20\/the-pyschology-of-tragedy-extinction-im-afraid-havent-got-time-for-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">The pyschology of tragedy\u2014Extinction? I\u2019m afraid haven\u2019t got time for it<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mar 20, 2010 2:18pm by Open Intelligence. \u201cThe economy works by making people selfish. Mass extinction is merely collateral damage.\u201d <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The link shared\u2014to <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/simon_barnes\/article7069143.ece\" target=\"_blank\">an article by Simon Barnes<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> writing for <em>The Sunday Times<\/em>, of London, on March 20, 2010\u2014reads: <\/span><\/strong><\/blockquote>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/dead-birds-louisiana1.gif\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"Dead-Birds-Louisiana\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/dead-birds-louisiana_thumb1.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dead-Birds-Louisiana\" width=\"338\" height=\"250\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Species are going extinct because humans can\u2019t see it happening, and therefore we can\u2019t believe it is happening. It is as simple as that. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Believing that the elephant will no longer be around is like believing that one day the sun will rise in the west and the stars will fall as rain. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We can only really get a handle on the short-term. A generation at most. Long-term planning means the next year or two. Our minds can\u2019t cope with anything longer. <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/colobusmokeys-shareamorningkiss-animalportraitsanimalslifewildanimalphotosoftheyear-50afae3b0ebe.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"colobusmokeys.shareamorningkiss.animal,portraits,animals,life,wild,animal,photos,of,the,year-50afae3b0ebecca2bb0ec44fd970426f_h\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/colobusmokeys-shareamorningkiss-animalportraitsanimalslifewildanimalphotosoftheyear-50afae3b0ebe1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"colobusmokeys.shareamorningkiss.animal,portraits,animals,life,wild,animal,photos,of,the,year-50afae3b0ebecca2bb0ec44fd970426f_h\" width=\"244\" height=\"164\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>That\u2019s why we choose to govern ourselves by means of a comfortable timescale.<a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/aral1997.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"aral1997\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/aral1997_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"aral1997\" width=\"244\" height=\"192\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> Four years, five years: that\u2019s Politician\u2019s Time. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Extinction is a happening thing, as I have pointed out more than once before. But it is happening in slow motion: you don\u2019t see a monkey turn into a man, and you don\u2019t see an animal go extinct. It\u2019s just that one day you notice that they haven\u2019t been about for a few years. The current rate of extinction is one species an hour, <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/636_120210_fx_ecocide.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:block;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"636_120210_fx_ecocide\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/636_120210_fx_ecocide_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"636_120210_fx_ecocide\" width=\"608\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Read more \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/simon_barnes\/article7069143.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Extinction? I\u2019m afraid we haven\u2019t got time for it<\/a><\/em>\u201d at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thetim.es\/fJOE7L\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thetim.es\/fJOE7L<\/a><\/em> [return to text]<\/span><\/strong><\/blockquote>\r\n<div id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:ce372222-755f-444d-b8d4-11c9092949f5\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"width: 448px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0pt;\">\r\n<div><strong><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/thMGKvSVohQ?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/thMGKvSVohQ?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/strong><\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Continue with\r\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/chapters-complete\/ch-1-eight-billion-neros\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Apocalypse \u2013 No! Chapter One:<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #004080;\">Eight Billion Neros Fiddling<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Invite you to join me on Twitter:\r\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel<\/a><\/strong>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">friend me on Facebook:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/description>"},{"title":"Earth Dies Screaming - Death is certainly part of life. But MURDER of 250 million species, along with our own, is EVIL","link":"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com\/2011\/12\/22\/earth-dies-screaming-death-is-certainly-part-of-life-but-murder-of-250-million-species-along-with-our-own-is-evil\/","clogauthor":"Mickel Adzema","authorimg":"http:\/\/avatars.amplify.com\/wp-content\/\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/\/2011\/05\/50-8340-the_second_prasad-11.png","dateposted":"2011-12-22T17:57:14-05:00","dateago":"1mo ","description":"<description><h3><strong> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/jacob-wrestles-the-angel.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"Jacob Wrestles the Angel Sussman, Sat Jan 10, 2009,  1:59:46 PM,  8C, 7698x10240,  (666+1047), 150%, Repro 2.2 v2,  1\/10 s, R103.5, G48.5, B59.2&#60;br \/&#62;\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/jacob-wrestles-the-angel_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Jacob Wrestles the Angel Sussman, Sat Jan 10, 2009,  1:59:46 PM,  8C, 7698x10240,  (666+1047), 150%, Repro 2.2 v2,  1\/10 s, R103.5, G48.5, B59.2&#60;br \/&#62;\" width=\"623\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h1><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What We Are Doing Makes the Nazis to Be Mother Theresas by Comparison<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\" align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bp-oil-spill-pelicans1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"bp-oil-spill-pelicans1\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bp-oil-spill-pelicans1_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bp-oil-spill-pelicans1\" width=\"615\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Die-Off of 250 Million Species in Under Fifty Years\u2026And You Really Think We\u2019ll Be Here?<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<h3><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com\/2010\/04\/13\/u-heardnu-12-dayschristmas-ends-w8-billion-neros-fiddling-but-no-1-lives-long-enuf-2-finish-itever\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">OR, Have you heard the new version of the 12 days of Christmas? It ends with \u201c8 billion Nero\u2019s fiddling.\u201d But no one lives long enough to finish it\u2026 ever.<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scientists are saying we will see a fifty percent die-off rate, extinction, of species within the next twenty to fifty years. That is to say, within that time half the species we see now\u2014well actually about five years ago\u2014will be gone forever. [<em>Footnote 1<\/em>] <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/baby-seal-pepper-spray.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:block;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"baby-seal-pepper-spray\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/baby-seal-pepper-spray_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"baby-seal-pepper-spray\" width=\"590\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To think that we will be around after that, even to watch video games of the wildlife that once was, is the same as a doctor saying to someone: \u201cSorry, within twenty to fifty years, half of the organs in your body will be gone. <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bp-oil-spillcc.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"BP-oil-spillcc\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bp-oil-spillcc_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"BP-oil-spillcc\" width=\"465\" height=\"222\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>They\u2019ll die and \u2018fall\u2019 away, and you\u2019ll be DISABLED\u201d (! hardly just \u201cdisabled\u201d tho). <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">OK, now you tell me how we\u2019re going to be alive to even see what happens after that kind of extinction?! Does no one realize how much death that means? Does no one see any interconnections between us and planetmates? <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/647cd43e17eaa9d34bba930d21b5-grande.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"647cd43e17eaa9d34bba930d21b5-grande\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/647cd43e17eaa9d34bba930d21b5-grande_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"647cd43e17eaa9d34bba930d21b5-grande\" width=\"486\" height=\"321\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>The world will come to an end if bankers don\u2019t get money, they tell us. And if they did away with roads, or trucks\u2026it\u2019s Mad Max time, right? Well, how about when the bees didn\u2019t show up? One species out of a scientifically estimated five-hundred million species and our economy was going ape shit! What happens with two-hundred-fifty MILLION species gone forever?! [continued after video]<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/b4pHZhZ_t9o?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/b4pHZhZ_t9o?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tom Waits - \"Earth Died Screaming\" <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tom Waits sings, \"The Earth died screaming, while I was dreaming... dreaming of you....\" [<em>Footnote 2<\/em>]<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Ecocide<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Global, Universal Death\/Extinction Isn\u2019t Just Death, Suicide; It Is MURDER, Of a Kind So Evil, Nazis Look Like Mother Theresas by Comparison<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Concerning extinction of species\u2014ourselves and other species\u2014which is going on, an idea was put forth to me that we are assuming death is evil. This person intended, considering the context, for this to be taken spiritually, philosophically. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/sky_clouds4.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"display:block;border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/sky_clouds4.jpg?w=320&#38;h=182\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"348\" \/><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com\/2010\/05\/25\/re-the-psychology-of-extinction-murder-of-untold-billions-through-greed-laziness-egotismwell-i-say-evil\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Re: The psychology of Extinction: Murder of untold billions through greed, laziness, egotism..well, I say, EVIL!<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My reply was: You make the point that needs to be considered as it sits deep down in the hidden center of this particular wordpool. It\u2019s a mind-bender and mind-stretcher when you stray down your road for sure. But after having been down it a fair number of times, both on my own as well as with companions, I find one tangible, unshakable thing, only, to still and focus my vision and guide my stance, actions, and position with surety. It is this: <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I, for one, am not assuming death is an evil. I do not believe death is evil at all, quite the contrary. Death has always been a part of life, and all the religions have it as a sublime culmination of a life well lived. But that is a spiritual perspective. And that is a perspective about death in its essence.\r\n<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/journeylifecanoe.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:block;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"journeylifecanoe\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/journeylifecanoe_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"journeylifecanoe\" width=\"612\" height=\"407\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is a vision from a spiritual stance\u2014rooted in science, philosophy, and Eastern mysticism\u2014as well as from a traditional religious view, where it is held that one\u2019s life in the body is only a try-out for a better, \u201creal\u201d life in \u201cheaven.\u201d [<em>Footnote 3<\/em>] <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/birdfallingskystarlingmystery-431x300.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"-\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/birdfallingskystarlingmystery-431x300_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"-\" width=\"294\" height=\"212\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>However, you are mistaking, as analogy, the beautiful precise utility of a finely honed and balanced knife\u2014metaphorically speaking\u2014with what is really important and what is so hard to look at or fathom or even let into one\u2019s thoughts: That is, the horrific, ghastly, unbelievably bloody and messy, grotesque, garish\u2026infinitely hellacious and mind-drippingly insane scene that is right in front of all of us: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/28372_10150200648570436_765260435_13037173_6511830_n.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"28372_10150200648570436_765260435_13037173_6511830_n\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/28372_10150200648570436_765260435_13037173_6511830_n_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"28372_10150200648570436_765260435_13037173_6511830_n\" width=\"247\" height=\"180\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/strong>that of the angelic young girl and her vulnerable innocent and kind-hearted mother, <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/burning-skeleton.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"burning skeleton\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/burning-skeleton_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"burning skeleton\" width=\"244\" height=\"164\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>their bodies slashed, cut up, stabbed, gouged, even chopped and minced, and strewn widely and randomly in this ungodly lake of blood framed within this just recently homey, comforting surround of simple comfortable living room furniture and accouterments,<a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/nuclear_explosion_color_3.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"nuclear_explosion_color_3\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/nuclear_explosion_color_3_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"nuclear_explosion_color_3\" width=\"216\" height=\"270\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> which now, however, are awash and stained and forever nightmarish as they record in blood, guts, and other of that ilk, <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/deepwaterhorizononfireafterbpoilspil1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"DeepwaterHorizononfireafterBPoilspil[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/deepwaterhorizononfireafterbpoilspil1_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DeepwaterHorizononfireafterBPoilspil[1]\" width=\"275\" height=\"253\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>but of which we do not want even to know, the violence, wild aggression, horrible pain, fear, terror, and trauma of the event\u2014the murder\u2026 the murder that was so precisely perfect in its nightmarishness as it was aided in its perfect horror by such a beautifully crafted, finely honed, exquisitely and marvelously sharp, perfectly balanced and joyous to feel, hold, and use KNIFE. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bp-oil-spill-pelican-2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"BP-oil-spill-pelican-2\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bp-oil-spill-pelican-2_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"BP-oil-spill-pelican-2\" width=\"564\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What I am saying is, OK death is beautiful, in essence. And going back to God is, my belief, the highest accomplishment and culmination of a life lived well. <a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/cd3578.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"display:inline;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/cd3578.jpg?w=234&#38;h=320\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"568\" align=\"left\" \/><\/span><\/a>But we are not talking about my death or your death. We are talking about you and I deciding, by refusing to fight back the apocalypse\u2014which could be taken up merely by changing some of our greedy, wasteful, egoistic ways\u2014the death of untold trillions of other living conscious beings, indeed, of conscious things that we are not evolved enough to even be aware of. We are deciding that THEIR death, because of our actions\u2026well, that\u2019s not so evil, eh? <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Well, that\u2019s easy for US to say. But how about them? Don\u2019t you think they might be a tad upset that we would be deciding this FOR THEM\u2026(Jonestown-style)? <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/nobilityswanaainaa_john_nyberg1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"nobilityswanAainaA_John_Nyberg\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/nobilityswanaainaa_john_nyberg_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"nobilityswanAainaA_John_Nyberg\" width=\"393\" height=\"387\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>So, you bring up the point that needs to be addressed before we can really commit ourselves to the fight and the struggle to change that is being required of us. But I offer that I have never found anyone able to shake or even threaten the principle I have found to stand on: God\u2019s creation, which includes death, in Her (His) time and in the way He (She) would have for each of us, is beauteous perfection. But, MURDER\u2026that is, MY deciding\u2026or ANYONE (but God) deciding for another that death is good, well\u2026 well\u2026 Is not that what Hitler did? What the Nazis did? <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Death\u2014not evil\u2014may be beautiful. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Murder of untold multi-billion-trillions through greed, laziness, egotism, hubris, and extreme lack of empathy and feeling for the feelings\/consciousness of those others\u2026. well, I say, <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>EVIL!!!<a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/nightmare-2989618237_1_3_5jdrxsnx1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2000\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"nightmare.2989618237_1_3_5JdRXsNx\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/nightmare-2989618237_1_3_5jdrxsnx1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Evil beyond all imagining. Evil beyond anything ever conceived or acted ever <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/st-clouds-fjpg-fca3881ee93d5d4f_large.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"st-clouds-fjpg-fca3881ee93d5d4f_large\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/st-clouds-fjpg-fca3881ee93d5d4f_large_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"st-clouds-fjpg-fca3881ee93d5d4f_large\" width=\"444\" height=\"343\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/strong>before in the uncountable billions of years of existence of this planet. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">EVIL! Even the killing of the planet\u2014its systems so perfectly balanced, so far beyond our understanding\u2014of a nature that is beyond our comprehension, which, for all we know, is akin to a higher consciousness, a deva, a god, goddess. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yes, EVIL to murder. Incredibly evil to bring to an end such things so far <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/handsholdingtrees.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"handsholdingtrees\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/handsholdingtrees_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"handsholdingtrees\" width=\"368\" height=\"316\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/span>above and beyond our understanding that we cannot even comprehend the magnitude of that evil. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now, that is my conclusion. I deem that murder on a scale so huge as to be inconceivable, of numbers of beings so great we have no way of knowing the hideous magnitude of the crime, not to mention eight billion alone of our own species, and laying to waste the dreams, efforts, and results of multibijillions of past lives on this planet of all species IS EVIL! <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/smogcitych101.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:block;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"smogcitych10\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/smogcitych10_thumb1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"smogcitych10\" width=\"637\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That is something I do not want to ever think I helped to happen\u2026. Indeed it is EVIL so huge that I think I would not feel <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/0011-starbirth2k81_ip.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"display:inline;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/0011-starbirth2k81_ip.jpg?w=213&#38;h=320\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"492\" align=\"left\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">right, ever again, in the consciousness forever after this life and after my death, if I did not expend every ounce of my energy while I still can\/could to try to prevent, to try to stop, to work against, to struggle to keep it from happening. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I think that consciousness cannot be destroyed\u2014so death is not \u201cevil.\u201d But as we stand on the precipice of this planet murder and hugest crime of all time as far as we know before us and with us, as a species, being the cause of it\u2026 Well, I can only say the worst thing that I can imagine is having an eternity of consciousness knowing that I could have been part of the solution, but I trivialized it, I used a convenient spiritual belief\/teaching\/awareness to rationalize it so that I could continue asleep and unaware of the horror I participated in as I chose, through being afraid to look at the immense suffering involved, to blind myself with distractions\u2014the perfect knife, the death that is not evil. <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/hell-lake-of-fire21.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"hell-lake-of-fire2\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/hell-lake-of-fire2_thumb1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"hell-lake-of-fire2\" width=\"306\" height=\"230\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>And so instead of an eternity of peace knowing that I stood against the greatest evil ever known and fought as hard as I could, although we failed\u2026 instead it could be an eternity of regret and loathing not being able to be unaware that I was a part of the horror, the monster, participated in the killing, and helped others to also, by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/faceme-or-you2527remine252822529.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"display:inline;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/faceme-or-you2527remine252822529.jpg?w=270&#38;h=320\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"297\" align=\"right\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">participating in the feel-good cover-up, the blinding of eyes, the zombification of brains. As the deepest darkness ever known gradually but unmistakably arose on the horizon and came toward us, increasing in speed, becoming more fiercesome, detailed, clear, unmistakable, unavoidable, <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/166899_10150383077549679_650124678_8093125_721365237_n-the-beginning-is-near21.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"166899_10150383077549679_650124678_8093125_721365237_n-the-beginning-is-near2\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/166899_10150383077549679_650124678_8093125_721365237_n-the-beginning-is-near2_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"166899_10150383077549679_650124678_8093125_721365237_n-the-beginning-is-near2\" width=\"278\" height=\"340\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>and ever harder to be blind to, ever clearer in its brutality and the suffering, and unimaginable pain in its aftermath. And so I would spend an eternity knowing, not being able to not know that I WAS it, that I became it, helped it\u2026that I was, er, <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/dead-birds-louisiana.gif\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" title=\"Dead-Birds-Louisiana\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/dead-birds-louisiana_thumb.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dead-Birds-Louisiana\" width=\"244\" height=\"181\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>\u201cpart of the problem\u201d\u2026 and I didn\u2019t have to be.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And for everyone else I would ask: Care to choose what you\u2019d like to have sitting around in that imperishable unending forever consciousness we\u2019re \u201cblessed\u201d with?<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/asperatus_634x335.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:block;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"asperatus_634x335\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/asperatus_634x335_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"asperatus_634x335\" width=\"622\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Continue with\r\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/chapters-complete\/ch-1-eight-billion-neros\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Apocalypse \u2013 No! Chapter One:<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #004080;\">Eight Billion Neros Fiddling<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<h2><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/orangetide.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"OrangeTide\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/orangetide_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"OrangeTide\" width=\"605\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Footnotes<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1.<\/span> While the severity\/seriousness of our predicament is considerably watered-down and glossed over for the sake of consumption in the following report, it is instructive nevertheless. It shows the extent to which our precarious situation is known\u2014and even communicated among the educated\u2014albeit in a manner as to not threaten or scare the audience (into action to stop it!):<\/strong>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<h4><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/03\/110302131844.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Has Earth\u2019s Sixth Mass Extinction Already Arrived?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<strong><em>ScienceDaily<\/em> (Mar. 5, 2011)\u2014With the steep decline in populations of many animal species, from frogs and fish to tigers, some scientists have warned that Earth is on the brink of a mass extinction like those that occurred only five times before during the past 540 million years.<\/strong><\/blockquote>\r\n<blockquote><strong>Each of these \u2018Big Five\u2019 saw three-quarters or more of all animal species go extinct.<\/strong><\/blockquote>\r\n<strong>For more: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/03\/110302131844.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ScienceDaily<\/a>: <\/em><\/strong>\r\n<p align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">2.<\/span> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lyrics for \u201cEarth Died Screaming\u201d by Tom Waits:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rudy\u2019s on the midway\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And Jacob\u2019s in the hole\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The monkey\u2019s on the ladder\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The devil shovels coal<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With crows as big as airplanes\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The lion has three heads\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And someone will eat the skin that he sheds<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And the earth died screaming\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The earth died screaming\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While I lay dreaming of you<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Well hell doesn\u2019t want you\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And heaven is full\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bring me some water\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Put it in this skull<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I walk between the raindrops\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wait in Bug House Square\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And the army ants\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They leave nothin\u2019 but the bones<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And the earth died screaming\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While I lay dreaming of you\r\n<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There was thunder\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There was lightning\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then the stars went out\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And the moon fell from the sky<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It rained mackerel\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It rained trout\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And the great day of wrath has come\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And here\u2019s mud in your big red eye<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The poker\u2019s in the fire\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And the locusts take the sky\r\n<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And the earth died screaming\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While I lay dreaming of you<\/span><\/strong><\/blockquote>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">3.<\/span> Earlier this year I was sitting in a doctor\u2019s waiting room and watching CNN reporting on the Fukushima reactor developments. I heard this sort of \u201creligious\u201d viewpoint from a stranger. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/zombies-sadproselytists.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"display:inline;border:4px solid black;margin:8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/zombies-sadproselytists.jpg?w=160&#38;h=200&#38;h=200\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"338\" align=\"right\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We agreed on the magnitude and severity of this Fukushima event and that of the Gulf Spill, among others. We agreed even on the cause of such events and the way we are being misinformed on them\u2014partly as patronizing misdirection, partly as cover-up. But where we disagreed was on whether it was important or not to do anything about them. As he put it, in his superior but cynical tone, \u201cWhat can you do? We can\u2019t do anything about it, besides it doesn\u2019t matter anyway, it\u2019s not THIS that is important\u2026but only after death,\u201d pointing heavenward at that. (*sigh*)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">4.<\/span> On the subject of not being able to handle such a huge concept as mass extinction, my correspondent phrased it this way:<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<blockquote><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/openintelligence.amplify.com\/2010\/03\/20\/the-pyschology-of-tragedy-extinction-im-afraid-havent-got-time-for-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">The pyschology of tragedy\u2014Extinction? I\u2019m afraid haven\u2019t got time for it.<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mar 20, 2010 2:18pm by Open Intelligence. \u201cThe economy works by making people selfish. Mass extinction is merely collateral damage.\u201d <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The link shared\u2014to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/simon_barnes\/article7069143.ece\" target=\"_blank\">an article by Simon Barnes<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> writing for <em>The Sunday Times<\/em>, of London, on March 20, 2010\u2014reads: <\/span><\/strong><\/blockquote>\r\n<blockquote><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Species are going extinct because humans can\u2019t see it happening, and therefore we can\u2019t believe it is happening. It is as simple as that. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Believing that the elephant will no longer be around is like believing that one day the sun will rise in the west and the stars will fall as rain. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We can only really get a handle on the short-term. A generation at most. Long-term planning means the next year or two. Our minds can\u2019t cope with anything longer. That\u2019s why we choose to govern ourselves by means of a comfortable timescale. Four years, five years: that\u2019s Politician\u2019s Time. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Extinction is a happening thing, as I have pointed out more than once before. But it is happening in slow motion: you don\u2019t see a monkey turn into a man, and you don\u2019t see an animal go extinct. It\u2019s just that one day you notice that they haven\u2019t been about for a few years. The current rate of extinction is one species an hour, <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Which brings us to the disaster of Cites\u2026.<\/span><\/strong><\/blockquote>\r\n<blockquote><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Read more \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/simon_barnes\/article7069143.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Extinction? I\u2019m afraid we haven\u2019t got time for it<\/a><em><\/em>\u201d at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thetim.es\/fJOE7L\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thetim.es\/fJOE7L<\/a><\/em> [return to text]<\/span><\/strong><\/blockquote>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/tumblr_lv1orhzt0r1qaa8mfo1_1280.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image:none;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border:4px solid black;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" title=\"tumblr_lv1orhzT0r1qaa8mfo1_1280\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/tumblr_lv1orhzt0r1qaa8mfo1_1280_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"tumblr_lv1orhzT0r1qaa8mfo1_1280\" width=\"539\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Continue with\r\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/chapters-complete\/ch-1-eight-billion-neros\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #004080;\"><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Apocalypse \u2013 No! Chapter One:<\/span><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #004080;\">Eight Billion Neros Fiddling<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Invite you to join me on Twitter:\r\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel<\/a><\/strong>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">friend me on Facebook:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/description>"},{"title":"Planetary Apocalypse -  It&#8217;s a Trillion-Alarm Fire, Not a Litter Problem!","link":"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com\/2011\/12\/21\/planetary-apocalypse-its-a-trillion-alarm-fire-not-a-litter-problem\/","clogauthor":"Mickel Adzema","authorimg":"http:\/\/avatars.amplify.com\/wp-content\/\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/\/2011\/05\/50-8340-the_second_prasad-11.png","dateposted":"2011-12-21T22:02:10-05:00","dateago":"1mo ","description":"<description><h1><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/fukushima-nuclear-power-plant-explosion.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: inline; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"Fukushima nuclear power plant explosion\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/fukushima-nuclear-power-plant-explosion_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Fukushima nuclear power plant explosion\" width=\"598\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\r\n<h1><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It\u2019s a Trillion-Alarm Fire, Not a Boy-Scout Litter Campaign<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/nyan-the-earth.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: inline; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"nyan-the-earth\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/nyan-the-earth_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"nyan-the-earth\" width=\"603\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">A Trillion-Alarm Fire\u2014You Don\u2019t Stop at the Grocery on Your Way Home!<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I compare what is happening right now to cause planetary death in the relatively near future to a trillion-alarm fire with everyone looking the other way. I say you need to respond to this with the urgency of being in a world war, marshaling all available national and world resources to bear on it, and not with the complacency of a boy-scout litter pick up campaign. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/hell-lake-of-fire2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: inline; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"hell-lake-of-fire2\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/hell-lake-of-fire2_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"hell-lake-of-fire2\" width=\"379\" height=\"286\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When you get a call at work that your house is on fire, you rush home worrying about whether your family is alive or dead, what, if anything, remains of your precious keepsakes, and so on. And you don\u2019t, this time, stop on the way home to have a short visit with your mother at the nursing home, grab a few things at the grocery store, or even fill up your tank at the gas station! YOU GO STRAIGHT HOME AND TRY TO SAVE YOUR FAMILY AND HOME! <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bpoil_003.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: block; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"OIL-SPILL\/ANNIVERSARY\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bpoil_003_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"OIL-SPILL\/ANNIVERSARY\" width=\"622\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What follows, from May of 2010, is an example of the attitude of dealing with global apocalyptic events as if, like in this case, they are of similar importance to a plane going down. My point, of course, is that we should be dealing with them will all the urgency of a \u201ctrillion-alarm fire\u201d happening. For each of these are disasters contributing to an ongoing catastrophic ecocidal process, the tip of which, only, we see in the Fukushima reactor blowups and the Gulf Oil Spill:<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<h4><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com\/2010\/05\/25\/matthews-four-alarm-fire-in-gulf-landrieu-smirks-matthews-r-ways-2-suck-up-oila-us-emerg-not-bp-bus-prob\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Matthews: \u201cfour-alarm fire\u201d in Gulf! Landrieu smirks. Matthews: There are ways to suck up oil\u2026it is a US emergency not just a BP business problem<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">May 25, 2010. Today, Chris Matthews likened the Gulf Oil Spill to a four-alarm fire. While Senator Mary Landrieu smirked, Matthews said, \u201cI don\u2019t know what the legality of this is, but the President of the United States has got this challenge, not just BP. <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/globe-in-hand-custom-150x150.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: inline; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"globe-in-hand-custom-150x150\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/globe-in-hand-custom-150x150_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"globe-in-hand-custom-150x150\" width=\"252\" height=\"252\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>BP has got a business challenge; we have a national challenge. North America that we inherited and would like to pass on to our future generations is in big trouble.\u201d<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Earlier, in answer to a question by Matthews as to whether there\u2019s \u201canybody in the world that can come and collect petroleum\u2026that\u2019s out there in the Gulf right now\u2026anybody that can collect it?\u201d Landrieu responded saying, \u201cWell, first of all, Chris, just let me say this: If Delta Airlines\u2026plane goes down, I don\u2019t think we necessarily call all the airlines to come in and help in this very specific way. Now, I will tell you, that all the oil companies have been helping since day one, informally\u2026.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/blockquote>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bp-oil-spill-los-angeles.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: block; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"bp-oil-spill-los-angeles\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bp-oil-spill-los-angeles_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bp-oil-spill-los-angeles\" width=\"588\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Are you as concerned as I am hearing that kind of cavalier attitude about human life?<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/evolved.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: block; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"evolved\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/evolved_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"evolved\" width=\"588\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Oil Spills and Reactor Blowups <\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cWhere is the fierce urgency of Now?!!!\u201d <\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bp-oil-spill-leaking-well-headjpg-61163ecf1c92e023_large.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: inline; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"bp-oil-spill-leaking-well-headjpg-61163ecf1c92e023_large\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bp-oil-spill-leaking-well-headjpg-61163ecf1c92e023_large_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bp-oil-spill-leaking-well-headjpg-61163ecf1c92e023_large\" width=\"408\" height=\"314\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>I can\u2019t believe the nonchalance around the huge environmental catastrophes that have gone on in just the last year alone\u2014specifically, the Gulf Oil Spill and the Fukushima Japan nuclear disaster. When the BP disaster was ongoing and gushing devastating amounts of oil into the Gulf, Donna Brazille, frustrated with the Obama Administration\u2019s response to the Spill, fumed aloud, \u201cWhere is the fierce urgency of Now?!!! <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/deepwater_horizon_oil_spill_nasa.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: block; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill_nasa\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/deepwater_horizon_oil_spill_nasa_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill_nasa\" width=\"605\" height=\"457\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But these hugely unprecedented environmental catastrophes, daily spreading the damage to our planet, are just two canaries in a coal mine.<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/0000apocalypseemergency.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"display: inline; border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/0000apocalypseemergency.jpg?w=320&#38;h=200\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"299\" align=\"left\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We are just beginning to understand the immensity of the damage to our planet the Fukushima disaster did. We will probably not be told the degree of radiation exposure from it we are receiving until long after people have been dying in droves from it. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/fukushima-no-1-meltdown-confirmed-japan.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: inline; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"fukushima-no-1-meltdown-confirmed-japan\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/fukushima-no-1-meltdown-confirmed-japan_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"fukushima-no-1-meltdown-confirmed-japan\" width=\"617\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/96089cca74e0a83f6f20c14326a5_grande.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"96089cca74e0a83f6f20c14326a5_grande\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/96089cca74e0a83f6f20c14326a5_grande_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"96089cca74e0a83f6f20c14326a5_grande\" width=\"485\" height=\"365\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The BP oil spill of 2010 is, similarly, presenting ongoing planetary damage, which, like the Japan nuclear disaster, is, as I speak, not being reported. At this moment, in fact, dolphin and whale carcasses in the hundreds are washing up on Gulf beaches, birds are dying and <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/05s21-pippidea-809_1365286l.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1947\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"05s21-pippidea-809_1365286l\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/05s21-pippidea-809_1365286l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"607\" \/><\/a>some are simply dropping dead out of the sky, and we know for sure of at least one dead zone caused by the BP oil spill\u2014a dead zone being an area in the ocean where nothing can live for lack of oxygen\u2014which is a hundred miles long and twelve miles wide. I have heard reports of other dead zones cropping up in the Gulf, and it has been said they are <em>growing<\/em> in size with time. Beyond these we have to wonder how many more there are, yet unknown, and how great is the ongoing damage. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bp-oil-spill-njjpg-d111db9eb5c31461.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: inline; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"bp-oil-spill-njjpg-d111db9eb5c31461\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bp-oil-spill-njjpg-d111db9eb5c31461_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bp-oil-spill-njjpg-d111db9eb5c31461\" width=\"608\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But none of these dire events are being mentioned much in the media. We hear the reports, but then the media directs our attention to something else. <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/144152-second-blast-at-fukushima-mar14.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: inline; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"144152-second-blast-at-fukushima-mar14\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/144152-second-blast-at-fukushima-mar14_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"144152-second-blast-at-fukushima-mar14\" width=\"489\" height=\"277\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>When Fukushima was being actively monitored by the media not long ago, I heard reported on CNN some very apocalyptic developments occurring there. Immediately afterward, CNN directed our attention to some in-depth reporting on a snake that had gotten loose in New York City. Now that snake made me sooo scared, I don\u2019t know why!? *sarcasm* <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So we cover our eyes to what is going on. *sigh*<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bird_fall.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1948\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px 0;\" title=\"bird_fall\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/bird_fall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We dismiss these events assuming that someone higher up than us is surely attending to the problem (dream on!). <a href=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/apocal-bkg-szd.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/sillymickelsapocalypticwakeupcall.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/apocal-bkg-szd.jpg?w=320&#38;h=212\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"293\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Though we would never admit it, we take comfort in thinking that people more in the know and influential\u2014people with more status, degrees, power\u2014are on the front line and will certainly make better decisions than we ever could. So doing, we blind ourselves to the fact that these people in charge are blinded and made stupid by their greed and self-interest. <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/101619634.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: inline; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"101619634\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/101619634_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"101619634\" width=\"428\" height=\"317\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>They see dimly, if at all, through that screen at the dire prospects they are juggling with. With such tunnel vision, they are hardly capable of seeing the interests of humanity, let alone acting on them. Furthermore, they console themselves with the thought that someone else higher up\u2014or not, often just someone <em>other <\/em>than them\u2014is \u201ccertainly\u201d taking care of \u201cthe big things.\u201d <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ultimately, people are passing the buck ALL the way up\u2026to God. Seriously, this theological cul-de-sac is the ultimate, most reliable, place of retreat for the theistic as well as most of the non-theistic, if people were to be honest about their thoughts. But this is the most comforting of cop-outs and the greatest excuse to carry on acting recklessly out of all-too-trivial motivations of unhinged greed and blind self-interest. <\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/smogcitych10.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: block; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"smogcitych10\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/smogcitych10_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"smogcitych10\" width=\"630\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What is worse is these things are only the tiny beginnings of much more that is bound to happen. If we do not listen up, and wake up, we\u2019ll be just as unprepared and helpless when the even more dire and apocalyptic events unfold. This is not a time to curl up under the covers.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/armageddon_by_teddybearchollaendoftheworldjpeg.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; display: block; padding-top: 0; border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"Armageddon_by_teddybearchollaendoftheworldjpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/armageddon_by_teddybearchollaendoftheworldjpeg_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Armageddon_by_teddybearchollaendoftheworldjpeg\" width=\"595\" height=\"447\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Continue with\r\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/chapters-complete\/ch-1-eight-billion-neros\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #004080;\">Apocalypse \u2013 No! Chapter One:<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #004080;\">Eight Billion Neros Fiddling<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Invite you to join me on Twitter:\r\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/sillymickel<\/a><\/strong>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">friend me on Facebook:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sillymickel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"center\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/b3dAPsTGbZQ?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/b3dAPsTGbZQ?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/description>"},{"title":"Fukushima Alert! Apocalypse Now?","link":"http:\/\/sillymickel.amplify.com\/2011\/12\/20\/fukushima-alert-apocalypse-now\/","clogauthor":"Mickel Adzema","authorimg":"http:\/\/avatars.amplify.com\/wp-content\/\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/\/2011\/05\/50-8340-the_second_prasad-11.png","dateposted":"2011-12-20T01:26:38-05:00","dateago":"1mo ","description":"<description><h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/dragon-devouring-the-companions-of-cadmus1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"Dragon-Devouring-The-Companions-Of-Cadmus\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/dragon-devouring-the-companions-of-cadmus1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Fukushima Apocalypse. Is this the end of the world? For real this time?<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Linda Ayres shared this yesterday:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The radiation contamination from the melting down reactors is already contaminating the sea, and the air, and the food, and the children and all living things on this planet. The scientists believe there is no \u2018solution\u2019 to this extinction level event (except the \u2018mad scientists\u2019 who allege there is no danger in a nuclear holocaust). However, stopping the airborne spewing of the 1400 lethal radioactive isotopes will slow down this death machine.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/166899_10150383077549679_650124678_8093125_721365237_n-the-beginning-is-near2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"166899_10150383077549679_650124678_8093125_721365237_n-the-beginning-is-near2\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/166899_10150383077549679_650124678_8093125_721365237_n-the-beginning-is-near2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a>We have nearly 10 months of non-stop radiation contamination hitting the planet\u2026the radioactive debris from Japan has just recently hit the shores of North America\u2026.what do you think that travelling radiation did to the oceans?<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Never before in the history of mankind has there been a disaster of this magnitude. Reactors require cooling pools \u2026 Fukushima lost its cooling pools in March\u2026so you see, we\u2019re doomed on those counts.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Tepco is alleging \u2018cold shut down\u2019 and \u2018victory\u2019\u2026NO LIE LASTS FOREVER. DEATH COUNTS RISING. THE REACTOR CORES NEED TO BE COOLED\u2026EITHER THE SEA MUST BE BROUGHT TO THE MELTING DOWN CORES, OR THE CORES MUST BE DROPPED INTO THE SEA. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE IN MARCH. MILLIONS MORE WILL DIE BECAUSE OF THE DELAYS AND WRINGING OF HANDS.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Advocates of genocide and death machines allege there is no real problem with multiple reactors melting down, contaminating the entire planet, and the same crowd also thinks the leaking radiation from local reactors is \u2018harmless\u2019. KNK - killer nuke knuckleheads\u2026.the crowd leading the lies\u2026.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> Research the impacts of radiation poisoning\u2026the kids will die first, around the world\u2026.genetic mutations\u2026lots of illness and death\u2026in Japan and around the world.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>[The question of why it would be a good idea to put the nukes in the ocean since that will contaminate all the oceans of the globe and perhaps kill them off] is a common question. It\u2019s been asked since March 11\u2026.meanwhile, the contamination of the planet accelerates\u2026.. World Powers must immediately address the issue, or they will have no one left to \u2018govern\u2019. Love one another like there is no tomorrow, as it is being cancelled....<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<strong>More at - <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/18\/no-nukes-is-good-nukes-urgent-messages-about-nuclear-threats-and-fukushima-apocalypse-and-what-can-be-done\/\" target=\"_blank\">No Nukes Is Good Nukes: Urgent Messages about Nuclear Threat and Fukushima Apocalypse...and what can be done<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/18\/no-nukes-is-good-nukes-urgent-messages-about-nuclear-threats-and-fukushima-apocalypse-and-what-can-be-done\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/18\/no-nukes-is-good-nukes-urgent-messages-about-nuclear-threats-and-fukushima-apocalypse-and-what-can-be-done\/<\/a><\/strong>\r\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/armageddongargoyles.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"armageddongargoyles\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/armageddongargoyles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Some comments:<\/span>\r\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;\"><strong>To a comment that the above is full of hyperbole, I responded: <\/strong><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Michael Adzema: <\/strong><\/span>If she is only 1% correct, it is more important than 99% of the crap that gets shared on FB and takes up people's time. The problem we have is with people's inability to look at things this horrible. So I understnad why you would want to think the way you do. I want to think the way you do, too. But my reason tells me that would be foolish, since only a tiny fraction of this would mean death on a scale never before seen. Enjoy your denial while you can... And I very much hope you are right and she and I are fools.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Temujin Subodai: <\/span> The should have entombed it while they had the chance. Just like Chernobyl. Just like Michio Kaku recommended.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Michael Adzema:<\/span> That crossed my mind, too. I thought that was where we were headed, actually. But from this news it seems it has gone way beyond that by now. I've got no upnote to leave on.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Gela Onthemove:<\/span> horrendous catastrophe to all life on this planet - how can anyone ignore it ?- I still have in my ears the refusal to international help offered to Tepco and Japan - in the very first days after the Tsunami...<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Michael Adzema:<\/span> I agree, Gela. And apparently too horrendous to be thought about...hence the reason it was never handled in any way that would have given us a chance. We are app going to die off like bacteria that has overrun its petri dish. I hope I am a fool and am wrong.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;\">To a comment equating nuclear radiation with that which comes from the sun and wanted to hear more about actual radiation levels, I  responded.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Michael Adzema: <\/span> I think what you say is the propaganda they put out. Ann Coulter once said, \"Radiation is good for you.\" You are in bed with her. If you don't like that, you need to rethink your position and do more research. I have. What I have found out is that you are horrifically wrong.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Btw, I have a little experience in this area. I was one of the group that brought nuclear power construction to a halt in the US in the early 80s. I worked on this full time for years. And we were right about what we said back then, as Fukushima has shown.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I have articles I could direct anyone to. I think that responses like this one are mostly part of people's understandable defense systems to this kind of horror and that there is no real interest in knowing the facts.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/QYTV7eNJTVI?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/QYTV7eNJTVI?version=3&#38;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">More at<\/span> - <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/18\/no-nukes-is-good-nukes-urgent-messages-about-nuclear-threats-and-fukushima-apocalypse-and-what-can-be-done\/\" target=\"_blank\">No Nukes Is Good Nukes: Urgent Messages about Nuclear Threat and Fukushima Apocalypse...and what can be done<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/18\/no-nukes-is-good-nukes-urgent-messages-about-nuclear-threats-and-fukushima-apocalypse-and-what-can-be-done\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/apocalypseknow.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/18\/no-nukes-is-good-nukes-urgent-messages-about-nuclear-threats-and-fukushima-apocalypse-and-what-can-be-done\/<\/a><\/strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/fieryconflagrationcrpdlwqual.gif\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1902\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"fieryconflagrationcrpdlwqual\" src=\"http:\/\/apocalypseknow.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/fieryconflagrationcrpdlwqual.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/description>"}]});
