to live our daily lives tied to a system controlled by those who manipulate us for their own purposes; and it is inevitable that THEY want to maintain the status quo.
As I said in my Chicken or the Egg zBlog - ONE UNITED STATES of EARTH, as a result of leading by the example of building a less fragile ... NEW ORDER ENVIRONMENT of the people, by the people for the people ... through the collective independence of MIND, SPIRIT and ACTION
The only real hope is surely based on the fact that the collective mindset of the ever increasing minority of those individuals that have already realised that the present system IS absolutely no longer fit for purpose in the context of ALL that is happening with science, religion, politics and nature - IS in its own way formulating an holistic solution comprised of a multitude of disparate sub-solutions.
BTW how is your community building initiative doing? I was thinking just the other day that the latest scientific proof of the Mother Tree concept would be a good place to start "re-connecting with nature" in the context of establishing an holistic solution of authentically integrated scientific, spiritual and new order political perspectives - and truly actioning a THINK GLOBAL ACT LOCAL community building project.…
to mass production by modern technical processes. Limiting himself to flat lines, simple geometric shapes, and unmodulated color, Vasarely viewed himself as a "creator" of designs which could be inexpensively produced in the same, enlarged, or reduced scales.
This was reflected in his method of conception. Working on graph paper, Vasarely made notations of letters (for the shape to appear in a given graphed square) and numbers (one through 16 to indicate the shade or value of a particular hue or color). By using simple geometric shapes and hues that were modified by his established scale of shades, he or others could produce copies of a design. In this way he produced art which he believed could benefit all of society by being available and affordable.
This claim for significance beyond personal aggrandizement found justification in the 1960s as Vasarely influenced groups of younger artists and his designs were widely reproduced in posters, fabrics and other images in mass circulation. While Op Art (Optical Art) had its zenith in the 1960s, Vasarely was recognized as its pioneer and greatest master. He continued to work in the Op Art style with an undiminished reputation into the 1980s and was widely honored. He established the Center for Architectonic Research and the Vasarely Foundation in Aix-en-Provence. In 1976 the Vasarely Museum was opened in the house in which the artist was born in Pécs, Hungary. To permanently house his works, the Vasarely Center was opened in New York City in 1978 and the Centre Vasarely opened in Oslo, Norway, in 1982. Vasarely's work in film and architectural design as well as his more famous art and graphic design earned him a prominent place in the history of modern art.…
has said in his article for The Telegraph-
"A good society seeks and achieves a balance between individual and social action. The excesses of the money markets show the dangers of rampant individualism and of the belief that greed is good; the somnolence of an unenterprising culture is the consequence of relying too heavily on the state and the public sector, and lands people and communities in the dependency trap. Ruth Davidson exaggerates, but she is right to draw attention to the absence of vigour and self-belief in much of Scotland, where the balance between individual and social action has been tilted away from the former."
AS Europe and Britain are sinking under the weight of welfare costs - and "Recent projections aired by Fabio Pammolli, professor of economics at the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, show quite shocking levels of exposure." - Jeremy Warner goes on to say "If there wasn’t already enough to worry about in Europe’s fiscal meltdown, these forecasts point to destruction of the very foundations of the European social market economy. Taking into account the expected decrease in fertility and mortality rates, the burden on active workers of healthcare and pensions spending is expected to grow over the next 20 years to 63.5pc of GDP per capita in Italy, 61.6pc in France, and 53.3pc in Germany.
Favourable demographics mean that by comparison, the projected UK burden is relatively small at just 38.7pc. Yet it is still quite high enough.
As is only too apparent, much of Europe is incapable of supporting its present pensions and healthcare promise. Herb Stein, one time economic adviser to President Nixon, famously remarked that if something cannot go on for ever, it will stop.
In Europe, stopping is going to make the present outbreak of economic, social and political instability over deficit reduction look like a stroll in the park. We are only in the very early stages of Europe’s wider fiscal crisis. There is still much worse to come, regardless of whether the euro survives or not."…
ped a special interest in treating adolescents and adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD) and have never read a clearer or more helpful explanation of how differently the ADD person thinks and processes information from the rest of us (the "Earth People", one of my patients calls the non-ADD persons, since he spent all his undiagnosed life feeling as if he were from another planet). So I chose to read ADD wherever West writes "dyslexia". Be that as it may, and whatever the terminology, it is enormously supportive and helpful to my ADD patients when I explain their observations of their differences in West's terms. There is a poster in my waiting room showing a picture of Einstein, with a reference to how poorly he did in elementary school and the caption: "They said he was a nice enough kid, but no rocket scientist..." West discusses Einstein, and Faraday, and Maxwell, and how they thought differently; what a useful way to understand that not all differences from the norm are inferiorities. For the kid or adult who wonders if she is stupid but is certain she doesn't learn the same way as most of those around her; for the parent who is searching for some way to validate an unhappy child; for the teacher who is struggling to understand the pupil who seems to have brilliant flashes interspersed with an almost stuporous inattention and a talent for intrusion and non sequitors; for the mental health worker who is searching for a model with which to understand these most enigmatic clients; for the skills coach who KNOWS these kids and adults are NOT "lazy, stupid, or crazy", and needs some way of showing this to them... for all these sojourners with the ADD person, this book is enormously helpful and stimulating. I use material from it every day, gratefully.
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across America are reclaiming the ability to feed themselves. It's inspiring as well as informative. If you eat, you really should read it."
Richard Heinberg - The End of Growth and Peak Everything
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sophisticated peace room would be a place on the Internet as well as in towns, cities, and nations, where the best practices and organizations for around the world that are involved in developing a new paradigm for peace converge. The peace room would scan for projects and experiments that are working to create a better world, map out these places, and communicate and network with people and organizations who are working on the cutting edge of evolution in building a peaceful model of 21 st Century life.
The "Peace Room" has been expanded by Hubbard and Congressman Dennis Kucinich to become the "Department of Peace," a cabinet-level department in the executive branch of the Federal Government which would be responsible for studying and developing conditions that are conductive to both domestic and international peace.
My feeling is that the Department of Peace should make human beings' relationship to nature as a top priority. To take a serious look at the way we have exploited nature and to understand what the consequences are from this abuse, one feels the urgency in our need to shift development from a car-centered urban sprawl culture to a car-free compact urban culture. To do so, means to build arcology.
Arcology is a metaphor for peace, in all its forms.
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hich is not at all surprising, given the brain's need to accommodate the requirements of such different modes of operation. It is apparent that both strategies are needed in the long run. For some time now, human culture has been almost entirely dominated by tools and technologies that support the sequential brain strategy-linked with words. However, quite suddenly, in historical terms, a new set of tools has been dumped into our laps. We should expect that moving from one strategy to the other will have powerful consequences.
"Thinking like Einstein" - Thomas G. West
Advantages accompanying dyslexic processing style:
Reflection of a different pattern of brain organisation and information processing that creates strengths as well as challenges.
Strengths and challenges are inextricably connected: dyslexic challenges are best understood as trade-offs made in pursuit of other, larger cognitive gains.
Often strengths in big picture, holistic, or top-down processing, though may struggle with fine detail processing.
Many show strengths in Material reasoning or the ability to mentally create and manipulate an interconnected series of three-dimensional spatial perspectives.
Many show strengths in Interconnected reasoning, or the ability to perceive more distance or unusual connections, to reason using interdisciplinary approaches, or to detect context and gist.
Many excel in Narrative reasoning, or the ability to perceive information as mental “scenes” that they construct from fragments of past personal experience (episodic memory).
Many shows strengths in Dynamic reasoning, or the ability to accurately reconstruct past events that they didn't witness or to predict future states, often using insights based reasoning and “episodic simulation”, particularly in conditions that are changing, ambiguous, or incompletely known, and where “qualitative” practical solutions are required.
Acronym used for four areas of strength: MIND.
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late and preview plausible outcomes of inventions or various courses of action.
It is especially valuable in situations where all the relevant variables are incompletely known, changing or ambiguous.
Its particular power lies in the fact that it is based on matching patterns that are similar in form to the original observations, rather than on abstract generalisations.
Often employs insight-based processing, which is powerful but often slow, can appear passive, and may result in difficulty explaining intervening steps.
Individuals with dyslexia who possess prominent D-Strengths often thrive in precisely the kinds of rapidly changing and ambiguous settings that others find the most difficult and confusing.
Occupations and fields
Entrepreneur, Chief Executive, finance, small business owner, business consultants, logistics, accounting, economics, medicine, farmer.
What to include and leave out of writing
I, N, or D-strengths may include excessive or irrelevant details because they often see so many connections and levels of meaning between ideas. For students who have difficulty narrowing down their ideas, it often helps to decide in advance what the focus of their writing will be. One useful strategy for limiting focus is to use the " 5 W/H " approach, where the student decides which of the potential questions (i.e., who, what, when, where, why or how) to answer and which to ignore.
People with strong verbal imagery and or particular weaknesses in word retrieval or verbal output often include too few details. This can be either because they “see” so much detail in their heads that they forget how little they have communicated to the audience or because it takes so much effort for them to put their thoughts into words that they experience working memory overload before they can get everything down on paper. Students with problems of this kind often benefit from reading their work aloud or being asked to form a mental picture of their subject using only the words on the page.
Information taken from: Eide, B & Eide, F. (2011) The Dyslexic Advantage. London: Hay House UK Ltd.
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have-a-go-hippie's eye-twinkling, verbal
contortions, semi-digested Wikipedia soundbites and sixth-form precocity, is:"we should be nicer to each other."
Can't argue with that, but how do we get to the promised land, oh guru? Suddenly all the
pseudo-intellectualism evaporates and we get: "Not my job to figure that out mate, I'm just
an ordinary bloke. Nice beard, btw." And perhaps some stuff about "vibes" and "evolving
consciousness", If he feels the mood is right for a bit of wafty mysticism.
My conclusion is that RB is really nothing much more than a hyperactive, above average pub bore.
One of those that everyone refers to behind their back, with some rolling of eyes, as "a character".
They usually have a certain charismatic draw and sometimes a bit of a way with the ladies too
(if that's the audience most of their act is aimed at).
Brunel commented ...Russell Brand is a narcissistic 'piss-taker'. He gets invited onto talk shows and is given
the chance to broadcast so called political views to millions of people. He is having a laugh
at everyone's expense. If you believe him you are a fool, if you take him seriously or get angry
with him you are also a fool. Either way, he wins.
Advice to all talk show hosts - don't work with animals, children or Russell Brand.
and Peteko concluded ...We are so dumbed down that we think people like Brand are intellectual
and worthy of serious consideration. GET REAL.
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chalk,
has been exposed to humidity
over the centuries and has
yellowed, but thanks to
breakthrough technology there
is new hope for halting its
degradation.
Scientists have developed a new approach to
identify the culprit of the yellowing without
interfering with the original drawing and the
knowledge gleaned could be used to preserve
and save the precious self- portrait.
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