Monday, June 30, 2008
100 year History of Oil :Robert Newman
check out this essay by William Clark
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/RRiraqWar.html
Brought to you by the Letter C...
Cynical: adj 1 "believing that people always act selfishly"
Citizen: n 1 "a native or naturalised member of a state or nation"
Consumer: n " a person who buys goods or uses services"
Collins Concise Dictionary
Have heard that New Zealands leading leisure time activity is shopping! Im sure it is a world wide disease!
Are you a Consumer or a Citizen first?
Having just looked cynical up, i think now i have been using it incorrectly. For me it means hidden agenda, double standards, vested interests, political classes connected with corporate, untrustworthy ...... so i will be adjusting my usage in the future.
So with this revision in mind...
I have been cynical about some of the history's that are accepted as the only versions of world events.
It has been said that "History is written by the Victor" that will explain why W. Churchill wrote a definitive book on World War 2.
In "The Assault on Reason" by Al Gore, he puts forward that to be in a functioning democracy it is a prerequisite that the citizenry are "well-informed", knowledge of what the blazes is going on and able to make a balanced choice. Sounds straight forward.
Gore looks at how Gutenberg's printing press democratised information, easy to get your story, side, perspective out into the population, allowing the citizenry to be better informed.
It has been since television that we the citizenry have been excluded from the democratic process, These days who can afford a 30 second advert on the flat-screen LCD? Not the citizenry. The political classes and there relationship with corporate media, have reduced our choice in information sources. Vertical, horizontal integrations leave little room for alternative views on world, affairs.
By weblogging i am participating in democracy. That is on a down-low, grass roots, not many folks look at my blog kind of way, so as you read you are going to need to try to hurt yourself on this"cutting edge"
"Alternative Histories" Some folk may call them conspiracies! Out here in the interweb it has been exciting to read such polarity on ideas. Blogging is this re-democratisation, allowing contrasting ideas to dwell side by side.
Whereas here in Dunedin, The new John Pilger documentary (compulsory watching for anyone)
"The War on Democracy" Did not get a showing at the Rialto, nor the Hoyts, just at the independent Academy Cinema. Outside of the "matrix" competing ideas don't have a level playing field. Lets not just look to the corporations and shuck the blame from our own backs, its we the citizenry that are not informed about, or open too different versions that challenge the dominant stories.
Is it because it is easier to just potter along keeping your head down, going to work, looking after the kids, buying your groceries.. ? If you look too hard your world maybe thrown into disarray, making it hard to motivate yourself into getting up in the morning... which is hard enough!
This could be why when you mention a slightly different perspective, folks look at you like you are off the planet.
The modern classic of these alternative interpretations is the World Trade Centre.
Some folks believe the hijacking story,with others believing that it was a "False Flag Operation" (which means the US did it to themselves) with all the variations, and combinations in between.
The power of emotion and passion people respond to this event and explantion is not surprising.
The interweb has it all, nut jobs, geniuses, space filling mediocrity.. Just look around, search for some of the variations on the accepted reality. Remember we are all big kids, you must attempt to make a negotiated reading of these texts, films.( hard as that is ) Everyone has a perspective, Objectivity is Subjectivity with its spelling adjusted.. more of that distrust of the establishment from my youth!
The point is that you need look, expose yourself to something different than what you get from the political class which kneels infront of the dominant corporate interests.
( Haha whoops the personal perspective cat is out of the bag!)
So with all that said
I will be adding some clips that should stir the pot a little bit
for the counter points on these issues
just watch the news
Citizen: n 1 "a native or naturalised member of a state or nation"
Consumer: n " a person who buys goods or uses services"
Collins Concise Dictionary
Have heard that New Zealands leading leisure time activity is shopping! Im sure it is a world wide disease!
Are you a Consumer or a Citizen first?
Having just looked cynical up, i think now i have been using it incorrectly. For me it means hidden agenda, double standards, vested interests, political classes connected with corporate, untrustworthy ...... so i will be adjusting my usage in the future.
So with this revision in mind...
I have been cynical about some of the history's that are accepted as the only versions of world events.
It has been said that "History is written by the Victor" that will explain why W. Churchill wrote a definitive book on World War 2.
In "The Assault on Reason" by Al Gore, he puts forward that to be in a functioning democracy it is a prerequisite that the citizenry are "well-informed", knowledge of what the blazes is going on and able to make a balanced choice. Sounds straight forward.
Gore looks at how Gutenberg's printing press democratised information, easy to get your story, side, perspective out into the population, allowing the citizenry to be better informed.
It has been since television that we the citizenry have been excluded from the democratic process, These days who can afford a 30 second advert on the flat-screen LCD? Not the citizenry. The political classes and there relationship with corporate media, have reduced our choice in information sources. Vertical, horizontal integrations leave little room for alternative views on world, affairs.
By weblogging i am participating in democracy. That is on a down-low, grass roots, not many folks look at my blog kind of way, so as you read you are going to need to try to hurt yourself on this"cutting edge"
"Alternative Histories" Some folk may call them conspiracies! Out here in the interweb it has been exciting to read such polarity on ideas. Blogging is this re-democratisation, allowing contrasting ideas to dwell side by side.
Whereas here in Dunedin, The new John Pilger documentary (compulsory watching for anyone)
"The War on Democracy" Did not get a showing at the Rialto, nor the Hoyts, just at the independent Academy Cinema. Outside of the "matrix" competing ideas don't have a level playing field. Lets not just look to the corporations and shuck the blame from our own backs, its we the citizenry that are not informed about, or open too different versions that challenge the dominant stories.
Is it because it is easier to just potter along keeping your head down, going to work, looking after the kids, buying your groceries.. ? If you look too hard your world maybe thrown into disarray, making it hard to motivate yourself into getting up in the morning... which is hard enough!
This could be why when you mention a slightly different perspective, folks look at you like you are off the planet.
The modern classic of these alternative interpretations is the World Trade Centre.
Some folks believe the hijacking story,with others believing that it was a "False Flag Operation" (which means the US did it to themselves) with all the variations, and combinations in between.
The power of emotion and passion people respond to this event and explantion is not surprising.
The interweb has it all, nut jobs, geniuses, space filling mediocrity.. Just look around, search for some of the variations on the accepted reality. Remember we are all big kids, you must attempt to make a negotiated reading of these texts, films.( hard as that is ) Everyone has a perspective, Objectivity is Subjectivity with its spelling adjusted.. more of that distrust of the establishment from my youth!
The point is that you need look, expose yourself to something different than what you get from the political class which kneels infront of the dominant corporate interests.
( Haha whoops the personal perspective cat is out of the bag!)
So with all that said
I will be adding some clips that should stir the pot a little bit
for the counter points on these issues
just watch the news
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Warming up to Winter
Like Vodka in the frezzer!
Flowed down the Lower Taieri late last week
The cool thing with the ORC website is that the Flow gauge has a temp gauge so you always know what you are geting youself into. so it was a balmy 4 degrees.
All Photos: Pete Eley
Thursday, June 12, 2008
West Coast Life
Howie Wilson has sent in an update on life in Westport"side!"
"The price of petrol and Cheese definetly makes you think twice about jumping in the car and driving 100 km to go for a paddle not to mention the 900km to Fiordland!! OUCH. it was slightly cheaper back then though.
Well there is a bright side to all this, as there has been some more investigations into some local creeks around here and one 5 hour hike has found something of note (Needs Rain though) plus there is two other potentials. One called falls creek about half way to Karamea not far from the Mokihinui which runs out to the sea. I will keep you posted on it with pick of course if we run it.
One is me standing in Morgans Gorge contenplating paddling the last part of it which was just to mentally challenging at that point in the day for me as had been on the river for 5 hours already!
the other is a 6 meterside waterfall on a side-creek on the Totara which you have walk about 150 meters up to see it.
Issac on the Waimangaroa
"The price of petrol and Cheese definetly makes you think twice about jumping in the car and driving 100 km to go for a paddle not to mention the 900km to Fiordland!! OUCH. it was slightly cheaper back then though.
Well there is a bright side to all this, as there has been some more investigations into some local creeks around here and one 5 hour hike has found something of note (Needs Rain though) plus there is two other potentials. One called falls creek about half way to Karamea not far from the Mokihinui which runs out to the sea. I will keep you posted on it with pick of course if we run it.
One is me standing in Morgans Gorge contenplating paddling the last part of it which was just to mentally challenging at that point in the day for me as had been on the river for 5 hours already!
the other is a 6 meterside waterfall on a side-creek on the Totara which you have walk about 150 meters up to see it.
A couple of others there two, me on
Chasim Creek and the Waimangaroa in the Minimystic
Chasim Creek and the Waimangaroa in the Minimystic
Issac on the Waimangaroa
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