Sofia Smallstorm's 2011 talk at Conspiracy Con, which got a standing ovation. Dot-connecting as you may not have seen it before, with over 100 Powerpoint images to take you through this mind-boggling terrain. Let's leave the simple concept of aerosols-for-weather-modification behind for a while as we explore a frontier that is currently booming but may well have a deeply hidden agenda. Robotics, genetics, nanotech and A.I. promise a fantastic future, but will we ever arrive there and if so, what exactly will we be? What is the scope of planetary engineering, and how much of the planet does it include? A must-see!
A boy has a dream that he can float, but unless he holds on, he will drift away into the sky. Even when he is grown up, this idea recurs. After a strange accident, he walks through what may be a dream, flowing in and out of scenarios and encountering various characters. People he meets discuss science, philosophy and the life of dreaming and waking, and the protagonist gradually becomes alarmed that he cannot awake from this confusing dream.
On May 4, l970 members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close. H. R. Haldeman, a top aide to President Richard Nixon, suggests the shootings had a direct impact on national politics. In The Ends of Power, Haldeman (1978) states that the shootings at Kent State began the slide into Watergate, eventually destroying the Nixon administration. Beyond the direct effects of the May 4th, the shootings have certainly come to symbolize the deep political and social divisions that so sharply divided the country during the Vietnam War era.
Get it? Do YOU understand what it is REALly about? Stop dividing yourselves over the smaller "causes", these things are only SYMPTOMS of the greater ILL(ness). This is a HUMANity issue (illness) and only YOU, each and every one of YOU reading this, watching this can resolve (cure/fix) "IT".
To the noble Occupiers of People's Park in Bloomington, IN(and elsewhere Globally) I say this, that now is NOT the time for compliance with the SYSTEM, I assure you that it will has WILL NOT by COMPLIANT to your needs, request, or demands! It does NOT want to be changed, or threatened.
The SYSTEM is YOUR OPPRESSOR!
Do not be fooled by the masks of "familiar faces" in your local Government, Officials, and yes I dare say it, or even your fellow citizens. The corruption and oppression run all throughout the system, even way down to the "small town America" roots. BE WARNED and BE AT READY, for the time will come when the SYSTEM and thus it's local Represententives ( I assure you that they have not been representing us for some time now) and Officials (the cops are on the SYSTEMS payroll and thus do NOT serve and protect us that appose the SYSTEM) will lose tolerance and come down upon you with the mighty fist of OPPRESSION and it will be firm! When that time comes, know that there are those of us out here who have been "OCCUPYING" all along, in the shadows of those places that the SYSTEM has abandoned. We will always MEET OPPRESSION with direct and defiant RESISTANCE! If you choose to stand strong when that time comes, and it will, we of the Anti-Society will come out from the shadows and STAND with you! YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
In the meantime, continue to strengthen in numbers and to "WAKING UP" the sheeple!
Yesterday we the people occupied Indianapolis, In. Watch out B-town we have been here all along!
We will begin the peaceful occupation of the People's Park at 6pm on Sunday October 9th.
Here are the basics!
We have decided not to have a specific goal or message for this event because each person is drawn to this movement for a specific reason and that is part of what makes us powerful. We will have an event board so that if you are interested in working on a specific event or action you can post your interests and see who else wants to take part.
We will use this park as a central hub to plan other events and actions in different areas. If you are a part of Occupy Bloomington we ask that you keep all illegal drugs and alcohol off the premise. It is important that we show that we are serious and we do not want others to have any excuse to question our motives.
If you have a tent or any camping supplies please bring what you have. Every Little Helps. If you are not able to stay at the site, but still want to help or show support we have a variety of things that are JUST AS IMPORTANT as actually camping out. We all have different passions and skills and this will be most successful if everyone is willing to bring something to the movement.
We want this to be a wonderful kickoff so if you have any instruments please bring them along! Also bring poster board, paints, brushes and whatever else you can grab because we are going to have an arts and crafts night as well. if you have any ideas on how to make this a great kickoff, please suggest it!
Bring food to share as well and we can have a sort of impromptu picnic to celebrate the start of our occupation.
We have decided to not to adopt an abrasive position with law enforcement but remember that a conversation just about the weather can quickly turn into something much more heated. Exercise extreme caution when speaking with the Police.
It is important that we show solidarity not only with the protestors on Wall Street but within the Indiana movement and on a personal level with each other. Remember, together we are the 99%, alone we are 1 in 7 billion.
Please look to the links at the top portion of this page to find out more about what is going on with the occupation of B-town! Don't forget to bring your video cameras and to submit any video that you would like to share to us on the contact page! Power to the people!
City of Bloomington officials announced a plan to make the city friendlier to bicyclists and pedestrians by 2016!
Image via Wikipedia2016!? What the hell? Don't these Hoosiers know that the world is going to end next year in 2012? What the hell are improved bike conditions going to do after the apocalypse? Of course I am just joking (or am I?), but still, why will it take so long to improve roads to make them more bike friendly here in B-town? I mean, I am seeing tons of construction and millions of dollars being put into road renovations all over town, much of which I have to navigate through on my bicycle, and even more hoopla being raised about the B-line trail construction every day. So why not funnel some of those resources into improving existing bike lanes and adding more bike lanes NOW rather than years down the road? Why not make the streets and roads just as safe and accessible to those of us who choose not to roll around in steel boxes burning dead dinosaurs and polluting up our environment both locally and globally? I think that every damn street, road, highway and byway in Monroe County, hell on the entire planet, should be made more accessible to those who choose to bicycle or walk more so than those nasty and selfish fossil fuel burning behemoths! But that is just my humble opinion.
On the brighter side, the bike scene is alive and thriving here in B-town. From the Bloomington Bike Project to the Little 500, B-towns bike scene is pedaling strong!
H-T report
January 24, 2011, last update: 1/24 @ 9:32 am
4200 Block of West Vernal Pike, Ellettsville Fire Dept., Blooomington Hospital Ambulance Service, and Monroe Co. Sheriff Dept. responded to the scene. One human fatality found inside the residence. Reader Kyle Landgrebe submitted the photo.
A man’s body was found on the floor of a bedroom of a home on West Vernal Pike Sunday night by Ellettsville firefighters who extinguished a blaze at the one-story frame residence.
Ellettsville fire chief Jim Davis said a fire at 4230 W. Vernal Pike was reported at 8:32 p.m. Sunday, and the first fire units arrived within three minutes to find flames shooting through the bedroom windows.
The fire was knocked down in less than 10-15 minutes, according to Davis, who said the man was found dead on the floor of the bedroom during a search of the home. Identification of the man was being handled by the Monroe County Coroner’s Office, according to Davis.
Davis said the cause of the blaze is still under investigation, but he said the fire appeared to start in the vicinity of the bed in the room where the man was found. The IndianaFire Marshal’s office was notified. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office also had units at the scene, Davis said.
This is Emma G. coming at you straight from the underground with whats up and what's going down here in B-town!
As city business owners step up action against what they consider vandalism, graffiti writers see themselves as members of a long-standing tradition, complete with an oral history, rules, philosophy and social meaning. Graph-writers, as they are also called, blame their bad reputation on those who write on inappropriate places.
“I steer away from local businesses, places of worship, graveyards,” said Bob, a Bloomington graffiti artist who asked not to give his last name.
“What I do with my work is not intended to make people upset,” he said. “There are people that do gun for that, just for the shock and awe value. They are going to go for things that get a reaction for people.”
Graffiti can be found everywhere, but Bob says that serious writers tend to seek abandoned places that are considered in need of a facelift.
“A lot of places that I’ve painted have been torn down just because they are abandoned buildings. They are places where nobody has anything to do with,” explained Bob. “ So painting abandoned buildings and things, is to me, is part symbolism for the graffiti. Turning things that have been abandoned and forgotten—and just are eye sores, just turning them into something that’s beautiful and has meaning and reason behind it.”
Malcolm Mobutu Smith, an IU professor and graffiti scholar, blames a failure by serious artists to train new generations of writers for Bloomington’s vandalism woes.
Smith explained, “When there is a strong novice-mentorship kind of culture in the graffiti sub-culture, that ethic of where to write and where not to write gets translated to new people.”
Smith says the recent defacing of a sculpture on the B-Line Trail should be disassociated from traditional graffiti writers.
“They would look down on anyone that would put pieces on a particularly obvious architectural monument of any kind,” he said. They are looking for walls that by their very nature scream out absence or leftover. They are not the same people that wrote on Dale Enochs’ piece.”
However, Bloomington is also home to an evolution of street art — politically charged stencils. Profiles of Presidents, anti-war memes and anti-capitalism slogans have been spotted before being cleaned up. But not all graffiti is infused with social meaning. Bob, our local artist, says there’s an artistic purity that separates graffiti from other media.
“To be an artist anymore is not even about the painting or the act of painting itself. It’s about who you are and how you can market yourself. The thing I love about graffiti that I love most is the fact that it is so anonymous. My pieces speak for themselves. It ain’t about me. It ain’t about what I look like”, said Bob.
The central appeal, Bob says, is the unrestricted experience of the act itself.
He said, “There’s a freedom to it that’s not like anything else. Nobody can tell you what or what not to do. Anything can become a part of your piece.”
Bob says that although graffiti will always be around, more space could at least manage such a large subculture of artist and decrease unwanted costs.
“There are spaces to do things, but there aren’t enough. In a city that is this artistically focused, you’d think that by now they would understand that,” he said.
"Two visions of the future collided on the doorstep of my Indiana town, Bloomington, this past week. Imagine one as a bicycle rider on a rails-to-trails bikeway, the other a semi-trailer truck hurtling down an interstate. Imagine which one came out the winner."
Nestled into rolling land an hour south of Indianapolis, Bloomington -- home of Indiana University -- has declared itself a Transition Town, on the road to a sustainable future. We have a Peak Oil Task Force, a Commission on Sustainability, an Environmental Commission, and a Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Commission. We have a volunteer-run Center for Sustainable Living with green transportation, garden, building and energy projects. We have three co-op grocery stores, a Local Growers Guild, and a thriving farmers' market in summer and winter. We have bike and pedestrian paths, one of them right through the center of town.
What we do not have is an interstate highway.
The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) would like to give us one -- the Interstate 69 extension that would carry semis hurtling right past our town on their way to Mexico and Canada and points in between. A lot of us don't like that prospect.
I first came across today's "wing-nut" years ago as he stood in the middle of Peoples Park strumming a guitar and croning out his complaints and to be honest, at the time I thought to myself "Well at least he is doing something". The next time that I recall meeting Mr. Rivera was in front of the MCPL where he was trying to get signatures for the legalization of marijuana (another great cause that I support!) and running for some kind of local office. It was during that encounter that I first noticed the tell-tell signs that I was in the presence of a "wing-nut". Still, I of all people support the legalization of marijuana (I'll refrain from going into my usual rant here) and figured once again "hey, at least he is DOING something". Since then my opinion has changed. I am a huge proponent for the equality of all individuals, including "wing-nuts", and frankly some of my most beloved people are "wing-nuts". Gabriel Rivera is not one of them. Not only is Gabriel Rivera a full fledged flaming "wing-nut" that inevitably does more damage for any cause that he even associates himself with, but he is a DANGEROUS "wing-nut" with a history of sexual misconduct, violent behavior, and mental instabilty.
Let me tell you of the encounter that I had with Mr. Rivera that initially caused me enough concern that I decided to do a little research about him.
It was a beautiful sunny day in downtown Bloomington and I was hanging out when I noticed this guy yelling at screaming "NAZI!" at a young lady (who so happens to be a good friend of mine) who had been running the Urban Market. My friend (the young lady) is a petite and gentle spoken person and it was obvious that this guy was cuasing her a great deal of distress. So being the galiant gentleman that I can be at times I decided to intervene and case him off with a few choice words and actions of my own. I never did get a clear story as to what sparked the event, but regardless, I was left with the impression that this guy is one dangerous "wing-nut"! So I decided to do a little digging around and submit this playlist of the antics of Gabriel "I'm fucking up any chances of ending the drug war" Rivera in all his glory and let you decide for yourselves.
If you want to see more of this "wing-nut" you can find him on the web at the following places;
on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/endthedrugwar
his other page at www.myspace.com/gabe121213
he has videos at www.youtube.com/endthedrugwar
Connect with him on www.facebook.com/endthedrugwar
This last video deserves a spot of it's own. It is a music video by Mr. Rivera dedicated to one of his previous "victims".
Keep an eye out for this "wing-nut" on the streets of Bloomington, Indiana and don't say that you have not been forewarned!
A.S.t.v. happened across this week's "wing-nut" when doing research for local news stories when an article turned up about a man who was jailed for hitting a small child who wouldn't take candy from him after he had allegedly told the child that he was Santa Claus. That man turned out to be David R Grubb Mr. Grubb (a.k.a. "The Indiana Outlaw") is a longtime Monroe County resident, former fireman and eccentric political activist. Most of all he is a 100% certified "wing-nut"!
With out any further delay let's watch as this "true Americanpatriot" informs the Monroe County Commissioners of his ever strengthening concerns for the kids, environment and the shady politics within B-town. Shot by Community Access Television Services and bravely brought to by Anti-Society t.v. on this week's "Wing-nutz Watch".
David Grubb wasn't always this way, but gradually got worse as the years rolled on. Obviously, he has mental problems. He seemed to be better when he stayed on his medications. He would often stop taking his medications however, and that's when he'd "go off" and act like you see him here and often much worse.
In 2005 his Anti-Social behavior landed him in jail for slapping a kid. He was convicted of felony battery of a child for hitting a 5-year-old boy in the head in September 2005 in the 900 block of North Summit Street. The boy and a friend had refused to accept candy from Grubb.
The story was in the June 8, 2006 edition of Bloomington's 'Herald-Times'. I can't link to it, because you have to be a subscriber, so I will just share some excerpts in a manner I hope is consistent with 'fair use'.
"David Grubb, who got 212 votes in the 1998 GOP primary and who is a fixture of public comment periods at local government meetings, is charged with felony battery of a 5-year-old boy by hitting him on Sept. 23, 2005, after he and another boy refused to take candy from Grubb."
also...
"The afternoon's testimony was anticlimactic, with a 7-year-old boy, two 14-year-old girls from across the street and two mothers who got involved testifying about the incident. The 5-year-old victim, now 6, was deemed too young to testify.
The boys said Grubb offered them candy. When they refused, he said it was OK because he was Santa Claus, but they still refused. According to testimony, Grubb then took a swing at the 7-year-old. The boy ducked, and Grubb then hit the 5-year-old in the forehead, causing a bruise over his left eye.
The two girls across the street plus adult witness Michelle Ricardez said they saw Grubb swing at the boys. Ricardez, the girls and the 7-year-old boy all said they never heard anyone tease Grubb before or during the incident.
Baggerly said that Grubb never hit the boys but that they had been taunting him, and that the witnesses got together later to "close ranks" in their accounts. "
For his part, Grubb evoked Roger Miller and borrowed a favorite tactic of his idol 'Pres Bush' in his comments:
"The nation is at war and everything is in chaos," he told Harris outside the jury's presence. "I'm not sitting in front of a bunch of women. They're going to hang me, dang me ... I can be innocent and they will find me guilty."
The article elaborates:
David Grubb hadn't even been convicted Thursday of felony battery of a 5-year-old child when his own remarks started police on paperwork for a second felony charge.
Grubb, in jail after being convicted of the battery, may face an intimidation charge for saying in court of prosecutor Lynda Robison, "I'd like to cut her throat."
and...
Grubb rambled at length about his life, jobs, feuds with public officials and problems with the law over the decades. Grubb is 67.
"I get run out of this county a lot because I see wrong, and I raise hell," he said. "I'm a little scattered, radical because I've had to fight for my life all my life."
One after another, he made allegations against people in the community, alive and dead, by name. He blamed many of his life's woes on "Democrats, idiots and queers."
"I love kids. I don't hit kids," he said. Except for one case, he began recounting, to Baggerly's dismay.
It was in 1962, and two boys were throwing hay out of his barn loft. Their dad was drunk at home, so he cut a maple branch, called them out and switched them. He said it got him hauled into court for battery, and "it cost me money," so he didn't hit kids after that.
As for whether he struck the 5-year-old boy on the forehead on Sept. 23, 2005, after the boy and a 6-year-old had refused to accept candy from him, even when he told them he was Santa Claus, he denied hitting the boy.
"I'm Santa Claus, damn it!" he said.
"Take me out behind a building and shoot me," Baggerly moaned during the jury break that followed.
Grubb was sentenced to three years in prison. Two years were suspended, meaning he was to serve one year. Grubb also was ordered to stay on his medication and not approach any children while on probation.
"Yes, he is an institution... or should be in one. Nonetheless, most people that know him say he's harmless. You gotta admit, public meetings were always juiced up when he was there!"
"I remember a photo several years back of Grubb riding a mule down Kirkwood Avenue with a Big Gulp in one hand and a cigarette in his mouth."
Great Grubb quote- "You gotta have kids before you can have adults."
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