That’s what is happening to Agro-giant, Syngenta, who halted its commercial sales of a new GMO corn strain due to lack of approval for their genetically modified goods.
The company has already been accused of wire tapping a prominent scientist who let the world know just how bad one of their widely-used chemicals, atrazine, was for the endocrine system. Apparently even stalking an honest researcher isn’t enough to prevent a black-listing of their own genetically modified corn containing the Agrisure Duracade trait, which supposedly protects crops from rootworms. This corn was to be ready for planting the first time this year, but now without overseas importer’s OK – including Japan, Mexico and South Korea - Syngenta is left holding their proprietary seeds themselves. Syngenta’s corn has also not been approved for two larger markets it was hoping to woo, China or the European Union. “While the vast majority of the Canadian corn crop is typically directed to domestic markets in North America. . . we want to ensure the acceptance of any trait technology grown in Canada meets end-market destination requirements,” says Syngenta in a statement. “The commercialization of Duracade could ‘further contaminate, slow down, gum up’ shipments of U.S. corn to China”, Rich Feltes, vice president of research for commodity brokerage R.J. O’Brien, said in a recent interview. Corn containing the Duracade trait meant for Canada will be returned to sender, and exporters as well as farmers are relieved since they feared an unapproved trait could disrupt Canada’s grain supply trade. One of Canada’s biggest grain company Vice Presidents, Peter Entz, at Richardson International Ltd is elated to hear that Syngenta won’t sell Duracade corn in his country. He ships large volumes of corn to other countries, including the EU, where many GMO bans are being implemented, and Duracade corn is currently not authorized. U.S. farmers are still at risk, however, since China or Europe could refuse shipments of corn that have traces of the Duracade corn, especially since different varieties of corn are harvested, transported, and stored together. Sadly, farmers in Canada who were desirous of planting Syngenta’s new corn will instead plant other Sygenta seeds instead of opting for non-GMO alternatives. You would think that this one trade issue would speak to the farmers’ bottom line and encourage them to abandon GMO farming, but instead they just look to other genetically modified suicide seed. Chinese authorities have already rejected more than 887,000 tonnes of U.S. corn and corn products containing another unauthorized genetically modified Syngenta corn trait, Agrisure Viptera – MIR 162, which is still unapproved in the country. By Christina Sarich | Natural Society |
what can we do now #1
My main message for the first issue:
I do not want to live in a human organizational unit where anybody is expendable, disposable or otherwise compostable. It feels as if we are leaving many people behind as write-offs or lost causes, relegating them to the outskirts of incredulity.
Community boils down to a set of expectations for conduct among the assembled mass. Seemingly the only things we ask ourselves to muster whilst out in public is not to collide with other patrons and keep social commentary internally contained.
This generation is accused of apathy, but I believe it is more a process of exclusion of a practical role to play in the mechanism of maintenance for a mingled membership. We can not wait for a gatekeeper to extend an opportunity to be included in the cogwork, it is imperative to forge and refine how we will relate to other people. And let them know where your capabilities stand and the benefits you can impart.
There are choices of how you are going to be and what you allot time for, and these limitless options shape your perceived persona. We are so much more connected then we are led to believe , and it is okay to concede our interdependency. There should be no shame in strengthening community networks to spread advantage equilaterally. There us never a valid reason to exclude a person from what you are willing to offer.
As mush as I evoke images of unity, I find the notion of world federalism objectionable because with a supreme structure you will always have the compulsory core and the miscellaneous at odds for what is to be considered fair and just. That is why we must bolster local governance so it will be the first line of defense with tumultuous times. This decentralization will shorten the distance to consolidated power, making decision making more accessible to concerned citizens.
Can’t get the province to ban or even label genetically modified organisms?
Start a neighborhood garden that does follow your standards.
Find the type of diplomacy used for Syria lackluster?
Get involved with a refugee services centre.
Fed up with an outdated or repressive law?
Let news stations know you want polling issue instead of personality based and show authority that to win votes they will have to address particular outstanding points of traction.
In the spirit of inclusion I invite all readers to send feedback and requests from what you want to see on these columns, in hopes of making What Can We Do Now as interactive and community driven as possible.
Brought to you by Es
#2
This segment is about exchange of services and pro bono workmanship. Although doing deeds for no monetary gain may feel disadvantageous, what do we really get out of serving another’s private interest just to attain the funds to meet our most basic needs? The paid positions are in destruction of Earth or maintaining some semblance of governance impromptu.
The things we need to do in order to survive as a species will have to be done on a no fee basis if they are going to be accomplished, such as restorative justice, revitalization of natural ecosystems, and development of living standards in countries peripheral to the surge of capital. All these glitches in the matrix will go unattended to if we continue to expect compensation for merely doing what is necessary for prolonged existence.
We can not take it for granted there will always be a credit/debt buffer to precariously hoist our cravings and yearnings. If we build networks based on the paradigm shifts we wish to bring about, they will have to have endurance enough to commence even after a market crash that does not bounce back. Therefore, quid pro quo schemes materialize changes without diminishing the exchange to profiteering. Each party gets the appliance fixed or craftsmanship rendered, and nobody is worse for wear.
Why would we ask for some reward for simply preserving the essentials of life, is it not an end worth striving for in its own right? Every person has something to offer, it is a matter of matching up the supply with demand. We need to start relying on real skills which can be utilized to get what we want.
Most jobs do not recognize the unique arsenal you bring to the table, seeing you only as generic labour who could one day be replaced by well trained orangutans. There is a choice to either earn wages from one corporation, which when converted into groceries becomes profit for another corporation, or we can expend that time and effort on becoming fully self-sufficient, through livelihoods which bring in the contacts who we trade services with.
Take it serious, do it for free.
over and out , Es
Peace Poem
Finding that calling which will fill the emptiness.
Would you recognize truth if it was revealed to you?
The interlocked fingers of a position of authority, he begins to lecture like a specter hanging over me. What was uttered adds to clutter in my flabbergasted mind. The design is defined to convince you to resign.
From the search for a salvation that is contingent upon information, integrated and inflated to redeem the dearly belated orchestrated, to be devastated and incapacitated.
Conduct of self is the only thing controlled, lest they extol the vitriol to surpass the rigmarole.
Any fool can preach, and any child will teach.
Any mind can grasp for something slightly out of reach.
Not everyone is taught to read so those who do I beseech.
We all know that it is risky when the goalie leaves the crease.
But venturing beyond boundaries is the only path to peace.
Because with that extra player gained from letting down our guard
More merrier will we be to extend a kind regard.
Leading to a truce, a compromise, a tie.
Anyone can tell you that conflict is a lie.
What Can We Do Now # 3
I had a plan. Unveil the anatomy of a retail sale and discover where our tax revenue is disbursed through the various sectors. But governmental budget reports, instead of being filled with the list of expenditures the name would suggest, were sparsely riddled with propagandist bar graphs extolling the timeline for a balanced budget with no indication of how to accomplish starting at zero for that year.
As a retired young adult, I am required to declare extraneous income in a monthly report, and I feel the nation should extend us the same courtesy.
The basis of trust: reciprocally shared standards. We are being monitored and scrutinized for our financial decisions, gerrymandered into political obscurity. We must do more than politely ask to be included in these important processes of establishing accountability measures in the circles of power. It can not be a larger infrastructure for oversight because then who oversees the oversee-ers? Its like a reverse domino effect. Then the people who try to covertly unleash information get crucified like Snowden.
It’s a real pickle…
Then it occurred to me: These lollygags need babysitters!
So it is that I am proposing a satirical prank, where anyone who wants writes a fake application for a Public Figure Job Shadow program that does not yet exist. If there was someone else in the room during private closed door meetings, they could ensure no laws are being violated and no professional courtesies exchanged for services. It is about time we get citizen monitoring the activities of officials directly, so here are some examples of bogus credentials you might include in your curriculum vitae.
Graduate Certificate in Exposing the Truth
Corruption Diffusion Licence
Training in Democracy Resuscitation Level 2
Subpoena “Serving it Right”
Journeyman's Ticket in Filling Loopholes
So find the mailing address of your local Member of Parliament or Legislative Assembly and tell them you are interested in following them indefinitely and keeping track of their foibles and missteps. We can influence conduct through fear of exposure from a civilian audit. Don't be shy, don't let it fly.
Es, over and out.
What Can we Do Now? # 4
Naysayers stick to their guns, even when they backfire.
Silence should not but invariably will be registered as consent.
Eviscerated aside, we have been perforated from our very lives by those who think it is funny to see what they can get away with.
Curiosity kills, though boredom rots. Get warm quick from the things I could have said and refrained, that might have entertained for brief strand of trying to break a pattern. The lengths gone to in order to rationalize bad ideas are grueling and besides, in any logical sequence the conclusions rest upon the soundness of the initial premises. Knock out that first calculated guess and the whole argument loses its validity.
I believe its time to double check the assertions we take for granted as to personal capabilities and the extent to which we can propel what left of humanity there is to salvage. In the face of immense challenge is when our potential is tested and calibrated. Our growth is not being individually neglected as much as kept a secret from focused reflections. Give yourself more acknowledgment of the moves you have made! Pride that you have worked to attain is not an ugly emotion if it is tapered proportionately to what you deserve to reward yourself with.
Congratulations on being more aware than others were before! What can be done is using the new levels of understanding to arrange our affairs according to the laws of equilibrium so we can balance the scales once again. Instead of restoring the previously held standard, renovation of cycles and systems will lead to enhanced wellness.
Great expectations, yes. Would you rather play dead as what you hold dear is disintegrated before you? Is it strange that to fight fire you use water, which is comprised of two of the most flammable gases we have? Equal requirements of yin and yang to fight the regal obfuscations, terminally determined for a version of the insurmountable heraldry. The blossom of freedom takes time to ripen, and we are the only guardians of the voyage, blazing a trail that we are the first to walk, where we go entirely contingent upon the exercise of volition.
Wishing you Wonders, Es.
What Can We do NOW? #5
Imagine biting into a grapefruit for the first time without removing the peel. Your body would reject it and you might discard the fruit upon initial impression. Alas, you would have disregarded the layers underneath the surface that could unleash the sweetness behind the bitter.
Obstacles are the same way in that they must be sorted. Sometimes the roadblocks spontaneously combust, but the blockage is still in our minds so we do not proceed out of caution for a hindrance that has already passed. Safely activating these causeways is the best cutting off of being an accomplice to accommodating atrophy. Spending time instead of money will kick the can down the road. What will it take to see what’s at stake!
Communication is what makes us human. The ability to make lasting connections founded on reciprocal altruism has always come from culture which we choose to carry and continue even in a state of flux. It both propels us and is propelled by the integration of lessons that bring the student closer to reigning over themselves as an instrument of yesteryear’s echo.
Thinking about, “what will be my legacy”. Will I have left no trace like a good but not a happy camper? A meteoric wreckage when you are faced with the choice between a very lemony drink and a hard pill to swallow? Instead of bouncing back and forth between yin and yang, good or wrong, I am starting to stay in the gray, a type of middle ground, a complete neutrality occupied solely in my abode. What is there to find I will update as it occurs, the future gets brighter as it draws nearer.
So engage in social alchemy, mix it up with new faces because I think you will notice that as unique as each one of us is, we are seeing the same picture and feel comparable reactions to the universal scenario we are smack dab in the midst of.
Sharing similar outlooks and goals is empowering for the people who want to materialize their ideals and make the world as good of a place as the reaches of visualization permit. Being part of a network has a multiplying effect on one’s capacity for agency. With all that we struggle towards, we got this because we are united in real relations that softens our blows against and invigorates the flashes of brilliance which propel humanity into previously unforeseen renaissances of spirit connecting with matters at hand.
Catch you on the flip side, Es.
The Grape and the Grain
I was told never to mix the grape and the grain for the sake of posterity. The wine is the elitist element and beer is the proletariat. When the sophistication meets with the pedestrian, it can create a class war inside your stomach.
Bubbling and festering, a grace period of cleansing should be undertaken before allowing the opposing factions to cross paths.
Cataclysm averted.
But sometimes a collision of the polarized is an inevitability which can not be postponed. We must not settle for unnoticed injustice. The perplexities of collaborated cahoots are causing this world to veer off its untroubled course.
We can, however, regain stability.
Resensitized to the symphonic bird’s song I hear every morning, yet usually block out. The polyrhythmic nuance is in a constant state of shifting, responsible for soothing and uplifting a weary vagabond who needed a good tune.
Disintegrated and released, though it will never cease, melting and spreading further than the fog which prevents you from planning around the labyrinth ahead. This type of darkness allows us to focus on what is within, and it is surprising while affirming of a faith in self. Belief in what we can accomplish will enable us to make our dreams come true.
We can blend our talents in a unstoppable team, transforming hardship into glory.
Again melting on toward the universe, I know I will need to retrieve the scattered portions. The residue from other lost souls merges with my hollowed frame.
I knew I shouldn’t have mixed the grape and grain.
Whenever its too late
You can’t choose to migrate
To a time before you made that decision.
What’s done is done
And it can’t be unsung
Despite intentions of precision.
You spelled out own demise
As you try to revise
The unfortunate array of this sequence.
Attempt to counteract
But its after the fact
A quicksand ejection that deepens.
And if you go with the current
You’ll probably flourish
Though you’ll never make it back to the source.
So go up the stream
Like it’s what you mean
And from me you will be endorsed.
What Can we do Now? One more Snippet
The smoldering undulation of a clenched maw’s yearning
It’s off with the loot with no option of returning.
Cause the crow that’s the first to capture the crumb
Gets besieged on all sides as it tries to run.
Caution before you decide to snatch
Never a chance to throw down the hatch.
Taking the first opening to exert power over another person, since it has been done to you previously. The restless tyrant in us all that exacts revenge for not getting our way.
Skirting a responsibility to obtain a vacant luxury.
Paving the way for upgrading when we already have a sufficient model.
Clutching to whims so fanciful that they must be cast out. A method to reorganize intent and make moves which will propel lasting change and repel vain excuses.
It has to happen or it is over.
Your time is for what choosing there is to be had. Taking constantly is a surefire path to deprivation at a later stage. We are better than crooked crows and Larry birds!
Right back to the fallacy of want, an assumption of obligation for reality to contort to one’s will. So much ample opportunity is waiting to be self-actualized.
Must we be tethered to a hologram of life that has the flattering appeal of imitation, or can the shape of my character be forged in the liquefying flames of the netherscape within unfettered desire.
Conflict Resolution through Interpersonal Reorientation
When you are out in the town, does the essence of each passerby become apparent?
Do their minds appear to have an appetite for instruction?
Keep trying, although sometimes a break consolidates thinking patterns and allows charged emotions to simmer on a lower heat. Are the remarks and rebuttals coming forth conclusive driven or escalatory?
The options are twofold: Either revert to the arrangement previously inhabited or consider revising the code of conduct. Defending your point of view does not make it more plausible to the person who begs to differ. Winning is not the objective, it is more a matter of damage control. There is a way to be firm yet compassionate. Do not commit wrongdoings then deny them, that is what Babylon compels you is acceptable behaving.
Out of concern, do not scold. Remember that this person is a partner, not a prey. The better we know them, the more surgical precision we can direct an insult which strikes the core of the self-image ego identity and causes the guard to be put up. To realize that others see you differently than you imagine creates cognitive dissonance.
Why would I thrust it on someone else?
Compliments are the most helpful mediators.
An urgency of resolve should not be an excuse for a hasty pursuit of sought after aims. Conceding is not a failure of argumentative tact, but it respectably a mechanism to put the boxing gloves on the shelf.
Extend a gratitude for wheat you do agree with.
Reconsider what you oppose because it may be a doorway to a greater reason.
Anything is better than an intense barrage. How did it come to be this way?
Which is preferable? In the fire pit or out then typhoon?
Is bastardry and bichery a cough which must be expelled to clear the debris? What entices us to exert energy on hurtful non-communication? Spite and malice from situational regret. Ethical practice minimizes the occurrence of turbulence.
Follow not the example of the branches of government who refrain to confer outside the bounds of official haberdashery. The righteous spirit can alleviate the most tense of clashes, and it is like any other skill. It must be repeated to be mastered.
Coming at ya with much love, Es.
#10
Maintain momentum since it will be harder to start over once you give up. After you sustain the big push, coasting ensues. This lull in activity is a feasible chance to incorporate more unknown elements in craftspersonship.
A creator is always adapting and adjusting, so if the movement is present then it doesn’t really matter which direction is pursued. Keep trying or begin something different than before. A project commenced is just a dream without follow-through.
Our goals may require multiple lifespans of enduring strife, but surrender is a guaranteed link to failure. The strength to be true comes from prolonged perseverance. Unless you can be persuaded to cease and desist, nothing prevents an indelible manifestation from appearing in your journey. Self-imposed limitations are within our power to lift. Everyone works hard to do the things they want to, and we want to see that our efforts are going somewhere.
Sometimes the effects of our actions are not discernable to us immediately or in proximity to the current we traverse. That is why faith in the return of the good deeds of which you care to bestow is the pinnacle by which integrity is measured. What I mean includes the notion that to be an integral and integrated member of a given community naturally routineizes good faith in the genuineness of others and the perpetuation of the shared world.
Reciprocated altruism denotes a sense of honouring co-creations that are our towns and metropoli. If men beg, do you strike them down?
If they steal, they will be housed and fed.
If they pray, they will be asked to follow power.
If they peddle, they will be paid in counterfeit.
Should they wisen, listeners vanish.
Should they grow bold, they will be called an evil-doer.
I don’t cast stones, I cast spells over cerebrals.
Chewing on chanterelles, living swell in every detail
My words are for resale, and retail
Never know what might pop up on your e-mail.
Got a soft spot for females, feeling on a G like they reading brail.
Until I’m frail gonna search for the holy grail
The liquid that’s contained is truth, the kind that doesn’t need proof to be put to use.
The people around you are either contributors or detractors for the causes sought done. Everyone enables you to do something, but is their assistance with its sincere intentions bringing the right outcomes? No circumstances should force a relation, there should always be a choice that is not by default. Comfort is an enticing lie in disguise since to remain fresh is the guile you need to have a long shelf life. Sinking into any domesticated habituation devalues one’s efficacy in the externalization of soul wrenching epiphanies which must be offered kindling to immolate these bonding yet empty promises that stretch the budget thin and wear away the protective layer of patience for not being on point with your affairs in order.
With due diligence , Es
What can we do Now?
I’ve learned how to take an intermission from the masquerade of self-importance, the creatures of habit who thrive on mutually assured destruction, and put simply, have fun in the shadow of the oncoming tidal wave.
If I can tame the swell, it could be the ride of my life!
Running won’t stop this from marching across everything we have built our lives around. Will you stress over something with no direct way of controlling or react playfully as the only means of holding on to free will.
Guilt is a chosen emotion. Knowing you could have done better is the first step in triumphing the next time. No one else is responsible for your actions. One can, however, hold some to a highest caliber of standards, checking in when they are out of line. To feel disappointed in is a great motivator for personal growth. Moreover, we often do not vocalize our outrage since it has been inserted in our hardware that the public opinion is of no consequence. The town square is a forum where the ideological ethos of the era is democratized in real time; commentary is the only true trickle down effect.
As sure as smoke will swirl, the coast will again be cleared. What is meant to be will be spared. The wreckage will periodically emit survivors, who will gather and govern themselves.
Every last person is going to be an architect of the future’s arrangement. Systems fail under extraordinarily colossal changes, while organizations continue following the current to wherever it may take the group. The scale of operations determines its durability.
Withstanding the surge by only making keepable promises.
I solemnly pledge:
-my bi-weekly contribution to Littlebone ongoing indefinitely
- to stoke the embers of the fire
-to bring as many people along for the ride that can be permitted by allowances
-the scenic route towards revolving reflection of the perilous crusade for conducive connectivity
arrivederci, the Lost Count : Es
I do not want to live in a human organizational unit where anybody is expendable, disposable or otherwise compostable. It feels as if we are leaving many people behind as write-offs or lost causes, relegating them to the outskirts of incredulity.
Community boils down to a set of expectations for conduct among the assembled mass. Seemingly the only things we ask ourselves to muster whilst out in public is not to collide with other patrons and keep social commentary internally contained.
This generation is accused of apathy, but I believe it is more a process of exclusion of a practical role to play in the mechanism of maintenance for a mingled membership. We can not wait for a gatekeeper to extend an opportunity to be included in the cogwork, it is imperative to forge and refine how we will relate to other people. And let them know where your capabilities stand and the benefits you can impart.
There are choices of how you are going to be and what you allot time for, and these limitless options shape your perceived persona. We are so much more connected then we are led to believe , and it is okay to concede our interdependency. There should be no shame in strengthening community networks to spread advantage equilaterally. There us never a valid reason to exclude a person from what you are willing to offer.
As mush as I evoke images of unity, I find the notion of world federalism objectionable because with a supreme structure you will always have the compulsory core and the miscellaneous at odds for what is to be considered fair and just. That is why we must bolster local governance so it will be the first line of defense with tumultuous times. This decentralization will shorten the distance to consolidated power, making decision making more accessible to concerned citizens.
Can’t get the province to ban or even label genetically modified organisms?
Start a neighborhood garden that does follow your standards.
Find the type of diplomacy used for Syria lackluster?
Get involved with a refugee services centre.
Fed up with an outdated or repressive law?
Let news stations know you want polling issue instead of personality based and show authority that to win votes they will have to address particular outstanding points of traction.
In the spirit of inclusion I invite all readers to send feedback and requests from what you want to see on these columns, in hopes of making What Can We Do Now as interactive and community driven as possible.
Brought to you by Es
#2
This segment is about exchange of services and pro bono workmanship. Although doing deeds for no monetary gain may feel disadvantageous, what do we really get out of serving another’s private interest just to attain the funds to meet our most basic needs? The paid positions are in destruction of Earth or maintaining some semblance of governance impromptu.
The things we need to do in order to survive as a species will have to be done on a no fee basis if they are going to be accomplished, such as restorative justice, revitalization of natural ecosystems, and development of living standards in countries peripheral to the surge of capital. All these glitches in the matrix will go unattended to if we continue to expect compensation for merely doing what is necessary for prolonged existence.
We can not take it for granted there will always be a credit/debt buffer to precariously hoist our cravings and yearnings. If we build networks based on the paradigm shifts we wish to bring about, they will have to have endurance enough to commence even after a market crash that does not bounce back. Therefore, quid pro quo schemes materialize changes without diminishing the exchange to profiteering. Each party gets the appliance fixed or craftsmanship rendered, and nobody is worse for wear.
Why would we ask for some reward for simply preserving the essentials of life, is it not an end worth striving for in its own right? Every person has something to offer, it is a matter of matching up the supply with demand. We need to start relying on real skills which can be utilized to get what we want.
Most jobs do not recognize the unique arsenal you bring to the table, seeing you only as generic labour who could one day be replaced by well trained orangutans. There is a choice to either earn wages from one corporation, which when converted into groceries becomes profit for another corporation, or we can expend that time and effort on becoming fully self-sufficient, through livelihoods which bring in the contacts who we trade services with.
Take it serious, do it for free.
over and out , Es
Peace Poem
Finding that calling which will fill the emptiness.
Would you recognize truth if it was revealed to you?
The interlocked fingers of a position of authority, he begins to lecture like a specter hanging over me. What was uttered adds to clutter in my flabbergasted mind. The design is defined to convince you to resign.
From the search for a salvation that is contingent upon information, integrated and inflated to redeem the dearly belated orchestrated, to be devastated and incapacitated.
Conduct of self is the only thing controlled, lest they extol the vitriol to surpass the rigmarole.
Any fool can preach, and any child will teach.
Any mind can grasp for something slightly out of reach.
Not everyone is taught to read so those who do I beseech.
We all know that it is risky when the goalie leaves the crease.
But venturing beyond boundaries is the only path to peace.
Because with that extra player gained from letting down our guard
More merrier will we be to extend a kind regard.
Leading to a truce, a compromise, a tie.
Anyone can tell you that conflict is a lie.
What Can We Do Now # 3
I had a plan. Unveil the anatomy of a retail sale and discover where our tax revenue is disbursed through the various sectors. But governmental budget reports, instead of being filled with the list of expenditures the name would suggest, were sparsely riddled with propagandist bar graphs extolling the timeline for a balanced budget with no indication of how to accomplish starting at zero for that year.
As a retired young adult, I am required to declare extraneous income in a monthly report, and I feel the nation should extend us the same courtesy.
The basis of trust: reciprocally shared standards. We are being monitored and scrutinized for our financial decisions, gerrymandered into political obscurity. We must do more than politely ask to be included in these important processes of establishing accountability measures in the circles of power. It can not be a larger infrastructure for oversight because then who oversees the oversee-ers? Its like a reverse domino effect. Then the people who try to covertly unleash information get crucified like Snowden.
It’s a real pickle…
Then it occurred to me: These lollygags need babysitters!
So it is that I am proposing a satirical prank, where anyone who wants writes a fake application for a Public Figure Job Shadow program that does not yet exist. If there was someone else in the room during private closed door meetings, they could ensure no laws are being violated and no professional courtesies exchanged for services. It is about time we get citizen monitoring the activities of officials directly, so here are some examples of bogus credentials you might include in your curriculum vitae.
Graduate Certificate in Exposing the Truth
Corruption Diffusion Licence
Training in Democracy Resuscitation Level 2
Subpoena “Serving it Right”
Journeyman's Ticket in Filling Loopholes
So find the mailing address of your local Member of Parliament or Legislative Assembly and tell them you are interested in following them indefinitely and keeping track of their foibles and missteps. We can influence conduct through fear of exposure from a civilian audit. Don't be shy, don't let it fly.
Es, over and out.
What Can we Do Now? # 4
Naysayers stick to their guns, even when they backfire.
Silence should not but invariably will be registered as consent.
Eviscerated aside, we have been perforated from our very lives by those who think it is funny to see what they can get away with.
Curiosity kills, though boredom rots. Get warm quick from the things I could have said and refrained, that might have entertained for brief strand of trying to break a pattern. The lengths gone to in order to rationalize bad ideas are grueling and besides, in any logical sequence the conclusions rest upon the soundness of the initial premises. Knock out that first calculated guess and the whole argument loses its validity.
I believe its time to double check the assertions we take for granted as to personal capabilities and the extent to which we can propel what left of humanity there is to salvage. In the face of immense challenge is when our potential is tested and calibrated. Our growth is not being individually neglected as much as kept a secret from focused reflections. Give yourself more acknowledgment of the moves you have made! Pride that you have worked to attain is not an ugly emotion if it is tapered proportionately to what you deserve to reward yourself with.
Congratulations on being more aware than others were before! What can be done is using the new levels of understanding to arrange our affairs according to the laws of equilibrium so we can balance the scales once again. Instead of restoring the previously held standard, renovation of cycles and systems will lead to enhanced wellness.
Great expectations, yes. Would you rather play dead as what you hold dear is disintegrated before you? Is it strange that to fight fire you use water, which is comprised of two of the most flammable gases we have? Equal requirements of yin and yang to fight the regal obfuscations, terminally determined for a version of the insurmountable heraldry. The blossom of freedom takes time to ripen, and we are the only guardians of the voyage, blazing a trail that we are the first to walk, where we go entirely contingent upon the exercise of volition.
Wishing you Wonders, Es.
What Can We do NOW? #5
Imagine biting into a grapefruit for the first time without removing the peel. Your body would reject it and you might discard the fruit upon initial impression. Alas, you would have disregarded the layers underneath the surface that could unleash the sweetness behind the bitter.
Obstacles are the same way in that they must be sorted. Sometimes the roadblocks spontaneously combust, but the blockage is still in our minds so we do not proceed out of caution for a hindrance that has already passed. Safely activating these causeways is the best cutting off of being an accomplice to accommodating atrophy. Spending time instead of money will kick the can down the road. What will it take to see what’s at stake!
Communication is what makes us human. The ability to make lasting connections founded on reciprocal altruism has always come from culture which we choose to carry and continue even in a state of flux. It both propels us and is propelled by the integration of lessons that bring the student closer to reigning over themselves as an instrument of yesteryear’s echo.
Thinking about, “what will be my legacy”. Will I have left no trace like a good but not a happy camper? A meteoric wreckage when you are faced with the choice between a very lemony drink and a hard pill to swallow? Instead of bouncing back and forth between yin and yang, good or wrong, I am starting to stay in the gray, a type of middle ground, a complete neutrality occupied solely in my abode. What is there to find I will update as it occurs, the future gets brighter as it draws nearer.
So engage in social alchemy, mix it up with new faces because I think you will notice that as unique as each one of us is, we are seeing the same picture and feel comparable reactions to the universal scenario we are smack dab in the midst of.
Sharing similar outlooks and goals is empowering for the people who want to materialize their ideals and make the world as good of a place as the reaches of visualization permit. Being part of a network has a multiplying effect on one’s capacity for agency. With all that we struggle towards, we got this because we are united in real relations that softens our blows against and invigorates the flashes of brilliance which propel humanity into previously unforeseen renaissances of spirit connecting with matters at hand.
Catch you on the flip side, Es.
The Grape and the Grain
I was told never to mix the grape and the grain for the sake of posterity. The wine is the elitist element and beer is the proletariat. When the sophistication meets with the pedestrian, it can create a class war inside your stomach.
Bubbling and festering, a grace period of cleansing should be undertaken before allowing the opposing factions to cross paths.
Cataclysm averted.
But sometimes a collision of the polarized is an inevitability which can not be postponed. We must not settle for unnoticed injustice. The perplexities of collaborated cahoots are causing this world to veer off its untroubled course.
We can, however, regain stability.
Resensitized to the symphonic bird’s song I hear every morning, yet usually block out. The polyrhythmic nuance is in a constant state of shifting, responsible for soothing and uplifting a weary vagabond who needed a good tune.
Disintegrated and released, though it will never cease, melting and spreading further than the fog which prevents you from planning around the labyrinth ahead. This type of darkness allows us to focus on what is within, and it is surprising while affirming of a faith in self. Belief in what we can accomplish will enable us to make our dreams come true.
We can blend our talents in a unstoppable team, transforming hardship into glory.
Again melting on toward the universe, I know I will need to retrieve the scattered portions. The residue from other lost souls merges with my hollowed frame.
I knew I shouldn’t have mixed the grape and grain.
Whenever its too late
You can’t choose to migrate
To a time before you made that decision.
What’s done is done
And it can’t be unsung
Despite intentions of precision.
You spelled out own demise
As you try to revise
The unfortunate array of this sequence.
Attempt to counteract
But its after the fact
A quicksand ejection that deepens.
And if you go with the current
You’ll probably flourish
Though you’ll never make it back to the source.
So go up the stream
Like it’s what you mean
And from me you will be endorsed.
What Can we do Now? One more Snippet
The smoldering undulation of a clenched maw’s yearning
It’s off with the loot with no option of returning.
Cause the crow that’s the first to capture the crumb
Gets besieged on all sides as it tries to run.
Caution before you decide to snatch
Never a chance to throw down the hatch.
Taking the first opening to exert power over another person, since it has been done to you previously. The restless tyrant in us all that exacts revenge for not getting our way.
Skirting a responsibility to obtain a vacant luxury.
Paving the way for upgrading when we already have a sufficient model.
Clutching to whims so fanciful that they must be cast out. A method to reorganize intent and make moves which will propel lasting change and repel vain excuses.
It has to happen or it is over.
Your time is for what choosing there is to be had. Taking constantly is a surefire path to deprivation at a later stage. We are better than crooked crows and Larry birds!
Right back to the fallacy of want, an assumption of obligation for reality to contort to one’s will. So much ample opportunity is waiting to be self-actualized.
Must we be tethered to a hologram of life that has the flattering appeal of imitation, or can the shape of my character be forged in the liquefying flames of the netherscape within unfettered desire.
Conflict Resolution through Interpersonal Reorientation
When you are out in the town, does the essence of each passerby become apparent?
Do their minds appear to have an appetite for instruction?
Keep trying, although sometimes a break consolidates thinking patterns and allows charged emotions to simmer on a lower heat. Are the remarks and rebuttals coming forth conclusive driven or escalatory?
The options are twofold: Either revert to the arrangement previously inhabited or consider revising the code of conduct. Defending your point of view does not make it more plausible to the person who begs to differ. Winning is not the objective, it is more a matter of damage control. There is a way to be firm yet compassionate. Do not commit wrongdoings then deny them, that is what Babylon compels you is acceptable behaving.
Out of concern, do not scold. Remember that this person is a partner, not a prey. The better we know them, the more surgical precision we can direct an insult which strikes the core of the self-image ego identity and causes the guard to be put up. To realize that others see you differently than you imagine creates cognitive dissonance.
Why would I thrust it on someone else?
Compliments are the most helpful mediators.
An urgency of resolve should not be an excuse for a hasty pursuit of sought after aims. Conceding is not a failure of argumentative tact, but it respectably a mechanism to put the boxing gloves on the shelf.
Extend a gratitude for wheat you do agree with.
Reconsider what you oppose because it may be a doorway to a greater reason.
Anything is better than an intense barrage. How did it come to be this way?
Which is preferable? In the fire pit or out then typhoon?
Is bastardry and bichery a cough which must be expelled to clear the debris? What entices us to exert energy on hurtful non-communication? Spite and malice from situational regret. Ethical practice minimizes the occurrence of turbulence.
Follow not the example of the branches of government who refrain to confer outside the bounds of official haberdashery. The righteous spirit can alleviate the most tense of clashes, and it is like any other skill. It must be repeated to be mastered.
Coming at ya with much love, Es.
#10
Maintain momentum since it will be harder to start over once you give up. After you sustain the big push, coasting ensues. This lull in activity is a feasible chance to incorporate more unknown elements in craftspersonship.
A creator is always adapting and adjusting, so if the movement is present then it doesn’t really matter which direction is pursued. Keep trying or begin something different than before. A project commenced is just a dream without follow-through.
Our goals may require multiple lifespans of enduring strife, but surrender is a guaranteed link to failure. The strength to be true comes from prolonged perseverance. Unless you can be persuaded to cease and desist, nothing prevents an indelible manifestation from appearing in your journey. Self-imposed limitations are within our power to lift. Everyone works hard to do the things they want to, and we want to see that our efforts are going somewhere.
Sometimes the effects of our actions are not discernable to us immediately or in proximity to the current we traverse. That is why faith in the return of the good deeds of which you care to bestow is the pinnacle by which integrity is measured. What I mean includes the notion that to be an integral and integrated member of a given community naturally routineizes good faith in the genuineness of others and the perpetuation of the shared world.
Reciprocated altruism denotes a sense of honouring co-creations that are our towns and metropoli. If men beg, do you strike them down?
If they steal, they will be housed and fed.
If they pray, they will be asked to follow power.
If they peddle, they will be paid in counterfeit.
Should they wisen, listeners vanish.
Should they grow bold, they will be called an evil-doer.
I don’t cast stones, I cast spells over cerebrals.
Chewing on chanterelles, living swell in every detail
My words are for resale, and retail
Never know what might pop up on your e-mail.
Got a soft spot for females, feeling on a G like they reading brail.
Until I’m frail gonna search for the holy grail
The liquid that’s contained is truth, the kind that doesn’t need proof to be put to use.
The people around you are either contributors or detractors for the causes sought done. Everyone enables you to do something, but is their assistance with its sincere intentions bringing the right outcomes? No circumstances should force a relation, there should always be a choice that is not by default. Comfort is an enticing lie in disguise since to remain fresh is the guile you need to have a long shelf life. Sinking into any domesticated habituation devalues one’s efficacy in the externalization of soul wrenching epiphanies which must be offered kindling to immolate these bonding yet empty promises that stretch the budget thin and wear away the protective layer of patience for not being on point with your affairs in order.
With due diligence , Es
What can we do Now?
I’ve learned how to take an intermission from the masquerade of self-importance, the creatures of habit who thrive on mutually assured destruction, and put simply, have fun in the shadow of the oncoming tidal wave.
If I can tame the swell, it could be the ride of my life!
Running won’t stop this from marching across everything we have built our lives around. Will you stress over something with no direct way of controlling or react playfully as the only means of holding on to free will.
Guilt is a chosen emotion. Knowing you could have done better is the first step in triumphing the next time. No one else is responsible for your actions. One can, however, hold some to a highest caliber of standards, checking in when they are out of line. To feel disappointed in is a great motivator for personal growth. Moreover, we often do not vocalize our outrage since it has been inserted in our hardware that the public opinion is of no consequence. The town square is a forum where the ideological ethos of the era is democratized in real time; commentary is the only true trickle down effect.
As sure as smoke will swirl, the coast will again be cleared. What is meant to be will be spared. The wreckage will periodically emit survivors, who will gather and govern themselves.
Every last person is going to be an architect of the future’s arrangement. Systems fail under extraordinarily colossal changes, while organizations continue following the current to wherever it may take the group. The scale of operations determines its durability.
Withstanding the surge by only making keepable promises.
I solemnly pledge:
-my bi-weekly contribution to Littlebone ongoing indefinitely
- to stoke the embers of the fire
-to bring as many people along for the ride that can be permitted by allowances
-the scenic route towards revolving reflection of the perilous crusade for conducive connectivity
arrivederci, the Lost Count : Es