Prey to your Lord God Oil

"America's economy, foreign policy, internal future, and wet dreams of another century of hegemony are all tied to cheap oil. And the way we have kept oil cheap is by being the 800-pound gorilla (also guerilla) of the world energy market. OPEC controls some of the supply, but make no mistake that Big Oil – American Big Oil – calls the shots for the world energy market." - John Steinberg
Image stolen from The Infinite Jest

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Oh, The Irony...

Jason Surks, 19, educated since age 6 by his mother about the dangers of drug use, died a year and half ago of, get this... a drug overdose of prescription drugs obtained over the Internet by mail order from Mexico. He was attending school at Rutgers University to become, get this... a pharmacist. A drug abuse prevention center opened in New Jersey has been named, get this... the Jason Surks Memorial Prevention Resource Center. R.I.P. brother Jason.

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Fascist USA Headlines

All in a day's work. Just when you think things couldn't get any worse:

Bush: U.S. Needs More Nuclear Power Plants
Bush is promoting nuclear power as a way to take the pressure off fossil fuels — oil, natural gas and coal.
Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes
A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses against their will for private development
Feds Launch Prescription Pot Sweep
It didn't take long for federal drug agents to act against growers of medical marijuana. Just two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was still a federal offense to grow and dispense pot for medical purposes, 20 such sites were busted by federal authorities in California.
House Approves Move to Outlaw Flag Burning
Symbols are everything in politics. They can get you elected — or defeated. That's why Democrats fear getting singed by a proposed flag-burning ban, forced into a vote that Republicans will cast as a test of patriotism.

Every day they take more of our freedom away. Now corrupt politicians can take our land away too at the whim of a salivating Wal-Mart developer. Bush is even trying to indebt us to The Corporations that will sell us nuclear electricity, instead of letting the people create their own power from the sun and the wind. Things get bleaker every day...

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The More Things Change...

phone dialing...phone rings...
British Voice: Prime Minister's Office, Prime Minister speaking.
American Voice:
Greetings! This is the Secretary of War at the State Department of the United States...
We have a problem.
The Companies want something done about this sluggish world economic situation.
Profits have been running more than a little thin lately and we need to stimulate some growth.
Now, we know there's an alarmingly high number of young people roaming around in your country with nothing to do but stir up trouble for the police and damage private property.
It doesn't look like they'll ever get a job...
It's about time we did something constructive with these people...
We've got thousands of 'em here too.
They're crawling all over...
The companies think it's time we all sit down, have a serious get together, and START ANOTHER WAR...
Prime Minister: uhh ohhhhhhh ohhhh
The president? Oh he loves the idea!
All those missiles streaming over-head, to-an-fro...napalm...people running down the road, skin on fire...
The Soviets seem up for it...The Kremlin's been itching for the real thing for years! Want a little going away present for Mr. Breshnev.
Hell, Afghanistans no fun...
So whadya say? We dont even have to win this war!
We just want to cut down on some of this excess population...
Now look, just start up a draft, draft as many of those people as you can.
We'll call up every last youngster we can get our hands on and give 'em an hour or two to learn how to use an automatic rifle and send 'em on their way...
El Salvador? How bought Northern Ireland?
Or a moderatly repressive regime in South America?
We'll just cook up a good Soviet threat story in the Middle East. We need that oil!
We had Libya all ready to go and Colonel Khadafi's hit squad didn't even show up. I tellya...that man is UNREALIABLE.
The Kremlin had there fingers on the button just like we did for that one..
Now just think for a minute...
We can make this war so big...SOOOO big...
The more people we kill in this war... The more economy will prosper...
We can get ride of practically every one on your uh- "dole queue" if we plan this right.
Take every loafer on welfare right off computer rolls...
Prime Minister: ohhhhhhh mmmmmm ohhhhh
Now dont worry about those demonstraters... just PUMP UP YOUR DRUG SUPPLY.
So many people have hooked themselves on heroine and amphetamines since we took over, its just like Vietnam.
We had everybody so busy with LSD it never got too strong.
keep the war functioning just fine...its easy.
We've got college kids so interested in beer they don't even care
that we start putting manufacturing germ bombs again.
Put a nuclear stockpile in their back yard, they wouldnt even no what it looked like....
So how bought it?
Look- WAR IS MONEY -
The arms manufacturers tell me unless we get our bomb factories up to full production the whole economy is going to collapse!
The Soviets are in the same boat!
we all think its TIME FOR THE BIG ONE!
So whadya say?!?
Prime Minister: ...ohhh it's marvelous....that's excellent...
Secretary of War: We knew you'd agree! The Companies will be very pleased.

from "Kindy Sex Makes The World Go Round" Dead Kennedys, 1987

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Lightning Hits Baptist Church

(image not actual Baptist Church)
'A bolt from the heavens shook the congregation of Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Collinsville Sunday.
But instead of heavenly wrath, church members saw a blessing from the skies.
...
“Somebody could have got killed and the place burned down. It had to be a higher power that protected everybody in that church,” said Joyce.
Ralph Foley agreed. “I think God was looking out for us,” he said.'

Ummm... WTF???

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When Zombies Attack

"If a town of 5000 people become infected with an infection rate of 95% there are till 250 people in the town that are not a threat to you. Also ammo can be used less conservatively.
After you realized that you are dealing with a local outbreak try to find the nearest gun shop. If the owner if still alive there is a good chance he will wave your three day waiting period and also throw in some free rounds. If he dead then no worries, have at it."

As you can see, Tom has thought long and hard about what to do if a zombie outbreak ever occurs in his town (probably in response to this Friday's release of George A. Romero's Land of The Dead). Gotta love his optimism... Only 19 out of 20 people will be trying to eat you, AND you can get the 3 day waiting period for a handgun waived...

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The Passion of The Christ

Actor Jim Caviezel has been struck by lightning while playing Jesus in Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion Of Christ.
The lightning bolt hit Caviezel and the film's assistant director Jan Michelini while they were filming in a remote location a few hours from Rome.
It was the second time Michelini had been hit by lightning during the shoot.

Why did I not hear of this earlier? Aren't you Christian types concerned about this? I would be. I am. If you are religious, then there must be a God. Then why would God make this happen? Or let it happen? Is he trying to say something? "Don't make such a terrible movie." "Jesus is not my son?" "Good job Mel, keep it up?" What?????

1. Michelini was the person struck twice, it's possible God was only trying to get him
2. It could be a good omen, being struck by lightning and living to tell about it
3. Or maybe God's just out of practice with the lightning bolts
4. Do people get struck by lightning a lot in Italy?
5. If so, what are the odds of a person getting struck twice in their lifetime?
6. Twice while filming the same movie?
7. Twice while filming a movie about Jesus Christ?

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eArTHq uAke ! !!

An undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 has struck off northern California - the fourth to hit the US West Coast this week.

Sidenote: The image shown here is actually from the inside cover of the Tool album Ænima. See also the fuck your tattoos post published 11 days ago. Creeped out yet?

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Pestilence

"The only hope is that our species will be leveled by the coming plague, whatever it's going to be -- which of course will happen before too long -- and then we start over again. But as we know, speciation takes a million years. So this diversity of life that we inherited in our time won't be back for a long time to come. What's left just depends on how soon our numbers are stripped back. It's not the earth that's endangered; it's everything else that lives with us. Capitalism is a giant Ponzi scheme -- it's got to crash eventually." - T. C. Boyle

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To Lighten the Mood

He'Brew. Get it? Get it??? Alright, *groan*. A New York USA ale that I most likely will never get to taste. No worries it only has a 28 rating.

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Crazy Ass Muslim Christian Extremists

"...millions of Christian fundamentalists may believe that environmental destruction is not only to be disregarded but actually welcomed -- even hastened -- as a sign of the coming apocalypse." - Bill Moyers

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Peak Oil

"The industrialised world and its economy rely entirely on fossil fuels. Under this fossil fuel system, access to oil (whoever owns it) is access to power. Put simply, without oil modern society cannot function as it is." - Julian Gibson

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Hopi Prophecy

"These are the Signs that great destruction is here: The world shall rock to and fro. The white man will battle people in other lands -- those who possessed the first light of wisdom. There will be many columns of smoke and fire such as the white man has made in the deserts not far from here. Those who stay and live in the places of the Hopi shall be safe. Then there will be much to rebuild. And soon, very soon afterward, Pahana will return. He shall bring with him the dawn of the Fifth World. He shall plant the seeds of his wisdom in our hearts. Even now the seeds are being planted. These shall smooth the way to the Emergence into the Fifth World."

"World War III will be started by those peoples who first revealed the light (the divine wisdom or intelligence) in the other old countries (India, China, Islamic Nations, Africa). The United States will be destroyed, land and people, by atomic bombs and radioactivity. Only the Hopis and their homeland will be preserved as an oasis to which refugees will flee. Bomb shelters are a fallacy. "It is only materialistic people who seek to make shelters. Those who are at peace in their hearts already are in the great shelter of life. There is no shelter for evil. Those who take no part in the making of world division by ideology are ready to resume life in another world, be they Black, White, Red, or Yellow race. They are all one, brothers.
The war will be 'a spiritual conflict with material matters. Material matters will be destroyed by spiritual beings who will remain to create one world and one nation under one power, that of the Creator.'"

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This Has All Happened Before...

"I’ve been seeing a lot of writing and mention of the imminent collapse of our civilization. I can’t lay my hands on anything concrete, but there seems to be an undercurrent in journalistic writing lately that heralds the Fall Of Life As We Know It. I think they are right. The end draweth near." - Charon (drunken_boatman)


I sometimes think ahead of people and events. Some thought will pop into my head and the person next to me will say it out loud 2 seconds later. It's been happening more and more recently and with greater intensity. It makes me wonder about that whole idea of a 'global conciousness'. And if that exists, why are more and more people thinking what I'm thinking? Or maybe they've just been thinking it all along, and I chose to ignore them. Although...
I've never been entirely opposed to the idea of mankind's destruction. I've always been a big fan of dystopia. Is it a coincidence that A LOT of other people seem to be thinking about it too?

...and it will all happen again

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Fuck Your Tattoos

"Ænema" - Tool - 1996

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this

Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car.

It's a
Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cuz
I sure could use a vacation from this

Silly shit, stupid shit...

One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.

Learn to swim.

Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to be

Learn to swim.

Fuck L Ron Hubbard and
Fuck all his clones.
Fuck all those gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.

Learn to swim.

Fuck retro anything.
Fuck your tattoos.
Fuck all you junkies and
Fuck your short memory.

Learn to swim.

Fuck smiley glad-hands
With hidden agendas.
Fuck these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.

Learn to swim.

Cuz I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom please flush it all away.
I wanna watch it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.

I wanna see it all come down.
suck it down.
flush it down.

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Old People Happy to Die Soon

'I had bubble tea with my parents after dim sum, and they both told me, with serene grins on their faces, that they are happy to be close to the end of their lives because they only foresee the future getting worse for the world. "There are so many things happening now, more than I've ever seen in my life, that can't have good outcomes in the future," said my dad, who works for the UN and has a pretty good idea what's going on. This is not a sentiment you want to hear from the people that brought you into the world in the first place.' - longmarcher

He's got a fabulous icon though, eh?

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Party on Wayne...

"So, before the Big One hits, the UV rays fry you, the nuclear winter freezes you, the Rapture captures you, the aliens abduct you, the earth opens up to swallow you, the black helicopters come to get you or the dreaded Satanic computer pixies plant a bar code in your forehead and plunge the world into commie-pinko conspiracy chaos, Have fun and enjoy life!" - hahnium

Just to keep perspective on what's important...

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Religion: The Real Boogeyman

"This is a really scary thing, hearing about the Tribulation as a kid. I never thought I was going to make it into Heaven, so I had this weird phase when I was about 12 when I thought everyone would go without me. So everytime I was alone I would freak out and think I'd been LEFT BEHIND. Also, any vaguely horn-like noise would freak me the hell out. I was very disturbed. But I was not alone, as every Pentecostal kid can tell you the same sad story. This is what happens when you tell your kids SCARY STUFF like this when they're too young to understand it"

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Soap Gives You A Tiny Cock

"Phthalates are commonly found in plastics, pesticides, and personal care products like shampoos, soaps, and makeup. Phthalate exposure has been linked to malformed sex organs in male lab animals. Now, for the first time, there is a human study linking mothers exposed to phthalates to genital birth defects in male infants...in rodents, has led to a lot of problems later in the rodents' lives such as decreased fertility, decreased sperm count, and eventually testicular cancer." - Doctor Shana Swan, University of Rochester Medical School

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