Oct 13, 2011 Occupy Wall Street Collapse

Yeah has Olbermann quit downplaying it yet.... He kinda lost a viewer or two with that shit...

Thanks for posting this letsliveinpeace

To me it only illustrates the dysfunction of humanity for us to think that we must suck every drop of oil out of the ground before thinking we need to worry about it. Misplaced value propped up by convenience and comfort... willing accomplices to the amnesia we now have as a species as to what is truly important. I have to place these words of wisdom here. I am sad to see how much they have been forgotten, but also happy to know that there are still those in this world who understand their message:

• Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.
~ Ancient American Indian Proverb

• What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
~ Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator

• Certain things catch your eye, But pursue only those that capture your heart.
~ old indian saying

• When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.
~ Cree Prophecy

• Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
• We are a part of the earth and it is part of us
~ Chief Seattle

• I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.
~ Isna-la-wica Teton Sioux

• I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk.

• It does not require many words to speak the truth.
~ Chief Joseph: Nez Perce 1840-1904, Nez Percéé Indian chief

Thanks fro the post.

This was a good video and I like Laura Flanders and the woman she was interviewing had merit to her points. I just didn't understand who she was referring to as the "whackos who are sabotaging the movement." I'm not seeing that because the movement does seem to be growing in support.

That is beautiful.
Love the cancer/black hole analogy!
This woman is posessed by the Great Spirit.
I see this same passion with some posters here at Current.

It's crazy, an economy that bases its' stability on unbridled consumption and growth, rather than mediated production and sustainability, how can it continue in a world of finites?

I hear people say, all the time, that they work too hard, and perhaps the fact that we have been beguiled into believing that infinite growth is a good thing, explains why we work too hard...well, back when working too hard was still an option for the middle class.

thought provoking interview, +^d

If we keep burning that crap we'll run out of oxygen way before we run out of oil!!

She's absolutely right. We need a paradigm shift....no more of this tweeking of an unsustainable economic policy. We have finite resources and too much debt, yet the powers that be continue to operate in this infinite growth universe. The sooner we shift away from today's economic isms and transition towards a sustainable economic policy, the less painful the transition will be.

But listen very carefully to her words about peak oil. That shit is real, and the failure to adapt to it is going to cause some serious chaos.

Oct 13, 2011 Occupy Wall Street Collapse