CROSSROADS: UN Report Finds Biodiversity Disappearing Faster Than Any Time in Earth’s History

Source – earthfirstjournal.org – “…Some 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction, new research from the United Nations has found….Thomas Lovejoy, a biologist at George Mason University and the “godfather of biodiversity” – “in shaping the world to our will, humans have paradoxically weakened the very foundation on which our own existence rests”…

DAS KAPITAL: ‘Forget Money’, What Will Matter Are Water, Energy, Soil and Food & a Shared National Purpose – By Charles Hugh Smith

Source – oftwominds.com – “…As the world slides into an era of scarcities, what will matter more than “money” are the essentials of survival: fresh water, energy, soil and the output of those three, food. The ability to secure these resources will separate nations that fail and those that survive” Forget “Money”: What Will Matter…

CROSSROADS: Scientists, Doctors, Environmentalists & Concerned Citizens Launch An International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space

Source – 5gspaceappeal.org – “…We the undersigned scientists, doctors, environmental organizations and citizens from countries, urgently call for a halt to the deployment of the 5G (fifth generation) wireless network, including 5G from space satellites…RF radiation has been proven harmful for humans and the environment. The deployment of 5G constitutes an experiment on humanity and…

CROSSROADS: ‘As-Salamu Alaykum’, Towards a Culture of World Peace – By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

Source – globalresearch.ca – “…Towards a Culture of World Peace” constitutes a commitment to Human Livelihood. It is an initiative which consists in confronting the discourse in support of war and military intervention emanating from NATO and the Pentagon. It requires reviving a Worldwide anti-war movement, nationally and internationally as well as establishing a resolve…

CROSSROADS: Is Survival a Worthy Goal? Is Life Worth Saving? – By Sara Golling

Source – thenelsondaily.com – “…We live in a world of corporate capture. Although corporations have been granted the legal rights of individual human beings, they do not carry the responsibilities or concerns of natural human beings. They do not have consciences, and their basic imperative is increasing value for shareholders – not improving life for…

CROSSROADS: ‘Ethos, Time to Unslave Humanity’ – Woody Harrelson (Flashback)

Source – thedailysheeple.com – “…We cannot fix our system until we know how it works. Ethos looks at the systemic issues that work against democracy, the environment, democracy, justice and our own personal liberty”: Woody Harrelson: ‘Ethos’ -Time to Unslave Humanity From criminal conflicts of interest in politics, to unregulated corporate power, to a news…

CROSSROADS: ‘Clash of Civilizations’, Respecting ‘The Other’ – By Dimitry Orlov

Source – cluborlov.blogspot.com – “…But being forced to live among incompatible people, whose acceptance of you, and yours of them, is based on an enforced ideology of sameness contradicted at every turn by your innate sense, creates a sense of disharmony and malaise…The ideologies it generates range from nihilism to violent anarchism, from secessionist movements…

RELL YELL: ‘Hauteur de Son Désespoir’, Only the Struggle Matters – By Chris Hedges

Source – truthdig.com – “…The brutality of our corporate executioners grows by the day. They will stop at nothing, including wholesale murder, to consolidate power and amass greater profits. Blinded by hubris, driven by greed, disdainful of democracy, foolishly believing their wealth will protect them, they will herd us over the cliff unless they are…

REBEL YELL: ‘Extinction Rebellion’, Mass Mobilization & Extinction Level Consumption – By Chris Hedges

Source – truthdig.com – “…We must, in wave after wave, carry out nonviolent acts of civil disobedience to shut down the capitals of the major industrial countries, crippling commerce and transportation, until the ruling elites are forced to publicly state the truth about climate catastrophe, implement radical measures to halt carbon emissions by 2025 and…

CROSSROADS: ‘Honeybees & Hemp’, Where Did We Go Wrong? – By Kathleen Lamont

Source – smokymountainnews.com – “…Bees absolutely love hemp plants. Hemp crops apparently attract an array of different bee species, offering them a plentiful source of pollen for foraging…When the researchers looked at their collection, they found almost 2,000 bees from 23 different bee genera. Most of those (38 percent) were classic honeybees” STUDY SHOWS THAT…

CROSSROADS: ‘Homo Automotivis’, Private Automobiles & Public Health – By Yves Engler

Source – yvesengler.com – “…Hundreds of thousands more are felled by cancers and other ailments linked to automobile emissions. According to an MIT study, in the US alone 53,000 people die every year from illness attributed to automobile pollutants” Private automobiles and public health – By Yves Engler When a plane carrying 239 people disappears…

AMERIKA: ‘Dystopia’, The World to Come – By Chris Hedges

Source – truthdig.com – “…The mass media will become nakedly Orwellian, chatting endlessly about a bright future and pretending America remains a great superpower. It will substitute political gossip for news—a corruption already far advanced—while insisting that the country is in an economic recovery” The World to Come – By Chris Hedges The ruling elites…

CROSSROADS: Sooner or Later, We Have To Stop Economic Growth — And We’ll Be Better For It

Source – petchary.wordpress.com – “…Engineering a happy conclusion to the growth binge of the past century might be challenging. But it’s not impossible; whereas what we’re currently trying to do — maintain perpetual growth of the economy on a finite planet — most assuredly is” Sooner or Later, We Have to Stop Economic Growth —…

MASONIC VISIONS: ‘Synergetics’, Buckminster Fuller & Spaceship Earth (Archive)

Source  – umsl.edu – “In addition to being a successful architect and inventor, R Buckminster Fuller was also known as a systems philosopher.    He used the phrase “Spaceship Earth” to express the need for mankind to use teamwork to fully utilize Earth’s limited resources.1   Ephemeralization was another systems’ term coined by Fuller to express the…

CROSSROADS: ‘The Hermetica’, Aquarian Heaven or Illuminati Hell? – By John Lamb Lash

Source – http://www.metahistory.org – “…Western society today faces such a vast range of options for self-development along spiritual, metaphysical, and mystical lines. Without going back beyond the Dark Ages to the destruction of the Mysteries – the key event that laid the foundation for today’s eclectic New Age spirituality was the discovery of a sheaf…

CROSSROADS: Why the Climate Change Message Isn’t Working – By Charles Eisenstein

Source – yesmagazine.org – “…We need is the level of energy and commitment that we saw at Standing Rock. We need the breadth of activism we saw in Flint, Michigan, where everyone from yoga teachers to biker gangs joined in relentless protest against lead contamination. That requires making it personal. And that requires facing the…

CROSSROADS: “Ecological Overshoot & Status-Quo Industrial Capitalism’, The Youth Have Seen Enough – By Rex Weyler

Source – greenpeace.org – “…Our status quo economic system — industrial capitalism — requires growth to survive. Without endless economic growth, the $250 trillion global debt to bankers and investors cannot be paid…The biosphere is being sacrificed so bankers can receive their interest payments, to keep stock prices up, and to avoid facing reality” The…

CROSSROADS: There is Indeed a New Global World Order – It’s Called Climate Change

Source – tomdispatch.com – ‘…Unlike the scenarios imagined by the anti-globalists, it’s wreaking havoc not in some dystopian future but right in the here and now: the prairie fires that struck Oklahoma, Kansas, and the Texas panhandle in the spring of 2017, killing seven people and destroying an area equivalent to three Rhode Islands” The…

OUR DANCE WITH DESTINY: Why I Have Hope in the Face of Human Extinction – By David Korten

Source – yesmagazine.org – “…A transformation to ecological civilization is both possible and essential to the future of humanity…We humans now have the knowledge and technology to move beyond the violence, fear, and daily struggle for survival that besets the lives of so many. We have the capacity to secure a world of peace, beauty,…

COVER-UP: History Of ‘New Energy’ Invention Suppression Cases – By Gary Vesperman

Source  – rense.com – “… History Of ‘New Energy’ Invention Suppression Cases – By Gary Vesperman –This is the third version of my compilation of specific energy suppression cases. This time I decided to get serious. I thoroughly reviewed my own files and a few web sites pertaining to energy suppression. Deleted were some cases that…

CROSSROADS: Why There Is (Some) Hope for Wall Street – By David Korten

Source – yesmagazine.org – “…Some CEOs are getting the message that even though the economy is growing, they need to serve their communities, too” Why There Is (Some) Hope for Wall Street – By David Korten Laurence D. Fink, founder and chief executive of BlackRock, the world’s largest institutional investor, recently set the financial world…

REALPOLITIK: ‘What Every Person Should Know About War’ – By Chris Hedges (Archive)

Source – nytimes.com  — “…At least 108 million people were killed in wars in the twentieth century. Estimates for the total number killed in wars throughout all of human history range from 150 million to 1 billion” ‘What Every Person Should Know About War’ – By Chris Hedges What is a war? War is defined…

DAS KAPITAL: A ‘Living Earth’ Economy and How to Break the Power of Money – By David Korten (Archive)

Source – yesmagazine.org – “…We can refuse to accept the pervasive, but false, claims that money is wealth and a growing GDP improves the lives of all”: (How to Break the Power of Money – By David Korten) Our current political chaos has a simple explanation. The economic system is driving environmental collapse, economic desperation,…

CROSSROADS: Study – Over 32 advanced civilizations have collapsed before us, and we’re next in line – By Simon Black (Archive)

Source – sovereignman.com – As any long-time reader of this column knows, we routinely draw from historical lessons to highlight that this time is not different. Throughout the 18th century, for example, France was the greatest superpower in Europe, if not the world. But they became complacent, believing that they had some sort of ‘divine…

CROSSROADS: Stephen Hawking – ‘Governments are engaged in an AI arms race that could destroy humanity’ (Flashback)

Source – thefreethoughtproject.com – “…“Mankind is in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity” – When asked if he thought humanity has changed since their last visit, Hawking replied, “We have certainly not become less greedy or less stupid”: Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/stephen-hawking-governments-ai/#wih3estVfc1AacY8.99 (Stephen Hawking: Governments are engaged in an AI arms race that…

CROSSROADS: ‘Resistance, Revolution, Liberation’, A Model for Positive Change – By Charles Hugh Smith

Source – oftwominds.com – “…The process of the unsustainable collapsing and a new, more sustainable model emerging is called revolution. In the shared imagination, the word conjures up images of violent overthrow of a political order. In this book, revolution describes a blossoming of understanding so profound that it leads to the peaceful transformation of…

CROSSROADS: Yes, We Can Choose Good Globalization – By David Korten

Source – yesmagazine.org – “…The globalization of ideas, knowledge, science, hospitality, travel, as Keynes suggested, is the good globalization. It raises consciousness of our common humanity, interconnection, and interdependence in ways far from isolationist or xenophobic. And it opens extraordinary creative opportunities to achieve a world of peace, material sufficiency, and spiritual abundance for all”:…

MASONIC VISIONS: Industrial Designer & Visionary Jacque Fresco, Our Modern Day Da Vinci

Source – mindandsoulexpander.blogspot.ca – “…Future by Design shares the life and far-reaching vision of Jacque Fresco, considered by many to be a modern day Da Vinci. Peer to Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, Jacque is a self-taught futurist who describes himself most often as a “generalist” or multi-disciplinarian — a student of many inter-related fields”: Jacque…

CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE: ‘Fermi’s Phony Paradox’, Humans too arrogant and stupid to solve ‘missing aliens’ question – By Ennio Addams

Source  – sott.net – There are a number of reasons why the reality of extraterrestrial visitation on our planet remains largely unacknowledged or dismissed by many otherwise rational, intelligent and educated people. One reason is the desire of the scientific, religious and political elite classes to maintain the status quo. After all, if such a…

CORPRO-FASCISM: ‘Countering the Corporate-Insurgency’, A guide to how the war for control is waged upon us, and 4 ways to fight back – By Tony Cartalucci

Source – landdestroyer.blogspot.ca – The terms insurgency and counterinsurgency can quickly become confusing in a politically motivated context. However, generally speaking, an insurgency seeks to overthrow an established institution or political order, while a counterinsurgency seeks to maintain that order. In the United States, and around much of the world where the nation-state still prevails,…

COVER-UP: The Day the Earth Died And Why Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Et Al. Were Virtually Silent About It – By Eric Zuesse (Flashback)

Source – globalresearch.ca – As the civilizations that we all know, and love, and lived, slide increasingly into totalitarian misery; and the environment, which had been our lives, becomes less and less livable, there will be, in retrospect, one key day, which historians will mark, as the turning-point toward Earth’s death; and it was 23…