kindness in words creates confidence. kindness in thinking creates profoundness. kindness in giving creates love.  -- Lao Tzu

With no P.R. slogans like "Betting on...", "Believe in...", or "Forward", which all serve as mere distractions to mega-corporations' bank-rolling of the United States of America's citizens' politicians, who are not taking real action in a solution-seeking manner to the current human issues and needs, which are certainly available for them to work on, were they to choose to do so....

This is what arrives as a counterpart to their misguidances...

when a platform has true grit and a loving spirit throughout,

Green is a way of life, not another party who high-level prioritizes corrupt green backs as a beneficial practice to our democracy.

Surfacing once again the people's movement that simply makes common sense for the people to live by with a proper "checks and balances" operating within federal government,
which will lead to heightened aspirations for those who lead humanity with dignity to greater beneficial performances,
 because the people care to do so--obviously, more so than the mega-corporations could possibly ever,
based solely upon each's nature as observed.

j.a. knolls

Democracy Now! = Real Changes

12 Kawak (July 13^th) – the “gathering storm” that provides the final big PUSH toward enlightenment.  writing provided by Dr. Marguerite Paquin

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  Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent for Guardian.UK

The global battle for natural resources – from food and water to energy and precious metals – is only beginning, and will intensify to proportions that could mean enormous upheavals for every country, leading academics and business figures told a conference in Oxford on Thursday.

Sir David King, former chief scientific adviser to the UK government, who convened the two-day Resource 2012 conference, told the Guardian: "We are nowhere near realising the full impact of this yet. We have seen the first indications – rising food prices, pressure on water supplies, a land grab by some countries for mining rights and fertile agricultural land, and rising prices for energy and for key resources [such as] metals. But we need to do far more to deal with these problems before they become even more acute, and we are not doing enough yet."

Countries that are not prepared for this rapid change will soon – perhaps irrevocably – lose out, with serious damage to their economies and way of life, the conference was told.

Amartya Sen, a Nobel prize-winning economist, said that the free market would not necessarily provide the best solution to sharing out the world's resources. Governments would need to step in, he said, to ensure that people had access to the basics of life, and that the interests of businesses and the financial markets did not win out over more fundamental human needs.

Sen has played a key role as an academic in showing how the way resources are distributed can impact famine and surplus more than the actual amount of resources, that are available, particularly food.

David Nabarro, special representative for food security and nutrition at the United Nations Special, defended the outcomes of last month's Rio+20 conference – a global summit that was intended to address resource issues and other environmental problems, including pollution,climate change and the loss of biodiversity, all of which are likely to have knock-on effects that will exacerbate resource shortages.

Many observers criticised the governments represented at Rio+20 for failing to adopt any clear targets and initiatives on key environmental problems, saying it was a wasted opportunity.

But Nabarro said there had been important successes – that governments had agreed to strive for the elimination of hunger and more sustainable agriculture, including an emphasis on small farmers, improvements in nutrition (in both developed and developing countries), and cutting the harmful waste of resources that is currently plaguing economies.

Several speakers joined him in highlighting the problems of waste and inefficiency – the developed world tends to be profligate in its use of natural resources, because most western companies have in the last century experienced few limits on their ability to access raw materials in peacetime, thanks to the opening up of global trade.

But this is rapidly changing. One of the first indications has been the soaring price of fossil fuel energy in the past decade, which has had severe economic impacts but which could easily be lessened if countries and companies took simple measures to be more energy-efficient. The failure of businesses, individuals and governments to improve their efficiency, even by relatively small amounts, has been one of the conundrums for resource economists in recent years. According to standard economic thinking, rising prices should prompt more efficiency, but this has happened at a much slower rate than should have been the case.

If price signals are not enough to change behaviour, then other methods such as government intervention may be needed.

Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, urged rich countries to work together with poor developing nations to ensure that the best was made of the natural resources, and to remedy situations where scarcity leads to human suffering.

Businesses also joined in to discuss their efforts to use resources more sustainably. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, the chairman of Nestlé, outlined his company's programme to use water more efficiently. He said water was often overlooked, and considered as a free resource, but that this was a mistake – he reminded listeners that the increasing availability of clean drinking water, accompanied by better sanitation and hygiene, had been the biggest single factor behind the enormous increases in longevity of people in developed countries in the past 150 years, and the GDP growth that followed.

Camilla Toulmin, of the International Institute for Economy and Development, said the conference should act as a primer to policymakers and politicians who have been insufficiently aware of the real issues surrounding resource constraints and the economics of waste and distribution. "This is like an Open University course that is educating people on the problems here. I hope the financiers and businesspeople go home with a clearer understanding of how important this is, and of the role they can play."

--writing found on Guardian.UK

“A Human being is a part of a whole, called by us the ‘Universe’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” Albert Einstein

a meadow of sage and mule deer live near here,

where high desert volcanoes lift the wind

and clouds cascade into sunset

with another quality red hills' pinot going down...

life ain't what you thought, or what you think.

perhaps, life is the uniqueness (moreover)

of vast forms, which may well-upward from emptiness.

"emptiness" defined by allowing the cosmos' gnosis

to become the influential plot of accord

that manifested this being realm as a living cradle.

be certain all forms will return to such the same,

without your ego's approval or bank's statement.

--j.a. knolls

"Li, the inner principles of Chinese Medicine":

"The wuxing 五行 (5 movements - 5 phases - 5 transformations) occur in the bagua 八卦 (the eight marvels, eight miracles, eight directional attributes). The wuxing occur in the bagua; the bagua arise out of wuxing. As above, in the thirteen postures of taijiquan, moving the wuxing through the bagua reveals the three dimensions. These become the unification of space and time, and yin-yang becomes the unification of matter and energy. Back away just one more step and we find that the two, mass-energy and space-time, will reduce from yinyang, into taiji > That is: Stuff (mass-energy) and not-stuff (space-time) being 'not-two'. We know these are facts, quantitatively, phenomenologically, regarding any subject physicists might sit around and discuss, from the realm of the quarks to the behavior of stars and the size of the cosmos. Because they are also qualitatively indigenous, and because they universally represent all phenomena, they are employed in Chinese philosophy, painting, politics, agriculture, astronomy and medicine, as the terms, as the criteria by which we understand that with which we are dealing. Whether it's plotting stars, planting crops, or diagnosis of disease, they become our stock in trade, in tools, and we really do need to understand them at the level of the originators' understanding. They are not spiritual concepts; they are not mystical or metaphysical terms; they are not supposition or superstition. They represent a science and are not subject to personal belief or one's own truth. Gravity doesn't care, why, or how you believe in it. To know it, you must discover its truth. These qualitative emblems are hard science in all the applications. In this medicine, they are terms and definitions of real world phenomena, that qualify the actual behavior of any biologically-driven phenomena." by dr. sean c. marshall of jung tao school of classical chinese medicine

Folklore surrounding the Great White Owl (Snowy Owl) offers many things to many indigenous people, whose medicine bearing shamans have utilized such references for thousands of years. The Maya see it as a messenger who brings awareness from the spirit world that the realm we live within has become so out of balance...


 In my humble (and willingly shared) opinion, we need to stop allowing corrupt institutions to structure our policies to benefit financial profit over life forms.


 The white owl is also a guardian that allows us to see with clarity beyond fear and illusion. The owl is felt to be a powerful messenger from the spirit world for human-kind-of-animals to awakening into a relationship with reality...


Perhaps, one that suggest generations of ego-savvy fucktards, carrying a resource rapists' mentality in their brief cases, have structured us into another 80 years' economical mesh-cut-out of you and me.


--j.a. knolls