Three strips from 'El Roto'

I asked for a loan to build an anti-capitalist website. And I got it!

If growth continues we will devour the planet and if it halts to stop we will devour each other.

They build our identity over the oblivion of what we are.

taken from El Pais (www.elpais.com)

Another kind of Vertigo

So Fast

The drummer was so fast that you couldn't see
his hands move the sticks
so fast that you couldn't see
the sticks hit the drums
you couldn't hear
the music
just a continuous hum of skin and wood

The guitar player was so fast that you couldn't see
his arm move his hand
so fast that you couldn't see
his hand touch the strings
you couldn't hear
the music
just a continuous hum of skin and nylon

The singer was so fast that you couldn't see
his mouth move
so fast that you couldn't see
his lips
you couldn't hear
the music
just a continuous hum of wind and flesh

They were the fastest band
and they played faster every time
and their songs were shorter
and their sets ended sooner
every time
until they reached perfection
the fastest speed
an instant of music which was eternal:
the smallest fragment of time
holding all the notes

So fast in fact
that our eyes fail to see
and our ears fail to hear
but don't be fooled,
they play all the time

Check out this website!

This is taken from http://theuniverseas.com/
Great stuff, this is from their series "The Truth about Economics":

Federal Reserve Inflation
The Federal Reserve (FED) is the unconstitutional, quasi-governmental private organization that is responsible for managing the supply of money and credit in the United States. The FED is theoretically supposed to keep prices and the economy steady by setting interest rates, and by buying and selling bonds. Consequently, if there is inflation, the Federal Reserve isn’t doing its job. Because, after all, if there is inflation, the FED is actually causing it, since they manage money supply.
Why doesn’t the FED do its job?
The simple answer is that, inflation is a hidden tax. Instead of directly raising taxes to spend copious amounts of money on things like, big government, pointless wars, corporate bailouts, and government goodies, the government instead goes into debt. And by going into debt, that increases the money supply. in the Federal Reserve System, money is made from debt. And since money is no longer backed by a hard asset like gold, there is no limit to money supply growth. The more debt, the more money. As debt increases, more money is needed to pay off that debt, and so interest rates are lowered and the money supply is increased by making more debt. It is an explosive feedback loop. In a real, free-market economy, excesses (malinvestments) would be wiped out automatically. But in a managed economy, excesses are able to be maintained by making more excesses, which leads to a perpetual growth, perpetual debt economy. The growth feeds the debt and the debt feeds the growth.
The Real Environmental Problem
Since the current economy is dependent on perpetual debt and perpetual growth, it must perpetually consume resources to stay alive. In other words, it is unsustainable. Environmentalism is a losing battle until there are fundamental changes into the nature of the economy. Debt begets debt. Growth begets growth. Thus, the economy is like an ouroboros: a serpent consuming its own tail.

Alan Watts and the creators of SouthPark? Why not?

"It hurts me too" by Karen Dalton

It is surprising to be surprised by surprisingly good and surprisingly old stuff like this.
What a voice! If you get the chance listen to the album "It's so hard to know who's going to love you the best" (1969) melts my heart into hot lava...

Another day another rapture

There is something about this film of Norman Mclaren that transports me somewhere else. Yes, another rapture...

This is only the first part, go to Youtube and look for "Pas de Deux" for the second part, and better in full screen! I would just put another dozen of Mclaren's films, but you can check them out yourself. Enjoy!

I should be in bed

I should should be in bed but i read that the world will grow less this year, that the FMI said the world is not growing as it should be, that it is slowing down, and this, as usual, gets me thinking about what this growth is about. Growth has a good press, the bigger the percentage the better, we are very impressed with china, c'mon, 13% of growth, for the last 5 or 6 years. Shiiiit, you know, with a 13% you only need 5 years to double, so basically china has doubled its economy in the last 5 years. Dangers of exponential growth. Now that is vertigo, that is the REAL vertigo. I don't even want to go into it now. But back to where I was: growth, strange equations:

WE grow, their forests SHRINK,
we GROW their OIL depletes
and its not so simple anymore
THEY GROW they start to live like we do (who can blame them for wanting what we want!)
more cows and pigs die and with them rainforests are transformed to pastures for them
not to give them a good life no, to give US a good life
the quicker the better, the better the bigger, the bigger the faster
like a JUNKIE who gives himself a QUICK FIX

after the pastures are eaten away and the weather follows the physics, we will be left with no forest and no pasture and no rain.... the wise and wonderful science, the marvelous and unbelievable technique all to the service of mankind... the more we progress the less time we have, the less is available, the fewer species left.

deadly equations silently agreed and signed by delusionated minds again and again. and the faster and faster gets us closer and closer inversely like the turtle and aquiles only I wish this was never a race... grow in a finite world and you will hit its limits, grow in a finite world and you will OUTgrow its limits making its limits SHRINK,
outgrow its shrinking limits, yeah cowboy....

faster and faster.
Now I should really be in bed.