Ok so my housemate Sally-Anne is the new Channel Nine traffic girl. She starts broadcasting in a couple of weeks. Shes hanging out with the Channel 7 traffic girl (who has only flown once before) in this model helicopter. When I first saw it I thought hmmmm and so your both going up in that every day (rain or shine) to chat live on TV about the traffic ? How much is going to be to watch da girls on TV !

Everything

Everything

I wrote this a a long time ago and somebody reminded me of it. I read it again and I think I still like it . I wrote this after noticing all the physics I was reading was allot like some of the Eastern philosophies and this was my take on what it all mean't. The subject is essentially folly in that we could never hope to know everythiung much less describe it. When we seek to express an of idea through writing, during that process we transform that knowledge into wisdom .

Everything !

The universe has neither beginning nor end
Born before it dies
It dies before then
The cycle of life is for all things

A moment only exists in itself
Looking back is just that
The path ahead lays before our feet
To embrace each step is true awareness

Matter is born from dust tightly held
Dust is born from matter lightly held
Each lets go the other to exist
Everything returns from whence it came

The universe is as far as can be seen
Defined by the limits of awareness
And when you get to the very edge
Another universe begins and so it goes

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The end of all Nations

The creative destruction will come in the form of a disconnection of capital and the historic concept of the nation state. In this period American capital will disconnect from the American people. You might well see US companies like Caterpillar, Microsoft doing exceptionally well but the ramifications of this success will unlikely bear good news for the US worker in either skilled or unskilled labor growth in the US economy.

These companies pledge no allegiance to any country, they source the physical or intellectual resources from the nation state that provides the best value for money.

So in a sense the East vs West argument on either side is one of the central concepts that will be destroyed, east vs west will merge and through free trade resources will compete wherever those resources might happen to be geographically, companies will hold no allegiance to any particular geographic nation.

Debating whether labor advantage or innovation advantage will hold eventual primacy is a debate of the old paradigm when contextualized against old concepts of nations states.

When we look at the real productivity increases in the US economy its not US workers who are becoming more productive its US corporations implementing offshore labor supply or inshore technological innovation, record year on year productivity is less a sign of a healthy economy and more a sign of US workers becoming less competitive in the global free labor market.

In this era “Multi Factored Productivity” ,Nations will compete to attract intellectual , innovative and financial capital by providing the most competitive and attractive form of society.

The question is not whether the East or West will win but whether a particular country provides the best environment for these elements to flourish. Many American companies are in essence no longer really American companies, they might retain strong American brand recognition to achieve market objectives but in reality they will become global long before governments become global an in the process create the economic tensions social change our relic systems of government.

The Blokefacation of Women

I was saying to Tara, Sally and Justine the other day that women were becoming more like men and that women were becoming blokefied and that women in general were gong through a process of blokefication . It must of stuck in her head because she sent me this cartoon she drew last night. Tara is an artist of amazing talent if you follow the links to the left you can see a small selection of her paintings but despite hundreds of paintings and many many public murals Ive never seen her draw a cartoon in the 15 years I have known her. I think this could be a whole new direction. So I am going to write a cartoon strip that she can illustrate (just for fun)

Words of Wisdom

 

How cool is this pic ! over Las Vegas !!!

American Fundementalist Christians

America Christian fundamentalism has hijacked the right , something I call  “cafeteria style Christianity” chooses which parts of Jesus’s’ teachings it chooses to honor and which not.

Preference is always given to the “I am” passages such as those in the Gospel of John in which Jesus says, “ I am the door; the bread of life; the way, the truth, and the life; the light of the world; the living water,” and so on, supposedly claiming to be God and commanding his listeners to accept him as the only way to live forever with God in heaven and escape eternity in hell.

Little attention is given to the Sermon on the Mount and the many passages where Jesus condemns the wealthy and the religious leaders of his time for their callous, hypocritical, mean-spirited absence of compassion. In fact, theologians who pay much attention to Jesus’ teachings on compassion are viewed as bleeding hearts, unorthodox, and not really Christian. For this reason, Pat Robertson stated on his 700 Club Program, January 14, 1991: “You say you’re supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don’ have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.” Let us not overlook the obvious: Dominionism is about dominion—over women, children, the poor, people of color, alternative sexual orientations, and the earth. It fits so nicely with a Strausian Neocon fascist tyranny. Christian fundamentalism is fundamentally Un-American. Dominonists clearly desire a revised United States Constitution that will institute a fundamentalist Christian theocracy. The Domionist agenda would shred the Constitution and end the democratic republic the  Deist founding fathers.

Replacing this republic would be the Dominionist theocracy which pronounces itself above the rule of law and claims to be directed by the “higher law” of the Bible. In that society, abortion would be illegal, even in cases of rape or incest; capital punishment would be mandatory in every state, and could even be extended to anyone with a sexual orientation other than heterosexual; the nation’s entire infrastructure and economy would be privatized; public schools would be turned into essentially Dominionist parochial schools, and no social services would exist except those of faith-based charities. The fastest-growing industry in the nation, the prison system, would undoubtedly find itself at the top of the financial markets as hordes of “unbelievers” were incarcerated. However, given the multitudes of fundamentalist Christian organizations now proselytizing in the nation’s prisons, the heathen masses would be given “one more chance” to be born again, hence sending them to prison would be doing God’s work and society a favor

The “rapture” based Christian cults of modern America have nothing to do with Christianity or Jesus. The are simply a fundamentalist cult that frighten  Christians  globally. They have nothing to do with the founding of America and represent the greatest threat to the republic in US history.

Big government Conservatism under Bush is an unholy alliance between the Strausian Neocons and the Rapture based Christian Right.  They propose a secular theocracy that would change the very nature of the republic that the founding fathers initially established, a marriage between church and state that threatens the very basis of democracy and the freedom of people everywhere.  

Stiletto Workout ? Now I have seen everything.

While you'll find most of these unusual classes at gyms in large cities, not all these new workouts have the same appeal everywhere. Whipped, for example, is a class taught by a strutting, leather-clad dominatrix brandishing a riding crop. It took off in New York but fizzled in mellower Los Angeles.

Stiletto heels are used in the new Stiletto Strength class. "It's a class all dedicated to the lower body and having great legs," explained Hogan. "It's a lot of sculpting and lower body workout and we supply the stilettos."

And if your local gym doesn't offer these classes yet, don't fret it might soon."We start a lot of things here [at Crunch] and eventually someone gives us the sincerest form of flattery," Hogan said of imitators. "Cardio striptease just celebrated its five-year anniversary, and it's all over the country now."

Major Earthquake Hit

Major Earthquake Hits Off Indonesian Coast
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A magnitude-7.7 undersea earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia early Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There was no danger of a tsunami.The earthquake occurred about 120 miles south of Moluccas, the USGS said. It occurred at a depth of 212 miles.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said no destructive tsunami threat existed.That region of our world has experienced several earthquakes and disasters within a year or so. On Jan 2nd I reported also on earthquakes and mudslides there since then if not mistaken more have occurred.Tsunameter info link

Internet dating doh

Internet dating doh!

I once swapped sonnets via email with a gorgeous looking PHD vet (sorry I love smart girls), we decided to meet at the pub (bar ) and so I wandered in and saw the girl . I was really excited and that is a hard thing to manage for a hard bitten cynic likes me. (not really)

Anyway she was at least 20 kgs heavier than her photo and strangely different in personality. I love a drink but it’s rare for me to get to wasted an being polite and still hoping I would make a nice friend out he encounter. When I sit down it becomes obvious she’s been drinking for a few hours and there is that strange acrid stale smell of alcohol.

Ever polite I figure it aint looking good I decide to have one or two politely depart. So I announce my impending departure and excuse myself to the bathroom. Well when I got back there was a fresh glass of wine sitting on the table that she’s insisting I should drink.

So I figure why not and start drinking my 3rd, to be tricked again when she buys yet another while I am on the phone.

So I figure I gotta get out of here and she decides shes going to walk me to my car and  figuring it can be to bad we wander off toward my wheels.

As we leave the bar the worlds mangiest dog runs straight across in traffic. She heads off in hot pursuit screaming across the traffic that I should help her. I am not sure why I didn’t run then but you kind of think well the dog is going to get hurt so I run after the dog as well. Now I would normally never participate in such things but we finally corner the dog and da vet tells me to grab it by the collar while she ties a rope to it.

Well its not hard to guess what happens next the dog was obviously descended from Cujo and it bit my hand. Now we had all the elements, an amorous size 18 drunken Danish vet ,  who seeing the dog attack me completely forgets about the dog and wants to tend my wounds.

I make an excuse about an appointment and decide that I need to go and start walking briskly to my car. She follows insisting that she wants to look after me. Now I am ashamed to say but as we walked more briskly and more briskly and more briskly I start calculating how much distance I can put between me and her if I start running, slowly at first then as we gather some pace I panic and start running as fast as I can.

But so does she? And starts talking about how much she likes me as we sprint through the backstreets of Newtown. Now we have all had those pleading conversations before but I had previously experienced them in High School and definitely not at a sprint.

“I thought we really got on and your not giving me a chance”

“Your never going to find a woman if you don’t get to know her first”

“I really like you I want to get to know you better”

To add to this the dog has joined the chase but Ive managed to put 20 meters between me and her (and the dog)

I jump in the car and lock the doors.

She then sits on my bonnet and trys to talk to me through the windscreen.

At that point I was kind of stuck, do I drive off with her on the bonnet and risk her an injury or do I stay put. Well I stayed put for 10-15 minutes and tried talking some sense to her through the windscreen but eventually concluded that if I gently tried to drive away she might hop off.

She did get off when she turned angry and started threatening damage to the car but I managed to get away. She turned up at work the next day with a bunch of flowers .

It was good insight I guess into what girls go through when they are being stalked, 20 phone calls , texts and emails later she eventually disappeared.

The next week I went out with an animal liberationist and that went wonderfully until I ordered an egg sandwich.

Iraq , Sun Tzu and the collapse of US Hegemony

Iraq , Sun Tzu and the collapse of US Hegemony

Throughout the whole history of warfare the successful generals spawned by brutal memes of the time held an advantage. Napoleon , Alexander ,or even Hitler could for whatever reason mobilize the will of the people and universally manage their beliefs.

The Neocon Staussian logic falters on this one assumption. They believe that war is inevitable and superior military strength should be utilized. They forget that superior military strength can only be utilized if the will of the country can be manifested to crush the enemy. Think through how any of the above mentioned leaders would approach Iraq and the words genocide and slavery come to mind.

The concept of “the will to wage war” is a an important dynamic because it’s a one that is ill-considered in the Necon philosophy. When the conservatives analyze their military superiority they ponder smart missiles and stealth bombers.and assume that these advantages translate to utopian military outcomes.

If we could bring Sun Tzu in as an independent consultant on the middle east his review would points

“There are three ways by which the army is put into difficulty by the ruler:

He does not know that [his army] should not advance but instructs them to advance, or does not know [his army] should not withdraw and orders a retreat. This is termed ‘entangling the army.’

He does not understand [his army’s] military affairs but [directs them] in the same way as his [civil] administration. Then the officers will become confused.

He does not understand [his army’s] tactical balance of power (ch’űan) but undertakes responsibility for command. Then the officers will be doubtful. (Powell, Zinni etc etc)

. “When employing [the army] in battle, a victory that is long in coming will blunt their weapons and dampen their ardor. If you attack cities, [the army’s] strength will be exhausted. If you expose the army to a prolonged campaign, the state’s resources will be inadequate. [Think of the growing deficit and war spending, and then of the rebuilding effort.]

“One who excels in employing the military does not conscript the people twice or transport provisions a third time.” And, “The state is impoverished by the army when it transports provisions far off. When provisions are transported far off, the hundred surnames [taxpayers] are impoverished.”

“Thus what [motivates men] to slay the enemy is anger; what [stimulates them] to seize profits from the enemy is material goods. Thus in chariot encounters, when ten or more chariots are captured, reward the first to get one. Change their flags and pennants to ours; intermix and employ them with our own chariots.”

“Treat the captured soldiers well in order to nurture them [for our use]. This is referred to as ‘conquering the enemy and growing stronger.’”

"There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare."

The number of US soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen deployed around the world is imposing.
Fully one-third of the 1.4 million men and women in the armed forces are posted outside the country, either ashore or afloat, in 136 countries.

Their operations range from several sergeants on training missions in Latin America or Africa to 169,000 troops in Iraq and 19,000 in Afghanistan. Some are in Central Asia, which is literally halfway around the world. Moreover, this military empire dates back six decades to the end of World War II.

Today, 69,000 troops are in Germany, 35,000 in Japan, 12,000 in Italy and 11,000 in Britain. In South Korea are 33,000 troops still there 53 years after the Korean War.

The cost in blood has been intense. In South Korea, Vietnam and the smaller skirmishes such as that in Panama since 1945, more than 82,000 US warriors have suffered battle death. More than three times that number have been wounded. The number killed in Iraq has passed 2,050 and continues to climb.

Added to this is the cost in treasure. US taxpayers have been asked for US$450 billion for next year's defense budget, which is more than the combined military spending of China, Japan, France and 10 other nations, according to the CIA.

Bin Laden's proposes that he will provoke the US into bankruptcy . Everyone of his communications reflects the tactic of provoking the US to spend money. He invested 100k in 9/11 and provoked a $2 trillion dollar response

Back to Sun Tzu

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."

I would say the US falls into a category worse than the "know neither" category - the "I don't want to know either" category. We are blind to what is going on over there, and to our own disastrous energy trajectory.

Bin Laden tells us exactly what he will do, and what he wants us to do in response - then we do it and claim victory. We think we are winning the war against Al Qaeda when his greatest victory (9-11) was to drag us into the middle east (like the Soviets in Afghanistan, and us before in Vietnam). His dream is a United States that gets more dependent on Arabian oil every day, and bankrupts its government with military spending that only inflames his base. The day of reckoning he wants wasn't 9/11, it will be the collapse of the United States economy and retreat from the middle east.

Gold, Global Debt and Currency time bomb

It depends in which camp you fall, if you have an unwavering belief in the value of the Fiat monetary systems and the intervention of central banks the continuing interest in gold as an investment seems like investing in dinosaur futures. Its ironic that those who urge us to invest in the future innovations of robotics , biotechs , nanotechnology and other technologically based innovation refer to gold investment as speculative and non productive defensive investment , when in reality the US dollars that these innovation stocks are denominated in may prove to the most speculative investment in history.

That's not to say that throughout history gold has not seen similar politically motivated abuses of it value, its just that now we are in a Fiat debt bubble not a gold bubble. If we want to rationalize that gold has become purely an industrial commodity, subject to the normal laws of supply and demand we need to remember that gold has been in deficit industrial production for many years and the demand that's been out there is substantially industrial demand and not an investment demand.

FIAT MONEY and one of the causes of economic troubles in the world by Craig Tindale

The invention of money makes trading easier. With money, all prices can be expressed in the same way, in terms of how much money is needed to buy the product. The unit of money becomes the measuring stick of value With a standard of value, computing the costs and benefits of various options, that is, making choices, becomes easier.

Concepts of Wealth

Wealth is a concept given different meaning in different times in different cycles of the world civilization. Man through out the ages has made the cultural cotextual conceputualisations of many impossible to define concepts like identity or difference, or infinity of the universe, concepts which the Constructists like Buddha, Lao Tzu and Narajuna refused to be drawn on, Shumpeter devotes some apects of his his musing about Marxs works on the subject. The Objectivists like Schumpter and Rand The eastern paths had a notion of emptiness and applied it to all concepts being empty of meaning, emptiness is an antidote to grasping for unrealizable concepts . Wealth has a similar position as unrealisable concept in that it means different things to each individual and epoch.

The way "we" as human beings obejectivise our own concepts as " things" rather than evolving ideas is at the heart of evolution toward wisdom . What do you think ?

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Between the city and the docks.

There is a place between Manila and docks where hundreds of thousands of people live, it�s a city that�s sprung up from nothing, this area is one of the poorest places you could ever imagine. I came across it in my travels when I was taken to the Philippines main export terminal. The export terminal handles about 80% of the exports and imports into the country. A kind of no man�s land squashed between an emerging western style landscape of office buildings and highways and docklands where this country is taking its first steps toward its place as a trading nation in the global community. When I first entered the precinct my Pilipino colleagues quickly locked all the doors of the car I was travelling in , quickly advising that the area was dangerous and outsiders were liable to be carjacked if certain precautions we not taken.

My camera was the equivalent of 40 families� yearly income in value and under the circumstances you can really understand how tempting an item like this would be to someone who has nil resources and very few options. We entered a heavily guarded check point and moved into the safety of the dock land area. Parking our car we moved through 2 more security check points before entering the executive building, we were guided up to the top floor , through another security check point and into another executive entertainment area that served as an executive entertainment suite covering about and acre of rich mahogany, staffed with white coated waiters serving executives all they could want while discussing their companies business.

As I looked out over the helipad across the endless sea of shanties made and constructed over lifetimes with materials that could only be found washed up on the shore or found by the roadside I found the myself reflecting on the visual irony played out before me as far as the eye could see. The shanties extend down to the high water mark built out onto the brown muddy sand as if every single land must be utilised. This is an area that is subject to weather conditions, typhoons and never ending torrential rain that would test the resolve of any human being. As we drove through the area I wound down the window and took these pictures from the moving car, what struck me were the children playing at the entrances in the rain, this area being the only areas across a sea of run down shanties where they could find some clear space and light. They were laughing and playing like any children would in any neighbourhood.

We forget how truly lucky we are, the circumstances we find ourselves in can truly define our life , our opportunities and the life we lead. What struck me is the ability of the human spirit to survive anywhere, to transcend our circumstances and make the best of what we have been dealt. These beautiful gorgeous children laughing and playing, just being children unaware of their circumstances and where they live.

I really want to get right into this area and takes some more picture so I will meet with eh councillor for the area next time I am in town to get some advice on how to do this and remain in one piece . I plan to get the best advice I can, borrow some security from the docklands managers and wander through the narrow lanes that make this area up and bring back some images that haven�t been seen of an area that�s unknown and forgotten to the rest of the world.

The spirit of children .

Children everywhere make do with what they are given.

These kids are loved .

What I love about the Philipino people is they love their children and their families like few other countries . I love these little girls and boys dressed in their little outfits. How cute is this little girl in her pink sandles and cotton dress.

Writing on the walls just hints on how long this place has existed

The electrical system spins across the shanties like and intricate web .

The are hundreds of these bikes with sidecars everywhere you look.

The town square

The rain never stops

Not a mall to be found

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Dozens of these dark entrances hint at whats behind the miles of alleyways that mind their way though this area

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China is like another planet its hard to believe humans can live in such a crowded place

Emptiness

Two of the most common terms we hear in the spiritual community “emptiness” & “enlightenment”, millions search for enlightenment but very few find it, if in fact there was anything to find in the first place (its empty remember). Is there a transcendent reality for the enlightened, does grasping for enlightenment deliver a unique state of freedom or existence as a reward to the enlightened one ?. Are there two different worlds that the enslaved and enlightened inhabit, enlightenment is nothing more than seeing the world from a different perspective with a new way of reacting to it. Nagarjuna says "Whatever is of the extremity of freedom and the extremity of the life-process, between them not even a subtle something is evident." , they are no different.

If they were simply declared to be identical, then there would be neither the experience of suffering nor the experience of release from it. Although the cycle of birth-and-death and nirvana are not different, then, they are nonetheless experienced differently and are not simply one and the same.

The cause of this whole sphere of confusions and misunderstandings about the nature of freedom is the human tendency to speculate and theorize. Were there not this tendency, then one would never perceive transitory phenomena as enduring in the first place, which would prevent one from developing passionate attractions and aversions regarding phenomena. Without such passions, the dispositions, graspings and cravings would not develop, and thus suffering would not come to be. Without these passions, one would not create the concepts of eternal life, identity or difference, or infinity of the universe, concepts which Buddha repeatedly refused to discuss. The notion of emptiness is an antidote to this chain, that’s all emptiness is an antidote to grasping for unrealizable concepts . For, "when all things are empty, why [speculate on] the finite, the infinite, when in reality both the finite and the infinite and neither the finite nor the infinite? can be conceptualized or understood. Why speculate on the identical, the different, the eternal, the non-eternal, both, or neither?" its all compulsive grasping its just empty it doesn’t matter what your level of intention to be enlightened, the greater the intention for anything the further you are from the ground of being.

The great eastern philosophies provided a scholarly enumeration of the elements of reality (dharmas)?, the basic causal processes observed to operate between the elements (pratyayas)?, the exact constituents of the human personality and consciousness (skandhas and ayatanas)? and, finally, they draw out the relations and correspondences between all of these factors. They very seldom speculated on things that could not be understood because the great sages saw this as a futile endeavor, they were just thought of as empty of meaning.

As I said before its this tendency to conceptualize the unexplainable, the epidemic born of the 20th century that’s the root cause here, and it is this negation of the conceptualization of the unexplainable that will allow one to see through the illusions of dualities and grasp the " true nature" of things, the tathata.

Goodbye to American Dreamland

The meaning of peak oil is beginning to be explored in The People's House, a.k.a. the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. One Congressman, Roscoe Bartlett, a Republican of Maryland, has followed the issues of oil supply for many years and has begun to wake people up in the nation's capital and for the national C-SPAN cable television audience.

The phrase "peak oil" is short for the global peaking of oil extraction, whereby supply only tightens. This column has repeatedly anticipated the economic effects and the role of the market in suddenly exacerbating the geological shortage at hand.

On May 12, the Congressman spoke for one hour before the House in a "Special Order speech," routinely featured at end of business for either party's representative to speak his or her mind following the "leadership hour." He recited a passage from one of my syndicated Culture Change Letter reports, "Peak Oil in a Nutshell - Here Comes the Nutcracker." He prefaced it by saying "You all have heard of the Lundberg Survey, well this is what Jan Lundberg wrote:"
"The trucks will no longer pull into Wal-Mart. Or Safeway or other food stores. The freighters bringing packaged techno-toys and whatnot from China will have no fuel. There will be fuel in many places, but hoarding and uncertainty will trigger outages, violence and chaos. For only a short time will the police and military be able to maintain order, if at all."
He then added his own warning: "You can imagine what might happen when the lights go out. The veneer of civilization is very thin." Congressman Bartlett obtained my quote from Matt Savinar's website which got it from Energy Bulletin which got it from BlueGreenEarth.com.

A definite trend is afoot. What we can call The Convergence of America is just ahead. It will not be as in the past, but more in spirit as we grapple with the loss of petroleum and the end of economic growth. Rather than as a nationalistic single entity, we will come together in the knowledge that our separate and equal, diverse bioregions are our real homelands.

In my long career of concern over oil pollution -- from my days of serving the oil industry, to fighting it, to predicting the imminent end of abundant supply -- I have never been as exhilarated as now to think that a change is in the wind. I have previously testified before Congress as an oil marketing expert, and I later enjoyed audiences of millions on many occasions even when my message was radically beyond mainstream news-media priorities. Now, we are witnessing an awakening of the role of oil as a dwindling substance responsible for technological miracles, energy gluttony and strategic/military pursuits. Everyone's differences will have to be put aside as we are starting to enter a new age.

On May 19th I told the Congressman about myself, in a long conversation in which he explained he is a "very conservative Repbulican." I told him I was about to release a column titled "Goodbye American Dreamland," knowing he could appreciate the concept. I asked Congressman Bartlett, "Is there any chance you can tell President Bush about peak oil?" He replied "I have a half hour scheduled to do so, but I'm bringing two colleagues with me so he doesn't think I'm just one nut." I told the Congressman that I wanted to work with him on peak oil, and he asked me if I ever get to Washington, DC.

He mentioned he was not going to let Rumsfeld pressure him to vote for CAFTA, which I agreed is an energy-intensive prospect like Plan Puebla Panama. I did not question why a Secretary of Defense is so interested in a free trade agreement. At any rate, Congressman Bartlett reminded me that the U.S. military is the biggest consumer of oil. I remarked that people can now find common ground on oil issues, for example on national energy security: I said I had as a peacenik opposed the Gulf War and called for no more road building in order to stop extending the nation's oil supply lines, as the war had to do with energy security. The Congressman stated that trains are the best way to transport people and save energy, partly because the rail bed is easier to maintain than roads. I told him of my history of road-fighting environmentalism.

We lamented AMTRAK's budgetary neglect, and I compared the annual subsidy to roads and oil as approaching the Pentagon's annual budget. I informed him that oil prices today are so subsidized that people have no idea how much they are really paying for oil because the price is built in to so many products and services.
I recommended to him the book Beyond Oil: The Threat to Food and Fuel in the Coming Decades. He said he does not see how a population size of six and a half billion people can be maintained when the petroleum crash hits. To address the food security situation and involve people with the oil reality I told him about "citizen petroleum councils," my idea that found support at The Institute of Petroleum (now The Energy Institute) in London.

I told him our various labels (Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative) are outmoded and can be dispensed with because we'll all have to come together. He asked me what should people be told about dealing with the oil crash. Besides minimizing petroleum dependence in general, I suggested getting plastic out of their diets. I informed him of the toxic oil spill known as plastics that has yet to hit people's consciousness. In hearing something such as this, it seems to me that Congressman Bartlett has opened the door of perception on a number of issues and viewpoints, by looking critically and honestly at oil.

"Congressman, you are making history." I could almost hear him blush over the telephone, as said he had recently gotten two Congressmen on board to raise awareness on peak oil. He said he advocates a change in culture, but was not aware of the name Culture Change. He sees no measure of success in owning many cars. We also agreed that the loss of oil -- for unending economic expansion and for the coveted affluence that derived from cheap oil -- is an earth-shaking development in human history.

Since peak oil gained extra currency starting in 2003 with the publishing of The Party's Over, by Richard Heinberg, a steady stream of books, magazine articles and websites have examined the implications of peak oil, while a few have also looked for solutions such as "relocalization" (Post Carbon Institute). A rapidly changing world requires swift adjustment for those who would survive. It is time for honesty and realism, instead of blind hope that allows putting off severe conservation and avoiding community cooperation heretofore unheard of.

Congressman Bartlett knows there is no magical solution around the corner that will allow us to remain in a dreamland of continuing consumption of nonrenewable resources. He also knows that natural gas, as a form of petroleum, is saddled with the same supply outlook, roughly, as oil in a global sense. Moreover, Roscoe Bartlett advocates changes deeper than energy policy: "We need to have a culture which has entirely new goals...we have to have a culture where success is not measured by how much energy you consume. Success ought to measured by how little energy you can consume and still be very comfortable."

Because my statement that he read to the House and on cable television was limited to my encapsulating the short-term economic effects of the oil crash that awaits peak oil, I wish to add to it before Congress to put my remarks of last week in context. I have been on C-SPAN before, but I have fine tuned my message since telling the nation's energy reporters in 1990 that there was an environmentally sound alternative to war for oil.

My Testimony for Congress

I would start by reading the full context of the passage that Congressman Bartlett utilized (from "Peak Oil in a Nutshell - Here Comes the Nutcracker," Culture Change Letter # 88):
The scenario I foresee is that market-based panic will, within a few days, drive prices up skyward. And as supplies can no longer slake daily world demand of over 80 million barrels a day, the market will become paralyzed at prices too high for the wheels of commerce and even daily living in "advanced" societies. There may be an event that appears to trigger this final energy crash, but the overall cause will be the huge consumption on a finite planet

The trucks will no longer pull into Wal-Mart. Or Safeway or other food stores. The freighters bringing packaged techno-toys and whatnot from China will have no fuel. There will be fuel in many places, but hoarding and uncertainty will trigger outages, violence and chaos. For only a short time will the police and military be able to maintain order, if at all. The damage that several days' oil shortage and outage will do will soon wreak permanent damage that starts with companies and consumers not paying their bills and not going to work.

After an almost instant depression seizes the modern industrialized world, and nation-states break down, the frantic attempts of people to feed themselves, stay warm and obtain fresh water (pumped presently via petroleum to a great extent), there will be no rescue. Die-off begins. The least petroleum-dependent communities will survive best. These "backward" nations will be emulated by the scrounging survivors of the U.S. and the rest of the "developed" world, as far as local food production will be tried -- in a paved-over, toxic landscape by people who have lost touch with the land

What about renewable energy and other alternatives? They are not ready and will never be as long as oil is king. This is something not acknowledged by the boosters of the technofix. When oil abdicates, no one can fill the shoes. (See Culture Change Letters on the Technofix such as # 77.)

However, there will be replacement societies, starting with bands, tribes and rural communities that will start cooperating amongst themselves as never before. The Age of Bioregional Countries, based on cooperation and mutual aid will begin. A main job-category will be restoration of the land so as to provide a semblance of the diversity of food that Earth provided prior to petroleum farming. Social structures will no longer lend themselves to overcrowded workforces dependent on the dollar to buy goods and services from huge, distant and unaccountable corporations. Argentina may be a guide to post collapse society, with its egalitarian and worker/citizen controlled systems.
I would expand on these ideas and claims in order to anticipate objections and resistance from members of Congress and the media. They and much of the public cling to the assumption that technological progress will rescue the economy and fall into place as easy as Detroit's offering new models of cars every year. The American Dream of having a "nice car" and owning our own homes, awaiting a comfortable retirement, is about to burst.
Consumer society and its agents -- Madison Avenue, Hollywood, public schools -- have lulled us into being passive citizens expected to feel so fortunate to choose at the ballot box one or another corporate cheerleader of the status quo.

The underlying problem for the Waste Economy -- the system of profligate use of energy and disposable junk -- is overpopulation. The U.S. has over 296 million people, which along with a growth rate faster than any industrialized nation, is bad news for the biosphere. Well over three quarters of the growth is from immigration and immigrants' higher birth rates. Half of immigration is legal due to Congress's approving high quotas to suit the corporations' agenda. Doubling time for the U.S. population, at today's growth rate of 1.1% annually, is just over 60 years.

If the nation's people were not so dependent on petroleum, if the corporations weren't dependent on never-ending growth for a healthy bottom line, and pollution were generated by only a population one tenth the size of today, we could straighten out the mess by taking a new direction. Now we must face a tsunami of change, as our options come down to either survival or ecocide. It is clear that today's political affiliations are not key, and must take a back seat.

It is most refreshing to find there is a member of Congress who is on a mission to wake people up about peak oil. Our job is barely beginning. It is time for people to put aside their differences and start to educate one another and take steps. The nation is intact now, so any different political set up is unthinkable to most people. However, a future that features local self-reliance offers the most logical solution to impossible petroleum reliance. As Roscoe Bartlett says, "The average food on your plate travels 1,500 miles. Everything that you touch, if youﾒve got it, a truck brought it... We live in a plastic world; the herbicides for our crops; the fertilizer for our crops; the herbicides made from oil, the nitrogen fertilizer made from natural gas. Every calorie of food you eat if youﾒre in this country -- itﾒs not quite that way in other parts of the world -- represents about 10 calories of input from fossil fuel, from oil mainly."

There is much to be said to a Congress that approved drilling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, invading Iraq, and passes huge budgets for more roads. The news media are loathe to offer up a spokesperson for the fringe who offends corporate sponsors of news programs.

The American Press

There is something going on with the American Press. I travel all over the world and watch news programs all over the world. During the last 10 years the domestic American news content with respect to foreign affairs has almost vanished.

If you watch CNN in Australia or London you get a fairly even consolidated view of whats happening in the world. Turn on CNN or FOX while your in the US and foreign news disappears. Domestic American news is almost completely filled with domestic issues, Michael Jackson , Tanya Lacey or the latest story that won’t die, the runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks (sorry Jennifer I dont fucking care)........

these stories fill the news channels as if these are the issues that are important to Americans . One of the tragedies of the 9/11 disaster is that Americans were genuinely mystified why another country or group would want to attack America.

Not one of the major networks, not CNN, FOX, ABC have anyone dedicated to reporting on issues in the Muslim world, the greatest threat to American or western security in the last 30 years goes unreported by the American news corporations.

Most of what you see coming out of IRAQ comes out via agencies, that is all the network footage is consolidated via news agencies to the networks who share the same pictures. Many of the American reporters in Iraq don’t leave their hotels, they send out locals to get the footage and they compile and consolidate it as a group in the hotels. The US networks are dumbing down the reality of the world, very little information is getting thorough the American news propaganda.

The reality is that the coverage that most Americans are receiving is completely slanted, most Americans would not recognize their country if they saw it through the eyes of people abroad. This picture of America valiantly forging into Iraq to create a democracy and to release the Iraq citizens from tyranny isn’t the news and opinion that’s shared around the world, America is not seen as a valiant defender of world freedom.

American media is biased, its become infotainment for the masses rather than real information based on the journalistic standards that Americans pioneered fought to establish, even those people who believe they are well informed are still subject to the American spin doctors. The reality is that the average US citizen is about as well informed as the citizens of the USSR during the cold war.

The reality is that Americans in foreign policy terms have a very poor understanding of both history and geography. A fundamental problem with the Iraq situation is that Iraq is not even a country its an artificial construct that has never in history formed a coercive nation , creating a democratic nation out of such a complex web of nationalities and religious groups with not history of cohesion is a awesomely difficult task and more than likely an impossible one.

The CIA made huge mistakes by withdrawing the hands on the ground intelligence, a similar thing has happened with the news and the withdrawal and closure of the major networks foreign offices . The reality is that the wise old heads of Washington are talking about further attacks on the US by Muslim groups, Warren Buffett is banging his drum as loud as he can about the risks, (folks you better believe he is well informed) the 9/11 commission has taken the unusual step of continuing their role after they have a legal right to do so (I think it reflects the degree of risk they perceived) many influential people are seeking to express their concern, these are individuals that are not normally so politically active http://www.nti.org/c_press/release_lastbestchance_050305.pdf .

Central to fundamental ideas of democracy and freedom are the information foundations of the societies they govern. Propaganda has been the underlying cancer all forms of government through the ages. These times are like no others and the worrying signs with communications and media is the world may beome less informed rather than more informed as we have always assumed . Sir George Thomson, the British physicist and Nobel prizewinner, suggests in The Foreseeable Future that the nearest historic parallel with today is not the industrial revolution but rather the `invention of agriculture in the Neolithic age. John Diebold, the American automation expert, warns that `the effects of the technological revolution we are now living through will be deeper than any social change we have experienced before. Sir Leon Bagrit, the British computer manufacturer, insists that automation by itself represents `the greatest change in the whole history of mankind.

"Nor are the men of science and technology alone in these views. Sir Herbert Read, the philosopher of art, tells us that we are living through `a revolution so fundamental that we must search many past centuries for a parallel. Possibly the only comparable change is the one that took place between the Old and the New Stone Age .And Kurt W. Marek, who under the same C. W. Ceram is best known as the author of Gods, Graves, and Scholars, observes that `we, in the twentieth century, are concluding an era of mankind five thousand years in length . . . We are not, as Spengler supposed, in the situation of Rome at the beginning of the Christian West, but in that of the year 3000 b. c. We open our eyes like prehistoric man, we see a world totally new.

And the only way we will know what to do is be educated and informed.

Do you think we are well informed ? What do you think about transparency within the US government ? Do you think the media in some ways might be a savior? Does better information support a more integral democracy? What would Integral journalism look like ? What are the highest priority questions, issues and solutions ? Where do we start ? What about a 2nd Tier takevoer what would it look like?

Tash looking Hot love this photo honey!

Tara Seb's mum floating just below the surface at Queenscliff pool by Cal

Ever feel like your totally at sea in an overwhelming world ? is it easier to wrestle life to the the ground or just float ? Its a lightness of being that provides happiness and tranquility, its about giving up trying to cling and just letting things be.

Omega the Convergence of Alchemy, Religion, Mysticism and Science

In the end there will be no conflict, religious people contextualize science in the ‘now’ and that’s as bad as the scientists contextualizing mysticism in the past. Christianity contextualizes god in very crude terms appropriate to the terms and meaning of times long ago.

Any Christian study course is riddled with heavily manipulated by dogma, go to any one site you want, read a passage and after it will say “Jesus meant yadayada yada” and most of its nonsense, they say the bible is the true word of god but it laced with meanings given by man. Christianity is dead and Jesus will return , the third reformation is at hand (thank god LOL) I think Nietzsche wrote that God is dead. Nietzsche was not an atheist; he was of great religious spirit and power. What he meant was that the God who’s fixed and defined in terms appropriate for 2,000 years ago is no longer so today. God defined as a personality is dead, that’s mans God not Christ’s god.

I think part of the problem is that mysticism and theology is more advanced than science, with no scientific measure of mysticism the scientists have assumed the reverse but the leading scientific minds are proposing that in reality there cant be a difference and that mysticism foresees the future not some hard to find other dimension.

In the past science and humanity has made the mistake of trying to assemble the infinite from ‘now’ the finite, we assume when God made us in his image it meant Homo Sapien, the man of today, but man is the ‘mustard’ seed not trunk or branch or tree, we look for proof in worldly miracle when all the proof we need is in front of eyes, Our religions have become ego centric, of man not of god, competition between the faiths and man have subverted the truth of all messages, science is even more so but surely the psychics of both work from but one set of laws .

The future of science and religion are one and the same, there is no other answer. Alchemists of the Middle Ages described the construction of magical appliances for viewing future events, or speaking to friends distant or dead. Writings of Paracelsus describe a mirror of Electrum Magicum with telegenic properties, and crystal scrying was in its heyday.

Today, digital alchemists have at their command tools of a precision and power unimagined by their predecessors. Computer screens are magical mirrors, presenting alternate realities at varying degrees of abstraction on command (invocation). Aleister Crowley defined magick as "the art and science of causing change to occur in conformity with our will," and to this end the computer is the universal level of Archimedes, but the computers we know are in the very infancy of development, they cant even walk yet, but they will.

The parallels between the culture of the alchemists and that of cyberpunk computer adepts are inescapable. Both employ knowledge of an occult arcanum unknown to the population at large, with secret symbols and words of power. The "secret symbols" comprise the languages of computers and mathematics, and the "words of power" instruct computer operating systems to complete Herculean tasks. Knowing the precise code name of a digital program permits it to be conjured into existence, transcending the labor of muscular or mechanical search or manufacture.

Since God #1 appears to be held hostage back there by the blood-thirsty Persians, the telegenic Polish Pope or his German apprentice, and the Moral Majority, there's only one logical alternative. You "steer" your own course. You start your own religion. The Temple is your body. Your mind writes the theology. And the Holy Spirit emanates from that infinitely mysterious intersection between your brain and your DNA. So you search and research your very own genetic memory banks, the Old Testaments of your DNA-RNA, including, if you like, past incarnations and Jungian archetypes. And funky pre-incarnations in any future you can imagine!

You write your very own Newest Testament, recalling that voluntary martyrdom is tacky and crucifixions, like nuclear war, can ruin everyones day.. You can do anything the great religions, empires and racial groups have done in the name of God Number 1. and you're certain to do it better because... well, look at their track records. There's no way your Personal State could produce the persecutions, massacres and bigotries of the Big Guys. Why? Because there's only one of you, and even with the help of your friends the amount of damage an individual can do is insignificant compared with the evil-potential of the collective My generation stopped Vietnam and then went on to export 24 Tons of chemicals to Saddam after he torched a few Kurds, we are still exporting $128B of arms a year to basically anyone that wants to buy them and still wonder why 9/11 popped up to bite us.

And life itself confided this secret to me: "Behold," it said, "I am that which must always overcome itself. Indeed, you call it a will to procreate or a drive to an end, to something higher, farther, more manifold"
Thus Spake Zarathustra II 12

The transition from human to posthuman can be defined physically or memetically. Physically, we will have become posthuman only when we have made such fundamental and sweeping modifications to our inherited genetics, physiology, neurophysiology and neurochemistry, that we can no longer be usefully classified with Homo Sapiens. Memetically, we might expect posthumans to have a different motivational structure from humans, or at least the ability to make modifications if they choose. For example: transforming or controlling sexual orientation, intensity, and timing, or complete control over emotional responses through manipulation of neurochemistry.

Clearly we have already taken our first steps along the road to posthumanity. We have begun to directly alter our genetic structure to remedy nature's failures. We use Prozac, Piracetam, Hydergine, and Deprenyl to modify our psychology, enhance our concentration, and slow brain aging. Research into more specific and powerful neurochemical modifiers accelerates as we apply new tools from molecular biology, computer-assisted molecular design, and brain imaging.

The merging of human and machine is clear to those who survey the arena. Machines are becoming more organic, self-modifying, and intelligent. Driving these developments are fields such as artificial life, neural networks, fuzzy logic, intelligent agents, and machine intelligence. At the same time, we are beginning to incorporate our technology into our selves. We began with pacemakers, artificial joints, and contact lenses. Artificial retinas are under development, and signals have successfully been passed back and forth between a neuron in vitro and a field effect transistor. The researchers suggest the next step is to connect up an array of neurons and electronic components. Computers and their interfaces rapidly evolve to fit us: From mainframes and text-based interfaces to PCs and GUIs, PDAs, voice-recognition, and knowbots. How long before our computers are implanted in our brains, as seamlessly integrated into our cognition as an extra hemisphere? Maybe 10 years, maybe 50 or 60, but it's coming.

The dawn of the new millennium will see the ability to use engineered viruses to alter the genetic structure of any cell, even adult, differentiated cells. This will give us pervasive control over our physiology and morphology. Molecular nanotechnology, an emerging and increasingly funded technology, should eventually give us practically complete control over the structure of matter, allowing us to build anything, perfectly, atom-by-atom. We will be able to program the construction of physical objects (including our bodies) just as we now do with software. The abolition of aging and most involuntary death will be one result. We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.

Some machine intelligence researchers, roboticists, and cognitive scientists foresee even more radical posthuman possibilities. We may be able to "upload" our selves (our psychology, memories, emotional responses, values, feelings) from our biological brains into synthetic brains. Running on new hardware, perhaps connectionist nanocomputers, our mental processes could run up to a million times faster, and should admit of far easier and more extensive modification than allowed by our natural brains.

"It's unnatural." "Life without death would be meaningless." "I don't want to live longer than my allotted time." Not only physical immortality, but also the acquisition of superhuman (or posthuman) intelligence and ability they view with fear and trembling. Many episodes of the humanist Star Trek series embody these attitudes: Transcending the merely human always brings disaster, starting with the 2nd episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before." Such tales smell as rotten to me as those of Icarus, Frankenstein, and the Tower of Babel: Humans should just accept their limits. Don't build wings! Don't build towers that penetrate the heavens! Don't try to conquer aging and death! Cure the sick, but don't strengthen the healthyI'm proud to proclaim that I am indeed artificially intelligent. The intelligence I am currently using is the result of tremendous amounts of mental training that I have undergone. Most of my intelligence is my own
creation, and a lot of it is from other people who have taught me and from studying other people's work. If something is artificial, that means it is an artifact, created by humans. It does not mean "less than real" or "inferior", as many interpret it. Everything consciously created is, by definition, "artificial". My intelligence is almost entirely my own creation and the creation of other humans whom I have learned from. The basic "hardware" was provided by evolution, but the brilliant intelligence was something created by myself and other humans, and thus is "artificial".The more we direct our growth, the more artificial and self-created we become. I am proud to be artificially intelligent, and I am working dilligently on becoming even more so

But why? What is the purpose of it all?

The God of the Bible is not only related to the future by his promises, but he is himself the saving future that constitutes the core of the promises: "I shall be who I shall be" (Exodus 3:14). He is the God of the coming kingdom. In hidden ways he is already now the Lord of the universe which is his creation, but it is only in the future of the completion of this universe, in the arrival of his kingdom that he will be fully revealed in his kingship over the universe and thus in his divinity. Therefore, the future of the kingdom of God formed the core of Jesus' message as well as the objective of his prayer: "Thy kingdom come"

What I am suggesting is that the essence of Christianity is not a kingdom of heaven after death, not angels we cant see but a journey which ends in his kingdom the Omega Point of Tipler, Tipler the physicist and mathematician postulates that at our current progress all things will become known, There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, and hid, that shall not be known." (`Matt. 10:26`) and that we are a the point where in the near distant future we will have god like knowledge and things never believed possible will become so, “Look at the nations and watch – and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told”.( Habakkuk 1:5) Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered nor will they come to mind.(Isaiah 65:17)

The old men who hold their secret teachings to their chest are simply what they appear, they will soon make themselves obsolete, god did not make knowledge for the few, or truth for the elite, he made it for everyone, those who seek to control it do so for their own benefit. Just like the church will never be able to hold Christs words to their meaning. Their delusions are simply that , the delusions of men.

Yantra Painting

Sometimes external images are used in meditation or worship to symbolize or express certain divine ideas and qualities. When mantras (sound formulas used in meditation) or divine ideas are meditated upon, certain images are brought out. It is something like liquid crystallizing into solid form. These geometric figures are actually crystallized mantra forms. A yantra is a physical expression of a mantra - a mantra being a Divine aspect in the form of sound vibration - yantra in the form of a geometrical figure. Tantra has developed a system of thought which makes us see the universe as if it were within ourselves, and ourselves as if we were within the universe. Further the forces governing the cosmos on the macro-level are believed to govern the individual in the micro-level. According to tantra, the individual being and universal being are one. Thus all that exists in the universe must also exist in the individual body.

One of our major limitations in discovering this essential unity between the microcosm and the macrocosm is that we are accustomed to analyze the world into its separate parts, with the result that we lose sight of those parts' inter-relationship and their underlying unity. The way to fulfillment is through recognition of our wholeness linking man and the universe. This hence is the broad aim of Tantra art, achieved through visual symbols and metaphors.

Encompassing its whole pictorial range, Tantric imagery can be broadly grouped under three heads:

The Sanskrit word 'yantra' derives from the root 'yam' meaning to sustain, or hold. Hence in metaphysical terms a yantra is visualized as receptacle of the highest spiritual essence.

A Yantra is a pure geometric configuration, composed of basic primal shapes. These shapes are psychological symbols corresponding to inner states of human consciousness. This innate simplicity of composition is identified with spiritual presence. The use of such elementary shapes is not simplistic but represents the highest conception in visual terms, because the projection of the symbol is then direct and bold, so that even a small miniature can create a sense of expansiveness.

The dynamism of tantric imagery is generated by a quest for geometric order. A yantra represents a particular configuration whose power increases in proportion to the abstraction and precision of the diagram. A yantra gradually grows away from its center, in stages, until its expansion is complete. Around the center are several concentric figures which take part in this expansion. This concentric architecture defines the volume of the yantra and creates a rhythmic unity.

The predominant elementary forms of which yantras are constituted are the point, line, circle, triangle, square and the lotus symbol. All of these forms are juxtaposed, combined, intersected and repeated in various ways to produce the desired objective.

My friend Joni Pollard painted this huge one and it hangs on my loungeroom wall.

Have you ever noticed that some people spend their whole life focussing on things outside themselves. Some people define who they are by the what they see in others. Maybe you see the world clearer if you look within first.

When we are young we take everything for granted and as we get older we start to be more mindful of what we have.

Find your own home with a satellite

Now you can get a satellite photo of your street in seconds see if you can find mine ? for those of you who know where I live of course

Sydney Tsunami

The Tsnuami's made me dig a bit to find out how often they happen on the east coast of Australia. The biggest one was apparently 300m high approx 1900 years ago, thats why there are shells in the Blue Mountains 80kms inland, they occur every 3-500 years with the last one approx 375 years ago which was 30-50m. Here is a picture of Curl Curl Beach during a storm.

The Interfaith Movement was founded in 1997 as a secular educational organization whose mission is to make the world safe for religious difference by increasing respect, mutual understanding and fellowship among citizens of diverse religious faiths, and by fostering cooperation among religious communities and civic organizations to solve common social problems. HOW COOL IS THAT!

Although we live in the city we live next to the greatest wilderness of them all the Pacific Ocean. If you just started swimming that way you would eventually make it to South America (but you might just be a little tired)

Sometimes circumstances are outside your control and you just have to have faith and commit .

It funny how our own self awareness is so individual to each of us. Each of us is asleep to certain aspects of our true nature and its in this vunerability that truly makes us human. True love and compassion is about loving all things. Even the man in the giant speedos!!

This is a sign sitting on North Head not even sitting close to aything in particular. Its got concrete foundations and someones gone to allot of trouble to put it there ?

What a cool sandcastle !

Like I mentioned one other time surf wax companies get away with murder re sexual references, surfers arent that bright either "Do Not Eat"

When I was 14 Years old I had a red checked Miller shirt. Now I have one thats exactly the same YAY

My favourite girl in the world xxxxx

I so love this song at the moment YAY for Missy Higgins

"The Special Two"

I've hardly been outside my room in days,
'cause I don't feel that I deserve the sunshine's rays.
The darkness helped until the whiskey wore away,
And it's then I realize the conscience never fades.
When you're young you have this image of your life:
That you'll be scrupulous and one day even make a wife.
And you make boundaries you'd never dream to cross,
And if you happen to you wake completely lost.
But I will fight for you, be sure that
I will fight until we're the special two once again.

And we will only need each other, we'll breathe together,
Our hands would not be taught to hold another's,
When we were the special two.
And we could only see each other, we'd breathe together,
These arms will not be taught to need another,
'Cause we were the special two.

I remember someone old once said to me:
"Lies will lock you up with truth the only key."
But I was comfortable and warm inside my shell,
And couldn't see this place would soon become my hell.
So is it better to tell and hurt or lie to save their face?
Well I guess the answer is don't do it in the first place.
I know I'm not deserving of your trust from you right now,
But if by chance you change your mind you know I will not
Let you down 'cause we were the special two, and will be again.

And we will only need each other, we'll breathe together,
Our hands will not be taught to need another's,
When we're the special two.
And we could only see each other we'll breathe together,
These arms will not be taught to need another...

I step outside my mind's eye's for a minute.
And I look over me like a doctor looking for disease,
Or something that could ease the pain.
But nothing cures the hurt you, you bring on by yourself,
Just remembering, just remembering how we were...

Their first gig at the Coogee Bay Hotel . Trashy Sundays is what they call themselves all up a great first gig.

Rodger with his new board you might notice he spends more time in the air than on the ground. 

This is something you might never know without me . Nearly all the brands of surfwax read like the shelf of a sex shop in 1976. This is a packet of wax. 

Cal these shots are gorgeous, Cals a good mate a photographer of unbelievable passion shooting the Sebstar showing off. 

Seb gettin deep in a some shore break 

Cal man these shots are fabulous thank you so much yo dude yo