Author Archives: tortugo23

Monthly Fred Rogers Quote

For more information about Fred Rogers and Family Communications, the company he founded, please visit our website at www.fci.org

“Imagining something may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.”

Positive spin on future of suburbia

The End of Suburbia is a must see documentary about peak oil, arguing that it spells a hard crash for the suburban dream. David Holmgren here offers a counterview, a vision of a radically retrofitted, food producing suburbia. David Holmgren is the co-originator of Permaculture. http://www.holmgren.com.au

evolver.net

What is Evolver.net?
Evolver is a new social network for conscious collaboration. It provides a platform for individuals, communities, and organizations to discover and share the new tools, initiatives, and ideas that will improve our lives and change the world. Evolver promotes sexy sustainability, yoga glamour, and shaman chic.
Are you an evolver?
Evolvers are hope [...]

What to do with foreclosed houses—How about letting homeless families move in?

What to do with foreclosed houses—How about letting homeless families move in? An innovative idea that’s also illegal.
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/526/index.html
American streets are littered with foreclosed houses, but one daring advocate says these homes shouldn’t go to waste. He encourages and facilitates homeless squatting. It’s an idea that addresses two issues at once – homelessness and foreclosed homes—and [...]

openfilm.com

Openfilm is changing the world of online video entertainment. Whether it’s an animated short, comedy, documentary or other type of film, we are the source for the highest quality video content on the Web!
Our Focus
The site showcases a fast-growing collection of high quality live-action and animated films displayed in high resolution. Openfilm provides a venue [...]

Looking for a FREE T-Shirt?

Free T-Shirt
You can own your own Oogavé T-shirt for the ludicrously low price of . . . nothing. Nada, zip, zilch, zero, free (except for shipping and handling of course but that goes without saying).
All you have to do is send us a check or money order in the amount of $5 (for the aforementioned [...]

Break it down KRS

Break it down KRS-One 1/3

Break it down KRS 2/3

Break it down KRS 3/3

Professor Griff (Public Enemy) says No to Barack Obama, Supports Cynthia Mckinney

Professor Griff of the legendary rap group Public Enemy tells the world why he supports Green Party presidential ticket of Cynthia Mckinney/Rosa Clemente instead of Barack Obama. This interview touch on other topics such as FISA, NAFTA, Skull-N-Bones, Sean Bell, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, AIPAC, Israel and Obama avoiding Memphis on [...]

The Obama Deception HQ Full length version

The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people.
The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order. He is being pushed as savior in an attempt to con [...]

Phasing you out of you tube

Hulu is Killing Youtube

Human, All Too Human (BBC) – Jean Paul Sartre

Human, All Too Human (BBC) – Jean Paul Sartre: Part 1

Human, All Too Human (BBC) – Jean Paul Sartre: Part 2

Human, All Too Human (BBC) – Jean Paul Sartre: Part 3

Human, All Too Human (BBC) – Jean Paul Sartre: Part 4
[...]

It’s on!

The BBC’s Ben Brown reports on the violence at the RBS offices
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7977489.stm

Protesters stormed a London office of the Royal Bank of Scotland as thousands of people descended on the City ahead of the G20 summit of world leaders.
Demonstrators launched missiles and forced their way into the bank after [...]

Animation and drawings by BLU

http://www.blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm
http://www.blublu.org/
http://www.blublu.org/blog/

SQUAT your own homes!

Rep: Foreclosed owners should squat in their own homes
David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster
Published: Friday January 30, 2009
If you’re poor and the bank is coming for your home, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur has a plan for you.
Just squat, she says.
Yes, this Ohio Democrat is actually encouraging her financially distressed constituents whose homes [...]

Read a Book (Dirty Version)

Home Squatters

a la . . . http://www.realitysandwich.com/home_squatters

A US Congresswoman from Ohio, Marcy Kaptur, is encouraging her  constituents to squat in their foreclosed homes, counseling them to to refuse to leave without “an attorney and a fight.”  She is advocating that homeowners stay put until the bank “produces the note” that proves it owns the [...]

Off the grid of modern technology

more about “Off the grid of modern technology “, posted with vodpod
What do you think, is it possible, would you want to, is he doing it right?
What benefits would it have in the practice of Bioregional Animism?
How would you do it?

Being Human

John Trudell at the People of Color Conference 2008 in New Orleans.

The Intentional Economy

The Intentional Economy
http://realitysandwich.com/intentional_economy
Daniel Pinchbeck

While exploring shamanism and non-ordinary states, I discovered the power of intention. According to the artist Ian Lungold, who lectured brilliantly about the Mayan Calendar before his untimely death a few years ago, the Maya believe that your intention is as essential to your ability to navigate reality as your position in [...]

BLDGBLOG Book

a la http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/bldgblog-book-bldgblog-book.html
I’m still reeling from the announcement of Postopolis! – but the good news keeps on coming.
To make a long story still rather long…
Back in January, Alan Rapp, the art, design, and photography editor for Chronicle Books, attended a BLDGBLOG event hosted by the Center for Land Use Interpretation here in Los Angeles.
Alan and [...]

When you give up on hope

A WONDERFUL THING happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize that giving up on hope didn’t kill you. It didn’t even make you less effective. In fact it made you more effective, because you ceased relying on someone or something [...]

SuicideGirls

Brad Warner on Suicide Girls

turn off all the noises you can

For more information about Fred Rogers and Family Communications, the company he founded, please visit our website at www.fci.org

“Here’s a gift you may not have expected. It’s a gift for you to give yourself. Sometime in your day today, try to turn off all the noises you can around you, and give yourself some ‘quiet [...]