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Action is needed NOW. This is no longer a drill. Fascists are now in charge. For those of us who are older and have even modest wealth, we can have an effect by boycotting, Jeff Bezos kept his Washington Post editors from endorsing Harris, drop your subscription and dump Amazon forever. Don't buy Teslas. Musk is assigned to cut government civil servants we depend on. Trump and his minions are coming for social security and healthcare. Climate change is already causing mass migration and hundreds of thousands of extra deaths every year. $100 billion climate catastrophes are now common place. Fight for your children and grandchildren. Irreversible climate tipping points are at hand or surpassed. It's now or never. Consider what science so missing from our wealthy owned media doesn't tell us. https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/the-planet-has-limits-so-must-we

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This is an order, folks. Subscribe to Geoffrey. He's featured in this post and has been in prior ones. (Hit the link to read what I posted on a post of his plus some conversation we had there.) He's the real deal, from head and heart!!! We have to work from where we are to get where we're going and and Geoffrey will rivet you in the calamity of now.

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Yes, people need to wake up and use their heads, like their mother probably told them a few times!

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Big yes. It is so dogshit logical to be good.

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Thanks Suzanne! I appreciate your “going gets tough/tough get going” attitude.

Painful as the current state of affairs is, it was probably a necessary stimulus to make us reconsider our current consumptive, competitive, exploitative, accumulative trajectory — one that can only lead to eventual collapse. I had hoped that a critical mass could wake up, understand, and set a new course. But no, we all want our investments to “go up” (those of us who still have them), so the train rolls on.

I regularly return to the Buckminster Fuller quote: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

The immediate response to last week’s election: fight! organize!, resist!, oppose! — righteous though those sentiments may be in theory, is clearly the "old model". In practical terms, over the past half-century they have failed to deliver the world we hope for.

To put it simply, any strategy based on posing enemies, then fighting and opposing them, is a recipe for continued failure. We’d spend eternity playing Whack-a-Mole in a Hall of Mirrors.

Your initial calls for a committee or other body to rise above the fray, tap into a new level of conscious, and begin to articulate a new vision for society are right on the mark and vitally needed.

Good luck to us all!

-Bill

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Yes, I'm totally on your wavelength -- as usual. You are on the list for Zooming as I try to get more power players. The Intercept, that I like a lot, just put out a piece about pending legislation where they could get their non-profit status revoked. They said, "Now, Congress is on the verge of handing him a powerful new weapon to attack political dissidents and nonprofit news outlets like The Intercept....Our reporters are sounding the alarm about this draconian legislation, and your donations are an absolutely vital source of funding for this reporting. I said this:

"Money fighting money. It’s the American way. I know, what else can you do?

"You can be involved in creating a massive force. Millions of people so it isn’t all gadflies, with or without budgetary needs. Something deeper is called for – insisted upon as this money money money thing is sending us off the cliff.

"Get yourselves subscribed to my Substack. I’m no great power but I have a voice and it’s screaming now. Talk to me. Let’s make a plan.

"Today's Substack: It takes disasters to get massive changes to happen

https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/it-takes-disasters-to-get-massive-a2b"

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Suzanne, you are 110% correct! If we fall into the money-vs-money trap, "they" have us out-gunned a million to one. Guaranteed loss. It's time for a more transcendental approach!

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From the video and what you said it sounds like we've hit rock bottom, and that's hopefully where change comes.

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Message landed!

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We have not hit bottom unless we have the courage to act. Be afraid. Don't wait for leadership, they brought us here.

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I can feel the vibe of being in an open wound together -- like in circumscribed disasters where we are a connected, feeling body. Yes to you, and note that courageous action is starting to be underway. It sure is for me, where I'm bolder that I ever have been.

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Our”HigherSelves” already are driving the “ Orihinal Designed” desires to progress through the “ mire” during these apocalyptic tests…stressing the need for “ deeper introspection” through progressing steadily… NOT to “ hang up the hat” of our generational calling…!Its time to “ recharging our spiritual Reserves” , for future demands of our Age of Eve… n a leaning to “ relate” our deeper sorrows n small triumphs to our DivineFeminine( Mother/“Sister”God,Whose prime reason for our Creation “ is for the “ relationship” that can bring Ecstatic loving JOY” 😇

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If you say so...it takes all styles to save this world. For sure the Divine Feminine knows best!

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Our Mother /“Sister” God is focus on balancing gender universally, for peace leadership development…, n healing of “generational trauma” in older cultures…! She wants us women, Her dearest cherished daughters, to “ relate” all of our sorrows n JOYs of our daily lives w/Her as Our Heavenly Parent…eg: breast feeding of our babies, breaking of our loving relationships, of losses n triumphs alike…keep “ journals” nitely to Her of our most vital needs ! Blessings always for your platform for freedom to express Her Divine Heart!😍🥰😇🤓

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I cannot agree less.

The world needs action, not just words and blabbings. Sadly, we're running outta time already

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What I say is all about how we the people can take action, so what do you disagree with?

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when the turmoil comes and we get a political opening we need to know what our demands must be and they must include petrocommunism so we can rapidly decrease FF emissions and you can find out about that on my substack

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I'd like an elevator pitch. If you don't give an essence there's too much competing for attention now to be attracted to having to read a lot to discover what you're talking about, which seems like a slant that isn't like others that are out there.

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We declare all fossil fuels to be public property to be administered by governmental body. It becomes illegal for any private entity to sell fuel. We only sell fuel to entities using it for socially necessary purposes where there aren't alternative energy sources available. All amidst a rapid deployment of nuclear and next-gen geothermal.

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This AM I had contacts that showed a much needed spirituality reminder tarot card of “ progressing introspection” (which is the signature “ Hang Man” tarot cards meaning on the whole… , which as a mediumistic “ empsthic” I get its described state for our times!

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You know, spell check would be good to get your messages across.

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