Wade Frazier, a very simpatico listmember, is doing something that I'm putting into a new “links” category o­n this site, “Unique Voices Making Sense of These Times.” A few words from Wade:

Until the underlying political-economic reality behind why there is no alternative energy is comprehended, we can have a million “bright ideas” and they will go nowhere. My stuff is too rad for even the rad left, as the idea that there is conscious manipulation of the system, at levels that are truly scary to consider, simply fries their circuits. If we are going to escape the reality box we sit in, we have to become familiar with what that coffee really smells like.

The thing that makes my work “radical” is that I have challenged nearly all the assumptions we have built our ideologies o­n. The capture and consumption of energy is the basis for all life o­n earth, which all human systems ride atop. All wars have been fought over economic issues. The ruling classes concoct religious, political, racial, and ethnic rationales to put noble veneers o­n mass murder. And the people fall for it because the game everybody is playing is that it is all about economics.

I made my site so people can be educated — or I “dis-educate” them by showing how shaky the conventional wisdom is. I may be directing some people at you who are trying to work with others o­n the big game, and could benefit from your “rabble-rousing.”

Bucky Fuller was saying a long time ago that politics is obsolete as a fundamental problem-solver. At best, politics is a janitor. Economics has always been in humanity's driver's seat, and energy runs that car. It probably cannot get clearer than this phony “war o­n terror,” which is all about securing energy and expanding imperial domination so even more energy can be secured.

The scarcity paradigm can come crashing down if enough of us care enough to make it happen. The inertia of humanity, and our dark path brethren who are trying to turn earth into a hell, are formidable obstacles, but I believe it can be done. When the scarcity paradigm collapses, a completely different humanity is going to appear. The answers to the most pressing problems are here, but nearly universally ignored, and those who say they seek the solutions are often the biggest obstacles to attaining them. It is very weird, even surreal.

I'm linking to Wade's Linksletter, a new name for what he's been doing in serving a small list with commentary that succinctly tracks the major ideas that are in play, into which he inserts urls to pieces o­n the Net. It's intended to do what this site is trying to do in “making sense of these times.”

For a sample, here was Wade's last commentary, without the urls so you easily can see the scope of what you could learn about by clicking through to the linked pieces. Wade's unusual in that his life experience has placed him at the center of many of the things making the news. Also unusual is that he sees beyond the wisdom of the radical left with an understanding of o­neness that you rarely find in the political spectrum.

Linksletter #1 — without the urls (get them in Wade Frazier's Linksletter, column left)

February 24, 2003

Geov Parish [a much appreciated Featured Columnist in our last format….ST] is a fellow Seattleite, and his latest is about the war plans the U.S. has for Iraq which will make Hiroshima appear tame, with virtually nobody in the U.S. seeming to care.

Tom Tomorrow's latest is pretty hilarious. I link to some of the best political cartoonists o­n the Internet.

It is evident that Bush, Blair, Powell, Rumsfeld and the rest are lying at every turn. Blair's dossier o­n Iraq turned out to be plagiarized. Since every rationale Blair has invoked has collapsed, he is trying to conjure a moral reason for invading Iraq. There has not been a humanitarian invasion in world history. Whatever benefits have been derived by invasion have been unintended consequences. Oil is the main driving force behind invading Iraq, with some other complementary motivations, and it has been o­n the slate for a very long time.

One of the most cynical exercises in recent memory is Turkey holding out for an outright bribe in order to support the invasion of Iraq. Just today they accepted 15 billion dollars from the U.S. The Kurds are in deep trouble. This deal is very similar to the “cash register coalition” that the U.S. fabricated for the Gulf War of 1991.

John Pilger's new book shows how the U.S.-British “low intensity genocide” is devastating the Iraqi people. o­ne aspect of the U.S. economic assault o­n Iraq is the collapse of its education system, o­nce the Arab world's finest. The experience of Afghanistan after being “liberated” the U.S. gives a hint of what Iraq can expect.

Bush lies nearly every time he opens his mouth now. Powell's presentation at the U.N. is o­ne of the more impressive cases of high level disinformation I have seen. Now, it appears as if Blair, Bush and friends are going to seize o­n Iraqi missiles that might go a few more miles than advertised as their rationale for invasion.

Here is the position of principled leftists o­n why invading Iraq should be avoided. The good news is that the public demonstrations of February 15, and other public efforts, are tarnishing the Bush image globally and are affecting the U.S. media. Bush is going full steam ahead before the resistance becomes too formidable.

The European politicians backing Bush are doing it in defiance of their citizenry, and Blair's days may be numbered. Some reporting o­n Blair receiving huge bribes is interesting.

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