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Ever wondered how social change happens?

Ever wondered whether society will ever question the relevance of 911 to the ongoing Peak Oil resource wars?

If you wondered those things, wonder no longer. A great article entitled, "The Next Stage of the 9/11 Truth Movement", by Carol Brouillet, spells it all out for us in eight neat stages.

According to the article, we are already beyond Stage 3 - "Ripening Conditions" and we are now in stage 4, waiting for the "Trigger Event" to propel a threshold of society beyond their inner fears towards stage 7 and 8, "success" and "continuation" of social change.

These large social change events take time, according to the article. And the pitfalls include divisions within the movement, often instigated from within.

Sometimes intentionally, for example during the 1960's the COINTELPRO program of Hoover's FBI had agents posing as political radicals in order to disrupt the activities of anti-war and other movements.




Sometimes unintentionally, for example here recently when Mike Ruppert said that 911 is dead because too many in the movement have not kept up to Mike's high standard of investigatory research.



Did Mike Ruppert Cop Out?

Since Mike's declaration that 911 is dead and subsequent suggestion that all 911 researchers and victims just back off and forget all about it, there has been a strong and public resistance against his position.

1 - Victor Thorn calls it a "betrayal of the greatest magnitude" and "possibly and indication of something even more sinister"
2 - John Judge calls it "cynicism that paralyzes political organizing and action"
3 - And John Kaminski laments Ironically, it was Ruppert's story that got us started on this path of suspicion, but now he's saying don't pursue it

Readers of PeakOil.com's Current Events Forum may recall that Richard Heinberg recently handed Investigative Journalist Greg Palast his own head in an article entitled: An Open Letter to Greg Palast



Heinberg's letter is truly a work of art. I urge all of you frustrated communicators to make a case study of this article by Richard Heinberg. It has the content, the mood, the flow and the challenge all tuned perfectly for impact. If Greg Palast doesn't do the right thing and retract, it will be a turning point in his career. I like Greg on a number of levels, but there comes a time when you have to admit error publicly and Heinberg brought that horse to the river. Now, let's see if it drinks.

So, back to the original question of this article...

Ever wondered how social change happens?

It is happening right now.

Check out "The Next Stage of the 9/11 Truth Movement", by Carol Brouillet to see where we are right now in this great awakening.

Check out Richard Heinberg's An Open Letter to Greg Palast to see how to deal with falsehoods and misdirection within our ranks.

And subscribe to Mike Ruppert's From The Wilderness publication for some of the best investigative journalism on the planet today. I do, and I love it.

Tough love.

We all make mistakes. We all fail... repeatedly. It is not the falling down that matters, but the getting up. I know Mike will get up from his recent vandalism attack and I hope Greg get's up from his stupid position on Peak Oil. Edgar Hoover... well he won't be gettin' up soon because he's dead. No second chances for the unrepentant dead.

So let's all remember that and make our life worth living!

[Fergus]

Life is what you make of it. And what you make of it is a product of your upbringing. If you grew up in an intollerent society, you will grow up to be intollerent of others and differences. If you grew up in a laxidasical pampered society, you will be soft and kind hearted, sometimes to a fault.

Changes happen cause something called for it. Society, inequity, climate or land changes, natural disaters, politally motivated, religously motivated.

Humans are resilient and can not be pigeoned holed into a size, catagory or any other limiting label. We will grow till we overshoot and then deal with the consequences. It happens in every civilization in any era of time you care to study.

Remember we are finite beings on a finite world, yet we do not grasp the implications of that. We consider ourselves masters of our domain. Anything out there is ours to use as we sit fit at this time. For good or bad.

Social changes are a refection of something new learned or something old forgetten, a finite resource depeleted, a war or other manmade event or some natural catastrophic event.

9/11 was an event. manmade for sure. It was a rallying cry for both the perpetrators and the victims. It caused social changes. It might be forgotten as the event, but it will be remembered (if anyone is around to remember) as a key point in the events that lead to the destruction of the world (if it comes to that). It might fade with time, the import lost on future events and generations. But the idea that we were attacked will ever be present in the minds of those that know. Remember time keeps on ticking wether we are ready for it or not. Time plays no favorites and in the end time will be ticking away, even though no humans will be alive to count the ticks.

We are all here for a finite time, as an individual and as a race. Your right, we need to make the best of what time we have. But with so much going on now, its hard. When the action of a few pple across the globe can impact your life, it really is out of your hands wether your happy of not. The world does not stop turning cause your unhappy. Again, we just have to deal with the mess we made and realize we made it, so this is our own cumupence. like humans of any age before, we will deal with it. based on history, we probably wont deal with it in the best way possible, but we will muddle through and a few of us will eventually learn to enjoy life again as some future point.

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