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thefreelioness:

In a briefing with the press, deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes said that any military strike on Syria would be a response to chemical weapons—and would ‘not [intend] to resolve the underlying political crisis within Syria.’ Instead, ‘the underlying political crisis within Syria’ would be dealt with diplomatically, he said. 

So we’re just bombing them as punishment.  They’re no longer even pretending it would help the Syrians.  Our government believes that more violence is the most appropriate response to violence.

socialismartnature:

The business of war is more profitable than ever.

While the sequester kicks children out of pre-school, major military contractors are celebrating record profits and stock prices.

samsaranmusing:

What is the hypothesis of Gaia ? Stated simply, the idea is that we may have discovered a living being bigger, more ancient, and more complex than anything from our wildest dreams. That being, called Gaia, is the Earth.

At first glance this may may sound like so much “New…

Magicians are generally those interested in exploring the terrain of the psyche and body rather than rushing toward union with the divine. Experimentation and reflection create an interactive proce…

geeksoutafterdark:

This week James and Shade bring back their fellow Mid-World Arts writers Stephan Michael Loy and Dick Thomas to talk about religion in genre fiction. Our apologies for the crappy sound in this episode.

quickenedtendrils:

http://esotericonline.net/docs/

I think I just found the motherload of free occult / esoteric e-books and audio. Get’m while they’re hot.

thetwistedrope:

One question about sex magick – can a virgin practice it?

—Anonymous

That would depend on how you define ‘virgin’? I think that virgin is a useless and horrible concept meant to keep women in their place (below men). But I consider masturbation to fall under sex magix, so technically, by…