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Hola, Dear Blog Reader

On the off-chance that you just got here by searching for the word, if you are one of the few who “get it” about the one word title of this tiny little blog, lemme re-direct you to a site that will do you some good --- in enlightenment if nothing else:

http://www.collapsenet.com/

It’s Michael C. Ruppert’s new website. He’s been saying a whole lot of the stuff we’ve been thinking about, ranting about, witnessing, and participating in regarding The Crash.

If you haven’t seen the movie Collapse, you can find your way to it from here.

There’s a really sobering little lecture up on his site right now that dovetails in with the Crash mantras:

http://www.cctv.org/watch-tv/programs/author-and-peak-oil-activist-michael-ruppert

His lecture title is all about the secessionist movement and the Lifeboat Philosophy (see Garrett Hardin for the roots), but it’s basically Ruppert laying out the near future for a sympathetic audience.

If you need even stronger stuff, you’ll have to log in to his website (10 bux a month). It’s prolly worth that just for the rant about the Gulf Oil Catastrophe.

I’ll put up no more review than that here in this post. Ruppert has his flaws and his blind spots just like the rest of us; but you know, the time for requiring perfect clarity from our prophets is over.

This’ll help.

WHY BEES?

It’s kind of a Postcivilateum idea.

After you’ve come through the several stages of Earth Crisis Awareness (denial, despair, my x equals world saving, ... yadda x3) you arrive at this perceptual clarity where the actual possibilities of doing some actual good – rather than sending a check and singing Kumbaya – are actually apparent. By y’self … can’t save the whales, nor the amphibians, nor the coral reefs by acting locally, even if you think globally.

But …

You can save the bees. Locally. All you need is a back yard and some scrap lumber. It’s a whole movement, ya know? Organic, sustainable, hands-on beekeeping. One voice says that beehives should be more plentiful than televisions. The respected queen goddess of beekeeping says we need hundreds and hundreds of new beekeepers to get involved.

We H. Saps made Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), weakened the honeybee to susceptibility to varroa mites, and umpty other diseases that are killing them off. We should take some responsibility to fix this. Imean, do you like having the plants that provide your food supply pollinated or not?

Yeah. So I’ve already started. Gotta whole ‘nother blog started to rant all about it. C’mon over and see if ya wanna save some bees too. [ED Note, Aug, 09 - This post was a while back. I've since dismantled that blog. The bees wanted me to shut up about it.]

And, besides, the Goddess wants you to save them.