With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Masterful FTW Webmaster Fixes Website Problem
FTW's webmaster extraordinaire, while working in a voluntary capacity, has fixed the problem mentioned on this page the other day. JO
The FTW subscriber list should be turned into an email list, either on an opt-in or opt-out basis. I think in the absence of FTW itself we subscribers could help each other out.
I know of a site called The Intelligence Daily (http://www.inteldaily.com); it covers many topics similar to FTW. The site lacks original reporting, however, there is occassionaly some very good commentary. You might want to add it to your list of sites, if people want to get info about peak oil, arms trade, drug trafficking, etc. now that FTW is not operational.
Alexander Cockburn (Counterpunch) is getting desperate. The latest issue of the CP newsletter is almost entirely (except for one page!) given over to upholding Bush's 9/11 story by arguing that the planes brought down the WTC towers. As I noted before (http://ricefarmer.blogspot.com/2006/10/logical-fallacy-of-911-argumentation.html) this has no direct bearing on the matter because the case for US complicity is already made.
In the spirit of Richard Andrew Grove, asking questions and seeking answers, sharing infomation and seeking more information...working collaboratively not only to reveal the illusions for what they are but to also identify the illsionists and how they operate, their motives, their signatures...Is it tru the the "911 truth Movement" is still asking the same questions it was asking 3 or 4 years ago? Maybe we need more collaborators, more investigators, more people who have bits of the puzzle because somehow they participated directly or indirectly with the machinations behind the curtain. Thousands of people on the ground on 911 who have bits of the puzzle of that day and before and after.
I like this blog. This particular entry regarding the webmaster's successful efforts seems to be not only thanking the technician but also a general forum for exchanging ideas and resources. If I post again I promise to keep it short. I just have so much I want to say now.
It's a good idea where FTWers, truth seekers, complete story seekers, can exchange ideas and sources and stuff. Having a leader, embodied in one person makes an organization unnecessarily vulnerable. A group of active investigators and critical thinkers with perhaps a few guiding principals seems like a way to take us from being programmed and acted upon and fed (from WHATEVER malicious or benevolent source)...to actors--active and conscious and engaged beyond the primitive brain hot buttons and the armchair philosopher discussions.
rice farmer reminds me that we can only survive in community.
thank you ppuk for joomla. I've just started using google docs & spreadsheets. That might be helpful as well.
trevbus perhaps the email list can be input into a YahooGroups or whatever and then people can choose to opt in or opt out and can choose to be notified daily or not at all or on an "as it happens" basis. I can help input email addresses. We just create the "group" and do an email blast from "FTW"....I wonder how I can implement this without creating work for somebody else?
duff: Yeah, me too. How can I help? I can help in ways not dependent on my location hundres of miles form Oregon.
getoned: MLM is an EXCELLENT idea. Thanks for putting it out there.
Pandabonium -- Yes, the idea of Japan producing biofuels is really stupid, especially with a food self-sufficiency rate barely up around 40%, which I believe is the lowest of all industrialized countries. Yet, most young Japanese environmentalists think this is progress!
BTW, can Jenna give us any idea what's happening with FTW? We've thrown out lots of ideas, and I assume the FTW team is debating them. We're all on tenterhooks here.
we're on tenterhooks too. my hunch about the blog is that i'll post articles but more lackadaisically. all in flux on all fronts. we do know that ftw as we knew and loved it is a thing of the past but the cast of characters is still around. what everyone evolves into remains the question. we all need to keep our by-now-well-attuned ears to the ground.
Thanks for that news. I guess I'm repeating myself, but just a few thoughts:
First, even if the website stays up in its present form for a time, the content is priceless and must be preserved. I still recommend the CD-ROM route. If all the directories are copied onto other media just as is to maintain the hierarchical structure, users can navigate the database with a browser just as though they are looking at the current website. This would considerably enhance its usefulness as a research tool.
Second, assuming the site cannot be maintained as is indefinitely, downsize it to a more blog-like format that is inexpensive or even free. Provide a way for the FTW community to send in tips, which could be added to the information the FTW team already has. Then, with a minimum of time, FTW team members could post links they think are particularly valuable and append a few lines of commentary from the FTW viewpoint. Certainly no one could write articles especially for FTW any more, but they could post links to, or the texts of, things they have written elsewhere.
I'd also like some others here to elaborate their own ideas on what might be done.
Might I just say that usually when we leave our comfort zone or take action it is with the support and recommendation of a friend. Often we are told about something important but soon forget it or fail to act on it, because although we may not doubt the information, we do not like to act alone.
Usually a friend is someone we actually meet and know personally. So it is quite remarkable that Mike Ruppert and FTW have been for me, for about 4 years now, just like a friend. There are many things FTW has motivated me to do, read, think about, tell others about, that I would never have done otherwise - for many years I didn't personally know anyone else who read FTW, but you always made sense to me.
And it's that kind of voluntary spirit that can keep FTW going, even if in a downscaled form. Many thanks to the webmaster!
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, more dire predictions about the impending US economic meltdown.
"Bush’s Chernobyl economy; hard times are on the way"
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1411.shtml
The FTW subscriber list should be turned into an email list, either on an opt-in or opt-out basis. I think in the absence of FTW itself we subscribers could help each other out.
ReplyDeleteDear MR: Realize this is just a time of trial. You will be OK. As John Paul II use to say, "Be Not Afraid". You will be OK.
ReplyDeleteU.S. will train Latin American militaries: Ban lifted to offset trend toward left
ReplyDeletehttp://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20061110/1a_bottomstrip10.art.htm
If there is a way to volunteer and contribute to keeping FTW alive please let us know.
ReplyDeletedr rdw
VP CHENEY PROBABLE CAUSE OF 9-11
ReplyDeletehttp://thenewliberator.blogspot.com/2006/11/vp-cheney-probable-cause-o_116327646871421637.html
In large part, a summary of Rubicon.
(Japan) Ministry of Environment to Promote Production of Enough Biofuel for 40,000 Cars
ReplyDeletehttp://www.japanfs.org/db/database.cgi?cmd=dp&num=1543&dp=data_e.html
I know of a site called The Intelligence Daily (http://www.inteldaily.com); it covers many topics similar to FTW. The site lacks original reporting, however, there is occassionaly some very good commentary. You might want to add it to your list of sites, if people want to get info about peak oil, arms trade, drug trafficking, etc. now that FTW is not operational.
ReplyDeleteAlexander Cockburn (Counterpunch) is getting desperate. The latest issue of the CP newsletter is almost entirely (except for one page!) given over to upholding Bush's 9/11 story by arguing that the planes brought down the WTC towers. As I noted before (http://ricefarmer.blogspot.com/2006/10/logical-fallacy-of-911-argumentation.html)
ReplyDeletethis has no direct bearing on the matter because the case for US complicity is already made.
Article on "Lifting the Fog"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/12/18329055.php
Perhaps Jenna (who was a presenter) can suggest some good links.
Rice Farmer reported: "(Japan) Ministry of Environment to Promote Production of Enough Biofuel for 40,000 Cars"
ReplyDeleteGreat, and we don't even grow enough food in Japan to meed half our needs. Now we're going to grow edible plants to feed cars instead of humans?
Considering the papers you have written on this, you must really find this kind of report frustrating.
By the way, I was in a grocery store in Kashima the other day and they had very cheap specials on brocolli and celery - from the USA. Yipes.
In the spirit of Richard Andrew Grove, asking questions and seeking answers, sharing infomation and seeking more information...working collaboratively not only to reveal the illusions for what they are but to also identify the illsionists and how they operate, their motives, their signatures...Is it tru the the "911 truth Movement" is still asking the same questions it was asking 3 or 4 years ago? Maybe we need more collaborators, more investigators, more people who have bits of the puzzle because somehow they participated directly or indirectly with the machinations behind the curtain. Thousands of people on the ground on 911 who have bits of the puzzle of that day and before and after.
ReplyDeleteI like this blog. This particular entry regarding the webmaster's successful efforts seems to be not only thanking the technician but also a general forum for exchanging ideas and resources. If I post again
I promise to keep it short. I just have so much I want to say now.
It's a good idea where FTWers, truth seekers, complete story seekers, can exchange ideas and sources and stuff. Having a leader, embodied in one person makes an organization unnecessarily vulnerable. A group of active investigators and critical thinkers with perhaps a few guiding principals seems like a way to take us from being programmed and acted upon and fed (from WHATEVER malicious or benevolent source)...to actors--active and conscious and engaged beyond the primitive brain hot buttons and the armchair philosopher discussions.
rice farmer reminds me that we can only survive in community.
thank you ppuk for joomla. I've just started using google docs & spreadsheets. That might be helpful as well.
trevbus perhaps the email list can be input into a YahooGroups or whatever and then people can choose to opt in or opt out and can choose to be notified daily or not at all or on an "as it happens" basis. I can help input email addresses. We just create the "group" and do an email blast from "FTW"....I wonder how I can implement this without creating work for somebody else?
duff: Yeah, me too. How can I help? I can help in ways not dependent on my location hundres of miles form Oregon.
getoned: MLM is an EXCELLENT idea. Thanks for putting it out there.
Pandabonium -- Yes, the idea of Japan producing biofuels is really stupid, especially with a food self-sufficiency rate barely up around 40%, which I believe is the lowest of all industrialized countries. Yet, most young Japanese environmentalists think this is progress!
ReplyDeleteExcerpt from "Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.emagazine.com/view/?3469
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11680
ReplyDeleteMore on the food/fuel debate over biofuels.
BTW, can Jenna give us any idea what's happening with FTW? We've thrown out lots of ideas, and I assume the FTW team is debating them. We're all on tenterhooks here.
we're on tenterhooks too. my hunch about the blog is that i'll post articles but more lackadaisically. all in flux on all fronts. we do know that ftw as we knew and loved it is a thing of the past but the cast of characters is still around. what everyone evolves into remains the question. we all need to keep our by-now-well-attuned ears to the ground.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that news. I guess I'm repeating myself, but just a few thoughts:
ReplyDeleteFirst, even if the website stays up in its present form for a time, the content is priceless and must be preserved. I still recommend the CD-ROM route. If all the directories are copied onto other media just as is to maintain the hierarchical structure, users can navigate the database with a browser just as though they are looking at the current website. This would considerably enhance its usefulness as a research tool.
Second, assuming the site cannot be maintained as is indefinitely, downsize it to a more blog-like format that is inexpensive or even free. Provide a way for the FTW community to send in tips, which could be added to the information the FTW team already has. Then, with a minimum of time, FTW team members could post links they think are particularly valuable and append a few lines of commentary from the FTW viewpoint. Certainly no one could write articles especially for FTW any more, but they could post links to, or the texts of, things they have written elsewhere.
I'd also like some others here to elaborate their own ideas on what might be done.
Might I just say that usually when we leave our comfort zone or take action it is with the support and recommendation of a friend. Often we are told about something important but soon forget it or fail to act on it, because although we may not doubt the information, we do not like to act alone.
ReplyDeleteUsually a friend is someone we actually meet and know personally. So it is quite remarkable that Mike Ruppert and FTW have been for me, for about 4 years now, just like a friend. There are many things FTW has motivated me to do, read, think about, tell others about, that I would never have done otherwise - for many years I didn't personally know anyone else who read FTW, but you always made sense to me.
Thanks Mike
"Cuban Oil and Ethanol Could Prosper in Havana’s Hunt for Energy Supplies"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.coha.org/2006/11/17/cuban-oil-and-ethanol-could-prosper-in-havana’s-hunt-for-energy-supplies/