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Gulf is gelded & Florida Bobbitt-severed from mainland!

By  The Green Ranter (A.P.P. Associated Psychic Press).

In the use of vast amounts of Nalco Corexit dispersant, BP & their human minions did the planetary equivalent of sweeping dirt under a rug. In this case the rug was the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. Please allow me to introduce how this & other factors including factory farms, the typical American lawn, ongoing fossil fuel use, golf courses, municipal waste water, & Hurricane Virginie led to castration on a continental scale as well as the severing of Florida from the lower 48. Humans tinkering with things they don’t understand (i.e. biochemical nanotechnology) have bred their first nano-monster. Didn’t Godzilla teach you anything after you let the nuclear cat out of the bag? Read the rest of this entry →

Caylee Anthony

I know that I’ve mostly posted articles concerning the environment in this community and have failed to keep with the broader mission of this website which is to harness consumer power to demand high standards of ethics across the wider range of issues where consumption behaviors can have an effect in the world of business, politics and culture. The recent failure of the American criminal justice system with respect to to the death of two year old Caylee Anthony has reminded me of my original intentions for The Conscious Consumers’ Community.

I decided I would take a stand to do whatever I could to prevent Casey Anthony from personally profiting from the death of her daughter the minute I saw her first post-acquittal TV appearance where she let her hair down, smiled and posed for the cameras. Her first act, (that of appearing respectable, downtrodden, & sad before jurors & cameras) was over and she was now back to her real self for her second act, (the self that was partying while her daughter lay in a shallow grave). I’m asking the members of the Conscious Consumers’ Community to join me on a quest to prevent  Casey Anthony from gaining any more fame or money  through the death of her daughter.

I propose a consumer boycott against any company & their sponsors  that pay Casey Anthony for anything related to death of her daughter. This boycott will exist until it is proven beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt exactly how a 2 year old girl wound up in a shallow grave with tape covering her mouth & whomever put her there is brought to justice. I want to send a message to any broadcaster, network or other media company & their sponsors that the idea of Casey Anthony gaining profit or fame through the death of her daughter is abhorrent to the members of this community & we will boycott all their programming & sponsors.

Please comment if you agree with me on this issue &/or become a member of this community & post a profile where you can share your own views on this or any consumer issue so we the consumers can stand together to have an effect on the media ‘CULTure’.

The following reviews for my book “Apocalypse Near“, sorted from newest to oldest. Please post your review or comment below or & on it’s Amazon page.

Rip-roaring sci-fi adventure with a serious social conscience
by Cole Bellamy

The author’s self-described ‘metaphysical autobiography’ may just be the next big step in the arms race between fantasy and reality. This book has a strong sense of the fantastical while keeping an eye on the the impact that literature can potentially have on the real world. Filled with scenes of both the beauty and terror, Apocalypse Near is a novel that refuses to exist in a vacuum, it is unashamedly didactic, a book that has a clear and important message yet doesn’t skimp on solid, pulpy, action or original imagery. While the writing is slightly clunky at times, it hardly takes away from the overall experience of the book. I highly recommend it to fans of the social/political pulp sci-fi of the 60′s and the 70′s, authors like Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert, Keith Laumer and E.E. Doc Smith.

A Multigenre Multimedia Masterpiece!, April 26, 2010

Apocalypse Near: A Metaphysical ODDyssey is truly a work ahead of its time, pioneering the genre of the hyper-real. (According to the author, “Hyper-reality is to reality what metaphysics is to physics.”) In this ultra personal memoir, author and protagonist “E” reveals to the reader that knowledge is the ultimate defence against the imminent annihilation humankind brings on itself– and fear, the ultimate enemy.

The story, unfolding from a first-person vantage point, begins with his looming death sentence under a freeway overpass and continues through rescue, recovery, and REVELution. Upon waking up following intensive emergency brain surgery, the protagonist finds himself with no memory of his former life, and the terrifying revelation of earth’s pending expiration date. This is his quest to simultaneously unravel the mystery of his identity and to reveal to the ignorant unknowing masses their own self-demise– and what might be done to stop it. In the midst of this significant task, he finds himself fighting a new enemy of his own making. In a story at some times comical and others terrifying, the dualistic settings are first described in terms of the physical “seen” and then what lies beyond sensory perception, relentlessly drawing the audience in and converting him from reader to spectator in this divine comedy. Read the rest of this entry →

America could be the breadbasket to the world. Instead the Standard American Diet (acronymed as S.A.D.) kills in  various & sundry ways. Americans have one of the world’s highest rates of heart disease (you call it a disease, but it’s really a CHOICE). Your bloody choice also contributes to planetary problems as meatcentric diets become popular in other parts of the world.

The core of the problem is the vast amount of natural capital it takes to produce a meat-centric diet. According to your “Worldwatch Institute”, “Perhaps the greatest potential for increasing food use efficiency lies in reducing consumption of meat, a grain intensive food… Reducing consumption of livestock, especially beef, could free up massive quantities of grain & reduce pressure on land”. Read the rest of this entry →

[SAN FRANCISCO] “Apocalypse Near“, a first novel by screenwriter Eric Haase won first place at The Green Book Festival in the electronic / interactive book category. The book combines the true account of Haase’s clinical death experience with cyberpunk science fiction elements & interactive media (animation, film clips & dynamic web pages). The author created the online media to intensify the book’s message about environmental predicaments, why they may be occurring & what he learned while clinically dead that could help avert further catastrophe. Read the rest of this entry →

Originally published on The Conscious Consumers Network: ( 06/22/05 )

It seems aneurysms, (defined as an abnormal ballooning of a portion of an artery, related to weakness in the artery wall) have been a recurring news item lately as they have afflicted celebrities: (actor John Ritter [thoracic aortic aneurysm], singer Laura Branigan[brain aneurysm], & most recently legendary rocker Neil Young [brain aneurysm]). Thusly, it may seem this often debilitating & deadly condition is on the rise. Aneurysms are definitely on the rise with yours truly, as I survived a burst brain aneurysm just over a year ago, even after my emergency doctors called me for dead. (CLICK HERE to read that story).

Neil Young’s aneurysm may be found to be particularly ironic, as my researchreveals that aneurysm spikes may stem from roots in the American farmlands that Neil Young has fought hard to defend.. (i.e. Farm-AID & in his music.. see my Neil Young ‘musical editorial’). My struggle to recover from the brink of death via my burst aneurysm is one thing, but when something like this happens to Neil Young, I get mad & I demand answers! Read the rest of this entry →

The Equation Is The Mission & The Message Is The Mission is the Equation. E=C2

by E.
Originally published on The Conscious Consumers Network: ( 12/08/04 )

Electronic media visionary Marshall McLuhan said “The medium is the message.” Within the bounds of this web site, the message is the equation E=C2.

This equation is a piece of the massive amount of data that I feel was “upoaded” into me during my clinical death experience & it succinctly encapsulates the mission of The Conscious Consumers’ Network.

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