Daily world population from UNC World Population Clock (unconnected to me).

This morning's world population, May 23, 2013, 0730am PDT
7 billion 322 million 825 thousand 564

  Any date : A relentless cover-up by embedded media loyal to their rich, growth loving owners may fool you, but overgrowth of human population and its encampment are past the "tipping point" and still exploding, and the result isn't just global warming. The eco-system is NOW collapsing. But since con- tinued profit flow depends on continued growth and the rich insiders who run the world don't want you to think about stopping growth, no matter what it does to the world we live in, the media they own continue to cover up the truth about overpopulation and its consequences. -Glen Roberts



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Unspinning Official Stories

   28 April 2013: His finger WAS on the war button last Thursday, but some of Obama's slightly more sober advisors must have woke up and grabbed him and/or his allies hot-lined him that THEY weren't about to fall on their faces with him, so, as Friday came and went, Obama and all his front men and media, who'd all been eager to fight the day before, started pretending they'd just realized by golly (snapping their fingers) that their (probably CIA planted) evidence against Syria needed a bit more proving (or jury-rigging) before NATO could attack. Does anybody believe this stuff? Do you?
    The new lie was to erase Thursday and bounce awkwardly back to Wednesday when, now even less believably, Obama was just so-o-o cautious, but, to save some face, he went on comically snarling that Syria still better watch out because they weren't off the hook. It helped him that US media forgot to mention that in the foreign press the Syrian rebels had climbed onto the hook as the only ones likely to have used chemical weapons.
    So, by last night, we were back a step from the brink of war, but not far enough to explain why, with Obama still TALKING war in Syria AND North Korea AND Iran, America's lame left is still not on the streets but, instead, is still doing its own Obama-like covering up by talking huffily about anything but Syria (anything their Democratic party leaders will let them talk about, that is). Oh, I forgot, they're against drones - just drones, and just about drones as agents of kangaroo executions (which it's OK to bitch about, by the way; it's just disgustingly limited in the present circumstances). continued

  Any American can go to
 Cuba as his own reporter
   This document argues that any American, even under the so-called "Cuban travel ban," has the existential and constitutional right to go to Cuba as his own reporter without anyone's permission except possibly Cuba's. Read Document.

 Cubans choose socialism
    On a 6-week 2002 tour of Cuba, I surveyed 100 random Cubans about a petition reportedly signed by 98% of eligible voters to lock socialism into their constitution after George Bush accused Cuba of bio-terrorism involvement and Jimmy Carter refuted the lie from Cuba but also urged Cubans to "reform" their system. Survey Intro, Interviews 1-17 Havana, 18-48 Baracoa, 49-73 on the road, 74-89 Cienfuegos, 90-100 Havana.

Using 20/20 Brain Vision

   What's 20/20 brain vision? It's an essential bottom-line starting-point trait for honest truth seekers, which some people have and use or try to use and others may have but don't use. I don't mean "common sense," since (barring some kind of brain cataract surgery) it's not apparently common, though sensible truth should be as easy to memorize as official lies. I'm a compulsive truth teller not a crusader seeking allies, so I won't be diplomatic about this.
   I think 20/20 brain vision is just the rare but normal perceptive capacity of a properly functioning, unflawed brain, maybe all I've got, but which (with my mastery of the English language and all my realistically focused real-world experience and travel and social, political, economic, ecological, and philosophical study and involvement) enables me to define and connect (NOT everything but) an effectively comprehensive set of key concepts that every aspiring realist should (but usually doesn't) understand.
   Do you actively have or are you just suppressing a capacity for 20/20 brain vision? If you SEE the most basic reality, that what is is and what is not is not, maybe. But maybe not, if you can't tell the phrase what is from the phrase what seems to be or even from declarations of blind faith. Test yourself by carefully reading the definitions and notes) below and also these rap poems.

NEW RAP POEMS
And Other Honest Outbursts
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"Cuban Notebooks"
by Glen Roberts
 Watch me slowly write a book

Based on my extensive Latin American travels including 7 trips to Cuba, this book is being written, shuffled, amended and published right here. I'm now hammering out a new Chapter 4 to be followed by new Chapters 5 to 8. The current 5 to 10 will become 9 to 14, and during my 8th trip to Cuba, if I live that long, a new Chapter 15 will finally end the book. Read existing chapters by clicking the numbers below.


Cuban high school students pack the gazebo at Parque Marti in Cienfuegos

MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT CUBA: For a review and dismissal of just a few common misconceptions about Cuba, click HERE.

 FEB. '10: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE HAVANA TIMES - CLICK

JAN. '08: A FRIENDLY CRITIQUE OF PRESS FREEDOM IN CUBA - CLICK
ENERO '08: UNA CRITICA AMISTOSA SOBRE PRENSA LIBRE EN CUBA - CLICK

2007 UPDATES FROM CUBA: For a look at Cuba with Fidel on the bench posted from the island in January and February 2007, click HERE.

2005: BIRDS & BRUJAS IN ENCHANTED CATEMACO click HERE.

THREE APRIL '05 LETTERS FROM CUBA: Self-syndicated and offered
on the dates indicated to various U.S. media I knew wouldn't print them.
    "Human Rights in Cuba, April 14 from Havana," click HERE.
    "Viva y Habla Fidel!, April 22 from Cienfuegos," click HERE.
    "Elections in Cuba, April 29 from Havana," click HERE.

2004: SOUTH AMERICA COMPARED TO CUBA: In the summer and fall of '04, the author toured eight South American countries to compare the "emerging western style free enterprise democracies" to Cuba, because, as members of the OAS and the UN, these countries are regularly arm-twisted into censuring Cuba as the only country in the hemisphere still not "free." In three extensive documents listed below, the author confirms that, logically, it should be Cuba that censures the other countries, since only Cuba is free of a significant list of oppressive attributes found everywhere else, as these documents attest.
    "From Maracaibo," click HERE.
    "From the Andes," click HERE.
    "From the Cone" (includes South America Summary), click HERE.



Definitions and explanations of terms and concepts
 

Notes To Nowhere, No One, No Avail
 (Dedicated ultimately to the illiterate flames of some random dump)

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