This Is Really Happening

Mago Bill: It is happening around us and to us.

 

We can feel it happening.

We can see and hear it happening.

We know it is happening.

We can learn more about its nature by talking to one another and listing to each other.

We have real experiences and interpretations to share.

We once declared our freedom of speech.

  

We can consider happenings and doings.

We have done and we can do now.

We talk honestly and that is a great doing.

We listen to hear and understand and that is a great doing.

We listen to each other and that is a great doing.

We can share real experiences and that is a great doing.

We can share honest opinions and that is a great doing.

We can do great doings.

We know that some of what is really happening is not great. 

We know that some of that happening around us and to us is not great.

We know that too much said and done in our names is not great.

We know that an important part of that which we feel about pride, values, and honor is great. 

We know that we can unite.

We know we can take little steps toward a more perfect union.

We know that united we can do great doings and experins great happenings

We can find greater joy in our independence together.

Happy Days




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The Empire Files: The Real House of Saud

The Kingdom seems to contain some of the best friends of some American's. The Kingdom is not the best friend of some of it's own people.
Still we all have the right to our own culture.



by Richard Sheehan
for Mago Bill.

Top 10 AMAZING Facts About IRELAND

A nation once again, A growing culture with tough roots. There are a lot of great doings to learn about.


selected by Richard
for Mago Bill

Extraordinary Facts About Finland - Part 2

We can benefit by knowing the world better. Saunas. Education.

CULTURE OF COLOMBIA

Who Will "Us" Be? w/ Anand Giridharadas, Eric Liu, Michele Norris, Monic...

What are our protections? How do we keep from being lost in the great world? Family helps. Neighborhood helps. Statehood helps. Our nation helps. But we need a more. Dialogue may help get the needed more.

CULTURE OF COLOMBIA

There is more great music forms in Colombia than one can easily grasp.

Sociocultural Systems

Not too complicated.

It is worth while to contemplate culture.

Culture is More Important than Politics

We can make culture. Magic Table Dialogue can provide first lessons in making culture. Politics may be a pleasant duty. Civics.

Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power

democracy, Mago Bill, culture, Magic Table Dialogue, Civics, power. All for ordinary people. Awareness and Understanding.
Willful ignorance. It is OK to wake up.

The Equator 12,500 Years Ago?

Pre Ice Age, pre Flood, cultures. What may we now summarize about pre Ice Age Culture.

Nine Nations: 8/1/2017 and 8/21/2017

Some years ago Dennis McGuire gave me a book written by Joel Garreau. In that book Garreau divided much of North America into what he called 
nine nations. As I remember the book was called Nine Nations. He did a good job of describing much of the continent. I believe the could be called a sociological work.

I am going to try to remember enough of my reading of the book those years ago to write a sort of monograph of each of the " nations" he considered much as he considered it.

Below is a list of the "Nations" as Mr. Garreau named them:
~ Quebec
~ New England
~ The foundry
~ Dixie
~ The Islands
~ The Empty Quarter
~ Ecotopia
~ Breadbasket
~ Mexamerica

I lived in "Mexamerica' when I read the book. and failed to take notes on it as I failed with some of the other Nations. I can say the Republic of Mexico is in it. Spanish of the Mexican sort is spoken widely in much of Mexamerica; a good deal of English is spoken there. There is mixing of the two languages especially along the border.
There is plenty of cultural prejudice there. As I remember Joel suggests that "might makes right in this valley of  tears."

I add that this Nation of Mexamerica may less of a Nation than most of the other "Nations."  For example, The state of Oaxaca and DF  seem much less part of the  Nation than does the state of New Mexico.



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The Empty Quarter of the Nine Nations

The Empty Quarter is on of Garreau's Nine Nations. I spent a significant part of my life in the thee. It is big and relatively lightly populated. A large part of it can be called desert.  It extends from the northern deserts of Mexico across the U.S and Canada into the Arctic Circle.

The E.Q. contains gas, oil, cattle, mining, timber, and wheat and the people who work in those industries. Some people are attracted by the quiet and the "elbow room" to be found there.

The Athabascan tar sands of Alberta are in the Empty Quarter. There in Nevada is the Home Farm headquarters of The School of the Natural Order.

North American Indian Peoples live in the Empty Quarter of the Nine Nations. Some of them try to live much as they did long ago. But it is not easy. For example, Acoma, Coleville, Navajo, Ute, Wind River and a fe others have significant control of perhaps 50% of the Uranium found here. Native Americans with oil and gas consult with OPEC. Blackfoot, Sioux, Crow, Spokane, and Northern Cheyenne control a third of the low-sulfur stripable coal here.

The land is beautiful and scars easily. It looks to many of us that much of this beautiful land is being needlessly sacrificed to the need and greed of people we do not know. Fracking and the disposal of water of certain industries seems to be a shameful rape to some here. Water has be scarce here and is now being poisoned. Some have told us to pipe water from the Arctic. Might be a good short term solution.  The fresh water of the Arctic was stored in ice. That ices is rapidly melting and flowing into a rising sea.

Triggers for great bombs are made in the part of this "empty zone" closest to the great city of Denver. Testing of hydrogen bombs here still poisons citizens of Utah and disturbs the genetics of deer of North East California.

The south west portion of the US is found in the Empty Quarter. It is there where many of the Western Cowboy films of Hollywood were made. . 

posted by Richard
for Mago Bill
8/1/2017

About 3220 Years Ago

Around 1200 BC,  according to my best guess, there were some wide spread happenings on our planet.

Some names that have been given these happenings are: The Great Cultural Collapse, Bronze Age Collapse, The Late Bronze Age, and The Little Ice Age.

Could this big happening have had anything to do with the doings of humanity? Where there major changes in our agricultural doings not long before this time?

It may be rewarding to find out more about our past. It might pay us to share such info.