What can be done?

So much has been happening recently (false flag bombings, draconian fascist legislation, China removing the dollar peg, etc.), it is hard to keep up. These things are bad, and the news in the near future promises to be worse. See some ominous rumblings in this http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/07/this-is-only-drill.html post by Jeff Wells of Rigorous Intuition on possible nuclear terrorism in the U.S. to seal the deal for the fascist takeover. See also this tidbit from Wells's post today:

I've received an email with an unconfirmed report that "last week the government bought up all of the available iodine in stock for treating radioactive poisoning."

While interviewing Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III for a possible Supreme Court nomination, George Bush incongruously "warned me of impending doom."

And, according to the latest issue of The American Conservative:

The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney's office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing--that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack--but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.

What can be done?

Today's Signs of the Times has this comment in response to an article about ecological disaster being increasingly unavoidable:

What could we have done to change the outcome? It wasn't laws or revolutions that could have made a difference; it was only the species waking up to its own split personalities and working to fuse them. To make a difference in the outcome, it would have taken a mass awakening to our true natures, and how likely was that ever to happen?

However, we do think that there is hope because we live in a non-linear world. We do think that small acts can have a powerful effect in the long term. That is why we must continue standing up for the truth today, tomorrow, and no matter how horrible it becomes the day after that. We have the conviction that the day that we never believed possible is on its way. Just read the page above and see what a leap it has taken towards chaos since the beginning of July.

Standing for the truth with no anticipation of the outcome is its own reward. However, it is not a choice to be taken out of despair or because we see no other way forward. It is a choice that must be taken because we see that it is the right choice in and of itself, the choice we would make even if there were other possibilities. And there are: we can ignore what has happening, or if we are aware, we can choose to make the best of things, "eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die..." We see people around us every day who have these choices. We see them, we understand why they have taken that route, but we know that we can not. It just isn't possible; it just isn't in us to do that. And we include you in our use of "we", gentle readers, for if you keep coming back to read these pages, it is because you do not want to shut your eyes, you do not want to go back to sleep, because you know that is the worst possible choice of all.