Let there be light

Light travels very rapidly, but it does have a finite velocity. In vacuum, the speed of light is 186,282 miles per second (or nearly 300,000 kilometers per second), which is really humming along!

The Prophet

 Then a lawyer said, "But what of our Laws, master?" 

      And he answered: 
      You delight in laying down laws, 
      Yet you delight more in breaking them. 
      Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter. 
      But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore, 
      And when you destroy them, the ocean laughs with you. 
      Verily the ocean laughs always with the innocent. 
      But what of those to whom life is not an ocean, and man-made laws are not sand-towers, 
      But to whom life is a rock, and the law a chisel with which they would carve it in their own likeness? 
      What of the cripple who hates dancers? 
      What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of the forest stray and vagrant things? 
      What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless? 
      And of him who comes early to the wedding-feast, and when over-fed and tired goes his way saying that all feasts are violation and all feasters law-breakers? 
      What shall I say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun? 
      They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws. 
      And what is the sun to them but a caster of shadows? 
      And what is it to acknowledge the laws but to stoop down and trace their shadows upon the earth? 
      But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? 
      You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? 
      What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? 
      What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? 
      And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? 
      People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? 



-Kahlil Gibran

Free Flyer Stem

Made in Colorado, USA

Garrett Wilson brain child!

BMX roots back to learning rollbacks off Ridgewood drive!

When Will Oppressed Americans Take to the Streets?

The Stench of US Economic Decay Grows Stronger

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

On Thanksgiving eve the English-language China Daily and People’s Daily Online reported that Russia and China have concluded an agreement to abandon the use of the US dollar in their bilateral trade and to use their own currencies in its place.  The Russians and Chinese said that they had taken this step in order to insulate their economies from the risks that have undermined their confidence in the US dollar as world reserve currency.

This is big news, especially for the news-dead Thanksgiving holiday period, but I did not see it reported on Bloomberg, CNN, New York Times or anywhere in the US print or TV media. The ostrich’s head remains in the sand.

Previously, China concluded the same agreement with Brazil.

As China has a large and growing supply of dollars from trade surpluses with which to conduct trade, China is signaling that she prefers Russian rubles and Brazilian reais to more US dollars.

The American financial press finds solace in the episodes when sovereign debt scares in the EU send the dollar up against the euro and UK pound. But these currency movements are just measures of financial players shorting troubled EU-denominated debt. They are not a measure of dollar strength.

The dollar’s role as world reserve currency is one of the main instruments of American financial hegemony. We haven’t been told how much damage Wall Street fraud has inflicted on EU financial institutions, but the EU countries no longer need the US dollar for trade between themselves as they share a common currency. Once the OPEC countries cease to hold the dollars that they are paid for oil, dollar hegemony will have faded away.

Another instrument of American financial hegemony is the IMF. Whenever a country cannot make good on its debts and pay back the American banks, in steps the IMF with an austerity package that squeezes the country’s population with higher taxes and cuts in education, medical and income support programs until the bankers get their money back.

This is now happening to Ireland and is likely to spread to Portugal, Spain, and perhaps even to France. After the American-caused financial crisis, the IMF’s role as a tool of US imperialism is less and less acceptable. The point could come when governments can no longer sell out their people for the sake of the American banks.

There are other signs that some countries are tiring of America’s irresponsible use of power. Turkey’s civilian governments have long been under the thumb of the American-influenced Turkish military. However, recently the civilian government moved against two top generals and an admiral suspected of involvement in planning a coup. The civilian government further asserted itself when the prime minister announced on Thanksgiving day that Turkey is prepared to react to any Israeli offensive against Lebanon. Here is an American NATO ally freeing itself from American suzerainty exercised through the Turkish military. Who knows, Germany could be next.

Meanwhile in America the Obama administration has managed to come up with a Deficit Commission whose members want to pay for the multi-trillion dollar wars that are enriching the military/security complex and the multi-trillion dollar bailouts of the financial system by reducing annual cost-of-living increases for Social Security, raising the retirement age to 69, ending the mortgage interest deduction, ending the tax deduction for employer-provided health insurance, imposing a 6.5 per cent federal sales tax, while cutting the top tax rate for the rich.

Even the Federal Reserve’s low interest rates are aimed at helping the banksters. The low interest rates deprive retirees and those living on their savings of interest income. The low interest rates have also deprived corporate pensions of funding. To fill the gap corporations are issuing billions of dollars in corporate bonds in order to fund their pensions. Corporate debt is increasing, but not plant and equipment that would produce earnings to service the debt. As the economy worsens, servicing the additional debt will be a problem.

In addition, America’s elderly are finding that fewer and fewer doctors will accept them as patients as a 23 per cent cut looms in the already low Medicare payments to doctors.

The American government only has resources for wars of aggression, police state intrusions, and bailouts of rich banksters. The American citizen has become a mere subject to be bled for the ruling oligarchies.

The police state attitude of the TSA toward airline travelers is a clear indication that Americans are no longer citizens with rights but subjects without rights. Perhaps the day will come when oppressed Americans will take to the streets like the French, the Greeks, the Irish, and the British.

Paul Craig Roberts was an editor of the Wall Street Journal and an Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.  His latest book, HOW THE ECONOMY WAS LOST, has just been published by CounterPunch/AK Press. He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com

Morrison

People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security…How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?
-Jim Morrison

Circle of Life?

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, 
but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
Pearl Bailey 

Eagle Eye

“ They see from the sky what most never see.”

Cali loko

www.powsbmx.com

Island of Formosa

con-artists

This is what they know: In truth, there is no provision in the IRS code imposing an income tax on monies received by citizens, and residents are not required to file form 1040.  The so-called income tax is a cover operation for the regulation of the regime of paper money.  Paper money must be regulated (reduced) or it will sooner than later become worthless. Should the American people discover that the income tax is only a system of regulation, not taxation, they would understand the fraud. The paper money scam must be concealed. The people must never find out that the government gets everything that it gets for nothing and without payment, including wars. Rarely has any lawyer ever spoken out against this system of harassment and wealth extraction. This theft through deception of trillions of “dollars” of wealth from the American people is greater than that stolen from any nation at any time in the history of the world. Any time a lawyer speaks out against the system he is speaking out against the thing that gives him his professional existence. All lawyers are “officers of the court” and are entrapped in their own deception. Anyone who is licensed by the system, the system owns.Now there are tens of thousands of very intelligent and highly educated Americans who silently consent to this criminal payola without even a thought of rebellion. This has been going on for 100 years.


Is this how it is supposed to be?

Street Ninja

Mike Meister perfecting the art of natural hop in Denver, CO

Got POP?

ArmyofOne

The art is in the artist

Not the medium

BANOS DISTRO REPRESENT

NW on SW

Northwest Passage

Anytime a large selection of the trail crews throughout washington and oregon get together at any one set of woods it's pretty much guaranteed to be a really good time! Here's a shot from an epic sesh at solame that happened in early october this year. bmx at it's finest. DR holdin a table over the entire passage hip....one of many moments that day that was a treat to see first hand

Life? love

Sean Newton's Ride vectorized

Check out that sprocket

Everything goes circles my fellow humans!

kyle emery-peck

Check out Kyle's Photography site- he has some great images.

www.kyleemerypeck.com

You are free

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. 

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence. 

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. 

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

-Jim Morrison 

Sunshine State

T-1 "We Love Colorado" 2010 from joe rich on Vimeo.

The bridge to heaven...

Do you know what lies on the other side of this log? If you do, you're one of the lucky one's. Highest quality out there. Pirate land....legends live forever

Colorado in Print

Federal BLVD

Pipe Dreams

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This video is a series of photographs I took of Brett flowing Pipe Dreams a fall or two ago.
I have posted it before and will again
It is one of my favorite places to ride and document
"eARTh"
Spend years sculpting clay to eventually ride the sculpture and then document the riding...
to make it last forever, as it does inside my soul

Holeshot

www.holeshotbmx.blogspot.com

Projects-Project

Check out Projects photo blog

NO Bo$$

INDEPENDENT

GW-photo

Easy Ride

Grizz Boost

Jeff and Jeremy -Heart or Soul? You Decide...

70 Degrees In November

Grizz Trails K-ZOO - Jurassic Park, Heart and Soul, Riders Perspective

Thanks to Chris Ballard for the mounted cam action!

Turn up the volume...

"I'm not immune to this

In fact,  I'M

 Sick with the truth"

Get Weightless

Put yourself where you want to be

-SPOT your landing-

Create

Build what you ride

Ride what you build

Soak in the color

 

 Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting 

and autumn a mosaic of them all.  ~Stanley Horowitz

Adam Baker with a timeless tabletop- while showing off that 

Life? sprocket as the seasons continue their CYCLE

Che Guavara

 

“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.”

“To accomplish much you must first lose everything.”

“It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory.”

“I know you are here to kill me.
Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.' - facing his assassin”

“At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love.”

Solstice

Epic

ANTHEM II trailer from Stew Johnson on Vimeo.

Recorded Moments

Keep Memories 

Black Bear

Here are a few pictures of a Mama Black Bear and cub's foot prints on the flow course I'm building in Dumont, CO.
The neighbor told me that he has opened his front door to find a 400 pound black bear starring at him through the screen!
haha
Rocky Mountain Flavor