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These are definitely two of the most relevant and timely posts on DU right now.
My posts tend to be more fragmented because I take a "stream of consciousness" approach. By that I mean that as I work things out for myself, I post the information that I've found significant to that process. So it tends to come out in a series of posts, a piece at a time rather than as an umbrella narrative.
I had thought about trying to write a multi-point narrative post like those two, but I'm wrestling the black dog of depression right now, and don't have the focus to organize it. Then these two came along and said it all anyway, so I've let myself off the hook.
The truth is out there! 
different than the runts we have here. They are more robust in size and have a much more diverse bloodline. They are descended from a polecat and there are no "wild" ferrets in the UK. If you see a ferret looking thing it's considered the polecat and not a ferret. There are some black footed ferrets out west in the USA. I've enjoyed the company of ferrets for quite a few years now...one thing they all share is that they are tenacious and fearless. A ferret (much to its own peril) is not afraid of anything. And that is why the truth shall be ferreted out !! 
I've felt enormously privileged to be alive and aware at this point in history. The responsibility is indeed awesome, and the knowledge breathtaking.
Climate change, ecological collapse, energy limits, global debt overburden and geopolitical shenanigans are all converging right now. They are combining to make the next decade the most "exciting" that humans have ever lived through. In the process a lot of our most precious, deeply held beliefs about the nature of the world will be shattered. Many of us (me included) may not survive the experience.
And it's all live on the Internet! What's not to love? 
Be exhilarating, but some of us have small children to protect and this becomes all too overwhelming.
I can't stand having my daughter's future determined like this.
I appreciate these threads and have seen Russian new world order as the larger goal for some time now.
But there has to be something I can do, or I have failed as a mother.
We are all born, toil, and die under the same sun. There is a great and abiding hope that is sprung from that embrace; that we will finally come together and realize the full potential we possess to take care of one another and determine our own future. Humanity is on the brink of stepping outside the chain evolutionary contingency as it has hereto applied to life on this planet, and the possibilities are endless. Let the bright light of our prospective future shine for your children to see and chase...that is our path out of the darkness.
*Obligatory caveat:
The principal of evolution by natural selection is perhaps the most profound and manifoldly applicable concept ever articulated, as it has endless applications to processes well beyond the biological adaptations of organic life. It applies to any dynamic enterprise or force. We can never escape this process... However, we are, technologically speaking, close to obtaining the capacity to actively manipulate our biology, and as such, attempt to direct our destiny as a species.
Bit of a tangent, I know.... Sorry... can't help myself sometimes
