I got this poem from Mr B, a dude from Texas that cares about uncovering truth and creating social change to make the world a better place. I think it really hits the spot so I decided to post it.
Power To The Full
Powerless to extract the power of the full,
while iniquity endures to grow.
You can’t detract from the fact that enlightened ones know
about the hidden history of long ago.
That makes up the American dream
That soon will bring
us to a day where freedom won’t ring.
A one world will sing
to the nations.
Mental sedation, hoodwink the population;
time to bow down to the illumi-nation.
The sensation of eternal damnation
is upon you and me.
The days of thinking and speaking so freely,
are fleeting, retreating, beating to a new sound.
When the fire rains down,
the chosen will be safely underground.
And you’ll be left, betrayed and broken down,
looking at flesh by the pound.
A landscape so profound
that even the greatest minds
will have to rewind,
to search and maybe find
a reason to this rhyme,
or a motive for this movement.
Far from just a dissident,
a proponent of improvement
firing off the truth to expose our lying government
that’s supposed to serve the public.
How much of the greed can we stomach?
Leadership – they run from it.
Conscience — there is none of it.
But yet it’s evident,
our desire to consume is only offset
by the security of our complacent mindset.
Can we convalesce the division without socialism?
Nourish the forsaken,
help young minds to awaken.
Action must be taken
for future generations
to reflect our choice,
unite their voice.
Together in truth,
in Love’s name we rejoice.
The end has been written, and if you listen time will tell.
To love beyond yourself is to elude the flames of hell.
A few months ago I launched a UK version of Ban T-shirts. We started off with five of the most popular shirts including “There is no planet B“, “Stop shark finning” and “Dinosaurs against creationism“.
The idea was to make it easier and quicker for Europeans to order the shirts. I figured it was about time to add a few more shirts, so five more have been added to the selection:
Somebody is pointing a pistol at your head. You don’t know much about guns but it looks like a real one to you. The cold metal of the barrel certainly feels real enough jammed against the side of your skull. And the guy who’s holding it is screaming at you to hand over your hard-earned money – he certainly doesn’t sound like he’s fooling around. You’re practically frozen with fear, just one twitch of a finger away from death, but you manage to move your hand slowly towards your jacket pocket in order to take out your wallet. You’re about to hand it over when you hear a guy yelling from an apartment window above your head.
“Hey, man! Don’t do it! Don’t give him your money! There’s no bullets in that gun!”
You pause momentarily. Your assailant screams in your ear “Give me your money or you’re dead meat!!”
You start to take out your wallet.
“Just walk away man! I know that guy, he’s just trying to scare you, there ain’t no bullets in that gun!”
What do you do? Suppose the gun is real and handover your wallet? Or believe the guy shouting at you from the window and walkaway?
It’s your choice. It’s your world.
Last week Michael DiCarlo did a great photoshoot for Ban T-shirts … some of the photos have been posted around the site already and I’ll be using some of them to update some more pages on the site. I don’t know about you but I think this is probably the best photoshoot we’ve had done. You can check out some of the pix here.
VIVA LA EVOLUCION
STOP WHALING
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION STARTED IN 1492
RELAX GRINO, I'M LEGAL
I THINK THEREFORE I AM NOT GLENN BECK
FOX NEWS....
A frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives.
BICYCLE EVOLUTION
Thank you to everyone who made a comment on the new shirt! There were some pretty funny comments up there. The comment is chosen totally at random by random.org – at least they say it’s random, but how can we be sure? Or are we just being paranoid?
So anyway, there was a total of 58 comments. I plugged the number into random.org and hit the generate button and got 24.
Then I just count down the comments starting from the first one until I get to the 24th which is… Jen Winckler! Congrats to Jen 
For the other 57 people who didn’t win you can still get 20% off the shirt with the discount code “paranoia”!
Are you convinced everybody is looking at you? Well, they probably will be if you’re wearing this shirt. I promise there are no hidden transmitter devices woven into the fabric. But then again …. do you think you can trust me?
You could win this shirt if you post a comment about it on facebook. Or you can get 20% off before friday with the code “paranoia”.
And we have a winner…
I used random.org to create a random number, between 1 and 36 (as there were 36 comments in total). So the number generated was 10, and the tenth comment was made by Bryce Krage. Congratulations Bryce!
For the 35 people who didn’t win – I’ve created a 20% discount code for this shirt that is valid until tomorrow at midnight: “savefrogs”. Use it wisely!!
You can get the shirt right here.
Frog T-shirt
I just launched this new design, because I love frogs and they deserve a break:
A frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives
You have a chance to win one by leaving a comment on facebook. Or you can buy one here – use the discount code BAN999TEN to save 10%!
I am still getting hate mail. It never ceases to amaze me how worked up some people get over a T-shirt they don’t like.
This morning I had this gem in my inbox from Greg Pederson (who ignores repeated requests from his parents not to use his surname in public):
“Why don’t you take your lame t-shirts and shove them up the orifice of your choice until it hurts.”
And yesterday I had this slightly more serious attempt to be funny, sent anonymously (very wise, as I am pretty good at tracking people down):
“for give my cynicism, Duncan, but you must wake up in a wet bed every morning. I sell urine proof sheets with your favorite bed wetter picture on the linen Nancy, Hillary , Obama harry, you name it! only 59.95 plus s&H”.
Kind of expensive. Unless they’re made of organically produced silk. But I’m more of a Noam Chomsky guy anyway.
Erik Brush is an artist who is not very well known to the general public but who has created artwork for some very high profile individuals. He is also a very passionate environmentalist and is especially concerned about the state of the oceans. I interviewed him about his art, love of sharks and how we can best make a positive change for the world.
Click here for the interview.
Erik Brush with an ocean friend.