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VIVA VIVOLEUM!

It hurts to hear someone refer to those running the oil industry as greedy pigs who create war and destroy the earth.

Nothing could be further than the truth.

Not only do they help us run this great nation, but they’ve got an eye on our future as well. Consider, for instance, the good people at ExxonMobil.

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They understand that Earth is a fragile planet. That’s why they’ve led the way in developing safer, cleaner and cheaper alternative fuels.

And their latest innovation may be their greatest.

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Last week, in Calgary, Alberta, officials from ExxonMobil and the U.S. National Petroleum Council gave the keynote speech at GO-EXPO, Canada’s largest oil conference.

In a remarkably provocative presentation before hundreds of oilmen, they acknowledged that current fossil fuel practices may well lead to global cataclysmic climate change. The result would inevitably be war, migration and fatalities on a massive scale.

Which, in turn, could really hinder oil production for the rest of us.

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Fortunately, their scientists and engineers have found an answer. A brilliant one.

Catastrophic devastation is always viewed as a negative event.

Can’t it also be a positive one?

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The answer is yes!

In its PowerPoint presentation, ExxonMobil depicts how we can transform the hundreds of thousands who die from unsafe oil production by processing their bodies into alternative fuel.

This new energy source is called Vivoleum! From life . . . to life!

It’s a wonderful idea and incredibly efficient. Processing plants have been erected throughout Canada and the U.S.

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And with so many corpses that would otherwise just be going to waste, Vivoleum pumps are already operating at full speed.

During a tender moment in the presentation, members of the audience received their own Vivoleum candles – a tearful commemoration for an Exxon janitor who tragically passed away after helping to clean up a toxic spill. His last noble wish was that his body be brightly transformed into Vivoleum candles.

He’s now gone, but his biofuel lights the way to tomorrow’s future!

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It’s sad to report that not all oil corporations are as enlightened as ExxonMobil. At one point during the presentation, certain oil executives in attendance, incensed that they had no stake in the new technology, insisted that the ExxonMobil representatives and their NPC associates be silenced. Local police were dispatched to remove the speakers.

True change is not easy, my friends, and it does not come in a day.

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[Go here for more info on Vivoleum. Check out this animation of a Vivoleum biomass concentration facility and this video tribute to Exxon's fallen janitor, Reggie. Go here for an article about the human casualties of climate change, and here for great news about the illustrious head of ExxonMobil.]



THE NEXT GREAT SPECIES

Gosh, there's so much negativity in the world. Can't people understand that everything is proceeding just as it should?

Belinda Haikes explains the matter in this uplifting guest entry of hers.


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VISION OF THE DIVINE

We live in an odd universe, full of dark mysteries. Visions spring forth strange and uncertain.

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Dream visions.

Restless images that ask more than they answer.

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But amid the murk and confusion of our twilight world, certain avatars offer the gift of clarity.

Behold a figure strong and straight and powerful.

We have praised her before. Indeed, she was the guest star of our site's very first entry, and she continues to embody eternal notions of courage and fortitude.

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This week, SurfingtheSpectacle has traveled out West to more closely view this guiding muse as she spiritually transcends the tribulations before her. Stay tuned.


[Top image from Stalingrad, 1942. Iraq war image by Michael Kamber of the New York Times. Image of Ms. Hilton from the Pacific Coast News.]



THE MOST POSITIVE MAN IN THE WORLD

The most positive man in the world loved to make pictures as a boy.
He burned cow dung to get the color white.

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The most positive man in the world knew war as a boy.
He saw death before he could understand it.

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The most positive man in the world lost his home as a boy.
He escaped into the bush with his family, and walked on and on.

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The most positive man in the world lost his family as a boy.
He knew hunger and thirst and fear.

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The most positive man in the world saw injustice as a boy.
He watched the weak devoured by lions and the unlucky cut down by men.

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The most positive man in the world escaped to America as a boy.
He sensed new worlds, new possibilities.

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The most positive man in the world is an artist.

He is an artist who believes that art –
art can transform the universe.

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Meet Awer Bul.



[Sudanese artist Awer Bul lived for years in a desolate UN refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya. He returns there this summer with filmmaker Gabriel Williams, where they will document an art workshop in the camp. SurfingtheSpectacle will publish dispatches from them throughout their trip. For more information about Awer, go here. Photo of Awer by Cynthia Merchant of the Commonwealth Times.]



THE WALLS OF THE WORLD

The walls of the world sometimes spawn creatures.

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These monsters resemble the same animals who built the walls.

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They are lost. They do not know who they are.
They haunt daily life as secret shadows.

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Their skins frequently open to reveal immensities.

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Reaching. Reaching. Reaching and tumbling.
They are hungry. Hungry! They need. They need!

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They are babies. They destroy with their play.
Inversion and transformation. Creatures in flux.

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The struggle of understanding, of devouring.

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With the night, they crawl into themselves...

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and dream another universe.



[These fantastic images are drawn from the startling and phenomenal creations of a muralist who goes by the name of Blu – go here for his marvelous website and here for a great site chronicling the ongoing documentary on Blu's work.]



back to the top

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REMEMBER.
Meat Knows Best.

Regarding the Inhumane
“The notion that acts of cruelty are inhumane is absurd and has no scientific basis. Indeed, the disposition to inflict suffering may be one of the more defining characteristics
of human kind.”

(Animal Behaviorist D.B. Lattimore from her essay, "Primate Behavior and Self-Deception")

Inside the Shoebox
Haunting animation of one soldier's story.

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Colby Buzzell is the soldier. The story is from his book My War: Killing Time in Iraq. Artwork by Christopher Koelle.

Bibleman Fights The Protester

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Consider the plight of our earth. Isn't it clear? Our children need great Christian superheroes. That's where Bibleman comes in. He's a lean, mean religious fighting machine and his sacred team will defeat the Evil "Wacky Protester." Click here to see the exciting trailer!

Not only that, you can purchase action figures here. Thank God for Bibleman!

From the Vault
One of our earliest recordings from television turned out to be the most spiritually profound. Click the incandescent We Are Dying for its profound glimpse of the media age.

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To the Glory of a Nation
It's essential that we continue building powerful monuments to our greatest leaders. History demands that their triumphs are never forgotten.

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Packard Jennings is one artist that knows his duty. He has created a grand proposal for a monument he calls 2nd Labor of Dick Cheney, and we can only pray for its full funding and construction. Click here for a stirring video of the prototype.

Behold the Audio
Gil Scott-Heron's 1970 work about cosmic disconnect, Whitey on the Moon.

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