“A dictator enjoys unrestrained power over the people. The legislative and judicial branches voluntarily cede this power or it’s taken by force. Most of the time, it’s given up easily, out of fear in time of war and civil disturbances, and with the support from the people, although the dictator will also accumulate more power with the use of force.”—Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas)

-- March 14, 2012, 1700 PDT, SEBASTOPOL – There is much less in common between the two than there is the similar. It is what they have in common that begs the comparison...

November 17, 2011, SEBASTOPOL – True political power has been demonstrated by a popular movement for the first time since the 1970s. #Occupy got the full attention of The Powers That Be… and it frightened them.

November 2, 2001, SEBASTOPOL – Major evolutions are happening quickly. Rubicons are being crossed, sometimes by the day, sometimes by the hour. Opportunities to nurture the change of consciousness and strengthen Post Petroleum Human’s place in the increasing Babel of confusion, chaos and collapse present themselves and withdraw faster than Henry the Hummingbird can drain a jasmine blossom.

There has not been a time like the present, where there are protests, riots, and just general civil unrest breaking out all over the globe. London, Israel, Syria and Egypt is just for starters. Is there a connection to all these disturbances?