Wednesday, March 31, 2010

DESTROYING DEMOCRACY V

03/31/2010

DESTROYING DEMOCRACY V

For a very long time I have protested the breakdown of the moral and social fabric of the society. This is not advancement, sexualization of society in all manners and with no holds barred is not only destroying our families, our children, our education systems it threatens the very continuation of our system as in while the revenues are decreasing the need for social services of all kinds keep increasing.

I know this guy, for real, who goes out and buys cigarettes for his girl friend and her ex boy friend whenever her ex boy friend comes to spend the night with her while this guy goes to work. There is a word for this!At the very least we can look for his own mental breakdown or worse, some day, some one could be physically harmed.


MSNBC.com
By Beth DeFalco
The Associated Press
updated 1:19 p.m. CT, Wed., March. 31, 2010
TRENTON, N.J. - A 15-year-old New Jersey girl set up her 7-year-old stepsister to have sex with as many as seven men and boys at a weekend party near their home and also accepted money for herself, police said.
Trenton police Capt. Joseph Juniak said Wednesday that the older girl started by taking money to have sex with several men at a party in a high-rise apartment. The teen then gave some of the money she had collected to the younger girl to let the men start touching her, Juniak said.
"It went from touching to straight out assault and rape," Juniak said. "They threatened to kill her if she screamed or told anyone."
The child later put on her clothes and left the apartment; her sister stayed. Two women found the child crying outside the apartment and walked her home.

Girl, 15, gang raped outside school dance while witnesses film horror attack


Whie one could assumed that the girls in the two stories are black, judging from the location of the incidents, but the guy in the first sstory, and the others involved are white.

Here in these cases we can also assume that the all involved are poor or near poor and a burden on the social and justice systems, the cost of  the trials, convictions and then incarcerations if any could easily run into millions. And all this at a time where many with jobs who are struggling to feed their families and to keep their homes out of foreclosures will be asked to pay more taxes to support the failed society.


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Sunday, March 28, 2010

A REQUIEM FOR THE LIVING

-                        Requiem for the Living


Thanks for coming , to show you care
to let me go out, with a bit of flair

you made the show, to show your love
to give your respect, to the god above

so thanks for coming, here today
to be here to hear, this dead man say

I lived a good life, now i am happy to go
where ever it takes me, i'll be happy you know

This pain and the suffering, all fading away
I'm going on now, you may wish to stay

We live forever, this death i do not fear
the longer i lived, the more i find it dear

this death is my freedom, it is my salvation
the room to breathe, end this damnation

Some love life, nothing wrong i'm sure
I look forward to dying, not scared any more

There is no difference, I do not believe
just wanting to see, what's up His sleeve


Life goes on, the life is forever
on this small earth, or where ever


This life is not always, what we like it to be
this life is a chain, I like to be free

Living this life, of borrowed time
i have no sins, i have no crimes

A puppet of time, we are here to play
bit parts on stage, while we stay

Pauper or prophet, or a royal prince
a jester, a joker, not even a king

Born to die, as we are born to live
we all come to pass, we don't mean a thing

Some live to be forty, some die at four
some live  to be ninety, still wanting for more

So what is a right age, to die
so one may know, when to say good bye

I do not go on, to make someone cry
I welcome my passing, welcome a new life

Why is not proper, to be on the ready
dying with grace, and rock steady

as for me i know, this is time to go
i go with a smile, and a happy glow

don't want to be beholden, not even to gods
i wish to go on, to be free at last

to see all the sky, to see the universe
to ask the good lord, of this life's curse

some may want, another day to live
some years or eons, never to give

the other side, a chance to show
it is better above, than has been below

Does anyone know, what tomorrow may hold
idea is stupid, on which we are sold

Do we arrive, at pearly gates
do we know, if the devil awaits

there is no heaven, there is no hell
not as far, as i can tell

We are born to die, so i have no fear
i always knew, that the end is near

you'll miss your love, you'll miss your kids
you'll miss their smiles, you'll miss their kiss

how can you miss, you are always here
life pulls us apart, death brings us near

Some wish to live long, and see their children cry
some one day too long, and see their children die

and still begging to live, for one more day
clinging to life, and life slips away


So welcome dear mama, and good bye dear dad
it is my time to go, please don't be sad

good bye my daughters, good bye my son
you came here separate, i leave you as one


remember that life, is full of surprises
who fight the hardest, win the biggest prizes

Friends and lovers, i have ever seen
in far away places, i have ever been

i could not forget you, or i'll be remiss
so thinking of you, and i blow you a kiss

I am not afraid, I am not scared
i did much more, than many dared

I saw things, that few ever will see
i was a free spirit, now i set me free

I am not scared, to see it all end
always wanting to see, around the next bend

04/22/2001
                        (M.N.R.)


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RELIGION AND REALITY

 03/28/2010


RELIGION AND REALITY


I was sitting next to Dr. Parkash, the subject the peace in the middle East. As you know I am very skeptical of the whole thing, the charade, the farce, whatever you call it.   I thus stated that we need to re write the book, yes "THE BOOK". The idea is not new with me, I have thought about all of it for a long long time, and I have written my opinion in the matter. Here is a poem I wrote in 2002, it is included in my book.


-                                            SIGNS

Come back around, we keep going in circles
one more time, take a different look
can you see that, we could be getting along
can you see that, we don't need the book

Don't you know, don't you want to know?
do you feel the desire, do you feel that pride
slopes of life are steep, 'tis easy to stumble
no need to fear, what you are feeling inside

bouncing along, we bump into each other
highways of life, strange this meeting place
life is ups and downs, life is straights and narrows
can you feel that power?, do you find it base

there is no fate, there are no karmas
there are no heavens in the outer space
there are no miracles, there are no signs
all that you hope for is, to die with grace

02/11/2002

                    (M.N.R.)

As it is , I have discussed the role of morality (or lack there of)  in every thing, from our education system to family finances, to health care to mortgage foreclosures and pollution and global trade, including human trafficking elsewhere in this blog for years. And it is the so called "religious" organizations, administrations and regimes who end up being the worst culprits. We do bad when we say we are doing good, we hide behind the religious "hijabs", when we  are the worst offenders of human rights and global pollution.If we get away from the religious cover and stay with the facts we can easily see.




Philosopher: Why we should ditch religion



(CNN) -- For the world to tackle truly important problems, people have to stop looking to religion to guide their moral compasses, the philosopher Sam Harris told CNN.
"We should be talking about real problems, like nuclear proliferation and genocide and poverty and the crisis in education," Harris said in a recent interview at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California. TED is a nonprofit group dedicated to "ideas worth spreading."
"These are issues which tremendous swings in human well-being depend on. And it's not at the center of our moral concern."
Religion causes people to fixate on issues of less moral importance, said Harris, a well-known secularist, philosopher and neuroscientist who is the author of the books "The End of Faith" and "Letter to a Christian Nation."
"Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife," he said.
"And, therefore, we talk about things like gay marriage as if it's the greatest problem of the 21st century. We even have a liberal president who ostensibly is against gay marriage because his faith tells him it's an abomination.
"It's completely insane."
Watch Harris' talk at the TED Conference
Harris also said people should not be afraid to declare that certain acts are right and others are wrong. A person who would spill battery acid on a girl for trying to learn to read, for instance, he said, is objectively wrong by scientific standards.
"It's not our job to not judge it and say, 'Well, to each his own. Everyone has to work out their own strategy for human fulfillment.' That's just not true," he said.
"There's people who are wrong about human fulfillment."
Harris placed no faith in the idea that Muslims and Christians will be able to put their differences aside and cooperate on global issues.
"There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity," he said. "This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does."





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The mysterious case of the grey lady of Bagram , Cont'd.

 03/27/2010

The mysterious case of the grey lady of Bagram



ISLAMABAD: Dr Shams Hassan Faruqi sits amid his rocks and geological records, shakes his bearded head and stares at me. “I strongly doubt if the children are alive,” he says. “Probably, they have expired.” He says this in a strange way, mournful but resigned, yet somehow he seems oddly unmoved. As a witness, supposedly, to the mysterious 2008 re-appearance of Aafia Siddiqui – the “most wanted woman in the world”, according to former US attorney general John Ashcroft – I guess this 73-year-old Pakistani geologist is used to the limelight. But the children, I ask him again. What happened to the children?

Dr Faruqi is Aafia Siddiqui’s uncle and he produces a photograph of his niece at the age of 13, picnicking in the Margalla hills above Islamabad, a smiling girl in a yellow shalwar khameez, half-leaning against a tree. She does not look like the stuff of which Al-Qaeda operatives are made. Yet she is now a semi-icon in Pakistan, a country which may well have been involved in her original kidnapping and which now oh-so-desperately wants her back from an American prison. Her children, weirdly, disconcertingly, have been forgotten.

Aafia Siddiqui’s story is now as famous in Pakistan as it is notorious in a New York City courtroom where her trial for trying to kill an American soldier in the Afghan city of Ghazni in 2008 – she was convicted this month and faces a minimum of 20 years in prison on just one of the charges against her – is regarded as a symbol of American injustice. “Shame on America,” posters scream in all of Pakistan’s major cities. She is known as the “grey lady of Bagram”, supposedly tortured for five years in America’s cruel Afghan prison. President Asif Ali Zardari has asked American envoy Richard Holbrooke to repatriate Siddiqui under the Pakistan-US prisoner exchange scheme, while the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has dubbed her a “daughter of the nation”. Opposition leader Nawaz Sharif promises to demand her release. But none of them mention the children. Ahmed, Sulieman and Maryam are their names.

Ahmed was returned to Pakistan from Afghanistan in 2008, but Dr Faruqi tells me he doesn’t believe for a moment that it is Aafia Siddiqui’s son. “He came here to stay with me, but he said he didn’t know Aafia until he was taken to Ghazni. He said to me: ‘I was in the big earthquake in Afghanistan and my brothers and sisters were killed in their home while I was out fetching water – that’s what saved my life.’ He told me that after the earthquake, he was put in an orphanage in Kabul. He was shown a photograph of my niece Aafia and said he did not know this lady, that he had never seen her before. Then he was taken to Ghazni and told to sit next to this woman – my niece. The boy is intelligent. He is simple. He is honest.”

All such mysteries require a “story-so-far”. It goes like this. Aafia Siddiqui, a 38-year-old neuroscientist, an MIT alumna and Brandeis university PhD, disappeared after leaving her sister’s home for Karachi airport in 2003, taking Ahmed, Sulieman and Maryam with her. The Americans say she was a leading Al-Qaeda operative. So does her ex-husband. She had re-married Ammar al-Baluchi, currently in Guantanamo Bay, a cousin of Ramzi Yousef who was convicted for the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing. Not, you might, say, a healthy curriculum vitae in the West’s obsessive “war on terror”. In 2004, the UN identified her as an Al-Qaeda operative.

But released inmates from the notorious American prison at Bagram near Kabul– where torture is commonplace and at least three prisoners have been murdered – have stated that there was a woman held there, a woman whose nightly screams prompted them to go on hunger strike. She was dubbed the “grey lady of Bagram”. At her New York trial, Siddiqui demanded that Jewish members of the jury be dismissed, she fired her own defence lawyers who said she had become unbalanced after torture; Siddiqui blurted out that she had been tortured in secret prisons before her arrest. “If you were in a secret prison ... where children were murdered...” she said.

And so to the town of Ghazni, south of Kabul. It was here that Afghan police stopped her in 2008, carrying a handbag which supposedly contained details of chemical weapons and radiological agents, notes on mass casualty attacks on US targets and maps of Ghazni. American soldiers and FBI agents were summoned to question her and arrived in Ghazni without realising that Siddiqui was in the same room, sitting behind a curtain. According to their evidence, she managed to take one of their M-4 assault rifles and opened fire. She missed but was cut down by two bullets from a 9mm pistol fired by one of the soldiers. Hence the charges. Hence the conviction.

She wasn’t helped by an alleged statement by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – the man who supposedly planned 9/11 and who is the uncle of her second husband, Ammar al-Baluchi – who claimed that Aafia Siddiqui was a senior Al-Qaeda agent. But then, he’d just been waterboarded 183 times in a month – which hardly makes his evidence, to use a phrase, water-tight.

The questions are obvious. What on earth was a Pakistani American with a Brandeis degree doing in Ghazni with a handbag containing American targets? And why, if her family was so fearful for her, didn’t they report her missing in 2003, go to the press and tell the story of the children? Ahmed – son of Siddiqui or Afghan orphan, depending on your point of view – is now staying with Siddiqui’s sister, Fauzia, in Karachi; but she refuses to let him talk to journalists. The Americans have shown no interest in him – even less in the other two, younger children. Why not?

It’s odd, to say the least, that Dr Faruqi also maintains that in 2008 – before the Ghazni incident – Aafia Siddiqui turned up at his home in the suburbs of Islamabad. “She was wearing a burqa and got out of the car, just outside here,” he says, pointing to the tree-lined street outside his office window. “I only caught sight of her once, and I said ‘You have changed your nose’. But it was her. We talked about the past, her memories, it was her voice. She said the ISI (the Inter-Services Intelligence) had let her come here. She wanted to get away, to go back to Afghanistan where she said the Taliban would protect her. She said that since her arrest, she knew nothing of her children. Someone told her they had been sent to Australia.”

More questions. If Siddiqui was a “ghost prisoner” in Afghanistan, how come she turned up at Dr Faruqi’s home in Islamabad? Why would she wear an Afghan “burqa” in the cosmopolitan capital of her own country? Why did she not talk more about her children? Why could she not show her face to her own uncle? Did she really come to Islamabad?

Fauzia Siddiqui is now touring Pakistan to publicise her sister’s “unfair” trial, her torture at the hands of Americans. Most of the Pakistan press have taken up her story with little critical attention to the allegations against her. She has become a proto-martyr, a martyr-in-being; if her story is comprehensible, it requires a willing suspension of disbelief. But America’s constant protestations of ignorance about her whereabouts before 2008 have an unhappy ring about them.

And the children? Rarely written about in Pakistan, they, too, in a sense, were “disappeared” from the story – until the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, paid an uneasy visit to Pakistan this week and, according to Fauzia, told the Interior minister, Rehman Malik, that “the children of Aafia Siddiqui will be sent home soon”. Was Karzai referring to the other two children? Or to all three, including the “real” Ahmed? And if Aafia’s two/three children are in Afghanistan, where have they been kept? In an orphanage? In a prison? And who kept them? The Afghans? The Americans?—Dawn/The Independent News Service





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Friday, March 26, 2010

DESTROYING DEMOCRACY IV

03/26/2010


DESTROYING DEMOCRACY IV

Where do I start,  the health care bill passed, and as I had predicted the sun still came up the next day, and as I had said before, the Republicans can't stop playing the race angle of our politics. Dividing the country is not the best policy, but there are advantages, especially if you are a politician, I have heard about threats and  I am not amused, I fear for the country, I fear for my kids. Even though the same people who keep stoking the racist sentiments also tell their followers to keep calm while they do not stop the personal attacks and do not stop  making politics in to personal attacks and name calling.

I hear Glenn Beck acknowledge that the mess we are in is not new but has been going on for thirty years, that pretty much covers the Reagan era also, I have been saying this since Reagan was still in the office.

It gets me, Information first printed in news paper 2/20/2003 check out this post.

I was at the window at the bank, the lady behind me was talking to the backer, the IRS is unconstitutional, the FED is unconstitutional, and the banker was agreeing, mind you we are at the branch of a major national bank. As I finished my business I turned to the banker and quietly told him, "if were not for the FED, your bank would not exist. He said, yes I know.

Here is the sad truth, in both its parts, remember, I promised you I will tell you the whole truth.
Early in 2006, I wrote to then President Bush and my Senator Shelby (then chairman of senate banking committee about the FED and the  money, I followed up consistently, but no one was listening. Today we are paying the consequences and there is no end in sight.



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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

CHANGES

CHANGES


Its the wind, and the river

and the times that always change

life is changes

like the change in the streams



I would have told you how

if i knew how it began

now the beginning of the end

is now beginning it seems



In my dreams I always held you

i held you close to my heart

and we are closer still

when I hold you in my dreams



even though i know now

that you are gone forever

even though forever

you are always in my dreams



and i would hold you forever

and I don't know if you care

and what good is love for

when the love isn't there



and i dare not say good bye

so much hurt that i don't dare

do i have to say good bye

just to show that i still care


(M.N.R.)


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Saturday, March 20, 2010

DESTROYING DEMOCRACY III

 03/20/2010

DESTROYING DEMOCRACY III

While we are debating health care reform, we are mostly oblivious to the goings on in the rest of the world that foretell our own path, probably. We get our news form comedians, from Jon Stewart or Al Franken, from Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, just who ever we thin agrees with our own point of view, that is if we even do pay attention  to the news at all. Look again, the unrest in France, in Greece, in England, in Moscow, in Iceland, due to the "conservative" (what does that ever mean?) policies and the financial fiasco of the  recent past. Could we not just get lucky? Are we not immune?

As I said after the markets fell in 2000, that the poor will have to work hard to make up the difference in the market values lost. We today face the same problem, only in 2000 the market value lost was in just trillions, now it is hundreds of trillions and some one has to make up the difference. If you have your eyes open you are seeing it happen, the budget cuts, and tax increases that you see today at the local and the state levels are about to hit the national, federal budgets with decreases in social security, medicare, medicaid, education all but the defense, intelligence and tax collections.

As the conservatives saying it is all Obama, and millions looking for someone to blame their misery on, it is easy to point  fingers at the top chair. But we have all been a party to our own demise, we should have known it was coming, and should have been prepared, I had been warning before Obama ever took the seat.









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DESTROYING DEMOCRACY II

 03/20/2010


DESTROYING DEMOCRACY II

Too be sure the health care needs changes,  (read part one here)   but to say that reform will save money, reduce deficits is a farce, with innovations in health care the costs of treatment will keep going up and in free market you can not induce price controls, and to pay less to the doctors and hospitals, arbitrarily will only impede the treatment and medical progress.

So what is the conservatives plan, without insurance or medicare medicaid  you won't get treated, and with unemployment on the rise and wages stagnating you will be "SOL".  Yes we can start with a clean slate and wait another twenty years for a compromise agreement. What the rallying conservatives do not understand is that  no average person has enough money to buy insurance or be able to save enough money for a serious illness. In the meantime the premiums keep rising, I dare say that no one in the tea party has a family member that is seriously ill and needs help, of course a majority of the population does not, till that day comes.

We have problems, the cities are failing, the states are broke, the education system is broken and keeps producing illiterates, our colleges are full of unemployed under achievers, on Pell  grants and student loans, we  have unemployment out the wazoo and trade deficits, and all we are left to do is to bicker about the health care reform and if that alone will make us Communists. We have been on the road to Communism for a long long time, I warned about it many years ago.






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Friday, March 19, 2010

DESTROYING DEMOCRACY

03/19/2010


DESTROYING DEMOCRACY part one,

No foreign country could have brought us to this, no external power would have even dared. Today America is confused, lost and divided unsure of it's own future. Thirty seven years ago, America was a democracy, a beacon of freedom, where the negro could rise up and with the help of the whites win civil rights and equality, a factory worker could depend on a lifetime of well paid employment and health care and a retirement, could buy his own home, own a car and and raise a family. Heck even workers at Sears and J.C. Penny had life time jobs with benefits. Millionaires were few and far between  and fat chance you were going to meet one, that is unless you were a cab driver, like me, in West Palm Beach, I was going to be an American.

Government was still responsible to the people, there was getting out of Vietnam, the Water Gate, and the Nixon impeachment, even after the Ohio University the government had relented. It is in this country that in 2003 I wrote, "whether you follow the Democratic policies or the Republican policies you always end up with the same results, destructive to the country and the society".

For those who are awake and are pondering the outcome of the health care vote on Sunday, relax, the sun will still come out on the Monday morning and no, no one will be there at your door to give you a mortal injection, no death panel will be assembled, yet. Most Americans had not even thought of the health care mess till about six months ago or so when the Republicans decided to defeat Obama, the uppity negro president. Yeah that's right.

Obama and the Democrats are hell bent on passing a health care bill, no matter how asinine, just to prove a point, and a great point it is too, for democracy, if Obama fails in passing this bill then the United States will not have a functioning presidency for the next two and half years, and that is just for starters.

I have been writing about health care since before Obama became the pres, and yes since this debate started
and since ,
the view being that the health care mess in too expensive and to unwieldy to be solved easily or simply, but a 2500 page plan it self is too big to simplify anything.

But here is another problem, in a discussion among equals, no matter how far apart has to be logical, when you come to the table  for a discussion and punch holes in the other party's plan then you better have an equal and just as comprehensive a plan to offer as the alternative, so far what I have heard from the Republican side is  that they want to stop Obama and then start over, where have these brilliant minds (read nags) been.



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Monday, March 15, 2010

THE END OF ENDLESS ENTERTAINMENT

03/15/2010

THE END OF ENDLESS ENTERTAINMENT

Don't look now, but if the future is not here, then it is very near.And that means that the internet, the Television, your facebook, myspace, NYTimes, Google, youtube are not going away just that you won't be able to access them, for free.


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Saturday, March 13, 2010

WOMEN, RIGHTS, AND THE ECONOMIC REALITIES

03/13/2010

WOMEN, RIGHTS, AND THE ECONOMIC REALITIES

UNITED NATIONS: Describing the subjugation of women as a threat to American security, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a passionate plea on Friday to give equal rights to women around the world.

Once again, I am faced with reality versus wishful thinking, and the reality bites. It is OK to dream, as in when you are sleeping, or may be on drugs, but when you are talking "real life" it is advisable not to be hallucinating. 

Time, and time again,  I have shown where our actions are not in coherence with our objectives. World wide our economic goals have been to produce at the cheapest cost, to purchase from the lowest bidder, and to pay nothing more than lip services to all else.Where ever the jobs have been transferred to women, the wages have dropped, as the labor pools expands (due to the inclusion of women in the worker pool). Also men become more and more economically dependent on the woman's earnings. True that an economically independent woman should be less threatened by the man abusing her in a relationship, but that has not been the case in the so called Western societies. On the other hand many a man has become dependent on the woman to be the provider and used and abused her financially and physically if she failed.

The true Islam itself provides for the  economic freedom of the woman, it was first to grant a woman a share of inheritance from her parents, it allowed, even promoted woman's education in all subjects, allowed for women to be in business and trade,  a woman was to receive a special present or a sum of money as part of her marriage vows, she was to receive a generous share of her husband's estate upon his death, and an alimony in case of a divorce. If women have been abused and made chattel of their families and husbands it is not the fault of Islam but the people not following the true Islamic tradition and yet calling themselves Muslims.


The country’s population growth rate is the key determinant of progress in achieving the goals envisaged in every sector of national life. With the population currently growing at a rate of 1.9 per cent per annum, the government is faced with the challenge of a huge backlog and higher targets in the provision of education, healthcare, housing and every other basic right while the economy remains under pressure.


Corruption was widespread within the government and police forces, and the government made few attempts to combat the problem.”
Rape, domestic violence, sexual harassment, and abuse against women remained serious problems. Honour crimes and discriminatory legislation affected women and religious minorities respectively.
Religious freedom violations and inter-sectarian religious conflict continued. Widespread trafficking in persons, child labour, and exploitation of indentured and bonded children were ongoing problems.
Child abuse, commercial sexual exploitation of children, discrimination against persons with disabilities, and lack of respect for worker rights remained concerns.


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Thursday, March 11, 2010

MATURITY

03/11/2010


MATURITY

What this world does not need any more of is the people showing their "maturity" by acting immature.



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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

SPITTING IN THE FACE OF USA

03/09/2021


SPITTING IN THE FACE OF USA

I have always said that one of the biggest  and the most outrageous dramas going on in the world today is the Middle East Peace talks. Even though no longer funny, the charade continues unabated, at the cost of billions of dollars of expense, and no one is ever serious and the joke is on the unaware public that keeps hoping for a "peaceful" result.

It is also customary  to honor, and  at least not to insult envoys, and treat them with due respect and honor, it is also known in most people that the greatest disrespect for anyone is to  spit in their face, as it is a sign of the utter contempt.




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Saturday, March 06, 2010

CONFLICTED AIMS, CONFUSED LIVES, 2

03/06/2010


CONFLICTED AIMS, CONFUSED LIVES, 2

So, you have been following the health care debate, or the jobs situation. And it is important, and you are involved. But what does it have to do with reality? You ARE being told that jobs will be harder to come by, that ten percent unemployment may linger for a long time. And we all know the story of the slow boiled frog.

The truth is that the consumer  society will be the death of the human kind. The more we consume the more we pollute the earth and the air and the waters. Also the corporation can only exist in a consumer society, where people have money, (including health care, including employment). The problem is thus many fold, 1/ people and corporations do not create jobs so that other people can have money to spend, 2/ if people have no money then the government must give them money(welfare state), 3/ if a corporation wants to make money then it must increase productivity ( lay off people, use fewer people to produce more goods, adapt technologies that make humans unnecessary). Thus in this round robin way humans always lose, the same people that we need to consume our products ( thus cause pollution).

Obviously the solution is a controlled economy where people only live and reproduce as needed, and if needed they are rewarded with perks such as appropriate accommodations and food and luxuries appropriate to there usefulness. The for this reality is coming soon.






LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE

Thursday, March 04, 2010

CONFLICTED AIMS, CONFUSED LIVES

03/04/2010

CONFLICTED AIMS, CONFUSED LIVES

I worry about people,  that's why I am worried about the future of humanity. What I see here, and what I know  is real is scary to me, and I have been warning all that I know, or the ones who stumble upon this page about the upcoming disasters, about how the life is about to change, forever.

For far too long we have lived  in a fantasy, both on the left and the right thinking we can do it all and have it all, everything could be done all at the same time, and mostly with borrowed money too. But, even as we are all talking about  recession, about slow economy, and money is only the symptom of all that went wrong, not the real disease.

It was thirty seven years ago today that I arrived in this country, I had lived in a third world country, I had lived under Marshal Law and I had seen tyranny. I had seen abject poverty and cruelty. I had been in a police state, and I had seen oppression, political and financial, I had sen how people were kept poor, and how poor were kept down and controlled, I had seen slavery in its many forms. I have never regretted my decision to move to this country, I have no desire to move anywhere else.

I love my freedom, the knowledge I had and I have gained since my arrival here, what I say is not a critique per se, it is an observation and my understanding of the FACTS as they ARE! It is not something new to me, I have done this since my early days in this country, I have tried to awaken the sleeping.

History is full of examples of lost societies, cultures that prospered were destroyed by their own over confidence, of little people who got big heads, and big people who did not heed the warnings and were crushed by sands of time. Little people always get big heads still, even today people such as Chavez and Castro, Kim Jong Il and Mugabe exist, who like the Pharaohs of the old consider themselves almighty. These of course are not much different than the Federal Reserve and the IMF who decide who the winners and the losers of our  society should be, and who has a job and who gets to eat.

Why are we here, looking at the unemployment that will keep going higher, health care that is out of control, families that can not live together, and student who won't learn and teachers who can not teach, this is no longer the news, it is the reality, and we have no solutions,  and the politicians and preachers who can not save us, they are only after our money, sadly, we have no money, it was all imaginary any way!

If you have come along this far, and clicked on and read  at least a few of the links, then you will see I have not only been ahead of the times I have also been right in my predictions, so far. Then now consider this, the world  that we knew yesterday, the world that it was no longer exists, change IS coming, and it will not be to the liking of a majority.


Before I go any further let me make one point, it may be unrelated to what I am saying here but it is important, the reason I can write this and that you are  reading is that the first amendment to the constitution of the United States, I have been in many places where there was no freedom of speech, let me then also say this, that the second amendment to the constitution makes sure that the first stays in place, we must defend the second amendment to safeguard the first.





LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE

Monday, March 01, 2010

THE SPENDING INCREASE

03/01/2010


THE SPENDING INCREASE

Can the economists please go back to their "theoretical" sleeps. The personal income of course includes the food stamps and the unemployment payments and rent subsidies and the tax refunds. People in these situations don't save, they spend, have to, all they get. Also if you are living in the real world you would have known that the low income people were already filing with tax preparers (who have also now turned into loan sharks) at the end of December already, this is where the increase in spending and lack of savings come from, the meager wage increases did not go to the low income people, it was the bankers bonuses, get real!

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE