Cannibalism Redefined, part 11

Cannibalism Redefined, part 11

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way..."I
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities

I did not start writing this series, two weeks ago, to address the current strike. The strike just fell in my lap as I was on a certain topic. Irony is not lost on me that I defend higher wages, more benefits and better treatment for many that may not be as fair to those that are less fortunate than them. I know there are those on picket lines that shop at box stores to save a few pennies rather than support local small businesses. Like I said there may even be some die hard republicans their that are against minimum wage increase or want lower corporate taxes. I respect your feelings, I do not agree with your opinions.

Humans always do the same things expecting that they are smarter than previous generations, able to produce better results while they repeat the same mistakes of the past.
We read history and old books that carry all warnings and we say then, "we believe" and proceed to do different.
The book above was a warning also to the English. The French Revolution preceded the Russian, and the Chinese followed the Russian, were there no warnings?Before the Egyptian uprising against Hosni I had asked, " what if the public lost the fear of dying?"
Workers in America are being oppressed at all levels, the true unemployment is near thirty percent if you take away the "safety net" payments. It is a good time to read "The Tale of Two Cities".






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Cannibalism Redefined, part 10

Cannibalism Redefined, part 10 A few thoughts on eating your kids. We are all guilty, we were admonished to take care of our own, to be kind to poor, widows and orphans, and take care of them, etc. "For a man that was once a clot of blood soon forgets from whence he became, and says where is the proof". I am not religious and din't even pretend, there are messages in the ancient texts, however, that still are true if the human condition. I am sure there are many out in rain standing up for better treatment and humane condition that may have, more than once, look down upon the less fortunate, I do not fault you. From the age of about five till nine I was raised in abject poverty. With my father away at college, my mother, a school teacher struggled to feed us three kids and a brother that was also a student in college, school teacher in poor countries don't make a lot, five of us in that house, a half pound of meat a week was luxury we could seldom afford. Many nights our dinner was scraps of bread. I have no life, few friends, I do not drink, do not go to visit people, I have three kids, I want them to live in world that does not look down at them, I do not want them to suffer in poverty. If we keep tearing down each other for this reason or that we will not end up in a good place. How low can we go? We were told not to worship money, but we do. Not just our own money, but the money that the others have, America was not supposed to have lords and barons, we have them now. At the same time while we begrudge each other over a few dollars, our political leaders are selling out our country, our states, counties and townships, with tax abatements, free services, employment services, free training and yes welfare and medicaid for the workers for the low low wage for low low prices, while the smaller business people fall by the wayside. Thanks to our politicians, our social security is broke, our 401ks are stolen or lost, our sick pay and holidays and pay raises keep disappearing, If this downhill slide of wages, and benefits keeps going what will our kids live like, our grand kids, what kind of country will we leave them in, what will our country look like. As some fight for a decent life, lets stand with them, they are fighting for us, for our freedoms, our way of living, just as the soldiers on any front line, it IS the American thing to do, It Is the right thing to do! Lets not feed our kids to the monsters, let leave our kids a future, a good future, there are consequence to selling your soul. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

Cannibalism Redefined, part 9

Cannibalism Redefined, part 9 What would you think of a child that was raised, breast fed even, by a mother that the child decided to/ may be actually killed? It seems to me that some of my friends do believe that having their head up their, or someone else's ass makes them down to earth. I used to drive a cab in West Palm beach. In 1974 the minimum wage was $1.85 an hour, I drove a twelve hour shift, six days a week, on good days making $30 or 40. No benefits. Then I was hired by the City of West Palm Beach as an electrician, starting pay $7.25 an hour, sick leave, pension, paid holidays and retirement, imagine that. In 1985 when I started in civil service, I joined the union on day one. Here in south people are "Republicans", I know many on strike there did not vote for Democrats. I am neither of these. It is common here for people on welfare and medicaid to be republican, a friend that received workman's comp and unemployment also is a republican. I have lived in the third world, if it was not for the safety nets today, our America would be a third world country too. And then the argument that the soldiers get paid less, I know, I was guarding ammo dumps in snow up to you know where at $360 a month. But I also know that the aviation safety, aviator training, and the lives of these soldiers we so adore depends on the work of these same people you are bad mouthing, think about it! Do you want some back yard mechanics or welfare recipients do their job. Time to get that head out. You know I am against big corporate stores in favor of small business, I call it survival strategy. If you want I will post a link about economy. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

Cannibalism Redefined, part 8

Reminds me of the movie "Django" where the slave owners used slaves to fight each other, to punish each other, even to kill each other. Today all the American workers are those slaves. Cannibalism Redefined, part 8 Last night a local union on the military base next door went on strike, I don't care why, I am with them. In recent years the American workers have been shafted by their bosses and by their government so someone has to take a stand. I have talked to a couple of people locally about the situation. But what can I say, you know this is the South, we worship the rich because Reagan said so, we hate the unions, because Reagan and Rush say that they are bad for your health and they eat your babies too. Let me assure you that I have lived next to the military base for a long time and raised three kids, the unions do not eat your babies. One contractor said to me they get paid way too much, buy many cars and live in big houses. But to those that have been misled that rich people create jobs, let me remind AGAIN that rich do not create jobs that you have been brain washed in to believing by those that you trust. Whether you work at the local barbecue joint, the Waffle House or any such place, the "rich" are not coming there, it is mostly working stiffs that may make a bit more than you or even a lot, like may be even 80 or 90 grand a year, These are the ones that live in bigger house where you cut their yard, you clean their house or you child baby sits for them, they are the real job creators, The Middle Class. And if you are an average house builder or sub contractor you may be even build their house, the really rich, you probably don't know where they live, couldn't go there because they have guards that shoot. Our politicians are always enamored of the rich, the rich put money in their pocket and buy them elections, then they own the politicians like their lil lap dogs. The politicians lie to you that they are bringing you jobs by opening a Walmart and soon so see the dogs roaming the down town where hundreds of small businesses used to be, the independent business man raising a family could not put thousands in the pocket of the elected and so he got dumped. These union workers may make a bit more than you, (may even be sorrier workers than you are( hard for me to believe that), but they ARE the real back bone of this community, they are the ones buying homes here and supporting local schools and churches, not some big corporation sucking at the governments tit and taking the monies to where ever the heck. The union pay stays local, it is spent here, it helps here. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

Guess who wants tax cuts

Did you know? If you are making under forty grand a year, you likely do not pay much in federal taxes! http://youtu.be/M0BV91eNjJw Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

Cannibalism Redefined, part 7

Cannibalism Redefined, part7 It is sad that some very poor don't understand the economy. They live on welfare and medicaid, they do drugs and get busted creating jobs for the police and the prison systems, they create jobs for lawyers and judges. They pay more for their cable service and cell phones than they spend on their children, in the South here, they are mostly white and Republicans. They vote for tax cuts, prayer in school and for "straight" marriage while their daughters have sex and kids to of wedlock. Blacks and others do also, but blacks generally vote for democrats. But what about the middle class? We know that the middle class are struggling, living hand to mouth on a measly 100k and up, they are screwed bad and don't even know what happened. This is the cost of being stupid. Can't afford to get married or have kids (unless you move to south and then live within your means, budget and be smart). Just small example, they lost money buying homes and then market dropping, money in 401k lost when market dropped, health insurance through the roof, benefits, retirements cut, but you are hooking up, getting laid, life is good, bend over and spread your cheeks, smile, the economy is picking up while your life falls to pieces. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

An “Army of Lobbyists” Is Quietly Fighting for Budget-Busting Corporate Tax Breaks - Ring Of Fire Radio: Robert Kennedy Jr, Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder

http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2014/04/army-lobbyists-quietly-fighting-budget-busting-corporate-tax-breaks-2/


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Cannibalism Redefined, part 6

Cannibalism Redefined, part 6 It is understood that words have meanings, also known is the fact that words effect emotions and feelings, thus opinions. Aldous Huxley talks about "double speak" to make this clear, change the words and you change the thinking and thus human behaviors. Throughout history, a majority of humanity has found eternal comfort in lasting and persistent ignorance, rather than to go through the pain of learning and opening their minds. In psychology there is a thought that if you want children to learn to speak early, clear and even be smarter then do not use "baby talk". So what when we start talking to adults in baby talk? "Veggies" is one word I refuse to use. May be it is not intentional, but the psychologists, the clergy, the politicians and specially the media treat us like we are kids ( a bunch of fools) and we are eating it up. And we do it to ourselves too, not without help mind you. We must like being treated like fools or they would not dare. One more thing for today. You have heard of "ADD" also called "ADHD". Now most of these kids used to be called "retarted", unable to concentrate, pay attention or stay on task. Of course you and I know that a grown up must be able to pay attention, stay on task, think. Then we are told that people today have a short attention span, college kids fall asleep in class or are on "social media", ( in my own teaching days, I would have called it playing with one's self). This compounds the problem, you are getting screwed but your mind is distracted, sadly it is also happening in IRL more than you think. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

Cannibalism Redefined, part 5

Cannibalism Redefined, part5 In practice cannibalism was mostly practiced when a tribe killed a person of an opposing tribe. It would follow that for starters we need tribes. But we don't live as tribes any more so it would be difficult to kill each other. But wait, we are tribes, and divides are deep as ever. Are tribes do not depend on linage, color or race, we are tribes in religion, economic philosophies, education levels, business associations, and much more, our divides as deep as any two given tribes in the past. We have southern tribes and eastern tribes, we have free traders and communists, we have the educated vs the illiterate, left-right, you name it, all near willing to kill each other to prove our point. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

Cannabalism Redefined, part4

Cannabalism Redefined, part4 I am a hypocrite, may be my writings make think I am kind or generous or even forgiving, I am not. I am 62, I have lived in four different countries, on three continents, for at least four years. I have lived in eight different societies, learnt seven distinct languages, I have been a watcher of humanity, at many different levels. This no credit to me, I was conniving enough to keep from getting hurt or thrown out or rejected. What I know is what I learnt from osmosis, to survive, even to thrive, what I say is what I learnt about humanity and what it will take for the humanity to make it in the long run, as humanity. Bottom line, to me all humanity is the same, all humans are the same, I am no better than anyone, not do I consider any other human better or superior to myself no matter how. Once we reach this point, other problems of humanity can be solved equitably, judiciously and peacefully, right, true and honest information is the key. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

Cannibalism Redefined, part 3

Cannibalism Redefined, part three Of course not like we are cave people, we are sophisticated, and cannibalism is a dirty word. It implies that we kill people, to eat them. Did I mention to you that in modern culture if we don't like something, we just change what we call it, problem solved. I have a whole article on the subject on my blog if you like, but here are a couple if examples. Torture so uncivilized that only the terrorist ( or regimes like North Korea but never ever friends) use it, we in the other hand only use "enhanced interrogation techniques", And by god if killing innocent civilians is gets under your skin, just say "collateral damage", heck we could even use the term in a nursery rhyme, "may the odds forever be in your favor". So that we understand clearly, killing or starving people is not as bad as cannibalism, is it? Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

Cannibalism redefined, part 2

Cannibalism redefined, part 2 @tombstone001: A newcomer to a big city walks in to traffic, or falls down a manhole while admiring the high rise buildings, #humans ! We are nothing if we are not enamored by the new things we have, we wouldn't know how we would survive without them, we do not see how the ones before us ever survived without. In this we are willing to do anything, worship any god, and follow anyone that promises us continued and ever expanding universe of expanding goods, easy life, unlimited riches, noting has changed in human history. We followed Jim Jones, David Koresh and we followed Rasputin, no nothing has changed. These things do not come without cost and we are ever willing to pay any cost, people used to sacrifice their own kids. May be we need to redefine cannibalism. Just as I discussed that we can not define murder yet, may be similarly we can not define cannibalism also, I try here to make it clearer, or muddier. Let's say you and I are stranded on an island, all that stands between us and death is a can of beanie weenies, just one can, that night I just find a big rock and smash your brains. Now I have not committed any cannibalism have I, think! May be I did, I have committed cannibalism, but mind is at ease, I did not commit cannibalism Swallow this much. Rest. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

Cannibalism Re Explained

Cannibalism re-explained As it has been my effort with @CNN about the missing flight #MH370, we must ask the right questions to get the right response. Sometimes we fail to ask these right questions only because we do not know what to ask, that because due to lack of our own knowledge. I, sometimes, try to first explain, what I am trying to explain, for a reason. We all do not always agree as to what a word or a phrase means. Why I use a term in way that you were never shown to use. May be because I see the world a bit different than others, where everything is connected, like it or not, where the consequences of action A are exactly those of the action B even though A and B are not only not similar or may actually be totally opposites of each other. If I haven't lost you already, hang in there, I am trying hard. So what is (human) cannibalism and what does it have to do with free trade and open markets While back I wrote a series I called, " I roads lead to hell", it is on my blog if you want a link. I tried to show how our policies, liberal or conservative, financial or social will always have the SAME outcome, and will be detrimental to the average person. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/04/15/speculators-cartels-myths-of-scarcity/ More to follow on this Leave a comment, ask a friend to join Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

Fool Me Once, Economics 101

Fool Me Once , Economics 101 There is an adage about making the same mistake, it says one is crazy, I might say one is stupid. But we do not believe that our leaders, our finance ministers or bankers are stupid, or crazy, I believe, I know they are a bunch of thieves and crooks scamming the nations, stealing money from governments and leaving the populace broke. We have "known austerities, and "unknown austerities" and we have "known unknown austerities", to paraphrase a minster of ( master of) thieves. Back in the days of Jimmy Carter I happened to take accounting I&II, so I know how to balance the books, apparently we must be paying our financiers to blow smoke up our panties or they would have known how. For the umpteenth time I will explain. I heard the inflation is low, now if you can not buy a house because housing is way up, health care costs are through the roof and higher education, forget that! So some one is either lying or is freaking ignorant as carp pile . I have elsewhere explained how only the rich can cause inflation Is BBC AND OTHER MEDIA STUPID? I know financial news only and already caters only to the rich then who will speak the truth to you and I? The way I see it, the problem is not low inflation, the real problem is lower taxes that are allowing the rich to "buy" parking space near their work for more than an average person will make in their lifetime http://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/what-does-465-000-buy-you-london-parking-space-just-f6C10874760 Then the problem, the governments must borrow more and more to keep going while the rich can buy politicians to lower their taxes. This will not, can not end well. While the social spending goes up and then cut back, lowering the standard of living for millions, the rich, the job creators are taking that money to "invest in bonds" or to gamble with in stock markets. The job creators actually are cutting jobs ( improving productivity) the governments are forced to borrow more and spend more to keep the working poor down, and keep them quiet, sometimes it is also called social spending, or to create jobs by Increasing infrastructure spending for the benefit of the rich, better roads and air ports. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27008293 Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

When America Becomes a Christian Nation

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/11/louisiana-bill-would-name-bible-as-official-state-book/ Since # foxnews has decided to block my comments, I am posting comments of someone else here http://www.thechurchofwells.com/ http://m.ketknbc.com/w/main/story/113185890/ http://www.masslive.com/umassbasketball/index.ssf/2014/04/westboro_baptist_church_says_i.html http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5104904 Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

The Butterfly Effect

The butterfly effect How our support of the Syrian "revolution" is causing higher prices at the pump https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=769313153079928&id=337495259595055 Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

Bible the Official book

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/11/louisiana-bill-would-name-bible-as-official-state-book/ Since # foxnews has decided to block my comments, I am posting comments of someone else here The separation of church and state is an issue that those in Washington debate just like co-workers do around the water-cooler or familes around the dinner table. How much religion, if any, should be involved in government? When the 2nd "red scare" happened in the late 1940s until the late 1950s, Americans were scared that communism would overtake the country. The greatest example of this was Republican Senator, Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who drove home the paranoia that not only would communism take over the United States, but that many Americans were communist themselves. Of course this all proved to be false and forever known as "McCarthyism." One of the ways the government wanted to show that they were somehow above communism was their love for god. "In god we trust" was added to all paper currency in 1957 as well as adding "Under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954. Today, many conservative politicians and Christians around the country claim that the United States was founded as a "Christian Nation." These claims, however, are not based on factual information. While many of the Founding Fathers were Christians, others were not. Some believed in God, but held no religious preference and others had no belief in anything supernatural. Here are twenty quotes from the Founding Fathers and other great Americans that show that the United States was not founded as a "Christian Nation." 1. "Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man"- Thomas Jefferson 2. "The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs." -Thomas Jefferson 3. "It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet the one is not three, and the three are not one- Thomas Jefferson 4. "And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors."- Thomas Jefferson 5. "There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites."- Thomas Jefferson 6. "Lighthouses are more useful than churches."- Ben Franklin . 7. "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."- Ben Franklin 8. "I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them."- Ben Franklin 9. "In the affairs of the world, men are saved not by faith, but by the lack of it."- Ben Franklin 10. "This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it"- John Adams 11. "The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.'- Thomas Paine 12. "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst."- Thomas Paine 13. "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church. Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all."- Thomas Paine 14. "Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies."- Thomas Paine 15. "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."- Thomas Paine 16. "It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene."- Thomas Paine 17. "Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by the difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be depreciated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society."- George Washington 18. "The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my profession."- Abraham Lincoln 19. "It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with such distinctness as to avoid collisions and doubts on unessential points. The tendency to unsurpastion on one side or the other, or to a corrupting coalition or alliance between them, will be best guarded agst. by an entire abstinence of the Gov't from interfence in any way whatsoever, beyond the necessity of preserving public order, and protecting each sect agst. trespasses on its legal rights by others."- James Madison 20. "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."- James Madison " Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

Russia vs World

US warns Russia, if you steal Crimea, it will be a hot summer in the US, gas prices up, gold up, stocks down, car sales down, electric rates up in the middle of summer, Let the games begin! http://m.gulfnews.com/opinion/agents-provocateurs-and-the-shadow-war-in-eastern-ukraine-1.1317779 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2599700/Kremlin-accuses-U-S-security-firm-links-Blackwater-sending-private-army-Ukraine-disguised-local-forces-latest-escalation-anti-American-rhetoric.html Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

A New Way to See, part three

For everyone that would eat dog meat or pork or bitter melon we have others that would disagree, vehemently, and show us the evils of the practice. Same is true of politics too. Liberal, conservative, democrat, republican, communist or capitalist, we are all more concerned with the evils of the other, never seeing anything wrong with our own way, let alone be reasonable and see something good, anything, in the thinking of the others, this why I would use the analogy of a religion, and why I say that politics has become religion. We also forgive the sins of our politicians, too quickly, they may be crooks, liars, thieves or thugs matters not if they are promoting our "political philosophy", stoke our egos and our ignorance, no likes to be proven stupid so how can we ever admit that our politicians are wrong. Whether they are running the economy in to dirt while enriching themselves or stealing money for their friends by giving them government contracts, it all OK. No one sees the irony of the Southern poor supporting the republican party and tax cuts while collecting welfare benefits and asking for lower wages and cuts in unemployment or medicaid. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

A New Way to See, part three

For everyone that would eat dog meat or pork or bitter melon we have others that would disagree, vehemently, and show us the evils of the practice. Same is true of politics too. Liberal, conservative, democrat, republican, communist or capitalist, we are all more concerned with the evils of the other, never seeing anything wrong with our own way, let alone be reasonable and see something good, anything, in the thinking of the others, this why I would use the analogy of a religion, and why I say that politics has become religion. We also forgive the sins of our politicians, too quickly, they may be crooks, liars, thieves or thugs matters not if they are promoting our "political philosophy", stoke our egos and our ignorance, no likes to be proven stupid so how can we ever admit that our politicians are wrong. Whether they are running the economy in to dirt while enriching themselves or stealing money for their friends by giving them government contracts, it all OK. No one sees the irony of the Southern poor supporting the republican party and tax cuts while collecting welfare benefits and asking for lower wages and cuts in unemployment or medicaid. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

A New Way to See, part three

For everyone that would eat dog meat or pork or bitter melon we have others that would disagree, vehemently, and show us the evils of the practice. Same is true of politics too. Liberal, conservative, democrat, republican, communist or capitalist, we are all more concerned with the evils of the other, never seeing anything wrong with our own way, let alone be reasonable and see something good, anything, in the thinking of the others, this why I would use the analogy of a religion, and why I say that politics has become religion. We also forgive the sins of our politicians, too quickly, they may be crooks, liars, thieves or thugs matters not if they are promoting our "political philosophy", stoke our egos and our ignorance, no likes to be proven stupid so how can we ever admit that our politicians are wrong. Whether they are running the economy in to dirt while enriching themselves or stealing money for their friends by giving them government contracts, it all OK. No one sees the irony of the Southern poor supporting the republican party and tax cuts while collecting welfare benefits and asking for lower wages and cuts in unemployment or medicaid. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

A New Way to See, part two

Any "honest" banker or say a billionaire can tell you that when we talk about money in today's economy we are talking about something that does not exist in reality, it is all in your head. A while back I had said, " economics is not a science and politics is not a religion". I do not wish to offend anyone of faith, but let's see, say someone has grown up eating dog meat or apes, pork or bitter melons, shrimp or sausage, it hard to convince them that what do is "wrong" as much as it is to convince some one that there is actually nothing wrong with eating the stuff they don't eat. Yet there is no way out. "Our brains may have grown with the evolution, our minds, not so much". We are blind to our current realities, the future of mankind gets dimmer by the minute, yet we are driving head long, in to the abyss. I enjoy the modern comforts, air conditioning, six cars fir my family of five, indoor plumbing, still some times when washing dishes I wonder how many people in the world have no clean water even to drink while I use gallons to clean a few tea cups. How many wars to keep me in cheap petroleum, and how many starve ( I despise the phrase " food insecurity") while my cat only eats can food. In the inter connected world we are more distant than ever from our own "humanity". Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

A NEW WAY TO SEE part one

I realize that most (if not all) newsmen, politicians, economists, and pundits do not live in the everyday world, if not already way out there in some la-la land. I read these high fluting, high brow commentaries and ideologies and I want some of what they are smoking too, desperately. It is not news that particular person, publications, pundits and politicians will ALWAYS have same ideas and same attitudes on any given subject, my problem is that all is so predictable as to not be of any worth as news or commentary at all. This incestuous relation is dangerous to the future, not only to us but to the future of the globe. Be it Crimea or Cameroon, Syria or Somalia, Palestine or Pakistan, education or economics (and so on) our thoughts do not evolve, we refuse to change our mindsets. One obvious clue here is when in every situation and on every turn when things are not the way like them we invoke the name Hitler or some other jackass in history, no matter how dishonest or far fetched, there it is. Then it is the terrorism, all Muslims must be terrorists. This no matter how ugly they are treated, by local police, or a nation bent on bombing them indiscriminately it is OK. We have changed languages to hide our dishonesty. If the Africans are starving, no problem, they can just die of being food insecure, problem solved. If we plant it it, it is a land mine ( if someone else does it it is an IED, criminals use IEDs good people kill and maim with land mines, feel better, does it not. Like the ad about buzzed driving. We solved the problem about global warming too, just call it climate change. So on, it is not that we do not have better ideas, problem is we are vested in status quo and refuse to promote new paradigms, a new future of new possibilities. At national political level too, the above mentioned characters are more interested in promoting their own selves and securing their own futures as opposed to national well being and that of their own particular "gang of thieves", and this applies to all nations and peoples. We must get away from true and tried to save humanity. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=766487136695863&id=337495259595055 Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone