An article came out today that I think you will find interesting. Reuters - Nonpartisan group offers US political alternative. I will be very disappointed in my regular readers if they cannot see that this is complete garbage.
A new "organization" has been created called "American's Elect" and it has managed to raise $22 million in order to put forth a third party CENTRIST candidate. The chief strategist (ringleader) worked for both Bloomberg and Clinton. Sounds like a really independent voice doesn't it? Sounds like garbage to me.
Here is what is going on, the Tea Party and the Occupy protesters represent the majority of Americans. If those two groups find their common ground alone (such as eliminating the Federal Reserve) then they could substantially change the fundamentals that have allowed the system to become so corrupt. This organization is basically offering $22 million to the one that can bring them together so long as he promises to not change anything, to be a centrist. Who wants to chase this cookie? The organization has no political ideology, it believes in nothing. Why would anyone fund such a thing other than to distract people from what they know is wrong.
I wonder what threat and what promise will be made next? Actually, I could care less. The resentment and anger is only increasing worldwide as the real message is heard and the real message is that the people who own everything want you to continue living in worse and worse conditions.
I am going to try and simplify the world we are living in today. What percentage of the world has enough to eat, a secure home, hope for a better life and adequate health care? Hands in the air. Yes, you in the front row. "Less than 5% was the answer. It is not because there is not enough food, water or land. Lets do some simple math. 1% of the world's population owns 90% of the world. That means that they could own 10% of the world, be incredibly well off and the rest of the people could be 8 times better off than they are today. Think about it. That is what the average person is waking up to.
Even the poorest person in the world would be better off if he had 8 times as much. Now, I believe that the vast majority of people are worse off if they have too much, they just producing anything and we all do really need each other. Having said that, continually reducing what people have to the bare minimum is nothing less than criminal. We should not look for maximum productivity from society, we should look at a comfortable level of production from all. I do think everyone needs to contribute.
I think I have gotten off track. Now is the attempt to really hijack the protesters and they are being offered $22 million to pick a leader, don't pick one and don't support any candidate. Require the system to correct itself. They know how to do it.
This funding for ANY third party candidate is so obvious, it is so obviously a ploy. Do not buy it or anyone that it puts up as a candidate. Notice how they don't have to say who their contributors are, why not? If you want change, continue exactly what you are doing, it seems to have gotten their fear and attention.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Proof of How Confused They Are
I will give you two examples of how confused the powers that be are. In Oakland the Mayor who had told the police to clear the area of Occupy Oakland protesters, later told the protesters to return. This is completely confusing to the police; but, she managed to top it. Tomorrow the protesters have planned to call for a strike and the Mayor has told City employees that they are allowed to attend in sympathy if they wish. The police have asked the Mayor why she would possibly want City employees on both sides of the picket. If you are confused then just think about how confused the cops are.
Here is the second example. The President of Greece needs to agree to certain austerity measures (reductions in services and retirements and pay for employees) or the country will go bankrupt. The President has been supporting these measures and calling for them; but, there have been many riots in Greece. So what did he do, he set it up to be voted on by the general population. Now the European Union and the President of Greece know that the people will not vote for the bill and it will fail which will result in Greece being able to pay it's debt.
In both of these instances the leaders know what they have been told to do and neither is willing to do it. They are incapable of taking a position, their monied supporters will stop supporting them if they do not get rid of the protesters and approve the austerity measures and the people will come after them if they do. In Greece the President might just find himself dead.
This tinder box will be lit eventually; but, nobody wants the one to start the fire. They all know what happened to Gadhafi (and yes, there is no correct way to spell his name in English). Think the police aren't getting scared. The Oakland police say that all of the police in the picture where the Iraq veteran got injured, they are saying that it was impossible for anyone in the picture to have injured the vet. That has got to make you laugh out loud. If you kill innocent and unarmed civilians on the street in this day and age, your picture will end up on the internet along with all of your personal information.
Yes, the police like the overtime and some (some, not most, most joined to protect and serve, just like my father) should not be police and do bad things. In New York a number of police were involved in ticket fixing and yes, the union supported them and do not want them punished; but, the good cops are sick to their stomach by this. If I had gotten a ticket (and I got a few for speeding), my father would have punished me and he would have been right because he would have done right. I was not afraid of the courts or the cops, I was afraid of my mother and father telling me that I had done wrong and them being right.
There are those who believe that by reading my words, they can create an algorythymn to predict anything, they cannot, my words are my own. I do not support harming innocents, that would be a mistake. That would be wrong. There are to many like me that would be upset by such a thing and we own you.
Here is the second example. The President of Greece needs to agree to certain austerity measures (reductions in services and retirements and pay for employees) or the country will go bankrupt. The President has been supporting these measures and calling for them; but, there have been many riots in Greece. So what did he do, he set it up to be voted on by the general population. Now the European Union and the President of Greece know that the people will not vote for the bill and it will fail which will result in Greece being able to pay it's debt.
In both of these instances the leaders know what they have been told to do and neither is willing to do it. They are incapable of taking a position, their monied supporters will stop supporting them if they do not get rid of the protesters and approve the austerity measures and the people will come after them if they do. In Greece the President might just find himself dead.
This tinder box will be lit eventually; but, nobody wants the one to start the fire. They all know what happened to Gadhafi (and yes, there is no correct way to spell his name in English). Think the police aren't getting scared. The Oakland police say that all of the police in the picture where the Iraq veteran got injured, they are saying that it was impossible for anyone in the picture to have injured the vet. That has got to make you laugh out loud. If you kill innocent and unarmed civilians on the street in this day and age, your picture will end up on the internet along with all of your personal information.
Yes, the police like the overtime and some (some, not most, most joined to protect and serve, just like my father) should not be police and do bad things. In New York a number of police were involved in ticket fixing and yes, the union supported them and do not want them punished; but, the good cops are sick to their stomach by this. If I had gotten a ticket (and I got a few for speeding), my father would have punished me and he would have been right because he would have done right. I was not afraid of the courts or the cops, I was afraid of my mother and father telling me that I had done wrong and them being right.
There are those who believe that by reading my words, they can create an algorythymn to predict anything, they cannot, my words are my own. I do not support harming innocents, that would be a mistake. That would be wrong. There are to many like me that would be upset by such a thing and we own you.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Occupy the World - How Change Happens
76% of the people in the United States think the system is broke. 76% of the people are unhappy with the direction this country is taking including the people that have jobs. The obvious truth is obvious and true. Other than a few politicians who have been paid well to keep the status quo, who likes what is going on in this country?
The media continues to hasten the downfall of the system by denying that anything is wrong. I bet with almost no effort I can list at least five things that the right and left agree upon regarding how this country and it's elite are failing us.
1. Eliminate the Federal Reserve and put an end to our currency being controlled by a private banking institution. That is a very popular aim of the both the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street.
2. Stop sending our children to wars for oil. Yep, everybody is tired of war.
3. Tax the rich at least as much as you tax everyone else.
4. Limit the amount that people can inherit. People don't mind success, they don't mind people like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates EARNING any amount, they don't really like to see someone inherit a few billion dollars tax free through trust funds and then looking down on the rest of us.
5. Stop allowing monied interests from buying our politicians votes. Yep, can't find too many people in favor of buying off politicians.
6. There is way to much monitoring and control over the average citizen life. Cut back on the cameras and the involvement in our day to day lives, it feels oppressive.
7. Don't ask us to work until we are dead for pennies. And while you are at it, stop stealing our pension money, we worked for it.
8. Don't set up one set of laws for the poor and middle class and another for your friends and those who can pay you off. We all see it and we see it all the time.
9. Stop sending our jobs and technology to other countries. If you are an American company than you should hire within America.
10. Don't turn this into a third world country just so the people who are rich can be richer.
This may not be the most eloquent post I have ever written; but, you probably get the point. I talk to conservatives and liberals and these are the things I hear. In the end, people are frustrated because they feel they are being wronged and that they are being lied to. They have tried to change the laws and that didn't work. They have tried to hold peaceful assemblies and replace the crooks on Washington and that didn't work. They are now holding peaceful assemblies just to air their complaints and that doesn't seem to be working either. So what now?
I saw a sign for Occupy L.A., it said, "Capitalism is working just fine, now what?" That sort of summed it up for me. It is the sort of general feeling that if this is the system working well, we have nothing to lose. Ignore the word capitalism, for this is a perversion of that system, this is pure and simple old school "good boy" networks where you have to be connected to get anything.
Warren Buffet said that this is class warfare and that the rich are winning. He was not being sarcastic and he was not in favor of it. He is one of the three richest men in the world, sort of. For all of the money that Mr. Buffet has made, there are families that are much richer and you don't know who controls their money because it is all hidden in trust funds.
When I hear staunch Republican conservatives tell me that they think we are going to see revolution and that they are disgusted with the system, the system has lost it's biggest supporters. The complaints, in the end, are not about capitalism, the complaints are about how the democratic process and our republican form of government has been perverted and taken over by a few for the benefit of the few.
I myself don't really care about politics anymore. That is to say that I think what is going to happen is going to happen. We live in an oligarchy, that is where the few are in charge of everything. In Political Science it is called the Iron Rule of Oligarchy. It means that all societies eventually devolve into control by a few and then you have revolution. It can take a week, a month, a year or many years; but, once the support of the general populace has been lost, it is just a matter of time.
Societies end in one of two ways. Either they are taken over by outside sources or they have a civil war and are taken over by the populace. While this may sound shocking, the truth is that there is a large number of people who manage this society that want it to fail, sort of. There is and has been taught for many decades the belief that we should have a one world government. For many years people doubted this; but, the internet has allowed this to be openly exposed.
One of the most conservative and respected newscasters in history told us so after he retired. Walter Cronkite - YouTube. I will give you the short answer. Mr. Cronkite was a supporter of a one world government for decades and when he retired, an organization that was working behind the scenes to achieve such a thing, gave him an award.
I am reminded of something while I watch the news. During the Irish Potato famine there was an opinion piece in the New York Times, it said that the famine might be the solution to the "Irish Problem". The Irish (I am Irish) didn't like starving or living under English rule, they didn't like it being illegal to speak our language and didn't like having all their property taken away and given to foreigners. The article basically said that letting them all starve to death would resolve the problem. Nothing left to lose except your life.
We have 30 million people unemployed in this country and an insane amount of people needing government assistance just to eat. There are calls in congress to limit food subsidies for the poor. How many people are you willing to watch starve to death when there is enough food to feed everyone? Will it solve the homeless problem, the unemployment problem or the poverty problem and is that an answer that you can live with?
When you hear people make fun of the Occupy Wall Street movement, ask them how many people they are willing to watch starve to death in the United States. I know what Jesus will ask, he will say when he was hungry you did not feed him and when he was cold you did not clothe him. He will then say that he never knew you.
People need to understand that you cannot hurt or anger all of the people all of the time, this is pretty simple stuff to understand. I shall explain one of the risks. If the people who are unhappy with the way things are begin using the same techniques as the wealthy to take down the system, it will fall like bricks. What if they began paying those who work for the system to tell on the system, a crook is a crook. There is no honor among thieves.
When three fourths of the people believe the country is headed in the wrong direction and are sick and tired of being abused, you had better find a way to have class agreement rather than class warfare. Lets consider that for a minute, let me explain how we are looked at. We have heard congressmen say that the president is promoting class warfare, that means that they believe their are different classes of citizens. I don't recall that in the Constitution. A class system is one in which your rights are determined by your wealth and your congress believes in it.
This is how change happens. When you start ignoring the masses and increasing your open control and disregard for the system then they cease believing in it also. The 60's protests were simple compared to what is coming, those protests were issue driven and this protest is about how wrong the whole system is. The left believes the system is corrupt and perverted and the right believes the system is corrupt and perverted, so, why does the media insist that everything is okay?
The media continues to hasten the downfall of the system by denying that anything is wrong. I bet with almost no effort I can list at least five things that the right and left agree upon regarding how this country and it's elite are failing us.
1. Eliminate the Federal Reserve and put an end to our currency being controlled by a private banking institution. That is a very popular aim of the both the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street.
2. Stop sending our children to wars for oil. Yep, everybody is tired of war.
3. Tax the rich at least as much as you tax everyone else.
4. Limit the amount that people can inherit. People don't mind success, they don't mind people like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates EARNING any amount, they don't really like to see someone inherit a few billion dollars tax free through trust funds and then looking down on the rest of us.
5. Stop allowing monied interests from buying our politicians votes. Yep, can't find too many people in favor of buying off politicians.
6. There is way to much monitoring and control over the average citizen life. Cut back on the cameras and the involvement in our day to day lives, it feels oppressive.
7. Don't ask us to work until we are dead for pennies. And while you are at it, stop stealing our pension money, we worked for it.
8. Don't set up one set of laws for the poor and middle class and another for your friends and those who can pay you off. We all see it and we see it all the time.
9. Stop sending our jobs and technology to other countries. If you are an American company than you should hire within America.
10. Don't turn this into a third world country just so the people who are rich can be richer.
This may not be the most eloquent post I have ever written; but, you probably get the point. I talk to conservatives and liberals and these are the things I hear. In the end, people are frustrated because they feel they are being wronged and that they are being lied to. They have tried to change the laws and that didn't work. They have tried to hold peaceful assemblies and replace the crooks on Washington and that didn't work. They are now holding peaceful assemblies just to air their complaints and that doesn't seem to be working either. So what now?
I saw a sign for Occupy L.A., it said, "Capitalism is working just fine, now what?" That sort of summed it up for me. It is the sort of general feeling that if this is the system working well, we have nothing to lose. Ignore the word capitalism, for this is a perversion of that system, this is pure and simple old school "good boy" networks where you have to be connected to get anything.
Warren Buffet said that this is class warfare and that the rich are winning. He was not being sarcastic and he was not in favor of it. He is one of the three richest men in the world, sort of. For all of the money that Mr. Buffet has made, there are families that are much richer and you don't know who controls their money because it is all hidden in trust funds.
When I hear staunch Republican conservatives tell me that they think we are going to see revolution and that they are disgusted with the system, the system has lost it's biggest supporters. The complaints, in the end, are not about capitalism, the complaints are about how the democratic process and our republican form of government has been perverted and taken over by a few for the benefit of the few.
I myself don't really care about politics anymore. That is to say that I think what is going to happen is going to happen. We live in an oligarchy, that is where the few are in charge of everything. In Political Science it is called the Iron Rule of Oligarchy. It means that all societies eventually devolve into control by a few and then you have revolution. It can take a week, a month, a year or many years; but, once the support of the general populace has been lost, it is just a matter of time.
Societies end in one of two ways. Either they are taken over by outside sources or they have a civil war and are taken over by the populace. While this may sound shocking, the truth is that there is a large number of people who manage this society that want it to fail, sort of. There is and has been taught for many decades the belief that we should have a one world government. For many years people doubted this; but, the internet has allowed this to be openly exposed.
One of the most conservative and respected newscasters in history told us so after he retired. Walter Cronkite - YouTube. I will give you the short answer. Mr. Cronkite was a supporter of a one world government for decades and when he retired, an organization that was working behind the scenes to achieve such a thing, gave him an award.
I am reminded of something while I watch the news. During the Irish Potato famine there was an opinion piece in the New York Times, it said that the famine might be the solution to the "Irish Problem". The Irish (I am Irish) didn't like starving or living under English rule, they didn't like it being illegal to speak our language and didn't like having all their property taken away and given to foreigners. The article basically said that letting them all starve to death would resolve the problem. Nothing left to lose except your life.
We have 30 million people unemployed in this country and an insane amount of people needing government assistance just to eat. There are calls in congress to limit food subsidies for the poor. How many people are you willing to watch starve to death when there is enough food to feed everyone? Will it solve the homeless problem, the unemployment problem or the poverty problem and is that an answer that you can live with?
When you hear people make fun of the Occupy Wall Street movement, ask them how many people they are willing to watch starve to death in the United States. I know what Jesus will ask, he will say when he was hungry you did not feed him and when he was cold you did not clothe him. He will then say that he never knew you.
People need to understand that you cannot hurt or anger all of the people all of the time, this is pretty simple stuff to understand. I shall explain one of the risks. If the people who are unhappy with the way things are begin using the same techniques as the wealthy to take down the system, it will fall like bricks. What if they began paying those who work for the system to tell on the system, a crook is a crook. There is no honor among thieves.
When three fourths of the people believe the country is headed in the wrong direction and are sick and tired of being abused, you had better find a way to have class agreement rather than class warfare. Lets consider that for a minute, let me explain how we are looked at. We have heard congressmen say that the president is promoting class warfare, that means that they believe their are different classes of citizens. I don't recall that in the Constitution. A class system is one in which your rights are determined by your wealth and your congress believes in it.
This is how change happens. When you start ignoring the masses and increasing your open control and disregard for the system then they cease believing in it also. The 60's protests were simple compared to what is coming, those protests were issue driven and this protest is about how wrong the whole system is. The left believes the system is corrupt and perverted and the right believes the system is corrupt and perverted, so, why does the media insist that everything is okay?
Thursday, October 27, 2011
The Powers that Be are really confused about now
In Oakland the police disbanded an Occupy Oakland encampment. They also managed to shoot an Iraq war veteran. Acorn didn't shoot the veteran and the Communists didn't shoot the veteran, the Jews did not shoot the veteran, nope, the police shot the man and he hadn't done anything other than stand in the street. When these things happen, there are consequences.
YouTube - Occupy Phoenix:Veterans with AR15s keeping the occupation safe
Hundreds of marines and ex-marines have been discussing what happened on Reddit
How I feel, as a United States Marine, about what occurred in Oakland.
After the Oakland suppression occurred, the protesters returned the next day. Fearing more bad publicity the idiot of a mayor said that she was glad that everything worked out peacefully and that they could stay a little longer. Do you understand how stupid and laughable that sounds to everybody.
Today the media had articles all across the United States about how expensive it was to the poor cities and counties to have to have the police on overtime. They are appealing to people's pocketbook; but, people who are unemployed or barely employed don't really care and the police are happy to get the overtime.
I have no political affiliations, gave that once I saw how corrupt the system is. I conduct church on Sundays and am a pacifist. Anybody who has followed this blog or reads the older posts can see that I am clearly not a Communist or a member of Acorn or a hippy or stupid or unwilling to work. My salary had me in the top 5% income bracket for people who actually work for a living (as opposed to true income, trust funds for the elite). I am not a member of Occupy anything other than occupy yourself with service. I am however a student of history.
I mention the above because I want my reader to understand my position and I do have one. I believe that Jesus taught us to be good slaves. At the same time I understand the position of the Tea Partiers and Occupy movements. People are sheep and always have been, that is the vast majority of people. The majority just found out that they are sheep when they thought they were not and they don't like it. My job in life has always been the one of a sheepdog. Protect the sheep and make sure we are headed in the direction the shepherd is taking us. I don't like the shepherd, he is a hired hand and does not care about the sheep. They are bad shepherds. For those of you who know your bible, you will understand what I am saying.
Here is where the problem begins, I will not be a sheepdog for swine pretending to be shepherds. The sheepdog does not hate the sheep, they hate him; but, he does not hate them, his joy is in helping his shepherd; but, not when the shepherd harms the sheep wrongly. The police are supposed to be sheepdogs; but, some will act like predators. What happens when there are too many predators, you have no sheep and the shepherd dies too. Of course this is an analogy; but; it is God's analogy. The people who truly own everything have forgotten the basics. Sheep are sheep and sometimes they won't listen. What do you do when the sheepdogs don't listen also? You lose. That is what you do because you cannot get anything done.
I speak in parables, analogies and nonsense; but, what I say is true. I know my history. When plain speak fails to get attention and examples are ignored then history repeats itself. Life for many will soon be bad. You cannot ignore the sheep and sheepdogs no longer care what you think. You do not lead sheep to fields of thistles, even the sheepdog knows that. What happens when nobody listens, there are no shepherds. Don't hurt the sheep or it all goes bad for all.
YouTube - Occupy Phoenix:Veterans with AR15s keeping the occupation safe
Hundreds of marines and ex-marines have been discussing what happened on Reddit
How I feel, as a United States Marine, about what occurred in Oakland.
After the Oakland suppression occurred, the protesters returned the next day. Fearing more bad publicity the idiot of a mayor said that she was glad that everything worked out peacefully and that they could stay a little longer. Do you understand how stupid and laughable that sounds to everybody.
Today the media had articles all across the United States about how expensive it was to the poor cities and counties to have to have the police on overtime. They are appealing to people's pocketbook; but, people who are unemployed or barely employed don't really care and the police are happy to get the overtime.
I have no political affiliations, gave that once I saw how corrupt the system is. I conduct church on Sundays and am a pacifist. Anybody who has followed this blog or reads the older posts can see that I am clearly not a Communist or a member of Acorn or a hippy or stupid or unwilling to work. My salary had me in the top 5% income bracket for people who actually work for a living (as opposed to true income, trust funds for the elite). I am not a member of Occupy anything other than occupy yourself with service. I am however a student of history.
I mention the above because I want my reader to understand my position and I do have one. I believe that Jesus taught us to be good slaves. At the same time I understand the position of the Tea Partiers and Occupy movements. People are sheep and always have been, that is the vast majority of people. The majority just found out that they are sheep when they thought they were not and they don't like it. My job in life has always been the one of a sheepdog. Protect the sheep and make sure we are headed in the direction the shepherd is taking us. I don't like the shepherd, he is a hired hand and does not care about the sheep. They are bad shepherds. For those of you who know your bible, you will understand what I am saying.
Here is where the problem begins, I will not be a sheepdog for swine pretending to be shepherds. The sheepdog does not hate the sheep, they hate him; but, he does not hate them, his joy is in helping his shepherd; but, not when the shepherd harms the sheep wrongly. The police are supposed to be sheepdogs; but, some will act like predators. What happens when there are too many predators, you have no sheep and the shepherd dies too. Of course this is an analogy; but; it is God's analogy. The people who truly own everything have forgotten the basics. Sheep are sheep and sometimes they won't listen. What do you do when the sheepdogs don't listen also? You lose. That is what you do because you cannot get anything done.
I speak in parables, analogies and nonsense; but, what I say is true. I know my history. When plain speak fails to get attention and examples are ignored then history repeats itself. Life for many will soon be bad. You cannot ignore the sheep and sheepdogs no longer care what you think. You do not lead sheep to fields of thistles, even the sheepdog knows that. What happens when nobody listens, there are no shepherds. Don't hurt the sheep or it all goes bad for all.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
This sounds familiar
I don't have much time to post; but, I read these two articles and they stated quite nicely things that I have posted on in the last two weeks. It is almost as if they had read my stuff and expanded on it. It means that others see the Occupy movement and the Tea Party movement in the same way and it is far from over.
Huffington Post - How the Legal System Was Deep-Sixed and Occupy Wall Street Swept the Land
Huffington POst - Occupy Wall Street as Seen Through Machiavelli's Lens
What is the point, it should be obvious. The government has legalized for the privledged what is illegal for anyone else. As it gets exposed more and more, rather than correct the problems, our politicians tell us that this is the way it should be for the "job creators". This is particularly amusing as the jobs they create are in other countries.
In Oakland the police have removed the Occupy Oakland people from their encampment (in an illegal manner by the way). They were given less rights than the homeless in violation of State Law. The police removed them; but, did not let them take their possessions and that is not legal in California. The police in Oakland also shot a Iraq vet with a plastic bullet in the head. What do you think would happen in court if that had been done during a homeless cleanup? It happened while people were chanting, "You are supposed to protect us". The police are supposed to protect and serve the citizens, not the powers that be.
The media just continues to lie. First they called the protesters Communists, then Anti-Jewish and now they all supposedly work for Acorn. Can you imagine how stupid that sounds to the protesters or the people that know them? I guess next week the media will say they are Nazi sympathizers. Throwing everything against the wall to see if something will stick merely shows desperation and exposes the insincerity of the media.
Huffington Post - How the Legal System Was Deep-Sixed and Occupy Wall Street Swept the Land
Huffington POst - Occupy Wall Street as Seen Through Machiavelli's Lens
What is the point, it should be obvious. The government has legalized for the privledged what is illegal for anyone else. As it gets exposed more and more, rather than correct the problems, our politicians tell us that this is the way it should be for the "job creators". This is particularly amusing as the jobs they create are in other countries.
In Oakland the police have removed the Occupy Oakland people from their encampment (in an illegal manner by the way). They were given less rights than the homeless in violation of State Law. The police removed them; but, did not let them take their possessions and that is not legal in California. The police in Oakland also shot a Iraq vet with a plastic bullet in the head. What do you think would happen in court if that had been done during a homeless cleanup? It happened while people were chanting, "You are supposed to protect us". The police are supposed to protect and serve the citizens, not the powers that be.
The media just continues to lie. First they called the protesters Communists, then Anti-Jewish and now they all supposedly work for Acorn. Can you imagine how stupid that sounds to the protesters or the people that know them? I guess next week the media will say they are Nazi sympathizers. Throwing everything against the wall to see if something will stick merely shows desperation and exposes the insincerity of the media.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
What a dweeb Rick Perry is
Lets be clear, I don't care who wins the election, this is not about them, it is about the process. The electoral process is one in which we vote for the best of the worst because we make the wrong choices along the way. Rick Perry should never have been a candidate for President, none of them should, they are all against the average person and they all believe in privilege, they all believe that a few should be allowed to avoid the law rather than benefit from what they have done for people who have earned it.
Mr. Perry talks about how "bold" he is; but, he is still their shill (as they say in Las Vegas (look up shill in WikiPedia). Rick Perry's message (according to CNBC is “I hope what they will see is that America's a fabulous country and it gives them the opportunity to go say your piece, go protest on the street. But at the end of the day America's about having the opportunity to take care of your family.” Is that what it is about, is America about ensuring that if you work hard you will have comfort, I don't see it for the Baby Boomers, I don't see it for me and I don't see it for those that are younger than me. I don't see it.
Go back and read all my posts, I am willing to give up for those that will live longer and that is what this is all about. It is about making the fight something about a group rather than the rules of the game. It is about making a privledged class by birth rather than by right, if we avoid both than we choose randomness and that nobody can succeed. What rule of life does that look like and why bother doing anything if we are penalized for success and not rewarded for sacrifice? Is that the world you wish to live in? Or is it only the world you wish to live in if you "win"?
Mr. Perry talks about how "bold" he is; but, he is still their shill (as they say in Las Vegas (look up shill in WikiPedia). Rick Perry's message (according to CNBC is “I hope what they will see is that America's a fabulous country and it gives them the opportunity to go say your piece, go protest on the street. But at the end of the day America's about having the opportunity to take care of your family.” Is that what it is about, is America about ensuring that if you work hard you will have comfort, I don't see it for the Baby Boomers, I don't see it for me and I don't see it for those that are younger than me. I don't see it.
Go back and read all my posts, I am willing to give up for those that will live longer and that is what this is all about. It is about making the fight something about a group rather than the rules of the game. It is about making a privledged class by birth rather than by right, if we avoid both than we choose randomness and that nobody can succeed. What rule of life does that look like and why bother doing anything if we are penalized for success and not rewarded for sacrifice? Is that the world you wish to live in? Or is it only the world you wish to live in if you "win"?
Propaganda and Lies, how to know
A few decades ago an expert in propaganda spoke at my school. It was during the cold war and he was sent to teach us how to spot communist propaganda; but, all propaganda is the same, the methodology.
Today, I was reading the L.A. Times online and saw something funny. The top article in the section I saw said, "Student loans add to angst at Occupy Wall Street". Fair enough, it talked about how many of the protesters in their 20s were faced with student loan debts and no job prospects. The article right under it said, "Obama to reduce student loan debt payments". Isn't that nice.
The first article was published at 8:08 and the second at 8:11 and they were written by two different people. The one about how Obama is going to reduce payments, that was the first article; but, it showed up second. This is a case of problem, reaction and solution. It is an example of trying to buy people off. It would have been much easier for one person to write both stories, heck they were published at about the exact same time. I have to believe that the L.A. Times had an editor and knew they were both being published.
Anyways, one of the things we were taught was to look at how articles were grouped together. Let's say every time you read an article about a person, lets say Obama, every time you read an article about there is an article about prostitution next to it. This is a very subtle way of implying a connection when none exists. That is one of the tools of propaganda. I will not call it subliminal because you are aware of what the article says in a conscious manner, it is more conditioned response.
If I want you to find some food disgusting then every time I feed you the food, lets say tacos, I will put a foul smell in the air, lets say dead fish. I am attempting to get you to have what is called a Pavlovian response. In this case, they are attempting to buy off the Occupy Wall Street crowd by reducing their student loan payments. They are attempting to get us to believe that this is what they 20 somethings are really mad about; but, it isn't and it isn't going to work or change one darn thing. It is funny that this comes out the same day that the Oakland police and other cities began cracking down on the protesters. This is what you do to see if you can keep them from coming back, you throw them a cookie.
It is so pitiful watching the wealthy try and confuse those who have nothing and those who have lost everything. It doesn't work that way. Those in power never understood why they were in power, they thought it was because they knew how to manage people, it was not, it was so that they could help people grow in a civilized manner. It was never about keeping them down, it was about growing them properly. When the leadership no longer helps to grow a civilization then the civilization rises up and gets rid of the leaders or it dies along with it's leaders. It is very Darwinian, very Toynbee and very much nature.
The purpose of leaders is not greater rewards for those who give more, that should occur; but, should never be the leader's reason. A leader should always be a leader because he believes in his society more than his importance. We are corrupt because our leaders no longer believe that.
A population, a citizenship's purpose should always be to contribute to make the society closer and stronger and to choose leaders (if they have developed to that degree) that will look at the greater good rather than the good of just those who will get them elected. The citizenship is also corrupted. If we want a great society, then both the leadership and the people must be willing to give of themselves for the greater good of all.
Today, I was reading the L.A. Times online and saw something funny. The top article in the section I saw said, "Student loans add to angst at Occupy Wall Street". Fair enough, it talked about how many of the protesters in their 20s were faced with student loan debts and no job prospects. The article right under it said, "Obama to reduce student loan debt payments". Isn't that nice.
The first article was published at 8:08 and the second at 8:11 and they were written by two different people. The one about how Obama is going to reduce payments, that was the first article; but, it showed up second. This is a case of problem, reaction and solution. It is an example of trying to buy people off. It would have been much easier for one person to write both stories, heck they were published at about the exact same time. I have to believe that the L.A. Times had an editor and knew they were both being published.
Anyways, one of the things we were taught was to look at how articles were grouped together. Let's say every time you read an article about a person, lets say Obama, every time you read an article about there is an article about prostitution next to it. This is a very subtle way of implying a connection when none exists. That is one of the tools of propaganda. I will not call it subliminal because you are aware of what the article says in a conscious manner, it is more conditioned response.
If I want you to find some food disgusting then every time I feed you the food, lets say tacos, I will put a foul smell in the air, lets say dead fish. I am attempting to get you to have what is called a Pavlovian response. In this case, they are attempting to buy off the Occupy Wall Street crowd by reducing their student loan payments. They are attempting to get us to believe that this is what they 20 somethings are really mad about; but, it isn't and it isn't going to work or change one darn thing. It is funny that this comes out the same day that the Oakland police and other cities began cracking down on the protesters. This is what you do to see if you can keep them from coming back, you throw them a cookie.
It is so pitiful watching the wealthy try and confuse those who have nothing and those who have lost everything. It doesn't work that way. Those in power never understood why they were in power, they thought it was because they knew how to manage people, it was not, it was so that they could help people grow in a civilized manner. It was never about keeping them down, it was about growing them properly. When the leadership no longer helps to grow a civilization then the civilization rises up and gets rid of the leaders or it dies along with it's leaders. It is very Darwinian, very Toynbee and very much nature.
The purpose of leaders is not greater rewards for those who give more, that should occur; but, should never be the leader's reason. A leader should always be a leader because he believes in his society more than his importance. We are corrupt because our leaders no longer believe that.
A population, a citizenship's purpose should always be to contribute to make the society closer and stronger and to choose leaders (if they have developed to that degree) that will look at the greater good rather than the good of just those who will get them elected. The citizenship is also corrupted. If we want a great society, then both the leadership and the people must be willing to give of themselves for the greater good of all.
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