USS Arizona
Arizona's forward magazines explode
in the only known color photograph from the attack
Arizona after the fires burned out, December 10, 1941
Monday, December 7, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
respect full care
Caregiving experience generates our life force / form.
Character is our reflexive behavior directed by how we respect our response abilities in relative understanding.
Forms are flexible as relativity equations in an integrating network of reflexive pairs.
Like breath gives and takes energy amplified by the beat of a heart, every action is reactive with continuation rhythm influence.
Integrate invested interests.
The choice IS... to be critical and negate / or feel intention to support.
The support is appreciation we reflexively believe CARE is.
Hate is a form of CARE that is understood by learning
about indifference and denial.
We don't care if we don't know, until aware of ignorance from innocence.
Awareness is the recognition of EXCEPTION which we try to make predictable with rules to the game.
Learn best by being content to play and struggle frustration for reasons to be happy. Winning is a point of conclusion that pays for attention with paying respect. Losing is a relative / reactive risk when happiness is desire to win.
Is anything more CARE full than respect?
Friday, December 4, 2009
The War Profiteers
"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
"War is a racket for corporate America."
Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC
The Law of Attraction
-Mother Teresa
Watch your thoughts, for they become your words.
Watch your actions, for they become your habits.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Corporate Murder
"We are not expendable. We are not flowers offered at the altar of profit and power. We are dancing flames committed to conquering darkness and to challenging those who threaten the planet and the magic and mystery of life."
Rashida Bee, Bhopal gas leak survivor
The Union Carbide disaster, also known as the Bhopal disaster or the Bhopal gas tragedy, was an industrial catastrophe that took place at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh on December 3, 1984. Around 12 AM, the plant released methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other toxins, resulting in the exposure of over 500,000 people. Estimates vary on the death toll; the official immediate death toll was 2259, which rose greatly over time. The government of Madhya Pradesh has confirmed a total of 3787 deaths related to the gas release. Another source says that a few days later the death toll had doubled. Over the next few years, the lingering effects of the poison nearly doubled the toll again, to about 15,000, according to government estimates. Local activists say the real numbers are almost twice that. Others estimate 8000 to 10,000 died within 72 hours and 25,000 have since died from gas-related diseases.
Some 25 years after the gas leak, 390 tonnes of toxic chemicals abandoned at the Union Carbide plant continue to leak and pollute the ground water in the region and affect thousands of Bhopal residents who depend on it.
(read more)
It's Time To Change The World
"I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind. Universal responsibility is the real key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and through concern for future generations, the proper care of the environment."
read more of "The Global Community"
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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Monday, November 30, 2009
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Friday, November 27, 2009
Don't Buy Gift Cards
Not all gift cards are redeemed,
which can be for a multitude of reasons.
Common reasons may include loss of the card,
time decay (expiration and fees),
personal uninterest in the store
that the card is accepted, complex
rules of redemption, and the attempt
of the recipient to save money for the giver.
It has been estimated that perhaps
10% of cards are not redeemed,
amounting to a gain for retailers
of about $8 billion in the US in 2006.
Gift cards may seem attractive but
they are just another marketing device
designed to drain you of your cash,
you are giving your money away
for free when you choose gift cards.
$$$$!!!! 8 Billion !!!!$$$$
Thursday, November 26, 2009
What You Don't Know
Those who control the present...
control the past...
And those who control the past...
control the future.
...Niccolò Machiavelli...
(1469-1527)
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Coup d'état
January 17, 1961 (excerpt)
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
Dallas Texas, November 22, 1963
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Ignorance Is Bliss
It is not the "government"
that has you bound...
it is the $ingle-minded
corporate "entities" that control it
Friday, November 20, 2009
♫We Gotta Get Out of this Place ♫♪
n.
1. An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.
2. A wandering beggar; a vagrant.
3. A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.
4. An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.
adj.
1. Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant.
2. Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable: a rogue wave; a rogue tornado.
3. Operating outside normal or desirable controls: "How could a single rogue trader bring down an otherwise profitable and well-regarded institution?" (Saul Hansell).
v. rogued, rogu·ing, rogues
v.tr.
1. To defraud.
2. To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.
I checked dictionaries from several publishers, and found they more or less agreed in their definitions. The lone exception I found in the Unabridged Concise True American Dictionary, Murdoch Mifflin, Inc., New York-London-Melbourne published last week which gives
rogue n.
1. a mischievously refreshing conservative
2. an innovative advocate of traditional values
3. one who is playfully responsive to corporate stewardship
Abra fucking cadabra.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Kill Shot-Frame 313
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Mother's Milk
The World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life, with solids gradually being introduced around this age when signs of readiness are shown. Supplemented breastfeeding is recommended until at least age two, as long as mother and child wish.
The Nestlé boycott is a boycott launched on July 4, 1977, in the United States against the Swiss based Nestlé corporation. It was prompted by concern about the company's marketing of breast milk substitutes (infant formula), particularly in less economically developed countries, which campaigners claim contributes to the unnecessary death and suffering of babies, largely among the poor.
In order to sell more of its infant formula in third world countries, Nestle would hire women with no special training and dress them up as nurses to give out free samples of Nestle formula. The free samples lasted long enough for the mother's breast milk to dry up from lack of use. Then mothers would be forced to purchase the formula but, being poor, they would often mix the formula with unsanitary water or "stretch" the amount of formula by diluting it with more water than recommended. The result was that babies starved all over the Third World while Nestle made huge profits from this predatory marketing strategy.
Groups such as the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), and Save the Children claim that the promotion of infant formula over breast-feeding has led to health problems and deaths among infants in less economically developed countries. There are three problems that are said to arise when poor mothers in Third World countries switch to formula:
Formula must normally be mixed with water, which is often contaminated in poor countries, leading to disease in vulnerable infants. Because of the high illiteracy rates in developing nations many mothers are not aware of the sanitation methods needed in the preparation of bottles. Even mothers that can understand the sanitation required do not have the means to perform it. UNICEF estimates that a non-breastfed child living in disease-ridden and unhygienic conditions is between six and 25 times more likely to die of diarrhea and four times more likely to die of pneumonia than a breastfed child.
Many poor mothers use less formula powder than is necessary, in order to make a container of formula last longer. As a result, some infants receive inadequate nutrition from weak solutions of formula.
Breast milk has many natural benefits lacking in formula. Nutrients and antibodies are passed to the baby while hormones are released into the mother's body. Breast-fed babies are protected, in varying degrees, from a number of illnesses, including diarrhea, bacterial meningitis, gastroenteritis, ear infection, and respiratory infection. Breast milk contains the right amount of the nutrients that are essential for neuronal (brain and nerve) development. The bond between baby and mother can be strengthened during breastfeeding. Frequent and exclusive breastfeeding can also delay the return of fertility, which can help women in developing countries to space their births. The World Health Organization recommends that, in the majority of cases, babies should be exclusively breast fed for the first six months.
Advocacy groups and charities have accused Nestlé of unethical methods of promoting infant formula over breast-milk to poor mothers in third world countries. For example, IBFAN claim that Nestlé supports the distribution of free powdered formula samples to hospitals and maternity wards; after leaving the hospital, the formula is no longer free, but because the supplementation has interfered with lactation the family must continue to buy the formula. IBFAN also allege that Nestlé uses "humanitarian aid" to create markets, does not label its products in a language appropriate to the country where they are sold, and offers gifts and sponsorship to influence health workers to promote its products. Nestlé denies these allegations.