Sunday, July 1, 2012

The Inherent Frailty of the Currently Accepted Economic Model



The growing social and economic instability in Western Europe as exemplified by the turmoil in Greece and Spain and that is likely to spread to Italy as well as the severe economic dislocation of millions of American citizens is indicative of a deep-seated malaise that haunts the very nature of the economic paradigm that lies at the heart of modern capitalist-based economies.  There are a number of seminal issues that lie at the core of the problem.

Economic success has become intimately linked with the continual expansion of global markets on a planet possessing finite resources; this dependence flies in the face of reality.  It is not difficult to predict the inevitable future outcome of such a strategy – eventually human societies will devolve into the brutal economics based on scarcity.  This is a prospect we should not wish on future generations.

The underlying motivating force for participation in economic life has been stripped of its humanity.  This has been particularly evident in the unscrupulous and cavalier machinations of the financial sector that has effectively impoverished so many of the world’s people and at the same time rewarded the very few who have risked the livelihoods of the many to enrich only themselves.  The blatant fact that these individuals have walked away unscathed is a demonstration of the inherent corruption of the system. 

Furthermore, in the United States, politics has become inextricably tied to wealth.  The Supreme Court has sanctioned this relationship by establishing that corporations are people and that money in the form of political contributions is equivalent to free speech.  These are by no means accidental legal pronouncements, for they represent a strategy of retrenchment in order to solidify and codify the ascendant position of the affluent class.  This effort has been breathtakingly successful.

This kind of reassertion of the inherent power of wealth is now being acted out in Europe as well.  This tendency has unfortunate repercussions for future generations, for the economic model upon which the system rests is bound to implode.  An economic system in which human compassion and the central concern for the well-being of all members of society are purged from consideration is bankrupt by nature.  It will necessarily lead to an amplification of a two-tier system in which only a very small minority of individuals exerts inordinate and extreme economic power over everyone else – this is a new version of the blighted model that dominated societies at the beginnings of the industrial age.  In the so-called democracies, it is allegedly the will of the people that determined future policy.  If that relationship is real then it would be unfortunate, indeed, if the collective voice of the people echoes the will of the powerful and fails to question of the validity of the harsh and unforgiving economic realities as determined by fiat.

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Friday, June 29, 2012

Lonely Tears

Half-sitting, half-laying
His hat in the street
A few coins twinkle there
Nearby, a drummers beat.

His eyes barely open
For what's there to see
A businessman passes
Throws two quarters, maybe three.

Out of guilt or compassion
I'd say the former not the latter
For his eyes never left his watch
As though he doesn't even matter.

But the old man doesn't care
He's already learned how to cope
What he really requires
Is for us to give him hope.

A bard in me, I say to you
You that cannot see his pain
For it does indeed show itself
Time and time again.

If you peer closely
At the corner of his eye
Ah, but first you must sit a spell
And let the sun creep through the sky.

Until time then rewards
It now begins to swell
A lone tiny tear
Has finally climbed the well.

Slowly it builds
Its journey long
Vibrating in rhythm
To the drummers song.

It finally falls
Sliding over the cheek
Pounding through the stubble
Gliding where it's sleek.

Hanging from the chin
Posing in its singularity
And showing all
In utmost clarity.

Only a man
With a broken heart
Cries with
Lonely tears.

Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi: What is the Link? on Vimeo



Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi: What is the Link? on Vimeo
CCTV's Margaret Harrington hosts Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education. Arnie and Maggie discuss their recent travels to Italy to take part in and to view an opera on the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident, entitled "La cortina di fumo" ("the smoke curtain"). Arnie and Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Shirin Ebadi first participated in a symposium about the "Smoke Curtain" regarding the governmental smoke curtain that covers the truth about nuclear power accidents. Ms. Harrington and the Gundersens discuss the impact of the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima Daiichi disasters on the environment and people's health.

Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi: What is the Link?

Fairewinds Energy Education

Thursday, June 28, 2012

in heaven

haiku for flowers


reflection of life...

the flower accepts its fate...

all that is will end.

drunken morning

The feeling of discourse

An MRI study reveals that emotion, not fact-sharing, promotes social interaction and facilitates interpersonal understanding. What researchers discovered is that emotions ‘synchronize mental networks’ between individuals. Synchronized network activity focuses attention on shared experience and produces a common framework for understanding. Sharing other people’s emotional state during discourse enables us to perceive, experience and interpret what others say in a like manner ..without separation [ link ].

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

gulfstream

"The Gulfstream" by Winslow Homer 1899


We are adrift

in a sea

of uncertainty

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

adrift in space


David Suzuki on Rio 20, "Green Economy" & Why Planet’s Survival Requires Undoing Its Economic Model

As the Rio+20 Earth Summit — the largest U.N. conference ever — ends in disappointment, we’re joined by the leading Canadian scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster David Suzuki. As host of the long-runningCBC program, "The Nature of Things," seen in more than 40 countries, Suzuki has helped educate millions about the rich biodiversity of the planet and the threats it faces from human-driven global warming. In 1990 he co-founded the David Suzuki Foundation which focuses on sustainable ecology and in 2009, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award. Suzuki joins us from the summit in Rio de Janeiro to talk about the climate crisis, the student protests in Quebec, his childhood growing up in an internment camp, and his daughter Severn’s historic speech at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 when she was 12 years-old. "If we don’t see that we are utterly embedded in the natural world and dependent on Mother Nature for our very well-being and survival ... then our priorities will continue to be driven by man-made constructs like national borders, economies, corporations, markets," Suzuki says. "Those are all human created things. They shouldn’t dominate the way we live. It should be the biosphere, and the leaders in that should be indigenous people who still have that sense that the earth is truly our mother, that it gives birth to us. You don’t treat your mother the way we treat the planet or the biosphere today." [Includes rush transcript]

false flag


Westall 1966


The Union: The Business Behind Getting High - Full Movie - High Quality

As i strongly feel the TRUTH shall set you free, it is of vital importance that people begin to question the lies and motives behind their governments and the policies they use to enslave and control you and your children.
You will never find the solutions to your problems by continuing to support decisions based on greedy stupidity.
Please watch this and share it with others.
STAND AGAINST CORRUPTION and be 'Not Afraid'.



Monday, June 25, 2012

the fix

feed the fire

Avant Garde

Avant Garde antiwar poster, circa 1967

Voices of the Future: We need to change our ways


Voices of the Future: We need to change our ways - YouTube: June 21, 2012: 11-year-old Ta'Kaiya is outside the Rio 20 plenary urging world leaders to act now, and calls the society to the Earth Revolution.

are americans stupid ?

"stupidity" - bbc documentary

Saturday, June 23, 2012

the final frontier

Look at this image.

Do you see it?

Reflected in the visor of Joseph R. Tanner

on Space Shuttle mission STS-115,

something large floating in space.

Download this image to your computer,

then enlarge the visor area of the helmet

and you will see a huge alien spacecraft.

The truth is out there, way out there.

(recorded today in france)

(recorded same day in NYC)

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Saturday, June 16, 2012

move to amend


On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions.

We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.

The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule.

We Move to Amend.
". . . corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their 'personhood' often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of “We the People” by whom and for whom our Constitution was established."

~Supreme Court Justice Stevens, January 2010

sign the petition at (movetoamend.org)