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Jan 05

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Jan 04

The Fake Charity of the 1%… for Image spin and tax breaks only.

My Charity Acts Are All Fake: A Letter Written by a Billionaire

Posted on January 4, 2012

http://theactivists.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/my-charity-acts-are-all-fake-a-letter-written-by-a-billionaire/

Dear Wage-Slaves:

It is quite humorous how poor people always point to the philanthropy of the rich as a sign of my humanity. My philanthropy is big business, I donate to my own foundation, which means I maintain control of my money.

For every dollar that I donate to my own charity, I get $2 in tax-breaks which means that every dollar becomes 3 dollars! Charities are big business, and I have recognized the double advantage of making profits and improving my image.

Charities make me a killing, look at any charity and you’ll see that they only give away 2% of donations, the rest gets hoarded by us. Are you really that stupid, wage slave? Are you really so dumb as to think that a billionaire who loves money will give some away? Are you really that gullible as to buy the big lie of philanthropic billionaires?

Remember this one thing, wage slave, billionaires despise humanity, we see you as weak animals to be exploited. I do not care about your dying children, I do not care about starving children abroad, all I care about is markets and profits.

Philanthropy is my way of saying fuck you! It is my way of showing you how the system is rigged, it is my way of making profits from imagined generosity.

Making donations to your own tax-shelter foundation is not philanthropy you fucking idiots, it’s robbery, it’s theft, it’s fraud.

I am philanthropic indeed, I am very generous in the way that I put more labor on the broken backs of the poor. I am the most philanthropic person in the world, for I am generous enough to rob you all of your time and your energy. I am so philanthropic that sometimes I feel like you should give me money to control your life even more! You do! By paying taxes to my governments. I am so goddamn generous that I give you more work for less pay! What more can you ask for?

Philanthropy is one of society’s biggest lies and the beneficiaries of this lie are once again, we, the billionaires.

Are you so stupid as to think that someone who loves money more than people, will give anything back to the people?

a Billionaire

a philanthropist

a filthy liar!

Jan 02

Interesting study on interpretation of Mayan calendar predictions for December 2012; Regarding the Spanish Priests destroying the sacred texts of the Mayas in the 1500’s:Yes that was a dark day for all of mankind. The Maya were brilliant in their observations of the sky and astronomical observations; even NASA uses some of their calculations and celestial calendars; who knows what we would have learned from those destroyed documents if they had survived.The Mayan god Kulkukan; the Plumed Serpant may be in reality a large asteroid that came close to the earth. The Mayans may have witnessed this a few times during their few thousand year Pre-Columbian existence. Don’t forget that the Maya, although advanced in their skills of math and observations of the sky; were ancient people with little understanding of the sciences that explain much of our world. The Maya have a legend about the moon having a large dead rabbit on it; due to some conflict among their lesser deities. If you look at the full moon today you can see the dark and light pattern on it looks like a rabbit laying down.Try to envision an oblong, roughly shaped chunk of rock several miles wide, traveling probably 30,000 miles per hour spinning at a low RPM as it glances through our atmosphere during a near miss with our planet a few thousand years ago, as witnessed by the Maya in ancient times. That spinning, flaming, smoking asteroid passing through our atmosphere would probably appear to be their imaginations as a Plumed Serpent.What should concern us though: Is that NASA will be the first to admit that they can not track all of the asteroids and meteors that race through our solar system and galaxy.Perhaps; the Maya, witnessed this asteroid on several occasions and saw it get closed on each occasion. Who knows… maybe this date of December 21 or 22, 2012 is the date that they (the ancient Maya) anticipated the asteroid coming back again, closer to earth or even hitting the earth.I think their remaining documents say something about Kulkukan returning and destroying the earth with fire or eating the earth in fire.Interestingly enough; one of the first explorers to explore the pyramid at Chichen Itza was an American Edward Thompson who had some official office in Harvard University. Thompson bought the property around Chichen Itza from the Mexican government and excavated it. Many of the artifacts he excavated can be found today in the Peabody Museum in Harvard.One has to wonder; what other items were found and kept from the public by the “powers that be” at Harvard University; maybe there were copies of the Mayan books burned by the Spanish priests; that explain things that we can’t even imagine.The Mayans were very big on calendars and the right times of the year to do certain things, from agriculture to marriage to war and funerals; every significant event in life. For example: using the optimum time to attack your enemy when whatever celestial conditions will make the enemy less able to fight or may just not be having a good day; who knows; maybe gravitational alignments or sunspots (that you can predict through observation) can make you feel lousy and unable to concentrate; there may be some science to support this. Maybe these optimum timings can be applied to other things like financial markets and other modern systems and events.How many American presidents and heads of business, banks and financial markets went to Harvard University? Something to think about…..

Interesting study on interpretation of Mayan calendar predictions for December 2012;

Regarding the Spanish Priests destroying the sacred texts of the Mayas in the 1500’s:
Yes that was a dark day for all of mankind. The Maya were brilliant in their observations of the sky and astronomical observations; even NASA uses some of their calculations and celestial calendars; who knows what we would have learned from those destroyed documents if they had survived.

The Mayan god Kulkukan; the Plumed Serpant may be in reality a large asteroid that came close to the earth. The Mayans may have witnessed this a few times during their few thousand year Pre-Columbian existence.

Don’t forget that the Maya, although advanced in their skills of math and observations of the sky; were ancient people with little understanding of the sciences that explain much of our world.

The Maya have a legend about the moon having a large dead rabbit on it; due to some conflict among their lesser deities. If you look at the full moon today you can see the dark and light pattern on it looks like a rabbit laying down.

Try to envision an oblong, roughly shaped chunk of rock several miles wide, traveling probably 30,000 miles per hour spinning at a low RPM as it glances through our atmosphere during a near miss with our planet a few thousand years ago, as witnessed by the Maya in ancient times.

That spinning, flaming, smoking asteroid passing through our atmosphere would probably appear to be their imaginations as a Plumed Serpent.

What should concern us though: Is that NASA will be the first to admit that they can not track all of the asteroids and meteors that race through our solar system and galaxy.

Perhaps; the Maya, witnessed this asteroid on several occasions and saw it get closed on each occasion. Who knows… maybe this date of December 21 or 22, 2012 is the date that they (the ancient Maya) anticipated the asteroid coming back again, closer to earth or even hitting the earth.
I think their remaining documents say something about Kulkukan returning and destroying the earth with fire or eating the earth in fire.

Interestingly enough; one of the first explorers to explore the pyramid at Chichen Itza was an American Edward Thompson who had some official office in Harvard University. Thompson bought the property around Chichen Itza from the Mexican government and excavated it. Many of the artifacts he excavated can be found today in the Peabody Museum in Harvard.

One has to wonder; what other items were found and kept from the public by the “powers that be” at Harvard University; maybe there were copies of the Mayan books burned by the Spanish priests; that explain things that we can’t even imagine.

The Mayans were very big on calendars and the right times of the year to do certain things, from agriculture to marriage to war and funerals; every significant event in life.

For example: using the optimum time to attack your enemy when whatever celestial conditions will make the enemy less able to fight or may just not be having a good day; who knows; maybe gravitational alignments or sunspots (that you can predict through observation) can make you feel lousy and unable to concentrate; there may be some science to support this.

Maybe these optimum timings can be applied to other things like financial markets and other modern systems and events.

How many American presidents and heads of business, banks and financial markets went to Harvard University? Something to think about…..

To everyone who watches just a little too much Fox News; and is thoroughly convinced that we need to Bomb Iran back to the stone age:Study the history of Iran especially the parts where both the British and the United States used covert operatives to overthrow Iran’s democratically elected leaders and then install a puppet government that was favorable to both British and the United States’ oil interests,Iran was not always this radical. We and the British created the modern radical Iran. What better way to justify invading some little country and looting it for whatever it has of value; than to make them an enemy so you can justify war with them? Also: Before you justify this coming atrocity by saying that we need the Oil to maintain our American way of life; look up an old U.S. Law / Department of Defense document: “Invention Secrecy act of 1951”. Among other things, this DOD document classifies Solar Cells above a certain efficiency level, and other viable sources of Alternative Energy as “Munitions” and subjects inventors to federal gag orders and prison time if they try to publicize such energy devices. I wonder how many times this law was used?Why don’t you use your anger to a useful end: Demand that the United States Government issue full disclosure of the inventions that “Invention Secrecy act of 1951” has suppressed; that relate to alternative energy devices that could be a viable replacement for fossil fuels.

To everyone who watches just a little too much Fox News; and is thoroughly convinced that we need to Bomb Iran back to the stone age:

Study the history of Iran especially the parts where both the British and the United States used covert operatives to overthrow Iran’s democratically elected leaders and then install a puppet government that was favorable to both British and the United States’ oil interests,

Iran was not always this radical. We and the British created the modern radical Iran. What better way to justify invading some little country and looting it for whatever it has of value; than to make them an enemy so you can justify war with them?

Also: Before you justify this coming atrocity by saying that we need the Oil to maintain our American way of life; look up an old U.S. Law / Department of Defense document:

“Invention Secrecy act of 1951”. Among other things, this DOD document classifies Solar Cells above a certain efficiency level, and other viable sources of Alternative Energy as “Munitions” and subjects inventors to federal gag orders and prison time if they try to publicize such energy devices. I wonder how many times this law was used?

Why don’t you use your anger to a useful end: Demand that the United States Government issue full disclosure of the inventions that “Invention Secrecy act of 1951” has suppressed; that relate to alternative energy devices that could be a viable replacement for fossil fuels.

Lets all watch Fox News; then Bomb Iran back to the stone age.

To everyone who watches just a little too much Fox News; and is thoroughly convinced that we need to Bomb Iran back to the stone age:

Study the history of Iran especially the parts where both the British and the United States used covert operatives to overthrow Iran’s democratically elected leaders and then install a puppet government that was favorable to both British and the United States’ oil interests,

Iran was not always this radical. We and the British created the modern radical Iran. What better way to justify invading some little country and looting it for whatever it has of value; than to make them an enemy so you can justify war with them?

Also: Before you justify this coming atrocity by saying that we need the Oil to maintain our American way of life; look up an old U.S. Law / Department of Defense document:

“Invention Secrecy act of 1951”. Among other things, this DOD document classifies Solar Cells above a certain efficiency level, and other viable sources of Alternative Energy as “Munitions” and subjects inventors to federal gag orders and prison time if they try to publicize such energy devices. I wonder how many times this law was used?

Why don’t you use your anger to a useful end: Demand that the United States Government issue full disclosure of the inventions that “Invention Secrecy act of 1951” has suppressed; that relate to alternative energy devices that could be a viable replacement for fossil fuels.

Jan 01

Our Economy Has Failed — Until We Admit That, We’re Screwed Industries, communities, natural resources, even sports leagues have collapsed as Ronald Reagan’s corrosive vision has become dominant. December 30, 2011http://www.alternet.org/economy/153614/our_economy_has_failed_—_until_we_admit_that%2C_we%27re_screwed/?page=entire At the foot of Manhattan’s Broadway Ave., just below Wall Street, stands one of the city’s most reliable tourism draws: Arturo Di Modica’s 3.5-ton statue of a charging bull. Since 1989, the sculpture has been an iconic symbol of American wealth, of the aggressive capitalist spirit that, it is argued, made this country great and powerful. Visitors flock from around the world to rub the bull’s horns for good luck. Or they used to, at least. Now, tourists snap pictures from behind police barricades. For more than two months, the raging bull of wealth has sat caged, facing eye-to-eye with a New York Police Department cruiser as cops have worked around the clock to protect it from the Occupy Wall Street movement. The park’s administrator has called the security “Orwellian.” That’s to say the least. If you’re looking for visuals to encapsulate 2011, look no further than the bizarre scene at Di Modica’s bull. Daily, the country’s largest police force mobilizes to protect the idea of American prosperity from an imagined threat, while the actual economy lays gored and gutted by demonstrable and ongoing crimes. In the immediate, this perversity results from a spectacular failure of political leadership. We traveled a long, winding road to the point at which no-brainers like a modest payroll tax cut and an extension of unemployment benefits demand political brinksmanship. People of varying ideologies and partisan affiliations may debate endlessly who’s more at fault, but to do so is to truly miss the forest for the trees. The ugly reality is no leader in either party has yet shown the mettle to rise and meet the enormity of today’s challenges. That’s not to suggest moral equivalencies. Republican leaders have been openly obstructionist, preferring a broken economy to a successful Obama presidency. Their cynicism has rarely been as bald as the recent House vote on the payroll tax cut, but they’ve never made much effort to conceal it. Still, even if President Obama had been given a willing Congress, the solutions he has championed aren’t nearly on par with the problem. Like his congressional opponents, he insists the structural foundation of our economy remains strong. Rather than confront the core issues—inequity and instability—Obama has thrashed around with Republicans in the margins—over how to control debt, over the degree to which health care should be a commodity rather than a right, over which borrowers were the least irresponsible and thus deserving of help. Meanwhile, at each crucial juncture in his reform-branded presidency, Obama has left financial players to voluntarily take responsibility for their behavior. They remain steadfast in their refusal to do so. These bipartisan leadership failures have prolonged the immediate crisis, which dates back to 2007, when the foreclosures that would bring down the system first began consuming working-class communities of color in particular. Four years later, Republicans and Democrats alike are still working off of the optimistic notion that we need only contain the immediate problem until we can get back to growth—that we need only protect the bull with barricades until those pesky protesters disappear and allow its charge to resume. With each year that our chosen leaders have indulged this fantasy, a cancer has spread. Each year has brought new records in the poverty, hunger and inequality that will ultimately consume this country. But that’s just the immediate crisis. As we move into an election year, in which U.S. residents will have prolonged debate over our collective priorities and values, we must pursue answers to a broader question. Since at least 1981, when the Reagan revolution overtook public policy, we have built an economy on two related fictions. The first is that boundless growth is sustainable. The second is that unrestrained capitalism, particularly in the financial sector, will create wealth for everyone. These are discredited ideas, and the question of 2012 must be how we begin building a society based on something different. This broader question is crucial because, in truth, the problem extends past the economy. Look around and you’ll find one broken institution after another, each of them buckling under the weight of the late 20th century consensus that greed is good, that a winner-takes-all individualism will somehow improve our collective endeavors. Industries, communities, natural resources, even sports leagues have collapsed as Ronald Reagan’s corrosive vision has become dominant. Meanwhile, racism and racial injustice remain rooted in our society in no small part because they are necessary to explain why unrestrained capitalism and unfettered growth fail so spectacularly in creating widespread wealth. The entrenched, generational poverty that has gripped so many black communities and the yawning racial gaps that persist in wealth and income, among other things, can only be explained if they are blamed on the individuals hurt by them. Thus “welfare queens” and “super predator” youth and cheating “illegals” and “lazy Indians” and on and on. These caricatures continue to inform public policy on poverty, education, immigration and more. They continue to explain away inequity and provide villians against which struggling whites can define themselves without questioning the larger system. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s quote about slave owners—the original unrestrained capitalists—still rings true: “The Southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow.” Di Modica offered a quote on capitalism, too. In November, Newark’s Star-Ledger asked the artist what he thought about the security around his statue. He didn’t like it. “The bull is for the people,” he declared. “The bull is for everyone, the people with money and the people with no money.” If only it were so. Wall Street’s bull markets have proven to be for the benefit of a very few. But as the financial industry’s largest players have been unleashed to pursue profit for themselves at all costs, the dreadful consequences have surely impacted everyone. Pensions have been wiped out. Family homes have been stripped of value, many taken away altogether. Small businesses have been locked out of credit markets. More than 14 million people are exiled from the labor force. A galling one in three black children and nearly as many Latino children are growing up in poverty right now, while the president brags about ferreting out fraud in the food stamp program rather than getting more money for it. Our chosen political leaders have tolerated all of this in order to maintain the fiction that our economic system still works, that the organizing principles of our society remain valid. So the central question of 2012’s likely all-consuming political debate must be simple: How do we acknowledge that our current economy is built on lies and then start erecting a new one based on equity and sustainability?Kai Wright is a freelance journalist in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn.


Our Economy Has Failed — Until We Admit That, We’re Screwed

Industries, communities, natural resources, even sports leagues have collapsed as Ronald Reagan’s corrosive vision has become dominant.

December 30, 2011

http://www.alternet.org/economy/153614/our_economy_has_failed_—_until_we_admit_that%2C_we%27re_screwed/?page=entire

At the foot of Manhattan’s Broadway Ave., just below Wall Street, stands one of the city’s most reliable tourism draws: Arturo Di Modica’s 3.5-ton statue of a charging bull. Since 1989, the sculpture has been an iconic symbol of American wealth, of the aggressive capitalist spirit that, it is argued, made this country great and powerful. Visitors flock from around the world to rub the bull’s horns for good luck. Or they used to, at least. Now, tourists snap pictures from behind police barricades.

For more than two months, the raging bull of wealth has sat caged, facing eye-to-eye with a New York Police Department cruiser as cops have worked around the clock to protect it from the Occupy Wall Street movement. The park’s administrator has called the security “Orwellian.” That’s to say the least.

If you’re looking for visuals to encapsulate 2011, look no further than the bizarre scene at Di Modica’s bull. Daily, the country’s largest police force mobilizes to protect the idea of American prosperity from an imagined threat, while the actual economy lays gored and gutted by demonstrable and ongoing crimes.

In the immediate, this perversity results from a spectacular failure of political leadership. We traveled a long, winding road to the point at which no-brainers like a modest payroll tax cut and an extension of unemployment benefits demand political brinksmanship. People of varying ideologies and partisan affiliations may debate endlessly who’s more at fault, but to do so is to truly miss the forest for the trees. The ugly reality is no leader in either party has yet shown the mettle to rise and meet the enormity of today’s challenges.

That’s not to suggest moral equivalencies. Republican leaders have been openly obstructionist, preferring a broken economy to a successful Obama presidency. Their cynicism has rarely been as bald as the recent House vote on the payroll tax cut, but they’ve never made much effort to conceal it.

Still, even if President Obama had been given a willing Congress, the solutions he has championed aren’t nearly on par with the problem. Like his congressional opponents, he insists the structural foundation of our economy remains strong. Rather than confront the core issues—inequity and instability—Obama has thrashed around with Republicans in the margins—over how to control debt, over the degree to which health care should be a commodity rather than a right, over which borrowers were the least irresponsible and thus deserving of help. Meanwhile, at each crucial juncture in his reform-branded presidency, Obama has left financial players to voluntarily take responsibility for their behavior. They remain steadfast in their refusal to do so.

These bipartisan leadership failures have prolonged the immediate crisis, which dates back to 2007, when the foreclosures that would bring down the system first began consuming working-class communities of color in particular. Four years later, Republicans and Democrats alike are still working off of the optimistic notion that we need only contain the immediate problem until we can get back to growth—that we need only protect the bull with barricades until those pesky protesters disappear and allow its charge to resume. With each year that our chosen leaders have indulged this fantasy, a cancer has spread. Each year has brought new records in the poverty, hunger and inequality that will ultimately consume this country.

But that’s just the immediate crisis. As we move into an election year, in which U.S. residents will have prolonged debate over our collective priorities and values, we must pursue answers to a broader question. Since at least 1981, when the Reagan revolution overtook public policy, we have built an economy on two related fictions. The first is that boundless growth is sustainable. The second is that unrestrained capitalism, particularly in the financial sector, will create wealth for everyone. These are discredited ideas, and the question of 2012 must be how we begin building a society based on something different.

This broader question is crucial because, in truth, the problem extends past the economy. Look around and you’ll find one broken institution after another, each of them buckling under the weight of the late 20th century consensus that greed is good, that a winner-takes-all individualism will somehow improve our collective endeavors. Industries, communities, natural resources, even sports leagues have collapsed as Ronald Reagan’s corrosive vision has become dominant.

Meanwhile, racism and racial injustice remain rooted in our society in no small part because they are necessary to explain why unrestrained capitalism and unfettered growth fail so spectacularly in creating widespread wealth. The entrenched, generational poverty that has gripped so many black communities and the yawning racial gaps that persist in wealth and income, among other things, can only be explained if they are blamed on the individuals hurt by them. Thus “welfare queens” and “super predator” youth and cheating “illegals” and “lazy Indians” and on and on. These caricatures continue to inform public policy on poverty, education, immigration and more. They continue to explain away inequity and provide villians against which struggling whites can define themselves without questioning the larger system. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s quote about slave owners—the original unrestrained capitalists—still rings true: “The Southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow.”

Di Modica offered a quote on capitalism, too. In November, Newark’s Star-Ledger asked the artist what he thought about the security around his statue. He didn’t like it. “The bull is for the people,” he declared. “The bull is for everyone, the people with money and the people with no money.” If only it were so.

Wall Street’s bull markets have proven to be for the benefit of a very few. But as the financial industry’s largest players have been unleashed to pursue profit for themselves at all costs, the dreadful consequences have surely impacted everyone. Pensions have been wiped out. Family homes have been stripped of value, many taken away altogether. Small businesses have been locked out of credit markets. More than 14 million people are exiled from the labor force. A galling one in three black children and nearly as many Latino children are growing up in poverty right now, while the president brags about ferreting out fraud in the food stamp program rather than getting more money for it.

Our chosen political leaders have tolerated all of this in order to maintain the fiction that our economic system still works, that the organizing principles of our society remain valid. So the central question of 2012’s likely all-consuming political debate must be simple: How do we acknowledge that our current economy is built on lies and then start erecting a new one based on equity and sustainability?

Kai Wright is a freelance journalist in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn.

Celebrities: The Court Jesters of Capitalism’s Financial Elites

This article makes a very valid point.
Celebrities are the “Court Jesters” of our Capitalist Plutocracy. The elites created both the infrastructure of celebrity status; and often the the celebrities themselves.

The reason is simple; to keep Americans focused on mindless entertainment rather than to rise up and confront the ‘powers that be’ regarding the issues that affect our daily lives.

First and foremost of these issues: The growing political power of the financial elites that has so corrupted our democracy; that it affects every piece of legislation that comes out of Washington, DC today.

This corruption affects our lives for the worse, in more ways than the average person can imagine. From the inequalities in education between rich and poor; to the lack of Universal Healthcare; to the wars we fight every day in the middle east for oil, to SOPA that will likely be used to limit our ability to organize and communicate via social media; regarding these very issues.

You want proof of how destructive and mind numbing all this celebrity obsession is?

Talk to your friends and neighbors; I am certain that most of them know more about the Kim Kardashian wedding and divorce; than about NDAA which allows the U.S. military to arrest and detain American citizens, on American soil without charges or trial; and to imprison them indefinitely.

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http://theactivists.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/time-to-get-off-the-ride-how-to-reverse-corporate-control-by-reversing-the-way-we-live-our-lives/

Time to Get Off the Ride: How to Reverse Corporate Control by Reversing the Way We Live Our Lives

Posted on January 1, 2012

The ending of the influence of established media does not merely end with the agenda setting in news and current affairs; the media has also helped to create the monstrosity of the “celebrity.” This has seen people withdraw from their communities in the ruthless pursuit of hollow fame, wealth and status in the gossip columns no matter what the cost to their dignity. People must get rid of this culture of tittle-tattle and celebrity gossip as it does nothing more than anaesthetize people into a cycle of mindless consumption rather than paying attention to what is really happening around them. Communities can only empower themselves when they begin to care about each other and not the celebrity creations of our rich, governing elites. Religion is still the opiate of the masses but now people worship at the altar of fame, a status no longer achieved by performing heroic deeds.

Most of all though if communities are to empower themselves by well….acting like communities again. There is no doubt that a sense of community in people has been lost, particularly over the last 30 years. I feel that in where I live here in Manchester everyday, nobody knows, cares and looks out for each other in their own streets. Instead chase money and the smallest whiff of influence and fame which has left us in an era of selfishness, as well as obsessing over the benign daily lives of a group of people they have never met. A way of living which either never really improved our own lot in life or seen us becoming the very elites who have created this era of selfishness.

People can never lose their fear of crushing authority if they do not pull together and cast of their fears of what would happen if the financiers and corporations lost their grip and their friends in the offices of government disappeared. Thereis nothing to fear, not the men in uniforms and any other methods of reprisals the elites use to try and protect their own statuses. You all have much more power to change things than you realise but, sitting at home shouting “hippies!” or “wasters” at people who set up camp in town centres when they decide they have had enough is not how to empower yourselves. You want to empower yourselves? Join them instead.

I remember the great comedian and musician Bill Hicks describing they way we live as “just a ride” and that you can and should get off anytime you want to pursue your own way, but if you want to do that you have to get rid of fear. Bill Hicks couldn’t have been more right and now more than ever, people need to opens their eyes to this. You don’t empower yourselves by staying on the ride.

The Activists Editorial Collective

Dec 31

Christians should boycott this…. Very Disturbing!

Wow! This article has some angry, angry words about Christianity.
Some pretty dark, cynical stuff.

We still believe Organized Religion is a force for good; it promotes love and peace and helps people find the strength to carry on in the face of hardship and adversity. It comforts the weak and the sick; and gives everyone the hope of a glorious future; forever in heaven after they leave this world.
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http://theactivists.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/your-god-is-my-puppet-a-letter-written-by-a-billionaire/

Your God is My Puppet: A Letter Written by a Billionaire

Posted on December 30, 2011

Dear Poor People:

Have you noticed, wage slave, how your God is always telling you to be patients and submissive? Have you noticed how your God is always telling you to bear suffering, to say nothing, to read the Book of Job?

Have you noticed how your God and your prophets are always telling you to turn the other cheek, while the master class destroys your life?

Excuse me, wage slave, but I do not know how to put this mildly, but your so called God is my puppet, your so called priests all work for me. Your God is nothing more than a puppet that the powerful designed to keep you anticipating the afterlife while being raped in this life. Your God profits me and all of those modern Cadillac-driving prophets.

When you see your Evangelist living in a mansion, then you know that your God is a puppet of the rich. When you see your priests telling you to tolerate oppression, then you know that your God is nothing more than a ploy to keep you off my back. When your brilliant clergymen tell you that God wants you to submit to his will power, they’re talking about my will power. When your pastors tell you to not get involved in protests or political subversion, then you know that your God is a puppet of the police state.

God is nothing more than a tool used by the powerful to keep the people down on their knees, at the altar of blind obedience. You obey your God in the same way that you obey your corporate bosses, blindly, willingly, without hesitation. If you do not obey ‘your’ God then you will go to hell, if you do not obey your corporate bosses then you will be fired!

God is a metaphor for distant power, wage slave, God is a metaphor for the destruction of your resistance morale.

Get back in line, wage slave, get back in line to worship the God above, the God who is a metaphor for the powerful living in the mountains.

I keep the clergy nice and fat, to speak in the name of the puppet God. Here’s a metaphor you’ll understand: God is like Barney whom the children adore, but behind Barney there’s a corporation making a killing. Behind your God, there is a group of billionaires squeezing the spiritual profits right out of your very soul.

Long live God! Long live the puppet God of the poor, the one who tells them to obey the laws, to be obedient and happy with nothing.

A Billionaire,

the one who invents your God and keeps him in the sky

Dec 30

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Dec 27

Battle plan for avoiding Indoctrination by Mainstream Media (just an outline)

Does anyone have any doubts anymore that the Mainstream media is lying to us every day about the economy? (or about anything else for that matter)

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/story/2011-12-27/sears-stores-closing/52240208/1

USA Today Headline 12/27/2011 : Sears to close 100 to 120 Kmart, Sears stores


Just last week and even a few days before Christmas, every major TV and cable news program was saying that “Holiday retail sales are higher than last year”; “the economy is getting better as shown by frenzied holiday shopping” etc. etc.

Do yourself a favor: stop watching the mainstream TV news, and get your news from Twitter and Facebook.

The logic is simple: The Mainstream Media is controlled by Large Corporations that have a financial interest in keeping people ignorant of what is really going on.

The spread of News on on Social media like Twitter and Facebook is in the interest of the people:

If a news story is interesting to a lot of people, it gets spread far and wide; if it’s Bullsh#t, it doesn’t go far.

Additionally; it is much more difficult for large corporations and the government to control the spread of information on social media. (although they are trying pretty hard to do so.)

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We also got rid of our Cable TV years ago; get Netflix you can rent just about anything today. (we just happen to catch glimses of live TV when we get our oil changed at the auto reapair shop, or when dropping off laundry at the dry cleaners.)

There are also advantages to watching things at a different time than the “masses” do: the timeliness of the message that the corporate entity was trying to impart to you; gets nullified.

Its not only the idea that they (the corporate interests) can make you think a certain way; what gives them the real power; is being able to make you think a certain way; at a certain time, along with everybody else.

Having everyone watching and thinking the same thing at the same time makes everyone easier to control; and harder for any opposition movement to gain momentum.

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Mainstream news is becoming more and more useless everyday; because every day it becomes more and more controlled by big corporations. Its new purpose is to keep the masses entertained and under control; not to inform us or keep us educated about the world we live in.

We the people; as creators of our own News for our online communities; have a responsibility to our community. Our responsibility is to provide accurate, informative news that is free from bias and misinformation.

The only way that we will be able to triumph is if we have accurate information about our world. If you post something, keep it factual; if it is your opinion; that’s fine too; but have the courtesy to label it as such.

Together, we can stay informed!
Power to the People!