Monday, December 7, 2009
We are living in evil times. Our government is unresponsive to the needs of everyday citizens but caters to the interests of big money and corporate power. The central bank dictates monetary policy and can raise or lower interest rates with no control at all. In fact, the Federal Reserve dares to threaten Congress if it passes legislation aimed at curbing its power while boasting of its power to manipulate people and events with impunity.
It's time that we started to really do some research into the whole idea of corporate personhood and take back our country while we still can. The earth is suffering under the weight of corporate greed, but it's not yet too late to turn things around.
Watch this video... "The Corporation," and see just what kind of "person" it is:
Thursday, December 3, 2009
For the Third Generation - Moo Vintu Thenoo
Adam Smith published
The Wealth of the Nations
in 1776.
An auspicious year.
The Wealth of the Nations –
a book, a primer –
the foundational writing
for the economic system -
entrepreneurialism -
which we call ‘capitalism.’
Society on a whole
would benefit, Adam Smith wrote,
if regular people, like you and me,
could have the resources – the capital, the cash –
to start
our very own company.
It’d work like this,
Adam Smith wrote.
Say it’s you – yes you the very same –
and you have an idea
for a product and a name.
You want to get started
producing creating exporting importing
but you don’t have the cash
for a factory the raw materials the workers.
So you – yes you the one with the IDEA –
go to a person
who has lots of cash.
You say, “Loan me some.
This is my plan.
I want to make a start.
I am honest and creative
and I work very hard.”
“Let’s negotiate a deal.
Let’s give and take
so the both of us
a small profit will make.”
So you start your company
with the cash from your lender.
Say you want to make shoes.
You find a location –
a warehouse or such –
and you buy the raw materials –
leather, laces, metal, glue, cloth.
Don’t forget tools
And PEOPLE WORKERS LABORERS
who will build the shoes
and sell them, clean up, and keep the books, too.
Everyone benefits,
Adam Smith says,
and you pay your lender back.
As you sell more shoes
and you buy in bulk
the per unit cost
of your raw materials
Goes Down
so you give a pay raise
to your WORKERS
because everyone benefits
in this system ideally.
You will make a contribution
to the standard of living
of those who work for you
and those who work for others, too.
Paying people fair
is what Adam Smith conceived.
Spreading the wealth
true capitalism will lead.
Well, you know what happened
in the 19th Century?
Some of the owners
who started up companies
said, “I’ll keep more for myself
and give less to my workers.”
Enter the labor movement –
it’s how labor unions began.
Workers organizing
and having solidarity
because in early capitalism
there was a lot of animosity
between management and workers.
So this is the first point
you need to see
if you want to understand
economic history.
Sometimes we
neglect
our
Social Responsibility
If you have a privilege
like education, wealth
health, and social location
you have a duty
to contribute
GENEROUSLY
to the Good
of your
Society.
If you work very hard
at school or home or on the job
you have the right to be rewarded
but not at the expense –
not on the backs –
of the underpaid.
(If anyone is reading this who makes more than one million federal reserve notes per year then WHY DON’T YOU LIVE UP TO YOUR SUPPOSED POTENTIAL AND LET THE REST OF YOUR EARNINGS BE DIVIDED AMONG THE OTHER EMPLOYEES AT YOUR COMPANY. OR CONTRIBUTE THE REST OF YOUR EARNINGS TO A MICRO FINANCING INSTITUTION THAT LENDS CAPITAL TO ENTREPENEURS IN THE UNITED STATES AT A REASONABLE RATE. OR LET YOUR COMPANY KEEP THE NOTES SO THEY CAN HIRE A WHOLE LOT OF NEW EMPLOYEES AT SAY THIRTY NOTES PER HOUR DOING PUBLIC SERVICE LIKE BUILDING SUSTAINABLE ENERGY PLANTS OR CLEANING UP OUR RIVERS OR HELPING FAMILIES COPE OR ASSISTING TEACHERS IN THE CLASSROOMS. I MEAN, COME ON FOLKS, WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
In the middle
of the 19th Century
we, in the U.S., had a war.
Some young men,
an ingenious sort of lot,
said, “Instead of being soldiers
like the poorer folk do
we’ll stay home
keep working
and make lots of money, too!”
So guess what these young men did.
They invested in WEAPONS
and other INSTRUMENTS OF DEATH.
Lots of profits to be made
in that time of war
by enterprising young lads
early war profiteers
defense industry.
Lots of profit to be made
in that time of war.
There was a time
when war profiteering
was considered immoral
in this land of the free.
Oil Dick Cheney Haliburton GE
Sunni Shiite Democracy
Heroism Terrorism WMD
Oil Fuels the Global Economy
I ask you NOW
“How do YOU feel
about people making profits
on the backs
of our brave lads and lasses
on the battlefield?”
Should we take the profit out of war?
If we want to do things different
it’s up to you and me.
We can try to build
the world we want to see
from the bottom to the top –
it’s up to you and me.
But don’t keep building
on the same shifting sand.
Be honest and be willing
to take a solid stand!
Here is another way that profit is in war.
A company, like Divided Vegetables,
goes into a country, like Hondoragua,
and sets up shop.
--Secure a whole lot of land so you can grow vegetables.
--Pay the workers as low as possible.
--Pollute their land as much as possible.
(because environmentally sound practices
cost more money thereby
reducing profits)
Now, many people in the land
see what’s going on.
So a movement starts,
a rebellion, protest, organization, grassroots, perhaps at Alice’s Restaurant.
Well, a movement starts
and the company gets scared
so they ask the government of the country
to protect them.
“Protect Us.
Your People Are Rebelling
Against Our Corporate Practices.
If You Don’t Help Us
We’ll Have To Leave.
andohbythewayhere’ssomecashandahouseandsomeinterestinourcompany”
So the government of the country
pulls out all the stops.
They call in the soldiers
with guns and the cops
to use some force
against the trouble-making peasantry.
Well, now it’s time to play a game.
Can you guess who supplies
many guns, bombers,
ammunition
and training for the soldiers and national police?
Well, it’s you and me
sometimes funneled through
an NGO entity.
It’s not the regular military.
It’s not our brave soldiers
men and women
on the frontline
who fight for freedom
sometimes mis-aligned.
No, it’s not them.
It is SPECIAL OPS
and CIA.
If you’re one of them
then it is you.
But it is also YOU
and also ME
because they represent
our dear COUNTRY.
It is SOA
School of the Americas
in Georgia, USA
training, inculcating
young men and women
from places far away
to fight in their country
AGAINST
people who want to be free
from the global economy
corporate domination
landfill abomination
And do you know
what they are called – by corporations, governments, economic institutions
the ones who want to be free
from corporate domination
landfill abomination?
They are called
Communists
Socialists
Leftists
Them’s fightin’ words
here in the U.S. of A.
because they challenge
our political and economic power structure.
We hold very dear
the stories we all hear
about markets free
benefiting you and me.
But what is so free
about corporate oligarchy?
What is so free
about using foreign policy
to crush the masses –
all races and classes –
when they don’t agree
with economic policy?
And what is so free,
please answer me,
about CORPORATE PERSONHOOD?
When a corporation – big and multinational –
has the same rights
in a court of law
as little old you and me?
That’s the way that we do it
here in the U.S. of A.
Why do I say all of this?
Is it to start a fight?
Absolutely NOT!!
The way to make change –
the way to rearrange –
is not with guns or weapons or war
because VIOLENCE ALWAYS BEGETS MORE.
Instead
the way to make change –
the way to rearrange –
is first to see
our promise, our accomplishments, our good,
and then to be HONEST
about what we do that is wrong.
It’s okay to be wrong –
nothing is perfect –
but it’s not okay
to continue doing wrong
once you know
once you see
once you uncover
a HIDDEN REALITY.
U.S. Foreign Policy
Go look it up.
“American Interests”
at home or abroad
we will FIGHT TO DEFEND.
What are American Interests?
They include the rights
of corporations
big and multinational
landfill abominations
to conduct their business
as they please
in a country of their choosing
where wages are lower
and environmental protection
is minimal.
Our sons and our daughters
will give their lives
and their arms and their legs
and their peace of mind
to PROTECT A CORPORATION’S RIGHT?!?!
The rhetoric goes
that we spread democracy
but that is a slogan
conceived
by some in power
to convince the young
and their moms and dads
that the fight is right.
Folks, I don’t tell you this
to denigrate the U.S. of A.
We’ve got so much that is good –
our accomplishments, our promise,
our industriousness,
our democratic foundation,
even our entrepreneurial
economic foundation.
But I use my life,
my name and my time
on this earth
to spread the word
so it will be heard
that our situation is critical –
economic, environmental, political.
Our only hope
is an awareness raising
a shift in consciousness
so that many of us will see
that we are one big family.
We won’t all agree
but if we want to be free
WE – YOU AND ME –
need to take responsibility
for our daily actions
what we buy at the store
and why we go to war.
Let’s burst out of the bubbles
of our private lives
Raise our consciousness
to the global situation.
When we participate
in a system unjust
we are WRONG as WRONG.
That we see this
is a must.
We are humans
and we have good brains
so let’s all use them
and our systems rearrange.
We can do it
a Whole New Way –
living like the future
every single day.
But don’t keep building
on the same shifting sand.
Be honest and be willing
to take a solid stand.
For this generation
and the next one and THE THIRD -
If we want to do things different
THEN GO OUT AND SPREAD THE WORD!
Globalism
is a Euphemism
for Corporatism
sprawling multinationals
conglomerations of conglomerates
richer than countries
more powerful
than
elected democracies
spreading the wealth
paying the workers
as low as the market will hold
be low living wage
solidarity
is banned
in the land
of corporate control
GLOBALISM
is a
EUPHEMISM
for
CORPORATISM
protected by
MILITARISM
which is an
ANATHEMA
to
CAPITALISM
Society on a whole
would benefit, Adam Smith wrote,
if regular people, like you and me,
could have the resources – the capital, the cash –
to start
our very own company.
The Wealth of the Nations –
a book, a primer –
the foundational writing
for the economic system -
entrepreneurialism -
which we call ‘capitalism.’
Adam Smith published
The Wealth of the Nations
in 1776.
An auspicious year.
~Moo Vintu Thenoo
For those who prefer prose:
If we truly believe that G-O-D is a LIVING G-O-D, not living in the scientific sense of life, but in the sense of being vital, relevant, and possessing CREATIVE POTENTIAL for every age, in every moment, then surely we must be thoroughly convinced that we will find truths in the ancient scriptures that will help us in our most dire needs in this EARLY 21st CENTURY.
This Creative Movement of the Multiverse, G-O-D, we will believe, is helping us and is waiting to help us even more. Waiting for us to acknowledge our need and to open ourselves to G-O-D’s creative movement within and through us. If we are willing to stop idolizing any particular IMAGE or IDEA of G-O-D and to start, today, to open ourselves to G-O-D’s activity in creating something new among us, then we will unleash a power for creativity unlike any yet seen by human civilization. To the depth and extent of our need is the height and extent of the CREATIVE POWER with which G-O-D will respond to our collective need.
If we believe that G-O-D can truly transform the heart and life of an individual, then imagine what G-O-D can do for a people who cry out COLLECTIVELY for help, for a people who collectively and willingly recognize and admit our need, for a people who are collectively open to moving into something new. Imagine if one tenth of us truly cried out, with a posture of openness, for help in transforming our world into one of peace, justice, solidarity, liberty, freedom, equality, and sustainability. G-O-D is waiting to unleash this extraordinary power into ordinary folk like you and me.
This message is for ordinary people – white, black, brown, rich, poor, in-between, citizen and non, young, old, middle, male, female, transgender, free, slave, prisoner, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Atheist, Agnostic, Ba’hai, Pagan, Janist, Zik, Zoroastrian, and all religious persuasions. G-O-D wants to help us. G-O-D wants us to help. We must assume COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY for the conditions we have generated in this world.
For those of you who believe that our world is ending and that we are called by G-O-D NOT to continually strive to improve conditions but to concern ourselves strictly with what happens to us after these physical bodies die, I ask you, where do you see that in scripture? Where did Jesus say that when we become his disciples we stop working for justice, freedom, and peace in this world? Did Jesus himself not go directly to the heart of power in his day and TURN OVER THE TABLES OF THE MONEY CHANGERS? Did Jesus not teach us to share what we have with ANYONE who has need? Did Jesus not have compassion and love for all people and all creation? Did Jesus not tell us that his mission was to loose the bonds of the oppressed, to set the prisoner free, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord’s favor? And are we not called to do the same?
We are called to freedom from consumerism, freedom from greed, freedom from reliance upon governments and institutions to improve the conditions of this world. We are called to freedom from the influence of mass media – including advertisers who want to convince us to buy things that we don’t need – the production of which contributes mightily to the destruction of our natural world. We are called to freedom from the influence of pundits and commentators – both liberal and conservative – who consider it their mission to breed hate and division among us. We are called to freedom from false images of humanity that are propagated to us through television and video games. We are called to freedom from reliance on eating the flesh of severely mistreated animals. We are called to freedom from an absolute trust in our current economic system – one that values its own continuation above the lives of human beings and all life on this planet. We are called to freedom from a very unjust penal system. We are called to a freedom from devotion to military might as a way to the creation of justice. We are called to a freedom from enmity toward those who think about G-O-D differently than we do. We are called to a freedom from dependence upon governments and institutions to solve our problems.
We are called to a collective level of responsibility – a collective level of maturation – in which we recognize the true costs of our current lifestyles. We are called to take responsibility for our every thought, word, and action especially as they pertain to those around us – both near and far away – and as they pertain to non-human life and the earth. We are called to take responsibility for participating in just systems and in small and large movements toward justice, peace, freedom, equality, solidarity, sustainability.
Do these responsibilities sound large? Indeed they do! But are they impossible? Absolutely not! For nothing is impossible when we work with G-O-D, the Creative Movement of the Multiverse.
Let G-O-D move us into the future through you.
~Moo Vintu Thenoo~
The Wealth of the Nations
in 1776.
An auspicious year.
The Wealth of the Nations –
a book, a primer –
the foundational writing
for the economic system -
entrepreneurialism -
which we call ‘capitalism.’
Society on a whole
would benefit, Adam Smith wrote,
if regular people, like you and me,
could have the resources – the capital, the cash –
to start
our very own company.
It’d work like this,
Adam Smith wrote.
Say it’s you – yes you the very same –
and you have an idea
for a product and a name.
You want to get started
producing creating exporting importing
but you don’t have the cash
for a factory the raw materials the workers.
So you – yes you the one with the IDEA –
go to a person
who has lots of cash.
You say, “Loan me some.
This is my plan.
I want to make a start.
I am honest and creative
and I work very hard.”
“Let’s negotiate a deal.
Let’s give and take
so the both of us
a small profit will make.”
So you start your company
with the cash from your lender.
Say you want to make shoes.
You find a location –
a warehouse or such –
and you buy the raw materials –
leather, laces, metal, glue, cloth.
Don’t forget tools
And PEOPLE WORKERS LABORERS
who will build the shoes
and sell them, clean up, and keep the books, too.
Everyone benefits,
Adam Smith says,
and you pay your lender back.
As you sell more shoes
and you buy in bulk
the per unit cost
of your raw materials
Goes Down
so you give a pay raise
to your WORKERS
because everyone benefits
in this system ideally.
You will make a contribution
to the standard of living
of those who work for you
and those who work for others, too.
Paying people fair
is what Adam Smith conceived.
Spreading the wealth
true capitalism will lead.
Well, you know what happened
in the 19th Century?
Some of the owners
who started up companies
said, “I’ll keep more for myself
and give less to my workers.”
Enter the labor movement –
it’s how labor unions began.
Workers organizing
and having solidarity
because in early capitalism
there was a lot of animosity
between management and workers.
So this is the first point
you need to see
if you want to understand
economic history.
Sometimes we
neglect
our
Social Responsibility
If you have a privilege
like education, wealth
health, and social location
you have a duty
to contribute
GENEROUSLY
to the Good
of your
Society.
If you work very hard
at school or home or on the job
you have the right to be rewarded
but not at the expense –
not on the backs –
of the underpaid.
(If anyone is reading this who makes more than one million federal reserve notes per year then WHY DON’T YOU LIVE UP TO YOUR SUPPOSED POTENTIAL AND LET THE REST OF YOUR EARNINGS BE DIVIDED AMONG THE OTHER EMPLOYEES AT YOUR COMPANY. OR CONTRIBUTE THE REST OF YOUR EARNINGS TO A MICRO FINANCING INSTITUTION THAT LENDS CAPITAL TO ENTREPENEURS IN THE UNITED STATES AT A REASONABLE RATE. OR LET YOUR COMPANY KEEP THE NOTES SO THEY CAN HIRE A WHOLE LOT OF NEW EMPLOYEES AT SAY THIRTY NOTES PER HOUR DOING PUBLIC SERVICE LIKE BUILDING SUSTAINABLE ENERGY PLANTS OR CLEANING UP OUR RIVERS OR HELPING FAMILIES COPE OR ASSISTING TEACHERS IN THE CLASSROOMS. I MEAN, COME ON FOLKS, WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
In the middle
of the 19th Century
we, in the U.S., had a war.
Some young men,
an ingenious sort of lot,
said, “Instead of being soldiers
like the poorer folk do
we’ll stay home
keep working
and make lots of money, too!”
So guess what these young men did.
They invested in WEAPONS
and other INSTRUMENTS OF DEATH.
Lots of profits to be made
in that time of war
by enterprising young lads
early war profiteers
defense industry.
Lots of profit to be made
in that time of war.
There was a time
when war profiteering
was considered immoral
in this land of the free.
Oil Dick Cheney Haliburton GE
Sunni Shiite Democracy
Heroism Terrorism WMD
Oil Fuels the Global Economy
I ask you NOW
“How do YOU feel
about people making profits
on the backs
of our brave lads and lasses
on the battlefield?”
Should we take the profit out of war?
If we want to do things different
it’s up to you and me.
We can try to build
the world we want to see
from the bottom to the top –
it’s up to you and me.
But don’t keep building
on the same shifting sand.
Be honest and be willing
to take a solid stand!
Here is another way that profit is in war.
A company, like Divided Vegetables,
goes into a country, like Hondoragua,
and sets up shop.
--Secure a whole lot of land so you can grow vegetables.
--Pay the workers as low as possible.
--Pollute their land as much as possible.
(because environmentally sound practices
cost more money thereby
reducing profits)
Now, many people in the land
see what’s going on.
So a movement starts,
a rebellion, protest, organization, grassroots, perhaps at Alice’s Restaurant.
Well, a movement starts
and the company gets scared
so they ask the government of the country
to protect them.
“Protect Us.
Your People Are Rebelling
Against Our Corporate Practices.
If You Don’t Help Us
We’ll Have To Leave.
andohbythewayhere’ssomecashandahouseandsomeinterestinourcompany”
So the government of the country
pulls out all the stops.
They call in the soldiers
with guns and the cops
to use some force
against the trouble-making peasantry.
Well, now it’s time to play a game.
Can you guess who supplies
many guns, bombers,
ammunition
and training for the soldiers and national police?
Well, it’s you and me
sometimes funneled through
an NGO entity.
It’s not the regular military.
It’s not our brave soldiers
men and women
on the frontline
who fight for freedom
sometimes mis-aligned.
No, it’s not them.
It is SPECIAL OPS
and CIA.
If you’re one of them
then it is you.
But it is also YOU
and also ME
because they represent
our dear COUNTRY.
It is SOA
School of the Americas
in Georgia, USA
training, inculcating
young men and women
from places far away
to fight in their country
AGAINST
people who want to be free
from the global economy
corporate domination
landfill abomination
And do you know
what they are called – by corporations, governments, economic institutions
the ones who want to be free
from corporate domination
landfill abomination?
They are called
Communists
Socialists
Leftists
Them’s fightin’ words
here in the U.S. of A.
because they challenge
our political and economic power structure.
We hold very dear
the stories we all hear
about markets free
benefiting you and me.
But what is so free
about corporate oligarchy?
What is so free
about using foreign policy
to crush the masses –
all races and classes –
when they don’t agree
with economic policy?
And what is so free,
please answer me,
about CORPORATE PERSONHOOD?
When a corporation – big and multinational –
has the same rights
in a court of law
as little old you and me?
That’s the way that we do it
here in the U.S. of A.
Why do I say all of this?
Is it to start a fight?
Absolutely NOT!!
The way to make change –
the way to rearrange –
is not with guns or weapons or war
because VIOLENCE ALWAYS BEGETS MORE.
Instead
the way to make change –
the way to rearrange –
is first to see
our promise, our accomplishments, our good,
and then to be HONEST
about what we do that is wrong.
It’s okay to be wrong –
nothing is perfect –
but it’s not okay
to continue doing wrong
once you know
once you see
once you uncover
a HIDDEN REALITY.
U.S. Foreign Policy
Go look it up.
“American Interests”
at home or abroad
we will FIGHT TO DEFEND.
What are American Interests?
They include the rights
of corporations
big and multinational
landfill abominations
to conduct their business
as they please
in a country of their choosing
where wages are lower
and environmental protection
is minimal.
Our sons and our daughters
will give their lives
and their arms and their legs
and their peace of mind
to PROTECT A CORPORATION’S RIGHT?!?!
The rhetoric goes
that we spread democracy
but that is a slogan
conceived
by some in power
to convince the young
and their moms and dads
that the fight is right.
Folks, I don’t tell you this
to denigrate the U.S. of A.
We’ve got so much that is good –
our accomplishments, our promise,
our industriousness,
our democratic foundation,
even our entrepreneurial
economic foundation.
But I use my life,
my name and my time
on this earth
to spread the word
so it will be heard
that our situation is critical –
economic, environmental, political.
Our only hope
is an awareness raising
a shift in consciousness
so that many of us will see
that we are one big family.
We won’t all agree
but if we want to be free
WE – YOU AND ME –
need to take responsibility
for our daily actions
what we buy at the store
and why we go to war.
Let’s burst out of the bubbles
of our private lives
Raise our consciousness
to the global situation.
When we participate
in a system unjust
we are WRONG as WRONG.
That we see this
is a must.
We are humans
and we have good brains
so let’s all use them
and our systems rearrange.
We can do it
a Whole New Way –
living like the future
every single day.
But don’t keep building
on the same shifting sand.
Be honest and be willing
to take a solid stand.
For this generation
and the next one and THE THIRD -
If we want to do things different
THEN GO OUT AND SPREAD THE WORD!
Globalism
is a Euphemism
for Corporatism
sprawling multinationals
conglomerations of conglomerates
richer than countries
more powerful
than
elected democracies
spreading the wealth
paying the workers
as low as the market will hold
be low living wage
solidarity
is banned
in the land
of corporate control
GLOBALISM
is a
EUPHEMISM
for
CORPORATISM
protected by
MILITARISM
which is an
ANATHEMA
to
CAPITALISM
Society on a whole
would benefit, Adam Smith wrote,
if regular people, like you and me,
could have the resources – the capital, the cash –
to start
our very own company.
The Wealth of the Nations –
a book, a primer –
the foundational writing
for the economic system -
entrepreneurialism -
which we call ‘capitalism.’
Adam Smith published
The Wealth of the Nations
in 1776.
An auspicious year.
~Moo Vintu Thenoo
For those who prefer prose:
If we truly believe that G-O-D is a LIVING G-O-D, not living in the scientific sense of life, but in the sense of being vital, relevant, and possessing CREATIVE POTENTIAL for every age, in every moment, then surely we must be thoroughly convinced that we will find truths in the ancient scriptures that will help us in our most dire needs in this EARLY 21st CENTURY.
This Creative Movement of the Multiverse, G-O-D, we will believe, is helping us and is waiting to help us even more. Waiting for us to acknowledge our need and to open ourselves to G-O-D’s creative movement within and through us. If we are willing to stop idolizing any particular IMAGE or IDEA of G-O-D and to start, today, to open ourselves to G-O-D’s activity in creating something new among us, then we will unleash a power for creativity unlike any yet seen by human civilization. To the depth and extent of our need is the height and extent of the CREATIVE POWER with which G-O-D will respond to our collective need.
If we believe that G-O-D can truly transform the heart and life of an individual, then imagine what G-O-D can do for a people who cry out COLLECTIVELY for help, for a people who collectively and willingly recognize and admit our need, for a people who are collectively open to moving into something new. Imagine if one tenth of us truly cried out, with a posture of openness, for help in transforming our world into one of peace, justice, solidarity, liberty, freedom, equality, and sustainability. G-O-D is waiting to unleash this extraordinary power into ordinary folk like you and me.
This message is for ordinary people – white, black, brown, rich, poor, in-between, citizen and non, young, old, middle, male, female, transgender, free, slave, prisoner, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Atheist, Agnostic, Ba’hai, Pagan, Janist, Zik, Zoroastrian, and all religious persuasions. G-O-D wants to help us. G-O-D wants us to help. We must assume COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY for the conditions we have generated in this world.
For those of you who believe that our world is ending and that we are called by G-O-D NOT to continually strive to improve conditions but to concern ourselves strictly with what happens to us after these physical bodies die, I ask you, where do you see that in scripture? Where did Jesus say that when we become his disciples we stop working for justice, freedom, and peace in this world? Did Jesus himself not go directly to the heart of power in his day and TURN OVER THE TABLES OF THE MONEY CHANGERS? Did Jesus not teach us to share what we have with ANYONE who has need? Did Jesus not have compassion and love for all people and all creation? Did Jesus not tell us that his mission was to loose the bonds of the oppressed, to set the prisoner free, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord’s favor? And are we not called to do the same?
We are called to freedom from consumerism, freedom from greed, freedom from reliance upon governments and institutions to improve the conditions of this world. We are called to freedom from the influence of mass media – including advertisers who want to convince us to buy things that we don’t need – the production of which contributes mightily to the destruction of our natural world. We are called to freedom from the influence of pundits and commentators – both liberal and conservative – who consider it their mission to breed hate and division among us. We are called to freedom from false images of humanity that are propagated to us through television and video games. We are called to freedom from reliance on eating the flesh of severely mistreated animals. We are called to freedom from an absolute trust in our current economic system – one that values its own continuation above the lives of human beings and all life on this planet. We are called to freedom from a very unjust penal system. We are called to a freedom from devotion to military might as a way to the creation of justice. We are called to a freedom from enmity toward those who think about G-O-D differently than we do. We are called to a freedom from dependence upon governments and institutions to solve our problems.
We are called to a collective level of responsibility – a collective level of maturation – in which we recognize the true costs of our current lifestyles. We are called to take responsibility for our every thought, word, and action especially as they pertain to those around us – both near and far away – and as they pertain to non-human life and the earth. We are called to take responsibility for participating in just systems and in small and large movements toward justice, peace, freedom, equality, solidarity, sustainability.
Do these responsibilities sound large? Indeed they do! But are they impossible? Absolutely not! For nothing is impossible when we work with G-O-D, the Creative Movement of the Multiverse.
Let G-O-D move us into the future through you.
~Moo Vintu Thenoo~
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
End Times in Copenhagen
END TIMES IN COPENHAGEN
By Joel Kovel
Canadian Dimension
October 29, 2009
It’s hard to overstate the importance of the upcoming December meetings at Copenhagen, Denmark, set up by the U.N. for the purpose of renegotiating the climate protocols set forth in Kyoto, in 1997 and due to expire in 2012. These latter were greeted with a certain modicum of hope and a small offsetting of skepticism. As Copenhagen looms, the skeptics have been proven right in spades, those who thought something good would come out of Kyoto stand revealed as fools or liars and charlatans. In the sober words of *Nature* from 2007, the Kyoto protocols, which demanded of wealthy countries that they reduce carbon emissions by 2012 to six-to-eight percent below 1990 levels, have “produced no demonstrable reductions in emissions or even in anticipated emissions growth.”
The reason we cannot afford to have the results of Copenhagen go the same way is known by many but taken seriously by few: The best science tells us there is a rapidly closing window for turning climate change around before irreversible positive feedback loops set in, e.g., methane freed from beneath melting tundra, or the loss of albedo reflectivity from seas once covered with ice. Once this sets in (it may already have begun), climate change, awful as it now is, will likely spiral rapidly downhill with consequences catastrophic beyond belief and comprehension.
And yet the numbers of those who do not take this brutal truth seriously include the main forces geared up for Copenhagen. You may, if you turn to the voluminous reports circulating on the internet and elsewhere, learn a great deal about what is planned for Copenhagen and the numberless players in its scenario. You will wear your eyes out and confuse yourself to distraction as you try to pick your way through the bulletins and pontifications of the experts who have been given their proverbial “seat at the table” that is being set in the lovely Danish capital. But you will not discover there any serious attention paid as to why Kyoto has so abysmally failed, nor indeed about the fundamental truth about climate change and the whole ecological crisis of which it is the most spectacular manifestation.
CLASS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Class forces palpably drive the crisis of climate change with the ruling class of capitalists, along with the capitalist state structures that regulate their world, responsible for the gathering nightmare. After all, the vast bulk of carbon spewed into the atmosphere is there because of decisions made by capitalists and not ordinary people. It follows that the climate crisis also introduces the profound question of the survivability of the dominant capitalist mode of production. We have been told of the “inconvenient truth,” as the largely forgotten Al Gore has put it, that rising atmospheric carbon threatens the survival of civilization. But who speaks of the much more inconvenient truth: that controlling carbon levels to the point where breakaway climate change can be arrested will almost certainly entail a structural contraction of the capitalist economy, which, as any student of capitalism knows, means the end of the capitalist system. Basically a simple choice looms: We can have either capitalism with no hope for the future, or get rid of capitalism and have a fighting chance for a future.
The global bourgeoisie understands this. They might not understand it consciously, but they know viscerally that the ecological crisis is their Armageddon, and this conditions their responses at meetings like Kyoto and Copenhagen. These do not fail because of stupidity but from existential reasons. Capitalism is the life-process of the bourgeoisie and profit is its blood; thus survival for the bourgeois means to pump profit through the arteries of society. The appeal of mechanisms like the cap-and-trade regimen that has ruled Kyoto and will most likely continue after Copenhagen is not that it solves the dilemmas of carbon accumulation. Indeed, it is essential to understand that capitalists do not want to solve the dilemma of carbon accumulation, because this would mean their suicide as a ruling class. Instead, they substitute what they know -- the accumulation of capital, which is to say, its expansion -- and, secure in their power, they delude themselves into thinking this can also solve the climate crisis. Cap and trade creates new commodities and markets for them, gardens where capital can grow. Trillions of dollars, we are told, await the financiers who will command these new markets: a blinding sun that completes the building of delusion. Thus the ruling class is quite willing to sacrifice nature, and therefore humanity itself, including, it might be added, their own children and grandchildren, so that their profits keep rolling in.
WHERE IS OUR TURNING POINT?
And the rest of us? Are we going to accept this madness from the pundits, the officials, and the police, panels, and bureaucracies who represent capitalist reality? Are we going to petition our governments, as the liberal press urges us to do, bowing down to beg: “Please, my liege, be sensible, and slow down the rate of carbon accumulation . . . give us another generation before the hammer of nature descends.” Are we going to respect Barack Obama, who will be telling us, with his pleasant demeanour and rhetorical skill, that compromising is the best we can do given the way the world is set up?
Or will Copenhagen be the great moment of refusal that the world has been waiting for? Will we take the opportunity afforded by the tenth anniversary of the Seattle uprisings to complete their work?
Plainly, these meetings will be a turning point. The question remains as to the direction taken, whether toward eco-catastrophe or hope for life. I do not think it will be possible to deal a fatal blow to the carbon system in this one place. Reality is not set up to accommodate fantasies of instant transformation. But we should do our best to non-violently impede the meetings so long as they serve capital. More important, it will be possible to use the moment to energize and begin to pull together the vast array of spontaneously emerging movements that have sprung up on every continent over the past decade, chiefly under the rubric of “climate justice.” We can build a “movement of movements” from below, harbingers of a transformed world: a movement to reveal the murderous betrayal of life by the capitalist class, and centered around the principle of keeping the sources of carbon in the ground as we build ecologically socialist way of production.
The system massed at Copenhagen will have its day. But the day after can belong to us all.
By Joel Kovel
Canadian Dimension
October 29, 2009
It’s hard to overstate the importance of the upcoming December meetings at Copenhagen, Denmark, set up by the U.N. for the purpose of renegotiating the climate protocols set forth in Kyoto, in 1997 and due to expire in 2012. These latter were greeted with a certain modicum of hope and a small offsetting of skepticism. As Copenhagen looms, the skeptics have been proven right in spades, those who thought something good would come out of Kyoto stand revealed as fools or liars and charlatans. In the sober words of *Nature* from 2007, the Kyoto protocols, which demanded of wealthy countries that they reduce carbon emissions by 2012 to six-to-eight percent below 1990 levels, have “produced no demonstrable reductions in emissions or even in anticipated emissions growth.”
The reason we cannot afford to have the results of Copenhagen go the same way is known by many but taken seriously by few: The best science tells us there is a rapidly closing window for turning climate change around before irreversible positive feedback loops set in, e.g., methane freed from beneath melting tundra, or the loss of albedo reflectivity from seas once covered with ice. Once this sets in (it may already have begun), climate change, awful as it now is, will likely spiral rapidly downhill with consequences catastrophic beyond belief and comprehension.
And yet the numbers of those who do not take this brutal truth seriously include the main forces geared up for Copenhagen. You may, if you turn to the voluminous reports circulating on the internet and elsewhere, learn a great deal about what is planned for Copenhagen and the numberless players in its scenario. You will wear your eyes out and confuse yourself to distraction as you try to pick your way through the bulletins and pontifications of the experts who have been given their proverbial “seat at the table” that is being set in the lovely Danish capital. But you will not discover there any serious attention paid as to why Kyoto has so abysmally failed, nor indeed about the fundamental truth about climate change and the whole ecological crisis of which it is the most spectacular manifestation.
CLASS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Class forces palpably drive the crisis of climate change with the ruling class of capitalists, along with the capitalist state structures that regulate their world, responsible for the gathering nightmare. After all, the vast bulk of carbon spewed into the atmosphere is there because of decisions made by capitalists and not ordinary people. It follows that the climate crisis also introduces the profound question of the survivability of the dominant capitalist mode of production. We have been told of the “inconvenient truth,” as the largely forgotten Al Gore has put it, that rising atmospheric carbon threatens the survival of civilization. But who speaks of the much more inconvenient truth: that controlling carbon levels to the point where breakaway climate change can be arrested will almost certainly entail a structural contraction of the capitalist economy, which, as any student of capitalism knows, means the end of the capitalist system. Basically a simple choice looms: We can have either capitalism with no hope for the future, or get rid of capitalism and have a fighting chance for a future.
The global bourgeoisie understands this. They might not understand it consciously, but they know viscerally that the ecological crisis is their Armageddon, and this conditions their responses at meetings like Kyoto and Copenhagen. These do not fail because of stupidity but from existential reasons. Capitalism is the life-process of the bourgeoisie and profit is its blood; thus survival for the bourgeois means to pump profit through the arteries of society. The appeal of mechanisms like the cap-and-trade regimen that has ruled Kyoto and will most likely continue after Copenhagen is not that it solves the dilemmas of carbon accumulation. Indeed, it is essential to understand that capitalists do not want to solve the dilemma of carbon accumulation, because this would mean their suicide as a ruling class. Instead, they substitute what they know -- the accumulation of capital, which is to say, its expansion -- and, secure in their power, they delude themselves into thinking this can also solve the climate crisis. Cap and trade creates new commodities and markets for them, gardens where capital can grow. Trillions of dollars, we are told, await the financiers who will command these new markets: a blinding sun that completes the building of delusion. Thus the ruling class is quite willing to sacrifice nature, and therefore humanity itself, including, it might be added, their own children and grandchildren, so that their profits keep rolling in.
WHERE IS OUR TURNING POINT?
And the rest of us? Are we going to accept this madness from the pundits, the officials, and the police, panels, and bureaucracies who represent capitalist reality? Are we going to petition our governments, as the liberal press urges us to do, bowing down to beg: “Please, my liege, be sensible, and slow down the rate of carbon accumulation . . . give us another generation before the hammer of nature descends.” Are we going to respect Barack Obama, who will be telling us, with his pleasant demeanour and rhetorical skill, that compromising is the best we can do given the way the world is set up?
Or will Copenhagen be the great moment of refusal that the world has been waiting for? Will we take the opportunity afforded by the tenth anniversary of the Seattle uprisings to complete their work?
Plainly, these meetings will be a turning point. The question remains as to the direction taken, whether toward eco-catastrophe or hope for life. I do not think it will be possible to deal a fatal blow to the carbon system in this one place. Reality is not set up to accommodate fantasies of instant transformation. But we should do our best to non-violently impede the meetings so long as they serve capital. More important, it will be possible to use the moment to energize and begin to pull together the vast array of spontaneously emerging movements that have sprung up on every continent over the past decade, chiefly under the rubric of “climate justice.” We can build a “movement of movements” from below, harbingers of a transformed world: a movement to reveal the murderous betrayal of life by the capitalist class, and centered around the principle of keeping the sources of carbon in the ground as we build ecologically socialist way of production.
The system massed at Copenhagen will have its day. But the day after can belong to us all.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Getting Ahead in the Job Market
Ever notice when you're looking at the want ads for a job, especially in sales, they always say they want someone to be "aggressive?" Well check out this guy and you'll never be out of work again!!
Thursday, November 12, 2009
The Reality Report with guest Bernard Von Nothaus on the Liberty Dollar
You probably think your money is worth something. Think again.In this special edition of the Reality Report Monetary Architect Bernard von NotHaus joins Gary in studio to discuss the origins of the Liberty Dollar, the pending legal battle and raid on their offices, and the state of the Union. This is one interview that you do not want to miss. When you're done watching, please join us at Restore The Republic and get involved with those of us who want to take our country back from the usurpers!!!
Friday, November 6, 2009
Painful Deception
At the risk of being called a "conspiracy theorist," I submit that there are still far too many unanswered questions in regards to the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The explanations given by the 9/11 Commission fail to address a number of anomolies in the scientific data about the collapse of the towers as well as significant inconsistencies in statements made by government officials charged with either the investigation of or the prevention of this attack. We owe it to ourselves as American citizens to arouse ourselves from the torpor we have fallen into and once again be vigilant in our quest to know the truth about what has been and is now happening in our country. We must get to the bottom of this crime and see to it that its perpetrators are prosecuted in a court of law as should have been done long ago. We must not allow ourselves to be lulled to sleep or distracted by those who would lead us into a false sense of security or by those who play upon our fears in order to execute their own nefarious and cynical agendas. Come on people, wake up to the painful deception that has been foisted upon us!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakan Comedy Hour
Among the most ridiculous "religious leaders" are Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakan... check this out and you'll see what I mean.
Finally.... the TRUTH
Let's have a little bit of truth for a change. All across this country we find people steeped in fear and ignorance, clinging to out-moded myths to give themselves some measure of comfort. Needless to say, there are those out there who stand ready, willing and able to exploit this for fun and profit. One of my favorites is Landover Baptist Church.
Their minister, Pastor Deacon Fred is hilarious!
I happen to believe that if we shed more light on the subject and people were able to admit the truth... that they don't really believe the things they claim to, we can free ourselves from religious nut jobs who want to take us into theocratic slavery.
We should take every opportunity to make fun of these clowns and expose them for what they are... leeches on the body and psyche of humanity.
Their minister, Pastor Deacon Fred is hilarious!
I happen to believe that if we shed more light on the subject and people were able to admit the truth... that they don't really believe the things they claim to, we can free ourselves from religious nut jobs who want to take us into theocratic slavery.
We should take every opportunity to make fun of these clowns and expose them for what they are... leeches on the body and psyche of humanity.
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