Gender: Male
Status: In a Relationship
Age: 24
Sign: Gemini
City: North Miami
State: Florida
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/27/2005
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December 27, 2009 - Sunday
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Category: Life
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December 25, 2009 - Friday
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Category: Life
You all get coal. Under the radar, Obama pushes for Patriot Act renewal
Congress raises debt ceiling to $12.4 trillion
Senate passes historic health care legislation
Mounting Political Tensions as the US, Russia and China Compete for the Control of the World's Oil and Gas Reserves
I'm like a beggar with no luck
I'm holding signs up
On your street corner stops
Like most you try not to see me
You stare straight ahead
Ignore the responsibility
Excuse me...excuse me Mr.
I've been waiting in line
And I'd like to buy some of your time
I'm very anxious, eager, willing
What's your billing?
[Chorus:]
So please excuse me Mr.
You've got things all wrong
You make it feel like a crime
So don't confuse me Mr.
I've known you too long
All I need is a little of your time
For most love comes for free
They don't pay the high cost
Of mental custody I'll pay bail for a guarantee
Please make space for me In the time yet to be
Excuse me...excuse me Mr.
I've been waiting in line
And I'd like to buy
Some of your time
I've been saving up my life
What's your price?
[Chorus:]
What should I do
I'm about to crack
And there's a force
That comes over me
It's almost as if I'm tied to the tracks
And I'm waiting for him
To rescue me
The funny thing is
He's not going to come
He's not going to find me This is a matter of fact
The desire you lack
This is the way I guess it has to be...
A little of your time
I need a little of your time
Please,a little of your time
[Chorus:]
I'm in line to buy time
I'm in line to buy time
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December 19, 2009 - Saturday
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Current mood:  high
Category: Life
Will you join me in this dance, this dance of misery
Cradled in imposs... impossibility?
Swooning, I am swept away
Swept off my feet, with step by step by step, we take the lead
As drop by drop, we start to bleed
Oh, we dance in misery
(And we dance on, and we dance on)
Oh, we dance in misery
(lost in the arms of our misery, oh)
Oh, we dance in misery
(And we dance on, and we dance on)
Swept off our feet by our misery, we're swept into the shadows
Will you lend yourself to beauty that will horrify?
Let me hide within your black, the still inside your eyes
Deafened, caught within a cry
So sensual, as step by step by step, I separate
As breath to breath, as I... suffocate
(Oh, we dance in misery)
And we dance on, and we dance on
(Oh, we dance in misery)
lost in the arms of our misery, oh
(Oh, we dance in misery)
And we dance on, and we dance on
Swept off our feet by our misery, we're swept into the shadows
So who will follow? Who is the lead?
I know I'll leave a stain, because I bleed
As we dance, we all dance
We all... have no chance in this horrid romance
I swear....
(Oh, we dance in misery)
And we dance on, and we dance on
(Oh, we dance in misery)
All lost in the arms of our misery, oh
(Oh, we dance in misery)
And we dance on, and we dance on
Swept off our feet by our misery, we're swept in the shadows
Swept off our feet by our misery, we're swept in the shadows
JIMI:
"HAPPY NEW YEAR FIRST OF ALL. I HOPE WE'LL HAVE A MILLION OR TWO MILLION
MORE OF THEM... IF WE CAN GET OVER THIS SUMMER, HE HE HE. RIGHT I'D LIKE
TO DEDICATE THIS ONE TO THE DRAGGIN' SCENE THAT'S GOIN' ON ALL THE SOLDIERS
THAT ARE FIGHTIN' IN CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND NEW YORK... OH YEAS, AND ALL
THE SOLDIERS FIGHTIN' IN VIETNAM. LIKE TO DO A THING CALLED 'MACHINE GUN'."
MACHINE GUN
TEARING MY BODY ALL APART
MACHINE GUN
TEARING MY BODY ALL APART
EVIL MAN MAKE ME KILL YA
EVIL MAN MAKE YOU KILL ME
EVIL MAN MAKE ME KILL YOU
EVEN THOUGH WE'RE ONLY FAMILIES APART
**I pick up my axe and fight like A FARMER now.....
(YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN)
HEY AND YOUR BULLETS KEEP KNOCKING ME DOWN
***I PICK UP MY AXE AND FIGHT LIKE A FARMER now......
YEAH BUT YOU STILL BLAST ME DOWN TO THE GROUND
THE SAME WAY YOU SHOOT ME DOWN BABY
YOU'LL BE GOING JUST THE SAME
THREE TIMES THE PAIN
AND YOUR OWN SELF TO BLAME
HEY MACHINE GUN
OOOOOOOOOO
I AIN'T AFRAID OF YOUR MESS NO MORE, BABE
I AIN'T AFRAID NO MORE
AFTER A WHILE YOUR YOUR CHEAP TALK DON'T EVERN CAUSE ME PAIN
SO LET YOUR BULLETS FLY LIKE RAIN
'CAUSE I KNOW ALL THE TIME YOU'RE WRONG BABY
AND YOU'LL BE GOIN' JUST THE SAME
YEAH MACHINE GUN
TEARING MY FAMILY APART
YEAH YEAH ALRIGHT
TEARING MY FAMILY APART
DON'T YOU SHOOT HIM DOWN
HE'S ABOUT TO LEAVE HERE
DON'T YOU SHOOT HIM DOWN
HE'S GOT TO STAY HERE
HE AIN'T GOING NOWHERE
HE'S BEEN SHOT DOWN TO THE GROUND
OH WHERE HE CAN'T SURVIVE NO NO
YEAH THAT'S WHAT WE DON'T WANNA HEAR ANY MORE, ALRIGHT
NO BULLETS
AT LEAST HERE, HUH HUH
NO GUNS, NO BOMBS
HUH HUH
NO NOTHIN', JUST LET'S ALL LIVE AND LIVE
YOU KNOW INSTEAD OF KILLIN'
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December 18, 2009 - Friday
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Category: Life
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December 16, 2009 - Wednesday
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Category: Life
Can people become so broken that truths of how they
are being screwed do not "set them free" but instead further demoralize
them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States?
Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been
screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of
obvious oppression will demoralize us even further?
What forces have created a demoralized, passive, dis-couraged U.S. population?
Can anything be done to turn this around?
Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being
screwed do not "set them free" but instead further demoralize them?
Yes. It is called the "abuse syndrome." How do abusive pimps,
spouses, bosses, corporations, and governments stay in control? They
shove lies, emotional and physical abuses, and injustices in their
victims' faces, and when victims are afraid to exit from these
relationships, they get weaker. So the abuser then makes their victims
eat even more lies, abuses, and injustices, resulting in victims even
weaker as they remain in these relationships.
Does knowing the truth of their abuse set people free when they are deep in these abuse syndromes?
No. For victims of the abuse syndrome, the truth of their passive
submission to humiliating oppression is more than embarrassing; it can
feel shameful -- and there is nothing more painful than shame. When one
already feels beaten down and demoralized, the likely response to the
pain of shame is not constructive action, but more attempts to shut
down or divert oneself from this pain. It is not likely that the truth
of one's humiliating oppression is going to energize one to
constructive actions.
Has such a demoralization happened in the U.S.?
In the United States, 47 million people are without health
insurance, and many millions more are underinsured or a job layoff away
from losing their coverage. But despite the current sellout by their
elected officials to the insurance industry, there is no outpouring of
millions of U.S. citizens on the streets of Washington, D.C.,
protesting this betrayal.
Polls show that the majority of Americans oppose U.S. wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the taxpayer bailout of the financial
industry, yet only a handful of U.S. citizens have protested these
circumstances.
Remember the 2000 U.S. presidential election? That's the one in
which Al Gore received 500,000 more votes than George W. Bush. That's
also the one that the Florida Supreme Court's order for a recount of
the disputed Florida vote was overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court in a
politicized 5-4 decision, of which dissenting Justice John Paul Stevens
remarked: "Although we may never know with complete certainty the
identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the
identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence
in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law." Yet, even
this provoked few demonstrators.
When people become broken, they cannot act on truths of injustice.
Furthermore, when people have become broken, more truths about how they
have been victimized can lead to shame about how they have allowed it.
And shame, like fear, is one more way we become even more
psychologically broken.
U.S. citizens do not actively protest obvious injustices for the
same reasons that people cannot leave their abusive spouses: They feel
helpless to effect change. The more we don't act, the weaker we get.
And ultimately to deal with the painful humiliation over inaction in
the face of an oppressor, we move to shut-down mode and use escape
strategies such as depression, substance abuse, and other diversions,
which further keep us from acting. This is the vicious cycle of all
abuse syndromes.
Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been
screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of
obvious oppression will demoralize us even further?
Maybe.
Shortly before the 2000 U.S. presidential election, millions of
Americans saw a clip of George W. Bush joking to a wealthy group of
people, "What a crowd tonight: the haves and the haves-more. Some
people call you the elite; I call you my base." Yet, even with these
kind of inflammatory remarks, the tens of millions of U.S. citizens who
had come to despise Bush and his arrogance remained passive in the face
of the 2000 non-democratic presidential elections.
Perhaps the "political genius" of the Bush-Cheney regime was in
their full realization that Americans were so broken that the regime
could get away with damn near anything. And the more people did nothing
about the boot slamming on their faces, the weaker people became.
What forces have created a demoralized, passive, dis-couraged U.S. population?
The U.S. government-corporate partnership has used its share of guns
and terror to break Native Americans, labor union organizers, and other
dissidents and activists. But today, most U.S. citizens are broken by
financial fears. There is potential legal debt if we speak out against
a powerful authority, and all kinds of other debt if we do not comply
on the job. Young people are broken by college-loan debts and fear of
having no health insurance.
The U.S. population is increasingly broken by the social isolation created by corporate-governmental policies. A 2006 American Sociological Review
study ("Social Isolation in America: Changes in Core Discussion
Networks over Two Decades") reported that, in 2004, 25 percent of
Americans did not have a single confidant. (In 1985, 10 percent of
Americans reported not having a single confidant.) Sociologist Robert
Putnam, in his 2000 book, Bowling Alone, describes how social
connectedness is disappearing in virtually every aspect of U.S. life.
For example, there has been a significant decrease in face-to-face
contact with neighbors and friends due to suburbanization, commuting,
electronic entertainment, time and money pressures and other variables
created by governmental-corporate policies. And union activities and
other formal or informal ways that people give each other the support
necessary to resist oppression have also decreased.
We are also broken by a corporate-government partnership that has
rendered most of us out of control when it comes to the basic
necessities of life, including our food supply. And we, like many other
people in the world, are broken by socializing institutions that
alienate us from our basic humanity. A few examples:
Schools and Universities: Do most schools teach
young people to be action-oriented -- or to be passive? Do most schools
teach young people that they can affect their surroundings -- or not to
bother? Do schools provide examples of democratic institutions -- or
examples of authoritarian ones?
A long list of school critics from Henry David Thoreau to John
Dewey, John Holt, Paul Goodman, Jonathan Kozol, Alfie Kohn, Ivan
Illich, and John Taylor Gatto have pointed out that a school is nothing
less than a miniature society: what young people experience in schools
is the chief means of creating our future society. Schools are
routinely places where kids -- through fear -- learn to comply to
authorities for whom they often have no respect, and to regurgitate
material they often find meaningless. These are great ways of breaking
someone.
Today, U.S. colleges and universities have increasingly become
places where young people are merely acquiring degree credentials --
badges of compliance for corporate employers -- in exchange for
learning to accept bureaucratic domination and enslaving debt.
Mental Health Institutions: Aldous Huxley predicted
today's pharmaceutical societyl "[I]t seems to me perfectly in the
cards," he said, "that there will be within the next generation or so a
pharmacological method of making people love their servitude."
Today, increasing numbers of people in the U.S. who do not comply
with authority are being diagnosed with mental illnesses and medicated
with psychiatric drugs that make them less pained about their boredom,
resentments, and other negative emotions, thus rendering them more
compliant and manageable.
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is an increasingly popular
diagnosis for children and teenagers. The official symptoms of ODD
include, "often actively defies or refuses to comply with adult
requests or rules," and "often argues with adults." An even more common
reaction to oppressive authorities than the overt defiance of ODD is
some type of passive defiance -- for example, attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Studies show that virtually all children
diagnosed with ADHD will pay attention to activities that they actually
enjoy or that they have chosen. In other words, when ADHD-labeled kids
are having a good time and in control, the "disease" goes away.
When human beings feel too terrified and broken to actively protest,
they may stage a "passive-aggressive revolution" by simply getting
depressed, staying drunk, and not doing anything -- this is one reason
why the Soviet empire crumbled. However, the diseasing/medicalizing of
rebellion and drug "treatments" have weakened the power of even this
passive-aggressive revolution.
Television: In his book Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
(1978), Jerry Mander (after reviewing totalitarian critics such as
George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Jacques Ellul, and Ivan Illich) compiled
a list of the "Eight Ideal Conditions for the Flowering of Autocracy."
Mander claimed that television helps create all eight conditions for
breaking a population. Television, he explained, (1) occupies people so
that they don't know themselves -- and what a human being is; (2)
separates people from one another; (3) creates sensory deprivation; (4)
occupies the mind and fills the brain with prearranged experience and
thought; (5) encourages drug use to dampen dissatisfaction (while TV
itself produces a drug-like effect, this was compounded in 1997 the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration relaxing the rules of
prescription-drug advertising); (6) centralizes knowledge and
information; (7) eliminates or "museumize" other cultures to eliminate
comparisons; and (8) redefines happiness and the meaning of life.
Commericalism of Damn Near Everything: While
spirituality, music, and cinema can be revolutionary forces, the gross
commercialization of all of these has deadened their capacity to
energize rebellion. So now, damn near everything – not just organized
religion -- has become "opiates of the masses."
The primary societal role of U.S. citizens is no longer that of
"citizen" but that of "consumer." While citizens know that buying and
selling within community strengthens that community and that this
strengthens democracy, consumers care only about the best deal. While
citizens understand that dependency on an impersonal creditor is a kind
of slavery, consumers get excited with credit cards that offer a
temporarily low APR.
Consumerism breaks people by devaluing human connectedness,
socializing self-absorption, obliterating self-reliance, alienating
people from normal human emotional reactions, and by selling the idea
that purchased products -- not themselves and their community -- are
their salvation.
Can anything be done to turn this around?
When people get caught up in humiliating abuse syndromes, more
truths about their oppressive humiliations don't set them free. What
sets them free is morale.
What gives people morale? Encouragement. Small victories. Models of
courageous behaviors. And anything that helps them break out of the
vicious cycle of pain, shut down, immobilization, shame over
immobilization, more pain, and more shut down.
The last people I would turn to for help in remobilizing a
demoralized population are mental health professionals -- at least
those who have not rebelled against their professional socialization.
Much of the craft of relighting the pilot light requires talents that
mental health professionals simply are not selected for nor are they
trained in. Specifically, the talents required are a fearlessness
around image, spontaneity, and definitely anti-authoritarianism. But
these are not the traits that medical schools or graduate schools
select for or encourage.
Mental health professionals' focus on symptoms and feelings often
create patients who take themselves and their moods far too seriously.
In contrast, people talented in the craft of maintaining morale resist
this kind of self-absorption. For example, in the question-and-answer
session that followed a Noam Chomsky talk (reported in Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky,
2002), a somewhat demoralized man in the audience asked Chomsky if he
too ever went through a phase of hopelessness. Chomsky responded,
"Yeah, every evening . . ."
If you want to feel hopeless, there are a lot of things you could
feel hopeless about. If you want to sort of work out objectively what's
the chance that the human species will survive for another century,
probably not very high. But I mean, what's the point? . . .
First of
all, those predictions don't mean anything -- they're more just a
reflection of your mood or your personality than anything else. And if
you act on that assumption, then you're guaranteeing that'll happen. If
you act on the assumption that things can change, well, maybe they
will. Okay, the only rational choice, given those alternatives, is to
forget pessimism."
A major component of the craft of maintaining morale is not taking
the advertised reality too seriously. In the early 1960s, when the
overwhelming majority in the U.S. supported military intervention in
Vietnam, Chomsky was one of a minority of U.S. citizens actively
opposing it. Looking back at this era, Chomsky reflected, "When I got
involved in the anti-Vietnam War movement, it seemed to me impossible
that we would ever have any effect. . . So looking back, I think my
evaluation of the 'hope' was much too pessimistic: it was based on a
complete misunderstanding. I was sort of believing what I read."
An elitist assumption is that people don't change because they are
either ignorant of their problems or ignorant of solutions. Elitist
"helpers" think they have done something useful by informing overweight
people that they are obese and that they must reduce their caloric
intake and increase exercise. An elitist who has never been broken by
his or her circumstances does not know that people who have become
demoralized do not need analyses and pontifications. Rather the
immobilized need a shot of morale.
http://blacklistednews.com/news-6713-0-5-5--.html
Me just happy robot
Live on hill of beans
You and I cut from same cloth
Rippin at the seams
Cut, snip, cut
Don't forget to remember
The devil's got pills in his eyes
Look, laugh, but don't touch
Cut you down to size
Cut, up, cut (shut up)
Cut, up, cut
You Would Know
My girl's all out of focus
I ain't no big surprise
Daddy got his gun loaded
Got cross hairs in his eyes
Shut up, oh
Shut up, oh
You would know
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December 10, 2009 - Thursday
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Category: Life
By way of the venerable president/CEO of ENF: Geist: Record industry faces liability over `infringement'Chet Baker was a leading jazz musician in the 1950s,
playing trumpet and providing vocals. Baker died in 1988, yet he is
about to add a new claim to fame as the lead plaintiff in possibly the
largest copyright infringement case in Canadian history. His estate,
which still owns the copyright in more than 50 of his works, is part of
a massive class-action lawsuit that has been underway for the past year.
The
infringer has effectively already admitted owing at least $50 million
and the full claim could exceed $6 billion. If the dollars don't shock,
the target of the lawsuit undoubtedly will: The defendants in the case
are Warner Music Canada, Sony BMG Music Canada, EMI Music Canada, and
Universal Music Canada, the four primary members of the Canadian
Recording Industry Association.
The CRIA members were hit
with the lawsuit in October 2008 after artists decided to turn to the
courts following decades of frustration with the rampant infringement
(I am adviser to the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest
Clinic, which is co-counsel, but have had no involvement in the case).
The
claims arise from a longstanding practice of the recording industry in
Canada, described in the lawsuit as "exploit now, pay later if at all."
It involves the use of works that are often included in compilation CDs
(ie. the top dance tracks of 2009) or live recordings. The record
labels create, press, distribute and sell the CDs, but do not obtain
the necessary copyright licences.
Instead, the names of the
songs on the CDs are placed on a "pending list," which signifies that
approval and payment is pending. The pending list dates back to the
late 1980s, when Canada changed its copyright law by replacing a
compulsory licence with the need for specific authorization for each
use. It is perhaps better characterized as a copyright infringement
admission list, however, since for each use of the work, the record
label openly admits that it has not obtained copyright permission and
not paid any royalty or fee.
Over the years, the size of the pending list has grown dramatically, now containing more than 300,000 songs.
From
Beyonce to Bruce Springsteen, the artists waiting for payment are far
from obscure, as thousands of Canadian and foreign artists have seen
their copyrights used without permission and payment.
It is
difficult to understand why the industry has been so reluctant to pay
its bills. Some works may be in the public domain or belong to a
copyright owner difficult to ascertain or locate, yet the likes of
Sarah McLachlan, Bruce Cockburn, Sloan, or the Watchmen are not hidden
from view.
The more likely reason is that the record
labels have had little motivation to pay up. As the balance has grown,
David Basskin, the president and CEO of the Canadian Musical
Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd., notes in his affidavit that "the
record labels have devoted insufficient resources for identifying and
paying the owners of musical works on the pending lists." The CRIA
members now face the prospect of far greater liability.
The
class action seeks the option of statutory damages for each
infringement. At $20,000 per infringement, potential liability exceeds
$6 billion.
These numbers may sound outrageous, yet they
are based on the same rules that led the recording industry to claim a
single file sharer is liable for millions in damages.
After
years of claiming Canadian consumers disrespect copyright, the irony of
having the recording industry face a massive lawsuit will not be lost
on anyone, least of all the artists still waiting to be paid. Indeed,
they are also seeking punitive damages, arguing "the conduct of the
defendant record companies is aggravated by their strict and
unremitting approach to the enforcement of their copyright interests
against consumers."
Michael Geist holds the Canada
Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of
Ottawa, Faculty of Law. He can reached at mgeist@uottawa.ca or at michaelgeist.ca
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/735096--geist-record-industry-faces-liability-over-infringement
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Roots
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December 9, 2009 - Wednesday
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Category: Life
Climategate: Barack Obama's rule by EPA decree is a coup d'etat against Congress, made in Britain Source: TelegraphBy Gerald Warner
Who needs tanks on the lawn when you have
the Environmental Protection Agency? Barack Obama’s use of the EPA to
pressurise the Senate to pass his climate change Nuremberg Decrees
shows his dictatorial mentality. He wants to override Congress, which
is hostile to his climate gobbledegook because it is representative of
the American electorate, and sideline the nation’s elected Senators by
ruling by decree, courtesy of the EPA. This is a coup d’état.
And what is the justification for this undemocratic action? The
allegedly imminent threat from “Anthropogenic Global Warming”. There is
always a supposed threat, when tyrants take the stage. The President of
the United States has just reduced his moral authority to the level of
any Third World dictator heading a “Government of National Emergency”.
Fortunately, the world’s leading democracy, which he is trying to
subvert, has guarantees of liberty so deeply embedded in its
Constitution that US citizens are well placed to fight back.
In the first place, regulation can be challenged in a way that laws
cannot. So the EPA’s proposed ruling on so-called “Greenhouse Gases”
can be opposed extensively with litigation, to the point that the
ruling might not yet be in force when Obama demits office. In the
second place, the EPA is funded by Congress. So, if the Agency is being
used to bypass or neuter Congress, why should legislators not play
hardball and retaliate by cutting off its funding? The EPA may look
formidable, but its situation is rather as if Rommel were buying the
fuel for his tanks from the Allies.
But what is of compelling interest on this side of the pond is the
way in which the bullets to shoot down American democracy were made in
Britain. The trail is not hard to follow. When the EPA published its
“Endangerment Finding” on greenhouse gases and proposed rule, back in
April, almost every paragraph of the text (Federal Register, April 24,
2009, pp 18886-18910) cited as authority the IPCC’s 2007 Report, which
the Agency acknowledges it “relies on most heavily”. And whence came
the main input on climate change to that report?
Yes, that’s right! You’ve got it: from Phil Jones, Michael Mann and
the rest of the lads at the CRU, East Anglia. From the innovative,
creative “scientists” who wanted to “beat the crap” out of a climate
change sceptic; who “just completed Mike’s Nature trick”; who “can’t
account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that
we can’t”; who deleted e-mails in the interests of science; who tried
to prevent publication of dissenters’ views; who coined the historic
phrase “hide the decline”.
Those jokers are the main authority for the extravagant claims in
the IPCC report and, by extension, for the EPA’s “Endangerment
Finding”. That is the authority that is being invoked to overturn the
principles of 1776 in the United States. The Protocols of the Elders of
Norwich are the justification for EPA tyranny. It is with that weighty
evidence at his back that Barack Obama is going to Copenhagen to sell
out American taxpayers to Third World subsidy junkies, profiteering
“green” corporations and the ever entrepreneurial Al Gore. This is the
steal of the millennium: forget the Great Train Robbery and the Brinks
Mat caper – these hoodlums are targeting $45 trillion.
Obama hates America and, increasingly, that sentiment is being
reciprocated. This is a socialist, World Government putsch. Have the
American people the resolution to resist it? We shall soon know.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100019206/climategate-barack-obamas-rule-by-epa-decree-is-a-coup-detat-against-congress-made-in-britain/ Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after 'Danish text' leak
The UN Copenhagen climate talks
are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to
leaked documents. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images
The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after
developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show
world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands
more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN's role in all future climate change negotiations.
The document is also being interpreted by developing countries as setting unequal limits on per capita carbon emissions
for developed and developing countries in 2050; meaning that people in
rich countries would be permitted to emit nearly twice as much under
the proposals.
The so-called Danish text,
a secret draft agreement worked on by a group of individuals known as
"the circle of commitment" – but understood to include the UK, US and
Denmark – has only been shown to a handful of countries since it was
finalised this week.
The agreement, leaked to the Guardian, is a departure from the Kyoto protocol's
principle that rich nations, which have emitted the bulk of the CO2,
should take on firm and binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gases,
while poorer nations were not compelled to act. The draft hands
effective control of climate change finance to the World Bank; would
abandon the Kyoto protocol – the only legally binding treaty that the
world has on emissions reductions; and would make any money to help
poor countries adapt to climate change dependent on them taking a range
of actions.
The document was described last night by one senior diplomat as "a
very dangerous document for developing countries. It is a fundamental
reworking of the UN balance of obligations. It is to be superimposed
without discussion on the talks".
A confidential analysis of the text by developing countries also
seen by the Guardian shows deep unease over details of the text. In
particular, it is understood to:
• Force developing countries to agree to specific emission cuts and measures that were not part of the original UN agreement;
• Divide poor countries further by creating a new category of developing countries called "the most vulnerable";
• Weaken the UN's role in handling climate finance;
• Not allow poor countries to emit more than 1.44 tonnes of carbon
per person by 2050, while allowing rich countries to emit 2.67 tonnes.
Developing countries that have seen the text are understood to be
furious that it is being promoted by rich countries without their
knowledge and without discussion in the negotiations.
"It is being done in secret. Clearly the intention is to get
[Barack] Obama and the leaders of other rich countries to muscle it
through when they arrive next week. It effectively is the end of the UN
process," said one diplomat, who asked to remain nameless.
Antonio Hill, climate policy adviser for Oxfam International, said:
"This is only a draft but it highlights the risk that when the big
countries come together, the small ones get hurting. On every count the
emission cuts need to be scaled up. It allows too many loopholes and
does not suggest anything like the 40% cuts that science is saying is
needed."
Hill continued: "It proposes a green fund to be run by a board but the big risk is that it will run by the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility
[a partnership of 10 agencies including the World Bank and the UN
Environment Programme] and not the UN. That would be a step backwards,
and it tries to put constraints on developing countries when none were
negotiated in earlier UN climate talks."
The text was intended by Denmark and rich countries to be a working
framework, which would be adapted by countries over the next week. It
is particularly inflammatory because it sidelines the UN negotiating
process and suggests that rich countries are desperate for world
leaders to have a text to work from when they arrive next week.
Few numbers or figures are included in the text because these would
be filled in later by world leaders. However, it seeks to hold
temperature rises to 2C and mentions the sum of $10bn a year to help
poor countries adapt to climate change from 2012-15.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/08/copenhagen-climate-summit-disarray-danish-text
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December 8, 2009 - Tuesday
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Category: Life
This ballgame's in the refrigerator,
The door is closed,
The lights are out,
butter's getting hard.
What a splendid pie,
Pizza- pizza pie,
Every minute, every second,
Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy,
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Every minute, every second,
Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, Pepperoni and green peppers
Mushrooms, olive, chives,
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Mushrooms, olive, chives, Need therapy, therapy,
Advertising causes need,
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Pizza- pizza pie,
Every minute, every second,
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Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, Pepperoni and green peppers
Mushrooms, olive, chives,
Pepperoni and green peppers
Mushrooms, olive, chives, Need therapy, therapy,
Advertising causes need,
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Advertising causes need,
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Advertising causes,
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Advertising causes, Well advertising's got you on the run,
Need therapy, therapy advertising causes,
Well advertising's got you on the run,
Need therapy, therapy advertising causes,
Well advertising's got you on the run,
Advertising's got you on the run,
Advertising's got you on the run,
Advertising's got you on the run,
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Pizza- pizza pie,
Every minute, every second,
Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy,
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Every minute, every second,
Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, Pepperoni and green peppers
Mushrooms, olive, chives,
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Mushrooms, olive, chives,
Need therapy, therapy,
Advertising causes need,
Therapy, therapy,
Advertising causes need,
Therapy, therapy,
Advertising causes need,
Therapy, therapy,
Advertising causes need.
(that was your head exploding)
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December 5, 2009 - Saturday
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Category: Life
Your Decision
Alice in Chains | MySpace Music Videos
Time to change has come and gone
Watched your fears become your god
It's your decision
It's your decision
Overwhelmed you chose to run
Apathetic to the stunned
It's your decision
It's your decision
You feed the fire that burned us all
When you lied
To feel the pain that spurs you on
Black inside
No one plans to take the path that brings you lower
And here you stand before us all and say it's over
It's over
It might seem enough an afterthought
Yes it hurts it to know you're bought
It's your decision
It's your decision
You feed the fire that burned us all
When you lied
To feel the pain that spurs you on
Black inside
It's your decision
It's your decision
No one plans to take the path that brings you lower
And here you stand before us all and say it's over
It's over
It's over
"Alice in chains"....lol
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December 3, 2009 - Thursday
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Category: Life
Via Blacklisted News:China, Developing Nations Reject Copenhagen Climate PlanSource: Reuters - Krittivas Mukherjee and Gerard Wynn
China and other big developing nations rejected core targets for a
climate deal such as halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
just five days before talks start in Copenhagen, diplomats said on
Wednesday.
China, the world’s top emitter, together with India, Brazil and
South Africa demand that richer nations do more and have drawn “red
lines” limiting what they themselves would accept, the diplomats told
Reuters.
The four rejected key targets proposed by the Danish climate talks
hosts in a draft text — halving global greenhouse gases by 2050,
setting a 2020 deadline for a peak in world emissions, and limiting
global warming to a maximum 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial
times, European diplomats said.
...but wait!
Now Scientists Say Earth May Experience “Sudden Ice Age”
Source: Charles Q. Choi - MSNBC
In the film, “The Day After Tomorrow,” the world gets gripped in ice
within the span of just a few weeks. Now research now suggests an
eerily similar event might indeed have occurred in the past.
Looking ahead to the future, there is no reason why such a freeze shouldn’t happen again — and in ironic fashion it could be precipitated if ongoing changes in climate force the Greenland ice sheet to suddenly melt, scientists say.
Starting roughly 12,800 years ago, the
Northern Hemisphere was gripped by a chill that lasted some 1,300
years. Known by scientists as the Younger Dryas and nicknamed the “Big Freeze,”
geological evidence suggests it was brought on when a vast pulse of
fresh water — a greater volume than all of North America’s Great Lakes
combined — poured into the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
For the past couple years we have been covering every nuance of the
economic collapse and in almost every instance we have come to the
conclusion that 2010 would be the year that the U.S. would see an
incredible downturn, possibly resulting in the inflationary
disintegration of the Dollar, and a major stock market revolt which
would destroy any remaining illusion Americans still have that a
recovery is in progress:
We are now on the edge of winter 2009, and recent events across the
globe indicate more and more that our predictions for 2010 were
correct. Let’s examine some of those events and their implications now…
Dubai: Why Should We Care?
Only a year ago, Dubai was the jewel of the Middle East. A financial
Mecca centered in the midst of the United Arab Emirates, Dubai has been
nicknamed the “Global City,” not necessarily because its population is
“globally conscious,” but because without investment from numerous
foreign nations, Dubai would not exist.
Dubai is often mistaken as an oil rich nation, but the fact is, only
6% of Dubai’s GDP is supported by oil revenue. The vast remaining
portion of Dubai’s economy operates completely on money from the U.S.,
China, Europe, and other foreign interests.
Since the “Great Recession” began in 2007, rumors of a systematic
financial collapse in Dubai have circulated, along with reports of
frozen investment, and even abandoned Real Estate projects that have
left the country looking like a ghost town. In the past week, those
rumors have been officially confirmed:
Essentially, Dubai is bankrupt, and this news has sent a shockwave
through markets around the world. But why? Why would Dubai’s bankruptcy
affect U.S. markets?
The first thing that we must understand is that this is the result
of living in a “globalized” economy. Instead of having sovereign and
self sufficient financial systems that act as checks to total world
collapse, we now have “interdependent” economies connected like a chain
of dominoes. All it takes is for one to tip over, and the others follow
suit.
If a once explosive economy like that of Dubai’s is now on the edge
of insolvency, this means Western companies are incredibly weak and
unable to invest any longer. Dubai’s collapse indicates that the
capital that once flowed from rich nations like the U.S. has dried up.
The world is reeling, and perhaps even broke. Dubai is the canary in
the coal mine, and the canary has just dropped dead. The signal is
clear; the astounding resurgence of world markets is an illusion built
on nothing but fantasy and fiat money printed out of thin air and used
to prop up the Dow. Dubai has kicked off the coming avalanche, but
there is more…
Chinese Banks Frantically Try To Raise Capital?
A recent event that has gone almost completely ignored by MSM
economists was the announcement that Chinese banks are now under
government pressure to shore up their finances, and are set to unleash
a wave of billions of dollars in capital raising that could strain
equity markets. The Chinese government seems to be very concerned about
the financial cushion available to the country’s banks:
Over the next year or more, Chinese financial institutions will be
pulling billions of Yuan out of various investments, selling stocks and
bonds in order to raise a massive amount of capital, but for what?
The move appears quite sudden, as if the push for capital is meant
as a hedge for a possible panic event, much like an inside trader
selling off his shares in a company because he knows it is about to go
bust. Either these banks are much weaker than the Chinese government
has let on in its economic reports, or, they are expecting a severe
downturn in the markets, which would explain why they need billions of
Yuan as a parachute. Either way, as soon as the Chinese begin pulling
capital out of U.S. markets (in which they are heavily invested) we can
expect to see the DOW falter drastically.
The shoring up of billions of Yuan could also indicate that the
Chinese are preparing to dump more U.S. treasuries, as they did a
couple of months ago:
The dollar has been dropping steadily and hard, and eventually,
China and other nations with large dollar holdings will attempt to move
out of U.S. treasuries. A 300 billion Yuan capital pool may be intended
as a hedge to protect against a U.S. dollar collapse, allowing China to
eventually dump their T-bonds without completely destroying their own
savings in the process.
We also reported recently on China’s move to bring the ASEAN
economic block to fruition, along with the announcement that ASEAN and
all countries involved may take on the Yen as their “reserve currency:”
This new trade agreement along with an internationally traded Yen
would put China in a prime position to drop its reliance on the U.S.
and the Dollar. All signs indicate a move toward separation from the
traditional economic agreement between China and the U.S. will occur in
2010.
Trouble Brewing In Japan
The MSM has been relatively quiet on Japan’s current financial
condition, perhaps because its condition is growing increasingly worse,
and this reflects poorly on the condition of the U.S. Dollar.
Japan is another Asian country that once relied heavily of American
consumption as a support mechanism for its economy. This mechanism has
survived due to the Yen’s relative weakness to the Greenback, allowing
for a profitable trade deficit in Japan’s favor. However, Japanese
exports have taken a tremendous hit due to the Dollar’s steady decline,
falling between 20% and 30% every month for the past year:
This major decline in exports (Japan’s bread and butter) has caused
a deflationary trend in Japanese markets, as well as sending the middle
class there into a mode of savings and self protection. Japanese
companies have attempted to stall job-loss in the country by cutting
the pay of their employees, instead of issuing pink slips. This has
resulted however in many families being “equally” on the edge of
poverty:
In August 2009, elections placed the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)
in power, a regime change that has not occurred since 1955. The new
Prime Minister of Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, has announced publicly and
often that he would like Japan to break from its reliance on the
American economy and form more tightly with the ASEAN trading bloc:
For now, Hatoyama feels that this move would take some time, and
that America’s economic dominance will be weakened but sustained.
However, if Japan’s deflationary spiral continues at its current pace
due to a weak dollar, a dollar being slowly destroyed by the private
Federal Reserve, he may change his mind about a timetable for joining
ASEAN and breaking from the U.S.
Japan holds a substantial amount of U.S Treasury debt, meaning just
like in the case of China, if these treasuries are dumped, our currency
will implode.
Gold Buying Bonanza By Foreign Central Banks
We have reported for a long time on China’s quiet gold buying habits which have increased it reserves by 75% or more since 2003:
These reserves have probably been expanded much more in the past few
months, and China has indicated a desire to increase its gold holdings
from 1600 tons to 6000 tons in the next few years!
But even bigger news is the announcement that India has bought 200 tons of gold from the IMF and may buy 200 more:
The IMF originally offered up the 400 ton gold sale in the midst of
one of the biggest gold rallies in recent history, obviously as an
attempt to flood the market and manipulate the price down. The attempt
failed, and gold has surged to nearly $1200 an ounce in the past couple
months.
Russia has also been stocking gold, buying 15.6 tons in October and
bringing their reserves to approximately 606 tons. Not only this, but
Russia has also announced its intentions to diversify into other
national currencies and away from the dollar. Even the Chinese Yuan may
be included in Russia’s forex:
Numerous nations are obviously moving to protect themselves. Right
now, gold is the only currency alternative to the dollar that is
accepted everywhere (until the SDR gets rolling). Gold buying indicates
that these countries fully expect market turmoil and dollar weakness to
continue and perhaps escalate.
Bad Signs On The Homefront
The situation in American employment, credit, currency, and real
estate has only become worse since the federal stimulus plan was
instituted. “Official” unemployment has soared to 10.2% while REAL
unemployment according to the U-6 measurement is around 18%.
Real Estate continues to be incredibly weak, and mortgage payment delinquencies and bankruptcy have grown unabated:
Over 125 banks across the country have been closed in 2009. You can see the FDIC’s closed bank list here:
The FDIC has announced that it has officially run out of funds, and
is now in the red for $8.2 billion (that they admit to, the real amount
could be much more). The FDIC is now pulling funds directly from the
Treasury to cover future bank losses. This puts even more of a strain
on the already crumbling dollar:
American’s buying habits are perhaps the biggest indicator that
something is very wrong. Polls indicate the 93% of U.S. consumers will
most likely spend much less this Christmas season then they did the
last, and many of them will not be using credit cards:
The U.S. economy has been fueled by easy credit for decades. The
fact that Americans have dumped credit in favor of cash means they will
be spending FAR less this holiday season than any MSM economist wants
to admit to. I believe the seasonal retail numbers for 2009 will be
startling to many who are not aware of the true condition of the
economy, and who have blindly believed the Federal Reserve’s
announcements that the recession is “over.”
We have predicted for at least the past two years that the primary
collapse of the U.S. economy would occur in 2010. We stand by that
prediction. Our hopes remain that this prediction will be proven
incorrect, and that all will be well, however we have no illusions
according to the current data that this will be so. Neither Corporation
encourages all of our readers to examine the conditions and information
for themselves, and we request that all those who find our conclusions
to be correct should make preparations to protect your savings and the
well being of your families.
A climactic economic event is on the horizon, and the train is
already in motion. We may not be able stop the event from taking shape,
but together we can determine its outcome. All those who value truth,
liberty, and an honorable society, should be ready not only to save
themselves, but to save each other, and to save their country. The time
for readiness grows short.
 Underneath her skin and jewelry,
hidden in her words and eyes
is a wall that's cold and ugly
and she's scared as hell.
Trembling at the thought of feeling.
Wide awake and keeping distance.
Nothing seems to penetrate her.
Cause she's, she's scared as hell.
I am frightened too
I am frightened, ohh
Trembling at the thought of feeling.
Wide awake and keeping distance.
Nothing seems to penetrate her.
Cause she's, she's scared as hell.
I am frightened too
I am frightened
Wide awake and keeping distance from my soul.
Wide awake and keeping distance from my soul.
Underneath her skin and jewelry,
hidden in her words and eyes
is a wall that's cold and ugly
and she's, she's scared as hell.
Trembling at the thought of feeling.
Wide awake and keeping distance.
Nothing seems to penetrate her.
Cause she's, she's scared as hell.
I am frightened too
I am frightened too
I am scared like you
I am frightened
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