Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Rant #1
This is not about jobs, wages, healthcare, foreclosures, wealth distribution, etc – all symptoms of a terminally ill system. THIS is about throwing aside promises of, desire of, desire against, critique of “entitlement”. This concept is used as a tool of elite to confuse and design. Ignoring all the implications of this concept carries one to personal responsibility, i.e. direct action.
While many look up to elite for design and function they also are confused as to “what is” and “what isn’t” ours. The dismissal (in one’s own mind and group consciousness) of the legitimacy of these institutions (government, banks, academia, police-state authority, etc.) aids one in looking forward, backward, up down and all-around to gain true perspective of individual and group needs and the means necessary to organize and actualize one’s own inspirational design so long as it is not inherently violent to those with the desire to coexist in mutual respect and exchange.
-Strength, courage and perseverance .
While many look up to elite for design and function they also are confused as to “what is” and “what isn’t” ours. The dismissal (in one’s own mind and group consciousness) of the legitimacy of these institutions (government, banks, academia, police-state authority, etc.) aids one in looking forward, backward, up down and all-around to gain true perspective of individual and group needs and the means necessary to organize and actualize one’s own inspirational design so long as it is not inherently violent to those with the desire to coexist in mutual respect and exchange.
-Strength, courage and perseverance .
Friday, January 6, 2012
99% -- expect us
Been a long long time.
The people have started to stir and in the serious/beautiful year of 2011 many of us were active in fanning the flames of anti-apathy. We will continue to do so. As the whole of us reach for a shift in our greater ontology while taking all the awesomeness we have with us to the ideal the 1% must know that many of us will not rest. 1% has much to fear. I do not speak of violence and tactics. I speak of their days being numbered. People are starting to care too much and that will eventually carry us from our literal and metaphorical lazy-boy chairs and couches to wherever it is that we are needed. We function as individuals, in many forms, but move as a whole in one and mutuality is an ingredient to the glue that will hold us together.
Look here for future messages and such concerning the new life rushing into the lungs of a formerly depleted and sedentary humanity. We are the 99% -- expect us.
The people have started to stir and in the serious/beautiful year of 2011 many of us were active in fanning the flames of anti-apathy. We will continue to do so. As the whole of us reach for a shift in our greater ontology while taking all the awesomeness we have with us to the ideal the 1% must know that many of us will not rest. 1% has much to fear. I do not speak of violence and tactics. I speak of their days being numbered. People are starting to care too much and that will eventually carry us from our literal and metaphorical lazy-boy chairs and couches to wherever it is that we are needed. We function as individuals, in many forms, but move as a whole in one and mutuality is an ingredient to the glue that will hold us together.
Look here for future messages and such concerning the new life rushing into the lungs of a formerly depleted and sedentary humanity. We are the 99% -- expect us.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010
money control
Here are some stats that show how hierarchal institutions control our lives. Why do the rich get richer and the poor poorer? Because we do nothing about it except post it in a blog.
• 83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people.
• 61 percent of Americans "always or usually" live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007.
• 66 percent of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans.
• 36 percent of Americans say that they don't contribute anything to retirement savings.
• A staggering 43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved up for retirement.
• 24 percent of American workers say that they have postponed their planned retirement age in the past year.
• Over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, which represented a 32 percent increase over 2008.
• Only the top 5 percent of U.S. households have earned enough additional income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.
• For the first time in U.S. history, banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United States than all individual Americans put together.
• In 1950, the ratio of the average executive's paycheck to the average worker's paycheck was about 30 to 1. Since the year 2000, that ratio has exploded to between 300 to 500 to one.
• As of 2007, the bottom 80 percent of American households held about 7% of the liquid financial assets.
• The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth.
• Average Wall Street bonuses for 2009 were up 17 percent when compared with 2008.
• In the United States, the average federal worker now earns 60% MORE than the average worker in the private sector.
• The top 1 percent of U.S. households own nearly twice as much of America's corporate wealth as they did just 15 years ago.
• In America today, the average time needed to find a job has risen to a record 35.2 weeks.
• More than 40 percent of Americans who actually are employed are now working in service jobs, which are often very low paying.
• or the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans are on food stamps, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that number will go up to 43 million Americans in 2011.
• This is what American workers now must compete against: in China a garment worker makes approximately 86 cents an hour and in Cambodia a garment worker makes approximately 22 cents an hour.
• Approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States are living below the poverty line in 2010 - the highest rate in 20 years.
• Despite the financial crisis, the number of millionaires in the United States rose a whopping 16 percent to 7.8 million in 2009.
• The top 10 percent of Americans now earn around 50 percent of our national income.
• 61 percent of Americans "always or usually" live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007.
• 66 percent of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans.
• 36 percent of Americans say that they don't contribute anything to retirement savings.
• A staggering 43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved up for retirement.
• 24 percent of American workers say that they have postponed their planned retirement age in the past year.
• Over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, which represented a 32 percent increase over 2008.
• Only the top 5 percent of U.S. households have earned enough additional income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.
• For the first time in U.S. history, banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United States than all individual Americans put together.
• In 1950, the ratio of the average executive's paycheck to the average worker's paycheck was about 30 to 1. Since the year 2000, that ratio has exploded to between 300 to 500 to one.
• As of 2007, the bottom 80 percent of American households held about 7% of the liquid financial assets.
• The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth.
• Average Wall Street bonuses for 2009 were up 17 percent when compared with 2008.
• In the United States, the average federal worker now earns 60% MORE than the average worker in the private sector.
• The top 1 percent of U.S. households own nearly twice as much of America's corporate wealth as they did just 15 years ago.
• In America today, the average time needed to find a job has risen to a record 35.2 weeks.
• More than 40 percent of Americans who actually are employed are now working in service jobs, which are often very low paying.
• or the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans are on food stamps, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that number will go up to 43 million Americans in 2011.
• This is what American workers now must compete against: in China a garment worker makes approximately 86 cents an hour and in Cambodia a garment worker makes approximately 22 cents an hour.
• Approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States are living below the poverty line in 2010 - the highest rate in 20 years.
• Despite the financial crisis, the number of millionaires in the United States rose a whopping 16 percent to 7.8 million in 2009.
• The top 10 percent of Americans now earn around 50 percent of our national income.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
exposure
-I've undoubted your doubt of mistrust
and now picture this-
the boys crossing railroad tracks
a boundary to the forbidden
and find a cleansing pool where promised
is redemption and loyalty
comrades, love and honor...
the boys are marching dreaming
or days surrounded by those
willing to spill their lifeline for one
and all those that carry poison are vanquished
by the collective of kindred capable of protecting all
-I've diminished a bit of your skeptic
and now form this in your heart-
a broken man reaches for the face
of a woman whom he desires
but his hand is lowered and passes her a thought
saying, "i mend my mind by knowing yours",
and thoughts are spilled and souls exposed
vulnerable, incapable and open they are
to the deceptions of another
but solace is not found in being secure
solace, they discover, is found
by lying open exposed in each other's eyes
and the broken man's wounds are healed
in the open facing the elements of learning another.
-Picture this my skeptic doubtful mistrusting friend,
a world where no back is exposed to an enemy
and all of our being is exposed to a comrade and partner...
to whom we are exposed is our painful death or joyous living.
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