REVOLUTION NOW!

I haven't really been speaking up too much lately. Shusli and I are in the midst of another transition. I already told you Obama is gonna win the election, but not for all those wonderful ideals folks like to tout about town. He'll win because there is legislation that the wealthy need to get passed that just won't fly as smoothly with a Republican in office. With a democrat, there will be less of a call for Revolt than their would be with a Republican. Then, of course, it will be blamed on the Democrats and there will be more excuse for us at the bottom to fight amongst each other instead of organize and take our country back, abolish the U.S. government, and create something that does crazy things like HONOR THE RIGHTS OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS, instead of do things like CREATE CAPITAL FOR THE WEALTHY FEW AT THE EXPENSE OF ALL OTHER HUMAN BEINGS.

Yesterday during one of my breaks at work, the new cook asked what I was reading. I showed him my book: ""They Take Our Jobs:" and 20 Other Myths About Immigration." And this is how he started his response. "Now I'm not racist..." Most people who state this usually are, and he was. He starts telling everyone how we are all immigrants, even Indians. (No one asks the Indians if they are immigrants. We are told. If you read about the alleged science called archaeology in "Red Earth, White Lies," by Vine Deloria, Jr., you will learn that this alleged science is really a bunch of bullshit, just like the immigration issue). Then he stated he has nothing against immigration, he is against "illegal immigration." Now if your read that book by Aviva Chomsky, you will realize that indeed, the whole immigration policy IS RACIST and based on the idea of the law makers that this is a nation of white folks.

My repeated response to this fella well versed in idiocy; "OK." I didn't feel like arguing and you really can't change the mind of someone who is "beligerently anti-intellectual." You just can't. They are that way because they already have all knowledge and there is no room in their minds for any more. This man was also saying this shit in front of two women who immigrated to this nation.

On the flip side, many people that I work with that I thought would have a similar mindset are actually pretty open minded about such issues. This from all the diverse races that work at the care facility where I am employed.

The book taught me that Mexicans were white until 1930. Indians were nothing until 1940. Blacks are considered a deeply inferior race according to SUPREME COURT DECISIONS to the white race. Most folks in the other category (not black or white) were not considered citizens until 1956? Guantanamo was a concentration camp for Cubans and Haitians that tried to immigrate to the U.S. via the ocean. That the U.S. is DEEPLY ROOTED IN RACISM far beyond the imaginings I had (and my imaginings are pretty strong).

But like I said, there has only been this one fella at my work who responded like an all knowing idiot to my book, where as everyone else has responded with some rather amazing and insightful views on the issue. Compassionate and humane. Human! And they have responded so to many of the issues I brought up at work. Not always, but most of the time, folks whom I figured had little or no thought on issues that effect their fellow human beings are rather thoughtful about them.

What does this mean? Maybe we are closer to a Revolution than I thought.

With a $700,000,000,000 GIVEAWAY to the wealthy that, according to the stock markets, has done nothing thus far to help the economy (and yes, the stock market will eventually be felt by us at the bottom). We're in a war in Iraq that has cost more than $3,000,000,000,000 (all of this in credit, not actual money, in financial terms). Not to mention the cost of the war in Afghanistan, and the costs thus far of the impending wars with Iran and Russia (it costs money for the build up to war as well).

Many folks, even the anti-intellectual types, are understanding that the U.S. government is "of the wealthy, by the wealthy, for the wealthy."

Yesterday, Shusli found this little tidbit in the "rants and raves" section of "Portland Craig's List." This fella touts for a REVOLUTION NOW! just like I have been. Many of you out there reading this want a world where people take care of each other and honor each other instead of kill each other and steal each others wealth to give to the wealthy. Good chance an economic collapse will help that happen in a less violent manner, but more than likely, we will have to fight for it as the U.S. government has brought home a brigade to protect the wealthy from us at the bottom who have a reason to take everything back. The U.S. government is willing to slaughter U.S. citizens in order to protect the wealthy. Why don't you take a listen to "The Guns of Brixton" by the Clash as well. Here's the lyrics so you can have an idea:

When they kick out your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun

When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting in death row

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, Guns of Brixton

The money feels good
And your life you like it well
But surely your time will come
As in heaven, as in hell

You see, he feels like Ivan
BORN under the Brixton sun
His game is called survivin'
At the end of the harder they come

You know it means no mercy
They caught him with a gun
No need for the Black Maria
Goodbye to the Brixton sun

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh-the guns of Brixton

When they kick out your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun

You can crush us
You can bruise us
And even shoot us
But oh- the guns of Brixton

Shot down on the pavement
Waiting in death row
His game was survivin'
As in heaven as in hell

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh, the guns of Brixton

How Can I Forget!

Otto and Anita's is a cute little hole in the wall restaurant in Multnomah Village.

Shusli, Eli, and I stopped there for lunch while waiting for an appointment to see an apartment in the area. When the waitress brought out our Brautwurst and Sauerkraut, she told us that their butcher was having fun with the sausage machine this morning and made them kind of small, which is why we had four little brautwurst's on our plates. The sausage was made that morning, by a butcher, a real live butcher.

Go their and eat to your heart's content and enjoy...as the world comes to an end, of course.

It is on the corner of Canby and Capital Highway in Multnomah village, right across the street from the Multnomah Art Center.

October 20

Shusli, Rachel, and I will be moving to the Sellwood area on October 20.

Shusli and I are going to work on a proposal for a radio program at KBOO to insure Native Programming continues. We hope to get more folks involved, such as Shusli's son, Eli.

I will miss the folks at my work, employees and residents. I will be pulled out of the alzheimer's unit for the remainder of my stay there. Although that move makes me sad, it makes sense to get my replacement back there as soon as possible. Alzheimer's folks like consistency. It will give me a chance to reaquaint myself with the long term folks and say my good-byes. I will continue to visit my Alzheimer's folks until I leave. If we come back to the area for a visit, I plan on visiting them as well.

While looking for our apartment in Portland m-w, we reaquainted ourselves with the great food of the area. We ate some Thai food at a place in St. Johns, amazing. We ate at Hoda's and Sushi Land. We made a stop by Flavour on Lombard for some amazing waffle wraps. Hoda's, of course, was fantastic.

We dropped by Powell's, Trader Joe's, William Temple House Thrift Store, Wal-Mart, and a few other places.

We visited Maire at KBOO while she did "Radio Free Ireland." DON'T FORGET TO MAKE YOUR DONATION.

We went to Anna Bananna's on 21st in NW.

WE LOVE PORTLAND!

We saw a bear on the way home and were attacked by flying pieces of drywall from a pick-up in front of us on I-5. We and the car were not injured.

I was hoping to post a few pictures, but the computer just isn't doing it at the moment.

Seez you all soon!

Guantamo Bay Concentration Camp

I wonder if back in the good old days of the 60's 70's and 80's, if Guantamo Bay Concentration Camp looked something like this? You see, back then, Guantamo Bay Concentration Camp was for Haitians and Cubans. Although it was ran up into the early 90's, Bush 1 closed the camp.

Then in one of those "at least he's a democrat" moments, Bill "the Killer" Clinton reopened it so we wouldn't have any nig...I mean Haitians coming into this country. Then, in August of '94, Bill "The Killer" with a stroke of a pen opened Guantanamo Bay Concentration Camp to Cubans, whom he deemed as the equivalent of nig...I mean Haitians. Guantanamo, during these "good old days" housed up to 50,000 human beings of Haitian and Cuban status (21,000 Haitians).

In September of '94, the Clinton administration militarily occupied Haiti and those Haitians that didn't "volunteer" to go back to Haiti were forced to go back to Haiti, about three quarters of the Haitians housed in the Guantanamo Bay Concentration Camp.

In May of '95, the Clinton administration opened the doors to the Cubans and over 20,000 were brought into the folds of the robes of Lady Liberty.

Meanwhile, this is what happened to what was left of the Haitians:

[From page 71 of "The Take Our Jobs: and 20 Other Myths About Immigration," by Aviva Chomsky]"Only a few hundred Haitians were still in Guantanamo: most were unaccompanied children who had relatives or sponsors in the United States, pleading for them ot be allowed in. Right as the doors were opened for Guantanamo's Cuban detainees, the repatriation of the Haitian children began. "Many of the children sent back to Haiti have been left to fend for themselves in squalid and dangerous conditions. Some are destitute and living in the street."[quote from Bob Herbert, "In America, Suffering the Children," New York Times, May 27, 1995]"

What were the crimes these Haitians and Cubans committed that they were forced into the U.S. concentration camp at Guantamo Bay? They tried to immigrate to this nation via boat. "Give us your poor, your weak, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." MY ASS!

And here we are with Guantamo today. Beautiful isn't it?

By now, anyone who isn't "beligerently anti-intellectual" knows that pretty much all of these folks are innocent, at least of terrorism. So many articles have been written about that you can look them up yourself.

People are tortured, beaten, sometimes even killed, all in the name of the capital that owns our government. You see, it is the owning classes that create these things. It is we "beasts" that enact it. Further race hate, further genocide, further crimes against humanity, further religious hatred, etc.

Meanwhile, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the corporate owned U.S. military is killing Iraqi's and Afghani's; military, civilian, women, children, men, elderly, all in the name of the great capital that owns our nation.

For those of you who do not know this man, he is Sami al Hajj. Sami, as noted previously on this blog, was held prisoner at the Guantamo Bay Concentration Camp for six years. His crime: he didn't commit one.

You see, Sami was a cameraman for Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera has yet to sell out to the U.S. empires corporate media and tells other stories that aren't allowed air or print over here. Have you seen Sami's story on the front page or even "A" section of any newspaper? I don't read a lot of mainstream stuff, so maybe there has been. This should be big.

The U.S. imperial government wanted Sami to be a spy on his employer. That is why he was held and tortured for 6 years. Not because he was a criminal, but because he refused to be a spy for the Evil Empire.

You see, though, I never really looked into Guantanamo's history. I knew a little of it, but nothing like I found in "They Take Our Jobs..." I never knew the U.S. empire has been excessively criminal at this base until I read Aviva's book. I just figured it was a long time military base maintained by the U.S. to keep their greedy fucking hands on a chunk of Cuba with a possible future invasion in mind. I had no idea it was a concentration camp. I didn't!

But then again, I didn't know about the Vatican ran death camp in Croatia, Jasenovac, until about 8 years ago, either.

Huh, interesting bits of information one picks up when one reads a book.

Billions for Billionaires

Congress has passed and co-King Bush has signed into law the "Billions to Billionaires" act. Said to bail out failing financial institutions, what it really means is that the wealth of the already wealthy will be protected while those who have lost their houses to foreclosure can bite the big one.

Good show, though, don't you think? A nice play... A nice move... In making it look like the corporate owned U.S. government was actually having a hard time deciding on this bill. It was already decided, but they can't make the public know that. If they did, it would further feed the flames of rebellion which, in this country, seems to be getting a little stronger.

Much of the money in banks comes from us here at the bottom. The common man as it were. Now that billionaires have screwed up in their greedy decision making process, which has hurt thousands of homeowners worldwide, it was the best idea that the corporate owned U.S. government could come up with to give our tax dollars to the already wealthy and their piss poor financial planning and greed while those at the bottom (as it were) are left dangling with little or nothing.

The wealthy back in the '30's were having a hard time in keeping their illegally stolen "Bonus Army" money. You see, during WWI, the military was paid in script. When it came do to pay up to the folks that fought the battles that the wealthy created in order to feed their greed, they gave the military the finger. They even paid other "beasts" to terrorize and kill some of these folks. Finally, congress decided they should do what they promised and gave the money to the members of the "Bonus Army." The wealthy were thinking, "Man, their goes our ill gotten gain and those at the bottom are gonna just spend it on..." However, giving money to those that fought the battles actually stimulated the economy because folks were buying houses, cars, food, etc., thus stimulating the economy and raising the quality of life that was controlled by the wealthy.

The Billions for Billionaires Act will do no such thing. The money will be in the hands of the wealthy instead of those who have suffered from their terrible business decisions. The money will not be used to "stimulate" the economy, because the wealthy will just maintain their lifestyles and let the common folk continue to suffer from their bad decisions.

But wait, there's more. Where is that money gonna come from? Mind you, the U.S. feels at liberty to basically print money without anything to back it. Economically, this is unsound and will be part of what feeds the impending collapse. So the money which we pay in taxes and the government just handed to the wealthy to save them from their poor business decisions is gonna COME from the public sector. That means their will be budget cuts. Their are tax cuts for the wealthy in this bill, to my understanding, which also means less income in the form of taxes, and thus less services for the "beasts."

The wealthy need us common folk to buy their products and services in massive amounts in order for them to maintain their wealth. With our money being robbed from us by the U.S. government and GIVEN to the wealthy who have to pay less in taxes now means less jobs, less food for the poor, less services, an even tighter economy as the spending power of those at the bottom continues to weaken. More people will suffer. More people will die.

The good news, though, is that the already wealthy will be fat, happy, and safe. They'll have enough money to pay cops, public and private, to protect them from the "beasts" the more we realize that this "Billions to Billionaires" just fucked us.

Now, aren't you all much happier knowing that our tax dollars are going to help the wealthy instead of "welfare queens." What greater use than to reward bad decision makers rather than mothers who need help raising their children.

Portland

Shusli and I went to Portland so she could take an interview for a job up there.

In a beautiful form of magic, Shusli found us an inexpensive room at the Marriott just down the street from Felicia.

We took the kid to "Starry Rose," on Alberta. We had wonderful homemade desserts and a fantastic band got to playing. All of this on a Monday night. Shulsi and I both commented on how much we missed the city, and all three of us look forward to hanging out more.

Shusli had a successful interview the following day and now has a job once she wants to start.
After her interview, we went to visit Eli, who already has his own place in Portland.
Here the three of us are at "Russell Street BBQ." Damn, we ate so much in celebration of the move that will be taking place soon.

Man, we Love and miss that city. We look forward to coming home.

And here are a couple of photos I just took of the beautiful rose in our current front yard. Life is good!

See you all at the Revolution!

Give Your Money to the Rich

Recently I was sent a racist anti-immigration e-mail stating that the interview it was written about was true. What we had to go on that it was true was that they mysterious author stated it was true. The author also wanted it spread all over the internet via the e-mail of various folks.

The interview is of some mysterious man named Jim talking with another mysterious allegedly "illegal immigrant" named Juan. There is no substantiation of this interview as being fact, but what really hits you is when Juan, a father whose children depend on his income, starts talking of how he has a false social security number and is very LOUD and proud of the fact that he is an "illegal immigrant" in this nation. When one uses such things as "logic" and maybe devotes a minimal amount of actual thought into this interview, one would have to ask oneself WHY would a man whose children depend upon his income ADMIT TO A STRANGER that he is here illegally and uses an illegal social security number. This would put him in DIRECT danger of being deported and his family beaten down. Far be it from such folks who pass along such e-mails to question such interviews with any form of thought. Why should they? Others are thinking for them and thus, they don't have to.

An example would be when I was in a discussion recently about the Russia/Georgia war. I was shut down with the massively unintelligent argument that "Putin is trying to be another Hitler." Oddly, Putin isn't even the president of Russia, but there again, such forms of thought are unnecessary when one depends on others to do ones thinking for them.

With the racist e-mail, I took a rather large bite out of the misinformation being put forth. It was actually nothing more than a promotion of race hate. And why should one promote race hate? Who benefits from race hate?

So, I did something rather "intelligent" and bought myself a book: "They Take Our Jobs: and 20 Other Myths About Immigration," by Aviva Chomsky. This book, using such unthinkable things in American society like...facts, documentation, economics, etc., in just the first few pages puts something forth that I have been discussing with you folks for quite a while. Job loss is not due to immigration, but due to the rich looking for massive profits for...the rich...by cutting labor costs by moving OUR JOBS out of the United States and to locations that are willing to exploit their folks and violate human rights in order to keep wages deadly low so the wealthy can MAXIMIZE their profits.

What I'm telling you is that, yes indeed, it is the wealthy and the wealthy that benefit the greatest from such race hatred as that directed at those south of the border. (Mexican's were considered "white" until 1930). So, while we here at the bottom (the beasts as James Madison and other alleged founding fathers of this alleged nation call us) fight amongst others here at the bottom, the wealthy get away with their horrific crimes and our wealth. Currently, the genocide by the United States against the humans in Iraq benefits multi-national corporations the greatest. Massive profits are being made.

Now their is an impending economic collapse. But not to fear...the wealthy will have plenty to eat and plenty of money to pay our fellow beasts to kill us in case we do not continue to bow to the great wealthy assholes.

So, what should we do? Give $700,000,000,000 to wealthy assholes for fucking up their businesses and our economy? According to the corporate owned U.S. government and those who represent the wealthy in congress, yes indeed, that is what we should do. Give our tax dollars to the wealthy who were stupid enough to fuck over our fellow humans with shit loans.

I'd have to say that we should seek justice...JUSTICE...for the criminals that have stolen our wealth...the wealthy and the representives they own in the U.S. government. Don't depend on the cops (in any form). Cops are in on this, otherwise they would have arrested these horrific and genocidal criminals. So, we have to do something. What are we gonna do? A question we have to answer for ourselves and thus take action. See you there.

Dear Blog Readers

Hello my dear blog readers.

Our internet at home is currently down and may be down for the remainder of our stay. We will be moving back to Portland by the end of October, and are still hammering out details. With the delinquent internet, I won't be having a lot of time to write here for the next month or so. I might be able to squeeze things in here and there, but who knows.

WHAMMO TO WaMu! ...and another one bites the dust!

Reading "A Power Governments Cannot Suppress," by the great Howard Zinn. Excellent book. Don't read this, go buy yourself a copy of that book and help the common folks take back our world from the murderous corporate pigs who have owned our government and brutalized the common folks and the common good all over the world.

Other than that, I should pack it up here from here at Collette's, here in the not so great city of North Bend/Coos Bay.

Happy Anniversary and Two Days

Tuesday, September 23rd, was Shusli's and my first wedding anniversary. We celebrated at Marcy's Mexican Restaurant, on 101 near Virginia, just across the street from the Co-Op. If you are ever in Coos Bay/North Bend, drop by Marcy's for any meal. They are one of the most excellent Mexican restaurants that Shusli and I have ever been to.

For our anniversary, they also gave us a rather large dessert to help us celebrate.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, SUPER BEAUTIFUL!

Come out, come out, wherever you are!

A rose that is blossoming in our yard.

Just because it's pretty!

PS We are planning on moving back to Portland by November 1st.

The Sound of Silence

Have you noticed that since the olympic games in Beijing, China, that protests about China's human rights violations have pretty much fallen silent? I guess when there isn't a camerman in their faces, there isn't much to say about human rights violations. Mind you, I know there are still protesters out there that are actually doing the work. But most, a vast majority, are stroking each other with great tales of their deeds while millions are still suffering.

Voices also continue to fall silent about the human rights violations in Canada against the Indigenous folks in the Whistler BC area where the winter olympics will be held. Sacred sites are being destroyed, as well as many other issues, and the only folks I hear talking about this are the Native Youth Movement out of that area. Where are the protesters screaming about the Chinese human rights violations. Those folks started protesting the Chinese a couple of years prior to the games being held? Maybe they're polishing their "I Protested the Chinese" badges? Maybe Red Nigg...oops, Indians, aren't as human as Chinese on the "Race Ratio Scale?" Maybe certain occupational governments are more acceptable than others? Maybe it is OK for certain races to commit human rights violations and not others? Maybe it is OK for certain governments to commit human rights violations and not others? Any of you folks who protested the Chinese olympics have any answers to these and many more questions? You're probably not even reading this. You're probably busy telling folks how great you are while millions continue to suffer. Or maybe you are just too busy polishing your "I Protested the Chinese" badges.

As well, with very little research, it has been apparent that the Olympics have violated human rights in all countries where they have been held for DECADES, if not since their inception. Yes, even when held here in the United States. Are their any protests against the horrors generally caused by the Olympics committee? Any protests against the Olympics for violating the human rights of millions wherever they are held? Nope. Why is that? What makes the Olympics Committee so special as to be above international law that they are allowed to continue to violate human rights and get away with it? Let's ask the protesters of the Chinese olympics.

"..."

What about human rights in general violated right here in the U.S.?

"..."

Hmmm. Interesting. Can I quote you on that?

"..."

And Yet Another Form of Genocide

Read this. It is about Native Grave desecration and rape for the greed of all. Another form of genocide.

Where Worlds Begin

standing in the food line
with sweetness by my side
where the world turns
begins and ends

worlds are created in the ripples of the river
bouncing reflected sunlight
giving birth to joy and life

here in the meadow
of cow pies and stomped grass
here in the world
where mountain cows protect the earth
here hand in hand
with my sweetheart
whose sun lifts the world
into the universe

i stand at the meadow
hear worlds bend in the wind
hidden amongst the turks
who hide amongst them


worlds begin and end
come and go
begin and end
come and go

happy anniversary beautiful

Follow the Bouncing Ball

No surprise that the stock market made an alleged comeback. A rubber ball bounces high, then comesback down and hits, then bounces again...repeatedly...until the energy that released it dissipates and it rests lifeless on the ground.

In my opinion and lay studies of the current economic collapse, I realize more clearly that it is the foibles of the rich and the follies of the not so rich and working class that have created this mess that the U.S. and World will not soon recover from. Soon the ball will quit bouncing.

The rich, being the greedy bastards that they are, Love making more money for themselves. The mortage crisis has been caused by the greed of the wealthy. They made offers of easy loans to "high risk" folks so they could further inflate their coffers of wealth with steady payments of those who make payments on houses. But wait...that's not enough.

Union labor, having bought in to corruption for the most part, has not done an efficient job of organizing over the last decades and thus empoyees go unprotected and their jobs can be granted to folks in more desperate need of money who will accept tinier offerings and thus, leaving the wealthy with more wealth. So, U.S. corporations have sent millions of jobs overseas and across borders to folks whose labor can be horrifically exploited and the wages kept excessively low. Thanks to the works of Reagan, Bush 1, and Bill Clinton, conditions for the working class in the U.S. were horrifically weakened, and then along comes Bush 2 to weaken them even further.

Unions, it would seem, and correct me if I'm wrong, are not working that hard at recruiting, nor are they working hard at countering union busting firms or the violation of human rights that union busting IS (read "The Universal Declaration on Human Rights"). There is no give and take between the working and owning class. Workers do not own their work, their work is owned by the owning class. Workers have no say. Workers are in a position of expendability and thus, are truly the lowest common denominator to the owning class. Since workers have virtually no say in their labor in the U.S., and the owners have most of the say about our labor (read "Nickel and Dimed"), the workers, and ESPECIALLY the working poor are in a dangerously vulnerable position with no forms of real development to protect their assets. The rich control those.

The current mortage crisis is blamed on folks taking out housing loans that they would not be able to pay back once the increases hit. These increases of amounts like 1% don't sound like much until your mortage goes up $400 or more and usually include balloon payments of exorbident amounts. But wait, there's more...

The rich, in their desire to acquire more wealth for themselves, understand that the largest expense they have is labor, and thus look for cheaper labor markets around the world no matter the human rights violations and excessive poverty created to create their wealth. Money is virtually all they see. This, of course, takes jobs out of the American job market (not Mexicans and other folks south of the border like American racists like to believe). With more people losing jobs, especially high paying jobs, especially union jobs that are forced overseas, there are fewer people able to purchase the shit the wealthy want us to buy to continue their vast and excessively comforting wealth.

So, in their horrific excessive greed, the wealthy enjoy watching the "beasts" wallow in suffering and slow death while they enjoy oppulence and protection by paying their protectors a vast sum, with the exception of the corporate owned U.S. miliatary. Join the military, kill for the wealthy, if you're a woman get predated by your comrades and often raped, and paid little money while being forced to "obey" (land of freedom my ass) orders without question or face prison. If you are a paid mercenary who Loves killing, raping, and torturing, like...say...employees of Eric Prince's Blackwater corporation, you get paid well to kill and make suffer your fellow "beasts" so your owners can live joyfully and comfortably. You get your piece of the pie, doncha?

To make a long story short, the current financial crisis wasn't created by the poor's bad finanacial planning, it was created by the wealthy whose excessive greed blinded them to the bad exposure to collapse that their greed has led us to.

With the Fed dousing billions upon billions in credit and loans to wealthy bankers (who won't be using that money to help out us "beasts"), that money has to come from somewhere, but where? From us poor paying taxes of course. But with job losses increasing every quarter, businesses and banks reporting multi-billion dollar losses EVERY QUARTER, I think it is safe to say that their are fewer tax payers. That money will come from infrastructure, you know, programs that are designed to help us "beasts" do things like...STAY ALIVE AND HEALTHY. Our tax dollars going to the "beasts?" HELL NO! Everybody knows the wealthy deserve our money much more than we do. Give all our tax dollars to the wealthy and everything will be fine. The wealthy will take care of us, right, you know, by not doing things such as sending our jobs overseas for cheaper more exploitable job markets. And of course, we all know the Unions would never let us down...right?

War, is a tool to create vast wealth for the greedy. All they have to do for us well trained beasts is to say things like, "Russia is becoming another Hitler," and *POOF*, like magic, folks will fall in line behind the "cold war" and future "hot war" with Russia, and let's not forget Iran. If you read "War is a Racket" by Smedley Butler, you will know exactly what I'm talking about, if you don't already. Billions upon billions is being made for the already excessively wealthy with the U.S. illegal and genocidal actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, why won't a genocidal war with Russia and Iran work as well?

Because the economy is collapsing.

With the current financial crisis, the defunding of the federal government refilling the coffers of the wealthy, the greater job losses that will continue, the rising fuel costs that will continue, the fact that most of the wealth created in the U.S. is credit and not based on forms of real wealth (property, resources, etc.), I believe it is safe to say that what we are seeing is a bouncing rubber ball of an economy that will soon stop bouncing. At that point, the wealthy will no longer be able to pay the exporbident funds to their heavily armed protectors, or for that matter, the minimal funds paid to their non-thinking military counterparts. Will the killing come to an end? Will people actually start thinking and realize what has been going on all this time? I don't think so. I hope folks, like those with the guns protecting the wealthy from all forms of uprisings from their fellow beasts would be gracious enough not to be as greedy as their owners, but I doubt it. It is greed that feeds their desire to kill for "the man," as it were.

I hope that there will be a fundamental change of consciousness when the ball finally stops bouncing. I hope that before then, more and more folks are taking care of each other, helping each other, protecting each other, Loving each other enough to fight for one another. We'll see, only time will tell.

So don't worry all you gloom and doomers, the illusory stock market bounce back will be followed by yet another hit further down the hill, then another bounce up, then another drop and hit further down the hill, and soon it will have no more artificial energy to keep it bouncing way down at the bottom.

Take care of each other, folks. Take care of each other.

Powwow

Shusli's people are having a powwow this weekend at Foster Bar on the Rogue River near Agness, Oregon. Be there! Hang out with us. Dance with us. Enjoy life with us.

Death

One of my favorite residents in long term passed away yesterday. When I worked that hall, she would always be excited to see me. She couldn't talk all that much, but she was so sweet and kind.

Although she was up and down when I worked long term, I had no idea she was so close to dying until yesterday when a fellow CNA told me. I went in her room and told her good-bye before and after she passed. It is different dealing with death this way.

When folks enter the doors of a care facility it is either for a long recovery or to die (however long that may take). There are indeed variations of this form, but those are the two major patterns.

It is hard to describe or even for me to understand. For now, I won't even attempt. Just know that a sweet little old lady has passed on. She lived a long life, and I, as well as other care workers, had the honor and privilege of knowing her on her last months.

And Another One Bites the Dust!

Lehman Brothers, America's fourth largest investment bank, is on the verge of collapse as it will be claiming bankruptcy soon. Combine that with the Fannie May and Freddie Mac bailout, two major hurricane/storms in the south, a two front war, a cold war with Russia, a merging war with Pakistan (the Pakistan military stopped an illegal U.S. helicopter raid going across its borders), as well as many other factors, and what do you think is gonna happen?

Our tax dollars are going to prop up the rich in the FAILING banking systems because of their bad decisions. Our tax dollars are going to two foreign wars. Our tax dollars are going into a cold war with Russia and possibly an outright war with Russia within the time frame of the next adminstration, if the whole economy hasn't collapsed by then. Our tax dollars probably won't be going to help the folks who are suffering because of the two storms in the gulf region, but they will undoubtedly go to wealthy types who get paid not to help those people (remember Katrina?). And a whole list of other stuff...

All of that tax money, being given to the excessively wealthy, means less infrastructure. Means lives. Means humans en masse will suffer within the borders of the U.S. as well as beyond the current borders.

The good news is...U.S. arms dealers are making billions selling arms to folks who claim allegiance to U.S. global domination, but there are so many nations full of folks angry enough at the U.S. to turn their guns on U.S.; guns purchased from gazillionaire U.S. arms dealers.

"Things that make you go Hmmm..."

Other than that...HAVE A NICE DAY!