Cheyanne's CampsiteCheyanne's CampsiteCurrent Socio-Politico Commentary that is a well thought out series of Articles on the Now of Nows. Articles
Get Up Stand Up....You Don't Have O.D.D. (Oppositional Defiance Disorder)..
2012-03-29 20:19:00 Get Up, Stand Up is about transforming political passivity.Many of us who are authors, journalists, educators, and in the media would like to believe that truths of oppression and injustices sets people free to resist it. And these truths can set us free when we are not dispirited. So Tom Paine’s Common Sense did energize a huge portion of American colonials to revolt against the British. There are other examples of muckraking journalists inspiring action, and there remain some Americans taking constructive political actions — I talk about them in Get Up, Stand Up.However, it’s my experience – and the polls actually reflect this — that many Americans know the truth that the United States is neither a genuine democracy nor a real republic in which elected officials actually represent the people. Many Americans know that the United States is a corporate state or a “corporatocracy” in which Americans are ruled by a partnership of giant corporations, the extremely wealthy ...
Lobbyists, Guns Money and ALEC
2012-03-28 22:49:00 A toaster that burns the National Rifle Association’s logo onto bread fetched $650 at an auction last month just one reflection of the money-making power in the gun's group You're Toast America !! But where does the encouragement of vigilante (in)justice fit into this picture? In part it’s the same old story — the long-standing exploitation of public fears, especially those associated with racial tension, to promote a pro-corporate, pro-wealthy agenda. It’s neither an accident nor a surprise that the National Rifle Association and ALEC have been close allies all along. Think about that: we seem to be turning into a country where crony capitalism doesn’t just waste taxpayer money but warps criminal justice, in which growing incarceration reflects not the need to protect law-abiding citizens but the profits corporations can reap from a larger prison population. That's what Paul Krugman wants to know.~~~~~~~~~Maki... More About: Guns , Money
The Misesian Vision | Patriotpainter's Blog~~~~ From A Talk Given By Lew Ro
2012-03-28 22:35:00 No longer is the idea of a state-planned society seen as frightening. What scares people more today is the prospect of a society without a plan, which is to say a society of freedom. But here is the key difference between authority in everyday life — such as that exercised by a parent or a teacher or a pastor or a boss — and the power of the state: the state’s edicts are always and everywhere enforced at the point of a gun. Taken From :The Misesian Vision | Patriotpainter's Blog More About: Talk
Copyrighting The Word BOOK? C'Mon Facebook, How Arrogant Do Ya Have To Be
2012-03-27 17:35:00 The only reason I'm writing about the subject of Copyrighted Material is because I find it outrageous and outlandish that a company, namely FACEBOOK, can even think they think they can monopolize/patent/copyright/trad emark the word BOOK. Call it what you will, I call it Bizarre. Why doncha try patenting/trademarking the Human Genome for God's sakes. Oh wait, been there done that.Does this arrogant, cocky, haughtiness attitude neverend? Just when you think, they can't do that Lo and Behold they can, and they do...and they get away with it, legally.You may recall that Facebook has launched multiple lawsuits against websites incorporating the word “book” into their names. Facebook, as far as we can tell, doesn’t have a registered trademark on “book.” But trademark rights can be asserted based on use of a term, even if the trademark isn’t registered, and adding the claim to Facebook’s user agreement could boost the company’s standing... More About: Word , Book
We Have Found the "One Bad Apple" And It Is Us by Ted Rall + Andrew Bachevi
2012-03-25 20:38:00 I literally don’t have enough space to provide a complete accounting of recent U.S. atrocities in occupied Afghanistan. Here’s a brief taste: U.S. Special Forces operatives alone admit killing over 1,500 Afghan civilians in night raids alone during 10 months in 2010 and early 2011.Afghans know the deal. Americans don’t.Sgt. Bales is a PR problem. His decision to blow away women and children for no reason whatsoever belies the hero-troops narrative. It’s too icky for even a “support our troops”-besotted public to ignore. So Sgt. Bales has become a political football. It’s intentional. The U.S. government doesn’t want ordinary American citizens to know how their “heroic” soldiers behave in remote combat zones. America’s cult of militarism, so important to the Congressmen whose careers depend on defense contractor contributors and to the media outlets for whom war means higher ratings, requires a placid, compliant populace lulled into the ridiculous belief th... More About: Apple , Andrew
"You're Just As Good As Them"~~~ OWS On The Couch~~~And An MIT Economist E
2012-03-24 14:49:00 One can only speculate today, how, when a Middle Class American goes into their therapist's office what they talk about, but I can guess that a lot of the issues revolve around money, the economy, jobs, income and how the Middle Class Americans perceive they are being treated Today. Which is badly BTW. Very Badly. This is always a hush hush topic in therapist's offices, so I'm going there. As if money did not play a role, a big role in people's lives. What non-Cent$. LiterallyWho could put up with all that dishonest mind-boggling drivel anymore? That why the book Money Talks is a breakthrough book. Money Talks is about the fact that NOT talking about Money in a therapist's office is dishonest. As we struggle through some of the worst economic times it is important to talk about how money affects our lives~~~~~~~With that said there used to be a saying that floated around Middle Class America that was told by&nbs... More About: Economist , Good , Couch
Clueless and Confused Americans, Treat The "Rest of the World" and NOW Thei
2012-03-23 14:32:00 The comediennes of Decline of the American Empireon the CBC's Just for LaughsEver get the feeling, a collective consciousness feeling, that America & Americans are out to prove to "The Rest of the World " that they are so right and you are so wrong. The YOU in this statement is a collective pronoun, meant to encompass both the individual person, and whole countries.So I went on a search to find out what "The Rest of the World" thinks. This is was sparked by a recent Canadian Broadcasting Comedy Show which aired on March 20th 2012, Just for Laughs, that was titled: The Decline of the American EmpireWhat's so funny about that I thought.That's not funny, but apparently some comediennes think so. So I watched. And I watched some more. I watched the mockingly familar self deprecating jokes that the comics made about America and Americans. I was hooked. I watched the whole show. I came away with a larger consciousness about my c... More About: The World , Treat
Uh Oh.... The Secret Sons of the Confederacy Got Trouble Brewing.......Oppo
2012-03-22 11:44:00 Apparently Everybody with some common sense saw this potentially legal murder of Trayvon Martin day coming after the 2005 "Stand Your Ground Bill" was introduced in Florida.For a House that talks about the culture of life it’s ironic that we would be devaluing life in this bill,” said Democratic state Rep. Dan Gelber of Miami Beach. “That’s exactly what we’re doing.” ... promote deadly escalations of arguments.“All this bill will do is sell more guns and possibly turn Florida into the OK Corral,” said Democratic state Rep. Irv Slosberg of Boca Raton. Baxley is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and has advocated for the production of a Florida license plate honoring “Confederate Heritage.” He also argued against removing a racial slur from the Florida state song. These objections, apparently, did not persuade Rep. Dennis Baxley, the bill’s chief sponsor and someone who hasn’t show a great deal of empathy for racial sensitivities i... More About: The Secret , Secret
You Only Want Something When You NEED It You Don't Have It~~Water Is One Of
2012-03-22 00:33:00 For anyone who has lived in the American West, you know how precious water is. Anywhere else USA it seems like the attitude is "Eh, Water , There's more where that came from". It is that attitude that makes World Water Day a consciousness raising issue more people need to tune into.World Water Day 2012 - Water and Food Security - 22nd March 2012
Now Hear This~~~~The NSA Is Building The Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watc
2012-03-21 15:07:00 Now hear this. WATCH WHAT YOU SAY. That Red White and Blue Ball Gag Used In S & A (shock and aweful situations) Might Be Placed In Your American Mouth.James Bramford opens his big wide mouth and tells us all what they, whovever they are, have in store for you U.S. Citizen in this just releashed WIRED Magazine article.Spying, Spying and more spying. Bramford is a somebody in the reading world. Trying to figure out who the good spys and who the frightening and scary spooks are who do not have people's best interest at heart, is getting mighty dangerous and hard in these hard times.Keep in touch folks. The old "Nothing To See Folks, Move Along" attitude is sure to garner no attention over this subject on the real news in America. If you did not see on your Tee Vee it is not and did not happen. But the internetocracy knows better don't we.Then check out Bramford and Thomas Drake on today's edition of Democracy Now. Spying, Spying and more spying."I spy with my little e... More About: Building , Hear , Center
'How Creativity Works': It's All In Your Imagination : NPR
2012-03-20 21:05:00 No it's not a John Lennon Song. It's a book.Hear about it here:'How Creativity Works ': It's All In Your Imagination : NPR
Florida's Theme Song Should Be "I Won't Back Down".......It Probably Would
2012-03-20 13:45:00 In light of the Florida unarmed shooting of the teenager Trayvon Martin, by a 28 year law student who was also block watch volunteer in a gated community, I decided to Google The "Stand Your Ground" Law in Florida that Jeb Bush signed into law in 2005. For those who are reading this from another country, which could also be another planet as far as the US and its' citizens are concerned, go here, to Mother Jones Magazine to hear the Emergency Calls and a rundown of this murder case.What I came up with was fascinating.First I found out about is what the Castle Doctrine is.I discovered How the Castle Doctrine got this way.If my prediction that this law will insulate certain home- or car-owners who kill without good reason to do so turns out to be correct, I hope the Florida legislature will have the courage to revisit this law and fix it. In the meantime, the NRA, flush with their victory in Florida, is lobbying to have the "Stand Your Ground"... More About: Song , Back , Theme
Our Financial Stockholm Syndrome: Identifying With Your Capture-ers Is Also
2012-03-19 16:03:00 When you stop to think how people keep other in line, look no further than "the money" for a reason of how and why.The Societal Stockholm Syndrome which is defined Here operates on the principal that after a while captured prisoners begin identifying with their captors. That is to say, those who have people under their thumb and under their minds, like the fact that they can control people, derive great pleasure from being able to control people, and their power over people proves just how powerful they really are. The captors dig the shit out of this idea especially where "the Money" is concerned.The story of the finance lobby is] about the way that lobby—with the eager support of a resurgent conservative movement and a handful of powerful backers—was able to fundamentally change the way we think about the world. Call it a virus. Call it a meme. Call it the power of a big idea. Whatever you call it, for three decades they had us convinced that the success of the ... More About: Financial , Capture
Limbaugh, Lipitor and the Incivility of American Political Life ~~~And Then
2012-03-16 14:16:00 Does the aggressive slant of our foreign policy and the unproductively hostile clash of partisan political personalities reflect a brave new world where men over 50 are almost universally medicated with a drug now considered "almost like a vitamin against heart disease," in the words of my primary care doctor? Are the cable TV commentators who shout over each other's sentences taking the newly recommended high doses of statins? If the average level of aggression does move a few points up the scale in an entire society, who would notice and how? (taken from Limbaugh, Lipitor and the Incivility of American Political Life (Part II) by Edward Bernton - The Globalist)
Walking Into That Grocery Store Knowing You Cannot Buy Anything Your Heart
2012-03-15 16:42:00 There is… a language of the poor, a psychology of the poor, a worldview of the poor. To be impoverished is to be an internal alien, to grow up in a culture that is radically different from the one that dominates the society.”(quote taken from Rediscovering Poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich)The rich think differently than the rest of us. "The rest of us", go into a grocery store and have a list of things that we need to get. We have a set amount of money allocated for that list. We do not enter the grocerys store with a Yee Haw, Yipppeee feeling that we can buy anything we want at the grocery store. Sometimes the people formerly known as the middle class, who are now referred to as "the poor", are getting a taste of what it's like to window shop for food as they bypass items that were formerly on their lists before they were downgraded. Thereby proving the different classes of people amongst us think differently. Nothing hits home more in... More About: Store , Walking , Heart
~~~~~Goldman Sachs "Doing God's Work For The Muppet Master God"~~~~
2012-03-15 14:12:00 Who can forget the words of Lloyd Blankfein as he testified before Congress "Goldman Sachs is Doing God's Work ".Well, a Goldman Executive has come out to say that all Goldman Sachs is doing now is the work of the Muppet Master God. Muppets for anyone who is unfamilar with the word is similar to a puppet, but different. Not much difference. Puppet would easily suffice for Muppet.As if nobody's noticed huh, that Goldman Sachs has easily become the world's largest collection of lyin' cheatin' scandalous money people the world has to offer, now we have an official opinion and truth from somebody who worked there.Read and hear more at the link below.Exec: Goldman officials called clients 'muppets' - Yahoo! News
Trying To Get A Price Quote on a Healthcare Test is Like Pulling Teeth ~~~~
2012-03-15 13:33:00 This article caught my eye about a woman who went price shopping for an ultrasound test.Because she had a hard time getting a price quote from anyone initially, I think speaks volumes to this healthcare sytem we have in the USA. Nevermind the fact that she received 3 very different quotes from 3 different places. One being almost 4 times the price of another,My Ultrasound: Three Test s, Three Price tags | CommonHealth More About: Healthcare , Teeth
In the Dark~~~~What Corporations Don't Want You to Know - U.S. Economy
2012-03-14 20:34:00 Information, as the old saying goes, is power. And when we consider all of this in totality, it’s clear corporate America recognizes the truth in the aphorism. Companies, in other words, understand that for all the fact-free vitriol constantly thrown at the basic concept of regulation, government regulations that increase information simply expand consumer power over the market. That may threaten companies that want to continue poisoning us, but as a political goal, consumer empowerment shouldn’t be so controversial. Continuing to keep consumers in the dark and powerless should be.(Taken fromWhat corporations don't want you to know - U.S. Economy - Salon.com) More About: Dark , The Dark , Corporations
The Too-Sure Thing....Anyone Fed Up, and Sick Of, Arrogant Haughty and Know
2012-03-14 16:07:00 Well, Finally somebody has said it. First we get the news that Dick Cheney is frightened and scared to travel to CANADA because the people there want to arrest Big Dick on War Crimes. CANADA for God's sakes, mild mannered Canada. Canada our neighbors to the North, on the same continent. Canada is not the Congo or Sudan where the natives are known to get restless and are like headhunters. Read White Men Behaving Badly to get a bead on this control freak phenomenon happening in America NOW..Then we get this article from Discover Magazine that states over confidence can lead to mega fuck-ups.#42: The Too-Sure Thing | Memory, Emotions, & Decisions | DISCOVER MagazineQuestion:.... It’s hard not to think of the people who directed their financial institutions to take on bundled mortgages and other high-risk investments. Is there a downside to overconfidence in corporate leadership? Answer:...... An overconfident person exposes e...
Nah Nah Nah Nah.... Nah.....The NFL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION GETS POLITICAL AND
2012-01-06 23:32:00 You know it's a bad time in American Working History when The NFL Players Association releashes a statement about the upcoming SUPERBOWL and Indiana's Right To Work Laws. Dave Zirin who knows where the rubber meets the road of Sports, Politics, and The Socio-Economics of the American games, whatever game it is that Americans love to watch and watch other people play has a lot to say about this subject. On February 5, the Super Bowl will be staged in Indianapolis, Indiana. Given the anti-union, so called “right-to-work” legislative push in the Indiana statehouse, there are demonstrations and even occupations planned around the Big Game. More on this soon, but the big news of the day is that the NFL Players Association, coming off their own bitter labor battle with NFL owners, put out a terrific statement against the legislation. Social responsibility and sports: so lovely when they go together. As Americans we love to root and cheer cheer cheer for the hometeam... More About: Political
Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To NOT Know How The Internet Works : This
2012-01-06 19:06:00 Dear Congress , It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works | Motherboard For any one who pays attention to details concerning Congress, who could forget the day the now dead, Ted Stevens, the Senator from Alaska, stepped up to the Senate floor microphone and released his famous tirade about the Internet being a series of tubes, and NOT a huge drump truck, onto the United States audience. (see C-Span for evidence) Jon Stewart made fun of him on The Daily Show, we all made fun of Ted Stevens the fuddy duddy grandpap and great grandpap Luddite. With that said, a bunch of very astute, very knowledgeable and very bright people all got together and wrote a letter to congress. It's titled: DEAR CONGRESS, IT'S NO LONGER OK TO NOT KNOW HOW THE INTERNET WORKS. Whether it was George W. Bush referring to “the internets” or Senator Ted Stevens describing said internets as “a series of tubes,” we would sit back and chortle at our well-meaning but horribly uninformed represen... More About: The Internet
The Siamese Twins Bechtel / Halliburton Are At It Again: A Whistleblower On
2012-01-06 17:07:00 The Bechtel Engineer a nd Keystone Pipeline Whistleblower extra-ordinnaire Mr. Klick He is literally and figuratively a very big man for coming forward with the leaky oil info. Pipeline Inspector-Turned Whistleblower Calls Keystone XL a Potential "Disaster" | Truthout One thing anyone has to know about Bechtel is that that are strongly affiliated with Helliburton. (no typo) If the United States goes into another country via our war machine, there they are, Helliburton and Bechtel, ready to help? in the reconstruction of the country's water system (Bechtel) and the oil infrastructure (Helliburton). These two companies combined are a one man mean lean infrastructure fighting machine....and they are ruthless. in their endeavors. They will stop at nothing and spare no one. With that said, the whistleblower, Mike Klink, an engineer for Bechtel came forward to say:What did I see? Cheap foreign steel that cracked when workers tried to weld it, foundations for pump stations that y... More About: Twins , Halliburton
A Blue Haired Woman Does A MIKE CHECK @OWS About NDAA And The Men In Black
2012-01-05 15:51:00 It will be interesting to see if the blue haired woman in the video is disappeared and taken away and never seen again without a trial. The selfsame things she was talking about, the NDAA, were being put into action by arresting her for whatever it is they thought she was doing. The irony, in real time, is in-CRED-ible To See What Other People, Other Powerful People, Think About the OWS and NDAA Watch Colonel Larry Wilkerson, the former chief of staff to Colin Powell, say that the authoritarians are afraid of the OWS movement and that is why they passed NDAA, and NOT because of "real terrorists". Speed up to the 8:35 mark to hear Larry rip NDAA and the Military Power associated with it and OWS a new truthful asshole. More About: Black , Blue , Check , Woman , Mike
LIAR LIAR Pants On Fire~~~~ Nobody Upon Nobody Calls Anybody A Liar On Nati
2012-01-05 14:55:00 Gingrich Calls Romney a Liar - NYTimes.com The fact that Newt Gingrinch called Mitt Romney a LIAR on National Tee Vee Is Not About the the Super Pacs per se, the story is really about somebody calling somebody else a LIAR on National Tee Vee. Believe me when I say I've watched enough American Tee Vee To know the word LIAR is never used on National Tee Vee. People will use other words to call a spade a spade. Words like "not telling the truth" and "falsehoods" are used on National Tee Vee to describe what someone has done, but never the word LIAR. That's why the reporter was in such shock disbelief when Gingrinch used the word LIAR on National Tee Vee Nothing More. It's as if Gingrinch broke the 1st Commandment of National Tee Vee. He openly called someone a LIAR, and them is fighting words. It's On !!!!! And that is the biggest (holding your stomach) belly laugh joke that any American could ever mockingly conceive. Another politician calling another politician a LIAR !!!... More About: Pants , Fire
Overdosed America: It's A Free For All..... Excerpts from Chapter 14
2012-01-05 14:11:00 Overdosed America : Excerpts from Chapter 14: This is for all the "PillBillies" Here In These United States. If you don't know what a PillBilly is, Google it, because I surely didn't make the name up. "The drug companies have no more responsibility to oversee the public's health than the fast-food industry has to oversee the public's diet." Controlling medical costs in this near free-for all commercial grab is not just impossible, it is a contradiction in terms. Does it make sense to talk about reducing national expenditures for cars or clothes or beer? Medical care, by far the largest consumer commodity in the United States, is now no different.(taken from the book blog OVERDOSED AMERICA) When you look around and see the all the overdosed American zombies walking around like the night of the living dead characters, adults and children alike, look no further for some of the answers than to the American BIG Pharma Corporations. They don't care about you and ... More About: Free
Art Student Hangs Up Own Painting at National Museum .....So There !!!
2012-01-04 17:00:00 Art Student Hangs Own Painting At National Museum ....So There !!! If you see this photograph hanging in an art museum with the signing of k.a.m (the kamera). It's Mine. I hung it there because I am role modelling and copying the art student who recently did the self same outrageous thing. This idea could catch on for people who do not have time to wait for "the rest of the world" to discover the new artist. It's an ingenious idea and courageous too. Full of shameless self promotion, without any of that "Who Do They All Think They Are" authoritarianism that always keeps people in the rightful places. You, my friend, are going to die waiting for that starving artist moment and every artist knows that for a fact. It's called "The Artist's Lament" Here's an idea that might catch on. HangUp Your OWN painting at an art museum and see how long it takes the authorities to notice. In this case of the art student, it took ... More About: National Museum
Ben Stein + Menial Jobs = Ben Gets His Hollywood Mansion and Pool Cleaned B
2012-01-03 16:39:00 Ben Stein's latest moral money rant about "menial jobs" and the OWS and "artists" is laughable at best. How Stein has managed to combine the very serious money and economics issues and be an expert at it, with comedy is beyond anyone's guess. Why anyone would listen to him, let alone take him seriously about money issues, class warfare, jobs and who gets what, is a study in the philosophical and moral outrage about money that is happening NOW in America. Yet, Ben seems to attract the suits to himself like a well oiled jewish business man. In October of last year, Ben was invited to speak a convention of sorts. Here a blogger, from SHRINKING THE CAMEL , which connects business life with spiritual life, tells what he experienced as he listened to Ben speak: Once Mr. Stein took his place at the podium, he started ranting a bit about the Occupy Wall Street uprising, politely inquiring about the goals of the movement, and wondering how... More About: Hollywood , Jobs , Mansion , Pool
Did Psychopaths Take Over Wall Street? - Bloomberg
2012-01-03 15:07:00 Cohan: Did Psychopaths Take Over Wall Street ? - Bloomberg : How do you really really know that Psychopaths did indeed take over Wall Street when there is no blood, no guts and no gore to be found at the psycho-paths crime on Wall Street? You do a profile on them and their kind that's how. There ARE people known as psychopathic liars. When you couple that fact about psychopathic liars, with the fact that a corporation is considered a person in American lawyer land, you get hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands, of people playing liars poker with hundreds and hundreds of other psychopathic liars and OUR money. It's simple. Trying to tell who's bluffing shouldn't be a problem, because they are all bluffing. They are all liars. Psychopathic liars. They got nothin'. Don't let'em bluff ya. The above link tells the story of dirty deeds that were done dirt cheap by the psycho-paths psy-ops that played mental 'poker' mind games with the public money. Better known as ...
The Year of the Mike Check~~~2011~~~~~Revolting People @ Occupy Wall Street
2012-01-02 15:45:00 Back in the day Al Stewart had a song called: THE YEAR OF THE CAT. Well, I'm singing that tune today, but I'm Changing the words to THE YEAR OF THE MIKE CHECK. If you do not know what significance the words "MIKE CHECK" have in this day and age of American history, You are either a brain dead zombie, are paying no attention to anyone or anything going on around you, or so old that saying the words "MIKE CHECK" only mean something you would never do because you're so busy sitting on your couch, watching Two Broke Girls and eating potato chips that a live streaming reality show like the Global Revolution Happening Now, Including the United States, seems very UN-real to you. BTW, A lot of this is all about money, and the 99%.....and as one woman in the Madison Wisconsin uprisings so eloquently put it, "The Genocide of the Middle Class" It's time for a Reality Check and a Mike Check now in America. So There. More About: People , Wall Street , Street , Wall
Sing The Truth! ~~~Finally 3 Women Have Done It.~~~They Get IT !!!
More articles from this author:2012-01-02 13:40:00 Sing The Truth ! Live In Concert : NPR It's headphone time. More About: Women , Finally , Sing 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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