minimize work and effort. maximize leisure and play.

do we want sustainable profits or sustainable production and consumption?

I want to facilitate direct democratic structures.

"All That Talk of Depression is Depressing"

In response to: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11149



Schechter is absolutely right about the first step being to abandon illusions and recognize this is a "system problem." but what are those illusions and what is the problem in the system?
His question about expecting too much from our politicians answers those questions, or at the very least begins to. The illusion is to expect anything from them. This is a system manufactured by elites and politicians. They don't know what went wrong and all they will do is push this problems out the window of their ivory tower onto the masses below and ask us to shoulder the weight of their mistake to make it through so they can continue to do the same things. #8 on the list demonstrates this very well. "Treasury sneaks corporate tax credits into bailout giveaway, shifts costs to states" If local government gives people the most say and control over their immediate environment, and the federal government is dumping their financial problems on the smaller governments, the costs will start to hit the people and the effects will be felt more and more.

we literally fight over the best way of doing things in government with our military's and police forces. why don't we sit down and discuss them and try things?

I want my political movement to be based on being human. Human Solidarity.

The means do not justify the ends. The means are the ends.

Highs and lows

You must experiences lows to experiences highs. but I believe there is a way of thinking that allows you to reduce the time of the lows and accentuate the highs. Instead of risk management in terms of dollars, its risk management in terms of happiness. If we all understand that we all do not enjoy being dissatisfied, we should all express our dissatisfaction immediately so that new ideas can be formulated to move from that feeling of depression to the high of happiness. Depressions must occur. not only economically in the empirical world but in the emotional world. But we have a choice of what those depressions entail. Either we can immediately recognize problems and look for solutions or we can continue to believe that the ends justify the means.

The reflection cycle. Learning Cycle. Whatever you want to call it. The process where you examine your environment and invent ways to improve it to make it more comfortable and more desirable. Whether aesthetically or emotionally.

It is constant and never ending. This must be understood.

http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12705743

More propaganda. Any criticism of Israel's actions and policies draws the "OMG you're an anti-Semite" argument. How am I racist for calling out a country for killing people? how is bombing Arab population centers and firing blindly into schools and hospitals indiscriminately, not racist?

Israel is a bigger nuclear power than Great Britain. They are the super power in the region. The majority of yearly US international aid goes to Israel and the US arms them to the teeth. Israel received $25,832,916,000* for weapons and military assistance between 2001-2005 from the United States alone. How many tanks and planes do the Palestinians have? 0.

Zionists, you were wrong. How about spending the $25,832,916,000 on food and homes instead of using it to destroy lives.


*http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3387

I am going to start posting sentences quoted from articles mentioning the need for ordinary people to organize. I have read it over and over and over all over the place for several months and it is coming out more and more in major news sources.

I believe that this is where the next revolution will come. From ordinary people organizing and directly solving their own problems.

But what about all those big corporations and governments with all that money and all those guns?

They fucked up the planet. Where I live and where I eat. It is pretty hard to deny and they sure as hell can't deny the deaths and starvation of millions. Let's indict them.


"George Papandreou, the opposition leader, has denounced the plan as an example of the state’s capture by special interests, implying that the only hope of fighting back lies in the mobilisation of ordinary people, determined to save whatever remains of the country’s pristine beauty."

http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12641740

and by putting things against time I mean things like, Generational roles? Obviously learning is not instantaneous so if it takes time to learn things so does that mean anything for society and the way it should organize?

I believe we can now say, HEY, WE'RE ALL THE SAME FUCKIN THING AND WANT THE SAME SHIT SO LETS STOP FIGHTING FOR IT AND WORK TOGETHER TO GET MORE OUT OF IT. other species are territorial and fight. does it have to do with communication? I would say so. Language has given us a more in depth understanding of the world. When you communicate with a dog he understands you to a certain degree. He understands good and bad tones and their varying degrees. But the communication gap is immense. now to think of how hard communicating between humans is even though we can speak to each other. Why is the natural communication process and the skills associated with it not taught in schools? I'm not talking about speech class where you learn to give power point presentations. we don't learn how to argue and resolve problems. we are not taught how to democratically come to a consensus in high school. Student government does not teach us how to do that. The dominant institutions of our time teach us. What are those institutions? Corporations. How do they teach us to resolve our problems? By winning. By what means? Any. How do they teach us? The media outlets they own. We are taught to resolve problems always with the interests of the elites in mind. We are not taught to solve problems for our personal well being. You know, what the sciences offer, producing technology to make life easier, improving health... We're only given so much to make sure we don't fall out of line. Unless your knowledge does not produce capital, it is worthless. By law.

Capital Production = Debt Creation

what is the science of the relationships between the sciences? Where different areas of science reinforce each other and even come together to ask new questions? Is it a process and what is that process?

you know when you have to dumb things down to someone who isn't really close to you for the sake of time and then have to go back later and say something like "oh well actually I kinda lied...." and continue on with an in depth explanation? Or when you're high school teachers say "well they kinda lied to you back then...blah blah"

It's the same thing the media does for rich people. whether those rich people are in government or own businesses. The media dumbs down their in depth conversations to things "common people" can understand, but it ends up being a bunch of half truths that take too much time to explain or some people just don't want explained.

Time

I think an important factor many people leave out when contemplating decisions and ways of doing things is time. It is easily forgotten and everyone's perception of it can be different. If Einstein is right, it's all relative, so why don't we start relating more things to time? or looking at things in terms of time?

Perfect Laws

Every so often I hear people say something along the lines of "the only way to have laws work is if they were all perfect." I think there is some truth to this. It tells me that laws are a shitty solution to solve a small category of social problems.

India's 9/11. Progress in the war on people.

The attacks on Mumbai are being described as "India's 9/11."

This is an interesting an interesting comparison so let's make it.


What purpose do these locations serve?

Both of these attacks were carried out in major world business and tourist centers. Neither target was a public building, both were privately owned businesses.



Were these noobs?

I think it is important to note that the Mumbai attacks and 9/11 attacks were extremely well planned and executed.

Without getting into details, there was an extremely large amount funding for the 9/11 attacks and there are intelligence reports of those attacks having been in planning for years before they were carried out.


The Mumbai attacks were carried out simultaneously in several locations, within minutes of each other and lasted almost 60 hours in one of the largest tourist and business centers of the world. And as Russia Today put it:

"The operation has the fingerprints of a paramilitary-intelligence operation. According to a Russian counter terrorist expert, the Mumbai terrorists "used the same tactics that Chechen field militants employed in the Northern Caucasus attacks where entire towns were terrorized, with homes and hospitals seized."


Who was behind the attacks?

A group called "the Deccan Mujahideen." The word Deccan refers to the Deccan Plateau, a region of central-Southern India.

Police reports confirm that nine "suspected attackers" have been arrested and three of the attackers have, according to unconfirmed police sources, confessed to belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani Kasmiri separatist organization.

This relatively unknown group has been, without evidence other than they went into a building and killed people, has been widely reported as being a part of the Al Qaeda network of terrorist organizations.

Western media outlets are reporting of Pakistan's alleged support of Islamic terrorist organizations, as the Washington Post reports "The US media has centered its attention on the links between the Mumbai attacks and the "resurgent terrorist groups [which] enjoy havens in Pakistan's tribal areas as well as alleged protection or support from elements of Pakistani intelligence."

These are the same people who were behind the 9/11 attacks.




Media disinformation on the origin of the attacks. As was the case in 9/11, the source of the attacks are apparently wide and far, with headlines such as:

'Mumbai massacre killers are British'

'All Mumbai attackers from Pakistan - Indian minister'

And usage of the phrase "elements from within Pakistan"

After 9/11 the origins of those who carried out the attacks were reported as coming from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

The reporting of such a wide range of origins of those who carried out the attacks serves a number of interests. In my opinion it serves those interests as a feeding ground for irrelevant information for the population to bicker over. It also keeps people scared and perpetuates the boogie man feeling. THE TERRORIST IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER!

It is important to note here that the papers themselves are not necessarily creating this disinformation, they could very well be at some level, but they are complicit in the reporting of such disinformation that is used by others to confuse and distract the population for their own ends.

Official US statements in the media have described the Mumbai attacks as part of the broader Islamic terror agenda, including the possibility of an Al Qaeda sponsored terrorist attack on US soil. This was the explanation for 9/11, has been the line that has been towed by the US government for decades on the subject of terrorist events. You could almost make it a stamp "Official US statements in the media have described the *BLANK* attacks as part of the broader *BLANK* agenda, including the possibility of an *BLANK* sponsored terrorist attack on US soil."

Vice President Elect Joe Biden during the election campaign had warned America with foresight that "the people who... attacked us on 9/11, -- they've regrouped in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan and are plotting new attacks".

While these statements may have some semblance of truth, in that there are in fact people who are muslim and that there are muslims who own guns, they undoubtedly create an environment of uncertainty and fear in populations around the world. A couple questions I have are what opportunities arise out of a climate of fear and uncertainty, who is looking to use those opportunities to advance their personal interests, and what are those interests?

Once again the media gets the Epic Fail award for not reporting Pakistan's ISI as being in close company of the CIA.





These attacks will be used to continue to take away peoples rights and remove access to the shared resources of the earth that are required for life. Every imperialist country around the world has pledged to ramp up their "counter-terrorism efforts."

Profit

Corporations exist to make money. They are required by law to place the financial interests of their owners over competing interests. It is required to place profit over everything else, including the public good. This was a judicial decision. Not a law of nature.

Coercion

Coercion (co-er-shion) is the practice of compelling a person or manipulating them to behave in an involuntary way (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats, intimidation or some other form of pressure or force.


business uses government through monetary agreements, to use physical force against a small part of the population and psychological force against the against every part of the population who does not partake in the debt wage slave economy.

a group of people with similar world views has physically manipulated the Earth to create a set of circumstances that coerce people into a limited set of choices to do things that they would otherwise not do voluntarily.


and if this system or set of imposed circumstances, is coercive, who is doing the coercing and for what reason? and further by what means are they accomplishing it?


and if freedom is the opposite of coercion can anyone be free if coercion is socially acceptable?