As I watch and listen to Peter Joseph talk about The Zeitgeist Movement and The Venus Project, as I have watched his films and seen this lecture itself emerge, I am almost drawn to tears at the sheer thankfulness I feel that someone sees this insanity, the same as I do, the same as many see it every day, and finally has been able to hold us to our own beliefs and challenge us to realize the basic problem. Money.
I’ve long said it, I’ve long believed it and now it just feels good to know that I’m not wrong. When I see the presentation here, the progression of social awareness increasing, I want to hurry it along. Then I laugh and I realize I won’t have to. Soon, we’ll have no choice.
It will be the other side, the opposing side that will cause pain and try to force the movement back. It’s failures have become highly visible yet it’s strength will not be able to hold us back once so much momentum gets behind it. The information that has so far been acknowledged is not retractable. Once you’ve been introduced to the ideas and explanations it’s difficult to argue with, however people try. Joseph’s analysis of our inherently flawed system is, (excuse me for saying, yes I’m going to say it, I can’t help it, its almost mandatory)…It’s right on the money.
Last fall I was researching a project for a friend of mine and I discovered that a local prison in our area was privately owned for profit, by a foreign entity. When I found the actual owners or shareholders, I was then informed the corporation had over 25 other prisons contracted to them across Canada, the US and Austraila.
The local minimum security prison is being maintained and operated by a multi-national corporate service provider. I can’t say that this stunned me, but it does give an example of the very large and lucrative business human criminalization is. Is this part of the service industry that America thinks it’s so big on? This particular prison is supposed to house first offenders or hold prisoners incarcerated for less then felony offenses, and it’s for profit. So how does that work? Where does profit come from by way of criminal offenses and incarceration? Does the prison system work like a school in that the more bodies that occupy the space, the more money the state is obligated to provide them? I hope not, no, I know better. It’s much worse.
According to globalresearch.ca of Canada, the profits are coming from the prisoners, working for low wages, for other multinational corporations. Known as “competitive prison labor”. Big business has discovered how to tap into another type of slave labor here in the US, Canada and Australia, for the profitability of their products. The incentive to imprison us is higher than that of truly servicing our needs.
I can’t wait to see this madness end. It’s difficult to make jokes about this, so I won’t even try. I’m furious, because for years our leaders and the moral majority have made criminals out of cannabis smokers and dealers and now, because they are running out of money from income tax revenues and dirty gambling from the banks and insurance companies, they’ve decided to legalize medical marijuana in California and now New Jersey. Isn’t it interesting that the states with very high deficits are turning what used to be considered a criminal offense into a major revenue generator?
Fuck it! Let’s get high to help the economy. Of course to keep parents from being overly concerned about the rise of drug use, we’ll issue it only to the terminally ill and chronically sick. At least that’s what it’ll look like so all you moral monitors will remain satisfied. But, I know that it’ll be available to anyone who can answer the questionairre correctly at the clinic. As long as the weed doesn’t come from Mexico and or any illegal cartel, noted as terrorist organizations; as long as the stuff is US grown and regulated, they’ll sell as much of it as they can to anyone eventually. Mark my words.
Davis Fleetwood to Perform a TwigSnapButtCrack Essay!
I couldn’t be prouder or more satisfied at this moment. Well, actually I could but President Obama just sank that ship. But, not to worry, because The Shit-Load is approaching port.
Actor, writer, director, reluctant political pundit and producer of popular Youtube channels,The Hermit with Davis Fleetwood and “This Day in History” will read, not just one essay before his audience, but fifty I am told. He’s going for the finish line of this decade with 50 videos to encapsulate the Top Ten’s we all love so much, or HATE! For better or for worse we honor the marriage license for all successful media personalities to remind us of what the HELL just happened.
He has, on at least one occasion, made me spit yogurt from my nose while laughing at his hardened sense of humor bundled into viral snippets of truth. I’ve been an admirer from afar for some time.
Make sure to catch No Cure for That Productions new blog and Youtube channel and the 50 videos Fleetwood will attempt, including The Top Ten Most Influential Persons of the Decade, where one of those essays will have been written by yours truly.
Many Americans seem somewhat lost these days with 115 banks dissolved across the country since January 2009, unemployment reaching into two digit numbers now and more news of corrupt governments and trading swindlers keeps them in suspense. Or maybe that’s just me. Anyway if your shopping around for a new philosophy on life, take a look at these three that I’ve selected. Talk about take back, why stop at America, let’s take back the world.
COP15, UNFCCC, The Copenhagen Treaty, break the monopoly up on infrastructure contracts, enter a new age of environmental protections and build respect among nations worldwide. Check out the CDM’s DNA’s.
John Perkins, The ex-economic hitman as appeared in the Zeitgeist Movie, now an economically successful author of several books, exposing the corruption rifled from the monetary system and on down the line, appears in a film entitled, “Let’s Make Money” regarding the fallacies associated with the production of currency. I think. It’s Danish.
Now all moving at the speed of light toward you. POOF!!!
What do you do now?
Firstly, and above all, do not panic. The new world order is not gloom and doom after all. That is, if the treaty is signed and put into action and respected by all nations who will sign it. It may seem unpatriotic of me, but I have to tell you that this is the best possible change I’ve seen yet during President Obama’s administration and I don’t think he’s even a big fan, yet. The United States has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol (previous climate change treaty) and has not shown much enthusiasm for the Copenhagen Treaty, yet numerous cities were able to individually become signatories of the Kyoto Protocol.
Those three things, maybe not in that order, are all astounding new perspectives for Americans, although not that new, yet very powerful indeed to see somebody is actually taking on the challenge of changing the world and not just boasting about it. It’s almost as if, it couldn’t be real. It is.
I’m on board all the way fellas, just point me to wherever you want me to go.
This post is horribly past due. It’s also possibly premature, but it’s got to happen. I hope you like the music I added to enhance your reading experience. HAPPY DAY of The DEAD! Welcome all of you vampire loving misfits of the night.
As I observe in the dark, that which is unjust comes to light.
It seems The Washington Post’s headlines are the ones that always grab me first.
So, I’m reading, reading, reading, and then, I stumble onto an interesting fact. What would Chevron want with 8 million pounds of Uranium (they dug out of a Nevada mine) between 1986 and 89? Oh yeah, the other energy crisis. But, well, what did Chevron do with that Uranium in all this time?
This is indignant, the way the governments treat people as herds to create waves with scare tactics just so they can run and change their bets on the securities spinning wheel.
To All the Great Companies that Killed Me,
You are ugly, what you make is ugly, you are nothing but worthless whores who grow glassy eyed over a flammable treasure. And so the wealth and the riches, let them be yours, I want them not. But, I’ll not have you poison everything around me that is free. Yes, you can have your polluted, pasturized, pathetic, plastic lives.
Try to remember that 1212 2012 is the end of a civilization, not the end of time or the world. It will be the time of magnificent transformation from slavery to freedom. Freedom from the chains of the beast. People will see and learn more of it’s non-importance. The beast that holds your house up, the beast that makes life go faster. The beast that can flutter your very heart. How it toys with you so. What is this beast you wonder?
I ask then, what is it that you won’t let go of?
Shed your riches!
Make it powerful!
Make it known!
Well of course, the little guys learn from the big guys what is acceptable treatment of detainees. If the US can do it, why not Honduras? Oh wait a minute, wait a minute, aren’t these coup guys the same guys from the US? No, that’s not exactly right. We’ll check in to the payroll of the coup and see if it’s a US funded torture sport.
Whoa, there little doggy! You seem to be letting the ride take hold of you there, now where are your facts to support this?
Okay, I take a look at this video and see the supporters are all wearing Fruit of the Loom clothing. They probably all work for an American or Multi-national company, and they are experiencing an economic boom. Is this staged to get the troops over there to back one of these parties? These are just questions I’m asking off the top of my head here, I need to find info on demographics, companies operating in that region and what is the peoples real hope? In this story the President was immediately ushered out seemingly for talking to President Hugo Chavez. What does that tell you? (I gotta take a breath.) More trouble for the American economy. It looks completely staged, if not, the people are seduced by the economic growth model but still feel a duty to hold on to their rights to democracy and the laws of their constitution. And it all started over some heat between a rich rancher and the military?
these picture show a more sincere crowd of protesters. I mean there’s a mob.
According to the US State Department website, there are 150 US companies operating in Honderas. The country receives 38 billion in aid packages from US organizations including USAID. There they are again and when the information comes out in John Perkins new book, Hoodwinked, this November 10, we will know more about the Wiki-pedia dispute. What’s important to note is the timing of this coup in June 2009 and the operations behind it. Basically I would think that with such strong ties with the US both economically and militarily, the country’s military operates sort of like a private security firm, which of course as we all know, usually defends businesses in general, not citizens, unless they are filthy rich.
In this article, http://www.anarkismo.net/article/13758, reporter Katherine at CAWN, ( a women’s organization states that several women from the export processing factories are being made to go on marches in support of the de facto government, which should indicate who is supporting the de facto regime but beware of the flipside. The export processing factories are wealthy businesses (whose owners don’t live there) in Honduras. As we have seen so clearly lately, corporations contribute to much, if not all to the current political strife in any country and whomever is running the business there is usually the one doing the pushing around of people.
Big business and multi nationals (the Corporatacracy) are working the current trade system to make a profit and if the rules look like they might change, it’s easy to see where certain measures might be taken to try and curtail the impact on their profits. But the people are getting wiser, certainly in Honduras and hopefully more so in America. American citizens need to realize that they lost jobs to the less expensive labor and regulations of Central America, while the US Government is heavy handed in also helping these Governments and businesses disregard human rights and look more toward the profit in other countries where US citizens would have far greater rights and demand higher wages. If America supports the corporations in Honduras and continue to allow an overthrow of their elected regimes anytime it disagrees with the motion of change, it will certainly give itself away as the psychopathic entity that it is.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091030/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup
from today’s AP (very different description of events leading to Zelaya’s arrest)
One thing I found odd was the variance in description of Honduras military forces, security forces, armed forces in all of these different articles regarding the same subject. In a DemocracyNow.org telephone interview with Zelaya, he was asked directly, “Who is behind these forces?” trying to discover who is sending these troops to surround the Brazilian Embassy. Well, we should all know how interconnected the Honduras military is to the US and UK by now. Read up…
If Americans really believe that they will continue to have the same rights on down the road, or tomorrow if they continue to allow this to occur, they should rewind their reality watch, it seems to have stopped ticking. More and more jobs are being offered by multi-nationals in the US and for much less in wages than the older generation is use to and there is no local receptionist anymore at the front that you can try to charm your way into that ten dollar an hour position. You will have to pass a drug test and psychological and background checks. I also suspect if the medical reform is ever made into law, it would be idea to cross reference your medical records with background check records to see is you are a viable risk to hire. Watch the rise of security services every where.
And that’s why I support the UNFCCCUnited Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, not because I’m worried about flooding and warmer temperatures, hell no, bring it on, I got my surfboard ready. I support climate change initiatives to lower projected GHG (Green House Gases) because it’s time that the people took back the right to their homelands, heritage, and sacred grounds and grow their own grass roots governments instead of handing it over to a controlling corporate community. They need to demand from these companies a more responsible and fairer representation for human and environmental life. Geez, these companies, that’s all they talk about in their ads, is peaceful, green living and helping others. But, these ads appear to be lies of all kinds. I personally do not allow them in my presence too often and certainly not regularly. I think billboard ads are ugly too, they ruin the skyline in every portrait of a sunset.
But could COP15 be just that, bigger Government? A much bigger government? A World Government? Well, we already have a world government body, it is the United Nations and it is taking the lead in America’s policy making back home, specifically in negotiating trade laws. In fact for the last several decades, since the League of Nations was formed, it has grown, become more empowered and with the help of internet media and user generated journals, vibrantly vocal.
Yes, COP15 will and has already shifted wealth, from that of oil based economies to the efforts to support sustainable ones. Globe International and TERI University, MIT and Google alumni and 192 nations are at the forefront and many wealthy of oil would like to destroy this effort. The Copenhagen Treaty is a whopper of a deal and will change the rules significantly on how humans relate to the world. Since the rise of the industrial age, oil has reigned the supreme leader in the world of profits and has done so in a very exploitative manner by incorporating over sized conglomerate corporations into small developing countries and creating severely biased governmental bodies. The President of Brazil made a statement in a video featured on globeinternational.org’s website,
“in developing countries we wouldn’t want to oblige them to unduly exploit their natural resources. It is a balance between economy and social justice”
more on COP15 and UNFCCC in a later post. Back to Honduras…
The Miami Herald
http://www.webcitation.org/5jb00TM3J
has some good info on the coup in question and some hard legal facts. It is an issue for the law in Honduras to show it is a strong democracy. And although their military is trained by the US and supplied by the US, UK and India, the relationships between the working class civilians and rich ranchers are vastly separated. Sounds like similar times from Africa.
I’m on a quest…to bring awareness to the world through, friends and family and facebookers, youtubers, ustreamers, bloggers and wordpressers and screamers all over, that September 21st is the International Day of Peace!!!
I wish it were everyday, but they had to work like crazy to get just one day instituted by the United Nations as a recognized day of legal cease-fire worldwide. Thanks to Jeremy Gillie, every UN government member swiftly and unanimously voted it in in 2002. This should be as significant to us as 9/11/2001. In remembrance of this day, September 11, 2001, I propose that all who see this message, deliver it to another and look to the future from such a sorrow filled memory and celebrate…
Peace One Day on September 21, 2009
Maybe one day, peace will someday be everyday. We just have to keep trying.
****Editorial Note*********
Nah…It’ll never happen…
I know, too many psychotic manipulators out there with their ideas, money and control. How do we disband that? Through knowledge and utter defense. What Iran is doing is brilliant. The President of Iran is under constant threat by the tyranny of the US war machine and will not back down, yet he is opening his arms to President Obama and proposing a way for disarmament or dismantling of the worlds nuclear warheads. If we can remove the threat, we then lay way for freer negotiations. If everyone is offered equal parts, there should never need be any bi-partisan contentions. The reason for bi-partisan conditions lie in the making of profits and which company gets which bid for this contract or that. No matter how the media tries to spin it’s influence on me, it cannot. I know the truth now and cannot go back to what I had believed before being educated. I realize that I had no true beliefs about my country while growing up in America in the sixties and seventies. I was a child then and remained so until my mid 30’s I regret to say, when I began to ask the question, “Why is there so much unrest in the middle east?”
Well, the answer for me today is simple to reach because I’ve been able to observe more than what my government might have wanted me to see and my studies on the subject have not ceased since the war on Iraq began in 2003. My main motivator was to keep my son from ever being drafted for this or any war. The answer is clearly this, the United States, UK, Russia, and China have all coveted the natural gas resources discovered in Afghanistan in 1967 (reference reading listed below) and even after the long encroachment from the Russians in the seventies, the US have strategically positioned their military bases in those arenas to assist the oil and energy industries with the task of taking over governments if they have to, to yield the resources they seek for mass consumption in their markets and metropolises. When they say that the US has invested interest in Afghanistan they are entirely correct, if you are an American that uses oil and natural gas to maintain your living standard, you may need this resource on a daily basis and would probably fight for it if you and your family felt it was so necessary for your survival. However, if you oppose this war you need to find other alternatives to the current oil and gas infrastructures that have been built up in the past century. Not an easy thing to do, particularly if you are also against nuclear power resources, which the President of Iran seems almost too eager to help the US, literally, see the light about. He is actually coming to us with a five page plan, hoping to end the possibility all future nuclear threats.
Now if it were a free market system that generates globally this might be a great advantage to the United States. It might even be the most astounding moment for all of mankind if the blinders were all removed. Unfortunately, if President Obama were to actually step into the arena to discuss world dismantlement of nuclear weapons and actually accept some deal for nuclear energy technology to benefit the world, he would most likely be assassinated by some corporate power; energy commission envoy, posing as a deranged lunatic or by another rising energy company with billions in shareholder investments at stake, In fact, the world cannot expect to live in peace among one another, ever, with these parties dealing purely in monetary figures instead of human welfare and legally getting away with it. Yes, I believe now that the world used to be made up of two types of people, the blind and the blinder.
The blind are the ones that will never see my face or know me because I am just a number to them, a statistic on a spreadsheet. I am a perfectly expendable commodity, like anything else that assists in the manipulation of wealth to their benefit. They seek their benefit and only their benefit at all times. They are traders. Not to be confused with traitors. They would have you believe that is me. Because I am against them. You see, I don’t believe in money as something I need to collect like stamps or trinkets that I love just because I love them. I don’t love money and no matter how hard the media helps to promote the love of money, I will not buy into it, and yes, absolute pun intended, because, I know that the more money I make, the more money they make, and the more money they make the more power they have over me when they want it. Whomever has more money, has more power in this world currently, as it has been for centuries now, and incidentally, it is power that kills. Power is murderous to human life and subsequently, money is the vehicle that brings any unit to power. And if they are taking a portion of your money along with portions of your neighbors’ money as well, they certainly have more power than any one of us.
The blinder, are those like me, or like I was, that had no idea that people were killing other people for the resources and rights to resources in other countries that had little or no money to defend themselves. The blinder sometimes also want to remain blinder and do things to actually get blinder to the obvious facts. Probably, because they know what the odds are in going up against the kinds of power I’m talking about. Or, because they are about to strike it rich and they’d rather not share this information right now.
Remember, I said, used to be. Things are about to change now.
The trick is not getting more people to give me money to make this movement more powerful. The trick is getting people to open their eyes and see the bigger picture. That none of this life means anything if money is what motivates us, because money cannot replace our children. Money can never replace our species. Money can never do what you, as an individual can do. It can only assist you. They have tried to make it more personable by putting a face on every bill or coin among other commemorative symbols, but it is not human and when all of human life has been wiped off this planet and extraterrestrials finally arrive with their own exploration of space, and find this planet barren of us, they might wonder what it was that brought us to erect monument after monument. Was it our great appreciation for one another? Or was it greed and self idolization? It might be hard to believe that a race with the technology to discover other worlds would think it the later, unless they understood the process of decline inside an intellectual progression. When an entity becomes unwilling or unable to progress, then it will inevitably begin to self destruct.
I look for signs everyday of which direction we are going. I am becoming quite impressed today.
My Hypothesis Girl has put together some links to assist you in your homework. These are the links to reference materials. Do a background check on facts regarding the conflicts in Afghanistan over the last few decades. Discover for yourself, the facts behind U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.
And finally, Canada asks “Why is Afghanistan so important?” And thinks we should all know and I agree, you should know what you stand for… Read this report, published by a Canadian research group.
I want to ask all of you, why do you think the US is so occupied in Afghanistan? How do Americans directly benefit from a proposed natural gas pipeline that seems would only service that region of the world? Would Americans use this natural gas if we were actually able to work there and build such proposed pipelines? Or would Americans receive other financial benefits from the multi-billion dollar investments used for such contracts? And how will the new found wealth in Afghanistan be received by it’s people, if at all? Has anyone asked what the impact of such a venture would have on this culture before they began their invasion and or reconstructive aid? My experience reminds me that thieves don’t usually ask before they steal something.
Exactly how will America’s people today, whom are struggling, paying our hard earned taxes and giving of our own flesh and blood and that of our own children to the US military, see a benefit to upping our efforts in another poor country to work overseas and help the rich energy companies reap their rewards? I wonder. Because, since the US invasion in 2001, we have forgone trillions of dollars and lost thousands of lives, for what? To make the Afghanistan farmer look bad, and forcibly induct ourselves into their humble lives whether they like it or not, pit them against each other, imprison them and torture them and then lie to Americans back home to persuade them to keep supporting the work being done there, so we can reach this goal? What goal was that again? Criminalizing innocent people to make way for a multi-trillion dollar venture? I would love to ask the American people if that is what we want to continue to do? A support of a troop surge would be just that, an investment in the financial future of energy companies contracted to build a natural gas and oil pipeline that would service the Asian region and make trillions of dollars for some
sordidly and previously selected. I’m started to wonder who that might be.
Somehow, I think that if we were all being honest about it, we could all see to it, to help the Afghani people funnel natural gas towards infrastructures that would benefit those people, if they wanted us to, but I feel I’ve been deliberately excluded from this information and so have they, and somehow, I’ve managed to get the distinct impression that they would rather make their own decisions regarding their countries resources. Certainly, it would seem that the Afghans aren’t all that hip to the idea of foreign involvement. Maybe they were happy the way they were and wish to be left alone. Maybe how they run their lives and their country is none of our business since it is not our land and maybe, although the Afghani’s are sitting on a possible gold mine, I somehow still don’t see how allowing my government to continue it’s operations in that country, will inevitably benefit all but a few already wealthy people in the long run. Maybe the administration would like to respond to those questions?
Was all this hype about the heroin drug lords of Afghanistan yet another distraction away from the reality of our true financial interests in that country? I think it was, because back in 2000 I began to notice an increase in the classifieds recruiting all branches of military personnel. It would no longer behoove me to imagine that since the discovery of this natural gas abundance in 1967, appearing to measure out to 5 trillion in possible profits, dwarfing the profits from a good poppy crop year for Afghan drug lords, the US has been enthusiastically attempting to occupy this region through either one avenue or another, or for one reason or another. Senator Charlie Wilson, may not have been the incredible philanthropist he was made out to be in the film recently made about him, “Charlie Wilson’s War”, might he now? Charlie Wilson was a Texas politician…Need I say more? I probably should since the American people will probably look no further for information about his dealings back then, most will rely on what the film reports of him and ask no further questions. Then, in 1991, George Bush Sr. tried to start an offense in Iraq, but was short stopped. The involvement and invasions and extremism all comes from that area. Why?
But, the majority of Americans still believe that it is terrorism that we are fighting in Afghanistan. Are they terrorists or are they just a nation defending their own national security, culture and sovereignty on a shoe string budget? Why do Americans end up supporting both sides of a foreign country’s conflict, moving from one movement to another over a ten to twenty year period? Seems in that particular region, (and in Latin America) to be the case, if we include Iraq and Iran conflicts from the eighties where we supported Iraq against Iran, then later turned on Iraq in 2003. Charlie Wilson was the Texas congressman that won support for Afghanistan’s movement against the Red Army then. Now we are on the offensive against the Taliban, the “terrorist”. It doesn’t seem to matter whose side we are on, as long as we are there with our influential weaponry and development or reconstruction contracts, economic aid or, how do you say?… Humanitarian efforts? All of which are, incredibly, to build energy infrastructures and set up economic foundations… Now, who doesn’t get this?
In fact, this particular seems to make perfect sense now. In 2005 the Bush Administration passed
The Patriot Act and within it, The Bank Secrecy Act to thwart the use of illegal drug money laundering from having any influence in energy investments within the banking and trading systems throughout the world and some of those who had interest in TAPI were originally, the Taliban and N. Korea, whose investment money most likely came from poppy crop income. So the original Afghanistan parties that tried to invest in their own countries resources and build their own pipelines would therefore be blocked from being able to complete their pipeline projects, and, or maintain them, if they were ever able to begin. The US was quick to vilify N. Korea as well, over the past few years, notably when the Bush administration referred to them as being part of the Axis of Evil. “The terrorist”, as defined by the US government of the Bush administration really seems to be the Asian nationalists that are fighting for the rights to their own lands and resources. The US claims to be a legal authority, again, over another countries land and mineral rights and now banking regulations. How does this equate to anything of a humanitarian nature? I just don’t see it. It appears more and more to be the same strategy used against the originating North American Indians over two hundred years ago by the British and carried on by the new Americans. Do these people know of any other way to produce results other than through exploitation of indigenous tribes?
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alarm 9:00 am (wake)
HELLO! What’s this?…. Special Delivery….
The US accepts Iran’s Invitation to discuss security concerns…
Hey! Say what?!!! HOLY HALIFUCKINGLUJAH!!! I haven’t even posted this yet.
DOWN ON KNEES AND PRAY this isn’t a sneaky little trick!!!
Tears of joy…
Six years ago I might not have posted or published these kinds of statements, out of fear, but they were always questions going through my head. And even though today, we have elected a new President whom seemingly offered change, I believe he has made a burnt offering to the people of the United States by ending the occupation in Iraq while still servicing the energy contractors who are employed in the middle east by shifting the troops from Iraq to Afghanistan. And, it has been indicated in an interview on The Mike Mallory Show with 27 year ex-CIA analyst, Ray McGovern, that our own President may be afraid of certain elements of the CIA, and I believe he would have good reason to be, if he moves to approve nuclear energy or dismantle the military industrialists. If our own President of the United States of America has reason to fear for his life over such matters, what chance would anyone else have in speaking up for our own safety? We have to open our mouths widely and speak now.
Remember, that bit I did, back in October 2008 about Iceland going bankrupt and The Paradoxical American? I called it “The Paradoxal American” because using paradoxical made it sound too much like American popsicle for some reason.
Make sure you read the entire article. Twice. Three times and then again. Go over it with a fine tooth comb. Make notes if you have to, because I don’t want to have to come back and explain anything to you about this again…Although I probably will anyway, when I have any further FU’s.
It just seems utterly remarkable how this news seems to fall into my lap and on the very day of its release, today August 15, 2009
Remember, FU means Follow-Up, and in this case the follow-up, however not absolutely complete yet, expresses in great detail, what went on with Iceland’s bank Kaupthing, Glitner & Landsbanki before their collapse and at the mouth of the entire worlds woes over the credit and housing crises befalling all of the worlds banks. Remember, I told you, that wasn’t the only reason.
This is fear in action, on the comment boards of Hulu after RiP! A Remix Manifesto broadcast, apparently exclusive U.S. broadcast of Canadian film…
Okay, this is where I have a problem. When you say …
“We could be culturally free yes, but when a new disease rears its ugly head you will be kicking yourself as you watch your culturally free family die before your eyes.”
Jeremy, does that mean that no one will be interested in saving lives unless he or she is monetarily motivated? I think that’s what you think it means. But don’t try to scare me with threats that money is the answer to all of our problems, and especially not with NEW diseases. Not NOW!
BS! You know anything about living in a culturally free anything? And, since when have any of us really had much of chance to ever do it realistically? Everyone wants credit for their own ideas, for goods and services (in return) that maintain lifestyles apart from everyone else. It’s cool, it works like the merit system, except when we are talking about rights of intellectual property, digital, organic and public vs private which in fact, if you had come up with a Nobel winning comment on Hulu’s website, who do you think would collect that award? Have you read Hulu’s policies regarding their use of your comments on their site?
Go on my Brazilian Brothers…
The points that this movie makes does outline in gritty detail the layout and the plan, and I think the matter appears open for negotiation if anyone knew how to really negotiate here. We’ve got the scared, reliant on money on one side, and the free, who know they can trust their society on the other. I think it’s important to note that what Brazil did to break through the barriers for their positive medical achievement by breaking away from U.S. copyright laws, should prove you dead wrong.
RIP
A Remix Manifesto
on Hulu…what is this movie really about?
Yeah, I went on a little bit of a TANGENT there, in the comments of Hulu. When I post on another site I might not have those same privileges and rights, unless I need to be held accountable for some sort of indecency or illegal activity there. Some sites may maintain the right to use the comments for anything they like and not give any credit to the original author, so I try to use my own domain for extended comments. How’s that for a double edge sword?
Now let’s talk about the Double Edged Sword, is this a cliche or a world renowned quote? Is it a tag line for a razor ad? Or is it a public domain metaphor? Because I’ve heard many people use this phrase and I’ve used it and we all know what it means, but did someone coin this phrase once? Will I receive a cease and desist order to deny me any right of any further utterance of this phrase due to copyright infringement? Don’t we all go around quoting books, authors that reflect our own feelings? We loan books to our friends? We loan movies to our neighbors. Let’s get real people. It’s not a problem until the volume reaches a significant point of loss in REVENUE.
Those who share ask, what is lost when you share? The original is still there, intact, and to share a sample might mean a gross of future sales that might not have come if not shared the sample. Does a baker not lay out samples of cookies on a tray for customers to try? One of the other comments mentioned that Radiohead’s share experiment actually turned them into a profitable money making, self distributing band who broke their own record in sales from all their previous albums. So the argument that sharing injures the industry is bunk. But sharing samples is not the same as pirating full length movies and redistributing them on another website or sharing full length songs from peer to peer. And I believe that as an artist who wants to maintain the original integrity of my work, I would prefer to be the deciding party as to who and how anyone mashes it up, whether they are making money off it or not.
Obviously, this film raises the awareness for smaller artists such as myself in what I am legally entitled to do in efforts to produce fully legitimate original content. It also displays the wave, or should I say RAVE, over the right to use another artists work to build upon and therefore make it their own by way of interpretation. It explains the current laws and introduces us to Lawrence Lessig, the attorney that declared the film illegal at the time he saw it. Of course, at the time, Lawrence assumed that the filmmaker would attempt to distribute it for profit. That, to any attorney would make the film a potential hotbed for lawsuits unless Girl Talk’s Greg Gillis, was willing to pay for the rights to publish all those samples. However, the film has been released as a share and share alike creative commons venture on OpenSourceCinema.org and no one appears to be directly receiving compensation for the work on this film.
Screech to a halt…
Is the movie about our obedience to money?
Sure it’s easy for a fourteen year old to steal money out of his own Dad’s pocket and feel comfortable inside that crime because we know our Dad loves us, he would give it to us anyway, or maybe he’s an asshole and we feel justified to take his money because he never buys us anything. Maybe the internet makes stealing music and movies feel just as easy and comfortable. It certainly made us feel closer to the artists that we love. Maybe for a moment we thought, these artists would want us to have their music, until all of sudden the artist complains and the record company realizes it’s on shaky ground. It took the justice department to go after simple folk USA who were using these peer sharing networks to share songs, to retrain the American people that they rely on the industry to make money, as they rely on all their industries to make money to live among the richest country in the world. The American people almost forgot that they support the monetary system.
Why would we now have the urge to bite the hands that feeds us?
But that’s not where the argument ends. Because money is involved in everything we do. It’s often the reason why we do things. We’ve made ourselves dependent on the stuff, unable to grow or rear anything without some self help book or aid campaign to guide us through what used to be a man’s sudden need for survival. Everything is trivial in matters of survival as long as you have money.
Why can’t this change? Why can’t we rely on each other to perform what is needed for the whole and wealth of the rest of us? We might have been born selfish, but we can learn to help each other find food and shelter and, supposedly, we might be able to protect ourselves . Currency has taken the place of the human spirit IMO, in some cases as the above comment, I wonder. Advertisements try to appeal to our desire to help, looking for financial backing and not real communication and interaction, it’s easier to give money then to go and actually help. And, in today’s circumstances, is it safe to give money to any outfit that you are not directly involved in?
The RIAA and the MPAA are not working to protect the rights of the artist, they are working to protect the right to their money as was the Metallica musician on the Larry King show protesting to his fans, that stealing his songs hurts his career and record sales, and devalues his artistry. While the other side argues that sharing helps promote sales.
Hahahaha. I’ve got over 100 videos out there that I have shared on various blogs and I’ve barely made ten bucks from all those efforts. My good buddy over at operationitch.com is asking for donations to help pay for a new computer to keep his blog alive. When I took on the task of becoming a video blogger, I did so out of passion, and I can bet that’s what others did it for as well, some have become somewhat successful, but I doubt many of the creative commons crowd really gets much financial stimulation unless they are also web developers and domain name owners. In order to make real money on the internet, you must deal in volume, so we should all realize by now that only the Googles and Youtubes and Hulu’s are the sites that make money.
They are mega-sites and they know this very well, and are making fists full of dollars off of artists just like me and I checked the box that allowed them to do that. I chose to share and I don’t know why, I guess I felt it was an opportunity to share my vision since it would have never have been seen anyway. Artist don’t typically create volume, that is not their usual aspiration, but I think we’ve adapted to that and over time our work begins to develop, and over time we make the right connections. It really isn’t much different then if I moved to Hollywood and try to get a major motion picture made which would be riskier by far. It takes time and dedication and giving away some spec work to gain any recognition, all the while some digital engine is racking in the dough, eventually, maybe I’ll be compensated. But, no matter what, I’ve left my very permanent mark.
The film also touches on the period of time when the US changed the patent law to include options to register living organisms at the patent office, and I could see that being very dangerous, because when the military starts making soldiers that you can’t kill and patenting them as living organisms that they created and they own all the rights to, making it illegal to dismantle them or reprogramming them…Then we have a real problem on our hands people.
But the film is right, we are experiencing less freedoms and we are also experiencing less of whatever the world has to offer without getting it through a middleman somewhere. It didn’t mention Monsanto specifically, but through research, you may find, that is the corporation that made sure that patent law was revised. The GMO argument is also part of this. If Monsanto can be allowed to take a perfectly free and natural organism and genetically modify it to include it’s weed killing mechanism and then patent it so that someday we would no longer be allowed to grow our own food eventually without paying them for the right to do so, because GMO plant infestation seems to be on the rise, why then is it so difficult to indicate a remixer’s work as original?
Something is not right here. It seems pretty apparent to me as well as to millions of others who chose to be so enlightened, Girl Talk clearly does not have the financial resources behind it to assure that the law bends to it’s benefit.
This article from Reuter’s, just released today, August 12, 2009 indicates that a WTO panel has found China’s international trade rules need to be revised in the area of books, and other audiovisual and media works. Seems the country has countered U.S. efforts to compete within China since it has had to compete with black market pirated media prices and since the financial crisis, China owns a hefty portion of U.S. debt, it might need to reconsider it’s trade practices and internal laws governing piracy to see any benefit to owning such debt. How can American industries survive, even profit, if the trade policies have been thwarted by such infringements?
So there. I guess the argument is closed now. RiP! A Remix Manifesto, is not really about little guy Girl Talk, it’s about international trade laws and cultural disputes regarding who should be allowed to make money and who needs it?
CHAT LIVE with TwigSnap ButtCrack and her trusty sidekick, Big T. These two love to get into trouble and DO so at every opportunity. Currently, they have embarked on a very delicate mission;
To bring LIVE cartoonish comedy to the temperamental masses, trying to sort through feelings of angst. Chatting with people who would rather not say what’s on their minds. Chatting to folks who just want to listen to someone else bitch, because it makes them feel better. Chatting about movies, chatting about religion and politics, the two (too) taboo to chat about topics. Am I tempting your tongue? Anger can be funny if you use it sparingly.
If you leave your (revver) video response here to any chat session, it will be loaded into a special feed that will be featured on the home site, as we start a new gallery page of videos, The TICKTALKTANK…Or maybe I’ve just gone too far. TANKER SORES.
Share with Someone You Love, Be the Force, Show them The Light,
I was just talking about photons on my TwigSnapButtCrack’s TICKTALKLIVE at the same time this google video was being uploaded. What are the odds?
I’m a subscriber of Goggletechtalks channel and unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be a very popular channel. Too Bad. There is so much more going on to be positive about. Quantum Computing…nano-photonics, metamaterials, plasmonics, and thermal and energy transport in nano-structures, now why aren’t our teenagers more interested in all this stuff? They are always screaming that they are bored and have nothing to do. What are they talking about? Look at this stuff and if you don’t want to, sit down and learn it anyway.
