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Maybe the biggest question progressives ask themselves while also failing to deal with whatever answers they come up with, is what is it that prevents many people from exercising their moral prerogative or the dissonance between what they see happening in the world and what they feel should be changed. Most people feel powerless when it comes to making real social, cultural, or even personal change in their lives. Two simple examples are riding a bike and eating healthy. Those two examples are practically revolutionary in a society dependent on cars, lack of space and time, and the devastating effects is produced in a society that entices one to eat "filler" food, food that essentially has no nutritional value at all. The rise of type two diabetes, and other world wide food and water based issues, is tantamount to a pandemic. No, im not going to get into all the overriding and coinciding factors of why we are where we are, but if people rode bikes instead of their cars to go

Dont want to get too far behind all this fast paced

Dont want to get too far behind all this fast-paced breaking news. First, the assassination attempt and now a week later, almost before trump took off his bandage prop (his ear looks fine, by the way). I don't even think it was a bullet.  Second and third is Biden gets covid and then drops out of the race. How much covid had to do with it will be forgotten by history? So, it'll be a Kamala Harris-donald trump battle for the white house. But is it any different than Biden-trump? There seems to be actual elation among the democrats. Even I feel it because I'm always open to the opportunity for any kind of change. Harris will have the same problems, if elected, every previous democratic president or Congress has had and that is, all those members who stood every time Netayahu opened his mouth at his american state of the union address. That is the image I carry around inside whenever I start believing that america (as a nation state) will ever come out of its pre-revolutionary

Is it like joe biden says, that we only have one jo

Is it like joe biden says, that we only have one job to do and that is defeat donald trump? Not to me, the only job we as common citizens have to do is to defeat fascism because it is anti-thetically opposed to any basic principles of freedom, equality, and peace. We have the additional obligation to defeat the military/ industrial control of the us economy. There are two principal issues surrounding the october 7th attack by hamas which are very similar to the secrecy surrounding the 9/11 attacks in america. In fact, right after the attack the news immediately likened this Oct attack to an Israeli 9/11. 1. It's claimed that america gave a warning to Israel about a possible attack. Anyone who defends Israel genocide can say a warning does not constitute Israeli upping its security based on that. I would remind any of that by saying a country that on a drop of a hat reacts, overreacts to any possibility of attack, it would be hard to believe that israel would ignore it. (It's al

If you listen to bidens news conference is as bleak

If you listen to bidens news conference is as bleak in reality as anything trump can muster. Weaponization as policy. Every country should be able to make their own weapons? Complete support of Israel, even at this late date in the genocide. Despite what he says, the cold war is not over, in fact, the cold war is colder. How could it not be? The opposite of the warmth we throughout the world are continuing to experience. Maybe there is no longer an existential threat. Reality starvation, yes we'll survive on the crumbs or our common sense that tells us we should be afraid but can we afford to be? (The above was written before the attempt on trumps life so id be remiss if i didnt chime in on that) Its still early yet but ive heard talk of god protecting trump. Heres a man who has been impeached but not convicted, twice, been indicted for everything from treason to money laundering to rape (convicted on some minor points related to charges), and is called the teflon president, so we

Baja (War, Days 56 thru 67)

  Baja (or war days 56 thru 67)   For me, sitting in planes always seems like small, cramped spaces, slightly bigger than coffins, Ready to fall at the slightest pretext. it’s one of the top ten sure ways to die 100%, If the wing does fall off or the engines stop, Like I imagine it will. Make no mistake, it’ll be over soon, I tell Myself, If those things did happen, I still believe It will turn out all right. After all, what were all the flying dreams about when I was a child. Saving myself in occasions like this. Always escaping the inevitable, horrific fate. Three hours of these kind of thoughts until Touchdown in San Jose del Cabo. Where the walk through the airport is a bustling carnival of insurance, tortilla sales whistles, Kids, and Indian mothers begging, “Can you spare a dime” in espanol, the same plea in all the languages the world over. A million cabbies more than eager to take you to town. We are here. Safely ensconced in town,

A toy train and dinosaur loving boy

He was A train and dinosaur loving boy, set his boyhood sights on engineer, fighting giant reptiles or the future mean machines of evil men. A lost childhood dream, he finally makes his peace, Looking out for revenge, a release, He doesnt know now who he seeks, but he makes his stand,   dies with a gun blazin in his hand, Long before he becomes a man. Whatever vanity he had inside tHen, Has since evaporated from his soul, and left him,   if not a better man to be, at least a lessor one, i see And that is good in a funny sort of way. Love. that love that rises from a violent free world, a love whereby, his socialized tendencies must be thwarted, for they contain all the fragments of his own oppression, and his repression of them is a mirror. The revolution within a revolution within a revolution that starts right here, in all our hearts, moves like a dream, a collective dream,   Its appropriate but probably an odd coincidence that black histor

No change no justice

No change, no resolution How many abusers of humanitarian causes, i.e. Para /official militaries, militias, police forces, tyrants, dictators having been accused of genocidal practices over the last century by national and international judicial reviews have ever been punished, sanctioned, or adjudicated.? Sent from my iPad

Civil War Movie

Civil War Movie Finally, a movie all about violence without any thematic context. In the beginning of the movie three veteran journalists encounter a young woman photographer who is an admirer of the veteran journalist (kirsten dunst) who amidst a violent protest gives some advice to the young wanna be journalist.   When the vets decide to go to,washington d.c. The young journalist tags along, much to the dismay of the veteran, who is hard line and knows whats what in this world of getting the story and the pictures to back it up. The money shots. It's not clear who prints or even hears the stories because nothing seems to be "normal". These journalists are covering an American civil war which from the film's opening looks as if it's been going on awhile. Throughout the countryside there is damage to cities, towns, and the land is scattered with men with guns, refugees, tribes, armies and burnt military equipment. There's the we

Pre-Post debate

(Things are moving fast in the post-debate world from the democrats touting anyone between Harris, Michelle Obama, and every other lessor known liberal politician to rise to the occasion in case Biden is talked down from his ambitious and illusionary presidential position. I will try to keep up or better yet, stay ahead, stay the course and not fear the real future: fear, instead, the repetition of the present, the mouse wheel turning) Pre-debate The presidential coin was going to flip this year, both heads and no tails, will be arguing their case in front of a worldwide audience and some people will be tuning in for strictly entertainment value. The jokes and jokers are on us, for sure. I always thought george bush jr was the stupidest president we ever had until 2016, and i believe, trump is surpassing that high level again this year. To think the polling is close just goes to show how ludicrous the american people are. Trump is stupid but im not sure if joe Bid

Notes and Quotes 1-From Arendt to Anything Goes

  Here's one thing wrong with America. I'm listening to Ed of MSNBC rant about what we all need to do in order to progress. The Senate just voted for the Keystone Pipeline. Recent reports showing improvement in the economy, more jobs, and how we're coming out of the recession (depression) we've been in for six years. My question is, how can anyone expect any progress when we accept a norm of disaster, war, economic collapse and six, ten, twenty years later we accept their version of progress Best of all will be those who know only one thing for certain: that whatever else happens, as long as we live we shall have to live together with ourselves. It's those who actually decide to not participate, even when attempts to force them, who are the ones who would not be able to live with themselves if they were complicit (by even remaining passive) in murder. Much more reliable are the doubters and skeptics, not because skepticism and doubting is good or wholesome