"Along with traveling there with The Heat and Steven Stills w/ Monassas, at age 17, I jammed at the"Mulwala Concert 1972" with a local band. It was 250 miles into the Outback of Australia"-Ed Marrow
On the Road Again
Long Way from LA
Woodstock
Rollin And Tumblin (Monterey 1967)
Human Condition (Kralingen 1970)
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Verlie (my mother), Harvey Mandell and Alan Wilson in Europe 1970
Bob and Mick on stage
Mick waitin for the cager
Unfortunately, the new biography does not include my mother Verlie Bea (Bobs first wife, and mother of Mick Hite, Bob's only son) who is the focal point of songs such as "Utah Blues" and "Sugar Bee", or myself and my brothers and sister (especially Mick, who died tragically the same way as his father from accidental overdose) who are all an important part of Bob Hite's, and Canned Heat's, history.
The Death of Democracy through Militant Consumerism
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"It would be easier to put a camel through the eye of an needle, than for a rich man to get into heaven"
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"Whats bad for workers is good for investers" - Alan Greenspan
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"The Ultimate facist state is the corporate state"
- Mussollini
Rockefeller using the military against striking workers, America and the rest of the world has a long history of using terrorism / brutality / exploitation against labor and the poor.
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Terrorism:
Causing suffering/death to civillians for socio-political reasons.This is what sanctions are, this is what poverty is.
All societies capitalist or communist use death & suffering to control, manipulate and oppress their people. The current societal designs used everywhere promote isolation /classwarfare/ preditorialism / warriorism / barbarism / eletism. We are all at war with each other for basic neccesities, because to have enough of anything, is not profitable.
We live in a country / world today that says caring for the well-off promotes free market democracy, while caring for the poor promotes socialism. All societal models and systems are pyramidial authortarian systems based on rewarding aggression (mental, physical, economic, academic and political). This puts the most aggressive types in charge of all aspects of our societies. Aggressive people tend to promote preditorialism. Preditorialism promotes poverty .
Free Market Capitalism is preditorial.
The ground breaking behavioral studies of : Jane Elliot (Blue eye Brown eye), Stanley Millgram (Obediance), Phil Zimbardo (Stanford Prison Experiment) and others show insight and causes of negative sociatal outcomes. These studies show, that any time one group or individual has unchecked power / control over other individuals or groups, abuse, torture and death will occur. Currently the haves/rich of the world, control the quality of the lives of the havenots/poor. Honest capitalists will tell you that we use poverty to motivate/force people to move up the social ladder. Problem is, if you can't or don't, its a death sentence for many. The same Adam Smith free market devoties, will tell you (when they are being honest) that capitalism was never designed to "raise all boats" or guarantee a decent life for all.
So just how are people supposed to be personally responsible for thier own economic outcomes, in a system designed to fail so many?
We have made poverty a crime and greed the American Dream. Children of the poor are being taken from them, put into state custody and the parents left in the streets to die (so much for family values).
America has the second worst mortality rates for newborns in the modern world. American mortality Rates
Poverty is caused by policy, policies based on preditorialism not laziness or lack of morals/ethics. Right now people picking your food are starving. 25 percent of the homeless have jobs. In this country we feed criminals even give them medical care (sometimes), but the poor can starve, be turned away from truama centers (one out of every two homeless).
It is a matter of policy that we don't create:
Livable Wages Affordable Homes Affordable Healthcare Good Jobs Affordable Transportation
The Constitution say's to "promote the general welfare", not specific economic classes, it say's "equal representation", not just for those with "market force'. In the "Unwritten Social Contract", all of us give up our individual soverinty to the state and its laws, and for doing so we are to be protected, not just by the military in war but also by policy at home. The "Market" does not come before our laws, democratic rights, human rights or the higher standards of a decent morality, ( remember, the capitalists will tell you that the market is "ammoral and is based on nature and that suffering is natural", what a self serving joke).
Instead the current so-called Free Market, is a predatorial unacountable if not a criminal economic system (based upon the darkest aspects of animalism as a socio-economic policy model) that is eroding mankind's recently-aquired evolutions of enlightenment, modern civility, individual rights and hopes of abundance for all.
Imagine making your children or family members compete for basic needs. Usually we give the most care and attention to those who are worst off. But society is not modeled on or for the family. It is modeled on a mechanized view of base animalism. This is being justified through an incorrect and self serving view by all societies of "survival of the fitist". This concept is not aplicable as a social design, especialy for higher evolved species. Most higher order species practice support within the group, (even Formica/Wood ants share food with each other). A pecking order is used by most groups but killing and murder within the group for status or even survival is very rare.
But they are animals after all.
Did I mention we're supposed to be the most evolved?
As of now, in so-called free societies, resistance to the free market and its economic/military colonialism is labeled terrorism. Truth is , you are 1,000 times more likely to die from a policy of your own country than by a terrorist. Then again our country is run by terrorists so..........
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Policy effect on the poor during Katrina's aftermath.
We shipped them out (after the tragedy), but we're not helping them back. We're telling those who don't make it back within a certain time-frame that they will be forced too give up the're properties, too the same people who helped ship them out! (sounds familiar huh?)
It has always been about the taking of land. Never Forget thousands drowned, hundreds shot, and now suicides while America sits and watches and does nothing.
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American policy has tied economic profit with national security, and in so many words says, anyone who thwarts profits for companys in the US is a terrorist, anyone! In typical hypocritical fashion America also teaches terrorism at the "School of the Americas" at Fort Benning in Georgia.
The U.S. is currently trying to overthrow Venezuella, Cuba, Iran and the middle east in general.
America promotes economic volitilaty at home (good for investers, bad for workers) and has a foreign policy of "economic destabelization-economic restructuring ", this is where corporations manipulate governments and their militaries too force buisness transactions in favor of said corporations.
What is being promoted is Militant Consumerism - this is where people are willing to kill and be killed in order to be able to buy things they don't even need or even want. Society has been / being designed to keep us all in survival mode, because the more scared and desperate we are, the more obedient we'll be. While at the same time our education system is being blamed for the failures of our economic system. Children's childhoods are being sacrificed away in the name of "competition", so that business's will have as large a pool as possible of educated-disposable-workers, the more workers there are, the more buisnesses can push down the workers worth (basic supply & demand manipulation).
The Common Wealth for all people is being replaced by private wealth for the few.
And in the War for Wealth, the death of the poor are just acceptable collateral losses. We hate the poor because they represent the failure of our economic system, and in America we hate failure. Please remember the number one cause of death in America for the poor is no healthcare, though their death certificates will say something like, death by complications of a said desease or natural causes, its really by lack of medical attention because their poor. America lets thousands die every year. More poor have died in this country from lack of healthcare than all the soldiers in all the wars america has fought in combined.
These numbers do not include :
US workers killed on the job 15-20 a day since 9/11 - 35,000
US suicides 83-87 a day since 9/11 - 150,000
US medical mistake deaths 2,000 a day since 9/11-3.5 million
US auto accidents deaths 120 a day since 9/11 - 200,000
We know how the elderly poor live and die horribley, but I must also mention the middle class elderly, who for many will spend the last 10-20-30 years of thier lives slowly dying locked away in nursing homes(don't get me wrong for many this is better than living alone). Never in human history have so many lived in physical pain and loneliness for so long.
Most if not all of the suffering and deaths mentioned are caused by policy decisions in the name of economic expediency.
And where are the so-called Pro-lifers on this issue, well before you are born you are a sacred life, and must be saved, after you are born you are disposible/exploitable product who's duty is to blindly serve the economic wims of others. And in a ironic twist, the same people that do not believe in genetic evolution, do believe in economic evolution (social darwinism). For in this rich socalled prolife and kind and good society, we evict and throw the poor, the sick and the elderly into the streets Where many die and end up in........
Never forget there are 3.5 million homeless in America
50 million Americans have no healthcare
The same authortarian system that refuses to let us practice medicine on our selves, does not teach it in schools, then turns the poor / homeless away from medical care at a rate of one out of every two. If they do look at you, they tell you to come back weeks if not months later in hopes that you will ethier get better on your own or die. Many doctors are no longer taking the hypacratic oath.
Lack of media coverage of poverty in America video
There is an on going myth that the Free Market trickles down, inreality it goes up. An example of this is Social Security which was created for the poor is now collected by all economic classes. The poor die at earlier ages than the rest due to no healthcare thus forfeiting their social security to others it was never intended for in the first place.
The poor of the 1800's had land / property they could have passed on to thier children the same way the wealthy do, but the industrialists forced the poor (not to mention Indians) from thier lands making them dependent on the industrialist system. Remember, its about taking the land away from the poor.
What the poor got was/is, Child Slavery, Wage Slavery, Street bosses, Jim Crowism, Cronism, Class Warfare, Economic Servitude, Slums etc.
There are more people inslaved today, than anytime in history.
Americas position on immagration has always been duplicitous. The "give me your poor, tired, huddled masses" on the statue of liberty really was about replacing black labor in America and making sure there was an ample supply of cheap labor for the Industrialists to exploit.
Those immigrants that arrived with less than 3 dollars were turned back as matter of policy.
Remember, the more laborers there are the less they will get paid. Basic supply / demand manipulation that is still being promoted today.
The current economic/labor policy promoted by economic eletists is to send our jobs to other countries that are easier to exploit while at the same time importing workers through H1b and H2b programs. An example of this is that nearly all of the corner markets near me have not hired a local/american in the last 12+ years.The reason given to me was "americans cause problems, they smoke and drink".
Pitting the old against the young, the sick against the healthy, the poor against wealthy, not to mention the desperate of one country against the desperate of another country is a barbaric system, and doomed to failure.
Modern day Scab labor
When people are forced, or are willing to work too hard for too long for too little, quality of life is lowered for us all.
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Exploitation is and was not only about labor.Along with murdering off the poor for profit, preditorial corporate run governments all over the world are still experimenting on civillians and military personel without thier consent.
The economic answers are easy. Make all basic necessities( food, homes, utilities, basic medical etc. )not for profit( that still means 10-15% profit ). The best of times economically in America were when the cost to earnings ratio was at its smallest( 1940 -1950s ).During these times a guy working at a gas station could buy a home. Another is pay cielings, because there is such a thing as having too much ( i am not promoting that everyone should be forced to have the same, just that poverty should not be a death sentence ). Societies designed on the promotion of consumption-debt, manufactured scarcity, gentrifacation and ultimately preditorial economics that puts property over people, is a society that will never reallize the promises of democracy and a world of abundance.
"I personally watched an unedited, now missing FBI video that clearly showed flamethrowers on the tanks (which you can see in the above picture )starting the fires in Waco killing those men ,women and children".-Ed Marrow
Never forget, 2.9 million Indians killed to make way for the "manifest destiny" of the chosen people, or master race to some. White supremecy in America, was a model for Aryan supremecy in Germany. ___________________________________
The Burning Times
The "Burning Times" killed between 300,000 - 9 million mostley women and young girls over a 400-600 year period where the main intent was aquisition of pagan land by the Church. Most of the women and young girls were Christians.
Suggested Movies: Ferinhite 911 Roger and Me Sicko Syriana Barbarians at the gate Grapes of Wrath Inherit the Wind Johnny got his Gun THX1138 Birth of a Nation Ferinhite 451 Metropolis Brazil
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