Its times like these...
Current mood: hopeful
Category: Life
I've been listening to a lot of people talk about historic things. This election being a huge page turner, not only for our country, but the entire planet. People really do want to see us figure this shit out. Not only for our sakes, but theirs as well.
I was listening to Patrice Oneil and Anthony Cumia argue about race in this country on O and A. They both made good points, although they were in total diametric extremes. Anthony thinks that the blacks will see this as a leg up for themselves and rich people would lose everything. Patrice's point was that racism is still very much alive, but phony and covert. They both had the logical conclusion to illogical ingrained fears based on power.
When I was a kid in the mid 70's and early 80's, there was this SciFi vision of the future on TV and in Movies that I was totally ready for. Flying cars, time machines, distant wars on distant galaxies. All that shit. Totally down for it in a huge way. But the other day it hit me: this IS the FUTURE and that was wishful thinking en masse. We really do want to be better and faster and richer. But we aren't because there's a bunch of psychological bullshit that we can't put down.
An Open Message:
So called WHITE PEOPLE of America (this includes everyone with a lack of melanin sufficient enough to burn in the sun):
You oppressed people. You enslaved them. You held them down, hung them from trees, dragged them from cars, whipped them, took their kids away, turned dogs loose on them, worked them to death, treated your horses better, refused to let them educate themselves and took advantage of them and then laughed at them for being stupid. You guys literally came into someone else's country (cause your own country didn't care for you) and just started claiming it for yourselves. You built this country on greed and avarice and twice it has crumbled to nothing (at least in a financial sense). And yet there are people of color who, despite all that oppression, learn to play the game better than you do. It was bound to happen and you know it. Why not fess up to it, pick up the pieces and finally stop looking at the brown and black people as these ignorant threats that you have to protect yourself from. If you stopped the pretentious attitude that tells you are better and that you are entitled to a better life than those brown and black people who are naturally predisposed to do your bidding, you might not be so scared. But you can't drop the attitude because what other identity would you have?
So Called BLACK and BROWN people of America: I'm going to say this to you because it is the truth. SLAVERY DID NOT BEGIN WITH WHITE PEOPLE. There was no way any Europeans were navigating through the jungles by themselves. They had help in the beginning. From other Africans. Tribal kings were the ones who thought up the plan to kidnap their own people and sell them to the Europeans for goods. From the jump off of African slavery, your own sold you out. For a while after slavery, there was a sense of purpose and righteousness that black and brown folks had to uplift their race. They HAD to make it better. They HAD to be seen as competent, intelligent people, if only to prove that the whites were wrong for what they did (and so where those first africans that sold us). They held down the best for so long, that it had to surge forward to survive. It HAD to. There was a sense of pride that prevailed for a time that helped us educate ourselves and step up out of poverty.
But that is fading, black folks. Now when you look at how you are portrayed in the world, you come off as uncouth, half naked, shot up, violent, hating your women, women whoring out, rioting, materialistic to the degree that you feed your kids shit to dress them in designer clothes, while you beat their asses and sometimes kill your young. Its all asses and titties and money and diamonds (that your african counterpart is getting his limbs hacked off for), slang that doesn't even make sense at times, all the songs sound the same and have the same simplistic messages: please don't leave me, fuck you, fuck me, fuck everybody, I'm better than you, I'll kill you, I'll fuck you THEN kill you, my pussy/dick is better/bigger than yours, I'm the shit, etc. Even though theres money flying around and some of us aren't living in the projects anymore, they still think and act as though they are. But you can't drop the attitude because what other identity would you have?
Which brings us back to the future. This all will inevitably have to change. Now whites can't say that blacks are too stupid to be president, and the blacks can no longer say they WON'T LET US be president. If the economy continues to slump, blacks and whites will have to share whats left. The rich in this country, amidst all the poor and middle class, will begin to seem like the French aristocracy just before the revolution and heads getting chopped off. The have nots are growing so fast that the havs are just spending it more so the have nots don't get it. Something will happen soon that will force a change.
If history has taught us anything in our country is that new presidents usually get slammed with an epic situation that tests their strength and character. It usually involves a lot of casualties and it forces ordinary people to suffer and endure. But here in the future, no one is exempt and whatever happens after tonight, "the truth hits everybody, the truth hits everyone" and everyone has to learn to swim.
Holy fucking shit! Aquadots has GHB in it! WTF?!
Current mood: shocked
China is officially buggin.
Popular Toy Aquadots Recalled
Posted: Nov 8, 2007 09:13 AM
Another toy recall is causing concerns but in this case the hazard is not lead.
Aqua Dots, they've been big sellers. The craft beads were toys young Heather Lehane in Australia loved to play with, until she put them in her mouth.
Her mother Charlotte remembers, "The ambulance wasn't that long in coming but she was in such a state, so un-well. She was pale and just the vomiting and the fitting we just couldn't believe."
Two children in the United States and three in Australia have been hospitalized for eating Aquadot.
When ingested the body metabolizes the toy's adhesive into a compound similar to a date rape drug, potentially triggering seizures, even coma.
U.S. health officials say the problem was in how the toys were made, in China.
Julie Vallese, spokesperson for the Consumer Product Safety Commision says, "There was a substitution of adhesive into the product. It wasn't known at the time that that's what would happen."
Four million Aquadots toys are now ordered off store shelves in the U.S.
Pam Smith of Houston, Texas saw the news and returned hers already: "I looked up on the screen and there it was, Aquadots. So I said I have my receipt, I just bought it today so we can't have it."
Aquadots made Walmart's top twelve Christmas toys list, and sold as Bindeez, it was Australia's top toy of the year.
Now it's a top worry for health officials and parents.
Officials say parents should return the product or contact Spin Master of Canada at 1-800-622-8339 or log on to www.aquadotsrecall.com for a replacement.
They say parents of kids who've been playing with it should look out for symptoms that could start off looking like the flu.
CC: And watch out for the inevitable scumbags that drop that shit in your drink. Did u dig what they said? She "ate Aquadot". They are already making it a drug. Aquadots will be Schedule I in no time. Dudes will be doing a dime stretch in the clink for Aquadotting. How many club kids are already up on Aquadots?
China don't give a fuck. its gonna keep putting fucked up shit in normal everyday products like toothpaste and toys just for the apparent hell of it. I used to like Chinese culture as a concept (the Tao and ying yang and all that), but I think I'm over it now. They eat dogs, cause global warming, and put poisonous shit in your toothpaste.
Any of us who have been following the news and praying for the safe return of Nailah Franklin are sad to learn that her body was found yesterday and positively ID'd as of today.
Please send your prayers and condolences to her sister Marina who is a comedian here in NYC.
myspace.com/marinafranklin.
No one should have to suffer a fate as this and we pray that whomever it was that took her life will be found and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Please keep Nailah, Marina and the rest of the Franklin family in your thoughts today.
Sorry, only Jesus gets to do that..
Current mood: impressed
Thu May 31, 10:15 AM ET
BHEJAPADAR, India (Reuters) - The corpse of an Indian man was exhumed by his family in a remote eastern village in the belief that a witch doctor could bring him back to life, three days after he died.
Arun Majhi, 21, died after he was bitten by a snake while scouring the jungle near his home for firewood last Thursday and his grieving family buried him the same day.
But two days later, Majhi's mother dreamt that her son could come back to life. On Sunday, they dug his grave, exhumed the corpse and hired Natabara Sahu, a local witch doctor, who promised to do his best.
"I am sitting beside my son waiting for him to come back to life," Bibhisan Majhi, Arun's father, told Reuters Television as he fanned Arun's corpse, which was covered with a mosquito net.
But with Arun still dead two days after the witch doctor was hired, the family gave up and reburied him in Bhejapadar village in the eastern state of Orissa.
C: What if he actually came back to life?! Dharma of the Dead!
ROME (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered particles of cocaine and marijuana, as well as caffeine and tobacco, in the air of Italy's capital, they said on Thursday.
The concentration of drugs was heaviest in the air around Rome's Sapienza university, though the National Research Council's Dr. Angelo Cecinato warned against drawing conclusions about students' recreational habits.
Calling their study "the first in the world to show the presence of particles of cocaine suspended in the atmosphere of the city," the researchers said they took samples in Rome, the southern city of Taranto and in Algiers in North Africa.
Nicotine and caffeine were detected in all three, "showing how widespread consumption of these substances is and how they remain in the atmosphere," state-funded CNR said in a statement.
The concentration of cocaine in Rome's atmosphere was only 0.1 nanogrammes (1 nanogramme is one billionth of a gramme) per cubic metre at its height during winter months, the researchers said. But the conclusions were worrying for public health.
"It is well documented that even small concentrations in the air of these pollutants can seriously damage health," said Dr. Ivo Allegrini of the CNR's Institute for Atmospheric Pollution.
But here is a podcast of some original stuff I've been working on. Its very slow, downtempo electro stuff...not real jump up beats. Basically when I can't sleep, I get up and play around with Reason. Or at least I USED to before the damn thing froze up on me. God is testing my musical resolve..
Not alot of heavy production value, but these little experiments came to me in lieu of sleep and I'm happy with them. Eventually they will evolve but for now, enjoy..If you hit play and let go on, it'll play all the podcasts in succession.
The mix after that is a special secret for those who loved the Boys from Liverpool. Seems they inspired Cirque du Soliel and their old producer and his son to stay up late and tinker as well..
This mideast thing is exposing the worst of humanity and the lengths hatred will take you.
Israel got Kofi Anan like "What the fuck is up with you, Israel?!" They killed the peacekeeper OBSERVERS for Christ's sake (they didn't help that guy much either).
They made such a big deal about pulling out of Lebanon, just to blow it to bits and then invade it again..
If anyone saw that "Inside Hezbollah" thing on CNN (which was surprisingly somewhat sympathic) Israel has been sneaking into Lebanon for YEARS assassinating suspected terroritsts yet they have more weapons and claim that Hezbollah started it by capturing 2 soliders that shouldn't have even been there in the 1st place. That's why they have to "degrade" their weapons and "pound" them into submission (these are words your senators are using cause they decided to jump on Yosemite Sam's rootin, tootin' agenda.)
AND they got the nerve to be using fucking white phosphorus on the bombs that is literally burning the skin off babies. Can you say Napalm babies in Vietnam 35 years ago? They are firing on innocent people who are fleeing for their lives and burning the skin off them JUST to make sure they have no more weapons so Israel can live freely. BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL THE LEBANESE WHO NOW HAVE NO FUCKING COUNTRY LEFT??
Its fucked up to watch shit on terrorism and see them recruit kids into their beliefs, that is wrapped up in thousands of years of Islamic thought. I think Islam, along with the higher nature of most religions, is a valuable religion in the scope of all others. But not as the one. Not with this kind of schizm between life and death. But I'm beginning to understand what makes them so angry that they are willing to blow themselves up just to get closer to what they believe. We can say that's barbaric, but imagine if some other country decided to invade us and try to start running shit. Wouldn't happen. You 'd see the Mafia, and the Crips and the Klan and La Raza band together to kick whomever the fuck would be stupid enuf to pull that off in the poop shoot. It may be the one time in history you'd see true racial harmony when we'd have to go fuck someone else up. U ain't takin OUR SHIT.
Think about if one day Canada snapped and decided that we had to become Kanucks or die. What if all the Mexicans went Azteca again and started human sacrifices and shit. What could we do? We'd freak, that's what we'd do. We'll, YA'LL would freak, I'd blend in..
And it may not be very nice to point this out, but it seems a bit karmically fucked up for Isreal to have had a slavery ridden past, and its residents be the survivors of the victims of a genocide, in which the entire world was dragged into war for almost 10 years in order to save them, and this is the result. They have now done to others what was done to them and they think its justified and don't even want to acknowledge it.
Body: I told you this shit is getting out of hand...Note the date..The sun going into Leo is in 3 days thus activating the Grand T Square...for those astrologically inclined: The last time I spewed forth on war and astrology was July 14, in which Mars (war) and Pluto (annhiliaton/destruction/transformation) were in an EXACT square (severe conflict)...
Today:
If any of you are keeping up with my war/astrology bulletins, when we last left the situation, there was a mars(war) pluto(destruction) square and was said to be escalating in tension as the season of Leo started on the 22nd.
Well, they wasn't just whistling dixie. That shit stepped up exactly on the 22nd as Israel invaded Lebanon. We all know that by know..
Shit that's madly evil on this:
Israel only sustained about 40 casualities, while innocent Lebanese people are 300 dead already..
Condoleeza Rice being a horribly arrogant puppet and INSISTING on fucking war. No cease fires?! Madeline Albright is all over the news trying to remind people to have a fucking conscience, but this ugly raisin eyed shrew is FACILITATING the further deaths of innocent people cause she wants to be "badass" or even more evil than that, to control the region.
Isreal deciding that it would be too risky and dangerous to arrest suspected terrorists and interrogate them and bring them to trial. Nah. They just run secret missions and try to kill them outright BECAUSE its too risky to actually prove their guilt.
Knocking out vital services like they did in Gaza in leaving lebanese people in ruins. They don't want to stop shooting till they destroy the other guy's weapons, even if that kills all the innocent people?
If one claims to be objective and take into consideration the astrological implications with Mercury and Venus eventually also going into Leo in August, one could say that this is just a sign of the times and along with rotted heat and tsunamis and earthquakes and lightning storms (a bolt of lightening hit a neon sign in the window of a deli in my neighborhood and fried the entire electrical system, hitting that at the 1st floor of the building above it, totally burned..no one was hurt I think) its just tension expressing itself and has to run its course.
Religious wackos are bugging on the End of Days thing, which at this point in the game with the priests and the ignorance and the hate and such, hopefully it'll just be the end of that mentality and those people will lose it and destroy themselves.
Me? I'm just like "ok, what next and when can I expect it?
This won't even be near ending till the end of August, when things start going into Virgo/Libra and BALANCE out. Virgo is all about cleaning up the messes. They got a hellava job on their hands.
And what the fuck is up with all this political thanking of people for doing a great job during fucked up disasters that people are still suffering in? Everybody is so quick to thank someone for their help and they didn't even do the shit yet...
Israel is on some roid range type shit right now. Again, sorry if ya a Jew, but how is your country going balls out like this?
Ya'll act like you just rolled into the Mideast (after the entire world had to "liberate" you) and found the desert there with no one else living on it.
Again, all this retarded shit popped off cause one of their guys was captured. What if we just said fuck it and nuked the place cause you tortured and mutilated TWO of OUR guys?
I'm watching the news cause I'm really not trying to sleep on this. It could get real here very easily and no one is ready. No one even thinks its possible. Hopefully, it aint.
But ask your grandparents or the elderly about food rations and victory gardens cause your organic shit aint getting to the shelves. And remember back in the old Bugs Bunny cartoons from WWII when the guy would yell "PUT OUT THAT LIGHT" and beat his ass? THEY REALLY HAD RIGHTS TO DO THAT SHIT TO YOU BACK THEN! Imagine NYC HAS to go entirely dark, for days on end, because of "all out war" (there's a band by that name, right?) IT WAS WAR. No one is ready for that kind of sacrifice and reality now. Some muthafucas are gonna lose it..
My advice: Get a bike, get old steel wash tubs, go on your roof, fill em with dirt and grow your own shit. Start investing in solar power. Ethanol. Get mad batteries. Start thinking about there being no gas and how you gonna get around. Planes don't fly, trucks don't move, busses don't run when dey aint no gas, man...
Start realizing that the Boomers who are running this country are not able to handle this anymore. As you watch this unfold, you will see our leaders unravel soley because they never thought it would get this bad. I'm watching Bush and Condie giving "Oh shit" looks to each other at press conferences (you gotta know when to look). The only way to get thru things like this is unity. The underground gotta show the rest how to come together and keep it movin. So I aint DAT scared...
This mideast thing is going to get worse...
Current mood: anxious
When the Sun goes into Leo on the 22nd. Study Mundane Astrology (astrology for countries) and under current astrological climate, once the sun enters Leo, it will activate what they call a Grand T Square. Its already activated, but once the sun goes into Leo, it will be greatly magnified.
I'll present links soon, but back in February, I attended a class on this subject and they predicted that some shit was going to jump off at this time of the year based on the aspects. The last time we saw aspects this strong was during times of war.
No one can predict what the outcome will be, but it aint gonna be good.
Good news: the aspects finally chill after late September. But its gonna be a long hot summer..
In an attempt to pratice writing poetry and pratice writing in Spanish (and eventually other languages), I bring you a small poem, multimedia stylie.
English translation:
To live with clear sight, you will live a good life.. Do not see things that shine. See the real things, Not things made in your mind. If you can do this, your pain will end. Open your eyes and your soul will mend.
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