Go to Ustream, TwigSnapButtCrack’s TICKTALKLIVE to view the rest of this discussion. These videos went over the limit. Perhaps I should try vimeo or another video hosting site. Perhaps I should keep a stop watch for next time I want to have a bitch session online.
We finished with Castles Burning which seemed appropriate. Thank you Connie for a lovely afternoon.
And another thing…Why are people registering for my blog but not leaving any comments ever? Do I have to do everything myself? No video responses either. Gosh! I thought I explained all this to you in previous posts.
Mind you, it’s not often you get to see me talk seriously about such a wide range of issues, or get me to talk about matters that are considered personal, unless it’s in private and not part of a show. So this is the best I can do right now. I am very guarded and private and would rather not discuss these things on such a public platform. But, I have to surrender now to show my humanity. Especially since I have become part of the online arena of open blogging, like this.
Connie and Bobby Fitzpatrick have been good friends of mine since 2004, right after I first moved to this community. We share many of the same opinions. Thanks to Connie, I was enlightened to The Zeitgeist Movement and have so many other things to thank her for. This is a friendship that will never die while we are still alive. To view the longer part of the discussion on how we met and various other subjects, you’ll have to view those on my ustream channel.
Also, if you are a fan of TwigSnap ButtCrack on Facebook, these videos will not be posted in the feed, so you’ll have to click on these links in order to see the videos. But, I don’t even think the facebook fan page shows the links. I don’t know why, so tough it why don’t you. Or you can Click here to go directly to the TwigSnapButtCrack Blog, or if you are already here on the blog, go to the actual twigsnapbuttcrack home site and click on the Total Tirade Mash Up button which will run the videos, on that page, of Twigsnap Buttcrack’s live ustream blog show and numerous videos that I’ve posted to youtube. Many options.
If you are catching the blog by chance, through a search and haven’t become a fan yet, shame on you! But that is really my fault. I’ve delayed the process of becoming popular or highly viewable because I am so guarded and private and don’t care so much about making money or being popular. And, frankly, I don’t know how to link you to the fan page, so I’ll have to post a badge. And Connie has informed me that my twitter page is also private and not so easily accessible. I have to approve you first. This is so much fun for me and that’s all it is, is fun.
Lots of wonderful things happening soon. For one, Zeitgeist members are preparing for Z BIG EVENT on March 13th 2010 in over 200 countries around the world. Check the map for one near you at ZDAY2010.org.Zdancemob2010 will be part of the numerous activities, so WATCH out for them. There are currently, approximately, and I say approximately because new events are popping up daily and we still have three weeks to go, 18 events in the UK, 17 events happening in Argentina and 5 in France. In the USA and Canada, the map is mushrooming to over 200 events in those two countries alone. So what are you waiting for, get with the program kids, The Zeitgeist Movement is moving ahead full force.
It’s simple really, we want a Resource Based Economy for the world to stop fighting, and or stealing resources in the worst way, and we want it NOW! The idea was born from Jaques Fresco’s social engineering baby, The Venus Project way back when, even Larry King interviewed Jaques in 1974 and it’s been far too long to wait for, but you can thank the monetary system and gut wrenching predatory capitalistic war mongers for that. While you’re at it, you can blame them for a few other things, like starvation and scarcity and exploitation and just being plain rude to our mother earth. The people see the problems and we have had it up to here!
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.
