Greetings good citizen, as I belabor the obvious once again, today's NY Times provides us with this 'snapshot' of a world at odds with itself.
Part of what is ticking in everybody's craw is the fact we have deeper, more disturbing problems to be dealt with but this is where our so-called 'leaders' are focused...
Each individually is disturbing enough, bad enough we have religions at 'war' with one another but how sad is it when they war with themselves?
The second item is a reflection of a larger picture as a 'rudderless' humanity becomes more 'self-absorbed' and the like-minded become militant over issues 90% of us aren't even aware of. [Much like the first example, a tempest in a tea pot.]
With so many MAJOR Issues [Homelessness/unemployment/youth's failure to launch] being deemed 'unaddressable' by [our elected/self-appointed overlords] who won't even acknowledge, much less do anything about these issues. Ordinary people are banding together to address their 'pet peeves' without consideration for the outcome.
Difficult in these confusing times is sorting out what/how much is genuine and how much is the media's relentless hammering at the wedges that divide us...because THAT is behind MOST of the 'picayune, who gives a crap?' issues the media points to when it labels society as 'deeply divided'.
Instead of asking if this is a 'real issue' the whole situation could be put to bed if the people were asked 'is this the hill you're prepared to die on?' Most people would respond NO, there are more important issues but we can't get our politicians to respond to us...or when we do put them on the spot, they 'side-step', claiming, 'answers aren't easy' and the issue needs further study...'
And nothing happens. No study, no action and the problem persists.
But let's drop down to the last item in today's snapshot, shall we?
The Talibs are 'collecting for commerce'...by implication, they haven't opened a collection agency to dun accounts that are in arrears. They [from the appearance of things] are collecting from EVERYBODY and taking a 'cut' of the proceeds.
What do you suppose 'the utility' will do about this usurpation of their rights? Turn them in to the government or raise everybody's rates to make up for the 'skim'?
Under A Simple Plan things like utilities are 'free'. (society pays the workers at the power plant to do what they do so there is no need for you to pay them too.) [the idiocy of capitalism, a.k.a. 'debt-driven society', where everybody works for the 'creditors'....except, ironically, the creditors themselves...such is the 'genius' of Hamilton (shot for good reason!)]
Which, as a sidebar, raises another disturbing phenomenon that has evolved out of the 'Reagan Revolution/Morning in America' known by the wise as the bloodless coup of 1980.
America 'fell' then, literally ceased to exist, what has happened since is the work of the self-interested, clinging to their slender and dwindling source of power...oil.
The current 'ball of confusion' we are witnessing now springs directly from the machinations of those whose power is derived from their control of fossil fuels.
If we are to survive the inevitable collapse of fossil fuel we must sweep aside the self interested who resist the necessary solutions to our energy dependence.
But this is 'rational' and therefore is rejected by the self-interested. They will ride it into the ground...IF WE LET THEM.
The thing to remember here is ALL MONEY IS FUNNY, compounded by and all your money won't another SECOND buy.
Since there is no 'cash' [and, ironically, the morons in charge KNOW ALL CRIME IS CASH AND CARRY!] there would be [almost] no crime [nothing we can do about those incidents of 'temporary insanity' we like to refer to as 'crimes of passion'.
If I'm gonna post I better shake a leg, sorry for the 'sloppiness' this post isn't up to my usual standards but time presses!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Part of what is ticking in everybody's craw is the fact we have deeper, more disturbing problems to be dealt with but this is where our so-called 'leaders' are focused...
World
Pope Francis during his meeting in June with the Knights of Malta leader, Matthew Festing. The pope asked Mr. Festing to resign this past week and announced that a papal delegate would take his place.
Ten Centuries Later, a Pope and Knights Do Battle
By JASON HOROWITZ
A Vatican rift has spilled into the Knights of Malta, a sovereign order. Freemasons, beware.
A pedestrian walks past by a giant poster of a Euro coin near Waterloo in London this month.
The Questions That Could Reshape a Worried Europe in 2017
By RICK GLADSTONE
The rise of populism, economic threats and the uncertainty of relations with the Trump administration are sources of turbulence for Europe.
Taliban in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, in 2015. The insurgency has diversified its revenue.
Taliban, Collecting Bills for Afghan Utilities, Tap New Revenue Sources
By MUJIB MASHAL and NAJIM RAHIM
As militants have taken over increasingly large areas in the past two years, they have found ways beyond the illicit drug trade to make money.
Each individually is disturbing enough, bad enough we have religions at 'war' with one another but how sad is it when they war with themselves?
The second item is a reflection of a larger picture as a 'rudderless' humanity becomes more 'self-absorbed' and the like-minded become militant over issues 90% of us aren't even aware of. [Much like the first example, a tempest in a tea pot.]
With so many MAJOR Issues [Homelessness/unemployment/youth's failure to launch] being deemed 'unaddressable' by [our elected/self-appointed overlords] who won't even acknowledge, much less do anything about these issues. Ordinary people are banding together to address their 'pet peeves' without consideration for the outcome.
Difficult in these confusing times is sorting out what/how much is genuine and how much is the media's relentless hammering at the wedges that divide us...because THAT is behind MOST of the 'picayune, who gives a crap?' issues the media points to when it labels society as 'deeply divided'.
Instead of asking if this is a 'real issue' the whole situation could be put to bed if the people were asked 'is this the hill you're prepared to die on?' Most people would respond NO, there are more important issues but we can't get our politicians to respond to us...or when we do put them on the spot, they 'side-step', claiming, 'answers aren't easy' and the issue needs further study...'
And nothing happens. No study, no action and the problem persists.
But let's drop down to the last item in today's snapshot, shall we?
The Talibs are 'collecting for commerce'...by implication, they haven't opened a collection agency to dun accounts that are in arrears. They [from the appearance of things] are collecting from EVERYBODY and taking a 'cut' of the proceeds.
What do you suppose 'the utility' will do about this usurpation of their rights? Turn them in to the government or raise everybody's rates to make up for the 'skim'?
Under A Simple Plan things like utilities are 'free'. (society pays the workers at the power plant to do what they do so there is no need for you to pay them too.) [the idiocy of capitalism, a.k.a. 'debt-driven society', where everybody works for the 'creditors'....except, ironically, the creditors themselves...such is the 'genius' of Hamilton (shot for good reason!)]
Which, as a sidebar, raises another disturbing phenomenon that has evolved out of the 'Reagan Revolution/Morning in America' known by the wise as the bloodless coup of 1980.
America 'fell' then, literally ceased to exist, what has happened since is the work of the self-interested, clinging to their slender and dwindling source of power...oil.
The current 'ball of confusion' we are witnessing now springs directly from the machinations of those whose power is derived from their control of fossil fuels.
If we are to survive the inevitable collapse of fossil fuel we must sweep aside the self interested who resist the necessary solutions to our energy dependence.
But this is 'rational' and therefore is rejected by the self-interested. They will ride it into the ground...IF WE LET THEM.
The thing to remember here is ALL MONEY IS FUNNY, compounded by and all your money won't another SECOND buy.
Since there is no 'cash' [and, ironically, the morons in charge KNOW ALL CRIME IS CASH AND CARRY!] there would be [almost] no crime [nothing we can do about those incidents of 'temporary insanity' we like to refer to as 'crimes of passion'.
If I'm gonna post I better shake a leg, sorry for the 'sloppiness' this post isn't up to my usual standards but time presses!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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