Bran muffin + Apple + Coffee + May 21 = Crapture

Connect the frickin’ dots already!

After another question on foreclosures, Dimon said: “We are doing everything we can to keep people in their homes that should stay in their homes.”

-Jamie Dimon responding to a question at a shareholder meeting.

Allowing that phrase to sink in can be a very sobering experience.  Jamie Dimon decides who deserves to stay in their home.  Now read this quote by a well known President:

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. 

-Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States 1801-1809

Decentralized Resistance

 

DATELINE: July 18, 2017 – President Trump declares

that all crops will be watered with Brawndo.

BRAWNDO, THE THIRST MUTILATOR

Earth911

Earth911 is a wonderful source for information on recycling.   Many of us are new to this, some of us are just beginning.  In order to help you implement your environmental values, Earth911 offers a very comprehensive guide to recycling resources.

http://earth911.com/

Time for Plan B: Our Civilization Is on the Edge of a Systemic Breakdown

“How many failing states before we have a failing global civilization?” asks environmental pioneer Lester Brown in Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, premiering March 30 on PBS as part of its continuing Journey to Planet Earth series. It’s a Gordian knot of a question with no simple answer and nothing but complex, demanding solutions, fearsomely put forth as the fate of humanity totters in the balance.

Based on Brown’s book of the same name, Plan B is likely the scariest horror film that was ever disguised as a documentary, despite its calm narration from superstar Matt Damon. That’s because the acclaimed environmentalist has deeply studied the variety of environmental and geopolitical tipping points we are fast approaching, and found that we’re headed for a seriously dark dystopia if we don’t turn civilization as we know it around, and fast. A catastrophic confluence of food and water shortages, overpopulation and pollution, collapsed governments and communities and more natural disasters than Roland Emmerich can dream up await us on the other side of Plan A, which Brown calls “business of usual.”

“Environmentalists have been talking for decades about saving the planet, but the planet is going to be around for some time to come,” Brown told AlterNet by phone from his Washington D.C. office at theEarth Policy Institute, which he founded at the turn of the century after decades of public and private service in the name of sustainability. “The question is will civilization as we know it be around for some time to come? Can it survive the mounting global stresses of rising pollution, starvation, food prices, water shortages and failed states? These are the real threats to our security now, but we’re not responding to them.”

In a sense, we are without knowing it. Japan’s bungled response to a mounting nuclear crisis, thanks to one of Earth’s most destabilizing earthquakes and tsunamis, has in a cosmological eyeblink reset the entire world’s nuclear ambition. Uprisings in hotspots like Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and more, compounded by America’s continuing quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan, are squarely knitting together civilization’s crappy experiments like preemptive war, biofuels and light-speed financial stratagems into one titanic mess that is demanding new theories of cleanup.

 

Complete Article

 

Winding Down Obama

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/25-2

Published on Friday, March 25, 2011 by CommonDreams.org 

by Linh Dinh

Occupying Iraq, the U.S. spends about $300 million a day. For Afghanistan, it’s $200 million. These numbers are approximations because the Pentagon doesn’t really know how much it has spent on anything, or how many it has killed in its several wars, big and small. It doesn’t really care, I don’t think. Imagine a team of alcoholics parked permanently at the bar, downing pints and shots with an open tab into infinity, or until the Second Coming, at least. In 2001, Donald Rumsfeld admitted that $2.3 trillion were unaccounted for. He blamed it on sloppy bookkeeping. It must be hard to keep track of so many digits. As firemen and cops are being fired across America, as teachers are being told they must accept austerity measures, the country is broke, after all, as public radio and television, with their supposed liberal bias, lay on the chopping block, as more homeless sprawl and tent cities spring up, as casinos, a sure sign of desperation, mushroom, the United States has entered another costly war without any fanfare or discussion whatsoever. Obama didn’t have to persuade anybody, no sending a Secretary of State to make a fool of herself in front of the United Nations’ General Assembly, no congressional vote, which, last time I checked, was supposed to be a Constitutional requirement, no media blitz. No lies even. He simply ordered more than a hundred Tomahawk missiles, so far, to rain down on Libya, with many more to come. In any case, this it not even a war, but merely a “kinetic military action,” according to an Obama aide. Such straight faced butchery of language, even as one butchers real people, shows that the United States has entered a deep psychotic state. Upon winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Obama himself declared, “I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence.”

 

 

… Complete article at Common Dreams

There is much more at the link.  For my part, I dislike being vulgar but that sentence in bold is truly pukeworthy.