“The world has evolved since that post-WWII orgy that spawned your destructive generation. This isn’t the 1980s. Gay marriage is happening. Gay rights are happening. Because it is a human rights issue. Every rational person knows this… Why don’t you?”
—Charles Bivona, “Carl Paladino: A Gay Intervention”
March 2011
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Many minds were shattered—succumbing to bouts of psychosomatic blindness, paralysis, or seizures.
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More often than not, these men were accused of cowardice.
Brief Dispatch Before Sleeping: War. War. War.
So.. if gas prices double .. all prices go up - especially food — and most people in America are barely making it now — paycheck to paycheck —
…and most of the oil in North Africa is in Libya — one of the many News Outlets told me that earlier — RTAmerica, I believe..
So, attack!!!
…and, really, how else does my government solve problems, be honest: it drops high explosives while weaving deceptive speeches—high-minded love of human rights — oh, except for China — and Gitmo — That’s Different.
Crap. Just crap. Hypocrisy. So tired of it..
.. and did the Libyan Rebels really tell us to stay out of it .. their civil war ?? I’ve heard that a lot today .. but who the hell knows which media sources are trustworthy anymore .. the “News” is a mass of contradictions ..
So.. I’m at a real loss tonight, fellow humans.. I have nieces and nephews.. What a terrifically shitty world Capitalism has made for them …
.. good night ..
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A Politics, History, and Culture Poem by Charles Bivona
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“On September 11, 2001, “the key figures of the [Bush] administration, veterans of earlier disaster capitalism experiments in Latin America and Eastern Europe, were part of a movement that prays for crisis the way drought-struck farmers pray for rain, and the way Christian-Zionist end-timers pray for the Rapture.”
—Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, pg. 12.
“Here’s how I think we should do it. Instead of cutting incrementally—a little here, a little there —I would say that on a single day this summer we eliminate three hundred programs, each one costing a billion dollars or less. Maybe these cuts won’t make a big deal of difference, but, boy, do they make a point. And you can do them right away.”
—Paul Tough, David Frum, William Kristol et al., “A Revolution or Business as Usual?:
A Harper’s Forum,” Harper’s, March 1995.
A Harper’s Forum,” Harper’s, March 1995.
“The bottom line is that while Friedman’s economic model is capable of being partially imposed under democracy, authoritarian conditions are required for the implementation of its true vision.”
—Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, pg. 11
“Before Hurricane Katrina, the school board had run 123 public schools; now it ran just 4. Before that storm, there had been 7 charter schools in the city; now there were 31.7. New Orleans teachers used to be represented by a strong union; now the union’s contract had been shredded, and its forty-seven hundred members had all been fired.8 Some of the younger teachers were rehired by the charters, at reduced salaries; most were not.”
—Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, pg. 5.
“We have tolerated the intolerant—from propaganda outlets such as Fox News to Christian fascists to lunatics in the Republican Party to Wall Street and corporations—and we are paying the price. The only place left for us is on the street. We must occupy state and federal offices. We must foment general strikes. The powerful, with no check left on their greed and criminality, are gorging on money while they busily foreclose our homes, bust the last of our unions, drive up our health care costs and cement into place a permanent underclass of the broken and the poor. They are slashing our most essential and basic services—including budgets for schools, firefighters and assistance programs for children and the elderly—so we can pay for the fraud they committed when they wiped out $14 trillion of housing wealth, wages and retirement savings. All we have left is the capacity to say “no.” And if enough of us say “no,” if enough of us refuse to cooperate, the despots are in trouble.”
—Chris Hedges, “Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand.
“Schools and universities, on their knees for corporate dollars and their boards dominated by hedge fund and investment managers, have deformed education into the acquisition of narrow vocational skills that serve specialized corporate interests and create classes of drone-like systems managers. They make little attempt to equip students to make moral choices, stand up for civic virtues and seek a life of meaning. These moral and ethical questions are never even asked. Humanities departments are vanishing as swiftly as the ocean’s fish stocks.”
—Chris Hedges, “Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand”
“…until we again speak in the language of open class warfare, grasping, as those who went before us did, that the rich will always protect themselves at our expense, we are doomed to a 21st century serfdom.”
—Chris Hedges, “Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand”
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