Rich don't make profits, they make capital gains - no tax.
Too big to fail.
Small business too small to succeed.
Banks and Wall Street too big to fail.
Financial sector given mucho money to lawmakers writing the laws.
Our representatives are responding to campaign contributors, not citizens, the represented.
Little guy - 1000:1 big guy
Monopoly capital moves problem out of picture.
Trash for cash.
Reviving main street by giving money to creditors is crazy.
They are giving money to financial parasite, capital, while Mainstreet withers.
Bailout plan outright thievery with complicity of congress.
Congress privatized by financial sector not industrial sector.
If corporations are worth twenty-two cents on the dollar, then so be it.
Corporate Capital: A free market is a disaster if it does not give money to the financial
elite.
Poor and middle-class are eating it.
Republicans will continue scenario with different populist slogans to gain popular support.
Neo-liberal plan to pull down Europe
Europe following the Russian path -- dressed rehearsal for what's coming to the US. Look at Latvia if you want to see America's future
Dr. Michale Hudson - Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends
Eddie Evans
crime scene cleanup
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Veteran Suicides
I hear that veteran suicides among the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have reached very high numbers, somewhere over 18 suicides per month. It seems that the Pentagon and Veteran's Administration have changed the rules for getting help.
Apparently the emotional toll of combat for the combat veterans is a heavy matter to deal with. And, apparently, the emotional toll for non-combat veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder is very high.
I can see how the non-combatant veterans would be stressed out beyond all imagination. At least in Vietnam we did not have to worry about hitting mines (so much) when traveling. Sure there were mines, but not nearly on the scale that today's veterans have encountered - women as well as men. The injuries that today's veterans have suffered are horrendous, too, creating heretofore unknown survival from terrible wounds.
More to follow.
Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup
Apparently the emotional toll of combat for the combat veterans is a heavy matter to deal with. And, apparently, the emotional toll for non-combat veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder is very high.
I can see how the non-combatant veterans would be stressed out beyond all imagination. At least in Vietnam we did not have to worry about hitting mines (so much) when traveling. Sure there were mines, but not nearly on the scale that today's veterans have encountered - women as well as men. The injuries that today's veterans have suffered are horrendous, too, creating heretofore unknown survival from terrible wounds.
More to follow.
Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup
Friday, March 13, 2009
"Scientists Warn of 'Irreversible' Changes" -- The Misery of Miseries to Come
http://news.aol.com/article/climate-changes/376821?icid=200100125x1219755723x1201294980
They're still saying stuff about the end of life as we know it because of the way we live our lives.
I used to worry a lot about this stuff, but I was younger then. I could stand in front of a crowd and rant about the changes to come.
In those days I did not bring up Global Warming much, though. I talked about that "mystery of mysteries," Mother Earth's many species and their habitats. I talked about the loss of a species being a great loss to all on Earth and all to come. I talked about the destruction of habitat as a terrible crime against humanity as well as a crime against nature.
We were sodomizing our planet for a few more dollars.
Now it is more acceptable to talk about sodomizing our planet and Global Warming. In the 1970s when I first read about Global Warming in Scientific American, I thought, "It makes sense to me." I thought that Scientific American was beginning to think the way that I had thought since I was a little boy.
I recall (again) my childhood theory on "The Limits to Cemetery Growth." I had my own version of the Malthusian prediction. It was exponential because more-and-more people would mean more and more people in that tiny cemetery on the corner of Foster Road and Lakewood Boulevard. This, to my four-year-old mind, was of monumental concern.
Now I don't care what the Mormons, Catholics, Marxista, and Octomom says about Malthus. Who cares if he was a "barking dog" for the ruling class? He was right! And then there was Marx's theories on surplus value and its pathological distribution, which owed much to Malthus' exponential population growth theory. Like it or not, Marx was right too when it comes to the nasty nature of capitalism and its consumption of nature, humanity, and ideas. The exponential growth of capital gave us exponential growth and destruction in heretofore proportions unknown to humanity; most of humanity is still in the dark when it comes to what's coming.
And then there was the Darwinian theory, which owed so much to Malthus's theory on exponential population growth (besides Charles Lyll's Uniformitarianism).
So both Marx and Darwin used their own versions of Malthus's theory of exponential growth, their own "Limits to Cemetery Growth."
Darwin's theories carry the most weight in terms of the future to come. It is Darwin that talked about life with or without humanity. The "mystery of mysteries" now becomes the misery of miseries for humanity. Now there is no turning back and Darwin's theories will no longer apply, in many parts, because climatic changes are occurring much faster then species can adapt.
We are looking at catastrophic changes for future generations, and multiple, catastrophic changes for generations to come, and multiple gashing of teeth, and multiple pestilences, and multiple miseries of miseries.
It boggles my mind to see young women and men persist in the procreation of our future environmental victims, multiple crime scene victims upon this planet. We are victimizing humanity because of our simple stupidity, our greed, and our lust for more. We are criminals and there is no way to cleanup our crime; yet, we continue to add victims to our ailing Mother Earth, a mother multiply sodomized by her wicked little human children (and that's all the credit Freud gets.)
I'm going to stop this whining and talk about solutions, real lasting solutions to problems that will persist for centuries. I will make these ideas available to President Obama, right here on my crime scene cleanup blog.
eddie evans
Crime Scene Cleanup
They're still saying stuff about the end of life as we know it because of the way we live our lives.
I used to worry a lot about this stuff, but I was younger then. I could stand in front of a crowd and rant about the changes to come.
In those days I did not bring up Global Warming much, though. I talked about that "mystery of mysteries," Mother Earth's many species and their habitats. I talked about the loss of a species being a great loss to all on Earth and all to come. I talked about the destruction of habitat as a terrible crime against humanity as well as a crime against nature.
We were sodomizing our planet for a few more dollars.
Now it is more acceptable to talk about sodomizing our planet and Global Warming. In the 1970s when I first read about Global Warming in Scientific American, I thought, "It makes sense to me." I thought that Scientific American was beginning to think the way that I had thought since I was a little boy.
I recall (again) my childhood theory on "The Limits to Cemetery Growth." I had my own version of the Malthusian prediction. It was exponential because more-and-more people would mean more and more people in that tiny cemetery on the corner of Foster Road and Lakewood Boulevard. This, to my four-year-old mind, was of monumental concern.
Now I don't care what the Mormons, Catholics, Marxista, and Octomom says about Malthus. Who cares if he was a "barking dog" for the ruling class? He was right! And then there was Marx's theories on surplus value and its pathological distribution, which owed much to Malthus' exponential population growth theory. Like it or not, Marx was right too when it comes to the nasty nature of capitalism and its consumption of nature, humanity, and ideas. The exponential growth of capital gave us exponential growth and destruction in heretofore proportions unknown to humanity; most of humanity is still in the dark when it comes to what's coming.
And then there was the Darwinian theory, which owed so much to Malthus's theory on exponential population growth (besides Charles Lyll's Uniformitarianism).
So both Marx and Darwin used their own versions of Malthus's theory of exponential growth, their own "Limits to Cemetery Growth."
Darwin's theories carry the most weight in terms of the future to come. It is Darwin that talked about life with or without humanity. The "mystery of mysteries" now becomes the misery of miseries for humanity. Now there is no turning back and Darwin's theories will no longer apply, in many parts, because climatic changes are occurring much faster then species can adapt.
We are looking at catastrophic changes for future generations, and multiple, catastrophic changes for generations to come, and multiple gashing of teeth, and multiple pestilences, and multiple miseries of miseries.
It boggles my mind to see young women and men persist in the procreation of our future environmental victims, multiple crime scene victims upon this planet. We are victimizing humanity because of our simple stupidity, our greed, and our lust for more. We are criminals and there is no way to cleanup our crime; yet, we continue to add victims to our ailing Mother Earth, a mother multiply sodomized by her wicked little human children (and that's all the credit Freud gets.)
I'm going to stop this whining and talk about solutions, real lasting solutions to problems that will persist for centuries. I will make these ideas available to President Obama, right here on my crime scene cleanup blog.
eddie evans
Crime Scene Cleanup
Monday, March 9, 2009
Learning, Internal Dialogue, and "Not Yet"
It is important to keep one's mind on the ball when learning. Any thoughts like, "I can't do this" are forbidden when the learner must learn a subject.
When the learner talks inside the head by using that "internal dialogue" that Allen Watts claims to run "interminably," then the learner needs to choose the right words. So negatives for the learner are not going to help. Positives for the learner will help.
I see when I am intensely involved with learning something "tough" for me, I need to agree with myself to come back to the task. I see that I need to ask myself, "Have you learned this yet" or "Are you going to be able to learn this stuff?" before stopping for the day. "Stopping," I see is preferable to "quitting" for the day, to regress.
I need to say to myself something like this: Have you learned what you need for the day on this project? "Not yet," I need to say to myself. This makes returning to the project at-hand much easier with a "can-do" attitude. It makes the forward-backward motion of the mind's learning more palatable.
It is just so with mathematics and other subjects. Math makes the "not yet" approach more apparent, more useful, and more easily measured -- of all things! When learning mathematics the learning pushes on into virgin territory. A keen focus must be kept if success is to prevail. I know that the learner is keenly focused on the math subject because without keen focus there is no learning in Math, other than "I can't learn this stuff when I'm not keenly focused."
My approach to learning the riveting type learning like math is to work into the unknown, conquering as I move forward. When I find that I can move no farther, when I've spent too much time on the problem, it is better to take a break, regroup until later. Then when I come back, I'm coming back from old territory that I have conquered. This way I have some solid learning ground to help my mind leverage itself into new ideas, new intellectual territory.
I see that learning should never be a negative, only a positive continuum. "Not yet" tells me that the learning will come with effort and persistence. Right knowledge is positive knowledge, not negative. (I will acknowledge the place of "negation" dialectial criticism, though, especially in literature.)
Eddie Evans
crime scene cleanup
When the learner talks inside the head by using that "internal dialogue" that Allen Watts claims to run "interminably," then the learner needs to choose the right words. So negatives for the learner are not going to help. Positives for the learner will help.
I see when I am intensely involved with learning something "tough" for me, I need to agree with myself to come back to the task. I see that I need to ask myself, "Have you learned this yet" or "Are you going to be able to learn this stuff?" before stopping for the day. "Stopping," I see is preferable to "quitting" for the day, to regress.
I need to say to myself something like this: Have you learned what you need for the day on this project? "Not yet," I need to say to myself. This makes returning to the project at-hand much easier with a "can-do" attitude. It makes the forward-backward motion of the mind's learning more palatable.
It is just so with mathematics and other subjects. Math makes the "not yet" approach more apparent, more useful, and more easily measured -- of all things! When learning mathematics the learning pushes on into virgin territory. A keen focus must be kept if success is to prevail. I know that the learner is keenly focused on the math subject because without keen focus there is no learning in Math, other than "I can't learn this stuff when I'm not keenly focused."
My approach to learning the riveting type learning like math is to work into the unknown, conquering as I move forward. When I find that I can move no farther, when I've spent too much time on the problem, it is better to take a break, regroup until later. Then when I come back, I'm coming back from old territory that I have conquered. This way I have some solid learning ground to help my mind leverage itself into new ideas, new intellectual territory.
I see that learning should never be a negative, only a positive continuum. "Not yet" tells me that the learning will come with effort and persistence. Right knowledge is positive knowledge, not negative. (I will acknowledge the place of "negation" dialectial criticism, though, especially in literature.)
Eddie Evans
crime scene cleanup
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Wall Street Watch - A must have bookmark
http://www.wallstreetwatch.org/
Wall Street Watch - See what happened when Reagon's economics became standard operating procedure on Wall Street.
eddie evans
crime scene cleanup
Wall Street Watch - See what happened when Reagon's economics became standard operating procedure on Wall Street.
eddie evans
crime scene cleanup
Obama the Pragmatist
"Asked in an interview with The New York Times if the United States is winning in Afghanistan, Obama said "no," while adding "our troops are doing an extraordinary job in a very difficult situation."
Here I've gone and lost my source for this article.
It's so exciting to have an articulate and engaged president after eight years of anti-intellectualism.
Obama's foreign policy is definitely enlightened. The English, the Russians, and now the Americans are KIA in the Afghanistan mountains. Obama wants to find a way out before the last of the US Empire's treasure is gone. He wants out to save young soldiers' lives.
I recall Vietnam with the Japanese, French, and then Americans. We don't need anymore of it.
Had Bush gone into Afghanistan with resolve instead of going into Iraq, we might have done something worthwhile. We could have given tens of thousands of dollars to every person in Afghanistan instead of dropping it in the form of bombs and bodies on Iraq.
Obama's pragmatic, not a fool like Bush.
eddie evans
crime scene cleanup
Here I've gone and lost my source for this article.
It's so exciting to have an articulate and engaged president after eight years of anti-intellectualism.
Obama's foreign policy is definitely enlightened. The English, the Russians, and now the Americans are KIA in the Afghanistan mountains. Obama wants to find a way out before the last of the US Empire's treasure is gone. He wants out to save young soldiers' lives.
I recall Vietnam with the Japanese, French, and then Americans. We don't need anymore of it.
Had Bush gone into Afghanistan with resolve instead of going into Iraq, we might have done something worthwhile. We could have given tens of thousands of dollars to every person in Afghanistan instead of dropping it in the form of bombs and bodies on Iraq.
Obama's pragmatic, not a fool like Bush.
eddie evans
crime scene cleanup
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Military Suicides
Just heard on KPFK, but I'm not going to accept these figures until I have more to go on.
Last month, 20b active duty, US military committed suicide.
Last month, 400 US veterans committed suicide.
Eddie Evans
crime scene cleanup
Last month, 20b active duty, US military committed suicide.
Last month, 400 US veterans committed suicide.
Eddie Evans
crime scene cleanup
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