Posts Tagged ‘revolution



22
Apr
13

In The Wake of Extreme Violence


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The events of the past week with the Boston Bombings serves to re-awaken questions regarding sacrificing personal freedoms and social liberty for what can only amount to a  `false’ sense of security as simply illustrated by the event occurring.

The United States since 911, likely more than any other nation, has spent billions on increased security, surveillance and technology yet senseless acts such as Boston’s proves this point.

Canadian politicizing of the Boston Bombing event reared its head when a National News interview with newly elected Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau, was posed the hypothetical question: how, if prime minister, would he respond in the after-math of such an event? .

What the question ultimately served to illustrate was not so much Trudeau’s hypothetical ability to correctly perform or respond but, the irrational, short-sighted logic of our currently elected officials in particular: Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Harper’s rebuttal to Justin Trudeau’s view on addressing social violence ie terrorism, is clear evidence to this by stating the following:

The PM claims `..you do not sit around trying to rationalize it or make excuses for it or try to figure out its root causes‘ .  It is the last part of this statement that most reflects the depth of stupidity of our elected government.

This is tantamount to saying: if your house keeps getting broken into by the poor kid down the street the solution is to get a security system and demand more police and prisons. Don’t bother to ask why is the kid poor causing him to resort to stealing.

This short-sighted approach to not only societal problems but to all problems confronting government is what leads to levels of frustration and anger by the disenfranchised leading to outlandish and violent acts as happen in the US.

Harper-government’s policies framed on the ill-logic illustrated by this example – potentially here in Canada too.

07
Mar
13

historical perspective


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It is often stated and generally accepted; most accounts of historical significance such as war, politics and such are documented through the less than objective eyes of the victor or dominant force at play. Rare is therr an opportunity to witness counter account(s) through the eyes of the loser, which of course too, one need question the objectivity of such account. Regardless, whether one choses to believe; victor or loser, to gain insight from both perspective, leads to a fuller appreciation for what in the end, most actually transpired.

The following video The Greatest Story NEVER Told! details the events leading to World War II as told from a German perspective. It is a comprehensive detailing of the politics and circumstances that led Hitler to start what contemporary history cites as the reason WWII started; Germany’s attack on Poland.

One obvious bias reflected by the German producer of this documentary is the glaring avoidance of the persecution of the Jews throughout the conflict though here too, is to question the veracity of historical record on this relevant topic.

The relevance to viewing this documentary today is to enlighten and recognize how strident and at times short-sighted, self-interests of nation’s political leaders will/can misrepresent the truth imposing unnecessary death and suffering of countless millions of innocent common Peoples.  The states-men and politicians who offer up the blood and treasure of their nation if for no other reason than glory and a place in history.

With the recent death of Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela,  whose primary aim to raise the Peoples out of poverty at the expense of western capitalist interests, gives reason to heed the lesson offered by this video: it is all a matter of perspective..

07
Feb
13

Cannibalized Economy – Destined for Failure


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To understand the current state of the western, capitalist based, economy the following, simple analogy is given:

There existed a large tribe village of cannibal peoples lead by a powerful leader. Lets call them Tribe A.This particular village, circumvented by other, similar tribe villages but they were not quite as prosperous and looked to emulate Tribe A for they too wished to be as successful.

After several years of prosperity matters began to deteriorate for Tribe A yet, to the other tribes, all seemed well and great praise and gifts continued to be bestowed upon A’s leader and its Peoples.

Then seemingly out of no-where, upon visiting Tribe A, all was found in ruin leaving the other tribes curious to know what went wrong and proceeded to investigate.

It was learned for several years under good leadership, the citizens of Tribe A shared and prospered. Their leader and those close to him, as it happened were being the first to feast from the growing prosperity.

As time wore on, the leader and his group, became increasingly  demanding, taking more and leaving less for the common tribes people. All the while maintaining a good front for the other tribes.

With time, matters began to severely deteriorate for Tribe A. Its leader made a fatal mistake. The tribes people having less to feed on became increasingly malnourished and he and his affluent group chose to eat only the best of the flock; namely, young females.

Over the course of only a few years this practice resulted in fewer babies being born to replenish the population due to the depletion of child-bearing women. Soon the tipping point was reached and the population numbers fell dramatically.

Ultimately those that could, fled the village leaving only the old and desperate who eventually died of starvation.

A similar event is purported to have been the cause of the decline fall of population in the Canary Islands.

In conclusion, the same systematic erosion in the strength and well-being of the working, middle-class, the consuming engine,  through significant decline of wages and benefits, coupled with increases in the cost of living to only benefit shareholders of corporations, ultimately, will lead to the same fate as Tribe A.

Unless significant portion of any organized population fairly and equitably, share in economic growth and prosperity, it too will be ‘cannibalized’ out of existence.

Those who willfully and blindly continue to invest too, will suffer the consequence of their greed when the bottom falls out of the stock market due to the failure of corporations.

No one would heed or listen to the call
No one paid attention to the decline, to the fall
No one left to remember, to recall
No one left, not one, none at all

04
Jan
13

Dumpster-Divers: A People’s Revolution


 

 

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Living in a small rural lake-side community in Southern Ontario, many who live here year round are often of modest means including myself hence, some have found interesting ways to augment their meager incomes by pursuing a practice of Dumpster-diving. Though I have heard this term referenced some time ago, I never thought that I would ever experience the practice; at least not til the other day when I was invited to join a neighbor friend to do just that.  This compelled me to write the following poem to honor this new experience and one I most certainly intend on repeating:

Dumpster-Divers: A People’s Revolution

The refuse of others is there to be had
What is consciously wasted can drive you mad
But we dumpster-divers, we’re mighty glad
Our best of hopes is for this to go beyond just a fad

From clothing to computers it’s there for the taking
The bounty of goods is the land-fills forsaking
The practice proves environmental change in the making
Even still, some societal laws we are considered breaking

A new era of impoverished peoples is overtaking the globe
The gap between have and have-not is alarmingly beginning to unfold
And like the garbage, the poor are being mercilessly left in the cold
Possibly the roots to a People’s Revolution, future generation will be told.

02
Jan
13

2013


2013 purported to be a magic-marker, the embarking into a golden-age yet,  at the strike of midnight, all is found to be the `same old way‘.   Will it not take more then the change of calendar dates for humanity to alter its destructive path, to recognize all that preceded December 31st, 2012 was, is, of its choosing and doing?

Increasingly immersed in the flood of technological gadgetry to mask the pain, suffering and emotional detachment, individually the collective grows blind and calloused to any promise of correction to the apathy that has metastasized the human consciousness.

True this brief diatribe sounds pathetically negative but, it is born from disappointment and frustration that what has yet to unfold in the promised days of 2013 is more likely then not, to be an amplified replay of 2012 and decades preceding. Should this pessimistic projection be ultimately proven wrong, no one would be more pleased then myself.

This all said, all the best to any and all whose eyes and mind encounter this posting.

05
Dec
12

Ultimate Decision


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Can humanity be persuaded to be of different mind;
Toward the reality our global community is incessantly inclined?
The wasteful wrath bought by currency of stupidity in humankind,
That historical record of death and destruction fails for solution to find?

Peoples of all nations speak of want for love and peace,
Yet simultaneously, wars and genocide equally increase.
What evil power of energy does marshal such violent release,
Of hatred and division that seems endless to cease?

The prevalent and growing voice of derision to divide;
No longer behind platitudes of  hollow rhetoric can humanity hide.
Ultimately all nation’s Peoples must once and for all decide:
To live harmonious with each-another, in peace, forever to abide.

27
Nov
12

Unfathomable Comprehension


In the solitude of reclusive abandonment from the norms of civil-psychic presence resides, without  limitation imposed and anchored in ignorance, the opportunity for ambitious, conscious exploration; pursuant to the holy-grail of universal conception’s comprehension beyond the confines of neural-synaptic manifestation to this limited perception to dimensional reality though reluctantly cognoscente to potential for unfathomable comprehension to an ineffable construct.

This Psalm ironically, was found after writing the above:
As the abyss or the ocean is unfathomable, so the word comes to denote what words cannot express, or what we cannot comprehend; Psalm 36:6,

04
Sep
12

Poem For Our Time: 2012 and Beyond Institutionalized Fear; Forever Absolved?


Man-made, ego-inspired Tradition upon which culture of Institution is built;
Though the long standing pillars of strength to humanity’s civilized presence,
Upon current examination, finds these foundations of such institution; crumbling.
The tens of decades of countless decrees enacted by purchased, elected officials
To enshrine their immutable laws, entrenching their conspired course of dominance;
A scheme of surreptitious intent for the subjugation of humanity’s true purpose;
Now, in this 21st Century, has manifest pervasive and corrupt conditions;
A virulent illness that, if left to metastasize, will erupt into global, uncivilized, chaos.

No global institution of human design is without this tarnish-taint and blemish,
Be it judicial, legislative, financial; even religious institution, all seem to have succumb;
Infected by the same symptoms of disease: corruption; manifesting insatiable wealth to
Position the few, the one-percent, to solely garner the acclaim of dynastic  power
That panders, with banality of concern; espousing merits of social causes
For a better humanity, the 99 percent; whose activist, tyrants, revolutionaries;
All labels of denunciation subscribed to them by the all knowing yet elusive power force,
Courageously rally and rant words denouncing unrelenting, imposed, systematic abuse; and,
Who selflessly suffer the oppressive bludgeoning batons of militant, jackbooted police;
Remain resolute knowing their messages, seeded in spilled blood, are beginning to bear fruit
Advantaged by the tentacle-reach of  social media technology; announcing a global call
That is harvesting an awakening of those once ill-informed and meek, to amass in assembly,
To encroach and occupy a demonstration encampment, to make their public presence known
To the Powers That Be;  and, by these populations increasing globally each day; proclaim their Resistance.

Internationally the Occupy Movement is determined, with strident resoluteness and resolve,
To broadcast a global Manifesto of Change; to make known that the pervasive impoverishment of humanity will no longer be endured.
By demonstrating with loving passivity and willingness to suffer the brutal wrath of judicial and intentional, forcible eradication;
Embolden others to this incipient movement; to spawn a greater awakening of common minds; and,
A cohesive willingness to withstand, united, against the tyranny of malicious injustices to endear countless millions more of humanity
To muster  the strength and courage to confront these lofty perpetrators and their contrived oppression;
Unified in allegiance to a commitment to march together armed with rudimentary sticks and stones;
Even in the face of the oppressors’ bullet fire; fueled by the true realization of their diminishing hope;
Ignoring the hollow promises espoused by political rhetoric; to offer up their seemingly empty lives
If only to pronounce, once-and-for-all, in a loud and increasingly omnipresent, proletariat voice:

Every women, man and child, young and old; will stand defiant against institutionalized, intimidating fear, forever absolved.

29
Aug
12

Dissension


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This aberrant strength of defiance as against my peers
A strength against the most prevalent of fears
The strength to voice a dissenting opinion toward the status-quo
An opinion most avoid or are heeded, not to know

Contemporary culture has been maneuvered into complacency
Consumed by consumerism since their time of infancy
Built upon premise of promise of life virtually fulfilled
That has rendered a virtual life increasingly, electronically built

But now, increasingly, are dents appearing in the Establishments’ armor
With a growing pervasiveness of discontent and clamor
A united, proletariat voice is awakening to the social charade,
Become increasingly willing to put life on the line, to rebelliously parade

What outcome this maturing, revolutionary movement will in the end, manifest
With strength of well funded bullets and armor pointed to their exposed breast
Will be left for future history books to detail what will come to unfold
But yet again, that will be dependent on whose version of the `truth’, is ultimately told.

01
Mar
12

Where Is The Justice?


Lynch the Bastards!

When considering that the majority, the common people, dutifully go about their mundane life performing meager jobs, for meager pay, responsibly pay their taxes and the rest put to survive frugally each day, have become victims. Then, through no fault of their own, save for having chosen to elect inept public officials who, through their own ignorance or corrupt manipulation, allow others, obviously wiser and mischievously corrupt, to drain the public treasury to the severe detriment of the same common people. Then, to add insult to injury, the same inept government officials turn to the common people advocating they must endure hardship to re-establish the depleted treasury, to restore programs of civility and healthy economy. All the while these same officials retain their high-paid salaries and entitlements including lucrative pension benefits should they chose out of shame, to retreat into retirement. And, as for the welfare corporate state, primarily responsible for the failure of the state’s economy, either direct or indirectly, too, are able to sustain their lucrative and quality, standard of living.

Heaven forbid that the common people should make their discontent known by demonstrating in the public streets that their life’s hardship financed into existence. To be confronted brutally by legions of shielded, armed riot police all of whom too are well compensated by those whom they beat back with hardwood batons and liters of pepper spray.

One has to ask:Where is the fairness of justice in this civil, social system?

The severe financial crisis that permeates nations globally which elected governments must be held directly accountable to have let materialize through a myriad of rational reason, must come to understand that unlike prior instances of similar civil malaise, the common people being more educated and informed are less tolerant then in the past. They must take notice that unless significant measures are taken to reverse the tidal flow of benefit from those responsible for perpetrating and prospering from the ills of our times, the `Let them eat cake’ philosophy of old will once again render a corresponding but more vicious and sustained uprising.

The threshold of tolerance of the hardworking majority, the 99 percent, is close to being transgressed and what potentially lies awaiting beyond its border, at all expense, will be mercilessly dispensed. The blind bravery of common people has historically been witnessed in past, worldly events; the bonding element having been to the welfare of all. The same element of resolve will undoubtedly manifest should the adverse austere conditions presently being imposed on the majority by the one-percent, and the governments that protect them and,  it will not relent.

‘When and where all hope is lost – there is no hope to loose.’




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