Detroit in Ruins

Detroit is in ruins. That is what I have come away with, from professor Ray Waller’s story on the so called artsy fartsy hip trendy folks that come to the city to proudly proclaim the sad state of affairs, as their own. I have lived in the Detroit area for most of my life, and I can say this story is so true in every way. The sad irony, the collapse of industrial America started a very long time ago, way before I was born, the 1970s when the oil embargo occurred, the oil shocks that led to our state of affairs, we find ourselves in. All humans have been doing and never can realize what they are doing is consuming…everything….from everywhere and no matter how they get it. There is an economic model known as the infinite growth paradigm. This model is collapsing. This trend if it were is headed south, or may already be there. The dramatic story this shows is a city that struggles and I should know because I was told by my grandparents “theirs nothing in Detroit!” They would exclaim when you’d see the news. Right now, I can hear the sound of heavy boldozers, that are effectively destroying the ruins.

            I guess us white folk criticized Detroit for all the wrong reasons. Not fully understanding the larger picture not fully understanding Detroit. We always thought the African American community was the problem. Not understanding the larger problem of industrialization and the impacts it would have on the community. The problem really resides with General Motors, Ford Motor Company, and the Chrysler Corporation who for the last 150 years cataclysmaclly took it upon themselves, to build up and tear down whole communities, which in turn in the 1930s it was General Motors who bought up every mass transit company in the United States, effectively forcing millions of ordinary Americans to buy and use the oil companies monopoly, with every intent on insuring the car, oil and tire lobby’s continued iron grip on mass private transportation. Ensuring that public clean, and mass transportation would never see the light of day in the United States. So, in retrospect the real culprits are multi-national corporations who have took it upon themselves to create a collapsed economy. I have heard a a lot about our area as a tragedy as it can sometimes give one to think about the real culprits the dangers of decay, the “I am Legend” decay that is turning every city in America into Detroit. When you read Professor Waller’s story you begin to realize just how dire things are. I live in a suburb of Detroit, and the community is on the threshold of going into economic blight, crime, and becoming a science fiction nightmare that Detroit has become. The community claims to have the budget in order and they have solved some very complicated issues, they say they will continue working on the cities finances. In reality in truth we all know what is coming (this is the community I live in). This past week, in three separate locations, there were bank and jewelry store robberies. One can understand, I guess of why two gunman stormed into three separate locations, and robbed in “suburbia.” What led to all of this economic strife, in large measure and Ray picks up on this point is deregulation. The “Big Three” and in tangent with the anti-union agenda started by Ronald Wilson Reagan. The 40^th president of the United States. Whose deceptive promise to faithfully defend the constitution. To uphold the laws and to promote the general welfare (article 1, section 8), has failed for 30 years. His rise to power has a lot to do with conservatives who were opposed to the social movements in the 1960s. This national backdrop put Detroit front and center. I bring this up due to my families own support of the radical ideological agenda that Reagan came to Washington hence the “tax cuts” then the affects were even more devastating when presidents Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43, and I am sorry to say President Obama, have supported without regard the anti-union, antisocial Free Trade Agreements, which set in motion some of the most TRAGIC and devastating “outsourcing” (abolished) of American jobs this country has ever seen. You put all of these things together and you have a recipe for disaster. My grandfather worked for the Frito Lay Potato Chip Company, hence he was a teamsters union member. He wore that on his sleeve with pride. Not to mention he was a US rubber company union member. Jimmy Hoffa was his hero. My grandmother worked for Archie Dunne cigar manufacturers. During the second world war she was Rosie the Riveter at Dodges. They struggled with their family business. They both grew up in Hamtramck, Michigan. The biggest mistake General Motors, the UAW, and the city of Hamtramck/Detroit ever did was build the pole town assembly line plant. Why? Well, for one good reason, the street car industry had effectively been derailed. A small town becoming a victim of urban blight, crime and drugs which by the way is a CIA operation. Detroit is a failed city, with alarming number of problems. The crime is literally off the charts statistically. No to mention the rogue river which is an environmental tragedy. The CBC news in Ontario filed this report on the state of things on the financial crisis in the United States, they chose in particular the city across the river in Detroit.
 As you can see the sad story this is. And this is from the Canadian side of the river! I remember when I was a kid and you’d here about job loss and layoffs to auto workers. My reaction was muted, and did not realize the full implications of the motives and means behind these cuts. I also need to take notice to the Bing Administration and it cuts to the cities budget. He promotes short term fixes and does nothing to promote the general welfare (article 1, section 8). We used to go to Detroit a lot. To visit the aquarium, the flower house, and the Belle Isle Zoo. These were great venues for children to learn about their natural world around them, and most importantly it was a time to be with family. Thanks to the draconian General Motors, Ford Motor Company, and the Chrysler Corporation, the death of Detroit has made these venues all but dead. People in the past 30 years graveled at the hand that fed them and gave out huge bonuses to the rich and powerful without realizing the impact was on the middle class, working class, and the working poor in Detroit. All of this decorum has created a cease filled wound, a crater filled with “ditritas” as I was told. This story is ignored. All ignored because it means nothing to the establishment. To reflect on the ruins and abandonment of Detroit, one thing that stands out here more than anything is history. The story neglects the struggle of African Americans who put their lives in a very tough spot, get laid off or become underemployed at the same time. Because we the big three said so.

 I take heed from the original social activist and consumer protectionist advocate as well as former presidential candidate Ralph Nader who would have suggested does this person want me to think or believe? This posting will become a larger text in the coming months and beyond. I hope something can be gleaned on this topic of injustice. May we keep the city of Detroit in are hearts and prayers. Here is a video detailing even more of this horrible tragedy what Detroit now faces.....

WARNING: DICTATORSHIP AHEAD

The hour is growing late. A government has now crossed the rubicon. We now enter a new world order. A servile public is going along with brand Obama. His sellout is well…planned. Chris Hedges came out with an interesting piece in regards to the growing police state in America. This is no accident. The framework for this took many years. The executive branch has been given unwarranted and unchecked power. We stand at the crossroads. Just add all of it up. Repeal of Habeuas Corpus, repeal of Posse Comintus, the establishment of the John Warner Defense Authorization Act, the Military Commissions Act, and the National Security Presidential Directive 51. All of this is surrounded by the shadow of torture. The military is standing by, the mercenary army of Blackwater in tangent with the police have been given prime orders.  There will more to say in the coming days about this.

May I have more Mr. Scrooge.....

It has come to me that capitalism is a disease without any innocence. It is a destructive power without regard. It is a destructive force without the acknowledgement of the common ordinary American. The reality of its power is very overwhelming. One must look at the novel by one Charles Dickens a Christmas Carol. The reason I bring mention this, has to do with someone I encountered who told me that the US budget ought to be zero. Yeah that’s right. The poverty, the homeless, and the indigant? My god. So I add to that, are there no prisons, are there no workhouses? What a terrible concept. In the most richest and wealthiest nation on this earth, and the basics cannot be met. The idea that someone is not able to live? All because he is not able to afford the basics of life. Food, water, shelter, and healthcare?  All of this reminds me of the story of a Charles Dickens a Christmas Carol, the stingy but chilling figure that is Ebenieser Scrooge. My heart aches such thoughts can be uttered by such people. The idea that we need not care about the poor. The diety of Reagan I guess has worked very brilliantly. They bought it. Hook…..line…..and sinker!

            These economic madmen have said there responsibility is to create more tax cuts for the job creators. Yet we utter such nonsense to take away from the most vulnerable. He said what is vulnerable? The homeless, the hungary, the working men and women. I saw a women on the entrance of the freeway in Michigan with her head covered and only showing was a tin cup of clanky coins in it. Ugh, The most basic idea to cloth yourself. The most basic idea to bathe yourself. The most basic idea to warm yourself. Whatever happened to dignity in this country? So what may be the next economic crash to come may be these sad people’s day at the gates of St. Peter. I pray that that day arrives for everyone that denies the ultimate price that must be paid, the last loan, the last debt to be piled on. The last journey capitalism has before its death nail. May our children forgive us. May they never have to hear such hogwash from people like this. The meek to be ignored?  The vulnerable to be dismissed? The economic conditions of millions to be deprived for millions of people all because someone thinks we ought to save money? The catholic church has condemned such action from capitalism as being evil. I as a catholic believe these to be true in every sense. The day will come when all of you, who in every respect ignored your thoughts only to dumb yourself down, only to be deceived by the great devil himself. The day will come, yes it will. When the meek will triumph. When we stand tall and look you savages in the eyes and laugh. We will laugh and love when you will be dragged in the street and shot. Yes, I know this may sound cynical and downright morbid. I hope it does. The least among you will have its revenge. The madness in all of us will shake these chains of slavery and wake the sleeping giant that is free humanity.  The Mohicans will come, and destroy you. I declare eternal war on you! If the elite are reading this, you have been warned. Ahh yes. Bloodshed! The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time. Ahh yess! You cowards. The family tree I have is majestic. Only will it do you great harm when it doubt, when my great great great grandfather The first and greatest president George Washington of the USA came to march on Trenton. He was fixture of what is good and decent. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! LET ALL PATRIOTS KNOW THAT YOUR DAYS OF EXPLIOTATION ARE COMING TO AN END!!! USA USA USA USA!!!! I understand history as anyone may know the sorrow journey man has took on the way from the days of Adam Smith, the days of Keynes, and the days of Milton Friedman. This cancer has spread, it has spread to all of us, to all of the victims like a curse, like a disease, like a cancer that spreads to all of the innocent. The disease will only get worse,  it will only spread if nothing is done.

Your Memorial Day....Your Fourth of July Firecracker Exploding in the Grave!

The ides of Memorial Day are now upon us. War is being celebrated. They say as it is turned into an ever encompassing perpetual propaganda machine every year. Alright….fine. So then we can tell the stories of George Watkins, Ron Kovic, Phan Xuan Sinh, and the Vietnam veterans who were tragically effected in some kind of physical or mental way. Changed by war forever. George Watkins would say “Our worst time was about the entire month of December 1967. They brought one Chinook helicopter in and took us all out.” George Watkins was an infantrymen in the 196^th Brigade. He stepped on a land mine and lost both his legs, severely effecting his ability to walk as well as losing his eye sight. His one leg eventually had to be amputated due to gangrene. Ron Kovic was a man who was paralyzed by a wound he received in the Danang River Valley in 1968. He was forever changed by that in so many ways. “I am your fourth of July, your yankee doodle dandy, I am your John Wayne come home, your fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.” His story is infamous for the film entitled Born on the Fourth of July” made by Oliver Stone who himself was a Vietnam Vet. Phan Xuan Sinh was a South Vietnamese veteran who mistakenly killed a city of people. Not armed, not even “the enemy.” All of these men have something in common, they all had a very traumatic and deadly expierence with war. I have been thinking about all of these stories. The ones who have been ignored by the government, the ones who have been crapped on. The ones who’s lives have been affected by war. The nation I love is forever in my heart this memorial day. The nation I love  needs to be remembering the tragedies of this day only to understand the complex paradox as it seems as it is. War is a tragedy. That is what we must remember. Sacrifice to who? I ask. To my freedoms or my governments politics that have maimed thousands of men and women who are kids. Their just kids, kids who have lost so much for all of us. The day will come when the living will have to be judged by the dead who are brought back to haunt the livings misgivings. The consequence of the Vietnam war lives on the memories of those who have perished and who for those who have kept it alive need to bring some clarity to the war and what it caused for millions of people in the world. The United States needs to start talking about ending war, not promoting it with slogans, banners, and rhetoric on love of country. Take this example, Yesterday at the National Memorial Day Concert in Washington, Colin Powell kept on referring to us as sacrificing and not word was talked about the loss of a trauma, or physical ailment, or a guy in Iraq or Afghanistan who has been altered due to these wars. In the name of September 11, 2001. I will never forget that horrible day. The US president got Bin Laden, yes, but they forgot to ask the question, Why did the US train him? What was he used for? Soviet Union? Remember them when we used Mr. Bin Laden in the invasion of Afghanistan? CIA and the growing of Opium? I know this all seems to be a shock to all those reading this right now. War for freedom? War for democracy.? War for empire, greed, selfishness, and above all control of oil in the Middle East. My generation saw evil on its shores. The Vietnam war saw the worst form of evil as well. A perpetual progranda machine on its own people. The other conflicts were the Persian Gulf War was the one I remember when I was a kid about ten or so. 1991. I can almost remember that night in January. Wow, amazing. That day I asked my grandfather a question. “Who’s winning?” His reply was…….Nobody wins.

Christian G. Appy, Patriots (2003, Viking Books)21-25.

Ron Kovic, Born on the Fourth of July (introduction).

Nazi Intoxification of our culture and how it is about the environment!

I have been asked to write of the scary realization that Beyonce Knowles maybe in the authoritarianism business. Let me explain. The idea that she is a hero to minorities every where just seems so cruel. The women is an absolute disgrace to the world of music. There is no music here. More or less a cult of death and destruction is what we have here, a cult of nazism, a cult of vice. The Nazi Party decided to create a cult of death to kill innocent victims of the holocaust. The death and destruction that six million felt on Europe can never be denied by anybody. A superior race was told that it will be born out of the ashes. The music video Run the World by Beyonce is part of that culture, a sick display of torture and just pure self promotion of misanthropy. The highest form of hatred anywhere. We live in a time of great peril environmentally as well as militarily. The greatest threats to our humanity are nuclear war and environmental disaster. We have already proven that with fukashima, chernobyl, three mile island, exxon valdez, and the gulf of mexico oil spill. Climate change has become one of the greatest threats to our humanity. The fact that Don Blankenship has destroyed the great majestic West Virginia Appalachian Moutains is such a disgrace. Here is an explanation by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. As the video explains the diabolicle nature in which human lives have been lost in such a very sick and disturbing manner. The cherished memories have been loved, the people have been lost.

The idea here is to add to issues that have to be addressed, the above video as well as the one in my last blog are very important to understand. The result is the following result of our misbehavior by the elites.

PEAK OIL, US HEGEMONY, and MY GOD HELP US!!!!

Nazi German Anthem

Nuclear Insanity from Ground Zero!

The information I am about to share is disturbing and may be unsuitable to younger viewers. Reader discretion advised. The Nuclear industry would like us to believe that radioactivity is not a problem. Nuclear energy is not a problem they say. The environment is not harmed they say. I would like to believe all of their information, however I cannot respect the nuclear industry and I use that term loosely, since they are essentially a consortium, thanks to the Bush Administration. I have my problems with this crowd. The government since 2001 has been very untrust worthy. I never really trusted them, I am disturbed by the fact that hubris is infected into our culture, our economy, and the world around us. The pollution due to Fukashima Nuclear Plants reactors 1,2,3,4,5,and 6 have new meaning to what pollution is. E=MC^2. The power of the sun. I must say pollution on this magnitude is very much what the China Syndrome predicted. A realistic implication by which human loss of life has led to a very hard cold reality for us all. The end of the nuclear age. J. Robert Oppenheimer was a mad scientist as it is reported. The destructor of worlds. The very nature of the is age old technology we claim to be the end all be all sources of energy, I define it as craziness with a twist in society, in this moment I shall give true assessment on what I think the world has come to.

 In order to understand what is being said here we must go really far in history, the thirty years war. The powers at the time understood that the decline of empire is what creates the transformational moments set foot on the planet. Karl Marx spoke of these very situations. The ample dialogue in which examines communal ways of life. The utopia that is created unto the continent. The systemic realization that humans are forever changed for the better when not exploited. It seems fitting when people actually heed that philosophy. I speak of exploitation as an adversarial component here. The game that is being played is destruction of life and community. The revolutions throughout history have been germane in mostly when these nations have been exploited to the extent their imagination has disappeared. The sexual revolution realized what women in their ordinary circumstances can do under intense pressure from their master(husbands). Lesbian and Gay rights have been circumvented by the religious right in a very intense discussion of conservative robber barons suggesting the rightful place for these human qualities called sexual pleasure are for the socially conservative. These methods of ideology insist on fascist tendancies. You probably are asking what does sex and gender have to do with history. Its simple. Everything. It maybe a very difficult subject matter for some due to the explicit language I speak of. Sex is by its very nature a human trait. It goes back to the beginning of time. Love is secondary to sex. The Nazi regime in the 1930s were ultra-conservative and understood the very nature of this fact. Their abuse towards women and in the social degradation in general is very grim. Homosexuality was attacked and denied to be practiced by anybody that dared become part of their humanity. They also created groups that were attempting science that was almost pseudo-scientific. Sir. Francis Galton was a Eugenist. He wrote very racist and condescending opinions on man. There were people like this in the twentieth century with this culture in mind. “The question is not whether socialism is eugenics, for instance, socialists but rather eugenics is socialism.” A very germane disturbing picture emerges when we deal with the Nazi German third Reich. This regime was one of the most horrific in history. The holocaust was a form of great peril and genocide. The loss of loved ones was a very ugly episode befallen on to human kind. All in the confines of the nation state. This radical concept emerged out of the thirty years war. The radial belief in colonial oppression grew and then it led to industrialization. Out of tyranny of absolutism a new form of tyranny emerged. The power of Christianity that hijacked the faith and claimed as its own. Jingoism has its origins in the birth of empire. The kings and queens of Europe understood that and the basis for oppression under the shroud of majestic symbolism created a new dawn. This mindset would last for hundreds of years until a man in England who was catholic. A very protestant British royal government created very difficult situations as their empire grew. Guy Fawks was this very man. His opposition to the tyrannical nation state created the gunpowder plot that has been emphamise throughout Great Britain. The conception of militancy expanded under rebellious Fawks. He was fighting the corporate adoption of these ideas that were instituted by world powers. His legacy is still mirred by the United Kingdom as a symbol of terrorism. I ask then what is terrorism. As the age of terror in the 21^st century has been defined as Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda the over reaching grasp of the nation state has lied out right in suggesting a shadowy enemy cannot be stopped. The terror threat hyped and cynical as it is does nothing but malign and decrease the power of the individual. Where does sex and radical ideology come in? In the midst of George W. Bush and the War of Terror he had suggested the criminal intent by his own government in labeling anyone that was picked up on the battlefield as an unlawful enemy combatant. The diminishing suggestion gives the communal aspect to sex as an evil deed. Or in than everything is evil and must be refined in order to prove ones self worth. This a dangerous paradox and very serious problem in order to feel pleasure and enjoyment of others. Nazi Germany in the midst of World War II banned contraception from the public and demonizing gay and lesbians in the midst of an intense war in Europe. Society pressures everyone to be open and free of normalcy it seems. Fetishism was a contradictory and perhaps normal practice in the early part of European development. The idea that by scientifically changing the culture of one’s self will change the very fabric of the betterment of all. What Dagmar Herzog as a professor of Sex History would suggest the evil intent by the religious right as a legitimacy factor grows to a reverse psychosis. Banning pleasure to better their rule is just an assault.