You Appointed Who!?

It's been a while but I think it should be said that I was very disappointed by Obama’s appointment of Rick Warren to deliver his invocation during Obama’s inaugural address. Rick Warren is against gay marriage and reproductive rights, and he does not believe in evolution (maybe he offers himself as proof of lack of evolution). I still think Obama is the best choice for president, but I can’t condone Warren’s involvement in Obama’s inauguration, no matter how insignificant it is. I understand that Obama is trying to appeal to conservatives and evangelicals, but this move is symbolically a slap in the face to many people. Warren is not a uniter, but a divider… he is intolerant in many of his views. I think it is important to speak one’s mind, but also to not let the narcissism of petty differences sabotage our unity and progress.

Beautiful Losers

Paint a Deck with Ed Templeton from BlackLake on Vimeo.


Inspired by the DIY culture film, beautiful losers, the MAKE SOMETHING!!workshop is a series of workshops presented by NIKE sportswear.

Artists such as Ed Templeton, Aaron Rose, Tobin Yelland, Money Mark, Jesse Spears, Mike Mills, and more went to schools in New York and Los Angeles to lead workshops on everything to making zines or skate graphics to poster art or video editing.

The 9 webisodes feature artists from the film, their contemporaries, as well as the filmmakers teaching high school kids in NY and LA the DIY aspects of art-making

Aminals

No, I didn't misspell the title to my blog. Aminals is a website I stumbled onto when I was looking for a band that I like on google.

http://www.aminaldolls.com/

apparently they got kids to draw what ever they liked and made them into
soft puppets made from organic material. The idea was coined by the designers
at Dreaming Lion LLC. I thought is was pretty nice how they help kids interest
in art flourish from such an early stage, allowing them to be proud of something they made by just being themselves.


Oh, and they also seem pretty proud that their product is made from
organic material:


" There is a solution! Organic farms are free of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, keeping their soil and water protected and usable for many, many years to come. Before a farm may be certified organic, the fields must be free of synthetic chemicals for three years!

Organic farms rotate crops to replenish and maintain the soil’s fertility, and control pests and weeds naturally, using insect predators, traps, or botanical pesticides that are broken down quickly and simply with oxygen and sunlight. Growing cotton organically also benefits small-scale farmers who don’t have the funds to buy expensive, toxic pesticides. Organic cotton farming also uses significantly less water and electric power than conventional cotton farming techniques.

Not only is organic farming healthier and safer for our farmers, our fieldworkers, and our communities, organic cotton is free from synthetic poisons that are absorbed into our bloodstream through skin contact. Products manufactured from certified organic ingredients are the safest for your kids!

Only low impact and natural vegetable dyes can be used in certified organic cotton production, unlike the toxic, synthetic dyes used in conventional cotton manufacturing. "


-Aminals

SUPER SIZE ME

I had gotten home today and was watching That's 70 show like i always do after school. It seemed that every food commercial had to do with big food though. Big macs, Big man microwavable food, mega sized pizza at Pizza Hut, etc. What the hell ever happened to normal size? Actually, what about the quality of the food we buy? I know that you shouldn't ask for much when you're getting fast food, but come one, I'm not going to pay 10 dollars for something a dog wouldn't touch. I mean, I've heard Taco Bell's meat is only 10 percent away from being dog food, that's just disgusting. So when it comes to food, I prefer either my mom's home cooked meals or just some good sushi, that beats a cholesterol covered fast pass to health problems any day.

Our Word Is Our Weapon

A Question from Rowan on Vimeo.

" In the light of recent attacks in south Africa, WE respond to the questions, WE take to the streets...And like our brothers in the Zapatista National Liberation Army, We believe a word is a weapon. This war is not a statement, it is a question, which comes from a place in our hearts in where we believe that every person has a right to Equality, Freedom, and Life."



"Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefor extend their hand."is a piece done in Cape Town, South Africa deep inside the Hazendal community.

This graffiti message was written by FAITH47, an artist who resides in
South Africa and who is renowned for her political statements through her
pieces worldwide.



Eventually someone realizes that there is injustice in the world. Eventually someone is bound to wake up. But it is the by product of humanity when it is cornered that amazes me. We don't feel a need to express our selves unless emotionally awakened, a need to fight unless pissed off, and a need to speak of peace until there is hate.


So what happens when the ideal society is created? Will there not arise dissent in the perfect government? Is not the idea of "world peace" an impossible daydream we like to imagine to keep our destructive souls company? Instead of trying to change the world we should first change ourselves, then maybe things would mold themselves into something more livable.


I remember hearing in my philosophy class about an experiment were thousands of people meditated in front of the Washington Monument as part of research on the power of our minds. The crime rate in the state of Washington D.C. dropped 33% in the following year.


If you could just take a minute of your time to wish everyone well, to dream of inner peace and the welfare of your family and friends, then maybe you would reduce the grip of hate and animosity in the world. With a little more breathing space, maybe we would be able to think more clearly about how our actions affect every spec of dust around us.


It takes courage to tell others that you were wrong, it takes maturity to
understand what the best reaction should be before you go off on someone about how much of a jack ass they are. For all these things a person needs to have wisdom, something vital that seems to be missing from many politicians...maybe that's why there's so many wars and starving minds, maybe we've been picking our leaders based on a more fact based point of view? We pick men and women to lead us because of the school they went to and the laws they voted on, but never on their morals, no, political parties have taken the place of that. If you're conservative you love money if you're liberal you're a leftist, and that's the end of that.

Obama is going to be kicked out?

I just heard on a Hispanic news channel that because Obama is apparently not
an American since he was born in Indonesia, there has been investigations into
his origins. A tribune is being set up to decide if he should be allowed into the Presidency or not, because it seems as if he forged documents to make it appear as if he were American, when in reality he is of Indonesian nationality.

His birth mother mentioned this while she was being interviewed
which sparked the interest of those opposed to his political party.


Now I don't know much on this and would really appreciate to get comments
from people who have heard about it.

I can't believe that these people have decided to start looking at this kind of stuff just now, after his election by American voters.

Would we be forced to look for a new president?

would we have to go through elections once again?


or is this just a scheme from right wing conservatives who can't accomplish their corporate goals with such an open minded mine as the new leader of a free country?

If this does become a serious issue, I believe any attempt at dethrowning Obama and the people who chose him would cause discontent and maybe even rioting.

To change someone we have chosen to such a high political position on technical
idiocies seems to be a new bureaucratic low.

The Big Red

Communism:

An economic and social system envisioned by the nineteenth-century German scholar Karl Marx.


~In theory, under communism, all means of production are owned in common, rather than by individuals (see Marxism and Marxism-Leninism).


~In practice, a single authoritarian party controls both the political and economic systems. In the twentieth century, communism was associated with the economic and political systems of China and the Soviet Union and of the satellites of the Soviet Union.



I know that I might called out on this issue by some of you, but that's fine with me, and I would like to hear your interpretations of the issue. First off I would like to say that I'm not communist at all, to be honest I believe that any ideals, pertaining to politics and religion have lead to the deterioration of the human spirit and resulted in our base history of murder, drugs, and sex; blinding us from any real purpose in our lives.

So now on to the real reason why I wrote this blog. I remember when I was smaller, I would go out shopping with me mom and occasionally we would see people wearing the typical Che Guevara shirt, his stare off into the distance resembled a stone of sorts, strong and determined. I wanted a shirt with the face of this man who i realized I didn't know anything about, just because I believed him to be someone strong who probably did something pretty amazing to have so many young kids admiring him. I went up to my dad and asked who he was, and my dad told me he basically slaughtered people in Cuba in order to achieve his goals, and then became greedy alongside his close friend Castro, a simplified version for even a 12 year old to understand. Well I still wanted the shirt, so I tried my best my dad to let me get it, but he told me to do some investigating first. So i went on line and I found my self captivated by this man's thoughts on equality, but then followed the nasty history that preceded him. Death seemed to abound, as i learned on all the injustice that had been caused because of one man, I was angered by how stupid I had been.

But to this day I still believe that if it were not for people's selfish thirst for money and conflict, the theory of communism could work. I'm not looking at this from a financial aspect, but a personal one. People are grumpy because their house is smaller than their neighbors, well what if all the houses were the same? Why couldn't there be a section for people who want this house and a section for that house, and they all cost the same price? Why can't all the products that we make be of high class and stylish, why do we need to make crappy things that break and fall apart?


Isn't living in a common society, with common objects better than living in our present day, separatist culture. Individuality is pushed constantly, "I don't care about them, I want you to have a bright future", " It's my problem, not yours".

We are all the same species, yet because we're born under different nationalities, given different sounding names, brought up on different sides of that little line on the map that says you're in a different country or state, well then you become different. You begin to believe that because someone worships a different god or speaks a different language, then they must be from a completely different world.

I do not see social individuality, the pushing away of ourselves farther and farther from other people, as something good. I think that major companies have fed off of this idea to make us believe that the more different, the more apart from others, the better for them.

Mrs. Stocklosa spoke of sharism, the idea that we all should communicate in order to advance as a culture.

Well Capitalism is an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations

as a contrast to cooperatively.

Yes it has helped us grow, but into what? What has the American nation become?
Isolated from the world events and occurrences, i have only read on how the government did things to improve itself, but not the world. If we had tried to make things better for everyone, instead of a select elite that seems to have no limitations to what they can do and what beliefs they may impose, we would be better off, and of that I have no doubt.

Anarcho Punks...

As I shuffled around my brain on what to write for my blog tonight
I was listening to my iTunes and one of my favorite songs,
Those Anarcho Punks Are Mysterious by Against Me!,
started to play.






I personally think this song has a wonderful message. I think that it flat out spells out modern anarchistic thought and does it better than any book ever could. We, as anarchists, envision a society of, by, and for the citizens of the society. A world in which the governed are able to directly govern themselves. And most importantly a world where the people of the society are able to focus and work together towards a common goal with others of a like mind.
When people walk down the street and see an anarcho-punk teenager they see a kid who's angry at their parents and who will grow out of it. That teenager may have the right goal but no clue how to get there and may think that random vandolizations and angry actions work towards his goal. Any one who has a brick thrown through their window is going to harbor ill feelings towards whoever did it, regardless of intent or purpose. Not withstanding actually having possibly targeted an institution which is in dire need of an overthrow like a wal-mart or a starbucks.
The point is that throwing bricks accomplishes nothing but creating ill-will towards the movement. And the truly sad part is that the kid throwing the brick does it with all the best intentions in the world, but those kinds of people don't see how they're sabotaging themselves in the process. That's the song. It makes all the difference in the world how we conduct and present ourselves.
I can guarantee that I'm the best neighbor that the people who live around me have ever had. And because of it when the topic comes up in conversation and I express my dissatisfaction with the current social, economic, and political system in America they might actually listen. The may agree or not, but the fact is that without a little respect for them as individuals regardless of their willingness to buy into a system I personally hate.
Not to say that direct action isn't a necessary part of the anarchist movement. It is. And it works. There's a time and a place for direct action and I'm firmly of the opinion that it has to be a last resort if anarchists are to be taken seriously. And even then, it should only be used against the powers which are directly doing the oppressing and not on the people who would allies in the struggle.
Like all art, songs are subject to opinion. I hear this song and I hear what I want to hear. But I'm very comfortable with that and I think that as many people as possible should hear it and form their own opinions. And then use those opinions to have a discussion, because a discussion about our future is something that has been sorely missing from everyday conversation for a great many years.

Turkey Day

American's have come to celebrate thanksgiving as a time for thanks and giving
instead of what it originally stood for, the destruction of a civilization
that had survived for centuries in harmony. Well there are pros and cons to this
holiday I guess. Yes, it can be argued, "survival of the fittest", or hey look at the
amazing country that resulted from all those battles with the Native Americans. But then why is our present day government, who chooses to hide all the ugly little stains it has earned a long it rule, choose to keep immigrants out of it's borders? If you ask me there shouldn't even exist the word "immigrant", I mean it's not like Americans actually own this country. Just because they killed and enslaved people to get here doesn't make things right. The fact that different races such as African American, Latino's, etc, will make up most of the American population in a couple of years makes me smile. I see it as Karma, you take of their country, okay, cool, then we'll come and take over yours. Oh and I'm not saying we shouldn't have thanksgiving at all, I'm just saying remember the holiday as what really happened. Some crooks and murders lead by a guy who wasn't supposed to find anything stumbled onto some nice little patch of land on which he decided to claim for his own. He brought with him the precious gifts of disease and death, then proceeded to destroy the nature and people without pity. May I remind you that history books have actually made the Native American seem like a mindless savage, even though they were far more advanced than Europeans. There is evidence that the Native Americans had communication with one another, had medicinal technology beyond that of Europe, and never had wars on the scale of those going on in the "civilized" world.


Thank you mass media, pseudo politicians, and simple minded folks who
uphold beliefs based on faith that there fantasy
world doesn't need to be explained. We couldn't of dumbed down my generation
without your generous contributions.

The Beauty of Slow

We're often told by our peers how we're a lazy generation of kids that do nothing but lay around and soak up the sun like some withering plant in it's little cramped pot. So grunting and with little trails of steam pouring out of our heads we trudge towards our tasking, inhaling with drudgery filled lungs.

Well I don't see anything wrong in taking your time, in living up every moment that you can. I see all these so called "adults" scrambling around worse than bee's at a hive. I mean at least BEES, insects with brains smaller than our pinkie's, have the capability of stopping to smell the flowers every day.


What has humanity created for itself? It seems to me like every day that we make bigger buildings, more intricate roads, and more dastardly ideas of what seperates us from the general natural world. Who ever gave us the right to consider ourselves better than other living things?

We go about our lives, squishing the bugs that get in our way. I think if anything
we're the lowest life forms out there. We have all this power, to make the world better not just for our children and for ourselves, but for every organism. It seems like we've made it common to believe that if you don't have a voice, it doesn't matter what the world decides to do to you.


I cringe at the idea of speeding up my life so it can fit into yours. But I also understand that it must occur for this is what my society demands from me in order to be a valuable member in it's ever growing sticky little web. The thing is, if everyone keeps trying to catch up to that moving car that is slowly picking up the miles it travels in an hour, well, someone's bound to trip and fall towards pain and suffering.


I just hope it isn't me.

So, please take time out of your day to see how when you stare up at the clouds it seems like the world stopped moving. Or take the time to raise up your arms as a cool breeze wraps itself around you. Trust me, the feeling of knowing your alive instead of hearing about it on some television screen is oh so gratifying, euphoria galore if you ask me.

The Love Movement :)<3

MISSION:

The Love Movement was established with one concept in mind, to make a difference. A collaborative effort of public art and gallery work by a group of designers, artists, and teachers from different backgrounds, TLM's mission is simple, to create art that critiques and pokes fun at society and pop culture while also drawing awareness to the current state of the world. Often using discarded materials, TLM creates something new by destroying something old, by creating beauty from that which society leaves discarded to decay. The Love Movement has been known to make a difference in our society. Through their art sales, TLM provided a fresh water well in the African country of Benin; and payed for the school supplies, transportation, and fees for the children in Colby, Benin and Bali, Indonesia.


I had known about this website for a while now, glancing at there amazing
messages portrayed through mediums. A lot of people talk about change, a lot
speak of how they could cause it, but very few ever know what it means to BE change.
So if you're waiting on your friends to come pick you up or if your just having
trouble finding something to do, then go on http://www.tlmphilly.com/index.html
and look through their artist influenced merch( merchandise for those of us that
aren't up to date) and buy something you like. It'll make ya happy to know
you aren't just being selfish, you're also helping someone out half way around the
world!

I promise, it won't let ya down, they have some pretty "cool" stuff

Fox News and Their so called "reporting"

While this is really amusing. It’s scary and wrong that people are treating this as news or journalism.
The American people deserve better than this. The media should be a tool for the people to have access to information, question authority, and gain knowledge.
Fox should be ashamed of themselves and so should the American public at what has happened to the media in this country.
Notice in the end he says NYC is “under control” and indeed it is.

It's about the feeling they're trying to convey....

Herbert Baglione was recently interviewed in his native São Paulo, Brazil from The Run UP series by Fifty24SF Gallery and Upper Playground. The video is just shy of eight minutes, but this short packs a huge punch in that time, as Baglione talks about his past, his perception of the world, the deeper meaning behind his aesthetic, and why he sees chaos as inherently void.
“When you start to realize the immensity of things and their value, like the relationship between the sand and water, the sea, the ocean itself, you see that everything that you do, your work, are such small things,” the painter muses. “There isn’t a reason why there should be this tension between egos…this thing that exists in the graffiti world.”
Baglione continues, “I have two aims when I work: to prevent conflict on one hand but also seeking to create new ones.”

Rise Above

I was looking through my favorite website
today like i always try to do and I stumbled upon
some witty graffiti done by an artist who goes by the
alias "ABOVE"

The first video is on the stock market and the second is about John McCain:


WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN from ABOVE on Vimeo.






TRICK OR TREATING AT THE McCAIN'S from ABOVE on Vimeo.



Personally I find them as out of the box methods of speaking out
which don't tell viewers "This means I'm mad", but
allows them to critically think. And anyone who can accomplish
that in today's world, I highly admire.

Should I ignore you?

I was just having a conversation with my younger brother because neither
of us were really in the mood to do our homework and we kind of
got carried away


he asked me:


" If I must be aware of my surroundings and contemplate
different perspectives and at the same time I should
surround myself with higher intellectuals, how
do I deal with the majority I cross paths with?"

I didn't know how to reply,

should we ignore the people who we believe to be
of no help to the evolving of our ideas?

or must we always be open to anyone's views?

But by anyone I mean that girl in your class you
know only watches Paris Hilton series on MTV and
describes everything as "cool"

I mean, should these kind of people deserve a minute
of our attention?

The World Is in Your Hands

After class today I went up to my friend Virginia
and asked her what she planned to do later in life


It's kinda of sad to say, but we both don't have a
clue

We know what we want, she wanted a coffee shop, I
want an art studio

The thing is how do we get there?

I mean there both professions that are not supported
by our vast economy, I know for a fact that in
my adventure to accomplish what I love there
will be times where I probably will have little to eat,
a cramped place to sleep, and no hope what so ever.

But I'm perfectly fine with that, in fact, I think I'm looking
forward to living instead of talking about living.
I want those experiences, I want to face the world with my fist
held high in the air


We both came to the conclusion, my friend and I, that as long
as we can have enough money to do what we love, we'll be happy.


Maybe that will force us to take 2 years of community college
because we don't have the money to go to where we want to study,
we'll probably work our asses off, but to achieve what we have been
dreaming about, any sacrifice seems so minuscule I'm willing to take one the world.


I still remember the day I realized that I wanted to go to
Pratt Institute of art and design, it felt like a weight had been
lifted off of my chest, I knew what i wanted, there wasn't a drop
of doubt in my mind. The feeling of not knowing how to get there,
that to enjoy a decent life one must conform to the practical
like doctors, lawyers, and politicians... it's just irrational

Why should I do something because of my monetary gain?
Who decided what i should learn and what a shouldn't?

I'm going to go out and be who I want to be, an artist
with my own gallery down in Arch Street in Philadelphia's
Chinatown


How much are you willing to give to get to where you want to be?

Are you willing to change you aspirations if it means
earning more money, and does that define you as a sell out?

well...

What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

Selling Out The Revolution

Raffaella Delle Donne is an amazing writer and activist that contributed the Faith47 feature to our current special African Art (November 2008) issue. Raffaella currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa and recently wrote about her experience of being charged with defacing public property for spraying “free art” on the bridges of “the Mother City.” It’s pretty crazy stuff. Raffaella explains:
“A couple of years ago, in protest against the barrage of proposed by-laws that boasted a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to all our social ills by banning everything from graffiti to the homeless, a friend and I were charged with defacing public property for spraying ‘free art’ on the bridges of the Mother City.
“Because we were middle-class whities and upstanding members of the community, our little escapade got lots of media attention (isn’t graffiti code language for gangsters?) and fuelled the debate around the shortsightedness of Draconian laws that threatened to turn two already marginalized groups into criminals: the youth and the poor.”
The entire piece is enthralling, and provides a much-needed look at foreign government’s policies on graffiti and street art. If the up cropping of zero tolerance laws frustrates you, you’re not the only one. “Our protest wasn’t just about graffiti, we were demanding to know why our leaders aren’t providing viable, long-term solutions to uplift the communities that need it most.”
Read Raffaella’s Selling(Out) the Revolution on her blog at mouth-of-word.blogspot.com
Image from Raffaella’s blog courtesy Adbusters.


When would you consider someone's protests as taken too far?
Why would you not support another person's fight to get there
point across? If more of us out there actually took the time
to listen to people, don't you think that a smaller amount of them
would be forced to take there fights to extremes that involve violence?
Or do you believe that anger, and causing conflict are the only methods
of actually bringing attention from an other wise vegetative state audience
that is our society?

Reality of a Figment of our Imagination?

The question of nature over nurture constantly arises
in my psychology class

The nature versus nurture debates concern the relative importance of an individual's innate qualities ("nature", i.e. nativism, or philosophical empiricism, innatism) versus personal experiences ("nurture") in determining or causing individual differences in physical and behavioral traits.

others believe that the very question is out dated because in life we
have found that a bit of both is needed


what I have always wondered is, can the belief in a higher
power be considered as a pert of nurture, something that is
learned due to the way society thinks? Or is it naturally wired
into your brains, thus making the idea of "god" nothing more
than the result hormones and neurons influencing our minds,
which we lazily leave on autopilot most of the time?

New America

do you believe it's sensible for America to search for
a new form of currency to solve it's monetary problems?

They're Distracting Us.

"We’re taught to think of our success in terms if numbers aren’t we?
If touching one person’s life is a good thing, then touching one thousand people’s lives must be a great thing

It’s easy to see where we learn to think this way, our whole society revolves around
mass production

The more units we can move, the more customers we can serve, the more boats we can get, the more money and the more stuff the better right?

Maybe it’s not possible to touch one thousand peoples deeply or as powerfully as one
person is attempting

Maybe it’s not so revolutionary after all to have one person or a group of
twenty tell everybody else what’s right?

Wouldn’t it be better to try a decentralized approach?
Where everyone works closely with those around them
instead of a few people in anonymous masks?

Do you have to save the world all by yourselves?
Why don’t you trust anyone else to do it with you?"

(The Ocean and The Sun)

"let your heart sink and raise your mind to truth
let your mind escape, the burning of logic is true"

I love
I want
I need
I am

"Is this emptiness part of being human?"

"Puppets...who pulls your strings?"

Why do I wonder? Some people never even ask. What are you thinking? Who’s in charge?

I don’t understand French, but if I could, I would write beautiful songs about horrible things because it is said people know of what you love in romance and if love could exist it would be in horrible things. We must characterize something in order for it to be something. We must have a heart in order for it to be broken.

Many people walk in a dream, they feel entitled to happiness, and are angered when they awake. It is our own perception that creates realty. Expectations. We find ourselves in little boxes watching little boxes. We see an edited version of human life targeted be alienated narcissist individuals that distract us from seeing the underbelly of politics and business; we are products of a manipulated society. Look at the pretty girl dancing, her hair is so shiny yellow and my hair is so shiny yellow. You will be happy, you will be empty, because it is not about the product, but the feeling they are trying to convey. And it is not for your benefit, but for the benefit of the holders of the company.

We must burn our little boxes, we must create dialogue; we must realize the importance of every moment. We must turn our boredom to gratitude. Use your hands, your thoughts, your hunger; these things are yours and yours alone."


(Uzbekistan)




The Sound of Animals Fighting

Italian Streets Burn With the Fight to Educate

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's multi-billion-euro education cuts were voted into law on Wednesday in Rome.

It's estimated that more than a million students and teachers spilled upon the
streets to demonstrate their disapproval of changes to primary school education, including a return to one all-purpose class teacher, who will remain with the same class for five years.

Domenico Pantaleo of the General Confederation of Labour union said: "These are not reforms, these are just budgetary cuts. The government is destroying public schools and replacing them with a private system."


It's amazing to me how people on the other side of the world will
take what ever measures are necessary in order to have their voices
heard.

While we, the freedom loving Americans that we are, rarely make even
a squeak when our education is compromised


Marches also took place in Milan, Turin, Venice, Naples and other cities. In some places, the protests have been going on, on a smaller scale, for weeks.


When is the last time you heard of anyone taking action near were you live?

most of you would probably respond

NEVER.


of course the response by Mr Berlusconi was:
"I regret that young people have been manipulated by the left."

Why is it considered communist, or socialist, to search for an
equal and just government of the citizens which instill political
power in order to facilitate and benefit their living conditions?

Who's the better liar?

"As if you needed another reminder to vote on November 4th, here's Mr Brainwash's satirical rendition of the future potential leaders of our country. Pasted in Los Angeles, MBW is one Frenchman that has things on point, regardless of whether our government does or not." Juxtapose magazine
More on MBW at mrbrainwash.com



There is one thing I can not get through my head. Although everyone
says that politicians are some of the best liars out there, who
only do things to get your vote into office and then leave
you stranded with your problems once you open the door for them,
then why do we pick new ones every year? Why must we constantly
pick men who are only looking to gain a higher political placement
in order to gain power?

These people higher trained professionals to instruct them
on how to talk and act in order to appeal to us. Why can't they
just be real? Why have we created this fantasy world were
we obligate people to lie to us!? Wars have killed massive amounts
of people, government decisions have caused poverty, hunger, and
even drug wars. Yet to this day I have never read in my history
books of politicians suffering from anything more than a slight
slap on the wrist.


Anarchy in a million dollar suit, that's
true government.

When will we, the world, not just America, mature to the point
were government will no longer be needed? Will we forever be plagued
by laws and taxes, green greed and ideals of giving you life to
serve your nation, like little worker ants without an identity, or will
we one day break away from the caged life we live?


Is it time for our generations own revolution?

A lot of things have gotten out of hand, banks control
our living conditions, governments control our restrictions,
and "our" media tells us not to worry about it.

When is it going to be enough?

When will you reach your breaking point?

Fear over love

Bill Hicks used to finish his shows with this:
Life’s like a ride at an amusement park, and when you go on it you think it’s real cause that’s how powerful our minds are, and the ride goes up and down and round and round, it has thrills and chills, and its very brightly colored; and its very loud. But it’s fun for a while, some have been on the ride for a long time they begin to question is this real or is this just a ride? And other people have remember and they come back to us and they say “hey! don’t worry don’t be afraid ever cause this is just a ride!”, and we kill those people. Shut him up I have a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account and my family, this has to be real. It’s just a ride, but we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever realize that? and let the demons run amok. But it doesn’t matter, cause it’s just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice, no effort, no work, no job, no savings of money, just a choice right now, between fear…and love.

What's your opinion on the quote?


Is it not true that in the right time, in the right place, we are capable
of anything? The series of Saw movies are the perfect example of this, does
that mean that we, as human beings, can't truly uphold any of our
so called beliefs?

Atheism, religion or not?

Okay so recently some random kid came up to me on Wednesday asking me to sign
a petition form because he wanted to start an Atheism club.

Personally I find Atheism to contradict itself and only as a form for people to label themselves as something because in all reality they can't function without belonging
to a group. My friends and I had a discussion about it, I said that Athiest
believe in not believing, thus they still believe in something which is
against being "Athiest".

"Atheism is a reflection
of certainty, I am not certain"
-Bill Mayher, co-director of Religulous and Borat

Now let's move on to my bigger
problem, should an Atheist club be allowed? On your myspace doesn't
it say that Atheism is a religion? Maybe I'm wrong but I thought
you couldn't say anything religious in school. And what the hell
would you do in an Atheist club? Pick on people who find it
spiritually fulfilling to believe in a higher power?

Zeitgiest the remastered full version

“They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority”

-G. Massey, Egyptology

this movie is about an hour or so long so if you sit down

make sure you're all cozy

I found it last year on someones myspace to be completely honest

and since then it has helped influence many of the points

of view I hold today

just so you know, this video has yet to be disproved,

every fact that they present to you can bee looked up

on any website, in any history book

It will astonish and open the minds of some, others

who choose to see the world as a pretty little fairytale

will turn the other way and continue to keep their eyes

tightly shut

If you press play, then watch it to the very end,
or you won't understand what the message of the movie is



"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. "



"fasten your seat belt Dorothy, 'cause Kansas is going bye-bye."