Obviously, various elements of all ethnic cultures (past and present) have been re-appropriated throughout the entire world... this is an example of monoculture, which will inevitably be the end result of globalism in the digital age. As time and technology progress, there will be less and less compartmentalization among people... Race does not even exist biologically... yet racism remains a contemporary issue throughout the entire world and class structure as culture progresses and evolves. From pre-emanicpation under the Lincoln administration to current escalating world tensions across all ethnic groups as class warfare and decentralization escalate as contemporary social ills, racism is a serious problem in America as well as throughout the world. I don't choose to find racism in the world... I see things as the parody or satire that they are meant to be. Nothing offends me. I myself am Iroquois, and I think that in order to highlight Native struggle in modern america we need to examine the ongoing marginalization that exists even today...
3/27/13
8/19/12
politics
My political statement is too progressive for this lifetime, but it's fun to imagine... Elimination of inherited wealth. Dramatic cuts in military spending saving millions of dollars. Establishment of the Federal New Initiatives Commission which would be responsible for exploring nano/biotech as a means to solve issues surrounding hunger, waste, energy, desalination, military threats, etc. Abolishment of congress and subsequent establishment of a unicameral system for the Legislative branch saving billions of dollars. Mandatory abortions for any female under the age of 25.
10/9/09
7/25/09
les nouvelles
Connecticut holds 1st exotic animal amnesty day
AT&T iPhone 3G refurbs as low as $49
Docked off San Francisco's Pier 27 and rocking calmly in the bay, the Okeanos Explorer awaits its return to sea. The ship--once a U.S. Navy vessel now under control of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)--is in the midst of being outfitted exclusively for deep-ocean exploration and discovery. Its purpose will be to investigate unknown, misunderstood, and other below-the-surface phenomena. It is expected to be fully operational by next summer.
$298 Laptop Highlights Walmart Back-to-School Deals
5/26/09
les nouvelles
The Avoidable Tragedy of California's Prop 8
I was born in California, and I've lived my whole life here. I really can't believe this is happening! Horse Apples!
San Francisco is The 5th fittest city in the country
4/24/09
les nouvelles
NASA retargets Atlantis launch for May 11
'Green jobs' at heart of Obama's Earth Day push on energy
Geocities to close after 15 years of aesthetic "awesomeness"
Geocities was created in 1994 as an easy way for people to create a Web presence. Fifteen years later, Yahoo has decided to close the doors on the iconic webpage service. Ars reminisces upon the good times of Geocities.
I loved geocities! my page is at geocities.com/teenslutsxxx
The world's first electric car... built by a British inventor in 1884
Scientists create super strong spider silk... using metal
Seeing red: The cloned puppy that glows in the dark
The dogs are transgenic animals, which means their genetic code has been deliberately modified rather than mutating naturally.
-> This is not an issue, because all of these genes already exist in the first place.
4/17/09
les nouvelles
WASHINGTON — The Obama Administration announced Friday that it planned to lift some — but not all — of the financing restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research in place during the Bush administration, a move that will please many but not all scientists.
Being the naive person that I am, I guess I thought that the whole world would change, and that this administration would usher in a new area of prosperity and progress. Overall, I'm not impressed by anything that Obama has done, and I'm sad that he's not taking a great opportunity to help so many people. I'm sad because I see America falling behind other nations who really realize and take to heart what kind of power this technology can produce.
NASA's Kepler Targets Earth-Like Planets; Beams First Images
4/16/09
les nouvelles
Kepler gets first glimpse of its planetary hunting ground
A microbial ecosystem has been trapped under an Antarctic glacier for over a million years. Researchers have now figured out what fuels these bacteria thanks to a shift that has brought bright red, iron-rich ice to the surface.
Google Profit and Revenue up in Q1
Budget report: NASA facing shortfalls, launch delays
Stem Cells Promising for Type 1 Diabetes:
Insulin No Longer Needed by Some Diabetic Patients Who Underwent Experimental Treatment
Prostate Cancer Vaccine Meets Goal:
Vaccine's Maker Says Provenge Improved Survival in Pivotal Study
Marijuana Debate Goes Mainstream
3/5/09
unfortunately
Justices seem to be leaning in favor of Prop. 8
sponsored by conservative religious groups
I don't want to live in america!
3/3/09
found it on RuPaul's blog
The Triumph of Ignorance: How Morons Succeed in U.S. Politics
everyone should visit RuPaul.com, he's been blogging for many years! Blog inspiration.
Obviously, while the rest of the world evolves, politics devolves!
2/27/09
Anarcho-capitalism, economic slavery, and social collapse
I guess I want to document some of the "less important" news that has been going on lately.
The world economic situation is getting more and more dire. People all over the world are loosing everything, and nothing in this life is free. Unemployment is going up at a staggering pace. The economy continues to worsen, and it's not just in the united states but world wide. The government and economy of Iceland completely collapsed, and it seems like it was just the first of many more potential disastrous social collapses. The government is now trillions in debt, thanks to george w bush, it seems obvious that historians will place him rather unfavorably amongst the ranks of hitler, stalin, and chairman mao as one of the worst political actors in world history. The media has been covering the situation EXTENSIVELY, and now incredibly large sums of money are thrown out in terminology all the time. Trillions here, hundreds of billions there. The government is about to take over banks, and nationalize health care, hundreds of billions of dollars are now everyday conversation for the citizens of this fine country.
I guess I'm still proud to be an American. It was founded on such great principles, yet has still not operated in the right capacity.
Is the golden age of human development over? Looking over the skyline of cultural cities of the world, it seemed like there just had to be more, but perhaps that was the best is was going to get. I try to look towards more optimistic views, and pray that singularity will come to pass in my lifetime. It's just a matter of money being put into the right industries and institutions, who will use the money to evolve society- eliminate war, disease, famine, and every other problem human's frail and inefficient minds create for themselves as a species.
Corporations, in some ways, are changing as well. At first, when everything started to go bad, it seemed as though only the strongest and richest corporations would be able to survive in the current time, mostly from the governments giving them billions in spite of the obvious fact that a lot of them are about to fail and have 0 chance of success- essentially everyone knows that the money the government gives them will basically be wasted on CEO payoffs. It was scary to think that the only surviving institutions would be the most powerful of corporations, and along those lines it seems obvious that the only remaining power would be the only government left, and I don't want proctor and gamble, coca cola, and mcdonalds ruling over me.
These corporations already rule over everyone.
The reality, is that we are all slaves. Looking back at history, we think of slavery as so obviously negative, and obvious to the human eye. Historically, we had people in chains, being whipped, sexually assaulted, and forced into a whole life of servitude. Yet there are millions enslaved right now, in fact wikipedia says there are more people enslaved at this moment in time than at any other time throughout recorded history. If you want to be a part of everything modern society has to offer, then you have to work for a living, and you have become a slave to whomever or whatever profits off you and your work. Today, anarchists, socialists, and communists alike see existence as "wage slavery" or "economic slavery." The reality is that humans are forced to choose between selling their labour and facing starvation, poverty or social stigma and a lack of prosperity. This is related to the notion of economic coercion. If you don't play the game, you can't win- you'll be homeless in 2 months, and that's real. I've never met anyone who always gets to do exactly what they want (except the few people I knew in the past with millions of dollars, and they were miserable because there was nothing left to want or desire, which makes them passionless, but that's another story).
Again, we are all slaves.
I don't understand where all these hundreds of billions of dollars have gone. Somebody has to have it, or at least know where it is! How did all this money disappear. I know that money isn't real, and is in fact based on faith, at least in this country, but just as the government chants money into existence, money is too desirable to be chanted out of existence. Someone is skimming off the top. Someone has it. We should find them and kill them. I always see signs that say "eat the rich" and it sounds like a good idea, because I'm starving.
Overall, people are getting more and more desperate. The social collapse of western civilization is imminent, and has been going on even though our society dwells in ignorance and escapism. Hopefully, now can be a good time to change some things for the positive, instead of pumping tax money into dying industries and institutions that are no longer relevant, and stand no chance of evolving in a free market system. Right now could have been a time of unparalleled prosperity, not just for the united states, but for the whole global community. They did it to themselves, it's not our fault, and we shouldn't feel bad about them failing. That is, essentially, the core idea of free market capitalism- only the strong will survive, ultimately their production becomes the most efficient, and serves the most amount of people the for the cheapest cost. In some ways, it's sad, because it seems like the basis of human achievement, the pinnacle of human development, was all due to corporations, because they were the only institutions with enough money (hence power) to actually create anything.
Humans, I have noticed, are a lot like piranhas in a feeding frenzy. Humans consume, until there's nothing left to consume. If you happen to be weak, or not be the best fit for the environment, the humans around you will feed off you until there's nothing left. It works the exact same way through natural selection in nature; humans are after all, animals. When you're in the middle of the street, screaming fire while being jacked and beaten up by 3 people, nobody will come to help.
Because this is how humans are.
2/26/09
12/12/08
economy news
California budget shortfall seen nearing $42 billion
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California faces a $41.8 billion shortfall for its combined current and next fiscal years, up from a prior $28 billion estimate as its economy weakens and revenues decline, the director of the state's Department of Finance, said on Thursday.
Michael Genest, also Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's state budget architect, told reporters at a briefing in the state capital of Sacramento the revised shortfall estimate includes provisions for a $2 billion reserve and affirmed the governor's outlook on the state's dwindling cash.
Schwarzenegger said on Wednesday that California's budget deficit for its current fiscal year had widened to $14.8 billion from a previous estimate of $11.2 billion, and the government of the most populous U.S. state may be out of cash by the end of February.
-> How is that the "budget gap" jumped from 11 billion to over 40 billion in a matter of days
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I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around notions that this money "simply disappeared" and is that even what they're claiming? "They" meaning big brother...
12/11/08
juicy news day!
WASHINGTON — Officials with NASA and President-elect Barack Obama's transition team on Thursday tried to paper over tensions that have arisen as the agency defended a chronically underfunded blueprint for space exploration.
-> I don't think Nasa is going to do anything impressive. The united states has not been competative with this issue for many years now.
20% of teens say they've put nude pics of themselves online
-> omg, "1 in 5 Teens Engaging in 'Tech' Sex" wtf?
US gains in math and science ed…Really?
Gene mutation protects against milk shakes and other fatty fare
Many Children Now Rely on Alternative Remedies
The Malaria Vaccine Explained
California air board adopts a sweeping plan to curb greenhouse gases
A Japanese research team has successfully processed and displayed images directly from the human brain, they said in a study to be published in the US magazine Neuron.
Love machine: Computer geek too busy for romance builds himself the perfect girlfriend
11/23/08
ghettoification of the united states
I don't like to write about governments and economies, but I guess I should document what's going on, cause it's only going to get worse, and after all, this is what people are going to write in history books eventually, and I hate revisionist history! It must be because I'm Native American. I'd rather get it from the source, and blogs are the new "oral tradition."
The US economy is slipping down a slippery slope day by day further into higher rates of unemployment and furthering stagflation- a stagnant economy with inflation. Obviously, there is a huge recession going on, and because America has dipped its dirty little fingers into innumerable pots around the world (globalism, exploitation) it has additionally affected many other global markets which now depend on our success. I never really pay attention to things like that, because I don't think of them as super important (even though they are, I just like to be immature about the situation). It seems like every day the stock markets are either up hundreds of points or down hundreds of points. Nothing is stable at the moment, all the banks are failing, and being bailed out by the government. Also, all of a sudden, cash seems to matter a lot more. I guess that's the fist thing they teach you in economics classes- that all of money is based on nothing, the only thing the economy and American currency is based on is faith. Which means cash money is the only real currency. I've never taken an economics class yet. I need to.
The government is using tax dollars to bail corporations out- including the failing car manufacturing industry. I saw fuck em, and all the people connected to them! They never tried to expand or evolve the industry, and if you can't adapt you can't survive. That's how things work in a capitalist society. Wow, I wonder if gas burning cars might have had a hand in global warming?
Inevitably what does this mean for someone like me? Next to nothing, aside from the "ghettoification" of the united states. I always thought everything was going to be nice forever. In a lot of ways, it seems like the United States just fucked all the other countries in the world over too many times, and now things are starting to balance each other out.
I'm hard pressed to see what the financial services industry actually does. It seems like it would be the kind of job where you pull little schemes here and there to move around already rich people's money into sketchy areas so everyone somehow makes more money, then skim off the top. On a more fundamental level, the financial services industry is analogous to a pimp or drug dealer. Personally, I have next to nothing, never more than a couple hundred in the bank, so it seems logical that it won't disappear, unless America gets really ghetto really fast, and all the banks money disappears. P.S. where did all this lost money go? How can the goverment go to a bank, and be like, "OK, you're supposed to have 50 billion dollars. Where is it?" and the bank replies "We have nothing." Why are the only power and wealth structures in America continually being fed more money, and now be fed so much power that the government just does whatever they say, including giving them hundreds of billions of dollars of MY (taxpayer) money? What's really ghetto is how unchecked and unregulaed all of this is...
At the moment, it seems like Obama will not be remembered favorably in the future, because he's not going to have any money to make any of the changes promised during his campaign. But then again, I'm registered with the Green Party, and see Obama and Mccain as 2 sides of the same coin. Simple economics...
So how will America look in 10 years? Probably just as big as ever, only ghetto everywhere. I guess everywhere is going to look like Target, while the European Union, Japan, and fairly soon after that China and India (who would have thought) quickly surpass America in all levels of progress, standard of living, success, (and GDP).
11/20/08
we all I know I HATE politics
...and that's why I'm not a politician! Anyways, today on the bus, a bum I recognized oozed his way onto the muni, and pretty quickly started to dive into a loud and vehement political rant (which wasn't directed at anyone in particular). To summarize:
-> Obama will not stop the drug war, the war against the poor, or pull troops out from overseas
-> established power systems (the elite, beaurocracy, political actors)will never disappear, "change" will not be coming to America when it comes to who has the money, power, and influence
-> the economy will continue to get worse, there's no way to put back money that doesn't exist and never existed in the first place
-> Obama is bought and sold just like every other politician, catering to interest groups and corporations
-> basically, we're all full or hope and change for the future but Obama is no different from Mccain.
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Not my words, but I'd have to agree! I'd just like to say I'm registered with the green party, but backed Hilary 100% and nothing would have made me feel safer and more secure than her as the president :D
It was hilarious, if not for the fact that this old, white, broken down bum was making all the Asians on the bus HELLA nervous! I don't understand why the minute people start to speak the truth, everyone starts to freak out
11/19/08
thanks Perez!
Boycott this theater! donated money towards yes on 8, yet still instend to profit from the new movie Milk.
The CEO of Cinemark, Alan Stock,
donated $9999 to the Yes on 8 Campaign, but
will now profit from showing MILK in his theaters.
If 1,000 of us commit to see MILK at a competitor’s theater
instead of Cinemark, at an average cost of $10 per ticket,
that’s $10,000 of lost revenue.
Update: We’ve hit 1,000!
As of sunday evening, we have exceeded 1,000 facebook members who have joined our cause!
But it’s just a start—we need to keep going to make the biggest impact we can. Our new goal is 10,000 members—This is aggressive but we think it’s possible. Let’s keep it going!
Boycotts work. A boycott of a Sacramento theatre company
resulted not only in the resignation of a Yes on 8 contributor,
but a public apology and donation to Human Rights
Campaign! We can do this again.
You can find an alterative theater using the links on the
left, and join our facebook group below to spread the word!
Help us reach 1000 members so we can send a message to Mr. Stock: YOU WILL NOT PROFIT FROM HATE.
Join Our Facebook Group Now!
11/6/08
FIND OUT WHO SUPPORTS PROP 8!!!
Click here to find out which organizations support prop 8!!!
-> very saddened! Including employees (perhaps professors) of UC BERKELEY, to continue-
AARON BROWN $250 ANTIOCH CA 94531 LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NAT'L LAB Support
WTF!
AARON COCKER $250 ELK GROVE CA 95757 UC DAVIS Support
-> UC DAVIS AS WELL
AARON ORULLIAN $100 TUSTIN CA 92780 ORANGE COUNTY HS OF THE ARTS Support
-> been to the oc, not surprised
why so many people in education?
ADAM LUNCEFORD $100 DAVIS CA 95618 UC DAVIS Support
very saddened. maybe I'll copy and paste more?
ADAM MYERS $125 SAN LEANDRO CA 94577 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Support
love
