A little bit of everything... from my favorite word to my favorite website. There's something in there for pretty much every mood-- songs to make you cry, videos to make you laugh. Political ads that make you sick and some that will give you chills-- but best of all there are those that give you the courage to say whatever is on your mind... SAY IT LOUD, SAY IT PROUD. I will not be ignored and I will not be forgotten, because that was SO yesterday! 11/20/2007 Thanks For Giving! © 2007-2013
Friday, November 19, 2010
Street Level Bureaucrat and Local Policy: Is One World Government a Good Idea
Can one world government be a good idea?
So I'm watching this video thinking... oy what do I know about "carbon credits" not much... but I do know about planning for a better tomorrow... reforestation is something I became familiar with at a very young age because as a gift we would "plant a tree in Israel." Planning. Did they know something I didn't know... that the world was headed towards destruction and we would need trees to make Oxygen when the shit hit the fan... eg... BP Oil Spill?
But there is a deeper message... one that I have been writing about for a long time. I went through something most people can't imagine. You can check old blog posts or Reality BYTES for the ugly details, but what I noticed was that my community virtually [no literally] turned their backs on me. Why? Because I put a face on human tragedy. This is counter intuitive because I was an active member of the community... held jobs at prestigious institutions and worked for the Government in a number of contract positions.
Yet the community marginalized, ignored, and ridiculed me. People I had known for years... it hurt. It cut so deep I never dreamed of such betrayal. But what did I learn?
I learned that these community members needed to view me as a statistic so they could go about living their every day lives. So I lived in isolation because no one could look me in the eye or had the decency to pick up the phone and see if I was okay after a widely publicized crisis following a shooting in my apartment complex and a physical assault.
So when Mike talks about helping your neighbors... I understand that because Charity begins at home. But when we are too busy pinning left against right, placing blame and feeding the green monster of jealousy... well... that just doesn't work for me.
In theory my community should have stepped in but they didn't. Why? I dunno???
Perhaps it was too close to home... ya know if it could happen to me it could happen to them. And I won't be there to pick up the pieces as I have been in the past. Drowning in Apathy
See this experience violated every sacred belief that I had! Charity Begins at Home! <<< READ!
And this is what Mike is saying! The local community is better equipped to handle local crises and have the right to do their own urban planning because they know better than anyone what THEIR community NEEDS!
The only way my so called "community" was able to allow this to happen was to put some kind of something [know words for the degree of apathy] but they needed to view me as someone different from themselves. This simply was not true in the ways that matter, and now it is too late.
Mike talks about a one world government being unsuccessful... is this not any different from the concepts of LEAs and local politics? Do the feds and FEMA really know what we need at the local level? Me thinks not.
If you want change at the local level you go to people who love there not some distant government who is out of touch with reality. You go to the STREET LEVEL BUREAUCRAT!
You have a crisis, you go to someone who has survived a crisis!
And don't let them fool you into believing that this is a partisan issue. Listen to the video again... they are playing both ends against the middle cultivating hatred and jealousy. There is no left, there is no right. And war does not show who is RIGHT only who is LEFT!
That's all for now...
edd, edm aka "just me @ElyssaD" ;-)
peace.
Friday, November 12, 2010
America Surrenders Civil Liberties to a Culture of Fear
The United States Government is using similar tactics by planting #falseflags to further erode civil liberties and allows us to continue wasteful spending for military intelligence. Military intelligence is an oxymoron.
The m.o. is to create a culture of fear and we have a public that is so ignorant and misinformed that they allow disinformation agents to perpetuate this "war" on terror.
We invest BILLIONS in "defense" which is a farce and a way of channeling money to blue chips to escalate the arms race.
We are willing to tolerate incredible injustices and conveniently ignore the habitual torture practices of the CIA and companies like Blackwater (Monsonto) and COINTELPRO; covert operatives; psyops and BlackOps.
Wake up America, you have no rights!
kinda makes me want to go out and get a gun!
The m.o. is to create a culture of fear and we have a public that is so ignorant and misinformed that they allow disinformation agents to perpetuate this "war" on terror.
We invest BILLIONS in "defense" which is a farce and a way of channeling money to blue chips to escalate the arms race.
We are willing to tolerate incredible injustices and conveniently ignore the habitual torture practices of the CIA and companies like Blackwater (Monsonto) and COINTELPRO; covert operatives; psyops and BlackOps.
Wake up America, you have no rights!
kinda makes me want to go out and get a gun!
Labels: Drafts
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Media Literacy,
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Missile Mystery or Another Epic Failure in US Intelligence
With the CIA funding google wifi [aka wispy] and google providing free wifi across India it kinda makes you wonder. The Pentagon can't even figure out what the fuck they launched off the coast of California and they actually expect us to believe it was a jet or an optical illusion? These continuous false flags keeps the sheep happy in la la land and we somehow tolerate pouring billions of dollars into "defense" when the majority of Americans are barely getting by. And despite this epic embarrassment we will no doubt look the other way when Obama follows in Bush's footsteps continuing to spend more and more money on "intelligence" and expanding the "Patriot Act" This will no doubt result in the further erosion of our civil liberties and Americans will gladly give up a little privacy for the illusion of safety. all the money invested in "security" defense and "intelligence" the pentagon actually expects us to believe that the "mystery missile" #GTFO kinda makes the pentagon look like ignorant dumbasses... oh wait, that's right. they are! #yeahisaidit and if i just offended you then you are either too ignorant or stupid to see the whole picture!
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
On Mumia Abu Jamal
How can anyone believe that there is not enough evidence and circumventing details to AT LEAST re-open the case? Is nobody out there listening? I know Americans have a very short attention span, but coupled with selective memory and media filters; gag orders, unpublished opinions-- WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
Follow the case. Not just Mumia... start with COINTELPRO, Abscam, and John Africa...
Don't forget about Bill Bennett (the "Drug Czar") Giongo, Hilt, Leo Ryan, Charles Hund, Jumper and the rest of the "Elite Narcotics Squad" aka “FIVE SQUAD” from the infamous 39th District of Philadelphia-- handpicked, of course, by none-other than, whom? Bill Bennett?
Yup! The infamous Drug Czar who used to play racquetball with the head Prosecutor from the MOVE case. Oh, yeah, didn't he say something about just killing all the black babies if you want to fix the good ole U.S. of A.? What an A!
Then, of course, there is the Defense! White, Mayor Frank Rizzo, his son-in-law, Joseph Mastronardo Jr. (and the son-in law of Mayor Frank Rizzo) Giongo, Hilt, Durant. Durant. Durant.
Of course, Wilson Goode now runs PPV (Public Private Ventures) because only a Black mayor could take the fall for the crime of killing his own without the Nation questioning the governments’ actions and violence against its own citizenry. Yup. Thank got Timothy McVeigh was White-- otherwise there would be hell to pay! Ooops-- I almost forget, hell is, I think, a raging inferno of doom. Much like WACO or the MOVE complex or even the World Trade Center, and now of Course... Iraq, Pakistan of Afghanistan.
Fuck you all who want to watch Mumia go to the grave without a fight. Silence the Noisemaker!
So let us sum it all up right here... why don't you just start with the goddamned fucking F.B.I. City of Brotherly Love, my ass! I just call it Filthy-delphia because it is corrupt to the core.
I sure hope Michael Moore is back from Cuba-- because somebody needs to tell the whole story. 1968-1971-1978-1981-1982-MAY 13, 1985!
1987, 1989, 1995, 1999, and it all ends with September 11th, 2001 when lost everything: our freedom, our faith, our conscience, our privacy, but most of all-- the federal records that were stored in the World Trade Center (page 2A, Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2001.)
I will never know whether that evidence condemns a nation or frees one man-- but shit-- whatever it was, it came crashing down in a blazing inferno on the streets of New York. Not unlike the two square city blocks in West Philadelphia. So the Empire Strikes Back??? And of course, Darth Vader is a dead ringer of a Black Nazi from a Smithsonian War Poster from World War II.
"THE ROOF, THE ROOF, THE ROOF IS ON FIRE, WE DON'T WATER... "
Wake up America-- and Long Live John Africa! On a MOVE!
I cannot be the only one who has figured this out... I am not even black. I am just a little Jewish Girl who lives south of the Mason Dixon Line.
--
Elyssa Durant, Ed.M.
Nashville, Tennessee
Call Michael Moore. I'm ready to talk... I have been ready.
We don't need no water let the mother fucker burn.
FREE MUMIA!
Follow the case. Not just Mumia... start with COINTELPRO, Abscam, and John Africa...
Don't forget about Bill Bennett (the "Drug Czar") Giongo, Hilt, Leo Ryan, Charles Hund, Jumper and the rest of the "Elite Narcotics Squad" aka “FIVE SQUAD” from the infamous 39th District of Philadelphia-- handpicked, of course, by none-other than, whom? Bill Bennett?
Yup! The infamous Drug Czar who used to play racquetball with the head Prosecutor from the MOVE case. Oh, yeah, didn't he say something about just killing all the black babies if you want to fix the good ole U.S. of A.? What an A!
Then, of course, there is the Defense! White, Mayor Frank Rizzo, his son-in-law, Joseph Mastronardo Jr. (and the son-in law of Mayor Frank Rizzo) Giongo, Hilt, Durant. Durant. Durant.
Of course, Wilson Goode now runs PPV (Public Private Ventures) because only a Black mayor could take the fall for the crime of killing his own without the Nation questioning the governments’ actions and violence against its own citizenry. Yup. Thank got Timothy McVeigh was White-- otherwise there would be hell to pay! Ooops-- I almost forget, hell is, I think, a raging inferno of doom. Much like WACO or the MOVE complex or even the World Trade Center, and now of Course... Iraq, Pakistan of Afghanistan.
Fuck you all who want to watch Mumia go to the grave without a fight. Silence the Noisemaker!
So let us sum it all up right here... why don't you just start with the goddamned fucking F.B.I. City of Brotherly Love, my ass! I just call it Filthy-delphia because it is corrupt to the core.
I sure hope Michael Moore is back from Cuba-- because somebody needs to tell the whole story. 1968-1971-1978-1981-1982-MAY 13, 1985!
1987, 1989, 1995, 1999, and it all ends with September 11th, 2001 when lost everything: our freedom, our faith, our conscience, our privacy, but most of all-- the federal records that were stored in the World Trade Center (page 2A, Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2001.)
I will never know whether that evidence condemns a nation or frees one man-- but shit-- whatever it was, it came crashing down in a blazing inferno on the streets of New York. Not unlike the two square city blocks in West Philadelphia. So the Empire Strikes Back??? And of course, Darth Vader is a dead ringer of a Black Nazi from a Smithsonian War Poster from World War II.
"THE ROOF, THE ROOF, THE ROOF IS ON FIRE, WE DON'T WATER... "
Wake up America-- and Long Live John Africa! On a MOVE!
I cannot be the only one who has figured this out... I am not even black. I am just a little Jewish Girl who lives south of the Mason Dixon Line.
--
Elyssa Durant, Ed.M.
Nashville, Tennessee
Call Michael Moore. I'm ready to talk... I have been ready.
We don't need no water let the mother fucker burn.
FREE MUMIA!
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
anoter year, another fire
The APPEAL had given me for the thirteen months I actually believed somebody was listening. WRONG AGAIN! That false strength I kept in reserve to keep going was the part of me that needed to believe that I haven't lost everything. It gave a false sense that somebody was actually listening.
I WAS WRONG.... THE APPEAL WAS NEVER REVIEWED. AND NO ONE SEEMS TO GIVE A DAMN THAT THIRTEEN MONTHS HAVE PASSED, AND MY BENEFITS ARE MORE SCREWED UP THAN EVER!
So listen carefully, my friends. It was not too long ago that I had almost everything a young person needs to succeed in this world.
Or maybe not.
As for my most current insurance dispute... I feel that I have done everything humanly possible to be sympathetic towards health care provider who is NOT providing care. I cannot sacrifice my own well being for every bright eyed bushy tailed wanna be who is too stupid to see that I am far from.
I had such a battle this week. It culminated in the end like every other battle I have taken on. I only won because ultimately but we are all losing.
For every under qualified, health care provider who has NOT provided the adequate, there are many more like me. Alienated just enough to give up on fashion, etiquette and social norms; but not enough to walk away from it all.
We are keeping watch. We are taking names, and I for one do not give a rat's ass about "keeping the peace."
Having been on both sides if the proverbial couch, I have the perspective is both enlightening and scary at the same time.
I look back and want to say shout "told you so" from the nearest roof top.
Crazy is crazy does... out loud. I may be enjoying this just a little too much.sometimes
I try to look at this fight, (I meant to say this life) objectively.
I can see my own future, and I can see where it is taking me. I know how it will end if I don't keep up the pace.
It is amazing at how far we will go to have nothing at all.
I have come this far, and on some level I almost enjoy the dance. No. On some level, I actually love the dance.
Then there are days like this.
Because without this turmoil, this exercise in futility, absurdity, government waste, bureaucracy, irreverent disregard for basic human kindness, decency and humanity-- and all long to go to the kind of place I hear about from Dreamon.
He speaks of a place called Neverland. You see, I don't know the story of Peter Pan, Captain Hook, and I have no idea who Wendy is. Of course I've heard of Tink (though I hear she is a pain in the ass ;) but only because I like glitter pens and fairy dust. I don't know these things, because I don't know the innocence, the purity, the make believe world of childhood. I never had one.
I knew cruelty... and though I am not cruel, this is who I am at this very moment: Dark, discouraged, and deeply disappointed.
What if this is all that there is for me? If I can never break free from this cycle of insanity, and trust me when I say the insanity I speak of is NOT in my head. We have all heard the expression insanity is the sane response to insane surroundings; let me assure that there are very few cases that rival mine. I am the stuff psychologists, sociologists, and the occult speak of behind closed doors. My sister and I were raised this way. She may be a lawyer, she may have good credit, she may have a lot of things, but while my father took me to see the same shrink that treated Danton, Milken, Masrtronardo and more, he took her to see a psychiatrist who specialized in serial killers.
So I wonder, and you should too... did he take us there to be healed or did he take us there to create our futures? I will never be good enough for him. Thank god jesus allah and the power invested in this little stupid wifi device... his vision of us, his vision of U.S. is wrong.
I know this now. I didn't know then. I have proof now. I hardly even need it. It all out in the open and I am glad. Never again should the FBI create hatred, men so indoctrinated by power that they have such little regard for human life that they treat their children the same way they treated John Africa and the thirteen members of MOVE the day the Powers That Beat decided it was long overdue to take John Africa out. So what if thirteen people died with him... who cares about the 5 children who died along with him?
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. We don't need no water let the mother fucker burn, Burn, mother fucker, burn.
And they did. And they died. May 13, 1985.
Burned forever in my mind, and it should be in yours too. OUR COUNTRY. OUR PEOPLE. OUR GOVERNMENT.
FUCK YOU AMERICA! FUCK THE US FOR FUCKING US ALL! And thank you daddy, for letting N in on the secret. Now what?
What else would call if not the City of Brotherly Love?
I do. Because my daddy told me to shoot them ya know... just in case. Daddy lost his first and only trial and the CITY of Philadelphia decided it was time to take him out.
No. I won't give up now. I could be next! (As I laugh my fucking ass off!!!!!)
What if I have nothing left? What if the Hook does NOT bring me back?
This demonstration and project in futility and determination has defined me for so long, that without it, I'm not sure if I am anything at all.
fuck that... yeah... Reality Bytes. But I won't play dead, and I won't pretend my name is not Elyssa Danielle Durant. My Daddy changed his, my gold-digging bitch of a mother changed her name 5 times, now with $250K invested in it, her face and her body are quite lovely too.
Mumia is STILL on death row. The 39th District is corrupt to the core. The MAYOR dropped the bomb. May 13, 1985. No longer sealed, and I am no longer hiding, Now I know, why my life stopped when it was about to start. I know the truth, and the feds know I'm certifiable. So you decide...
~~~~~this where I must break~~~ all in due time my friends~~~~
I can't lose what I never had. I won’t be another sell-out... mostly because I don't know how.
I am the voice of perseverance. I am one voice of perseverance. I am one of 47 million Americans. And today I am I am still fighting the good fight.
This battle; this challenge; this half won war this fight has come to define me. And without that, I am not really much of anything at all...
As someone once told me, if you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything. I've already fallen, but I sure as shit stand for something.
So for now, I write. Maybe later listen. And if there is any justice left in this world, maybe someday, I'll actually live.
Elyssa Durant
Nashville, Tennessee
Parts previously posted at United Professionals under: An Appalling Appeal
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