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Jun01

OCCUPY WALL STREET! TEAR DOWN THE WALL!

by Calico Blackie on June 1, 2013 at 2:36 pm
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality


 

Greetings from Calico Blackie!

Zuccotti Park TODAY!

THOUSANDS of protestors took to the streets in NYC and around the world today in a show of solidarity.

Zuccotti Park has been re-occupied!

This news speaks for itself, so here it is…..

Wall Street’s power has gone unchallenged for too long!

Starting Saturday June 1st, 2013, Occupy will be holding a homecoming celebration in Zuccotti Park, NYC to occupy the space where our movement began. By day we will celebrate and reconnect with old friends to plan the future of this movement, and by night we will take a militant stand against the NYPD to assert our right to exist in public spaces (nonviolently of course).

If you have questions or need help, please call: +1 (516) 708-4777

Schedule

Saturday, June 1st**

Zuccotti Park TODAY!

9AM: Convergence Begins! Bring your signs, your opinions, your children – bring your willingness to support your fellow human beings and speak truth to power! Bring your books, to rebuild the People’s Library… and your willingness to read and share, to compare facts and help identify where things went wrong so we can put things right together!

Noon: Protest In Solidarity with Istanbul Gezi Parki Occupiers. A peaceful international solidarity event, with the goal to direct public attention to Istanbul Gezi Parki protests and consequent police brutality of AKP/Erdogan government! For more information, see the facebook event.

6PM: People’s Assembly! Come be a part of political dissent and talk to others in a non-oppressive, horizontal assembly. We invite performers, musicians, puppeteers and artists to come perform at the assembly. We will be fluid and will respond to the needs of the community in stewarding the assembly. Simply raising your voice in public and saying “Enough!” can be a radically transformative act, and our voice shared together is a mighty thing to behold! For more information on The People’s Assembly, visit this facebook event page.

Sleeping on the sidewalk as an act of protest is completely legal.

SHOW THE WORLD THAT WE’RE AWARE OF THE BULLSHIT NO MATTER HOW THEY TRY TO SUGAR COAT IT

8PM: Sleep Cell Convergence! Occupy Wall Street changed the conversation by putting our bodies on the line in protest to the corruption we see eroding the very world around us, and while a mass re-occupation effort at Liberty Square will end only with police violence and put us in harm’s way in the attempt, smaller groups acting on a temporary basis with greater mobility can succeed far more effectively at spreading our message and challenging the worldview that is tearing us apart.

When the sun sets on Saturday, all who are willing to take hard ground and take a stand will converge together to decide their targets and their tactics autonomously without central direction – a process that can’t be predicted and prepared against by the NYPD. No experience necessary – we will be spreading legal training and our experience in what has worked (and what has not worked) in past efforts by mixing NYC sleep-cell activists in each group as-needed, so that locals and visitors, new activists and experienced Sleepful Protestors can work together keeping each other safe and achieving the objective. We also encourage you to read the zine Basic Blockading by Delia Smith.

Sunday, June 2nd

WE’RE NOT BUYING THEIR LIES ANYMORE

9AM: Convergence Begins Again! Each and every day, we will meet in Liberty Plaza to reclaim the public forum and work together to change the world!

2PM: Planning Meeting for Monday, June 3rd Direct Action. We are seeking to re-commit to a weekly direct action in the Financial District, to make our voices echo against the walls of power and overcome them by overcoming the culture that allows them to be in the first place! Join us in determining how together we will stand up to Wall Street and their captured politicians in Washington!

8PM: Sleep Cell Convergence! Liberty Plaza is the home of Occupy Wall Street, but we express our power by direct action, and sleep on the streets as a political action to expose the corrosion that is corrupting our world. Our targets may consistently change, but we can always be found here first as we choose our actions of resistance on a nightly basis!

Monday, June 3rd

9AM: Convergence For Direct Action! While the details of this action are still being planned and will not be finalized before we as a wider whole have come together to agree upon how we are going to work together in resistance on Sunday, we will be meeting at Liberty Plaza at 9AM no matter which target is selected and what the nature of the action is – our resistance effort will be in the heart of the Financial District, and we will meet at Liberty Plaza and march together from there.

8PM: Sleep Cell Convergence! Liberty Plaza is the home of Occupy Wall Street, but we express our power by direct action, and sleep on the streets as a political action to expose the corrosion that is corrupting our world. Our targets may consistently change, but we can always be found here first as we choose our actions of resistance on a nightly basis!

For more information visit the organizing website.

Link is here:  http://occupywallst.org/

OCCUPY WALL STREET

WE ARE THE 99%

Calico Blackie   @kidakita

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May14

SCREW THE POOR! I WANT IT ALL!

by Calico Blackie on May 14, 2013 at 10:28 am
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Bread and Circuses for the Masses, Divided We Fall

 


 

Greetings from Calico Blackie!

Fasten your seatbelts (or, sit on a trailer hitch and pucker hard, for all I care today)

I haven’t updated in awhile for a couple of reasons.

First, I got really sick. I’m not talking about the sniffles or something you can “work through.” I’m talking the laid up kind of sick where you don’t care if you live or die for a few days.

I’m still at about 40% of my normal self.

Second, I was, and am, plain disgusted with it all.

Just before I fell ill, I was talking to a group of people about the effects of the “sequester” on the poor, and how we’re lied to by our government with them constantly fudging statistics to shed a favorable light on the unemployment rate and the rates of poverty here in America.

We haven’t got a prayer. Who knows this? The “dirty hippie”, of course!

Keep in mind, these were lower middle-class and poor people I was talking to. Most of which WILL be affected when the government gets around to screwing them so that their owners on Wall Street will continue to reap the rewards.

What did I hear?

“We live in the greatest country in the world”.

And:

You must be a commie. Weren’t you an “occupier” too?

The people that I thought agreed with me said NOTHING.

THEY JUST STOOD THERE NODDING THEIR HEADS.

So, fuck them. Fuck them all.

I’m getting too old and sick for this shit of trying to help and inform people who would rather continue to get bent over.

So, here ya go ya bastards!………………..

Meals on Wheels budget cuts: ‘Slowly developing crisis’

Who needs social programs when we still have people who can afford yoga classes? BEND OVER! Ladies….You do know that most guys don’t take yoga classes entirely for their health, don’t you?

Air traffic controllers got a reprieve from federal budget cuts when Congress felt public pressure after airport delays inconvenienced travelers.

But few expect a pardon for Meals on Wheels, which provide food and human contact for people over 60 who are physically housebound, socially isolated or very low income — and in many cases, all three.

“They don’t have high-priced lobbyists,” said Alan Winstead, the executive director of Meals on Wheels of Wake County in Raleigh, N.C.

As it is, Meals on Wheels is estimated to serve just a third or so of the 25 million people over 60 who are poor or near poor.

Federal funding for Meals on Wheels and related nutrition services accounted for 0.02% of the U.S. budget last year. This year, the programs will have to do with roughly $38.7 million less because of the so-called sequester, which requires uniform cuts across programs regardless of cost effectiveness.

Link is here:  http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/06/news/economy/meals-on-wheels-budget-cuts/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Hey, poor people? This is what the rich people think of you!

Calico Blackie says:

Air traffic controllers got a reprieve BECAUSE THEY HAVE AN EFFECT ON BIG BUSINESS! Hungry poor people and old people don’t, so why not screw ‘em?

Here’s another good one (well, duh)……

There may be millions more poor people in the US than you think

It is responsible for an estimated half-trillion dollars in federal spending every year, is hated by nearly everyone who studies it and is based on an American lifestyle older than the space program.

Yet the figure known as the “poverty line” is almost certainly here to stay. That’s partly because a more accurate measure of who is poor could add millions of Americans to the rolls — something few lawmakers want to have happen on their watch.

“People (are) talking about eliminating poverty in this country,” said Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., whose proposal to change the measure died in Congress five years ago. “You’re not going to eliminate poverty in this country with the definition we have. You can make yourself feel good, but you’re not going to eliminate poverty.”

But, UNIONS ARE BAD!!!

The poverty line was conceived by a civil servant named Mollie Orshansky who worked for the Social Security Administration and was herself the daughter of poor Ukrainian immigrants. She totaled up the cost of the cheapest three-meals-a-day plan that the federal government considered nutritionally adequate in 1963.

A decade earlier, the Eisenhower administration had calculated that the typical family spent a third of its money on food. So Orshansky multiplied by three. It was that simple. The poverty line was born.

The problem, as social scientists and at least some legislators see it, is that measuring poverty that way is not just outdated but simplistic:

The federal poverty line — $11,945 in cash income for a single adult, $23,283 for a couple with two kids — is the same whether you are poor in New York, the most expensive city in the United States, or poor in a small town in Nebraska.

“GET A JOB, YA BUMS. FIND A JOB IN THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY!”

It is the same whether you take transit to work or are hostage to the whims of gas prices. It is the same whether Medicaid helps you with medical expenses or you pay out of pocket. It is the same whether you receive food stamps or pay for child care.

It is the same regardless of how poor you are. For the purposes of some federal benefits, someone making a dollar below the poverty line is treated the same is someone making virtually nothing.

“There are better ways to measure,” said Robert Haveman, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Wisconsin and an expert on poverty. “Nearly any one of them is a better indicator of true poverty than the one we use.”

Among them: Food stamps, anti-poverty block grants for cities, heating and air-conditioning aid, AIDS drug subsidies, family planning services, Head Start and job-finding assistance.

The Census Bureau, which is responsible for updating the poverty line every year to account for inflation, makes no secret of its flaws as a way to determine who qualifies as poor.

Two years ago, the bureau and the Labor Department agreed on a different way — a poverty line that accounts for medical expenses, geographic differences, the cost of shelter and clothing and other factors.

Link is here:  http://inplainsight.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/03/17671753-there-may-be-millions-more-poor-people-in-the-us-than-you-think?lite

“Come with us, Mr. poor black person. You’re going to live in the Nevada desert with the nuclear waste”!!!

Calico Blackie says:

Want to end poverty in America? Back in the year 1946, Josef Stalin decided there were way too many beggars and crippled ex-soldiers living in and around Moscow and in some of the other Soviet big cities.

His solution?

He rounded them all up and arrested them. He put them on trains and deported them to far-away towns where he wouldn’t have to see them.

Problem solved!

Back to my question: Want to end poverty in America? Use the “Stalin Method”

Completely eliminate food stamps, anti-poverty block grants for cities, heating and air-conditioning aid, AIDS drug subsidies, family planning services, Head Start and job-finding assistance.

Problem solved!

And we can all live together in peace & harmony!

No more poor people!

Why do I get the feeling many, if not most people in this country (and on Wall Street and in DC) would be perfectly ok with this solution?

Just think…..

“If poverty were to be suddenly technically eliminated, it might mean a bigger slice of the pie for the people like me who aren’t poor!”

THIS IS WHAT WE’VE BECOME.

“MORE FOR ME AND SCREW EVERYBODY ELSE!”

Maybe I’ll devote my blog to women with great big asses!

So, why the hell am I beating my head against the wall trying to help a bunch of greedy raving idiots (who are poor themselves) that have been sucked into the propaganda machine?

What the hell….

Maybe it’s the fever talking. Maybe I shouldn’t be writing yet until I’m back at 100%.

Or, maybe I should turn my blog into more of a “Tits n Ass” and “entertainment” extravaganza than it already is now?

I don’t know anymore.

Calico Blackie  @kidakita

 

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Apr17

GETTING SODOMIZED? WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE?

by Calico Blackie on April 17, 2013 at 12:17 pm
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality


 

Greetings from Calico Blackie!

Get ready ’cause here it comes!

WooHoo! Congress is at it again and this time (as usual) they’re not even using lube.

We just get to bite the pillow because they’re going in dry.

AND THEY DON’T CARE.

They don’t give a damn about their approval rating.

They don’t give a damn what you and me think of them.

They just don’t care.

It’s frustrating to look around and say:

WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE?

Why isn’t this story front page news on every network and in every newspaper?

Oh yeah, it isn’t bloody enough to hold our interest for long.

How Congress Quietly Overhauled Its Insider-Trading Law

And the 1% LOVES CONGRESS. After all, Congress is REALLY full of crooks and whores that sold us down the river for their own personal gain. They couldn’t care less about their approval rating

The legislative process on Capitol Hill is often slow and grinding. There are committee hearings, filibuster threats and hours of floor debate.

But sometimes, when Congress really wants to get something done, it can move blindingly fast.

That’s what happened when Congress moved to undo large parts of a popular law known as the STOCK Act last week.

A year ago, President Obama at a celebratory ceremony attended by a bipartisan cast of lawmakers. “I want to thank all the members of Congress who came together and worked to get this done,” he said.

The law wouldn’t just outlaw trading on nonpublic information by members of Congress, the executive branch and their staffs. It would greatly expand financial disclosures and make all of the data searchable so insider trading and conflicts of interest would be easier to detect.

Buy it now at McDonalds while there’s still time. Just remember: Sodomy is still against the law in many States, unless you’re in the White House or a member of Congress. Then, you can legally screw an entire nation full of people! After all, they make the rules

But on Monday, the president signed a bill reversing big pieces of the law. 

There was no fanfare last week either, when the Senate and then the House passed the bill in largely empty chambers using a fast-track procedure known as unanimous consent.

In the House, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., shepherded the bill through.

It was Friday afternoon at 12:52. Many members had already left for the weekend or were on their way out.

The whole process took only 30 seconds. There was no debate.

“There weren’t too many members of Congress who were aware of this legislation,” says Craig Holman, the government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen. “And I suspect very, very few understood what a sweeping radical change it is to the STOCK Act.”

Link is here:  http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/04/16/177496734/how-congress-quietly-overhauled-its-insider-trading-law

Calico Blackie says:

Where is the outrage? We’re too busy being distracted with meaningless shit cluttering up our lives to feel outrage

Where is the outrage?

Why aren’t we taking to the streets and the internet in record numbers to expose Wall Street and our Government for the sham and racket that it really is?

Why aren’t we DEMANDING THAT CONGRESS CLEAN UP IT’S ACT?

Why aren’t we demanding an end to corruption in Government?

Why aren’t we demanding a Government of the People, By the People and For the People instead of meekly and submissively taking it up the ass every time “our” government decides to shaft us?

WHY??????

Well, we tried to do all those things with OCCUPY WALL STREET and we were beaten and shouted down.

But, we live in “the greatest country in the world!

Where else can billionaires own the government and so thoroughly screw the citizens of this country and make us think it’s a right and privilege to be screwed?

WHAT’S IN YOUR WALLET?

Billionaires Dumping Stocks, Economist Knows Why

And when the market goes way down, guess what happens to YOUR SAVINGS and 401k? But, that’s ok. The rich will have already taken THEIR profits, leaving you with nothing but a sore butt

Warren Buffett, who has been a cheerleader for U.S. stocks for quite some time, is dumping shares at an alarming rate. He recently complained of “disappointing performance” in dyed-in-the-wool American companies like Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and Kraft Foods.

In the latest filing for Buffett’s holding company Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett has been drastically reducing his exposure to stocks that depend on consumer purchasing habits. Berkshire sold roughly 19 million shares of Johnson & Johnson, and reduced his overall stake in “consumer product stocks” by 21%.

Berkshire Hathaway also sold its entire stake in California-based computer parts supplier Intel.

With 70% of the U.S. economy dependent on consumer spending, Buffett’s apparent lack of faith in these companies’ future prospects is worrisome.
Unfortunately Buffett isn’t alone.

But, don’t worry. You’ll still have a job!

Fellow billionaire John Paulson, who made a fortune betting on the subprime mortgage meltdown, is clearing out of U.S. stocks too.

During the second quarter of the year, Paulson’s hedge fund, Paulson & Co., dumped 14 million shares of JPMorgan Chase.

The fund also dumped its entire position in discount retailer Family Dollar and consumer-goods maker Sara Lee.

Finally, billionaire George Soros recently sold nearly all of his bank stocks, including shares of JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs.

But, don’t worry. We’ll still have plenty of these to keep us “safe”

So why are these billionaires dumping their shares of U.S. companies?

After all, the stock market is still in the midst of its historic rally. Real estate prices have finally leveled off, and for the first time in five years are actually rising in many locations.

And the unemployment rate seems to have stabilized.
It’s very likely that these professional investors are aware of specific research that points toward a massive market correction, as much as 90%.

Link is here:  http://www.moneynews.com/MKTNews/billionaires-dump-economist-stock/2012/08/29/id/450265?PROMO_CODE=110D8-1&utm_source=taboola

Calico Blackie says:

Where is the outrage? We’re getting fleeced and sodomized like a bunch of Montana ewes and yet we’re still complacently munching grass!

Maybe we deserve it for being so stupid and uncaring?

Check this out…….

Schiff: 2/3 of America to Lose Everything Because of This Crisis

A record breaking stock market is distorting a frightening reality:  The U.S. is being eaten alive by a horrific cancer that will ultimately destroy the economy and impoverish the vast majority of its citizens.

That’s according to Peter Schiff, the best-selling author and CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, who delivered his harsh warning to investors in a recent interview on Fox Business.

“I think we are heading for a worse economic crisis than we had in 2007,” Schiff said.

“You’re going to have a collapse in the dollar…a huge spike in interest rates… and our whole economy, which is built on the foundation of cheap money, is going to topple when you pull the rug out from under it.”

But, don’t worry. We’ll still have plenty of these when you need a place to STAY

Schiff says that, despite “phony” signs of an economic recovery, the cancer destroying America stems from a lethal concoction of our $16 trillion federal debt and the Fed’s never ending money printing.

Currently, Bernanke and company is buying $1 trillion of Treasury and mortgage bonds a year. That’s about $85 billion per month against a budget deficit that is about the same level.

According to Schiff, these numbers are unsustainable. And the Fed has no credible “exit strategy.”

Eventually interest rates will rise… and when they do, Schiff says, stocks will tank and bonds dip to nothing. Massive new tax hikes will be imposed and programs and entitlements will be cut to the bone.

“The crisis is imminent,” Schiff said.  ”I don’t think Obama is going to finish his second term without the bottom dropping out. And stock market investors are oblivious to the problems.”

THIS is what’s happening while we’re busy munching grass and playing with our iPods

“We’re broke, Schiff added.  ”We owe trillions. Look at our budget deficit; look at the debt to GDP ratio, the unfunded liabilities. If we were in the Eurozone, they would kick us out.”

“It’s not that the stock market is gaining value… it’s that our money is losing value. And so if you have a debased currency… a devalued currency, the price of everything goes up. Stocks are no exception,” he said.

“The Fed knows that the U.S. economy is not recovering,” he noted. “It simply is being kept from collapse by artificially low interest rates and quantitative easing. As that support goes, the economy will implode.”

Link is here:  http://moneymorning.com/ob-article/schiff-us-will-win-currency-war.php?code=3243#.UW68h0pfJS0

Calico Blackie says:

They know damn well that a disarmed citizenry will be powerless to resist them. Oh, we can still protest and fight. Ask the Indians where that got them when they laid down their arms

Why do you think some members of Congress and our President are suddenly pushing so hard for gun control?

They don’t give a damn about our “safety”.

They know damn well gang members and other violent criminals won’t line up to surrender their guns.

They know damn well that if our “entitlements” get cut to the bone while they’re living the high life, we’re gonna be REAL pissed.

They know damn well that a full-blown depression might be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back.

They know damn well that, this time, we might not just bend over so easily.

We might stop munching grass when all the grass is finally taken away and the gloves come off.

Imagine the chaos in this country if Medicare, Social Security, Welfare, Food Stamps and all other government programs which were designed to help but ended up by having MILLIONS of people dependent on Wall Street and Uncle Sam are suddenly “cut to the bone”?

But, hey……

What do I know?

How much more are YOU willing to take before you fight back? WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE?

I’ve got a feeling the next time a call to protest ends with the words “BRING TENT”, we’ll be bringing tents alright, because that’s all we’ll have left.

I just hope that we’re never forced into a situation by the banksters and their wholly-owned subsidiary in Washington, DC to end our call to protest with the words “BRING GUN”.

That’s exactly what the Wall Street banksters and their crooked cronies on Capitol Hill are afraid of.

Oh well. On a lighter (and totally unrelated) note that I found interesting……

French study suggests younger women should stop wearing bras

FREE AT LAST!

A new French study suggests some women should throw their bras in the trash.

Professor Jean-Denis Rouillon, a sports medicine specialist from Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon in Besancon, France, published a study on Wednesday that shows that wearing bras may not prevent women’s breasts from sagging, and may in fact increase it.

“Our first results confirm the hypothesis that the bra is a false need,” Rouillon told France Info. “Medically, physiologically, anatomically, the breast does not benefit from being deprived of gravity. Instead, it languishes with a bra.”

I think I’m going to get funding to conduct a study on the benefits of not wearing pants!

The 15-year study involved 330 volunteers between the ages 18 and 35.

Researchers measured their breasts using a slide ruler and a caliper and recorded any changes throughout the study period.

Women who did not wear bras had a 7 millimeter lift as measured from their nipples each year. Their breasts were also firmer, and their stretch marks faded. There was also no evidence that the bras helped get rid of back pain.

The researchers believed that wearing bras prevented the growth of breast tissue, which lead to deterioration of the muscles that support the breasts.

Link is here:  http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57579077/french-study-suggests-younger-women-should-stop-wearing-bras/

Calico Blackie says:

Why not prepare your daughter for her future now?

I guess you can get funding for anything as long as it’s done in the name of “science.”

Meanwhile, we’re screwed by our governments and systems.

People are homeless and in need.

Our “entitlements” (that we paid for) are going to get cut. But the French can find money to study the rates of titty-sag!

And, you know our government has also funded worthless “studies” too.

Fiddling while Rome burns.

Yep….

We’re getting screwed.

WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE?

Oh, that’s right….

If you speak up about it, you’re a DIRTY HIPPIE!

I guess I’m a dirty hippie.

KEEP THE FAITH

Calico Blackie  @kidakita

 

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Aug17

ARE WE READY AND WILLING TO OPEN PANDORA’S BOX?

by Calico Blackie on August 17, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Big Brother, Bread and Circuses for the Masses, Divided We Fall, Media Bias


 

Greetings from Calico Blackie!

According to definition:

“Today, to open Pandora’s box means to create evil that cannot be undone.”

But I would argue that the saying “to open Pandora’s box” means to unleash a situation that cannot be undone.

If you’ve never heard of Pandora, the link is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_box

That being said….

What does the 1% fear the most?

They fear we will unite and fight against THEM.

That we will open the box and end a worldwide system of corruption and greed.

We’re at the most important crossroad in our history, very much like the path we were on in 1860 right before The American Civil War.

America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Works every time!

So, what is the tried and true game the 1% works on us to allow them to keep fleecing us?

PLAYING US OFF AGAINST EACH OTHER.

For instance:

“THEM GODDAMN ILLEGALS ARE COMING HERE AND TAKING OUR JOBS!”

Calico Blackie says:

Who is hiring them “goddamned illegals”? But, are we angry with the employers? No. They have power and hold the strings. We get angry with the workers themselves and the 1% laughs all the way to the bank.

They’re laughing at us.

How about this one?…..

Pretty clever of them!

“Hire the vet and screw everyone else!”

You can’t blame the veterans. After all, they served their country. You didn’t! 

See what is being said here? Your contribution to keeping the country running means nothing.

Therefore, veterans deserve preferential hiring treatment.

You don’t deserve the job over a Vet, even if you are more qualified.

Yet, we can’t blame the veterans for this. A veteran has to eat and pay for the everyday necessities of life too. They have families to support.

So, DON’T ask yourself the next time you get turned down for a job because a veteran had 10-point hiring preference over you:

“Does my family deserve to be bankrupt and homeless more than a veteran’s family?”

Because YOU don’t deserve a job! That’s what they’re saying to you

INSTEAD, ASK YOURSELF:

“Why is the system preferential?”

“Why is such a system even necessary?”

In “The Land of Plenty” and “The Land of the Free”, shouldn’t this be a non-issue?

Shouldn’t we ALL have good and well funded programs and opportunities?”

If our government is so eager to help the veterans, why is the Veterans Administration such a mess? Why do they continue to ignore Agent Orange poisoning and PTSD problems? Why do they ignore the homeless veterans and their suicide rate?

And yet, all we hear is “HIRE THE VET.”

When did demanding equality for ALL become un-American?

WHY???

BECAUSE IT DOESN’T COST THE 1% AND THEIR GOVERNMENT TO SAY “HIRE THE VET” AND IT PROVIDES THEM WITH ANOTHER BONE OF CONTENTION TO GIVE US TO FIGHT OVER.

It allows for the military industrial complex to continue to thrive, and the returning veterans get to find new homes in the prison industrial complex.

Get it straight: Wall Street and their government doesn’t give a shit about you or veterans.

They don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves. They don’t care about veterans rights, women’s rights, civil rights, free speech, the Constitution, YOU, or the country. They’re not Americans. They’re not anything. Their only loyalty is to money, profits and power.

They only USE the concept of our “rights” as a propaganda tool to keep us divided and fighting amongst ourselves.

THEY DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU!

Jon Corzine of MF Global. He “lost” BILLIONS and is still free. Honorable?

And yet here we all sit watching Wall Street and the politicians make off with what used to be ours.

Billions of dollars “missing” or “lost”.  Corzine is still free. Where did that money go?

And what is happening around us?

The Tea Party was bought out by the Corporations. OWS is continuing to be ignored and mocked by the media, brutalized by the cops, and then they hope, forgotten.

Guess what?

We, as a nation, really don’t care.

If we cared, we would do something about it. We have become too wrapped up in our own individual insular tragedies to care about others being screwed, or even being screwed ourselves in the aggregate.

Heck, Katy Perry having her bikini bottom slip off at the water park and giving us a glimpse of her pale ass is much more important to us right now than our civil rights are

Either that, or seeing the latest celebrity ass, nipple slip, or “Toddlers and Tiaras” is more important to us than the fact we’re rapidly sinking into an Orwellian existence.

No one is forcing us into serfdom; we are going there willingly.

Blame Obama or Bush maybe.

But the single unavoidable fact here is that rich people stole billions…and got away with it.

That’s the job of our government now: to make sure that nobody notices that the 1% in this country can LITERALLY break the law and nobody will go after them for the crimes they’ve committed.

The message is: If you’re rich you’re not going to get punished for your criminal behavior.

Why should they care about us when we’re so easily distracted and led?

And very few of us will try to do anything about it.

There must be sufficient will to change things. An individual attempting this will be chewed up. Occupy Wall Street is trying, but is still not large enough.

When the will is strong enough, things will change.

When we stop fighting amongst ourselves and stop believing the propaganda the 1% carefully feeds us, things will change.

And then what? Revolution?  Do we drag them out into the street and beat them to death?

Occupy Wall Street is trying to bring about peaceful change, but is it too late for that? Will we take to the streets in large enough numbers on September 17th to make a real difference?

Will we make a difference, no matter what our numbers turn out to be, or will we be violently crushed by the armies of the 1% and then subjected to another ration of misinformation from the mainstream media?

mmmmm. Celebrity ass! Who cares what those dirty hippies are doing on Wall Street?

Or, will we be too distracted with another “celebrity ass”?

Will some cops be put on “administrative leave with pay” pending the result of an internal investigation for finally killing a few dozen protesters around the country?

Or, will we finally wise up and march together?

Black and White, Hippies and Rednecks, Men and Women, Right and Left, Middle Class, Working Class, ALL Citizens…

UNITED TO FIGHT THE COMMON ENEMY: WALL STREET.

When and if we ever do, we’ve got to know…..

Peaceful or not, it can lead to a full-on revolution. Not just here, but around the world.

A collaborator caught in the Ukraine after WWII. She was stripped naked by the crowd and here we see her mother trying to protect her. After this picture was taken, they were both mercilessly beaten

And after the revolution? Then what? Civil War?

It’s terrifying to think of, but once we’ve opened Pandora’s Box, there will be no turning back.

Think about it. Think real hard about it.

It ain’t gonna be pretty for the losers and their collaborators.

Are YOU ready for this?

Scores to settle.

Thousands killed.

Just look at what happened in Bosnia and imagine that happening here on a grand scale.

And yet:

“Evil men rule when good men do nothing.” — Edmund Burke

Here’s your celebrity…. ass

So, what do we do? Do we continue down the slope to oppression and an Orwellian existence.

Do we continue to allow ourselves to be distracted by the media while it all goes to hell around us?

We’ve got to do something. It’s getting worse. It’s getting worse worldwide, and all the signs are shaping up for there to be another European War that could drag us along with it.

Asia is starting to really heat up again.

The countries of Europe are in economic turmoil.

The “huddled masses” are once again getting the short end of the stick.

Human rights are taking a back seat at home and abroad. Germany, Russia, France and England are once again emerging as the dominant European countries. Poland is caught in the middle of a superpower power-play. 

And Russia is coming more and more under the grip of someone who could turn out to be another dictator.

Did you see the news?

Pussy Riot sentenced to two years in jail

“Why yes, Comrade Putin. Pussy Riot is essentially a food product!”

“A Moscow court has sentenced three members of Pussy Riot to two years in a medium-security prison for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and enmity.”

­“The Judge said Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich showed flagrant disregard for church parishioners and the fundamentals of the Orthodox faith.”

“The Court considers that social justice and prevention of further possible crimes can only be achieved by restricting the defendants’ freedom and real imprisonment,” Judge Syrova said.”

“By their actions, Samutsevich, Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina seriously disrupted public order and the day-to-day running of the Cathedral. They showed blatant disrespect to church-goers and workers, and in doing so gravely offended their religious sensibilities,” Judge Syrova stated announcing the verdict.”

“The audience met the sentence with sporadic shouts “Shame on the Court!”

Link is here:  http://rt.com/news/pussy-riot-trial-896/

Calico Blackie says:

ARE WE READY AND WILLING? THERE IS NO TURNING BACK

It’s getting really scary out there. Times are getting harder and more oppressive for the average Russian and American. Are we ready to unite as CITIZENS? Right and Left across the board and across the oceans? Unite to fight our common enemy: WALL STREET and the WORLD’S BANKSTERS?

Are we willing to fight for ourselves and not for some war mongering financiers profits?

Is it time?

So, there you have it.

As I said earlier, We’re at the most important crossroad in our history, very much like the path we were on in 1860 right before The American Civil War.

Our grievances are just, and we’re not being heard.

On September 17th, TAKE BACK THE PARK

Be the spark that ignites the Prairie Fire of LIBERTY!

Will we open Pandora’s Box and see what shakes out? Or, will we continue to cower and kow-tow to Wall Street?

I SAY: FREE PUSSY RIOT!

I SAY:  OCCUPY WALL STREET!

Calico Blackie  @kidakita

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May04

WE MUST REMEMBER THE SILENCED VOICES

by Calico Blackie on May 4, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Big Brother, Bread and Circuses for the Masses, Divided We Fall, Media Bias


 

Greetings from Calico Blackie!

The "scene" in our nearby town

Once again, we’re barely scraping by out here in rural America.

At least I have enough firewood cut to get us through the last of the cold weather so that we won’t freeze to death.

We find work whenever and wherever we can and I’ve got applications in all over the United States.

Who knows? Maybe something will come up.

At any rate, I was pondering how much the Occupy Movement has evolved since last September and where it might be headed. My thoughts took me back to one of my old columns.

On November 19, 2011, I wrote a column for this website entitled “The Sun Still Shines” concerning the resistance movements that existed during WWII within Nazi Germany.

While some might say that it’s unfair to make comparisons between our society and the conditions that existed in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s, I can’t help but wonder if we’re headed in that direction.

An unfair comparison?

Remember….

The citizens of Nazi Germany were also told they were free and that they lived in the greatest country in the world. When we, in modern times are faced with situations where we see our freedoms slowly slipping away…..

When we see our Republic and “democracy” being replaced with a corporatocracy….

When we see the masses being deluded and led off a cliff by a massive propaganda machine….

When we see our elected “representatives” being bought off to do the bidding of the few….

When we see our Constitution being trampled upon with the blessings of our government and many of our fellow citizens….

It becomes our duty as Americans to rise up in protest.

So….

This is Sophie Scholl. She spoke up

Who was Sophie Scholl and what did she stand for?

Was she just a deluded hippie girl living before her time that was foolish for speaking out against her government even under the penalty of death?

Was she “unpatriotic” for turning against her rulers?

After all, she wanted Germany to lose the war and probably never really gave any thought to what would happen when the Red Army overran Prussia and Eastern Germany.

Or, was she a starry-eyed idealist who went too far?

Who was Sophie Scholl?

Sophie Scholl was a 22 year old philosophy student at Munich University and she, her older brother Hans and his friend, Christoph were members of an anti- Nazi organization called The White Rose.

Sophie in Munich

They were caught by a custodian who called the Gestapo and were arrested for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets at Munich University.

Sophie and her friends were taken to Wittelsbach Palais, where they were interrogated for four days by they Gestapo before coming to trial on February the 22nd, 1943.

They were quickly found guilty and sentenced to death. All three were guillotined by Johann Reichhart in Munich’s Stadelheim prison within hours of the verdict on that same day.

“Sophie was taken to the guillotine first and reportedly walked to her death “without batting an eyelash”.

Her last words were “Die Sonne scheint noch,” which translates as “The Sun still shines.”

Gestapo arrest photographs of Sophie Scholl

What was the reaction of the students in Munich to the executions?

Two hours after Sophie was beheaded, the Munich students staged a pro-Nazi demonstration in front of the university to express their loyalty to the Fuhrer.

Three days later at a student assembly, the Nazi student leader gave a speech deriding the White Rose for their resistance activities and the speech was cheered by hundreds of students.

The custodian responsible for the apprehension of Sophie and her co-conspirators was given a standing ovation.

Calico Blackie says:

Some might say, as is said by many critical of the Occupy Movement, that she accomplished nothing with her resistance.

What would be the reaction today to Sophie Scholl? Would we be appalled by the verdict of the court and the sentence?

Would we be appalled for 15 minutes and then rush home to watch another episode of “American Idol” or switch the channel to watch the latest media darling being interviewed?

Or……

Would we say: “If they weren’t breaking the law, they wouldn’t have had anything to worry about”?

Would we say: “They deserved it. If they didn’t like it here, they should have moved to Cuba”?

Or……..

Would we protest against our country becoming a police state?

Would we protest against the executions? Would we say that Sophie and her friends were within their rights to distribute the leaflets even though they were clearly in violation of the “law”?

Would we say dissent and protest is healthy in a “free” society?

WILL WE FIGHT TO PREVENT OUR COUNTRY FROM BECOMING EVEN MORE OF A POLICE STATE THAN IT ALREADY IS?

Each of us must come to our own decision and make up our own minds.

I watched the Occupy SF General Assembly last night as it was livestreamed by @punkboyinsf for the world to see and was surprised at the division within the ranks of the occupiers.

Some wanted to condemn the violence that occurred during the Mayday actions and some didn’t want to condemn the destruction.

To me, the solution was simple. Occupy should remain non-violent while those who think that nothing would ever get accomplished without violence should form their own splinter groups.

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) poster from 1968. Does it look familiar?

This can be done much in the same way that the radical faction of the SDS became The Weather Underground in the 1960s.

That way, the people preaching non-violence can wash their hands of their more violent allies in the movement.

Anyway, whether you agree or disagree with me makes no difference. We’ve all GOT to make our own decisions.

Don’t let our politicians, the 1%, and their media stooges make your decisions for you.  They will not be acting in your best interests.

When the 99% Movement is being crushed, will you take up the torch and continue the fight for freedom that they started?

Or, will you give the oppressors a standing ovation?

The choice is ours.

So, why the long history lesson? Why bring up Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Movement at all?

Because she wasn’t afraid to speak up for what she believed in and history should remember her for that. We could ALL learn a lesson from her.

It wasn't all for nothing, Sophie. Some of us will never forget

 

Keep the faith, Occupiers

 

OCCUPY WALL STREET

 

Calico Blackie  @kidakita

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May02

CAN WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

by Calico Blackie on May 2, 2012 at 1:56 pm
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Divided We Fall


 

Greetings from Calico Blackie!

New York yesterday. The 1% isn't listening. THEY DON'T CARE

May Day has come and gone and now we need to plan our next moves.

More questions than answers.

What was accomplished?

What still needs to be done?

CAN WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

I don’t know.

We’ll see.

From MSNBC:

Protesters hit streets for May Day rallies; violence flares in Oakland, Seattle

“Protesters across the world marched through the streets Tuesday toting signs, playing instruments and wearing costumes to rally against austerity measures, call for more jobs and seek greater immigrants’ rights on May Day.”

Oakland Police showing "We the People" who's boss with their OPD armored car. Why is our government so afraid of it's citizens?

“Marches turned violent in Oakland and San Francisco, where a protester was throwing what appeared to be bricks and metal rods from the roof of a building into the crowd of demonstrators, reporters, and police – injuring at least one person.”

“In Seattle, protesters dressed in black smashed windows and police pepper-sprayed some in the crowds.”

“In the United States, the protests are seen as the biggest test for the Occupy movement since many of its camps were shuttered late last year.”

“It was a long, energetic day with scores and scores of events and protests that is another step in building a movement for economic justice,” said Bill Dobbs of the Occupy Wall Street public relations team. “Occupy has re-blossomed in over 100 cities.”

Link is here:  http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/01/11485652-protesters-hit-streets-for-may-day-rallies-violence-flares-in-oakland-seattle?lite

From occupysf:

The scene yesterday in SF. The police "only following orders"

“In a pre-dawn raid by the SFPD and S.F. Sheriff’s Department, the S.F. Commune was evicted from 888 Turk St. after being briefly re-occupied following a May Day General Strike march to the site the previous afternoon.”

“After waiting for the cover of darkness to act, police officers and deputy sheriffs entered the formerly vacant building, owned by the S.F. Archdiocese, to make twenty-four arrests of the sleeping Occupiers within and were transported to 850 Bryant St.”

Link is here:  http://occupysf.org/

Calico Blackie says:

Once again, the police at the bidding of their masters, responded with overwhelming force against the wishes of the people who want an end to corruption and greed.

Oakland Police responding with assault rifles loaded with LIVE AMMUNITION. Do you think they would have used them on "We the People" if they were ordered to shoot?

In Oakland, the cops were seen carrying M-4 assault rifles and cruising around in their armored cars. What chance do you think a citizen would have against them?

In Seattle….

From The Seattle Times:

“Spasms of violence hijacked attention from mostly peaceful May Day social-justice rallies Tuesday as black-clad vandals left downtown Seattle littered with shattered glass and put police — and the city — on edge.”

“The vandalism, much of it aimed at financial institutions, recalled for many Seattleites the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) riots. Mayor Mike McGinn, citing lessons learned from that chaos, issued an emergency order giving police power to preventively seize anything that could be used as a weapon.”

“The order, imposed after a noontime vandalism spree by about 75 apparent anarchists armed with poles, contributed to arrests and later clashes between police and protesters.”

“But after the initial violence and full mobilization of police, much of the mayhem died down. Planned afternoon marches were mostly peaceful, although downtown traffic was tangled.”

Link is here:  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018116330_maydayprotest02m.html

Some would call this "collateral damage" done to a peaceful protester by the police. Others would call it a "Red Badge of Courage" worn by a Patriot

And in the cities of Portland, Denver, Miami, Chicago, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and throughout the nation, demonstrations were held and arrests were made.

Citizens were injured for demanding their rights.

For demanding “Liberty and Justice For All.”

Get it straight people.

YOU ONLY HAVE RIGHTS WHEN IT’S CONVENIENT FOR THE 1% TO LET YOU HAVE THEM.

If it’s not convenient, those rights are taken away from you.

Remember……many citizens are fine with this.

You have the right to defend yourself. Unless you're trying to stop a cop from bashing your skull. Then, it's "assault on a police officer." A FELONY

They can look at this picture and say:

“She deserves what she’s getting. If she had stayed home and didn’t get out to protest, she would never have gotten her ass beaten.”

Calico Blackie says:

She’s in the front lines fighting for YOU.

The people who say she “deserves it” are the same people who will sit in their houses while their neighbors get hauled away to the prison camps and say nothing.

They’ll say nothing because they feel safe and secure.

They’ll say nothing, until the “knock on the door” is for them.

The citizens of Philadelphia being crushed yesterday

By then, it will be too late.

So, with newer and harsher laws getting passed every day by the puppets in government, how much longer will it be before the patriots are all locked away in the prison industrial complex?

How much longer before protesters are arrested and never heard from again?

Keep in mind that many cities are now beginning to charge protesters with felonies.

In a state with a 3-strikes law, this means if you get caught fighting for your rights three times, you go to jail FOR LIFE.

YOU get to be a slave laborer for the profit machine, FOREVER.

WELCOME TO AMERICA!

Two more "resisting arrest" charges and you'll never see her again. The cops are "only following orders"

So, why protest?

Why not campaign for a “progressive” candidate and “fight the system from the inside” instead of getting your butt kicked and arrested?

Yeah….Why not?

Why not campaign for a bought-off candidate and try to change a rigged system from the inside where you can’t make any difference at all?

Heck, if you’re against prostitution, why not take a job in a brothel and spend your spare time telling the hookers that what they’re doing is wrong?

But hell, why should the 1% give a damn about us?

From CNN:

Dow closes at a 4-year high

Come along, Vietnam Veteran. What are you protesting for? Our 401k's are doing well (until the 1% decides to take that too)

“U.S. stocks moved solidly higher Tuesday as investors welcomed a rise in U.S. manufacturing activity and a mixed batch of corporate earnings.”

“The Dow Jones industrial average rose 66 points, or 0.5%, to close at 13,279.40, the highest since December 2007.”

“The day’s gains were broad, with more than 70% of the Dow’s 30 components ending in positive territory.”

“Countering signs that the U.S. economic recovery may be slowing, investors were encouraged by a report that showed manufacturing activity grew last month at the fastest pace since June 2011.”

Link is here:  http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/01/markets/stocks/index.htm?hpt=hp_t3

Calico Blackie says:

I feel better already knowing the rich got richer and that manufacturing activity grew because people had to work like hell for poverty-level wages. And it’s all so that some bastard can bank another huge bonus.

Which bought-off candidate will YOU be voting for in November?

The 1% will never give a damn about us.

We can protest and scream to the heavens and they don’t seem to be listening.

They don’t care, because there are millions of us willing to kiss their asses for a pat on the head.

Millions of us who are willing to “only follow orders” no matter where those orders lead to.

Millions of divided, complacent and easily exploited people.

So….What can we do when no matter how large our demonstrations, no matter how reasonable our concerns, no matter how peacefully we voice our disapproval, we’re beaten down, jailed and/or ignored?

What can we do when we are only given the illusion of choice when we vote?

It’s a steamroller that WILL eventually crush us all.

The 1% doesn’t care if it takes 10 years for us to get tired of protesting and finally accept the whip.

They don’t care if they have to lock us all up in their for-profit prisons. As a matter of fact, they would prefer to lock us up in their labor camps.

What can we do?

Not much, when all our protests seem to be accomplishing is letting the authorities know who we are so that it’s easier for them to find us when it’s roundup time.

But still…… We have to use what we’ve got. Just because May Day has been seen by the Occupy Movement as a great success doesn’t mean it’s now “Miller Time.”

We can’t let up.

If May Day was a spark, we’ve got to fan the flames. Our ONLY chance is to mobilize enough VOCAL support from millions of people so that we can’t be ignored.

So..……….. CAN WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

Yes, but…….

We’ve got to convert the doubters.

When you hear someone talking about “dirty hippie occupiers” or saying “those protesters don’t represent me”……..SPEAK UP!

EDUCATE AND PROTEST

It’s our only chance.

Keep the faith, Occupiers

OCCUPY WALL STREET

Calico Blackie  @kidakita

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May01

OCCUPY MAY DAY 2012

by Calico Blackie on May 1, 2012 at 9:06 am
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Divided We Fall


 

Greetings and Solidarity from Calico Blackie!

Well, it’s here. This is the day we’re supposed to show the world that we will not be pushed around any longer.

Will we succeed?

Only time will tell.

This is a short update, as I’m waiting to see what develops and will be “going into town” to help spread the word here in rural America.

So far, here is what is in the news:

Not much yet…..

From CNN:

Occupy May Day begins

“Occupy San Francisco got an early start on May Day, kicking off its organized protest at 8 p.m. local time on April 30.”

“San Francisco, once a stronghold of the dispossessed, has become a playground for the rich and a living hell for those of us who can’t keep up or have no interest in capitalist relations,” Bay Area protest organizers said in a statement.”

Let's do it!

“Early Tuesday morning, protesters — including Occupiers, labor unions, and community and religious organizations — were picketing against unfair labor practices at Los Angeles International Airport, according to Occupywallst.org.”

“LAX issued a traffic advisory, and the airport’s web site said two blocks of nearby Century Boulevard were shut down in anticipation of a march by at least 1,200 union members at 3 p.m. ET.”

“May Day protests were also underway in Greece and Turkey. Two thousand people gathered in Syntagma Square in Athens, and another 7,000 protesters gathered outside a factory where employees haven’t been paid in six months, according to their union.”

Link is here: http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/01/news/economy/occupy-may-day/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2

Meanwhile, here are a few useful links to check out regarding the day’s activities:

New York City:

http://occupywallst.org/article/nyc-full-schedule-permitted-and-unpermitted-may-da/

San Francisco:

http://occupysf.org/

Portland:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/30/1087474/-Occupy-May-Day-PDX-Schedule-of-Events-Are-YOU-Ready-

Baltimore:

http://occupybmore.org/event/occupy-may-day-may-day-rally-99

And, don’t forget to check out the scene from our citizen journalists who work very hard to livestream coverage of these events so that we, the people in rural America and around the world will not be kept in the dark.

We’ve got to do well today. Remember what I said in my last update:

John Brown. Don't let history repeat itself

“If we don’t manage to score some victories on May 1st, I will believe, as John Brown did in 1859, that the only way the 1% will make any concessions to us in the name of humanity will be with blood.”

I hope I’m wrong.

Be safe and use your heads. Don’t do anything foolish to hurt the cause.

MAKE THE 1% LISTEN TO THE 99%

Keep the faith, Occupiers.

OCCUPY WALL STREET

Calico Blackie   @kidakita

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Apr26

Is History Set to Repeat Itself?

by Calico Blackie on April 26, 2012 at 7:46 pm
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Divided We Fall

Greetings from Calico Blackie!

Wall Street and Washington DC DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU OR LIBERTY

I was going through the archives of this site today and was struck with what OWS has accomplished so far and what it will take before the 99% can claim even a partial victory over the 1%.

The 1% has not even given up a shred of its stranglehold on America.

They haven’t made one move to end corruption in government.

Wall Street is as greedy as ever.

In November, we’re going to have another sham election between bought off candidates.

The approval rating of Congress is deeper in the toilet.

We’re more divided than ever with bogus and trumped up issues.

The brainwashed sheep in the ever-shrinking middle class still want to see the Occupy Movement crushed.

And, NDAA and a myriad of other repressive laws have been passed in the past year.

On May 1st, Occupy Wall Street is planning demonstrations and events throughout the world.

I am convinced that this is our very last chance to try to reason with the 1%.

The following was written by John Brown, an abolitionist, on 2nd December, 1859: 

John Brown. He was an "Occupier" too. They hung him for treason

“I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land: will never be purged away; but with Blood. I had as I now think: vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed; it might be done.”

Calico Blackie says:

I now know how he must have felt.

He was writing about slavery. The exploitation of human beings for profit.

A little over a year later, America became embroiled in Civil War.

If we don’t manage to score some victories on May 1st, I will believe, as John Brown did in 1859, that the only way the 1% will make any concessions to us in the name of humanity will be with blood.

The only way to get them to stop exploiting human beings for profit will be to erase them.

I hope I’m wrong.

Please, let’s put aside our differences to “Move Humanity Forward”

Please visit this website:

Link is here:  http://movehumanityforward.blogspot.com/2012/04/american-people-must-take.html?spref=tw

Here’s a sample from her page:

“It is time for the American People to take responsibility for allowing the 1% to cause so much pain and suffering in the world. As a population we have never been so diverse and so educated. As a population we have never had as much experience and knowledge about how our actions or inaction reverberates throughout the world. Young people, middle-agers and retirees are all experiencing the discontent a lopsided economic system can conjure up.”

“We are at the precise moment in space and time to recognize the good the bad and the ugly of which our Nation has become.”

Calico Blackie says:

MAY 1st. BE SOMEBODY

She has a point.

So, what are we going to do about it?

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

Keep the faith, Occupiers

OCCUPY WALL STREET

Calico Blackie

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Apr22

Wal-Mart, Wile E. Coyote, Mitt Romney, and The American Dream

by Calico Blackie on April 22, 2012 at 12:44 pm
Posted In: A Dose Of Reality, Divided We Fall, Media Bias


 

Greetings from Calico Blackie!

Wile E. Coyote and his Wal-Mart rocket

When I was a kid growing up, we used to have a great laugh over the antics of Wile E. Coyote and his tireless efforts to catch the Roadrunner.

It was his dream. 

We laughed every time he would buy some ridiculous contraption from the Acme Company.

We knew where that would end.

We asked ourselves “Why does he keep buying junk from the Acme Company when he’s only going to hurt himself in the end and never catch the Roadrunner?”

We're geniuses. Our cards say so!

We loved that Coyote and saw the Roadrunner as a flippant smartass.

We secretly wished that old Wile would catch the Roadrunner and realize his dream.

But, also secretly, we thought that Wile E. Coyote was pretty stupid to keep trying and failing.

After all, it was his own fault that he failed, because he kept banging his head on the wall no matter how many times those Acme products let him down.

Then, the years passed and we became just like that coyote, always chasing an unattainable dream while shooting ourselves in the foot.

The Acme Company. Save Money. Live Better. Destroy your own country

Only today, the Acme Company has moved to China, and we still buy their products at a place called Wal-Mart.

We keep shooting ourselves in the foot.

We keep offshoring our jobs so that cheaply made goods can be sold to us at places such as Wal-Mart.

We keep chasing the illusion of finally realizing the American Dream. We keep chasing that Roadrunner.

And we know where that will end.

We bought the lie while they offshored our jobs. We shopped at Wal-Mart, thus enabling the corporations to screw us

We’ve been lied to, and the people that tried to change our country for the better have been slandered, killed, and arrested.

We bought the lies.

Yet, not all of us are asleep.

We didn’t all buy into the lies told to us by corporate America and their wholly-owned subsidiary in Washington, DC.

Some of us around the WORLD are mighty damned angry, and we are willing to do something about it.

Canada is angry too!

“While American corporate media has focused on yet another stale election between Wall Street-financed candidates, Occupy has been organizing something extraordinary: the first truly nationwide General Strike in U.S. history.”

“Building on the international celebration of May Day, past General Strikes in U.S. cities like Seattle and Oakland, the past demonstrations, the national general strike in Spain this year, and the ongoing student strike in Quebec, the Occupy Movement has called for A Day Without the 99% on May 1st, 2012.”

“This in and of itself is a tremendous victory. For the first time, workers, students, immigrants, and the unemployed from over 115 U.S. cities will stand together for economic justice.”

Link is here:  http://occupywallst.org/

GET OUT AND FIGHT! Don’t shop at Wal-Mart for your Acme Products.

Stop shooting yourself and your country in the foot.

But I can hear it now……

Instead of YOU getting out there and protesting, you ask………….

We'll never get along because we aren't ALLOWED to

I’m tired of these protests. “WHY CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?” 

You hear this question repeated all the time. There is no easy answer.

Why?

Because we can’t “all just get along.”

Because if we got along, it wouldn’t be seen as profitable to our corporate masters.

Because there are evil people in the world.

Because there are greedy people in the world who will never be satisfied even if they take all you have.

They’re everywhere, at every level in society. Rich, poor, powerful and powerless.

And it’s illegal to kill them!

We’ve all run into people who ensure at every level we’ll never all get along.

Guess who gets the promotion and gets you fired? AND DOESN'T CARE. Is this the type of human being we look up to as a "success?"

You know them.

The office ass-kisser that makes the “right” influential friends and screws everyone else.

The gossip who talks dirt about everyone and if you’re foolish enough to go along with them, they file away what you said and use it against you at the first opportunity.

Those people delight in hurting other people and don’t care if you lose your job. We usually satisfy ourselves by saying: “Karma will catch up to them someday.”

Guess what?

There ain’t no such thing as Karma! LEARN THIS.

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan-Chase saying: "You hold it like this, and kiss." He has a buck for every ass he's kissed, but has no compassion or humanity

Those rich, shafting butt nuzzlers are the pillars of our society!

They get the promotions and bonuses. They climb the corporate ladder.

And they do it over our backs.

Then, when they have the power, they promote other ass-kissers because they enjoy having their asses kissed too.

That’s what our country has become.

Can you remember the 1970s & 1980s and the assault of lies the corporations unleashed upon American Society through the media, the entertainment industry and the ad agencies?

"For the WINNERS"!

“You can never be too rich or too thin.”

“Michelob Light for the winners.”

“The cool people all party all the time”

“Disco! Studio 54!”

“Cocaine = Success!”

 Perhaps the biggest lie we were fed during that era, and many people fell for it, hook, line and sinker…………….

“Unions are bad!”

We were told ALL unions were corrupt, or commies, or didn’t do anything for the workers.

Teamsters president Hoffa had ties to organized crime. Today, Wall Street and their puppets in Washington, DC ARE organized crime

Much like today, where the Occupy Movement is portrayed by the corporate media as a bunch of dirty hippies pooping on police cars (because one weirdo did it at a protest in NYC), the media hammered us with the news of corruption within the Teamsters Union.

By doing this, they convinced a significant portion of Americans that unions were actually a hindrance to labor.

Those same Americans who now work 60-80 hour work weeks and struggle to get by, and wonder why they still can’t seem to catch the Roadrunner/American Dream, are against organized labor.

Yet, we’re still being fed the same tired old lies. Why?

Because many of us still believe them. The lies and slander worked in the past, so why should the corporations stop now?

Did any of you see this in the news today? From Yahoo News:

Romney on spending: Guns triumph over butter

Romney/Palin 2012?

“Reducing government deficits Mitt Romney’s way would mean less money for health care for the poor and disabled and big cuts to nuts-and-bolts functions such as food inspection, border security and education.”

“Romney also promises budget increases for the Pentagon, above those sought by some GOP defense hawks, meaning that the rest of the government would have to shrink even more.”

“Nonmilitary programs would incur still larger cuts than those called for in the tightfisted GOP budget that the House passed last month.”

“At issue are these programs, just to name a few: health research; NASA; transportation; homeland security; education; food inspection; housing and heating subsidies for the poor; food aid for pregnant women; the FBI; grants to local governments; national parks; and veterans’ health care.”

“Romney promises to immediately cut them by 5 percent. But they would have to be cut more than 20 percent to meet his overall budget goals, assuming veterans’ health care is exempted.”

But, the bastards doing the fracking here would still get their massive tax incentives and bonuses at YOUR COST

“It’s almost unthinkable that lawmakers would go along with cuts of such magnitude for air traffic control and food inspection or to agencies like NASA, the FBI, Border Patrol and the Centers for Disease Control.”

“—OTHER BENEFIT PROGRAMS: Like Ryan’s budget, the Romney plan would also cut benefit programs other than Social Security and Medicare.”

“They include food stamps, school lunches, crop subsidies, Supplemental Security Income for very poor seniors and disabled people, unemployment insurance, veterans’ pensions and refundable tax credits to the working poor.”

Link is here:   http://news.yahoo.com/romney-spending-guns-triumph-over-butter-120715130.html

WAKE UP AND UNITE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE

Calico Blackie says:

If you support this type of candidate and this type of legislation, you might as well pile into the Toyota, drive over to Wal-Mart, and buy all the Acme products you can while you still can afford the ammo to shoot yourself in the foot.

Cut back the social programs!

Cut back our food inspectors!

The people don’t want food!

They want DEFENSE!

WHY?

Because:

“We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.” – Joseph Goebbels

"Welcome to Wal-Mart. Shopping carts are over there"

Economists have since then used the phrase to demonstrate a nation’s basic decision: how to allocate resources to defend itself as a nation while not neglecting the needs of its people.

Since resources are finite both cannot be produced infinitely – the more guns, the less butter and vice versa.

In a capitalist economy the government does not fully direct this decision, but influences it through defense spending and other fiscal and federal policies.

Link is here:  http://everything2.com/title/guns+and+butter

Calico Blackie says:

But, you say you don’t want war? You say that our strong military will serve as a deterrent to war? Has it yet? Or are our sons and daughters still dying overseas for the profit of the 1%?

No, we don’t want war!

Herman Goering understood us every bit as well as Wall Street does

“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?”

“Naturally the common people don’t want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.”

“But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.”

“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

“It works the same in any country.” -Herman Goering

Calico Blackie says:

MAY 1st....UNITE AND STRIKE

STOP FALLING FOR THE SAME OLD LIES!

Strike May 1st!

OCCUPY WALL STREET

Take back our country from the gangsters.

Keep the faith, Occupiers.

SOLIDARITY!

Calico Blackie  @kidakita

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Apr19

STOP THE SHIP…LET’S FIX IT!

by Calico Blackie on April 19, 2012 at 1:07 pm
Posted In: Big Brother, Divided We Fall


 

Greetings from Calico Blackie!

**WARNING** NOT SAFE FOR WORK IMAGES IN TODAY’S COLUMN!

Have we already hit the iceberg, or is there still time?

Another rainy day out here in the forested middle of nowhere. A good day to stoke the woodstove, make bean soup for tonight and write.

I’ve been watching and reading the news lately and this thought occurred to me:

Our society can be likened to a sinking ship.

Guess what?

There’s not enough room in the lifeboats for all of us.

There’s not enough lifeboats and we are in the process of arguing over who gets a place in the boats. Who’s “rights” are the most important? Who gets to be first into the lifeboat? All this infighting instead of banding together to fix the ship while there’s still time before we all drown.

If we work together for human rights, the rest falls into place

Women and Children first!

Women’s rights!

Animal rights!

Veterans Rights!

Workers rights!

Gay and Lesbian rights!

Minority rights!

All saying: ME FIRST!

The list of groups clamoring for their rights is endless.

Everyone wants their place in the boats while the ship sinks around them.

Screw everybody else.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO WORKING TOGETHER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS?

They don't give a damn about you. Their place in the lifeboat is assured

Whenever I try to make this point to a conservative Republican, I’m accused of being a “dirty hippie” or worse, a “commie.”

Whenever I try to make this point to a liberal Democrat, I’m accused of being a “knuckle dragging moron” or worse, A “Nazi.”

Whatever happened to Abraham Lincoln’s concept of:  “With malice toward none, with charity for all?”

With every separate group in this country screaming ME FIRST, it’s no wonder that we get exploited by the 1% and their wholly owned subsidiary in Washington, DC. We’ve become an Idiocracy.

Their place in the lifeboat is assured too

And it isn’t just America we’re talking about here.

It’s England, Germany, France, Russia and every “developed” nation in the world that is taking part in the idiot-fest.

We’ve become unwitting and ignorant tools and pawns on a sinking ship to nowhere.

This “me first” way of thinking serves only to divide us in our struggle and to splinter us into a hundred different and ineffective factions, thus playing directly into the hands of the “powers that be.”

We’re idiots! The 1% has no intention of giving us a place in their lifeboat, and they are deliberately steering the ship directly towards the iceberg.

Don't let us be divided and co-opted. UNITE BEHIND THE ORIGINAL PHILOSOPHY OF BREAKING THE GREED AND CORRUPTION CYCLE IN WALL STREET AND DC

You and me don’t get a place in the lifeboat.

That’s why we had better unite and work together to steer the ship before it hits the iceberg, or to fix the ship before it sinks.

Work together to fight for HUMAN rights.

WORK TOGETHER AND OCCUPY!

If we do this, the rest will fall into place like data sets in a well constructed research design.

The other day, on twitter, I saw a tweet from a group calling itself “The Womens Caucus of OWS.”  Women’s caucus…..Let that sink in for a minute.

HERE'S WHAT I HAVE TO SAY TO YOUR GODDAMNED CAUCUS!

The very concept of a “caucus” within the Occupy Wall Street Movement is divisive and counterproductive.

It does nothing to help the cause of the 99%.

It sends the wrong message to the 1% and to the masses.

The media will paint us out to be nothing more than a bunch of militant twats who are only concerned for their rights.

Their place in the lifeboat.

We HAVE to stay united.

But, will we do this? Will we unite and work together for the common good?

Will we band together to fix the ship?

Or, instead of fighting for human rights, will we all just fight for our individual causes, and then try to beg a place in the lifeboats of the rich and famous?

Will we continue to play partisan politics in a game that is rigged against us from the get-go?

Have you read about this? Did you know this? Or, have you been too busy?

Check out this little news item:

Congress Is About To Pass A Bill With New Restrictions On Traveling, Driving And International Banking

While we've been busy with our "caucuses" and partisan politics, Barbara Boxer is about to shove her thumb up your ass

“The U.S. Passport Act of 1926 is an obscure piece of legislation that was enacted decades ago when the idea of passports started catching fire around the world.”

“Several years ago, the law was modified to provide the Secretary of State with the authority to revoke or deny a passport to any U.S. citizen convicted of engaging in immoral acts with minors overseas.”

Calico Blackie says:

Sounds ok so far….But wait! There’s more…………….

“Until now, this has been the only instance of excluding a U.S. citizen from travel abroad. But if Senator Barbara Boxer gets her way, there’s going to be one more.”

"Look at all those deadbeats about to drown!"

“As part of Senate Bill 1813 (known as MAP-21), Congress has inserted language that would oblige the Secretary of State to revoke or deny a passport to any U.S. citizen who the IRS Commissioner deems as having “seriously delinquent tax debt.”

“Bear in mind, this is strictly an administrative procedure; there is no due process.

By comparison, even pedophiles go in front of a judge before losing their passports.”

“Something is wrong with this picture.”

Calico Blackie says:

I’m sure there are those of you that will still say: “So what? Screw those deadbeats that are delinquent with the IRS!”

But wait! There’s yet more. Now, how much will we pay? The article continues……

Barbara Boxer....BB....Big Brother

“In what may be one of the most depraved Big Brother moves on record, section 31406 of the bill makes it mandatory for “black box” event recorders to be installed in every new passenger vehicle starting with model year 2015.”

“Section 31504 requires the development of special alarm systems designed to remind drivers that there are other passengers in the vehicle.”

“Then there are provisions for more taxpayer funding to subsidize the massively loss-making Amtrak … plus calls to develop more national, regional, and state-owned railways across the country.”

Link is here:  http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/something-is-wrong-with-this-picture/#ixzz1sVFDF23v

Calico Blackie says:

UNITE AND BREAK THE STRANGLEHOLD

See what they did there? We ALL get to have tracking devices in our cars starting in 2015.

A device that will track your every move.

A device that can disable your vehicle with the touch of a remotely triggered button by the government.

Democrat or Republican…..

THEY DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU!

Speaking of Republicans…..The GOP has trotted out another one of their nutcases in an attempt to divide us.

Did you see this story?

Ted Nugent after Obama rant backlash: ‘Soulless subhumans are in a tizzy’

An American Coward. He's endorsed Mitt Romney for President

“Ted Nugent says “soulless subhumans are in a tizzy over too much trust and logic” after a rant he made about President Barack Obama drew the attention of the world … and the Secret Service.”

“The right-wing rock musician and outspoken advocate for gun owners’ rights had said at a recent National Rifle Convention that he will “either be dead or in jail by this time next year” if Obama is re-elected in the November election and also called on his fellow Republican voters to channel “Braveheart” and “ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off” at the ballot.”

Link is here:  http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Ted-Nugent-after-Obama-rant-backlash:-Soulless-subhumans-are-in-a-tizzy/8626124&cmp=emc-otrc-Todays_entertainment_news-041812-top1-8626124 

Calico Blackie says:

Oh, forget it. Here's a Claire Danes nipple-slip for you. It's hopeless. We're gonna drown

See what they did there? The GOP allowed this draft-dodging idiot “right-wing rock musician and outspoken advocate for gun owners’ rights” to rant like a crazy fool just so that the issues would become even more muddied and devolve into a debate about gun rights in America.

That’s right. Distract us from the REAL issues and further divide us.

Then, show us nipples and Dances With the Stars.

Show us American Idol.

Use Barbara Boxer and Ted Nugent to tear us and our Constitution apart.

I support the CONSTITUTION….ALL OF IT!

But, I sure as hell don’t support “Nutcase Nugent” which is what the liberals will say about me.

I sure as hell don’t support “Big Brother Barbara Boxer” either, which is what the conservatives will say about me.

I support the CONSTITUTION. I support OUR RIGHTS – OUR HUMAN RIGHTS!

I support trying to help our fellow human beings feel a little better.

I occasionally give homeless people money.  I don’t donate to charity because it makes me feel better.

I donate because it’s the right thing to do.

Every once in awhile I hear someone get all superior and say something like:

“I give them food, that way they wont spend it on liquor or drugs.”

To which I say:

“If they want to buy liquor or drugs screw it. Their life is shitty, let them do whatever they want to feel better if only for a little while.”

You hear it all the time:

This is how the self-righteous want to see poor people, AND they would say she shouldn't be wasting their food stamp money on hamburger and chairs. SUCH EXTRAVAGANCE!

It’s basically, “if you’re on any form of assistance what-so-ever, you aren’t ever allowed to feel joy or happiness”.

Why just liquor and drugs? Why not say:

“if the poor spend any money on a movie, or an x-box game” also?

Is it really about doing illegal stuff? Do they lose their benefits if they get a speeding ticket, a DUI, or any other conviction?

No.

It’s all about “if you’re poor, you suck and should suffer.”

Is it helping them get off the street? No, but neither is the Big Mac you bought them from the dollar menu, so don’t think you are helping them any more than I am, you self-righteous shit.

Somewhere, our priorities went astray

It’s about helping people feel better.

It’s about trying to get each other through hard times.

Why not try rehabilitation instead of scorn and conviction?

HUMAN RIGHTS.

LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.

Screw the lifeboats. Screw the “caucus.”

Forget partisan politics. It’s a trap.

UNITE AND FIX THE SHIP!

It’s all gone wrong and we’ve lost our way. Our “leaders” are pointing us toward the iceberg. RE-TAKE CONTROL.

Cast off their bullshit. See things in a different light. THERE ISN’T ENOUGH LIFEBOATS.

I’ll just leave this here…………

Re-take control

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear.

They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small.

They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else.

They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate.

They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that.

Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours.

It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use.

You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing.

Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you.

They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

- Banksy

It starts with YOU. It starts with ALL OF US UNITED. MAY 1st - STRIKE!

UNITE.

OCCUPY WALL STREET

STRIKE MAY FIRST!

Keep the faith, Occupiers.

Calico Blackie  @kidakita

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