iBlack Mirror: Authoritarian Upgrades

Conspiracy theories, tin foil hat confederacies, and general educability of perch , once obvious infractions of logical thinking not very long ago. Sarah Palin’s coreless lunacy could be seen from Russia. And most of the U.S. electorate.

Now, U.S. citizens expect that the former USSR will interfere with elections with impunity and the president can run the country as a business in 280 character tweets.

My how times have changed. In a very short time we see the upside down, inverting worlds directing us through black mirrors, gaining energy from precious life-forces.

Wars and rumors of wars between brothers and sisters, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters. “Us” and “them” lost in deflections of self-reflection

Earliest etymology indicate the term ‘black’ to mean “pale, colourless, dead” or “terrible, wicked” which might explain the shameless disregard for ‘black lives’. Having to say that at this point time feels like an insult to me. At this point it’s not likely you’ll get the point. According to the records, black lives don’t matter. The message that couldn’t be clearer as the actions that speak so much louder than any hollow words. The Negro Problem is basically that black folks just won’t disappear. Existing as a constant reminder of the irreverant, primal, soulless, savage truth of history.

Best to recognize what you’re dealing with if you want to actually get something done. This us a human story. The people are played on boards of black and white crayon colors that don’t exist. The current paradigm keeps ‘good people’ with the best of intentions in hamster wheels fighting illusions. I don’t want my grand babies fighting another version of BLM in twenty years like their great grandma did over fifty years ago with MLK.

Can you handle the truth? Is there even such a thing anymore? What does any of this mean? Are you aligned with balanced navigational points?

Muses of money & media transform villains into heroes and real heroes become as fodder for talking-head chatter. Educating programs replace any facts steering your attention away from genuine sustenance towards the fake yet fabulous. The deeper you dig into the origins of how we got here, the more questions you’ll find.

Not much, as it turns out, is what we’ve been taught.

Fear virus spreads through dumbed-down minds, infecting individual, national and global psyches, snatching reason and rationale from the diaspora. Only shallow conflicts left to feed on, starving the collective soul. Consumerism at all time high while mom & pops shut their doors for good while Fortune 500s grab up all that cash flow.

Abundance, grace & mercy are, indeed, your birthright but no manner of ‘stuff’ can sustain you if your heart ain’t right. You are up against real tests about now. Questions of who you are.

When you let someone else define reality for you, they become masters of your existence. You forget your true nature, relinquishing innate, neural, sacred connections to everything over to “expert” solutions. Discernment atrophies and soul urgings from within settle in the dust of unrealized desires.

Battle wounds of lifetimes have left you oh so very weary. The script now flipped so completely, you’re at your last wtf?? Once reliable landscapes have lost all form. Impossible weirdness vying for the position of “new normal” bring potential madness into vulnerable, malleable spaces.

Authoritarians got a makeover, former “teabaggers” are “thought leaders” and “influencers” now.

Influencing you to do what is the million dollar question. iBlack Mirror reflects illusions of contrived realities. Whose thoughts move you?

Uh, uh, uh. Not too fast. May not be so obvious. Media muses influenced us from birth. Black mirrors, only the latest one of many rapidly morphing new normals.

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality — Bright, shiny objects!

When we agree about our hallucinations we call it reality. Watch the TED Talk and see why…

via Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality — Bright, shiny objects!

The 12th Day of Solstice

T’was the 12th day of Solstice and all ’round the globe

many creatures awakened galactic abodes

Cosmic Nations & Ancients align with the stars

Gods, angels & faeries lift our consciousness far

worlds spin and old timelines weave stories anew

Future, present & past, seek harmonics thru goo

miasmic illusions which have fracked the whole truths

Once brother & sister, now BEing aloof

Mind collectives spin wildly so out of control

Foundations are crumbling, there’s nothing to hold

onto to, except for that still voice within

The masters remind you of places you’ve been

A fortress of guidance, 3 points light your way

You look up and remember

Today’s a brand new day

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This is a piece written for Sunday Photo Fiction, January 1, 2017

How Deep The Rabbit Hole Goes

I counted 18 posts today in my drafts dating back to 2014. Posts with titles like, “The Madness of Denial” and “Politics of Life – Facts Versus Fiction” all with partial and finished paragraphs of varying lengths. All trailing off at some point of hopelessness, never to see the light of day.

Some part of me wanted very much to jump into to political fray. To engage with the resonant souls I’ve met in the effort to effectively contribute to our rapidly changing world.

But another, vital part of me was being called in a different direction by the implausible scene playing out in the political and socio-economic realms of the U.S. of A.

Since 2008, the battle between shadow and light has hit the global arena full force, sparked by the combustible psyches of pachyderms and asses, together trampling common sense and liberties with equal fervor.

Worlds have collided since I last posted here and several personal relationships have … changed. Or completely dissolved as madness has taken over the airways and infiltrated daily life.

We, as a nation, have sunk all the way down into the rabbit hole now. The oh-so-easily educable perch have fallen in line on cue.

Though now, they’re baring sharp, nasty teeth.

Unpleasant Realities

 

Athan Gibbs: 30 yr accountant & inventor of the TruVote system – Killed March 12, 2004

I remember when this tragedy happened in 2004 and knowing, without a doubt, why this courageous man’s life had been cut short.

A recap of the politics at that time: an overly enthusiastic Howard Dean kills his otherwise good chances as the Democratic Presidential nominee with a single scream. John Kerry runs away with the prize, beating out yet-to-be-outed, John Edwards, General Wesley Clarke, Al Sharpton, and Senator Carol Moseley Braun.

But the senator from Massachusetts couldn’t overcome unflattering  images spread by the right, of him windsailing in speedos. No matter how many years  he served in Vietnam. George W. Bush took the presidency for a second time. Ralph Nader is blamed once again, for splitting the democratic vote.

While there were fewer questions, publically, about W’s win than in 2000, there were private concerns about voter fraud with the new electronic machines that left no paper trail. Found to be easily manipulated, these machines brought all democracy stood for, into question. Republicans had shown a propensity for unscrupulous behavior and the convenient, untimely death of Athan Gibbs might have brought this under scrutiny. If it had been given any real exposure.

But, instead, his tragic death went under the rug along with other Bush administration mishaps like bin laden and WOMD.

Since 2004, nothing has changed concerning voting machines. Questions grow with every election but reporting in the media is nil.

With Donald Trump in the lead for the republican nomination, it’s vital that conscious citizens not drop the ball. The masses have been placated once again with iPhones and reality tv, easily herded towards the anger-driven platform of Trump, and someone has to grab the reigns of sanity. Not likely the MSM will pick up the slack by the looks of things. So, as always, it is up to We, the People.

Don’t despair. Be aware ⚡️

#vote

Death of a Patriot

Over The Cliff

And now for a creative interlude!

Thanks Sunday Photo Fiction, for the inspiration!

Hope you like. I enjoyed writing it, which is always a plus!

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Keisha gazed up at the cliffs, heart pounding and her mind reeling from the scope of it all.
The guide held out his hand but she had to take another minute for it all to soak in. She was really here. “Somebody pinch me.”

The tall, rather lovely looking man who had brought her thru terrain she could never in her wildest dreams imagined crossing, smiled patiently and turned to tend to the horses.

Danny, one of three others on the trip, disrupted the mood, yelling “we don’t got all day”. Tying his Arabian to the stand, he headed towards the cliffs, mumbling. That guy was such a mixed bag. An emotional rollercoaster that Keisha steered clear of.

The guide, Mar an was his name, looked concerned but said nothing.

Keisha sighed and started towards the base when a roar in the distance stopped her in her tracks. Dark clouds crept over the sea behind and came upon them so suddenly she couldn’t make sense of what was happening.

Then Danny screamed.

Didn’t he? Or was that the deafening crack of the lightening striking the mountains on the horizon? Keisha couldn’t tell but something … something in that moment, deep in her heart, in a flash, was changed forever

I Am Light

Unnatural Laws

A top-heavy construct is bound to fall. “Winner takes all” is unsustainable in a connected universe. What did 85 people do to have more than 3.5 billion? –

The Government We Deserve

By KT

Had enough yet?

This post is, unfortunately, and maddeningly still true. More true than reality could ever seem to stretch when it was originally posted after the midterms in 2014.

And yet, here we are.

There’s much more to say, but for now, I’ll just leave this here.

 

For evil to flourish
it only requires good men
to do nothing. Simon Wiesenthal

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Thank  God Bless the President of the United States on fb for the graphic

**Warning**rant ahead**

It’s taken a few days to  pull my thoughts together around what happened in last week’s election. When I saw this graphic on fb, I was inspired to just sit down and write it out.

The quote in the graphic, “bordering on sabotage” doesn’t really cut it for me. There’s no question that Republicans have overwhelmingly conspired to bring this presidency down, whatever the cost to the nation. No matter how many policy arguments or pundit perspectives to the contrary, the single goal of conservatives since the election of President Barack Hussein Obama has been to make sure his legacy would be one of ruin.

But excellence is the Obama legacy, the President’s true nature, and no matter the amount of slime heaped upon him by conservatives, this fact will stand the test of time. A slice of reality  that just pisses the right off even more.

The truth is we can whine all day, blaming corporate greed and the ignorance of podunk yahoos who vote against their own interests for the results of last week’s midterms. However, an equal, if not bigger problem are the self-righteous liberal pussies who stayed at home on election day, “boycotting” the only real weapon they have against the corporations they actually empower by sitting on their hands. The greedy bastards could give a damn about your rage. In fact, they count on it keeping you from the polls. I guess some folks won’t be happy until they do decide to vote only to find that their rights have been stripped by those they let glide into office with their silent protest.

Message to Women: Republicans in Congress Do Not Like You

#truth #rockthevote

Message to Women: Republicans in Congress Do Not Like You

Thanks to DW on fb

Democrats Need to Call Republicans Out

Yet, they don’t.

Democrats may have the best vision for the nation but Republicans have the “united front” down pat. The cat-herd Dems have way more ammunition to work with but seem to have trouble with target messaging. The smart thing for us to do is to get on board with a common cause. The vision of a much brighter future than Republicans have planned for us.

It is no exaggeration to say that corporations threaten the sanctity of democracy with their oligarchical aims. And they own the Republicans, which explains much of the gibberish that has become Republican talking points. How they form their lips to even say the word “patriot”, is beyond me. But in spite of all the talk about “makers” and “takers”, “the real Americans” and “job creators”, the truth of the matter is the greedy bastards won’t stop until they have everything. It will never be enough.

That’s their game plan.

Voting is our best defense against the gluttonous, chronically insecure frat boys threatening drill, frack, “develop, and consume earth’s resources until there’s nothing left. That’s including every hour of underpaid work they can squeeze out of you.

36 days before election day, Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Vote!

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Daily Kos – Sept 28, 2014 – Ian Reifowitz

As usual, Republicans are in corporations’ pockets. Dem Senate candidates should hammer them for it.

Last week, the Obama administration issued new regulations to limit corporate tax inversions. This maneuver, as our own Joan McCarter explained, is “the practice of corporations buying subsidiaries in foreign countries, then renouncing U.S. citizenship to get out of paying U.S. taxes.” In other words, another scam by big money to stick the rest of us with the tax bill they should be paying. When Burger King announced plans for such a move last month, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) said they’d “abandoned their country” and called for a boycott. Damn straight.

On the one hand, we should applaud the White House for taking action, but the problem is that regulatory changes alone aren’t enough to do the job. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) noted: “The administration wanted to go as far as they legally could, but they’re very careful.” He referred to the changes as “a good effort,” but added “the only real way to stop inversions is legislative.” Schumer urged Congress to craft a stricter definition of inversion and enact a ban on “earnings stripping.”

Earnings stripping? You’ll love this. Earnings stripping refers to a practice by which a foreign-based parent corporation loans large sums to—wait for it—itself. How? By loaning, on paper, the money to one of its own U.S. subsidiaries. Then the corporation gets to deduct the interest it is paying—again, to itself—and cancel out, dollar for dollar, taxes on profits it owes our government.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) called for legislation that would solve the problem for good “before this growing wave of inversions erodes our nation’s tax base.” And why hasn’t Congress passed such legislation? You guessed it, congressional Republicans have blocked it over and over again, saying they are waiting for “comprehensive tax reform.”

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