tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76446956895980103052024-03-09T18:47:43.361-08:00Your Homeless BloggerHope Singhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720746609594778790noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644695689598010305.post-1184960898247216882023-10-04T19:40:00.025-07:002023-10-05T00:46:31.021-07:00Too Many Homeless and Migrants Makes for Strange Bedfellows<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Homeless Services Limited Shrinking Accountability</b></span></span> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYCjGntaJcTwXGRxowOI8T8_uHv2iO1A9g4Fg0VUTpSQ2Irh10iq6dbpHfTLB435Iy5lEGU4H6OMEnz99cpgQJuBqFEScjdZ1WJzyDscHHzVCHjtmrM8TmSi4L-7-HCQjnBgN933wq9OMZ6d80LS8AMm5xKCYjM6UegkCFThs6qSQcq31hTOUc6GMMFPvw/s3264/20231004_192237.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYCjGntaJcTwXGRxowOI8T8_uHv2iO1A9g4Fg0VUTpSQ2Irh10iq6dbpHfTLB435Iy5lEGU4H6OMEnz99cpgQJuBqFEScjdZ1WJzyDscHHzVCHjtmrM8TmSi4L-7-HCQjnBgN933wq9OMZ6d80LS8AMm5xKCYjM6UegkCFThs6qSQcq31hTOUc6GMMFPvw/s320/20231004_192237.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Tilex and Spray Bathroom Cleaner Handy Weapon</i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Thank to the Biden Administration with its gates wide open for all-migrants rushing into the United States, "<i>Houston, we have a great problem!</i>" </p><p>Not only is New York facing a deficit and possible bankruptcy accommodating the migrants, but so are other sanctuary cities. All citizens living in the city nowadays must keep an eye for the migrants who have no place to go during the day. They might be seen standing at a street corner or near a street lamp, sort of dazed, staring at passerbys. Others look as if they are in the process of assimilating, but not if every two steps they need to check their Google Map with special instructions in Spanish.</p><p>They are squeezing out the homeless shelter populations in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Denver, and elsewhere because there are special monies for housing the migrants, providing them welfare assistance, and even dedicated funds from the United Nations International Organization for Migration. </p><p>According to the <a href="https://cis.org/Bensman/United-Nations-Hand-Out-Hundreds-Millions-Cash-USBound-Immigrants-2023">Center for Immigration Studies</a>:</p><p>"<i>Above all else, the UN investments in migration support activities this
year now matter because they may well have just become the central
linchpin in <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/01/05/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-border-enforcement-actions/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a new, unconventional White House border management plan</a>
to essentially โlegalizeโ hundreds of thousands of immigrants annually
before they can attempt illegal crossings so that they can instead be
escorted into the country through official ports of entry, with
pre-approval, <a href="https://cis.org/Bensman/Legalizing-Border-Crossing-All-Next-Stage-Bidens-Migration-Crisis" target="_blank">as CIS reported here in November</a>."</i></p><p>Granted that a few hundred dollars per migrant is not a lot, considering the rising costs of living inside the USA; nevertheless, put together the packages, including housing incentives probably also by the federal government and special programs, such as <a href="https://welcome.us/become-a-sponsor/what-is-the-welcome-corps">Welcome Corps</a>, team up to provide new refugees a pathway to citizenship. </p><p>What this means still is that local facilities, such as schools, playgrounds, parks, nursing homes, auxiliary buildings on campuses, and other facilities may still end up being used to house the overflow of migrants. This is already happening in New York, and including kicking seniors out of the nursing home for making room for migrants. A recent story by <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/korean-war-veteran-world-war-ii-vets-kicked-out-of-nursing-home-to-make-room-for-illegal-aliens/ar-AA1hE2O2"><i>MSN</i> reports</a> that one nursing home on Staten Island has kicked out Korean War and World War II vets to make way for housing illegal migrants. <br /></p><p>To understand the federal funding system one must also contextualize with regard to the cartels involved in offering tit-for-tat deals. There are articles about migrants wearing special wrist bands identifying their sponsor or cartel smuggler group; typically their contract might include serving as a drug-mule, as a future sweathouse laborer, as a promised for sexworker, as illegal grow farm labor. </p><p>If one serves inside the working class whether in schools, hospitals, construction, or other pipeline industries, there is something akin to a "don't ask, don't tell" sort of authoritarianism that can slowly allowing the cartels to take over certain industries, then certain governments, then states, just like in various states in Mexico, in Central America, and in Columbia. </p><p>Meanwhile, Washington community residents living in permanent supportive housing or surviving on HUD vouchers are being systematically disabused of their rights and privileges. This is seen in a variety of subtle changes in the homeless community advocacy processes. For instance, Washington Legal Clinic used to travel to various homeless supportive services communities, such as Miriam's Kitchen, StreetSense, N Street Village, etc, but ever since Covid-19 lockdowns, they have stopped. </p><p>There is every reason to believe that in a government shutdown or under austerity measures, the McKinney-Vento Act may be at-risk. Here is what the US ICH has as a warning as of October 4, 2023 on the main webpage:</p><p>"<i>In the potential absence of federal appropriations, neither USICH nor USICH.gov would be operational. </i><a href="https://www.usich.gov/resources/uploads/asset_library/FY_2023_USICH_Contingency_Plan_for_Possible_Lapse_in_Appropriations.pdf"><i>Read more about our shutdown guidelines.</i>"</a></p><p>Too many social workers and federal employees at the trough to ensure that the homelessness dollars are sponged off and to belittle homeless and low-income residents so that there is no Robin Hood or <a href="https://nationalhomeless.org/news/RememberingMitchSnyder.html">Mitch Snyder hero</a>/heroine rising up to help found independent homeless community shelters. </p><p>Today any symptom of that kind of independent-mindedness is often targeted by staffspersons inside national charitable programs. NGOs, such as Catholic Charities, hire many staff who come from underprivileged backgrounds, and who often receive a lot of training on the job to compensate for the lack of a college degree. They become, pretty much, checklist sort of employees, who only see things in black vs white thinking. </p><p>That in turn tends to create a sort of menagerie environment in which even organized crime can make its way into the setting. At the very least, it tends to exacerbate friction because the staff don't view the residents as individuals on their own, rather as a class that can be stigmatized based on income. If you were a good Catholic before living at Catholic Charities, it can make your faith very trying. But of course, just think of the obstacles that all nuns and seminarians face today.</p><p>Anyway no wonder there are men who just don't want to live in any kind of shelter system, which unfortunately, can place them at extreme risk from the elements, let alone reduce their chances of finding a Housing First placement. There is one such fellow now who still lives at McPherson Square, even though all the homeless were evacuated from the park eight months ago. </p><p>This fellow has clung onto his sidewalk home tenaciously. It doesn't even look like a home---more like a vendor's street cart---which explains how he has managed to pass for such. However his face and his general condition says it all. I thought he was quite obstinate, but now, I realize that maybe he has something credible to be worried about in DC's men's shelters, with their returnees and toughs who often target nonblacks or anyone "different."</p><p>This <a href="https://www.goupstate.com/story/news/2007/12/26/arizona-man-makes-a-run-for-president-from-behind-the-wheel-of-86-crown-vic/29421839007/">dude</a> likes to talk politics, but truth is that he is now worried about being chased out of the park. So his blog now has that as a featured talking point on the mainpage of CleanHonestGov.com. The Park Police want to contain Daniel Kingery's independence, keep him inside a shoebox for a room, or a prison-bunker for a bed. They always hate bloggers and independent journalists the most; even the best of the alt-journalists are often the worst hypocrites.<br /><br />Anyway either that or there is the rush of authoritarian empowerment after the January 6th show trials, with some of these insurrectionists now sentenced to serving decades, <i>yes decades</i>, in jail for serious crimes that never happened. No one was hurt, no one was kidnapped, no one was really even threatened, but the lesson being that <i>former President Trump and his ilk must be taught a lesson</i>.<br /><br />I am not sure what party Daniel might belong to, but often, the Republican Party gives lower-middle class white people something to hope for. Maybe they think that Happy Days might return again, although for sure the days of Archie Bunker are long gone. A shred of hope is something that all homeless and low-income disabled older people desire, yet certain types of social workers don't even want to offer them the tiniest scrap.<br /><br />There is the rub where Permanent Supportive Housing and Transitional Housing goes. Even if the rules and the civil rights code state no discrimination based on income or house-address, it happens an awful lot inside Washington, D.C. It happens outside of D.C. too. As soon as some healthcare worker figures out that I am only low-income, and it might even be my relative working as a doctor, they no longer address me in a polite, civil manner. <br /><br />And here at Catholic Charities, there is also ageism to consider. Yes, the Pope and a whole lot of cardinals can live a very respectable life with people bowing and stooping to kiss their hands. But for nuns, they are lucky if they can get their medical bills paid. For some low-income pensioner caught inside the Catholic Charities system, and it doesn't matter what your educational level is, just like being placed in a nursing home, you are just as useful as a wooden pallet.<br /><br /><i>Why do I say that?</i> Because you can assert yourself blue in the face, and the staff assume the most lackadaisical atttitude, lie to your face practically, and blow you off while snorting with laughter and derision behind your back. If you are being bullied, the official policy is that there is zero tolerance. <br /><br />The real policy is that bullying is used to weaponize the staff's authority as an extension of their power. We have a gal here who has terrorized the second floor of the group home for women for the past two years, and she is getting worse, not better. All of us have complained about her---that is at least ten women on this floor, and at least four women on the other floors, but the staff let her stay here.<br /><br />I asked the director about this after I was recently forced to file an anti-stalking order (it should have been a civil protection order but at least it is something). The director assured me, "<i>I've tried to get her out, but it's a decision that is being made higher up.</i>" She has used that line before, the very same line, with another very troublesome resident (who is still here). <br /><br /><i>You know why I don't believe it, even if I kept mum while she asserted that repeatedly?</i> Because it is the staff here who decide who is admitted here. They decide among themselves directly, yet they cannot evict someone because "<i>someone higher up is making a decision</i>"? That's just an excuse!<br /><br />This predatorial housing inmate is a monster. She wears a black trenchcoat 24/7 with the hood up, dark sunglasses, black leotards, and black boots. She dresses like that 24/7 even inside the house. She verbally and physically harasses other women on this floor. (I suspected she is transgender and still have my doubts). Being at least 6 feet in height, she uses her height to her advantage including obstructing the doorway into the bathroom or pushing a cabinet against the door to keep it shut. (For some reason no locks on any bathroom doors here). <br /><br />She also chases after residents outside the house, yelling racial epithets at them, screaming and cursing at them, even if they never talk to her. I wanted to show her some niceness, but she doesn't really see anyone here as a human being. She starts launching her verbal and then physical attack as soon as she sees the person (object) period. She is clever enough to fake it with the staff, of course. <br /><br />In her room, she screams for hours, literally hours, at a time, using foul vulgar language about this resident, that resident, this staffperson, that person, etc, even though everything she says is based on her imaginings of that person having done or wishing to do something to her. <br /><br />I have recommended over and over again that she needs counseling, she needs anger-management training, she can be counseled outside the house, and her medications should be regulated. But again, all of this is seemingly ignored. <br /><br />Recently she SPAT on an older white female resident who lives here. Again this older resident, who I've known for at least four years, would not harm a fly. Yet she accosted this older woman and began haranguing her about being a disgusting white person, and then spat on her. She also has attacked me (an Asian-American) verbally, and recently used a bathroom cleaner spray to spray on my face.<br /><br /><i>You know what one staffsperson did when she heard this?</i> Sort of laugh or smirk. She thought it was funny! Then when I told her it was not funny, that she is a menace for the house, she said exactly the same thing: "<i>Well it is a decision being made from higher up</i>." And again, she laughed or smirked!<br /><br />Higher up? Try lower down---it must be Satan who is advising them to keep bullies around and allow them to act so sadistically. <i>If she had done that to the STAFF, then of course, a whole different story, right?</i> She would instantly be gone. <br /><br />But we are just residents, so we don't have the same kind of human rights anymore. And that attitude has been adopted by other agencies or institutions socially influenced by the power, might, and dollars of Catholic Charities. Even the court might be persuaded based on labels to view me as a "lesser person" or as "living in a group home of disabled women" or "lower income" or just stereotyping the very same way that I often hear the staff do, and the Catholic Church parishioners do, that "<i>this is a house of mad women.</i>"<br /><br />Great. So they have to keep the self-confirming prophecy by allowing and encouraging this monster-demonically possessed woman to stay here. She is demonically possessed if she can rave evil things about people and think such bad thoughts and give vent to that screaming in rage for hours at time. She is a bad person for her vile intimidation of other residents on this floor, calling them names, spooking them so bad that they dare not use this restroom on this side of the floor even though she maniacally pretends to do my cleaning chore for me, acting as if I can never do as good a job as her.<br /><br />I have very sad doubts that the Anti-Stalking order will have much effect. It won't encourage Elle to apologize. The staff never make her apologize about how inconsiderate and abusive she is. The staff don't seem to mind that they support such mixed messages about the mission of this home which is for women who are <u>disabled and recovering from abuse</u>. They don't care if they are <u>derelict in their duty and responsibility to protect or provide a safe place</u>. They certainly are <u>not operating in good faith</u>.<br /><br />And the court, which is too close to this shelter, and we all know how powerful the church lobbyists are in this community, will even probably try to trivialize my complaint even if I present evidence and have witnesses. <br /><br />This, too, is the state of America today, where because of so many poor people, the present poor Americans can be conveniently shoved aside to make room for those "paid for by the cartels." That is why the staff sort of leers, and sneers, and scoffs. But it can be for other reasons as well. People who are in the human trafficking business are trained to adopt a cruel and callous attitude.<br /><br />Think about the slave trade in Africa that took place for hundreds of years or more before the white man ever arrived there. You have to have that kind of mindset of keeping another human being in a cage as a commodity, even a unit of trade, and the keepers are often sexually-trafficked type human beings themselves. They are completely desensitized and the more they are desensitized and callous, the better their chances for moving up. <br /><br />So yes, the women here are no better than cargo being held in a vessel on their way to Kingdom Come. In fact, as I mentioned before, we even have relatives who maltreat my other relatives sort of like this. They view older relatives as past their prime and therefore the only time they communicate is when they want a favor. They stomp on poor relations and force them to work like indentured servants. Yet come Christmas or the holidays, they are the first to appear in all their finery and fake generosity.<br /><br />This is exactly why so many people are no longer even planning to vote. I was figuring out whether if my older friend, if he were living today, who he would vote for. Recently I am convinced he would stay at home. Even my parent told me she did not even vote the last election. I am having a very hard time believing that any change can come from any politician be they red, blue, green, or independent. We are going to harvest the bad fruit from the rotten seed that we are allowing to flourish.<br /><br />Even while attending the professional webinars that I am allowed to sign up for because of my advanced credentials, the staff here, and the doctor there, are totally oblivious. All they would rather see is a walking dead person, a zombie, so they can rush me to the Death Ward when no one is watching. <br /><br />No wonder Catholicism is a dying religion.<br /><br /></p>Hope Singhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720746609594778790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644695689598010305.post-74208868532054322162023-07-18T09:44:00.013-07:002023-07-18T13:15:32.614-07:00Housing Project Ever-Repair A/C Service<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlX9CiXK8gjAPQLbK_RVuqH0mL21r1D126FRcwsQJC2x0hcUNae1tRYrMnIyYBqrC2OwJ4qqwq9Dp7DtvE0tPRkbe089kU3Nf_-Rv2V6ounGLTz2hiPx4SEW7j8AcLLmX0F3BoDfqyh6Db62XDYMFvcRqIUc48oLPpL9uFvLzZjxm_ka0Cu1W9h4aT1pCK/s3264/20230718_071540.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlX9CiXK8gjAPQLbK_RVuqH0mL21r1D126FRcwsQJC2x0hcUNae1tRYrMnIyYBqrC2OwJ4qqwq9Dp7DtvE0tPRkbe089kU3Nf_-Rv2V6ounGLTz2hiPx4SEW7j8AcLLmX0F3BoDfqyh6Db62XDYMFvcRqIUc48oLPpL9uFvLzZjxm_ka0Cu1W9h4aT1pCK/s320/20230718_071540.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Base of Air Conditioner lacks Evaporative Water Collection Pan</i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><p></p><p><span></span><span> </span><span> </span>Every year for the past five years during the summer the same thing happens at this community group home: the air conditioner (A/C) begins to leak water and there is water damage in various parts of the house, but especially downstairs in the dining room, sometimes for weeks at a time. </p><p><span> </span><span> </span>The staff coordinator calls the A/C service van and usually the repair person goes up to the floor above where the A/C closet is, and he does the same thing. He takes the dry-vaccuum and hoses the water out from the base of the air conditioner. As seen above the air conditioner does have evaporative coils and it causes moisture to collect, quite a bit of it evidently, and it is supposed to feed from the white PVC drain pipe to a vertical collection pipe into a system that drains out of the house.</p><p><span> </span><span> </span>But as this resident has learned (from being curious over the years about the ever-leaking A/C and appreciating the inconvenience), the A/C should have a secondary collection system of some type as most do, with another evaporative collection pan at the base and including an overflow drain to the vertical drainage collection system. </p><p><span> </span><span> </span>Well it doesn't. As pictured above, when the bottom grate is removed it is just a padded insulated box that feeds directly into the rest of the duct system. But because of the inefficiency of the collection system directly below the evaporative coils in the A/C, there is so much water that the box bottom becomes saturated (although the insulation does have minimal waterproofing) and the overflow carries out into the duct systems towards various rooms. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh76Xl7QNXN71XtPrlFdgmFfNf_xmVgsh1MuvfxxEf9IwJBMTwJBa5FUMo3GblnY2LGRjlcZSq6FiUldO2GAO4Ai5VYItpzqPIoPN7LWOHH0EQnYBIFNsFVKyDcZgJuEPU9asy-YsALmJCEDaSm4oz0K5H9_yC7OEeFtShyLGRkpYbfLO3piFHgCavuMDoO/s3264/20230718_072120.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh76Xl7QNXN71XtPrlFdgmFfNf_xmVgsh1MuvfxxEf9IwJBMTwJBa5FUMo3GblnY2LGRjlcZSq6FiUldO2GAO4Ai5VYItpzqPIoPN7LWOHH0EQnYBIFNsFVKyDcZgJuEPU9asy-YsALmJCEDaSm4oz0K5H9_yC7OEeFtShyLGRkpYbfLO3piFHgCavuMDoO/s320/20230718_072120.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span> </span>Replaced the air filter, but the box bottom does not drain</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span> </span><span><span> </span><span> </span>To add insult to injury the repair person retorted to this resident that she was not qualified to comment or make suggestions, since she was not a certified technician, as he stood there and did the usual thing: use the dry-vacuum to hose it out, sometimes for an hour at least. Little did he know that the resident had done the same thing the night before at least twice because of the rapidly filling pool. Neither he nor the staff recognized this resident's efforts of course. (They would rather consult their organizational attorney to find out how to keep the residents underinformed, keep them at bay, minimize their concerns, send them warning letters, or even try to evict them). </span></p><p><span><span> </span><span> </span>He asked and berated, "<i>Do you have an Air-conditioner Certification? No! You don't! And anybody can post a video on YouTube! It's hardly credible! You don't know anything! That standing water is there for recirculation! Everything is supposed to go back to recirculation!</i>"</span></p><p><span><span><span> </span><span> "</span><i>So if everything is supposed to go back for recirculation, why are the ducts leaking and the ceiling of the dining room leaking?</i>" the resident asked.</span></span></p><p><span><span><span> </span><span> </span>The A/C ever-repair person fumed at me and looked like he was going to explode! Of course, such an obese heavy-set man might even have a heart-attack from such hard cross-questioning! </span></span></p><p><span><span><span> </span><span> </span>"<i>You don't know anything! That water is meant to recirculate!</i>"</span></span></p><p><span><span><span> </span><span> </span>Okay, I think, sure we have atmospheric climate air recirculation. It's just all perfectly normal!</span></span></p><p><span><span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYWVCk5hb-eNLlmyap1u3n2E4_-wWahaZH_5YXWy4fc9egrkh31D3GXa2R0It3Whb0aNzV_VqV0IlGg45Pu4E6oPEooIFDOmZO2X8uLQj7lqGVfFTb1h4DXoLxioY3qzhNF16tUdCUKgupZVn2W92GySEkytQ9SBe9bzcELeH2H-4J6kXomfpOgANd058C/s3264/20230718_072811.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYWVCk5hb-eNLlmyap1u3n2E4_-wWahaZH_5YXWy4fc9egrkh31D3GXa2R0It3Whb0aNzV_VqV0IlGg45Pu4E6oPEooIFDOmZO2X8uLQj7lqGVfFTb1h4DXoLxioY3qzhNF16tUdCUKgupZVn2W92GySEkytQ9SBe9bzcELeH2H-4J6kXomfpOgANd058C/s320/20230718_072811.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Usually this is just the start of the leak in the dining room</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span><span><br /> </span> <span> </span>So while this A/C guy is gaslighting me, assuring that I know absolutely nothing about his business, which is every year to come to suck dry the saturated base of the A/C a few times a month, and then the organization can send out its maintenance crew to patch up and repaint the ceiling, the staff are giving me the cold shoulder. It is because I wrote them an email sharing my concern that the box needs a metal collection pan and a drainage pipe to the vertical PVC collection pipe. It's a relatively simple fix, I assured them. So the next business morning (the leak began on the weekend), staff were in meeting all morning, and too busy to travel upstairs, and deliberately tried to brush off this resident repeatedly. They think it will legally embroil them if they visit the A/C closet with a resident!<br /></span></p><p><span><span> </span><span> </span>In fact any kind of collection system would do, even a PVC lined box with a horizontal drain pipe would do. Those evaporation coil pans at the base of almost every air conditioner and boiler have a function, which is to catch and drain emergency overflow, even if the thermostat malfunctions. </span></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDbGscok5M7rND_2BGGqJR4ciN2fKt4TEZ7aYX2sTe4h0ubH0RLrrctUOadpnGBAhVv4hcepVwDF3dsFn33H9L07wmWomhyg8W9Z8IkNBAjVnGwFXE0bxPZSLQt6cXKgzY9ExCU0Q3_ASYsfnTba8YQn0tibgsmr6DyzmB0R82jL-NKZnDbnYKh81oRqk-/s3264/condensatedrainline.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDbGscok5M7rND_2BGGqJR4ciN2fKt4TEZ7aYX2sTe4h0ubH0RLrrctUOadpnGBAhVv4hcepVwDF3dsFn33H9L07wmWomhyg8W9Z8IkNBAjVnGwFXE0bxPZSLQt6cXKgzY9ExCU0Q3_ASYsfnTba8YQn0tibgsmr6DyzmB0R82jL-NKZnDbnYKh81oRqk-/s320/condensatedrainline.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This is the main weepage pipe from the evaporative coil inside the A/C </i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span> </span><span> </span>Honestly, I don't expect that the staff in the house have anything civil to respond to me, but if anything, will do what they usually do, which is expect us to not talk, while they figuratively sweep the problem under the rug. Seriously, there was a kitchen graywater leak under the sink (kitchen drain) for over a year, and it had grown worse over that time period, when finally this resident took everything out from underneath the sink cabinet, placed water collection bins, and alerted the staff. It took a couple more months till it was finally fixed. In the meantime, this resident drained the bucket every day, up to several times a day. Some other residents helped, but prior to this, the area under the sink, the plywood undercabinet was left wet, moist, and rotting. (This resident would have addressed the matter sooner, but there were some very aggressive and abusive residents who would chase her out of the kitchen). (You would never believe that the staff also use this very same kitchen daily to fix their lunch!)<br /></p><p><span> </span><span> </span>This is why to staff's chagrin, the resident always addresses the email to the permanent supportive housing director as well. Since that director is on vacation, the staff don't need to direct their sincere civil attention to the problem until she returns, and hopefully decides that ever-repair is not the same as a full-solution. And of course maybe the staff are worried that it is this resident wanting to play drama-queen, or making it about personality-contest. Rest assured. There are other residents with renumerative starring roles here, calling 9-1-1 about imaginary invasions of the house. </p><p><span> </span><span> </span>No, this is about having a permanent source of mold spreading from the base of the A/C duct box to the rest of the duct system. Think Legionnaire's disease, for starters. Even the filter starts molding prematurely and that mold does spread easily through the duct system into every single room. <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUBvraA95LKZVvjbqoChz4sIzFtmgvangx-nOBRM6QXOCScfbuPxYn56losrGIO_OwSIxPJWeJMyHctPnFHM1GGJpz-SNMG-5YNXvqSJWLE26cVT72N7okso5yWeJUrQ2RxJ2HiXElsDtG0X224nzBR2f857jvSDQTpC31jA9iQxQCDmgOzFZxcEYDQneX/s3264/20230718_080223.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUBvraA95LKZVvjbqoChz4sIzFtmgvangx-nOBRM6QXOCScfbuPxYn56losrGIO_OwSIxPJWeJMyHctPnFHM1GGJpz-SNMG-5YNXvqSJWLE26cVT72N7okso5yWeJUrQ2RxJ2HiXElsDtG0X224nzBR2f857jvSDQTpC31jA9iQxQCDmgOzFZxcEYDQneX/s320/20230718_080223.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Musty moldy filter and dirty water collect directly underneath the A/C unit</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span>Again, this resident is reminded of the jeers of the A/C person or innuendos, "<i>You are not paid to do anything here, I am! You have no authority here! We can't do anything without additional money!</i>"</span></p><p><span><span> </span> <span> </span>Exactly! Jesus was not paid to do his type of ministry either, nor his apostles. We are not charging God for the air we breathe, the water we drink, even if the capitalists of the world are hoping to eventually make that chargeable monetarily as well. There is no renumeration for my volunteer work here or in the garden or anywhere this resident may be in sharing of free useful good information. </span></p><p><span><span> </span><span> </span>In the meantime, the resident wants to thank the new innovative systems in development around the world. While the urban AI version can feel invasive, the system of social-credit and points earned for volunteer work used by the People's Republic of China should be an option for poor people here in the United States. Think about coupons and how they are used for discounted groceries or dining out. <i>Wouldn't that be nice to rack up some free points to use for travel or car rental?</i> <br /></span></p><p><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>And insofar as being able to hold accountable, investigate, communicate, disclose, express, Google has also been extremely helpful. All these A/C experts sharing their expertise are not sharing in order to cheat home-owners or discourage them from taking care of their unit or disempowering them from developing DIY fixes for a leaky unit. In fact, on the contrary, they usually have so much business in the summer that they are hoping that customers can learn to pinpoint the problem better. Some of them are even sharing theory and not just practice, such as <i>GrayFurnaceMan</i>, <i>HVAC School</i>, and <i>Skill Builder</i>. Because of the CEUs this resident has to undertake for civil engineering recertification, she is always alert to these sorts of websites. And this is even before we dig into GoogleScholar or GoogleBooks and check out the free chapters on pro-environmental climate-protective presidential hopefuls. These are the types of publishers who have a noble-cast of character in this world, and who are not here on earth to merely manipulate people and things for their own materialist gain. </span></p><p><span><span> </span><span> </span>In the past, a long time ago, this resident had a best friend who took her on a journey to Portugual where we visited a great number of ancient churches. Once at dusk we came upon a service in process and my friend happened to glance up at the ceiling and noticed a crack in the vaulted ceiling. It was a spreading type of crack, but he wouldn't wait. Instead, he whisked us out of the church in a hurry. At the time, I sort of chuckled about the rush, but actually today, it is a sobering reminder of when one is in an endangered sect within the church. There is a church nearby and it would seem as if all Catholic churches are the same, however, this one is always under semi-renovation. It used to not be so, then it became so after the ascencion of a new vicar. The painting is never finished, the stations of the cross are alway partly covered, the statues are always being moved about, the talk is always of what else needs to be paid for, and once one thing is done, something else must be fixed. Most people do not attend church to be forced to notice such matters, but indeed it is the case here. That was this resident's impression, a church with a cracked ceiling, so to speak. And so there, the parishioners will be more worried about their pocketbook, a sermon about the distant past, a funneling to not ask pertinent questions about relevant matters, but to be willing to absorb as gospel truth the weight of the pastor's viewpoints. No wonder pride and arrogance is such a problem today, when people so hypocritically are encouraged to base their authority solely on materialism, title, and figurative glory. </span></p><p><span><span> </span><span> </span>Anyway, it does no good to raise the issue about the Ever-Repair A/C drainage problem, as the staff always presume that what they will do is invariably correct and does not need resident input. If we do provide input, there is likely to be no feedback, and if anything, even a backlash. And if they do not undertake that, they will even use residents to backlash at another resident. When the ceiling leaks and the A/C is not working, they do not even necessarily respond to anything at all that you say, depending on "how preoccupied they are" and especially if you are just Asian-American. So there is a very high bar being established and encouraged over anything this resident says or suggests, irregardless.</span></p><p><span><span> </span><span> </span>But again, we have new role models, and while they look like happy stars in public, such as Kim Iversen, or Choeshow, or Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., we know that they still take guff from the worshippers of Baal and Moloch. Always notice how the security tries to hang in the vicinity so that the camera catches their leering gaze, the sneer on their face, the mockery in their treatment of political candidates. They even do that to politicians that anyone might vote for who are "in the mainstream." That is the contemporary attitude which we must deal with, and do so with grace, if at all possible----the soldiers of Empire at the base of the crucifix ready to take down your robe and divvy it up. <br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw5JmcOJiHrcVseluY-ZD6O3JttsUZIqo9wGxHnXvBrvvR63rIC6FXwRW2jBL9P6JEpgYn2ecX9bofaptkG3p7g6PjJYk_EZtfmD_JnwBgM5bQgRqYezOxcs1UW-JgTA0yu3tdfJg6I9Do60zz-R6AF8VT_dOTrJwbntiW7Igq8vvqOwfP1FrUvuhJf38y/s3264/20230718_071608.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw5JmcOJiHrcVseluY-ZD6O3JttsUZIqo9wGxHnXvBrvvR63rIC6FXwRW2jBL9P6JEpgYn2ecX9bofaptkG3p7g6PjJYk_EZtfmD_JnwBgM5bQgRqYezOxcs1UW-JgTA0yu3tdfJg6I9Do60zz-R6AF8VT_dOTrJwbntiW7Igq8vvqOwfP1FrUvuhJf38y/s320/20230718_071608.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>"This A/C unit has a special name called 'Bait Me'." The staff will not accompany the resident to look in the A/C closet but will sit in the office and wait for the A/C Ever-Repair to show up...<br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span></span><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBSC4w7gL7ExsBMnNK2hHVEpC15tllGX7RUyFe0GpAAmGkkmbmn_bh_v2h5rWWhvkuAepbBVCgxObakcbdsM0xIk7yKZS1ZBlDxOhysznn7ibl-cYeFt3DNrNnNPcmmPaVLoCQyl9uyZr-Wt-6w7mfMIiWk7-zad994AT5PYqRGJIRKme7cYV4k9AyR-Ur/s3264/ACdrippannodrain.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBSC4w7gL7ExsBMnNK2hHVEpC15tllGX7RUyFe0GpAAmGkkmbmn_bh_v2h5rWWhvkuAepbBVCgxObakcbdsM0xIk7yKZS1ZBlDxOhysznn7ibl-cYeFt3DNrNnNPcmmPaVLoCQyl9uyZr-Wt-6w7mfMIiWk7-zad994AT5PYqRGJIRKme7cYV4k9AyR-Ur/s320/ACdrippannodrain.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>"Just sit back and wait and let them fix it," resident says...And this is the typical saga of much of public housing and why they eventually go under is how their staff people are paid to "just follow the rules." This is why some people believe that DHA is in cahoots with HUD to help run down the housing so more properties 'go to market.' Short-term gain is exactly all that some bureaucrats care about!</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p>Hope Singhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720746609594778790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644695689598010305.post-64194191622108608282022-07-08T17:50:00.002-07:002022-07-08T18:00:37.924-07:00How Catholic Charities keeps people down<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mchvictorygarden.blogspot.com/"><img border="0" data-original-height="2112" data-original-width="2816" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8vOatGB3EYfe2P5-bHhVCbUPGyfcZH-divEtaWZWDQ2lXHBKveml-CozaJuKyPoqLPfjLlfGMgIChugnfTC0bT1XPbN3fc2lEw46z3I8YUGA-uIse_UtA7PQNEor4ZB0Zh9uY0y1fqnsKoArSb-THp21GvHqNF_9e9J1v5hKEQ0eG13lq3SHdGneU3Q/s320/IMG_3147.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mchvictorygarden.blogspot.com/"><i>The way my friend tells it, they are a vicious bunch</i><br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span></span><span> </span>I am doing a friend a favor and posting her new blog, <a href="https://MCHVictoryGarden.blogspot.com">MCHVictoryGarden.blogspot.com</a>. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">The way she describes it, she began gardening about a year ago as a way to deal with a couple deaths at her permanent supportive housing which is run by Catholic Charities. The permission was given by a new senior program manager at her house, but that manager has since cooled down on the project. The reason is inexplicable. By all appearances the resident is a model resident---doing chores, paying rent on time, attending meetings, getting along with other residents. However she is not African-American, and that is seen as a big negative by the social dominancy of that minority. Even as a minority, it cannot matter unless it is the right kind of minority.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span> </span>Complaints against the staff go unheard or are addressed in the most superficial manner possible. Even the priests, located nearby at the church, frown at any residents because they are all stereotyped in the most negative possible light: poor shiftless disabled minority women who are just a burden on society. They cannot see that Jesus was poor or his disciples were wandering preachers. They forget the history of the Sisters of Poverty. In the age of Trump, anyone who is not monied or propertied is just a pariah. They should tear down all the artwork in Rome, half of which were merely the products of poor Italian artists and sculpturers who survived on the beneficence of nobles willing to house and feed them.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span> </span>The staff are no longer even willing to listen to my friend's comments or take questions. As soon as the program manager was assured that her job was secure, thanks to the departure of the social worker, her attitude towards clients changed overnight. Suddenly a sort of long dormant angry race-fixated personna emerged---even her hair style changed, reminding one of the early days of Angela Davis. When she first was hired, her demure was such that she had her hair straightened and tied in a pony tail, and wore nurse-assistant uniforms. Now she wears the standard DC office bureaucrat attire. In fact, according to my friend, she worked in DC government for almost two decades, enough to retire on comfortably, and yet, here she is at Catholic Charities, such a wonderful second job. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span> </span>There is a suspicion that some second careerists might be plumbing the lists of older housing for DC Housing Authority to speculate on, or that her relative who works at the Community Partnership and is a realtor, needs more listings. Who knows? Any questions about her background or interests also go unanswered: it's none of the residents' business. Since they are just on charity, they should count themselves lucky to not actually be slaves. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"> Reading back in history, in fact, slavery in all its worst forms was long practiced in Africa, and often any captives, poor people, people in debt, women sold or traded, were kept in cages and merchants even counted merchandise using slave-units. Captives could be used for slave labor, for servants if they were lucky, or fattened and kept till ripe for cannibalism rituals. As these practices continue today even in the Congo, it should not be surprising that these kinds of attitudes on second or third-class people have persisted, and that the main perspective of the staff is that the residents in their rooms are viewed as prisoners, and they as the guards.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span> </span>As a prison-warden, the staff is doing well. My friend has done most of the work on the herb and vegetable garden herself, but the staff are taking full credit for their career portfolios. The staff did clean out a portion of the storage shed which can be used for tool storage, and they did sort of clean up the patio. But my friend does this every other day---tidy up the patio. As for the labor, the actual physical labor of watering, weeding, taking care of, planting, transplanting, feeding the birds, and so on, my friend does this all by herself, every day. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"> To alleviate some pain and misery with regard to the cruelty of the new program manager who has become extremely icy, based on trying to frame the resident as a race-ist, but not succeeding yet, and therefore persistently using many different styles of baiting, including sending the program coordinator (fancy name for bookkeeper) up the stairs every day to knock on doors to check if all the residents are "still alive"...The reality is that the PC only really knocks on my friend's door mostly every single day at least once. So if the resident didn't answer, the PC actually puts her key in the door and tries to go inside the room! Fortunately my friend invented a "doorsock" to secure her doorknob, and the PC doesn't like to be seen struggling with a doorknob sock in the middle of the hallway---yet. This PC (and the other social worker) have been accused time and again of breaking into residents rooms in order to snoop around. And yet Catholic Charities just keeps them around. The social worker may have left on her own accord, but several residents accused her of breaking into a resident's room after that resident was found dead in her room. Even my friend is worried about what this PC means to do in her room. Is she interested in proving herself as a empowered administrator? Is she trying to find out about bank accounts? Is document forgery in the picture? Are there more sinister intentions, such as food poisoning?<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span> </span>The strangest part about Catholic Charities is that many of their staff are just incredibly thick when it comes to career entitlement. They may not have even graduated from college, but once they put on the badge, Catholic Charities offers them many free training programs, and so they acrue many training certificates, which of course make them feel empowered. Plus there is a certain culture of entitlement as well. In an era where many are working from home, factories are downsizing, many accounting offices have gone part-time seasonal, these paraprofessionals are still walking about like it's the 1970s Archie Bunker union worker mindset, except that they are people of color, and feel extra entitled from all the slave reparations owed to them from nonblacks, whether or not those nonblacks' parents were here during the Civil War. It's a very thick mentality, but extremely prevalent on the East Coast. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span> </span>So the staff are fully part-and-parcel to this worldview, and they encourage the black residents to wax their privilege against the nonblacks. Never mind that the residents sign an anti-bully form, never mind that there are ways to complain, never mind that some of those residents have problems stemming from drug abuse, criminal history, instability---and in fact may even still have those sorts of gang affiliations---the fact is that they are privileged because they are black, and the staff almost all the way up the food chain will basically almost do the opposite of all the rules they are supposed to support or promote for the clients protection. This is just the opinion of my friend, but I am here to protect her 1st amendment rights. <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span> </span>Her opinion is that when the staff hold meetings, what they call talking about the clients becomes a source for basically gossiping and intriguing new ways to torment certain people. The new rule on knocking on every resident's door every day to see if "they are still alive" seemed to be a good safety check, but it is in reality only done to residents who the staff want to take extra steps to try and bully and intimidate. When my friend pointed out that the staff mainly only knocks on her door while ignoring most of the others, the PC tartly says "well, I already know they are here!" So somehow, even when the PC mostly works behind a closed office door, she can know those residents are present and alive, but not sure about my friend?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span> </span>Another example is how my friend started this garden and went so far as to write a small grant proposal. Well, the director did thank her for the work, but she did not actually thank her for writing it, rather, she thanked her for "reading" it. Great difference between reading vs writing a proposal. Same with the blog, I will bet. That is why my friend is sharing it with me. It's a simple enough looking Victory Garden blog, but apparently she feels anxious that the staff might just plagiarize the whole thing and claim they wrote or directed the writing. It shouldn't be a big deal whatever they say, but in an era of no-work and no-pay, my friend does not want to feel both slighted and cheated, both harassed and exploited, and to have words or facts put down that do not in fact match the reality. I guess that is her way of looking at it. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span> </span>So here is another photo she has to share from said blog of another client---her foot. Yes, AM can definitely put her foot on it that she also contributed many valuable ideas, but yes, she is sort of being razzled a lot too, although it appears a lot more subtle in her case. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mchvictorygarden.blogspot.com/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5T-AOhsxITV4XdmntGZe5q6pdwEmix-P0hN_sUxKCEsRlHPUqyGBmFHR589w1QLZk_0vKKT0I8y61yFmmeWTp-axCqDZLmqWFTYyAxuop1NK-KBiFuEoY3rRq1zvdpQjE7re4ZpBHYmtwxf124fhM4zTWo_bcNQ_OmhEOl9D7OCsvhD-aekAUeukXAQ/w320-h240/20210718_170532.jpg" title="https://mchvictorygarden.blogspot.com/" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mchvictorygarden.blogspot.com/"><i></i></a><i><a href="https://mchvictorygarden.blogspot.com/">We can overcome too!</a> </i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p><br /></p>Hope Singhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720746609594778790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644695689598010305.post-17221186569093495312022-06-20T10:43:00.002-07:002022-06-20T10:58:26.804-07:00D.C. Captured by Development Interests: Why Voting is a Waste of Time <p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyQxac16zyGDea_KnUK9QyRenWscEP-xPwJqxQFUszDF9qHCP7EitbVTifFetkvI9YAT7kieEer3Qz7MW94j9zxDRsrRgVg3PXOuKMDPy8M-pOS8YgpBURtR_fIx06LZUeXj9oOZtESToOC7RcdqfyEb7U8YSBhN9CXxFVI-u2Nsz5o1aIrtxiDWNPOA/s2448/20190424_131321.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyQxac16zyGDea_KnUK9QyRenWscEP-xPwJqxQFUszDF9qHCP7EitbVTifFetkvI9YAT7kieEer3Qz7MW94j9zxDRsrRgVg3PXOuKMDPy8M-pOS8YgpBURtR_fIx06LZUeXj9oOZtESToOC7RcdqfyEb7U8YSBhN9CXxFVI-u2Nsz5o1aIrtxiDWNPOA/w400-h400/20190424_131321.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mayoral Candidate DC Councilman Robert White speaking at Tenant Advocacy Day</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> (April 24, 2019)</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table> <p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Why No One Wants to Vote in DC: It really doesn't matter<br /></b><br />During the primary, early elections are being held at various locations in District of Columbia, including in the extensively renovated Martin Luther King Public Library. <br /><br />This voter showed up early and amid all the paperwork for changing party, it still went mostly smoothly. The reason for the snag is that I was told I could not vote in the primary outside my official party declaration. So as an Independent, I cannot vote for any Democrat or Republican candidate. Another snag is the voting bulletin itself. Strangely the voting bulletin provides no information on candidates or candidate statements. Instead the District of Columbia 2022 Voter Guide pages 10-47 contain "sample ballots that will be used in the June 21, 2022 Primary Elections organized by party and ward." <br /><br />In other words, it is filled with fluff. To its credit, the Board of Elections did provide ballots in Spanish for residents who cannot read English. The back of the ballot is published also, which hardly means anything to most voters. It lists the candidates running for local party offices of their Democratic/Republican State Committee. <br /><br />But without any information in the printed Voter Guide about the council candidates running, this voter wasted a lot of time thumbing through her smartphone finding out about them from their webpages! Of course a webpage is not much to go on for finding out about the candidate or how they voted. Better information could be found if one attended an ANC meeting regularly, or attended a DC Council meeting, or reviewed the council notes. <br /><br />However everyone realizes that the DC Council is in the pocket of developers by now. Even favorite councilman Robert White admitted that the pay-to-play system has worked in DC's favor as the developers do contribute to gentrified area improvements: utility upgrades, pedestrian walkways, beautification projects, bike paths, open areas, and so on. In fact, the MLK Library renovation is a grand testimony of such improvement. <br /><br />However it is like <a href="https://www.streetsensemedia.org/staff_members/reginald-black/"><i>Street Sense Media</i></a> reporter Reginald Black once described, that these community partnerships are a bane in terms of what locals envision as real improvement---housing for the unhoused and jobs for the chronically underemployed. That is to say, private-public partnerships have a parasitical existence heavily reliant upon huge take-offs of the grants doled out in their favor. For instance, an advocacy organization with four staff will require a yearly payload in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, then add in the costs for production, bidding, and execution, and no wonder gentrification projects are often time-consuming. <br /><br />Just read about the years of haggling that went into the decision-making for the City Center redevelopment project, NoMa (North of Massachusetts Avenue), and a host of other projects listed by JStreetCompanies.com or at <a href="https://dc.curbed.com/maps/biggest-developments-construction-washington-dc"><i>DC.Curbed.com</i></a>. According to <i>Wikipedia</i> "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityCenterDC">CityCenterDC</a>," the project planning began in 1982 connected with the Washington Convention Center site redevelopment. Plans were batted around for decades before the city settled for luxury condominium, hotels, and retail space complex. It gives a glimpse of the backdrop which the public is scarcely aware of, aside from the fancy Tesla car showroom. <br /><br />Each neighborhood of the Washington, DC metro region, as far away as at Branch Avenue, Suitland, Maryland, developers and planners have backburner plans on how to revitalize the corridor using gentrification models such as improving transportation hubs, taking advantage of area attractions (such as museums, plazas, library) and the "hot housing market" to up the ante. This would include acquisition and redevelopment based upon undervalued buildings, with Council representatives, such as the former Councilman Jack Evans involved with the West End redevelopment scheme (later exposed at <i>City Paper</i> and/or <i>District Dig</i>). <br /><br />Again, the West End Library has become a mecca for area residents and the homeless population to while away the hours sitting quietly or surfing the internet; nevertheless, with each such development, the pay-to-play lobby ensures that officially very low-income remain excluded from the "affordable housing" units in these luxury apartment buildings. Everyone knows this, and no one better than the City Council, the ANC representatives, the DC Housing Authority spokespeople, and so on----because it's the local government's biggest business!<br /><br />To their credit, despite the Covid-19 disaster, Mayor Bowser has given generously to the needy in the form of emergency housing, even paying for three area hotels worth of housing for the aging and homeless during the crisis. With these come free meals, cleaning services, and readier access to social workers, medical clinic outreach and placement services. It has helped thousands of people off the homeless lists over the past eight years. The outreach workers are often sincere because many are volunteering for the detail, going out in the field, performing additional work outside their normal hours. In this way, in general, the entire Council is on board with at least trying to appear to support public welfare. <br /><br />Yet the notion that some are in it to help themselves is why it should matter----holding officials responsible. A glance at <a href="https://districtdig.com/"><i>District Dig</i></a> will reveal that there are plenty of scandals to address---even if maybe they are only the tip of the iceberg! More importantly, is the normalization of the public perception that public welfare recipients are chattel, and that the Mayor can rule with an iron-fist, or adopt authoritarian poses in her last years in office. (It is uncertain whether she will demand a fourth term). Already, the message of the Democrats towards the poor is increasingly a "take it or leave it" attitude, and this would even include those stuck living in a tent on the street----that they had better vote for the incumbents and not complain!<br /><br />This sense of virtue-signaling and political entitlement is rife in many ways in DC. Since this weekend is Juneteenth, I realize I even have a small penance. Non-blacks or Asians become frustrated and angry with the "home-grown" attitude of many DC blacks---it's almost a given sometimes. <i>Yet, looking at the hidden hand behind the City Council, who are these Councilpersons beholden to?</i> The development interests who are the <i>creme de la creme</i> of "white" local natives---and not infrequently of Jewish persuasion, who wield an inordinate power in the press, even right down to <i>Street Sense Media</i>, which spokes now include partnerships with <i>PatchDC, DCLine, District Dig, City Paper</i>, and grand-daddy <i>Washington Post</i>. <br /><br /><i>Why? Why is a small community citizen watchdog paper unwilling to allow it's black vendors a leeway in writing their own articles, or in openly trying to censor them? Why do they consistently privilege a coterie of "competitively-granted interns" who have not even graduated from college?</i> Only a handful of writers are exhibited, and the same cliquishness is evident in many remaining newspapers. They simply cannot admit how free-market democracy is failing the poor; they must contrive to uphold an idealistic architecture of pedigree over the poor, unwashed masses. This kind of bipolar patronizing philosophy is thriving now in almost every nonprofit organization serving the poor in DC. <br /><br />The philosophy is that once you are on the receiving end, you no longer deserve to be the master of your own person. You have become possibly a useful tool, useful prop, but otherwise, easily thrown aside. There are often employees, who may even be paid foreign operatives, working to ensure that a rigid careerist mindset predominates in the company culture that dwarfs or eclipses the altruism of trying to put the needs of the clients first. The same operatives were or remain in place due to Covid, who encouraged hospital administrators to adopt emergency measures that benefited the hospital's profit motive, first and foremost, no matter how many patients die. <br /><br />That is why, even if it seems like an empty gesture, and the pollworkers may be laughing at how long it took me to decide who to vote for, it is still important to try and vote. Of course, now I know I have a lot more to do besides voting. I cannot go back to street vendoring for <i>Street Sense Media</i>----the black and white dynamics were like a chasm---broad and painful. But I am thinking about that vendor in my dream trying to sell me a subscription, about <a href="https://boundarystones.weta.org/2019/02/04/fighting-dcs-homeless-mitch-snyder-and-ccnv">Mitch Snyder</a>, who gave his life to the CCNV---and may have been the victim of foul play. <br /><br />About Reeves Center, and the miserable coming teardown it will have to endure, just like Walter Reed Hospital Center did, for the sake of more ticky-tack luxury playtowers. <br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Photo by author, Coalition for Non-Profit Housing & Economic Development Event in Washington, D.C. </i></span><br /></span></span></div>Hope Singhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720746609594778790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644695689598010305.post-86594922019351475462022-02-22T03:17:00.002-08:002022-05-28T23:55:46.370-07:00Fighting the Karma for #FreedomConvoy and #ConvoytoDC <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPnn1XZK2uux00EC4aQ1Xi8kLQEMTvKCPAh5qf6Il8M_xLFhFOsRcTjbcCHukhb4AuvHlNKAknM_n-JaMV0jbJTpYqWh55sEjKv35YKqofVvF0D2_8blqjBGqcBm2_w1lc5To1eYVr_pKXVl9YAmgwSh02-_gmzrxdChn5iQ78ZYviBbBGUkLcEgev5A=s496" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="466" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPnn1XZK2uux00EC4aQ1Xi8kLQEMTvKCPAh5qf6Il8M_xLFhFOsRcTjbcCHukhb4AuvHlNKAknM_n-JaMV0jbJTpYqWh55sEjKv35YKqofVvF0D2_8blqjBGqcBm2_w1lc5To1eYVr_pKXVl9YAmgwSh02-_gmzrxdChn5iQ78ZYviBbBGUkLcEgev5A=s320" width="301" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Fighting the Karma for #FreedomConvoy and #ConvoytoDC </b></span></h2><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There is every evidence of a united world order being used to not only wage war against humanity but also to stifle the views and credibility of the protesters amassing worldwide against Covid Vaccine mandates. The mandate requirements have become as stringent as the authorities allow themselves; the uniformity globally is such that it cannot have been but foreplanned. In various nations, those who are not sufficiently Covid-19 vaccinated must remain in lockdown. Some are arrested, their goods confiscated, shops robbed, and every indication is that the authorities are backed by totalitarian-minded others, who will continue to take it as far as they can go, including issuing death threats. <br /><br /><i>What is at the heart of all these mandates?</i> By now, anyone doing a bit of independent investigation will uncover that these Covid vaccines are creating much higher numbers in vaccine related injuries and deaths than any of the more thoroughly tested vaccines approved in the past. People can uncover the obscene relationships between the FDA and Big Pharma, as a recent <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/"><i>Project Veritas</i></a> investigation revealed. But is there more to the quest for hoarding profits and taking over the hospital system than just issuing Covid mandates?<br /><br /><i>What if the hidden agenda really is a eugenics program to rid the planet of the disabled, and to euthanize anyone whose social credit score is too low?</i> Already there are reports that some officials, such as Dr. Zeke Emanuel or Dr. Yuval Noah Harari, believe that we can get rid of the undesirables but replace them with "hackable" humans. The ultimate aim is to rid the planet of its excess populations, according to the Georgia Guidestones, a set of ten guidelines for a utopian society. <u>The problem on utopian societies is not the aims themselves but what totalitarian measures are put into place to achieve them.</u> <br /><br /><i>Must we murder 7.5 billion people to maintain a select 500 million humans? How will we pare the populations without harming the ecosystem? What new "living universal language" are they talking about? Do we force people to take medications to achieve a universal tempered reasoning? What exactly will be a balance in personal rights and social duties? How many will the authorities falsely charge, kill, and maim in the process, or rob of their livelihoods and sources of income in order to achieve such a status quo? <br /></i><br />These sorts of questions cannot be answered when blunt instruments are used to achieve ends while violating human free will, nullifying religion, or ignoring ethics. Another problem with the New World Order is corporations can presumably rewrite the laws or add clauses to annul or countermand the original purposes of Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Many of the #FreedomConvoy type of independence-loving, libertarian-leaning voters are particularly suspicious over how much power specific UN related bodies now have for controlling global resources. As a think-tank, the World Economic Forum holds tremendous sway over the global direction taken by world leaders and corporations. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhbN1WoEwej7D2hyI-QESz5_yXwT3gm1Xffc-ruxJUR2mZpuyW58zd8Pk3kCjFnWCgM128ha1Xa4NXU5gWrikC7ITU1mJ3hvmS5XKZZ2uN0R2WfvyGZmqx25TthBwBuvdAYRd8NxdBUiI0z26NMKy2VSaBsNOZEVzQIVnCSwH7o9u4u3CtbinMoiIW3A=s768" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="768" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhbN1WoEwej7D2hyI-QESz5_yXwT3gm1Xffc-ruxJUR2mZpuyW58zd8Pk3kCjFnWCgM128ha1Xa4NXU5gWrikC7ITU1mJ3hvmS5XKZZ2uN0R2WfvyGZmqx25TthBwBuvdAYRd8NxdBUiI0z26NMKy2VSaBsNOZEVzQIVnCSwH7o9u4u3CtbinMoiIW3A=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>What is at the heart of its goals whether through the Global Health Initiative or World Health Organization?</i> The fact that these approaches appear to supercede national decision-making indicates something quite sinister is happening or has taken hold. Citizen-journalists note that once the Canadian Prime Minister declared Emergency Powers by invoking the Emergencies Act, the United Nations flew two planes to North Bay, Ontario. Last week, huge numbers of police were bussed into Ottowa, and they amassed in large numbers at other demonstrations, even though the protests are peaceful, and there has been no violence or threats of violence by the truckers. In Australia, there are even reports of police using military-grade weapons, such as ADS and LRAD to confuse the crowd, and cause symptoms such as headache, nausea, blisters, and skin burns. In the United States, protesters have experienced their smartphones freezing when police use Stingray technology to surveil and gather data. <br /><br />Over the week, the Prime Minister Trudeau justified his measures strengthening his rhetoric with threats to close down bank accounts, arrest uncooperative tow-truck drivers, and withhold insurance to truckers. As he made good on these threats, many truckers had no choice but to leave. Police were also breaking into trucks, smashing windows, stealing supplies, and harassing shops owners. They picked off the crowd, issuing tickets and installing barricades. Even people who made donations to truckers were under threat of bank account closures. This was in addition to the forfeiture of funds shut down by the GoFundMe fundraiser, and a hacking into the GoSendMe #FreedomConvoy's account. <br /><br />While truckers are uncertain as to the outcome of their leaders, who promised to help any trucker in need, one thing is for certain. The police are aided and abetted in their brutality by an Orwellian government. There are some openly wondering <i>if this had been an LGBTQ protest or demonstration, wouldn't the Prime Minister had enthusiastically come out, and lead the charge, as he has in past parades, dressed in a pink oxford shirt?</i> But instead, because the leaders are merely from white-middle-class Christian families, there appeared to be no such luck, even when millions had come out in the dead of winter, holding signs, standing in the freezing snow, and holding rallies, such as in Ottowa for days on end. <br /><br />Now that Ottowa is becoming a new dead zone near the Parliament, reminding one of the dead zone in the blocks surrounding the White House, nothing remains but the spectre of the police. The police are threatening any cafe owners who allow truckers or visitors inside from out of town. Anyone within the red zone must be ready to show an I.D. or face arrest. Police disrupted the live-feed of a female blogger by knocking down her phone. There is no doubt that the trucker movement does have a gender-and-minority gap issue in media representation, but it is worse when the police openly brutalize or harass those in the minority. For instance, police used horses to stampede the crowd, and among the ones they deliberately trampled was a disabled older aboriginal woman on her walker. Police also struck <i>Rebel News</i> reporter Alexa Lavoie with batons and shot her leg with a rubber bullet.<br /><br />The Covid-19 death protocols are seemingly prioritizing the euthanasia of older people, children with Down Syndrome, people with medical conditions, and minority toddlers. It would seem from the photos of many suffering severe effects or death that these were often some of the kindest, gentlest, most enlightened of beings.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidypkVClDl87EAeCAvQJxYWYluJv6jWOcm9B1ie53D_KcY5z3sWPOPXGz5RHvD-Fog2n80Yv_nrEqlBosj2oxNlEpsDFSFEbW0rdJkVuttukAzozrI62GyVrP79_ZY4G-ik3f9tb_LlU3iC6Xhti-sirpnTfljf9ssMH-nrFtbcK2XEAF9nHeANapwVQ=s1395" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Unprecedented deaths from vaccine-related adverse events (HealthImpactNews)" border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="1395" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidypkVClDl87EAeCAvQJxYWYluJv6jWOcm9B1ie53D_KcY5z3sWPOPXGz5RHvD-Fog2n80Yv_nrEqlBosj2oxNlEpsDFSFEbW0rdJkVuttukAzozrI62GyVrP79_ZY4G-ik3f9tb_LlU3iC6Xhti-sirpnTfljf9ssMH-nrFtbcK2XEAF9nHeANapwVQ=w640-h434" title="Unprecedented deaths from vaccine-related adverse events (HealthImpactNews)" width="640" /></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Unprecedented deaths from vaccine adverse events</i> (<a href="https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/year-2021-was-americas-holocaust-unprecedented-lives-destroyed-by-experimental-covid-19-vaccines/" target="_blank">HealthImpactNews</a>)</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So this is why there is a tenuous connection between the Davos-Bilderberg-WEF-World Bank-transnational billionaire elite and their agenda in connection to the Georgia Guidestones. They are empowered to bake their cake and eat it too, because many are also members of other secret fraternal societies. <i>Some posit that there is a Council of Foreign Relations connection, however, where a cabal might be concerned, would that not be included within the codes of freemasonry?</i> And this is where the germ of the karma is sourced.</span><br /></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In fact, <a href="https://vaccineimpact.com/2021/insider-exposes-freemasonry-as-the-worlds-oldest-secret-religion-and-the-luciferian-plans-for-the-new-world-order/"><i>VaccineImpact.com</i></a> has an exclusive video upload by former rockstar and freemason member Altiyan Childs. In "Insider exposes freemasonry as the world's oldest secret religion" documentary, details abound on who is either a freemason or member of another similar secret society. Key indicators are their weird handshakes, signifying poses, occult worship, animalism, use of gematria, and phallus worship. However if these signs of hedonistic indulgence were just that, it would be one thing. In fact, there are testimonies of satanic ritual abuse by child-victims, former members, observers, and committed by members of presumably reputable citizens. This is what spurred Childs to make the video: he claims that freemasonry has made inroads among the top leadership in military brass, in transnational corporations, in legislatures around the world, in banking, among the United Nations (and the UN spokesperson for the Secretary General is of Rothschild-descent), in academia, and now increasingly, what is rapidly becoming the medical industrial complex. <br /><br />It is not their mere membership which is so scary, although the membership in a sinister organization where the rules center around the top whose god is Lucifer is indeed creepy. It is the fact that they swear by the binding masonic oath---an oath trivializing the court bible---to do what is commanded so they may advance. And with each step, increasingly bizarre, soul-killing, bloody rituals are enacted, however symbolic. Childs is honest in his assessment that these freemasonry or kabbalists have a dedicated goal to overtake the leadership throughout the world, but they had probably not permeated thoroughly enough yet in cultures where there is still massive common sense, and culturally lofty goals nurtured by millenia of healthy spiritual practices. Naturally the Luciferians will not rest until the whole world becomes the heart of darkness. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Of course, the permeation and perversion now is everywhere, thanks to Covid-19 pandemic and the mass-formation that has turned brother against sister, wife against husband, children against parents, and resulted in havoc from bullies who use all kinds of scare tactics with impunity. What <i>VaccineImpact</i> and others conclude is that, more than anything, this is a time of spiritual warfare. The satanists would love to rid the world of anyone who is dedicated to good in a genuine way. We cannot count on the freemasons who have embedded themselves within the Catholic Church, such as the Pope. We must be able to identify them and steer clear. Even in attending mass, one can identify those there merely to exert their authority of rigamarole. One fellow does nothing except sit in front and wave his hand, imagining he is conducting the choir behind him. Others invent and exert some kind of staid social order to dictate to those beneath them. All these sort of hypocrites do not exude the kind of enduring love and fellowship which was a hallmark in early Christian society. They have their counterparts now in every Christian church or temple, and this situation is becoming evermore saturnalian. Even those who appear to be New Christian musicians are merely serving as Hollywood gate-keepers. One group at Hume Lake Christian camp obviously had staff embedded with some pedophiliac leanings, and chatting to teens about how they would party at night and listen to Beyonce.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmpGUGq-_FBGvOfFQ0uETerdag15EkQ5bmBEDhns3r8QLwh1ClCc1XRY4ombolGKncbL-p1tFZ8XG1vl-nk2v3DjoCTyq42fWC3Uh46LT6ZBf0Vmn3GO-NrNBy1f05fwpLbTgvguvHDB0IWpVqsBfNsh6j2JNiqZOb2yXbnApeqIti5L1iBZ4_F8g89Q=s533" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="533" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmpGUGq-_FBGvOfFQ0uETerdag15EkQ5bmBEDhns3r8QLwh1ClCc1XRY4ombolGKncbL-p1tFZ8XG1vl-nk2v3DjoCTyq42fWC3Uh46LT6ZBf0Vmn3GO-NrNBy1f05fwpLbTgvguvHDB0IWpVqsBfNsh6j2JNiqZOb2yXbnApeqIti5L1iBZ4_F8g89Q=s16000" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Outdoor Sculpture pimps for the pedophiles (National Mall in Washington, D.C.)</i> </span><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Traffickers view grooming as a long time opportunity to entrap youth in slavery. Observe the crowd carefully in at the National Mall and one can identify who/what are there to spy on young families, spot potential weakness in the family unit, and identify programable children. Typically there are swishy male procurers, even cops and secret service personnel, who generally have no business hanging about the park or museum, but are always busily looking about. They are there to secretly stalk families, and follow them about in museum, park, church, school, hospital, etc. The masonic influence is so open that they have erected the most grotesque sculpture in front of the Hirshhorn Museum, a demon-statue with its genitalia painted in bright fruity colors. This is the city where Pizzagate remains an officially denied news story, even when common sense informs one that there is something very strange with Comet Ping Pong, or for that matter, Wayfair home-furnishings. Whether it is phantasmagorical-theme offerings of child-sex-food, $10,000 pillows named after missing children, or spirit-cooking play-cannibalism parties, it is nth-degree spiritually ill, perverse, and any parent ought to be highly suspicious and keep a sharp eye about in DC. <br /><br />Clearly what is happening now is practically a global phenomena of social disorder beginning with attempting to corrupt the children from the very tender age of 3-4 years old, in pre-K, with scenes and fantasies of cohabitation, of experimentation, and of transgenderism. Children who are not even old enough to tie their shoe-laces are being programmed and tracked by enablers of satanic sex cults whether in school, afterschool, or as approved nannies. Unheard of and difficult to imagine, this is done in order to weaken their ability to think independently, altruistically, and castrate their capacity to ward off temptation. The educational curricula are designed by administrators most likely moved into place due to their masonic connections. Some occupy top cabinet and administrative positions, such as recently President Biden appointed Sam Brinton (aka Sister Ray Dee O'Active), a known kink-activist-transvestite to the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy - Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition. In libraries throughout America, transvestite clowns are even invited to public library playtime with young children. <br /><br />These are not jokes on the public; there are consequences. They are attacks against the People who vote leaders into office and who pay taxes to ensure that our government is well-administered. Today, too many decisions appear to be made ad-hoc, sub-rosa, lame-duck, bypassing public review, and following a NWO agenda agreed to overseas. <br /><br />The solution, besides what #FreedomConvoy is attempting and what #ConvoytoDC may hope to achieve beginning February 23, 2022, is to continue to begin and end each day with serious prayer time and spiritual reflection. We must remain calm, prepare to fight back but do no harm, avoid toxic conversation, and keep the peace. We must continue to hope that in the end, the true God will win, and he will help destroy the false Tower of Babel that the twisted arrogant technocrats believe will help them conquer the heavens. </span><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsQIy8NoRX3V5-QXQPnXCKaG-hmYsYt3QZjydPLJda8X7I9uOScYwGtwesjl7OVdlaeM6xYwK_e8ovo-YoKysSvlZa0OosLDYSaXMqtZUZYC-1fajyLmULOQY_3kNzqtSPKKOfsloniWTaV4jsbladB7krIkkRaryfOHnS2yYiqd_VjhbQ8gPoTPmlhg=s1650" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1275" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsQIy8NoRX3V5-QXQPnXCKaG-hmYsYt3QZjydPLJda8X7I9uOScYwGtwesjl7OVdlaeM6xYwK_e8ovo-YoKysSvlZa0OosLDYSaXMqtZUZYC-1fajyLmULOQY_3kNzqtSPKKOfsloniWTaV4jsbladB7krIkkRaryfOHnS2yYiqd_VjhbQ8gPoTPmlhg=w495-h640" width="495" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><br /><p></p>Hope Singhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720746609594778790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644695689598010305.post-47784037437572874752022-01-15T22:31:00.002-08:002022-01-16T00:21:26.819-08:00Vaccine Authoritarianism: What would Jesus Do? <p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Jesus would not comply: here's the evidence</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p><b></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="900" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTWiSP_d-PwX2OQ_g4hdRSl-S-POzI0OFvKxD_EGPKe4JTSDWfPh83lvPAEYciHqcDL3i1HH75q0bzV44P5_ah1upAmMoiZyZ_aa3BUGWcbPows1S9iDeSR5CtO8iHtoBhNDiyo5NSSdqxPJ7nWtRbrmiK71GjNMAD6zK-8DpGwsOTmS3BAf1oSClZpA=w400-h240" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Jesus blesses the poor, the innocent, the peacemakers, and the persecuted (Illustration from <a href="https://www.jw.org/en/">JW.org</a>)</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">If a Jesus were alive today, he would not comply with the vaccine mandates. I don't believe Jesus and his disciples would support vaccine authoritarianism or medical martial law because they lived beyond fear-mongering. Whether an individual complies or not, because s/he is on Earth to hopefully model and spread the Good News. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In my reasoning, I am not following the current "science" of amassing and analyzing reams of digital data which themselves are easily manipulated. Witness the mass of unrelated deaths recorded as such. Or the fact that algorithms falsely tag data to establish a commercial media hierarchy in search engine optimization. Science has become what they want to see or expect we should, rather than what is true, tried, and tested. Empirical scientific evidence, such as natural immunity, no longer even matters!</span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>All that matters is following orders for its own sake, so that the quisling in charge can be promoted.</i> </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">It follows being an expert in theology may not pertain much here nor should quoting exactly from this particular Bible. Anyone who grew up attending church regularly in any way recalls many of these biblical stories from the New Testament. But they can be drawn from the Old Testament as well. <i> </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Do you think Elijah would have complied? Probably not, judging from his courageous and determined war against Baal (as beautifully described by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/twinstours/channels">Andre Moubarak</a> in day 7 - Mount Carmel -- Elijah Conquest -- <a href="https://youtu.be/maPISjrTnso" target="_blank">Baal vs Yahweh</a>) <br /></i></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The miracles that Jesus performed were not merely gratuitous. His miracles of compassion were performed out in the open, in homes, in gathering places, even on boats. There were no pre-conditions for those present. Anyone was free to listen whether young, old, rich, poor, whatever their health status. His disciples were not screening people for diseases.</span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jesus vetted his disciples when they joined his ministry for their ability to become faithful to his teachings, their receptiveness, and future potential to translate and spread the Word. Those were the only major criteria at the time. Women numbered among the early Christians as indispensable as well. They were, to be honest, a motley crew just like Buddhist monks, for they relied upon the generosity of the fellowship. It was a time when there was no fear among themselves, only trust, unconditional love, and the ability to reflect. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Today the elite only want to spread fear, distrust, and a new world order.</span></i></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Now the disciples crossed to the other side and forgot to take bread along. Jesus said to them: 'Keep your eyes open and watch out for the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.'" (Matthew, 16:5-6)</span></b></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Now we can view the false bread, the bread that will supposedly free us of all ills, as these experimental vaccines. Massive data collection, vaccine passports involving monitoring, testing, and boosters are part of global surveillance capitalism---and the attempt to subjugate humanity under the rule of artificial intelligence---the new false gods of Baal and Moloch.</span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is contrary to the inclusiveness of Jesus's teaching in which there are only the messages of love and hope and peace. An example was his curing of the ten lepers, which would occur when they showed themselves to the priest (Luke 17:11). All ten were cured on the way, whether or not they recognized Jesus as the Son of God. Jesus respected the temple for containing the law, but he worked outside prescriptive laws. The pharisees, those in control of the temple, viewed Jesus as an anachronism, a rebel, a nonconformist. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Today, many religious institutions kowtow to various authorities, politicians, and pecuniary interests. They are confined by dogma and merely implement the law. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jesus cured so many different people, whatever their condition, background, and conviction. He did this as part of his ministry and teaching, but made it clear that it was done to exemplify God's spirit, and certainly not for "beer and bread, a comfortable lodge," as his forty days in the desert demonstrated. (Mark, 1:12-13) </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">"And a scribe came up and said to him: 'Teacher I will follow you wherever you go.' But Jesus said to him: 'Foxes have dens and birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.'" (Matthew, 8:19-20) </span></b></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jesus was an iconoclastic figure, not an institutionalized careerist. He viewed the number of conversions as his wealth, even entrusting his silver with an embezzler, Judas. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ultimately the pharisees and city officials wanted to do away with him because they did not want a Christian faith, were not ready for it. It was these false teachers who determined who entered the kingdom of heaven, who would be admitted into the sepulcher. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Be on your guard against men, for they will hand you over to local courts and they will scourge you in their synagogues. And you will be brought to governors and kings for my sake, for a witness to them and the nations." (Matthew, 10:17-18) </span></b></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Sadducees and pharisees and scribes attended these meetings and used their powers to observe him closely for abrogations of custom. Obviously they found many from Jesus, who was merely baptized by John, not authorized as a chief priest. The idiosyncracies were numerous. Jesus cured on the Sabbath, the disciples plucked grains from the field to eat, they did not obey the protocols on cleanliness. Jesus did not reject any sinners and criminals mixed in with the listeners. The scribes sought to entrap him with trick questions, but over and over again, his forthright answers and parables left them speechless and perplexed. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">If anyone doubts we are not living in the final days, those doubts can be settled: it is right now. We are seeing like never before, a global-elitist body planning and legislating policy to be implemented by all nations. No review or approval, just executive orders. The rank-and-file officials and quislings blindly obey. Liberalism has reduced itself to skin color and gender. Social justice has transformed itself into a false-messiah basking in the glow of <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/index.cfm?id=34725">manichaeism</a>, the conflict of dark versus light, in exchange for name, fame, and gain. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Terrifyingly simplistic whoever the acclaimed authority, many new policies are inimical to the Gospel and to the foundations of civilization. They include encouraging euthanasia, police tribunals, military juntas, and corporate theft. On the chopping block are the elimination of public common-sense, and replacing it with <a href="https://covid19up.org/mass-psychosis/">mass formation psychosis</a>. Draconian measures will be used on those who do not obey. Mass propaganda is increasing to ensure the population becomes programmable. Non-profit boards ensure that only a narrow spectrum of concerns are addressed. Experts are burdened with proofs of massive data analysis. Scholars are laden with demonstrating technical glitz rather than broadening their life understanding. BLM or social justice watchdogs attend local celebrations to play the judge on correctness or file lawsuits. Pedophilia is slowly becoming legalized. Children are being exposed to spectres of sex, transgenderism, and pornography at increasingly young ages to rob them of innocence. Human trafficking and exploitation of the vulnerable go unpunished. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Everywhere mixed messages abound and are multiplying, while the rules change daily.</i> </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>But Jesus would not sit idly by and neither would his disciples, nor prophets before him.</i> </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">"He continued teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the principle ones of the people were seeking to kill him; but they did not find any way to do this, for the people one and all kept hanging on to him to hear him." (Luke, 19:48-48) </span></b></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Socialized crimes are being committed daily against humanity which are not being broadcasted. Community activism and empathy are dying. True critical and independent thinking is held up for mockery. Good religions are being attacked or defunded. All of this is pretty much in line with <i>The Fourth Industrial Revolution</i> vision of Klaus Schwab, who doesn't believe that humans should be human anymore. (Read "<a href="https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2020/10/14/klaus-schwab-and-his-great-fascist-reset-an-overview/">Klaus Schwab and his Great Fascist Reset -- An Overview</a>" by Winter Oak at the <i>Wrong Kind of Green</i>, October 5, 2020). Of course, independents, progressives, and conservatives are fighting back, because this is not a red-blue issue. It's about biological freedom. Recently Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, announced that his office will not adhere to the Washington, D.C. vaccination mandate, according to the <i>Washington Examiner</i> ("<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/shame-has-befallen-our-nations-capital-congressman-refuses-to-surrender-to-dc-vaccine-mandate">Shame has befallen our nation's capital</a>," Jan 14, 2022). </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Have you been persecuted by family and friends over your vaccine resistance or questioning of mandates? Have they shut you down, turned you out of the house, or threatened you? I don't believe that is how Jesus and his disciples would handle things or speak to others. Whether you comply or not should be your choice, because we are on Earth to model and spread the Good News. </span></i></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></i></p></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Spread the word and plan on attending the <a href="https://defeatthemandatesdc.com/">#Defeatthemandatesdc</a> march on January 23rd. Visit <a href="https://defeatthemandatesdc.com/">DefeattheMandatesDC.com</a> to learn more. </span></h4>Hope Singhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720746609594778790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644695689598010305.post-51679566113435809482022-01-07T17:36:00.002-08:002022-01-07T19:29:58.765-08:00Karma on the Bus<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_c10vLTAlSV3ssrk1ztjnvifVprZcG5tZczIRy-2Ie2PZ4sWuXw9aaSV5F6LIzO8_sEuyO3V3Xw77646ZCN86FB-ZQ7NB55zYAvWjgMmFzKsIy2WRPNIhxbZTyHvjo0FsJU_e_S54cgsVXTepoIsLer_19ntnmpHXMX2sXzJpBrIUZMsuhaBuJW3n_Q=s3264" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_c10vLTAlSV3ssrk1ztjnvifVprZcG5tZczIRy-2Ie2PZ4sWuXw9aaSV5F6LIzO8_sEuyO3V3Xw77646ZCN86FB-ZQ7NB55zYAvWjgMmFzKsIy2WRPNIhxbZTyHvjo0FsJU_e_S54cgsVXTepoIsLer_19ntnmpHXMX2sXzJpBrIUZMsuhaBuJW3n_Q=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span> </span><i>Telling it like it is, the unvarnished truth</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Karma on the Bus</span></b></span> <br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The only way to fight the prevalence of karma all around us is to enlist the help of sentient beings. In my travel across the country on Greyhound bus this is what I have learned. This is not the first time I've done this, but each time, it has been an onerous spiritual challenge. I dare anyone who believes her/himself a true Christian or Buddhist practitioner to do this. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is not an indictment on Greyhound bus lines. During my travel, the views of the surrounding country, its small towns, rural farms, mountains, deserts, and sparkling cities at night are breathtaking. One can receive a better sense of the state from the ground whether it's the health of the economy, resources, changes in farming methods, transportation improvements, and so on. Of course being on the bus, the perspective does tend to heighten one's sensibility about social ills.</span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Karma on the bus</span></b></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Expect lots of karma whether at the bus station, the premises, or on the bus. I will start with the bus. As various commentators have noted, many buses smell bad and are not regularly cleaned. Bus drivers hardly ever pick up the trash (probably not part of their work contract). They do not help passengers load or unload their luggages. However my experience is its actually safer to do your own loading and unloading of one's luggage. This is because the porters only prioritize shipping packages. Passenger luggages may be deliberately stacked in ways that circumvent your being able to locate it. When I finally arrived in DC, the porter seemed more in a hurry to go on break than help me find my luggage. He closed the hatches on the other side even after I finally spotted what seemed to be my luggage from that side. He yelled at me repeatedly for removing luggages in order to reach mine. Then he yelled at me to that I had to put them back inside myself, even before I had pulled my luggage out. He had made no attempt whatsoever to assist me, except for impatiently loading back the luggages. I could see that he intended to load up the luggages just to block mine, so he could slam the hatch shut, yell at me more, and tell me to file a missing luggage claim. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Passengers who complain about their lost luggage probably lose their luggage exactly this way. The luggage is placed in the pile bound for New York City and impossible to find unless that hatch door is open on that side. I suspected the security guard in Charlotte would pull a number on me from his ridiculous behavior the night before and knew which passengers were NYC bound, so I looked there too, even if the DC porter was going to try to prevent me. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You need to be able to be loud, assertive, and energetic when the occasion arises. You have every right to be, irregardless if they yell back at you, call you rude, or whatever. Yes, I was energetically throwing out the other luggages in the way. Yes, I was screaming back at him that he is paid $20 per hour to load and unload not me. Yes, I had to lose my temper because if I didn't, it was very clear that he had very little intention to help me. He had already informed me that I should file a missing luggage claim. He did not move a single luggage out in the pile blocking mine, nor did he make any motion whatsoever to haul my luggage out even after I told him which one it was. His priority was to "allow the driver to go on break." I was justified in what I did, because I got my luggage back, and I would do the same thing again if confronted with such a predatory, arrogant, malicious porter. And just to convey to you that they operate by train, the gal in Charlotte who slyly told me to let the porter there load my luggage was reboarding at DC when she saw the ruckus---and she was smirking. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgi8PlWLIGufnqWk7ga0gGT4VRx8aQteAzf7mFBggDmcyHkIgwPdAV7ic5mTDYBkMREG0QCs6OfKWS65KGRDIC43Wg0ZxxilviH9BAXsLJ7a_i0b_Jk1Zq2m_jDrDk7xdi2D99Pb7WvzVqEtEjvihGlDo1AcPm14seGX3U6zNXAXTegITHfjUdFiZVaNg=s3264" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgi8PlWLIGufnqWk7ga0gGT4VRx8aQteAzf7mFBggDmcyHkIgwPdAV7ic5mTDYBkMREG0QCs6OfKWS65KGRDIC43Wg0ZxxilviH9BAXsLJ7a_i0b_Jk1Zq2m_jDrDk7xdi2D99Pb7WvzVqEtEjvihGlDo1AcPm14seGX3U6zNXAXTegITHfjUdFiZVaNg=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Charlotte, NC bus station in the north quadrant of the city</i> <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Big time Karma at the station</span></b><p></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It's really not structural racism in reverse, even if in fact that is what they are trying to institute. This is a moral war, spiritual war, and to transcend the black-white dialectics, one must be able to transcend the manifest hate whoever the party is. That is what my spiritual counselors tell me, and that is part of my New Year Resolution. It doesn't mean I am going to just take it when the porter is trying to steal my luggage; when the security guard pompously claims that he has the right to preach Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and can do so better because he is black; or when the criminal is openly stalking me by deliberately brushing by me repeatedly like a hyena eyeing prey at the station. All of this is not racism: it's karma, and big time because it is Satan who is always so deceitful and full of false comparisons. The devil can easily delude the masses into believing they are following the path of social justice when in fact they are robbing, abusing, and murdering for the false messiah. They will give it a fancy term but it is still unwonted unjustified crime against innocent victims. They will rationalize the law of the jungle, that it is applied train-theory, passing the hot-potato, moving the smart chess piece, but it is still deviant and sociopathic. The pity of it is that so many are being deluded into believing that this is civilized behavior, so they silently participate, even passively rejoice in the tearing down of the edifices of society.</span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The hellish night at the bus station began early in the morning when the bus arrived from Atlanta and the driver curtly told everyone to take their belongings off the bus because it will be going no further. Later on we were told that a snowstorm made it impossible to travel to Richmond. This is what we found out from other passengers doing research on the internet. Charlotte is a nightmare because the staff are disorganized and completely arbitrary. Of course this was how I arrived from Atlanta in the first place, since my original ticket was from Dallas to Richmond via Memphis. I would have been at least four hours ahead, but now thanks also to a broken down bus between Tucson and El Paso, I was additionally at least three hours behind and had missed the original connection from Dallas to Richmond. The ticket agent claimed there were no more seats on the bus to Richmond even though the passenger immediately ahead of me was able to travel on the Richmond bound bus. Again at the Dallas station there was much rudeness and mayhem. The driver delayed our departure about one-half hour and made us change buses because the seat belt light was broken.</span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Rather than operate a TV that broadcast the weather, news, or other useful information, this bus station manager in Charlotte plays horror movies, especially at night. This is to signal that they want you to be disconnected from reality. They are inciting tension, unrest, bad vibes, and stoking conflict on purpose. Apparently one night manager thinks she is running a circus show. Most of them think they are directing a live play, and each passenger is something to toy with. The TV is a vital causal agent in beckoning evil spirits into the station from the streets at night, as well as emerging from the various low-life passengers themselves, as I will further elaborate later.</span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What particularly infuriorated me was the visible targeted maltreatment of particular customers. Again these karma-laden beings sincerely believe that they are exerting social justice when in fact these are customers who paid, often extra such as I did for priority boarding, and have already suffered days of delay riding the Greyhound bus. The joke on the customer was that some thought that they would escape the delays at the airport. The extra demands on the system are from National Guard soldiers being sent on training all across the country. At every bus station, these soldiers were present, and they are given priority boarding and their seats are guaranteed. If this were Operation Snowstorm, one might surmise that they are also becoming indoctrinated into becoming future arbiters of the authoritarian democracy underneath the dictates of martial law. To understand that this might have been part of their assignment, every so often there were non-commissioned officers also present in the shipping process as if deliberately observing the soldiers' deportment.</span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Since I took the opportunity to spend the day in Charlotte to do some sight-seeing, such as riding the Lynx light-rail train, relax in the metro center area, and explore the UNC, the only thing I appeared to miss coming back was listening to some passengers moaning and groaning incessantly to real or imaginary lovers on their smartphone about the delays. The horror movies were still playing, the deranged staff was still barking at some passenger or other, and there were more want-to-be bus boarders shiftlessly wandering about. The one nice thing that GH did manage to do was one of the night managers ordered us pizzas. There was enough pizza for everyone who wanted some, and there were all-cheese options too. They know how to do barbeque-flavored pizza down South, and so it was not just Domino's. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">All night the creepy crescendo increased and some of the staff laughed and joked about us not being able to afford a hotel. Actually, the problem is that the area has many criminally leaning homeless men, and so it's not safe to wander outside alone after 10pm. A walk outside to the parking lot around midnight and I saw a creature descend from a running car, and enter the station, no luggage, no intention to travel, but with a wicked gleam in his eye. He appeared to want to use the john but possibly as a prelude to instigate a disturbance. Another car was parked behind and marked as a taxi but the word was obviously scratched onto the paint; it was an unofficial taxicab at best, with the driver also appearing suspicious. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The only thing the staff did was to repeatedly throughout the night ask all visitors to have their tickets in their hand ready to show the security guard. The one security guard, a buffoon in the Don Knotts style of Mayberry, N.C. deputy, only worse, appeared to have a multifunctionary status as guard, errand boy, customer service, porter, and as we will demonstrate, later on, impromptu roadside minister. He turned as blind an eye as possible to the foulsome characters, the late-night demons emerging from angry restless men. For myself, what saved me and offered a measure of comfort for the sitters was that I held an open private prayer session that lasted several hours as I read from <i>The Time of Your Life</i> by William Saroyan, <i>Three Ways to Pure Land</i> by Master Shih Chen Yen, conducted meditative exercises doing Dafa, and also prayed some Rosary and from my St. Rita prayer card. Of course the staff regarded me as a freak, but I was no more loud than the volume of passengers rap music, the TV horror movie, the wailing of children, or incessant talkers. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Satanic Mass at the Bus Station</span></b></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The devil preys on unrest and tension, and a common time for humans is the late afternoon, often beginning around 3pm as the gates break forth and the demonic energies of the students pour forth at a fever pitch. It's not the students themselves, but the maestral winds that similarly are conducted from the bodies of other day breakers of all types, all colors, all classes of humans, as well as their helpers such as dogs and mischievous robotic devices. Westerners have no name for this, so it is unacknowledged, since no science has pegged mere shadows as materially existent. And yet sure as a ghost leaves a human body for dead, as a blessed pearl glows with an aura, as walls will voluntarily spout blood spots, the supernatural can manifest. Overnight a blessed bag that I had retained over the last three weeks, spotless and clean in my carryon luggage, sprouted a blood spot and tear on it, and it had not been touched by a human since the inner contents were undisturbed. It was lodged in the compartment above the head of two migrants, a husband and wife team from Senegal, which male kept staring at me hostilely all night long in Charlotte, in Raleigh, all the way to DC. It was not the volume of the noise from my mouth as I read aloud; it was the very fact that I dared to read at all, read aloud, and from treasury books. At one point as he stared, while others stood around and angrily chattered about the boarding time, I told him I had the right to read, and read aloud, as this is a free country. Many people, but especially immigrants, do not want to understand that. Operation Snowstorm is about recruiting as many obliging third-world lackeys as possible whatever the color, class, or creed, as they do not believe in idealism, will do anything to survive, and are indoctrinated that everything is about social justice. The army recruits find them preferable because they will not think for themselves, and put social pressure on the intellectuals and noble-minded to sacrifice themselves. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My experience living in a homeless shelter also demonstrates that the sinister energies also emerge 12 hours later, around 3am. People afflicted with dissociative identity disorder will sit up and start staring at different sleepers in the room as if sending them messages----and indeed they are----you can feel a nightmare pitch in the room. The wise learn to sleep with something like a radio on, or not to sleep at all. So this was exactly the situation at the Charlotte station. There were no more than about ten whites in a room of a hundred, and most of us were parked on hard metal benches, and none of us slept a wink. Especially the white women, some of whom just sat all night long keeping a stony stare about them. One piled up right next to the women's bathroom which I realized later was a safe place against the wall. Another piled up next to the depot departure gates door, another discreet safe area. About six white people, all buddies, piled up around the TV and were lying down on a homemade quilt laid upon the floor. A white dude was just sort of sitting at the back and keeping an eye on everyone and everything. Some whites who are semi-homeless looking just kind of let it all hang out lolling in the benches like it was bedding. The trick as the migrants from Senegal demonstrated is to tuck your legs underneath the open arm rests; or to find two benches that are pushed against one another then the arm rests are four seats apart. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The reason why I could not sleep was because I know that the sinister energies are going to manifest. I should have kept praying, but I was also imagining that the bus would be here soon, since 3am is just an hour from 4am; and the digital board posted that the boarding would be as soon as 4:30am. Plus several times that night there were other boardings and arrivals. So I had to keep an eye out on the arrivals as well. The low-lifes typically wear baggy pants, oversized clown shoes bright red in color, baseball cap on backwards or some hat to that effect, and hands in their pockets as they sullenly take in and surveill the passengers. One guy, presumably deaf, was very restless as he kept looking at me very strangely and kept walking back and forth behind me. I had my backpack on with my wallet on my person, so I could not imagine he would attack me openly, yet I knew that was not the reason. He was waiting, expectant as if. His wife, also deaf had earlier been talking with the buffoon security guard, operating as a distractant. She was also posted on the back bench (the visitor parking side of the station) with a couple of others. For some reason her husband or companion was moving about and then randomly sitting here, then there. I did not want him shadowing me, so I moved from one row of benches to another, and he knew I did this because I was creeped out, so he purposely relocated to another seat where he could continue staring at me. There was definitely a fever pitch of thriller sensation going on because the TV was showing a horror scene with someone hacking away at someone else's body---bloody ritual for sure---but the obese white persons who were sitting beneath the TV were either enjoying the film or oblivious. Other lowlifes at the station also had these goon-staring going on. I cannot for the life of me make out why these people cannot read a book, meditate, do some prayer or reflection, or think about the marvelous night skies above and around Charlotte. They are enslaved by their rap interests and the bad poetry emanates from the marbly angry eyes as they search for who to blame for their life sorrows, who they might victimize for a bit of social justice, who they might do like they are doing on TV. Even the guard and the staff are sort of acting as if in a trance as conductors of the mass sacrifice. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Two bad things happened. Right around 3:30am as that weird disciple of the devil was planning his next move on me, the man nearby suddenly let out a loud scream and fell on the floor in an attack of epilepsy. It was a loud yell, and shook me because it seemed as if the very thing, the very portal that the evil spirit had sought to manifest transpired. It reminds me of the deranged physicists conducting their time-space continuum research; enough banging around with the atom and maybe we will break open a wormhole for Satan to descend. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Two good things happened also. One of the white women sitting near the TV, a lovely slim person who had all the eyes of the lowlifes staring at her jeans, and who had got a dressing down for no good reason earlier by the female night manager, immediately came to the rescue of the epileptic. She had experience working as a medic, and got to work immediately helping lay the man down, making sure he did not choke; the white dude from the back also came up and it also appeared he had experience with handling such emergencies. Meanwhile the guard made an emergency phonecall, while the two babysat the epileptic for the next ten minutes. Strangely the stalker who had been focused on my person seemed to visibly look mollified. He shuffled away from nearby the epilectic victim whom he had been sitting only one seat away. The other low-lifes also appear to look appeased: the something bad they wanted to happen just like the rap music agonizes over, had happened. Everyone now had a focal point: relieving the epileptic attack. But the good thing was that in saving the man's life, no talk about color barriers entered the scene. It took too long for the ambulence to arrive considering it was located downtown. From the start of the attack to the arrival took at least 15 minutes, and by the time the 911 team arrived, the man was already sitting up, dazed, and being helped back up from the floor by the two good angels. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The good angels didn't even make a fuss that everyone ignored them after the emergency team arrived. Of course the guard was decent enough to thank them and ask them for information. But when the manager came in for the morning, she was in a super mean, nasty mood, and irregardless of whether she knew what had happened, it was inexcusable. Because boarding time had been advertised as 4:30am, I was near the priority boarding line. But this was not going to be just another normal departure to suit the circus managers. They needed to try to jinx our departure time as well. The guard told me to back away from that area. The manager suddenly announced that our bus would be delayed, announcing that very loudly (they don't use microphones here; all the managers are very good at yelling or shouting). The departing bus 1080, which had been up on the screen as bound for NYC for the whole night, suddenly was off the screen. I could glimpse every so often a brief appearance of that bus as being scheduled now for 5:35am, but because it was mostly not visible, no one could be sure. I was certain that the manager deliberately hid that bus line from public view, but that is beside the point. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHFPKMtekurqjs3eq2zSCn2iXUXAXA5Qdzj8jd3qS2KmGvcZTKyGuRN-WwgcoLsZ7U0xMEG3y4vHCR6Tj0MZjKLxtV6ZJkSiX3rwDM6SxrCcQoBqX_9tiF48nHKZpmJrvp5a_Z_vMPdrN2Bt2ZfR6xWFo3YvQfp7FHrX2a9bmC9OPblWw8Xcv2c9PNjg=s3264" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHFPKMtekurqjs3eq2zSCn2iXUXAXA5Qdzj8jd3qS2KmGvcZTKyGuRN-WwgcoLsZ7U0xMEG3y4vHCR6Tj0MZjKLxtV6ZJkSiX3rwDM6SxrCcQoBqX_9tiF48nHKZpmJrvp5a_Z_vMPdrN2Bt2ZfR6xWFo3YvQfp7FHrX2a9bmC9OPblWw8Xcv2c9PNjg=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>"See that sign? It proves I'm the boss so shut up and go sit down!"<br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Several other bus departures were scheduled around that time and the manager made the most of her circus conductor opportunity by announcing only some of the stops the bus would make. She did not announce the bus line number, just a few of the towns the bus would stop at. So various passengers thought that this was the NYC or Atlanta bus they were supposed to board rather than a bus bound for South Carolina. This one white woman, a German from her accent, had apparently been sitting and like a stone from at least one day ago, and she headed out to board the bus. She was somehow given to understand this was the bus she needed to board. Suddenly, and I was standing near the TV around the corner from the ticket agent counter, I could feel a hot heavy monstrous wave rush by me, and the short fat female manager went out the departure door chasing the German woman and began screaming at her at the top of her lungs! She had a temper tantrum yelling senselessly on and on at this passenger for heading out to the wrong bus at the wrong time! This total lack of decorum was shameful for any customer, let alone a foreign guest to America. Again, the only ostensible purpose it served was to mollify the malignant forces of devious social justice lens. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As the manager headed back inside and a hush filled the room, the security guard turned preacher on everyone all of a sudden. He apologized not to the passengers but on account of the unimaginable stress the manager deals with due to overbooking at this time. He told us the manager had not slept all night long, all night long she had been working in the back trying to coordinate arrival times, and no wonder she was so stressed out! He furthermore told us that we needed to be more mindful and considerate towards the staff just as we would all be if this were part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream." Then, he topped it off with saying that of course he had the right to remind us about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. since he was a black man, just like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and this enabled him to especially quote, interpret, and apply it to whatever occasion arose. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So the German woman who was ushered back in continued to sit like a stone as she was now given to understand her bus (which she had been waiting for, for more than a day, possibly two days) would not depart until 9:55am. Of course given the snow-storm warning (but not shown on TV since the horror movie is more important) everyone was on edge who had to go to New York, Boston, New Hampshire or beyond. Meanwhile the manager continued to pretend (now I say pretend because it was impossible that with her experience she could not know) that the bus for Richmond was never going to come. I was so angry about her horrible performance that I took a picture of the station manager. To describe the delusionary grandeur and arrogance of these workers does not do the situation justice. I must repeat what exactly the picture frame says: "Greyhound CARES. If you have comments or suggestions, please contact the City Manager. We Want to Hear from You! City Manager [photo] Nia Lucas 704-371-5057."</span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have a photo of this because hey, I might just want to call them up! But of course this probably is a joke because the station is a circus. She is NOT a City Manager. She is a STATION manager. But of course City Manager sounds more officious and that does warrant more pay. It's the morning manager or Nia that is a screaming shrew and needs to be fired for harassing customers for fun. But that will never happen of course because GHB system is pretty much captured by the Power of the People. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Yes, I had a little self-rant after that about Nia or her short fat orderly because she kept telling the Richmond departure group that she would have no idea when they would leave, that it was an indefinite wait, and they must sit and wait for as long as it took. I think I compared the station to Camp Auschwitz with some fascist Nazi wannabees compelling us to believe that this was a wonderful place to bivouac. I think I recall telling myself that I am at least as brave and courageous as a soldier of God, and that the wonderful gal who saved the epileptic man's life had been on the bus just a couple more days than me, coming up from Florida and headed to Maine. I think I secretly told off the security guard for thinking he had apologized for the Station Manager while playing God. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The final insult to injury at Charlotte was at 5:15am the station manager "suddenly realized" that one of the buses at the Gate was bound for Richmond afterall. She just had that mixed up because she named a small town stop, Greensboro, instead of Raleigh or Richmond, or so she claimed. Anyway suddenly we had our Richmond rush to the gate, and per usual this LatinX kept pushing me out of the way. I would get in line, and she would cut in front of me. I said I had priority boarding, and she would turn around and start badmouthing me to a LatinX immigrant peer she had befriended on the bus. No matter where we were going, she would always cut to the first of the line, board first, irregardless of who else needed to board first, just so she would try to have a full two seats for herself. And on the bus she would make loud long phonecalls and smirk at anyone who told her to keep it down. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgddAsfkNsedCW9Jlv7bKazVYovIDqDM2zaLYuGXHl3fcwm6dxrUYeaE-AYmIcCpMLRZ6_8_Tk_r2OEwfjJezCGG_Xnvnd4LTDZtVWmrLiQqfkwyyHxVyR1-WfpW0H_8cPZHZH5R5kNUY5TxTSdZ9BkW5vXaqJUxiClSx3bSdCbahKWEYZqITueJb2OpA=s3264" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgddAsfkNsedCW9Jlv7bKazVYovIDqDM2zaLYuGXHl3fcwm6dxrUYeaE-AYmIcCpMLRZ6_8_Tk_r2OEwfjJezCGG_Xnvnd4LTDZtVWmrLiQqfkwyyHxVyR1-WfpW0H_8cPZHZH5R5kNUY5TxTSdZ9BkW5vXaqJUxiClSx3bSdCbahKWEYZqITueJb2OpA=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>280 miles east of Tucson, on the way to El Paso, Texas</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Bus System riddled with Karma</span></b><p></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Having ridden the GHB across the country, I do have a lot of positive memories as well. Some drivers are decent, and they are even given to understand that certain passengers need more bathroom time, have a vegetarian diet, and like to take photos. A nice driver will stop at a local store-restaurant where they serve veggie burritos and hot entrees to go. Some buses will actually have clean windows near the front. They have cut down on cleaning the buses, but they do not steal items on the bus while cleaning. You will meet some credible people riding the bus, but more often than not they are ex-cons, indigent, immigrants, truckers, students, retirees, on rehab, or runaways. If you are actually a credible type person or have an advanced education, it's a good idea to not look anything other than a cleaned up bum. I met only one Asian during the whole ride going east. He actually showed up midway through the epileptic attack in Charlotte station, as part of an arriving group. The medics were still taking his vital signs, but the victim was alert. The Asian actually boarded the bus for Richmond same as me, and I was forced to sit next to him when I gave up my seat to a 500 pound white guy who needed extra space. The Asian had an audio player strapped to his chest that was beaming out very calm soothing music. It wasn't noticeable until I heard it right next to me. Whatever. I told him he needed to listen to Dafa instead. He got off even before we arrived at Raleigh, so it was a very short trip for him. As the only Asian female on most of the bus trips, I am not shy about saying I wear a hat to protect my hair from scabies or lice, and that I always have extra supplies on hand in my bags, and that I carry critical documents on my person. For some reason a few drivers referred to me as a "him." I have a pretty fierce look on my face, and gee, I am not going to apologize for an attitude if it must show itself. No way. It's because I already know about these places; I live in low income housing---am grateful for that---but it abounds with mixed messaging. They will tell you this is permanent housing, yet they always act as if they don't want you around, both staff and residents. The usual divisions exist and are nurtured to provocative gaming incidents by the same sorts of people. The rules are constantly changing and they will ask you to fill out a survey one day, then the next, tell you that you have no right to criticize, question, research anything. They will convince me I have a voice when it is time to have a "life skills meeting" with operative trainees in the covert programs; but then render it as unnecessary to participate in community landlord tenant unions. Of course, what you learn to do is read the underlying motives. If it is bound up in altruism and caring then it may be worthwhile to be respectful, civil, and humane in response. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The implied consent when you board the GHB which I can nickname Black Hound bus system, is that you give up your rights as a human being. Forget the days when school children could throw spitballs at the driver or call them all kinds of funny names. No, you are literally as reviewers at <a href="https://www.influenster.com/">influenster.com</a> describe, which is shipping human cattle. But in the spiritual realm, it's because these drivers, operators, workers, guards, agents, porters, all need extra prayer. They are the ones who are broken and in need. They are rich in the assurance that they have a modicum of power and control over your life, that they rest in the shade of a famous national bus company, that they have a lot to gain materially whether harassing people, enabling crime, stealing their property, and advancing a fake cause based on the shallowness of the human skin. They are resting upon a foundation of delusion, chaos, confusion, and this is why they no longer even hire people who can drive a bus properly or fall asleep at the wheel.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEieau0_2wsgI2QMegM64zVi2vf1IWF7nY1BCR-e5CdmQhtgO6MxeJ-mDICLQesiP-nD1sLCmU2ro3TXGUh30-g1BnurtNfSqYny8SEd65UUBPKTj3adngStuPUkvxEbMV58hBR-LhYJ5VpemBSlMFuhAhLF70QiBjADVO-PPCwMDRYLvjh5HWmY51oVsw=s3264" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEieau0_2wsgI2QMegM64zVi2vf1IWF7nY1BCR-e5CdmQhtgO6MxeJ-mDICLQesiP-nD1sLCmU2ro3TXGUh30-g1BnurtNfSqYny8SEd65UUBPKTj3adngStuPUkvxEbMV58hBR-LhYJ5VpemBSlMFuhAhLF70QiBjADVO-PPCwMDRYLvjh5HWmY51oVsw=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Mohamed didn't fall asleep at the wheel but he sure can't drive a bus!</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When we left Tucson aboard the same bus as from LA, that bus was working fine. Sure it was making some funny beeping noises, but the other drivers had ignored it. Not Mohamed. He kept stopping on the road. Stopped the bus, turned it off. Four or five times at least till the bus would not turn on anymore. Then he said it was broken and we waited several hours in the bitter cold for another bus. At another stop before this, in Tucson, I had told Mohamed I had a priority boarding ticket, and he told me that was only good for the first boarding. I told him the stamp was for every boarding, but he would not honor it. At half the stations, there is no priority boarding line, and if you stand in line or try to move toward the front of the line for priority boarding, the passengers will start yelling at you. They will not yell if it is a creature who looks like their clone, but they will go on and on if it is someone non-charcoal. This one gal going to Mississippi from LA would not stop talking about me anytime she made one of her long personal phonecalls. Never mind that the bus had broken down, that the man who looked like her brother was arrested for shoplifting in Rustin, Louisiana, that there are a huge variety of roadside distractions or attractions to notice. Nope, just like a typical loon from the shelter, half her conversation would be about me, while she was staring at me with her bug eyes, trying to get under my skin like a giant-sized human pest. I didn't pay any notice for the most part, but it is typical of the mindset of some of the riders, how they obsess for hours over delays, schedule changes, perceived wrongs, discomforts, inconveniences, etc. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXboAoD1Bvq4fKFOhiZpwWIIU_NmX4_nXzYCmPbMmQQebe9U-cqUHS87_dLNBvyKUzJD6Jq40xU54tH5Xwygg3BRljh1Lrl09EJvmBfCpL-12p8QJdnQVOYNxslVkVqeTaI7ikblu3RouzvHnQ-S5sr--TmI1PdnoGAArYOVE2h-vEkNzLn7YzwW3NHw=s3264" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXboAoD1Bvq4fKFOhiZpwWIIU_NmX4_nXzYCmPbMmQQebe9U-cqUHS87_dLNBvyKUzJD6Jq40xU54tH5Xwygg3BRljh1Lrl09EJvmBfCpL-12p8QJdnQVOYNxslVkVqeTaI7ikblu3RouzvHnQ-S5sr--TmI1PdnoGAArYOVE2h-vEkNzLn7YzwW3NHw=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>First the young black dude was cussing out the driver for a smoke break; then he needed to go into the convenience store and was swiftly arrested for shoplifting. At least he may get a new start in life in a small farm town...<br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That is human karma at work too, since it is the New Year, and by the grace of God we did actually make it back in one piece, albeit with a bit of a cold and dry itchy cough from the dust in the air. I know it was the dirty bus air since once I arrived home, within a day I stopped my hacking cough, and within two days, my cold is almost gone. We are allowing more and more of the Mohamed types into the country. He doesn't like independent women; he sits and complicates any kind of conversation with all kinds of burrs in order to entrap; he loses focus but appears to love to talk and talk about the same thing over and over; he may even have a hidden agenda, as simple as helping smuggle goods under the bus; maybe even with the aid of some corrupted soldier trainees. The bad seeds we have sown overseas does come back to roost, and we must take more responsibility to not be silent, but in fact, collect ourselves in order to speak more truth to power. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Of course GHB or Black Hound Bus would love it if they can silence every single passenger that complained. They wanted to snuff the artist life out of a passenger from Fresno who asked that the bus driver turn the air conditioner down a bit. That bus driver didn't like him because he had carried his guitar onto the bus and looked too much like a community activist. So he called the police in Bakersfield, and that police were there to arrest the young man, a Fresno City College man, for absolutely no good reason except to mollify the dusty ego of the bus driver. Many of the bus drivers have a ridiculous egotistical complex, but unless it shows itself, it is not exceptionally bad karma. The bad karma manifests from day after day of driving some very perverse passengers, from porters who want to make a bit of extra money stealing luggages, from a lack of care of the environment such as showing horror movies on TV when passengers deserve up to date weather information. The bad karma endures when the corporation is trying to cut corners by cutting down cleaning and bus maintenance services allowing the buses to be run down to the bone. Lack of enforcing standards of safety and services tell people all Black Hound cares about is money. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2P10yz0GOTXhx40Vhc5FzsUsKc76-PHcMwg_du3GMlW7Ji0GGsi55sKnuozH9z3Y9-LRwIp-vPiTMFHgltPPFnBW5rPm6VuAk4X6ktiLfDBtZACuqa4DVk8jcsOpy-JvTduBW6GOybyu2zplZnR400-YCnX1tBv4AELxWs36_9qEbpLZ2rROFU12Qrw=s3264" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2P10yz0GOTXhx40Vhc5FzsUsKc76-PHcMwg_du3GMlW7Ji0GGsi55sKnuozH9z3Y9-LRwIp-vPiTMFHgltPPFnBW5rPm6VuAk4X6ktiLfDBtZACuqa4DVk8jcsOpy-JvTduBW6GOybyu2zplZnR400-YCnX1tBv4AELxWs36_9qEbpLZ2rROFU12Qrw=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Not what you think it is---all these Southern towns are sanitized---where have all the homeless gone? Oh where have they all gone? So long time ago...<br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The most offensive karma is the neoliberal fantasy projected by Birmingham, Alabama GHB station. Sure, this is a brand-spanking multimodal station with connections to Amtrak, intercity buses, taxis, and all the rest. I kept wondering why so many of these southern cities (Birmingham, Jackson, etc) have no graffiti anywhere. Or why on a freezing winter night (28 degrees) do they have to kick out every bum and not even allow them to sit quietly in some corner. The insult comes from the HDTV broadcasting the wonderful smiling friendly bus drivers in various video casts in a multiview screen. They show the gal spraying disinfectant inside the bus and wiping and then waving a big broad smile at the camera. A hugely friendly GHB driver just ever so eager to greet all his customers waving his big paws at boarding passengers. A weather broadcast showing the weather in nearby cities. A real-time map showing the estimated location of the buses. (For some reason the bus we were on was not shown or listed as a different number). This wonderful wet-dream fantasy of riding Greyhound buses is unfortunately pretty far from the reality of stinky filthy buses, irritable drivers, bossy workers who are given to tirades, restrooms half-filled with broken down toilets, lazy janitors or porters who only do what it says on the union contract, and encouraging all manners of intimidation either directly or by proxy from false social justice representatives on the bus.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWiD3TaOMNdhpueDM1IowR_dHcI17NmMfV_cFkpCLoCdJ_1itfXx50wT2LogWD6WRYwV-z9PSdiQsPf6uQK7M-JtNOga4to4zziruuviRlm_c1oi1EgGmglq3Fld8A9bpWnWj42vzKxLNPQJ1iYUjZdqUweyw10Z3NR7CC1fEF7VAu13vIswABBfrNvw=s3264" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWiD3TaOMNdhpueDM1IowR_dHcI17NmMfV_cFkpCLoCdJ_1itfXx50wT2LogWD6WRYwV-z9PSdiQsPf6uQK7M-JtNOga4to4zziruuviRlm_c1oi1EgGmglq3Fld8A9bpWnWj42vzKxLNPQJ1iYUjZdqUweyw10Z3NR7CC1fEF7VAu13vIswABBfrNvw=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Brave New Black Hound bus---a straggler stuck outside glared at me and asked "What are you staring at?" His pup tent was about half a block down on a freezing night outside...<br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As one reviewer writes and it is the same whether the complaint is from <a href="https://www.complaintsboard.com/">complaintsboard.com</a>, or elsewhere, there are better national buses in Mexico. Doing a PR campaign such as hiring shills to post at <a href="https://www.gotobus.com/">gotobus.com</a> does not cut it. Only the truth does. If a European traveler has the mistaken notion that they will get a wonderful tour of America riding our Greyhound bus system, tell them they had better watch their purse and their neck. They will be harassed without any admission of guilt ever by the staff, the workers, the lowlifes, the guards, the criminals haunting horrible stations like at Charlotte, North Carolina. They will be delayed and their tickets reprinted and forced to travel roundabout to other destinations before finally arriving to their real destination, several days late. If they complain they will be heckled and especially if they are convenient targets. This is of course a poor reflection of the United States and a national shame, a travesty on a once grand way of seeing the country. </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Moral</b>: <i>The truth can never be hidden; the rotten hull will always be exposed eventually.</i> </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></div><p><br /></p>Hope Singhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720746609594778790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644695689598010305.post-38423667613259583962021-09-09T23:15:00.002-07:002021-09-09T23:45:33.125-07:00Snakes in the Garden<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZVGX_an2YU1MUjhSEuys1iOtsdHqJVJghY2JnrIdL3tLaauJ02mvbWogGbJJDuUMnHZKt_MytlGLVtrN82zWc0begAE2melLIaR2Vk6rUqY2GOQV8KHma6OU5DEaqSdbRQiKqVUdSLPvP/s3264/20210807_114615.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZVGX_an2YU1MUjhSEuys1iOtsdHqJVJghY2JnrIdL3tLaauJ02mvbWogGbJJDuUMnHZKt_MytlGLVtrN82zWc0begAE2melLIaR2Vk6rUqY2GOQV8KHma6OU5DEaqSdbRQiKqVUdSLPvP/s320/20210807_114615.jpg" width="240" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>How even the best of intentions can fail</i> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every day now is a struggle for many Americans who must cope with the prevalent surreality --- if they are awake! How many of us are not awake, because we are forced into a mold that disallows us the privilege of thinking for ourselves much less with expression?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Examples of surrealism abound for those who are half-way awake. We just withdrew from a country where we have held a twenty year occupation which we really had no right to invade in the first place, but where a lot of collective punishment took place. We did get a lot of dope that helped fuel the opioid crisis which Dr. Fauci was somehow involved in, just as he is somehow involved with big pharmaceutical companies today. But Dr. Fauci is a tutelary god according to the mainstream media. He would never have any kind of conflict of interests since he is above scrutiny. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Should we take the mainstream media seriously?</i> I haven't wanted to broach this awful subject, afterall, it's a well known fact, according to the establishment media, that only losers could hold a gripe. Consider that a number of alternative news channels have been yanked off the air by YouTube (Google). They include holistic medicine doctors, experts with a different take on Covid-19 than the mainstream media, news channels leaning too far right, left, and libertarian. They yanked off <i>Corbett Report</i> and <i>Corbett Report Extras </i>probably because the truthstream was too believable on false flag events such as the Oklahoma City bombing. They are biding their time to take on AE911 (Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth). Google is also manipulating and scrambling search results. They just threw in jail another British whistleblower reporter, Craig Murray, essentially because he drew attention to the wrongs against <i>Wikileaks</i> founder Julian Assange. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A private gripe about alternative news sites is well meaning as they seem, they often are a mirror image of the mainstream media or worse, particularly where fair representation of news by minority reporters are concerned. While they may seem like hipsters, more often than not, there are no news published by Asian American reporters. It's not like we don't try---it is more like they <u>refuse</u> to accommodate us. They deliberately perpetuate the stereotype that we cannot read or write, even if the <i>Times of India</i>, or <i>CGTN </i>displays plenty of evidence that Asian female journalists do exist, can ask hard questions, and are articulate.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The mixed messages by our society are crushing the will of the people on purpose</i>. It's like traveling along a gravelly road filled with potholes, while you are trying to drive to a destination. There is a sense of drag, of foreboding, of being intentionally weighted down, even in the midst of disaster. I've showed you my favorite photo, right?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjrJJRhEm4sBHVzEkxw9gW9oZkRwlm1hVPsQiml8E_4OKQrtIO_lv_2GPJS8iDv4DCnEL2rZN4ebfQB1aHnFDIYzBH-dHQgedoMRx8x3JUU-vM38wzjkxE_8zLwybVT529TuazZP3x5-aT/s933/1.5C-vs-2C-final-768x933.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="933" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjrJJRhEm4sBHVzEkxw9gW9oZkRwlm1hVPsQiml8E_4OKQrtIO_lv_2GPJS8iDv4DCnEL2rZN4ebfQB1aHnFDIYzBH-dHQgedoMRx8x3JUU-vM38wzjkxE_8zLwybVT529TuazZP3x5-aT/s320/1.5C-vs-2C-final-768x933.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>1.5C to 2C of warming --- between a rock and a hard place in priorities!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Most of the DC residents don't like to talk about climate change. Especially when they see Asians, they love to herd us into their lockstep monologue about careerisms. An older well-intentioned black woman tugged at my elbow yesterday on Metro and queried me quite seriously about whether I was still at my job at McGraw-Hill. <i>What? We are passing strangers, and I am heading down the escalator...</i>I quickly tell her no, but not enough time to explain, never worked there! But clearly, all she identified about me was a face and title! I was not privileged with being human! I know a lot of blacks (and other people) who are like this in DC. They really don't see Asians as humans! But when they talk to each other, they will talk the time of day, the good food places, the hum-drum of life, crack jokes, and all that other nice stuff that human beings regard as human conversation!<br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So these jolts, both microscopic and macroscopic, take an effort to mindfully fight off and push back. You don't have time to say, <i>Hey, you just interrupted me while I was chanting my mindfulness mantra! Do you really think that is all I am supposed to be to you? How about you allowing me to share with you that there are roads less travelled in life, and I have a great future, because every day, I have the chance to cultivate and learn about virtue?</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There would, I imagine, be an incomprehensible look on that woman's face. We are taught to focus, our mouths attached to the great whale of belly fat of provisions, to focus like lamphreys on gorging ourselves with what we can get for ourselves. That is the measure of our success in life!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The mixed messages have only intensified whether in media, daily life, and social messaging from our well-intentioned "minders." Especially in transitional/permanent supportive housing, the minding is quite intense. This is because the bull-market really does not like the idea of housing priced at a maximum of 30% of one's income. In fact, they hate it to death, literally! And now, with the ending of unemployment benefits, even with new buildings going up while older ones are torn down, evicted tenants will have to make do with a tent resting on the hard pavement because if they got to live inside a building, it might make instill within them too many expectations! <br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Residents in permanent supportive housing are routinely publicly shamed! We have very class-conscious residents, people who like the lamphreys mentioned above, have that weird materialistic judgmental glaze in their eyes wherever they happen to trot by with their dogs. You even seen them inside the church, virtuously praying louder, singing in their slightly offtune soprano, and staring with hostile eyes at any identifiable misfit. Their love is like 1/4-inch thick or less. They see a yellow-person, the age, the garb, the probable socio-economic income, and like human calculators, they dole out a welcome at the presumed consumer value. <br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">You just made my day feel a bit more surreal! I am not going to take your bait though! I am going to walk out, take a deep breath, and realize that I need to pray for you because your spiritual development is....</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But you see, spirituality of the good kind no longer has much use in our society. The bad kind is definitely popular, but the good kind engenders laughs and guffaws practically. So these teenaged girls are mocking me for some reason, and it's the same reason as once, a long time ago, I saw these teens at the National Zoo, a breaktime from Edmund Burke high school in DC, and they were seriously hating on this poor little Chinese baby. I never saw such flames of hate oozing from their eyes. It was because the little Chinese baby boy looked beautific, angelic, innocent, sweet, and oh my gosh, happy! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's a crime for Chinese people to be successful or happy in healthy ways nowadays. That's why any good news from China is heavily censored. It's a crime for the establishment news to report on Chinese accomplishments in a positive tone and perspective. No news about the travels of Chinese astronauts to their very own space station, underreported news about China's bullet trains, and if there is too much good news coming from China, the deep state might even order a "deep state hit." I kind of think that is what happened near Hualien in Taiwan. The connection to a deep state can be remote---it can be the orders from demons from another dimension. Our minds may not be mind-controlled, but our hearts are...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And so this is the case also close-up in our housing complex. We see these staffspersons whose official job is to care for the needs of the residents, develop programs, implement guidelines, etc. In reality, they spend a great deal of time, sort of like how we used to spend time bull-shitting at the Lion's Club, and with a 20% efficiency at actual doing. But it's worse than that at times, because whereas every member of the Lion's Club sort of comes with the notion of relaxing and socializing, here we have a very strange if not perverse indoctrination taking place. All kind of hidden jargon and innuendo, and with deeply troubled insulting behaviours and mannerisms towards the residents. Staff will rarely if ever greet the residents (especially those whose 1/4" surface is lighter toned). When they rush by, if they do happen to glance at you, it is with a very condescending look on their face. And ideally, they train any guest to behave towards us with the most patronizing, agonized stare of disgust and contempt at our piteous state of poverty. If we question their gaze, their tone, or expect them to talk to us like human co-equals, they will escalate and try to write us up! <br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I have tried to rationalize with the staff (there is really only one major staffperson who runs the show, even though there may be four people reporting to her) that (poor) students living in student housing will often be treated with respect and genuine positive support. I have brought up ethics and fairness. Recently I did bring up religion, but was rudely brushed off. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the style of disaster capitalism, authoritarian types love to exert total power over the powerless. And of course, <i>absolute power corrupts absolutely!</i> Our one and only case manager/social worker has re/written the program guidelines so that she is mentioned on every single page at least once, and there is nothing that she cannot monitor, find out, or control about us because it is capitalized that she is our SOURCE, CHALLENGER, and GUIDE. She claims to know all about us from our past, and will therefore be the indispensible determinant for our future.We must turn to her, rather than to our peers for solace, comfort, and direction. She is our collective Big Sister because evidently she has the power and capability to moderate all things.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The program overview and design is not written by one hand though---it is the intention of the staff to make it appear so, however, fully knowing that the sense of power and authority emanating from one-figure will work to over-awe the residents. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And so it didn't matter that at some point, I was able to garner permission to establish some space in the garden for a House community garden. Over the summer, I did have success in this space. I planted about 20 different plants and herbs, created a clear plot, nurtured the tree-lings, and even wrote up a grant application. Recently, I even put in a small cold frame for over-wintering, which I personally designed and built. In fact, I have done about 80% of the total work, although my resident-comrades have been supportive particularly with ideas, enthusiasm, and just the sense of general empowerment. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Well, that is exactly what the staff, meaning the SW, is not happy about right now. After furnishing them a copy of the grant, they pretended that nothing had been given to them. Of course this is easy since they never even greet us in passing. They pretend that no email with a grant report was delivered. They will probably never think of saying "thank-you" since obviously, if I am seen working <i>happily</i> in the garden, that is sort a crime! (Not to mention that I am an Asian, too----most DC blacks consider Chinatown, DC, not really Chinatown, but homie-town.) My presence is gratuitous --- <i>I am an invisible tutelary!</i> <br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And the thing that I think really ticked her off is that the report mentions that the theme of this garden, Washington Senior Garden Corps, is that it will be <i>resident-led</i>, and <i>resident-centered</i>, in order to heal from several recent deaths. It's a concept from the teacher inspired <i>student-centered</i> theory. But there's more to that, which is that if the authority cannot be totalitarian, with our unquestioning conformity, then the adage cannot be successful:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></span></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Absolute power CORRUPTS absolutely!</i></b></span></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So that's the moral of the story. She is going to try and close the garden down if she can because it's too painful to see residents being independent, self-empowered, and using their time to recreate outside their room besides sitting inside their room watching TV. In fact, soon after I moved in, she had once asked why I didn't just adjust to life at my age and start watching more TV? Forget that the library has pretty much nothing-books and trashy videos, in fact, they work at consciously furnishing the rack with serial women-consumer magazines. They don't really like to furnish us books of intellectual quality, and outright discourage community activisms. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Maybe I will have to buy a pet frog for the garden. It will be a rock-frog, then it will never have to be cared, and I can maybe blow a kiss at it every day, hoping it will turn into a contemporary version of the Prince. That might make her jealous too though, but yeah, if her future and mine and all of ours here must meld, since she really wants to control our Fate, then I do have to pray to the Prince of Peace. Forget about the ill-intentions of the Queen deliberately trying to downsize my hopes and dreams, or the suffering the stink-eye looks that the Regents give us when they do see the 1/20 woman who manages to risk actually cooking in the kitchen during the daytime. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">WE HAVE HUMAN RIGHTS! I DON'T HAVE TO EAT A TV DINNER EVERY NIGHT. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO LEGISLATE MY LIFE, BUT IF YOU DO, I WILL NOT HOLD BACK MY PRAYERS FOR YOUR WELL BEING AND MIND-HEART. 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text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRBFanwPP1vTEIO1FZBOYIkxwYjcSxCq7O77LIuODUdmfoYCe6pXiWEIIiTrjOC7bd7Idqlj0L920FD_nM2n4oF9fB088H3Pb3gMg3C1v2vtuho3ZL6L55ZBnzbOELrP2RXxU7Bt8-xv9L/s2048/20210518_143719_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRBFanwPP1vTEIO1FZBOYIkxwYjcSxCq7O77LIuODUdmfoYCe6pXiWEIIiTrjOC7bd7Idqlj0L920FD_nM2n4oF9fB088H3Pb3gMg3C1v2vtuho3ZL6L55ZBnzbOELrP2RXxU7Bt8-xv9L/w300-h400/20210518_143719_HDR.jpg" width="300" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Photo from inside the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. <br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h2><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">End Occupations, One Country for All</span> </h2><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"> </span></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">The Trapped Child Analogy</span><br /></h3></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Imagine there is a child in your home which you have decided is not human. You leave it locked in the room all day long. Whenever it wants to go out, it must pass through a security guard, perhaps a relative you pay to keep it confined. Going out or going back into the room, it is a lengthy procedure involving interrogation. The child has no playfriends, and you want to keep it that way, so it constantly feels a state of shame. Any calls are monitored and recorded. Compared to your other children it has no new clothes, no nice education. Everything it gets is hand-me-downs, and the education it receives is of inferior quality. You definitely do not intend for it to go to college.</i></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1NIRXIyoDpiBnLQ-Ik8l77W_pw7kLS1N0jDT-gAJaDGpfXySZT-SJpZ5w-ULrdIK0sP6oMG1BiFyLRWKZcoVyVFmZETjWIu73C_y1m66mm0O1mkTF3Aihhq9pV03L8PhA2x6ZbEdHlqmK/s707/BDS_Segregation_Palcampaign_0521.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="707" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1NIRXIyoDpiBnLQ-Ik8l77W_pw7kLS1N0jDT-gAJaDGpfXySZT-SJpZ5w-ULrdIK0sP6oMG1BiFyLRWKZcoVyVFmZETjWIu73C_y1m66mm0O1mkTF3Aihhq9pV03L8PhA2x6ZbEdHlqmK/w400-h326/BDS_Segregation_Palcampaign_0521.PNG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Palestinians must obey segregation laws at gunpoint whether housing, education, socializing (Palestine Solidarity Campaign,
palestinecampaign.org)</b><i> </i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span><i><br /></i><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Your children already know that the system is rigged in their favor if they play the game, abusing-the-unwanted-children. They will get to go to college. In college, they learn more ways of labeling Others as outsiders. More secret handshakes and networking. They become more cruel, more wanton, more ruthless toward the unwanted-siblings. They learn how to hate without feeling any sense of shame, how to agitate and incite others to hate, how to shut down those who tell the truth, how to prevent truth-tellers from being hired anywhere...</i></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgym5F5GV9866LKJXim-ycfwWze8KbfWA6yMt5OyD7-ZxYJdU_Lam8_CmuNrGyeqcHFOZr1Yo8Na5Q-bmotnhgdOBmrqNULtyRO5hr4YIU9302aeFljWT6Ybi6RII3iMF3Iv27KJbHHu1sb/s687/BDS_Courts_Palcampaign_0521.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="687" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgym5F5GV9866LKJXim-ycfwWze8KbfWA6yMt5OyD7-ZxYJdU_Lam8_CmuNrGyeqcHFOZr1Yo8Na5Q-bmotnhgdOBmrqNULtyRO5hr4YIU9302aeFljWT6Ybi6RII3iMF3Iv27KJbHHu1sb/w400-h343/BDS_Courts_Palcampaign_0521.PNG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Palestinians sent to courts tried for cases which they always lose (Palestine Solidarity Campaign,
palestinecampaign.org)</b><i> </i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><i> </i> <p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>All the unwanted children in the neighborhood are now trucked to a fenced-in-site. A camp where they are so desperate, so cognizant of their deprivations, that they will use anything, even rocks, to throw at the guards. They must be desperate, knowing that their best efforts will be met with unequal measures: crushing responses, such as bullets, grenades, bombs, and delivered by drones. You say all the children are bad, affiliated with evil organization, they are using their bodies as merely human shields, so any destruction is justified. </i></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtXX_HJJM03WIZT9kTFMdKz5kpwam3ff2VltQCvfomj3tBkHraSJKs5taheFE2WNsGxHI8B26XFX59cuxhYzcYjaUy6vtH9CQ9M15JHIMYdUwEYCfdZyns9yIC4N6WQgYAE-fQXsTXtpru/s1114/BDS_Water_Palcampaign_0521.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1114" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtXX_HJJM03WIZT9kTFMdKz5kpwam3ff2VltQCvfomj3tBkHraSJKs5taheFE2WNsGxHI8B26XFX59cuxhYzcYjaUy6vtH9CQ9M15JHIMYdUwEYCfdZyns9yIC4N6WQgYAE-fQXsTXtpru/w400-h283/BDS_Water_Palcampaign_0521.PNG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Palestinians get 20 gallons while Illegal Israeli Settlers get 98
gallons of Water per Day (Palestine Solidarity Campaign,
palestinecampaign.org)</b><i> </i></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> The camp is considered part of your land, but you make sure that it has no infrastructure. Children there die in higher number due to toxic pollutants, limited utilities and poor health. You blame them for not being able to care for themselves, when in fact you forbade any caretaking. You accuse them of being terrorists while never recognizing that this is genocide. The humans inside are dying but you laugh from the thrill, a big grin on your face, because you can see how you are making sure that your loved ones experience Manifest Destiny.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">The Gangstalking, Mind-Control Analogy</span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There is a <a href="https://gangstalkingmindcontrolcults.com/">gang</a></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://gangstalkingmindcontrolcults.com/">stalking</a> website or two out there where highly trained specialists talk about what happens when they buck the system. Call it the "Elijah Effect" or what you will. They claim that they become TIs, meaning "Targeted Individuals." <i>In the age where black-listing and censorship is taking place, why bother with targeting?</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We know from the Targeted Individuals about the surveillance and monitoring taking place inside mass communications systems or via satellite interception. We know from Targeted Individuals about war atrocities. We learn from Targeted Individuals about the kind of secret landswaps taking place with regard to say, the New York Public Library development. Watchdog reporters provide the public with information and ideas on how the most privileged in our society are shutting down access to hard-bound books by warehousing them, pre-determining who has access, for how long, and what sorts of books are made available. Visit <a href="http://citizensdefendinglibraries.blogspot.com">citizensdefendinglibraries.blogspot.com</a> if you don't believe me...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYM2urN6Bjol2YO5BMefcsOFuLjpxVrot-TDwbSQJnJBg4mppglvA0shAZNbGsz-24UODBniFPbOWclkbgzr52bjDpLvdPKZ7QNE5MLCC-tPQ1A-ahHy104CnyimsxoLp6uxmwIXJ8vEVk/s643/BDS_Roads_Palcampaign_0521.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="561" data-original-width="643" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYM2urN6Bjol2YO5BMefcsOFuLjpxVrot-TDwbSQJnJBg4mppglvA0shAZNbGsz-24UODBniFPbOWclkbgzr52bjDpLvdPKZ7QNE5MLCC-tPQ1A-ahHy104CnyimsxoLp6uxmwIXJ8vEVk/w400-h349/BDS_Roads_Palcampaign_0521.PNG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p><b>Palestinians drive around all border walls just to get to work every day adding countless miles and extra hours to their workdays (Palestine Solidarity Campaign,
palestinecampaign.org)</b><i> </i></p></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Reporters and watchdogs not infrequently want to remain anonymous because of the harassment they endure. The patterns are ingrained within establishment "mind-control" through mass-media propaganda. Take for example the Black Lives Matter and other color movements. As historian <a href="http://bcrw.barnard.edu/videos/vijay-prashad-what-is-the-meaning-of-the-left/">Vijay Prashad</a> describes, we are no longer being shown how to connect-the-dots in forming effective social movements because they do not want an effective socialist labor movement. If there were May-Day type movements in America, we would begin to notice the commonalities we share with all laborers around the globe. We would begin to recognize that the only real way forward to fight climate change and depletion of Earth's resources is to believe in Plan C, community-oriented, bottom-up, localized development funded by community banks, and with plenty of rewards-based cooperatives. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Targeted Individuals are frequently those who think or act outside the Black Box. Perhaps their perspective has become too holistic, veering from what is profitable. The Black Box architecture is the product of those who foresee a future where robots, AI technocrats, and aristocrats rule the planet, control all its resources, and farm out humanity for the <i>Brave New World</i>. It's not going to be a cut-and-dry classification of who belongs and who does not. But the current dialectics favor a mindset of autocracy, loyalty to the oligarchy, and blind to all the losers. The losers are taught to blame themselves and everything is portrayed as having failed to achieve success within the system. Screaming for justice, no one has equipped them with the confidence, power, creativity, or even well-roundedness to retool the system, reshape it, craft new tools that truly help liberate everyone trapped inside. </span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyW3MMXRtDn2ZO2FkyDGGCfG2w5jvZyI9fFl61TSE0552L7AfqkueZI96kczzU6XUQLakauZwJon4wkV4hZUpGK80k0n7QUGTPzwllePNiSC7WNHhvj8zGRXqYuK4vhnPe82-Ck0RkwHTD/s2048/20201119_135758.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1176" data-original-width="2048" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyW3MMXRtDn2ZO2FkyDGGCfG2w5jvZyI9fFl61TSE0552L7AfqkueZI96kczzU6XUQLakauZwJon4wkV4hZUpGK80k0n7QUGTPzwllePNiSC7WNHhvj8zGRXqYuK4vhnPe82-Ck0RkwHTD/w400-h230/20201119_135758.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Sam Gompers Valued People over Profit!</span><br /></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">The Great Risk-takers</span></h3><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The trapped child sees a society of apartheid, of people who appear to identity with a state religion or philosophy that is reinforced in every thought, word, and deed. Are these truly children of God? We can see universities where the chosen magically float to the top due to name-brand social affiliation. Through networking, they spin illusions around the ignored. Stigma makes it easier to display contempt and openly despise. Whatever decisions the decision-makers make, outsiders cannot question, and that accustoms the chosen to believe in their infallibility. The prime minister must act like a dictator. The president must create rules of exemption for himself. And so on, on down to local news, where changes to the zoning ordinance are dispensed blithely, maybe because the privileged class are salivating over the prospects of revamping blighted neighborhoods. </i></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicLrG9dbukTRYMZFmK1eqbimiGb9HON5qxbWB-AqkdIQQw_WXAN5XxRODCpyVfxBL94TR9Nf7DVdKLnLDXMPde_VZB7lvQii2aGy8BqhaHolTRAMdjzJ0ZWDXPr1hmWdNLgkwo6L6k-pa_/s864/BDS_Homes_Palcampaign_0521.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="864" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicLrG9dbukTRYMZFmK1eqbimiGb9HON5qxbWB-AqkdIQQw_WXAN5XxRODCpyVfxBL94TR9Nf7DVdKLnLDXMPde_VZB7lvQii2aGy8BqhaHolTRAMdjzJ0ZWDXPr1hmWdNLgkwo6L6k-pa_/w400-h270/BDS_Homes_Palcampaign_0521.PNG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Palestinians have had over 50,000 homes and businesses destroyed (Palestine Solidarity Campaign,
palestinecampaign.org)</b><i> </i></span></td></tr></tbody></table> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The reason why one is shaken down before one steps outside into the rest of the house is precisely to instill fear and discouragement of reporting what one sees. Are the Harold Rosenthals correct? Can we see how after so many years of hiring from privileged internship pools, that most of the government agencies, many of the think-tanks, and including the non-profits, Federal City is led by those who believe themselves infallible? Sayanim who deeply understand to who they owe their choice work assignments, higher pay, faster promotion, and superior networking? They are not necessarily manchurian candidates, but are convinced that the system demands conformity, inequality, and hive-mindedness. <br /></i><br /><i>It wouldn't be so bad if Shahid or Fatima standing outside didn't see that there are so many others deliberately sent around the maze, obstructed, and silenced because there is not enough to share with them. Like any for-profit system, the maximum profit is created by instituting slavery or as close-to-slave-like conditions as possible. This helps makes knavery, like plagiarism, okay. I personally know a professor who attempted to plagiarize a paper that I wrote; it feels pretty awful when that kind of stuff happens; and yet there are now an amazing number of teachers and academics, as well as graduate students, who either borrow from one another or access the old dissertations stowed away in storage archives. <br /></i><br />A system full of cheats and bandits help make for a failed state. And that is what the family is, a failed family, that abuses their unwanted children. That is what a nation is, a failed nation, that cannot understand nor care for all their states, but insteads creates miserable "occupied states"; states which are not even autonomous. All those people are humans and they deserve equal rights and the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This is what Thomas Jefferson, our Founding Father, wrote. Never mind that there are gangstalkers even at the Jefferson Monument, trying to mind me while I am taking photographs:<br /><br /></span><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"ALMIGHTY GOD HATH CREATED THE MIND FREE. ALL ATTEMPTS TO INFLUENCE IT BY TEMPORAL PUNISHMENTS OR BURTHENS...ARE A DEPARTURE FROM THIS PLAN OF THE HOLY AUTHOR OF OUR RELIGION...NO MAN SHALL BE COMPELLED TO FREQUENT OR SUPPORT ANY RELIGIOUS WORSHIP OR MINISTRY OR SHALL OTHERWISE SUFFER ON ACCOUNT OF HIS RELIGIOUS OPINIONS OR BELIEF. BUT ALL MEN SHALL BE FREE TO PROFESS AND BY ARGUMENT TO MAINTAIN, THEIR OPINONS IN MATTERS OF RELIGION. I KNOW BUT ONE CODE OF MORALITY FOR MEN WHETHER ACTING SINGLY OR COLLECTIVELY." ----Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father of the United States </span></b></p><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">No wonder the BDS Movement is expanding. It is seemingly unfair to target the USA and Israel by boycotting, divesting, or sanctions against our economy or what fuels it. But it is much worse for those who are never even be able to participate. Arabs had no voice in refusing to have the <i>Al Jazeera</i> news building bombed, so that perhaps a Kentu<span>ck</span>y Fried Chicken is built there. Arabs have had no voice in voting, in public review, in appealing, in full citizenship, in equal representation, in establishment journalism, in owning their home, owning their business, naming their street, accessing the mosque, traveling thirty miles from Gaza to the West Bank, having soldiers wrongly imprison you or your loved one because a stone is found in your pocket, etc. The ludicrousness of it all is encapsulated by one American-Zionist neoliberal hardliner, head of a think-tank, who asserts that Palestinians must accept whatever is offered in a two-state solution because they have no rights. <i>Who determined that the citizens of two unjustly occupied states, states in their own rights, have no rights? Who determined that Palestinians who voted for an Islamic party, one justifiably angry yet willing to compromise, are universally all terrorists? Who is deciding that the infrastructure must be bombed to eliminate terrorists who are "hiding" inside hospitals, schools, news buildings, residential apartments, and safe tunnels?</i> <i>Arabs are a pariah to the State of Israel, asserts the Likkud.</i> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The narrative is so faulty, unreasonable, lacking in any sense humanity or brethrenhood that as <i>The Last American Vagabond</i> asserts one must: "<a href="https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/category/foreign-policy/">Question Everything!</a>" <br /><br /><b>Consider today what you can do to help the Palestinians trapped in genocidal Israel:</b> 1) <a href="https://bdsmovement.net/">Join BDS</a>; 2) <a href="https://www.change.org/p/united-nations-security-council-impose-financial-and-military-sanctions-on-israel-for-war-crimes ">Sign a Petition</a>; 3) Call your legislator; 4) <a href="https://aljazeera.com/israel-palestine-conflict">Learn more</a>; 5) <a href="https://ambalpoo.ruclip.com/">Share</a> your support! <br /></span><i> <br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Screenshots from <a href="https://www.palestinecampaign.org/">PalestineCampaign.org</a> <br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i> </i> <br /></div><br /><p></p>Hope Singhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720746609594778790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644695689598010305.post-3137549712069799882021-03-07T16:23:00.009-08:002021-03-07T17:59:47.060-08:00Making Peace with God-Universe-Nature<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDBldawMj19BBdC8BkYLHIWojY1_7eeGNukMEDejRl-9wytaabM_WO2hOhFUH16QzOwVbmu3Qhm1R30JLdrOTVRO_ag09vDoVQdshE7-CsKPV_F2UtAzqrk2pQCOpoFXAvUR0ZGqDcaeN5/s2048/IMG_3085.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Is this the best we can do?" border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDBldawMj19BBdC8BkYLHIWojY1_7eeGNukMEDejRl-9wytaabM_WO2hOhFUH16QzOwVbmu3Qhm1R30JLdrOTVRO_ag09vDoVQdshE7-CsKPV_F2UtAzqrk2pQCOpoFXAvUR0ZGqDcaeN5/w400-h300/IMG_3085.JPG" title="Tent encampment near Capitol Hill" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Is this really the best we can do?</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h2>Making Peace with God Starts with Me <br /></h2><div style="text-align: left;"> <span> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">After the death of S.T. here in our permanent supportive housing, I was seriously hoping for social justice. Afterall, had we not had a whole summer of raging social justice madness? BLM activists outside marching, holding rallies, screaming at police, and fully expecting the police to disband. The lesson was to "make noise so you will be heard." </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>We want justice because someone is mistreated, abused, treated with contempt, and in the age of Covid, it has nothing to do with race. The victim can be anyone targeted by someone else who feels they are vulnerable. Sometimes the bully is obvious---you can see the hate in their eyes, the contempt in their words, the perverseness that characterizes abuse of power.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>In America, we are taught that marching and demonstrating is how social justice looks, even when all and said and done, I am reminded of the movie, "Animal Farm," an adaptation based on the book <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm"><i>Animal Farm</i> </a>by George Orwell. Mr. Harkness showed us this movie at least three times in our English class, and if there was at least one memorable scene, it was the ending: <i>The board may change, but it will be just a new set of pigs!</i> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> And that is really how justice per identity politics tend to play out in the United States because of the entrenched market and industrial capitalism under which there are only so many available paths up to the middle class and much fewer decent government jobs today. And the worst part, is just like in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm"><i>Animal Farm</i></a>, the troublemakers can move up to the top at the cost of the decent and most loyal employees. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span>That happens so much today that it is almost routine. There are people who are hired at the health club who once they are hired, totally believe they are there to just sit. When they open their mouths, it is to discuss capitalism from a personal perspective. If there is a piece of broken equipment and it is reported as injurious, the information is ignored, or a pretense is made to do something about it, but nothing is done. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span>This kind of lackadaisical attitude has become commonplace and it is a contributing factor in why some businesses have not survived Covid. When they close, of course it is saddening, and we all feel bad for those workers, yet one cannot help wondering if they have any real remorse for how badly they treated some of their customers. <i>Is the solution for changing people's hearts and minds really going to come through firing them? </i> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> <span> That's the question about which I have struggled over the past month in mourning for my neighbor over her death, which I fully believe was preventable. She was marginally mobile, yet staff required her to move to the second floor. She could barely climb the stairs, yet the staff assigned her several two-week rounds of hauling out the kitchen garbage. She had memory problems, yet the staff reassured us that she was "independent and tough." </span></span>They trivialized her safety concerns even after her room had been broken into, and never bothered replacing the door knob. What was infuriorating was she could be their grandma too, afterall, she was black, the staff are black. But presumably, she is poor, elderly, and no one to pay attention too, so the staff took full advantage...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span>In contrast, her next door neighbor is also elderly but white, and always full of rage at the unfairness from just about all parties here. She has pursued restraining orders, legal paths, orders in writing, and staff meetings to ensure that she receives full decent treatment even though she is also so poor that she once lived in a tent near the White House. The staff are accommodating because they are afraid of her, presumably, but it does nothing to alleviate their bestial attitude towards anyone else here they can take advantage of! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span>And that is also the sore face of social justice in our society. One party wins a $25 million dollar settlement lawsuit from Monsanto over glyphosate (Roundup) but what about the countless numbers of other colon cancer victims? <i>What about my friend who developed colon cancer from enjoying killing all the dandelion weeds on his farm? What about other people like me who were exposed to alot of that weed killer? </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><i><span> </span></i>Human justice is blind, for sure. We can't sit around and wait for justice to come around, for that person to transfer or be let go, for this person to move away, or for those people to change. I have had countless internal discussions over how to communicate with the social worker after ST, because days before her death, I wrangled with her over the need to look after her better. It's in my notes, but not hers, since she pretends the meeting did not take place, how many times I mentioned ST in our meeting, and each time, being pretty much brushed off. Each concern was met with a counterargument and dismissal as if it were trite. Again, because I am a charity recipient being able to live here, nothing I say has any kind of validity. Any good idea that is worthwhile is freely appropriated with no credit assigned. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span>Even students have more value than older adults according to the capitalist industrial system because they encourage consumer spending, and are the future of America. Whereas under the simplistic mindset, older adults have no value; their consumer spending is merely habitual; and their needs are subsumed under the market value of the rich and famous. And since all colors in America pretty much abide by this jingoism, all ills must be spent away.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span>We addressed the social-justice issue for ST in various ways that are legitimate and within my rights, such as talking with the investigative officers, communicating with supervisors, discussing the matter with friends and relatives, and writing it out. Even now there is a dread that this SW had become quite bullish in her self-righteousness by virtue of authority and status over the residents. She knows which of us believe the staff wronged ST, and she is brow-beating those residents. Her one virtue is that she can talk herself silly, and so it is easy to allow her to go on under the belief that we are listening...but she never counsels us without asserting insistently that her opinions are the most important. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span>And this is why after the social-justice hunting, the discussions, <a href="https://yourhomelessblog.blogspot.com/2021/02/signs-your-habitat-is-controlled-by.html">the explorations about the psychology of the dark-triad</a> (narcissism/divisiveness/psychopathy), and religious ruminations, we were still searching for peace. She can lecture us about the stages of grief in a sort of parochial manner, and counter that "She was going to die anyway" but it does not prevent the thought: "<i>She would be alive today, only one year after she moved in, if you hadn't moved her. You are unfair allowing that white woman to move downstairs after only one meeting. It takes the rest of us 3-4 requests and weeks of deliberation to change rooms!" <br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> That kind of argument is only met with obstinance, a staunch counter-argument, a blatant denial of the facts, and so on...there are professionals who are black who are like Trump but don't even know it! And there is no argument wanting to be created so the case must rest. <i>Please, go on with your wonderful job working in the tunnel, nothing to see here!</i> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span> </span>Okay, none of that is going to work. We can also project our anger onto the Church or charity administration. All kinds of far-flung accusations and lawsuits are lined up, and the internet is a happy hunting grounds for conspiracies---at least some of which are part true. But this again takes us nowhere. Anger, as we recently witnessed, tends to need an outlet to further legitimize itself. It will use anything for fuel and to rationalize the destruction. Arguably, Americans have become experts at internalizing the need for wars abroad...</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span> </span>Of course the religious aspect on all of this also matters. Strangely, nobody here is of a particularly religious cast, even though this home was founded by nuns. I guess by today's standards they are also trite persons, for the staff would scoff at "vows of poverty" and most likely view them as just a bunch of underqualified worthless disposables also...</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span> </span>Hours of watching podcasts on Buddhism, on meditation, on the beauty of the lotus sutra, on watching benevolence take place in foreign countries through the efforts of <a href="https://tzuchi.us/who-we-are">Tzu-Chi Buddhist Foundation</a> as shown on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/DaAiVideo/videos">Da-Ai TV</a>. But things were still not clicking for me, because of flashbacks---flashbacks on all the other bad things that have happened recently together with events in my life---really depressing when taken together.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span> </span>I know I needed some faith, and I am sort of interfaith when it comes to religion having grown up Catholic. A Buddhist-Catholic who also practices Falun Dafa meditation. Altogether these practices help heal and calm together with chanting Ami-Tuo-Fo (Amitabba Buddha incantation). Certainly, it helps that the unpeaceful neighbor is now moved downstairs; it is quieter here. But the aspect of an unhappy ghost remains. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span> </span>I was too angry to visit the Church nearby. We can't comment on other aspects over there, yet, the need for healing was so strong that we still undertook a small pilgrimage to the National Shrine. And despite a sort of karmic aftertaste, there was still a very good sense of faith validation. You may not be happy with the church, with administration, with politics, but there is still the faith itself. Only by being grounded in faith can there be healing. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span> </span>It seems trite today to quote from the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. Isn't that poem a bit too loaded with extremes, binary suppositions? I can't replace sorrow with joy just like that. Nor does peace come with the snap of the fingers. We see how sorrowful life must be for the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/27/after-4-decades-plowshares-actions-its-nuclear-warfare-should-be-trial-not">Plowshares Eight</a>, including priests and nuns protesting for peace, a true cause. Peace and healing is a process, a personal process that no one should violate or interfere with! </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span> </span>So despite the exposure, let me share with you a beautiful discovery from online at <a href="http://OurCatholicPrayers.com">OurCatholicPrayers.com</a>. Even if I doubt that Pope Francis is going to be able to do all that much to ameliorate the piteous situation in Iraq, where the people have suffered decades of wartime unrest and the region is fraught symptoms of climate change, maybe its neighbors will relent more in their persecutions, water-hoarding, and sanctions. Pope Francis has little to do with me anyway. My belief is that he is only a nominal head of the Church; only I can help myself get to heaven. What I can change is how much I can broaden my view of Western faith. All is not lost in this world if we can still pray, whichever part of the world.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span> </span>So here is just one find from Christopher Castagnoli on "<a href="https://www.ourcatholicprayers.com/prayer-perseverance-equanimity.html">Spiritual PPE: Prayer, Perseverance, and Equanimity</a>." The essay centers around a simple prayer at its heart:</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b></b></span></span></span></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><b>"Dear Lord, when Iโm fighting against darkness and confusion so often
these days, strengthen my will in prayer so that i may persevere in good
intentions in following You and doing Your will. Help me to develop and
nurture the spirit of equanimity, so that I may keep my thoughts and
emotions on an even keel, confident that You are there and will see me
through whatever choppy waters or even storms that may lie ahead. Amen."</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>Its theme involves the ability to stay centered, grounded, amid the distress, the flotsam and jetsam we are surrounded by as we navigate through our complex lives. Shallow people emphasize the rules and regulations in order to scare us into believing that we must do this or that, or else. They want to delude us into magical-thinking, using head-in-the-sand reasoning. Some people delight in intimidating others and seeing them react with fear and anxiety, or other negative reactions, by which they can pull their strings. Others use jeering and mockery as a failsafe to create a sense of shame and humiliation. Still others have such unreasonable rules or mixed messages in dispensing order, that you cannot help breaking them and thereby inducing a sense of guilt. All these are just fleeting emotions which impede you ability to achieve inner peace. This is why Father includes St. Theresa's bookmark prayer: </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>"L</b><b>et nothing disturb you,<br /></b><b>Let nothing frighten you,<br /></b><b>All things are passing;<br /></b><b>God only is changeless.<br /></b><b>Patience gains all things.<br /></b><b>Who has God wants nothing.<br /></b><b>God alone suffices."</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>In my humble spiritual sojourn, arm-chair pilgrim, there are many secret treasures in Western Literature, such as <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43650/auguries-of-innocence">William Blake in "Auguries of Innocence"</a> about which the Buddhist Master Venerable Guan Cheng commented upon in his Lecture 60 on The Longer Sukavativyuha Sutra in his podcast on February 19, 2021 (<a href="http://youtu.be/la8xqaTxTfs">youtu.be/la8xqaTxTfs</a>). </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>Its not just a simple matter of me becoming more like <a href="https://www.womeninthebible.net/women-bible-old-new-testaments/martha-mary/">Mary in the Martha and Mary parable of the New Testament</a>, but me really becoming more sincere in trying to see and find God in other people. The healing is not going to happen overnight, but it definitely starts with me. <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCwEhyphenhyphenscp2aw2cS0kojsSFwMtskdSC2Eq5LzwH3o_i_gXXB6gZBEJJo84w_23YQvw3zMV16MFHGYcRfTPy72eBcph30spcF7WgaOpHF4_k4xEwCkT6D2Y8ajFlg3EsNDaHtQY35m1_S2cq/s400/Martha_and_Mary_by_He_Qi_China.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCwEhyphenhyphenscp2aw2cS0kojsSFwMtskdSC2Eq5LzwH3o_i_gXXB6gZBEJJo84w_23YQvw3zMV16MFHGYcRfTPy72eBcph30spcF7WgaOpHF4_k4xEwCkT6D2Y8ajFlg3EsNDaHtQY35m1_S2cq/s320/Martha_and_Mary_by_He_Qi_China.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://www.womeninthebible.net/women-bible-old-new-testaments/martha-mary/">Jesus with Mary and Martha</a>, Bible Women, Painting by He Qi</i><br /></span> </div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Hope Singhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720746609594778790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644695689598010305.post-63303951522908501032021-02-09T11:47:00.003-08:002021-02-09T12:13:00.343-08:00Signs Your Habitat is Controlled by a Slumlord<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf9nu6ItQpCht_V0xDqmNg3u9tOplIetjfLgAYgnxUIe_M-DSCeEQdBWrZB1FX7vPyXoYpi2I9B80uzs2F8C9WapcgsMxF3YzognvKqcYJwvxhxYCpjvx94noQdVdfOub3YVRYYdF2wycr/s3264/20200819_170712_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf9nu6ItQpCht_V0xDqmNg3u9tOplIetjfLgAYgnxUIe_M-DSCeEQdBWrZB1FX7vPyXoYpi2I9B80uzs2F8C9WapcgsMxF3YzognvKqcYJwvxhxYCpjvx94noQdVdfOub3YVRYYdF2wycr/w400-h300/20200819_170712_HDR.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>He wants his freedom but they don't want to allow that...</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i> </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Recently I ran into a person I used to see at Miriam's Kitchen, one of the poets of our group. There were several white males in our group that met every Wednesday morning (pre-Covid). One was a former professor, up in years, who due to taking care of his wife, had used up his savings. Another, a very dapper fellow, preferred roughing it rather than submitting to living in shelters. This one was not actually a regular of our group---rather, I would see him at the GW Cafetaria, him and his friend. A long time ago, at least six years back, when things were better, they confided to me that they actually lived on Roosevelt Island. I don't know if he still lives there, but I could tell that things had not gotten much better for him. <br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Recently, a person, an elderly African-American woman in our house was sent home to Our Home in Heaven, at least we hope so. This woman, she was at least 75, possibly over eighty. It's hard to tell with African American women sometimes because they can age well. I won't go into the details of the elderly abuse problem in this house. There is so much injustice in the world today, and only places like <a href="https://poormagazine.org/"><i>Poor News Network</i></a> is holding seminars on how to fight eviction notices. <br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here are ways slumlords narcissistically enrich themselves at others expense, including their safety, dignity, and well-being. Note that we are working off of our reserves today, so if links are missing, it's because it's been so traumatizing. <br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Refuse to honor the CARE Act or any Congressional legislation</b> allowing Renters to forego rent payment. According to the <i>National Low Income Housing Coalition</i> in a seminar a couples months ago, landlords are filing court appeals to prevent any renters from nonpayment of rent. They are sending in police to enforce eviction notices, and they don't care what kind of exception exists. </span></li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <i>You can't force people to care. How much does Trump care when the rules are not bent for his own profit? That is the example set, and when people are forced out, the prevailing "Who Cares" attitude ensures that passerbys will only mock them...</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Gaslight and torment the most vulnerable</b>. So if there is an elderly woman who is feeble-minded, who has mobility issues, who is timid, who has other special needs, they will do the opposite of care. It's hard to believe until you see it and experience this callousness close up. The staff will deliberately ignore this person even if they are advised to check up on her often. If told they are drinking themselves to death, they will continue to ignore that. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Use Flying Monkeys. What is a "Flying Monkey"?</b> I learned that term from Doctor Ramani in her narcisissm seminars online. Basically it means someone who aids and abets the bully, who is a willing minion. Here we have several Flying Monkey types who deliberately look the other way when they see abuse. They enable the bullies or the narcissistic staff by stroking their ego, "kissing up," and pretending to be standby authority figures among their peers. In turn, they are awarded with special favors, such as immediate access to staff, copies of house keys, special recognitions (even if they are inventive). <br /></span></li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Picture how this works with the Peter Principle or principle of inefficiency: Residents love to act out and break things and waste supplies. Instead of counseling residents on these matters, the Program Administrator specializes in creating and administering work orders: the more maintenance requests there are to manage, the better. Therefore there is a preference to let things go unfixed, to delay or postpone, and to create more paperwork by keeping track of new purchase orders.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Unleash the psychopaths in our society</b>:<i> </i>COVID-19 has furnished its own unique excuse, given them free rein even. Whether it's a lurking Dr. Mengele, Dr. Ishii, Dr. Kevorkian, or whomever, the Death Doctor honestly probably feels he or she is doing society a favor by suffocating their patients to death. </span></li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"<i>The family will be spared caring for this older disabled person, if ever they did!"</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"The government doesn't have to enact so many austerity measures or cutbacks on Social Security. We will help the government save money!"</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"Euthanasia is the trend. Why must so many Americans live so long when they are no longer active in the production line? My line of thinking goes along with all those great industrialists! Save those pensions and health insurance for SpaceX." </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"Who cares if the COVID-19 vaccine is inappropriate or not? I am following orders and they are my laboratory guinea pigs!" <br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Enable Agism, Machiavellianism, and Other -isms to flourish</b>. If you had a mean girl streak, the time is ripe for conducting harassment under the cloak of virtue, following guidelines, climbing the career ladder, cheating, crime, etc. Because theoretically, everyone is too busy and nobody has the time to chase down petty crime. Just like the break-in to this older lady's room in our house. Even if she and I had a well-founded suspicion who it might be, nothing was done. The staff even doubted that 'she had so much money in her room.' But what about the fact that multiple people in the house have master/old keys? </span></li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Even at the Sports Club near Georgetown, some gals were remarking in my hearing that with so many clubs around, older adults should just go exercise elsewhere. The implication was that we might be a 'threat to their safety.' Hmmph! And who is paying their club dues but their Daddy and Mommy, while we pay our own dues? In fact, a nearby yoga club now has more middle-aged women enrolling because they are welcomed and not just by their cohorts. </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/DoctorRamani">Doctor Ramani</a> advises in "Healing when there is no justice": <i>Don't wait for justice to come around</i>. In real life, often times it won't. Of course you can take steps to ensure it can take place. In the age of COVID-19, sure the senior centers and community centers are closed, but you do have their phone numbers and contact information! I have the D.C. Department of Aging and Community Living bookmarked! I have their phone number and email addresses. (<a href="https://dacl.dc.gov/services">https://dacl.dc.gov/services</a>) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Weaken our spiritual faith</b> as a society. Note I am speaking in the United States, that our society abounds at best in mixed messages. We mostly have the "Who Cares?" sign on our $50,000 leather jacket, and most of the juvenile educated, former ex-con, love-watching-sports types take pride in their paganism. Even talking with our housing minion about the recent death (which followed another semi-suicide six months ago), the "Tough as a Teamster" gal switched subjects and tried to make it about the single-horse track of "career probing." (Her headgame varies per resident, whichever one she thinks gets under your skin). Of course I personally have tried to spiritualize our living environment, but the attempts have failed beyond hanging paintings, sprinkling holy water, attaching symbols of love, and other decorations. It's a miracle when they are not destroyed or taken down. </span></li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Has it occurred to you that your concerns about the stove and whether the broken parts are fixed might be cured by PRAYER? YES, PRAYER. If we all prayed more, it might improve our temper and our patience, and then we might not be twisting the stove knob off, or kicking the wall, or cutting up the dish sponge...These things might just last longer if we cared more, treated our surroundings with gratitude...</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am not the only person who can feel the change, the passing of an age as it were, with the passing of so many elderly locked away, left to die, in nursing homes. They had wisdom, a free and useful product indeed, to share with society. But just like the recordbreaking wildfires in California, most people are too glued to their TV or smartphones to notice the winds of loss in the air. Even their pets can sense it, but the owners cannot, because it was not something told to them in the mainstream news.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We are not just a ship of fools; we refuse to acknowledge that a lifetime of wisdom does not happen overnight. When I study the buddhist tracts, I realize that the myriad of terminology, teaching methods, stories, songs, and art are all the work of centuries of monks and nuns who persisted in spite of adversity. They are like the scientists whose body of work we ignore in favor of the words of an ignoramus for President. (It's called the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect">Dunning-Kruger</a> effect of bias and illusory superiority.) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If there is any takeaway, I am dealing with the sorrow as much as I can on my own. There's precious little comfort here. So many of the guests and visitors are taken in by the superficial charms and hospitality of the moment....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij-6bMBqQ3bS_2TpLkb9Y66Dy6k05pMVzADpd86DGBxSlS5nD8q0rUW3ZGpFhRMaxksQsrDYAIMDq9E-CDjS0_68CaK0l_PAzUSRi8PxtOqVqCV8Zp09ZcdIzhlsZ9F_LdSt_DwRaEWdEu/s530/Doctor+Ramani+the+Narcissism+Expert.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="530" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij-6bMBqQ3bS_2TpLkb9Y66Dy6k05pMVzADpd86DGBxSlS5nD8q0rUW3ZGpFhRMaxksQsrDYAIMDq9E-CDjS0_68CaK0l_PAzUSRi8PxtOqVqCV8Zp09ZcdIzhlsZ9F_LdSt_DwRaEWdEu/w400-h217/Doctor+Ramani+the+Narcissism+Expert.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Doctor Ramani in "How to heal from narcissistic relationship when there is no justice"</i> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6LzDnJ6ziM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6LzDnJ6ziM - </a><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> <br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Watching Dr. Ramani, and Surviving Narcissism is not a sure-safe method to develop tactics against abusive people. Like Trump, they often will claim they are victims, and that perhaps you are the narcissist. All kinds of headgames...<br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><i> </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i> </i> <br /></div><br /><p></p>Hope Singhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720746609594778790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644695689598010305.post-3424497028211210172021-01-08T09:37:00.003-08:002021-01-08T10:07:22.498-08:00Trump is a psychopath, remove him now!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMGyl0nSQPpGkrSAryXMaYD4JPSZb2ExPWPYOtRB6LSTqvJX5B76lneDA-7Qbc4_EwSJix0UNwL89g7WZlbF8mZBaHmIL30OKdUpHlHGXi8-iqRxFIgqw2AbqaprN3_ghhYUZpjYK0M4fk/s3264/20201203_144438.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMGyl0nSQPpGkrSAryXMaYD4JPSZb2ExPWPYOtRB6LSTqvJX5B76lneDA-7Qbc4_EwSJix0UNwL89g7WZlbF8mZBaHmIL30OKdUpHlHGXi8-iqRxFIgqw2AbqaprN3_ghhYUZpjYK0M4fk/w300-h400/20201203_144438.jpg" width="300" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Union Station now looks like ghost town from the 1970s & Steal the Rally sponsors recommended the marchers to dine out in Alexandria, VA!</i> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Trump is a psychopath, he deserves jail time!</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b><b> </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We watched it all, starting on January 5, 2021 with the gathering at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. through January 6, 2021 at various patriot outlets. I will list them here, although due to the trespassing on the Capitol grounds, including in Washington, DC, Columbia, SC, Olympia, WA, we are not sure those YT channels will stay up. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/q0dj37PR3Cg"><i>Live Protest Network</i></a> LIVE | Huge Patriot Rally </span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Agenda-Free TV</i> - <a href="https://youtu.be/9BeHHQ9CXUo">DC Events Coverage - Congress, Marches, Electoral Votes</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/jchar22"><i>Status Coup</i> </a>- Stop the Steal Coverage (Live coverage now redacted) </span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzGDjf4dWoE"><i>WUSA9 </i>- Pro Trump supporters </a>stormed Capitol, one woman dead (redacted)</span></li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There are various small channels that also offered live coverage or feeds. The channel operators claim that the feeds do not necessarily reflect their views, yet obviously, like <i>NTDTV</i> or <i>Epoch Times</i>, the rebels were not just talking with anybody. You needed to be on their side to be granted access for interviews, is the way they saw it!<br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On January 5, 2020 at Freedom Plaza, one citizen-journalist making the rounds with Trump activists was repeatedly rebuffed, even threatened for being suspected of "being a socialist, communist, antifa." <i>WUSA9</i>'s reporter stayed blocks away from the melee because these blokes are not your friendliest.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We encountered quite a few of the 'Stop the Steal' activists inside Walmart on January 5, and wandering around along Massachusetts Avenue. Just very average looking people, yet it is clear they are on a mission, sent by God himself no doubt. Typical of these reactionaries are several noticeable traits. They are excitable. Within a minute or two if they discover your views do not align with theirs, they will commence attacking you, calling you names. They refuse to listen to the voice of logic and reason once they can no longer defend their shallow talking points. They have a lot of deep-seated anger, and arguably this is misplaced anger, since taking the side of the billionaire kleptomaniac family is far from good for the American public. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji4mS7ddQ1h1YPpWN8r4XHE4smWYYBtVlJepqK7tLZ1Hc5sCMH3mqLyezfVZ3924lyyEb9TjT0K6MVLgSkb8yqgOCMIkGnL36Dtgt1XqkLRx3zZj9fxb66FNBlc5CLNmDexh8LwcKPP_Bv/s3264/20200902_105855_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji4mS7ddQ1h1YPpWN8r4XHE4smWYYBtVlJepqK7tLZ1Hc5sCMH3mqLyezfVZ3924lyyEb9TjT0K6MVLgSkb8yqgOCMIkGnL36Dtgt1XqkLRx3zZj9fxb66FNBlc5CLNmDexh8LwcKPP_Bv/s320/20200902_105855_HDR.jpg" /></a></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Just in case you don't believe me, my neighbor is one of them...</i><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Just in case you don't believe that we know what we are talking about, my neighbor is one of them! She routinely hates on people, and maintains all kinds of stock stereotypes of how we should behave, yet somehow because we do not meet expectations, she has a right to be angry, accuse us of discrimination, call the police...</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> <br /></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For over four years we have had to watch more and more people succumb to the Trump Derangement Syndrome. The marvelous part being that any time the person tries to defend themselves against a false accusation by a TDS patriot, that patriot will also play the victim, sort of how an opossum plays dead to escape capture. And of course the counter-attack, counter-lawsuit, counter-distraction is one of Trump's most notorious plays. It's how he's managed to evade the plaintiff, and according to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/trump-lawsuits/"><i>USA Today</i></a>, it was over 4095 lawsuits in 2016. It's not rocket science to understand why he wanted to stay in office! It has nothing to do with Jo Public, but rather legal protections afforded by immunity from prosecution as a President of the United States! (Here's a <a href="https://crushthelsatexam.com/deep-dive-donald-trumps-long-history-of-lawsuits/">nice graphic for aspiring law students</a> in case you want to join his team!) <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So why are so many followers being duped into believing that he is the Son of God himself? That his words are unquestionable? That his tweets are COMMANDS? Is it because it gives them the same kind of torpor as some sweet red knockout drops? <br /></span></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No doubt it's sort of complicated. <i>People who are conservative, according to Big 5 personality tests tend to be less open, more prone to rigid inflexible thinking.</i> Like my neighbor will only listen to radio stations with plenty of Trump-speak. Technology has enabled us to share over time and space in split seconds, but it has also morphed what used to be a daily diet of balanced news into a smorgasbord selected by Facebook or our other artificial intelligence feeds. So we revel in group confirmation and viewpoints that increasingly exclude and target the opposing side. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Insecure people (including Trump or Bannon) will devote hours upon hours checking their social feeds because they have become addicted to managing their profile.</i> Just look at how many WH press secretaries Trump has turned over, an average of one per year; not to mention the other turnover in the Cabinet. They absolutely demand that people reflect, no genuflect in front of them, take the "Trump Oath." There are people who adore Trump because they adore his manly power. They believe he exudes financial gain, limitless fame, and the boundless glory of the Presidency. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>In every age, there are the worshipers of Baal (god of Money), and Moloch (god of human sacrifice).</i> Moloch requires child-sacrifice, and this is why Trump set up the detention camps and wants to build the US-Mexican border wall. Like the counterpart in Israel, the border wall is a ruse to foment bloodshed, captivity, and human suffering. According to human rights groups such as Amnesty International, hundreds of children have gone missing. However, since those are only from official reports, there are more likely thousands of missing children, children who conveniently disappear and reappear in human trafficking as slave labor or child sex-slaves or are sacrificed.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The type of people who gravitate towards Baal and Moloch don't wear special name tags and do not need to join the occult. <i>In America, all they have to do is become addicts of junk pop-culture</i>, such as the Hollywood-elite controlled satanic worshiping trashy rock music videos; for children, their induction comes via stages of advancement in the world of virtual gaming. Their brains fried by ritual slayings, their hearts benumbed by one-sided episodes, their souls become as corrupt as their parents. And for those who cannot believe that this behavior is condoned, please investigate all the politicians who were potentially tied to Jeffrey Epstein pedophilia or K12 teachers connected with Hell's Angels drug and human trafficking. Their nights are the same as their days, an endless jumble fest of feeding, acquiring, and preying upon others...<br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Our mainstream culture bans spirituality in public news, schools, and almost any other setting. The only practice left is hedonism and decadence, pagan savagery and competition. This is why the elders are fascinated with raping children, is because they cannot believe in God, but meanwhile, they lust after youth, because they do not believe in the sanctity of true Nature and the sacred Cosmos. Its like some savages that we know who will celebrate chopping down the very last tree in the forest as an unforgettable ritual, and who will wake up with the forest gone, the riverbed dried, and yet not be able to recount their own responsibility, but instead, will start murdering and cannibalizing one another. Sacred indeed!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But here is what Jared Hussey lists in "<a href="https://medium.com/bigger-picture/the-13-types-of-donald-trump-supporters-f463670578b2">13 Types of Donald Trump Supporters</a>." There are the haters, proud deniers, ignorant dads, fans of The Apprentice, die-hard Republicans, child molesters, slogan suckers, establishment Russians, Frat D-Bags, ISIS, sexists, gun people, selfish people. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We pointedly beg to differ on the "establishment Russians" for several reasons. One, there are not that many Russian-Americans; two the Russians have been accused of info-war spin ala puppet master Vladislav Surkov, however, there are a lot more neocons involved in spin, not to mention the Mercer family, who may have once again helped this election cycle through social media or via superPAC funding; third, the accusation of the Russians being involved might be less precise than that of Zionist Jews favoring the incumbent. It is no secret that there are close links between Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Some people have alleged that ISIS itself is not only a CIA funded creation but assisted and infiltrated by the IDF. In the aftermath of the election, and as the frustrations of Donald Trump have mounted, where did Jared Kushner run to but Israel? Presumably it was to advance the Peace Treaty, and in fact he also can spend time in his home on the West Bank (where Jewish developments have mostly been acquired by illegal settlements since the land belongs to Palestine). Thus, if Trump is looking for a safe haven in the aftermath of leaving office, the West Bank might be a such a place, as there are other illegal settlers there, but he would still be afforded the free protections of the IDF, and can remain invisible there if he wants to, or build some new hotels. And the West Bank has become a safe-haven for convicted Jewish criminals, perhaps such as Jeffrey Epstein. <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Selfish people?</span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Hussey <a href="https://medium.com/bigger-picture/the-13-types-of-donald-trump-supporters-f463670578b2">writes</a>: <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"You might be a Trump supporter reading this and thinking to yourself, '<i>Hey, I don't fit any of these categories.</i>' First, look back and read again. Are you sure you're not racist? Are you my dad? Well, if you don't fit any of the above groups, then this group is for you. You're just plain selfish. You voted for Trump because his policies would benefit you (or you <i>thought</i> his policies would benefit you)...."</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Does this explain the close election results? Our opinion is that in fact there was voter machine tampering or envelope miscounts but that it might have been the other way because in October, the political pundits had forecasted an up to 15% lead by Biden over Trump. <i>How could that 15% lead be narrowed down to less than 5%? </i>It's actually surprising that more Democrats have not been screaming about cheating...</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But our pro-Zionist media is always also intent on keeping the American public focused on "civil war" possibilities; the elite would see the common citizens as nothing but pawns who must by kept distracted by bread-and-circuses. Since they have gotten most of the "bread" breaks from any bail-out legislation, then all we have left are the "circus" arenas; such is the fanfare of this past summer's Black Lives Matter riots. Those riots (enabled by the Trump-law-and-order cops) have pitted the voters on the opposite side of the patch, the poor whites, against their traditional fictive enemy, the hapless blacks. It is nothing less than pathetic, that in the middle of the worst pandemic to strike the world, and especially the United States, since 1917, along with global recession, that the American public is warring over "socialism and CCP." </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmyMribNnOrg503tI9gg-nlRYN3H3irwJjVvgV0PzWquMDEuMURcFPhyphenhyphenM7yk0N9gWSStUG70XI3JmcHZL7g2f5e1kFjffDJqaaxWbpiOd5hVpv9o58s90V5tdXjKOB_Z836nDvi0Byp-uA/s680/ErG4KrtVQAIyJ2I.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="314" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmyMribNnOrg503tI9gg-nlRYN3H3irwJjVvgV0PzWquMDEuMURcFPhyphenhyphenM7yk0N9gWSStUG70XI3JmcHZL7g2f5e1kFjffDJqaaxWbpiOd5hVpv9o58s90V5tdXjKOB_Z836nDvi0Byp-uA/s320/ErG4KrtVQAIyJ2I.jpeg" /></a></div></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>#MagaThugs had it planned out weeks in advance!</i><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The "selfish" per Hussey have no concept of the virus being a natural borne transmogrified entity. They are too conformist to recognize that trickle-up has actually happened; we can see they NEVER notice homeless people who are invisible to them; but they love to PROJECT THEIR BLAME onto whoever they can target. And Trump embodies that opportunity for them: He is the figure-head of the angry bloviating monster who will blame, balk, and bombast his figurative enemies rather than try to understand, empathize, coordinate, and cooperate. This is one reason why in the middle of such a horrible year, all Trump has bragged about is the health of Wall Street, and the need to take military and economic action against enemy nations. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Selfish People? Haters? Proud Deniers? Gun People? Sexists?</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You saw plenty of those at the Steal of the Century MAGA Rally on January 5, and January 6, 2020 (even if the Virginia Women did hold a 'fake' prayer circle). And if you check out some of these hash tags, you will be assured that I am not alone in my condemnation of these horrific events which took place yesterday. After all, my first introduction to Washington, D.C. was in 1977 when our family took a Back East vacation that included several days in the nation's capital. I still remember our VIP tour of the Capitol building. My parents loved it so much they signed us up for a VIP tour <i>twice</i>. Funny that in the intervening years, I have not gone on any additional tours, but I have been in the vicinity quite often, often for research purposes, other times conducting political advocacy. It's like the Black Lives Matter twitter feeds notes, that double standards are SO OBVIOUS HERE IT WAS INTENTIONAL. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Last year, I was just taking a walk around the Capitol building, and had to sit and rest. Well, just because the bench was too close to the steps on the West side, the guard scowled at me and pointedly tried to make me sit somewhere else. It was a marble bench by the steps and I had no intention of climbing the steps, yet he would not even let me sit there. And he was a guard of color, but it really doesn't matter; it's their somewhat blatant sexist attitude and particularly towards Asian-American female walking alone, as if that were somehow a crime from the Victorian era...</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And this is not to mention the perfectly shameful descending on a handful (less than 30) <a href="http://www.asiangreennews.com/2018-ppehrc-march-on-washington-showcases-voices-of-poor/">Poor People for Economic Human Rights Marchers</a> the security agencies harassed and tried to arrest for camping at Dupont Circle in June 2018, after they had triumphantly and <i>laboriously</i> marched from Philadelphia, PA to Washington, D.C. <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There's a lot more at these Twitter.com feeds about whether or not these were not a blatant coups attempt. Believe me, all you have to do is watch (hopefully not too redacted) the videos at <i>StatusCoup </i>channel to view the sophisticated coordination via social media, the planned points of entry and methods of attack to gain entry. The clumsy responses of the guards looking like rapprochements, as if they were playing football. Nothing like what would be expected if this were a group of angry colored women, which might include their using tasers, rubber bullets, and clubs. All the Capitol police, even in the Library of Congress normally carry taser guns or guns with possibly rubber bullets. So why the guards would be essentially standing by is more than likely because they were told this circus would appease the Group of Seven...</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Check this out: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MagaThugs">#MagaThugs</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Blklivesmatter">@blklivesmatter<span></span></a> also <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MAGATerrorists">#MagaTerrorists</a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stay tuned....Afterall, this unrest is not going to go away soon, and that's exactly what the elite like, is a state of civil war, just so Trump and his family can safely stowaway those $600 million SuperPAC monies, or arranges self-pardons, or keep those dirty slaving subcontractors off their backs, maybe in China, right? </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">PS. <i>Epoch Times</i> and <i>NTDTV</i> were paid off a long time ago to become the Asian version of <i>Fox News</i>. They have literally furnished Trump all the toxic lingo he uses on a daily basis to "blame China" such as "CCP Virus" and all the rest of the baloney. <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b> </span></span> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><p></p>Hope Singhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720746609594778790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644695689598010305.post-16535928523367515392020-09-07T14:03:00.005-07:002021-01-08T04:54:39.741-08:00Social Engineering Already Here: Branding by the Building<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://yourhomelessblog.blogspot.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="HUD Architecture Luxury Tower Branding" border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Z0beDEvFR9fdHJufUehjHNx7sYXfdDxgGfCmS_p1zFq9boZk8G0Xw_xkZ1HA_T3kz1ZNUDyibnwJmQEuMrs-btG5QTP26IBV9c99NxRZE6-ib87hxyUP4RIEZwVUqtiHwfEdUYS9Kzyc/w240-h320/HUD+Luxury+Tower.jpg" title="Luxury Towers Brave New World" width="240" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>HUD Building looks like Luxury Tower</i> </div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Social Engineering: Name-Branding Your Soul <br /></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span> <span> </span></span></b><span><span style="font-size: small;">While this entry may sound like a personal story, it isn't. It's about a story of injustice and aggrievement being played out over and over all across the country ever since Covid-19. We presume that you are at least half-conscious of the pandemic which has forced global lockdowns and deprived people of their livelihoods, jobs, homes, adequate healthcare, access to public services, etc.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"> <span> </span>A shutdown called by independent commentators such as <i>The Last American Vagabond</i> as a poor people's disease, because the rich take medicines we are not supposed to, have immediate access to healthcare, enjoy their vacation at home or escape to their favorite getaway, have gotten more filthy rich than ever due to their lawyers being able to economically engineer the Payment Protection Program (PPP) such that they are able to get a cut for their small business front companies, and laugh all the way to the Swiss bank about it while avoiding taxes.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>Despite <i>TLAV </i>holding the races on super-long broadcasts, leaning libertarian, and painting an information war with Surkov-style apathy, the observations take the rhetoric apart for us to see behind the curtain on what appears to be a move toward medical martial law, martial law, and just plain social totalitarianism. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>There is the theoretical construct of a social democracy, such as has long existed in Europe, a destination that many refugees flee to when their home countries are stricken by war, drought, poverty, hunger, and disease. Europe appears to be the fat cow with larder enough for everyone, regardless of whether you paid land taxes or not, and a sort of cultural totalitarianism is underway. <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>Totalitarianism is being ordered what to do by the authority of the moment, whether a bouncer at a biergarten, team member at your gym, paranoid neighbor, bossy Karen, a manipulative and controlling real estate agent, etc. They have a vested interest, like Trump, in a fanciful Hollywood image of their brand, and what can create more capital for them, and you are branded based on your usefulness to their marketing. Short of that, you are nothing to them.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"> Am I being overly harsh about life for the lower 50%? No, on the contrary, things have never looked so bad, and the worst part is that we have an administration that lacks any kind of empathy, and his staff have all taken the personal loyalty oath, meaning they do not serve the people, they serve a private corporation embodied in Trump. At least 60% of the people or more inside the Beltway lean pro-conservative, pro-military, pro-big-business, pro-status quo. As long as their little fiefdoms are protected, they don't mind seeing the musical chairs game. They are advising their sons and daughters to walk around the circle faster, and grab hold of chair to sit on before the music stops. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>The fortunate squeeze through the door but understand the rules regarding the unlucky. Whether it's a relative, neighbor, friend, they are, in the words of the beautiful eloquence of the <i>Dayz of Noah</i>, now labeled "pre-crime." Pre-crime is the label for the homeless, the unemployed, the underemployed, those without adequate documents, those without a permanent home, any older person of color, any person who is handicapped, any person with poor health, and so forth. One doesn't need to be a rocket scientist to notice that anyone can be suspected of falling into the undesirables category, or mistaken as such, and hence the growing sense of fear, paranoid, and playing cool-in-the-gang-lock-step fascinisto. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>The point is that unlike in other countries, such as rural villages in the old-country, in China, or elsewhere, your unhappy misfortunate relatives are not welcome to stay with you, not allowed to stay for longer than a week, and you are encouraged to abuse them because "<i>a poor person is bad marketing</i>." </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>Yet what really goes on in some of these smart luxury towers inside the Beltway or in New York or Seattle. Everywhere the image is the same: young white couple obediently wearing face masks trotting out their fanciful dog of choice (who doesn't need a mask) so it can do whatever three times a day. They look like the Dick-and-Jane of pre-<i>Rocky-Horror Picture Show</i>, ever so clean, decent, proper, suave, wholesome-looking, etc. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"> <span> </span>Oh, are looks deceptive, as <i>Eyes Wide Open</i>, Stanley Kubrick's last movie do hint. You can never tell these days, who is post-<i>Rocky-Horror Picture Show</i>, and that is part of the Problem, to add to the heap of problems that the greatest country on Earth does not want to recognize or deal with. The administration is deadset on all manners of sideshows to derail what ought to be the true stories of the day, and what we all should be talking about, if only it were more like FDR. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>So yes, we are faced with a growing number of homeless, of desperate home-owners, of jobless, of insecure, and these people of course are also stressed because our society will duly ostracize them and shame them if their instability is uncovered. These people probably have no time or energy to protest, but the orchestrated circuses of BLM vs T-Party Militia seemingly absorbs all of prime-time media. There are no bombs going off in Lebanon, no wildfires raging for months on end, no children trapped in detention centers, no crowded families squeezed into wire cages (as depicted by Amnesty International). Just a growing potential for what the administration wants most: more strife for more martial law.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>The people inside the Luxury Towers are not saints. Not by any stretch of the imagination where my sister lives. On the contrary, no actually saintly person would want to live there. It's the very reification of High Rise, a novel in which the upper floors of the Tower persecute and shame the lower floors. This is the problem with the rich who have no heart: they end up like the 40 Thieves in Alibaba, attempting to do one another in, showing one another up, with endless strife and competition because they have no sense of inner peace and grounding.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>Their sins are manifold, yet they are immune to prosecution and guiltless because they belong to The Club. So inside, they hold their rave parties, their footsteps on the floor sounding like sheep hooves prancing over your ceiling, for even though where my sister lives is pricey, the slab floors are thin and the wooden floor covering conveys the rattataptap until the wee hours. They swim or rather stand in the shallow rooftop pool, pasty Eastern skin slathered in gourmet coco-butter to spread sweet scents and entice the wrinkled but powerful. They gather in bunches at the pool sitting side-by-side, in-front of one-another, possibly even engaging in grinding motions. And whether or not there are bodily fluids leaking into the rare pool, when it leaks down to the floor below (which it does every other year), those occupants get a special kind of shower...</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>This is social-engineering at its finest, <i>Brave New World</i> style. The nearby universities encourage their coeds to stay at this luxury apartment building, and the building always offers them a generous discount during their first year. College coeds, paying hefty tuitions, are not discouraged from meeting up with a sugar-daddy or two whether in the building, or welcomed into the building during their weekend parties. The local dealers all know which luxury building they can connect with, cultivating connections, and cruising around at night to peddle their pharmacopia from trunks. Just like <i>Eyes Wide Open</i>, the staff, the security, the so-called responsible establishment do not see these going-ons. They are never acknowledged, since that would be bad for their business.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>But everyone knows its part of the brand. That is also conveyed by the ghastly looking paintings hung on the wall, done in oil, perversion of scrimshaw, scrawls dribbled in phantasmagoria, conveying the psychedelic, and awakening the unsound senses. Knobby sculptures hinting of the body but missing major parts. Cheap slate flooring mistaken for expensive because of the floozy at the front desk. Sanity represented by male concierge in a suit who calls out his greetings to Floor 9, but ignores Floor 1. Everyone must go out of the same door, and come back in by the same door basically too. The managers come and go, but they always owe their longevity to who they can curry the most favors with among the residents. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span><span></span>Marvelously, there is never shortage of prospective residents hoping to view the showplace where my sister lives. The Problem is that my sister is not in good health, in fact, she is in rather poor health, especially mentally. Thus she hardly ever listens to her phone, checks her email, and avoids social contact. She lives like a recluse in the building and is afraid to move away, since it's the only home she's known in DC for the past 15 years. There are many available units on sale right now in DC due to the building craze going on. Many older residents can hardly recognize their old landmarks, because they stand beneath or beside new faux natural stone or mortuary ash-brick boxy custom McUrban towers. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span>The curators of these buildings do vary. Some are rather friendly, and quite a few even do a follow-up. However at my sister's place, because of all the high-powered residents, a frosty nastiness is evident. If you dare to comment or complain about anything, unless you are above floor 4, you are not taken seriously. Even if you are live above floor 4, the response is often flippant. Unfortunately the way the building is designed, they have sewer drain pipes running down along the corners of units of the inner bearing wall of the central corridors. These leak every now and then and my sister has had her toilet backed up at least once, which freaked her out so much, that I ended up cleaning up the floor and carpet for her. Of course it would have taken half a day at least for the staff to come and do it, and so I had to, even though she hardly thanked me. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span>There are actually complaints about the sewer overflowing in the tub of another resident recently on <i>Yelp</i>, with an unsightly photo of the tub 1/4 filled with scummy grey water. How long <i>Yelp</i> will keep that review up, I don't know. Yelp claims to keep their reviews up indefinitely but they shuffle the poorly rated ones down or even put them in the hide-section (which are not viewable on Android phones). And they also do restructuring of the website every so often to basically thin-down the number of reviews. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span> <span> </span>Their current staff is more nasty than ever, because the high-powered are now working in a Republican administration, and they really do not care for people of color or any kind of deplorable. Of course, where deplorable goes, it is a completely arbitrary label. In my view, having a floozy working at the front desk, with very fake dyed hair, cleavage showing, very pushy and manipulative, and frankly looks like a person who might have once worked in housecleaning at a cheap motel, sends mixed messages. And she was obviously cherry-picking among the visitors, who would immediate get to go on a self-guided tour, and who might have to wait for a long time, and who would never gain access. <span> </span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span>The long and short of it was the floozy and manager waved the white visitors on up, whether they were dressed in shorts or had no drivers license to show. The Asian visitors were told by the floozy to sit and wait, and the manager never came out. The Asians finally managed to wheedle their way for access. This former resident, with a clean security record, whose brother is also on the lease as a medical doctor, and probably parents as well, was told she was not allowed upstairs unless there was a direct invite from my sister.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span>My sister's condition is such that days and nights are sometimes indistinguishable, and her self-care is at times questionable. She does barely qualify for her unit, and it is probably thanks to my brother, a military officer in the Navy, but she still earns at least 50% AMI. So anyway, because the costs for living there are always high, including amenities, and her best friend who used to help with lease renewal bargaining has moved away, she still spends at least 50% on rental. Then due to Covid, they also cut off the free Breakfast Bar. They always bragged about the free Breakfast, but they also always watched you like a hawk. This is because they skimped on breakfast items in order to snack on them themselves. I used to see them snacking on them or wrapping them up to take home. And my sister relied on those free bagels and apples or bananas alot! </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span>So yes, my intention to share some canned goods, and make up from our fight from 3 years ago has come to naught so far because of the staff always obstructing my entry basically. I know my sister has written to encourage me to visit, even told me what times, but she doesn't answer her phone and her call bell is wired to her phone. So every time I try, I am basically rudely turned away. When I try and mention that they used to allow guests, especially next of kin, to just sign in (if they are known by sight) and go upstairs, they cut me off short. They even threaten to call security. This kind of awful snobbish treatment is unlike the other luxury towers I am touring, which at most might require you leave your drivers license with the front desk. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span>But these luxury towers, again only base your credibility upon your monetary value and appearance. And even if I dress well, look confident, start off courteously enough, and am generally patient, these evil staff are acting as if I am already "pre-crime" maybe because I don't act as constipated as some of these Republicans generally do. I don't know. It is obviously discrimination, and an attempt to indirectly affect my sister and family well-being by being obstructive.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span>As a matter of fact, there are many past reviews of this and other apartments where the resident complained of being ostracized or treated like dirt after the resident suffered the humiliation of losing their employment. Other comparable experience is graduating and no longer being offered grants or loans. The staff at my sister's place share and gossip about the personal information that is provided, and draw unfair subjective conclusions, and they have amassed a very indiscrete amount of personal, financial, career, employment, health profile of my sister, my brother, my parents, and probably they are sharing it with the NSA due to the presence of high-profile residents in the building, "for security reasons." </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span>Rest assured, they might even have a mark by name or face recognition feature where they have identified such-and-such as a journalist, reporter, misfit, lower 30% or whatever. The point is that for no reasonable specific reason, they have chosen to try to treat me as a pariah (even though I have repaired my relationship with my parents, have marvelous relationships with cousins, friends, boss, co-workers, and students). This is impacting my ability to check up on my sister, and try to convey to her important personal information, and also collect personal belongings that I own in her keeping. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span>The other point is again how this Luxury Tower preys on wealthy people by pretending to cater to all their needs. For instance, even though my brother is on the lease as a resident, as a matter of fact, he owns a couple other flats, and is often away. In fact, once Covid hit NYC, he and his Ukrainian wife moved back to the Ukraine, and he has been hiding out there ever since. It's really not such a safe place there due to all the radioactivity still emanating from Chernobyl, and also their biological research labs, and also the ordnance from skirmishes with Russia. And now especially because of an influx of Bela-Russians. But the point is that staff don't really care or mind because he has the title, honor, and wealth. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span>Now the fact is this brother is quite a little dictator in our family, an authoritarian who breaks into screams and tirades when things don't go his way. He was actually a clean decent Naval Officer, but because he is Chinese-American, and because he didn't want to go to all those weird perverted military parties, they moved him up as slowly as possible. And because he was moved up in pay and rank ever so slow compared to his Naval Academy buddies, he succumbed to this careerist mentality whereby instead of being wholly concerned with his profession as a medical doctor, he was developing all these interests in the stockmarket, in trying to amass wealth, and in dabbling in real estate. Of course a lot of doctors are secretly into the title, honor, and glory of being in medicine, and tempted by the junkets and wealth associations. Nevertheless the imbalance can become pronounced, such as his urge to collect money from my parents for any advice and treatment he provides them, for charging them for stays at the fancy downtown Four Seasons, with the price tag including rooms for his six dogs, and insisting that he take charge of the family trust. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span>Both he and my other brother have been squabbling over their authority over this trust, or being able to take it over totally someday. And this brother has also treated, or both of them have treated me with utmost contempt, and in fact they still do, because they really hope that I disappear off the face of the planet. I am in their opinion, both an unwanted threat and burden, and even if things are better for me now, and I do part-time work, and I have my own place to stay, and I have a healthy social network, and I maintain my professional licenses, these brothers are not happy about my having made up with my parents. They would prefer that I be basically disowned, dead, or completely forgotten. This way there would never be any inheritance for me, even though to be honest, I don't even cash the checks my parents mail me! My brother was mad at me, enraged that I refused his money. He thinks that as a poorer person, I should be lapping up his offers of whatever he has to offer me, even though I have a sense of dignity, and if I didn't want a large HDTV to deal with, I will actually just give it away. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span>So this is how both my brothers are, and the staff at my sister's apartment complex realize that since I am the proverbial black sheep, they hope to participate in furthering the separation in their own mean mealy-mouthed ways. I love both my brothers, and pray for them often, but their usurious interests are quite hypocritical and they will try to pretend, like the staff, that it is all about me. In fact, their latest gambit is to just block off my phone, put me on lockdown, and not return emails. This is to short-circuit any attempt at communication, while pretending that I don't exist. I still have their emails, and they have not blocked that yet, but the pecking order is quite clear. They do not believe I can or should be allowed to be of any consequence in the family, even if I actually have my parents' interest at heart. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span>The crookedness of the staff at the Luxury Tower where my sister lives is such that they will pretend that they can provide accommodations to sick, elderly, and disabled people, even when they, in fact, regard them as an extreme nuisance. During my stay, the maintenance engineer would try my door even if I had not filed any request for maintenance, even popping his head in the door to take a look around. When I complained about that, of course it was dismissed. The culture of the Luxury Tower is all about money, status, and pretenses. So everyone has this noveau riche air, whomever they are. It is like trying to ask the current President to care about the people being evicted from one of Jared's many slumlord apartment complexes. He might throw them a roll of toilet paper for a good laugh, but that's about all he cares. People at the Luxury Tower are being behaviorally conditioned and monitored in order to entrain them with the dialectics of capitalist bestiality. <i>You must not care about the lower 40%. All that matters is who lives here, maintaining your ethos of respectability, doing your strut, and supporting our culture of ruthless hedonism. </i></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><i><span> </span></i>The worst part of the Problem is that with a sort of John le Carre unfolding macabre nightmare, my poor mother might actually have to move in with my sister and brother at this horrible Luxury Tower should she be widowed. It is my duty as a daughter to help keep her informed of better options in the Metro DC area. There are so many nicer gentler communities for older retirees in upper NW, and these communities also have Chinese people living there too. But my mentally disabled sister, and unstable brother, both would not be able to reason that my mother might want her own place, but force her to live in this horrid Luxury Tower, where they routinely isolate, target, and prey on vulnerable people, as they have basically already done to my sister. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><i><span> </span></i>For instance, after she was laid off from her place of employment with the government over eight years ago, they began secretly shaming her, and browbeating her, but being the conforming type, she basically just kept clinging on there. <i>"It's the most beautiful apartment building in Washington, D.C." </i>she has always gushed. She even convinced me although at the time, I had very little choice. They used to keep the architectural book about the building on the coffee table, and she would paw through it, marveling at each and every photo. I could hardly believe that anyone found the place so fascinating, but yes, my brother is about the same way. He has always loved to build model ships and he loves everything in kits and in ready-to-assemble form, so the idea that these luxury homes have everything about your lifestyle made-to-order probably seems like quite a bit of freedom coming from his neck of the woods.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><i><span> </span></i>The joker card in The Problem is my brother on the West Coast and his own insatiable materialism, and probably urge to also monopolize the trust. Maybe she will be able to stay on the West Coast, and that would actually be a relief so long as she somehow avoids the clutches of these real estate Luxury Tower monsters. We also have aunts and relatives who might know of where she can stay, but my mother can be quite overwhelmed and subject to the fake concerns and entreaties of my siblings when the time comes. I know for sure that over the past eight years, rather than heal from her losing her job, heal from her mental illness, heal from her fears and reclusivity, in fact, my sister has sort of gotten more extreme. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span>It so reminds me of all the sad and desperate Americans who are facing these kinds of challenges should they try to move in with relatives. They will be treated like a cancer, like an eyesore. They will be ostracized and shamed. The staff of the Luxury Tower will brand them as "pre-crime" and make it extremely difficult for them to move in or even stop by and visit. The staff branding them are not in any way exceptional in mind, heart, talent, intellectualism, or background. Often, like the floozy at the front desk of the Luxury Tower my sister lives in, they are upgraded charwomen, or women who will do anything to ingratiate themselves with the high-powered clientele. The men are immigrants with green cards, who the Luxury Tower can pay a pittance, while collecting over millions of dollars in rent every month. The cleaning staff are so poor that they gorge themselves on the free complimentary breakfast food, and take it home. The lease agents come and go, but one can never tell who they also work for or what information they will take with them. And the residents are all just a collection of fair-weather friends, who rarely talk to God, or try to deepen their spirituality in real ways. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span></span><span></span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"> <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"> <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span></span><b><span></span> <br /></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span><br /> <span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> </span></p><p> </p>Hope Singhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720746609594778790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644695689598010305.post-54537935185271376452020-08-06T16:39:00.004-07:002020-09-07T09:41:24.839-07:00Karenism: Taking the Heart Out of Community <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://yourhomelessblog.blogspot.com/" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbsmGVLCUTF_b7AWZ-2oS5BxDfwaBrsAemAq6tYuX3ukmBhjp_yTXQTTmb_tG-S5WtANFiC79nHBklma2aUow4XFJqmXKV9z4IB3TnIMvT5JhgnsL2Kz-1N-o1UdcDRmWDWqnWWZy3t8oJ/w400-h300/20200721_115803_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://yourhomelessblog.blogspot.com/"><i>DC Housing Authority stopped receiving applications in 2013 <br />because the waiting list is too long </i><br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Blogging is a relief valve and amid the Covid-19 crisis, where the DC community is still in Phase 2, it's quite a relief to not have to worry about what this editor deems inappropriate. Normally, at <i>StreetSenseMedia</i>, there are several checkpoints. Willy checks, then the intern, and finally the editor. Although well-meant, it perpetuates a limited hangout and often for the sake of optics. <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It creates a lacuna between what homeless people can or cannot talk about, and trying to bridge the gap is designed to become your entrapment. <i>You must be ill, you must want money, you must want to cause trouble, you must want to become a famous writer, you must hope to carve a name for yourself...</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Actually, no, we just want to broach topics that we are not supposed to be able to talk about because that doesn't fit your marginalization plan for us. Nor does it augment the liberal argument for building more affordable housing that is okay so long as it remains mostly unaffordable. Nor for more educational programs for our betterment, if we can be bettered at all.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Normally in an essay we will take the time to define <i>karenism </i>according to Oxford Dictionary, or whatever else exists out there. But it doesn't take a Masters degree to understand that it is basically the Orwellian version of <i>caring, </i>taken to misconstrue kindness and benevolence as an opportunity to frustrate, to torment, to exert one's petty authority as a minion, to target, to convey harmful messages.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As <i>Poor News Network/Prense Pobre</i> recently described in "Abolishing the Karens" the well-meant Karens (perhaps misplaced feelings about living in a <i>Stepford Wives</i> Neighborhood) are out in force making phone calls to report on black/brown or any Other undesirables in the vicinity. As the case of the Montclair Karen (aka New Jersey Susan) demonstrates, these are acts of hate in the name of security, health, safety, following orders, etc. <i>BlasianFMA</i>'s podcast didn't include what the black couple looked like: a respectable Boomer-aged couple who undoubtedly are not the type to cause trouble. <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VvELGI8C5Co" width="320" youtube-src-id="VvELGI8C5Co"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://youtu.be/VvELGI8C5Co">Karenism by BlasianFMA https://youtu.be/VvELGI8C5Co</a><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ANY person of color understands the deep rooted fears and implications over a call to the police. Especially blacks/browns. Here in DC, I have had my challenges being on the receiving end of harassment before the new term. If we use the word micro-aggression that is also apropos, but again the liberals often object to its very existence. At Chevy-Chase, I have had people walk or RUN at a full 8-feet distance going out into the roadway just to "stay a safe distance." Obviously they don't do that among themselves or their co-equals, but this is how they have appropriated these distancing measures as tools for objectification and hostility. The same thing has happened along P Street in Dupont Circle, where the woman broke into a sprint to avoid any germs. Bearing in mind that I was dressed appropriately, bathe regularly, had a mask on, nothing unusual except my being nonwhite...</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Its a sad day when I have to resort to reporting these types of pathetic incidents because when I visited the Far East, there was no such paranoia, delusionary fears, frantic acting out, or subverting what should be a time of true caring. People everywhere wear masks, and the atmosphere is practical and peaceful. There are no political subterfuges, no targeting of others, no ridiculous scenes. <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But perhaps the West is still mistaking mask-wearing for the days of the Wild-West with its romance of train robbers and murderers. Or perhaps the West is in love with the idea of the Venetian Black-nobility with its masked balls, in which there are often political intrigues, illicit liaisons, and treason taking place. Wearing a mask makes the white-race angry because their noses have to be covered up.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This explains the "Cover Your Nose!" bark that I hear from white dudes. I've heard it now from at least two white-minions working at front desks. I've heard it from a couple grocery store workers, but the hostility from the minions was obvious: <i>Unless you conform you will not be admitted! You better know your place! You better obey me! Obey me now! <br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This sorry demand for respect is self-evident of the petty insecurity of the white-male whose power and self-affirmation is reduced to being a willing participant of the panopticon, where everyone can view and snitch on their neighbors. He's willing to become a Karen, for the sake of patting himself on the back that he is quite an authority. <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I mean, seriously, there might be a lot of germs coming from my nose, but hey, if it's Covid-19 virus emanating from my nostrils, do you seriously believe one cheesy mask is going to protect you from my germs? Get a load of yourself, dude, for having such fine critical reasoning skills. <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And then there is the stress of family. According to <a href="https://youtu.be/Ax7pk5wP_QE">National Healthcare for the Homeless Council</a>:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>"Call centers and police stations around the country report a staggering increase in domestic violence; violence in the home has become more common and significantly more severe during this crisis. For many households, safe places and coping strategies have been compromised while family stress has exponentially increased. For some, the threat of homelessness, incarceration, physical harm, and even death are much more pressing and real than the risks associated with coronavirus."<br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Again it's not rocket-science to realize how many safe-places are shut down due to COVID-19. Having come from a family with occasional domestic violence, school was a safe place, where you could hide from the fear and frustration. If you had a sister who was a bully, you didn't have to see her for a good part of the day, and to boot, you had your own friends, and the wisdom of teachers.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Locally many African immigrant men made especial use of the library because they live in such crowded apartments, and that is the only place where they can study for their community college courses. At Silver Spring Library, one could see how seriously they undertook their studies. They were always already stressed out there, so how much worse might it be at home! The same places are used by various others in the community who are hoping to go out for a short while, and in some places already hurt by austerity measures forcing the closure of parks and museums, this was the last straw. <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The entire catastrophe has been made needlessly worse than any other country because American culture is steeped in the Hollywood culture of hedonism, individualism, and atheism. There is nothing preventing us from fostering the nexus of careerism, narcissism, and cut-throat competition, which is what a real successful Karen might look like from the outside. She is more than entitled to her beautiful world and life, because she deserved it, worked so hard for it, and nobody should get in the way of her freedom. <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Karens in our neighborhood might not be as unfriendly as in Chevy Chase, nor as snobby as at Cleveland Park, but they don't have a moment to spare with their homeless neighbor forced to sleep on the church steps. Not a dime to spare for their unhappy sister. Not a kind word of comfort to someone turned out on the street. Instead, all that attention is therapeutically lavished upon their pet dog. This is what their head-shrinks recommend for making them feel good about themselves and to demonstrate they are fully human: to love their pet dog.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Siriusly</span></span></i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">, these folks don't give an effing-arse for their neighbor so long as they have their concrete box, I mean, luxury home, to escape into with all the right touches, the granite countertops, the stainless steel appliances, the centralized heating and cooling, the rooftop swimming pool and indoor gyms, the business office, the indoor laundromat, the LEED-certified platinum building rating, etc.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's just not cool to be Christian or kindly anymore. I can tell this from how precipitous the drop is in church attendance everywhere. My friend who grew up during the Great Depression used to tell me that everyone in his middle-class neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio kept a bag of spare food near the door. Any hobo passing by and begging for food would be provided at least a sandwich and a drink of water. They did not have to ransack through garbage bins looking for food, and there were a considerably lot less Karen-ism in those days.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the 1930s, if you read <i>The Jungle</i> by Upton Sinclair, it was okay to be a hobo. I mean, nobody should have to live that way, but if you wanted to travel the country and were desperately poor, you could travel as a hobo. Of course, maybe as white-hobo you had it a world better than a black-hobo. Most likely, yes.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Karenism, in my view, has a lot to do with what our country is missing due to years of offensive wars and war-mongering. We don't appreciate peace. We don't believe in family values much anymore. It's much more sexy to be satanic and engaged in virtual reality games and able to recite hate-mongering poems. Our politicians care much more about having their election campaign troves filled to the brim with enough cash than about conducting real conversations. <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It's the missing piece in the puzzle about why we feel so disconnected. Not only are we yielding to a culture of artificial intelligence and isolationism, but we revel in it. So communication with a so-called therapist takes only 10 minutes now, because she is not obligated to actually explore your issues. Your sibling, a medical professional himself, might generously offer you money. If you turn it down, he snarls nastily that no wonder you are to blame for your own troubles, when you have so much pride and lack humility. And to complete the jibe, he might say, well I hope you don't suffer too much. <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Money is the root of our evils and problems, yet we think it is the panacea. Does giving money replace the pain and suffering of living with a wife-beater? Do these one-time handouts replace the dignity and contributions of work? How well are we addressing the fact that so many have invested years and thousands of dollars in education, only to be told because they didn't graduate at the top of their class, or from the right university, their chance in finding a job will be nil? <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And what of all the wage-earners, the taxi-cab drivers, the chefs, the bakers, the baristas, who have all lost their jobs over the past months. Will we just conveniently say it was really their fault too? Will we just focus on a smaller and smaller segment of those who are currently enrolled in pay-to-play universities, where now one does not even hardly get the full advantage of what used to be known as a Learning Community? Sure, it can be conducted all online with Professor Karens, who are mediating the conversation to ensure that some are heard, while others are ignored. Some get to work for the EPA, but only if they agree that others never will. You can teach online, but only if you design a course that will give the University and unknown Third Parties unlimited rights...</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There are schools much more important to attend in the 21st century besides the white-washed versions which will tend to lock you into paths for years of servitude and overspecialization, years that we do not have anymore due to impending climate chaos and extinction. You will realize, 30 years too late, that you have frittered away your active life passing away the time watching <i>CNN. </i><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Part of being schooled in life is learning to embrace the reality of silenced youth, adults, and elders in poverty across the globe, silenced only because of being materially poor, even when they may be full of wisdom and streetsense. They've learned to fight back against Karenism because Karens have no problem over your demise, or having other people kill you. <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u5xGobt4j0M" width="320" youtube-src-id="u5xGobt4j0M"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://youtu.be/u5xGobt4j0M"><i>Abolishing the "Karens" by Tina Gray-Garcia (PPN)</i></a> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i></i><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The saddest personal story that I have to share today has to do with a ferocious Karen living on the premises of our home that is shared by a group of low-income women. So on top of the usual stress navigating around troublemakers around town, at home, we have had this person who I shall nickname T-2020, because she dresses in tea-party red, and is a maniac with the glue-gun, being very creative in crafting T-2020 on purse, walker, shoes, sweater, eyeglasses, jackets, coats, etc, so we all know who she admires as the greatest President ever. This T-2020 Karen has an unconscious desire to get-even on those who don't submit to her master. It emerges at night, and against certain persons who she targets. One of them, an African American woman who had a bit of a communication problem, became her gaslighting target. Typical of gas-lighters, she befriends the person, offers help such as free cigarettes, or paid shopping trips, but in return that person must essentially become her side-kick, such as being woken up several times a night for going out to smoke. Anyway, somehow word got out, and Karen had to drop her. But that came at a price, which was a certain enmity. The Karen now became a covert bully, even concocting a necessary restraining order, and calling the police. The eventual ending has been quite tragic. <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And this is exactly why we are including this sad-story and indeed, this blog entry. These "Karens" be they man, woman, white, black, brown, red, yellow, or any shade, they are harmful people who utterly disregard humanity over Rules, Things, Following Orders, and justifying twisting such to suit Their Own Bigotry. They may say they are not bigots, but the facts indicate otherwise. When this black/brown/other person passes on, or is imprisoned, or loses their job, or loses their home, or gets divorced, or is expelled from organization, it is STILL ALL ABOUT THEM. Just ask them if they remember that person's name. They don't. Just ask them if they have any regrets. They don't. Just share with them that others feel differently, and do they see that perspective. They don't! <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">They can't or they won't because they have had their heart operated on, and they may still have a mind, but their heart is damaged or missing. That's the doggone truth about these "Karens" imho. <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So beware of the possible fakes out there. <br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://yourhomelessblog.blogspot.com/" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc2XUe7XgyfiMHPCGnKhuTnJturtBsZemYyOBhxVQo8R3kLA9HT3J8MPpiU_D3ycTWnHFsbOJ1LUMJzlUEIoxfQE_2qmPu72zmio4AHzuvVMQTf2DiCQPN9IMLBCbmQa9MZwoouyYBxHnG/s0/20191231_300x400.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Real cute, but not real people!</i><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWAkyzD0SLdex1l2hk7GdHj8vfaU9xvPHhEzznVTtm01hqT_zXCuhh04wHjYu5LruDMpL7a-KwL8kreIh8CNEIR7KCf18FAP2M_dkBGLVdtd0NPxblZnQH8PryJzy3gQ0NRb4WWOZSabXq/s3264/20191231_081602.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><br /></a></div> </div>Hope Singhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720746609594778790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644695689598010305.post-51348244398336310242020-03-05T21:33:00.004-08:002020-09-07T09:43:11.534-07:00Social Credit: More than just money? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I wonder if people have heard about a social credit system before. This would be more than getting a pat on on the back or a friendly smile. (Although that's important too). It could be based on points, sort of like racking up points when you shop at Walgreens. Here's how former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang describes it. "Time banking is a system through which people trade time and build credits within communities by performing various tasks---transporting an item, walking a dog, cleaning up a yard, cooking a meal, providing a ride to the doctor, and so on."<br />
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I could see this being a social good right now for so many of my friends. For instance, Sally volunteers at a community 501c3 club, and pours her heart-and-soul into all the activities. But there are only (4) paid time slots and for some reason, even though Sally can use the money, she and about 10 other people are passed over. Imagine if Sally had about 20,000 Social Credits in a time-banking account! She could trade in points for necessities, services in kind, and even VIP perks, such as getting to meet a celebrity in person. The Sallies I know would be thrilled, and so many more people would start reinvesting in their communities and hobbies such as painting, dancing, writing.<br />
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As a matter of fact, Yang credits Edgar Cahn, a law-professor and anti-poverty activist, as the "founder of Time Banking" in the 1990s. And there are already time-banking systems in about 200 communities around the United States! In Brattleboro, Vermont, their local time bank has 315 members who have exchanged 64,000 hours of mutual work over the past eight years. There is also an active social credit system in China, but in the U.S.A. we have the power to take this to whole new levels with smart "digital social credit (DSC) exchanges" using our free phones, public computers, message boards, empty offices, etc.<br />
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Even though I hate getting messaged a lot, even a cheerful "Thanks for helping out today as a Tutor! You have earned 100 Social Credits" might help me feel more than just appreciated. Not too many people I know are like Janet or George, who volunteer so many hours with People for Fairness Coalition; or the exceptional food chefs at SOME, Miriam's Kitchen, and DC Central Kitchen. With time-banking, they can be rewarded and recognized for being great role models and an inspiration for all of us. Hope Singhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720746609594778790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644695689598010305.post-68575846294995428332018-11-14T10:07:00.001-08:002018-11-14T10:07:26.223-08:00Why homeless people become entrapped in the stereotype<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">First, we want to thank community shelter programs such as N Street Village and Catholic Charities for helping ensure that homeless people can find a place to stay. Tonight it will be in the thirties for the first time in the D.C. metropolitan region and it's heartbreaking to see that some people sleep outside on a park bench with only a blanket for cover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are people who actually come in from out of town to Franklin Park just to provide the overflow (those who couldn't get into shelters) a nice hot breakfast. The volunteers are often ordinary people who drive in, serve hot coffee and maybe something like hotdogs. We all burn more calories quickly especially when the temperatures start to freeze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Living at a shelter program, we are considered much more fortunate, even if it is only low-barrier. The categories come in low-barrier, transitional, permanent supportive housing, and vouchers. Low-barrier is entry-level for anyone that is coming in from the cold, and sometimes people stay in low-barrier for years. D.C. has set a goal of placing 4000 people in affordable housing in 2018, but the numbers are tied to area redevelopments that in turn are tied to the availability of low-cost bonds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But because of the Trump Administration, even tools for establishing low-cost bonds for affordable housing projects have been axed under the new federal tax bill. <a href="https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/washington-dc-mayor-plan-save-4000-affordable-housing-units">Next City</a> reports how Washington, D.C., like many other cities across the country, is dealing with the housing crisis:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gentrification is a hot-button issue in many metropolitan areas, but at least our Mayor maintains her promises. Because there are people holding the government accountable, they must also update their lists of current affordable housing projects underway. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What makes it difficult for even the most liberal empathetic observers is how homeless people conduct themselves in public. Not all, but many exhibit deranged behaviors which are particularly troubling in communications. Some of this may have to do with their dishabille or their mental habitue. That is amplified by their homeless state, by their sense of insecurity, but also by their excitement when they compare themselves with others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In this blog, we described already how those of the rentier class aggravate the humiliations of the poor, but now we want to flip the perspective, how the poor operate to entrap themselves. This is not to say that the security guards and police are not also carrying out acts of intimidation----they are. But it is also the case that the acts of a few ill-bred homeless people can stand out and breed more contempt by passersby. Passersby even draw faulty conclusions about race and poverty, when it has become a class divide: those who gainfully employed (dollars) versus those employed but not as gainfully. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The in-drifters from other parts of the country are setting up near places which are often important transition points. They set up a bed and stay there all day guarding their bedding, blearily conducting conversation with one another, and pan-handling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Especially this is so because the D.C. has become known as a welcoming place, now certain areas have become homeless congregation points. Because of their mental incapacity, many homeless people literally just sit around all day. They may read the newspaper, watch some entertainment on YouTube, but otherwise they literally don't seem to do much. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In a conversation the other night overheard among some women at our shelter, they were wondering aloud why certain women, usually the bad-apples in the cart, stand around outside the shelter for hours at a time. It goes beyond just being outside to have a smoke or share some camaraderie. They pointed out some hidden need to negatively mark their turf. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why do they have to mark it off in a way that gives our shelter a poor reputation?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's a worrying thought when most reasonable liberals observe that incoming reactionaries (of which a predictable lot came with Trump) <i>do</i> try to upset the apple cart when they make known they <i>don't</i> want said homeless shelter near their luxury apartment building. They have the power to attend neighborhood council meetings, file complaints, and make their views known. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Don't shelter residents know this? Can't they connect the dots between poor behavior and consequences?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sadly for the decent poor women at our shelter, disturbed residents <i>just don't give a sh*t</i>. That is really their philosophy---and they call that street toughened---even street smarts, when the <i>don't give a sh*t</i> manage to scare off, intimidate, delude, or otherwise manipulate someone into believing they are other than what they want from you at the moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The loser-dialectic is similar to the learned-helplessness dialectic and runs along the lines of: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Most normal adults quickly grow out of any kind of learned-helplessness because they realize it is not just a crutch but an impediment if they want to become responsible people. However a good percentage of homeless people don't outgrow their learned helplessness, and it even inflames into the loser-dialectic: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"You can't tell me what to do. I can disrespect you however I like, but you better not disrespect me. I will mess with you anytime I want to just for fun." </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Women don't often display the loser-dialectic in public, but they will inside the shelter. Why? Because for a lot of women, home is their domain, their seat of power. And especially the dorm room, where many mind-games are played to establish "pecking order." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The most brutish women repeatedly bait, insult, deride, "dress-down" targets, and when the target reports, the gang will even use group denial, imply target was imagining things, or even counter-attack the advocate. (Advocates themselves can become targets for "breaking in" whether abuse or sistering). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Also certain women (and men) come to love shelters because of the voyeurism-exhibitionist possibilities. They love the idea of undressing and sitting around nude for others to see. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The pecking order is usually arbitrary and even morphs, but it generally is done to test the system, to challenge authority, for entertainment, and to "break" vulnerable residents. We say it is arbitrary because the losers are not motivated by any kind of ideals, but often from ingrained psychological habitue. It doesn't matter who the victim is except that they are seen as more vulnerable than the rest. The victim could be liberal, easy-going, working part-time in education, and except for residency at the shelter, even a well-adjusted person in society.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or it could be someone who "they" observe who "farts too much, coughs without covering her mouth, sneezes too much, doesn't bathe often enough." Or it could be someone who "keeps to herself" and therefore doesn't have enough allies to defend her. Whoever it is, they just try to keep at it, every day, no matter what measures are taken to smooth things over. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Something any resident must get used to is the hardened jaded social worker. Someone who has bounced from one job to another in penal, hospital, group homes and such so much they, too, "no longer give a sh*t." One's impression when one encounters the institutional sergeant is exactly what they intend more or less: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In other words, they are the mirror image of the "don't give a sh*t" inmates or residents; they even aid and abet one another in their schemes, as one sees in movies like "Escape from Alcatraz." So long as residents float along contentedly with the day programs, they get a free meal ticket and some positive strokes. Residents who are the targets of bullies, ironically, even become the targets of institutionalized social workers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gratefully, N Street does know about their bullying problem by now. They can't help but take action in an area which is churning out new social workers every semester, with some of the more hapless college students ending up having to live in the very same system. Social advocates and workers are encouraged to rotate floors and even shelters. Other methods are also being created to prevent too much bonding which can create favoritism, etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But the bottom line is whether or not homeless people are really helped? Beyond food, housing, clothing, does their outlook and person change? The social worker perspective, much like Carl Rogers philosophy, is once the whole person or student is provided for, they are empowered to learn, change, grow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Maybe the bottom line is you can't change people from the outside. Spiritual types such as Jains, are known to starve themselves in order to improve their potential for enlightenment. If you institute religion, mandatory courses, that the homeless residents must take there can be some improvement. It really depends on the individual and quality of the classroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For instance, at the low-barrier shelter, we used to have daily morning programs. To save money, they cut that out early in the summer. The results are not that much different. When the program was in place, at least a quarter of the women would attend at least one class. The class topic usually included communication, assertiveness, motivation, art, computer learning, etc. These are very basic classes because of the spectrum in abilities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our observation was it seemed to help, but the positive improvement didn't last. For many "street-hardened" types, these kinds of classes are like sugar-coating on a cough drop. It can help the taste of cough drop, the cough drop will help control the coughing, but the underlying problems are still there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Another analogy is the "don't give a sh*t" who attends church, maybe even bible school. This gal genuinely embraces bible-learning, knows the readings, knows all the parables, has formed friends, and by all appearances has advanced in spirituality. Yet for the most part her behavior at the shelter is much the same. She is exhibitionist, voyeuristic, loud, meddlesome, and sides with other bullies often instinctively. For her part she believes that she has advanced reasoning skills because she reads a lot, talks a lot, learns a lot. Nevertheless her taste for gossip-mongering, her expression of prejudices, her scheming tendencies are very much embedded in her character permanently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Its not that </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"don't give a sh*t"</span>will never change. One cannot fault her for not being "street smart" enough since she always knows where the next bazaar is going to be. She essentially loves where she is at, and she can commiserate with so many who also reinforce her worldview and prejudices and behavioral tendencies and high self-regard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Inside, although they know that should they actually challenge themselves, they have barriers to overcome. Separately, as they stand outside the shelter or hang around the neighborhood, they know they are not doing what other people are doing; they know that they may see their peers at the shelter working part-time or full-time, and feel jealous. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But that is really the extent that they challenge themselves is to try to balance their feeling of jealousy by bullying vulnerable residents or the working resident if they decide it is convenient. The self-regard is stroked by assuming the responsibility for predicting outcomes in a t.v. show. Our society recognizes and rewards delusional self-regard, and no one is explaining where true self-esteem comes from anymore. You might even say there the national model for overcoming jealousy is by enacting whatever necessary to remain first; therefore, beating up on minorities by other minorities is vicarious social-learning. </span></div>
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There's a bit of negativity to this but it can only come from the alienated feeling you get seeing how BAD IT workers are nowadays. They have moved enmasse into every major metropolitan area in the country. The excuse is that proximity to power centers help. However one can't help wondering if this is planned displacement of lower income race populations. The displacement doesn't just mean that black residents are forced to relocate across the border and must make longer commutes.<br />
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It's a cultural displacement as well. When there are less solid black voting blocs in the D.C and other Metropolitan regions that has a negative impact on the politics. According to <a href="https://www.theroot.com/how-gentrification-destroys-black-voting-power-1793746386">The Root.com</a>:<br />
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<i><b>These days, D.C is more of a caramel-latte-colored city. While the black population reached as high as <a href="https://matthewbgilmore.wordpress.com/district-of-columbia-population-history/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">71 percent in the 1970 census</a>, it now stands at 47 percent. Blacks are no longer the <a href="http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/Oakland.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">largest ethnic group in Oakland</a>, and the New York City home of Biggie, Jay Z and Spike Lee is now the poster child for large-scale, sweeping gentrification</b>.</i><br />
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That representation is already reflected in the number of black council members in D.C. as if in lockstep with the lowering percent. There are only six black council members out of thirteen possible. Could it be that this will change the voting demographics as well?<br />
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<b><i>Gentrification is changing the nation, and with it, the face of the
American political landscape is slowly shifting. Areas that were once
no-brainer Democratic strongholds are slowly transforming into whiter,
more affluent regions where party lines have been blurred in the last
decade. As cities across the country become more diverse, their black
populations have decreased significantly, leaving the traditional base
of the Democratic Party struggling for a foothold in national politics
and diminishing the power of the black vote.</i></b><br />
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The presence of more affluent young white people (millennials) in the area do bring some advantages. There are lots more trendy eateries, coffee shops, pet grooming salons, and bicycle stores than there used to be. There are also bars, taverns, urban outfitters, whole foods, trader joes, and all the stuff that identifies with a more highly paid rentier class with money to throw away including on tattoos, whores, and wild parties. <br />
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It is sad to notice that these white people are so self-indulgent, but it's not a new phenomenon in the nation's capitol. But breeding of callousness does inculcate a sense of classism, entitlement, privilege, and contempt for the poor. It's visible on young faces and even laughable.<br />
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They don't OWN the concrete box they live in, mostly they just RENT like everyone else. The luxury apartment owner is the one raking in millions of dollars a month. The luxury apartment owner keeps the residents on the LEASE-LEASH, meaning often times there is no sense of real community in these buildings, just a sense of "clubbism" that is endemic with name-branded identity.<br />
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So yes, it's very sad because we've been here before in history, with the British Colonials. They don't care that the mean colonized citizen is earning such paltry amounts that they can barely survive. They don't seem to understand that they are being used as Little Brother and Little Sister in monitoring and manipulating the public. They don't realize that the tables might turn once Artificial Intelligence truly takes off and robots can perform all types of computer upkeep and maintenance. <br />
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Just as in George Orwell's <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four">1984</a> </i>novel, the totalitarian state needs to keep a tight lid on all media, and so the Internet is becoming increasingly policed. Young IT workers relish their role like physical security guards. They think they are doing a great thing 8-10 hours a day, so that once they leave work, the party can begin.<br />
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Thanks to them our democratic society is slowly dying away. Courses in literature and readings in self-improvement don't mean much in a society with so few bookstores. They may be scrolling through self-selected or AI selected news, but serious reading is no longer popular in the Age of Trump. Besides what if they decided to read <i>Gilded Age </i>by Mark Twain? Wouldn't they be learning too much on the ultimate price of our new-found fossil-fuel glories?<br />
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Contemporary culture has already furnished them all they need to know! <i>Hunger Games</i>, <i>Harry Potter</i>, Buffy the Vampire, and all those (trashy) shows for the girls, and lots of Mine-craft or World of Warcraft for the boys. How could we mistake them for being willing dupes or brainwashed?<br />
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Funny how little these people notice when businesses go bust, whether it's two or three Panera Breads, Uprising Coffee house, Rural Society, or other places that just didn't make the cut with them. Their rule of the day appears to be "It's always good, always!"<br />
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I would like to write about the wonderful IT warriors and what a sh*t assed job they did objectifying my domain listing at Who.is. Those nice bored jack-offs. <br />
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Here's what I wrote regarding the increases in hidden costs for internet hosting where ten years ago, you automatically received HTTPS and SSL with all your domains. Now, not only must you pay extra for SSL but deal with the paradox that the people who pose a threat to my website are IT workers themselves! They are the ones who have the time to place smear tags, conduct trolling, hack websites as a hobby, and write SEO algorithms so indynews sites are snowed under. (And just so you know, my domains have NOTHING in common with the "similar domains" listed. Never has. My domains deal with real-life issues and problems around the world---not treacle for bored boys.)<br />
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<i><span style="color: orange;"> <b>IT professionals especially the ones in the big metro areas such as SF, Washington, DC, and Seattle, have a BAD REPUTATION. By BAD they think we mean we think they are a bunch of Harrison Ford Road Warrior types. Wrong. I don't mean macho, although for city boys, they all like to act like they are country cravens, purchase clothing at urban outfitters, eat at Founding Farmers, hang out at bars, shop at Whole Foods where they sit and hang out, and hire out whores. </b></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: orange;"><b>One bunch of IT professionals in Bellevue, Wa even designed software so they could run a Pimp Agency pimping out these North Korean girls (K-girls). Another bunch of IT professionals engages in soft porn and kiddie porn marketing all day long, so long and boring are their days. And we all know about Booz Allen Hamilton and warrier Edward Snowden who also used to hang out a lot at the strip bars. Then I also recall that in college, what a bunch of competitive, ruthless, selfish jerks the computer science guys were. <br /><br />When we think about how much harder other people work for a daily living, and the ramifications of a planet being overrun by IT cyber warriors, competing for defense money and such, and drone bombing all these helpless civilians for fun, just like they are still in middle-school playing a drone-game, it is just plain SICK. </b></span><br /> </i><br />
Yes, let's hope someday their jobs will be taken over by AI smart IT robots. Then they will really understand what we are getting at. <i>1984</i>. <b>Big Brother doesn't really need Little Brother.</b> <br />
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<br />Hope Singhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720746609594778790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644695689598010305.post-48199974439342995132017-11-22T13:37:00.002-08:002017-11-22T13:39:16.635-08:00Our Homeless America November 22, 2017<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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When you become homeless, it is like you have no roots anymore. There is so much to tell and the problems are so complex that the only way to address Our Homeless America is to start a new blog.<br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>Our Homeless America</b></span></h2>
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At the present time, all the media networks are blaring out the good news.<br />
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<i>Everybody please pay attention! We care! </i><br />
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Don't believe it? There are X-number of Free Thanksgiving Meals being served at X-number churches in your area. Or maybe it is X-number community halls. And X-number of charities and fraternities and sororities are handing out gift-bags filled with healthcare items. And X-number of nonprofits are also giving away piles and piles of fluffy coats this year, too!<br />
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<i>What's not to like about America? We CARE about the homeless! </i><br />
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Buddhist Master Li writes in Lecture 6 that sometimes, giving is not all it's meant to be. It's not that giving is not good. We are all thankful that like never before, mixed in with the salacious news stories are human-interest stories about the homeless receiving their very first something for the first time. <i> </i><br />
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<b>Become a Street Sense Media Vendor </b><br />
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Most of the social workers consider themselves blessed to be able to give so much as part of their careers. In fact, like never before, this area has lots of social workers. They seem to thrive whenever there is a sanctuary city.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i>But can they really put themselves in your place?</i></span><br />
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I doubt they can. This is from close contact with quite a few recently. Actually most are well-meaning. However at the shelter they really get some mean ones for some reason. And at the churches they have some very dithery types as well, who seem to mistake your visit for one purpose as an excuse to address all your problems (as they see it) in one fell swoop.<br />
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<b><span style="color: purple;"><i>Sweeping generalizations have never been more rife in America!</i></span></b><br />
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Thanks to our highly technological society there is no longer any real need for learning. What we now call learning is more like rote-situational learning. You learn what you need to pass a test, and then forget all about it. Same goes with ethics, social mores, social justice, and all the rest. (In fact, I am convinced that all this massive display of charity is at least partly associated with community based learning and volunteering for college credits.)<br />
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Here is one example. So if I happen to be wearing a vest that says:<br />
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The <i>minute</i> I don my vest, my prestige in society takes a massive dive. <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDS8cYJWyEfU5XePNLc89LvLNHtJMWColTA31o1nKlXb7k9BS9L6r9aDCYh6UDM_GRCgbMsFibnJRrrwWCAUWYUBoDi6meKHqvxtc4wEFvry17Lj-eRBcSNigXekOvXMC93LR48wc-HRud/s1600/disappointed-face_1f61e_30x30.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="30" data-original-width="30" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDS8cYJWyEfU5XePNLc89LvLNHtJMWColTA31o1nKlXb7k9BS9L6r9aDCYh6UDM_GRCgbMsFibnJRrrwWCAUWYUBoDi6meKHqvxtc4wEFvry17Lj-eRBcSNigXekOvXMC93LR48wc-HRud/s1600/disappointed-face_1f61e_30x30.png" /></a>Suddenly everyone on the train realizes "She's homeless!" People look at me with chagrin, pity, contempt, loathing, despair. Some guys think I am "free for the taking."<br />
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<i>She's a free, liberated homeless woman, boys! Ha-ha! </i> <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJqOunMxVAZLESsNqxZJPfX2XhZyevtI4-r8EbmcXygDXT79EbA6KVgJ5aMAHrXjnmuLTVIUB3hiXUwyzJK8yHqnqkJ6Qd5WBwYP7bFXZAPA7rDXpwx5nXQ6iKQKSBKSfaw6ZsoAoQOIan/s1600/angry-face_1f620_30x30.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="30" data-original-width="30" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJqOunMxVAZLESsNqxZJPfX2XhZyevtI4-r8EbmcXygDXT79EbA6KVgJ5aMAHrXjnmuLTVIUB3hiXUwyzJK8yHqnqkJ6Qd5WBwYP7bFXZAPA7rDXpwx5nXQ6iKQKSBKSfaw6ZsoAoQOIan/s1600/angry-face_1f620_30x30.png" /></a>You can imagine if I were a lot younger that there might even be a few pimp types, men or women, trying to direct me to sell my body for some sex-work. <br />
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NEVER do the brunt of the average unreasoning consumerist-obsessed Americans wonder:<br />
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<i>Could she be volunteering for a good cause? </i><br />
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No, most Americans WANT to jump to a NEGATIVE conclusion about me wearing the vest.<br />
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<i><b><span style="background-color: magenta;"><span style="color: yellow;">HEY WHITEY, YOU ARE HOLDING A DRINK! YOU MUST BE AN ALCOHOLIC! </span></span></b></i></div>
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That's what I want to say to these oafish louts who pass by, never bothering to stop or even ask a question. They are too busy dealing with their addictions. <br />
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<span style="background-color: magenta;"><span style="color: yellow;"> </span></span><i><b><span style="background-color: magenta;"><span style="color: yellow;">THERE YOU ARE WHITEY, BACK AT STARBUCKS AGAIN, SOME DRUG ADDICT!</span></span></b></i></div>
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Americans also no longer think about <a href="http://realnani.blogspot.com/2013/03/why-i-dont-shop-at-whole-foods.html">Whole Foods, Inc. </a>being bought by a slave-driving type entity who exploits workers so he can pretend he is one of the world's richest guys. They don't think about how often the chain lies about foods that are not as wholesome, organic, or fair-trade as they claim. For one thing, most of the chefs and food-workers at Whole Foods often appear harried, so overworked and underpaid, while faced with the bevy of Oh-So-Cool-I-Must-Be-to-Be-Here shoppers. But of course the hipsters are there to look cool, and so it doesn't really matter what is hiding in the back there. Just keep being blind about it.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Everything is under control, said Hal. </i></span></div>
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In fact, most of the hipsters can't even recall a time when people protested, demonstrated, and lobbied for Earth Day, for environmental food protections, for adequate labeling, for fair wages, for jobs with union pay and conditions, and for paid holidays.<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: red;">๐ HIPSTERS LIVE ON CLOUD 9. THEY HAVE NO TIME TO CONNECT WITH REAL PEOPLE. ๐</span></b></i></div>
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We are all around you, bubba, but you can't be bothered looking around, you are so busy texting while you walk in your cute $100 sneakers. You can't see an African-American except for what he represents: dollar value lent to the developer so your building is now one of the fanciest. All those African Americans around you are just value-laden investment globules for when you sell out. <br />
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<i>In fact, in our homeless America, Americans have become blind to all but the good fortune of success. They don't think, they don't reason, they stare at little tablets, iphones, and boob tubes, while cramming more tasteless overpriced food down their gut. </i><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i> </i><b><span style="color: #351c75;">But here is THE SECRET IF YOU ARE A STREET SENSE VENDOR</span>:</b></span></span><br />
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They ARE watching you! Having fought and clawed their way up to the Greatest Capital on Earth, they are filled with <i>Schadenfreude</i>. They WANT desperately for you to feel frustrated, lose your cool, become angry. THAT WILL MAKE THEM CRY WITH KARMIC SATANIC JOY. ๐ฟ<br />
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BECAUSE THEY LOST THEIR SENSE OF HUMANITY A LONG, LONG TIME AGO. ALL THAT NOW MAKES THEM FEEL HUMAN IS GETTING OFF MAKING SURE HOW EVERYONE SEES HOW <i>VERY</i> disengaged, smug, simpering, correct, appropriate, conformist, craven, consumerist they are. They KNOW their function is to HELP LEND A LESS DEMOCRATIC ATMOSPHERE, if not <a href="http://www.theroot.com/how-gentrification-destroys-black-voting-power-1793746386">destroy the black democratic voting base</a>, so that there really is no longer much of any kind of democratic party system in America.<br />
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And where that ends, there will be No New Deal Anymore for America. More short term gains in exchange for long term losses for the democratic social contract. <br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><u><b><span style="color: #4c1130;"><i><span style="color: purple;">SO PLEASE, DON'T LOSE YOUR COOL. WHEN EVERYONE BECOMES A DISASTER VICTIM, AS WORLD WAR III WILL SOON MAKE US ALL, EVEN THE SS WILL BE FED UP WITH THEIR SILLY GOOSESTEPPING CLOWN-CAPITALIST NARCISSISM. </span> </i></span></b></u></span><br />
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