Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
"As part of Hunger Awareness Month, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton chose to experience what life is like for the 1.1 million food stamp recipients in Arizona. Last week, Stanton, a Democrat, took part in a community challenge to live on a food stamp budget -- just $4.16 to buy food per day, or about $29 per week for one person. Stanton said he was barely able to meet nutritional needs and lost four pounds, according to Fox 10 News Phoenix. He skipped meals and relied on ramen noodles, pasta and coffee, according to KTAR...".* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks.
*Read more here from Bonnie Kavoussi / The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/greg-stanton-phoenix-mayor-food-stam...
Published on Sep 27, 2012 by MoyersandCompany
Moyers & Company presents "United
States of ALEC," a report on the most influential corporate-funded
political force most of America has never heard of -- ALEC, the American
Legislative Exchange Council. A national consortium of state
politicians and powerful corporations, ALEC presents itself as a
"nonpartisan public-private partnership". But behind that mantra lies a
vast network of corporate lobbying and political action aimed to
increase corporate profits at public expense without public knowledge.
Using interviews, documents, and field reporting, the episode explores ALEC's self-serving machine at work, acting in a way one Wisconsin politician describes as "a corporate dating service for lonely legislators and corporate special interests."
In state houses around the country, hundreds of pieces of boilerplate ALEC legislation are proposed or enacted that would, among other things, dilute collective bargaining rights, make it harder for some Americans to vote, and limit corporate liability for harm caused to consumers -- each accomplished without the public ever knowing who's behind it.
"All of us here are very familiar with ALEC and the influence that ALEC has with many of the [legislative] members," says Arizona State Senator Steve Farley. "Corporations have the right to present their arguments, but they don't have the right to do it secretly."
"United States of ALEC" is a collaboration between Okapi Productions LLC and the Schumann Media Center, headed by Bill Moyers, which supports independent journalism and public watchdogs including the Center for Media and Democracy, whose investigators are featured in the report.
Using interviews, documents, and field reporting, the episode explores ALEC's self-serving machine at work, acting in a way one Wisconsin politician describes as "a corporate dating service for lonely legislators and corporate special interests."
In state houses around the country, hundreds of pieces of boilerplate ALEC legislation are proposed or enacted that would, among other things, dilute collective bargaining rights, make it harder for some Americans to vote, and limit corporate liability for harm caused to consumers -- each accomplished without the public ever knowing who's behind it.
"All of us here are very familiar with ALEC and the influence that ALEC has with many of the [legislative] members," says Arizona State Senator Steve Farley. "Corporations have the right to present their arguments, but they don't have the right to do it secretly."
"United States of ALEC" is a collaboration between Okapi Productions LLC and the Schumann Media Center, headed by Bill Moyers, which supports independent journalism and public watchdogs including the Center for Media and Democracy, whose investigators are featured in the report.
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Melton’s paradise lost might as well have been written with Egyptian hieroglyphs. I learned way more about what Milton thought by reading what was written about him, than actually reading his gibberish prose. For me Milton only served to muddy the waters of truth. His disillusionment with the church, the institution, was on target, I guess his aim was the educated hypocrites in charge on their own enlightened turf of the day. The faithful peasantry couldn’t read and only allowed to memorize the scriptures given them by the priest who were the gatekeepers of education, the word, the truth. He was right about this being a breading ground for the perversion of the word to promote hidden agendas, extortion to pay penitence for sin to build all the great cathedrals of 15 and 16th century. I do not believe shame and guilt should be used a tool to exploit ignorance to promote religion by fear. That is counter to the things Jesus taught.
But with Jesus, not so, his word sands alone and needs no interpretation to understand. It is the application of his teachings is where we have the problems. Explaining the abstraction of eternity came so natural by His use of allegory in parables hence, the good shepherd e.g., he himself never wrote anything down physically, truth stays. Metaphors like, reap what you sow and separating the wheat from the chaff.
Solutions are a cooperative effort and must benefit the whole without harming either the whole or the individual. Above all, solutions must be doable and fair. Denial is the enemy of social change.
Apathy is the fuel that feeds the fire of social decay. Ignoring the problem hoping it will go away and fix itself only works on fires that are aloud to burnout. Futility is one person pissing on the fire, hope is two people pissing on it, charity is three more joining in and faith is the rain from heaven that heard the pleas for help in the name of love. I fight the windmills of evil that fan the fires, keeps them burning, the source.
I my criticize many of our out worn social institutions, the main ones being, religion, government, education. Those three areas are where most of our social ills of today begun, are reinforced and continue to be perpetuated.....kosmicdebris
.......................keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons......................
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