davidz soapbox

c l o w n o c r a c y ?

2007-10-16T17:38:00.000-07:00

we live in a world ruled by clownz?????

gwbush.
dick cheney,
donald rumsfeld
vladimir putin,
the castro brothers,
the burmeses military junta,
the venezuela's hugo chavez, the ex-nazi pope,
the iranian pres. ahmadinejad,
the zimbabwe pres robert mugabe,
north korean dictator kim jong il
just to name a few ?

the solution

2007-01-27T22:19:00.000-08:00

THE ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES MARSHALL PLAN

the problem:
is with a president who is a texas oil man
& a vice president the former CEO of haliburton
the worlds largest supplier
of infrastructure to the oil industry
there is no incentive
to find any solution or resolution
to any crisis in the middle east
or any instability anywhere in the world
from Nigeria to Venezuela
Uzbekistan to Iran,
Sudan to Columbia
Brazil to Malaysia
to Lebanon to even
the Alaska NATIONAL
wildlife preserve,
the slow comeback of the gulf coast
& the strategy of limiting
oil refinery capacity in the US
insuring rumours of rolling blackout
in California, the 5th largest economy
in the world...
rumors of limits, shortages,
long gas pump lines
& high prices
keep gas pump prices high..

what incentive do oil producers
from texas to Dubai
have to keep prices low..?

NONE

low gas prices is what drove
failing young oilman george w.bush
& his oilman contemporaries to
join the midland texas bible study group
become born again
& stop drinking & drugging
low gas prices cause
domestic oil producers to cap wells
'til the price goes up...

well they've certainly enjoyed the benefits
of having one their own
god fearing, born again christian
texas oil men in the whitehouse
playing the roll of the hothead
unreasonable, unpredictable wildcat/
cowboy/ christian crusader/avenger/
loose canon...

the more uncertainty there is
or merely appears to be
with the oil producing nations
of the world
the higher gas prices will stay

rumors of war
serve as good as
actual armed conflict
as an excuse in the justification for keeping the
price of a barrel of oil high...

who are the main beneficiaries
but Canada, the texans, the arabs, the russians
a handful of third world bureaucrats,
oil commodity trading firms,
& their stockholders..

the gross ineptitude & inadequacy
the the bush administration has made
of US foreign policy
through bullying & blundering;
the media parroting the abstract concept of
an endless war on terrorism through the daily repetition
of the words "war", "terror", "threat", & "fear";
[hurricanes, tidal waves, & natural disasters..
all bonus mayhem]
serve to create an atmosphere of instability
that in turn helps to justify high gas prices...

basically these people have no incentive
to do the right thing
except to appear to be doing the right thing
to justify doing little more
than helping their friends
make as much money as they can
out of the status quo
while they can
before either the oil runs out,
they all get run out of office,
or technology changes the playing field

which ever comes first..

the one thing these folks didn't
count on is fear fatigue

where people just get tired of being afraid
& seek to silence the fearmongers
the result of the midterm elections...

wars stop
when enough people
get tired enough
to stop participating in them

the goal of those behind
the insurgencies in iraq
is to create enough
kaos, hopelessness, & despair
for the US and all western influence
to leave in enough disgrace
to think thrice about returning
to meddle in middle eastern/ Arab/ Muslim
affairs ever again
and then establish a ultra conservative global
Muslim theocracy based on a strict interpretation
of the Koran...
[hence the execution by the insurgencies of
barbers: beards are good
shaving is bad to the conservatives..
doctors: western medicine -bad
professors: western training -bad
school teachers: western influences -bad
like educating women.. -an abomination
blowing up schools: more fighting against western influence
such execution serve
the added goal of sending a clear message of
intolerance for those who would stay
& inspiring all the other western leaning
to become refugees/ messengers of fear...]

stability works against this strategy
but as the old saying goes
it takes a carpenters' sweat, skill, & time to build a barn
but a jackass but a second to knock it down
it's easier to create kaos
than to maintain stability...

it appears easier for some
to take life that to nurture & nourish it
to hope earthly hope

it appears easier to some
to be about death
than to live

it appears easier for some
to make war & villains of our fellows
than to do the work necessary
to create & maintain
a healthy environment
that includes tolerance & dissent

given all this
the solution is in ending the argument
through technological advancement

imagine if the people of the united states
& all other like minded countries
chose to lead the world
in discovering & implementing
alternative energies innovations,
completely focusing our national energies on
totally ending the dependency of our global
economies & technologies on oil
through a grassroots technological revolution
resulting in the adoption & creation
of a completely non oil based economy

then that would take away oil
as an excuse, a bargaining chip,
a hostage, a carrot,
a reason or justification
for wars & supporting dictatorships
co opting our own
stated democratic principles
by denying
freedom of democratic
self determination
to other peoples
& developing nations
due to economic expediency & imperative:
i.e."..but we needed the oil..."

the result:
the success
of our technological undertaking
through
THE ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES
MARSHALL PLAN:

those whose economies
& politics depend
on the maintenance of the status quo
with regards to oil
both in the middle east
& elsewhere
would be left
with the argument
& not much else...

for at the moment
the argument is financed
through oil

"..living well
is the best revenge.."
the old saying goes

if we want to win the war
exit the argument it's based on

what would an alternative energies
Marshall plan look like?

a.
tax incentives & subsidies
for research, development
implementation, purchasing
alternative energies based vehicles,
power, heating & cooling systems
for home & industry

b.
increased funding for existing national
laboratories specifically for the
development of alternative energies..

c.
the establishment of
8 new regional centers for alternative energy
research, development, & implementation..

d.
matching federal funds
for state centers of alternative energy research,
development, & implementation..

e.
annual national & international conferences for
alternative energies research, development,
& implementation..
[model: world economic forum]

f.
federal & state
[& even united nations] sponsorship
of an annual design competition for grants
for individuals, organizations, & corporations
for alternative energies research, development,
& implementation..

g.
the establishment of both
a national endowment
& a national academy
for alternative energies research,
development, & implementation..

h.
establishment of the department of
alternative energies research,
development, & implementation.
with a cabinet level post..

such an undertaking as this initiative
focuses on our strengths as a nation
what america is famous for:
technological innovation,
organization,
pioneering design,
& capitalization..

we owe this to our children
to do everything we can do
to leave the world better than we found it
ecologically
we would be the first generation
to do so...

any presidential candidate who
would advocate
THE ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES
MARSHALL PLAN
would be a beacon for all those
who would like to embrace a future
of global prosperity beyond
the excuses maintained
& routinely served up
for the past century
by the dinosaurs of the limited pie view
to justify screwing some group of the human race
so that one small group of humans
could own & control all of the global resources
to do with as they please for the benefit
of just them & their friends..

this view & mindset
is inevitably & irreversibly
dying now
because it is fundamentally flawed
by being based on erroneous notions
like
everything isn't connected
that there is such a thing as
trash in the cosmic sense
that one can actually
throw something away
on this planet & not
have it effect something else

that one person could ever be
better than or worse than another
in the eyes of the divine
merely by being better off
or worse off financially..

that because someone
is said to legally own the earth
that that gives them carte blanche
to do whatever they like with it
even if that means
chopping down the last tree
or driving the last species to extinction
all for personal financial gain
over the needs of the whole system
from the ecological to the spiritual
from the earth to the stars..

put another more positive way:

imagine that the world we live in today
is evolving into a globally aware,
energy sensitive,
species conscious world
based on respect for & recognition of
the natural precepts of the infinite universe

like:

everything is connected
to everything else
it's a whole system

everything is energy
everything is light & vibration
everything is awake & alive
everything matters
everything counts somehow

the universe loves everyone equally

every soul born
is welcome
in the universe
&
by the universe
for however long the universe
determines

every soul born deserves to be here

and is equally entitled to enjoy the full benefits
of the natural resources of the universe

what happens to one happens to all

[example:no hording allowed
or necessary
because it hurts everyone
including the hoarder
who is stuck on the illusion
of a reality of lack
in an infinite universe]

true happiness
is to be found in willfully
sharing
the journey

realizing fellowship

recognising spiritual kinship..

growth
even spiritual growth
comes through
the choice of empathy
& the earthly practise of compassion..

for a moment

just imagine an entire world based on the notion

that the universe is love...

the exit strategy

2006-12-30T01:43:00.000-08:00

the exit strategy
for any so called endless war on terror
is
1. stop calling it that
2. treat would-be suicide bombers,
their handlers & support staff
as civil crime

we legitimize them otherwise
by making them opponents in a war

image what a different world it would be
if we had treated 9/11
as a criminal act

fellow human beings
who've lost the plot

confused souls
who've lost their way ...
?

james brown, gerald ford, saddam hussein

2006-12-30T00:29:00.000-08:00

dot dot dot goes 2006
james brown
gerald ford
saddam hussein

who would've thought
these three
would be so linked

the cosmic joke
at play again
this could happen to you

the godfather of soul
oatmeal man
& the butcher of bagdad

for all those who
say things happen in threes
there you go

a year we'll look back on
& say dang
that was a tough one

people
will not be sad
to see this one go

as we all seem to be genuinely looking forward
to 2007 for some kind of deliverance
from a tough year in a series of tough years

not coincidentally
beginning with
geo. w. bush's reign

the best thing that happened this year
beside donald rumsfeld resigning
is the party of hubris got its come-up-ence

the pres. who sought to rule by force of will
by being the bully over the whole world
got put in his place

in so many ways
& now has been forced
to play fair & let others play with his ball...

i'm optimistic
as usual
i feeel there are great things happening

gerald & james
were done
full lives fine examples

aside from the ethical questions
of the compassion
of capital punishment

saddam the black sheep of the family
will go down as yet another shabby example
of the petty despot

the age old tale of
meteoric rise to personal folly
leading to national disgrace

as if
we haven't seen enough
like pinochet

i feel humanity has come to some consensus
we could call it the first general consensus
of the new millennium

& it goes
something
like this :

dictatorship
in any form
is a crime against humanity

punishable
by fate, destiny,
delusion & disgrace...

the world community
is complicite in this crime
by coddling the would-be dictators...

good idea not to raise our kids
to be dictators
not much future in it

good idea
to raise our kids
to be soul music icons

& one of the last
best examples of
president as public servants...

how many...

2006-07-30T13:02:00.000-07:00

it seems
that the entire
cosmic
human
experiment
is
a test
to see
just exactly
how many
humans
killing
humans
does
it
take
for humanity
to completely
stop
killing...

i think
the universe
knows the answer
already
but
maybe
it could be wrong

the numbers game
of how many killed people
does it take to matter
in global politics
& media coverage
as a way of determining
the meaning of things
and to avoid realizing
the personal truth
of a human life destroyed
by other people

i envision a day in the near future
when we all realize
how everything is energy
and even the sound of an engine,
the flutter of a bird,
our thoughts, & intentions
are all felt by everyone
to the point where we
all of humanity
takes steps to be conscious
in our priorities
we base our technological choices
on the priorities of what is energetically
life affirming
our governmental actions
based on what is energetically
life affirming
[light years beyond any abortion debate]
our global economy
based on what serves
the furtherance of all life in the universe
?

itself

darfur

2006-04-28T20:00:00.000-07:00

if the people being exterminated,
raped, & ethnicly cleansed
in the darfur region of sudan
by their government
through arab militias
were caucasians,
do you think
we
would
end
it
?

just think total energy independence

2006-04-28T01:19:00.000-07:00

trying not to let this get me
but when president gwbush
formerly of the midland texas oilmans club
& vice president dick cheney
former ceo of haliburton
say things like
america has to break its addiction to oil

im like excuse me
its like the perpetrators blaming the victim

if every time someone has tried
to make a change in our dependence on oil
over the years it wasn't thwarted by these guys
& their friends
we'd all have been better off
just think
never have had 2 gulf wars
or be dealing with global warming
or have either of these clownish personalities
as public officials

how bout
instead of using fear
to stay in power & keep gas prices high
thru war [iraq, sudan, afghanistan]
& rumors of war
[iran, nigeria, syria, venezuela to name afew ]
to keep oil prices going up & up to $5 & $10 a gallon
& keeping people all caught up
in the endless shadow boxing
of the orwellian mythical
neverending war on terror..

cuz if there was peace in the middle east
how cheap would gas be?

wouldnt it be great if
anybody with an outside chance
to win the whitehouse next
like the democrats
decided to lead this country
in the direction of total energy independence
someone who actually got
what total energy independence would mean
for the future of this country
& the world... ?

but wouldn't it be wonderful
if we the people dedicated ourselves
to making our country
total energy independent
like
Brazil
?

turning the other cheek..?

2005-12-23T09:45:00.000-08:00

true christianity
is compassion..
?

true buddhism
is the practise of compassion..
?

true islam
is the practise of inner peace
thru divine communion...
?

the introduction of
the radical
metaphysics within
the idea of turning the other cheek
centerpiece
of the focus on compassion
that evolved into christianity
grew out of
a need to clarify
& push beyond
the hebrew tribal

emphasis in the torah/old testament..

".. an eye for an eye
a tooth for a tooth..."

encourages, inspires,
& demonstrates the "how-to"
& choice
everyone always has
to experience
the conscious evolution of the soul
which furthers the overall
spiritual evolution
of humanity
all life
& the manifest universe ...
?

just a dream ..?

2005-11-10T18:01:00.000-08:00

had a dream last night
it was inspired by:
1.watching a movie just before bed
about a saxon invasion of britain
around the 4th century a.d.
2.seeing news footageof the line of control in cashmere
between india & pakistan
that has been closed for some 35 years
forming the front line of 3 wars fought over it..

yesterday it was open for a photo-op
as press members from both countries
were able to stand across from one another
and interview one another
while a truckload of earthquake relief supplies
was passed across the line to the pakistani side
meanwhile the local cashmeris gathered
wanting to be allowed to go across to see their relatives
the armies chased them off with tear gas...

so in the dream
i was visiting in a region of the world
that due to its geography
had been the site of innumerable wars
in the past thousands of years
there was some big attack coming
from these people who had all this technology
like ultra sleek jet fighters
seeking to exterminate all the people
and as the armies moved in
surrounding the area
it was like they were herding sheep
as everyone strove to get out of harms way...

the important part of the dream was
to realize what it felt like
to be under attack from an overwhelming
technologically superior force bent on our destruction
for reasons that we had no control over...

kinda like
how the rest of the world
must see bush & company
cowboying around the world
with the u.s. military like their six shooter
used to intimidate whole peoples
all for the sake of some abstract geopolitical agenda
that has nothing to do
with the local folks
just trying to raise their kids
the best way they know how...

i love america
i love this country
our promise
especially...

i want for the u.s. to stop being a bully
to those we would seek to inspire...

as a good friend says
you cant oppress people
& call yourself a democracy

the world is too small
to just save it for us, ours, the haves
& screw them less fortunates
'cause they are we
& there's just us out here

what we do to them
we do to ourselves
if we oppress or limit "them"
we do so to ourselves...even worse
cause we then dwell in the illusion of righteousness
as well as just plain hurting
if we empower "them"
to succeed in being the best human being they can be
the whole species wins..
hard to do that when we're blowing up their children
with our hightech weaponry

if our bombs are so smart
why kill innocence
imagine smart bombs that don't kill women & children

acceptable losses to whom

still
the universe must know what it's doing
with this mess
a government that cant see the forest for the trees
a people who really want a government to do the right thing
yet are truely frustrated by how difficult it seems
to create healthy change for all of humanity
while the world runs ever so blindly into its future
yet the future is a place where there is greater awareness
of the oneness of all humanity...

i keep coming back to:
imagine a world where
every child born is truely welcomed
to the point where the world governmental
& economica policies are based on this
universal welcomeness...respect for all life...

its still so weird to me how
the folks who scream right to life
support the death penalty
as if we gotta be in a hurry
to send a soul who has errored
out of this world

feel sorry for the one
who thinks they have to raise their family by
getting up every morning to guard
the soul who has killed..

no soul is more important than any other...? the house i grew up in 25 years after we lost it due to foreclosure

2005-10-22T13:49:00.000-07:00

there comes a point
when the pottery barn analogy:
' you break it, you own it '
' becomes you break it, you fix it '..

but when the more you try to fix it
the more you seem to break it
at some point you have to stop "fixing it"
and get the heck out
out of the lives of the people
you're trying to 'fix"
in your own image... ?

our attempts at influencing events
in the islamic world
is a contributing factor to the spread
of Islamic fundamentalism world wide..
case in point:
if the oil interests of britain & the united states
had not pressured their respective governments
to have their spy services initiate a coup
which assassinated the first democratically
elected president of Iran
& installed the shah
eventually deposed by the popular Islamic revolution...
would Iran be ruled by
the fear of fundamentalist theocracy it is now?

it seems rule by fear
is inherent to religious fundamentalism
of any type historically
christian, moslem, or hindu ....?

when the way of truth is denied a people
the door is opened to distortion & kaos?

in this case:
when freedom of self determination
was denied the Iranian people
the nationalistic tendencies were
seized by the fundamentalist theocrats
as a means to revolution & power..
the united states became "the great satan"
in the eyes of those who recognised our complicity
in their genuine oppression by the shah
which came as a shock to most americans
trying to understand " why do they hate us?.."
who had been kept ignorant
of our historical meddling ?

they hate us because
we have been directly & indirectly
reponsible for
keeping them poor & living in fear..?
if not now out right responsible for killing their loved ones
in the case of iraq...?
it appears the iraqis blame the americans
not the insurgents for the kaos of their country now..?

for over a century the united states
foreign policies
have been actively
& passively contributing
to the sublimation of the Islamic & 3rd world peoples
in the name of getting a cheap price for oil..?

we have been perpetrating
on the peoples of the nations
of Islam & the 3rd world
conditions that we ourselves as americans
would not tolerate
& that the american people
would rise up to free ourselves from...?

it seems funny/sad
that the religious fundamentalist
in power, seeking to be in power,
& seeking to remain in power in this country
don't see that they are just as fanatical
as the fear motivated power seekers in Islam
they're trying to vilify & destroy
by getting everybody stirred up
& afraid of the boogy man:
the ultra orthodox, intolerant, radical conservative,
backwards thinking, anti-women's rights,
just fill in the blank
moslems?christians? jews? hindu? maoists?

not saying that there aren't a lot
of nut case religious fanatics
in every neighborhood, country, religion...
of the human family..

social intolerance by whatever flavor
sucks...sucks the life out of the world ?

but no matter what we do
whether we believe in god or not
there are just so many human beings ever born...?

we all come from the same place,
go to the same place
& have just this one earth
to learn to share
& prosper upon..
or not..?
we only get one sandbox
to make messy &/or enjoy.. ?

imagine a world where every soul
born into this world
is truly welcome..?
& knows it
because everyone
including governments
communicate this through our actions, efforts, & policies?

where along with GNP & the gross national happiness factor
there's a gross national compassion quotient.. ?

where the long & short term policy decisions
of business & government are based on
what is genuinely
good & life affirming
for the present
& future generations
of all humanity... ?

i long for a time when our u.s.
domestic & foreign policies are governed
by integrity
not by greed
or some obscure squeaky wheel business interests
but by our highest ideals
our promise not to impose
but to set the good example..
doing the right thing just because its
right & serves the long term goodness
of life on earth...

if our goal in iraq was to help the iraqi people
free themselves from the tyrant : mission accomplished
now that we seem to be contributing to the tyranny
perhaps its time for us to find a more effective way
to help ...?
beginning with getting the heck out of the way
especially if we know the insurgency is mostly unified
around getting the americans out of the country ?