Can you tell the difference?

I can't.

This law in Arizona is simply absurd. It begs for the bad cops to exploit their victims further, and makes good cops look like those bad ones to the people that they are trying to protect. It's nice to see these crooked cops out in the open in support of this law; makes em easier to spot.
from yahoo news:

"Police Chief Thomas Manger of Montgomery County, Md., in suburban Washington said he doesn't have the resources or the desire to enforce federal immigration violations by people who aren't disrupting the community.

"If they're not committing a crime here, frankly, I'm not sure how it enhances public safety to target those people for removal," he said."

exactly.

and these comment by yahoo user "GBC" from that article, which was by far the most intelligent one's there despite the all the "thumbs down" pretty much sums up everything.

"A tale of two people:

In 1939, there were 70 million people in Germany. 500,000 were Jews. For decades there had been Jews in Germany--living, working, and contributing to the economy. No one made a big deal. But an economic crisis came. Germany had hyperinflation and double-digit unemployment. None of these woes were attributable to Jews. Politicians in Germany seized the occasion to demonize an "enemy within." Jews were identified in Germany as the source of various ills--to distract from the real issues Germany was facing.

Arizona In 2010 has 6.5 million people. 500,000 are illegal aliens. For decades there have been illegals in Arizona--living, working, and contributing to the economy. No one made a big deal. Then an economic crisis came. Arizona had a wave of foreclosures and double-digit unemployment. None of these woes were attributable to illegals. Politicians in Arizona seized the occasion to demonize an "enemy within." Illegals were identified as the source of various ills--to distract from the real problems Arizona was facing."


This would explain the picture i felt compelled to make above. Hopefully people will spread it around. Joe Arpaio does not believe people should be free. You can let him tell you that in Penn and Teller's excellent show Bullshit: War on Drugs. Fast forward to about 5 min in....

and this one...

"1. Illegals help the economy -- that what economists tell us, Greenspan among them

2. Illegals have a net cost of ZERO to the treasury -- also according to many economists, they pay in about what they take. (FYI - many are on the books these days)

3. Illegals dont cause crime. Per wiki, crime in Phoenix has been dropping for a decade as illegals have poured in.

4. Illegals do not take jobs or hurt wages EXCEPT for people who compete for the same jobs -- they create jobs (thru economic activity) and lower prices for the rest of us.

5. there's no practicable way to expel 20 million US residents anyway. (Find, hold, try and deport a population similar in size to NY or Fla.)

I submit that while we have lots of illegals, we do NOT have an immigration crisis. We have an economic crisis (Phoenix prop values off 50%) -- and some politicans there wd rather take potshots at a harmless minority than talk about the economy...."

People are people, no matter the skin or culture, and most of us are just trying to live our lives in a country that is supposed to be for those who seek freedom from oppression, instead our country tries to create it's own version of tyranny, and Joe Arpaio is the man leading the charge.

Born of a Tragic Society. Please Get this Message

We have such little time, and this time is but a blessing.
I sit awake in boxes, hoping the truth will never find me,

I hide away in fear, as the plot becomes much clearer.
I can't stop thinking now, something must be wrong with me, as I surrender, I feel the spirits calling me to come away with them.

I do not know what I have become, I live inside the man I can not be. I wish I knew what this life was for, as I can only wish a blind man to see. What is this future that is taking over? Tell me how do I find my place in all this! It doesn't make sense, and so I retreat inside the bitter hollow me, that sleeps warm inside society.

The time comes for all to disengage this atmos(atlas)phere, as we must all eventually confront this tall and teething fear. I can no longer hide in my box, four walls, a roof and a floor, for this place I am going is a place with no walls, just space, smoke and gas made up of infinite colors.

I can finally be alone, and finally at peace, knowing the universe is hiding inside me.

Google the Country.

"Google Earth" By Max Mostly

When does an organization of individuals become a sovereign nation?

Is it when they are recognized by other countries as such within specified borders?

And of course you would need citizens within those borders, correct?

Or is it when that organization has control over trade and finances, and public speech in other nations?

Would you say Google the Company meets most of these requirements? They may pay rent and taxes to operate within a specified region, but money is but a minor detail to Google, they could operate anywhere and in some ways they do. They have offices all over the planet, much like a our foreign embassies that we use to remind other countries of our power and presence.

The reason why i say this is not to label Google as it's own Nation, but to point out the undeniable characteristics it shares with a sovereign nation. What got me thinking about this was this article in wired news. Apparently, Google was attacked electronically from a location in china, and 2 human rights activists had their G-mail accounts hacked into. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to make the connection between the Chinese government and their notorious "love" of human rights. In fact Google can only operate there under strict censorship rules, but that's about to change.

"Google said that the attacks, combined with attempts by China over the last year to “further limit free speech on the web” led it to conclude that it needed to “review the feasibility of our business operations in China.”

The company decided it will no longer censor search results on Google.cn, which it had been doing as a concession to the Chinese government since 2006 in order to be able to operate in China."

This is obviously an organized retaliation directed against the Chinese government, and China's actions represent an act of spying, that would normally be justification for traditional war under different circumstances. Instead Google has decided to make it a war of information. When an organization's private info is attacked by another entity with competing interests, (in this case a government with a strict anti-free thought political stance), The organized entity must retaliate in order to display it's power.

Much like a free trade agreement, compromises were made in which software and information were given to the Chinese to use at their discretion, so that Google could spread and expand their business (or empire,... remember they are protecting people's livelihood as well, not many corporations can say that about non-employees). All they had to do was honor the public policy of the Chinese, and when that trust was broken through China's treasonous methods, Google was given the political capital to eliminate those compromises and allow free thought to an entire nation.

It is fascinating to know that we can create a state that exists mostly in a meta-physical environment, and it can achieve real world results, and repercussions as well. Adversity and acts that violate human rights can now be tried, and convicted, by jury of the world, and not just a select few who wish control it.

Google acts like a sovereign nation in which it has citizens livelihoods that it must protect, but at the same time exposing our worlds national and physical borders as nothing more than arbitrary barriers created to separate and control society, ideas, and culture.

Remember we are only a free online nation while we still have net neutrality. Google is all about keeping this idea alive, and not killed by those Corporations who wish to see it's death, so that they can take back the control they once had.

Just for some extra reading, here is some more proof that our government is blinded by money, and it's a good thing this time. .

Having any information available, -no matter how "immoral", you believe it to be, will always be more important that hiding it, because at the end of the day, that information still exists, and hiding it just creates an atmosphere of distrust and dishonesty about the world we inhabit.

A Life worth living.

Science and Imagination have proven themselves able to create wonders. Imagination is the question, science is the answer. We live in a society that does not like asking questions. Not asking questions, and thinking a certain idea is unattainable, is bullshit. You are only limited by your own self doubt.

we are afraid we won't like the answers we find, when we start questioning the world. But knowing why certain things are happening, is the only way we can find a solution to change things in the proper and just way. Society procrastinates to the world. It is the collective selfishness of governments and institutions not concerned with the will of the people, that keeps us locked away in the dark ages in many parts of the world.

We create science and technology to better our lives, but only for the people that society allows to consume it. (that would be us, who happen to be born with the right kind of money. No money? Then Society has no use for you). For the rest of the world, we leave to darkness and our technology that makes our lives so much easier becomes a weapon of fear and power to parts of the world that do not have well established Societies. Modern Society is absolutely dependent on those willing to become hired slaves. They lure you in with promises of protection, and keep you there with fear. They train us to be afraid of bullshit things, and swipe our individual freedoms under the rug, as they collect "sin" taxes on you just for being a human with flaws, not because you are hurting another, Those controllers of society from the pharaohs to the senate are allowed to justify the pain they infringe on others with...

Fear stops us from attaining goals with a higher purpose because we are afraid to take risks, unless we are well paid. usually those risks are at the whim of some wealthy entity, and we become slaves to their wishes, and set aside our own dreams for "a better day". Ask yourself why that can't be today. Ask why you shouldn't work to reward yourself everyday. I smoke Cannabis every day. It is my time to say "fuck the world as we normally perceive it, I am going to spend time with my own thoughts and enjoy the things nature has created for us". Cynicism and an obedient personality can get you very far in this life, but so can doing something because you want it bad enough for yourself. Why wait for that time that might not come? Danger and mortality exist whether or not you lose your day job. You only have one life, please don't waste it.

Sounds like a mini Revolution

Hero? via yahoo news

"BEIJING – When Li Shiming was stabbed through the heart by a hired assassin, few of his fellow villagers mourned the local Communist Party official many say made their lives hell by seizing land, extorting money and bullying people for years.

Instead, villagers in the northern town of Xiashuixi have made Li's teenage killer something of a local hero. More than 20,000 people from the coal-mining area petitioned a court for a lenient sentence.

"I didn't feel surprised at all when I heard Li Shiming was killed, because people wanted to kill him a long time ago," said villager Xin Xiaomei, who says her husband was harassed for years by Li after the two men had a personal dispute. "I wanted to kill Li myself, but I was too weak."

So is he a hero?

"That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness"

-Declaration of Independence

Maybe the wrong way to go about retaliation, but in china it doesn't matter how well you pay a lawyer, the government will always win, unless you remind them who keeps it afloat. Hero sounds just fine to me, just listen to the petition of 20,000 people.

Fuck City Prosecutors.

"The Driving Rain."

City Prosecutors. they are good for one thing only, and that is extorting as much money as possible out of citizens. Normally I wouldn't care how they conduct their business, because I know my rights.

But when some fucking asshole decides to cut my mom a "deal" and lower her inspection fine from $250, to $172, it doesn't make me a happy fuckin camper. I know they can remove fines completely because i have done it. I flat out told them i wasn't going to pay because i didn't have any money. It's called duress, and it can get many things expunged.

For Reference:
-inspections cost $40.
-A drunk driver knocked my moms mirror off.
-it costs $400 to fix.
-you can't get an inspection without a side mirror.
-Therefore my mom is in a shitty position and the fuckin city just wants to pay off their brand new million dollar courthouse.

My mom is all but broke. she works for the state helping special needs children, and doesn't make very much. I was going to represent her, but i live a few hours away, and her court date was the start of a new semester.

So my mom has to find MONEY to fix her car, so she can BUY an inspection sticker, so she doesn't have to PAY the city even more money. If she puts a claim to the insurance company her rates will go UP.. and as i said she is barely making it.

This happened at the local municipal court. I am fucking furious. She didn't know the system was trying to fuck her over. after all they were just cutting her a "deal".

I swear to god you cunt ass motherfucker, when i get your name, you can rest assured you will be my poster child for everything that's wrong with the court system.

I hope you enjoy fucking over old ladies who try to help others.

And you see that up there? that's called FREEDOM OF SPEECH. don't ever let them tell you how you can use it.

Here's a great website called Flex Your Rights that could help you if your ever unsure about your rights.

SPREAD THE WORD
- always go Trial by Jury if you are unsure about the prosecutor, the jury can always pull the ole' "Jury Nullification Rule", which basically means a jury can throw a case out for virtually any reason. let any body know who might have jury duty, they have more power than the judge. after all this is a land of the people.

Some asshole prosecutors-

From LA we have Steve Cooley

From New Mexico we have Andy Thomas

and finally from New Orleans we have Keva Landrum-Johnson

really, just despicable people...

NJ says praise mary!

Photo by Austin

Straight from the ass press mouth, via NY daily news. Outgoing Governor John Corzine signs the states first medical marijuana legislation into law, making New Jersey MMJ state number 14. Read the article here.

"The governor signed the bill after hours Monday, making New Jersey the 14th state to allow patients with diseases such as cancer, AIDS, glaucoma and multiple sclerosis to use marijuana to alleviate their pain, nausea and other symptoms."New Jersey will soon no longer make criminals out of our very sick and terminally ill," said Assembly co-sponsor Reed Gusciora."

One by one, states are asserting their rights against the severely broken federal laws, and allowing people to access the one medicine that truly works.

Why Society is ignorant about Avatar.

This is horse shit. via yahoo's front fucking page

"Strange as it may seem for a film that pits greedy, immoral humans against noble denizens of a faraway moon, "Avatar" is being criticized by a small but vocal group of people who allege it contains racist themes — the white hero once again saving the primitive natives."

WOW. They missed the real meat of the movie. An epic story trying to determine if high technology is more important to maintain a society, one based on finance, than living at one with nature, and creating a society based on helping each other. a tribe. this is a very strong ode to the ecologically balanced traditions of Native Americans. The "white hero" only helps, he does not literally save them, just inspires their cause.

"Since the film opened to widespread critical acclaim three weeks ago, hundreds of blog posts, newspaper articles, tweets and YouTube videos have said things such as the film is "a fantasy about race told from the point of view of white people" and that it reinforces "the white Messiah fable."

NEWSFLASH>>>

THE FILM MADE NO REFERENCE TO GOD OR RELIGION!!!
(pretty much everything was backed up with some kind of scientific reasoning..)



"The film's writer and director, James Cameron, says the real theme is about respecting others' differences."

James needs only to explain himself in a very simple way. he just wants us to respect and appreciate the natural wonders of life around you! not the material life that society literally enforces on us. (Don't get me wrong, i still like to buy cool shit, i just don't like the fact that your choices are "conform to our society, or we will remove you from it... ie PRISON!!!!".)

These people have to ask

"IS AVATAR RACIST???"

(tip, if you have to ask you're probably a douche.)

IF they really want to shine light on a shitty news story and spark up some controversy they should just go out and say

AVATAR IS RACIST.

GROW SOME FUCKIN BALLS OTHER BLOGS AND "NEWS PEOPLE"! if you guys really have the cahones to post stupid ass questions like that, then you might as well fucking answer it.

"Annalee Newitz writes that "[w]hether Avatar is racist is a matter of debate," but it isn't: the film is racist."

--Please go leave some internet doo doo on this blog.">

(we could have a blog war! oooh i'm giddy like a schoolgirl!!!)

"(Spoiler warning)

It appears I wasn’t the only one to pick up on Avatar’s racist subtext.."

--no unfortunately you weren't.


Another reason why all this is a bunch of horseradish?

THEY'RE FUCKING BLUE.

I'm going to check youtube on something....


yep.... i love the internet, you just think of something.... and...

magic.

On time, out of work. Drug Testing in America.

"bag it."

Drug testing in the workplace is one of the biggest fucking jokes of all time. Companies spend millions of dollars making sure they have a drug free workplace, and in return they just have to spend even more to train the replacement employees.



I have a friend who fell victim to this cruel game.

He worked at a retail store/pharmacy, and he always showed up on time, and more importantly did his job. He had been working there for over a year, and one day the company decided it would be a fantastic morning for a random drug test.

Well, this friend was a good smoking buddy, and without enough time to prepare, (ie: clean the system, i hear Q-Carbo works great), he was forced to submit to random drug testing. There was no way in hell he was passing that test.

When the employer got the results back, they were forced to fire him under company policy. The manager did not want to do it, because like i said, he was one of their best employees. He was fired, but is rehire-able after a period of something like 6 months to a year.

Problem with this is that THE FUCKING ECONOMY IS HORRIBLE, and jobs are a little hard to come by these days. Because of one random drug test, that some faceless rich douchebag in the corporate offices ordered, for these reasons---

-random
-uhh yeah just random

his livelihood was taken away, and for no other reason than a personal choice that had no affect on his job performance.

So these people who promote drug testing must be under the assumption that if you do any kind of drugs (except alcohol, it's perfectly legal to come in hung over) that you---

-must be an endangerment to everyone around you
-must be a bad person
-must be stupid

His manager disagreed with these assumptions (which is why he is rehirable,) so tell me WHY THE FUCK can't he keep his job?!

But i'll tell you who can. This guy. he's a now, former miami beach cop.

"Kill two men in four days under questionable circumstances. Get caught with drugs in your system and suspended from work.

Walk away from it all with $17,242.46.

Not a bad deal, right?"

oh and he's a cop.

I GET IT NOW!

As long as you work to prevent other people's liberties, you get to have more! and fuck, let's give them some money too!

Here's how you can learn about drug testing and your rights.


"pending lawsuits are challenging random workplace drug testing as a violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. Additionally, employees and job candidates have sued for random drug testing and won, even though they tested positive. In some cases, they've won simply because employers did not abide by municipal or state workplace drug testing laws. For example, some municipal or state drug testing laws

* Limit discipline for employees who test positive the first time
* Don't allow employers to make job candidates or employees pay for drug testing
* Limit drug testing only to jobs for which workplace or public safety or security is a concern
* Forbid random drug testing


So REMEMBER, if you know you are going to fail your drug test, go study like miami cop Adam Tavss... kill 2 "random" people, take an oath to protect and serve, and in the governments eyes, your pretty much in the clear.

Avatar.

This wonderful movie helped me to realize that Nature is the most perfect technology. all we have been doing is creating technology to make nature more user friendly to our species. The problem with this, is that we create technology that does not mesh with nature, and instead struggles against it. In order to create more perfect technologies, we have to continue to look at nature for inspiration. This will help the record of our society last longer, (a good ex. is the longevity of ancient stone dwellings), but in the end, nature, the pure technology will always come out on top. Most of our technology is static, it cannot evolve itself, so it will be reclaimed by the earth eventually. The human race is more persistent than the flawed technology we create, because we are constantly changing throughout our lives, (personality,intelligence, physicality) without change we would not exist. If we move against change, we will only do harm to ourselves, and ensure the destruction of our society.

There is a quote in the movie that many reviewers sadly did not get. (after all, they just want to be entertained, and not be provoked into deep thought)

“all energy is borrowed and some day you have to give it back”

This was seen by some as some kind of tree hugging hippie crap.

It is only just a simple truth though, and is explained well throughout the movie.

A creature eats to gain "energy" to survive and persist. this is his purpose.
eventually the creature will return to the earth, and the "energy" leftover from that creature will go to fuel the growth of more life, and the cycle will continue.

energy can be defined as many things to people. to most people it seems to be thought of as some kind of force that cannot be seen. To me it is simply the chemical changes that manifest themselves in a physical being, through many levels of bodily input, from eating, to drinking, to the air that we breath.

People seem to be afraid of a world that man does not control. But if you sit back and watch, you can see that the world moves in it's own perfect balance. We need not control it, but simply protect it, and enjoy it!

A Quote by MM.

"A History."

The only people to see the true face of war, are those who have died at his hands.

Do not look unto these eyes.

"BAD DAY"

Why is it that cops think it's suspicious if you look at them? That's
what I was told by a cop. Apparently "only someone hiding something
would have the want to scout their position".

NO.

Everybody is afraid of cops, and for one good reason, everyone knows it
is a crime to be a human being. Tickets for speeding, parking, no
inspection or registration(hey buddy! I realize you don't have a lot of
money so im gonna do you a favor and give you even less money to use to
fix your car! Have a nice day!).

They ticket you for simply existing, and no one questions it because
they are willing to take blame for petty mistakes, pay into the system
because they think "well, we pay tickets so when the drug dealer next
door robs us, the cops will make us their first priority!"

WRONG.

They will be too busy ticketing other human beings for existing
elsewhere and, as they know, violent criminals are hard to catch, and
never pay their fines, so why bother go after them when you people are
fresh meat to the cops!?

Pot: the anti cancer.

Proof

What you need to know:

"10 to 20 years of marijuana use was associated with a significantly reduced risk of HNSCC(head and neck squamous cell carcinoma)"

That means that smoking marijuana is GOOD FOR YOU! You can't ask for a better source for articles on cancer prevention research, and Brown University. Marijuana truly is an anti cancer medicine.

SPREAD THE WORD! PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THIS!

What Constitution?

is what we will be saying.

This is For REAL

Under the cover of darkness obama signed E.O. 12425: Amending E.O. 12425 Designating Interpol as a public international organization entitled to enjoy certian privilege, exemptions, and immunities.

Obama has given Interpol immunity to operate within the borders and territories of the U.S.WITH NO OVERSIGHT or restrictions of our CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHTS.

Thanks Austin, who spotted this here.

This is what you won't see on the news.

10 Things that suck about the VA.

story

Hopefully I posted that link right.. (From my phone)

Its a story about veterans and how they cannot get the only medicine
that works for them. Cannabis. Their is some pretty touching moments,
and some heartbreaking ones, mostly due to the governments blind
ignorance towards the green.

Read about;
How more soldiers from 2001 have committed suicide, than have dies in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

How the government won't let veterans do it even in a med mary state.

The American Medical Association's recent change in position on cannabis
as a medication. (Which by the way was to tell the GOV "...give tha sick
they weed now biiiiitch!, and we also request that you lower it to a
schedule 2 substance...").

KNOW THIS!
The AMA's new report even said that smoked cannabis is all so helpful.

I THINK
We should band all these veterans together, they would be able to create
a movement that the government could not ignore. At least not while
their are still troops overseas.

City in the sky, Citizens in the sand.

World's Tallest Tower via yahoo news

A yahoo article about Dubai getting ready to open the "World's Tallest Tower"

Unfortunately they make no mention of dubai's current state of affairs, which read something like this.

"Dubai is a city caught in an identity crisis. Struggling somewhere between its desire to be a playground for the rich and its adherence to traditional Islamic roots, rests a city that lacks sufficient infrastructure to support its delusions of grandeur. Visit if you must, but leave quickly before you are sucked into its calamitous void. "

These are the top 20 reasons that outweigh that beautiful gleaming man made marvel up at the top.

some of the reasons:

13. Not only do you have to get your boss’s approval to obtain a liquor license, but you must also get the company’s approval to rent property, have a telephone, or get satellite TV.

8. There are traffic cameras everywhere.

10. People stare at you.

and prob the worst..

6. These poor people are promised a certain pay, but the companies neglect to tell them they will be deducting their cost of living from their paychecks, leaving them virtually penniless – that is, if they choose to pay them.


The Truth about Dubai

War: the more dangerous drug.

"Man with a Gun."

1 dead

This wouldn't have happened without the drug war. a war that forces down on their luck people into taking big risks, instead of giving them a legitimate industry to work for.

To those who doubt.

"Yin Yang."





Send Me!

^that little guy up there^ is a link to send to someone who may be skeptical about marijuana's healing powers. send it to your grandma anonymously.

I did.

what you need to know:

"UCLA medical school professor Donald Tashkin reported that components of marijuana smoke -- although they damage cells in respiratory tissue -- somehow prevent them from becoming malignant."

BAMM motherfucka! that's some real good name droppin up there. please spread the word.

Comedies.

Why do they even give you the option of unrated on comedies? people buy unrated comedies for a reason, so why the fuck would they think someone would want to choose the option with less movie?!

the sad truth.

unfortunately, this is our strategy.

We trust this society because it makes us feel safe, but how can we while thier is still injustice like this going on?

A REAL AMERICAN HERO.

the strategy we should be using.

8 mile high.

Pics from a friend, a budding photog, taken with a phone. i almost didn't believe that a phone could capture that great of lighting on the bottom pic. thank's, Austin.

This is the declaration of independence for the society of the internet.

Kids of my time ( just before the search engines began to replace encyclopedias), and when books were still the norm, we hated learning about the constitution. It was complicated and we didn’t see how it applied to our real world life (after all we were kids, not lawyers, even though liar liar had helped us to question the justice system), yet we were told time and time again of the constitutions great importance. It was hard to bring practical application to this old ass document, because of all the tricks certain "non-philanthropic" parts of society pull in order to loophole the constitution ever since it’s inception.

On the internet I always tend to run in to the constitution, or the declaration, as an argument ender. This is an entity that even the system must account for, and if the majority of voices are heard, then the corporations being influenced by We the People of the Internet, who are in control of our own happiness, within the Society of the Internet, will start to influence the politicians checkbooks, and some façade of change must occur, and once a problem thought solved is in the public consciousness, we will not forget it, and we must continue to persevere until the people's voices unite, and they will hold oversight, on those still found destroying the happiness of others. We that believe in this document, those of us that believe in the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, will continue to work for the peace and happiness of every human, even those we have cast out. Anyone caught infringing on these natural rights, will either be shunned or labeled by,

We the People of the Internet.





So this website will be a forum for what I think is injustice, my views on society, and mine and my friends artwork for all to share. If some of my opinions are not liked or not agreed upon, then I invite you call my bullshit, hopefully without violent insult, that way I can modify my own personal views to accommodate new factual information, that I have yet to think about. This is a place for me to share my ideas and art with the internet community, so if they become inspired by it,they can use it. FREE to all. Hopefully for the betterment of society.