Burning Man!
Posted on January 13, 2010
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I have decided I am returning to burning man this year. I plan to have things be much different, mainly in the forms of habitat. I’m excited, I want to plan it and a trip to California for like a week before hand and maybe a few days after.
I haven’t made a political post in a while because it’s all so superficial. The republicans are whiny little babies and the democrats + the media coddle them back to full health. Reid uses the N word and suddenly he’s an imperial KKK wizard rampaging through our streets with the red army stealing american flag candy from babies. 10% unemployment and the best answer republicans have is fire the leader they’ve refused to work with because of truthful comments he made (though they’d never say it, they want him to resign because it’s true, if Obama were “blacker” or had some kind of Howard Dean moment he wouldn’t be president). I guess I shouldn’t make a blanket statement about “the media” when all I’m really talking about is the TV box, which even on it’s 24 hour news cycle refuses to change topics more than once a day.
There’s that huge earthquake in Haiti, which according to Pat Roberson is the result of the pack they made with the devil to beat off the french slave traders who have been successful in keeping Haiti a 3rd world country since the 17th century with debt (yay artificial slavery!). Their infrastructure now matches their political struggles, and even after paying 80%+ of their revenue on their debt they’re still massively in debt. It’s great that we’re sending in the US military now, but this is the result of the IMF stealing all the wealth from their country without any investment into the people. The IMF came out with a generic statement of “oh of course we’re ready to help”, by promising them more loans they’ll never be able to repay. I want to help and rebuild Haiti just as much as everyone else, but the people of Haiti deserve to own their own country, not international hedge funds who simply care about their profit.
The Bank stands ready to help with financial assistance.
I remember that old conservative quote “the worst words anyone can say to you is “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”". I always thought that was stupid, because if the government is made up of the people than you shouldn’t be afraid of this person (it’s always situational though, the census worker vs the gestapo scenario). The person you really need to be weary of is these bankers. I’d head for the hills if someone came to tell me “I’m from the bank, and I’m standing by to give you the money you need to live at the price of your freedom”. It’s the most unethical thing you can do to Haiti and it’s people, we should stop international bankers from keeping this country in artificial poverty, not just send blank checks (although obviously with a tragedy like this blank checks will go a long way!).
I’m glad the TV box can take a break from sucking on the tit of the republican party to cover a crisis, but they’re so near sighted. It’s like “how can we resolve this issue this very second so tomorrow I don’t have to deal with it” instead of “how we make a lasting difference so this won’t need to be an international crisis in the future”. California has been expecting something of that magnitude for years, are they prepared even a little? If that earthquake hit Seattle, the Alaskan Way Viaduct would be rubble. Our problems are all monetary, we have the power to change our society so tragedies like that aren’t international crisis’s, but we’re all so in debt to the bankers we’re paralyzed to protect ourselves from nature. Why Haiti is so poor.
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