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... and today's stock market continues it's decline along with several other capitalist country's stock markets, plus toss in the Chinese stock market.

Where is the fear in the Muslim countries? Is it there and is the press ignoring it or are the Muslim banks not having the same problems as the rest of the world markets?

I'm optimistic. In the long run I view this crisis as a shakedown that is necessary for the new to enter into the shoes of the same old tired feet that have run this world for far longer than they need. The world has grown exponentially and the information moves as fast as light providing an immediacy to world problems like never before.

All these current problems need to be seen as challenges... challenges to overcome and introduce better and more efficient ways of doing business, of handling the energy crises, better and more efficient ways to run governments, to run banks and build greener for the good of the one planet we all inhabit.

Consider the U.S. Presidential candidates: on one hand we have McCain... a tired and old man that wants to save the old ways and has no understanding of the new that awaits the future. On the other hand we have Obama, representative of the New... new on so many levels - the first black man to run for President, something that would never have happened if it weren't for the Civil Rights movement... and the Hispanic influences that have spread all over this country - Bill Richardson of New Mexico whose mother is Mexican... many Representatives and Congresspeople with Hispanic backgrounds... our country has got to adjust and enjoy the tremendous variety of peoples that have come of age in our country and need to have their say-so, their needs met...

Look around during the next televised shot of a McCain rally... what do you see? The vast majority of supporters are middle aged whites and older... sadly clinging to a past because the new is coming on so fast and quickly that they are simply unable to accept and even adjust to these new times.

Sarah Palin? She's young, yes. But who do you see, breathless, looking at this woman while she is giving her attack speeches? Again the majority of older whites. Sure there is enough younger whites... the evangelical folks that believe in white religion with a white Jesus speaking to them thru their white Bibles written by white interpreters of the Holy Books from old..

The future times will not have room for that degree of religious fear and indoctrinations. Those that will not shake off the past and open their hearts and minds... stretch widely their arms and embrace the new that awaits on the horizon of tomorrow, it will be those that will live in in the darkness of their fears.

The days to come will become even stranger than we have seen so far... it's not over. It's just beginning. The cries of the baby of the future need to be heard, needs to be nourished... it is that baby of the future that will grow into the provider of our grandchildren. If those that refuse to listen, choose to ignore future's current cries, will be losers. Don't be a loser. Embrace these new times and rejoice that it will bring a newness that will revitalize our current tired and fearful existence.


cecil
10.10.08

this is an optimant (as opposed to pessirant)

chance for change - let's, shall we, grab it

My dream may finally come true....I'll wake up one fine sunny morning to find all the worlds economies and systems of power have fallen to the ground, obese with greed...guts exploding to reveal maggots eating the rot and bile....

Hyper-capitalism is in it's death throes... mourn not, for better solutions will take over. Trust.

You know?

I was watching the early morning news and this one channel had Gary Hart, an ex-Senator from years back. He was talking about the economies of the world today and blah, blah, blah... but said a couple of things that got me going... mainly optimism about the future which is inevitable. I then did my walk and thought about the times we're experiencing right now... it all seems so beyond anyone's control. Nobody knows how long this will continue nor does anyone have any real solid answers ... it's all opinions and speculations. This whole thing it seems to me after hearing that, is Nature... this is a natural cause much like a natural weather storm or earthquake or some other calamity... nature is at the root of all this and we gotta roll with the punches, no matter who we are. Those that resist the tides of change will be broken and washed away. Trust. That is the answer.

Yeah, Kurt... your dream may very well be many, many of our dreams.

fear tends to be so divo (he wants all the spots in himself!) and he changes costumes easily!!!!!!!!

optimism is good! you need some dosis of that to keep seeing the movie & at the same time take care of your garden!!

Up down up down so it goes.
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Thx, truck, for that quote. I know many of us relate to this reporter's sentiments.

This morning I was reviewing the news on the tube, surfing from news channel to news channel. I got so tired of this Obama bashing I finally told Soo "I'm voting for Obama, period. I don't give a fuck who wins anymore.. I'm sick and tired of all this negativity." Unfortunately, that didn't last any longer than 1 hour when I saw another McCain scare tactic against Obama. That s.o.b. slug McCain says the negative campaigning will stop and there it is on prime time Sunday morning trying their republican damnedest to instill fear and doubt in the public that supports Obama. I never had a great reason to hate much, but right now, I can honestly say "I HATE the Republicans!" Their sleazy, weaselly, underhanded bullshit has got to end. How many folks out here on either side find this shit overboard. There is a small part of me that almost wishes McCain would win and show all his asshole followers and supporters the continuing slide of this country into complete and total chaos... sort of a 'I-told-you-so" but of course that is unwise... but I would like to shove their idiocy into their faces like a cream pie and smear the lies all over their fucking false promises and living conceits and decptions. This Republican party was rotten the past two terms, but it's nothing quite like today's. If they regain the Presidency, this country can kiss its ass good-bye.

Now the sad reality - there are Republicans that feel the same way I do... just reverse the parties and the candidates that I just wrote about. Amazing the divide this country has... it's an abysmal abyss that shows no promise of healing. We as a Nation should be worried, and not only because of the economic crisis, but the crisis of our national conscience. Nobody has a solution and nobody wants to bridge the divide. We are at a stalemate that will not budge. What to do..? What to do..?

We are at a stalemate that will not budge. What to do..? What to do..?

A rhetorical question I suppose?

a sic [sick] answer

I think we are making progress
I just read the other day that banks don't trust each other anymore.
That could be good news.


Everybody bailing out of the market
all those stocks being sold
have you ever wondered who is buying them?

General Motories [sic] exec telling Diane Sawyer
"We are not stupid"
But it might have been a bad move when we destroyed all the electric cars we made in the nineties.

And when we bought up all the street car lines In Los Angeles back in the twenties and dismantled them.

Built roads in stead.

Yes who killed Rodger Rabbit

It was Michael Moore I suppose

I have come to the conclusion that the meek have inheirited the earth, and they are a greedy lot.

I got one more silver dollar
and a couple of avocados
they ain't going to keep me down

"I got one more silver dollar..." Allman Bros. wasn't it..?

Don't hang on to those 2 avocados too long. Guacamole is good stuff.

Enjoyed your post, truck... who does buy those cheap stocks? morons or economic geniuses? I've been thinking about buying one stock of GM... wise investment? I have no idea... and I doubt if anyone else does either. But what do I know about economy? It's a strange and very abstract world, IMHO, that nobody fully grasps in it's entirety... it's too much. I can understand the 'god-thing' much easier than the economy. Which is odd given the fact that numbers are pure, theoretically speaking, of course.

The ultimate pure capitalist irony (& conclusion?): It's a total buyer's market but the buyers have no money... (or did they ever really?)

And yes, it's all Clinton's fault. Or maybe Hoover's.

Good rant, Cecil! I dug. I agree! It's going to get down to us against them, as they always said it would, except we'll ignore the spoon-fed "us" and "them" issued by the bogey-man-of-the-month Orwellian Ministry of Truth (read:FOX) and realize that it is all THEM! WE must all figure out the abomination of scorched-earth Christian myths and scorched-earth exploitation of the masses by the powerful. We the masses shall gradually become the powerful, pull the plug on endless shit-stirring fiefdom trophy wars of attrition and solemn devotion to Profit is GOD!! (And another trophy on the mantle at your Kennebunkport Vacation House.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch..

Yes, I know this is difficult to grasp for the I-must-serve-my-noble-country-and-it-really-doesn't-matter-how-or-
where-in-the-end (and get an education at the same time!) heartland crowd, but Earth to the Masses: Grow some fucking dignity and some balls to stand up the fucking OLD Wealth George W. Fucking Bushes of the goddamned planet!!! And do it sooner rather than later! Don't laugh at their joke any more.

Thank you, Amen. Nice write Cecil!

I guess that would be my rant.

Over.

PS: Ignore me when I get like this..

hyper-capitalism : the absolute need for spending money which does not exist substituting credit for cash using objects for collateral that are over-valued due to the need for more capital in the form of credit.

sounds ridiculous? it is. this is what has brought the world financial markets to the unstable position it is in now.

okay. that really had nothing to do with nothing but i had to capture that thought and did the best i could visualize it.

thx, mnazzer... don't mind me while i don't ignore you. i like your rant. it fits the pattern... tad bit abstraction mixed with a contemporary styling of immediacy highlighting the classicism of bewilderment veiled by relics of reality gathering webs of neglect in the barnyards of bullshit. no wonder we write no matter how wrong in our attempt to straighten a naturally curving situation bound to laws beyond our critiques.

carry on, amigo.

as chicken little would say
"what're we talkin about"

the last catastrophe,
the neo-cons ignored the warning signs they had
in th summer of 2001,
already in communicado with downing street
lookin fer an ops to slice into iraq
and they knew in advance,
had made the comment more than once
that, should a terrorist attack on American soil occur,
it would be advantageous towards a stronger central government
and with heightened fears the transformation of calamaty into opportunism
for the neo-con militArists occurred. this skewing of the usage of the american military, for too long the political arm of emperial interests

and that is what happenned, the manipulation of consent based on a culture of fear and anger rife with patriotic ferver, YES! so-long sadamn!

as you well know, we also sent them in without body armor, in inadequate armored personnell carriers, the hum-vee's and th strykkers. tin cans what couldn'y hold th weight with armour attached,
flat tires, broken axles,
in th army times
and sarah palin's son on the altar of sacrifice
for her god

but this time,
we have an opportunity
because the current calamity can not be disguised
and again, people have a sense of urgency
and again the survival mode sets in
and just mmaybe (i'll believe it when it happens!)
this current strife will unify more americans
with our better grasp of history
(remember there were no wmd's and saddamn didn't attack nyc)
enuf americans, the 100th monkey, th critical mass,
LETS GO RAYS!
from those minor league towns like
th durham bulls an th montgomery buisquits,
will elect more local dems, including
a suspected draMatic leap in th us congress,
also with a nearly 60 seat plurality in th senate,
growth of th democratic party in even those states that vote for
commander mccain an mrs alaska

last time we got conned
now enuf of us to stop that shit nonsense
yowsa

economics is deeply connected to the usage of th military
with a proper usage of us militarary's resources,
we would have a more restrained iintternatiiional actiiviity,
the marines are pulling out of mogadishu,
and operate within the realm of genuine international cooperation.

we had to borrow
stupid fucking war
it's easy to see how a trasformation could have taken place, in time,
without a war, more creative forces to improve th lives
inside iraq

meanwhile
remember th war on poverty?
Lbj's promise
transformed into th war in southeast asia
oh ye masters of wear an tear on th american fabric
god damn you

critical mass
a rejection of irrational reckless feckless wildcatting
cheney-rove punted
drop-kicked in thh balls

th tide is changing