Monthly Archives: April 2012

American Prisons Facts

Posted on by Sherry Mac

The real reason for privatizing the prison system…slave labor.

1. Three “strikes” and you get life in jail. Even for trivial crimes, Leandro Andrade is serving 2 consecutive life sentences for shoplifting 9 video tapes with a value of $153
2a. 1% of Americans are in jail(2.3million)
2b On a per capita bases this equates to twice as many in South Africans, more than 3 times Iran and 6 times China’s prison population.
3. No society in history has imprisoned as many people as America.
4. 1 in 30 men aged 20 – 34 in in prison.
5.1 in 9 black males are in prison.
6. There are more 17 year old black males in prison than in college.
7. 5% of the world are American…25% of all prisoners are American.
8. America prohibits importing goods made through forced labor or prisoners…
YET…
…American prisons produce 100% of all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet proof vests,
9. 93% of domestically used paints, 36% of home appliances, 21% of office furniture, which allows America to compete with factories in Mexico.
10. You get solitary confinement if you refuse to work!

11. Thus America has successfully reinvented the slave trade.

Prison watch link
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Prison_System/Prison_System.html

And another link
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090529202727AAud3zf

Keep up with Jim Rogers latest project to create a system that will hold politicians feet to the fire, and to put shackles on lobbiers so that they can no longer control the system. One day we might have a system that controled by the people and is for the people.

http://www.govathome.com/

Don’t Think…

Posted on by Sherry Mac

Sometimes I think we the people really need to turn our TV’s, radio’s, video games and computers off and give our over stimulated brains a rest. We need to quit listening to the corporate media tell us what to think, do, buy, fear, and hate. We need to top letting them distract and control our minds with their  . Step outside of the one dimensional box they’ve built for you. Go out and take a look for yourself at what’s really going on in the world. Learn about other cultures and religions instead of fearing and hating them. Experience and learn about nature and the natural world around us, and then learn to live in balance with it; after all it is what gives us life.

Norwegians sing out against killer

Posted on by Sherry Mac

AS ONE VOICE: CROWDS PACKED AN OLSO SQUARE TO DEFIANTLY SING “CHILDREN OF THE RAINBOW”, WHICH THE NORWAY GUNMAN CLAIMED IS USED TO BRAINWASH CHILDREN INTO SUPPORTING MULTICULTURALISM. PICTURE: AP AP

THOUSANDS of defiant Norwegians have gathered in public squares to sing a song despised by the Norway gunman.

They gathered by the tens of thousands, aiming to face down terror with the power of music.

Inspired by a Facebook-organised protest, Norwegians flocked to public squares across the country yesterday, ignored the drenching rain and lifted their voices in song.

Their target: far-right fanatic Anders Behring Breivik, now on trial for a bomb-and-shooting rampage that killed 77 people. Their weapon: a children’s tune that he claims has been used to brainwash the country’s youth into supporting immigration.

Defiant sing-alongs of “Children of the Rainbow” were staged in Oslo and other major Norwegian cities, while in court survivors of Mr Breivik’s attacks gave tearful testimony in the ninth day of his trial. Read more…

Anonymous: Message to United States Citizens [CISPA]

Posted on by Sherry Mac

Petition: http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/cispa_passes?akid=1331.401496.hxiqqw&…

Greetings citizens of the United States.

We are Anonymous.

Thursday, April 26th, the United States House, in a rushed vote, passed the HR 3523, also known as CISPA.

Dubbed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, it allows the United States to collect information about users of the internet. It allows the United States to monitor all activity on the net and can be used to monitor any individual’s internet usage. This monitoring is called deep packet inspection, it looks through everything that is going in and out of your computer, which is a blatant violation of our rights to privacy.
Looking through your mail is a crime for a postman, these rules should apply to the internet too.

The bill’s intent is to help stop cyber attacks… However; the vague wording of the bill could allow the government to use this new power to go behind privacy protection and monitor, censor, and cut off online communication.

President Obama has already stated that he will veto the bill, but this is also what was said about NDAA.

Together, we can stop this act. The time to take action is now. We have defeated previous attempts to censor our only platform of true honest communication, the internet. SOPA was only the beginning.

Sign petitions, call your congressmen, and kill this act in the senate.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
CISPA, Expect us.

NYC Dept. Of Education Bans ‘Evolution’ And Other ‘Offensive’ Words From Tests (VIDEO)

Posted on by Sherry Mac

This is ridiculous…

In a move that should bring down a storm of condemnation from pretty much the entire political spectrum, the New York City Department of Education has provided a list of taboo words to the companies that develop standardized testing. Among them are words like “evolution” and “Christmas.” This is taking political correctness to an absurd degree. Read more…

 

Activist Post: Our Future In Chains: The Debtors’ Prison System Returns

Posted on by Sherry Mac

This is becoming a really scary country to live in anymore.
The recent story of breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay being thrown in prison for a $280 medical bill that was sent in error has thankfully gone viral.  It has brought much-needed attention to the insanity of reinstating the concept of debtors’ prisons.

Debtors’ prisons have a sordid history that was thought to be best left behind in Medieval Europe and in Charles Dickens’ fictionalized accounts of the 19th-century hellholes of Victorian England.

America was not to be outdone, however, debtors’ prisons were widespread in the United States as well, and stories of the conditions in New York’s debtors’ prisons could make one question if repayment of debts was really the purpose; violent criminals were much better clothed and fed.  In fact, history shows that terror and slavery have always had a close relationship with debt, and it follows a path from the Romans right through to 17th-century England, and into America from English common law.  However, America chose to abolish her debtors’ prisons a full 36 years before England; first in New York in 1831, and by 1833 the rest of the America had followed.(1)

Now, debtors’ prisons seem to be making a comeback in America.  Read more…

 

Free Your (Eco) Mind

Posted on by Sherry Mac

Gradually it’s dawned on me: We humans are creatures of the mind. We perceive the world according to our core, often unacknowledged, assumptions. They determine, literally, what we can see and what we cannot. Nothing so wrong with that, perhaps—except that, in this crucial do-or-die moment, we’re stuck with a mental map that is life-destroying.                                                          (Photo: Daniel Valle)

 And the premise of this map is lack—not enough of anything, from energy to food to parking spots; not enough goods and not enough goodness. In such a world, we come to believe, it’s compete or die. The popular British writer Philip Pullman says, “we evolved to suit a way of life which is acquisitive, territorial, and combative” and that “we have to overcome millions of years of evolution” to make the changes we need to avoid global catastrophe.

 If I believed that, I’d feel utterly hopeless. How can we align with the needs of the natural world if we first have to change basic human nature? Read more…

Happy Earth Day 2012

Posted on by Sherry Mac

Happy Earth Day! I hope everyone did something nice for their Mother today.

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more. ~Gaylord Nelson