Volume XI: off your ass the Tele's Dead

As if 2008 couldn't let one day go by without another sucky thing happening.
There is war breaking out throughout the Gaza, people are starving on every corner of the earth, jobs are lost, crime is up, and the year in review looks like a smiting from God. But now escapism and truthiness are on the verge of collapse. The magic box that informs us of the madness and helps us escape this very madness is in trouble. On the eve of the new year New York Time Warner subscribers received a scrolling message on certain channels letting them know they would no longer be able to get Viacom Networking. This includes MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, & Comedy Central. The laziest of people raised their eyebrows and knocked over their beers at the shock of loosing their Daily Show and Spongebob Squarepants. Starting Jan 1st 2009 Time Warner people will be out of luck. This is all do to negotiations between Time Warner and Viacom crumbling. Quick reports have shown that talks are doomed.

Time Warner sucks, like really sucks. Like 15 dollars to replace your remote that never worked anyway...sucks. Like calling and saying your internet is slow and hearing "so?". Sucks. TW charge so much money for basic cable and their government endorsed monopoly has made it so that there is no compettion in the area. It's not that TV is really that important anymore, one can look at the Boob Tube on the internet. But when you look how much your going to have to pay for just Internet through TW, paying for cable isn't that much more. Although the crappy connection TW provides will now be clogged with more internet goings since they won't be watching their shows via cable. Most consumers will cancel or just not use the the cable service. Even at the loss of their beloved NY1; Although we still might be able to catch "in the papers" online (kickass).
THE POINT
The point is this: the giant corporations that have ruled our lives are collapsing and instead of being liberated from their evil ways, we will suffer! At all levels we will feel the pain of loosing basic services. It starts with your bank being dumb, your job being lost, your inability to get cars or car parts, your media lost, your public transportation costing to much to ride, and your safety being threatened. All of this will lead up to problems with your electricity and your water. The people in charge will not help you when they are not making millions, especially when you have no money to give. We must work together and focus on services for human function and social order. It is imperative that we start building something better for the future. Our 2008 has shown how much we have lost. May we find a way to be better than generations before us and fix what is broken.



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Year's end...
This preparation for the new year,
But it seems that our clocks have all but stopped.
We all seem stuck at one second to midnight
Hands are raised ...
the great pendulum swinging
Only our cogs are all quiet inside
And the bells from earlier hours...
have been forgotten
What has caused this long pause?
this never ending interim
Were we wound to tight?
and our springs sprung
Are we Broken?

Let us look up to the sky
And see that it is time


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Volume XI: Greek (we) Revolt

Something has happened in Greece one of the birthplaces of civility. People are running through the streets, cars are burning, TV stations are overrun, and signs are hung from the Acropolis. "Revolt" the people and sign say, "Revolt".
What has happened here? Something has happened. It has all changed. Not just in Greece, not just in Europe, but the world. The Greeks are fighting because their governments army is out of control. The destructive nature of this army has lead to the death of a teenage boy and thus the rage of a society. Even as the news tries to show the horrible burning of once beautiful places the idea of a "revolt" doesn't seem offensive. Civil unrest is not being looked down on by society. Something has happened.
Will historians have a clear catalyst for the difference or will they call all this a footnote for something that never spread; that these Greeks were not from seeds of something new.
And what of us. What have we done? Have we "Changed"? We voted for "Change", but have we. So far we have lost our economies, lost our jobs, and erased our futures (401k). What has happened? Have we stood up? Have we run through the streets and put up signs? Or have we just waited...waited for systems to fix itself. It is clear our leaders can duck and dodge insults, but can they fix this? Are we to keep waiting while it all comes to a stop? 10.3 million of us are now out looking for something to give, yet no one is helping. The ones at the top are still trying to figure out what happened. They ponder "why did the cards fall" as we know the truth of it all. The bosses at the top have not planned for the future, so we must.
But what will happen? Will it be torches of anger or voices of progress? Are we locked up waiting for January 20th, 2009? Is that when we try?
What do we do till then?
It's beginning to snow are we ready for winter?


I hope so.


Something has happened. Society has "changed". What once were just countries became worlds, and a small flame an ocean of fire.




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Volume XI: Continual WTF

American consumerism(capitalism) is not dead. Don't be fooled by the news reports. People are buying as shown by closing announcement made by KB stores on Friday. KB toys stores all over America were mad houses. Seas of people crawling all over each other to get the super liquidating sales of 20-50% off. The insanity has continued through the weekend showing that American shoppers are cheap not dead. you've been tracking that Hanna Montana Doll on EBay just go to KB and get it. It will get you outside and into the shopping holiday experience. So its a cheap Xmas(Holiday) this year and that's okay. If those luxury items have to be sold for a little cheaper this year to break even, so be it. Plus if Americans actually start to look at prices as oppose to slick marketing campaigns then we will have a smarter nation. A nation that knows that taking a jet one week and a hybrid the next does not make you a better person, it makes you a PR stunt.

Man oh man can the big 3 be any stupider. Not only are they the sinister CEOs we all thought, they are also completely idiots. "I drove a hybrid this week can I have 34 million instead of 25 million." Good God! When did decency and trust get lost to dollars and cents (I am guessing a long time). None of the Big 3 (& modern CEOs in general) have built an institution for the American economy. What they have built are heartless global machines that not even the Maytag man can fix. If the Big 3 thought in the last few years about American workers they could have kept their pyramid scheme. (Big 3: "I'll work for a dollar a year if I can keep my job."-a dollar a year you made to much money off of the blue collar backs, your out.) Instead the Big 3 will get money from the government to keep alive a business that hasn't helped the American people and will put most of its work force onto the streets. Why not skip giving these huge sums of money out to irresponsible companies and just give it to the blue collars that need it? What so bad with bailing out consumers that actually understand that now they have to save? Like everyone gets a month free of rent or mortgage payments. I bet in one month we cold all relax and breath for a moment. With this rejuvenation we could take on these problems together as a nation instead of the good old boys of the past.

"I think there is still hope because there is still a tomorrow."

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