February 2010 Blog Posts (8)

It began as a counter to the gay rights movement that rang out in June of 1969 at Stonewall, New York. This opening shot in the contemporary gay rights movement had its resistance and opposition that intensified in mid 1981 with the emergence of AIDS. In the early days of AIDS, it was called the gay disease. The fundamentalist Christian right seized this moment to declare this as a punishment form God and that no…

A mountain of speculation exists as to the meaning of Dec. 21^St, 2012. There are as many ideas seemingly as there are people. Popularly, the date centers on the Mayan calendar that indicates that this date is the end of the current cycle of the long count that extends for 5,125 years that commenced on August 13^th, 3114 BC. Many people have taken this date and suggested that it points to the end…

“Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. Minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage.” so the quote attributed to Richard Lovelace, a 17^th century British poet-Royalist goes; but there is a new reality and paradigm out there that is alienating…

Milton Friedman is the economic and political philosopher behind the shock doctrine that serves as the contemporary tool of the capitalist exploiter in the form of absolute capitalism. Milton Friedman created the so-called “Chicago School” of followers that was first used in South America when Allende was overthrown by Pinochet on Sept 11^th, 1973. Pinochet was convinced more than many others to use the…