Ocean’s Gift
Greetings and salutations from the sand, sun and surf of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and the foggy, rainy island of Nantucket! Great to be with you on this Monday morning, a wet one on Cape, as we brace for what will, by the end of the week, be quite a weather event of heavy rain and wind as the jet stream dips far to the south, bringing up all of that Gulf moisture, and dumps it all on the Atlantic seaboard… Taking a deep breath for this upcoming week ahead, we can be assured of one thing–the beat will go on. 82 Countries participated in the growing civil unrest stemming from the great inequalities that ‘globalization’ has wrought upon society after society, with some protests, such as in Rome, Italy, turning violent, bringing “Occupy Wall Street” to it’s next evolutionary stage, “Occupy the globe”, for this ‘civil disobedience will not just simply ‘go away’…it won’t because this inherent dishonesty and criminality by world banks, many of the world’s leaders, and some corporate business entities won’t simply ‘just go away’. Many of these fine ‘institutions’ are arrogant enough to simply dismiss them, expecting no backlash from the majority of the world’s peoples, however, it affects too many of those peoples–people who are beginning to wake up to the FACTS of how this all happened in the first place. Take Wall Street as a barometer for a moment. The problem with this far too powerful institution, made up of several very large, ‘too big to fail’ investment banks turned commercial/insurance banks, thanks to the destruction of the Glass-Steagall Act (of 1933) in 1999, allowing those banks to become ‘too big to fail’, creating the monopolies that defy the anti-trust laws that keep banks honest, yes, the problem with Wall Street in general is the fact they, ‘the investment banking system’ is no longer interested in ‘this country’ any longer, investing in American companies and, more importantly, the people who work for them. No, it is interested in the lightening fast computer trading that makes money with no value to society at large, interested in cheap labor, hence manufacturing overseas, taking away jobs right here in the U.S., interested in DEREGULATION, further deregulation, so that it may continue making HUGE chunks of money from the speculation game that Wall Street has largely become, falsely driving up oil prices and many other commodities, some by at least 40 percent, and finally interested in owning as many of the politicians, puppets really, in Washington D.C., as they lobby harder and harder for fewer of those regulations, regulations of all kinds, pulling the teeth of other vital, non-financial, government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Weather Service, which is such a smart move on behalf of these monstrous corporations who are the PROBLEM, such as Koch Industries, Halliburton, Exxon-Mobile, you know, the big polluters, who make bank on destroying OUR land, air and water, for they know that if they wave that little statement–it (regulations on say, the 596 deadly chemicals being used by Koch Industries and Halliburton, in the ‘fracking’ process of attaining natural gas, destroying drinking water in 37 states now, soon to be New York’s rich water supply), will take away jobs from good hard working Americans’–jobs that are not worth destroying our environment over, they can get away with pretty much anything. The American public, at large, for the most part, is ignorant, (via an ingenious social/economic/political design constructed by plutocratic interests), of many of these simple facts, giving republican strategists, like a Karl Rove or a Frank Luntz, plenty of room to manipulate their ‘thinking’ process and hence SLAVERY on the American psyche, and thus, manipulate their voting preference. “Occupy Wall Street” will, God willing, change all of that. As more and more Americans WAKE up to real facts, and begin to call out these hedge fund managers who make billions of dollars in a system that should not allow such atrocities, the political will to continue doing the same thing will eventually wane, ushering in more transparency in the overall political INTENTION of it’s members, more fairness to the tax code, more deliverance, by way of REAL FINANCIAL REFORM, from the Wall Street barons who have their greedy little hands on the puppet strings of their bought politicians on Capitol Hill, and an opening back up to COMMON SENSE solutions, solutions to our ever increasing problem of CLIMATE CHANGE–solutions that benefit EVERYONE, you know, the 99 percenters, as opposed to the one percenters the system currently favors. This is not a question of IF this will happen, rather a question of WHEN it will happen, for a society that now lives in a world of free flowing information, traveling faster than the speed of light, for thought does indeed travel at those speeds, the ‘free market’, or Laissez-faire, irresponsible madness (capitalism gone quite mad) that has been going on for the past thirty years in this nation will grind to a halt, as more and more ‘American People’ go hungry, more importantly, their children go hungry, and the last time I checked, you don’t want to piss off an angry ‘mama grizzly’ now, do YA? Have a wonderful week ahead folks and remember what we, here at humble, little old seacapecod.net say, ‘don’t take any wooden nickles, or poisonous apples, from the likes of a FOX NEWS’…keeping in mind who owns that propaganda ‘news’ organization, an old pirate from down unda, Mr. Rupert, ‘arrrrgghhhhh matie’, Murdoch, the king of unadulterated horse$hit! PRESERVE THE WILDERNESS! Peace~M
