#D17
Time to assemble once more.
This kid’s got an attitude that you just can’t fix. Pepper spray. Truncheons. Gas. Confinement. Brutality. Nothing works. You tell him he can’t loiter and he pitches a tent. You tell him he can’t assemble and he brings his friends. You tell him to be quiet and he starts a mic check. You raise your baton in one hand and squeeze the trigger on the pepper spray canister in the other. You curse this kid’s existence because deep down you know you’ll have to go through it all again … and even worse, you think he might be right.
The discourse of our world is shifting. Today is the three-month anniversary of Occupy. It’s a time to reflect, to celebrate, to think about what has been achieved already and about what’s coming up next.
From pole to pole, from East to West, people are rising up! It started in Tunisia, it moved to Egypt, then to New York, and now there are rumblings in Russia and the Far East.
Let’s celebrate our successes and dream up new offensives. Out in the streets, in our homes, as we occupyxmas and as we hibernate for the winter, let’s take this day to revel in the birth and ongoing life of our movement. And as we brainstorm this winter, what do you see happening in the next stage? Share your thoughts, tactics, epiphanies, and revelations below … and no matter what … let’s come out swinging when the crocuses bloom next Spring.
Here’s to the Year of the Dragon,
from all of us here at Adbusters
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occupapa
TNP3 A political party is embedded in an economic system and vice versa. Ancient Greek factions, past revolutionary parties from Europe, and the USA's electoral history are confusing lessons to learn from. Economics and its alter ego ecology, is confused by imperialist states, hoary patriarchal church-state-corporate arrangements, and by incomplete economic analyses. If the worst of global-warming doesn't happen, we have the time to complete the analysis and apply it to winning a worldwide revolution.
To win a world-wide election we must study the physics of economics involving the variables S and V, which Marx introduced but weren't fully explained. S has been called: production, substance, labor, food, movement, surplus labor, and constant capital. V has been called consumption, magnitude, value, hunger, rest, surplus value, and variable capital. S is the dividend, V is the divisor. The divisor's action explains the subjective and objective meaning of the dividend.
Its physics, because dividing S by V produces an exact mathematical result which calculates how many people are fed, and how many people aren't fed. S ÷ V = F . F stands for feeding or being fed. Its the force people use to supply food, as well as the force people have once they are fed. The equation F = S ÷ V , is derived from F = M ÷ A , which is an alteration of Newton's F = M × A , which is the classic equation to describe exploding bombs. When M mass is divided by A acceleration, and M is the mass of all the world's food, and A is the acceleration — the activity and energy — of all the people dividing all the food in to aliquot parts, however, you get an equation that describes how to feed people. C. A. Bradfield
Anonymous
Do you think you could explain this again, it's a bit confusing. Also, F=ma is not the same as F=m/a.
Anonymous
Do you think you could explain this again, it's a bit confusing. Also, F=ma is not the same as F=m/a.
occupapa
TNP4 The United Nations, along with Washington Moscow Beijing and New Delhi, make their decisions according to conventional ideas of physics, which undergirds physical science with its mental and spiritual dimensions, as well as social science and aesthetic science.
The posting was trying to say — referring to some other comments about economics that are posted above in this "#D17" thread — that an economy isn't a system that is designed, per se. It involves physical mental and spiritual dimensions, which we learn to understand instead of design. Yet the way we can work with it involves the logic of how food is produced and distributed. If everyone was fed its likely there wouldn't be war. Physics, or the use of numbers and logic to explain physical things that have mental and spiritual dimensions, is properly about food and people and how nourishment fulfills physical mental and spiritual needs.
The points I'm introducing are that economics and ecology — "eco" is home or house on Earth, whereas the intellectual tradition position from which we usually debate all this started with "heavenly" ideas either from Greece or the Bible — refer to "home" or "house", how to live, basically, by eating. Hoarding creates imbalance and causes war. So, the one commodity food, should be taken out of private hands and controlled by the United Nations. Next that economic discussions (incorrectly) usually refer to governing systems, instead of the physical distribution of food. And I was also saying that Marx analyzed the physical distribution of economic goods and services. His analysis wasn't complete. Its now possible to see that what he was referring to with the variables S and V, actually refer to food. So that with the same ease that we calculate sales by a company, we can calculate how to feed people. Yes, F = M ÷ A is different than F = M × A. The former equation calculates how to distribute food so that everyone gets an aliquot — same, proper, equal, correct — part. The later equation calculates how to shoot a bullet. Marx introduced the variables S and V in his book "Capital" Vol 1 Chapter 11. In the International Publishers NY 1967 edition its Page 304. In the Modern Library NY 1906 edition its Page 332.
Don't be confused or distracted by the variables, the equation, and the "math". That's not the point. The point is that feeding people is very logical and simple once removed from all the isms hyperbole and political ramblings. At the same time, logical analysis is useful because the world is very complicated and we do need to calculate things, especially food. I started trying to end war and I have now figured that if everyone were fed, there might be little reason to have conflicts. Our so called adversaries, the capitalists the police the imperialists the greedy people the corrupt politicians, can be made our allies if we explain to them how the world actually works. Here at Occupy Sacramento in César Chavez park, we have a saying, "We're not complaining, we're explaining!" The purpose of Occupy and an Occupy International Political Party is to teach the world, not fight it. C. A. Bradfield
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Adm. Nemesis
A PARTY FOR ALL!
When we look at the world, we see that moderne times, are comming to an end.
Modernity is loosing every relevans. Its moderns state, its modern politician, its modern political economy, its modern way of looking at life and justifying its own modern self-fulfilling catastrofe, etc. All that is modernity, is fast becomming irellevant if not a problem.
What is now, is an ADVANCED AGE.
It can either become, the total idiotic dictate of finansial economic religion, beneath a psycotic cybersphere of post modernity,
or it can become us, as a higher natural force, in cyberspace, time, space, energy, in the universe as such.
Technology, communication and human capabilities is fast becomming more and more advanced, and ancient mythologies abouth collecting, holding and applying energi is comming into reality fast. The age of either total indoktrination or of cyberdynamics, of destruction or creation, is here. What sets the reality of things in which we are, is will.
The will for everything more advanced, then petty modernism, with its primitive art, its ugly architecture, its anti-cultural media and its socalled 'material' metaphysics of market, growth and subversive "forces". Or the will to the past, from which only an absurd ideological psychosomatic anticulture of totalitarian finansial economic pathology can come.
Economy is no science, in any time or space. It is a spiritual system, which can only function if there is trust, believe and emotions. No rational argument can do anything about economic believe, only will. Only the will to subdue economic irattionality to the reality of the common destiny can. Only the will to subdue economy to the will of the common destiny, can alter the prospects of the future, because modern economics cannot subdue itself. Infact there is no economy. If economy goes, everything remains!
Action, which is manifesting will, can only take place in the realm of reality, otherwise it is a mere dream and nothing else.
The reality, of modernity in all its petit materialist predicaments, is the fact, that indoktrination is the modern pathology, which all have and all bare. There is no turning back, a solid fact of the phenomenon of time, in this univers. There is only the future. Therefor will for the past, can never bring forth a future. To all who believe in the now or the past, they remain helplessly lost in modernity. In the materialistic ideology of modernism, which really never could go beyond the materialistc notion of the atom, because it tries to negate time itself.
The atom is the last of solids, beyond the atom - and thus beyond modernity - , there is only energy. Nondeterministic dynamic selvorganising endless eternal energy, in a very materialistic sence, which no modernity can ever explain.
There are no boundaries. No borders between this and that. Indeed not even borders between 'things' in the univers of the quantum of space, time and energy.
Therefor no advanced political will, can be brought to its fullfillment, within the boundaries of any modern state.
What is needed is a new state, beyond state. A state which i not bound by borders and which itself is beyond the modern state. The will, to survival on this planet. The will of (and to) the common destiny of all who are from the future and all who believe in passing on, in better shape then one inherrited.
The common destiny, is a spirit, which knows only the limit of the human kind as such. It is the totality of that which is as indeterminable from biology as are the boundaries between biology and geology. It is the destiny of humanity in face of all dangers and potentialities which looms in the univers in which we are. And the sovereign reaction of the common will, in face of any danger. It is the will to inherit the Earth.
Noone can be shure of anything. There are no certainties only potentialities. Potentialities which can be manifested into reality through will.
What the potential for an advaced manifestation of supperior political will, in the face of modernity and its 'economics', is, is a new form of sovereignty. Or rather in the beginning a will to sovereignty, which is the garant of the posibility to act in face of the planet on which we are.
Such a will to sovereignty, can only be a phenomenon inherretnly closer to the universal fact of nondeterministic dynamics, then any modern political party. It will be a party, yes, but it will be a party for all, who knows the will of the common destiny on the celestial body of Earth.
This new sovereignty is not bound anyone country, but is a force of potenital energy, which is, in the dynamics of everything which is cyber - everything which is known or unknown and can be manipulated through the use of human capabilities. It is the advanced sovereignty, which must be a state, where anyone can only be its first servant, and not its master, a state beyond all states.
The advanced state, is the manifestation of common will. The common will to A FUTURE.
The will to a common will, is a new party. The ecology of the planet; the energy arround us; the energy we can harvest, hold and apply; the potentiality of selforganizing technology; a cyber-dynamik common consciousness; the exploration of space (and time); the philosophy of everything that ever was, is, and ever will be.
The new party is where globalism ends, and advanced planetarism begins.
The future will bring about the universally fundamental question a new, which has stood before humans thruogh all times and ages, and has to do with the polarity between destructivity and creativity and the meaning of human existence in face of everything that is. As a natural force, the human, has enterred a totally different sphere of reality, then any biological ecological entity ever. We can either destroy this Earth, or we can be creative with it.
Adm. Nemesis
A PARTY FOR ALL!
When we look at the world, we see that moderne times, are comming to an end.
Modernity is loosing every relevans. Its moderns state, its modern politician, its modern political economy, its modern way of looking at life and justifying its own modern self-fulfilling catastrofe, etc. All that is modernity, is fast becomming irellevant if not a problem.
What is now, is an ADVANCED AGE.
It can either become, the total idiotic dictate of finansial economic religion, beneath a psycotic cybersphere of post modernity,
or it can become us, as a higher natural force, in cyberspace, time, space, energy, in the universe as such.
Technology, communication and human capabilities is fast becomming more and more advanced, and ancient mythologies abouth collecting, holding and applying energi is comming into reality fast. The age of either total indoktrination or of cyberdynamics, of destruction or creation, is here. What sets the reality of things in which we are, is will.
The will for everything more advanced, then petty modernism, with its primitive art, its ugly architecture, its anti-cultural media and its socalled 'material' metaphysics of market, growth and subversive "forces". Or the will to the past, from which only an absurd ideological psychosomatic anticulture of totalitarian finansial economic pathology can come.
Economy is no science, in any time or space. It is a spiritual system, which can only function if there is trust, believe and emotions. No rational argument can do anything about economic believe, only will. Only the will to subdue economic irattionality to the reality of the common destiny can. Only the will to subdue economy to the will of the common destiny, can alter the prospects of the future, because modern economics cannot subdue itself. Infact there is no economy. If economy goes, everything remains!
Action, which is manifesting will, can only take place in the realm of reality, otherwise it is a mere dream and nothing else.
The reality, of modernity in all its petit materialist predicaments, is the fact, that indoktrination is the modern pathology, which all have and all bare. There is no turning back, a solid fact of the phenomenon of time, in this univers. There is only the future. Therefor will for the past, can never bring forth a future. To all who believe in the now or the past, they remain helplessly lost in modernity. In the materialistic ideology of modernism, which really never could go beyond the materialistc notion of the atom, because it tries to negate time itself.
The atom is the last of solids, beyond the atom - and thus beyond modernity - , there is only energy. Nondeterministic dynamic selvorganising endless eternal energy, in a very materialistic sence, which no modernity can ever explain.
There are no boundaries. No borders between this and that. Indeed not even borders between 'things' in the univers of the quantum of space, time and energy.
Therefor no advanced political will, can be brought to its fullfillment, within the boundaries of any modern state.
What is needed is a new state, beyond state. A state which i not bound by borders and which itself is beyond the modern state. The will, to survival on this planet. The will of (and to) the common destiny of all who are from the future and all who believe in passing on, in better shape then one inherrited.
The common destiny, is a spirit, which knows only the limit of the human kind as such. It is the totality of that which is as indeterminable from biology as are the boundaries between biology and geology. It is the destiny of humanity in face of all dangers and potentialities which looms in the univers in which we are. And the sovereign reaction of the common will, in face of any danger. It is the will to inherit the Earth.
Noone can be shure of anything. There are no certainties only potentialities. Potentialities which can be manifested into reality through will.
What the potential for an advaced manifestation of supperior political will, in the face of modernity and its 'economics', is, is a new form of sovereignty. Or rather in the beginning a will to sovereignty, which is the garant of the posibility to act in face of the planet on which we are.
Such a will to sovereignty, can only be a phenomenon inherretnly closer to the universal fact of nondeterministic dynamics, then any modern political party. It will be a party, yes, but it will be a party for all, who knows the will of the common destiny on the celestial body of Earth.
This new sovereignty is not bound anyone country, but is a force of potenital energy, which is, in the dynamics of everything which is cyber - everything which is known or unknown and can be manipulated through the use of human capabilities. It is the advanced sovereignty, which must be a state, where anyone can only be its first servant, and not its master, a state beyond all states.
The advanced state, is the manifestation of common will. The common will to A FUTURE.
The will to a common will, is a new party. The ecology of the planet; the energy arround us; the energy we can harvest, hold and apply; the potentiality of selforganizing technology; a cyber-dynamik common consciousness; the exploration of space (and time); the philosophy of everything that ever was, is, and ever will be.
The new party is where globalism ends, and advanced planetarism begins.
The future will bring about the universally fundamental question a new, which has stood before humans thruogh all times and ages, and has to do with the polarity between destructivity and creativity and the meaning of human existence in face of everything that is. As a natural force, the human, has enterred a totally different sphere of reality, then any biological ecological entity ever. We can either destroy this Earth, or we can be creative with it.
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Anonymous
Start putting MAJOR Pressure on Congress to:
A) Address that Corporations are Not People.
B) No Insider Trading of Stocks should be allowed by Congress.
C) All of those places which have received Bail Out Money should not be allowed to continue business as usual. Shut them down.
D) Corporations are not allowed to own the News Media. It's a conflict of interest.
E) Serious discrimination going on with Corporations who say people "aren't a good culture fit" and doing strange bubble tests which screen people out. Hiring and Work laws need to be updated.
And no, not a round of up to 3 interviews you get ONE. Stop wasting people's time and money.
F) IMMEDIATE Revisement of the Patriot Act.
G) People should be able to "opt out" of having tracking devices in their cell phones, or cameras in technology if they want to. Stop treating every American Citizen as if they are a terrorist waiting to happen. GPS in your car should be optional as well.
H) The Unemployment office currently is better suited to direct people towards welfare and foodstamps than helping them not just find but get a job. It needs to be reworked.
I) The Dumping of Soldiers remains into a Garbage Dump should be made illegal.
J) The building up of infrastructure which helps us rely less on Oil, it's a limited resource.
And that's just a few... Some easy, some not so easy...
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