To separate the whiners, complainers, impotent resisters, empty progressives and false leftists from those who truly oppose the ruling powers and their puppets, suggest boco (boycotting corporations).
Boco implies boycotting suitable corporate products, particularly those that are unnecessary. Sodas, for example, as opposed to tap water, is not only unnecessary but also unhealthy, expensive and environmentally damaging. Anyone can do it without sacrificing any other tactic or engagement. It is not instead of anything else; no need to change a life-style, break affiliations or abandon any projects.
Thousands of other products, services and even ceremonies can be bocoed, often with immediate improvement to our health and economy.
Try it! Suggest boco to someone and measure their potential to oppose the cocos (corporate commanders) by their resistance or willingness to doing something concrete, even something as simple and easy as refraining from drinking sodas.
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“Don’t let the complexity and difficulty of our situation
prevent us from doing what we can.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
Boco stands for Boycott Corporations.
We live under a corpocracy, that is to say, the rule of corporate power in the hands of Corporate Commanders (Cocos) who run these organizations with moneyed fists.
Boco is one way to oppose the cocos, a simple, doable and effective way. It hits them where they hurt the most, in their profits.
Boco is the people’s sanctions against the rulers. It’s a form of a strike, a refusal to comply with their objectives and deny them our money. Boco!
Of course it is impossible to avoid all corporation products. Strike where you can!
Sodas, junk food, fast food chains, msm publications, products containing palm oil, …
The list is long, but not longer than your imagination and creativity.
We can also boycott ceremonies and traditions exploited by the corpocracy such as Kaepernick’s refusal to stand during the national anthem.
More action, fewer words! Boco!
(See: Captain Kate on Water above)
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“We can’t fix ourselves in a broken system
without fixing the system.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
The USA has banned entry into the country for Muslims coming from countries where the USA has bombed and killed Muslims and ravaged their societies. And continues to do so.
The ban is a simple logical decision. Unfortunately the rulers of the USA are banned from thinking logically above the level of simple or they would stop bombing, killing and ravaging.
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“Fences, walls and spiked wire
can stop the walk of small people.
Determination, unity and creativity
can stop the bombs of big people.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
A touch of beauty
as we sink into ugly.
The picture of a steel-thorned drainpipe seems to say, ”I can’t prevent you from shitting on me, but I can prevent you from sitting on me—and thereby minimize the amount of shit I have to take from you.”
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The Mexicans are in full-swing boycott mode against the provocation of their northern neighbor. US corporations will undoubtedly feel pain in their profits. Mexico will minimize the shit they have to take from the big bully above them. ¡Bravo! amigos.
The question is, why haven’t they boycotted the red-white-and-blue bullies earlier? Why haven’t we? Why don’t we put some pain in their profits and minimize the shit we have to take from them, as well as putting some thorns on our objections to how they treat the rest of the world?
Why do we drink their ”real thing” and other sodas when we can drink the water from our own mountains and lakes at a fraction of the cost, boost our health and relieve carbon stress on the environment? Do we have to eat their junk food and frequent their junk restaurants? What about their publications? Chemical laced cosmetics and detergents? Clothes glorifying American places and symbols?
And why don’t the Americans themselves, the ”resisters” and ”progressives”, boycott suitable/unnecessary products and services to inflict the pain of profit loss on corporate commanders?
Minimize the shit we have to take from the ”exceptional” bullies!
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“Peace rules
when no country fears being attacked
and every country fears the world’s response
to attacking any other country.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
A quote from Michael Parenti’s article Fascism: A False Revolution reprinted on Dandelion Salad
” A lot of people on the left still don’t get it—that these guys are playing for keeps, that they are going after you, that they are not going to leave any little bit for you. There’s only one thing that the ruling circles throughout history have ever wanted-all the wealth, the treasures, and the profitable returns; all the choice lands and forests and game and herds and harvests and mineral deposits and precious metals of the earth; all the productive facilities and gainful inventiveness and technologies; all the control positions of the state and other major institutions; all public supports and subsidies, privileges and immunities; all the protections of the law and none of its constraints; all of the services and comforts and luxuries and advantages of civil society with none of the taxes and none of the costs. Every ruling class in history has wanted only this—all the rewards and none of the burdens. “
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“Satisfaction is the prize of accomplishment.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
We’re at war.
It’s not a game, show or play,
but a war.
WAR!
A war for the survival of humanity.
Now, today.
And what’s left of the future.
WAR!
Ain’t nothin’ more serious.
A matter of life and death.
For everyone.
I don’t know what else to say,
how to get it across.
We either fight this war
or march
into the arms of extinction.
You don’t believe me?
You don’t want to hear this?
That’s your choice.
It won’t save you.
History is omnivorous.
It eats rags and high fashion with equal appetite.
We are at war with the winners
of the money-oriented system of society.
These people have no other choice
but to keep the system going,
keep amassing money from everyone else
and controlling the resources of the earth
or lose their position and wealth.
They have no other choice
than to war on the great majority of humanity
and the environment,
the air, the water and the earth.
They pollute babies,
contaminate youth,
poison adults
and impoverish the old.
For profit.
They have no choice.
We have a choice.
We can unite to share the wealth of the earth
to provide everyone with their needs
and protect freedom, peace and justice
to allow everyone
to pursue their dreams.
We can unite to enforce
a people-oriented system of society.
We can unite to resist and weaken
the people who have no choice
but to take what we have.
We can unite, help each other,
avoid their products
and deprive them of their profits.
We can unite as humans
and avoid the trappings of race, nationality, religion
or any other superficiality dividing our strength.
We can unite to do what we can
to do what needs to be done.
We can become warriors
to fight for the rights
and needs
and love
of humanity.
We can unite
as warriors without weapons
to fight for a world without war,
a world where money doesn’t determine
the quality of a rich life,
where we amass
truth, justice and beauty
as the profits of our endeavors,
a world where desire for things
wilt in the light
of love of life.
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“The Devil also works in mysterious ways.
Judging by his success,
he seems to be mysteriouser than his antagonist.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
Vicious, degenerate, murderous
Israel
performs savage crimes for 70 years
supported and protected by ”democracies”.
Representatives of ”democracies”,
spotlessly clothed manicured identities
with well-trained smiles
and blood-splattered souls,
spit poison words
to muffle screams of anguish and torture
and sell diarrhea as rose cream.
Flames of injustice compete with the sun
while the smoke of lies shadow the light.
Put your heart against the earth.
Feel the pulse of Palestinian blood
flowing under the discourse
in the ”democracies”.
Smell the salt of tears
spicing the air of fragrant words
weaving evil speeches.
Taste the thistles
growing on uprooted olive orchids.
Look into the darkness of prisons
crueler than the fear of a caged 14-year old.
Watch a rock bounce off an armored vehicle
and cause a bullet
to rip through the back, bone, lung and muscle
of a despair-blinded teenager.
Bang your head against a concrete wall
that neither wails
or whispers of freedom.
Cough on the dust of a demolished home
and clutch the keys to a house
that no longer exists
because chosen people
were chosen to live on its bulldozed memory
by people who choose
to treat real kin
as real enemies
in the service of a false god
upon a golden calf
…
while the representatives of ”democracies”
— rats, roaches, weasels and wolves —
cry about being forced to take bribes
to support and protect
vicious, degenerate murderers
because they would lose
their ability to take bribes
if they didn’t.
It’s the fault of the savage little bribers
that our great imperial dragon
— sitting in the lap of a golden calf —
encourages our prestigious spinelessness
to keep the bribes.
Take instead the people’s money
and give it to our weapon dealers
toasting the genocide of Palestinians
from billion dollar glasses
filled with aid
bubbling
with
psychopathic
greed.
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“Blood transports iron.
Determination refines it to steel.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
Consuming the msm, big newspapers, publications, radio and TV news reports, will structure the mind along the avenues of perspective shared by the ruling powers. A mind so structured trusts the communications it’s fed and prides itself on being well-informed. Anyone questioning the quality or veracity of the prestigious sources of ”information” disqualifies themselves as being a heretic of conventional wisdom.
Let us look at a typical example of disinformation sold as rock solid information.
A few years ago Time magazine ran a story on an earlier article in Life magazine. Time and Life enjoy the status of bishops in media hierarchy. Under the title:
Gandhi and His Spinning Wheel: The Story Behind an Iconic Photo
Gandhi, the spinning wheel, the photo and the photographer are discussed.
The only explanation of the significance of the spinning wheel is given thusly:
[Gandhi] spins every day for 1 hr. beginning usually at 4. All members of his ashram must spin. He and his followers encourage everyone to spin. … Spinning is raised to the heights almost of a religion with Gandhi and his followers. The spinning wheel is sort of an Ikon to them. Spinning is a cure all, and is spoken of in terms of the highest poetry.
Nowhere can we read the reason for this ”almost religious Ikon”. The spinning wheel served as a key weapon in the struggle for independence. It drove the main tactic of boycotting British goods. Cloth and clothing played a major economic role for the imperial occupiers. Indians were encouraged to spin their own cloth and avoid British-made textiles. Spinning wasn’t a cure all, but a method for all people to take part in the struggle for individual, spiritual and political independence.
Time/Life didn’t miss this information about the spinning wheel as an oversight. They have no intention of putting weapons in the hands of their readers. Politically and spiritually independent readers threaten them because such people would not tolerate a system where a tiny group of plutocrates controlled and suppressed the great majority of citizens.
This is but one example of disinformation posing as information. Critical analysis would expose the overwhelming majority of standard msm ”news” as belonging in the disinformation class.
Here at System Humanity, Fantelius, Dartwill and Me encourage people to strike at the profits of the plutocrats, the rulers, by avoiding their products. We promote steering clear of sodas as a key tactic (see Captain Kate on Water at the top). There are thousands of other tactics and products. Unfortunately, all too many people, despite their intelligence, but because of their officially structured minds, prefer the more dramatic tactics of trying to speak truth to power through demonstrations.
Look where it’s gotten them so far.
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“Miracles flow like sweat and dance like laughter
from the struggle of a united people.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
The USA always – ALWAYS – paints their intended victim in frightening colors.
The liars are at it again.
The NoD (Network of Disinformation, aka MSM) has been force feeding the citizens with disinformation about Putin and Russia with the same frenzy as it propagated the myth of WMD (weapons of mass destruction) before invading Iraq. The citizens, with no other source of intellectual nourishment, swallow the junk again. They then vomit the official garbage whenever the topic arises and claim it’s gourmet truth. Attempts to tell them that their gospel is from the book of Big Brother have no effect. Suggesting a look at the other side of the conflict, Russia’s perspective and opinions, sounds like the rants of an imbecile to them. They fundamentally own THE truth and will warp any logic in opposition.
The new president doesn’t view Putin as a WMD. He must therefore be as terrible, dangerous and threatening as the designated enemy. Unfortunately, he is terrible, dangerous and threatening for the most part. The most part! Regardless of his policies in general, which will undoubtedly cause considerable damage and suffering to the people of the USA (while enriching the already enriched), his attempt to work with Russia, instead of provoking a highly possible nuclear war, seems reasonable.
Reason, however, no longer flies in the polluted atmosphere of American politics. Sightings of it have been rumored to appear in small cultural enclaves, but it doesn’t stand a chance of getting into the NoD and would be immediately crucified if it did.
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See the previous post, Pundit Falsies!
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“If you keep looking at the past
how will you see the light ahead?”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
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