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(link to lesson 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGTBkN...
Lesson 1 - Revisiting American History, documents the conversion of the US into a monol...
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(link to lesson 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGTBkN...
Lesson 1 - Revisiting American History, documents the conversion of the US into a monolithic financial empire as the Federal Reserve Act created a monopolized cartel of private interests, "Wall Street," that controls all money in the system. This killed Jeffersonian ideals and allowed vertical Hamiltonian forces to have free reign to consolidate power and wealth. It explains how this is an empire system where the top Wall Street banks are analogous to feudal lords and multi-national corporations are their feudal knights out conquering territories. It rewrites American History books.
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Rachel Maddow Banks burned by their own fraud
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I used to work in Hollywood and had many encounters with homeless people. Always curious about how people become homeless and how they survive, I w...
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I used to work in Hollywood and had many encounters with homeless people. Always curious about how people become homeless and how they survive, I would observe and interact. Later I was hired by philanthropic organizations to produce videos related to homeless issues. It is not surprising that what we call "mental illness" is responsible for a large fraction of homelessness. This song explores the thoughts of a homeless man who drifts in and out from fantasy to reality against the backdrop of some of the images and events I witnessed on the streets of Hollywood.
"Helping the homeless" is a misnomer. They cannot be helped or served as a group. They must be helped one at a time by a friend who truly cares. Help cannot be prescribed at arm's length, it must be discovered through intimate knowledge of the individual to be helped. It must be based on the particular needs and wishes of the person to be helped, not on the opinions and presumptions of the giver of help. We must realize that some cannot be helped, and most cannot be helped in the ways we assume they need.
Much of what we call "help" for the homeless are simply ways to prevent them from degrading our environments.
I once asked a dirty, drifting homeless man what the rest of us, society, could do that would help him. He said "Let me sell things. Pencils, toys, whatever. When I try to sell things the police arrest me for not having a Vendors License, I tried to get one but the city will not give a Vendor's License to someone who does not have a permanent residential address."
Well what do you know? The greatest obstacle to upward mobility and self sufficiency is government, that thing that is supposed to "equalize" society and provide the "safety net" is the thing keeping the homeless right where they are.
I am ashamed and disgusted at a city government that wants such "fees" from people who can't even afford housing. Has city government gone insane? If a city politician ever says they are "helping the homeless", ask them what they are doing to simply allow the homeless to earn a living. All they have to do is call off the cops and cut out the phony "fees" they charge. Begging is OK but selling is not? What does that say about our society?
Government is run by politics, and politics says that a lot of voters want those "dirty scary people" out of sight. We still have a long way to go to find the right approach, much less real solutions for homelessness.
Jerry
CD "Take-Offs and Landings" available on CDBaby at:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jerryday
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Just do it!
Have a great Cosmic week.
some corrupt courts issues...Many thanks for the info and the reminder....I respect your work....CJ