From: J
I am sending this as it may interest may 9f you, I hope it does and enjoy
reading. Jan is a very good writer.
From: Jane Stillwater [mailto:janestillwater@yahoo.com]
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1600/121_2520.JPG> I finally arrived in Providence, Rhode Island, late
last night -- after being forced to switch planes in Chicago after spilling
my salmon salad to the point where the entire cabin smelled like dead fish.
Ah, the power of change.
The first workshop that I attended this morning had to do with trying
to design a new economic system that works for all of us, not just for fat
cats and oligarchs at the top.
"An economy based solely on growth doesn't works," stated one panel
member. "What's another word for out-of-control growth? 'Cancer'. In
Bhutan, the economy is based on happiness instead." We should try that,
seeing that America currently rates only number 44 on a world-wide happiness
scale.
What I hate most about America's economy now is that it is based on our
love affair with obscene-profits-at-any-cost. That's no way to run a country
-- or a world! My suggestion? Let's duplicate nationally on a legal
precedence set in California a few years ago, citing that medical marijuana
clinics are forbidden to make any profits. And as a result, all the
clinics' profits are plowed back into the business.
This new business paradigm is immeasurably better than our current
Vulture Capitalism system, where American businesses and companies are not
nourished at all -- but only stripped of their infrastructure, assets and
ability to either compete with the rest of the world or to serve their
customers.
If you visualize America itself as an industry, for many years now it
has been stripped of both its capital and its infrastructure. Just compare
the economic semi-ruin that America is now with the thriving industrial
giant that it used to be. Vulture Capitalism has sucked the life out of our
country. Vulture Capitalism sucks eggs.
At the Harborside medical cannabis clinic in Oakland, all profits are
returned back into the business -- creating more jobs, more services and
more equity for itself and its customers. In comparison, when has America's
war industry, stock market casino, oil barons or banking cartel ever given
anything back?
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1600/121_2519.JPG> Next on the menu at Netroots Nation was the showing
of a documentary film on rape in the military. Currently, there is a really
good chance that if a woman joins the military, she will be raped. And that
no one will ever do anything about it. Thousands of female soldiers are
being raped every year by their own freaking co-workers. And the
good-ole-boys' network now in place on most military bases simply laughs it
all off. That's just sad.
Perhaps the Republicans' current War on Women is based on the original
War on Women in the Military model? It appears that it is.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMEacbeSNRw&feature=player_embedded>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMEacbeSNRw&feature=player_embedded
Tonight at Netroots Nation, we are going to hear Eric Schneiderman,
Bill McKibben and Tammy Baldwin speak. Then I'm gonna take the # 8 bus to a
place far, far away, to my little Motel 6 room out in Warwick, where I will
dream of a better America and better days than we have now -- a better world
where the War on the working class and women will be replaced by a War on
cruelty, inefficiency and greed.
PS: You can actually watch Netroots Nation too, being streamed live here:
http://www.netrootsnation.org/nn12/streaming/
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Advertizements for myself: In these hard times of brutal (and illegal)
corporatist economics, I am doing whatever I can to make a spare dollar.
Here are some of my current alternate-economy schemes that never seem to
work -- but I keep hoping!
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Am trying to go to Uganda in July on a Global Exchange fact-finding tour so
I can report back on child soldiers and human trafficking there. Wanna help
me pay for my plane ticket? Then donate through WePay at
https://www.wepay.com/donations/plea-for-funds-help-me-to-get-to-uganda
Thanks.
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1600/Joe%2BA.jpg> Need an actor to play an older woman in your movie? Then
I'm your man! I can portray all kinds of older women -- from judges,
business execs and other insane zombies to bag ladies, cancer patients,
kindly grandmothers and dying patients in rest homes. I've played them all.
So send me a script and let's do this. Hollywood, here we come!
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Are you a plaintiffs' attorney who is tired of writing those pesky personal
injury settlement briefs all the time? No problem! I can write them for
you. Years of experience. And pay me only if you win the case.
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1600/IMG_1954.JPG> Need a Notary Public? Have seal, will travel. E-mail
me at jpstillwater@yahoo.com
<http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2011/08/jpstillwater@yahoo.com> and I'll
stamp your document, make it official and only charge $10. Of course if you
live outside of Berkeley, I may have to charge travel expenses -- but am
well worth it!
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Want something good to read? Buy my book! "Bring Your Own Flak Jacket:
Helpful Tips for Touring Today's Middle East," available at Amazon and
Barnes & Noble.
http://www.amazon.com/Bring-Your-Own-Flak-Jacket/dp/0978615719/ref=cm_pdp_re
v_itm_title_1. It's like as if Jack Kerouac, Mark Twain and/or Janet
Evanovich went to war.
I also wrote a book about going on Hajj (also included as a chapter in
"Bring Your Own Flak Jacket," but this book is cheaper -- but it's worth
buying them both!) My book on the Hajj is so outstanding that I bet even
Christian fundamentalists will love it! Please buy it here:
http://www.amazon.com/Mecca-Hajj-Lessons-Islamic-School/dp/0978615700/ref=cm
_rdp_product
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Please sign my petition to create a Constitutional amendment to stop
corporate lobbyists from buying our country: http://www.th epetitionsite
.com/2/consti tutional-ame ndment-to-st op-lobbyists
<http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/constitutional-amendment-to-stop-lobbyists
>
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