MooPig Causality Department :: Demons

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Causality and Making a Difference: the principle that everything has a cause.
Mixed Martial Articles by Pat Darnell  |  Mar 28, 2016  |  Bryan TX

In a God forsaken media wasteland, real news is lost to the masses. When despots are sought for their image as if that is some kind of thing I want to see, I cry too. That particular image is a demon, pornographic and desperate.

As little people, we who exercise our freedom to not listen, to not react, to not be phased -- agency, force, and skewed quality of imbeciles pandering to masters who practice hegemony dominates our airwaves. Blimey!

Do we, the free, sit by or do we muster to bring about, make happen, accomplish something different in our head spaces? I think we can if we just concentrate on other stuff. No sweat.

“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage and whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office and sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece.” ― Hunter S. Thompson

Get out your divining rod and tell me how you would react to an ailing friend?


K-- I was wide awake until 3 a.m. last night. My mind gets SO noisy at night sometimes and I am way too conscious of time. Seems to go in slow motion. I have very important doctor's appts at the end of the week and all I'm trying to do is hold on. It's exhausting you guys. I'm trying SO HARD to be strong for fiancé so he doesn't see how hard this is for me. It's so fuckin exhausting. I just think he's seen me bawling my eyes out enough. He had to see me grieve my Mother's suicide in 2011 and after she died I SO wanted to join her for a while. Geez, now I'm crying. But, instead I got myself off of the painkillers I had been addicted to for 18 years. He's seen enough. But you know, after going through all of that, I feel so weak & afraid of what's going on with me right now. I've never been more afraid in my life. Does anybody have any input please? I don't just live one day at a time, I live one hour at a time, sometimes one minute at a time. How do you guys live with this?

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S-- I am so sorry that your struggling to find peace of mind. When I have complete silence sometimes my mind and thoughts gets out of control and I try white noise. I also have to rationalize with my self ( self talk) continuously to stay positive and keep good thoughts in my mind.


K-- I've been struggling to find peace of mind for over a year. When I'm alone, like now, and at night when my fiancé goes to bed are the worst. I have insomnia so I keep weird hours. This last two weeks have been exceptionally hard. Do you know what I keep trying to tell myself? Most people would've ended up in the psych ward permanently if they had to deal with what we have to deal with every day. Sometimes that thought helps. My fiancé tells me I'm strong and amazing and I don't know how to believe that.




K --Geez-I just can't count on anybody in my personal life. I'm sitting here bawling by myself and nobody in my life gives a shit. The saddest thing I've ever been told was don't count on anyone for anything & then you won't be disappointed. I'll just wait for my meds to kick in & then maybe I won't give a shit anymore either. So, basically everyone in my life can just suck it!



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K-- Sorry to sound so whiny, y'all. I was raised to never ever show weakness. So I'm still finding it difficult to just let go of everything I'm thinking and feeling, you know? I keep waiting for one of my relatives (deceased now) to show up and kick my ass!


Patrick Darnell -- K, when it gets like this, as you report, I have found some interesting things to do. One close friend suggested I take off my socks and walk barefooted outside in the lawn... Another friend suggested hot water with squeezed lemon and a teaspoon of honey, sipped without electronics or TV on... Another said read a real book, with pages to turn, for about thirty minutes a day... And my favorite, start with your spleen telling it how wonderful it has been, tell your gall bladder the same, gut, lungs, legs,feet, and so on ... Then praise your brain... Finally, listen to music harmonies that make you tingle. And I will do all things too.


K-- I'm listening to music right now to try and get thru this Patrick Darnell, music and books have ALWAYS been my bestest friends in the world. I'm having a hard time concentrating on books, my favorite shows, so this is what I'm doing for now. Listening to music and doing a little bitching on here! lol Thanx a lot for the input. I keep wanting to say to all of you thanx for not making me feel crazy, which is ironically funny cuz that's why I'm here. I'm just not used to sharing my feelings this much. But apparently I need to.


Patrick Darnell -- Wonderful to hear you love books... I wanted to also mention at my age I have met all my demons, and have found that they are all pussies. Just sayin'. When it roars, I know too well, it is hard to do anything, so just stand up and defy it.


K-- On a more positive note, I've received more positive input from people who've never met me, never looked into my eyes in one day, yesterday, than I received phone calls all last year. What I mean is, you guys are a godsend. Thanx for letting me vent. The demon thing I wrote earlier, that's my way of trying to cope. I've been writing for 25 years. Last year I wrote my first piece of fiction, a very, very short story about a girl and her Mom. It was my way of saying goodbye to my Mom. Maybe I'll share it later if anyone is interested. It made several people cry, including my doctor! Lol Known him for 10 years. I'm very lucky I have a great doctor. I really am trying to get myself in a better mood!

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/171942156320060/
http://rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/reality_check_no_matter_who_wins_the_white_house_the_new_boss_will_be_the_s
https://youtu.be/dugxlkxHM58

MooPig 'Stuff No One Wants to Hear About' Department :: "Sumangali Workers"

In India the Untouchables are not the Thugs nor the G-Men
Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  Nov. 29, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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“We are hopeful that these suggestions by the advocates are helpful to us to get us back the money from the company which failed to pay even after the stipulated period,” said Mupidathi, an 18 year old girl who was cheated of nearly `50,000 after working for a period of 3 years in a cotton mill in Tirupattur.

EXCERPT  | " ... These girls work in a camp based setting where they are not allowed to go anywhere. They are made to work for more than 12 hours a day; some are sexually harassed, not paid even after end of the agreement. Almost 90 per cent of the workers employed in these industries are bonded laborers under Apprentice act. Legally we have not been able to do much things as the industries have strong political connections,” said Joseph Victor Raj, State Convener, CACL – TN and PY.

To address this issue legally and ensure protection of female children, many advocates from Chennai High court were invited to present their suggestions and ideas that could prevent such exploitation in future. (©2013 The New Indian Express. November 23, 2013 in Chennai. LINK) ... "

I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made, and the Factory Sent Thugs After Me | Mother Jones: "Indeed, some Western companies have taken measures to discourage their suppliers from using sumangali labor. Levi Strauss and Co. provides financial support to SAVE, while Gap helped establish the Tirupur Stakeholders Forum, which sets detailed ethical guidelines for factories. More than 80 companies, including Gap, H and M, and Walmart, have joined an industry group called the Ethical Trading Initiative, ETI, which works with NGOs, Non-governmental Organizations, to educate workers about recruiting schemes and is trying to reduce the sumangali contract terms from three years to six months. But Peter McAllister, the director of ETI, would not speak specifically about any of the Indian companies whose factories I investigated, nor their Western buyers, because the group is concerned about the delicate relationship it has with the companies." (DANA LIEBELSON. Mother Jones. Nov. 29, 2013. LINK)

'via Blog this'

If you, dear reader, are looking for a time and place of origin for this batch of acronyms, we could offer this: "... The Department for International Development, DFID, is a United Kingdom government department with a Cabinet Minister in charge. It was separated from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1997. The goal of the department is "to promote sustainable development and eliminate world poverty (y ikki peed ya. LINK) ... "

In 2007 this report was made:

CONCLUSION
Somehow the story about indentured slavery of sumangali girls is getting out, but shameless fabric mills just get better at hiding their "internationally" illegal labor practices. As is the case for so many Transnational Manufacturing schemes, different stages of the fabric process are compartmentalized. "Just how bad is it?"... no one seems to be on top of this flesh empire who will speak about it. If you try to talk in person with would be spokespersons about the status of workers in fabric industries, you are shunned and threatened. It is quite difficult to find one whistle-blower in the whole supply chain of fabric manufacturing.

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/india-garment-factories-sumangali?page=2
http://m.newindianexpress.com/chennai/72564
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/03/walmart-china-sweatshops-t-shirt
http://www.motherjones.com/photoessays/2011/08/jeans-sandblast-bangladesh/01
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/03/walmart-china-sweatshops-t-shirt
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/08/skinny-jeans-environmental-impact
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/11/o-say-can-you-buy
http://www.ethicaltrade.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_Trading_Initiative
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/eticode.html
http://www.ethicaltrade.org/sites/default/files/resources/BASECODE%20POSTER%20ENG%20India%20WEB.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_for_International_Development
http://inef.uni-due.de/page/documents/Report91.pdf

MooPig City Desk Department :: "Those Loathsome Republicans"

Self-loathing Seminars Available
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Jan 20, 2013 | Bryan TX

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Obama won the popular vote with 65.9 million votes, or 51.1 percent, to Romney’s 60.9 million, or 47.2 percent, and won the Electoral College by a wide margin, 332-206 electoral votes.

There are other signs that Republican state legislators, governors and veteran political strategists are seriously considering making a shift, as the GOP looks to rebound from presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s Electoral College shellacking and the demographic changes that threaten the party’s long-term political prospects.  (HERE)

Among the motivational speakers invited to address the retreat is Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind man to climb Mt Everest and thus the perfect person to inspire Republicans as they grope their way towards the heights of government. (HERE)

Republicans Retreat To Reassess and Figure Out How to Talk to Negroes and People With Lady Parts | Common Dreams: "Republican lawmakers have gathered in Williamsburg, Virginia to consider their political past (not so rosy) and future (not so rosy either), discuss topics from the debt ceiling and gun control to how to game the electoral college, and attend seminars titled "What Happened and Where Are We Now?" (good question!) ...

"How Is America Changing?" and "Successful Communication with Minorities and Women" - the last held in the Burwell Plantation Room, so named for a fine old slave-owning family, and located in the tony Kingsmill Resort, site of another fine old slave plantation.

Presumably, breakout sessions will include do's and don'ts on nappy hair and how to distinguish from illegitimate, oh-really-it's-nothing rape and actual, maybe-this-is-not-so-okay rape-rape, which the three white men and two women on the panel can hopefully figure out."

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Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., who heads Republicans' campaign efforts, deflected a question regarding the irony of a panel trying to help the GOP woo minorities happening in a room named after a slave-owning family’s plantation.

"I don't pick the rooms we meet in," Walden said. "I know the Democrats have held their retreats here too and I assume you'll go and figure out if they ever held meetings in that same room."

When pressed on why there were three white men (half the group) on a panel regarding minority outreach Walden said, "Actually, I don't do this part of it, by the way, somebody can fill you in on all the names, but it is more than just three white guys on the panel, and it was filled out after that went to press."

Walden made known that minority outreach and recruiting minority House GOP candidates were a “top priority” and that the GOP had a “good message” for minorities but had suffered from a recent "bad communications." (Luke Russert and Frank Thorp, NBC News. 2 days ago. HERE)

[Picture LINK] ... The resort was once the Kingsmill Plantation.

Panels will take place in the resort’s “Burwell Plantation” room, named after the family that once owned the plantation. The luxury resort is now owned by billionaire Philip Anschutz, a conservative political donor.


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http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/01/18-5
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/17/16569649-gop-plans-focus-on-women-and-minority-outreach-at-retreat?lite
http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/18/gop-eyes-new-election-laws/
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/01/17/what_are_republicans_learning_at_their_retreat_anyway.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2013/jan/17/republicans-retreat-virginia-golf-resort
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/17/16569649-gop-plans-focus-on-women-and-minority-outreach-at-retreat?lite
http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/18/gop-eyes-new-election-laws/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2013/jan/17/republicans-retreat-virginia-golf-resort
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/01/17/what_are_republicans_learning_at_their_retreat_anyway.html

Indentured Slavery

The other day there was an infomercial guy who I have seen on the TV for several years now. As I surfed through, I heard him say" 'Indentured Slavery.' That got my attention.

What is it? I have a few ideas about it. His spin on it is that the common debt that most lively couples find themselves in is a form of indentured slavery in America. I think he tied that claim with rumor that USA debt is being bought up by EU Europe, England, and China.. also; but he did not mention Debtors Prison, thank God and all his Saints.

His method for $39.95 would of course remove that burden from our shoulders. As I remember this never aging speaker, with his ever younger panel of ageless females, offered the same package in 1999 for $399.95... not a bad discount.. eh?

This is an open question to any reader willing to step up and explain this topic; are we really a nation of indentured slaves?

And for today's Confusing PHOTO Quiz: Do you know who this elderly person in photo to the right is supposed to be?

Answer: Correct Answer -- in Google time 0.0089 seconds....

J said...

Eroni Kumana, one of the rescuers of JFK when PT109 sank. He's also the national Karaoke champ of the Soloman Islands and makes a mean vichyssoise, to boot!

Here are some clues for anyone curious to know: