Kristallnacht in America

I came naive to North America. I was certainly green and I didn't posses knowledge of this foreign world. I certainly didn't know what was real and what was fabricated. I knew what I saw in their films and what I read in their books.

Much of that was brilliant. It took me some time to realize that this art that opened my eyes was created by people who didn't belong to so called "mainstream" movement. They were real artists, their creations were not measurable, they resisted to become drones.

In order to really assess what North America was, I had to see and experience it with my own eyes. I had to live a life in North America to paint a real picture. This real picture, it turned out was not pretty. It was quite opposite to what was presented by the drones who were supported and created by North American regimes.

My brilliant friends have been opposing North American regimes. They have been very lonely in their quest. At the same time they have been very resilient. They've taught me that I should never want to belong to the majority, because by definition, there were already too many people there. On the other hand, minority was the right spot for me.

Through the years, I have been tempted to question everything I've learned before I came to North America. I've been also tempted to question everything I've learned from brilliant North Americans.

The regime wanted me to believe that "greed was good', that there were enemies in every part of the world, and that every other part of the world was inhabited by terrorists. This regime also wanted me to betray real skills that I inherited from my parents and my family - they've never liked my honesty, genuineness and my maturity. They wanted me to lie, to be fake and arrogant, and naive. They wanted me to be unattached.

They wanted me to blindly believe in their freedom and their democracy, in their buzz words and their creations.

They wanted me to see Iranian, Cuban, Russian, Chinese, North Korean, Bolivian, Belarus, Palestinian people as enemies. They've spread lies about these people, and they wanted me to hate them.

I learned what was 'right', what was 'left', and I learned why they have been talking so much about 'freedom' and 'democracy'.

The more they pushed with their propaganda, the more I questioned their motives. I started learning on my own. I started learning who real enemies actually were. I resisted this "amusement to death". I stopped watching their media, only using it for entertainment and to collect proofs about North American regimes crimes.

Real artists that I've learned from continued to deliver their astonishing work, and I was pretty lucky to befriend some of them. However, there were less and less of them - they've got replaced by the regime 'artists'. I knew that the regime has become nervous.

In the meantime, something happened in the land of freedom and democracy. Their own people started getting real motives of their regime masters. These people have been asleep for many years, but now, it seemed, they started waking up.

They've finally got it. They started their revolution to overthrow the regime.

The regime got confused and didn't understand what was going on. I expected that, as drones cannot understand artists.

I was raised to believe that there was justice, equality, and freedom. I lived through that before I came to North America. I was pure and I was not poisoned. The regime tried to pollute me, and tried to enslave me.

They wanted me to be like their drones.

However, I was lucky and smart to recognize regimes intentions. I was lucky to meet all those artists who helped me resist the regime.

Last night we've seen Kristallnacht again, and we've seen some of regime's soldiers. That was one of the first tipping points that will trigger more tipping points. That was start of the end of this North American regime.

Force, called people with hearts and brains started their historic mission. There is no way back. Point of no return has been crossed. The regime still doesn't get it, and when it finally gets it, it will be late. Their heads will roll.

Idea which time has come is here, and it will stay here. No force will be able to stop it. Not even all mighty power that is in regime's hands will be sufficient to stop the outcome of this idea.

It is now clear to me why I came here at first place. I am here to help overthrow the regime. Good thing is that I know how. I know that all artists will join in this fight.

That's what this life expected from me.

The Speech

I haven't written anything for a long time. Not that I was lacking good topics - I just didn't feel I wanted to write anything. However, I got that urge to share something that struck me deeply. It does not need much introduction - you only need to listen to it, to read it....

I didn't write it- someone else did. Charlie Chaplin did it 1940, for his great movie, "The Great Dictator". Also, someone else created a video based on this speech that I borrowed as well.

Sorry for lack of creativity in this case.

The Speech:

I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor, that's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate;
has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in:
machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical,
our cleverness hard and unkind.
We think too much and feel too little:
More than machinery we need humanity;

More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.

Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair".

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish. . .

Soldiers: don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.

Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate, only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.

In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written:
"The kingdom of God is within man"
Not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men; in you, the people.

You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power, let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!...

Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting, the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality.

The soul of man has been given wings, and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow, into the light of hope, into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up.

Default, Greece, and help bring down the corporate gangsters

We took a tram to go to Asklipio Voulas. It is always more exciting to merge with locals and see how people live. We went to this southern part of Athens to have dessert in one of locally recommended restaurants. It took 1 hour to get to Voulas from Acropolis.

Our dessert was irresistible, combination of ice cream and fruit - and when you combine that with a perfect view on Aegean sea, life cannot be better.

We started chatting with our waiter. He was in his early thirties, very professional and polite. We asked him how safe was in Athens, especially now, when government protests were happening on a daily basis. It was safe, but everyone should listen his/her common sense, not to go to hot areas, and those ones were on Syntagma square and around the parliament building. We thought that we have to go there anyway, as our hotel was a block from Syntagma square.

Our new friend became more passionate, and we had quite a conversation. Good thing was that there were no many customers, so he was able to talk to us. He was mad because of everything that was happening in Greece. I asked many questions as I wanted to know more, what Greek people were feeling and thinking about austerity measures applied and forced by the government and European Union.

"Whose fault was all of this?", I asked, and my new friend said: "Rich bastards. They did all of this. See that beach down there?", he pointed to beautiful Apolonies Aktes beach just below the restaurant, "People of Athens have to pay 10 euros to get there, to touch the sea....."

"And now, the government wants to sell our islands to rich bastards, and that means that we'll lose Greece. We won't be local anymore, in our own country. They'll take everything".

He was talking, giving me more examples, and I was listening. I was thinking as well. Similar pattern was applied in Croatia, where people were becoming foreigners in their own country. "Rich bastards" came and bought everything that had some value. They'll get it much easier once Croatia is granted membership in EU.

I was thinking how economic hit-men assassinated governments and spread new colonialism and corporatism to the world.

Greece was a good target, and I actually admired hit-mens work, as they hit 'prosperous' western country - appetite of their employers has grown, so they were not anymore satisfied with some "rogue" south american "regimes". It was time now to enslave even well off countries. To steal their resources.

They need them in order to feed their ponzi scheme.

Of course, Greeks were stereotyped as lazy, as inefficient, and it was concluded that social policies applied through many years drained government pockets. Everything that had to do with word 'social' was the real cause of Greece's demise.

If there is a crisis, everyone should get a life boat or no one should. It was unfair for the ship Titanic to only have enough life boats for the rich, it is no less unfair to save the rich from the austerity measures imposed on the middle class and poor.

Banks, investors, and others of the rich connected to Greece's debt problems, who have benefited from Greece's past borrowing, are not even to be subject to the taxes to be used to pay off that debt. Are the workers in Greece wrong to protest the fact that

they are being forced to pay for the present and future profits of these powerful interests?

During a crisis like WWII, when everyone was considered to share in on the danger, the rich paid 90% taxes, and really did not enjoy nearly so much luxury as they did before the war, until the crisis had passed.

There is a crisis in Greece: While the homes of the middle class and poor burn, the rich, especially banks, should not sit idle and play their fiddles.

Frankly, the entire Western World should reconsider ignoring the permanent crisis created by one sided trade policies that guarantee the permanent poverty of the third world. Why stop with just helping Greece?

Western media keeps referring to events taking place in Greece as the "death throes of socialism". I appreciate the need of apologists for capitalism to misrepresent the facts concerning the economic collapse in Greece. However, the events unfolding in Greece are not the results of socialism but the results of a capitalist system that is not based on free market principles. Instead its a system where oligarchic and monopolistic interests have been allowed to exploit Greece for their own ends without regard for the consequences. It is as Mussolini said: " a better name for Fascism would be Corporatism". That is what has destroyed Greece. Corporatism in its most rapacious form.

I told my friend the following:

"25% of Greeks now live below the poverty line due to previous measures taken to pay of the banking cartel. Follow the examples of Iceland and Argentina and tell the bankers to pound sand. Capitalist vultures are waiting to buy up your country at close-out prices, in cahoots with your politicians and rich elite. Who refuse to pay taxes as the middle class do. Your corrupt companies, allied with foreign banks, have brought you to this. The billions spent on the owelympics franchise was the straw that broke your back. Odious debt incurred by the corrupt does not need to be repaid by the citizens. Default, Greece, and help bring down the corporate gangsters that are the root of this. And then reform your government and your business and tax laws".