Long live the Yes Men! Read this slap in the face to the American people and learn well from it...
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"In the wake of Katrina, HUD has collaborated with large private developers in tearing down public housing, despite a dire need for it."
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HUD Secretary Jackson Announces New Direction for Agency
HUD Retraction
01:00 AM CDT
TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2006
FRAUDSTERS DUPE NAGIN, BLANCO, EXECUTIVES, CNN;
GROSSLY MISREPRESENT HUD, DoE, WAL-MART, EXXON POSITIONS;
SPAWN FALSE HOPES AMONG BLACKS
Article: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/28/hud.hoax/
False announcement in full: http://www.hano.us/falsehopes.html
Video of false announcement: http://www.hano.us/hudsmall.mpg
An irresponsible, unemployed, middle-class huckster posed as an assistant to HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson and insinuated himself into a Gulf Coast Reconstruction Conference yesterday.
Speaking alongside New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, the poorly-coiffed scofflaw announced that HUD was reopening all public housing in New Orleans to former residents.
"It is terribly sad that someone would perpetrate such a cruel hoax and play on the fears and anxieties of families who are desperate to return to their homes," said HUD spokesperson Donna White. (http://www.hud.gov/news/release.cfm?content=pr06-neworleansph.cfm)
"We are destroying those homes for good reason," White continued. "It is terribly sad that some people can't understand that. That lack of understanding speaks for the low level of government education in this country."
HUD would like to make the following points perfectly clear once and for all:
* HUD will NOT refrain from demolishing 5000 units of undamaged public housing simply because they are undamaged.
* HUD will NOT let people come home simply because they want to, are part of the city, and constitute a much-needed workforce.
* HUD is NOT encouraging Wal-Mart to withdraw from low-income neighborhoods in order to "stanch" the flow of money out of these neighborhoods, nor does it prefer "local" businesses.
* There is NO partnership between HUD, health departments and the CDC to provide adequate health care to low-income residents.
* A national tax base for public schools is NOT on the horizon of HUD or the Department of Education. U.S. public schools will continue to be funded from local taxes, which will continue to mean commensurate and proportionate levels of funding for schools in rich and poor neighborhoods. HUD does NOT believe equality of opportunity must begin in grade one, but believes it is a far more flexible concept.
* Also, Exxon has asked HUD to make clear that it will NOT pay \$8.6 billion from its \$35 billion in profits this year to close down the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet and otherwise repair the damage caused by the oil industry to the natural protections surrounding New Orleans.
These are all lies, monstrously cruel, generative of oceans of false hopes and sadness.
The cruelty of fostering false hopes among a population long victimized by U.S. government policies is unfathomable. Virginia L., a would-be resident of the St. Bernard housing project, expressed her disappointment succinctly. "George W. Bush lives in public housing," she said. "Why don't they evict him?"
A contractor was equally critical. "I'm not angry at them for pulling this joke, I'm angry that it's not for real." (See video.)
May God afflict the perpetrators of this cruel hoax with all the varieties of damage they so amply deserve.
Media Contacts:
Donna M. White
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
451 7th Street S.W., Washington, DC 20410
202-708-0980
Rene Oswin
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
451 7th Street S.W., Washington, DC 20410
r_oswin@hano.us
“Almost all people are hypnotics.
The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced and the people believed properly.” — Charles Hoy Fort
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Weather Report - Birdland
One of my all-time favorite examples of human manipulation of the movement of atmospheric molecules...
here is the fabuluously fabulous old band Weather Report playing Birdland, featuring the amazing Jaco Pastorius and Joe Zawinul.
Thursday, October 08, 2009
48 Year-Old Blogger Has Gone 9 Years Without Spending Money
Wow, this dude's got cojones grandes!
As it states in the article below, not many people at all would have either the conviction or the courage to give up everything our technological and consumption-based society has given us, as we've known nothing else, it's ingrained into us from birth, but it is a wonderful story of personal commitment.
It is possible, you know, if you've been paying attention, that the future just may necessitate such a life for us... that's probably well down the road, though, I'm reasonably certain.
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48 Year-Old Blogger Has Gone 9 Years Without Spending Money
by Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York on 10.5.09
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/48-year-old-blogger-gone-9-years-without-money.php - click for 100+ comments!!!
Daniel Suelo wasn't poor, a victim of bad luck, mentally ill, or even uneducated. He just decided that he wanted to have nothing to do with money. So he gave up consumer culture altogether, and for the last 9 years, he's survived by living in a cave in Utah, and dumpster diving, foraging, fishing, and occasionally hunting for food. He spends his time in the great outdoors--and in the public library, where he blogs about it all.
Suelo must have the lowest carbon footprint of any blogger in the United States. And he's never taken food stamps or other government assistance, and despite what his lifestyle may lead you to believe, he's certainly not crazy. He's just got an aversion to money.
According to MatadorChange, he was working in South America when he was first moved to consider a money-free, zero impact lifestyle:
While in Ecuador on a Peace Corps mission, he witnessed a rural community acquire increased monetary wealth through farming and shift their traditional lifestyle towards a diet of unhealthy, processed food and a newfound addiction to television ... He made the conscious decision to return home, quit his job, and carve out a life without money.
Suelo himself writes "I've been living without a cent to my name since the autumn of 2000 (with a month's exception during my first year)" on the front page of the website he runs from the public library.
It's interesting to look at Suelo's nearly decade-long dedication to anti-consumerism in contrast to the recent 'eco-stunts' that essentially promote similar ideals: sure, No Impact Man learned how hard it is to walk up six flights of stairs to get to his apartment for a year, but he he got a film and book deal out of it. Suelo's got no cameras following him around, and he mostly just uses his blog to wax poetic about his living philosophy.
Of course, few would be willing to take such a plunge into a moneyless, ultra-low impact life. But simply knowing that Suelo has should be enough to make us think a long hard minute about all the stuff we heedlessly buy. Reverend Billy may be the head of the Church of Stop Shopping, but Daniel Suelo is its patron saint.
As it states in the article below, not many people at all would have either the conviction or the courage to give up everything our technological and consumption-based society has given us, as we've known nothing else, it's ingrained into us from birth, but it is a wonderful story of personal commitment.
It is possible, you know, if you've been paying attention, that the future just may necessitate such a life for us... that's probably well down the road, though, I'm reasonably certain.
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48 Year-Old Blogger Has Gone 9 Years Without Spending Money
by Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York on 10.5.09
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/48-year-old-blogger-gone-9-years-without-money.php - click for 100+ comments!!!
Daniel Suelo wasn't poor, a victim of bad luck, mentally ill, or even uneducated. He just decided that he wanted to have nothing to do with money. So he gave up consumer culture altogether, and for the last 9 years, he's survived by living in a cave in Utah, and dumpster diving, foraging, fishing, and occasionally hunting for food. He spends his time in the great outdoors--and in the public library, where he blogs about it all.
Suelo must have the lowest carbon footprint of any blogger in the United States. And he's never taken food stamps or other government assistance, and despite what his lifestyle may lead you to believe, he's certainly not crazy. He's just got an aversion to money.
According to MatadorChange, he was working in South America when he was first moved to consider a money-free, zero impact lifestyle:
While in Ecuador on a Peace Corps mission, he witnessed a rural community acquire increased monetary wealth through farming and shift their traditional lifestyle towards a diet of unhealthy, processed food and a newfound addiction to television ... He made the conscious decision to return home, quit his job, and carve out a life without money.
Suelo himself writes "I've been living without a cent to my name since the autumn of 2000 (with a month's exception during my first year)" on the front page of the website he runs from the public library.
It's interesting to look at Suelo's nearly decade-long dedication to anti-consumerism in contrast to the recent 'eco-stunts' that essentially promote similar ideals: sure, No Impact Man learned how hard it is to walk up six flights of stairs to get to his apartment for a year, but he he got a film and book deal out of it. Suelo's got no cameras following him around, and he mostly just uses his blog to wax poetic about his living philosophy.
Of course, few would be willing to take such a plunge into a moneyless, ultra-low impact life. But simply knowing that Suelo has should be enough to make us think a long hard minute about all the stuff we heedlessly buy. Reverend Billy may be the head of the Church of Stop Shopping, but Daniel Suelo is its patron saint.
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