leavin brothers

sooooo who's disturbed that lehman and merrill lynch went under? lehman brothers was a 158 year old bank ... i kinda feel like entrenched power just took a major hit ... in 158 years what have any of the members of the lehman fam done to obliterate poverty? just asking ...

i am disturbed by this 'crisis' mainly because no real poor people are paying attention (i live around lots of poor folks and aint nobody talkin bout this trust me) ... i am disturbed that banks can get bailed out by the fed and no one notices or bats an eyelash ... i am disturbed that no fed agency is going to bail out the average homeowner and yet the WORLD's largest insurance company, AIG, is asking the fed for 'emergency funding' ... you know that funding is in the several billions don't you?

i am disturbed by the american people ... who are not connecting the dots ... not connecting g.w. bush to lenient financial regulation which caused this crisis ... not connecting federal bailouts to their income taxes ... not connecting the price of gas in lebanon to the price of coca cola in brasil and then connecting all of that to the diminishing quality of their 3rd grader's american education ...

hey ... maybe it's not connected ... but isn't it at least worth googling?? just a question ... cuz i loves you and i cares bout yall. and i'd hate to see the chaos in wall street personally connect with your wallet.

lastly, i am - as usual - disturbed by capitalism. it's an illusion. and this 'crisis' is what happens when fake money meets real people. do your research ...

you can read an assoc. press article on this matter as well.

dust on thier cheeks

somalia is another hot spot ... no, not for vacation ... for war, hunger, starvation, displacement, refugee camps, terror, violence, rape, economic crisis, U.S. imperialism and probably a lot of thirst too ...

it's only getting worse (and we, as in america, helped to fuck it up more) ...

four-year-old Fatima walked with her family for two days to reach El Barde (to receive food):

globalize information, please

never in america ... could there be food riots ...

as there are right now all over the world.

never in america ... do we need to understand how globalization works ... because we globalize we don't get globalized.

this article just touches on the tip of the iceberg ... how america sets the prices and the agenda for the global market ... and has been since the creation of the IMF and the World Bank.

never in america ... will sam's club hoard rice ... oh, that's already happening.

only in america ... do people live so ignorantly that when the real food shortages happen they will be left holding an empty, plastic (non-biodegradable) key food (replace with piggly wiggly, ralph's, giant or any other supermarket chain) bag ...

only in america ... do people WANT to remain ignorant about how other people eat ... or how much fuel costs outside of america ... or how much of the world is HUNGRY ...

until ... america gets hungry.

the time is coming.

so time is of the essence:

my greatest prayer is that more people start to educate themselves about globalization and the slow foods/local foods movement ... this is not about vegan fascism or climate change. i pray that people start to learn about what the IMF and the World Bank are. i pray that we start to impact our foreign trade policies in ways that are loving and humane for all people around the globe and not just specific americans. i told you - it's a prayer ..........

you can start educating yourself in many ways:

1) google SLOW FOODS movement or LOCAL FOODS
2) buy foods at a farmer's market (it's local)
3) read omnivore's dilemna

CNN quotes me?!

read the article and view the video - i'm in that too!