Hybrid Clones of Social Capitalism

Splintered minds, lost tools invisible pools of
Waves penetrate heads bossing fools around screaming from newspaper tissues
Black tie getting pissed on, businessmen don’t listen
Simple deviant tricks led to compound financial issues
I was there
For it all
Sold the loans
Spent the cream
Moved it all
shifted ethereal puzzle pieces
while pawned away in chess games
Lost minds, splintered tools
Hybrid beings lithium/oxygen
Watertight fatties composing sealed lips
Hydrogen motors under led lights redrum
It only makes cents if the money is abundant
Henry Paulson cooks it in the kitchen with the crack and
World leaders breaking sweat cause revolution is imminent
Past due time for the poor to wake up
lacking popular opinion but the money ain’t the prize
Macking was cool ten years in the past but SURPRISE
Reality is on the rise and womankind needs our blessing
Mother Earth and Mother Theresa did more than Henry Ford and J.P. Morgan
Cuz the money ain’t the prize it’s material’s that’s important
woke up a bigger size today, sparkles replacing dollar signs within the darkness of my eyes
I meant what I said every moment that I spoke
I lent my precious time to the plants that I smoked
saw that meaning is key to defining how you livin
and defined my life from demise to the present aka the beginning.

Specifically, amidst the palms, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, North America, Mother Earth, Esteemed Solar system, Delicious Galaxy, Left coronary of the Universe, September 29th, 2008………

Part one: Reality Responses

an Invisible Transparency

Why does my Anatomy Textbook cost $170.00?

Top Textbook manufacturers of 2008: Prentice-Hall, McGraw-Hill, Wiley & Sons....
A case of Politics vs Education....
and Textbook Lobbyists and State Textbook Committees are the major players in the education game.
Who is on the State textbook committee? What is their philosophy? The answers to these questions will lead us to the big key of Earthly education.
Interpretation.
From the Bible to the truth about Stem Cells, the only way that I, as a 22-year-old Kinesiology student, can receive the truth about the world around me is through a medium. In the case of the past, I must rely on storytellers to relate the events to me. In the case of the present time, I must rely on my powers of observation, or others “more scientific” observations. In the case of stem cells, I need the tools and the money needed to create huge microscopes and snatch kidney cells from embryo’s, and it’s very difficult for an unqualified person to score embryo’s in America nowadays. Meanwhile, I sit here doodling microscopic abstracts of hair follicles and cell nucleus’s, wondering why my textbook costs $170.00, and why there is only one book that is qualified to relay the information to me.
Since I’m starving for an education like most young responsibility-seeking kids, I will do just about anything to learn more about the world I live in and the body I inhabit. According to Wikipedia: “Education encompasses both the teaching and learning of knowledge, proper conduct, and technical competency.”
Knowledge is defined as: “the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association”
Yes, I’m looking to know myself and my world through my experience of the world and my body.
But what has become evident about my world and my body are two disconcerting facts:
I need money to survive(bio-survival tickets as Robert Anton Wilson stated) and knowledge to succeed, and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing won’t give me money and the Board of Education won’t give me knowledge.
I have to earn it.
So I’m in school. I’m in debt.
And my countries administrators don’t give a shit.
Textbook publishers, I hope you choked on that beef a la bordelaise.
“To "encourage" the use of their books, book manufacturers often send the school boxes of free books. Sometimes professors then begin to sell these books on ebay for a tidy profit or to students at ‘slightly less than the new costs.” (Warnertoddhouston, online)
“When a student enters a classroom he is told which book he will use, not which ones he can choose from. Therefore there is no competition. The student has no choice and that being the case, the book manufacturer has no forces to oppose their high prices. No market forces guide prices and book manufacturers can charge whatever they like.
Then we get to the textbooks actually written by the professors that a university then adopts for that professor's class or his department. These, being specialty, small-run printing items are also exorbitantly high in price. And, once again, there are not market forces to put commons sense caps on pricing.”(Warnertoddhouston, online)
“As I understand it, (board members) are simply browbeating their textbook manufacturers to either putting things in or taking things out even though the law says they don't have the authority," said former Lt. Gov. Bill Ratliff, who drafted the state's current textbook legislation. The law, passed in 1995, sought to limit the board's ability to alter textbooks for ideological reasons.”
When I was born into the U.S., textbooks cost students $300 per year, and minimum wage was 3.35. Now with the wages at 7.00 an hour: “College students spend an average of $900 per year on textbooks. These prices increase six percent per year and have tripled from 1986 to 2004, according a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.”
The governor vetoed Senate Bill One, the California Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, or D.R.E.A.M. Act, and Senate Bill 832 - the College Textbook Affordability Act. However, he did sign Assembly Bill 1548, an alternative textbook bill which requires both university bookstores to release the textbook wholesale price and for publishers to print a list of revisions made to new editions. This alternative bill known as the College Textbook Transparency Act becomes effective in 2010.
The vetoed textbook bill, SB 832, which was sponsored by the California Student Public Interest Research Group, had similar requirements as the bill that did pass, but it would have also required publishers to issue an estimate as to how long each edition would remain unrevised. The vetoed bill also required university professors to provide this information to students and post lists online immediately.
The approved textbook bill, AB 1548[, which was supported by the Association of American Publishers, will offer information to faculty members regarding wholesale prices and edition changes, but only upon request.
Tessa Atkinson-Adams, a CalPIRG project coordinator for the textbook campaign, said she and the organization feel Schwarzenegger made the wrong choice. However, she also said CalPIRG will plan to tackle the problem in the future by creating projects that will offer textbooks online for free, among other things.
“We’re very disappointed in the governor’s decision,” Atkinson-Adams, a third-year political science and environmental studies major, said. “AB 1548 does nothing to correct the market imbalance. It just goes to show that the publishing companies really are making an effort to not disclose their prices and to continue to use unfair business practices.”
In his veto message, Schwarzenegger wrote that he signed AB 1548 because it dealt with not only the publishing industry, but bookstores and professors as well.
“This bill [SB 832] focuses strictly on textbook publisher policies and fails to recognize that the affordability of textbooks is a shared responsibility among publishers, college bookstores and faculty members,” Schwarzenegger wrote. “Many of the same concepts in SB 832 are included in AB 1548, but AB 1548 recognizes the shared responsibility and attempts to address the issue in a more comprehensive manner.”
Enough B.S. I’m getting involved.
Email these people for info on how you too can help to enhance our education:
tara@calpirgstudents.org
danny@calpirgstudents.org

Message to the Money-Makers

If you don't make the dope I won't smoke the dope
If you don't cook the food then I won't eat the food
If you don't make the money then I won't have any money
If you don't build the house then I won't live in a house
If you don't film the porn then I won't watch it
If you don't produce the gun then I won't shoot it
If you don't produce the movie then I won't act it out
If you don't make the rule then I won't break it
If you don't build the prison cell then I won't rot in it
Don't condemn the little man zoom out from your current focus
why arrest the 17-year-old kid who spends six bucks on cigarettes
when the real criminal is the seller because cigarettes have no value
what happened to ethics, you must sell something of value in exchange
for currency
my money is paper and my food is cardboard
my car is plastic and my clothes are cotton
It's all about production, distribution and cycles.
Make the thing first then create the need and start a cycle.
First its just inhalation, first its just a little sniff
if the kid ain't lucky he'll dedicate his life to inhaling one more time,
just one more sniff
don't get trapped in the doldrums, hypnotized by illusions
yes this world is mentally challenging but you choose your experience of reality
so lets produce value, and make lots of it
and fill in the holes that already exist and start some cycles that will never be missed.

World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers

· First ever study of global household assets· 50% of world's adults own just 1% of the wealth

James Randerson, science correspondent, and what is wealth?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2006/dec/06/business.internationalnews

I'm always right, and left.

Angels+Demons=

An other dark night is fin ally over time passed
I’m fin ally so ber at last gas ping past
I real ized with my cloud y eyes that I
had a bad dream baby and I didn ’t know why
Why those dem ons were still wild ly cha sing me
I’m so sor ry My ang els I was play
ing At ari with my thumbs You were host ing
my par ty But I was numb…..and I didn’t
be lieve in you
You know I used to be
ad dict ed That must have been when I was
aff lict ed That de mon had a face but
that face was not the de mon it was shock
down to my cells I guess I just need ed
rea sons
I’m so sor ry My ang els I
was play ing A tari with my thumbs You were
host ing my par ty But I was numb….and
I didn’t be lieve in you
An other dark night
is just be coming If I want to grow I’ve
got to stop run ning I am be com ing
what I know I am Deep in my mind be
neath the laugh ing clowns of my imag in ary
ghost town there lives I
I grows I's
and the
crop is dim ming
as the
dark night
is fin
ally beg inn ing
death is rest
god bless less