The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 11

The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 11

Empires

The first world empire according to record is the Babylonian empire under King Nebuchadnezzar in (August of 605 B.C.) the residue of real estate remaining is modern day Iraq. The second empire consisted of the global domination of the Medes and Persians (550 B.C.) and the residue of real estate remaining is in the land of Iran. The third global empire established was by Greece (Alexander the Great) in (330 B.C.) The fourth global empire was established by the Romans in (450 B.C.) The book of Daniel contains an accurate account of the history of these empires and was ironically written approximately the sixth century B.C. during the life time of Daniel the prophet a “Hebrew” (Jewish) from the tribe of Judah. (Reference: Daniel 2: 1-49) Divine is retrospect, the history and the foretelling of the rise and fall of world empires have brought us to this day. The cultures and times have evolved as each empire fell and the other was established. This week’s blog will summarize the empires influences on the world we live in today.

Babylon (Iraq-geographically)

A set of weird and intriguing circumstances befell King Nebuchadnezzar when he destroyed and took the Hebrews captive out of the city of Jerusalem. The first trivial set of circumstances erected from a dream the King had about a statue with a gold head, silver chest and arms, brass stomach and thighs and iron legs. The feet and toes were constructed of iron and clay that did not mix. Troubled and threatening to kill all of his magicians and spiritual advisors, Daniel was summoned and commanded to interpret the dream without any knowledge of it. Daniel prayed to the God of the Hebrews and answered the King: “The gold head was King Nebuchadnezzar himself and the kingdom of Babylon, the silver was the Medes and Persians and the third was of course Greece. The fourth part of the statue was the Romans and ten nations (ten toes) left at the end of time.” Its end, concluded Daniel: “A stone made with men’s hands striking the statue at his feet and destroying the image in pieces. The stone then grew becoming an exceeding great mountain that filled the entire earth.” Jesus of Nazareth in the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John declares that he is this stone (doctrine that certain Jews rejected and marked as blasphemy; charges that lead to his crucifixion.)

I want to break down every tradition that remained from each empire that affected each empire and remained all the way to our time. The religions, cultures, and traditions of people have been shaped and passed down from these established kingdoms. The roots of our lifestyle run deep; across Atlantics and Pacific’s across ancient continents. Problems and challenges we face are results of what has been decided long before. The truth is there; written in between the lines of controversy, lies and secrecy.

Chapter 13 will cover the rise and fall of Babylon and the Medes and Persians. Are there customs, beliefs, principles and traditions that we experience everyday that came from these kingdoms?

THE GREAT EXPLOITATION PROLIFERATION CHAPTER 10 continued.

I challenge you as an educated American to investigate the differences in media propoganda and factual reporting.
Health Care Reform Obama's Plan

The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 10 (Post date: Oct. 17, 2009)

The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 10 (Post date: Oct. 17, 2009)

The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 10

As a child, my beloved grandmother used to give us "medicine" A spoon full of some natural extract that we called cough syrup. She used to make sassaphras tea. I remember that I would've taken anything from my granny because whatever my granny gave me was good and trusted. Of course, my innocence played a big part to my gullible outlook. Growing up allowed me to transform that same trust over to my school, my neighbors, employer and my government. Disappointments and the eroding of that trust is what makes us thinking adults. Instead of being lead by so called "experts" in their field. We acquire a foundational education that allows us to become more educated about the world we live in. I've seen many shocking disasters befall my friends, family and myself. I personally had a lit sparkler stuck in my eye one 4th July as a child. *OUCH* Yes, from what I can remember it was painful. I woke up in the hospital with multiple eye drops sizzling down in my eye. I was too young to be concerned with blindness.

I assumed my sister was more hurt with regret over her accident, that nearly blinded me, than I was about my own eye. Blessed and fortunate, the doctors used their skills and my mother used her prayers to save my sight in both eyes. I'm thoroughly grateful to the medical staff that treated me that day.

Years later, my fondness of hospitals decreased as family and friends were admitted into hospitals for one reason or another. I was very fortunate to have not spent one night as a patient (child or adult) in the hospital with exceptions of staying with my daughter. My brother, on the other hand, spent many nights in the hospital and he had barely reached adulthood when he found himself on his death bed with a 12 hour life expectancy. One hospital vaguely diagnosed him and sent him back home. The family was shocked because clearly something was still wrong. The whites of his eyes were green flourescent and his urine reportedly the color of dark tea. I'm not going to say what the illness was, but three different hospitals and a 12 hour count down on a donors list later, salvation came in an organ donation. One hospital was totally incompetent or plain cruel. Another lacked specialization but was skillful enough to properly diagnose him and resourceful enough to refer him to a regional health-care facility that specialized in his healthcare needs. Hospitals have hardworking commendable staff and administration that do their best to save lives.

However, hospitals are a business. Insurance companies facilitate the business between hospitals and pharmaceutical companies who distribute medications that do not cure, but treat symptoms of illness. The skills required to be a physician are unmatched and vital to the survival of many Americans. Where has American healthcare gone wrong? Big business has corrupted the art of dietetic treatments to cure human ailments with the experimental fallacies of science and chemistry. Just look at the modifications of the hippocratic oath.

Old version states:

I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.

I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.

Updated version reads:

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

Clearly there is a change in oaths do to updated surgical techniques and breakthroughs in technology. These breakthroughs have allowed transplants and specialization treatments that were in time past unavailable. Technology allows physicians to further extract from and dissect the human body without killing it and to medicate the bodies reaction to trauma until the body heals itself. Preventative methods such as dietetic measures have taken the back burner. Reasons not governing the prerogative of the physician, but rather of those who administrate the distribution of the medication.

Insurance companies are incredibly lucrative in our day and time and medication is overflowing in poor and inner-city communities. Prescribed medication is massively abused recreationally and some have been found more lethal than any ailment that is to be treated. How has these things come about? How did poor and uneducated people get drugs such as oxycotton, xanax, or lortabs, just to name a few? Let's spotlight the history of the insurance company, the hospital administration so that we can define the thin line between a healing place and big business. To be continued... Chapter 11

The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 9

The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 9

My story is not for exploitation. I am who I am. I existed and still exist with an authentic piece of perception. No man can take away my personal perspective and no person can tell my story like I can. It is my choice to place my life experiences on record and to give my assessment on the lifestyles I'm familiar with. I gave you my religious background in Chapter 8 not to exploit myself, but to give you an accurate perspective in interpreting my writing. I'm part of a whole. If you're reading this I've now become a part you and vice versa. Our fates have bound my thoughts to your thoughts and reactions thereof, have engaged you or eschewed you by now.

I learned something profound about translating different languages this week. I studied the poems of Frederico Garcia Lorca and read the different English translations from Spanish. What was profound is that some translations seemed to be poor and almost incomprehensible. I'm not going to exploit anyones lack of skill, but there was the same poem in English and it took more than the letter of the word to translate it. It took a reader to discern the subtle cadences in lines and measure to articulate Frederico's emotion. The emotional aspect is of vital importance to deciphering real meaning in poetry. When I read the translation that I could relate to then I understood Lorca's overall premise in his poetry. Then I had to check my attitude toward the other translation. I prematurely labeled it poor because the translation sung something not relative to my experience. If it sings something different to someone else then who am I to say that it is poor altogether. After all, it is my perception only that leads me to believe that Lorca's poetry is a masterful work. Who is to really say that if Lorca was alive, that I wouldn't favor his work over an unauthenticated revision of the form. Therefore, I observed the schisms in the American English language and cultural lingo. Spanish also has schisms in their language that divides peoples respective lingo. The great writers are aware of their own voice, but are equally aware of the potential misunderstandings that may befall the authentic perspective in their artistry. Leaving components such as demographics, culture, socioeconomic influence and technique, to decide that a piece of art is suitable for mass proliferation.

One of my favorite directors Spike Lee claims that the film industry doesn't lend money to Black Americans who do not promote "Coonery and Bafoonery." A stigma frowned on by Lee because he believes that it's thematic in black American films made with studio capital. The African American community in large believes that this is dones purposefully to keep Blacks submissive to white rule. Others believe that it's a misunderstanding of the real culture of black people and this misconception and bad perception is innocently a Caucasian artists perspective of African Americans. He released a film in 2000 Bamboozled who satirically portrayed blacks in the modern day television industry as they've been traditionally portrayed by whites Hollywood since black cast racially charged films emerged in 1927. In a very humble way the film was very educational. It revealed another side of the entertainment industry that reflected the ugly views in which white America viewed people of color. Spike Lee's work on this film among other remarkable documentaries about the Black experience have not been nationally embraced. Any intellectual can see that the subjects that he exploits give a more proper perspective of race and culture. He uses his art as a filmmaker to proliferate what should be taught in the American education system much more often then it is currently in Appalachia and abroad.

The later chapters will deal with African American history in retrospect. American history will be concluded by Chapter 15 and we will observe history from a global perspective. I personally believe that we must make peace within our own country before we can spread peace abroad. The key in having good foreign affairs is in having good domestic affairs. We must put our differences aside and meet common ground; lest other countries begin seeing a divided nation crumbled with indifference and simply enable it to crumble to the ground.

Chapter 10 will be on the topic the history and corruption of American healthcare. No, you are probably not ready to hear what I have to discuss with you about this subject! Till next week...peace and love!

The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 8

Mass confusion...and yet everyone is right in their own right. The component of emotions that run contradictory to our beliefs can give the impression of a person being at war with himself. The significant benefits one can monitor and achieve with the disciplines of self-control, versus giving way to every urge and desire of the human body's pleasure, is tremendous. The great division of religions into sects of individualism and social acceptance makes this process erode.

Confusion...it exists as evident as evil and it's devilish origin or good and it's reverential fruit of righteousness. Where the masses may grow in confusion there is the ever excellent truth of matters. The reasoning behind it all. The root of the cause. Though the waters of truth may get murky to some along their path of enlightenment. One thing has been evident to me. That is that I'm first a believer in Jesus Christ of Nazareth as the embodiment of the Everlasting Father full of grace and truth. The sole incarnation of God as man. Question ethnicities, study geneologies and theologies as I have done over the years and still... I conclude without reserve that he is who he said he was...and is...and is to come! Secondly, that I'm an American that for the greater part of his citizenship has been lied to in a traditional fashion.

There are many who disagree with my belief. Yet, share my citizenship as an American. Can two walk together lest they agree? No! My values are different. If we value different things, we can't equally barter or make good business between us. Where will the peace be established with people who believe contrary to me? Well one of the beautiful things about the God I serve is that he requires the same distribution of Love toward my enemies as toward my brothers and sisters. The Love between my neighbor as my children, mother or father. I am who I am based on my principles and lifestyle so as much that rests in me there will be peace. However, any blatant offense to my belief will not muzzle my right to freely express it. The traditions of journalistic reporting allow me to give unbiased facts regarding my history as an American. My right to seek and establish a truth I can accurately pass down to my children, community and nation.

In light of this tradition I'll read a few quotes from the 28th president of the United States Woodrow Wilson. (1913-1921)

"I have unwittingly ruined my country." (After signing the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 presented by Edward Mandell House, Chief Advisor and Illuminist)

"...there is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, so persuasive, that they had no speak above their breath when they speak condemnation of it." --President Woodrow Wilson

If that quote is accurate, I wonder who that persuasive power is? Ah, History...his-story...whose story?