Concrete Jungle

Our world functions in a global economy. The current administration has robbed us blind.
They mock the intelligence of the American people. They are securing the faltering assets, and "holding" them until market value returns. Who initiates market value?  Speculates the cost of oil? Determines the power of the American Dollar?

This legislation is being passed under false pretense. The patriot act took away our illusion of freedom.  This is a nail in the coffin. Land appreciates in value, the government saw the 2 for 1 sign and bought the whole lot! The American market is a sham, corrupt and lobbied with investment packages, hedge, and mutual funds.
Our dishonest central bank is to blame, this financial crisis was INITIATED.
Give everyone what they can't afford, buy it back at a discount, take away their credit, whose left? The bougie business owners still profiting through sound business practice, investing in other markets! What a steal! The middle class is being reduced to a common poverty level.  The buy in has been raised, to play at this table you better be in the top earners class. The borders are open, only for those clappin for bankrolls and makin it rain. We got till 2012 to make a milli folks, we are on the caution lap, challenge is to get on the lead.
 Under the compliment of  an ignorant, blinding pride of "entrepreneurial spirit" legislation will be passed into law on FRIDAY. Scaring the public to buy into this crock and resume their ignorant blind faith in an honestly dishonest system.

If you have never watched this movie, all you have to do is look around you.

I feel this movie NEEDS to be shown as part of sex education in public schools.
The harsh vision depicted in this movie has become the reality of the age.

What is wrong with kids these days?
Everything depicted in that movie.

The truth hurts people, we must realize the worst before anything can get better.

I highly recommend parents watching this movie with their child before high school, or it becoming mandatory in state taught sex ed. The message of abstinence will resonate a higher tone with this movie portraying the rock bottom of bad decisions. Maybe they won't grow up as fast...

When Obama becomes the next president and is assassinated by redneck cracker honkeys wearing white hoods, World War 3 will start with the blood being on American hands and soil.
Retaliation will come as the LA riots started with Rodney King, but across the whole of the US. The wiggers will choose sides, wrongly, they can't think for themselves anyways. The whites will perform ethnic cleansing on themselves. No one will stop them.
The difference this time is It will be a revolution of self that will dissolve the conflict, and closeted racists will come to light leading the fight on both sides. The war between black and white will become a worldly affair, arrogance and ignorance will no longer be tolerated. Conservative rascism bleeds America.
This conflict will destroy Christianity, as It is too far separated to unite. It could be seen as the rapture, but if the literal descriptions of angels are not trumpeting, most will not look outside of the box. A Never-ending war zone with illegal drugs funding one side, and script meds funding the other.
The whole of the US will be engulfed in a racial riot, Martial Law will be declared, Blacks in the service will have weapons taken away, they will rebel and push the conflict against the government. US must resolve the conflict on its own.
The world will not help, for the fat cats only have profit to gain from this impending doom.
We will turn into the wild west. There is far to much hate without acknowledgment. Hip Hop will come out of the conflict as the union of respect it truly represents. The code of the streets will resonate, anarchy rules. Maybe a dangerous world will halt all the unplanned children.

The world gets along fine without the racism that the Americans instigate.
The lack of American culture fosters this closeted hate.
We are a teenage country that has been spoiled rotten.
Our democracy has become a hypocrisy.
Capitalism works if everyone is on a level playing field, The world agrees, our outsourcing for cheap labor has backfired, and quality product wins that race. Made in the USA has become inferior product. The smart ones invest in other markets...E-trade...
Figure out how to solve your child problem and society might follow suit.
Maybe the other way around?

Best advice to everyone...Quit fronting.
I pride myself in being courteous and hospitable.
A self-less life is a blessed one.


This is the end of days.


I love the game of life....
Hope you play your cards right.

Where GOD exists in possibility.


Sunday service will be the history of religion.

We will be humanist in nature. We will love unconditionally.

Morals and ethics will be taught as respect, integrity, and honesty.

Equal time for every religion, but mostly educated debates of ethical philosophy.

The oneness of the divine creator is a universal aspect of conscious being.

We will highlight similarities and trace religions astrological roots.

The word of GOD will be scheduled classes open to all.

Buddha, Krishna, Jesus, Mohamed under one roof.

The church with resources and personal choice.

A cultural crossroads of infinite wisdom,

Knowledge, unity, and community.

GOD is always possible...^ -^

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Rock trivia... I like!!!

Best guitarist? Yngwie? Slash? Clapton? Keller Williams? Hendrix?



Bassist? Hands down Claypool? Pnut? Flea?

Musicianship spans all genres...
Bring on the trivia and stories...
Style, Speed or Sound?

Would you stand ground?

After much research concerning ethical philosophy, I have come to a conclusion. The only thing keeping society from a Utopian state is a Machiavellian philosophy. " A persons morals has no affect on their direct reality." This is true IF you look at the world from a Naturalist standpoint. The naturalist standpoint is directly from human observation of the outside world.
We fit into the mold, but what makes us different is our conscious understanding of said mold. It is a personal decision to be "just human," and not strive for perfection in all aspects of life.
An enlightened awareness has shed hate, greed, violence, and arrogance. An awareness of the Machiavellian philosophy SHOULD make one decide to take the morally ethical road. As a firm believer in karma being universal, good morals are essential in teaching fairness and respect to one another.
Teaching, another human standout from the animal kingdom, more on that later...
I believe the walls of OUR Utopian society are every individuals choice between morals and/or Machiavelli. I would stand ground in a society where I know everyone is intelligent enough to have a worldly conscience , willing to play for the HUMAN BEING team. Letting go of high school drama. Your world is what you make it, and also what you don't.
You have not to renounce your faith to be in a humanist utopia, Just keep it a personal aspect of your life, All we really want subliminally is to have faith in something bigger than us to protect us from the unknown. We should embrace change and strive for perfection.
All is forgiven, must we be forgiven if we are aware of our actions and do the right thing in the first place?
Let us be at one with the universe instead of at war. The beauty of the oneness of GOD is that it is a universal aspect of conscious being. Do not take pride in the hat on his head, the names written in stone or in books, take faith in fairness, and respect towards one another, self-integrity...
Infinitely Large

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Let us evolve our collective consciousness, No more petty bickering amongst ourselves...

Who are we?

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As the Age of Pisces unwinds, The age of Christianity is unwinding as well.
A little exposition...
"Now, of the many astrological-astronomical metaphors in the Bible, one of the most important has to do with the ages. Throughout the scripture there are numerous references to the "Age." In order to understand this, we need to be familiar with the phenomenon known as the precession of the equinoxes. The ancient Egyptians along with cultures long before them recognized that approximately every 2150 years the sunrise on the morning of the spring equinox would occur at a different sign of the Zodiac. This has to do with a slow angular wobble that the Earth maintains as it rotates on it's axis.It is called a precession because the constellations go backwards, rather than through the normal yearly cycle. The amount of time that it takes for the precession to go through all 12 signs is roughly 25,765 years. This is also called the "Great Year," and ancient societies were very aware of this. They referred to each 2150 year period as an "age." From 4300 b.c. to 2150 b.c., it was the Age of Taurus, the Bull. From 2150 b.c. to 1 a.d., it was the Age of Aries, the Ram, and from 1 a.d. to 2150 a.d. it is the Age of Pisces, the age we are still in to this day, and in and around 2150, we will enter the new age: the Age of Aquarius.

Now, the Bible reflects, broadly speaking, a symbolic movement through 3 ages, while foreshadowing a 4th. In the Old Testament when Moses comes down Mount Sinai with the 10 Commandments, he is very upset to see his people worshiping a golden bull calf. In fact, he shattered the stone tablets and instructed his people to kill each other in order to purify themselves. Most Biblical scholars would attribute this anger to the fact that the Israelites were worshiping a false idol, or something to that effect. The reality is that the golden bull is Taurus the Bull, and Moses represents the new Age of Aries the Ram. This is why Jews even today still blow the Ram's horn. Moses represents the new Age of Aries, and upon the new age, everyone must shed the old age. Other deities mark these transitions as well, a pre-Christian god who kills the bull, in the same symbology.

Now Jesus is the figure who ushers in the age following Aries, the Age of Pisces the Two Fish. Fish symbolism is very abundant in the New Testament. Jesus feeds 5000 people with bread and "2 fish." When he begins his ministry walking along Galilei, he befriends 2 fisherman, who follow him. And I think we've all seen the Jesus-fish on the backs of people's cars. Little do they know what it actually means. It is a Pagan astrological symbolism for the Sun's Kingdom during the Age of Pisces. Also, Jesus' assumed birth date is essentially the start of this age.

At Luke 22:10 when Jesus is asked by his disciples where the next passover will be, Jesus replied: "Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you bearing a pitcher of water... follow him into the house where he entereth in." This scripture is by far one of the most revealing of all the astrological references. The man bearing a pitcher of water is Aquarius, the water-bearer, who is always pictured as a man pouring out a pitcher of water. He represents the age after Pisces, and when the Sun (God's Sun) leaves the Age of Pisces (Jesus), it will go into the House of Aquarius, as Aquarius follows Pisces in the precession of the equinoxes. Also Jesus is saying is that after the Age of Pisces will come the Age of Aquarius."
-Zeitgeist the greatest story ever told- ( full transcript on boards)-

The go green movement is gaining momentum. Could this be a coincidence?
The water-bearer, Aquarius, needs a personification, is the EARTH not our water-bearer?
Could mother earth take back her spot as top deity?
The divine presence of the universe? Is that conceited?
Or will the unification of our race (the human race), in our perfected conscious, finally transcend spiritually and unlock parts of our brains unfathomable?
A collective conscious....
meta-languages ([ mind-reading] is already being used by computers to transmit knowledge, saying things without saying them..)
Scientifically we are intangible, quantum mechanics is based on uncertainty...
atoms are here, there, everywhere...at once! There are pictures!
Schrodingers cat is eternal...
The next step in our evolution (journey towards godhood) is pointing towards some craziness. We can do this, if we don't blow ourselves up....(5/2 odds ?)
If we think its the end of the world, will it not end?
Science is getting crazier, technology we have today would be considered magic and we would be burned at the stake!!
In all of our history the only thing that has not changed has been the stars...
String theory has opened up different dimensions, quantum theory a new paradime.
Einstein didn't research quantum theory cause he couldn't explain the craziness and uncertainty with certainty. Experiments have proved observing causes reaction.
We are all one...LITERALLY!!!!
We should start acting like it, or at least lay the foundation for our children to...
Thoughts on the future anyone? Hopes, predictions?

Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.

The lifestance of Humanism-guided by reason, inspired by compassion, and informed by experience-encourages us to live life well and fully. It evolved through the ages and continues to develop through the efforts of thoughtful people who recognize that values and ideals, however carefully wrought, are subject to change as our knowledge and understandings advance.

This document is part of an ongoing effort to manifest in clear and positive terms the conceptual boundaries of Humanism, not what we must believe but a consensus of what we do believe. It is in this sense that we affirm the following:

Knowledge of the world is derived by observation, experimentation, and rational analysis. Humanists find that science is the best method for determining this knowledge as well as for solving problems and developing beneficial technologies. We also recognize the value of new departures in thought, the arts, and inner experience-each subject to analysis by critical intelligence.

Humans are an integral part of nature, the result of unguided evolutionary change. Humanists recognize nature as self-existing. We accept our life as all and enough, distinguishing things as they are from things as we might wish or imagine them to be. We welcome the challenges of the future, and are drawn to and undaunted by the yet to be known.

Ethical values are derived from human need and interest as tested by experience. Humanists ground values in human welfare shaped by human circumstances, interests, and concerns and extended to the global ecosystem and beyond. We are committed to treating each person as having inherent worth and dignity, and to making informed choices in a context of freedom consonant with responsibility.

Life's fulfillment emerges from individual participation in the service of humane ideals. We aim for our fullest possible development and animate our lives with a deep sense of purpose, finding wonder and awe in the joys and beauties of human existence, its challenges and tragedies, and even in the inevitability and finality of death. Humanists rely on the rich heritage of human culture and the lifestance of Humanism to provide comfort in times of want and encouragement in times of plenty.

Humans are social by nature and find meaning in relationships. Humanists long for and strive toward a world of mutual care and concern, free of cruelty and its consequences, where differences are resolved cooperatively without resorting to violence. The joining of individuality with interdependence enriches our lives, encourages us to enrich the lives of others, and inspires hope of attaining peace, justice, and opportunity for all.

Working to benefit society maximizes individual happiness. Progressive cultures have worked to free humanity from the brutalities of mere survival and to reduce suffering, improve society, and develop global community. We seek to minimize the inequities of circumstance and ability, and we support a just distribution of nature's resources and the fruits of human effort so that as many as possible can enjoy a good life.

Humanists are concerned for the well being of all, are committed to diversity, and respect those of differing yet humane views. We work to uphold the equal enjoyment of human rights and civil liberties in an open, secular society and maintain it is a civic duty to participate in the democratic process and a planetary duty to protect nature's integrity, diversity, and beauty in a secure, sustainable manner.

Thus engaged in the flow of life, we aspire to this vision with the informed conviction that humanity has the ability to progress toward its highest ideals. The responsibility for our lives and the kind of world in which we live is ours and ours alone. 

If you know what the UBBs are you are one in a few....
Ultimate Breaks vol. 1-25, it spans 25 years, amazing stuff, Im such a noob, but I got to start somewhere.
I came across the whole collection as a torrent, all 25 volumes. It is a crazy realization that the "amen break" changed a whole society. There are so many good songs, counting the originals and the sampling adds a cool bit of nostalgia because so many songs can come from just one. Music transcends time. Songs live forever, If your serious.
I haven't bought decks or any vinyl, but I'm looking to start before it gets too expensive.
I use reason and protools w/ a midi, and am just starting to realize the depth of the synthesizers.
Realized that Crate Digging is an art I want to learn, and will never turn back....

Down with Hip POP!!!

I don't smoke anymore, but blaze one for me!

What is the group consensus on Marijuana?

I have only realized the amount of people that smoke regularly, or have toked before in their youth. Legally it is against the law, and I think most tax dollars are wasted by holding non-violent Drug offenders in jail, as opposed to just fining them. I see no harm in a toke every now and then, maybe a bump, but the maturity level needed to totally assess situation and not go overboard is one that is very lacking, especially with the people taking the drugs. I've seen many people spend a lot of money up their nose, and I can only feel sorry for them and make sure they get home safe. I don't condone any drug abuse, but if your are a responsible adult, you can make your own decision, I will not tell you what you can and cannot do.

I think as a society we need to address the drug issue differently because whatever is being done is costing us more money on top of the "drug war" budget.
I see more harm in the increasing sexual predators, then I do with a stoner down the street that keeps to himself and enjoys being a dirty hippie.

Honestly, I think more people bump powder then anyone realizes, unless you hold weight.
I want to separate the two for sake of the blog, but I do feel cocaine has A LOT more baggage than the occasional spliff.

In my personal experience I found that it was much cheaper and safer to blaze a blunt, and sit on the couch, as opposed to racking up a bar tab and driving with one good eye...

Thoughts, extreme opinions? Love to hear them.

I think this war is past political and is more religious than anything.

Christianity vs. Muslim

Just a thought....



I have a strong opinion about  terrorism in the states more than i care of someones religion.
School shooters, Bomb-makers, Drug Dealers. Put all of them under the terrorism umbrella.
Charge those kids with terrorism. Charge the Jamaican guy at OIA. If the kids wanna make a pipe bomb on our soil, throw the whole book. Make others know the consequence of disrupting peace.
The whole underground economy of the drug trade( if the cops wer'nt part of it already), might hold a little more consequence if charged as a terrorist.
Name plastered front page. No more slaps on the wrist.
Might think twice about buying a K.

Most of my Latino and black people who are struggling to get food, clothes and shelter in the hood are so concerned with that, that philosophising about freedom and socialist democracy is usually unfortunately beyond their rationale.
They don't realize that America can't exist without separating them from their identity, because if we had some sense of who we really are, there's no way in hell we'd allow this country to push it's genocidal consensus on our homelands. This ignorance exists, but it can be destroyed.
[...] talk about change and working within the system to achieve that. The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you.
There is usually nothing wrong with compromise in a situation, but compromising yourself in a situation is another story completely, and I have seen this happen long enough in the few years that I've been alive to know that it's a serious problem.
Latino America is a huge colony of countries whose presidents are cowards in the face of economic imperialism. You see, third world countries are rich places, abundant in resources, and many of these countries have the capacity to feed their starving people and the children we always see digging for food in trash on commercials. But plutocracies, in other words a government run by the rich such as this one and traditionally oppressive European states, force the third world into buying overpriced, unnecessary goods while exporting huge portions of their natural resources.
I'm quite sure that people will look upon my attitude and sentiments and look for hypocrisy and hatred in my words. My revolution is born out of love for my people, not hatred for others. You see, most of Latinos are here because of the great inflation that was caused by American companies in Latin America. Aside from that, many are seeking a life away from the puppet democracies that were funded by the United States; places like El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Columbia, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Republica Dominicana, and not just Spanish-speaking countries either, but Haiti and Jamaica as well.
As different as we have been taught to look at each other by colonial society, we are in the same struggle and until we realize that, we'll be fighting for scraps from the table of a system that has kept us subservient instead of being self-determined. And that's why we have no control over when the embargo will stop in Cuba, or when the bombs will stop dropping in Vieques. But you see, here in America the attitude that is fed to us is that outside of America there live lesser people
. "[...] them, let them fend for themselves."
No, [...] you, they are you. No matter how much you want to dye your hair blonde and put fake eyes in, or follow an anorexic standard of beauty, or no matter how many diamonds you buy from people who exploit your own brutally to get them, no matter what kind of car you drive or what kind of fancy clothes you put on, you will never be them. They're always gonna look at you as nothing but a little monkey.
I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperately trying to be something I'm really not, just to fit in. And whether we want to accept it or not, that's what this culture or lack of culture is feeding us. I want a better life for my family and for my children, but it doesn't have to be at the expense of millions of lives in my homeland. We're given the idea that if we didn't have these people to exploit then America wouldn't be rich enough to let us have these little petty material things in our lives and basic standards of living.
No, that's wrong.
It's the business giants and the government officials who make all the real money. We have whatever they kick down to us. My enemy is not the average white man, it's not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the street; my enemy is the white man I don't see: the people in the white house, the corporate monopoly owners, fake liberal politicians those are my enemies. The generals of the armies that are mostly conservatives those are the real Mother-[...]ers that I need to bring it to, not the poor, broke country-ass soldier that's too stupid to know [...] about the way things are set up. In fact, I have more in common with most working and middle-class white people than I do with most rich black and Latino people. As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.
Many of us are in the same boat and it's sinking, while these bougie Mother-[...]ers ride on a luxury liner, and as long as we keep fighting over kicking people out of the little boat we're all in, we're gonna miss an opportunity to gain a better standard of living as a whole. In other words, I don't want to escape the plantation I want to come back, free all my people, hang the Mother-[...] that kept me there and burn the house to the god damn ground.
I want to take over the encomienda and give it back to the people who work the land. You cannot change the past but you can make the future, and anyone who tells you different is a [...] lethargic devil. I don't look at a few token Latinos and black people in the public eye as some type of achievement for my people as a whole. Most of those successful individuals are sell-outs and house Negros. But, I don't consider brothers a sell-out if they move out of the ghetto. Poverty has nothing to do with our people. It's not in our culture to be poor.
That's only been the last 500 years of our history; look at the last 2000 years of our existence and what we brought to the world in terms of science, mathematics, agriculture and forms of government. You know the idea of a confederation of provinces where one federal government controls the states? The Europeans who came to this country stole that idea from the Iroquois lead. The idea of impeaching a ruler comes from an Aztec tradition. That's why Montezuma was stoned to death by his own people 'cause he represented the agenda of white Spaniards once he was captured, not the Aztec people who would become Mexicans. So in conclusion, I'm not gonna vote for anybody just 'cause they black or Latino they have to truly represent the community and represent what's good for all of us proletariat.
Porque sino entonces te mando por el carajo [...] gusano hijo de [...], seramos libre pronto, viva la revolucion, VIVA LA REVOLUCION!

Immortal Technique

Anyone familiar with the architecture and dynamics of the human nervous system cannot help but notice the striking similarity between the brain and the Internet. But is this similarity more than a coincidence - is the Internet really a brain in its own right - the brain of our planet? And is its collective behavior intelligent - does it constitute a global mind? How might this collective form of intelligence compare to that of an individual human mind, or a group of human minds?

I believe that the Internet (the hardware) is already evolving into a distributed global brain, and its ongoing activity (the software, humans and data) represents the cognitive process of an increasingly intelligent global mind. This global mind is not centrally organized or controlled, rather it is a bottom-up, emergent, self-organizing phenomenon formed from flows of trillions of information-processing events comprised of billions of independent information processors.

As with other types of emergent computing systems, for example John Conway’s familiar cellular automaton “The Game of Life,” on the Internet large scale homeostatic systems and seemingly intentional or guided information processes naturally emerge and interact within it. The emergence of sophisticated information systems does not require top-down design or control, it can happen in an evolutionary bottom-up manner as well.

Like a human brain, the Internet is a vast distributed computing network comprised of billions of interacting parallel processors. These processors include individual human beings as well as software programs, and systems of them such as organizations, which can all be referred to as "agents" in this system. Just as the computational power of the human brain as a whole is vastly greater than that of any of the individual neurons or systems within it, the computational power of the Internet is vastly beyond any of the individual agents it contains. Just as the human brain is not merely the sum of its parts, the Internet is more than the sum of its parts - like other types of distributed emergent computing systems, it benefits from the network effect. The power of the system grows exponentially as agents and connections between them are added.

The human brain is enabled by an infrastructure comprised of networks of organic neurons, dendrites, synapses and protocols for processing chemical and electrical messages. The Internet is enabled by an infrastructure of synthetic computers, communications networks, interfaces, and protocols for processing digital information structures. The Internet also interfaces with organic components however – the human beings who are connected to it. In that sense the Internet is not merely an inorganic system – it could not function without help from humans, for the moment at least. The Internet may not be organized in exactly the same form as the human brain, but it is at least safe to say it is an extension of it.

The brain provides a memory system for storing, locating and recalling information. The Internet also provides shared address spaces and protocols for using them. This enables agents to participate in collaborative cognition in a completely decentralized manner. It also provides a standardized shared environment in which information may be stored, addressed and retrieved by any agent of the system. This shared information space functions as the collective memory of the global mind.

Just as no individual neuron in the human brain could be said to have the same form or degree of intelligence as the brain as-a-whole - we individual humans cannot possibly comprehend the distributed intelligence that is evolving on the Internet. But we are part of it nonetheless, whether we know it or not.  The global mind is emerging all around us, and via us, is our creation but it is already becoming independent of us - truly it represents the evolution of a new form of meta-level intelligence that has never before existed on our planet.

Although we created it, the Internet is already far beyond our control or comprehension - it surrounds us and penetrates our world - it is inside our buildings, our tools, our vehicles, and it connects us together and modulates our interactions. As this process continues and the human body and biology begins to be networked into this system we will literally become part of this network - it will become an extension of our nervous systems and eventually, via brain-computer interfaces, it will be an extension of our senses and our minds. Eventually the distinction between humans and machines, and the individual and the collective, will gradually start to dissolve, along with the distinction between human and artificial forms of intelligence.