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HOW 'BOUT YOU

HOW 'BOUT YOU
HOW ‘BOUT YOU *Pre-production mockup with Ken Pendergast

Lyrics

HOW ‘BOUT YOU

Like the victim in this lover’s crime
Nothin’ much I can do
Just an extra with a minor line
Trying to hide from the truth

How ‘bout you
Do you know what fool’s love makes us do?
How ‘bout you
Won’t you tell me what the guilty should do?

Just a lover playing second string
Yeah, I’m on call night and day
Ask a psychic what my future brings
But she just turns, she just turns away

How ‘bout you
Do you know what fool’s love makes us do?
How ‘bout you
When you’re desperate, tell me, what do you do?

Such a cold room
Such a dark, empty feeling
Such a cold mood
And I don’t, no I don’t
No I don’t know how I find
How I find my way out of here

Like a guest left standing all alone
Should’ve left long ago
Like a heart that doesn’t have a home
Hanging ‘round just in case you might show

How ‘bout you
Do you feel what the guilty go through?
How ‘bout you
Do you know what fool’s love makes us do?
Do you know what fool’s love makes us do?
What you’re doing to me is he doing to you?

©2010 Van Clayton Powel

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HUMAN BEING

HUMAN BEING by Van Clayton Powel
HUMAN BEING


 Lyrics

HUMAN BEING

The eagles are flying
The wind’s in my face
I’m high on the mountain top
Oh yeah, in my magical place

I’m dining on sunlight
I’m drinking down the rain
I’m doing the best I can
In this life as a human being

Well, it’s a fine time
Such a fine, fine, fine time
Yes, it’s a fine time
To be alive as a human being
Yes, it’s a fine time
Feeling love with this body and mind
Well, it’s a fine time
To be alive as a human being

Well, some come to suffer
And some come to win
Some come to learn there’s no such thing
As original sin

Some come for lovers
Some give their whole life to family or friends
Some don’t mind living alone
‘Cause they know we come back again

Well, it’s a fine time
Such a fine, fine, fine time
Yes, it’s a fine time
To be alive as a human being
Yes, it’s a fine time
Feeling love with this body and mind
Well, it’s a fine time
To be alive as a human being

The mystery of ecstasy and agony
They say it’s why we’re here
Well maybe so but not for me
I only came to Earth to have you near

Well, it’s a fine time
Such a fine, fine, fine time
Yes, it’s a fine time
To be alive as a human being
Yes, it’s a fine time
Feeling love with this body and mind
Well, it’s a fine time
To be alive as a human being

©2010 Van Clayton Powel

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BEFORE SNOWDEN THERE WAS …

“The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control”
William Binney
William Binney is one of the highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge from the NSA. He was a leading code-breaker against the Soviet Union during the Cold War but resigned soon after September 11, disgusted by
Washington’s move towards mass surveillance.

On 5 July he spoke at a conference in London organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and revealed the extent of the surveillance programs unleashed by the Bush and Obama administrations.

“At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the US”, Binney said. “This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores.”

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/11/the-ultimate-goal-of-the-nsa-is-total-population-contro

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BUBBLE? WHAT BUBBLE?

According to official filings, CYNK Technology Corp has “… one employee, no website, no revenue, no product, and no assets.” Current market value? Over $4 billion.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-09/sheer-insanity-no-revenue-company-rises-over-1-billion-today-57k-shares-traded

AND THEN THE NEXT DAY …
It’s market cap goes over $5.9 billion, making the CEO (and only employee) one of the 400 richest people on earth. Just who is he? According to this post by AlaricBalth:

“The CEO Marlon Sanchez claims in his bio to have been the primary spokesperson for the Medical Tourism Industry council in Tijuana,Mexico. Yet after a few phone calls, the organization doesn’t exist. Sanchez is a front man.”

and …

“Cynk is an illusion. Operates out of a Regus Virtual Office in Las Vegas. The company’s 2011 and 2012 auditor, Peter Messineo, CPA, was sanctioned by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board for “deficiencies identified in both of the audits reviewed included deficiencies of such significance that it appeared to the inspection team that the Firm, at the time it issued its audit report, had not obtained sufficient competent evidential matter to support its opinion on the issuer’s financial statements.”

The legal dudes involved have an interesting background as well:
https://buyersstrike.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/the-mass-psychology-of-suckers-part-2-sefe-inc-sefe/

http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28112150

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"To My Fellow Zillionaires: The Pitchforks Are Coming"

Billionaire entrepreneur Nick Hanauer has a message for his fellow plutocrats. A few tidbits:
Nick Hanauer
“I have been rewarded obscenely for my success, with a life that the other 99.99 percent of Americans can’t even imagine.
… I’m not the smartest guy you’ve ever met, or the hardest-working. I was a mediocre student. I’m not technical at all—I can’t write a word of code. What sets me apart … is a tolerance for risk and an intuition about what will happen in the future. … And what do I see in our future now? I see pitchforks.
… the problem isn’t that we have inequality. … The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day. Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society.
And so I have a message for my fellow filthy rich, for all of us who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.”

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html#super

 

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TASTE WITH OUR EYES FIRST

“Artistic food deemed tastier, scientists and chef show“"You Are NOT What You Eat" - food on table

First time this really struck home for me was during our 3 years living in Japan. Man, do they know about presentation! And they didn’t need some Western scientists to do a study to figure it out ;-))

“Psychologists and food scientists tested an idea favoured by some top chefs [and found that] …diners prefer a visually attractive dish, say it tastes better and they’ll pay more for it, an experiment cooked up by a chef suggests.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/artistic-food-deemed-tastier-scientists-and-chef-show-1.2682423

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THE NEW IRAQ COURTESY BUSH-CHENEY

“ISIS running rampant through the region means that America’s nine-year war in Iraq was virtually a complete failure. It achieved nothing. It proves that there is no democratic Iraq, or even a stable state to maintain control.”

Bagdad March

The current situation was predicted with incredible accuracy before the US invaded by many who actually understand the region’s politics. Removing Saddam Hussein and dismantling all police and security forces created a power vacuum … that is now being filled. Just as would happen in any country where you did the same thing. Think about it – how long did it take for New Orleans to  tumble into chaos after hurricane Katrina hit?

http://mic.com/articles/91895/intense-scenes-from-baghdad-sum-up-exactly-how-bad-iraq-s-crisis-has-become