"Frustration over near-record unemployment, a struggling economy and a crisis-management strategy seen as privileging private wealth over poverty alleviation erupted into clashes at the ECB’s new headquarters in Frankfurt’s east end.

The new headquarters for the euro currency union's central bank is, according to Draghi,

“a symbol of what Europe can achieve together.''

The cost of the new ECB headquarters is reported to be

1.3 billion euros."

“... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so,

and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale.”  

“Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few.”

"You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything.
They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations.
They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls,
they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies,
so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.
They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying . . .
lobbying, to get what they want . . .
Well, we know what they want.
They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want . . .
they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking.
They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that . . .
that doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right.
They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system
that threw them overboard 30 fuckin' years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want?
They want obedient workers . . . Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork.
And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime
and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money.
They want your fuckin' retirement money.
They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something?
They’ll get it . . . they’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fuckin' place.
It’s a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in The big club.
By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe.
All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy.
The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice.
Nobody seems to care.
Good honest hard-working people . . . white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on.
Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means . . .
continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about you.
They don’t give a fuck about you . . . they don’t give a fuck about you.
They don’t care about you at all . . . at all . . . at all, and nobody seems to notice.
Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on." -

"Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time

accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole."

I am away for 2 or 3 weeks for professional reasons

but I will check my notes from time to time.

Big thanks to my friends for amazing gifts

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wishing you all the best for a fantastic 2014

and

thank You for a wonderful 2013!

"Unusual Spiritual Journey"

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poetry by Stefy Janeva

 “Unusual Spiritual Journey” is her second book of poetry.

Stefy Janeva is a young, prolific poet, and “Unusual Spiritual Journey” is her second book of poetry.

Her previous book, “Creatures of Destiny”, was published in 2012 by Dark Night Publishing.

Stefy's poetry has been published through other channels as well, such as:

“Poets of Blood” Volume 2, “In the Midnight Hour” by Dark Night Publishing,

“Broken Mirrors, Fractured Minds” by Vamptasy Publishing and in the “Aquillrelle Magazine issue 7”.

The present book, “Unusual Spiritual Journey”,

is based on a dialogue between the poet and the illustrator Steven Amoxes

about the poet's unusual spiritual experience and centers around the description of her inner emotions.

 The Heart

    Happiness is...

  when you’ve given

  to me the heart.

  That’s beautiful and easy...

  like flying under the clouds,

  picking up summer rain

and some sparks

of morning rays...

  just love you,

what should I say?