Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
You that never done nothin’
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it’s your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you sit back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
While the young people’s blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
You’ve thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain’t worth the blood
That runs in your veins
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I’m young
You might say I’m unlearned
But there’s one thing I know
Though I’m younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die
And your death will come soon
I’ll follow your casket
By the pale afternoon
And I’ll watch while you’re lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I’ll stand over your grave
‘Til I’m sure that you’re dead
Toward the end of his ministry, Jesus made a last visit to Jerusalem; the Jewish religious center and political capital of Judaea. The city and kingdom were under Roman colonial rule and occupation.
Francesco Alberti: Crucifix
During his preaching in the capital Jesus questioned the spiritual honesty of the priestly orders. And he challenged their interpretation of the Holy Scriptures. His spiritual defiance against the city’s ruling authorities provoked his prosecution, judgment and death.
One of the primal reason that precipitated Jesus’ fatal fate was the fact that he chased the money changers and merchants out of the Temple. He cured the lame and blind people who came to him instead. These actions enraged the high priests and scribes who saw the behavior of an outsider as an ultimate act of disrespect and blasphemy.
Mathew 21:12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.
The religious establishment saw Jesus as a threat to their authority. And the rulers, a challenge to their political order. To remediate the challenge to the established order, the city’s priestly elite mobilized their lobbying power to coerce the Roman prefect Pontius Pilates to arrest Jesus for claiming to be the king of the Jews; an act of treason according to Roman law.
He was judged and condemned to die on the cross.
To this day the crucifix is the symbol of tyranny. A visual representation of the political, legal and religious abuse of power by morally corrupt elites.
Ordinary people are generally oblivious to covert forces that control their economic behavior. A complacency that endures until the realization that governments’ policies no longer represent citizens’ interests but instead have been taken over by a global mantra like the climate change craze.
Green agendas have been demonizing fossil fuels since Al Gore spoke out against global warming. Historically, gasoline has proven to be an affordable, abundant and efficient source of energy. One that sparked the industrialization of the West and generated the world’s greatest economic development.
To replace fossil fuels, global green agendas have pushed novel and expensive alternative sources of energy that have no historical track record of reliability or efficiency and are much more expensive for the general public.
What these policies have unleashed is a growing bureaucratic/administrative state that relies on tax-payers money and the accumulation of government debt to implement a vast array of green regulatory policies and surveillance agencies to verify compliance.
Global corporations and NGOs flock to Washington DC, because that’s where the unlimited amount of US taxpayers’ money lies and is distributed. These companies and agencies have received billions of dollars in federal government subsidies and contracts, creating a bureaucratic/administrative blob that is slowly suffocating the livelihood of the grassroots economy.
Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax … If you’re not paying for it in the form of explicit taxes, you’re paying for it indirectly in the form of inflation or in the form of borrowing. The thing you should keep your eye on is what government spends, and the real problem is to hold down government spending as a fraction of our income, and if you do that, you can stop worrying about the debt.
Milton Friedman
The climate change mantra is a brilliant marketing ploy to make people feel good about their environmentally friendly consumer habits. A behavior that induces self-righteousness among the people who submit to the mantra that promotes a moral prerogative of green salvation rather than basic economic common sense.
Climate change craze has spread globally. It has become a quasi-religious movement. Facilitated by a the incursion of transnational NGOs and foreign global institutions into higher levels of government agencies into a global~corp.gov “whole-of-society” governing leviathan.
Electric vehicles (EV) are a great feat of engineering and are fun to drive. However, they’re not efficient in cold weather and impracticable for long treks. Furthermore, they don’t match hybrid vehicles’ energy efficiency. Regardless, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to phase out gas-powered cars in favor of EVs, even though there is no market appetite for these types of vehicles.
More so, electric vehicles are subsidized by gas powered vehicle drivers. EVs sales have benefited from hefty tax breaks when they are purchased. They don’t use fuel so they don’t pay the taxes levied on gasoline that all combustion engine drivers pay. And they are granted the privilege to use carpools or High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) on freeway lanes that are typically restricted to two or more passengers. In California, the state collects ~$1.18 in taxes per gallon of gasoline. And Californians pay almost twice as much per gallon as Texans do.
Increasing number of EVs that are relying on electrical sources of energy are adding extra stress on the power grid. Potentially driving electrical prices higher for all users. And potentially overburdening the power grid during heat waves.
“As written, any “website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application” that is “determined by the President to present a significant threat to the National Security of the United States” is covered…”
A metonymy is a figure of speech that is used regularly without the user realizing it. A good example of metonymy is the expression White House for the people making decision inside the oval office, or Wall Street as the city’s financial center represented by the New York stock market, or Hollywood for the movie “industry” in LA. Similar to a metaphor, a metonymy reflects the unconscious depth of language underscoring layers of subliminal symbols, connections and messages.
The Internet as metonymy is defined as a kernel that propagates other peripheral mediums, like hypertext markup language (HTML), the World Wide Web (WWW) and all other applications. In this sense it overshadows the meaning of Internet as the physical network of hardware like telephone lines, fiber-optic cables and satellites, servers, etc… The applications are simply mediums existing within a physical network of interconnections.
Debbie W., Richmond, CA
Extremely Interesting Read. Deeply researched account of the symbols om the US dollar.
I’ve always been curious about the symbols on the one dollar bill and the little book explains them well. Highly recommend this read.
Peter O., Santa Fe, NM
Good and entertaining… This book is full of historical facts about the symbols on the dollar. You won’t be bored reading it. The author keeps delivering relevant info till the end. And once you’re done reading the book, you’ll never look at the dollar the same way again.
L. K. M., Seattle, WA
Great read! Extremely well researched writing of the history, symbols and makeup of the US currency.
After reading the book you will love the tender you exchange everyday. Highly recommend.
R. S., Santa Monica, CA
Well researched book on the symbols of our currency. Very interesting and revealing aspects behind the history of our currency.
Joanne A., Novato, CA
Everything you ever wanted to know about the one dollar bill. This book explains all the symbols on the one dollar. Who knew it was so detailed? Very interesting!
M.J.B., San Diego, CA
Great Read! Well researched, packed with interesting facts about the US dollar. Quick read.
Highly recommend.
Carl L., San Francisco, CA
If you’re curious as to how the symbols found on the US dollar came to be, look no further than
Michael Rizzotti’s well researched book. In addition to providing the reader with the history and context, the author expands on related subjects such as the Federal Reserve and the dollar’ s evolution to becoming the reserve currency of the world. All in all, a good, well written read.
Ricky I., Palm Desert, CA
Interesting and Detailed. A unique and well researched explanation and interpretation of the symbols we have all seen on ou US dollar. Mr. Rizzotti vividly introduces us to the history of the symbols; and quite interesting interpretations on how and or why these symbols were included on the dollar.
Come you masters of war
