Albert Einstein

“Condemnation without investigation is the highest ignorance.” – Albert Einstein

So the other day I was watching some alternative international news sources: 1) due to frustrations with national mainstream media and 2) to stay a better informed individual through other’s eyes. In doing so, I came across an interview with the “We are Change” group on the Russia Today news channel.

These two individuals, Steve Crock and Saad Ali, who state their goals are not based on conspiracy theories but rather are interested in showing people the evidence available. They mention just a couple of their frustrations in the lack of logical conclusions of the events of September 11^th and the misuse of the Copenhagen climate summit via Al Gore to impose an unnecessary tax on citizens.

This [9/11 inquiry] stirred my inquisitive nature and so I decided to take a dip which turned into a dive into the murky depths of the events surrounding 9/11 and the inside job argument.

After spending hours the other night wadding through articles of alternative conclusions & debunkers, YouTube and Google videos and documentaries, I thought why not present some of these arguments, pose some critical questions and see if we can’t get a healthy conversation going. After all, a healthy bit of skepticism is always welcome at my door.

It’s also important to note that individuals from various professional sectors, including congressmen from all political fronts,  have been critical in the accuracy of these events. I’ve compiled a number of relevant videos throughout and documentaries at the end for your convenience. Check them out and make up your own conclusions.

Tower Collapse Explanations

The reason given as to why the towers fell was that the temperature was not hot enough to melt the steel support but enough to weaken (about 1000 degrees Fahrenheit) the supports, which through the pancake theory, allowed the rest of the building to collapse upon it. An attempt NOVA also tried to show was the one and only logical conclusion but left out the core columns in their diagrams.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology also stated that the fuel in the craft was mostly burned up upon impact or at least within 10 minutes.

If this is true, then was this enough fuel and time to accelerate the temperatures needed to critically impact the steel supports and if it was, was the breach on those levels enough to have the above levels force themselves down and all the way through the rest of the tower in a symmetrical fashion?

Time v Distance Graph of the Pancake Theory

Which hits the ground first?

Since then the pancake theory has been made irrelevant by many including Jim Hoffman, Weidlinger and Associates, Kevin Ryan and NIST itself which headed the investigation. Kevin Ryan of Underwriters Laboratory, which was hired by NIST to examine the steel, was fired after hearing that tests were unsuccessful.

“NIST reported this in its October 2004 update, in a table of results that clearly showed that the floors did not fail and that, therefore, pancaking was not possible.”

This video along with support of others including this MIT engineer shows how they debunked the pancake theory. If the joints gave out, then the trusses would pancake on each other leaving evidence of stacking and some vertical beams in the air. The speed in which the tower collapses would have been much, much slower but it fell in about 10 seconds which is near free fall speed.

In support of the heat explanation, Carol Ciemiengo, an infrared consultant, was near the towers with a FLIR infrared thermocam. Her thermograms and other paint tests done showed temperatures of 220 degrees Fahrenheit and 480 degrees Fahrenheit and were also given to the 9/11 Commission but were not included in the final report.

WTC Thermogram

Yet molten metal was also found at the site and verified by NASA thermal imaging. This molten metal remained hot weeks after the events. This requiring another factor to be explained and present among the debris— nanothermite.

Professor Steven Jones explains thermite and its presence at Ground Zero. He explains the traces of the compounds in the dust and if added with sulphur it becomes thermate which “can cut through steel like butter”. He also explains that it can serve two purposes as an incendiary and as an explosive and is only produced by defense contractors.

More recently in April of this year, Chemistry Professor Niels Harrit spoke in Denmark of his findings of thermite in the rubble and also how this material could not have been created in another way that day.

gulli.com: You say that there is iron oxide and aluminium and conclude that this means it’s Nano Thermite. Isn’t it normal in such a building that there is iron oxide and aluminium? Or could it happen that the substance Nano Thermite was produced as a result of the collapse?

Dr. Niels Harrit: No way. You don’t expect a box of matches to be formed in a fire.

This great video goes through some of the simple physics calculations why the shorter and lighter top could not have so easily and quickly gone through the rest of the tower.

Interesting Side Note:

WTC 1 suffered a 4 hour 700F fire in its base in 1975 and was not even remotely breached of its position. The towers fell in about 80 minutes respectively in 2001.

Furthermore, the design of the building was stated by the engineers that it was designed to withstand, 200mph winds, 100 year storms and impacts of multiple airliners; the biggest of the day was a 606. Accordingly, the core was hermetically sealed which would prevent the spread of fire to other levels.

The only other reason given would be that this was a controlled demolition. They compare other buildings such as the Windsor in Madrid which burned hotter (evident by the color and size of the flames and smoke) and longer yet structurally (different) remained standing in comparison to the superiorly engineered World Trade Center towers.

Richard Gage, 20 year architect, explains and provides rationale and evidence on a morning news show why this event looks much more like a controlled demolition with the presence of pyroclastic clouds of pulverized concrete.

This Italian TV news program shows why they believe it was a controlled demolition.

Demolition requires time, preparation and resources. Is there evidence of this? According to reports yes. Security was lowered weeks prior and the building residents experienced power outages , evacuation drills and maintenance crews.  Secondary explosions were also reported near the base of the towers.

Interesting Side Note:

The previous head of security at Securacom was also George W. Bush’s brother Marvin Bush.

Building 7

Building 7 amongst the initial rubble.

One of the main topics of inquiry was why building 7 wasn’t investigated or included in the 9/11 Commission Report and why it collapsed since it wasn’t hit by a plane. Allegedly, some fires got in from the outfall of the nearest tower which was 400 feet away and there was a structural compromise of one of the three steel cores. There was also damaged sustained from the closest tower collapsing.

In comparison, buildings 3, 4, 5 and 6 which were closer to the towers suffered greater damage but still stood erect. Molton metal was also found at the base of building 7 just like in the towers.

The owner of the buildings, Larry Silverstein, was also documented saying to “pull it” [the building]. Now some say this could have meant to “pull out” as in to pull the fireman out of the building but the timing doesn’t add up. The building was evacuated at 9:00 a.m., firefighters were already pulled out at 11:30 a.m. and the building fell 6 hours later.

Interesting Side Note:

Larry Silverstein also took out a new 99 year lease in 2001 which allowed him rights also to rebuild in case of destruction. He initially invested 15 million dollars into the lease and after fighting in court that the attacks constituted as two instances with two planes attacking, he won a total of 7 billion dollars in his settlement.

A slide from the Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth

Interesting Side Note:

The floors of the building housed the mayor’s emergency bunker, IRS Regional Council, US Secret Service, C.I.A., Department of Defense, American Express Bank International and other currency and exchange commissions, insurance companies and banks. Thousands of SEC case files on corporate fraud were lost.

Effectiveness of the 9/11 Commission

Volunteers from FEMA had to recover pieces (only a couple hundred) from the junk yard. A gross majority of the steel was sold for scrap and shipped off to China and India to be melted before the investigation was launched. In the event of such a major occurrence, why would all this evidence be sold of so quickly to be scrapped?

Fire Engineering magazine had stated the investigation was a “half-baked farce”.

Amount spent investigating WTC was $600,000 compared to Bill Clinton $40,000,000.

The 9/11 Commission Report spent 15 million dollars while a similar cost for Clinton’s alleged wrongdoings totaled 65 million dollars.

Many including the families of the victims have not been satisfied entirely with the investigation and still have unanswered questions.

Why did the investigation spend so little as compared to other disasters and even scandals? Why wasn’t building 7 included in the 9/11 Commission Report?

Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania

There was a huge scatter of debris over 3 to 6 miles in Pennsylvania. Is this typical of a crash like this? No large pieces or long trench was dug out like in the Lockerbie crash. There has also been speculation that the plane was shot down. Here is a video of Rumsfeld talking to troops and saying the plane was “shot down over Pennsylvania”.

Flight 77 and the Pentagon

The events around the Pentagon incident are also interesting. There were 86 cameras around but only 1 or 2 were given up for analysis and any surrounding surveillance was confiscated by the FBI on the day.

The alleged hijacker of the plane was also deemed incompetent by his former flight instructor who said he couldn’t even handle a small Cessna much less technically maneuver the extreme path the plane took towards the Pentagon.

This is one of a very few videos of a the explosion at the pentagon but not showing the alleged plane. The guy received rights to show the clip only after a court battle.

This video shows a fighter jet hitting a fortified wall very similar to the Pentagon’s.

Then this guy goes through one of the surveillance cameras frame by frame by slowing it down. It shows the object and explosion on the same frame which is kind of strange.

This article also states that the black box recovered from Flight 77 never reported the cockpit doors opening.

If the events are accurate to the 9/11 Commission Report then why not make all the videos public ala the Freedom of Information Act?

Hijackers

Some of the alleged terrorists were documented being frequenters of U.S. air force bases. Other Alleged hijackers were found to be alive in other parts of the world as stated in the documentary Zero.

Were the hijackers fundamentalists if Mohammed Atta was a heavy drinker and drug user according to his ex-girlfriend?

European parliament member and journalist Giulietto Chiesa says he was shown video in Washington how Bin Laden’s image can be easily and completely manipulated. The documentary also shows the questionable different appearances of Bin Laden in various videos.

In 1989, Al Qaeda, was a term, as stated by Robin Cook, invented by the C.I.A. to be designated for the database of the Mujahideen. The Arabic definition for Qaeda is base with maloomat meaning data. Ergo Al Qaeda (maloomat) is database.

So basically, Al-Qaeda is just a list of the Afghan war fighters of the 80’s who were funded and trained by the C.I.A. and then later hired by subcontractors (MPRI) of the Pentagon. 5 of the 7 involved in 9/11 were former fighters of MPRI in the Kosovo War according to the documentary Zero.

Other interesting notes

NORAD failed 4 times (with enough time to scramble jets) to stop the hijackers on September 11^th. NORAD, which has the world’s most state of the art detection system, prevented 67 prior hijacking attempts before 9/11. This radar system is alerted immediately if any unauthorized craft are (outside of military) in the area but the system prior to this was changed in which a confirmation from the Pentagon was required before jets could intercept the planes.

Condie Rice and Bush said they had no former idea that this could happen. There were ordered war games with hijacked planes and planes going in and out of radar on September 11^th. Three months before 9/11 an FBI informant gave warning of a terrorist act in 2001 involving airplanes.

This informative and comical video takes a look at those who benefitted from the collapse. It includes video of John Kerry admitting they used a controlled demolition on building 7. At 1:42 in the video Larry Silverstein says that they should “pull it” (demolish the building). At 2:54 it shows a jet hitting a nuclear containment wall and compares that with the depth the alleged airliner did on the Pentagon walls.

This individual has posted a 19 part series called WTC No Plane Theory. They compare various angles and views of the events of the day and compare what appear to be many incompatibilities and inconsistencies in reports, angles and sounds.

There a lot of interests also into the planes that hit the towers. Some videos propose they were not typical airliners and point out this unusual flash of light right before impact and after the plane makes contact seen on many angles.

A hijacker’s passport was found amongst the rubble of Ground Zero. Does this seem probable?

Also many workers became gravely sick after being exposed to the area and some have died from cancer. According to RT and others nearly 85% of the workers are suffering from lung disease and yet the government is offering no assistance.

Debunkers

There have been attempts at debunking some of these alleged 9/11 “myths” most notably by this article in Popular Mechanics magazine. But many of these provide weak criticisms and this piece has itself been subject of criticism by many including in this article, which displays the use of nepotism (the writer is the cousin of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security), how politicized the article is (foreword by John McCain), and their use of false arguments in their support while ignoring other important issues.

Conclusion

Does the rationale, videos, testimonies and documentaries point to this being an inside job? The U.S. government has fabricated claims before in order to get their agenda passed i.e. The Gulf of Tonkin, WMD’s in Iraq, Saddam and Bin Laden link, and during the Cuban Missile Crisis, there was a proposition of using a self-inflicted military act in order to justify military involvement.

In evaluating such claims, the term “correlation does not imply causation” should be taken into account. This “phrase used in science and statistics to emphasize that correlation between two variables does not automatically imply that one causes the other (though it does not remove the fact that correlation can still be a hint, whether powerful or otherwise).

Furthermore, as stated in the skepticism video initially, claims by either side of a story need to be analyzed including their possible motives and positions in order to prevent “conflicts of interest”. This alone can help shed light on why one side has a greater reason and end benefit or gain than another.

The problem with some claims like with the older “Loose Change” documentaries is that they miss some key points and misrepresent others. This allows debunkers take advantage of that by providing their own weak arguments and ignoring other empirical data from professional sources i.e. architects, engineers and professors. Even helpful information like Kevin Ryan’s whistle blowing and subsequent firing from Underwriters Laboratory can be attacked and misused by inaccurate portrayals i.e. he was working on the steel tests when in reality he was interested in the tests and brought them forward.

So take a look at some of these documentaries (some are better than others) as well and see if you develop any new insights into this matter.

Documentaries:

9/11 Blueprint for Truth – Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth

Zero – An Investigation into 9/11

MIT World: Ask all you like about 9/11, but just don’t ask why? – Lecture at MIT by Journalist Robert Fisk of The Independent (UK)

9/11 Let’s Get Empirical – Lecture by Professor David Ray Griffin

9/11 Coincidence Theory – A comprehensive and critical analysis by Spencer Morgan.

Fabled Enemies – Film focuses more on the intelligence network.

The Great Conspiracy – Hosted by Barrie Zwicker, journalist and media critic, the Canadian Michael Moore.

Loose Change (The Final Cut) – Mediocre documentary which has had a few revisions.

Congress and the Senate decided last week to divert the public attention away from important issues.  Congress claims, “Howdy Doody Does have a Wooden Dick”! Senate claims, “We’re not sure. Might be Wood! Might not! What’s in it for us”? The Speaker of the House pounds his gable proclaims loudly “It’s Howdy Doody Time”! “Congress Bitch Boys” say yea!

Dear Fearless Leaders,

Congress and the Senate has been on “Howdy Doody Time” long enough! America  suffers from your incompetence! America suffers from your self-serving decisions! America suffers from your greed and your lust for power! Howdy Doody! Stick it up their asses! “We the people” want “Our Country” back!

Skeetron.

• Gasoline generators … these are worth their weight in gold if the power goes out.
• Water filters and purifiers … clean water is essential to long-term survival, health and well-being.
• Portable toilets and/or toilet paper … ever tried to wipe with a leaf?
• Firewood … don’t depend on the gas company to keep your house warm!
• Lamp oil, wicks, lamps … these may be your only source of light if the grid crumbles.
• Coleman fuel … powers your camp stove, lantern, and more.
• Guns and ammo, pepper spray, billy clubs, knives and any other personal protection and hunting tools that you can think of. (It is important to note here that in the event of a collapse, chaos will reign and you can EXPECT to have to protect yourself, your friends and loved ones, and your stacs of survival provisions!)
• Can openers and other hand-operated kitchen equipment.
• Honey, sugar, syrups, etc. These will go a long way to improve the spirits of your group.
• Rice, beans, wheat and other long-term storage survival foods. These provide great nutrition, store easily and go a long way to supplement your daily rations.
• Vegetable oil, until you learn how to render lard from animal fat, etc.
• Charcoal, lighter fluid, kerosene
• Water containers of any size. And be sure to fill up your bathtub immediately when a crisis occurs.
• Mini-heater. I would prefer a small wood stove and pipe. But a small electric heater run off of your generator would keep the place warm too. You can also get the heater heads which then attach to a small bottle of propane and act as a great room heater.
• Grain grinder. And remember, you wouldn’t want to barter the grinder, you would want to grind up the material in exchange for something else of value.
• Propane cylinders … this stuff will fly off the “shelves” in a heart-beat, so better to stock up now. Propane doesn’t go bad!
• Survival guide book … not only for good reading material by the fire-light, but for good information!
• Work in progress … check back later for the complete list!

Here is a link to a story that has just been published. It’s an open letter from Governor Jan Brewer to the people of Arizona, describing the coming collapse. This is real, people. It’s time you opened your eyes and got prepared. Stay tuned to this blog for breaking information …

Here is the link to the Governor’s letter to the people of Arizona

Sitting on the floor

Alone

Abandoned, unwanted

Pulsing in my throat

I just want things to be right

Good intentions sometimes don’t fix things

Can I just go somewhere & be happy already?

I’m trying to distract myself by becoming a workaholic. I hope it will work.

Congress claims sheep have “Itchy Wool Syndrome” claims rail-yard superintendent. Tuesday, “Men in White” removed the wool from forty sheep. They delivered wool to a military compound in the Arizona desert for analysis. Congress claims should no “Itchy Wool Syndrome” be found a Wool Sweater shall be netted and distributed to Senators as supplies last. Congress claims, ” We confiscated the wool from the “Save America Send a Sheep to Washington” campaign therefore each sweater should cost tax payers no more than one million dollars each. Congress claims one hundred million is well within their budget for holiday sweater expenses!” “Congress Bitch Boys” say yea!

Dear Congress,

Please reconsider sweaters. Congress can most likely supply both Senate and Congress with ” Holiday Wool Underwear”! At the same cost! Few pair left over for your  “Banker Boys”!  Our Fearless Leaders will then have a reason to scratch their asses as they sellout America! “Congress Bitch Boys” you are NOT! Repeat Not! ”We the people”! Stay home! Scratch your asses! “We the people” want “Our Country” back! Skeetron.

It all came apart in a day, when continents shivered and shrugged their shoulders clear of the heavy burden of the cities. Within the break and bow of daylight, every nation had been irrevocably changed. Just a day.

The shores shrunk back, and thick, fat landmasses became branchlike wisps in the ocean.

It began, long before, but it all came down in a day.

The towers, the tumult, the bridges and boundaries and screams of humanity, drowned and now quiet. And they trembled, they’d say:

“We saw it coming,
But we never thought
That we’d see the day,
And so we did nothing until it was far too late.”

First there was the night, a persevering blackness forcing itself upon the bright hopes of the masses, with greasy fingers wrapping their throats.

Then there came descent. Plummeting from the skyscraping heights they believed they had crawled to. The ground rushing to greet them like an old and long missed lover, gave them little time to consider their ignorance.

Then there was the years of false light, forged among the flames of believers too numb to pray for anything else.

And then, came our end.

All of a sudden, almost at once, death began its steady march. Millions claimed as moments passed, the seconds almost callous, ignorant to the lives swept up in their wake. Our anguish rose up like a choir from the ashes, and all of the little birds, fell one by one to the earth as they sang.

Some cried. More screamed. More still sat silently still with the distance in their eyes. Some said:

“We all saw it coming
But we never thought that we’d see the day
And so we did nothing,
Until it was far too late.”

A sole survivor stumbles amongst the wreckage of a once great city. He lifts his hands to the sky, screaming at uncaring clouds and the pitiless black of a night sky before he is answered in downpour, and white lightning. The heavens speak in storms. Amidst stone and soil then, kneeling by the body dragged behind him, he watches mountains crumble beneath the rains, falling to the earth as if they were nothing at all.

And the ground divided, vast and hungry chasms devouring in seconds what had taken our entire existance to build. The abyssal maw yawned, and sang a song of flame.

Shaking his head, he looked down and lay his hand on the body, her corpse. When he closed her eyes, she felt almost like clay. Silently, he stood from her and walked slowly to a cusp, and peered over, deriving no comfort from the knowledge that the few of those who survived would say;

“Where were you? Where were you at the end of it all?”

And then there was no one.

Ken, a lumber salesmen and veteran from Alabama wants to help save America. He says, “This country is not what it was. Work hard your entire life! For What? End up with nothing! Ken started as a teenager working in his family owned lumber yard. Loaded trucks by hand till I could hardly stand. He worked his way through college and chose a career selling lumber products to builders and contractors. He became the leading salesmen in the Birmingham area.  Ken claims, ” I’ve been through the ups and downs of the economy since the sixties. Worked hard and steady for forty years. Raised my children. I’m 59. Today, I can barely make my mortgage payment. Lost all my investments for retirement in 2008. I’m screwed! Too damn old! Too damn tired! This new government of ours has backed me to the wall! I’m ready to fight! Hell! I’m ready to die fighting!

Dear Ken,

I feel your pain. All of working America feels your pain. It’s their pain!  Remember! Dead soldiers can’t fight! Live to free this country! Free its pain!  Live! So our children may live with freedom and liberty. Our battles will succeed! The Jefferson Monument is our sword! The Washington Monument is our anchor!  The “Constitution” is our resolve and God is our commander! Run “Congress Bitch Boys” Run!

Codename: Birmingham 530!

Yes, Lumber Dude Ken you are “We the People”!

Skeetron.

They took Jed! My sheepdog! Monday night! Centreville resident explains. We were walking down Main Street when a strange sort of step van pulled along side. Before I knew it Jed was gone! Driver of vehicle stated “No Sheep Within Ten Miles of Washington”. I pleaded, “Jed is a dog!”  Driver responded, “Not my problem! Call Congress”!

Dear Jed,

Bark! Bark loudly!  Do something!  Drag your ass across the Capitol lawn! Now! Or your doomed!

WARNING!  “Save America Send a Sheep to Washington”  recommends that any dog slightly resembling  sheep are in danger as they approach Washington DC and surrounding areas.

Skeetron.

Susan LaBelle of Scottsville, Virginia offers her eighth generation family farm as a temporary grazing  facility for “Save America Send a Sheep to Washington”. She claims her  horse farm is now in foreclosure. Lawyers say she has about a year. She wants to help save this great country from its destructive path.

Susan claims, “ Her farm dates back to the American Revolution. Now! Our  Fearless Leaders wants to steal it back!  Susan states, ” Too many taxes! Too high! Everywhere taxes!  Congress still wants more! Never enough! Where does it end”?

Dear American Susan LaBelle,

The answer to your question.”Where does it end?” It ends when “We the people” make our Fearless Leaders accountable! When “We the people” make our Fearless Leaders represent “We the People”! When “We the people” become the Fearless Leaders! When “We the people” say no! No more! Only then will “We the people” be “By the People”!

Thank you for your generous offer. Yes, we would like to include your facilities in our “Save America Send a Sheep to Washington” operations. We will be in contact. Southern Belle Susan, yes you are “We the people”!

Codename: Virginia 324.

Skeetron.

and even some allies suggest the time is coming. Doomsayers point to the costly and unending conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the worst financial upheaval since the depression of the 1930s, and a crisis of confidence in politics and the domestic economy with few parallels. Countries like Iran and Venezuela gleefully pronounce the end of “the empire,” while Russia trumpets the coming “multi-polar world” in which emerging giants like China, India and Russia itself will hold sway. Even …

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Remember: One Step At A Time

Dramatic changes are taking place in the workforce. People who embrace new technology are discovering new opportunity while those who fight it are not fully aware of the fundamental changes taking place in our society. During an economic slowdown, the fighters of change will be the first to go out the door or companies that fight change will be the first to shut down. In the following article, I will compare opposing attitudes, fighting change versus embracing change.

1. Fighting Change - People who fight changing technology want to maintain their comfort zone with familiar surroundings. (Status quo) As pressure for change grows, they depend on others to protect their comfort zone through politicians, unions or other bureaucratic organizations. During their youth, they learned a professional skill and plan to ride it till retirement, like their parents did. In the meantime, they do repetitive tasks (hourly, daily, weekly or monthly) waiting for their turn to be promoted. As fighters resist change, their efficiency falls further behind and in time their professional skill has no value to anyone.
2. Embracing Change - People who embrace changing technology thrive on challenges. They are independent thinkers who seek new opportunity, which is found in change. They are leaders of efficiency and they are the leaders of blunders. Trial and error produces blunders and this is the only way to find what works. The casual observer does not recognize increased efficiency of these people, they remember their blunders. The person who depends on proven methods can’t understand how blunder’s get promoted ahead of those who maintain the status quo.

Technology is eliminating mid-level leadership. Decision making and responsibility is moving to the front-line by people who carry computers and communication equipment on their belt while providing the physical service. This trend not only cuts overhead cost, it speeds up service, corrects problems while still minor and allows speedy recognition and implementation of efficient procedures. Competing organizations with layers of bureaucratic management can’t compete.

This trend requires new attitudes in our education system and work place. The assembly line replaced skilled craftsmen of the twentieth century, today, the computer is removing dependency on many academic skills. The new front-line worker is a technician with analytical skills who is in a continuous learning mode. This is achieved with challenges and a habit of solving them through self-education.

Off the job, self-educated people engage in self-motivated projects, which expand the learning environment. The learning phase is failure. With every failure, they learn what does not work, then analyze and develop new ideas of what might work. They also learn to accept failure and bounce back from it. With persistence, they find what works. One of the by-products is learning how to finish what they start.

In the typical personnel office, job applicants are asked how many years they spent in school. In worker responsibility organizations, employers want to know what motivates applicants and their ability to manage challenges. Class grades have no value if there is no vision or motivation behind them. Today’s education system does not prepare students for workplace responsibilities, yet, this is the future.

During an economic slowdown, businesses are forced to cut overhead cost. During the twentieth century, front-line people were first out the door. During the recession of 1992 and 2003, middle management, people who fought change, were first out the door. Today, technology is available to replace the middleman. During the 1990s, companies have been slow to take action because of the morale factor in a tight labor market. In an open labor market there is no hesitation. The person who survives, maybe advances, will be an independent analytical thinker who seeks challenges and willing to support change that will get the job done efficiently.

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poetry

if you turn it around

you are guided by restrictions

withholding

jealous

hilarious

shy

rewinding earthly quilts

illusions fade into jasmine

New York jurors weep

over verdict

we humble ourselves

we hold back expressions and feelings

to be polite

we restrict our impulses

at every level

green jade eyes

peer

out of windows

there is dead silence on the streets

no life stirs

tones are hushed

melodies are suppressed

the soul is busting open

it has no direction

no course

no purpose

searches for an inkling

of what is inexpressible

witness the rivers quest

its quiet march towards

bored ignorant queer folk

who pick themselves up out of bed

each morning

noise all day

joint access

wears a quiet dwelling

commercial considerations link

virtue with consumption

and a hazy veil is drawn

unsuspecting victims yield-

telephone lines

are shutdown

all forms of communication break down

I pack my suitcase

a cold winter is coming

rations are scarce

who will feed the souls of the people

who will restore the will

of the Kindness that is dwindling

How will Nuclear waste

be stored or neutralized?

What are the spill-overs

the side effects?

You Groan

Quitely Without power

Oil Kings and sheiks dominate

and the starving masses

go unrecognized by history

The struggles

of the every day

all fall in death

the final act

without an encore

My Heroes wear beanies

Were individually Born on Fridays

Orgies say Yes

Inward intruders

interrupters of the peace

will not leave us alone

UfO sightings are on the increase

there are strange disturbances

in the weather

electricity is off Kilter

FEW Are Polite

less are just

Joy Is Under

the radar

seldom expressed

there is great sadness

in the world

A great inequality

Giving forgotten children weeping

with open sores food

Divine Potential

Violent Malicious

deeds and thought

turn into pardon.

cascade into an avalanche

of gushing emotions

and I collapse.

Stephen John Kalinich

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