Letter to Tim Cook from Ralph Nader

 

In the Public Interest Letter to Tim Cook, Other Ultra-rich CEOs and Hedge Fund Titans

The victims of the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria need your help now. The surviving families and children and those rescued alive from the rubble are in serious danger in affected wintertime impoverished regions. Refugees in other places fleeing their war-torn homelands are also suffering. International aid agencies are grossly insufficient for these immediate humanitarian necessities. What are you Big Business Titans doing sitting on massive pay, profits and tax escapes? Awakening your consciousness for your fellow human beings may be a modest form of redemption. Further, you have access to logistics specialists, delivery systems, communication facilities and many other contacts and resources. You get your calls returned! Fast! Tim Cook, you have been making $833 a MINUTE (plus lavish benefits). Remarkably, your compensation is not even in the top ten of operating company CEOs. Moreover, your own cultivated sense of envy knows that there are Hedge Fund Goliaths, who in some recent years, made off with over $2,500 per MINUTE on a forty-hour week. Tim, you and the Apple corporation are known to pay few taxes given what tax attorneys and tax accountants do for you (especially with Apple taking advantage of foreign tax havens while receiving the fruits of Washington’s free government R&D over the years). Your company has so much leftover money, flowing from the deprivation of a million serf laborers in China, and so few productive outlets for this mass of capital that you have set records for stock buybacks—over $400 billion in the last decade. You and Apple and the Hedge Fund Titans are not known for your charitable giving as a percent of your adjusted gross income. Yet, if asked “Do you believe in the Golden Rule?” you would probably say “Yes” – at least in public. Use your wealth and newfound empathy to organize direct relief for these earthquake victims and other major refugee areas such as the starving children of Somalia. Deliver food, medicine, clothing, shelter, mobile clinics and many other available airlifted essentials. Hire skilled people to make it happen. Give your new organization a prominent logo for permanence and for setting an example for other super-rich to emulate. Your isolation from the public expectation that you enter the above engagements in a significant way is quite remarkable. That should trouble you and your public relations advisors. Just this week National Public Radio (NPR) featured a startling compilation of what producers of movies and TV shows believe appeals to their viewers. It is no longer awe or envy of the ‘rich and famous.’ It is no longer the Horatio Alger myth. It is encapsulated in NPR’s headline: Why “eat the rich” storylines are taking over TV and movies. As Bob Dylan sang, “the times, they are a-changin’.” NPR reporter Kristin Schwab related: “Hollywood’s depictions of the wealthy – and perhaps societal attitudes toward them – have changed.… The moment isn’t random. Think about the extreme economic events we’ve been through. There’s the pandemic, when essential workers kept the country running while the richest 1% amassed a huge sum of wealth – twice as much as the rest of the world put together (her emphasis), according to the non-profit Oxfam. And before that was The Great Recession, which is how we got the term “the 1%.” Mr. Cook, Apple is reportedly making a contribution to the Turkey/Syria relief effort. Are you personally making a contribution? Your Big Business Titan comrades may think they can get away with gated, cold-blooded mentalities. They may be right about that if the mass media doesn’t turn its steely gaze toward their hoards of gold and question their “don’t give a damn” attitude. Maybe they just can’t help themselves – so busy are they counting their lucre. Here is an idea: ask them to ask their grandchildren, 12 and under, what they want them to do. Absorb their moral authority and MOVE FAST TO HELP THOSE IN NEED! Ralph Nader

PAIN a Warning Sign.

  If the body receives a physical injury the nerves respond by alerting us with pain. Pain is simply telling us that there is something wrong and we must take corrective action. With that in mind we could say that pain is a good thing. I am going to suggest that mental pain is serving the same purpose. Mental pain has many sources that I will divide into two parts. The first one sees pain arise in regards to our personality. An example of this would be feeling pain because we think and feel that we are in some way not living up to standards be they self imposed or imposed through societal pressures. There are countless ways this type of pain can arise. The second avenue for the sensation of pain has to do with "being". A good example of this type of pain has to do with, not understanding why I, we are here, this encompasses the entirety of our existence. This pain is also telling us that there is something intrinsically wrong with our life. This type of pain explains the rise of religion however it is important to understand that religion is the outcome of pain, if there were no pain, people would not pursue religion. Religion arose after the feeling of pain. Religious people have not put an end to pain in many cases religious belief has worsened their pain. Religions, have their followers waiting for a reward, in the mean time pain prevails. 

The pain we are feeling from not understanding our place in life can only end when we have an insight into living. This insight will not come about through the process of thinking. This insight must be natural and there is only one thing we have that is natural and that is awareness. See that you are aware without any effort, when you are aware that you are aware, stay there, at first your mind will wander just be aware. Imagine God creating us and then making us pass a test to gain the totality of creation. What ever talents we possess to pass Gods test are God given, there is simply no logical way around this. 

with love, DT 

Note to Dems asking for support!

 I don't know how it is that I am considered a Democrat. I am not a member of any political party. It is factual that both major parties Democrats & Republicans have sold our government to the wealthy. I suggest you work to change all this before it is too late. 

A large segment of the countries population is economically under water, there are 600K homeless people, sixty percent of the workforce is living pay check to pay check. The Congress the Executive and the Judicial branches have turned against the peoples will. The outcome of all this is hard to predict however before "1984" comes to fruition there will be a revolt. 

DT

US PRISON SYSTEM Please, see link to help!

 With just 4.4 percent of the global population the United States has over twenty percent of the worlds population of prisoners. Why? The US has turned the prison system into a business. The US ranks number 79 in violent crimes, of all the nations on Earth. Right now there are about one million six hundred thousand US citizens incarcerated. 

These numbers are represented by poor white men, black and latino men. Many of these prisoners have not had a fair trial. This is criminal behavior by local, state and the federal government. We must put an end to these crimes against our citizens.

Link: "The Sentencing Project" See what's been going on for 50 years os mass incarceration.

I will add more to this as I do more research.

DT

IT IS TIME, TO TAKE BACK OUR GOVERNMENT!\

In the beginning our Founding Father's made it clear.  

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution,"

The beginning of the preamble of our constitution, where it states that the Government of the people will promote the general welfare of the people, they meant all the people.  Today the Country via the government has lost its way, unless you are a wealthy Corporate Oligarch, then the government provides for your general welfare and far beyond. Unfortunately this has left the vast majority of US citizens without, many of the things that provide a meaningful life "general welfare". The current situation is permeated with corruption, couple this with an uninvolved citizenry and what you get for the the average US citizen is one of the poorest standards of living in the so-called developed world. The members of both major parties are at fault via taking money from the Corporate Oligarchs thus becoming indebted or in this case "literally owned". 

To ensure that their crimes (they swore an oath) go unchallenged one of the tactics used by our leaders is to promote divisions among the electorate, today the US is divided, some even comparing our time to the era of the Civil War. Consider also that many people believe that the things we are lacking should not be provided by the government, even when the government has taken away the avenues to procure what would deliver a decent way of life. Even when the Government in conjunction with the Oligarchs have made a decent life financially unreachable for millions of US workers. Wages have not kept pace with the cost of living for over five decades. Many of our citizens have not received a proper education therefore they are easily duped. Consider that corporations have turned the state against its own people in ways that are many and far reaching. Look at the way consumers are controlled through fine print contracts. It is now legal for the wealthy and corporations to give undisclosed political contributions. The tax system provides loop holes for the wealthy while the average wage earner just pays their taxes with no such benefits. The US has the worst labor laws of all the Western countries. The reason behind all this can be explained with just one word, "greed". We seem to have forgotten that the Senators and the Congressional Representatives work for us they don't work for wall street, well they're not supposed to, work for Wall Street. 

So to begin, we need to find common ground issues that all or most US citizens agree upon,  then united bring our demands to the five hundred and thirty-five members of the US Congress. If we don't do this, things will only get worse, more people will become bankrupt (one million per year)  more people will become homeless (currently 600,000) more people will find it impossible to achieve a decent life style and the country will slip further and further into third world status. 

Here are some things we almost all can agree upon: A living wage, as stated it is over five decades since the average wage has been increased. Wages have not kept pace with worker productivity and wages for the US workers have fallen drastically behind the increases seen by the top wage earners. Some executives have seen a four hundred percent increase in earnings while the average earner has seen a net zero increase. This is criminal and shameful. 

 Most citizens agree we are paying way too much for pharmaceuticals, most citizens agree that the country needs election reform, most agree that members of Congress should not receive benefits that the US workers do not receive. Most of us agree that health care should be affordable and available to all citizens and Healthcare billing fraud must be illuminated. Most of us agree that the Congress should be subject to term limits. Almost everyone thinks that we need to somehow get money out of politics. Most agree that Corporations are not people, in the 1800's corporations achieved personhood. Most agree that billion dollar bailouts of Wall Street should end especially when companies don't pay taxes nor some type of security like the average citizen. Most of us agree that monopolies should be broken-up, just look at the influence of companies like Google and FaceBook. Large corporations control the media hence, we hear what they want us to hear. Education must be available to all either free or at an affordable cost. Most agree that the US military budget is out of control, we must take a sensible approach to shrinking this out of control unregulated spending. Most agree that the laws of the country must be exercised evenly and ensure no one is above the law. 

The only way woe can bring these changes is to organize and bring our demand directly to the congress. We must begin with town meetings and grow outward from there. We must summons our representatives to our meetings. It is said that it will only take one percent of the people to bring about the changes we desire.

Bill Rogan AKA Dung Teller 

Fascinating Science Update!

Science is showing us that Space and Time are not fundamental. They don't hold up past 10 to the minus 33 centimeters. As we've already seen "what we can observe", cannot stand on its own, everything we see is finite meaning there is something else giving structure to what we observe, and it isn't material. 

The way humanity has chosen to live its life is completely wrong. I am not saying maybe it is wrong - science and philosophy are beginning to make this fact abundantly clear. To make something of ourselves to raise a family are not the rai-son d'ê-tre, I'm not saying not to do so. However these things are actually trivial when understanding is reached. 

A billion dead from wars, hundreds of millions dead from starvation, possible self annihilation, environmental destruction this cannot possibly be the right way to live. 

DT

How Democracy Was Stolen. Nader!

 

Follow the link! Can we gain what is rightfully ours? What the government and the Plutocrats have stolen from us?

https://youtu.be/eY266lx9Lpk 

Are We Actually Living or Just Thinking We are Living? REV. 4, 10/21

From my Inner Monologue:

 You never stay in not knowing, your mind wanders. You are aware of the wondering, yes. It wasn't what you call living, life, no it was your thinking. You reacted to your own thinking, which you thought was life itself. Yes that is what you did that is what you are doing. It seems that to know life or to experience life directly ones thinking must abate. (temporarily) I am not denying sensual perceptions, those only have meaning according to our thoughts.

This coincides with "we do not see reality" (Donald Hoffman) or the way to truth is "with a silent mind".  (J Krishnamurti) among others.

Rev. 2, 9/18

It is natural to want to understand what life is, here pain is the catalyst and of course curiosity. All of our friends and loved ones are dying, will die and of course we ourselves will die. I spent my youth either ignoring or  escaping these facts along with some mental issues. The fact is, the longer I am alive the more clear it is to me that all of humanity are afflicted with some type of mental issues. The fact that we escape this life of mystery and pain ostensibly explains religion. Religions make outlandish claims that are mired in utter nonsense. Human desperation makes clear the "proverbial leap of faith".   

I am back to "thinking must abate". You can call this meditation however be aware, in reality there is meditating when the image of meditating is not there. Follow the breath and be aware of the mental images that arise, but do not  dwell on anything. It is said that there is a natural  understanding natural meaning it is already there and for it too manifest the mind must be still.  This may seem an arduous task but that is only because we've filled our minds with all kinds of things in our quest to understand or escape the pain of not understanding. It also seems extremely sensible that truth is not knowledge and is available to all simply by being aware. Try it, it certainly cannot hurt. I am going to try it myself. I'll keep you posted.

REV 3/ 9/28

It is the I that wants liberation, is the "I" the problem in the first place? Self arises in our thinking! The term for this understanding is Non - Duality. 

REV. 4/ 10/31 I think and feel that there is a right way to exist, to be and that very well may be true, however it is not contained in the human field of knowledge. 

DT AKA WTR

New Conservative Study Shows no Fraud in 2020 Election.

 Here are the first two paragraphs of the report. Search New Conservative report shows no fraud in 2020 election. 

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After reviewing every claim of fraud and irregularities brought by Donald Trump and his supporters in all 64 cases challenging the 2020 election, a group of notable conservatives has reached the "unequivocal" conclusion that Trump's claims of election fraud are unsupported by evidence. Many of these cases were overseen by Trump appointed judges.

The group also examined all post-election reviews and audits in six battleground states. "Donald Trump and his supporters had their day in court and failed to produce substantive evidence to make their case," Lost, Not Stolen: The Conservative Case Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election states.

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Donald Trump lost the 2020 election this report further demonstrates that fact. If people do not accept that fact there is obviously something wrong with their thinking. I hope that they will finally come to see what is actually happening. Trump has committed Treason in his effort to hold power, he and those that aided him in his attempt to seize power must be brought to justice. Our country has been greatly harmed by the Trump movement and we must return to our democracy. It is a fact that both major parties contributed to Trumps grab for power by selling government control to corporations. This atmosphere of corruption paved the way for Trump. We must reform the government by removing completely the influence of money. 

DT 

WAKE UP CALL! New comment added 8/11

 At the quantum level everything is energy, in the area of what humans refer to as reality nothing is as our senses make it appear. All is energy never born, never dying. Life is a movement on the surface of energy. Humans are just a life form, a manifestation that has the potential of comprehension. This potential has gone wrong in that humans view themselves as separate, this allows us to mistreat and abuse all forms of life. In not understanding we've invented it "understanding" and thus set out on a course of insane, and incoherent abuse of ourselves and everything exposed to us. We've turned ourselves into a blight an infestation causing irreparable* harm to the environment that sustains us. We are a planet of fools, understanding nothing. I am sorry but it needs to be said. * irreparable in the time of the human.

DT

PS: There are of course humans that are trying to combat the tide of ignorance however if we are not part of the solution we are part of the problem.

Remark on Climate Change video: 8/11

The human has been out of touch with reality for as long as the human could think. There is no doubt that the human can fix this situation, but the question is will the human fix this? I watched a short video by Carl Sagan the other day and he concluded that we are a planet of idiots. The current paradigm that rules the world (materialism) is wrong and unsurvivable. Any species capable of self destruction is not a viable species.Saving ourselves from the global threat of climate change is no guarantee that we will save ourselves from ourselves.