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#MarchMadness Proof Student Athletes Deserve Payday

Posted: April 19, 2014 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
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by @anarchyroll
4/19/2014

Northwestern University’s football team recently won the right to unionize. They feel they are employees of the school and deserve compensation and collective bargaining rights. I wrote an article about this can be found by clicking here.

One of the reasons the term student athlete is a disgrace to anyone with a brain is how much money the NCAA makes off of the labor they don’t have to pay for. Scholarships, food, housing, and travel don’t mean shit when you’re talking about an $11 billion television contract. That is how much the NCAA is pocketing for their March Madness television deal. Who provides the content for the television networks to distribute? That would be the student athletes. Well in the entertainment business if you provide content to be distributed, then you get paid for it. The NCAA is getting paid, the students are literally starving.

Jon Stewart recently had many, many great things to say on this subject on a recent episode of The Daily Show.

All that money and the players still have to pay their own medical bills? It is irresponsible and reprehensible that the NCAA is allowed to make that much money and not pay the players. If the NCAA doesn’t want to pay players, then there is a very easy solution…..donate every penny above operation cost to charities with full transparency. If the status quo remains, that charity will be one that feeds and clothes impoverished division one student athletes.

 

 

#Fracking 101

Posted: April 19, 2014 in Frackishima
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by @anarchyroll
4/10/2014

It is very important that you know about and are aware of hydraulic fracturing or fracking as it is more commonly called.

Whether you are for it or against it. Whether you think it is a good idea or bad idea. Whether you think it is dangerous or safe. You need to know what it is and what processes are involved. We all need to know the pros and cons of fracking.

  • What is fracking? It is a method of extracting gas from underground.
  • Who does fracking? Oil and natural gas companies.
  • Where is fracking done? There are numerous fracking sites in the United States, Canada, Europe, and China
  • Since when? It started in 1949 but become popular just in the last half decade as a way to find new energy sources without import.
  • Why is fracking controversial? Because it poisons fresh/ drinking water.
  • How does fracking poison drinking water? Fracking requires tons of liquid chemicals that go underground. Those chemicals leak into the fresh water reservoirs underground. The water becomes undrinkable and in many cases, flammable.

Only 3% of the water on Earth is drinkable. Fracking is essentially mass poisoning that 3%. Yes we need energy but we need fresh water more. We can live without electronics, we literally cannot live as a human species without fresh, drinkable water.

10, 20, 30 years from now there may be fracking that can be done without poisoning the water supply. That will be the time for fracking. Now, it is too risky and there is just too much documented events that prove fracking poisons water. Why it is allowed to continue despite all the evidence it poisons our water? We all know why it is, don’t we? The same reason no one from BP went to jail for the oil spill in the Gulf. The same reason no one from Lehman Brothers went to jail for the 2008 economic collapse. We know why.

Money makes the world go around according to humans. But according the the world it’s gravity. If there was no gravity we would not be able to inhabit Earth. If there was no oxygen we would not be able to inhabit Earth. If there was no food supply or farmable land we would not be able to inhabit Earth. If there is no fresh drinking water we will not be able to inhabit Earth.

Fracking is a risk for making Earth human beings unable to survive by not having fresh drinking water so therefore fracking is bad and those who try to do it are the enemy. Enemy of who? All living being that requires fresh drinking water to survive. Plain and simple. Cut and dry and if fracking is allowed to continue on a mass scale, leaving behind it poisoned fresh water reservoir after poisoned fresh water reservoir, then we as a human race will be left high and dry.

#NSA Admits Under Oath They Lied Under Oath

Posted: April 16, 2014 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
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by @anarchyroll
4/16/2014

What would happen to you if you lied under oath in a court of law?

What would happen if you lied under oath in front of the United States Congress?

What has happened to anyone in the NSA for doing either? Nothing.

What does that mean? What do you think that means? When a person can admit under oath he lied under oath to not the legislative body of the United States of America.

Whose in charge here? Think about that.

If the NSA can lie under oath without penalty of any kind. Can admit to lying under oath without penalty of any kind. What is there place in the pecking order?

That is what stood out to me about this story. It made me think about consequences. It made me think about power and control.

Those in power, with control, are afforded luxuries that the common person is not. They are allowed to do things that other people aren’t.

Why does the NSA have a $52 billion “black budget”? How is a “black budget” allowed to exist in a democracy?

The go to line on that passé logic is that what the public doesn’t know won’t hurt them. I think that has been proven to be false in the post Edward Snowden era…

 

#WrestleManiaXXX aka It’s OK to Believe Again

Posted: April 16, 2014 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
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by @anarchyroll
4/15/2014

Over a week later and I’m still reeling from WrestleMania XXX. Did Brian Danielson actually pull the sword out of the stone? Did The Undertaker actually lose? Did Hulk Hogan and Steve Austin actually go face to face in the same ring at the same time?

YES!

YES!

YES!

WWE decided to take a break from advertising their à la cart internet cable channel to produce a wrestling show. It just happened to be the best one in five years which was the best in the five years before that and the five years before that and the five years before that. Noticing a trend? My friends @CFH_Chief and @TheFantom have heard me say multiple times that the WrestleMania’s that end in a 5 or a 0 mean more than the rest. The rest are bastard shows. The exceptions to that rule out of 30 are numbers; 1, 3, 6, 17, and 18. You can make a case for maybe one or two others, but that would be a case built upon personal bias.

  1. Pro Wrestling isn’t fake, the winners are just predetermined. Just ask Dr. James Andrews about that.
  2. Pro Wrestling is good when either it is logically predictable or something was just done that shocked the hell out of an 20,000 fans in the arena and a few million watching at home.
  3. Pro Wrestling is bad when it tries to be unpredictable for the sake of being unpredictable. That is why TNA Impact Wrestling has been stuck in second gear for the last six years.

WrestleMania XXX was logically predictable and shocking as hell. The best of both worlds. WrestleMania V, X, XV, XX, and XXV shared the same traits. From the battle of the Mega Powers, to the Ladder Match, to Austin vs Rock proper, to Benoit/Guerrero, to the magic of The Streak vs Mr. WrestleMania…5s and 0s mean more. Vince knows it. The boys know it. The fans know it.

The ramifications of WrestleMania XXX will literally be felt for a minimum of five years and likely for a full ten…Why?

Daniel Bryan is the new John Cena, the new Steve Austin, the new Hulk Hogan. Daniel Bryan became the last Undisputed Champion at WM XXX. He is the chosen one. He is the people’s champion. No one will emerge to unseat him for at least the next five years, more than likely we’ll have to wait eight to ten whether Vince wants to or not. Strength in numbers folks, never forget that…ever.

The Undertaker is done. He may wrestle Sting next year and have a farewell tour, but he is done. The Streak is over. The Streak has been WrestleMania for the last half decade. WWE has sold a one hour, prime time, network television special to NBC centered around the aura of The Streak since 2009. John Cena being the definition of stagnant since 2006 has meant WWE has had to lean on Taker like a crutch to make WrestleMania mean anything to the adult male audience during that time.

The Streak has also put Undertaker in the same league as Hogan and Austin. Before 2007, The Undertaker was an all time great, a legend, an icon, and a wrestling fan’s wrestler. In the last five years he has crossed the pop culture dividing line. A line only crossed by Hogan, Savage, Austin, Rock, and John Cena. We would all love to think that Ric Flair, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Mick Foley, and Randy Orton crossed that line too…but they didn’t. They latter are just popular wrestlers, the prior are pop culture icons.

Taker now gets to retire a brand, as big or bigger than the WrestleMania brand, a brand that is bigger than WWE. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving person. No professional wrestler has worked harder or longer than The Undertaker since 1991. He earned his money the hard way. He earned his one match a year schedule the right way.

But that’s all done now. He’s going to ride off into the sunset, out to pasture. WWE now must pass the torch and give the ball to the new generation. Daniel Bryan is the face of this new generation. Behind him are Sheamus, Dolph Ziggler, Cesaro, The Shield, Bray Wyatt and definitely not Batista. The part timer fad may not be over but it is fading the face of the WWE Network profit model. No need to use big names of the past to pop a buy rate when PPVs only cost $10.

No crutch to lean 0n and no choice but to push the new generation of young talent who happen to be predominately junior heavyweight workhorses…..sounds like a reason to hope for me. How about you?

#MunicipalBankruptcy Shows Who’s In Charge

Posted: April 16, 2014 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
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by @anarchyroll
4/15/2014

Did you hear the one where America turned into an oligarchy? It goes something like; between the start of the industrial revolution and the start of the Vietnam War land and resource ownership was grabbed and consolidated by a select few and they have been using the influence of said land and resources to try to grab more, more, more…how do you like it? how do YOU like it? how do you like it?

Do you know what municipal bankruptcy is? That has such a striking ring to it, no? Municipal bankruptcy. It sounds much more damning than Chapter 9 Title 11 Bankruptcy.

I grew up thinking that governments were in charge. Federal, state, and/or local. Detroit is like a highlighter pen on a never-ending text-book page of small words, showing who is really calling the shots and who has all along…banks.

Banks nearly destroyed modern civilization as we know it in 2008 and who went to jail? Who got brought up on charges? Did any one Wall Street CEO go through half of what a single mom applying for food stamps goes through? Didn’t think so.

Money talks and cash is king. We all learn that at some point or another. It is one of the many aspects of modern society in which we quietly lie to ourselves so we can believe we are have evolved since the caveman era.  Municipal bankruptcy will soon make it impossible to ignore. Detroit is not an exception to the rule, Detroit is a harbinger. Resistance to pension reform has made that all but a certainty.

What does municipal bankruptcy tell us? That we are still serfs and they are still living in the castles. Castles became known as Manhattan penthouses in the mid 1980s. Municipal bankruptcy shows who is really in charge. We can hold all the elections we want but there is a reason it’s called virtual reality. It’s not the real thing. It just looks and feels like it…

 

 

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