web 2.0

10 Rules for Responsible Blogging

I like blogging, blogging rocks. I have always had an interest in journalism so it’s great this new web 2.0 social media user generated content format has enabled independent person wanna be journalists like me to write about whatever random thoughts that come to mind. This web 2.0 and blogging has got me going. And again, what is blogging? Is it like a diary or a journal where one can rant, rave, ramble and publish their thoughts away? Or is it a tool for the masses that should be used with responsibility as a reliable source of information? And how has mainstream media dealt with this new phenomenon? Does big media have a big problem? Everything is open source these days. And what better way to share your thoughts than to earn cash for blogging and where advertisers can Buy Reviews. Sponsored Reviews has written another great article about 10 Rules for Responsible Blogging. This article addresses topics such as fact checking and Copyright Laws amongst many other suggestions. Their latest blog article talks about 10 rules a blogger should follow when writing as a blogger in a competitive blogosphere when blogs are now everywhere. And this information is just as helpful as their blog article 27+1 Tips for Building and Maintaining a Blog Audience that they wrote about last week. Sponsored Reviews rules are helpful information and suggestions for bloggers and bloggers should consider passing this information along to their blogger friends. This is great information that every blogger should definitely consider reading. This is a sponsored review. Have a great day.

American Psychiatric Association

HOWL

A line from Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL poem comes to mind today as I watch individuals walk silently to the gas chamber. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.”
I am against the American Psychiatric Association. I am APA and AMA; against psychiatric abuse and against medical abuse and the medical model. Psychiatry Kills. Their drugs and treatments kill. Pharmaceutical companies are the biggest drug dealers on earth. Psychiatrists are mass murderers in white coats and the mental health death system is bigger than the war industry. The Holocaust, psychiatric genocide and eugenics in Nazi Germany continues today. Psychiatric and pharmaceutical advertising and their advertising dollars are an industry bigger than the war industry itself advertising on the back pages of newspapers, television commercials, radio and print where any adult or child can be targeted as “depressed and oppressed”, even the animals are now diagnosed as “depressed and oppressed” for a dollar bill. And the “treatments” are torture. During the Nazi Germany persecution and systematic murder, for labelling the marginalized and handicaped in the concentration camps, I believe… black triangles identified lesbians, pink triangles were assigned to gay men, Jews wore a red and yellow Star of David, mental patients had to wear a yellow triangle, political prisoners wore a red triangle and communist and socialists wore a black triangle. Now no one is immune from wearing a colored triangle. For more information visit Support Coalition International. MindFreedom International is an independent nonprofit coalition defending human rights and promoting humane alternatives in mental health. Emotionally disturbed persons, “EDP’s” are Every Day People. And what does this have to to with a No Police State? Have a great day.

May Day

Information is strength, knowledge is power. Workers of the world unite. Here are some interesting May Day events of note:

Blackkat will have its annual Blackkat Mayday party. Blackkat organized the first annual Squatter Mayday parties fifteen years ago at Tompkins Square Park. These days squatters have been thrown out and bought out and squatting no longer exists on the Lower East Side which is now called the East Village, so the most recent mayday parties are of the rave scene. There will be techno, drum and heavy jungle beats with Atomic Babies, Collin Strange, DJ Sascha, Balls, and the Blackkat crew’s Jason BK, Amok vs. Madaro, and Chrome will be spinning everything. Guest speakers will be civil rights attorney Norman Siegel, Missy Galore and NYC Dance Parade. There will be tables by Dancesafe, Indymedia,Metropolis in Motion, Drug Policy Alliance,NYMAA,Tristatebiodiesel and more. Tuesday, May 1st from 2 to 6 at Tompkins Square Park, seventh street and Avenue A.

There will also be a May Day Parade May 1st,with Kenny Wollesen’s marching band, The Himalayas with Nick Gianni, Chantal Ughi, Jennifer Harris, Michael Irwin, Welf Dorr, Daniel Jodecy, Dalius Nojo, Malik, Ian, John Zorn, Jesse Selengut, Ilhan, Zebulon, Bill Frisell, Avram, Brian Drye, Jeff Pearlman, Rob Just, Butch Morris, Jesse Harris, Michael Kerr, Jesse Murphy, Tosso Hettinger, Jonathan Finlayson, Jonathon Haffner, Bill Ware, Graham Haynes, Clark Gayton, Steve Walsh and many others at Union Square Park, noon.
The Himalayas

Also, The NYC May 1 Coalition will be having a National May Day Movement Rally & March for Worker & Immigrant Rights at Union Square Park at 4pm. For more information visit MayDayMovement

On Cinco De Mayo,Saturday May 5, organizer Dana Beal will hold a Global Marijuana March Global Marijuana March . The event will start off in Washington Square Park from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Then the drug legalization advocates will march across Eighth St. to Tompkins Square Park.
Visit GlobalMarijuanaMarch.com for information about the march nearest to you.

And what does this have to do with a No Police State? Happy May Day.

Middle East

Coexistence

The Collapse of Morality

The cover of today’s am New York newspaper caught my eye. It said, “Washing their words, Rap mogul Russell Simmons to artists: Clean up your lyrics.” Like other people, I have an opinion on that topic. Hip Hop and rap have come a long way since its origins in the 80’s when Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Mele Mel, the Sugar Hill Gang, the movie Beat Street and others had a more positive message. Now days rap lyrics can be explicit, full of the words “bitches and hoes” and the images of women used for promotional purposes can be degrading. It seems as if everyone is taking their clothes off and using sex as a sales tool these days. The images of drugs, guns, money, and bling can be starteling but so are other genres of music. It is now acceptable and commonplace for musicians to use violent images and references to violence to promote their music. What has happened to the language of respect? The terms, killer, murder, slayer, fight, punch, slap, kick etc; are often used by musicians and advertisers market and promote this content on their television programming to program, websites, print and media campaigns only adding to the phenomenon. This current debate about rap lyrics getting bad is only a small part of the bigger picture of the collapse of morality in society as a whole. Everywhere, the standards of social behavior are declining. Is there a worldwide moral breakdown? In the past blatant immorality and decadence has been pointed to as a contributing factor in the fall of civilizations, such as the Roman Empire. Are parents neglect a part of this western debauchery? And are the Churches contributing to this moral decline? Before in society we had a sense of right and wrong. Now we can do whatever we want. Pornography has planted itself firmly in the mainstream. Material that was once considered safe for an 18 plus audience is now often essential family viewing. Clearly, over the past few decades, morals have deteriorated and declined rapidly in many places worldwide. Where is this social decline pattern coming from? Are the slaughters of wars debasing the value of human life? If politicians and generals can treat millions under their care like animals dispatched to the slaughter, then what canons of religion or ethics can inhibit men from treating each other with the ferocity of jungle beasts. Where can one turn? Where is is world headed? And what does this have to do with a No Police State?
indymedia.org

online shopping

Nixon Watches

I can always use watches. I use watches to tell me what to do; when to wake up, when to go to sleep, when to go to work, when to go home and just what time it is in general. And if I don’t have a watch at the moment, I am forever asking someone on the street what time it is or looking for the nearest shop window that may have a clock on the wall. If you are looking for the best deals on watches, AM Online Shopping has Nixon Watches . AM Online Shopping has an ecommerce store that sells watches. They sell Nixon, Seiko, Timex Watches and Casio watches including G-Shock and Baby-G watches that look really cool, they come in different colors such as red, yellow and blue, and more brands. You can add your item to their shopping cart and make a payment by PayPal. They offer discounts on top brands and you can save to 70%. They also offer online support if you have any questions you can contact them. They are your #1 source for brand name watches.

earth day

Go Green

The earth is on fire. Planet mother earth is dying. It is being pillaged and plundered. Antarctica is disappearing. The polar bears are floating away on ice. Global warming, the greenhouse effect, Babylon on fire, overpollution, overpopulation, overoilism, overconsumerism, overcapitalism, overeverything. Here is a Hopi Indian Prophecy: There will come a time when the Earth grows sick and when it does a tribe will gather from all the cultures of the world who believe in deed and not words. They will work to heal it…they will be known as the “Warriors of the Rainbow”. Go Green, it’s the newest thing. Let us shine together to make our earth more beautiful. Here’s wishing you a Happy Earth Day!
Greenpeace

Hotels

Hotel Reservations

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