Two people murdered in my neighborhood I grew up in: Uptown got turned into Yuptown

 thanks for explaining Heidegger to me. My best buddy in high school went on to win the "top" senior thesis at University of Minnesota for his paper on Heidegger - not sure if his award was just the Philosophy department or the whole university (that is 50,000 people). Anyway his name is "James T. Hong" as I may have mentioned - he got his Ph.d. in philosophy but his undergrad was also a double major in math. He then went into film school and he has made documentary films as his career but he moved back to Taiwan. He did one documentary on Heidegger by actually going to Heidegger's hermit hut cabin in Germany. My friend took German in high school as we had a serious German language department and he actually lived in Germany for a bit - but he's Chinese-American or as he says an ABC - American Born Chinese. He said the US is too racist to he moved back to Taiwan where his parents had been raised.

Anyway I did correspond a bit with Professor Michael E. Zimmerman who wrote on Heidegger and radical ecology - back around 2000 for my master's thesis. I know Heidegger was trying to solve the PreSocratics but actually the only way to solve their logical paradoxes is through nonwestern meditation. I was lucky enough to get initiated into qigong - and so I've had some rare experiences in meditation with the paranormal and spiritual abilities, etc.

 

I didn't realize Heidegger was relying on a paradox of the future affecting the past. If you read the book, "Time: A physical magnitude" by Quantum mechanics Professor Olivier Costa de Beauregard who was a member of Princeton's Institute of Advanced Study - it's all about how the paranormal is de facto real due to the future influencing the past or present. This is a "relativistic quantum" analysis - so it's also called noncommutativity in the math. 

 

Turns out that Pythagorean music theory analysis is actually noncommutativity and I had made this discovery when I was in high school. My buddy was behind me in "enriched geometry" and he went on to advanced math as he did his college degree in math and philosophy but I secretly rejected the Pythagorean Theorem in that first "enriched geometry" class. I knew it was based on the wrong music theory yet the Pythagorean Theorem is considered the most proven math theorem as the foundation of Western science.

 

So in fact, recently I got a response from Math Professor Louis Kauffman when I contacted him telling him there must be a noncommutative secret proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. He said, "You mean this?" and he sent me his newly devised theorem that was unpublished - and may still be unpublished? This was just a couple months ago. haha.

 

Anyway I kept my secret to myself because you don't just going around claiming the Pythagorean Theorem is a lie as no one would believe you. Dr. Peter Kingsley did his philosophy Ph.D. on the Pythagorean PreSocratics at Oxford and so he argues that indeed it is nonwestern meditation - and he got disowned by academic but embraced by the Sufi community. So he's published a series of books through the Sufi community.

 

His latest is on Jung - I have one volume I think or maybe two. I will take them out of storage to start reading. Really reading books is a waste of time compared to meditation but our Western materialist culture has no idea of the secret power of listening to the future - as that is what meditation truly is. I discovered this through my music training from a young age. I realized a logical paradox or error in music theory and it turns out this creates the "deep pre-established disharmony" that is the "guiding evoltive principle" of science as Math Professor Luigi Borzacchini calls it - I've corresponded with him, first in 2001 when I sent him a snail mail music-math equation I had devised - he said my "math was good." haha. Recently I corresponded with Borzacchini quite a bit - based on my newly published book called "Music as Meditation" - you can find it on lulu dot com. It's a compilation of my published articles from over the past 20 years.

Voidisyinyang Voidisyinyang

9 hours ago

It's a well-proven fact that inequality of wealth, across cultures, is the main cause of increase in violence.   I grew up in the uptown neighborhood - before Calhoun Square - it was a middle class and working class neighborhood with a bowling alley-pool hall. Del Mar used to play congas and do improv rap to huge crowds of people in the streets and it was very integrated. Prince used to do disco roller skating around Lake of the Isles and the tax rate on the rich used to be much higher. The Reagan NeoNazi Revolution increased the wealth of the elite and turned Uptown into what I call "YUPtown" - sure the buildings are nice and the restaurants are nice but the culture is long gone. It's no different than some suburban mall inserted into the city of dramatically increased inequality.

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sinkingbugger

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Bwahahah no.

Üf

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I know a lot of poor people and they don’t commit murder

Voidisyinyang Voidisyinyang

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 @Üf  There's almost 8 billion people on the planet and the U.S. 700 plus billionaires had their wealth double in the past ten years. So just a few people have as much wealth as over half the global population! Yes people living off dumpster diving trash food or starving in famines due to Western imperial colonial policies are probably too busy trying to survive to commit murder. But the US military spending is more than the rest of the world combined so it is advantageous to the elite to just saturate the poor communities with guns as a nice profit scheme that also increases prison funding. It's a win win situation when the CIA also smuggles in drugs into poor communities - this tactic has been going on since WWII when the CIA started being formed out of the Nazis and the mafia drug smugglers. 

  Cargill is the world's largest private corporation and they are based on Minnesota - you may now a lot of poor people yet I bet you don't know how Cargill makes its profits - from welfare! We stigmatize poor people when in fact it's the wealthy who live off the most welfare. Hilarious. The IRS calls it "UNearned Income" as that is the technical term for living off parasitical high rents as land is a monopoly. Leveraging food as a weapon of NeoColonial Imperialism is thus the most powerful tool of land monopoly - that's what Minnesota is based on. 

 Cargill: Our taxes, global destruction  

Minnetonka-based Cargill is often noted as the world’s largest private corporation, with reported annual sales of over $50 billion and operations at any given time in an average of 70 countries. The “Lake Office” of Cargill is a 63-room replica of a French chateau; the chairman’s office is part of what was once the chateau’s master-bedroom suite. A family empire, the Cargills and the MacMillans control about 85 percent of the stock. 

 

Not only the largest grain trader in the world, with over 20 percent of the market, Cargill dominates another 12 sectors, including destructive speculative finance, according to “Invisible Giant: Cargill and its Transnational Strategies,” by Brewster Kneen. Taking advantage of the capitalist speculative collapse of 1873, Cargill quickly bought up grain elevators. After vast cooperation with the state-sponsored railroad robber barons, central grain terminals averaged extremely high annual returns on investments of 30 to 40 percent between 1883 and 1889. Cargill hired a Chase Bank vice president to secretly help the corporation through the Depression, writes Dan Morgan in “Merchants of Grain.”  

 

“There are only a few processing firms,” and “these firms receive a disproportionate share of the economic benefits from the food system,” states William D. Heffernan, professor of rural sociology at the University of Missouri. Details of Cargill’s price manipulations at the expense of farmers worldwide was documented in the classic study, “Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity” by Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins. They report that Cargill has had a history of receiving elite government price information that should be told to U.S. farmers. That secrecy, along with tax-subsidized market control, enables Cargill to buy from U.S. farmers at extremely low prices and then sell abroad to nations pressured under the same destructive elite corporate control. See the Institute for Food and Development Policy’s Web Site  

 

Between 1985 and 1992, the legal entity called Cargill received $800.4 million in tax subsidies via the Export Enhancement Program, a continuation of the infamous “Food for Peace” policy, writes Kneen. Promoted by Hubert H. Humphrey and instituted as PL 480, food became a Cold War tool, i.e. “for Peace.” If we can induce people to “become dependent on us for food,” then “what is a more powerful weapon than food and fiber?” Humphrey declared, according to “Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies” by Noam Chomsky.  

 

Actually, most of the nation recipients of tax-subsidized Cargill food dumping were, and are, net exporters of food already — policies imposed by colonial trading patterns. The food (for Peace) has been bought cheaply by neocolonial regimes, and then sold at a huge discount on the local market — in Somalia, for example, at one-sixth of the local prices. Many examples of these misguided policies can be found in “Betraying the National Interest: How US Foreign AID Threatens Global Security by Undermining the Political and Economic Stability of the Third World,” by Frances Moore Lappe, et al. Cargill’s undercutting wipes out the local farmers’ self-reliance, while the revenues (going to the elite) are tied to required purchases of U.S. weapons, writes Chomsky, citing “The Soft War” by Tom Barry, 1988. 

 

But the main beneficiary of “Food for Peace” has been Cargill. Keen writes, “From 1954 to 1963, just for storing and transporting P.L. 480 commodities, the heavily subsidized giant Cargill made $1 billion.” Indian lawyer N.J. Nanjundaswamy reports that a Cargill motto is, “One who controls the seed, controls the farmer, and one who controls the food trade, controls the nation.” Yudof’s recently stated support of federal foreign policy Title XII is another public promotion of the University of Minnesota-Cargill partnership’s raiding of sustainable agricultural cultures.

Cargill is such a damaging threat that in Dec. 1992, 500,000 peasants marched against corporate-controlled trade, and the irate farmers ransacked Cargill’s operations. Fifty people were arrested at the partially completed — and subsequently destroyed — seed-processing plant in Bellary, India. In 1996, 1,000 Indian farmers gathered at Cargill’s office and destroyed Cargill’s records. Cargill has been doing bio-piracy, stealing traditional products. For instance, it used Basmati, a rice from India, as its trade name, and the company continues to be one of the main promoters of corporate-driven intellectual property rights. 

 

The U.S. Trade Act, Special 301 Clause, allows the United States to take unilateral action against any country that does not open its market to U.S. corporations. The United States, for example, has threatened to use trade sanctions against Thailand for its attempt to protect biodiversity. A bill that has been before parliament in India and promoted by Cargill, “takes away all the farmers’ rights, which they have enjoyed for generations — they will no longer be able to produce new varieties of seed or trade seed amongst themselves,” writes Nanjundaswamy. The research center, Rural Advancement Foundation International, found that “fifteen African states, among them some of the poorest countries in the world, are under pressure to sign away the right of more than 20 million small-holder farmers to save and exchange crop seed. The decision to abandon Africa’s 12,000-year tradition of seed-saving will be finalized at a meeting in the Central African Republic. 

 

The 15 governments have been told to adopt draconian intellectual property legislation for plant varieties in order to conform to a provision in the World Trade Organization.” Cargill, with extensive funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development, is also destroying the world’s largest wetland — the Pantanal, in South America — in order to dredge a channel that’s designed for convoys of up to 16 soybean- and soymeal-carrying barges, according to the Institute on Food and Development Policy. Cargill has been on the Council of Economic Priorities’ list of worst environmental offenders. Mother Jones magazine and Earth Island Journal report that Cargill is responsible for 2,000 OSHA violations, a 40,000-gallon spill of phosphoric solution into Florida’s Alafia River, poor air pollution compliance and record-high releases of toxic waste. 

 

  With help from the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy, located at www.poclad.org..., states have recently begun to respond to citizen pressure and revoke corporate charters. The assets of Cargill should be revoked, allowing the citizens of the United States to give farmers the benefits of fair trade instead of Cargill’s secretive policy of tax-subsidized global destruction.