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I am a worker, photographer, and writer. I am now working on a counseling masters degree focusing on youth and community, neurology and medication, and underlying genetics.
My photography is my greatest accomplishment. The style is the art of photojournalism, and I also photograph nature with much the same approach.
I try to show life, or tell a story, as it is by connecting with the subjects, or the impressions they have left behind as photograph-able artifacts. There is much empathy in nature, and the beauty of nature, technically speaking aesthetics, tells us that there is love in its creation, and definitely in its animals. My best animal subjects have been birds, and I have a significant beaver project. I am working to create an catalog of animal pictures especially within society's environments, or its artifacts.
Photojournalism, like journalism, has to be real, and not made up. What people expect from it is as artistic as fantasy art because they can use it to insert themselves into the environment that it portrays just as easily as they can insert themselves into a fantasy.
Occasionally the photojournalist has to step away from what is comfortable (and sell-able) and make a critical statements, and often the statement needs to be harsh, as there is some exceedingly harsh activity in the world today.
News: I am exhibiting widely, and selling work! This tremendous, as I never for a moment every expected anybody, let alone lots of people, to get my work :)
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Dark hole of civlization
Western Civilization's "big three" were certainly gay -- was Confucius? My interest here is the difference between oligarchy and aristocracy: plutarchy.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Lyceum: sodomists' synthesis
Psychology is the ancient philosophical stratagem that keeps the egotists in control.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and NRG1/ErbB3-4 signalling (1 comments)
A search for genetic information about schizophrenia shows that a genetically expressed protein, NRG1, and two of its receptors, ErbB3 and ErbB4, are central to schizophrenia. Recent studies implicating NRG1 in schizophrenia often implicate it in bipolar disorder with the same evidence. But different studies focus on two different areas, myelin and neurotransmitters, and hence seem contradictory. Myelin implies neural speed, and neurotransmitters bring to mind, as an example, dopamine as a component of stress.
Saturday, July 10, 2010 Rattlesnake Rebellion: Recent notes
This writing was part of an email to Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt who publishes here often. Ellen and I disagree on the need for credit; she seeks a socialist model where local government issues credit (effectively printing money the way banks do). After carefully reconstructing the development of finance from its roots as small rocks as trade tokens, don't personally see any need for credit except for small business loans. I do see how debt naturally springs out of its original token system, and I can see why the religious sought to repress it: too much of a good thing.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Oligarchy: What we learned in the Empathy Group
Sometimes the material is so important and necessary you just have to push it out. This is the tip of iceberg with respect to modernism, which is not modern...
Saturday, June 12, 2010 Objective reality is a misnomer; it is not Science
The first thing I want to know about a scientist is that he has a full set of working neurons. If he does not, there is no way he can grasp the single most important fact of life, which is that evolution always works towards love using exactly the same neurological development paths along completely separate paths of evolution.
Thursday, June 10, 2010 Not Zionist Fairy Tales: Deconstructing Engelmayer's rationale (1 comments)
Jews have played a central role to my way of thinking, which is Liberal in the sense of old-school anti-racism, but not liberal pro-globalist/capital as is National Public Radio and the New York Times. Important to me are the Jewish pacifists Maslow and Einstein, as well lesser-known important Jews, such as the photographer Joe Schwartz. With my study of the life and times of Jesus (also a Jew), I learned about Hillel, a Jewish leader who was an early humanist and "empathist" who very likely influenced early Christianity and the Gospels.
Monday, June 7, 2010 Empathic Model in response to torture
This writing is inspired by Stephen Soldz's article about medical participation is torture research: CYA for the CIA: The CIA's Torture Research Program. His article outlines the monster in America, but does not offer a solution.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 Oligarchy today: The top-down structure (8 comments)
Didactic is a familiar synonym for top-down, as it is congintive, behaviorist, and the educational system. But a short dive into the classics will tell you it is the Oligarchy. The new information is that the Oligarchy might be linked to diseases underlying mass misconception: psychology, sociology, and evolutionary neurology.
Sunday, May 23, 2010 Libertarian Hate in Our Present Post-Apartheid Period (6 comments)
This is about conflict on the Wikipedia, which is politically dominated by pro-capital Libertarians who consider themselves anarchists -- with strong opposition from the anarchists.
Saturday, April 24, 2010 US Break-up into culturally-based regions
Time to break up the US into 6 or 7 geographically- and culturally-based closely-linked smaller nations so that we can:
Saturday, March 6, 2010 Reason Vs Sense: The calculated destruction of naturally open thought
This is about my recent journey into the meanings and evolution of the words we use to describe thought. Ancient thought evolved into the sacred, but calculating modern thought causes so much pain and destruction, and may very likely kill us.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 American contagion: photos and thoughts on my return from Canada (4 comments)
It is difficult to visit another nation, especially a successful one such as Canada, and not sense that there is something desperately wrong with the United States. I was visiting Canada when I had these thoughts. I took these pictures during the trip back, and just after my arrival back home two days ago--with these thoughts in mind.
Saturday, December 12, 2009 Capital Structure Cheat Sheet -- 2nd Draft
This is the second milestone for this document. A lot of supporting material has been added, and new ideas are emerging. Still, it is meant to bea tiny manual about the dominant structure that gives clues about what to do about it.
Sunday, November 22, 2009 Capital Structure Cheat Sheet
This is a work in progress to de-mystify the structure we live in. If you want to add to add to it, click on the wikiversity link, but please email me first.
Thursday, November 12, 2009 My Tea Party Reaction: Legalize homicide (5 comments)
This is my craziest piece yet; it extends my writing on how we, as Americans, are all killers. As usual, I have to disclaim here that I am a pure pacifist, and my writing about killing is strictly to get y'all thinking about this terminally lethal habit of ours.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Who killed Christ ?? Newsflash !!
According to the Gospel of Judas, a genuine document of the gospel period--the 2nd Century--Judas did not betray Christ, but was asked by Christ to bring the Romans, perhaps to have a "show down." (If so, this certainly changes the meaning of the "kiss of death," as an anti-empathic construct.)
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 Obama's America: Still Hemorrhaging
Obama is an obvious improvement over Bush, but after the blatant reversal of his campaign promise to "end the trickle-down theory" by bailing out the very corruption that define the "trickle-down theory," he showed himself to be typical of politicians: he outright lied to get elected.
Saturday, August 29, 2009 Yetta Kurland, NYC Candidate for City Council, A Photo Tour
Yetta Kurland is a refreshing and highly-liberal anti-corruption candidate for the City Council in NYC from the 3rd district, which runs from midtown to Canal along the West Side.
Thursday, August 13, 2009 Defining "Foreignism"
Bias, without question, is the social manifestation of an inability to have emotional regard for others. This is caused by a diffeciency in empathic constructs, or a complete absence of empathic neurons from the brain.
Monday, August 10, 2009 All Out War
Please note that this article is a "what if," a hypothetical discussion of the US situation when Americans actually fight back against the endless corruption that has controlled the US from both left and right. I have a life-long pacifist, and recently have explored historical Christianity to strengthen accepted pacifistic beliefs.
Saturday, August 1, 2009 Why Obama-nomics will ultimately fail
American decline is simple: complete reliance on other countries for manufacturing and services. Saying that "we are lazy" is false; communities that made the stuff we use have been hurt beyond comprehension by the export of their manufacturing abilities. All factories are efficient; the idea that a community's manufacturing contribution to the nation should be taken away is simple cruelty, and hence mental illness.
Sunday, July 26, 2009 Rattlesnake Manifesto, a fundamental appeal
I crafted this manifesto when, as a trucker, I was grafted directly into the nation, being everywhere at once. I tried to develop a good idea of what people want, and I found that basic beliefs are fundamental and patriotic.
Friday, July 17, 2009 Americans kill, so what is the kindest way to kill? (8 comments)
The death penalty is with us to stay because it is popular. Americans also seem to support the high rate of imprisonment, which is among the highest in the world. Freedom? I think not, but our national identity is not so easily resolved, so let's instead discuss the primary issue of the death penalty, which is killing itself, and how it can be carried out in the fairest and most humane ways possible: an attainable goal. What is the most humane way to kill -- the kindest killing of all?
Friday, May 29, 2009 Hyper-DE-flation makes sense (2 comments)
An open letter to Ellen Brown, who wrote Web of Debt, an analysis of why we are in so much financial trouble. She also makes other suggestions to help support our failing system such as in her recent article on the Huffington Post: But Governor, You Can Create Money! Just Form Your Own Bank
Saturday, April 18, 2009 Saying Good-bye to Krishna
Krishna was bigger than life, certainly the most thinking, emotional, and communicating cat I have ever seen. I rescued him, and probably would have found new owners for him, but he was so damn smart. He would sit with guests and try to talk. He lived with me through the Internet revolution, but I had to give him to my parents during the 2000's when conditions, including 9/11, forced me to leave NYC. They took care of him, but they are very unemotional, and that was not good for him--he often got depressed.
Friday, April 10, 2009 Lies of the Times: Obama needs to fufill his promise (1 comments)
With the horrendous decline of Republican politics and policy under the final Bush, which mirrored the Republican decline after the Vietnam war, blame can easily be placed on previous presidential administration and its supporting congress for the present twin dilemmas of economic and environmental collapse. In fact, the American economy surged under the last Democrat, Clinton, and only collapsed with the arrival of Bush in the new Millennium.
Friday, March 27, 2009 Anatomy of a Hack
Hack means kludge, hacks hack software to create new software. As members of the "hacking community" have long sought to find security weaknesses in systems, often by "hacking" the code of those systems, "hacking" has come to mean "breaking into systems," a fairly reasonable evolution of language.
Sunday, March 22, 2009 Israeli posturing? (2 comments)
I believe that the apparent Israeli disgust with the military attacks against civilians may be posturing.
Thursday, March 19, 2009 American Break-Up: 1) Ending the CIA
The greatest rationalization for the break-up of the US into a loose confederation of regions is to see an end to the CIA. CIA managers say that "the CIA may not be nice but it is effective."
Thursday, January 29, 2009 Role of feminism in destruction (2 comments)
Liberalness on OEN is not the Liberalness that I grew up with. While vilifying the departing Bush/Reagans, and hammering the now fallen free-marketeers, OEN Liberals are attempting their own versions of global domination.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 AARP Retirees: Winners now whining
America's retirees represented by the AARP now want our help. From what I have seen as an American, it is they who allowed all the greed of the capital structure to put us in the situation we are now in: they like nice things, nice labor, and nice service: how could they not?
Saturday, January 24, 2009 The End of the Age of the Predator (7 comments)
We are in a new age. I just got back from Washington--I didn't go to the inauguration, but observed its day after. There is a new feeling, and Black Americans feel empowered for sure.
Saturday, January 17, 2009 OpEdNews Writers Discussion Group on Care2 (8 comments)
Care2 has been pretty good to me; I had amazing success with groups about the Katrina disaster, and my main topic: Empathy Action
Monday, January 5, 2009 Gaza peace rally in New York City, on January 3rd, 2009 (1 comments)
There was a Gaza peace rally in New York City, on January 3rd, 2009. It was really peaceful, which is not what I expected when I went. The crowd was said to be about 10,000 - 20,000.
Saturday, January 3, 2009 Inflation Key to the Recession Cycle
Inflation is the other half of recession; but inflation and recession coincide there is economic disaster. The problem is complex, but not overly complex. If the study of the economy is science, which it is, then Einstein's idea of science should be followed: keep simple, but not overly simple.
Monday, December 29, 2008 Empathic Is The Way.........? (6 comments)
Empathy has broad meaning, and everyone agrees the world needs more of it. To evolutionary biologists such as Frans de Waal, specific neurons determine empathy, and their actions are the historical glue of society, but not of the capital structure.
Monday, December 29, 2008 My Empathy Monodiet
I see everything in terms of the neurons that allow us to collaborate as humans, the very high spindle (connective) and mirror (communicative) neurons, and the lower neurons that give us what Darwin called "natural affection" that we see in our pets
Sunday, March 29, 2009 The New "Spys" are not James Bond types
With Obama's impending offensive into Afghanistan, and probably into Pakistan in pursuit of, finally, bringing bin Laden to justince, the CIA is taking on ever more combatant roles, taking them away from the traditional, and powerful, US military.
