My Testament

The Orwell Peace Prize

2009-10-09T12:36:00.001-07:00

The Orwell Peace Prize
By Martha Rose Crow

Right after Christmas, my nephew is leaving for another tour in Afghanistan. My Sister’s heart and my heart are broken. We are ‘Intuitive’ or psychic. We know this time he’s coming back in a box with a flag on top of it.

But in many ways, he’s dead already. Like many soldiers who’ve come back from the middle east, he’s wired on self-destruct. My Sister has told me that she can’t count the times she’s taken guns away from him when he was threatening suicide because those times have been so many.

When I was a child, I was highly idealistic. I wanted to swim the English Channel. I wanted to live an exceptional life. I wanted to graduate from the university and perform work that would improve the lives of others. I wanted to be a peace maker and I wanted to earn a Nobel Peace Prize.

Back then, I didn’t know about the dirty money connected with the prizes; that they came from money made from munitions or that the principal of the endowment was invested in more implements of war and/or of human oppression like capitalism that rapes the world for cheap natural resources and cheap human labor.

My childhood idealism about the Nobel Peace Prize waned a long time ago. It took awhile, but I learned that it was awarded by elites to politically ‘frame the culture’ of ‘peace’ and/or use the awardee as propaganda for the elite. It seemed to me that too many of the real peace makers are never awarded any prizes for their work and that too many heads of states are awarded it instead.

In the book 1984 by George Orwell, ‘War is Peace’ and ‘Peace is War’. Orwell’s book paints a psychopathic universe where reality is the opposite of what it really is. In Oceana, the place where the book takes place, Lies Rule: they Become the Truth. The whole place is built upon the lies of the ‘party’ or the ruling elite.

When I saw that Obama had ‘won’ the Nobel Peace Prize, I almost fell out of my chair. He’s only nine months into his presidency and he has done nothing to stop any of the American wars. Contrarily, he’s escalated the war in Afghanistan and spread it to Pakistan. Obama wants to add 40,000 more troops in Afghanistan. Last I heard, the war in Iraq is still continuing. More, the opaque and unwinnable war against ‘terrorism’ is still going on as well while the definition of a ‘terrorist’ keeps expanding to include anyone who opposes tyranny, including war.

What about torture? Obama hasn’t done anything to stop it. That status quo merry-go-round of violence and the violence of lies goes on and on.

In lieu of the lack of bringing peace, Obama should have won the Nobel Peace Prize for Economics as more people are out of work now than when he was given the mantel of presidency. This is how great the hypocrisy is.

So what does all of this mean? A group of five elites chose Obama to market lies and deception; to sell an Orwellian world where people are programmed to believe that a war monger, a false messiah of peace, is the ideal peace bringer when in a real reality, he is the farthest from it.

And Obama’s nomination in the swill world of the Orwell Peace Prize is in good company. Although they didn’t get the prize, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin were nominated. History has proven what kind of ‘peace makers’ they were and history will prove that Obama is of the same ilk.

People see through this ruse and sham. They know that Obama hasn’t kept his campaign promises of stopping war and promoting peace. They know that he’s being controlled by the powerful and wealthy military industrial complex who stand to lose enormous profits if Obama pursues peace.

This will be my nephew’s third tour of duty. For a year (if he stays alive that long), we will live on pins and needles. Every day, we will hope that bad news doesn’t arrive at the front door, brought by a well-dressed soldier messenger. Every day, we will hear about new war casualties and worry if he is one of them. We will live in a limbic hell and wait.

And during this time, Obama will escalate the wars, support Israel’s illegal wars, while wearing the official Nobel Crown as the ‘New Prince of Peace’.

The First Wave

2009-08-17T13:24:00.000-07:00

James Love is referring to my article Baby Boomer Die-Off: There Will Be No Social Security 'Crisis'

From: James Love
To: greathierophant@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, 17 August, 2009 20:06:15
Subject: Good Article

Hi Martha Rose,
I tried to add a comment but the server did add it. So I thought I'd
email my comments to you.

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I have a google alert for my Boomer death counter, so I was notified
you mentioned my site. I enjoyed your article, especially the
anecdotes regarding the struggles of Boomers in their latter years.
When one's friends start dying, it is cause for contemplation on
society, the self, life etc.

While I am familiar with your political thought, the hermeneutic that
I tend to observe the current situation within is one of
inter-generational justice, more more accurately the issues of
generativity. Growing up in the breadbasket of socialist Canada (ie
Saskatchewan), I still retain a communal concern and "lens". I fear
for the next generations, given the radical consumer and individualist
mindset of both the left and the right in North America. You have some
experience with aboriginal communities, so I suspect you understand
how communal cultures frame questions in far different ways than
Western cultures.

My main hope with my humourous site (at least I think it really funny,
but perhaps that betrays my warped psyche or more self-flattering
(ironically) my communal sense of things. I believe that when more
spiritually mature people face death, they don't turn inward in
self-pity, but they turn outward in acts of Eldership. Some of the
most powerful people I've met were wizened old trees who loved the
young more than they loved themselves. They are the most beautiful
people in the world. I recall visiting a lovely 95+ year old woman who
had a short term memory of about 15 minutes, yet she was very outward
in her spirit.

Anyway, I suspect that post-boomers, who have their own deprivation
stories and who have not had the cultural capital in order to share
their stories, often jump into condemnation of Boomers whom they see
(rightly) as collectively having had an easier time economically. At
least the early Boomers had it easier in terms of opportunity. 1961 is
the worst year economically to be born in North America in terms of
competition. This said, I think that post-boomers also are
narcissistic in their concerns and do not adequately give thanks for
their global privilege. I would also level my concern regarding
generativity to them as well.

Anyway, peace to you, and thanks for your thoughts.

Thanks,
James Love
www.jameslove.com

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MY RESPONSE:

Hey James, nice to hear from you! Thanks for the compliments on my article since few websites would post it. I think that most would not post it because it was too *Truthful* and people can't handle the Truth except in little pieces. No shit, almost everyone I knew my age is dead. Since I wrote the article, one of my last few cousins almost bit the dust! He was sleeping in bed and someone into his house and shot him in the back. Jeff was in the hospital for months.

I know this sounds crazy, but in 2003, my little five year old grandson Marcus was sleeping on a sofa bed and someone shot a gun into the apartment and Marcus was shot through the eye. I heard it was the saddest funeral anyone ever attended!

Ironic, over a year later, I'm starting to get responses and most of them are wishing that Baby Boomers would die! These letters go beyond narcissism and cynicism. They're real ugly!

So your Baby Boomer die-off counter is supposed to be humorous? What kind of humor? Gallows humor? You'd be surprised how many people take all this seriously! I certainly take it seriously!

And think about it: How is the US going to pay Baby Boomers their social security when all that money is gone to pay off the gangster bankster's debts? 24.7 trillion dollars and counting! Then factor in the 20% unemployment rate that is rising. Wouldn't it be more convenient for the puppet masters to kill us off, especially since Boomers are either past their prime or approaching it? Didn't Hitler kill off the non-workers because they had no economic value?

Ironic, I wrote some lyrics today about how I was a victim of social genocide. It's a long story, but I was murdered in 1999 and went on a long Spiritual Journey and in the end, I was offered a chance to come back to the mortal side of life. The lyrics tell my story plus the others' story about what happened to us. We were soft kills; killed indirectly by things like stress, lack of opportunity (economic denial), so forth. I was killed by my husband and part of his anger behind it was the propaganda of the evening news always announcing a 'full' economy where there were jobs 'everywhere' and so forth, when it wasn't true. He used to beat, burn, rape and sodomize me because I 'failed' him because I didn't get one of those 'jobs'.

Before I left him, I had 17 casual jobs and I was lucky if I got one day of work a week! And it took four days of calling to get that pitiful one day of work!

Here's the lyrics. Let me know what you think. Sincerely, Martha Rose Crow

The First Wave Martha Rose Crow

Long ago, we failed to prosper
They called us names: Loser, Liar, Monster
Those in power wanted us to die
After we were mocked and crucified

In their souless hearts, the rulers knew
That we'd been chosen to lose, lose, lose
And when we died, we would be blamed
We were the victims of the First Wave

-chorus-
Before the red, blue and yellow lists
Came the invisible First Wave list

No one could understand to resist
The real surreal genocide in our midst

We were the First Wave - oh we were the First Wave

Consigned to individual graves
To hide the metaphorical mass grave

Social engineering to forfeit lives
Are altars for hidden human sacrifice

It was the First Wave
For countless graves
And no one said a word
As we faded away
Now it's the others' turn
It's their Death Wave
(end of chorus)

Victims are always first to be blamed
For the actions of the depraved insane
Who seize power in the people's name
Making all life a predator's game

Elite old -boy networks at their height
Blood-thirsty for human sacrifice
Believe they have every right
To kill us with their invisible knives

chorus + below

In their black hearts, evil rulers knew
Some of us had to lose, lose, lose
And when we died, we would be blamed
We were the victims of the First Wave

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On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Martha Rose
Crow wrote:
> and Marcus was shot through the eye. I heard it was the saddest funeral
> anyone ever attended!

The deaths of children run against the grain of the universe. It's a sad thing.

> Ironic, over a year later, I'm starting to get responses and most of them
> are wishing that Baby Boomers would die! These letters go beyond narcissism
> and cynicism. They're real ugly!

Post-Boomers are angry. Really really angry, and I don't think that
reality has been explored. I've got my own theories, but I think its
generally the dynamic when people who are underprivileged hear people
whom they see as privileged lament. I'm not American so I don't really
understand race dynamics, but perhaps it is like African Americans
hearing Whites complain about their economic troubles. Perhaps that is
a way to understand it, or perhaps not.

I think also there is an anger of being in the shadows of the Boomers.
I just read the popular book Outliers, which talks about how success
is often a product of historical privilege. In my own life, I recall
being at a university reunion of the business school I went to. There
were a whole bunch of older wealthy fat corporate types, who laughed
when there heard that the entrance grades were not 90%. Few of these
old guys would have gotten into school given higher demands.

I also think that the American dream is dying, and its natural to
blame old folks for causing the mess. This often is used to dismiss
young people since on some level they always do this.

> So your Baby Boomer die-off counter is supposed to be humorous? What kind
> of humor? Gallows humor? You'd be surprised how many people take all this
> seriously! I certainly take it seriously!

Yes, its gallows humour. We Canadians can be a little morbid.

> And think about it: How is the US going to pay Baby Boomers their social
> security when all that money is gone to pay off the gangster bankster's
> debts? 24.7 trillion dollars and counting! Then factor in the 20%
> unemployment rate that is rising. Wouldn't it be more convenient for the
> puppet masters to kill us off, especially since Boomers are either past
> their prime or approaching it? Didn't Hitler kill off the non-workers
> because they had no economic value?

Indeed. Many boomers don't see the problem that such debt is
unsustainable, especially when the economic cost of the medical care
of Boomers comes into play. The wisest thing older boomers can do is
get connected with a community of people who are willing to take care
of them when they are old.

As for killing off non-working people? I don't think so. It was those
considered genetically impure. He didn't go after the old people.

> Ironic, I wrote some lyrics today about how I was a victim of social
> genocide. It's a long story, but I was murdered in 1999 and went on a long

I think it would be an interesting story to explore why some of these
younger folks are so bitterly angry at the Boomers. I think its more
bitterness than genocidal hatred, even though they may use that
language.

Peace,
James Love

The Single Payer Health System in Holland

2009-07-30T08:53:00.001-07:00

An Ex-Pat Explains How It Works And What Americans Could Learn From It

Martha Rose Crow, M.S.

I’ve been living in Holland for about 8 ½ years. Because I had no money when I came here, ‘I went native’. That means that I’ve been living with Dutch people since the first day I arrived so I have a better idea about how things work here than if I were working for some international company like so many privileged ex-pats.

Before I begin to tell the world about the excellent Dutch health system, I want to explain why I came here. Although I earned four university degrees and can get into any graduate school that admits females, I was thrown into the economic gutter. Unbeknownst to me, the titans who rule the economics in America started their pogrom against workers a long time ago. The first to be sacrificed were the lower classes of which I was a member.

This economic ‘crisis’ is not new. It’s been going on for several decades. I, plus legions of other untermenschen (underclasses), were the first victims. Of course our suffering and/or deaths were ignored because in a society where human sacrifice is basic to capitalism, someone had to be sacrificed as long as it wasn’t the entitled middle-class.

Although the media and government departments proclaimed a ‘full economy’ in the 1990’s, there was no work for me and my then-husband used the propaganda from the media and government to justify raping me to oblivion plus beating, burning and sodomizing me. On August 29, 1999, he put a pillow over my head and I had a very long out-of-body experience. After that, I had to make a choice and it was to leave him and my family, or stay and die.

Maxine, director of the local women’s shelter knew of my plight and she also knew that I knew what happened to the women who came to the shelter. They were ushered into menial, pink ghetto work that did not pay a living wage and they eventually ended up sleeping under the Eastside Bridge or going back to their abusers and take their ‘lumps’. This is how the system works in most places in America.

In essence, I fled for my life and lost everything I ever knew and everyone I ever loved, including my four children and 16 grandchildren. Really, I thought I was coming here to die because I thought my life was all washed up. I figured it would be better to die among strangers than let my husband kill me again or let the mean, cruel Christians of my former society gloat while I died helplessly and hopelessly of their socially-engineered pink poverty for middle-aged women with no male sponsors.

When I came here, I had no money and a place to live for a month. I had to learn quickly how to survive, including what to do if I got sick. I was homeless many times and slept in parks where I’d catch bad colds so I was always worried about my health. Ever try sleeping on a short, hard park bench and it rains cold on you?

Everyone living in Holland is covered for health insurance, whether directly or indirectly.

For several years, my legal status was ‘gray’ – I was neither legal or illegal. The reason why I was gray is a long story so I will jump to the health care part of my story.

First, I will tell you how the health care system works for people who are not in it. There is a fund for those who do not have health care (like the illegals or grays) so if you get sick, you go to the hospital and get treated. Then you fill out these special forms (I carried them for years but thankfully never had to use them) and then you send them to a special place and your bill is covered.

When I became legal, I had the choice of several single payer health plans. The two major nonprofit insurance health companies here are Unive and Zilver Kruis (Silver Cross). There are about three other smaller insurance health companies here, but it’s a hassle getting through to them. I’m with Zilver Kruis. I got to choose which plan I wanted: a basic ‘one star’ program going all the way up to a ‘four star’ program’.

Because I’m a liberal, I went for the two-star program that costs 123.20 euros a month (about $175). This means that for about 20 euros extra a month more than the ‘one star’ program, I get more extensive dental and other care than the basic care. But even if you go with the basic ‘one star’ program, you still get excellent health care.

You have to shop around for a regular practitioner and dentist. I didn’t know this at the beginning so the few times I went to a doctor, I had to pay out of my pocket 24.75 euros for a basic visit. That’s the standard cost. After I learned how it worked, I called around and found a doctor and dentist who would take me as a regular client. I don’t have to pay anything to see the doctor but I do have to pay upfront for my yearly dental visits but Zilver Kruis reimburses me very quickly after I send them a copy of the bill I paid.

Last year, I had an infected cyst on my neck and my regular doctor sent me to the hospital for surgery. I had to pay about 160 euros out of my pocket for the surgery but it is a lot less than what I would have paid in America. I had to have three follow-up appointments at the hospital and they didn’t cost me anything.

I pay about 75 euros once a year to get my teeth cleaned and getting any cavities filled doesn’t cost an arm and a leg like in America. It’s very cheap. I think the only tooth I had filled cost 25 euros.

The Dutch people are very proud of their health care system and everyone living legally in Holland is expected to make sure their health insurance is paid for every month. If you are working, your employer usually pays the insurance cost. If you don’t have a job, you’re expected to apply for welfare (they call it ‘social security’) so you can pay your health insurance plus your housing and food.

Unlike America, women’s health in Holland is a priority. Every few years, women get free pap smears. The testing is usually done in a doctor’s office but I was so broke at the time that I didn’t have bus and train fare to get my test. I called them and told them about my situation. The government office sent a doctor to my apartment and she took my pap smear as I laid in my own bed. So less threatening and comfortable!

Every two years, women over 36 get a free mammogram. There is a little trailer a couple of dorps (villages) down from where I live and I get my mammograms there. It’s a system that goes by address, so when I got my mammogram last August, my neighbor lady on the corner and my neighbor lady who lives above me also had mammograms.

Unfortunately, the lady who lives above me had breast cancer but because of this wonderful detection program and this wonderful country who takes care of their women, her breast cancer was caught in time. Because she has reasonably-priced, single-payer Dutch health insurance, this lady has gotten excellent care for her cancer (surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatments) and she has a better chance of survival than if she lived in America. Her illness hasn’t made her bankrupt because her monthly premium pays for almost everything. More, her insurer won’t dump her because she got sick. It’s against the law!

My boyfriend’s Aunt Honey’s breast cancer was also detected by this national program three and a half years ago. She’s still alive and doing well.

Ironic, my friend Donna in America died from breast cancer on August 27, 2006 – the day before her birthday. Donna left children dependent on her and a bereaved husband. I always wondered if there had been a breast cancer detection program in America like the Dutch one if she would still be alive today.

Americans could learn a lot from the Dutch about single payer health insurance and taking better care of females’ health. Instead, the American people have to fight each other like starving dogs for the few scraps the ‘free market’ puppet masters throw them including low-paid jobs and weak health care for the lucky few.

Work that pays a decent wage and universal health care are basic, fundamental human rights. They are not commodities for capitalists to squeeze profits from citizens for the elite owners of capital who have the best health care available in America.

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Genius and Hard Work for the Planet Go Unrewarded in the World of Crony Capitalism and Crony Governance

2009-07-16T11:40:00.000-07:00

My testers have told me I'm one of the smartest females on the planet and I earned four university degrees only to find myself in the economic gutter. All the sacrifice and suffering to go to four universities to find myself so unemployable. I thought this happened to me because I was female, didn't have a barbie body and wouldn't have sex with anyone to have/keep a good job. Maybe this article explains my failure to earn a living. I've always wondered why business doesn't hire genius and hard work and have researched this for years. Here's another reason...

Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Genius-and-Hard-Work-for-t-by-ALONE-090714-920.html

July 15, 2009

By Kevin Stoda, Germany

Gregor Czisch of Kassel, Germany worked almost a decade producing one of the most amazingly forward-looking and clear-thinking piecess of research any PhD student on the planet could ever be expected to produce.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2105061,00.html

In seven years, he produced a work that is the equivalent five or more doctoral theses for many others in his field. Now, Czisch's work is the basis for the 400 billion dollar North African Energy project, known as Desertec.

http://www.desertec.org/

-i.e. the largest European and African energy development project undertaken. Yet, most of the time, Dr. Gregor Czisch is unemployed.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gregor-czisch/3/96a/757

As a child, Gregor had not done well in school, so he put his hand to farming. Finally by the 1990s, Czisch had backed into the academic world of physics and engineering after finding work on a environmentally friendly farm too repetitive for him.

The goal of his dissertation was to use or take examples of existing technologies and prove mathematically that simply by placing regenerative energy plants on the specific geographic locations on the planet where they are the most effective or efficient, the entire continent of Europe could be supplied for about what it now pays out in energy costs on traditional petroleum and nuclear energy plants.

These regenerative plants included wind energy wherever the most wind is to be found on the planet, such as in Siberia, or solar energy where the sun shines the most on the planet, like in North Africa or the Arabian peninsula. Moreover, if there are geothermal opportunities, like in Iceland, geothermal energy is naturally the power plant source of choice.

http://www.claverton-energy.com/european-supergrid-hvdc-interconnector-expert-dr-gregor-czisch-gives-information-about-iceland-hydro-and-geothermal.html

Next, after figuring up the costs of optimal regenerative plants, Czisch needed to also calculate the costs of bringing that energy from these far-away points to the various cities and countries on the European continent-again by using existing technologies. By the time he was finished calculating and rechecking his calculations, Czisch had proven that Europe could, indeed, be taken care of through usage of existing alternative energy technology at a cost of about 4.65 cents per kilowatt of energy.

Czisch proposed his project and all its potential to Siemens back in 2006 but got turned down as Siemens was more interested in investing in nuclear power. Now, however, Siemens is showing great interest in the mega solar project Desertec, which had played a less significant role in Czisch's final pages of research findings

http://www.desertec.org/en/concept/studies/

For this reason, although many of Czisch's dreams are related to or wrapped up in what has now come to be known as Desertec megaproject, he is still very critical of the current 400 billion dollar project. This is because it totally neglects wind energy, which he saw as being an even cheaper source of energy than solar energy for many parts of the European continent.

http://www.risoe.dk/rispubl/reports/ris-r-1608_186-195.pdf

According to Felix Rohrbeck, who wrote a recent article in DIE ZEIT newspaper on Czisch and his research activies, entitled "The Uncompromising Visionary", Gregor Czisch had celebrated his dissertation a few years ago with a toast in which he said, "The proof that an intercontinental regenerative energy network can take care of Europe is at hand. Now, it is up to the politicians and the economists to get to work [on the project.]"

Rohrbeck then notes, "But, they [governments and economic leaders] are giving themselves a lot of time."

Besides being uncompromising with the facts, his dissertation advisor Dr. Juergen Schmid, notes that Czisch cannot be bribed into accepting the party line. For example, after his promotion, Schmid had helped get the new Dr. Czisch a seat on a government committee to work on environmental policy in Germany a few years back. Czisch claimed the figures the committee were using were inaccurate. Soon, Czisch found himself again out of work.