The Main St. Journal: March 2012

Thursday, March 22, 2012

MAIN ST. NEWS: BIG OIL- Oil'd

In April 2010 a massive oil spill began in the Gulf. The entire country was glued to the news until the well was capped, and then we forgot about it. As the year anniversary was approaching I became curious, just how much oil was that exactly? Where would it have gone? What I found was shocking. So in an effort to further our discussion on oil dependency I created this short animation to help illustrate just how dependent we truly are on oil.

Designed, animated and written by Chris Harmon
Voice Talent: Kim Estes
Music: Billy Perez & Todd Stambaugh
Special Thanks to Daye Rogers and Christy Kurtz
Sources:

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Sunday, March 11, 2012

MAIN ST. NEWS: Anonymous- Say Hello to the Police State

Uploaded by AnonymousStreetPeace on Mar 10, 2012

WE ARE THE RESISTANCE. WE ARE ANONYMOUS. EXPECT US.

http://watch.pair.com/synarchy-6.html

"In the vast majority of cases there was no trial, no report of the arrest. People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word."

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Saturday, March 10, 2012

MAIN ST. NEWS: FB Pages- Exposing The Truth "Gold In Sacks"

Goldman Sachs Told U.S. (when push comes to shove) They Will be Paid for Debt BEFORE Social Security and Medicare Recipients! Forget Citizens Pay Banks!

'A report released today by Goldman Sachs says that if push comes to shove, the federal government will pay its lenders before it pays Social Security and Medicare beneficiaries. Debt service “should be seen as the top claim on government resources in most cases,” says the Goldman analysis.

If this does not totally and completely convince you that banks run the government, that we have been put in debt servitude to give away the complete wealth of the country to the banks, I don't know what will!

Now, WHAT will the government do now? Who will they protect the banks or the people? (Do I really have to question that?)'

http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com/2012/03/goldman-sachs-told-us-when-push-comes.html

Friday, March 9, 2012

MAIN ST. NEWS: Citizen Reporter- KONY 2012 EXPOSED

Uploaded by LimamyFilms on Mar 8, 2012

I made this video because i was tired of people supporting something that is a fraud and has two faces. Made by Zyad Limamy

This whole Kony thing is very noble, and I agree that something has to be done, but I think people are getting too excited too quickly here and accepting this all too eagerly.

Kony has been around for over 20 years, why take interest now? Some might argue that the fight has been going on for 6 years, according to the Kony video, which still leaves 14 years for somebody to do something.

Others might argue that not enough action has been taken because there wasn't enough awareness. All this has spurred a new internet divide. We have on one side the Invisible Children's Army, on the other the Conspiracy Theorists, Skeptics, and pretty much anyone else who isn't on the ICA's side. What many, from both sides, don't seem to understand is that this is the typical American belief system of dealing with the immoral, the evil, the absurd. This is not a one dimensional issue.

The same happened when the USA was attacked on that dreadful 9/11. We (as a nation!) placed a face, a name, a group, and an emotion on everybody's mouth, in everybody's mind. Osama bin-Laden, terror, al-Qaeda, and fear, anger, want for pay-back. We (again as a nation since we allowed it!) then spent trillions of dollars to kill one man, believing that once that had been accomplished terrorism would just cease to exist, like in the ending of some Hollywood-esque movie where everything just ties up so nicely.

Once again we are being allowed have our emotions played with, manipulated, to act towards something that will not be resolved by just arresting, or killing one man. Uganda, Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Zambia, among many are countries that have many underlying problems that contribute to the creation of monsters such as Kony. We need to be colder, more rational, more objective, when it comes to making these sort of decisions, these big decisions that could ultimately back-fire. We should take a hard look at both sides of the stories, and more importantly where those news come from.

Just saw a video where Joseph Kony is denying all of the accusations of child abduction, child mutilation, rape, killing, he is portraying himself as the victim, and what surprised me was seeing people that actually ate that stuff up. Psycopaths (and Kony is most definitely one) are always charming, easy-going, and friendly.

Saw another video that mentions how all of this is just a strategic move in the chess game that is the control of newly discovered oil in Central and South Africa. Yet no reference to anything, all of this just conjured (what it seems) from the mind of the maker of the video, with thousand of believers backing them up.

I'm sure that both sides of the divide can agree that the best option would be to catch Kony, AND assist the government of the countries to implement something that does not generate the monsters it does. However, I don't believe that the USA should be involved in that mission. I believe we can give our moral support, but we should probably do less focusing on the problems of other countries and worry more about what is going on in our own front yard.

This reminds me a story my mom always told me when I was a little kid to drive this point across, and I'm sure many of you have heard it in similar ways, it goes like this:

There were two monkeys sitting by the rail road tracks, eating bananas, the first monkey, seeing the train coming and that the other monkey had his tail on the tracks and was about to have it cut off, warned him of the oncoming train. The first monkey was so worried about the second monkey's tail that he forgot his own was on the trail, when the train passed it cut his tail off instead. Moral of the story: don't go worrying about other people's problems when you have your own to deal with. Few will read this far, but to those that do I thank you, and I welcome your opinions and view point as well.

MAIN ST. NEWS: FB Pages- Occupy The Marines "Let your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine"

Uploaded by ClassWarFilms on Feb 13, 2012

A brief and crucial history of the United States

Monday, March 5, 2012

MAIN ST. NEWS: BLACK MARCH 2012- Anonymous "Operation Black March"

Uploaded by TheAnonPress on Mar 2, 2012

TheAnonPress Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheAnonPress88

Anonymous: Operation Black March Begins!.

Join the Protest!

TRANSCRIPT: Hello People of the World, We are Anonymous.

Operation Black March has Begun! Join the protest!

If you do not know of Operation Black March, I will explain.

With the continuing campaigns for Internet-censoring litigation such as SOPA and PIPA, and the closure of sites such as Megaupload under allegations of 'piracy' and 'conspiracy' the time has come to take a stand against music, film and media companies' lobbyists.

The only way is ot hit them where it truly hurts.

Their profit margins.

March 2012 is the end of the 1st quarter in economic reports worldwide.

Do not buy a single record. Do not download a single song, legally or illegally.
Do not go to see a single film in cinemas, or download a copy.
Do not buy a DVD in the stores. Do not buy a video game. Do not buy a single book or magazine.

Wait the 4 weeks to buy them in April: see the film later, etc. Holding out for just 4 weeks, maximum, this will leave a gaping hole in media and entertainment companies' profits for the 1st and shares will blip from the large enough loss of incomes.

This action can give a statement of intent:

"We will not tolerate the Media Industries' lobbying for legislation which will censor the internet."

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MAIN ST. NEWS: R.I.P - "Ralph Angus McQuarrie"

R.I.P. Ralph McQuarrie, the man who designed Darth Vader

Ralph Angus McQuarrie (June 13, 1929 – March 3, 2012) was an American conceptual designer and illustrator who designed the original Star Wars trilogy, the original Battlestar Galactica TV series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Cocoon, for which he won an Academy Award.

McQuarrie was born Ralph Angus McQuarrie on June 13, 1929 in Gary, Indiana and was raised on a farm near Billings, Montana. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War, surviving a shot to the head.

After returning from the war, McQuarrie moved to California in the 1960s, studying at the Art Center School, then in downtown Los Angeles.

Initially he worked for a dentistry firm, drawing teeth and equipment, before working as a technical illustrator for Boeing, as well designing film posters and animating CBS News's coverage of the Apollo space program at the three-man company Reel Three. While there, McQuarrie was asked by Hal Barwood to produce some illustrations for a film project he and Matthew Robbins were starting.