Sunday, February 17, 2013
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Is Facebook Making You Feel Bad About Yourself?
According to new research, it
turns out that pouring over friends' vacation photos, gushing status
updates, and career successes is making people miserable.
In a study conducted by Humboldt University in Berlin and Technical University in Darmstadt, German researchers asked 600 Facebook users
how they felt while navigating the social networking platform. More
than a third of the respondents reported feeling negative, but it had
nothing to do with Facebook's ever-changing privacy policies and
advertisements—most of those bad vibes were rooted in jealousy.
"We were surprised by how many people have a negative experience from Facebook, with envy leaving them feeling lonely, frustrated or angry," Hanna Krasnova of the Institute of Information Systems at Humboldt University told Reuters. (She was the project manager for the report, "Envy on Facebook: A Hidden Threat to Users' Life Satisfaction?" which was released on Tuesday and will be presented at a conference in Germany in February.)
Passive Facebook users—people who read their news feeds, peeked at photos, and browsed their friends pages but didn't share much themselves—were the ones most likely to feel bad, the researchers discovered.
"Access to copious positive news and the profiles of seemingly successful 'friends' fosters social comparison that can readily provoke envy," Krasnova explained in her report. "By and large, online social networks allow users unprecedented access to information on relevant others—insights that would be much more difficult to obtain offline."
Lylah M. Alphonse
Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:16 PM EST
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/facebook-making-feel-bad-yourself-181600314.htmlWe look for affirmations from others to feel good about ourselves when we fail to see our own self worth.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
COME ROCK WITH US!
A Welfare Poets' Jam Session #5 Live @ The Nuyorican Cafe (Thursday, January 31st 2013 from 6:30pm to 9:00pm) with Precise Science and The Welfare Poets
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
IS OUR SOCIETY BECOMING LIKE THE WILD, WILD WEST?? WE WOULD HOPE SO!
The Wild, Wild West a time when everyone owned a firearm... That's why so many people died, right? Wrong... Most deaths were the result of disease and poor diet, as well as birth related deaths.
Now, what got us to write about violence in The Wild West? The Gun Control issues that has come up again due to the horrific school killing this pass week in Connecticut. Adding to number of times already this year someone has walked into a public space and murdered innocent people. I was having a discussion and the gentlemen i was talking too, stated that "it's beginning to look like the wild west" and "We need more gun laws". I thought to myself is that really true, so after a little research this is what i came up with..
America's love affair with the violence and lawlessness of the old west is mis-guided, and ironic when you begin to compare the most common crimes of today—robbery, burglar, theft, and rape—which in our society is out of control and in the old west it was of no great significance and, in the case of rape, seemingly nonexistent. Compared too today, the wild west was safer contrary to what you might believe.
From the book -"The Not So Wild, Wild, West" by Terry L. Anderson and P.J. Hill
"that the Western frontier was a far more civilized, more peaceful, and safer place than American society is today." The legend of the "wild, wild West" lives on despite Robert Dykstra's finding that in five of the major cattle towns (Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City and Caldwell) for the years from 1870 to 1885 only 45 homicides were reported- an average of 1.5 per cattle-trading season. In Abilene, supposedly on of the wildest of the cattle towns, nobody was killed until the advent of officers of the law, employed to prevent killings" Only two towns, Ells in 1873 and Dodge City in 1876, ever had five killings in any one year."
And when there was a killing, 99.99% of the time it was between two willing combatants. And people will say there is more people now than back then... that's right. But its the RATE not the total amount of people living now.
Need an example...?
In his book, Frontier Violence: Another Look, author W. Eugene Hollon, provides us with these astonishing facts:
In Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City, and
Caldwell, for the years from 1870 to 1885, there were only 45 total homicides. This equates to a rate of approximately 1 murder per 100,000 residents per year.
In
Abilene, supposedly one of the wildest of the cow towns, not a single person was killed in 1869 or 1870.
Zooming forward over a century to 2007, a quick look at Uniform Crime Report statistics shows us the following regarding the aforementioned gun control “paradise” cities of the east:
DC – 183 Murders (31 per 100,000 residents)
New York – 494 Murders (6 per 100,000 residents)
Baltimore – 281 Murders (45 per 100,000 residents)
Newark – 104 Murders (37 per 100,000 residents)
It doesn’t take an advanced degree in statistics to see that a return to “wild west” levels of violent crime would be a huge improvement for the residents of these cities.
Look at Japan.. It has one of the highest population densities in the world, and one of the lowest murder rates. We are not advocating for everyone to walk around with a gun only because that wont work in every situation in a society so co-dependent and so far removed from reality, and removing all guns is next to impossible. But what we are saying is "Control" is not the solution, tougher gun laws will only create more violence.
De-program, Re-educate... A start to A solution.
Peace.
Friday, December 7, 2012
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Sunday, December 2, 2012
Saturday, December 1, 2012
NEW MUSIC FROM GODHEAD THE GENERAL ft. Block McCloud & Morbius "The Balance"
Behold, The Tyrant-Lord of War Vol. 2. is an album collaboration between Bronx, NY Hip Hop artist, Godhead The General and producer/DJ Ganjak from France. Ganjak provides all the instrumentals for the album which was almost entirely recorded and engineered at Block McCloud’s Disturbia Music Group Studio in New York, with the exception of one song that was recorded at Flo Boi Studio in Philadelphia. Features include Rebel Coalition comrades like: The Sargonites on the track “Hope”; Block McCloud on “Lord of War (The Balance) with Morbius, and on “Moonlight” ft. Morbius and Outcome of The Sargonites. Fresh Jones and Jas lend vocals for Rainy Day; Reef The Lost Cauze, T.H.E., Shank and La Tere feature on “Pressure’s Rising”; Daso, an Afro/Latin Caribbean vocalist who sings vocals on “Soy Igual Que Tu (At The End of The Show)”, as well as Akua Naru who’s currently out in Germany.
Click on the link to listen:
http://www.hiphopnometry.org/?p=4444
Thursday, November 22, 2012
RETHINK POVERTY!! ARTIST WITH GOALS FOR G.O.L.E.S
Nov 25th Come experience Spoken Word, Hip Hop, and R&B as these artist perform with the goal to raise money for G.O.L.E.S (Good Old Lower East Side)an organization that has been a fixture in the L.E.S for many, many years. Hurricane SANDY impact could be felt all over the tri-state area when the East River flooded it knocked out power, heat, running water and as a result 5 seniors lost their lives. This event is to help G.O.L.E.S continue their outstanding work and mission of serving the people of the L.E.S who still are effected by hurricane SANDY 100% of the proceeds will go directly to the organization. If you live out of state / Country and wish to donate feel free to follow this link
https://www.networkforgood.org/donation/MakeDonation.aspx?ORGID2=132915659 your donation is both needed and appreciated. RETHINK POVERTY!
THE EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT LaVIE 64 FIRST STREET AVENUE, LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC 10003
STARTS AT 5:00PM , 15 DOLLAR DONATION , ( NO -ONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY) FOR ALL PROCEEDS GO THE PEOPLE
Saturday, September 29, 2012
More blacks, Latinos in jail than college dorms!
WASHINGTON — More
than three times as many black people live in prison cells as in
college dorms, the government said in a report to be released Thursday.
The ratio is only slightly better for Hispanics, at 2.7 inmates for every Latino in college housing. Among non-Hispanic whites, more than twice as many live in college housing as in prison or jail.
The numbers, driven by men, do not include college students who live off campus. Previously released census data show that black and Hispanic college students — commuters and those in dorms — far outnumber black and Hispanic prison inmates.
Nevertheless, civil rights advocates said it is startling that blacks and Hispanics are more likely to live in prison cells than in college dorms.
“It’s one of the great social and economic tragedies of our time,” said Marc Morial, president and CEO of the Urban League. “It points to the signature failure in our education system and how we’ve been raising our children.”
The Census Bureau released 2006 data Thursday on the social, racial and economic characteristics of people living in adult correctional facilities, college housing and nursing homes. It is the first in-depth look at people living in “group quarters” since the 1980 census. It shows, for example, that nursing homes had much older residents in 2006 than in 1980.
Continue at ~~~~>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21001543/ns/us_news-life/t/more-blacks-latinos-jail-college-dorms/#.UGddVhipYmI
Thursday, September 13, 2012
LIBYA... THE NEW FALSE FLAG!!
The killing of the Ambassador and the other
staff is being blamed on a movie produced by an Israeli businessman in
the US, which was financed by other dual citizen Israeli-Americans.
This is the half truth in the propaganda. The trailers for this so
called movie that is an absolute insult to all those of the Muslim faith
was released in the Middle East one week before Sept. 11, 2012.
But this did not cause an armed riot that resulted in the killing of the Ambassador and his staff. It was and still is a smoke screen, designed to bring mass protests into the streets.
Every indication, when looking at past false flags, suggests that the Ambassador was killed by a military hit team made up of Israeli Mossad and US CIA. These extreme measures have become necessary because we the People have awoken to the reality of the international Zionist banking cartels, which are controlling the world’s finances via the US debt dollar, which is on the verge of collapse.
Problem-Reaction-Solution!!
Create the "Problem"....Make a video disrespecting a religious prophet that you know will get an extreme reaction from Muslims, The peoples "Reaction"... The US want justice! The "Solution"... We attack Libya to occupy Africa!! That was easy.... You see they tried to get Africa with the whole Kony 2012 bullshit but that didn't get a big enough reaction for the US to invade Africa... so they took it up a notch with this one.
But this did not cause an armed riot that resulted in the killing of the Ambassador and his staff. It was and still is a smoke screen, designed to bring mass protests into the streets.
Every indication, when looking at past false flags, suggests that the Ambassador was killed by a military hit team made up of Israeli Mossad and US CIA. These extreme measures have become necessary because we the People have awoken to the reality of the international Zionist banking cartels, which are controlling the world’s finances via the US debt dollar, which is on the verge of collapse.
Problem-Reaction-Solution!!
Create the "Problem"....Make a video disrespecting a religious prophet that you know will get an extreme reaction from Muslims, The peoples "Reaction"... The US want justice! The "Solution"... We attack Libya to occupy Africa!! That was easy.... You see they tried to get Africa with the whole Kony 2012 bullshit but that didn't get a big enough reaction for the US to invade Africa... so they took it up a notch with this one.
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