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Ben Diatribe

Thank God for Atheists

About Me

How can I talk about myself when...the proletariat is disappearing, 30% of the US's wealth is owned by 1% of the population, the practice of Fractional Reserve Lending is bankrupting the world, natural medical remedies are usurped by highcost concensus medicine, organiztions like the IMF(International Monetary Fund) & the World Bank impoverish countries with their lending/repayment paradigm, American children are taught false history & erroneous information by their school systems, gentrification ousts the poverty class from their homes & neighborhoods, environmental prodigalism & over population are leading us all towards a planetary calamity, xenophobia & ethnocentrism cause civil strife & war, six media conglomerates(News Corp. etc.)monopolize news outlets allowing them to hide the truth & put "Spin" on their filtered reports, the scientific method is relegated behind judaeo-christian faith based ideaologies, the so called "American democracy" is nothing more than a farce obscurring a capitalist plutocracy, pharmaceutical companies are allowed to patent living cells & genomes giving them legal rights over the fabric of life, political nepotism dominates American politics forcing the public to choose between two parties whos agendas work in tandum in furthing American foreign affairs by any means necessary, American jingoism is turning the world into a chauvinistic cesspool, social standards measure success through the acquisition of wealth instead of dissenting personal avarice, the American founding fathers are aggrandized into benevolent egalitarian men when in reality they were nothing but elitests wanting to abbrogate English taxes to satiate their own rapacious cupidity, there are over 600 FEMA concentration camps in america ready to house millions of social dissidents of the US & its policies, the Military Industrial Complex(Northrop Grumman, Haliburton, Lockheed Martin) use all of it's faculties to perpetuate war, the CIA smuggles & distributes South American drugs(like Crack) in the US which fund its secret operations globally.

My Interests

music, archaeology, anthropology, books, world politics, botany, physics, the unexplained, Ufo's, history, zen, ancient battles, zombies, dungeons & dragons, apocalyptic prophecies, tattoos, egalitarianism.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to pillage with Ghengis Khan, lock glares with Abe Lincoln, drink rum with Black Beard aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, attempt to murder Rasputin, receive a reading from Edgar Cayce, accost Sitting Bull, debate Daniel Webster on the state of the union, marshal with Bat Masterson, assist Masamune the 1st in his forging, break a fast with Ghandi, witness the duel of Miyamoto Musashi vs Miyake Gunbei, view the beheading of Marie Antoinette, storm the Bastille with the Jacobins, watch Archimede's Death Ray burn the Roman Fleet, trip with Dr. Leary, campaign with Alexander the Great of Macedonia, reject conformity with Tyler Durden, rebel with Nat Turner, prognosticate with Nostradamus, dance with Jean kelly, whack Bugs Morantz 2/14/1929, fulminate with Eugene Debs, research history's lies with Howard Zinn, wage gorilla war with Che Guevara, sojourn with Plato in Atlantis, abscond with John Wilkes Boothe, survive a Persian fusillade alongside Leonidas of Sparta at Thermopylae, expatiate the mysterious orient with Marco Polo, perambulate with Socrates in Athens

Music:

Dead Kennedys, Crass, the Unseen, IN-DK, Leftover Crack, Choking Victim, Morning Glory, No Cash, Toots & the Maytals, the Specials, Flogging Molly, Mos Def, the Roots, a Global Threat, Blanks 77, Bouncing Souls, Strike Anywhere, NoFX, Kid Dynamite, Mr. Bungle, the Virus, Oxymoron, Black Star, Dead Prez, Rx Bandits, Against All Authority, Blood for Blood, Cocksparrer, Johnny Cash, Generation X, Billy Idol, the Misfits, Naked Aggression, Blatz, Dropkick Murphys, Propagandhi, Gwar, Lovage, Falling Sickness, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Mc Chris, Wu Tang Clan, Street Dogs, Horror Pops, Against Me!, Sublime, Sick on the Bus, the Varukers, Operation Ivy, the Rza, Inquisition, Vice Squad, the Distillers, Rancid, Joan Jett, Beastie Boys, Behind Enemy Lines, Aus-Rotten, the Addicts, the Mad Conductor, the Casualties, Blitz, the Postal Service, Daly's Gone Wrong, Mischief Brew, the Infested, Trike, Catch 22, Streetlight Manifesto, Sonic Boom Six, Nim Vind, Volbeat, the Filaments, Antimaniax, the No Service Project, the Slackers, Suicide Bid, Rentokill, the King Blues, Babyboom, A Tribe Called Quest, the Dumpers, Pete Seeger.

Movies:

Fight Club, the Jacket, Old School, Napolean Dynamite, Return of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead(1983,2003), They Live, the Thing (1983), Ghost in the Shell 1 & 2, Ninja Scroll, Blood:the last vampire, Vampire Hunter D:bloodlust, Memento, 7 Samurai, the Hunted, Enemy at the Gate, Sin City, Raising Arizona, Wedding Crashers, Swingers, Conan the Barbarian, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Full Metal Jacket, Ichi the Killer, Zatoichi the blind swordsmen(2004), Goodfellas, Casino, Bubba Ho-Tep, Boondock Saints, Blow, Anchorman, Beatlejuice, PeeWees Big Adventure, True Romance, Dusk till Dawn, Evil Dead 1 & 2, Snatch, Mean Machine, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Clockwork Orange, Monty Pythons:Life of Brian; Quest for the Holy Grail, Top Secret, Loaded Weapon 1, Fatal instinct, Steamboy, Samurai X, Secret of Nym, Kill Bill vol. 1 & 2, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, the Professional, Groundhog Day, What about Bob?, Seven, the Lone Wolf & Cub Series, Lady Snowblood, Master of the Flying Guillotine, Blade Runner.

Television:

Dead Wood, Family Guy, Sea Lab, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Daily Show, Upright Citizens Brigade, Strangers with Candy, Harvey Birdman, the Simpsons, Rome, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Futurama, Faulty Towers, Colbert Report, Samurai Champloo, Ghost in the Shell:stand alone complex, The Office, Seinfeld

Books:

the Rune Lords Series, Fight Club, Choke, Survivor, Forgotten Realms Novels, Liveship Traders Series, Song of Fire & Ice Series, On the Road, the Art of War, American Gods, Snow Crash, People's History of the United States of America, the Origin of Species, the Communist Manifesto, the Social Contract.

Heroes:

Alan Watts, William the 1st of England(the conquerer), Bonnie & Clyde, Mickey & Malerie, Jack Kerouac, Skeletor, Cobra Commander, John Dillinger, Noam Chomsky, the Thundercats, Tyler Durden, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar(el cid), Richard the 1st of England(the lion heart), Super King(bender), Jello Biafra, Archimedes, Miyamoto Musashi, Charles Darwin, Maurice Sendak, Howard Zinn, Eugene Debs, Che Guevera, Carl Marx, Big Bill Haywood, Helen Keller, Sacco & Vinzetti.

My Blog

Water Privatization

When thrid world countries like Bolivia become indebted to the WTO(World Trade Organization) they fall prey to the WTO's repayment paradigms. A new insidious tactic of the WTO is to institute water su...
Posted by Ben Diatribe on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 10:07:00 PST

The Real Thanksgiving

In 1637, in what is today Groton, CT, the Pequot tribe were gathered for their annual "Green Corn Dance." On Thanksgiving morning the village was raided by English and Dutch mercenaries. The Indians w...
Posted by Ben Diatribe on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:47:00 PST

FCC's Follys

Recently Colin Powell's son, who is the head of the FCC(Federal Communications Commission), has deregulated the restrictions upon companies that limited the number of media sources a conglomerate coul...
Posted by Ben Diatribe on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:40:00 PST

Marijuana and Alzheimers

The active ingredient in marijuana (THC) seems to be a better choice in suppressing the abnormal clumping of malformed proteins that is a hallmark of Alzheimers than any other drug prescribed in the t...
Posted by Ben Diatribe on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 08:36:00 PST

Mourn Columbus Day

Its ironic that Americans celebrate columbus day. This day marks the date where Columbus (son of a weaver) landed in the "new world" in search of slaves and gold for the monarchy of Spain. The western...
Posted by Ben Diatribe on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 07:13:00 PST

The Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve is neither Federally run nor a Reserve of any kind. This privaticed entity holds billions of the governments assets (which is inheritenly ours since we fund the government through ...
Posted by Ben Diatribe on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:10:00 PST