Themes Within Modern Day and Future Unions - By Moses

It is now 2011 Astra-Damanos and roughly 1/3 of the Worldwide population are living below the Canadian Poverty line. Within Canada and the Unites States alone, we see the majority of the population living paycheck to paycheck. Here are a couple of brainstorming ideas I have about resolving these internal issues within North America.

1. The Ultimate Fighting Commission (U.F.C) could in fact earn a Federal Commission of $100 Billion U.S.D as compensation for their knowledge of fighting. Shutting down the televised events of the U.F.C would be an excellent idea for our children. The fighters' within the U.F.C Union could open Dojo's and build Housing Developments with longer terms of mortgage. ie. $400/Month over 50 years for a $300,000 - $500,000 House (Property Value). At this point there would be much less poverty stricken areas in Metropolitan's across North America.
After 15 years on a 50 year mortgage@2%Annum of 1 million homes, the economy would be thriving as 1 million people would have enough disposable income to spend into the economy. This is essentially an economic stimulus. As a result cost of living would remain stable, as would inflation.

2. The Major League Baseball Players' Association (M.L.B.P.A) and the Negro League Baseball Players' Association could become on par from the earnings of all Major Leaguers. The logic is simple. African-Americans suffered enough at the hands of racist Owners until Cum Posey organized the Negro Leagues, and Branch Rickey ended segregation within Major League Baseball. This Levy to the N.L.B.P.A is a long time coming.
A 1% Levy to the M.L.B.P.A and to the N.L.B.P.A (from all Major League Ballplayers) would result in this mathematical equation; .01 X $5 Million (Avg Salary) X 1000 (# of Ballplayers within the Major Leagues) = #50 Million U.S.D/Year (for each Union).
Why is this important and relevant in our socio-economic system?
As $50 Million is generated by this Levy, the N.L.B.P.A would be in a position to hire people at decent salaries, as opposed to being a much smaller revenue generator. Currently the N.L.B.P.A is the eighth largest Baseball Union Worldwide, only capable of hiring so many people at a far less salary than is currently given to employees within the M.L.B.P.A.

This writer would love to see the day where opportunities become available in areas that are considered to 'labour of love' to the majority of the workforce. By the way, paying $400/Month towards your mortgage would still entitle you to your basic right to life.

Internal vs External Thought Process Part 2 - by Moses

In the 1950's airwaves hit the mainstream without headphones being involved. Most people of that time played AM radio to listen to their favourite music, and this music was received by a number of people that were around the source. We lived in North America without the pretension of actually knowing something contrary to ones' belief structure, and we made sense of the music together.
In the late seventies and early 80's we saw the advent of 'the Walkman' and many people wore headphones as a convenience, essentially letting the music fight their thoughts. Fighting ones' thoughts outside ones' reality is paramount to conflict.
Today, in most North American Cities people wear headphones, or hearing aids, with uncommon frequency. For those that wear headphones, it almost looks as if they're paranoid schizophrenic's walking around yelling at themselves. Rather these people are communicating on the phone or listening to music. The communication device is now defining what you will think, or makes thought an ambiguity. The quantification of thought will always be undefined, to a musician this is known as pitch bend. This is why Bob Marley wrote 'Have No Fear For Atomic Energy For None Of Them Can Stop-A-The Time.'
We now live in an age where we can communicate to any part of the World from anywhere in the World. This is a technological conundrum. Where do we go from here? Satellite telecommunications are now common place. It is now possible to use technological devices as software devices to interface to other technological devices. With this transference between Hub to Hub, Satellite to Satellite, Hub to Satellite, or Satellite to Hub begs the question; What about software viruses?
In 1980, when Apple, IBM, and Commodore came out the hardware couldn't be corrupted by software as the software had to be approved to be sold on the Market. A modem (as seen in the movie 'War Games') could corrupt a mainframe, and hence we saw the danger of hackers. Today, when a person is on their Satellite phone conversing with someone in Indonesia (looking like a paranoid schizophrenic I might add) their phone will always be one push of a button away from being rendered useless. A premise that seemingly has become oblivious in the mainstream.

Solar Flares

A satellite in space that monitors human activity through a tracking practice can be destroyed by a Nations' airspace at any time. At this point, any and all homosapiens activity disappears from existence of any and all Governing bodies of any Nation (unless their is a second Satellite) - 'Enemy of the State'
In the former U.S.S.R this is paramount to destroying the activity of a Czar and his people. Similar to Jewish settlements being extradited (having their 'Satellite' removed from existence) there were several cases of Russian Jews being given lifelong imprisonment. Louis Theremin was one such person. Theremin invented an electronic musical device and was hidden from his own family, in the name of science. His existence was negated by the U.S.S.R when he was 16 years of age. This is an example of the cause and effect of a monitor appearing, or disappearing from all Governing bodies. A Solar Flare, in severity, is a natural destruction of of all such monitors (or Satellites). This, to many, is considered to be the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, also considered 'Armageddon'. A Judaic Death-star. Sometimes a moment of thought helps to clarify matters, this is something technology can't do for us. By the way, on your way to work today did you listen to the music through headphones?

Internal vs External Thought Process - by Moses

A thought that you agree with is your thought on that matter, therefore an internal thought process. A thought that you disagree with is an external process, as this is counter productive to ones' semblance. A thought that you agree with is not absolute truth. Perceiving that ones' thought is absolute truth causes an act of turbulence, as this is a fundamental approach to thought. At some level, everyone experiences an external thought process. To implement the ideology of never having an external thought, would essentially be mandating schizophrenia. To sort out your thoughts is innate, your affinity to the Creator of the Universe. Memory loss will sometimes occur in context to this issue.
Ampage is a key component when analyzing this issue, as when a person feels 'hell bent' they act out and make demands that in some ways affects others to act out. This is a boundaries issue as relative to whatever that demand or trigger is...
When we delve into the ideology of fundamental thought process we should consider the difference between appeasement and compromise. For example; 'Blacks' weren't allowed to fly to South Africa before 1992. Today, Jews are not allowed to fly to Saudi Arabia. To appease this ideology is essentially the legalization of Concentration Camps in that Nation. Appeasement is defined in the dictionary as; To give in to a demand that goes against your basic principles. This causes higher incidences of suicide. Compromise as defined in the dictionary is a give and take process through collective bargaining (if you see something a certain way you give or you take).
To make it illegal to be somewhere, based on Race or Creed is (or rather was) Hitler's Theology written in the Fourth Reich.

No-Fault Insurance Re-Explored - by Moses

When Bob Rae introduced no-fault insurance to Ontario in 1989 it was deemed to be a logical way of discouraging civil suits resulting from auto accidents. The logic was that the civil courts were being clogged by minor suits from victims in auto accidents, and no-fault would lower accident rates as a result. It is now 2011 and we see that this is pure fallacy. Accident rates have remained exactly the same. We now see victims of minor auto accidents afraid to report the accident they were in, because they fear their insurance premiums will go up. As a result of no-fault insurance, when an auto accident takes place both parties generally find their insurance premiums go up, regardless of who was at fault. The victims' insurance company has to pay for the damages of their vehicle and this is leaving people paranoid of just being in their car, as there is practically zero accountability to the guilty party. Yes, the guilty party may lose points on their license (and a careless driving ticket), however, they are generally absolved of a civil suit from the victim.

Just to clarify, there are two distinctly different no-fault insurance systems;

1) In Saskatchewan they employ what is called a quantitative monetary threshold. This sets a specific dollar amount that must be spent on medical bills, before a tort is allowed. Therefore should a construction worker be out of work for three weeks as a result of whiplash from an auto accident and be out of pocket $6,000 in wages (as his Union only covers a portion of his lost wages), he can't file a tort in civil court because the amount is less than $8,200 (assuming this amount is the monetary threshold).

2) In Ontario we have what is called a qualitative verbal threshold, whereas an injury incurred as a victim of an auto accident must be severe enough to take a claim to civil court for damages (punitive in some cases, usually lost wages). This means that if a construction worker only receives minor whiplash as a victim of an auto accident, he can't make a claim for wage losses if it falls below this qualitative threshold.

In either case what we see is very little accountability to drivers causing accidents. They may lose points on their license, receive a ticket of careless driving, and receive a higher insurance premium as a result of their role in the auto accident. But how is no-fault insurance fair to the victim? He/She (the victim) can no longer feel safe knowing they are responsible drivers. All it takes is one idiot and their insurance premiums go through the roof. Before no-fault insurance the police report of an accident was done in far greater detail for insurance purposes, and they used to even track the hospital reports for the victims' benefit. In today's age it seems like a matter of convenience to simply put onus on the victim to make a case in civil court. It's kind of disheartening to know that the law really has no clout in many cases because of unfair thresholds. Considering that almost 40% of all Canadians live pay-cheque to pay-cheque this could be why there are so many timid drivers.