How We Change the World System

A L O H A !

" We ourselves feel 

that what we are doing

is just a drop in the ocean.

 But the ocean would be less 

because of that missing drop. "

Mother Teresa.

" If I have ever made any valuable discoveries,

it has been owing more

to patient attention,

than to any other talent. "

Isaac Newton

“ A smile

is the light in your window

that tells others

that there is a caring,

sharing person

inside. ”

 Denis Waitley

 

 

 

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We met at "Occupy Wall Street" HackStar, iClaudius92, Tr33ni and me.

The people down there were good people, some of them knew a LOT,

we had a lot of fun, and we did stay wired, but we started to miss our relationships

and projects, and work online.

  I wanted to sit in a chair with a screen in front of me.

But HackS, iC, Tr33 and me stayed hooked up.

We didn't know it then,

but we 4 were gonna do

what ALL the demonstrations

All Over the globe

and ALL the good,

cheated people

couldn't do.

We were gonna use our IT abilities

to change the fixed financial game.

First, we thought that we would just erase

all the world's digital money-

which is to say: ALL the money.

But rich jerks would still have lots of stuff

and average people would REALLY suffer

in that scenario.

I didn't want to stop Gran's Social Security check either.

How to mess with money, yet not hurt normal people?

We were stymied at that for a while.

  Targeted attacks would be

very difficult and ineffective.

What could we do to free people & countries

from debt

to the already super wealthy?

A biblical Jubilee was called for;

Righteous & satisfying.

Then one night at like 3 am, Tr33ni IM-ed me.

An hour later we were all together

in the same room,

face to face.

" It's SO simple," she said

Like Y2K, a blanket hack;

simple elegant effective.

We leave Governments OUT of this,

so food inspection, and flight safety,

and military paychecks,

all stay normal.

We did fight about this for a while.

iClaudius92 wanted the absolute purity of leveling 

EVERYTHING,

but I wanted to vote and have the constitution

so I argued to leave real world governments out

of our scheme. But we clipped the "conference class"

at the UN. We left UNICEF alone.

Finally we agreed

to proceed!

It was like pushing a button

to reset the whole world system

and it was ridiculously easy to do.

After Fire-Walling the Govs,

we simply made ALL digital accounts

"max out" at 10 Million Dollars.

Records of mortgages, the IMF, credit card debt-

ALL erased too.

Small bushiness, average people,

heck, even the rich with less that 10 Mil

in the bank:

NOTHING touched them.

A few hundred greedy entitled people

around the world stared reality in the face:

They Were POOR!

  " ONLY 10 million dollars 

between me and the STREET!!! "

We laughed about those people. 

Some of them killed themselves.

But most people just went to work. 

The supplier sent the supplies- and got paid.

People worked and got paid.  

There was a definite

good mood 

everywhere

as no one was "underwater"

in a mortgage.

Small banks that had been prudent flourished.

  

So that's how we changed the whole game

without hurting average people.

Just a few commands.

And no longer would human kind be crucified

on a cross of corporatism-

for now. . . 

I'm glad we could help!

Thanks to Cloudia for the venue.

We will be monitoring your comments

so please leave us one! signed, smackHack

Leaping to the clouds in Hawaii

 ALOHA!

A street called AOLELE runs close to Honolulu Airport.

AO is a Hawaiian word that refers to any kind of a cloud, but especially high clouds that speed along before the wind..

Lele means to fly, jump, leap, hop, skip, swing, bounce, burst forth; to sail through the air.

So Aolele is all about jumping to the clouds!

" There is no sport equal to that

which aviators enjoy

while being carried through the air 

on great white wings. "

Wilbur Wright, 1905.

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 in 1899 a Professor Melville went aloft in a hot air balloon from Punchbowl.  The balloon caught on fire and the professor dropped through a kiawe tree into a puddle. This was Hawaii's first recorded flight.

  Some short time later, another hot air balloon ascended  from the slopes of Punchbowl on Oahu.  Drifting out to sea her operator, Joseph Van Tassell,  parachuted out of the balloon into Keehi Lagoon.  He was never found and was considered to be the the Territory of Hawaii's first fatal aviation's accident.

1897- Professor James Price flew in a balloon ascending to 3,000 feet above Oahu before parachuting safely back to earth.

On the last day of 1910- A promoter named Whipple Hall from the Curtiss Aircraft Company came to Hawaii with pilot J.C. "Bud" Mars who became the first person to fly a fixed-wing aircraft in Hawaii.  Taking off from Moanalua Gardens in a Curtiss P-18, he circled the field four times and executed Hawaii's first safe landing.

In June 1911- Clarence Walker took off in a bi-plane from Honolulu Park in Hilo. The areoplane cleared a a fence but quickly crashed into a lauhala tree.  He walked away unhurt, but the aircraft was completely destroyed. Perhaps the shortest flight in Hawaiian aviation history.

1911- French aviator Didier Masson flew the first cross-country flight in Hawaii from Schofield Barracks to Kapiolani Park, covering 19 miles in 22 minutes.

Oct 1913- Tom Gunn, a local Chinese man, took the first "paying passenger" aloft in a seaplane above Honolulu Harbor.

1918- Major Harold Clark flew the first inter-island flight from Oahu to Molokai and return.

1919- First official airmail goes form Honolulu to Hilo in Army airplanes.

Aug 1925- Commander John Rodgers, navigator, and pilot Lt. Byron Connell with an all-Navy crew, attempted the first Trans-Pacific flight from California to Hawaii.  Due to a fuel shortage the plane "splash-landed" in waters off Maui.  The resourceful US Navy crew sailed the plane to Ahukini Harbor, Kauai.  The airplane was a Curtiss PN-9. 

june- 1927- Lt. Lester Maitland and Albert Hangenberger flew the first successful non-stop flight from Oakland, CA, to Hawaii aboard a U.S. Army Fokker C-2-3 with three Wright 220 Tri-Motor engines named "The Bird of Paradise"

july 1927- 2 civilian pilots, Ernest Smith and Emory Bronte followed this flight within a month and were the first civilians to fly from the mainland to Hawaii. Their airplane, "The City of Oakland" was a single-engine Travel Air.  They ran short of fuel and crash landed their airplane on the south shore of Molokai.  Both survived the dunking.

Nov 11, 1927- The first commercial inter-island air service was established by Inter-Island Airways (now known as Hawaiian Airlines) with two S-38 Sikorsky Amphibian airplanes.  Scheduled service included Honolulu, Ma'alaea Field, Maui, and Ho'olehua, Molokai.  The chief pilot was  Charles "Captain Sam" Irving.

Jan 12 1935- Amelia Earhart is the first pilot to fly solo from Hawaii to the mainland landing at Oakland, CA.

April 1935- The first commercial flight from the mainland to Hawaii was flown by a legendary Pan American Airways M-130 Flying boat in 17 hours and 14 minutes.

1936- Volcano eruption on the Big Island of Hawaii.  Army airplanes drop bombs on the lava flow in hopes of redirecting the flow of molten lava away from the city of Hilo.

1940- During this year 1,153 people came to Hawaii from the U.S. mainland by air.  The flight took approximately 16 hours and the cost was $278 per person.

Oct 1941- Inter-Island Airways changes its name to Hawaiian Airlines.  Hawaiian Airlines begins flying the Douglas DC-3.  The DC-3's were flown to Hawaii from the U.S. mainland in 13 hours and 55 minutes.

Dec 7 1941- Pearl Harbor is attacked by Japanese aircraft.  Martial law is declared throughout Hawaii for the duration.

1946-  Hawaii Airlines resumes service after suspending operations during World War II.

1948- Trans-Pacific Airways introduces the first in-flight entertainment on passenger airplanes.  They featured singing, hula dancing and ukulele playing flight attendants.

1956- Pan Am Stratocruiser ditched half way between Honolulu and San Francisco after losing two engines at the "point of no return."  Unable to safety return to Honolulu or to make it to San Francisco they contacted a Coast Guard ship and rendezvoused with it and circled the ship until dawn when they ditched next to the ship.  The crew and passengers were all safely rescued.

1959- Pan Am begins Jet aircraft service to Hawaii on the Boeing 707 airliner.  The introduction of jets made the Hawaiian Tourism Industry what it is today.

Aug 21, 1959- President Eisenhower signs a proclamation declaring Hawaii as the 50th state of the United States of America.

1969- The Columbia spacecraft with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins lands in Hawaiian waters.

mar 6 1979- Hawaiian Airlines becomes the first U.S. scheduled carrier to operate a flight with an all-female crew.

Jan 1986- The NASA Space Shuttle Challenger explodes with Big Island born astronaut Ellison Onizuka on board.

April 1988- An Aloha Airlines Boeing 737-200 on an inter-island flight from Hilo to Honolulu experiences rapid cabin depressurization, blowing off a portion of the forward ceiling of the aircraft fuselage.  A flight attendant, C.B. Lansing,  is swept away in the blast, but miraculously, the crew is able to maneuver the crippled aircraft to a successful landing on Maui.  The incident prompted investigation, and new policies, in the operation and maintenance of aging aircraft.

Locals start referring to flying Aloha Airlines
as "taking the convertible."
March 2008 ALOHA is grounded for the last time.

1989- The Honolulu International Airport's Reef Runway (08R/26L) is chosen as one of several emergency landing sites for the NASA Space Shuttle.

 source:

Yates, W. Paul. Aviation in Hawaii. Honolulu, Hawaii,
Paradise of the Pacific press [c1936]

Recently, a small plane ALMOST made it to Hawaii:

                         and thank YOU for winging by today! cloudia

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Moon, Dawn, Waikiki

A L O H A  !

" No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face. "

 John Donne

Share pre-dawn, and dawn,
with me & October's Full Moon
over Honolulu :

Occupy. . . Honolulu Too!

A L O H A !

 The Grass-Roots response to the "Big Ripoff" is growing everywhere.

Float Like the Clouds on Air Do

Aloha!

Click on photos please :-)

" I have stretched ropes

from steeple to steeple;

garlands from window to window;

golden chains from star to star,
 and I dance. "

Arthur Rimbaud

“ He who kisses joy as it flies by

will live in eternity's sunrise. ”

 William Blake

" When you find peace within yourself,

you become the kind of person 

who can live at peace with others. "

 Peace Pilgrim

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When Thomas Jefferson designed the campus for the University of Virginia

he was an educated amateur who understood the proportions and 

principles of classic architecture, as a glance at his library

(the kernal of the US Library of Congress) shows.

One example of his wisdom was that he DID NOT lay out

the paths between and among his buildings.

Rather, he allowed the wisdom of crowds,

by pedestrian consensus,

to find the best paths.

Only after the flow of walkers was written in mud

were the paths paved and landscaping completed.

Though I am living only a "New York Block" or two

from where we were moored for 20 years,

it is 35 floors up, and a culture-shock away

from the life I have long been living.

On my morning walk, as well as inside the apartment,

I am discovering new paths and habits.

Kitty is doing the same:

nights at the foot of the bed,

morning crazy time,

then reflective hours back on the bed,

in the sunlight,

followed by
 hours of contemplation under the bed,

till afternoon treat time

and evening festivities.

One happy discovery I've made

is that my MoJo is BACK!

Being able to shower, choose clothes,

toilette and dress in climate controlled comfort

has made me feel, well,

like a girl again!

My looks are changing. . . 

BACK!

And it's not just the weight I'm losing in the face.

I feel graceful, and LIKE what I see in the mirror,

and the mirrors of daily faces

(yes, including me husband's).

I think I'm gonna subtract a few more

"lie years" from my age!

And though I'm too refined to discuss libido,

let's just say I have remembered the word!

Who knew that living in a hot, packing crate
(read: 'boat')

could cramp one's style?

Thanks SO much for visiting today!

What life-habits do you think might be holding YOU back?

Tell us in comments.  Warmly, cloudia

Critical Joy

A L O H A !

" The only currency I value

is the coin of the spirit.

That's very important in my life. "

Kinky Friedman

" There is no greater agony
than bearing an untold story
inside you. "

Maya Angelou

“ Everything has been figured out,

except how to live. ” 

Jean Paul Sartre

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Henry David Thoreau famously wrote:

" Most men lead lives of quiet desperation- "
 

But did you know

that there is more

to that famous quote?

" -and go to the grave

with the song still in them. "

Song?

 

 

 

 

Without a song to sing,

without joy,

life itself

is mere futility.

Thank YOU for listening to my song. 

                          Please leave us a comment!  cloudia

Love in Public

A L O H A !

"The main purpose of the stock market

is to make fools of as many

as possible."

Bernard Baruch

" The blackest despair

that can take hold of any society

is the fear that living honestly

is futile. "

Corrado Alvaro

" Only Americans

can hurt America."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" It is well enough that people of the nation

do not understand our banking

and monetary system,
 for if they did,

I believe there would be a revolution

before tomorrow morning. "

Henry Ford

“ Justice

is what love looks like

in public. "

Cornel West


 

       
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" Bad times have a scientific value.

These are occasions

a good learner would not miss. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The more insecure a person,

the more money they need

to protect them

from the rest of

us.

A confident person

understands

that we all share the sky

together,

and the best things

cannot

be hoarded.

Each day invites us

to the feast. . .

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" Much violence

is based on the illusion

that life is a property

to be defended 

and not to be shared.  "

Henri Nouwen

 

 

 

 

 

I believe in an America

in which the fruits of productivity

and prosperity

are shared by all,

by workers as well as owners, 

by those at the bottom

as well as those at the top. "

Theodore C. Sorensen 

 

 

 

Thank YOU for sharing with us here

Warmly, cloudia