Hey Soolay Saul where are you???

Today I didn't get me no little job so I am figuring just making the entries to this that I can get out more or less a combination personal letter and then the various political public type of things as I get to them either as I edit and read through "my stuff" or I check out sites that I have made note of or visited before that are related to the effort I am hoping we can get to eventually around what we do here...

Sooooo..... Even just a little looking randomly around the Web for ideas etc gets you realizing that there are a lot of people out there trying to "monetize" whatever screwing around they're doing with blogging and web sites and the like. And that, predictably there are countless scams and counter scams that turn out to be scams too etc. So I think we just go about the business of finding and creating quality content around our own personal integrity standards and keep at it and I'd say give it 6-12 months of really doing it and learning as we go and see if it don't get us somewhere- including to a place where actually "getting a little something for ourselves" for our efforts is an ongoing part of the results of said efforts.

To my files and some sites then... how about this here: http://www.unesco.org/cgi-bin/webworld/portal_freesoftware/cgi/page.cgi?g=Cool;d=1
an interesting resource at the very least... I first was looking for the “CERN” document server and free software from them for once dialogD gets bigger IE more documents and links and orgs cataloged.

For a little levity maybe check this out: http://www.anecdotage.com/ but hey sites like this one are not exactly what I have in mind... but then again I do think we have to talk to and try to involve, talk to, and communicate with more than just the current crop of more or less progressive liberal lefty leaning political type activists that are out there, you know, losing the war against right wing extremism and ultra unequal wealth distribution more blatantly with each decade since the 60's supposedly was going to change everything the other way and direction…

http://www.accuracy.org/

An interesting guy here, a Prof at UMass and this a recent article:
http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_5.1/wolff.htm an excerpt:

"When Marx likened wage-workers to slaves, he brought the lessons of oppositions to slavery to the emerging movements against capitalism. Put bluntly, Marx argued against forms of anti-capitalism that limited themselves to improving workers’ living conditions. Fast-forwarding to today, Marx would criticize movements such as those for “a living wage” or “pension reform” or “welfare increases” or “saving social security” and so on. A Marxist opposition to capitalism is rather one focused on its abolition as a system. Marxists, he might say, are to capitalism what abolitionists were to slavery.
For Marx, the crux of the issue is that capitalism entails exploitation. A large part of the population (productive laborers) produces a surplus that is appropriated and distributed by a small part of the population (capitalists). In capitalist enterprises, workers are hired only if the value that their labor adds (to the raw materials, tools, and equipment their work uses up) exceeds the value paid to them as wages for doing that labor. That excess value – the surplus – belongs to the capitalists since they own the outputs of production, sell them in markets, and thereby realize the surplus value in them. In the preferred language of capitalism, that surplus value comprises the “profits” of the capitalists, their “private property” to dispense in their own interests.
The less wages that capitalists must pay to workers, the more surplus they get for themselves. Exploitation thus situates tension, hostility, and conflict in the heart of production. Capitalists and workers are set into oppositional struggles. Moreover, those struggles ramify and provoke competitive struggles among capitalists and among workers. Alongside the outputs of capitalist production yielding impressive incomes and accumulating wealth, there are also the countless, ramifying social costs of the conflicts and competitions."