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a FORMIDABLE FORCE For DEMOCRACY."


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SpringTwine

           poemSpringtime

Th.Trkstar...aWhile agoHandSpring

For now,

What has gone before?

A type of overlap , perhaps

Opening Future's door Th. Trkstar 2000

SomeHow this has become a bit of

"Over flow from" www.CUTMILITARYSPENDING.COM

Cut Military Spending ”

BUT with so much current Hate & WAR mongering I am a bit “perturbed”and feel the need to SHARE additional READING to assuage and counter the

madness.

Anyway, here's the list.

MURDERED By Capitalism ~ by John Ross

Blended Sharp Incisive Satire History & Humor Memoir with an Interesting*OCCUPY*moving along roller coaster ride story, leaping through 150 years to the PRESENT. *Excerpt*:

THIS 'globalization' – where did they get such a fancy name for Imperialism?”... “Now the nations are going out of business . Governments are just commercial agents for the transnational corporations and the WORLD BANK , and the 500 biggest billionaires in the UNIVERSE. Globalization concentrates all the wealth in the wallets of the few. The poor of the earth set up their cardboard huts outside the gates of the factories and sink deeper every day in the mud and the market. They lose their Histories and their Languages and their corn and their forests and when they fight back , Bubba Clinton or whoever the president happens to be hollers that they are terrorists and sends in stealth bombers...” Murdered By Capitalism by John Ross

BOMBING CIVILIANS: A Twentieth-Century History by Yuki TANAKA & Marilyn B. Young ~ These fine Essays bring “WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION” TRAGEDY to LIGHT , WHY ARE “OUR POLITICIANS” SO EAGER TO BOMB? & so easy with this handy SOLUTION.(..for them) PROBABLY they have "THEIR" own Deluxe SUBTERRANEAN parking places paid for by  "WE THE PEOPLE."

They make these crappy decisions, they should pay their OWN WAY...because they are basically “ mad cave creatures with crazy cave mentality, Incapable of appreciating the SUN.” Bombing Civilians: A TWENTIETH-CENTURY HISTORY by Yuki Tanaka & Marilyn B.Young

SURVIVAL CITY: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America by Tom Vanderbilt ...an INFO TOUR of sorts...Survival CITY ~Tom Vanderbilt

& NOW ONGOING Locally in the U.S.

The Perpetual PRISONER MACHINE: HOW AMERICA PROFITS FROM CRIME by Joel Dyer

Prison Privatization “FREE MARKET” take OVER of the AMERICAN SYSTEM OF INCARCERATION

with The “Catchy” Slogan: "WE Guarantee Occupancy"$$$$$$$~#NUMBERS Unlimited

 ~A change of pace & Thought ~

Where will we go after the last border?

where will birds fly after the last sky”

Mahmoud Darwish from Earth Presses Against Us

Also this by Highly Esteemed Mahmoud Darwish:

                 Book TITLE

Unfortunately , it WAS a Paradise”

Sixty Five Israeli Poets

share their despair over WAR & their fierce Desire for PEACE

After the First Rain: Israeli Poets on War and Peace by Barbara Goldberg


This comes to Mind for instance

Obsolete in an instant

Th.Trkstar Ides of March 2012

 AMERICAN "CorpoCRISY"

      Definitely Not the Sound of

       *   *"We the People" * *

           * Th.Trkstar August 19th 2011   *

***SOS ***---**MOBILIZING TO SAVE CIVILIZATION~ PLAN B 3.0 by Lester R. Brown

VISIT ~   www.earthpolicy.org   email: epi@earthpolicy.org ***

THIS is Disturbing:

The School of the America's

Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas by Lesley Gill

...Exported from the United States made in the *USA*

( another “alias” Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation ...& “you will!” “coop”erate )

Empire's Workshop:

Latin America , the United States , and the Rise of the New Imperialism by historian Greg Grandin

( ...you can NEVER HAVE TOO MANY GREGGGGGGS! Come on board! )

 

Ralph's Universe        ~2nd Sparkling Edition ~

                                           Amazon.com

                                      www.AMAZON.com

By TH.Trkstar                  ~Original version ~

                                      Amazon MarketPlace

TA DA DA DA DAAAAAh PRONOUNCEMENT:

IN Spirit of Universal Understanding, warm Greeting , Salutation , and just for the FUN of it the Original high Quality 1st Edition of Ralph's Universe by TH. Trkstar is now being offered Directly from ME ~ Truly ~~~ TH. Trkstar

( Author / Self publisher Gregory T. Garbulinski , Greg's Universe     * TH. Trkstar : pseudonym * )

3 Excellent Brighten UP Life choices are Presented . * Whatever you do will be Good * a Sure Thing.

( If the U. S. Government could make choices like these it Would be a Better World and Happy New Day.)

THE BIG 3

1.) The recent Sparkling 2nd Edition of Ralph's Universe by TH. Trkstar is Printed by and Available through   www.amazon.com    $9.99     ( You will surely be Pleased!)

2.) The Adjacent Amazon MarketPLace also allows Access to the fine Quality Original 1st Edition by TH. Trkstar from a Variety of TrustWorthy sellers. This option avenue brings forth a Surprise Super Bargain , Almost a Gift at slightly above the cost of Postage.      ( You will surely be Pleased!)

3.) BUT, Special Joy can be experienced by YOU with an Order and Procurement of the DELUXE * ENHANCED * version of the Original 1st Edition of Ralph's Universe by TH. Trkstar.

Recent inclusion of a lovely Blue Sky , Delightful Five poem * LITTLE UNIVESE * Laminate page transmutes this 1st Original to the UNIQUE content Equivalent of the NEW Sparkling 2nd Edition of Ralph's Universe by TH. Trkstar~ Essentially this is a Major Final Completion of the Glorious 1st Book that started it All.

In Future Years this will be a Rare find of a small Gem treasure , possibly more than ever expected , No Kidding!  ( You will surely be Pleased! , if not Happily Amused and Amazed. )

THEN : This copy will be signed and dated just for You! ...just give me your name and there you go. If you don't really like your real name just make something up and we go with that... How hard could it be?

Best and a Smile ! Truly ~~~ TH. Trkstar

( I do not use a stamper , this is the real thing~ "pen Power".)

ALSO : An Extra added Bonus from the Original 1st print material pages includes a Hand Colored * LITTLE UNIVERSE* bookmark by Colormaster TH. Trkstar . ( Yes, that's Me again , coloring too!)

FREE : * Free Priority Mailing in the U. S. * ~ and a special laminate "Timeles Heart" bookmark too ~(  this ADDITION of the "Timeless Heart" officially completes the book! ~ I cannot and refuse to think of anything else , at least for the Time being)

KEY RESEARCH LINKS ~more info and to ORDER:      www.gregsuniverse.com      AND         www.amazon.com

OFFER Valid in the United States ( ~ other WORLD Inquiry is Welcome! )

$29.95 Total   PLease send check or money Order payable to Greg's Universe

Along with your mailing address /plus e-mail address if you would like mail out notification

( Michigan residents Please include 6% extra for MI sales tax)

ADDRESS:

Greg's Universe PUBLISHING       www.gregsuniverse.com

2929 Haines Road

Lapeer, MI 48446

( 810) 667-3602 ( sorry , not toll free )

To contact Greg :  gregsuniverse@peacemail.com    ( Checked on Occasion , BUT I AM Trying to get OUTSIDE more and do less "Computer mania" )

Greg's Universe, publication

Certains instants dans le temps, peuvent nous enchanter, nous rappeler une certaine mlodie, tre le point de dpart vers une destination particulire ou vers un autre destin, peuvent capter la magie de la nature et provoquer une transition vers une re nouvelle... Espace, Relativit et imaginaire futuriste.
Ltincelante seconde dition de Ralph's Universe vous offre un univers color, une logique naturelle et un appel cratif lintelligence de tout tre audacieux dot dun esprit dexploration.... Vous sentez vous en veine, vous aussi ?
Nimporte quoi et nimporte qui peuvent tre prsents au sein dun Univers donn . Peut-tre une gentille conspiration plantaire et une rebellion de lesprit. Cela fait frmir !

Avec un sourire, Th. Trkstar

Le contenu de ce site est en anglais.
Toute correspondance doit nous tre adresse en anglais.

Cliquer ici pour entrer.

Greg's Universe, Publishing

A moment in time may enchant , hold a melody, point towards a destination or destiny, capture Nature's magic, and bring forth transitions of a new age...Space, Relativity, and Future Imagination.

The Sparkling 2nd Edition of Ralph's Universe offers a colorful collage, natural logic, and a creative call to arms of Intelligence to the daring individual and explorer....do you feel Lucky too?

Whatever or Whoever could be contained in a Universe?...

Possibly a gentle World conspiracy and rebellion of the mind.

Sounds oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Scary!

With a smile, Th.Trkstar  

All in All ...it amounts to a Smile

and the UNIVERSE

is one Timeless  HEART

Th. Trkstar

November 14th , 2006

 

 AMERICAN "CorpoCRISY"

      Definitely Not the Sound of

    *   *    *   *   "We the People" ** ( *...Repeat from above by POPULAR DEMAND*)

   *** PEACE ***

www.peaceandjustice.org

www.care2.com  ~ World networking

U.S.military "Un-Countable" expenditures

HUGE for this Planet & PEOPLE

www.cutmilitaryspending.com

to Cut U.S. Military Budget

 

"Timeless Heart" ~ Bookmark ~ Final  online addition to "Ralph's  Universe"... Print , Laminate, Enjoy!    *** Th. Trkstar ***

 

 

 

 

 

 


El Universo de Greg, Publicacin

Un momento en la vida que puede hechizar, sostener una meloda, apuntar hacia un destino o hado, capturar la magia de la naturaleza, y dar a luz una nueva era Espacio, Relatividad, e Imaginacin Futurista. La centelleante 2da. Edicin del Universo de Ralph ofrece un collage multicolor, una lgica natural, y una creativa llamada a las armas de la Inteligencia al individuo atrevido y explorador... te sientes con suerte tambin?
En un Universo podra incluirse cualquier cosa o quienquiera... Tal vez una conspiracin y rebelin gentiles de la mente. Suena atemorizante!

Con una sonrisa, Th. Trkstar.

Cuando entre al sitio encontrar que todo su contenido est en ingls. Asimismo toda consulta debe realizarse en ingls.

Haga Clic Aqu para Entrar.





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Greg's Universe, Publishing

A moment in time may enchant , hold a melody, point towards a destination or destiny, capture Nature's magic, and bring forth transitions of a new age...Space, Relativity, and Future Imagination.

The Sparkling 2nd Edition of Ralph's Universe offers a colorful collage, natural logic, and a creative call to arms of Intelligence to the daring individual and explorer....do you feel Lucky too?

Whatever or Whoever could be contained in a Universe?...

Possibly a gentle World conspiracy and rebellion of the mind.

Sounds oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Scary!

 

                                                                              BOO!

                           Nevertheless ,   ...Actual photo in true Vision appears on:

www.thtrkstar.com ~ Update with letters , links... thoughts, ... ACTION packages & ...things sent TO:

Washinton D.C. ...the WHITEHOUSE and..."CEO Obama" ~

When you have a moment View Inside Job narrated by Matt Damon ~*****5 starz

When you have a moment view Inside Job narrated by Matt Damon 5 stars*****

 courtesy "green" ALTERNATIVE link info: Green Party

 Pa          www.GP.org*GggGR      

....Trying...Trying ...Trying.........

This website has a MAKEOVER in ITs Future...

   * ALL Languages *MIGHT BE or Not* ( PLease use Your "special skills in sorting" ) possibly  in Unfortunate Dis~REPAIR (maybe a little...) THROUGH years of CYBER  TRAVEL ....Oh wHere Oh wHere has this website been?....*( ...although I have been doing some tweaking and it is looking BETTER! ...I call it ongoing UNIVERSAL ADJUSTMENT Process... )

    ...My APOLOJEEEEEEZIA ...Th.Trkstar

(... IF THIS IS NOT QUITE PERFECT YET)


 
 
 
Random Books to Share List:
 

EMPIRE of ILLUSION by Chris Hedges

The Everyday Work of Art by Eric Booth

Up Country by Nelson Demille

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark

Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz

The Tokyo-Montana Express by Richard Brautigan

The Gift of FEAR by Gavin De Becker

The River Why by David James Duncan

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson

Conquest ( Montezuma ~ Cortes ) by Hugh Thomas

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

3 Volumes The Civil War by Shelby Foote

When Pride Still Mattered by David Maraniss

The Healer Within by Roger Jahnke

NEMESIS by Chalmers Johnson

Lincoln at Gettysburg by Gary Wills

The Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth Huxley

Land of the Blind by Jess Walter

Cuba Strait by Carsten Stroud

FLOW by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The ARMS of KRUPP by William Manchester

Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka

To Afghanistan and Back by Ted Rall

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

IDIOT America by Charles P. Pierce

Deer Hunting with Jesus by Joe Bageant

I'm not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti

Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky

The World as it IS by Chris Hedges

WHITE STAR by James Thayer

KISHIDO by Peter Hobart

T.C. Boyle STORIES by T.Coraghessan Boyle

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Don't Believe EveryThing You Think by Thomas Kida

KI  extensive Choice references by Koichi Tohei & William Reed

Consider the LOBSTER & Other essays by David Foster Wallace

The STRANGE Case of Edward Gorey by Alexander Theroux

Peace like River by Leif Enger

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

In the Woods by Tana French

EL MONSTRUO by John Ross

The PRICE of EMPIRE by Senator J.William Fulbright

The ARROGANCE of POWER by Senator J.William Fulbright

The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer

A Question of Torture by Alfred W. McCoy

 In the GARDEN of  BEASTS by ERIK LARSON 

THE POETRY LESSON by Andrei Codrescu

The BOXER & the POET ( *Something of a Romance* ) by James Thayer

The ART of DESCRIPTION by MARK DOTY

The Financial Lives of the POETS by Jess Walter

CITIZEN Vince by Jess Walter

Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity by Elizabeth Gold (...a Practical Teaching Experience to Share... )

My Life in RUINS Nia Vardalos & Richard Dreyfuss


 

( a Curious Ode to Nature )


Whirlwind , gentle rain breeze


 Bumbly bee

 Fruity tree

 Fearless chickadee


 Mountaintop , waterfall

 These all , These all

Th.Trkstar 2000 *


 

 
 

To CEO Obama , U.S.A. Government in Leadership ( Washington D.C. Or B.C.?)

...A Trillion Yearly....

Project a Sensible Policy *True Innovation*

...with a Nation in "Dire Need from Within" how can a Trillion yearly be justified? ...with Continued U.S. World "Outpost Expansion of an Empire of Cards" that keeps growing like a "Contagion" , draws hostility and fosters the effect. ( as well as Unlimited Pollution going on along side of this and an eventual apparent appearance of being "the bad guy") ~ when will we "Project a Sensible Policy" that can be seen as such and SHARED? *True Innovation*

Quality of Life in the U.S. is being stunted & diminished along with Future Hopes. This list is Ballooning and in need of PROPER attention...not band aids and talk , BUT purpose of Action to BENEFIT.

CEO OBAMA exact QUOTE USA TODAY Forum Friday July 22nd 2011:

I'm willing to CUT DEFENSE SPENDING by Hundreds of Billions of Dollars.



AMERICAN CorpoCRISY Definitely Not the Sound of *We the People*



Greg's Universe Publishing/Th.Trkstar



www.ThTrkstar.com & www.CutMilitarySpending.com

Posted by: Th.Trkstar


 

Water moves from a high place to a low place.

Human Beings choose the Easy Path.

YOU must learn HOW to REACT and MOVE in any SITUATION.


Aikido Master ~ Gozo Shioda





 

                             **Grass Roots **versus ASS ROOTS                                      



                                        **Grass Roots **                                                      

                                                                          versus ASS ROOTS                                                    


Defend YOUR Personal Economy & Welfare

with INFORMATION ...& SHARE the WORD!


$ Dollars & Sense $ Magazine

( Real World Economics )

... current workings of U.S. AND Inter-National economies

...Social Justice & Economic Democracy.

www.dollarsandsense.org



In These Times Magazine~ 35 years ongoing ~ AMPLIFY Voices for change ~ Shine Light on Economic , Social , and Environmental INJUSTICES ~

www.InTheseTimes.com



 

...and this to share , a very "Cool Happening" ~ positive & uplifting

...a good thing!

   Made in Michigan Film Festival  

www.madeinMichiganFilmFestival.org

   Pix Theatre ~ Lapeer,Michigan  

www.pixlapeer.org

 

     ModernHeart

 The Cause is the Heart's Beat


 Some stood up once, and sat down

 Some walked a mile, and walked away

 Some stood up twice, then sat down,
 "I've had it" they said,

 Some walked two miles,
 then walked away

 "It's too much," they cried.

 Some stood and stood and stood
 They were taken for fools
 They were taken for being taken in

 Some walked and walked and walked
 They walked the earth,
 They walked the waters,
 They walked the air

 "Why do you stand," they were asked,
 "and why do you walk?"

 "Because of the children," they said,
 "And because of the heart,
  And because of the bread,"

 "Because the cause is the heart's beat
  And the children born
  And the risen bread"


 by Father Daniel Berrigan

 Read & shared by Howard Zinn

   More Patriots

   And the Risen Bread Father by Daniel Berrigan

   selected Poems 1957-1997

   non-Violent Action

   Disarmed and Dangerous

 ( Daniel & Philip Berrigan)

   by Murray Polner and Jim O'Grady

   Patriot

   A Persistent PEACE by Father John Dear

   ...for a NonViolent WORLD

   Patriot

   Disturbing the PEACE: The story of Father Roy   

   Bourgeois and the movement to Close the School of 

   Americas by James Hodge

 

            

   'Journalists Bear Witness No Matter the Cost'

           by Randolph T. Holhut

 ~ Dangerous Times Around the World ~

Reporters without Borders (*RWB*) “ Never have acts of  censorship and physical attacks on Journalists seemed so numerous.” That's why in 2011 , according to *RWB*, 66 Journalists were killed world wide 1,044 were arrested , 1,959 were physically attacked or threatened , 499 were censored , 71 were kidnapped , and 73 had to flee the country.


"Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defense or the Pentagon , and all the sanitized

language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes ...the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years. Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for wives , mothers for their children. Our mission is to report the Horrors of WAR with accuracy and without prejudice.”-Marie Colvin Times of London (killed)

           The Commons

        Independent Online   

      direct from:Windham County ,

                    *VERMONT*

  News Editor Randolph T. Holhut

           www.CommonsNews.org

 *Randy also edited:the George Seldes  Reader* (about the admired dean of Investigative Reporters   &  Witness to a Century ~George Seldes~  also author of The Great Thoughts)

   From MURDERED by CAPITALISM

                by JOHN  ROSS

"They were just doing a job.

       Making the World  

Safe for Democracy. Saving LIVES."

Napalm bombs , phosphorous bombs , carpet bombs , cluster bombs , fragmentation bombs , seismic bombs , dirty bombs , clean bombs , dumb bombs , smart bombs , germ bombs , depleted -Uranium  bombs , bombs that suck up all the air , bombs that paralyze all the computers , the Hydrogen bomb , the Neutron bomb , which kills All THE PEOPLE but leaves private property intact , the Mother of All Bombs , the MOAB , like God herself , all of them as Patriotic as the Cherry bombs that blow up the Sky each Fourth of July.” “...I saw a baby's car seat , a woman's high heel shoe , a torn book whose fly leaf was splotched with encrusted sand that made it look like the map of a country I had never visited. There were cluster bombs everywhere. They had floated down on parachutes as if they were Christmas toys and when the kids picked them up , the shrapnel flew into their faces. Other bombs had burrowed into the sand , converting the desert into a death trip for all who walked there. Some of the bombs were designed to blow your feet off , others your legs , still others your testicles and torso.

 "The Bombmakers sit in their cubicles  in those same impeccably white lab coats , sipping coffee and designing these Insidious Instruments of DEATH like so

many secret Shivas.”

 "The only good bomb is a bad bomb."

   John Ross ~ Patriot ~ Investigative Reporter

           Murdered By Capitalism                  


   Poet Michael Silverstein

   a snippet from:

   Hunting the Elusive Low Wage Haven

   It used to be so easy to increase our money flow,

   We'd moved a plant from Tennessee to Northern  

   Mexico,

   And if that weren't good enough

   we could always cut costs finer,

   By finding a relocation site in far-off mainland

   China.

   But then , our chief competitor devised a slicker 

   plan,

   He moved soft goods production to a site in

   Pakistan,

   When even that change didn't with his

           profit planning mesh,

   He tapped the child labor pool in nearby

   Bangladesh.

   The nice guy time was over , we got well

   and truly mad,

   And got in touch with folks we knew who

   called the shots in Chad,

   They guaranteed their workers would never ask for 

   perks,

   Their deal came with bosses who

   were former Belgium mercs.

 We now believed our overhead was just too low to beat

  'Cause even the WORLD'S poorest have

   sometimes got to eat,

   We thought below Chad's wages you would

   have to be a slaver,

   Alas, we had forgotten 'bout Andean prison labor.


   Virtually Pay a Fun Visit to Beloved Wall Street

   Michael Silverstein www.WallStreetPoet.com

   Songs of Wall Street an Anthology of Verse ~ by 

                 Michael Silverstein

             available: www.Amazon.com

 

 LaPaloma*The Dove*...I play it

    on the accordion with my good friend Joe, after  

                 all MUSIC is 

  a Universal Language to

    share and Enjoy!

       ...along with a Smile ~