To: Rayne
From: Jimmy
Subject: HI-PAR

Hi, I just got your email, I’ve been off-line for a few days. I can set you up as the first
one to do the HI-PAR, under archives I maintain. We’re planning a national vote
next year, free for everyone, where all representatives in an imaginary parliament,
may self-categorize under the word or words as they wish. Once the HI-PAR gets
100 free appointees, we can hold the HI-PAR election, meanwhile we’ll also
have a national ballot. I’m trying to work with the current cabinet, to have our
big deal on July 4th over the next four years.

I’d use either you name Harry, or Rayne, whatever you wish Your party/category
must be your “true” one.

Thanks for your interest, I can appoint you as member of state parliament (MSP)
and create an email and/or web link to your name, and that will put you on the
monthly bulletin automatically too. (be sure to email me if/when you don’t want
the bulletin, or if you “stand down” or any other appointments or improvements).

Thanks for your interest,
Best,
–Jimmy

Rayne Van-Dunem wrote:

Hi, this is the administrator of the hawaii_nation community at livejournal (http://livejournal.com/community/hawaii_nation). I’d like to ask you, the administators of the US parliament website, if it is feasible to establish a parliament in Hawaii, so as to allow all under-the-radar parties, movements, and organizations that aren’t allowed a voice in Hawaiian politics. Such would be especially important for Hawaii, considering the fact that it has been illegally occupied by the United States since 1893, which, prior to that year, had recognized Hawaii repeatedly as an independent and sovereign nation.

Sincerely, Harry Underwood aka Rayne Van-Dunem (http://livejournal.com/~rayne_vandunem)

PS: The most representative type of parliament is the one that has the lowest-possible ratio of MP to citizens in a constituency, as in equal proportional representation. So as far as the California parliament goes, the more-localized proportional representation in a unicameral parliament would be either (on a ratio of MP to citizens in a single constituency) 1:100,000 (which, if bringing into account the current estimate of the census in California, would give a unicameral parliament a number of around 320 members).

Just a suggestion for the California parliament.

Right now my ever-ditzy 12-yr-old nephew is watching Nicktoons, a cable/satellite channel that is owned by (obviously, duh!) the notoriously-corny-as-hell Nickelodeon (a Viacom network). It is basically what I call a “programming overflow” channel, where all of the old shows that have debuted on the primary network, but have either been pulled off the air for quite some time or is bound for eventual pulling-of-the-plug on the primary network, are rebroadcast on a regular basis. Often, this applies most to cult-classic series, especially within the areas of comedy, drama, and animation series and films.

In fact, such had been a serious suggestion that had been presented to Cartoon Network’s owners (Turner Broadcasting) concerning its Toonami block, as many cult-classic anime that has debut stateside on Toonami (and its former Midnight Run block, which was replaced a few years ago by Adult Swim) have been pulled off the air, never to be seen again except through the availability of p2p filesharing. However, many roadblocks appeared to make sure that a Toonami channel never would get off the ground. Instead, they launched Boomerang, a network that catered to old-as-dirt non-Disney-made animation (stretching from the 30’s-to-80’s).

I think that Cartoon Network missed out on a good chance to expand their horizons. In fact, alot of its own original programming doesn’t appear anymore, such as Road Rovers and other series, so an overflow channel for its own original programming would be necessary if they’re going to move any further upward.

I mean, heck, Nicktoons even makes room for independently-made animation shorts, such as those featured on tonight’s “Nicktoons Film Festival”, something that Cartoon Network used to do a few years ago, but then dropped. Instead, while Nicktoons and Toon Disney (another overflow channel, this time for Disney animation) have stuck to predominately Western or American-made animation, Cartoon Network has tended to lean increasingly upon imported Japanese anime for life support (and on that note, I believe that this past Friday was the first time that an American network has given a Japanese pop music group its own original series. Even though I was amused by the utter lack of seriousness that is a trademark of the more people-geared anime series, like Super Milk Chan and Fooly Cooly, I kinda find Cartoon Network’s increasing lack of intelligent programming ingenuity to be quite disturbing).

However, I understand that American (and to a lesser extent, Western) animation is looked down upon nowadays, as its seen to be something that is geared exclusively toward young children, and not toward all ages in general (on that note, let me express my utter abhorrence at Code Name: Kids Next Door. This cartoon is something that glorifies the stupidities, not the innocence, of childhood, and I usually tell my nephew to change the frickin channel, or else just plug my ears.)

I think that, if you want to find realism in animation, you’d want to go to the animators from Europe, who have probably made animation into a serious work of art, utilizing it in all possible genres, even DRAMA and politically-motivated activist art. That, I believe, is something you would rarely see here in the states or even in Japan itself.

So if you want dialogue in your animation, go to America. If you want graphics, go to Japan and Korea. And if you want realism, go to Europe.

However, I have yet to see the televised and regular presentation of a strong variety in animation here in America. If American animation programming continues to stick to this “live-from-series-to-series” basis, then American animation will never be naturally allowed to mature beyond its present level of degredation and stagnation.

Something to think about:

Continue reading The present shape of the world, as seen through my eyes →

“How do I transform (physically) into a snow leopard?

The present is embodied in Hexagram 52 – Ken (Keeping Still): When one is resting, and he loses all consciousness of self; when he walks in his courtyard, and does not see any of the persons in it, there will be no error.
The first (bottommost) line, divided, shows its subject keeping his toes at rest. There will be no error, but it will be advantageous for him to be persistently firm and correct.
The situation is evolving slowly, and Yang (the active masculine force) is gaining ground.

The future is embodied in Hexagram 22 – Pi (Grace): He should find a free course, but there will be little advantage if he advance and take the lead.
The things most apparent, those above and in front, are embodied by the upper trigram Ken (Mountain), which represents stillness and obstruction.
The things least apparent, those below and behind, are embodied by the lower trigram Ken (Mountain), which is transforming into Li (Fire). As part of this process, stillness and obstruction are giving way to brightness and warmth. ”

Wierd…

So exactly what does this all mean?

“You see, we have had too much of this foolishness of race. I’m not going to attempt to allocate the blame one way or another. I think more than one political party has been responsible for the crisis of race relations in this country. I think our leadership has failed us on that score. I think external intervention was important in bringing the races against each other from the fifties and particularly in the early sixties. But I’m concerned with the present. If we made that mistake once, we cannot afford to be misled on that score today. No ordinary Afro-Guyanese, no ordinary Indo-Guyanese can today afford to be misled by the myth of race. Time and time again it has been our undoing.”

“Does it have anything to do with race that the cost of living far outstrips the increase in wages? Does it have anything to do with race that there are no goods in the shops? Does it have anything to do with race when the original lack of democracy as exemplified in the national elections is reproduced at the level of local government elections? Does it have anything to do with race when the bauxite workers cannot elect their own union leadership? Does it have anything to do with race when, day after day, whether one is Indian or African, without the appropriate party credentials, one either gets no employment, loses one’s employment, or is subject to lack of promotion?”

“It is clear that we must get beyond that red herring and recognise that it is intended to divide, that it is not intended in the interest of the common African and Indian people in this country. Those who manipulated in the 1960s, on both sides, were not the sufferers. There were not the losers. The losers were those who participated, who shared blows and who got blows. And they are the losers today.”

“It is time that we understand that those in power are still attempting to maintain us in that mentality – maintain us captive in that mentality where we are afraid to act or we act injudiciously because we believe that our racial interests are at stake. Surely we have to transcend the racial problems? Surely we have to find ways and means of ensuring that there is racial justice in this society? But it certainly will not be done by a handful of so-called Black men monopolising the power, squeezing the life out of all sections of the working class, and turning around and expecting that they will manipulate an issue such as the Arnold Rampersaud affair and get the support of ordinary black people because we will say, ‘After all; is only an Indian. We could hang him. No sweat.’”

“Because, as I said before, you start with one thing, you end with another. The system doesn’t stop at racial discrimination. Because it is a system of class oppression, it only camouflages its class nature under a racial cover. And in the end, it will move against anyone irrespective of colour. In the end, they will move even against their own. Because, don’t believe if you are a member of that party today, that you will be protected tomorrow from the injustices. Because when a monster grows, it grows out of control. It eats up even those who created the monster. And it’s time that our people understood that.” a speech by Walter Rodney

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no highlights on the eleven o’clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be right back after a message
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver’s seat.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be LIVE.

Hey, does anyone have any idea about the I-Ching, or Book of Changes? Im doing an independent research on it to keep my mind satiated with info and stuff, and from what I have seen about the I-Ching (or Yi Jing), it sounds kinda appealing.

Check out this site on it http://littlestcat.com/iching/index.html. Please if anyone knows anything about it, let me know, thanx. *yawn* this kitty’s off to bed :-3

Im sure that many of you are not familiar with the fact that I believe that Hawai’i should be an independent nation.

Well, Ive felt this way since January 1996, when after we had just come back from a two-week Xmas/New Year’s vacation in Hawai’i, we received word that my uncle Mark died. We went to his funeral in St. Louis, and when we came back, I spent my time reading on Hawai’i and its history.

What I found out was so shocking to me that Ive never felt the same about the United States since then:

http://www.hawaii-nation.org/publawall.html

Now why would the United States do this? Why would they take over a nation whose sovereignty they recognized more than once? And furthermore, they never issued a declaration of abrogation of such sovereignty and independence, neither before, during, nor after they overthrew the monarchy.

This is proof that the United States canot even honor other nations and their right to sovereignty. This is fuckin’ outrageous.

Now see, when I read about Hawaii’s history, thats when I first developed a solid and realistic interest in politics.

Just a thought.

Im tired, you all.

No really, Im just tired of it all. What Ive been doing to myself (in secret, of course) has gotten so mentally sickening that I want to stop as soon as possible.

Why have I denigrated myself to this point over a course of a year? I once had these things in total disrepute, but now I rely on such things for pleasurable fantasy.

Im hoping to turn back the clock a bit and stop doing alot of things that Ive only been doing within the time that Ive come back from St. Louis. I will no longer do chat rooms, I will no longer look at things that are even close in nature to porn, I will no longer do THAT thing (you know, self-pleasure….), and from now on, I’ll pursue strictly the interests that I started off with in the first place, particularly therianthropy, neuro-linguistic programming, and (most of all) politics.

Sorry, I just feel crappy today…I’ll post something that makes ALOT more sense later…

Theyre at Versace’s funeral in Milan, about a month or so before her own time came….