Member since December 2007.
My name is Joe Kou and I am standing up for what is best for all in common sense and self honesty.
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
Tonight we are continuing in the series "The Politics of a Burning Building". For the full context of this series, please check out - Day 19 - The Politics of a Burning Building: Introduction Day 20 - The Politics of a Burning Building: The Door to "Survival" Day 21 - The... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
Tonight we are continuing in the series "The Politics of a Burning Building". For the full context of this series, please check out - Day 19 - The Politics of a Burning Building: Introduction Day 20 - The Politics of a Burning Building: The Door to "Survival" Day 21 - Th... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
When we do not understand how our minds and our backchat operate, we become more easily manipulated and swayed by not only our own backchat, but also by others who DO understand how this stuff works and has thus turned "influence" into a science - one that is obviously not pub... —joesjourneytolife.blogspot.com
Tonight we are continuing in the series "The Politics of a Burning Building". For the full context of this series, please check out - Day 19 - The Politics of a Burning Building: Introduction Day 20 - The Politics of a Burning Building: The Door to "Survival" ---------... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Burning Building - Imagine that you are in a burning building along with a thousand other people, and there is only one exit. Above this exit i... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
"Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together." ~Sean O'Casey Day 19 - The Politics of a Burning Building: Introduction Can t... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
Tonight's blog is a continuation of a series - Day 15 - Giving Politics a Bad Name Day 16 - Restoring the Name of Politics Day 17 - The Politics of Failure: We can't change the system... can we? ------------------------------------------------------------------------... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that the system should change before I change myself, based on the habit that I have accumulated throughout the years of living in a capitalistic consumer system where we are trained and encouraged to BUY and ... —joesjourneytolife.blogspot.com
Tonight's blog is a continuation of a series - Day 15 - Giving Politics a Bad Name Day 16 - Restoring the Name of Politics ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day 17 - The Politics of Failure: We ca... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President ... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
What is politics? What does it mean to be a politician within the current system? Why has politics and the profession of being a politician become so negative in the minds of the average person, to such a degree where the mere mention of "politics" is enough for most peopl... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
Tonight's blog is a continuation of the series "The Politics of Protest" For full context, check out the previous posts in the series for a full understanding of the concepts Day 5 - The Politics of Protest – Part One: Introducing The Anatomy of Protest Day 6 - The Po... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
“If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable” ― John F. Kennedy -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tonight's blog is a continuation of the series "The Politics of Pro... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” - Plato Tonight's blog is a continuation of the series "The Politics of Protest". Day 5 - The Politics of Protest – Part One: Introd... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
Tonight's blog is a continuation of the series "The Politics of Protest". Day 5 - The Politics of Protest – Part One: Introducing The Anatomy of Protest Day 6 - The Politics of Protest - Part Two: The Build Before Mass Protest Day 7 - The Politics of Protest - Part... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
A point that is very prominent in this world is the point of seeing that the way things are going is not working, and becoming angry about the situation, and in this anger and frustration blaming others and demanding that others "change" or that others will just "get the pictu... —joesjourneytolife.blogspot.com
Tonight's blog is a continuation of the series "The Politics of Protest". Day 5 - The Politics of Protest – Part One: Introducing The Anatomy of Protest Day 6 - The Politics of Protest - Part Two: The Build Before Mass Protest Day 7 - The Politics of Protest - Part Thr... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
Tonight's blog is a continuation of the Series "The Politics of Protest". Day 5 - The Politics of Protest – Part One: Introducing The Anatomy of Protest Day 6 - The Politics of Protest - Part Two: The Build Before Mass Protest Day 7 - The Politics of Protest - Part Thr... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
Tonight's blog is a continuation of the Series "The Politics of Protest". For context, check out - Day 5 - The Politics of Protest – Part One: Introducing The Anatomy of Protest Day 6 - The Politics of Protest - Part Two: The Build Before Mass Protest -------------... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the f... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
"...But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us." - Rose Schneiderman, Labor Union Leader Day 5 - The Politics of Protes... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
It is very easy for us to become attached to certain things especially when it is in relation to things that we experience as being "good", and "going very well", and also especially when this point is seen as a solution to a problem instead of seeing and realizing the actual ... —joesjourneytolife.blogspot.com
"Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men." ~Walter Lippmann -------------------------------------------------------- Day 4 - The Politics of an Issue When we allow ourse... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
--------------------------------------------------------- "Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." - George Bernard Shaw --------------------------------------------------------- What is your Profession? If a pers... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
As we walk the process of self-change, often times a particular point becomes "highlighted" in our daily lives and it seems as though everything else comes to a stop and we tend to fixate on this one problem at the expense of all other movement, and it can seem like this point... —joesjourneytolife.blogspot.com
"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." - Charles De Gaulle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Which of the following is true? A. As of th... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
NOAM CHOMSKY "... I think the idea that you're supposed to have special qualifications to talk about world affairs is just another scam - it's kind of like Leninism - it's just another technique for making the population feel that they don't know anything, and they'd better ... —politicianjourney.blogspot.com
