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John Bessa

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I am a worker, photographer, and writer. I am now working on a counseling masters degree focusing on youth and community, neurology and medication, and underlying genetics.

My photography is my greatest accomplishment. The style is the art of photojournalism, and I also photograph nature with much the same approach.

I try to show life, or tell a story, as it is by connecting with the subjects, or the impressions they have left behind as photograph-able artifacts. There is much empathy in nature, and the beauty of nature, technically speaking aesthetics, tells us that there is love in its creation, and definitely in its animals. My best animal subjects have been birds, and I have a significant beaver project. I am working to create an catalog of animal pictures especially within society's environments, or its artifacts.

Photojournalism, like journalism, has to be real, and not made up. What people expect from it is as artistic as fantasy art because they can use it to insert themselves into the environment that it portrays just as easily as they can insert themselves into a fantasy.

Occasionally the photojournalist has to step away from what is comfortable (and sell-able) and make a critical statements, and often the statement needs to be harsh, as there is some exceedingly harsh activity in the world today.

News: I am exhibiting widely, and selling work! This tremendous, as I never for a moment every expected anybody, let alone lots of people, to get my work :)

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       Monday, January 5, 2015
Orde Wingate: Psycho-contagion that destroyed Israel/Palestine (1930s)
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While looking into Israeli communism (which had to be different from the anti-Semitic USSR), I discovered the name Orde Wingate, a "nazi-like" English psycho-soldier from the 1930s and 40s who created mega-pain wherever he went. Most important was "Mandate Israel/Palestine" where he introduced English racist strategies to the early Zionist militia, creating levels of racist violence that assured that Jew and Arab would always be at war. Wingate was a contagion, his contribution was hate, his commands all failed and most of his soldiers died.
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(3 comments)        Saturday, March 29, 2014
Widows XP DOA on Apr 8th: FREE THIS ORPHAN !!!!
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XP will be orphaned on Apr 8th -- there will be malware support for another year -- but the OS is dead in Microsoft's eyes. Something like 1/3 of computers run XP, saving it is a democratic obligation. I probably should not care because I hate non-free computers and software, and I always felt XP was "rationally reduced" for your average marketing victim, but, stats show, people like it and, given freedom, it can be "fixed"
       Thursday, March 13, 2014
It's OFFICIAL, market crash in the offing --good time to unload?
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With every market rise there is a downturn, a sell-off that seems sad, but caring about an economic system is anthropomorphic (giving emotional values to a non-organismic object). Market crashes (and cycles) have basic meanings to us that are, in my opinion, highly-unsavory: marketeers require flux to make the money --if you think you can "time the market" as they do, forget it; they TIME YOU!
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       Monday, November 25, 2013
Money's rock and a hard place
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According to Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, if you oppose inflation, you support austerity (as conservative cruelty to the poor) even if you are a pious monk saving pennies for the poor! Saving, according to Krugman, is hoarding that deprives "the economy" of "stimulus." I save, and no one, except Krug and his minions has confused me with a conservative.
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       Thursday, October 31, 2013
HER! Hallow's Eve
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A Luciferian liberation parody about an ancient goddess, deposed by slumlords, rises TONIGHT(!) to bring hell to the oppressors...
       Thursday, September 12, 2013
Exposing Temple Grandin's Apsy Conspiracy
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This hypothetical concept has a good deal of support but leverages complexity to explain terror-trauma in terms of neurons and metacognition. on the eve of a Syrian war, an enigma needs to be looked at: why every culture experiences the terror/trauma of inhumanity suggesting that war may be necessary to limit it--if you buy a neurological/metacognitive explanation such as the "selfish gene." At the core of inhumanity is cruelty to animals: a terror circus.
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       Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Change.org: Progress to capital, the treachery model
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Change.org, by deceptively switching from progressive to pure capital demonstrates "the problem within the solution" that (I believe) keeps us in the "squirrel cage" or "mouse wheel" of zero- or reverse-progress.
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(5 comments)        Saturday, December 15, 2012
Defective Dominance
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Defective Dominance, a phrase I use often (but never wrote about) to describe the ugliness we see in "our" human society is "defective dominance." This is to say that, because it is easy to profit using cruelty, and difficult to prevent cruelty through kindness (or profit from generosity), cruelty, and especially cruelty-causing genes, win out in "our" synthetic world.
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       Friday, September 28, 2012
Tea Party hate and metacognition
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Groups like the Tea Party process thought in a "fringe" alternative reality residing in their barely-functioning minds (and thus broken brains), but surface in our world because they mutually support their alternative thinking processes, or metacognition.
       Sunday, September 23, 2012
Metacognition and the current dialectic: A "FaceBook" interview
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The metacognition is the dialectic of the future that will, through psychology, control individual thought; and through education implement the deception of Socrates' dialect with didactic efficiency using computers. You have been warned, but you still stupidly "obey." (In fact you probably will.) This interview gives the current thinking.
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       Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Farewell letter to Occupy's John Penley
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The critical inquiry into the occupy movement began with the hypothesis that "there is a copy of the problem in the solution." A copy of the problem was indeed found, and it is the Dialectic. John Penley assisted greatly identifying real-world examples of the problem in the highly-paranoid "Hedges faction" of Occupy.
       Tuesday, May 15, 2012
A violent response to the Dialectic, or "Daleks."
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The Dialectic inquiry is brilliant because, suddenly, all frustrations coming from double meanings is converted to the grinding screeching noise of the mechanical self-destruction of the machine that has been killing us.
       Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Occupy inhumanity with psych Part 2
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This is the second part of the "diary entry" -- Occupy inhumanity by understanding the underlying psychology
       Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Occupy inhumanity (part 1) by understanding the underlying psychology
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This is the core writing of the occupy critical inquiry facebook group -- based on empathy psych blended with traditional psych, it is what the empathy model started as, a manual to empower activists with empathy science.
       Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Online activism: Comparing FaceBook with Care2.com
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This is critical writing I put on FaceBook that you might describing it as a "brain fart" culture.
       Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Dark hole of civlization
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Western Civilization's "big three" were certainly gay -- was Confucius? My interest here is the difference between oligarchy and aristocracy: plutarchy.
       Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Lyceum: sodomists' synthesis
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Psychology is the ancient philosophical stratagem that keeps the egotists in control.
(1 comments)        Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and NRG1/ErbB3-4 signalling
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A search for genetic information about schizophrenia shows that a genetically expressed protein, NRG1, and two of its receptors, ErbB3 and ErbB4, are central to schizophrenia. Recent studies implicating NRG1 in schizophrenia often implicate it in bipolar disorder with the same evidence. But different studies focus on two different areas, myelin and neurotransmitters, and hence seem contradictory. Myelin implies neural speed, and neurotransmitters bring to mind, as an example, dopamine as a component of stress.
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       Saturday, July 10, 2010
Rattlesnake Rebellion: Recent notes
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This writing was part of an email to Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt who publishes here often. Ellen and I disagree on the need for credit; she seeks a socialist model where local government issues credit (effectively printing money the way banks do). After carefully reconstructing the development of finance from its roots as small rocks as trade tokens, don't personally see any need for credit except for small business loans. I do see how debt naturally springs out of its original token system, and I can see why the religious sought to repress it: too much of a good thing.
       Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Oligarchy: What we learned in the Empathy Group
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Sometimes the material is so important and necessary you just have to push it out. This is the tip of iceberg with respect to modernism, which is not modern...

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       Sunday, March 29, 2009
The New "Spys" are not James Bond types
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With Obama's impending offensive into Afghanistan, and probably into Pakistan in pursuit of, finally, bringing bin Laden to justince, the CIA is taking on ever more combatant roles, taking them away from the traditional, and powerful, US military.
       Saturday, January 17, 2009
Op Ed News on Care2: Discussions
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Op Ed News is on Care2 with a discussion group: http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/opednews

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