I would like to see reform of the Global Reserve Banking system ie drastically reduce their powers and stop them stealing people'wealth via the Fractional Resereve Banking System. FRBS enables them to conjure money from cyber space.It is akin to counterfeiting for which you will go to gaol if convicted.Counterfeiting is theft and the creation of cyber money is theft by stealth.

It was not Fanny Mae or Freddy Mac that caused this collapse,they were merely a symptom.

See http://www.ronpaul.com/
Ron now has 33% of Congress that support his bill HR1207 to audit the US Federal Reserve.
Congress cannot find out what these private banks have done with the tax payers bail out money.This is the most important struggle happening on the planet at the moment and pop media ignores it.

I no longer have a BP, my life has been so "interesting", in the sense of the old Chinese curse, that I'm afraid I largely suffer a degree of ennui these days, the fire has left my belly so to speak.
I've been there and done that, an activist on a couple of fronts, a hard worker, a chef and a Crisis care worker, and a single parent, and a strange variety of other things and events, delivering babies, helping others not die alone, too much really, and it's made me just glad to be alive, however wounded it's left me, and though I do still care to some degree about some things, the drive and desire has died.
GOM or what? lol

My big picture is a generalisation of what others here have said. That of flattening out the world so that there is more opportunity for all and that all things human, environmental and economic are brought into better balance. The list of things that need to be changed is so farflung that there's not much point going into it here.

I've come to the conclusion, though, that my input is only a "necessary but insufficient condition" in terms of effecting that change. The Universe has its own timetable and the best one, as an individual, can do is to be aware of when there is an opportunity and take it. Until then tread water and stay vigilant.

My big picture? it has changed many times in my life.
While I am left of center, ALP for life I am no longer true very left.
My days of dreaming I can change the world are over.
But I can make sure I never stop trying to be a better person, no hate in me, not even for my worst enemy.
Understanding my reality may not be even near others, concentrating on the new me, 15kgs lighter and going down forever, the long walks ahead,
just excepting things I can not change.
That end of day good feeling that I have done my best at work while watching the moon come of over the hill, that is priceless.

I can't accept things I cannot change if I think they are wrong or ridiculous. That leaves me far less a happy person than I would otherwise be. Unfortunately so many things are wrong with the way society is progressing (or rather regressing) that it would seem to me to be irresponsible to just let thing slide without a contest of some sort.

Dear Romany,

I thought that my meaning was quite clear
from what I wrote in my previous post.
However, obviously it wasn't - and perhaps I
should not have used the word "hate," because it
gave you the wrong impression. Anger would
possibly have been a better word. My "Big
Picture," doesn't differ that much from examinator's.

I'll try to spell it out again -
perhaps this time I'll succeed. So, here goes:

Many people in today's world tend to be angrier
and less tolerant of others than they know
in their hearts that they
should be. (Just read the daily newspapers). A healthy
civilized society can absorb some anger and dysfunction,
as a healthy immune system can absorb some disease.
But a massive buildup of anger and mean-spiritedness
bombarding out social system day in and day out in millions
upon millions of individual doses overwhelms our social
defenses.

Therefore allthough I can't change other people - I
can be responsible for my own actions. A case of -
"Physician heal thyself..."

I was brought up to look at things from a positive
perspective. I don't want to be accused of being smug
or boasting, and I certainly don't want to pretend that
there hasn't been considerable conflict and pain along the way.
But I do want to be authentic and say that I decided
a long time ago that my ethos was to try not to judge
things too harshly.

In this country, there is a widespread tendency to think
that other people are the problem. Liberals tend to
blame Labour, Labour blames the Liberals. The media blames
everybody, and almost everyone blames asylum seekers.
Our entire culture seems to have become
a blame session.

I don't mean for a moment to suggest that
we all have to agree.
What I was trying to say in my previous post
is that malice and intolerance stalks our society,
trying to stake a claim to our minds
-and that is the influence
that I was determined to fight against.

I hope this makes sense.