And the disconnect continues, between what the public is told is going on in the world, and what is really going on.
Item. In the last couple of days, thousands of birds and fish have ben reported as mysteriously dying, all over the world. The internet has reports relating the phenomenon to the temporally simultaneous mysterious murder of a Pentagon adviser on poison gas releases in aerosol form. The public is told in the MSM that the cases were probably caused by weather factors, or loud noises, or let's-make-another-one-up-for-the-simpletons.
Item. This one a little closer to home, ie, regarding humans, only in a similarly fictionalized setting: the story-line of a major TV soap over the New Year in the UK had one of the leads having a baby that became a 'cot death' statistic. It caused quite a stir, with many viewers complaining in particular about how it was dealt with (the character substituted her dead baby for the live one of another mother, thus 'labeling' her as somewhat psychotic, and thus the story, in those viewers' view, being unfair to real cot death mothers). The social stir caused by this fictional event even triggered an op-ed piece in the country's main liberal newspaper, the Guardian, today (the 6th). Titled 'A pain that never fades', it was written by no less than the canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral. In commenting on his own family's experience with such a tragedy (his own mother), he remarked: "Yet it is also part of the terrible agony of cot death - or sudden infant death syndrome - that it comes entirely without explanation..." That is what we have been led to believe, Canon Fraser. A little investigation for oneself - rather than simply taking the word of the medical profession for these sorts of things ('No one knows the cause...') - will result in the knowledge that there are at least a couple of traceable causes. One is to the gases given off by cot mattresses that have been affected by such as urine (thus the value of the advice not to put one's baby to sleep on its tummy; without explanation for the reason). But perhaps the biggest cause is vaccines. Directly, in terms of the brain damage they can cause, or indirectly, in putting stress on the baby's system, and thus using up its vitamin C reserves - which may be depleted, or at least low. (Eg, due to nutritional deficiency; which was the main cause of SIDS amongst Australian aboriginal babies analyzed by Dr. Archie Kalokerinos; the subject reported on in his book 'Every Second Child'.) And thus the 'sudden death' is akin to the sudden death caused by scurvy. (Whereby, eg, previously healthy sailors on British ships would just of a moment drop dead; until a true medic researched the matter, and came up with the solution of such as limes for their extended period of times at sea. Ah. 'Limeys' - the nickname they got from the practice.)
What am I getting at here. I'm getting at the collusion of the western medical profession in the coverup regarding this matter, of cot deaths. (To the point even of letting innocent carers go to prison, in order to perpetuate the scam.) Their motive may be - have been - honourable: not to spook the public from letting their children be vaccinated. But if one of the side effects of vaccinations is cot deaths, Doctor...and if there are other serious side effects to the practice...which are also being covered up...do you think, Doctor, that this practice just might need to have another look taken at it? In order legitimately to weigh its benefits versus its risks??
No, appears to be the answer. Too much is at stake, here. Too many reputations, and second homes, and such.
Am I being too cynical? To continue:
Item. Specifically to the subject of western medical doctors, I'll insert a recent posting I made, on the comments thread to an article titled 'How Doctors Are Made' - about the controversy regarding foreign medical-school students getting positions in American hospitals - which I couldn't resist commenting on. On the site 'Before It's News', I remarked:
"Posted by Anonymous on 6 January 2011 00:09
"If these foreign-school students were REALLY smart, they would look into CAM [Complementary and Alternative Medicine]- including bio-energetic medicine - and get trained up for the future of medicine. Which I assure you is not more of the same, that has created a chronically sick society, dependent for life on drug therapy, because the allopathic school of medicine is in the business of pushing petrochemical-based pharmaceuticals. Health maintenance, not health preservation. The incentives are all wrong. These young people just starting out on their idealistic path (many of them; some of course are just in it for the money) should look to emulating the likes of Drs. Jonathan V. Wright, and Alan Spreen, and William C. Douglas, and Russell L. Blaylock, and on and on and on.
"Check out the Health Sciences Institute, and you'll see what I mean. There's your future. If only because we can't afford the allopathic future any longer; whereby the outcome is a variation on something that Lao-tsu observed 2500 years ago: in this case, that 'the more doctors and hospitals, the more illness and disease'. Think about it.
"I feel so strongly about this because I was almost one of them; on the western school of medicine path because I didn't know then how the world worked. A startling eye-opener, when it happens. Get a more wholistic training, kids. You - and we - will be glad you did."
And further on this subject, in particular of my anger towards the healing professions in the western world, and their gross dereliction of duty to their patients - in defiance of the moral instincts of the founding fathers of their professions - here's a copy of a letter I just wrote this evening to the Scottish paper I keep tabs on, regarding a letter to the editor printed therein today (the 6th, now the 7th):
"Dear Editor,
"Oh oh - here we go again. I refer to Struan Stevenson MEP's letter warning us that the industry vampire has risen once more in yet another attempt to fluoridate the Scottish water supply ("BDA's fluoridisation call must be resisted", Letters, January 6). Sooner or later enough of the Scottish public is going to become aware that this fluoridation business is just that - a business - and is going to bin it permanently, where it belongs.
"There is a growing body of evidence that fluoride does far more harm than good. One need only do a modicum of research to find the many websites and studies that blow the whistle on this scam. One of the most useful papers is '50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation' by Dr. Paul Connett (fluoridealert.org). And most recently, a study published by the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health linked fluoride in water, at even lower levels than what the Environmental Protection Agency in that country considers safe, to lower IQ in children.
"The kind of fluoride that they add to water supplies is a toxic substance, from the scrubbing systems of the artificial fertilizer and aluminium industries, which accumulates in our bones and tissues throughout our lives. While all poisons have 'safe' levels, common sense dictates that it is impossible to monitor fluoride intake in individuals when it is in almost everything we eat and drink; plus the amount of water and food people ingest varies widely.
"A 2008 report prepared for the U.S. Congress by the Congressional Research Service concluded that the allowable amounts of fluoride should be lowered in order to prevent children from developing severe enamel fluorosis and reduce the lifetime accumulation of fluoride in bone which "is likely to put individuals at greater risk of bone fracture and possibly skeletal fluorosis". This finding has been ignored in that country, just as similar warnings are ignored in the UK, because of one reason: politics.
"As even the Centers for Disease Control in the U.S. has now acknowledged, any benefits potentially accruing from fluoride are topical. Let those who want it for their children buy fluoridated toothpaste - and caution them not to swallow it. This is poison, as even the toothpaste tubes sold in the U.S. have to identify.
"We should be using the Precautionary Principle in this, as in similar issues. Which says: If in doubt, leave it out. And especially don't force people to swallow it who don't want to. That's mass medication. It should by rights be outlawed - not pushed. But if the industries behind the stuff had to treat it before it went into the environment, as a toxic waste byproduct, that would cost them money. So with fluoridation, not only do they avoid that cost, they make money on the deal. Sweet. For them.
"Too bad about the side effects. But that's corporatism for you. Caveat emptor.
"Yours sincerely,"
(etc.)
What am I getting at in this blog. For one thing, I'm getting at the spirit behind its title: that we simply cannot trust the Powers That Be running the show in our day and age. They are just too corrupt, to be listened to. They are perverting the freedom they have been given, to be a force for good, or evil, as they choose. They have - by and large - chosen poorly. Have chosen to look after themselves first, and the devil take the hindmost. Have chosen, in a phrase, to follow the evolutionary path of Service to Self.
They will get their just rewards for their choices. It's called, in a word, karma.
But what of us? What of the Citizenry at large??
And this is what I am really getting at, here. To say:
Citizen, I beseech you. I urge you. I accuse you:
You are taking too long to get it.
Whose fault is that?
Well; to some extent, it's the fault of our not having a true 'free press'.
But that's not good enough of an answer.
When things start becoming as obvious as they are, in our day and age - that there is a huge disconnect between what is really going on in the world, and what is being reported on in our mainstream media -
the answer lies within.
The fault is yours.
And mine. For not doing enough, to try to break through the barrier, between fiction and reality. Within the matrix.
So I will own my role, as part of the problem.
Will you?
And will you join me in setting it right?
'It': the history of humanity on this lovely planet. Urging us to do better.
For its sake.
And ours.
And that of our Creator. Who gave us the opportunity, to get it right.
Or not.
The choice is ours.
You.
Me.
Us.
Together.
As One.
Including those who have been playing their 'spoiler' part.
To, I must say, perfection.
Because they have gotten even me angry at them.
And I okayed this scenario.
So there am I, as well.
Dammit all to hell...
Thursday, 6 January 2011
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
...as we drag along the old
In the Comments thread of a blog a couple of days ago now by one Bob Livingston (of Personal Liberty Digest) on his depressed and depressing sense of the inevitable demise of the U.S. (the blog headed 'Farewell America'), a poster commented on that depressing state of America as including how the medical system is geared to having people be sick rather than being healthy. A response, by a female, defended the medical profession as, by and large, looking after our best interests. I have to dispute that take on the matter; not only from the historical record - as catalogued by such as James P. Carter, M.D., Dr.P.H. in his '90s book 'Racketeering in Medicine: the Suppression of Alternatives' - but as current as recent articles in the daily papers.
Item. Article in the (Glasgow) Herald dated 22 December, titled 'Alarm after huge rise in the use of anti-depressants'; sub-head: 'More than one in 10 adults prescribed the drugs'. People, people. Chronic depression is a symptom, not a disease. It is caused by a number of nutritional/biochemical factors, that can be dealt with beautifully by a good naturopath/alternative medicine practitioner. Without drugs; which don't get to the causative level, just treat the symptom. With side effects. And an accompanying article was headed: 'Drug prescriptions for ADHD soar.' Of course.*
Item. Another article in The Herald; this one the next day, headed 'Experts condemn "natural" remedies'. Quote: "Alternative remedies can be dangerous for children and could even lead to death, experts warned in a report published today.
"Parents are sometimes misguided into thinking they are 'more natural', with fewer side-effects than conventional drugs..." - Misguided into thinking they have fewer side-effects than conventional drugs? The poor, misguided sheeple.
The article goes on in that vein, constantly reiterating the refrain, 'conventional medicine good, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) bad'. The article is, incidentally, associated with a worldwide push right at this time to inculcate that attitude, including the recent passage of food safety legislation in both the U.S. and Canada which is designed, in the small print, (a) to eliminate any health claims for foods, and (b) to drastically curtail the dosages (and in some cases, variety) of food supplements that the public will be allowed to purchase over the counter; the latter 'push' in alignment with an international 'harmonization' of such draconian limitations currently making its way through the EU, and being implemented into North American law by the fine-print back door. These our erstwhile keepers are nothing if not clever. And conspicuously in control of the MSM.
Item. Next, an item, in the self-same Herald, on 27 December headed 'Scientists make diabetes drug breakthrough'. It details the sort of work going on in universities in researching drugs for this condition, and similar conditions. Which the CAM sector already has treatments for, which get to the heart of the matter. Not the hip pocket of the matter.
But let me conclude this gentle diatribe with just one of many headlines recently on the current flu epidemic; this from the Guardian of 1 January; 'Hospitals put on high alert as flu patients take up critical care beds...Vulnerable people urged to have vaccination'. One of those categories, of "vulnerable people", is pregnant women. What the public is not being told is that many if not most of those flu vaccines have mercury in them (it's a preservative, used in multi-use vials). In the elderly, it is associated with increased cases of Alzheimer's; in pregnant women, it is associated with miscarriages, and is known to cross the placenta into the developing fetus. Mercury is one of the most toxic substances known to man. And, quite possibly, others...
I'll get to that remark; but first, a generalization:
To those who say the western medical profession practitioners are just looking out for the best interests of the public, in, eg, warning people about/away from CAM, I ask: what do you say when it turns out that the western medical profession, in cozying up with the pharmaceutical industry, actively attempts to keep the public from 'treating themselves' by not allowing the public access to 'therapeutic' levels of vitamins and minerals. Vitamin C only to be allowed up to, say, 60mg dosage (the amount of vitamin C in an average orange); and vitamin D dosage drastically curtailed; etc. etc.?
'They don't know the dangers of self-treating' say the allopaths.
And you are a pack of hypocrites, say I.
And I'll say more. As to this business of pushing vaccines:
What the public doesn't seem to know, or understand, is why does the body mount an immune-response reaction to various food proteins?, what could possibly cause that response, with the body recognizing a particular food protein as foreign, to be attacked? I've already given away the answer: because various food proteins, and their 'molecular mimics', are in vaccines. And so are substances that are in our own bodies; hence, autoimmune conditions.
The western medical profession is causing us to attack ourselves.
At some point - and speaking of 'recognition' - we are going to recognize that we have had people in charge of us who have not had our 'best interests' at heart, but theirs - theirs, as in the financial reward to them for it; but also, as in keeping us relatively weak and docile; controlled, in order for them to live off our emotions. Keep us in fear and anger and so forth (hatred, envy, greed, jealousy), in order to harvest such emotions for their biological systems. They ingest and thrive on negative energy.
'They' are called Reptilians. Lizards.** The ancient Chinese called them dragons. After the galaxy called Draco - Latin for Dragon - where they allegedly came from. (Where did that name come from? Draco? The galaxy doesn't look terribly like a dragon...It's named after the race of beings that came from there; ie, from within it.) And they interbred here, with the humanoids here, to some extent. (Ever hear of some human babies born with tails? That's not evolution speaking per se. That's 'creation' speaking. As in the form. But not the essence. The brain. But not the mind. The Mind behind the whole ball of wax. So to speak: the malleable form we are involved in...)
We need to start thinking outside of the box that we have been inhabiting. That we have been allowed to inhabit. Like a kept pet. Or rather, like cattle.
It's time to free ourselves, and rise to our higher destiny. For we are more than just the spawn of a race of Reptilians. We have another side to our nature.
And it is that side that will, now, see us through to Ascension.
Out of the age-old box, limiting our senses.*** And into the New, aborning.
P.S. As to that latter subject: My contribution to the Livingston thread - which went uncommented on - read as follows:
"The biggest Ponzi scheme there is is the western monetary system with its basis on money as debt. We need to eliminate that block to a wholistic, cooperative way of life, wherein and whereby we exchange goods and services with, and give of our best to, one another out of a higher motive than the 'profit' motive - out of the highest motive: out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.
"This will not come about in America - the wayshower unto the nations - through the two-party system as it stands. That system has been co-opted at its top by people drunk with power, and by the whiff thereof. The country will be saved by the likes of the Transpartisan Alliance, whereby both the 'right' and the 'left' can come together, and reason together. The Powers That Be are busily trying to install their New World Order, with a One World government designed to make the world safe for corporatism. That is a step up the historical socio-political ladder. It's time to co-opt that stage of thinking, for Spirit to flow through the process more clearly, and establish a kingdom on Earth the likes of which humanity has never seen, but has felt, dimly, at the edge of its consciousness, as a possibility.
"The time for that possibility has come.
"So come, let us reason together. And not to worry about the 'religious' thing. Spirit will whisper where it will. And that's how individuals will be able to tell the difference between that which is of God and that which is of Man.
"A critical mass. That is all that is needed, for humanity to move into the New. Just a nudge. Because we're right on the edge. Of going down. Or up.
"Which is it to be, Citizen?"
---
* Which brings up the allied subject of 'mental health'. Which is treated in the same way, by this learned profession. That is to say, is not treated, very well. As another article broached recently; this one an op-ed column in the (UK) Guardian of 8 December, by one Mark Davies, a former adviser to the Ministry of Justice and current director of communications for a mental health charity. The column, titled 'Care and punishment', was about the huge number of prisoners with mental health problems, and the "conundrum" over how to divert such people from the prison system. The answer? "Effective treatment." Well; of course. But we're never going to get to there from here.
It also brings up the glaring fact that many prisoners are illiterate, besides having 'mental health' problems. Why is that. People, people...their brains are not working well. Why? Ah. That is the question. Read on. But first, a word on the "alarm" raised by this practice; which was neatly put to rest by the Scottish Public Health Minister, who spread bromide on the subject thusly: "Where anti-depressants are being prescribed, it is in line with good clinical practice." Ah, yes. That good clinical practice we know so well...which is resulting in an epidemic of depression, and assorted related adverse societal conditions.
** Not 'Reptoid'. That term can best be referring to a Reptoid race that seems to be benevolent in nature; so there are at least two 'camps' of Reptilians.
*** And our average age. We have been programmed, with and by our DNA, to die off far sooner than our Keepers.
Or otherwise, we would challenge them for supremacy. And they can't have that. They are, after all, in charge.
But not for much longer.
Nor of our 'medical' system. Which has attracted that sort of being, that loves such power over people, as in practicing the sorcery of pharmaceuticals, and in such a cold-blooded way.
Item. Article in the (Glasgow) Herald dated 22 December, titled 'Alarm after huge rise in the use of anti-depressants'; sub-head: 'More than one in 10 adults prescribed the drugs'. People, people. Chronic depression is a symptom, not a disease. It is caused by a number of nutritional/biochemical factors, that can be dealt with beautifully by a good naturopath/alternative medicine practitioner. Without drugs; which don't get to the causative level, just treat the symptom. With side effects. And an accompanying article was headed: 'Drug prescriptions for ADHD soar.' Of course.*
Item. Another article in The Herald; this one the next day, headed 'Experts condemn "natural" remedies'. Quote: "Alternative remedies can be dangerous for children and could even lead to death, experts warned in a report published today.
"Parents are sometimes misguided into thinking they are 'more natural', with fewer side-effects than conventional drugs..." - Misguided into thinking they have fewer side-effects than conventional drugs? The poor, misguided sheeple.
The article goes on in that vein, constantly reiterating the refrain, 'conventional medicine good, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) bad'. The article is, incidentally, associated with a worldwide push right at this time to inculcate that attitude, including the recent passage of food safety legislation in both the U.S. and Canada which is designed, in the small print, (a) to eliminate any health claims for foods, and (b) to drastically curtail the dosages (and in some cases, variety) of food supplements that the public will be allowed to purchase over the counter; the latter 'push' in alignment with an international 'harmonization' of such draconian limitations currently making its way through the EU, and being implemented into North American law by the fine-print back door. These our erstwhile keepers are nothing if not clever. And conspicuously in control of the MSM.
Item. Next, an item, in the self-same Herald, on 27 December headed 'Scientists make diabetes drug breakthrough'. It details the sort of work going on in universities in researching drugs for this condition, and similar conditions. Which the CAM sector already has treatments for, which get to the heart of the matter. Not the hip pocket of the matter.
But let me conclude this gentle diatribe with just one of many headlines recently on the current flu epidemic; this from the Guardian of 1 January; 'Hospitals put on high alert as flu patients take up critical care beds...Vulnerable people urged to have vaccination'. One of those categories, of "vulnerable people", is pregnant women. What the public is not being told is that many if not most of those flu vaccines have mercury in them (it's a preservative, used in multi-use vials). In the elderly, it is associated with increased cases of Alzheimer's; in pregnant women, it is associated with miscarriages, and is known to cross the placenta into the developing fetus. Mercury is one of the most toxic substances known to man. And, quite possibly, others...
I'll get to that remark; but first, a generalization:
To those who say the western medical profession practitioners are just looking out for the best interests of the public, in, eg, warning people about/away from CAM, I ask: what do you say when it turns out that the western medical profession, in cozying up with the pharmaceutical industry, actively attempts to keep the public from 'treating themselves' by not allowing the public access to 'therapeutic' levels of vitamins and minerals. Vitamin C only to be allowed up to, say, 60mg dosage (the amount of vitamin C in an average orange); and vitamin D dosage drastically curtailed; etc. etc.?
'They don't know the dangers of self-treating' say the allopaths.
And you are a pack of hypocrites, say I.
And I'll say more. As to this business of pushing vaccines:
What the public doesn't seem to know, or understand, is why does the body mount an immune-response reaction to various food proteins?, what could possibly cause that response, with the body recognizing a particular food protein as foreign, to be attacked? I've already given away the answer: because various food proteins, and their 'molecular mimics', are in vaccines. And so are substances that are in our own bodies; hence, autoimmune conditions.
The western medical profession is causing us to attack ourselves.
At some point - and speaking of 'recognition' - we are going to recognize that we have had people in charge of us who have not had our 'best interests' at heart, but theirs - theirs, as in the financial reward to them for it; but also, as in keeping us relatively weak and docile; controlled, in order for them to live off our emotions. Keep us in fear and anger and so forth (hatred, envy, greed, jealousy), in order to harvest such emotions for their biological systems. They ingest and thrive on negative energy.
'They' are called Reptilians. Lizards.** The ancient Chinese called them dragons. After the galaxy called Draco - Latin for Dragon - where they allegedly came from. (Where did that name come from? Draco? The galaxy doesn't look terribly like a dragon...It's named after the race of beings that came from there; ie, from within it.) And they interbred here, with the humanoids here, to some extent. (Ever hear of some human babies born with tails? That's not evolution speaking per se. That's 'creation' speaking. As in the form. But not the essence. The brain. But not the mind. The Mind behind the whole ball of wax. So to speak: the malleable form we are involved in...)
We need to start thinking outside of the box that we have been inhabiting. That we have been allowed to inhabit. Like a kept pet. Or rather, like cattle.
It's time to free ourselves, and rise to our higher destiny. For we are more than just the spawn of a race of Reptilians. We have another side to our nature.
And it is that side that will, now, see us through to Ascension.
Out of the age-old box, limiting our senses.*** And into the New, aborning.
P.S. As to that latter subject: My contribution to the Livingston thread - which went uncommented on - read as follows:
"The biggest Ponzi scheme there is is the western monetary system with its basis on money as debt. We need to eliminate that block to a wholistic, cooperative way of life, wherein and whereby we exchange goods and services with, and give of our best to, one another out of a higher motive than the 'profit' motive - out of the highest motive: out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.
"This will not come about in America - the wayshower unto the nations - through the two-party system as it stands. That system has been co-opted at its top by people drunk with power, and by the whiff thereof. The country will be saved by the likes of the Transpartisan Alliance, whereby both the 'right' and the 'left' can come together, and reason together. The Powers That Be are busily trying to install their New World Order, with a One World government designed to make the world safe for corporatism. That is a step up the historical socio-political ladder. It's time to co-opt that stage of thinking, for Spirit to flow through the process more clearly, and establish a kingdom on Earth the likes of which humanity has never seen, but has felt, dimly, at the edge of its consciousness, as a possibility.
"The time for that possibility has come.
"So come, let us reason together. And not to worry about the 'religious' thing. Spirit will whisper where it will. And that's how individuals will be able to tell the difference between that which is of God and that which is of Man.
"A critical mass. That is all that is needed, for humanity to move into the New. Just a nudge. Because we're right on the edge. Of going down. Or up.
"Which is it to be, Citizen?"
---
* Which brings up the allied subject of 'mental health'. Which is treated in the same way, by this learned profession. That is to say, is not treated, very well. As another article broached recently; this one an op-ed column in the (UK) Guardian of 8 December, by one Mark Davies, a former adviser to the Ministry of Justice and current director of communications for a mental health charity. The column, titled 'Care and punishment', was about the huge number of prisoners with mental health problems, and the "conundrum" over how to divert such people from the prison system. The answer? "Effective treatment." Well; of course. But we're never going to get to there from here.
It also brings up the glaring fact that many prisoners are illiterate, besides having 'mental health' problems. Why is that. People, people...their brains are not working well. Why? Ah. That is the question. Read on. But first, a word on the "alarm" raised by this practice; which was neatly put to rest by the Scottish Public Health Minister, who spread bromide on the subject thusly: "Where anti-depressants are being prescribed, it is in line with good clinical practice." Ah, yes. That good clinical practice we know so well...which is resulting in an epidemic of depression, and assorted related adverse societal conditions.
** Not 'Reptoid'. That term can best be referring to a Reptoid race that seems to be benevolent in nature; so there are at least two 'camps' of Reptilians.
*** And our average age. We have been programmed, with and by our DNA, to die off far sooner than our Keepers.
Or otherwise, we would challenge them for supremacy. And they can't have that. They are, after all, in charge.
But not for much longer.
Nor of our 'medical' system. Which has attracted that sort of being, that loves such power over people, as in practicing the sorcery of pharmaceuticals, and in such a cold-blooded way.
Friday, 31 December 2010
Inheriting the New
At the end of another year, and slipping quietly into the new, I take note of a couple of news items in particular:
* The Gulf Stream seems to be in shambles, caused by the lack of dealing with the Gulf oil spill in a proper, earth-aware manner. We could be on the verge of an ice age. Global Warming and Global Cooling are converging. We are being asked to raise our game on our lovely planet Earth - considerably.
* The corporate-government complex continue to have things their way in many areas.
On the latter note: I submitted this comment to an article, at a website called Truthout, on the continued gap growing in the U.S. between the Haves and the Have Nots; the article entitled 'Serfing the USA: Corporate America is Robbing American Workers,' by one Dave Lindorff (published 29/12; my comment early a.m. of 31/12):
"Unfortunately it would appear that things have to get worse before they can get better. Worse, as in the PTB wanting to eliminate a strong middle class in order to recreate a subservient feudal system; called, in this day and age, the 20:80 society, whereby 20% of the people will be handsomely paid for their services & loyalty to The System, and 80% will be 'useless eaters', deprived of any power, for thinking that they have no choice but to take the scraps thrown to them from the table of the privileged few. But that's only if they continue to buy the idea that The System as is is the only one possible.
"Enter the game changer: the understanding of the higher motivating factor than the human concept of 'profit'. That being the providing of goods and services to one another, and the giving of our best to one another in the process, out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning - the motive, in a word, of Love. And thus we don't even have to slash through the Gordian knot, as the answer to the riddle. All we have to do is slip out the piece that it is tied to from its moorings; in this case, in the two cogs of interest-bearing money and fractional-reserve banking. And away we go, into the new era, just waiting for us to inherit it. To, in other words, look neither Left nor Right but Up.
"It's time, in other words, for a change, all right. Real change. Fundamental change. Not just more of the same, on the same level as the problem. Been there. Done that. Next stage of life on Earth coming up. And with thanks to the PTB for playing their role so well, in helping us to get to it. For we are all involved; all have karma to complete, to inherit our next step. As I say: Coming up."
Happy New Year, everybody. And may it help ferry us to the truly New.
* The Gulf Stream seems to be in shambles, caused by the lack of dealing with the Gulf oil spill in a proper, earth-aware manner. We could be on the verge of an ice age. Global Warming and Global Cooling are converging. We are being asked to raise our game on our lovely planet Earth - considerably.
* The corporate-government complex continue to have things their way in many areas.
On the latter note: I submitted this comment to an article, at a website called Truthout, on the continued gap growing in the U.S. between the Haves and the Have Nots; the article entitled 'Serfing the USA: Corporate America is Robbing American Workers,' by one Dave Lindorff (published 29/12; my comment early a.m. of 31/12):
"Unfortunately it would appear that things have to get worse before they can get better. Worse, as in the PTB wanting to eliminate a strong middle class in order to recreate a subservient feudal system; called, in this day and age, the 20:80 society, whereby 20% of the people will be handsomely paid for their services & loyalty to The System, and 80% will be 'useless eaters', deprived of any power, for thinking that they have no choice but to take the scraps thrown to them from the table of the privileged few. But that's only if they continue to buy the idea that The System as is is the only one possible.
"Enter the game changer: the understanding of the higher motivating factor than the human concept of 'profit'. That being the providing of goods and services to one another, and the giving of our best to one another in the process, out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning - the motive, in a word, of Love. And thus we don't even have to slash through the Gordian knot, as the answer to the riddle. All we have to do is slip out the piece that it is tied to from its moorings; in this case, in the two cogs of interest-bearing money and fractional-reserve banking. And away we go, into the new era, just waiting for us to inherit it. To, in other words, look neither Left nor Right but Up.
"It's time, in other words, for a change, all right. Real change. Fundamental change. Not just more of the same, on the same level as the problem. Been there. Done that. Next stage of life on Earth coming up. And with thanks to the PTB for playing their role so well, in helping us to get to it. For we are all involved; all have karma to complete, to inherit our next step. As I say: Coming up."
Happy New Year, everybody. And may it help ferry us to the truly New.
Saturday, 18 December 2010
Calling All Souls
As the American dollar heads for collapse - on purpose; for the American Dream to collapse, on purpose, in order to meld the United States into a larger, regional entity, tentatively titled the North American Union, to be run of, by and for the corporations, in a neo-feudal New World Order - and I look in the daily papers (two; one national - UK - and one Scottish) to see what is occupying the people's attention, I see banality. Oh, the latest leaks from Wikileaks; but they seem to be curiously pedestrian, like the controlled opposition that the corporate world likes to throw up to itself in order to give the public the semblance of counterbalance. (Think, eg, the Valdez spill, and the environmental groups that sprang up in its wake that turned out to be funded by the oil industry; etc.) And then there's the rest of it. The continued, quiet privatisation of the NHS and the school system by the coalition government (and the continued widespread inability of Johnny to Read)1; the random killings, by sexual predators and drunken teenage females alike; etc etc ad nauseam.
Blah, blah, blah.
And I retreat to my cave, after walking out of a silly old movie, a 'comedy' with Eddie Murphy called Holy Man (bor-ing), and before it, sitting through an up-teched showing of the first movie made about my community, up here in the north of Scotland - made back in 1974-5 - and realising that if it hadn't been for an afterthought of one of its founders at its first public showing, in southern California, which I attended, I wouldn't be here today; for it seemed, on the surface, really to be a waste of everyone's time involved in the project, of tending a garden, in a caravan park (trailer park to Americans), in 'harmony' with something called 'devas', and growing a community up around that concept.2 Shoveling horseshit and seaweed into compost heaps; laughing at 'in' jokes in community get-togethers; dressed up against the cold: What A Way To Look at Life! - not.3
Fortunately the reality of the place has turned out to be very compatible to my spirit. But my spirits were, for whatever all reasons, low this evening; and got lower when, deciding to go through some DVDs on my recently-bought portable DVD player, I sat through one that had segments involved in the corporate takeover of my home country, and through that doorway, the world (according to 'their' best-laid plans). The first was a preview of Aaron Russo's 'Freedom to Fascism', a no-holds-barred critique of both the Federal Reserve System and the legislative and executive-order moves put in place by the Bush administration to declare Martial Law and take over the country when the proverbial hits the fan. The next was a short 'take' on 9/11, and how that caper really didn't hold up under scrutiny; turned out to be a godsend, you should excuse the expression, for the Bush administration and the Neocons to do what they obviously long wanted to do, which was to go into the Middle East and secure the oil for the U.S. Empire. And the next was a longer take on that obscenity, by David Ray Griffin, who has written a number of books systematically shining a light on the serious discrepancies in its official version. Which brought it all back up for me: my anger at how the PTB have such a control over the mainstream media that it doesn't even matter if some individuals uncover holes in their scenario, and even share it with audiences, live and in books: they run the dog and pony show.
Disgusted with them, and with mankind in general - Folks! How can you live as if there were no God? Either there is or there is not. If there is not, then nothing really matters anyway, and you might as well live the way you are. But if there is - and there is plenty of evidence that there is indeed something more than Man - then you should be living as if there WERE 'something more than Man'. WE should be living as if there were, since I am - at this point in time, at least - one of you. And I am trying my damnedest to do so. But you are making it very hard on me; on all of us who are trying to live up to that potential4 - I took a break from the drama, and put on a CD of some soothing classical music. And finally, at a rendition of Albinoni's Adagio from Oboe Concerto in D Minor, I calmed down.5 But I beseech you, people:
We can do better than this.
We MUST do better than this.
In order to prove that the Plan, of free will - of freely returning to Source - is superior to the involutionary plan of control. Of forcing people to be a certain way.
Because that way is the way of tyrants ruling the Earth; stalking it like Rex of old.
And I for one will not let that happen.
But I - and We, so conceived, and so dedicated - need your help.
Please rise to the occasion.
Now.
A new world awaits.
And NOT the New World Order of those who are under the control of those dark forces that give opposition to the working out of our Creator's superior plan for 'his' children. 'His' sparks of the Divine. Separate unto themselves only for a time, and a season.
And the season has come to bring that new world about.
Before the old collapses to the point that it takes longer to achieve Synthesis. Transition. Ascension.
Awaiting us.
Now.
---
1 A subject in itself; and involving both the 'right' and the 'left' sides of the political aisle. The Right may be in charge of educational issues at this time, but it was not ever thus. In the '30s and '40s especially, in the U.S (to my knowledge; it may have been true as well in the UK, home of the Fabian Society, pioneers of the philosophy and technique), socialists commanded the heights of educational philosophy, and instituted a method of teaching reading designed to control the child's exposure to information. Rather than teaching Johnny merely to read, they desired to 'educate' him to read 'with comprehension' - comprehension of what they wanted him to be raised with. Which was a brainwashed exposure to leftist propaganda, in keeping with the thinking of such 'educational' philosophers as John Dewey. How to do that. Eureka: Bring the child up with controlled material, slowly fed to him/her over the critical, early years. (As pioneered by such as the Catholic Church, whose propagandists asserted 'Give me a child to the age of six and I will have him for life' or words to that effect. Also used by the Nazis, and the Soviets.) Instead of learning how to sound out words for himself, by being taught to understand the alphabet, Johnny was 'taught' to recognize words by their shape, and association with visual cues. Thus, 'cat' with a cat; and 'monkey' with a picture of a monkey hanging off the tail of the 'y'. (I have actually seen this, in a primer I perused when starting to investigate this matter, of Johnny's difficulty in learning how to read; which subject I first came across at my university, in the mid-'50s, when I browsed the campus bookstore for interesting material before early-departure from those hallowed halls of ivy for my 'learning' in the world at large, and then revisited over a decade later, when I was having my eyes opened to left-wing shenanigans by right-wing literature. Which included seeing an early-years reading primer telling the story of how one squirrel informs his mate that he doesn't have to save his nuts over the winter because "the little boy in the White House" - pictured - will provide him with all he needs.) It is the old Egyptian system of hieroglyphics, "in which pictures or symbols are used to represent objects, concepts, or sounds" (similar to Chinese pictographs). This requires the child to have to memorize the forms, a far harder task than simply learning how to sound out words for herself. And so the child in such a system is patiently brought up in/with a controlled vocabulary, and stories.
The 'Right' part of the Faustian bargain happened when the corporate world of the medical-pharmaceutical-government complex instituted mandatory vaccination in elementary schools, without sufficient regard for the potential side effects of this wondrous new medical modality. It came into being in the U.S. starting in the late '40s, and by the '50s signs of brain damage were already surfacing, in the forms of what has come to be known as ADD and ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and full-blown autism (aka the euphemistically lump-summed 'Learning Disabilities') - let alone other iatrogenically-induced conditions, like a whole range of autoimmune 'diseases', and other neurological disorders, like epilepsy/seizures, and 'social violence and criminality'. (The latter phrase part of the title of a book on this subject by one Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D., arguably the U.S.'s foremost medical historian. The whole phenomenon obscured because of the time lag between the child's shots and his formal education years.) Thus, our children - and through them, our societal conditions as a whole - have been seesawed between the machinations of both the Left and the Right for over half a century.
It's time, and past, for a change.
(N.B. Are vaccinations the only cause of the brain damage that has been afflicting humanity for the past half a century in particular? No. Another cause is fluoridation of our water supplies - which started at roughly the same time. Another cause of the unclarity around causation. And another is the widespread use of pesticides. Altogether: A perfect storm. Which needs to be sorted out. Now. Before we can take less hesitant steps into our future, on this hurting planet. Hurting, because of our abuse of it. Reflecting our own inner abuse.)
2 The 'afterthought' involved the community's recent purchase of the hotel that the founders of the community had formerly managed before moving to a caravan park on a windswept section of a forlorn peninsula next door to a military airbase, from which big nasty birds continually took off in the background, overriding the quaint conversations taking place in the foreground. I remember sitting in the large audience at its first screening, at a week-long 'new age' convention in Santa Monica, and being rather unimpressed; touched by the sincerity of the people, but unmoved. Until the male of the couple who had founded the community, Peter Caddy - a former RAF catering officer, and manager of that four-star hotel, now reduced to penury, and making the most of it, with some gullible and idealistic young hippy types, mostly - stood back up at its completion, to polite applause, and announced that they had just bought said hotel, for the next stage of the community's development - to be its main educational base - and if anybody in the audience was interested in that aspect of the community, ie the running of the hotel as an educational centre, to come up and see him afterwards. And I got a tap on my figurative shoulder. That's your cue, it said.
'It' caused me to seek him out afterwards - as did a number of others from that audience. He quickly 'got' that some of them thought he was just talking about a congenial place to work for awhile - perhaps before heading off for India, as was the zeitgeist of that time for many young people - and he clarified that he had meant that he was interested in people who had some life experience to come and join the community, especially to help with that enterprise; and if anyone still felt drawn, after that clarification, to write something about themselves, and submit it to him later in the week. The next day I went up to him with my brief resume, which outlined my experience as a 'building maintenance foreman' of a crew with the cleaning contract at a holiday resort in Idaho (name of Sun Valley, where I had worked for a summer season and part of the following winter one, back a half-a-dozen years before, when I had had too much of the hustle and bustle of life in the L.A. area and needed a change). He read it, and handed it back, saying, "I agree; you should come," and walked away. And I thought: Great. Now how does one get to the north of Scotland, and stay awhile?
One gets here by getting here. And my stay has lasted me most of the past 34 years since that fortuitous encounter in southern California, at an event looking at something being called 'the new age'. Which I was to find out more about, after getting involved in it.
N.B. Only some years later did I find out that I was, in the eyes of the community members, one of 'Peter's boys'. he had a habit of keeping his eyes out, when he traveled in the world, for people whom he thought had something to give to the community, and then telling them there that so-and-so was coming to do such-and-such. It turned out that he had told them that he had found the person to hold the focus for the renovation of Cluny (Hill Hotel, hereinafter to be known as Cluny Hill College). When, during that renovation work, the winter of '75-'76, one of the leaders of the group came up to me and announced, "Well Stan, we're ready for you to take over now," I hadn't a clue what they were talking about. I had been a foreman of a crew that did basic maintenance of buildings, ie, sweeping, mopping, cleaning toilets, waxing dance floors, setting the fires in the bedroom fireplaces, etc etc - not the plumbing and electrics. The guy went away and reported this to his team, and I never heard anything more about that peculiar interaction, until some years later when I overheard that I was an example of how Peter could be wrong but also right - that someone would come there under the wrong impression, but be the right person after all.
That was some consolation, after realising I was there - here - under false pretences.
3 The title of one of the community's sing-along music tapes.
4 I have seen what you can do in the way you have developed, and though it has some merit, I am, overall, not impressed. I am not interested in a system that leaves so many people destitute. You can do better than this. WE can do better than this. Let's be about it. Dammit. Come out from under the control of the moneychangers, and CLAIM YOUR MATURITY.
And the next step after that: Release that which causes suffering: desire. Why would individuals keep going around and around on the wheel of rebirth, accruing karma, which by definition needs to be paid off, like an educational loan, once they realise - really grok - what is going on? what the purpose of the whole exercise is??
Come ON, people.
Show me your best, humanity. Not this ignoble business you are engaged in right now; involved in, to the extent that you can't see the forest for the trees.
5 And was briefly reminded of the last time I needed some classical music to soothe my soul. That was in university, during the time when I was still in ROTC - this was at the time of the Korean War, and we were being prepared, as dutiful university students, to be officers in that conflict - and one hot afternoon was sitting through a class on different kinds of machine guns. What?! I thought. Machine guns? This is insane. I'm not going to fire no stinking machine gun. What in blazes is going on in this world I have found myself in?? And I went home in a bit of a delirium, and locked my dormitory-room door, and put on some Wagner, and laid on my bed with my eyes closed to that outside world, and bathed in the music, to try to come back down to some sort of inner reality, that had nothing to do with air-cooled, x-millimeter, such-and-such caliber machine guns, for heaven's sakes. And that was it: I stopped going to ROTC class. Got in some trouble for it. But no matter. That wasn't my path. Somehow. Some way. There was more to life than this effing nonsense, of socially-constructed enemies, who you then treated as trading partners afterwards - all in order to make money. Get me OUT of this nonsensical reality, I thought. It doesn't compute. Even before computers came on the market...
Blah, blah, blah.
And I retreat to my cave, after walking out of a silly old movie, a 'comedy' with Eddie Murphy called Holy Man (bor-ing), and before it, sitting through an up-teched showing of the first movie made about my community, up here in the north of Scotland - made back in 1974-5 - and realising that if it hadn't been for an afterthought of one of its founders at its first public showing, in southern California, which I attended, I wouldn't be here today; for it seemed, on the surface, really to be a waste of everyone's time involved in the project, of tending a garden, in a caravan park (trailer park to Americans), in 'harmony' with something called 'devas', and growing a community up around that concept.2 Shoveling horseshit and seaweed into compost heaps; laughing at 'in' jokes in community get-togethers; dressed up against the cold: What A Way To Look at Life! - not.3
Fortunately the reality of the place has turned out to be very compatible to my spirit. But my spirits were, for whatever all reasons, low this evening; and got lower when, deciding to go through some DVDs on my recently-bought portable DVD player, I sat through one that had segments involved in the corporate takeover of my home country, and through that doorway, the world (according to 'their' best-laid plans). The first was a preview of Aaron Russo's 'Freedom to Fascism', a no-holds-barred critique of both the Federal Reserve System and the legislative and executive-order moves put in place by the Bush administration to declare Martial Law and take over the country when the proverbial hits the fan. The next was a short 'take' on 9/11, and how that caper really didn't hold up under scrutiny; turned out to be a godsend, you should excuse the expression, for the Bush administration and the Neocons to do what they obviously long wanted to do, which was to go into the Middle East and secure the oil for the U.S. Empire. And the next was a longer take on that obscenity, by David Ray Griffin, who has written a number of books systematically shining a light on the serious discrepancies in its official version. Which brought it all back up for me: my anger at how the PTB have such a control over the mainstream media that it doesn't even matter if some individuals uncover holes in their scenario, and even share it with audiences, live and in books: they run the dog and pony show.
Disgusted with them, and with mankind in general - Folks! How can you live as if there were no God? Either there is or there is not. If there is not, then nothing really matters anyway, and you might as well live the way you are. But if there is - and there is plenty of evidence that there is indeed something more than Man - then you should be living as if there WERE 'something more than Man'. WE should be living as if there were, since I am - at this point in time, at least - one of you. And I am trying my damnedest to do so. But you are making it very hard on me; on all of us who are trying to live up to that potential4 - I took a break from the drama, and put on a CD of some soothing classical music. And finally, at a rendition of Albinoni's Adagio from Oboe Concerto in D Minor, I calmed down.5 But I beseech you, people:
We can do better than this.
We MUST do better than this.
In order to prove that the Plan, of free will - of freely returning to Source - is superior to the involutionary plan of control. Of forcing people to be a certain way.
Because that way is the way of tyrants ruling the Earth; stalking it like Rex of old.
And I for one will not let that happen.
But I - and We, so conceived, and so dedicated - need your help.
Please rise to the occasion.
Now.
A new world awaits.
And NOT the New World Order of those who are under the control of those dark forces that give opposition to the working out of our Creator's superior plan for 'his' children. 'His' sparks of the Divine. Separate unto themselves only for a time, and a season.
And the season has come to bring that new world about.
Before the old collapses to the point that it takes longer to achieve Synthesis. Transition. Ascension.
Awaiting us.
Now.
---
1 A subject in itself; and involving both the 'right' and the 'left' sides of the political aisle. The Right may be in charge of educational issues at this time, but it was not ever thus. In the '30s and '40s especially, in the U.S (to my knowledge; it may have been true as well in the UK, home of the Fabian Society, pioneers of the philosophy and technique), socialists commanded the heights of educational philosophy, and instituted a method of teaching reading designed to control the child's exposure to information. Rather than teaching Johnny merely to read, they desired to 'educate' him to read 'with comprehension' - comprehension of what they wanted him to be raised with. Which was a brainwashed exposure to leftist propaganda, in keeping with the thinking of such 'educational' philosophers as John Dewey. How to do that. Eureka: Bring the child up with controlled material, slowly fed to him/her over the critical, early years. (As pioneered by such as the Catholic Church, whose propagandists asserted 'Give me a child to the age of six and I will have him for life' or words to that effect. Also used by the Nazis, and the Soviets.) Instead of learning how to sound out words for himself, by being taught to understand the alphabet, Johnny was 'taught' to recognize words by their shape, and association with visual cues. Thus, 'cat' with a cat; and 'monkey' with a picture of a monkey hanging off the tail of the 'y'. (I have actually seen this, in a primer I perused when starting to investigate this matter, of Johnny's difficulty in learning how to read; which subject I first came across at my university, in the mid-'50s, when I browsed the campus bookstore for interesting material before early-departure from those hallowed halls of ivy for my 'learning' in the world at large, and then revisited over a decade later, when I was having my eyes opened to left-wing shenanigans by right-wing literature. Which included seeing an early-years reading primer telling the story of how one squirrel informs his mate that he doesn't have to save his nuts over the winter because "the little boy in the White House" - pictured - will provide him with all he needs.) It is the old Egyptian system of hieroglyphics, "in which pictures or symbols are used to represent objects, concepts, or sounds" (similar to Chinese pictographs). This requires the child to have to memorize the forms, a far harder task than simply learning how to sound out words for herself. And so the child in such a system is patiently brought up in/with a controlled vocabulary, and stories.
The 'Right' part of the Faustian bargain happened when the corporate world of the medical-pharmaceutical-government complex instituted mandatory vaccination in elementary schools, without sufficient regard for the potential side effects of this wondrous new medical modality. It came into being in the U.S. starting in the late '40s, and by the '50s signs of brain damage were already surfacing, in the forms of what has come to be known as ADD and ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and full-blown autism (aka the euphemistically lump-summed 'Learning Disabilities') - let alone other iatrogenically-induced conditions, like a whole range of autoimmune 'diseases', and other neurological disorders, like epilepsy/seizures, and 'social violence and criminality'. (The latter phrase part of the title of a book on this subject by one Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D., arguably the U.S.'s foremost medical historian. The whole phenomenon obscured because of the time lag between the child's shots and his formal education years.) Thus, our children - and through them, our societal conditions as a whole - have been seesawed between the machinations of both the Left and the Right for over half a century.
It's time, and past, for a change.
(N.B. Are vaccinations the only cause of the brain damage that has been afflicting humanity for the past half a century in particular? No. Another cause is fluoridation of our water supplies - which started at roughly the same time. Another cause of the unclarity around causation. And another is the widespread use of pesticides. Altogether: A perfect storm. Which needs to be sorted out. Now. Before we can take less hesitant steps into our future, on this hurting planet. Hurting, because of our abuse of it. Reflecting our own inner abuse.)
2 The 'afterthought' involved the community's recent purchase of the hotel that the founders of the community had formerly managed before moving to a caravan park on a windswept section of a forlorn peninsula next door to a military airbase, from which big nasty birds continually took off in the background, overriding the quaint conversations taking place in the foreground. I remember sitting in the large audience at its first screening, at a week-long 'new age' convention in Santa Monica, and being rather unimpressed; touched by the sincerity of the people, but unmoved. Until the male of the couple who had founded the community, Peter Caddy - a former RAF catering officer, and manager of that four-star hotel, now reduced to penury, and making the most of it, with some gullible and idealistic young hippy types, mostly - stood back up at its completion, to polite applause, and announced that they had just bought said hotel, for the next stage of the community's development - to be its main educational base - and if anybody in the audience was interested in that aspect of the community, ie the running of the hotel as an educational centre, to come up and see him afterwards. And I got a tap on my figurative shoulder. That's your cue, it said.
'It' caused me to seek him out afterwards - as did a number of others from that audience. He quickly 'got' that some of them thought he was just talking about a congenial place to work for awhile - perhaps before heading off for India, as was the zeitgeist of that time for many young people - and he clarified that he had meant that he was interested in people who had some life experience to come and join the community, especially to help with that enterprise; and if anyone still felt drawn, after that clarification, to write something about themselves, and submit it to him later in the week. The next day I went up to him with my brief resume, which outlined my experience as a 'building maintenance foreman' of a crew with the cleaning contract at a holiday resort in Idaho (name of Sun Valley, where I had worked for a summer season and part of the following winter one, back a half-a-dozen years before, when I had had too much of the hustle and bustle of life in the L.A. area and needed a change). He read it, and handed it back, saying, "I agree; you should come," and walked away. And I thought: Great. Now how does one get to the north of Scotland, and stay awhile?
One gets here by getting here. And my stay has lasted me most of the past 34 years since that fortuitous encounter in southern California, at an event looking at something being called 'the new age'. Which I was to find out more about, after getting involved in it.
N.B. Only some years later did I find out that I was, in the eyes of the community members, one of 'Peter's boys'. he had a habit of keeping his eyes out, when he traveled in the world, for people whom he thought had something to give to the community, and then telling them there that so-and-so was coming to do such-and-such. It turned out that he had told them that he had found the person to hold the focus for the renovation of Cluny (Hill Hotel, hereinafter to be known as Cluny Hill College). When, during that renovation work, the winter of '75-'76, one of the leaders of the group came up to me and announced, "Well Stan, we're ready for you to take over now," I hadn't a clue what they were talking about. I had been a foreman of a crew that did basic maintenance of buildings, ie, sweeping, mopping, cleaning toilets, waxing dance floors, setting the fires in the bedroom fireplaces, etc etc - not the plumbing and electrics. The guy went away and reported this to his team, and I never heard anything more about that peculiar interaction, until some years later when I overheard that I was an example of how Peter could be wrong but also right - that someone would come there under the wrong impression, but be the right person after all.
That was some consolation, after realising I was there - here - under false pretences.
3 The title of one of the community's sing-along music tapes.
4 I have seen what you can do in the way you have developed, and though it has some merit, I am, overall, not impressed. I am not interested in a system that leaves so many people destitute. You can do better than this. WE can do better than this. Let's be about it. Dammit. Come out from under the control of the moneychangers, and CLAIM YOUR MATURITY.
And the next step after that: Release that which causes suffering: desire. Why would individuals keep going around and around on the wheel of rebirth, accruing karma, which by definition needs to be paid off, like an educational loan, once they realise - really grok - what is going on? what the purpose of the whole exercise is??
Come ON, people.
Show me your best, humanity. Not this ignoble business you are engaged in right now; involved in, to the extent that you can't see the forest for the trees.
5 And was briefly reminded of the last time I needed some classical music to soothe my soul. That was in university, during the time when I was still in ROTC - this was at the time of the Korean War, and we were being prepared, as dutiful university students, to be officers in that conflict - and one hot afternoon was sitting through a class on different kinds of machine guns. What?! I thought. Machine guns? This is insane. I'm not going to fire no stinking machine gun. What in blazes is going on in this world I have found myself in?? And I went home in a bit of a delirium, and locked my dormitory-room door, and put on some Wagner, and laid on my bed with my eyes closed to that outside world, and bathed in the music, to try to come back down to some sort of inner reality, that had nothing to do with air-cooled, x-millimeter, such-and-such caliber machine guns, for heaven's sakes. And that was it: I stopped going to ROTC class. Got in some trouble for it. But no matter. That wasn't my path. Somehow. Some way. There was more to life than this effing nonsense, of socially-constructed enemies, who you then treated as trading partners afterwards - all in order to make money. Get me OUT of this nonsensical reality, I thought. It doesn't compute. Even before computers came on the market...
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
The End of History: Neither Bang, nor Whimper, but Celebration
Over here in the UK, George Monbiot is a prominent - even, dare I say, celebrated (in some circles; denigrated in others) - liberal, who writes excellent books (like 'Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain', presciently in 2000; and predecessing both John Perkins's 'Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man' (2004) and Naomi Klein's 'The Shock Doctrine' (2007))* and besides having a website (www.monbiot.com), also writes a weekly column in the Guardian daily national newspaper (the required reading in this country for all sandal wearers and tree huggers). In his column for this week he took on and roundly lambasted the subject, again in the headlines, of PFIs, or Private Finance Initiatives; the way that governments - both Labour and the Conservatives in this county - move construction costs off their books and onto private industries, who make a bundle on long-term building contracts that cost far more than it would have cost the government to borrow the money for the projects up-front. It has been a scam of eye-watering and blood pressure-increasing proportions, and has been a pet peeve of his for yonks (as they say in this country).** His closing lament, after trying to make a case for the public refusing to pay what he tried to deem an 'odious debt' (a term which has legal restrictions on its application) was: "Now I see corporations squatting like great cuckoos on our public services, while officials pour the money that should have been spent on nurses and teachers into their widening bills. Yes, I'm bitter. Yes, I'm clutching at straws. Have you got a better idea?"
My response to his column, and closing query:
"Indeed, George. And Seumas Milne's column of the 18th; and...and...
"What to do?
"Nothing but the total release of the money system as it has developed will do.
"Note that I didn't say anything about 'overthrow'.
"Just let it go. Having learned our lessons. And that's how we enter a new era, of life on Earth. Just waiting for us to wake up to it.
"Before too much more damage is done, by people who have lost sight of the real purpose of what we call money, and confused means with ends."
First, to clarify a reference: Seumas Milne, another chardonnay-drinking columnist in the Guardian, wrote a piece, published on the 18th inst., also bashing the corporate world's takeover of public institutions in the country. Headed 'The corporate grip on public life is a threat to democracy', it opened:
"The onward march of corporate power is a long established fact of British life. We've become familiar with the relentless privatisation of public assets and services, the creeping colonisation of Whitehall, [ie, government departments/ministries] and the revolving doors that see politicians, lobbyists, executives and civil servants swap places and exchange contracts with bewildering speed.***
"But the Guardian's revelation [that week] that fast food and drinks companies such as McDonald's, PepsiCo, Unilever and Diego have now been asked by ministers to draw up public health policy shows the corporate takeover of politics has reached a new level. This isn't an issue of government consulting business. We're talking about the same vested interests that have fuelled the obesity and alcohol abuse crises as good as dictating terms at the heart of government."
After pointing out that they will try to deregulate their industries as part of their takeover agenda, and how the health secretary had already signaled that he was "happy to oblige in what amounts to a surrender of the public realm,' he went on:
"It would be almost comical were it not so dangerously destructive. But so accustomed have we become to the advance of private profit-making into every sphere of society, it's easy to miss the acceleration of privatisation now being overseen by the Cameron administration. Across government, the crisis of the private sector is being used to launch a renewed assault on the public sector, covering everything from Royal Mail to vast expanses of public woodland..."
Ah yes; the 'crisis'. Which brings me to an earlier column by Monbiot, wherein he fingers precisely the strategy involved in this takeover programme, of democracy by corporatism, aka fat cats, aka fascism. Headed 'For the Tories, this is not a financial crisis, but a long-awaited opportunity' (the Guardian, 19 October), the column in print form highlighted one of his comments in particular: "In a classic example of 'disaster capitalism', the cuts are being used to reshape the economy in the interests of business". In the article, he points out the role of the "extreme neoliberals at the University of Chicago" - under free-market guru Milton Friedman - not only in applying their economic prescription in Chile after the military coup there in 1973, but how they were working hand in glove with the CIA in order to 'make it happen'.
A phrase which also brings to mind the 9/11 'crisis', which opened the door for the Bush administration to make legislative moves to destroy the people's rights under the nascent imposition of Martial Law, in putting America on a legalistically-opportune war footing. It comes from the 'conspiracy theory' discussion on what role, precisely, did the Bush administration play in the unfolding of that atrocity - that 'new Pearl Harbor' that the Neocons had already posited as being needed for Americans to be spooked into spending more on defense spending than they already were (as a key engine for the economy, doncha know). One school of thought has been identified by the acronym MIHOP - ie, 'Make it Happen On Purpose'; and another perspective is branded as LIHOP - ie, 'Let It Happen On Purpose'.
I won't go into the 9/11 affair in detail here; this is just to point out the role of Crisis in giving the PTB the Opportunity they need to further their ends. And that, rather than just waiting for a Crisis to give them that Opportunity, they can quite possibly be going out to Make It Happen.
The same as the subprime mortgage fiasco of the financial industry's doing. To set up a Crisis, in order to capitalize on it - figuratively and literally. (The latter, in getting the taxpayers to cover your risks. Sweet.)
Monbiot, on the Chilean affair, when Friedman visited and encouraged General Pinochet to go even further, and faster, than he was (because you have to strike while the iron is hot, or you lose the momentum of your objective and agenda):
"The result was a massive increase in unemployment and the near-eradication of the middle class. But the very rich became much richer, and the corporations, scarcely taxed, deregulated and fattened on privatised assets, became much more powerful."
- in the creation of the 20:80 society that the PTB want, and have envisioned for years; 20% of the populace being very well paid for their services to the system, and the 80% rest being 'useless eaters'. Not to eat up too much of the capital in welfare services; so those need to be cut back before the ordure hits the fan in earnest...
All of this, as if this were the whole point of an economy - of money itself: to enrich an elite. Not to share and provide goods and services. And why would you, if you don't do unto others as you would do to yourself - if you don't look at others AS yourself??
On the next page over from Monbiot's 19 October article there was a column by one Bethany McLean (co-author of 'The Smartest Guys in the Room: an Expose of the Enron Scandal') on the subject of the home repossession scam going in the States. Headed 'It's one law for murderers, another law for homebuyers', she details the disconnect between the legal standards applied to the lenders ("paperwork has been tossed into the garbage, affadavits have ben forged and the seizure and sale of homes hasn't been documented correctly. The mortgages themselves may even have been sold without proper transfer of the physical documents that show who actually owns the loans...") and those applied to the shmucks. Early on in the article she points out: "The importance of the letter of the law explains why corporations try to dot every 'i' and cross every 't' in their dealings with each other. if the transaction goes sour and the two parties end up in court, judges don't look kindly on missing or forged documentation, whatever the merits of the case. Even more, the importance of following the proper procedures under the law also explains why convicted murderers or apprehended felons go free because of tiny violations in the way their cases were handled, even when it's crystal clear that they're guilty. So why are homebuyers subject to a different standard?"
Because, Bethany, they were used as patsies, to achieve a desired outcome. And so are simply expendable, with no real rights. Do cattle have rights?...
This is all why I said, and say again: Let it go. Even if a critical mass of people 'got' that the system is corrupt, and about as near to being beyond redemption as it could possibly get, that's not enough of an answer at this point. At this historical point, we can see - for those who have eyes to see - that the system itself is fundamentally flawed, in proving how lost you can get, without a vision. Without the vision; of what life is all about. For if we got that, we would realise that we don't need the training wheels of interest-bearing money on the one hand and fractional-reserve banking on the other to provide each other with goods and services - the real point of the exercise (NOT for the very rich to become much richer). All you need is a motive. The profit motive is one; and it is proving to have deadly consequences. There is another. I submit that all we humans need, in order to provide each other with goods and services, and the best reflection of our individual ingenuity, is - as I have said, and shared, before - to do so out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.
This, of course, requires us to awaken - truly awaken - to the fact that there is Plan in and Purpose to 'the universe' - to the life experience. And more. That the life experience itself is, essentially, an illusion.
A stage, on which we play parts. And keep swapping them around, In order to learn from the experience; in order, in turn, to grow. Evolve, spiritually.
I read people like Monbiot, and Milne, and others - on both sides of the economic-political aisle; the dialectic we are engaged in, to come out to a higher stage, of Synthesis - and I think:
People, people. You don't get it yet. With your nose too close to the scene, you're not seeing that: You are - we all are - playing parts. That's all that the life experience is: theatre. In order to play different parts at different times, and gain awareness in the process; from the experience. To grow in consciousness. And now it's time to enter the stage on another level; one more in keeping with our present enviro-spiritual evolution and circumstances.
It's time, in short, to wake up. We have major work to do, with a greater degree of awareness than we have engaged in - as a collective - heretofore.
Let's be about it.
And stop this role-playing that is hurting so many people.
That is hurting you. In essence. As part of the Whole.
---
* and David Cromwell's 'Private Planet: Corporate Plunder And the Fight Back' (2001); but not before 'The Global Trap: Globalization And the Assault on Prosperity and Democracy' by Hans-Peter Martin & Harald Schumann (1997) or Kenichi Ohmae's 'The End of the Nation State: The Rise of Regional Economies' (1995). Not to mention David C. Korten's seminal 'When Corporations Rule the World' (also 1995). Just to name the good ones that I have personally come across.
** Have I made it abundantly clear yet where I am currently domiciled in my life? I really don't want the PTB to have to hunt for me with too much difficulty, when they start going around trying to silence the too-strident opposition to their best-laid plans for the planet. Yoo hoo. Over here. Up here, in Scotland. Keeping a weather eye on you from my cave. And that's 'weather' also as in whether to start calling you the names that you deserve to be called - like despicable, and so forth - but biting my tongue, because I know, as you, apparently, don't, that, on a fundamental level, I am you; and vice versa. And I really don't see the value of calling myself names. So I'll keep it clean. For as long as I can. Being human; at this stage of our mutual evolution, at least.
*** I almost typed 'swapped bodily fluids' there, wilh my mind caught up with the subject and level of intimacy that Milne was describing between the government and crony capitalism'. The reader will forgive me, I'm sure; and understand.
**** The article, incidentally, was not just about this move by the fast food and drinks industries to feather their beds in government; it also covered such other profit- and propaganda-promising fields as education. Milne went on:
"International takeover has also been the fate of John Bauer, the largest private free school provider in Sweden, which was bought out by a Danish venture capital firm. Whether many parents in Britain actually want their children's schools controlled by private equity or military service companies, over which they have no control and which might go bust or be taken over and run from abroad, seems pretty doubtful..."
My response to his column, and closing query:
"Indeed, George. And Seumas Milne's column of the 18th; and...and...
"What to do?
"Nothing but the total release of the money system as it has developed will do.
"Note that I didn't say anything about 'overthrow'.
"Just let it go. Having learned our lessons. And that's how we enter a new era, of life on Earth. Just waiting for us to wake up to it.
"Before too much more damage is done, by people who have lost sight of the real purpose of what we call money, and confused means with ends."
First, to clarify a reference: Seumas Milne, another chardonnay-drinking columnist in the Guardian, wrote a piece, published on the 18th inst., also bashing the corporate world's takeover of public institutions in the country. Headed 'The corporate grip on public life is a threat to democracy', it opened:
"The onward march of corporate power is a long established fact of British life. We've become familiar with the relentless privatisation of public assets and services, the creeping colonisation of Whitehall, [ie, government departments/ministries] and the revolving doors that see politicians, lobbyists, executives and civil servants swap places and exchange contracts with bewildering speed.***
"But the Guardian's revelation [that week] that fast food and drinks companies such as McDonald's, PepsiCo, Unilever and Diego have now been asked by ministers to draw up public health policy shows the corporate takeover of politics has reached a new level. This isn't an issue of government consulting business. We're talking about the same vested interests that have fuelled the obesity and alcohol abuse crises as good as dictating terms at the heart of government."
After pointing out that they will try to deregulate their industries as part of their takeover agenda, and how the health secretary had already signaled that he was "happy to oblige in what amounts to a surrender of the public realm,' he went on:
"It would be almost comical were it not so dangerously destructive. But so accustomed have we become to the advance of private profit-making into every sphere of society, it's easy to miss the acceleration of privatisation now being overseen by the Cameron administration. Across government, the crisis of the private sector is being used to launch a renewed assault on the public sector, covering everything from Royal Mail to vast expanses of public woodland..."
Ah yes; the 'crisis'. Which brings me to an earlier column by Monbiot, wherein he fingers precisely the strategy involved in this takeover programme, of democracy by corporatism, aka fat cats, aka fascism. Headed 'For the Tories, this is not a financial crisis, but a long-awaited opportunity' (the Guardian, 19 October), the column in print form highlighted one of his comments in particular: "In a classic example of 'disaster capitalism', the cuts are being used to reshape the economy in the interests of business". In the article, he points out the role of the "extreme neoliberals at the University of Chicago" - under free-market guru Milton Friedman - not only in applying their economic prescription in Chile after the military coup there in 1973, but how they were working hand in glove with the CIA in order to 'make it happen'.
A phrase which also brings to mind the 9/11 'crisis', which opened the door for the Bush administration to make legislative moves to destroy the people's rights under the nascent imposition of Martial Law, in putting America on a legalistically-opportune war footing. It comes from the 'conspiracy theory' discussion on what role, precisely, did the Bush administration play in the unfolding of that atrocity - that 'new Pearl Harbor' that the Neocons had already posited as being needed for Americans to be spooked into spending more on defense spending than they already were (as a key engine for the economy, doncha know). One school of thought has been identified by the acronym MIHOP - ie, 'Make it Happen On Purpose'; and another perspective is branded as LIHOP - ie, 'Let It Happen On Purpose'.
I won't go into the 9/11 affair in detail here; this is just to point out the role of Crisis in giving the PTB the Opportunity they need to further their ends. And that, rather than just waiting for a Crisis to give them that Opportunity, they can quite possibly be going out to Make It Happen.
The same as the subprime mortgage fiasco of the financial industry's doing. To set up a Crisis, in order to capitalize on it - figuratively and literally. (The latter, in getting the taxpayers to cover your risks. Sweet.)
Monbiot, on the Chilean affair, when Friedman visited and encouraged General Pinochet to go even further, and faster, than he was (because you have to strike while the iron is hot, or you lose the momentum of your objective and agenda):
"The result was a massive increase in unemployment and the near-eradication of the middle class. But the very rich became much richer, and the corporations, scarcely taxed, deregulated and fattened on privatised assets, became much more powerful."
- in the creation of the 20:80 society that the PTB want, and have envisioned for years; 20% of the populace being very well paid for their services to the system, and the 80% rest being 'useless eaters'. Not to eat up too much of the capital in welfare services; so those need to be cut back before the ordure hits the fan in earnest...
All of this, as if this were the whole point of an economy - of money itself: to enrich an elite. Not to share and provide goods and services. And why would you, if you don't do unto others as you would do to yourself - if you don't look at others AS yourself??
On the next page over from Monbiot's 19 October article there was a column by one Bethany McLean (co-author of 'The Smartest Guys in the Room: an Expose of the Enron Scandal') on the subject of the home repossession scam going in the States. Headed 'It's one law for murderers, another law for homebuyers', she details the disconnect between the legal standards applied to the lenders ("paperwork has been tossed into the garbage, affadavits have ben forged and the seizure and sale of homes hasn't been documented correctly. The mortgages themselves may even have been sold without proper transfer of the physical documents that show who actually owns the loans...") and those applied to the shmucks. Early on in the article she points out: "The importance of the letter of the law explains why corporations try to dot every 'i' and cross every 't' in their dealings with each other. if the transaction goes sour and the two parties end up in court, judges don't look kindly on missing or forged documentation, whatever the merits of the case. Even more, the importance of following the proper procedures under the law also explains why convicted murderers or apprehended felons go free because of tiny violations in the way their cases were handled, even when it's crystal clear that they're guilty. So why are homebuyers subject to a different standard?"
Because, Bethany, they were used as patsies, to achieve a desired outcome. And so are simply expendable, with no real rights. Do cattle have rights?...
This is all why I said, and say again: Let it go. Even if a critical mass of people 'got' that the system is corrupt, and about as near to being beyond redemption as it could possibly get, that's not enough of an answer at this point. At this historical point, we can see - for those who have eyes to see - that the system itself is fundamentally flawed, in proving how lost you can get, without a vision. Without the vision; of what life is all about. For if we got that, we would realise that we don't need the training wheels of interest-bearing money on the one hand and fractional-reserve banking on the other to provide each other with goods and services - the real point of the exercise (NOT for the very rich to become much richer). All you need is a motive. The profit motive is one; and it is proving to have deadly consequences. There is another. I submit that all we humans need, in order to provide each other with goods and services, and the best reflection of our individual ingenuity, is - as I have said, and shared, before - to do so out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.
This, of course, requires us to awaken - truly awaken - to the fact that there is Plan in and Purpose to 'the universe' - to the life experience. And more. That the life experience itself is, essentially, an illusion.
A stage, on which we play parts. And keep swapping them around, In order to learn from the experience; in order, in turn, to grow. Evolve, spiritually.
I read people like Monbiot, and Milne, and others - on both sides of the economic-political aisle; the dialectic we are engaged in, to come out to a higher stage, of Synthesis - and I think:
People, people. You don't get it yet. With your nose too close to the scene, you're not seeing that: You are - we all are - playing parts. That's all that the life experience is: theatre. In order to play different parts at different times, and gain awareness in the process; from the experience. To grow in consciousness. And now it's time to enter the stage on another level; one more in keeping with our present enviro-spiritual evolution and circumstances.
It's time, in short, to wake up. We have major work to do, with a greater degree of awareness than we have engaged in - as a collective - heretofore.
Let's be about it.
And stop this role-playing that is hurting so many people.
That is hurting you. In essence. As part of the Whole.
---
* and David Cromwell's 'Private Planet: Corporate Plunder And the Fight Back' (2001); but not before 'The Global Trap: Globalization And the Assault on Prosperity and Democracy' by Hans-Peter Martin & Harald Schumann (1997) or Kenichi Ohmae's 'The End of the Nation State: The Rise of Regional Economies' (1995). Not to mention David C. Korten's seminal 'When Corporations Rule the World' (also 1995). Just to name the good ones that I have personally come across.
** Have I made it abundantly clear yet where I am currently domiciled in my life? I really don't want the PTB to have to hunt for me with too much difficulty, when they start going around trying to silence the too-strident opposition to their best-laid plans for the planet. Yoo hoo. Over here. Up here, in Scotland. Keeping a weather eye on you from my cave. And that's 'weather' also as in whether to start calling you the names that you deserve to be called - like despicable, and so forth - but biting my tongue, because I know, as you, apparently, don't, that, on a fundamental level, I am you; and vice versa. And I really don't see the value of calling myself names. So I'll keep it clean. For as long as I can. Being human; at this stage of our mutual evolution, at least.
*** I almost typed 'swapped bodily fluids' there, wilh my mind caught up with the subject and level of intimacy that Milne was describing between the government and crony capitalism'. The reader will forgive me, I'm sure; and understand.
**** The article, incidentally, was not just about this move by the fast food and drinks industries to feather their beds in government; it also covered such other profit- and propaganda-promising fields as education. Milne went on:
"International takeover has also been the fate of John Bauer, the largest private free school provider in Sweden, which was bought out by a Danish venture capital firm. Whether many parents in Britain actually want their children's schools controlled by private equity or military service companies, over which they have no control and which might go bust or be taken over and run from abroad, seems pretty doubtful..."
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
A Rush to Judgment
My sense of fairness - my passion for fairness and justice - is being riled by a beast from Alaska slouching towards America to be born again, and again, and again. That is the brouhaha kicked up by the Republican candidate for the Senate, one Joe Miller, being a stickler for legal detail. And if we are not sticklers for legal details, we run the risk of being overwhelmed by people who do not want the rule of law, but the rule of the strongest. Thus the image of a beast from Alaska - from the wilds, where the 'survival of the fittest' reigns - is rather apt.
The situation has been occasioned by his being challenged, after his win in the primaries, by the losing Republican incumbent as a write-in candidate. It was reported that she ended up winning the election by some 10,000 votes. But hold on. There's some details here that need to be looked at.
One is a peculiar situation whereby votes in question were counted for her, but not for Joe. Quote from one of the posters on the thread of an article on CNN to this subject - all of whom otherwise were all over Miller, as a "sore loser":
"...there are only 8K ballots with questions leaving her a 2K lead, but one thing this article fails to report is that machine rejected ballots were only counted in her favor." Curious, that. Worth looking at. The power of the incumbent political machine to control such things, and all - from either side of the political aisle. So there's a legitimate question here, to be looked at more deeply. Besides the "questions" regarding the ballots in question.
This latter seems to be mostly a matter of write-in ballots with his write-in opponent's name on them, in different spelling - 'Merkowsky, Murcowskee" etc etc. Two things. (1) The state law says that such ballots - ballots not being precisely correct according to spelling - must not be counted. Sounds a little dogmatic; but that's the law there. However, the Election Procedures Committee (or whatever their correct name) said before the election that they would in fact allow the 'intent' of the voter to be honored. Curious, that. Not the idea itself; a number of states have such laws. But why the declaration contrary to their state law? Well, let's say that the incumbent political machine had an agenda to win the election for their candidate, but it might well entail that many of the people they rounded up to vote for their candidate could not spell his or her name correctly; how could they get around the state law on the matter? Well, one way would be to fudge a little, and hope they could get away with it. And that's where my fairness detector starts to sound, loudly. And I'll say more about that in a moment; but first, let me finish my thought as started above, in getting to: (2) There was another report that the incumbent political machine not only may well have rounded up voters for their candidate, but may well have 'stacked the deck' in stuffing the ballot boxes with phantom voters; and the suggestion was made that those write-in votes should be checked for the possible same handwriting. One way of which to smokescreen it would be to spell the write-in candidate's name in different ways, to make it look AS IF the ballots were from different voters.
I am saying that there is every reason to believe that there were voting shenanigans going on up there in Alaska, primarily from those incumbent political 'forces' who weren't going to go into the political wilderness without a fight.
I am also saying that there is a major principle here, which needs to be addressed, if the nation is going to continue to live under the rule of law, rather than under the rule of tyrants. And that is, the importance of deference TO the law. And to the fine point of the law. And I come now to my closing, fine point; which has to do with
the election of Barack Hussein Obama to the presidency of the United States of America; and to the quite possible illegitimacy of that election process.
He is, in short, according to the understanding of the English language at the time of the setting of the Constitution of the United States of America, NOT a "natural born citizen". Which meant to the Founding Fathers something more than just a citizen, or a 'native born' citizen. It meant, according to material that I have researched in the matter - that others have researched for me, and for the American public in general - a person who was a citizen by both 'blood' and 'soil' - ie, born of citizen parents ('blood'), and on the soil, or equivalent thereof (as on a military base elsewhere).
It was a hurdle put in place by the Founders for that particular office for a particular purpose; which was to make sure that the person in that particular office did not have any conflicting loyalties - and especially not to the British empire, which the country had just fought a war to declare itself independent of.
Barack Hussein Obama's candidacy for that particular office fell at the first hurdle.
And why wasn't this picked up on?
Because some people with an agenda decided that it was just a 'mere detail', and could be gotten around, by a little playing fast and loose with the detail of the law.
Nothing to see here folks. Just keep moving on.
Well, I for one won't.
And neither should Joe Miller. Until both of these situations are dealt with. Honestly. And fairly.
The situation has been occasioned by his being challenged, after his win in the primaries, by the losing Republican incumbent as a write-in candidate. It was reported that she ended up winning the election by some 10,000 votes. But hold on. There's some details here that need to be looked at.
One is a peculiar situation whereby votes in question were counted for her, but not for Joe. Quote from one of the posters on the thread of an article on CNN to this subject - all of whom otherwise were all over Miller, as a "sore loser":
"...there are only 8K ballots with questions leaving her a 2K lead, but one thing this article fails to report is that machine rejected ballots were only counted in her favor." Curious, that. Worth looking at. The power of the incumbent political machine to control such things, and all - from either side of the political aisle. So there's a legitimate question here, to be looked at more deeply. Besides the "questions" regarding the ballots in question.
This latter seems to be mostly a matter of write-in ballots with his write-in opponent's name on them, in different spelling - 'Merkowsky, Murcowskee" etc etc. Two things. (1) The state law says that such ballots - ballots not being precisely correct according to spelling - must not be counted. Sounds a little dogmatic; but that's the law there. However, the Election Procedures Committee (or whatever their correct name) said before the election that they would in fact allow the 'intent' of the voter to be honored. Curious, that. Not the idea itself; a number of states have such laws. But why the declaration contrary to their state law? Well, let's say that the incumbent political machine had an agenda to win the election for their candidate, but it might well entail that many of the people they rounded up to vote for their candidate could not spell his or her name correctly; how could they get around the state law on the matter? Well, one way would be to fudge a little, and hope they could get away with it. And that's where my fairness detector starts to sound, loudly. And I'll say more about that in a moment; but first, let me finish my thought as started above, in getting to: (2) There was another report that the incumbent political machine not only may well have rounded up voters for their candidate, but may well have 'stacked the deck' in stuffing the ballot boxes with phantom voters; and the suggestion was made that those write-in votes should be checked for the possible same handwriting. One way of which to smokescreen it would be to spell the write-in candidate's name in different ways, to make it look AS IF the ballots were from different voters.
I am saying that there is every reason to believe that there were voting shenanigans going on up there in Alaska, primarily from those incumbent political 'forces' who weren't going to go into the political wilderness without a fight.
I am also saying that there is a major principle here, which needs to be addressed, if the nation is going to continue to live under the rule of law, rather than under the rule of tyrants. And that is, the importance of deference TO the law. And to the fine point of the law. And I come now to my closing, fine point; which has to do with
the election of Barack Hussein Obama to the presidency of the United States of America; and to the quite possible illegitimacy of that election process.
He is, in short, according to the understanding of the English language at the time of the setting of the Constitution of the United States of America, NOT a "natural born citizen". Which meant to the Founding Fathers something more than just a citizen, or a 'native born' citizen. It meant, according to material that I have researched in the matter - that others have researched for me, and for the American public in general - a person who was a citizen by both 'blood' and 'soil' - ie, born of citizen parents ('blood'), and on the soil, or equivalent thereof (as on a military base elsewhere).
It was a hurdle put in place by the Founders for that particular office for a particular purpose; which was to make sure that the person in that particular office did not have any conflicting loyalties - and especially not to the British empire, which the country had just fought a war to declare itself independent of.
Barack Hussein Obama's candidacy for that particular office fell at the first hurdle.
And why wasn't this picked up on?
Because some people with an agenda decided that it was just a 'mere detail', and could be gotten around, by a little playing fast and loose with the detail of the law.
Nothing to see here folks. Just keep moving on.
Well, I for one won't.
And neither should Joe Miller. Until both of these situations are dealt with. Honestly. And fairly.
Saturday, 13 November 2010
2012: A Sign of the Times
A film played in our community last night, a premiere of a documentary by one Daniel Pinchbeck on the general subject of '2012'; a theme, or even meme, gaining a lot of notoriety these days. I didn't go to it, for basic practical, mundane reasons - living my life in a community, with various community chores to take part in; but I have read a little in the subject area, including the book by Pinchbeck that the docu is presumably based on ('2012: the Return of Quetzalcoatl'). Which all brings up various memories for me, and a sense of happenings in our time.
First, the memories. There was a time in my seeker's life (I consider myself a seeker of Truth) when I read a fair amount in the subject area of the 'religions' and histories of various cultures in Central and South America. Interesting things going on there, reaching way back in time. I even started planning at one point to travel down to Central America and do some research, and feeling, in situ; but life circumstances intervened and prevailed. Anyway, it's all interesting food for thought. I was, am, particularly intrigued by the Mayan concept of the cyclical nature of time; which ties in somehow with even the Sumerian's understanding of the precession of the equinoxes. There is, in short, a larger canvas that we are playing out the human life experience on. But I also have a sense of 'right time'. And my inner sense of 'right time' tells me that there is, indeed, something of a profound nature to happen in our time; and it is why I have chosen to incarnate at, and for, this particular time. And so have many (all? to varying degrees of awareness) of us.
I like something that one John Major Jenkins has said to this subject:
“Around the year 2012, a large chapter in human history will be coming to an end.
All the values and assumptions of the previous World Age will expire and a new phase
of human growth will commence.”
Jenkins is one of the key 'voices' in the '2012' subject area; along with the likes of Terence McKenna, Jose Arguelles, and Carl Johan Calleman. He has studied the Mayan philosophy and calendric 'code' for some 25 years, and leads tours to the original sites. Of course, that makes him a big 'suspect' in the eyes of skeptics, since he is making a living on his area of interest; can hardly be said to be objective, or above potential lily gilding. But the information itself is worth investigating; bringing up, as it does, questions about what all has taken place on this lovely planet in the past - and what that all may tell us about the future. If there even is such a thing fundamentally as 'past' and 'future' - as 'time'.
But I'm starting to get a bit afield. I want to back this blog up a bit, and share my sense of what's going on 'in the world'.
Besides a rather big Crisis emerging, of the western monetary and economic systems, there is also its concomitant Opportunity. An Opportunity of breakthrough, into a whole new level of human civilization, characterized by a higher level, in a critical mass of humanity, of consciousness. A readiness to take on new horizons of being; which also includes stellar travel.
To me, two things are converging on the - our- time line: Technology, and History. We, in short, have the wherewithal now in technology to attain to a higher level of 'history', of civilization, at the same time as our scientific processes have helped us gain insights into who we are, really. And one of those scientific processes has been the ability to bring people back 'from the dead', who have shared their experiences, in what we call Near Death Experiences, or also Out of Body Experiences. Plus other people's experiences of disincarnate entities, with provable pieces of the experiences. There is evidence, then, in our time, that something of 'us' exists outside of our material brain. That we are, there is, something 'more than Man' about us. That there is a larger reality than our conventional scientific instruments have allowed us to access in the past.
There is also a voluminous literature by now on the subject of reincarnation, which, together with this sense of a major Opportunity in Time being afforded us, can help us sense into our 'larger' reality.
That we are more than our current personalities.
And thus have been caught up in something of a play, in this theatre called Time.
Which brings up my summarizing point; that: We have been caught up in a drama. For learnings, and the gaining of wisdom, yes; but there is, has been, something of the artificial about it. It's time to stop playing parts, and get on with 'it'- get to the real thing. Which is living our lives as sparks of the One; transcending in consciousness our moment's (ie, in fundamentally unreal 'time') individuality, and belief that we are separate entities, strictly unto ourselves. We have more important things to do than any longer be mesmerized by, and caught up in, the illusion of life as we have known it. We have, in short, work to do.
Let's be about our real work:
of making of Earth an Eden; and recognizing it as if for the first time.*
It's time for transformation, and renewal. And that's what the Mayan calendar - and many other 'hints' in our history; including the curious 'coding' in the first five books of the Judeo-Christian Bible (the Pentateuch) - is really all about.
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* 'We shall not cease from exploration; and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.' T. S. Eliot
First, the memories. There was a time in my seeker's life (I consider myself a seeker of Truth) when I read a fair amount in the subject area of the 'religions' and histories of various cultures in Central and South America. Interesting things going on there, reaching way back in time. I even started planning at one point to travel down to Central America and do some research, and feeling, in situ; but life circumstances intervened and prevailed. Anyway, it's all interesting food for thought. I was, am, particularly intrigued by the Mayan concept of the cyclical nature of time; which ties in somehow with even the Sumerian's understanding of the precession of the equinoxes. There is, in short, a larger canvas that we are playing out the human life experience on. But I also have a sense of 'right time'. And my inner sense of 'right time' tells me that there is, indeed, something of a profound nature to happen in our time; and it is why I have chosen to incarnate at, and for, this particular time. And so have many (all? to varying degrees of awareness) of us.
I like something that one John Major Jenkins has said to this subject:
“Around the year 2012, a large chapter in human history will be coming to an end.
All the values and assumptions of the previous World Age will expire and a new phase
of human growth will commence.”
Jenkins is one of the key 'voices' in the '2012' subject area; along with the likes of Terence McKenna, Jose Arguelles, and Carl Johan Calleman. He has studied the Mayan philosophy and calendric 'code' for some 25 years, and leads tours to the original sites. Of course, that makes him a big 'suspect' in the eyes of skeptics, since he is making a living on his area of interest; can hardly be said to be objective, or above potential lily gilding. But the information itself is worth investigating; bringing up, as it does, questions about what all has taken place on this lovely planet in the past - and what that all may tell us about the future. If there even is such a thing fundamentally as 'past' and 'future' - as 'time'.
But I'm starting to get a bit afield. I want to back this blog up a bit, and share my sense of what's going on 'in the world'.
Besides a rather big Crisis emerging, of the western monetary and economic systems, there is also its concomitant Opportunity. An Opportunity of breakthrough, into a whole new level of human civilization, characterized by a higher level, in a critical mass of humanity, of consciousness. A readiness to take on new horizons of being; which also includes stellar travel.
To me, two things are converging on the - our- time line: Technology, and History. We, in short, have the wherewithal now in technology to attain to a higher level of 'history', of civilization, at the same time as our scientific processes have helped us gain insights into who we are, really. And one of those scientific processes has been the ability to bring people back 'from the dead', who have shared their experiences, in what we call Near Death Experiences, or also Out of Body Experiences. Plus other people's experiences of disincarnate entities, with provable pieces of the experiences. There is evidence, then, in our time, that something of 'us' exists outside of our material brain. That we are, there is, something 'more than Man' about us. That there is a larger reality than our conventional scientific instruments have allowed us to access in the past.
There is also a voluminous literature by now on the subject of reincarnation, which, together with this sense of a major Opportunity in Time being afforded us, can help us sense into our 'larger' reality.
That we are more than our current personalities.
And thus have been caught up in something of a play, in this theatre called Time.
Which brings up my summarizing point; that: We have been caught up in a drama. For learnings, and the gaining of wisdom, yes; but there is, has been, something of the artificial about it. It's time to stop playing parts, and get on with 'it'- get to the real thing. Which is living our lives as sparks of the One; transcending in consciousness our moment's (ie, in fundamentally unreal 'time') individuality, and belief that we are separate entities, strictly unto ourselves. We have more important things to do than any longer be mesmerized by, and caught up in, the illusion of life as we have known it. We have, in short, work to do.
Let's be about our real work:
of making of Earth an Eden; and recognizing it as if for the first time.*
It's time for transformation, and renewal. And that's what the Mayan calendar - and many other 'hints' in our history; including the curious 'coding' in the first five books of the Judeo-Christian Bible (the Pentateuch) - is really all about.
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* 'We shall not cease from exploration; and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.' T. S. Eliot
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