Sometimes the daily news delivers stories in bunches, that make me very wrathful.
Item. In the Guardian national newspaper there appeared today an article reporting on a review done by a university professor and a university group (Question: Are there any universities today, in either the UK or the U.S., that are free from corporate taint? Businesses paying for chairs and research, and therefore buying influence??) on the BBC's handling of scientific matters. My angry response, which reflects the basic tenor of the article:
"Dear Editor,
"[Professor Steve] Jones likened the BBC approach to oppositional debates to asking a mathematician and maverick biologist what two plus two equals. When the mathematician says four and the maverick says five, the public are left to conclude that the answer is somewhere in between" (BBC giving too much weight to fringe views in science, review finds, 21 July). And this is supposed to be the unbiased point of view of "an independent review" of this matter?
"I would liken this so-called independent review to a group that hears one side of a scientific case and says, 'Well, that's it, then,' and closes shop. Anyone who has studied these three given issues in any decent depth - climate change, GM crops and the MMR vaccine safety - would know that there is serious doubt over the proponents' cases.
"Shall we not pay any attention to the recent headlines about undue corporate activity in the printed media either, then? The plain fact of the matter is that power buys its way wherever it can - and tries to buy silence from its opposition; or, barring that, tries ridicule. Long may the BBC try to hold true impartiality on such matters.
"Yours sincerely, (etc.)"
The "recent headlines" reference is to the storm that has built up in the UK over unfolding reports about the extent of corruption involving one of the papers of the Murdoch stable, where certain reporters, with management permission - and goading - paid for illegal wiretaps on all manner of individuals, and included the police in their shenanigans, and potentially some politicians, with hard questions being asked in a parliamentary hearing right up to the PM level. And an interesting side-note here, for those who have ears to hear, is that another of the Murdoch stable's papers is the (London) Sunday Times, which hounded a 'whistleblower' named Dr. Andy Wakefield out of his gastroenterology practice in the UK over concerns expressed in a study he was involved with regarding gut damage in autism-diagnosed children shortly after being given the MMR shot (or 'jab' as the procedure is known as over here in the UK). Sitting on the board of the Sunday Times is one James Murdoch, son of capo ti capo Rupert. James also happens to sit on the board of one of the MMR jabs' manufacturers - and one that got the UK government quietly to indemnify it of any possible claims against its safety. You have heard of sweetheart deals? How sweet this one is.
But let me move on, to another paper of the day; this one a Scottish paper, The (Glasgow) Herald, which carried two articles of particular note regarding this little review of mine, of Life in Our Day. The first was the tragic story of a former actress who was afflicted with alcoholism, manic depression ('bipolar disorder', as it is known in our day), and outright depression, and who finally had had enough, choosing to drink from a bottle of drain cleaner, dousing herself with the rest of it, and throwing herself down the steps to her house, fracturing her spine and killing herself in the process of the whole anguished cry for help.
Help was known about years ago. Years - ago. Taking just alcoholism. Alcoholism was known about years ago - years - ago - as being associated with hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar. The brain calls out for sugar; and some feed their brain's need - aka 'habit', or 'craving' - with alcohol. But that is just exacerbating the problem. The answer is to try to uncover the cause of the low blood sugar condition. It was discovered years ago - years - ago - that the main cause of the problem was a weakened set of adrenal glands, whose job it is, among others, to control the levels of insulin being produced by the pancreas. If the adrenal glands are weakened, they do not control that level; it gets overproduced, thus taking more glucose out of the bloodstream than is 'normal' or healthy, and consequently producing a cry from the brain for 'sugar' - when what is really needed is to strengthen the adrenals; or the person gets on a roller coaster of blood glucose levels spiking and dropping precipitously (causing, among other results, blackout, or coma). The adrenals are strengthened by such treatment as protein and vitamin B complex. They are weakened by stress - prolonged stress; the condition otherwise known as adrenal exhaustion.
How come the public doesn't know about this. It has been known about for years. For - years.
Could it have anything to do with such facts as too great a nexus between the media and the corporate world? The latter including - especially - the pharmaceutical industry? The whole vested-interests package known as the medical-pharmaceutical-government-media complex??
The other article was about Alzheimer's disease, pointing out how its numbers continue to swell, with, now, about 36 million people worldwide its victims, and growing. Which reminded me of a posting I made on a blog a couple of days ago. This was on an e-newsletter site known as Utah Stories, which I monitor (place of birth), and which carried a story by a carer couple of Alzheimer's patients, and the importance of such action. My comment:
"Fair enough take on the matter. But 'the real work at hand'??
"I'm thinking of the story of the man who was walking along a river one day when he heard a cry for help coming from it. Looking over he saw a young child struggling in the middle, being taken downstream. He quickly took off his shoes and dived in, swam out and got hold of the child, and dragged the exhausted child to the water's edge. While catching his breath, he heard another cry for help from the river, and saw another child struggling in the current. He dove back in, and managed to drag the second child to the river's edge; when he heard another cry for help from the river. Just then another adult came walking by. He said to the person: 'You dive in, and try to save that child; but I'm going upstream to get the (blankety-blank) who's throwing these kids in.'
"It does not make good sense to concentrate merely on care, and leave 'cure' to 'the experts'. 'The experts' have, by and large, failed miserably in this matter. Allopathic medicine - drug-based medicine - does not have sufficient incentive to find cures & give good preventive advice for such terrible conditions as AD. There ARE treatments for it, which get closer to the causal level, not just 'maintenance' medicine. Folic acid, to lower the levels of homocysteine. Another of the B complex: vitamin B3. Omega-3 efa's (esp. DHA). Sage extract; lemon balm; turmeric/circumin. Chelating to get rid of mercury and aluminum from the brain cells. The list goes on.
"This is a scandal of major proportions. Well done for the good work that you folks are doing in the arena of care. But be aware that there is another part of this picture that is just as important as yours - and more. An ounce of prevention being worth a pound of 'care'."
The carer wouldn't be interested in this take on the matter because he makes/they make a living by caring for such people? Come on, folks. Let's look at the bigger picture here.
The bigger picture, that shows us that we are on a wrong path in life. We should be existing in a social structure that reflects the logic of an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure. That does not equate the healthier the economy with the sicker the citizenry. That does not cause media magnates to get in bed with politicians and other members of the corporate elite, who want to make the world safe for fascism.
It's time - and past - for a change.
A big change.
And it all has to do with money. And the making of which being the driving force for the society.
Come on, folks.
Look.
Look hard.
Look harder, than people are - generally - doing at present; at life in Our Day. Because
It's time.
Thursday, 21 July 2011
Saturday, 16 July 2011
The Powers That Be - Not
In an interesting wrinkle on the con job explained in the book 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man' by John Perkins - whereby international financial bodies, in the control of powers in the U.S., got developing countries to borrow big money from them for infrastructure projects (requiring U.S. companies to do the work), and then used the resulting debt as a lever to pry their way into the countries and take control of their resources, etc. - I see that the Powers That Be are still at their job of taking over the world. This particular instance is through the ploy of something that was originally called the World Conservation Bank, but apparently is now known as the Global Environmental Facility. A rose by any other name: It is the handiwork of PTB like the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, who, once again taking advantage of the financial needs of Developing Countries for their own personal gain, buy up the debt of such countries and then, in exchange, take over the land and resources therein. Sweet. It's called buying up the world, country by country.
It is part of an agenda called Agenda 21, a UN-sponsored programme for world control, through whatever means necessary. This agenda needs the elimination of a major stumbling block to the best-laid schemes of the PTB behind it all: the U.S. as a sovereign political entity, with something called its Constitution. Simply put: If the 'rule of law' won't allow them to take over control of the world, then so much for the rule of law: they'll create their own law.
And so they have put a placeman in power in the U.S., in the presidential seat. (Actually, they have put in that place several; but to keep this blog short, I'll refer just to the present such resource.) Obama - or whatever his real name is - is there to help bring down the American Republic, and put in its place a mere 'regional' player in his Masters' New World Order. If he can do it through the Congress (and as many bought resources therein as the PTB can muster), fine. If he can't, fine: he is to do it through such shady means as Executive Orders (EOs), and Presidential Directives (PDs), and Executive branch rules and regulations. And part of that avenue to power for them is to weaken the American people's resistance through a dilution of the American 'stock', in keeping the borders - and especially the southern border - porous. Allowing illegal aliens in who will be used as a Fifth Column to vote for massive federal spending projects, in order ultimately to bankrupt the American Republic, and let the PTB pick up the resulting pieces.*
How else to explain such bits of information as the recent story about the Obama administration's 'nudging' into being of the selling of weapons to shady arms dealers, who took them down to Mexico and sold them to drug barons, and some of which were subsequently used to kill some border agents? I'll speed this up: There was a cover story to that caper. But a main consequence could well have been to use the resulting mayhem as cause to pass more strict federal gun legislation, making it easier to confiscate the American public's constitutional 'right to keep and bear arms'.
There's that 'Constitution' stumbling block again. Got to go, in terms of the PTB's mentality.
Where do I stand in all this?
I would agree that the U.S. governments have made a mistake in the past in letting illegal aliens settle in the country, and start availing themselves of various services designed for U.S. citizens. It is wrong to allow that. The American taxpayer has no obligation to pay for such largesse. Americans have every right to have their borders protected. But there is a larger 'wrong' going on here. That is of the intentioned collapse of the American Republic - of government of, by, and for 'the people'. NOT the wealthy elite, who have in mind grandiose delusions of controlling the world, for the benefit OF a favoured elite.
I could go on, in the vein of what I would do, in governing the country. But my main point in this blog is not to list all the actions of a setting-to-rights of the socio-political scene that I would engage in, or that needs to be engaged in. (It involves as well the elimination of the interest-bearing money system, in letting their corrupt creation collapse, and introducing a better, more holistic way of being social beings together on carrying Planet Earth.) It is to try to get beneath the surface of this matter - this matter, in its essence, of the free will of Man.
Simply put: We are all responsible for the state of things.
Yes, I can get angry at the arrogance of these our self-appointed Masters. Yes, I can want to throw their money-changing tables out of the temple of Life. But what's really going on here??
Many of their actions are to be deplored; etc etc. And having said all that: Maybe some of the individuals who are acting arrogant in the present had injustices done to them in the past and are just ‘getting even’, in karmic retribution.
We can’t know what all is in the hearts of individuals as to why they do what they do. At least some of that is environmentally determined. But what, really, does that mean? For example: Why do some children succumb to ADD and ADHD and autism spectrum disorder and dyslexia and dyspraxia and so forth, and some not? Yes, there are genetic factors at work. But why were those particular souls attracted into those particular bodies, with those particular susceptibilities?? Presumably - given that there is Plan in and Purpose to ’the universe’, ie, to the life experience - because there were certain lessons to be learned by those particular souls (and teachings given to others).
In any event: Ours is not to reason why. Ours is to clean up our environmental living situation as best we can, in order for it to reflect more purely the world of spirit; of our true home. And in that cleansing of the environment, we cleanse the circumstances that create karma, which has to be redressed (given there is justice in ‘the universe’, because there is a Plan and Purpose).
And the sooner, then, we can all go home, permanently. Where ‘neither moth nor dust doth corrupt’ - where abides Truth. Not Illusion. The point. Not the process. The graduation. Not the school.
It's time to start that more conscious heading for home. And: First things first.
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* It's called the Cloward-Piven strategy. It is supposedly a strategy of the Left, designed to help socialists gain the ultimate power. But all such roads lead ultimately to the top of a pyramid of power. And there sits the likes of 'king' David Rockefeller, the powers behind the 'seen' who have orchestrated a 'convergence' of Left and Right into their empire.
Their intended empire. But, as Robert Burns said in an ode To a Mouse...
It is part of an agenda called Agenda 21, a UN-sponsored programme for world control, through whatever means necessary. This agenda needs the elimination of a major stumbling block to the best-laid schemes of the PTB behind it all: the U.S. as a sovereign political entity, with something called its Constitution. Simply put: If the 'rule of law' won't allow them to take over control of the world, then so much for the rule of law: they'll create their own law.
And so they have put a placeman in power in the U.S., in the presidential seat. (Actually, they have put in that place several; but to keep this blog short, I'll refer just to the present such resource.) Obama - or whatever his real name is - is there to help bring down the American Republic, and put in its place a mere 'regional' player in his Masters' New World Order. If he can do it through the Congress (and as many bought resources therein as the PTB can muster), fine. If he can't, fine: he is to do it through such shady means as Executive Orders (EOs), and Presidential Directives (PDs), and Executive branch rules and regulations. And part of that avenue to power for them is to weaken the American people's resistance through a dilution of the American 'stock', in keeping the borders - and especially the southern border - porous. Allowing illegal aliens in who will be used as a Fifth Column to vote for massive federal spending projects, in order ultimately to bankrupt the American Republic, and let the PTB pick up the resulting pieces.*
How else to explain such bits of information as the recent story about the Obama administration's 'nudging' into being of the selling of weapons to shady arms dealers, who took them down to Mexico and sold them to drug barons, and some of which were subsequently used to kill some border agents? I'll speed this up: There was a cover story to that caper. But a main consequence could well have been to use the resulting mayhem as cause to pass more strict federal gun legislation, making it easier to confiscate the American public's constitutional 'right to keep and bear arms'.
There's that 'Constitution' stumbling block again. Got to go, in terms of the PTB's mentality.
Where do I stand in all this?
I would agree that the U.S. governments have made a mistake in the past in letting illegal aliens settle in the country, and start availing themselves of various services designed for U.S. citizens. It is wrong to allow that. The American taxpayer has no obligation to pay for such largesse. Americans have every right to have their borders protected. But there is a larger 'wrong' going on here. That is of the intentioned collapse of the American Republic - of government of, by, and for 'the people'. NOT the wealthy elite, who have in mind grandiose delusions of controlling the world, for the benefit OF a favoured elite.
I could go on, in the vein of what I would do, in governing the country. But my main point in this blog is not to list all the actions of a setting-to-rights of the socio-political scene that I would engage in, or that needs to be engaged in. (It involves as well the elimination of the interest-bearing money system, in letting their corrupt creation collapse, and introducing a better, more holistic way of being social beings together on carrying Planet Earth.) It is to try to get beneath the surface of this matter - this matter, in its essence, of the free will of Man.
Simply put: We are all responsible for the state of things.
Yes, I can get angry at the arrogance of these our self-appointed Masters. Yes, I can want to throw their money-changing tables out of the temple of Life. But what's really going on here??
Many of their actions are to be deplored; etc etc. And having said all that: Maybe some of the individuals who are acting arrogant in the present had injustices done to them in the past and are just ‘getting even’, in karmic retribution.
We can’t know what all is in the hearts of individuals as to why they do what they do. At least some of that is environmentally determined. But what, really, does that mean? For example: Why do some children succumb to ADD and ADHD and autism spectrum disorder and dyslexia and dyspraxia and so forth, and some not? Yes, there are genetic factors at work. But why were those particular souls attracted into those particular bodies, with those particular susceptibilities?? Presumably - given that there is Plan in and Purpose to ’the universe’, ie, to the life experience - because there were certain lessons to be learned by those particular souls (and teachings given to others).
In any event: Ours is not to reason why. Ours is to clean up our environmental living situation as best we can, in order for it to reflect more purely the world of spirit; of our true home. And in that cleansing of the environment, we cleanse the circumstances that create karma, which has to be redressed (given there is justice in ‘the universe’, because there is a Plan and Purpose).
And the sooner, then, we can all go home, permanently. Where ‘neither moth nor dust doth corrupt’ - where abides Truth. Not Illusion. The point. Not the process. The graduation. Not the school.
It's time to start that more conscious heading for home. And: First things first.
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* It's called the Cloward-Piven strategy. It is supposedly a strategy of the Left, designed to help socialists gain the ultimate power. But all such roads lead ultimately to the top of a pyramid of power. And there sits the likes of 'king' David Rockefeller, the powers behind the 'seen' who have orchestrated a 'convergence' of Left and Right into their empire.
Their intended empire. But, as Robert Burns said in an ode To a Mouse...
Monday, 11 July 2011
Obama Must Go - And the Congress With Him
With the reports increasing from various experts that the document the Obama administration released online at the end of April purporting to be a true copy of his long-form, vault-copy Certificate of Live Birth on file in Hawaii is fraudulent - and easily identified as such - this matter, of his eligibility for that office, is beginning to descend into the murky realm of farce; and more: into the realm of high insult. The man, simply, must go.
It is obvious that he has something to hide, about his birth, and his particulars along the way to the highest office in the land, or there wouldn’t have been all this obfuscation that has been going on for long enough now regarding his bona fides.
In getting more and more incensed over this matter, I dug out a copy of a comment I made on a blog back on May 24. To an article carried on the e-newsletter site Before It’s News on that date, entitled ‘Corsi to File Criminal Charges Against White House Over Obama Birth Certificate’, and a comment to the article by a poster saying, “Most Americans no longer care about the issue,” I replied, in a restrained version of my feelings:
“Which is why people like Jerome Corsi need to be supported fully in their attempts to break through the MSM stonewalling on this issue. What is happening here is the full eradication of the rule of law in America, if Mr. Obama (or whatever his real name is) is allowed to stiff the American people in this matter, and the MSM sign off on it. We will forever after be consigned to the hell of rule by arbitrary law - the rule of men; which is the signature practice of tyrants down through history.
“By refusing to level with the American people on his bona fides, Mr. Obama (or whatever his real name is) is mocking them, and the country. it is unseemly. It is an insult, not only to the American people but to the office. It must not stand.
“If this man continues to refuse to provide his true records, he must be removed from the office, for potentially proven crimes and blatant misdemeanors, and the whole lot of them - executive, legislative and judicial branches of the federal government - removed from office [it’s called being ‘recalled’] for being party to the offence to the Constitution and the People. An administrator to be appointed to call for elections to be held within a time certain; and in the meantime, to clean out the executive branch of all the tainted placemen holding positions therein. This all to be accomplished by a march on Washington of The People, including individual members of the armed forces, current and retired, who deserve the right to have a legal Commander in Chief, as they uphold the Constitution - NOT the person in the office of the presidency of the United States. That office is being defiled. It needs to be cleansed, for honor to return to America. Period.”
Let me clarify what I mean by the comment on the ‘rule of law’. (And which subject makes of the man‘s actual birth certificate a bit of a red herring anyway. If his father was, indeed, Barack Obama, he is ineligible for that office right there. But that needs to be proved by access to his original birth records. He could have been adopted; his true father could have been Frank Marshall Davis; etc. ) This goes to the subject of the definition of a “natural born citizen”, rather than just a citizen, or ‘native born citizen’ (or ‘naturalized’ citizen) that is required by the Constitution of any person to hold that particular office - as opposed to any other federal office, for which the eligibility bar is not set as high. There is all manner of evidence of what the Founding Fathers understood that term to mean, and why they made an issue of it in the Constitution: that the person needed to be born on ‘the soil’ (or equivalent thereof) of citizen parents - plural, in order to ensure as far as possible that the person did not have dual loyalties - and ESPECIALLY not to Britain, with which they had just fought and won a War of Independence. They were not about to let the British Empire slip back into control over the fledgling Republic via a back door.*
So this business of the president of the United States needing to be a ‘natural born citizen’ is of huge importance. And this current contretemps over this issue the same. Either America abides by and lives under the rule of law, or it will live by’/struggle with the law of the jungle, whereby the strongest rule, without The People having proper recourse to justice.
Hitler, after his rise to power, proclaimed: ‘I am the law.” That sort of circumstance is precisely where America is heading, in acceding to the fait accompli of a person in the office of the presidency who is occupying that chair illegally, and therefore sitting in it as though it is a throne.
Thus, if America continues going down the road it is on - and with various civil rights-busting laws put in place under the Bush administration as well** - it will become an Empire - not a Republic, for which it stands rightfully. Now, with this sort of law-breaking precedent, both the Left AND the Right are trying to create a dictatorship; with a particular purpose: in order to take the U.S., and with its passing, the world, into their respective New World Orders (but they are really the same one at the top of the pyramid of power that We the People are up against).
It could happen. But Americans should think long and hard before overturning the form of government bequeathed to them by the Founding Fathers and that generation. A form of government emphasizing the rights of the individual as against the majority, and representative government, rather than the volatility of direct democracy - but still, government “of, by, and for the people”, in Lincoln’s memorable phrase.
I am aware that some people are saying that the current members of Congress are refusng to look at this issue in the detail they should be doing - having the legal ‘standing’ in the matter, to take it to the Supreme Court for a ruling on the constitutionality of the matter - because of fear that ‘the blacks’ will take to the streets. Number one: that is a bit of an insult to ‘the blacks’ - as if they aren’t capable of understanding the point of the serious political issue, and its ramifications for ‘the rule of law’. Number two: a number of African-Americans have already expressed, in no uncertain terms, their disgust with the illegality that the man called Obama is parading under. And number three: Who really has the more right to be affronted in this matter? I’d say: the American people; who are being mocked from the highest office in the land, by a usurper.
It is The People who have the more right to take to the streets over this matter. And, yes, the responsibility; to return the nation to the rule of law.
And to clarify: I am not counseling violence. I am counseling a return to the rule of law. And it looks increasingly as though that return is going to take a major appearance of We, the People, Assembled, in Washington, to bring it about, as they recall their elected office holders, for the corruption they have demonstrated in this matter.***
A note on that public demonstration: Don’t let anyone tell you that its recommendation is to counsel illegal insurrection. Not only does it reflect the spirit of the founding of the American Republic, it also has some explicit constitutional legality behind it. As I said on another Comments thread on this subject (this to an article on the conservative byte e-newsletter site on June 10; my comment carried on the 12th):
“Ron,
“It’s obvious that Congress is not going to act on its own. So yes, it’s time for a march on Washington of The People, demanding that the man currently occupying the office of the presidency release his bona fides - his true records, subject to expert inspection.
“Since there is every good reason to believe that they are not sufficient for him to occupy that particular office legally - or he would have provided them by now - then (a) the People need to call on Congress to act on that fact forthwith, and declare “what Officer shall then act as President” (Art. II, Sec. 1). If Congress fails to so act - and to The People’s satisfaction - then (b) the Constitution allows for no other recourse than for The People to take the law back into their own hands, to declare such Officer, “and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected”. And since Congress will have failed in their duty to act in the matter, such Officer, as part of the ‘cleaning of the house’ as you recommend, should dissolve that body, and call for elections of both the executive and the legislative branches of the federal government in a time certan, say within 90 days. Said Officer then having the right and responsibility to ‘clean the house’ of the executive branch of government as well, since the whole lot of the federal government will have been tainted by this current individual’s usurpation of power. And the Supreme Court will have nothing of substance to say about the matter, because it will have failed in its duty to let The People have recourse to a redress of their grievance through the judicial branch of government.
“A clean sweep, in other words, of the Augean stables of the federal government, is what would be called for, in such an event. With the oathkeepers of the country’s military, current and retired, marching in unison with The People, in their (overdue) move to right this wrong being visited on the American Republic - being visited in the name of Empire. Whether from the nominal ’left’ or ‘right’, it is a wrong, not in keeping with the spirit of the establishment of ‘the last, best hope of mankind’ - America, and her example [to the world] for self-government, and self-responsibility. Not to be ruled over by despots, either of church or royalty or state.
‘And may The People of America learn well the lesson in this regard. The lesson warned about by such as Thomas Jefferson, and others of her leaders in the past: that you can’t long have self-government without self-responsibility. Or the wolves will creep back in amongst you; who thirst for the power that you failed to honor, in your inattention to the job you had been bequeathed.”
It is up to The People, then, in summary, to right this wrong to the country. And in the righting of this wrong, they will open humanity up to a better future than that planned for it at the moment, by the Powers That Be, who wish to rule the world on their terms.
Not those of the Creator. Who wishes the highest for We, the People. Sparks of the One Source. Calling us, now, closer to home. To release our attachment to what is. And create what can be:
a Garden of Eden, on this lovely planet we call Earth; waiting for us, now, to give of life our best.
‘Seek ye first the kingdom of God...’
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* Some commentators have posted facile arguments on the ‘net trying to muddy the waters on this factor, including saying that the Founding Fathers couldn’t have meant that ‘interpretation’ of the term because anybody could, subsequent to birth, become a dual citizen, so it is a meaningless issue. For them, perhaps; since they are championing a man who has fallen foul of that restriction. But just because a dual citizenship could be attained after birth doesn’t mean that the FF didn’t mean to put that limitation on a candidate for the office. It just means that they couldn’t cover all possible permutations of the law in the Constitution they came up with; that it would be up to future generations to deal with such details as circumstances arose. (Obviously, the spirit of the founding action should be honored.)
But a point of clarification: fundamental changes in the Constitution would have to come about via the amending process allowed for to keep the contract up to date with the unfolding of the Republic’s life. Nobody - not even a majority of the Supreme Court - can just declare a different definition of a fundamental term in the contract. The States must be involved in that sort of process. It IS, after all, a contract. Not just “a damn piece of paper,” as someone who should have known better described it somewhat recently.
We are getting into an important area of American politics that needs to be addressed at some point soon: that of ‘liberals’ trying to make of the Constitution a ‘living document’, subject to the socio-political whims of a majority of Supreme Court justices, rather than the legalistic approach of ‘strict constructionists’ - upholders of the basic judicial principle of ‘original intent’: doing their best to divine what did those who made the law(s) mean when they passed them. To disregard the ‘doctrine’ of ‘original intent’ is to open a can of legalistic worms, thus opening the door for the application of arbitrary law (‘Words mean what I say they mean, neither more nor less’ said Humpty Dumpty haughtily). Which, as I said above, is “the signature practice of tyrants down through history”. But to continue with the main thrust of this blog.
** Both sides of the political aisle are involved in this crime. That means that the fix is in at the top - that The People really haven’t had a proper choice in their government , have just had a choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. It’s the same cabal of powerful people at the top of the pyramid; who want to turn the world into their footstool.
Don’t let them.
And that means: Don’t trust the ‘opposition’ at an one time to be doing what they are supposed to be doing, in other than a one-party state.
Money talks out of both sides of its mouth.
*** And I am aware that they may not only be demonstrating corruption in this matter; but fear. Fear, not only for their political lives, but their very lives; and those of their families. Because they may have been made an offer they can't refuse. Very serious business: because the stakes are so high. In this case: 'the stakes' of control of the world. With very powerful people going for broke, now, as it were - including 'breaking' the economy, so that they can merge the U.S. into their vaunted New World Order, via the unrest created by said breakage, and the consequent declaration of Martial Law - activated because of a self-created 'state of national emergency' - by their placeman in the prime position of power to do so. As George W. came so close to doing before him. As part of the same putsch for power.
Forget 'left' or 'right'. It's the same Mob at the top of the pyramid. Manipulating their puppets, to do their bidding. As I indicated in the footnote above. And so perhaps the best thing The People could do for these people being so manipulated is to let them off the hook by said recall, and replace them with individuals who will be protected by The People from the Powers That Be behind the current throne.
It is obvious that he has something to hide, about his birth, and his particulars along the way to the highest office in the land, or there wouldn’t have been all this obfuscation that has been going on for long enough now regarding his bona fides.
In getting more and more incensed over this matter, I dug out a copy of a comment I made on a blog back on May 24. To an article carried on the e-newsletter site Before It’s News on that date, entitled ‘Corsi to File Criminal Charges Against White House Over Obama Birth Certificate’, and a comment to the article by a poster saying, “Most Americans no longer care about the issue,” I replied, in a restrained version of my feelings:
“Which is why people like Jerome Corsi need to be supported fully in their attempts to break through the MSM stonewalling on this issue. What is happening here is the full eradication of the rule of law in America, if Mr. Obama (or whatever his real name is) is allowed to stiff the American people in this matter, and the MSM sign off on it. We will forever after be consigned to the hell of rule by arbitrary law - the rule of men; which is the signature practice of tyrants down through history.
“By refusing to level with the American people on his bona fides, Mr. Obama (or whatever his real name is) is mocking them, and the country. it is unseemly. It is an insult, not only to the American people but to the office. It must not stand.
“If this man continues to refuse to provide his true records, he must be removed from the office, for potentially proven crimes and blatant misdemeanors, and the whole lot of them - executive, legislative and judicial branches of the federal government - removed from office [it’s called being ‘recalled’] for being party to the offence to the Constitution and the People. An administrator to be appointed to call for elections to be held within a time certain; and in the meantime, to clean out the executive branch of all the tainted placemen holding positions therein. This all to be accomplished by a march on Washington of The People, including individual members of the armed forces, current and retired, who deserve the right to have a legal Commander in Chief, as they uphold the Constitution - NOT the person in the office of the presidency of the United States. That office is being defiled. It needs to be cleansed, for honor to return to America. Period.”
Let me clarify what I mean by the comment on the ‘rule of law’. (And which subject makes of the man‘s actual birth certificate a bit of a red herring anyway. If his father was, indeed, Barack Obama, he is ineligible for that office right there. But that needs to be proved by access to his original birth records. He could have been adopted; his true father could have been Frank Marshall Davis; etc. ) This goes to the subject of the definition of a “natural born citizen”, rather than just a citizen, or ‘native born citizen’ (or ‘naturalized’ citizen) that is required by the Constitution of any person to hold that particular office - as opposed to any other federal office, for which the eligibility bar is not set as high. There is all manner of evidence of what the Founding Fathers understood that term to mean, and why they made an issue of it in the Constitution: that the person needed to be born on ‘the soil’ (or equivalent thereof) of citizen parents - plural, in order to ensure as far as possible that the person did not have dual loyalties - and ESPECIALLY not to Britain, with which they had just fought and won a War of Independence. They were not about to let the British Empire slip back into control over the fledgling Republic via a back door.*
So this business of the president of the United States needing to be a ‘natural born citizen’ is of huge importance. And this current contretemps over this issue the same. Either America abides by and lives under the rule of law, or it will live by’/struggle with the law of the jungle, whereby the strongest rule, without The People having proper recourse to justice.
Hitler, after his rise to power, proclaimed: ‘I am the law.” That sort of circumstance is precisely where America is heading, in acceding to the fait accompli of a person in the office of the presidency who is occupying that chair illegally, and therefore sitting in it as though it is a throne.
Thus, if America continues going down the road it is on - and with various civil rights-busting laws put in place under the Bush administration as well** - it will become an Empire - not a Republic, for which it stands rightfully. Now, with this sort of law-breaking precedent, both the Left AND the Right are trying to create a dictatorship; with a particular purpose: in order to take the U.S., and with its passing, the world, into their respective New World Orders (but they are really the same one at the top of the pyramid of power that We the People are up against).
It could happen. But Americans should think long and hard before overturning the form of government bequeathed to them by the Founding Fathers and that generation. A form of government emphasizing the rights of the individual as against the majority, and representative government, rather than the volatility of direct democracy - but still, government “of, by, and for the people”, in Lincoln’s memorable phrase.
I am aware that some people are saying that the current members of Congress are refusng to look at this issue in the detail they should be doing - having the legal ‘standing’ in the matter, to take it to the Supreme Court for a ruling on the constitutionality of the matter - because of fear that ‘the blacks’ will take to the streets. Number one: that is a bit of an insult to ‘the blacks’ - as if they aren’t capable of understanding the point of the serious political issue, and its ramifications for ‘the rule of law’. Number two: a number of African-Americans have already expressed, in no uncertain terms, their disgust with the illegality that the man called Obama is parading under. And number three: Who really has the more right to be affronted in this matter? I’d say: the American people; who are being mocked from the highest office in the land, by a usurper.
It is The People who have the more right to take to the streets over this matter. And, yes, the responsibility; to return the nation to the rule of law.
And to clarify: I am not counseling violence. I am counseling a return to the rule of law. And it looks increasingly as though that return is going to take a major appearance of We, the People, Assembled, in Washington, to bring it about, as they recall their elected office holders, for the corruption they have demonstrated in this matter.***
A note on that public demonstration: Don’t let anyone tell you that its recommendation is to counsel illegal insurrection. Not only does it reflect the spirit of the founding of the American Republic, it also has some explicit constitutional legality behind it. As I said on another Comments thread on this subject (this to an article on the conservative byte e-newsletter site on June 10; my comment carried on the 12th):
“Ron,
“It’s obvious that Congress is not going to act on its own. So yes, it’s time for a march on Washington of The People, demanding that the man currently occupying the office of the presidency release his bona fides - his true records, subject to expert inspection.
“Since there is every good reason to believe that they are not sufficient for him to occupy that particular office legally - or he would have provided them by now - then (a) the People need to call on Congress to act on that fact forthwith, and declare “what Officer shall then act as President” (Art. II, Sec. 1). If Congress fails to so act - and to The People’s satisfaction - then (b) the Constitution allows for no other recourse than for The People to take the law back into their own hands, to declare such Officer, “and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected”. And since Congress will have failed in their duty to act in the matter, such Officer, as part of the ‘cleaning of the house’ as you recommend, should dissolve that body, and call for elections of both the executive and the legislative branches of the federal government in a time certan, say within 90 days. Said Officer then having the right and responsibility to ‘clean the house’ of the executive branch of government as well, since the whole lot of the federal government will have been tainted by this current individual’s usurpation of power. And the Supreme Court will have nothing of substance to say about the matter, because it will have failed in its duty to let The People have recourse to a redress of their grievance through the judicial branch of government.
“A clean sweep, in other words, of the Augean stables of the federal government, is what would be called for, in such an event. With the oathkeepers of the country’s military, current and retired, marching in unison with The People, in their (overdue) move to right this wrong being visited on the American Republic - being visited in the name of Empire. Whether from the nominal ’left’ or ‘right’, it is a wrong, not in keeping with the spirit of the establishment of ‘the last, best hope of mankind’ - America, and her example [to the world] for self-government, and self-responsibility. Not to be ruled over by despots, either of church or royalty or state.
‘And may The People of America learn well the lesson in this regard. The lesson warned about by such as Thomas Jefferson, and others of her leaders in the past: that you can’t long have self-government without self-responsibility. Or the wolves will creep back in amongst you; who thirst for the power that you failed to honor, in your inattention to the job you had been bequeathed.”
It is up to The People, then, in summary, to right this wrong to the country. And in the righting of this wrong, they will open humanity up to a better future than that planned for it at the moment, by the Powers That Be, who wish to rule the world on their terms.
Not those of the Creator. Who wishes the highest for We, the People. Sparks of the One Source. Calling us, now, closer to home. To release our attachment to what is. And create what can be:
a Garden of Eden, on this lovely planet we call Earth; waiting for us, now, to give of life our best.
‘Seek ye first the kingdom of God...’
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* Some commentators have posted facile arguments on the ‘net trying to muddy the waters on this factor, including saying that the Founding Fathers couldn’t have meant that ‘interpretation’ of the term because anybody could, subsequent to birth, become a dual citizen, so it is a meaningless issue. For them, perhaps; since they are championing a man who has fallen foul of that restriction. But just because a dual citizenship could be attained after birth doesn’t mean that the FF didn’t mean to put that limitation on a candidate for the office. It just means that they couldn’t cover all possible permutations of the law in the Constitution they came up with; that it would be up to future generations to deal with such details as circumstances arose. (Obviously, the spirit of the founding action should be honored.)
But a point of clarification: fundamental changes in the Constitution would have to come about via the amending process allowed for to keep the contract up to date with the unfolding of the Republic’s life. Nobody - not even a majority of the Supreme Court - can just declare a different definition of a fundamental term in the contract. The States must be involved in that sort of process. It IS, after all, a contract. Not just “a damn piece of paper,” as someone who should have known better described it somewhat recently.
We are getting into an important area of American politics that needs to be addressed at some point soon: that of ‘liberals’ trying to make of the Constitution a ‘living document’, subject to the socio-political whims of a majority of Supreme Court justices, rather than the legalistic approach of ‘strict constructionists’ - upholders of the basic judicial principle of ‘original intent’: doing their best to divine what did those who made the law(s) mean when they passed them. To disregard the ‘doctrine’ of ‘original intent’ is to open a can of legalistic worms, thus opening the door for the application of arbitrary law (‘Words mean what I say they mean, neither more nor less’ said Humpty Dumpty haughtily). Which, as I said above, is “the signature practice of tyrants down through history”. But to continue with the main thrust of this blog.
** Both sides of the political aisle are involved in this crime. That means that the fix is in at the top - that The People really haven’t had a proper choice in their government , have just had a choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. It’s the same cabal of powerful people at the top of the pyramid; who want to turn the world into their footstool.
Don’t let them.
And that means: Don’t trust the ‘opposition’ at an one time to be doing what they are supposed to be doing, in other than a one-party state.
Money talks out of both sides of its mouth.
*** And I am aware that they may not only be demonstrating corruption in this matter; but fear. Fear, not only for their political lives, but their very lives; and those of their families. Because they may have been made an offer they can't refuse. Very serious business: because the stakes are so high. In this case: 'the stakes' of control of the world. With very powerful people going for broke, now, as it were - including 'breaking' the economy, so that they can merge the U.S. into their vaunted New World Order, via the unrest created by said breakage, and the consequent declaration of Martial Law - activated because of a self-created 'state of national emergency' - by their placeman in the prime position of power to do so. As George W. came so close to doing before him. As part of the same putsch for power.
Forget 'left' or 'right'. It's the same Mob at the top of the pyramid. Manipulating their puppets, to do their bidding. As I indicated in the footnote above. And so perhaps the best thing The People could do for these people being so manipulated is to let them off the hook by said recall, and replace them with individuals who will be protected by The People from the Powers That Be behind the current throne.
Sunday, 26 June 2011
First Call; for He Who has Ears to Hear
A 'long-lost" tape recording of a public lecture given by economist E.F. Schumacher at my community, the Findhorn Foundation, almost 35 years ago now (in October) was recently restored, and was the basis for a programme on BBC 4 yesterday celebrating Schumacher's perspectives on the 'good society' and in part at least as inspiration for the current UK prime minister's take on the 'Big Society'. Schumacher, whose book entitled 'Small is Beautiful - Economics as if People Mattered' made a ripple some forty years ago - helping to give form to and land the environmental movement - spoke at a conference that was titled 'One Earth: The World Crisis And the Wholeness of Life'. The talk, and the theme of the conference, couldn't be more timely.
Although I was at the community at that time, I wasn't at the talk. I don't recall the reason; it was most likely, as is my wont at the occasion of these things, that I was busy 'behind the scenes', helping with the work department needs of the host community. I'm sorry to have missed it - he was "on fire", as someone remarked - and especially as he died suddenly of a heart attack only months after his appearance here, and so his voice was silenced, in person. But thanks to the written word, and electronic technology, his talk has been captured on CD; which I have just listened to, along with various commentators on his talk, and his life, especially in relation to celebrations there will be this summer on the occasion of his birth centenary.
His ideas, then, were ahead of his time. And I would like to comment on further ideas for our time, in the same vein. The vein of living in a way that honours people, not 'the system'. Man, not the Machine.
Simply put: We are at a crossroads. We can go down - into further chaos, starvation, environmental pollution - or up, into a sunlit highlands. And the key is the elimination of 'money' as the motivator of Man, and ingenuity.
To paraphrase Einstein: You can't discover the answer(s) to the problems that the current paradigm throws up on the same level as the current paradigm. You have to think bigger. And when you do, you discover the beauty of simplicity. That Small, indeed, is Beautiful.
The (current paradigm) need for constant growth is harmful to the environment, and puts into serious question finite resources? Simple. Eliminate the need for constant growth. Settle for sustainability. How? Eliminate money.
The huge gap between the very wealthy and the very poor is increasing almost geometrically, creating a harmful social environment (and with the elimination of a buffering middle class). What to do? Simple. Eliminate money.
Technology is throwing people out of work, and so they have no choice but to go on the dole? Wrong. The answer? Decouple 'income' from a 'job'. How? Simple. Same answer as above.*
I could go on. The point is, that all these problems are built in to the system based on 'money'; on the idea of motivating people to make contributions to society based on the opportunity for personal material gain. On something called 'wealth creation'. Which is simply an idea; a concept. Not a hard-and-fast, physical law.
We are already as wealthy as we will ever be.
It is, in its essence, the ability of the mind, to create. And all that is needed to activate that inbuilt wealth is a motive.
Traditionally, Man has used the motive of personal gain, in a world of scarcity.
How about using the motive of social gain, in a world of (relative) abundance. With more than simply a materialist's idea of 'secular humanism' as a motivator. (Communism tried that. Been there. Done that. Of no more real value than the capitalist's thirsting for accumulation - 'wealth creation', for itself/regardless of the consequences to others.)
How about the motivator of sharing the creation of goods and services, and the giving of the best of our human ingenuity to one another, out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.
And if we do - when we do - there are no losers.
There are only winners.
The human race.
Spiritual beings having a human experience. And learning how to move out of one paradigm - getting increasingly uncomfortable and untenable - to another.
A higher one.
Where we begin to get - really get - that We Are All One.
And so, as you do unto others, so do you do unto yourself.
It's time for that environment that E. F. Schumacher was trying to help us dream into, those 35 years ago. The environment of looking at economics 'as if people mattered'.
Not as if 'I matter, and to hell with anybody else'. The paradigm that says, and teaches, that 'if my actions affect you detrimentally: tough. That's life. Nothing matters- really - but Me.'
But what if You are...they.
Everybody.
Together, on the stage of life. Playing different roles, is all. Now a prince, now a pauper. Now a male, now a female. Now of one race, now another.
Exploring life.
In order to come back to Unity; the better for the experience.
The wiser.
The more whole; in yourself.
Because You and the Whole are One. And we ARE - have been indivuated - in order to come to recognise that. And as a consequence, take a great leap in spiritual evolution - for the Whole.
For the All That Is.
Blessed be Its name.
How can it work, practicallY?
Various individuals and groups have given this matter (the 'Great Turning', in the words of David Korten and Joanna Macy) serious consideration, and have come up with some good answers. It is, really, - simplified to its essence - simply a matter of earning credits for services to the social order, which you can 'spend' as you wish. Some of the schemes that have been dreamt up use the concept of an energy-based 'money' system (rather than human labor/'man hours'): how much 'energy' you contribute to the collective. But since our energy sources are very likely to change, as we tune into our new paradigm more and more (one waiting in the wings, eg, is radiant energy from the universe), I personally wouldn't get too hung up on precise sources, and measurements. Each of the various One Earth communities may well pioneer their own credit system, and put their own value on what they contribute to the Whole. It's not something to get hung up on. Keep to the basic motivator - gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning - and 'it' will work out.
'It': Life on Earth. In the new paradigm.
Just waiting to be birthed.
It's our collective call.
And may we honour individuals like E. F. Schumacher when we do, for their contribution to the consciousness-raising that helped it come into being, on the physical, from the realm of Ideas.
From which cometh our help.
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* So you're not doing things for the money; you're contributing your best in service to the system. Which thereby runs on heart energy.
Although I was at the community at that time, I wasn't at the talk. I don't recall the reason; it was most likely, as is my wont at the occasion of these things, that I was busy 'behind the scenes', helping with the work department needs of the host community. I'm sorry to have missed it - he was "on fire", as someone remarked - and especially as he died suddenly of a heart attack only months after his appearance here, and so his voice was silenced, in person. But thanks to the written word, and electronic technology, his talk has been captured on CD; which I have just listened to, along with various commentators on his talk, and his life, especially in relation to celebrations there will be this summer on the occasion of his birth centenary.
His ideas, then, were ahead of his time. And I would like to comment on further ideas for our time, in the same vein. The vein of living in a way that honours people, not 'the system'. Man, not the Machine.
Simply put: We are at a crossroads. We can go down - into further chaos, starvation, environmental pollution - or up, into a sunlit highlands. And the key is the elimination of 'money' as the motivator of Man, and ingenuity.
To paraphrase Einstein: You can't discover the answer(s) to the problems that the current paradigm throws up on the same level as the current paradigm. You have to think bigger. And when you do, you discover the beauty of simplicity. That Small, indeed, is Beautiful.
The (current paradigm) need for constant growth is harmful to the environment, and puts into serious question finite resources? Simple. Eliminate the need for constant growth. Settle for sustainability. How? Eliminate money.
The huge gap between the very wealthy and the very poor is increasing almost geometrically, creating a harmful social environment (and with the elimination of a buffering middle class). What to do? Simple. Eliminate money.
Technology is throwing people out of work, and so they have no choice but to go on the dole? Wrong. The answer? Decouple 'income' from a 'job'. How? Simple. Same answer as above.*
I could go on. The point is, that all these problems are built in to the system based on 'money'; on the idea of motivating people to make contributions to society based on the opportunity for personal material gain. On something called 'wealth creation'. Which is simply an idea; a concept. Not a hard-and-fast, physical law.
We are already as wealthy as we will ever be.
It is, in its essence, the ability of the mind, to create. And all that is needed to activate that inbuilt wealth is a motive.
Traditionally, Man has used the motive of personal gain, in a world of scarcity.
How about using the motive of social gain, in a world of (relative) abundance. With more than simply a materialist's idea of 'secular humanism' as a motivator. (Communism tried that. Been there. Done that. Of no more real value than the capitalist's thirsting for accumulation - 'wealth creation', for itself/regardless of the consequences to others.)
How about the motivator of sharing the creation of goods and services, and the giving of the best of our human ingenuity to one another, out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.
And if we do - when we do - there are no losers.
There are only winners.
The human race.
Spiritual beings having a human experience. And learning how to move out of one paradigm - getting increasingly uncomfortable and untenable - to another.
A higher one.
Where we begin to get - really get - that We Are All One.
And so, as you do unto others, so do you do unto yourself.
It's time for that environment that E. F. Schumacher was trying to help us dream into, those 35 years ago. The environment of looking at economics 'as if people mattered'.
Not as if 'I matter, and to hell with anybody else'. The paradigm that says, and teaches, that 'if my actions affect you detrimentally: tough. That's life. Nothing matters- really - but Me.'
But what if You are...they.
Everybody.
Together, on the stage of life. Playing different roles, is all. Now a prince, now a pauper. Now a male, now a female. Now of one race, now another.
Exploring life.
In order to come back to Unity; the better for the experience.
The wiser.
The more whole; in yourself.
Because You and the Whole are One. And we ARE - have been indivuated - in order to come to recognise that. And as a consequence, take a great leap in spiritual evolution - for the Whole.
For the All That Is.
Blessed be Its name.
How can it work, practicallY?
Various individuals and groups have given this matter (the 'Great Turning', in the words of David Korten and Joanna Macy) serious consideration, and have come up with some good answers. It is, really, - simplified to its essence - simply a matter of earning credits for services to the social order, which you can 'spend' as you wish. Some of the schemes that have been dreamt up use the concept of an energy-based 'money' system (rather than human labor/'man hours'): how much 'energy' you contribute to the collective. But since our energy sources are very likely to change, as we tune into our new paradigm more and more (one waiting in the wings, eg, is radiant energy from the universe), I personally wouldn't get too hung up on precise sources, and measurements. Each of the various One Earth communities may well pioneer their own credit system, and put their own value on what they contribute to the Whole. It's not something to get hung up on. Keep to the basic motivator - gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning - and 'it' will work out.
'It': Life on Earth. In the new paradigm.
Just waiting to be birthed.
It's our collective call.
And may we honour individuals like E. F. Schumacher when we do, for their contribution to the consciousness-raising that helped it come into being, on the physical, from the realm of Ideas.
From which cometh our help.
---
* So you're not doing things for the money; you're contributing your best in service to the system. Which thereby runs on heart energy.
Thursday, 23 June 2011
A Troubled Sleep...
...and the new day dawns on the deliverance of an email warning about the slow, stealthy steps being taken to ensnare America into something called the UN Small Arms Treaty. This is a measure ostensibly designed to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals; but its effect will be to make ALL firearms subject to international law, and thus to international control. That is to say: control by the UN.
A few points.
(1) Who guards the guards.
(2) 'I thought you were a c.o. [conscientious objector, post-Korean Armistice period], and are against war and weaponry. Why are you signing petitions to the U.S. government demanding the right of U.S. citizens to keep and bear arms?'
Because, in the current reality - level of general consciousness - the reality is that people have every right to defend their person, family and property; and have every reason to do so in particular in the particular current reality, when measures are being put in place by the erstwhile Controllers, the Powers That Be, to fasten their New World Order on the people of the planet, by any means necessary.
The end - to them - justifying the means.
The battle cry of tyrants down through the ages.*
And so they can't afford to let the populace fight back. Have the means to fight back. Even to try to fight back. Messy business, pacification...
..and America stands, like a bulwark, in their way. With its constitutional rights secured to The People.
So the Constitution needs to go.
And one way to accomplish that end-in-effect is to get the Congress to sign off on a treaty compromising the spirit of the Second Amendment.** Because treaties have terrific clout; take precedence over domestic law.
And especially with the creation of a condition of 'national emergency'. Which also lays the groundwork for a declaration of Martial Law, and the country thus locked down. The whole thing insidiously put in place by the country having been put on a war footing.
The War On Terror.
Which was promulgated by the PTB in the first place.
Because...(all together now...)
Thus, the PTB need to take down the U.S. as a sovereign body. The better to eat you with, my dear...
And so I support the right of The People to keep and bear arms, in self-defense. And to protect their country from being taken over by tyrants.
Tyrants from without. And from within.
(Shades of Taylor Caldwell's novel about Cicero, and his times...)
* Including more than just 'political' tyrants. It's the same cry as raised by, eg, medical monopolists, who, eg, want to make vaccines mandatory on the whole herd - excuse me; populace. In order to achieve their vaunted goal of 'herd immunity'. Conveniently ignoring evidences - and growing - of terrible side effects from the vaccines. Because - all together now: The end justifies the means.
** Do U.S. citizens really understand their Constitution?? The Bill of Rights is just a statement of examples of rights remaining to 'the States, or the people', in the new federal contract; where the newly established-to-be federal government was only granted those powers that were specifically mentioned in the contract. Its powers were limited and delegated. "Few and defined,' in the words of the Father of the Constitution, James Madison. Not unlimited except as specifically denied by the Constitution.
It may be a subtle difference. But it is a world of difference, in effect. And has been proven, in the years since the Constitution's inception.
(3) The thing is, there can - will - come a time when humanity does away with weapons. Because we will be living with truth. The truth of our core being. As 'spiritual beings having a human experience'. And so the need for such as weapons will disappear, organically.
Especially with the elimination of money, as currently defined, and our human civilization structured by, and with.
Because we will be living with the motive of, in a word, Love.
Sharing our best with one another out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.
And so people will be contributing their labor and efforts out of that incentive.
Not the primitive incentive of 'making money'.
And especially not with interest-bearing money. Which creation has caused humanity to lose sight of its true origin. And purpose.
The latter of which is to grow in consciousness, in order to fulfil our spiritual potential - as divine sparks of our Source - ultimately to become One with All That Is.
The latter concept may be difficult for some, in their current consciousness, to fathom. But bear with the process...
A process which throws up some amusing moments along the way. As recently, when a talk-show host in Australia, in interviewing the Dalai Lama, tried a joke on him, by telling him the one about the Buddhist monk who went into a pizza parlor to place an order, and said to the man behind the counter, 'Make me one with everything.'
And the talk-show host waited. And waited. And waited...for the Dalai Lama to get it.
Which, in the end, he didn't.
But hey.
Maybe the real 'joke' is: he didn't have to.
A few points.
(1) Who guards the guards.
(2) 'I thought you were a c.o. [conscientious objector, post-Korean Armistice period], and are against war and weaponry. Why are you signing petitions to the U.S. government demanding the right of U.S. citizens to keep and bear arms?'
Because, in the current reality - level of general consciousness - the reality is that people have every right to defend their person, family and property; and have every reason to do so in particular in the particular current reality, when measures are being put in place by the erstwhile Controllers, the Powers That Be, to fasten their New World Order on the people of the planet, by any means necessary.
The end - to them - justifying the means.
The battle cry of tyrants down through the ages.*
And so they can't afford to let the populace fight back. Have the means to fight back. Even to try to fight back. Messy business, pacification...
..and America stands, like a bulwark, in their way. With its constitutional rights secured to The People.
So the Constitution needs to go.
And one way to accomplish that end-in-effect is to get the Congress to sign off on a treaty compromising the spirit of the Second Amendment.** Because treaties have terrific clout; take precedence over domestic law.
And especially with the creation of a condition of 'national emergency'. Which also lays the groundwork for a declaration of Martial Law, and the country thus locked down. The whole thing insidiously put in place by the country having been put on a war footing.
The War On Terror.
Which was promulgated by the PTB in the first place.
Because...(all together now...)
Thus, the PTB need to take down the U.S. as a sovereign body. The better to eat you with, my dear...
And so I support the right of The People to keep and bear arms, in self-defense. And to protect their country from being taken over by tyrants.
Tyrants from without. And from within.
(Shades of Taylor Caldwell's novel about Cicero, and his times...)
* Including more than just 'political' tyrants. It's the same cry as raised by, eg, medical monopolists, who, eg, want to make vaccines mandatory on the whole herd - excuse me; populace. In order to achieve their vaunted goal of 'herd immunity'. Conveniently ignoring evidences - and growing - of terrible side effects from the vaccines. Because - all together now: The end justifies the means.
** Do U.S. citizens really understand their Constitution?? The Bill of Rights is just a statement of examples of rights remaining to 'the States, or the people', in the new federal contract; where the newly established-to-be federal government was only granted those powers that were specifically mentioned in the contract. Its powers were limited and delegated. "Few and defined,' in the words of the Father of the Constitution, James Madison. Not unlimited except as specifically denied by the Constitution.
It may be a subtle difference. But it is a world of difference, in effect. And has been proven, in the years since the Constitution's inception.
(3) The thing is, there can - will - come a time when humanity does away with weapons. Because we will be living with truth. The truth of our core being. As 'spiritual beings having a human experience'. And so the need for such as weapons will disappear, organically.
Especially with the elimination of money, as currently defined, and our human civilization structured by, and with.
Because we will be living with the motive of, in a word, Love.
Sharing our best with one another out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.
And so people will be contributing their labor and efforts out of that incentive.
Not the primitive incentive of 'making money'.
And especially not with interest-bearing money. Which creation has caused humanity to lose sight of its true origin. And purpose.
The latter of which is to grow in consciousness, in order to fulfil our spiritual potential - as divine sparks of our Source - ultimately to become One with All That Is.
The latter concept may be difficult for some, in their current consciousness, to fathom. But bear with the process...
A process which throws up some amusing moments along the way. As recently, when a talk-show host in Australia, in interviewing the Dalai Lama, tried a joke on him, by telling him the one about the Buddhist monk who went into a pizza parlor to place an order, and said to the man behind the counter, 'Make me one with everything.'
And the talk-show host waited. And waited. And waited...for the Dalai Lama to get it.
Which, in the end, he didn't.
But hey.
Maybe the real 'joke' is: he didn't have to.
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
And the Signs Continue...
Checking out a blog on the Before It's News e-newsletter site on the close-run matter of nuclear power plants in Nebraska going offline in a nearly rather calamitous way from the flooding of The Missouri, I noticed a link to another story, about something called VIPR. This is an extension of the airport TSA action into local communities all over the country, in a manner eerily reminiscent of the brownshirt SA in the rise of Hitler, and the softening-up of the populace to become good little citizens of Nazi Germany, cowed into behaving themselves. The article was written by one M. Ruppert, who would be the Mike Ruppert, of 'Crossing the Rubicon' fame.
I commend it to your attention. Here, I just want to share my incensed thought, before calling it a night, and facing a troubled sleep:
[link to:
['Obama's Sturmabteilung; Coming To a Location Near You' - 22/6 M. Ruppert]
Comments
Posted by Anonymous 23 June 00:13
"Thank you for this clear, cogent heads-up, Mike.
"The only reason they are getting away with this basically unconstitutional activity is because the U.S. has been put on a war footing. The War on Terror. Funny, that. Bin Laden having been visited in hospital by the local CIA field agent, and the underwear bomber having been helped onto the plane by an intelligence agent, and so on and on. The War on Terror, in short, is a cover, for the destruction of the Constitution - of the United States itself, as it has been. To be turned into merely a region of the PTB's vaunted New World Order. And so these TSA agents are 'out there' for one reason, and one reason only.
"Intimidation.
"Conditioning of the herd...
"A rising up of the herd - excuse me; The People - is overdue.
"And don't look to your congressional representatives to do the job for you. They are part of the problem.
"And this upwising (not a misprint) will have to happen soon. Not in November 2012. Because the PTB are already moving their forces into place, to cut off The People at the pass.
"The pass of the United States from a Republic to Empire.
"Coming to a town near you. As Mike points out.
"The answer?
"The short-term answer is to support your Local Police against their co-option by the feds.
"The long-term answer?
"Ah. Well. That's another blog.
"First things first.
"Meaning: Education. Knowledge. And the creation of a sense of community, standing against just such vipers as have already started infesting our local communities.
"VIPR. Clever.
"Perhaps a bit too clever.
"With people starting to wake up now to the danger, by the sheer arrogance of its presentation.
"Keep it coming, Mike. You're right on it."
I commend it to your attention. Here, I just want to share my incensed thought, before calling it a night, and facing a troubled sleep:
[link to:
['Obama's Sturmabteilung; Coming To a Location Near You' - 22/6 M. Ruppert]
Comments
Posted by Anonymous 23 June 00:13
"Thank you for this clear, cogent heads-up, Mike.
"The only reason they are getting away with this basically unconstitutional activity is because the U.S. has been put on a war footing. The War on Terror. Funny, that. Bin Laden having been visited in hospital by the local CIA field agent, and the underwear bomber having been helped onto the plane by an intelligence agent, and so on and on. The War on Terror, in short, is a cover, for the destruction of the Constitution - of the United States itself, as it has been. To be turned into merely a region of the PTB's vaunted New World Order. And so these TSA agents are 'out there' for one reason, and one reason only.
"Intimidation.
"Conditioning of the herd...
"A rising up of the herd - excuse me; The People - is overdue.
"And don't look to your congressional representatives to do the job for you. They are part of the problem.
"And this upwising (not a misprint) will have to happen soon. Not in November 2012. Because the PTB are already moving their forces into place, to cut off The People at the pass.
"The pass of the United States from a Republic to Empire.
"Coming to a town near you. As Mike points out.
"The answer?
"The short-term answer is to support your Local Police against their co-option by the feds.
"The long-term answer?
"Ah. Well. That's another blog.
"First things first.
"Meaning: Education. Knowledge. And the creation of a sense of community, standing against just such vipers as have already started infesting our local communities.
"VIPR. Clever.
"Perhaps a bit too clever.
"With people starting to wake up now to the danger, by the sheer arrogance of its presentation.
"Keep it coming, Mike. You're right on it."
Monday, 20 June 2011
Obama the Congress Whisperer
...gently, gently lulling Congress with sweet reasonableness. Nothing to see here, folks. Keep moving. Pass right on by.,,
I hadn't realised fully just how bad it has gotten in America with the Obama administration, in cahoots with Congress, robbing the American people of their country. The latest, in truth, outrage: the Obama administration's ignoring of even the advice of its Department of Justice in the matter of acting unilaterally in engaging in the 'hostilities' in Libya. (The legal situation seems to turn on the varying definitions of 'hostilities'. Authorizing the firing of drone missiles, that kill people, doesn't seem to amount to engaging in 'hostilities' in the considered opinion of the Obama administration. Building, one can note, on the forays into the 'unitary executive' territory engaged in by his predecessor; and thus snapping yet another constitutional chain on the executive's power.)
I happened to come across, in a seemingly minor notation, a link - just one among many - on the TeaParty.net e-newsletter site of 19/6 to a blog at the Weekly Standard e-newspaper, by one Adam J. White. Entitled 'President Obama Rejects Justice Department's War Powers Interpretation', it was a cogent take on the subject. Gently worded, it nevertheless made my blood boil. My comment to the author (there was no Comments thread to the article itself):
"First of all, thank you, Mr. White, for a reasoned and reasonable approach to this subject.
"Now may I ask when the lawyers of this nation are going to call a spade a spade en masse, and let Mr. Obama, and the nation, know in no uncertain terms that he has stepped beyond the bounds of the Constitution, and must be taken to court to show cause; or at the least, be tried in the court of public opinion?
"Or have we learned nothing from history?
"I, and I am sure others, await your mutual call on this exceedingly important constitutional matter. Or the Republic will descend into Empire on your head."
Their collective heads, I meant; but I wanted him to feel some personal heat, in helping to take this serious matter further. The public can't be expected to know all the ins and outs of such legal matters; with his valuable take on the matter, his understanding of it, he had a duty to help promote the information, beyond just a blog - one among many that day, to be forgotten easily by the average citizen, who needs informed help to keep up with such issues, and have them kept with 'legs' in the public forum.
And yes, such 'interested parties' as the Tea Party needed to do their job in the constitutional matter, too.
I hope they help in this particular issue, beyond just the 'minor' link they gave the story.
A story that I then followed up on by checking out another link to the subject, at the Weekly Standard's site. This was to an article (17/6) on the NPR (National Public Radio) site, by two legal scholars. My response on the site to that take on this matter:
'Weekly Standard: Did Founders Create War Powers?'
by Benjamin Kleinermann & Vincent Philip Munoz
"Stan Stanfield (kibitzer) wrote:
"A thoughtful piece, Mssrs Kleinermann and Munoz. Now will you raise your scholarly voices in opposition to this administration's arrogant attitude in opting for the role of a unitary executive? Another word for which is emperor??
20 June 2011 11:41:52 BDT"
Interpreting law constantly to its own benefit - and getting away with it, with a supine Congress not discharging its constitutional duty to be a check and balance against just such a usurpation of power??
Congress MUST act, and rein - and reign - Obama in. Or lose their legitimacy. And thus leave it to The People to do the job in a direct fashion.
Affairs are now soul size...
,,,calling for extreme measures. The man calling himself Obama needs to be called on his very apparent usurpation of power, initially in gaining the presidential position itself deceitfully, and since then in that seat of power, consolidating the 'unitary executive' trappings largely put in place under his immediate predecessor (as part of the New World Order scenario the global PTB are pushing). There needs to be a march on Washington of The People, and a setting to rights of the situation: the man calling himself Obama forced to depart the office; Congress dissolved, for not doing its job, of properly vetting that person for that particular office, with its higher standard of citizenship than just citizenship itself, and for rolling over obediently as the executive has continued to consolidate that power; the Supreme Court dissolved as well, for not allowing The People 'standing' in a court of law to pursue the many questions regarding their president's eligibility; and elections to be held 'in a time certain', say 3 months.
And I will act as the Art. II Sect. 1 Officer to oversee all that activity, if The People so choose.
And then return to my retirement to my home in the country; specifically, in a spiritual community in the north of Scotland.
Which is the guarantee that I will not in turn take dictatorial powers, in the interregnum: because I am a firm supporter of the American Constitution, and it does not allow for dual citizenship of the Republic's president.
A fact which has been sorely abused in the instance.
I hadn't realised fully just how bad it has gotten in America with the Obama administration, in cahoots with Congress, robbing the American people of their country. The latest, in truth, outrage: the Obama administration's ignoring of even the advice of its Department of Justice in the matter of acting unilaterally in engaging in the 'hostilities' in Libya. (The legal situation seems to turn on the varying definitions of 'hostilities'. Authorizing the firing of drone missiles, that kill people, doesn't seem to amount to engaging in 'hostilities' in the considered opinion of the Obama administration. Building, one can note, on the forays into the 'unitary executive' territory engaged in by his predecessor; and thus snapping yet another constitutional chain on the executive's power.)
I happened to come across, in a seemingly minor notation, a link - just one among many - on the TeaParty.net e-newsletter site of 19/6 to a blog at the Weekly Standard e-newspaper, by one Adam J. White. Entitled 'President Obama Rejects Justice Department's War Powers Interpretation', it was a cogent take on the subject. Gently worded, it nevertheless made my blood boil. My comment to the author (there was no Comments thread to the article itself):
"First of all, thank you, Mr. White, for a reasoned and reasonable approach to this subject.
"Now may I ask when the lawyers of this nation are going to call a spade a spade en masse, and let Mr. Obama, and the nation, know in no uncertain terms that he has stepped beyond the bounds of the Constitution, and must be taken to court to show cause; or at the least, be tried in the court of public opinion?
"Or have we learned nothing from history?
"I, and I am sure others, await your mutual call on this exceedingly important constitutional matter. Or the Republic will descend into Empire on your head."
Their collective heads, I meant; but I wanted him to feel some personal heat, in helping to take this serious matter further. The public can't be expected to know all the ins and outs of such legal matters; with his valuable take on the matter, his understanding of it, he had a duty to help promote the information, beyond just a blog - one among many that day, to be forgotten easily by the average citizen, who needs informed help to keep up with such issues, and have them kept with 'legs' in the public forum.
And yes, such 'interested parties' as the Tea Party needed to do their job in the constitutional matter, too.
I hope they help in this particular issue, beyond just the 'minor' link they gave the story.
A story that I then followed up on by checking out another link to the subject, at the Weekly Standard's site. This was to an article (17/6) on the NPR (National Public Radio) site, by two legal scholars. My response on the site to that take on this matter:
'Weekly Standard: Did Founders Create War Powers?'
by Benjamin Kleinermann & Vincent Philip Munoz
"Stan Stanfield (kibitzer) wrote:
"A thoughtful piece, Mssrs Kleinermann and Munoz. Now will you raise your scholarly voices in opposition to this administration's arrogant attitude in opting for the role of a unitary executive? Another word for which is emperor??
20 June 2011 11:41:52 BDT"
Interpreting law constantly to its own benefit - and getting away with it, with a supine Congress not discharging its constitutional duty to be a check and balance against just such a usurpation of power??
Congress MUST act, and rein - and reign - Obama in. Or lose their legitimacy. And thus leave it to The People to do the job in a direct fashion.
Affairs are now soul size...
,,,calling for extreme measures. The man calling himself Obama needs to be called on his very apparent usurpation of power, initially in gaining the presidential position itself deceitfully, and since then in that seat of power, consolidating the 'unitary executive' trappings largely put in place under his immediate predecessor (as part of the New World Order scenario the global PTB are pushing). There needs to be a march on Washington of The People, and a setting to rights of the situation: the man calling himself Obama forced to depart the office; Congress dissolved, for not doing its job, of properly vetting that person for that particular office, with its higher standard of citizenship than just citizenship itself, and for rolling over obediently as the executive has continued to consolidate that power; the Supreme Court dissolved as well, for not allowing The People 'standing' in a court of law to pursue the many questions regarding their president's eligibility; and elections to be held 'in a time certain', say 3 months.
And I will act as the Art. II Sect. 1 Officer to oversee all that activity, if The People so choose.
And then return to my retirement to my home in the country; specifically, in a spiritual community in the north of Scotland.
Which is the guarantee that I will not in turn take dictatorial powers, in the interregnum: because I am a firm supporter of the American Constitution, and it does not allow for dual citizenship of the Republic's president.
A fact which has been sorely abused in the instance.
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