The Art Of Illusion

I have realized that I shouldn't have been all that surprised that the American people as a whole have bought a pig in a poke for their president the last two such elections.  After all, Edward L. Bernays, the so-called father of public relations (read, in fact, propaganda) perfected the art of illusion a long time ago; had been plying his form of mind control for years - and the American public bought it, hook, line and sinker.

Consider cigarettes.  I recall growing up as a youngster in post-WWII America (southern California, to be exact; before it took on an identity all of its own, as Southern California.  Speaking of identities) and seeing ads, first in the newspapers and magazines and later on TV, making the claim to said public that 'More Doctors Smoke Chesterfields than Any Other Cigarette'.  It must have ben true; a doctor said it.  Or at least, a man in a doctor's white coat said it...

I obviously hadn't cottoned on to that potential manipulation of reality by the time an ad came out on early TV for fluoridation of the water, and toothpaste.  A man - obviously a doctor; perhaps just a scientist - took the viewing public through a blackboard lesson in how fluoride = strong teeth, or some such graphic display of 'truth'.  I was a little older by then, and a little more aware of the amorphous 'they' by then, because as I recall, I mused: Why would they lie about something like that???

It took some years more before I found out.

And about various additives in our canned and refrigerated food.  And.  And.  And......

And that it was the oil companies buying up the electric trolley business in L.A. that caused them to disappear from the streets of L.A. and its surroundings suburbs.  (I remember letting my mom's car be 'guided' downtown by steering it onto the embedded trolley rails that were no longer used.)1  And.  And.  And...

I won't belabor the point.  We have been subjected for years to the art of misrepresentation. Mostly for the almighty dollar.  But also for purely political reasons.

And so it has been with Obama.  Now, I'm not saying that other presidents haven't been elected without a certain amount of legerdemain.  But this case has been so blatantly fraudulent that we have had our noses rubbed in it.

Both of the main political parties tried a total of 8 times between 2003 and 2008 to get an amendment to the Constitution going through Congress to do away with the (intentionally-set) high-bar requirement for a candidate for the presidential office to be "a natural born Citizen", rather than just a native born, or naturalized, citizen.  What did that mean?  I got a lesson in history when I started looking into the matter.2

My interest took me to a couple of sites in particular, where the attorneys involved (Leo Donofrio and Mario Apuzzo) had researched the matter down to a book called The Law of Nations, by one Emerich de Vattell; which book the constitution's Framers were familiar with (particularly through the likes of Benjamin Franklin), and which spoke of a 'natural born' citizen being one born jus soli - of the soil - and jus sanguinis - of the blood, i.e., of two citizen parents.  Why the requirement for that particular federal office (and that office ONLY)??  Because they didn't want the person, who would also be the Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the new republic, to have dual loyalties or allegiances.

This intention was signaled as well by two other key factors:

1 In a private letter to G. Washington, president of the Continental Convention and overseeing the proceedings, the man who was destined to become the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the new republic, John Jay, brought to the attention of the man who was destined to become the first President of the new republic the value of that particular requirement to be built into the compact of the new nation that they were involved in constructing.   And

2 In his first draft of working on such constitutional matters, Alexander Hamilton proposed that the president of the new republic needed to be merely a citizen.  His proposal was rejected.

(Another key matter in this whole business, of what the Framers were going by in their deliberations, was provided us in our time when I came across a statement by George Mason, one of the key delegates to the Convention (from one of the key States, that of Virginia), who pointed out in a debate once that the fledgling Americans did not go by English common law, rather by American common law, or 'the law of nations'/Natural Law.  They would be damned if they would go by English common law, which spoke of 'subjects', after having fought a War of Independence from that sort of relationship to their own governing body or bodies, as, now, Freemen.  I mention this because some apologists for Obama have tried to claim that he is legal/was eligible under English common law.  They just don't understand the spirit of independence that the Founders and Framers were operating under - independence from the old and architects of the New; for all humanity to benefit by.)3

Anyway - not to go into all this in too great a detail here.  Just, here, to say that some people are trying to play 'public relations' games, make falsehood trump truth.

And I for one won't have it.

Having learned, by now, to look for the man behind the curtain, orchestrating things going on on stage.

Obama is an eligible president?  

Pull the other one.

I dare you.

And know, that in the space that humanity - all of Humanity - is heading, as we speak, there is no room for such qualities as lying.  And cheating.  And deceit of any kind.

Such base qualities are not permitted in the higher realms.

Nay.  They simply can't exist there.  Or their applicators wouldn't even be there.


Where are you going to be, Citizen??  (Natural born, or otherwise.)

Found.  Or found wanting???

If the latter; a word of warning:

Don't drink the Kool-Aid.

It has fluoride in it.

And thus is closing you off from your higher Self.

And believe me: You don't really want to stay stuck on the level that you currently inhabit.

There is so much more to aspire to.

Than living a life of deception.

Of deceiving others.

And being deceived yourself.

By masters of the art.  Who have far more experience in the matter than you do.  And so are manipulating you as well.  To do their dirty work.

As Masters of the Dark.  To say:

From behind the screen, of Life.                              

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footnotes:

1 But coming back to live in my old hometown, after over 35 years as an ex-pat, I was pleasantly surprised to see that such rail cars have come back into being, between L.B. and the surrounding
'Metro' area.  Well done, folks.  Not an easy industry to win out over.
     Unless they have just diversified.
     Like the cigarette manufacturers have...


2 Over in the UK, I came a little late to the developing brouhaha over the matter in the States.  So I got my lesson in the matter from the Internet.  The matter of the conflict, and of the definition of an NBC.
     A wonderful tool, the Internet.  You've heard the old rhyme, 'A wonderful bird is the pelican/ His beak can hold more than his belly can '?  The Internet can hold more than the truth of things.  But it is a wonderful tool nevertheless.  The amorphous 'they' can no longer control the public's source of information.  Schooling, books, TV can be controlled.  But not 'the People's encyclopedia'.
     Oh - hang on.  I understand that the Obama camp is looking into that little matter right now...


3 Ref.: puzo1.blogspot.com,  Esp. blog of August 21, 2009 titled 'The Law of Nations or Principles of Natural Law' As U.S. Federal Common Law Not English Common Law Define What An Article II Natural Born Citizen Is.

The Natives Are Restless

From Tea Party Command Center: blog titled 'Guns And Ammo Production Maxed Out: "This is a Society Preparing For War"' - posted by Nat'l Dir. Dee - Feb. 14 - by Mac Slavo (origin. posted at shtfplan.com)

You've Gotta Laugh…

After quite a lengthy Comments threads had developed, of some very irate American citizens, ready to go to war with the current federal administration over many of its positions, especially how it has been buying up a huge amount of (particularly deadly) ammo, which these patriots believe has been to keep it out of their hands, a moment of light relief was contributed.  The poster included a link to an audio of a story by a Southern comedian, named Lewis Grizzard.  His shtick went something like this:

General Sherman and his Union army are heading north after burning Atlanta.  They are about to pass Stone Mountain when they hear a voice coming from the top.  They look up, and see a lone Confederate soldier up there, cussing them out and waving his saber threatingly at them.  General Sherman says to his second in command, "I want the toughest man in the ranks to go up there and take care of that damn Rebel."  So the toughest man in the ranks is sent up the mountain; and shortly after comes flying off the mountain, and landing dead at the feet of General Sherman.  "Damn," says the General, visibly angry.  "I want ten of our men sent up there to take care of that Confederate soldier."  So ten of their finest are sent up the mountain; and none of them return.  "What is this," snarls General Sherman.  "I want 150 of our finest men sent up there to take care of that so-and-so.  Enough of this nonsense."  So 150 of the Union's finest are sent up the mountain - and only one of them returns, bleeding from every pore.  "Son," says the General to the man, "What's the story up there?"

"It's a trick, General Sherman," reports the man.  "There's two of 'em."       

Southern humor…but, possibly, not far off the mark.  One of the posters at the YouTube audio site mentioned "(s)upposedly a true story:

"Abraham Lincoln once asked General (Winfield) Scott the question:

"Why is it that you were once able to take the City of Mexico in three months with 5,000 men, and we have been unable to take Richmond with 100,000 men?"

"I will tell you," said General Scott.  "The men who took us into the City of Mexico are the same men who are keeping us out of Richmond."

It is not for nothing that the Southerners are known as good soldiers: they have a long and proud tradition of military training.  And are among the most active of those Americans who are stocking up on guns and ammunition at this time.

Things do not bode well.  So a little lightness to leaven the heaviness does not go amiss.

Incidentally; my contribution to the thread:

Reply by Richard Shea 5 hours ago

I hope some of these manufacturers follow Olympic Arms and boycott government agencies that support" putting them out of business ".  I hope every citizen is stock piling, the goverment is and that is part of the master plan! Looks like the government is trying to buy up all the ammo so civilians can't get any.  A sign of truly bad things to come?

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Good point, Richard.  The minute that the word was out about what the federal government was doing in that regard, The People should have leapt into the market. 

And by The People, I mean those citizens who are not going to stand for seeing their Constitution blown away.  

And I'm not just talking about the Second Amendment.  I'm talking about the whole shebang.  So to speak.

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…And to put all this in perspective, consider this message, today on Gaia Portal; message entitled "Restlessness…due to significant Alterations in DNA coding'.  The message:

"Restlessness may be a characteristic of current sensations in the 3D body.  Specific changes and upgrades to DNA familial patterns requires significant alterations in DNA coding.

"These DNA upgrades allow ease of transition out of 3D dysfunctional familial patterns and into Galactic family connections.  Such upgrades are necessary for full disclosure process to proceed."

So, there you have it.

The message(s) for today.  For an America at odds with itself.  

For various reasons.

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And actually - to be completely fair, about a roundned-out 'message' for today; a late entry.  This from Colleen at PAO:

MESSAGE FROM HILARION Thru Marlene Swetlishoff~~February 3-13, 2013

Beloved Ones, The effects of the latest waves of energy being directed to Earth are now being felt in each soul. To those who have been doing the inner work, there is a lightening of their spirit as they go about their daily lives. This Light is discernable to those who know them but do not see them regularly. There is an indefinable something which makes these individuals stand out and that of course is their inner Light. This is an excellent time to renew your dedication to your daily disciplines so that you can take full advantage of the opportunities that are presented. Each individual throughout the planet is now beginning to make choices to take back their own sovereignty of Being and are uniting in focuses that are designed to bring attention to long standing and ongoing concerns that need addressing. The old paradigms are being changed moment by moment as the balance of energies between the masculine and feminine are being brought into balance. This can create chaos in areas of the world where there has been an imbalance for centuries as the masculine energies resist the call to align with the higher energies of the cosmos and the universal laws of conduct.

The anomalies in the weather patterns continue and the Earth is still adjusting as the greater alignment to the galactic center takes effect. Old ways of conduct are being highlighted in the news media and bringing to the attention of the masses the need for evaluation and change. Those who uphold their integrity are anchoring this energy into the new paradigm. All are being tested in their resolve to become greater than former limitations would have them believe they can become. It is the time of becoming all that you truly are in the inner recesses of your mind. The process of purification is usually a very challenging one. It is often quite difficult to see aspects of one’s self that need transformation. It is valuable to know that those with whom you interact on a daily basis are those who are reflecting to you that which needs to be addressed and looked at. It is helpful to remember that they have agreed on a spiritual level to do this service for you because as souls they love you dearly. It can be difficult to realize that all challenges currently being experienced in your daily lives are those that you, as sovereign soul, have brought into your lives to focus on the areas of soul refinement that still need work. The refinement taking place in the areas of human expression by all of humanity is underway. In humanity, all that is base and of lower vibration is slowly falling away and being replaced with a conscious desire to walk this world as their true authentic Self. There will be more moments of spontaneous bursts of pure joy that well up from within each heart as they live their mundane lives expressing their true nature of spirit in these challenging times. The jewel that they truly are is being polished into greater brilliance and reflection and this process touches and impacts others in amazing ways. Until next week… I AM Hilarion ©2013 Marlene Swetlishoff/Tsu-tana (Soo-tam-ah) Keeper of the Symphonies of Grace

   
...and 'nuff said for today.

All in all: We are being bombarded with mixed messages.

Keep your cool.

And know that there is something more than Man.  At work.

And play.

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The Art Of Divination

On the eve of an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States (hereinafter to be referred to as the SCOTUS) for that august body to hear a case regarding, in its major part, a challenge to the eligibility of one Barack Hussein Obama to hold the particular office that he is occupying, what is happening, in and to the State of the Union?

Answer: A major challenge to its continuance.

Consider.  And this, from what I have observed, after having been out of the country for a good number of years, and so having the benefit of a perspective with a degree of freshness about it, that those who have been in the simmering and steadily heating-up pot don't have.

For I seem to have missed something, while I was away.1  I seem to have missed the passing of a constitutional amendment stating something like: 'The rights and powers formerly reserved to the States or to the people shall now reside basically in the federal government, to be decided in the end by the SCOTUS majority at any given time in its history, and then by a throw of the dice.'  

I jest.  But barely.

You, ladies and gentlemen of the SCOTUS, would appear to have been making your majority decisions by just that: a throw of the dice.  Or runes.  Or divination of animal entrails.  Or something similarly arcane.  Well, as a result: the die is cast on you.  And you are found wanting.  

For - in taking the case mentioned above as an example - if the executive branch of the federal government and the legislative branch of the same gang up on the Constitution - what then, to and for the rule of law in the nation??

You have to intercede, in such a case.

You seem to have enjoyed treating the Constitution like 'just a damn piece of paper,' as it has been referred to on high authority of late - to have dealt with it in a rather cavalier fashion over lo these many recent years.  But on the constitutional issue of the current occupant of the presidential office's eligibility - oh no.  That is the Congress's hot potato -  er, prerogative.  And all of a sudden, the SCOTUS reverts to a strict-constructionist constitutional position…

SCOTUS,  thy name is Hypocrite.     

To say: I think they are, the SCOTUS is, choosing not to have a constitutional confrontation with the Congress, whose job it is to deal with eligibility issues.2  So, the constitutional confrontation they both need to have is with "the States, or" with The People, Assembled.  Where there is strength in numbers; and in the righteousness of their cause.

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footnotes:

1 And dating from before that time period; before I understood much about the nation's constitutional lawmaking, in just growing up in the country, minding my own business; not that of the nation's.

2 Along the lines that it decreed that ObamaCare was a tax, and therefore constitutional; that it wasn't up to the SCOTUS to rule contrary to the will of the Congress in the instance, was rather up to The People to vote for those representatives who would rule over them.   

     They got that partly right.  But as I said above: If the executive branch and the legislative branch gang up against the rule of law, what are you going to do?  Play solitaire??

     Who guards the guards???  

Closing Remarks

In my blog yesterday I referred to Ron Paul's closing remarks to the nation as one of its representatives in the House of Representatives.  I had come across that speech in the pages of the Whistleblower magazine, in its December issue, but hadn't gotten around to reading it through, as I had caught it live in a video of Ron delivering it.  But I obviously didn't catch all of it; for in reading it through further this morning, I found even more in it to commend it to the attention of the nation.  It does an excellent job of summarizing where we have gone wrong as a nation, and therefore, why we are in the "mess"  - his very apposite word - that we are in today.

As he neared the close of his address, he used these other words to clothe his feelings in:  

"The ultimate solution is not in the hands of the government.

"The solution falls on each and every individual, with guidance from family, friends and community.

"The No. 1 responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.  This is of greater importance than working on changing the government.  That is secondary to promoting a virtuous society.  If we can achieve this, then the government will change."

He had just pointed out that 'The Founders were convinced that a free society" - which he had spent some words in describing as being his 'secret' for prosperity - "could not exist without a moral people.  Just writing rules," he pointed out, "won't work if the people choose to ignore them.  Today the rule of law written in the Constitution has little meaning for most Americans, especially those who work in Washington, D.C."

A well-observed, and -deserved, 'ouch'.

For, what's the context for these words, and this sentiment?

I have been in a far country for many years, so I haven't been around, when a change took place in this country.  Your leaders have gotten you so in debt, and allowed you to live not just on borrowed money but on merely printed money - when the Federal Reserve monetized the debt; to the remark of few other than Ron Paul at the time - that your country has been stolen out from under you.  Communist China - as the key other player in this scenario - can now, not march in, but stroll in and take over all your resources; and you can do nothing about it but wake up, and wonder aloud, 'Gee, what happened, while I was asleep' - at the switch, from a virtuous people to an immoral people, leading you to live off of others. 

- the very philosophy, and way of life, that the welfarites have picked up on, and are merely an extension of.

So the blame for the downfall of the nation rests not really, or primarily, on those who are merely the symptom.  It rests on your leaders, and their leadership.  And ultimately - guess what.  It rests on you, Average Joe and Jill Citizen.   Since you are supposed to be, and have been, responsible for yourselves in this nation.  This country now far removed from its founding principles, of the likes of self-reliance, and self-governance, and self-responsibility.

Not doing too well on those scores now, are we.

And yes, I count myself among you.  For this is my country, in spirit.  And I am sorely grieved, and aggrieved, by and at its outcome, at the hands of those among you who have wanted to do you in for a long, long time.  And have almost - almost - succeeded, in their mission, of tearing this nation down, and replacing it with another vision: the vision of the all-powerful state, running its people's lives to within an inch of those serf-like lives.

There is still time to set things right.  But not by much.  And, at the expense of what you have; and have been bequeathed.  To be ruled, now, by, and for, something better:

government of our higher Selves, by our higher Selves, and for our higher Selves.

You really have no choice.  If you want to survive at all; as other than a slave.

So, the answer is to free yourself from the oppression of the state, in taking charge of your own life, in a virtuous manner.  And in doing so, to heed the words of Ron Paul, at the conclusion of his Farewell Address to the House of Representatives, and to the nation, as one of its representative in that honorable, but dishonored, assembly.

His closing words:

"I have come to one firm conviction after these many years of trying to figure out 'the plain truth of things':  The best chance for achieving peace and prosperity, for the maximum number of people worldwide, is to pursue the cause of LIBERTY.

"If you find this to be a worthwhile message, spread it throughout the land."

I echo his words.

And no more, really, needs to be said.

Except to qualify the word, and quality, of Liberty with the word, and quality, of Virtue.

What our Founding Fathers envisioned.

And did their best to warn us about: that the one without the other is mere licentiousness.

Which is as unworthy a quality as oppression.

Unworthy, of our higher Selves.

Now to take charge, of our next steps; as not only a nation.

But a race of beings, engaged in the act of Ascension, to a new, higher level of being. 

If you can manage it.

For yourself.

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P.S. And further in closing, a couple of comments late yesterday about our state of being, and our leadership recently.  The first to a blog at Western Center for Journalism entitled 'Levin: Pelosi Would Be Serving Time in The Federal Pen' - Daniel Noe - Feb. 12

Mark Levin: '"If Pelosi were working in the private sector, she would be in the federal pen right now."  Audio on his rant about the huge deficit the U.S. is laboring under, and continuing to grow exponentially.  And Pelosi says that "the problem is not a spending problem"…

kibitzer2 says:

February 13, 2013 at 12:55 am

O Republicans, Republicans. Wherefore art thou, Republicans.

Gone to the Enron School of Acting. Where you are taught to say: “Shhh. Don’t say anything. You might pull down the whole thing. And then where would we be?”

Answer: Where you belong.

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…and another comment on the same issue of the Western Center for Journalism; this one titled 'A Warning From Canada On Gun  Registration…' - Daniel Noe again, Feb. 12 again:

kibitzer2 says:

February 13, 2013 at 1:10 am

Thank you for this, Daniel. Well posted.

I understand that Australia went through the same sort of thing.

And GB before that.

i hope Americans pay attention, to this slowly slowly encroachment going on. Being the last bastion of freedom on the planet, and all.

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On Liberty vs. 'Equality'

I found myself defending Ron Paul on some Comments threads yesterday, which prompted me to go back and re-read some of his Farewell Speech to the House of Representatives on the occasion of his retirement from that dishonored body.  But more on that latter matter in a moment.   First, the comments.

They opined as a post to a blog entitled 'Ron Paul Calls On UN To Confiscate Website Of His Supporters' at Patriot Update, posted the same day (Feb. 11).  Some of that give-and-take:

NavWorks Press3 hours ago No public figure should have to buy their own name back for a web presence. If that were the case, then countless thousands of people would buy names up just to sell them back to celebrities and others when they got well known or famous.  The owners of his name ought to reach an easy deal, such as pay for a new name for us, like RonPaulSupporters.com or something and then just give him the name.  That's completely reasonable so that they are not out anything.  And Ron, don't become a cranky, bitter old man. You had great impact on America and changed much in the political process and impacted this year's election so much that the GOP establishmentarians and RINOs had to steal your delegates by last minute rule changes that showed them out to be the idiots they are. Many who supported the GOP, myself included, thought this was a crass and vile move, and it also was a power-grab that stripped power from the grassroots people in the party and put it more squarely in the hands of the corrupt and lying politicians.  Be proud of your accomplishments and know that history will look kindly upon you if you continue to be a gracious statesman and work hard to support others, like your son, who have a real chance to bring more lasting change.  Thanks. Reply +1

germeten3 hours ago

No, this is actually quite predictable behaviour on part of libertarianism, which first and foremost, if anyone has ever noticed, is about making money, and opportunism, under cover of the "Constitution." It's how "capitalism" works, in its most gross sort of way. Besides it has Ron Paul's name, which he'd like to protect, and probably wishes he started himself, had he the wit or time when he was a Congressman. It was a business management magazine editor who said: "From an economics point of view, taking what doesn't belong to you, is the cheapest way to go."

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Stan StanfieldLess than a minute ago I beg to differ, germeten. Libertarianism, "first and foremost," is about essential liberty from the oppressive state. Not everybody's cup of tea, it is, at least, not a bad position to take.  It sure beats statism. As we have noticed, for too many years now. Reply 0

Keith Edwards3 hours ago libertarian champion of the people or poseur? You decide.... Reply 2 replies +2

Ed Barton3 hours ago I'll go with poseur. He's no champion of anything. Reply 1 reply +3

Stan StanfieldLess than a minute ago You obviously haven't read his farewell address to the Congress, Ed. He's a champion of at least one thing: individual liberty. Reply 0

noelle levesque3 hours ago WHAT THE HELL! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH RON! Reply 1 reply +1

Ed Barton2 hours ago Ron Paul is an old kook, that's what. Reply +2

Jalina Stutte3 hours ago Ron Paul has always been a bit loony but he is really gone over the deep end now. He didnt refuse his lucrative retirement from congress., he worked with Barney Frank and George Soros to cut our military and defense down to nil on july 2010. We have been fooled by this old man long enough, it's time to let him go to a retirement home and find a real patriot for America. Reply 1 reply +6

Stan StanfieldLess than a minute ago Jalilna: No. 1: If you had spent as many years serving in the Congress as Ron has, wouldn't YOU consider that your basic position to retire from?? A little fairness here, please. No. 2: The Defense budget has been bloated beyond laughability for years. Any responsible Congressman would have taken a fat cleaver to that creature long ago. Sometimes the Right AND the Left get some things right.       And no, that budget was not cut down "to nil on July 2010". As Ron has said repeatedly: the U.S. shouldn't be charging around the world playing policeman. That's not only the game plan of the Neocons; that is precisely the sort of thing that did Rome in. Some people learn from history. Some don't. No. 3: You will be hard put to find a better "real patriot for America" than Ron Paul has been. Or aren't you familiar with the founding principles of this country??? Reply 0

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shaye4 hours ago The problem is that Paul claims to be anti UN, and now wants them to illegally take the domains without any compensation to the owners of the domains, and he is srewing over his supporters!!!! WOW BOOOOO RON PAUL. Reply 4 replies +9

Stephen Heard4 hours ago So true, that is rather ironic going to the un. Reply +5

Darfur Deng3 hours ago Unfortunately he has NO CHOICE, the UN has been granted the power by ICANN to act as the sole arbiters in regards to domain name disputes.  Anyone who wishes to dispute a lawful claim to a domain name must go through the court established by the UN.  The question here is, why would anyone claiming to truly support Ron Paul seek to oppose him, unless of course they are somehow benefiting from the use of his name and position? They are the true phonies, and the frauds in this regard. Reply 2 replies +2

Ed Barton2 hours ago Ronnie Paul is the phoney. Reply 1 reply +3

Stan StanfieldLess than a minute ago Ed, If you had done half as much as Ron Paul has done over these takeover years trying to get the country and its people back in alignment with its roots (in individual liberty and personal responsibility), you might have some cause to be mouthing off the way you have been on this thread.  Learn something from your elders, son.

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…and Patriot Update again, this time a blog entitled 'Shame On You, Ron Paul' by David L. Goetsch - Feb. 11:

Stan StanfieldLess than a minute ago

David,

I can sympathize with your feelings on this matter. But will you give Ron Paul the benefit of hearing what he has to say in response to all the flak that he has been getting over this? As to precisely what he was trying to communicate?? And what he would say now, if he had it to do all over again???

Thank you.

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This morning I went back to that speech he gave to his peers, on Nov. 15th.  (I saw it at the time, and read it in slowed-down detail in the December issue of Whistleblower magazine, the monthly publication of the World Net Daily site.)  Titled 'Ron Paul's Final Warning' and subtitled 'Unless America wakes up, its future is "corporatism and even fascism"', it is, in a word, a worthy read.  

At one point, he says:

"Liberty can only be achieved when government is denied the aggressive use of force.  If one seeks liberty, a precise type of government is needed.  To achieve it, more than lip service is required."

And on this matter, of the use of force, rises the corrosive matter of theft, to bankroll a welfare class, and institute that mentality; including in the fat cats of the society.

But as to the former 'class' first; and in a specific aspect of it.  To wit: Why should a taxpayer be forced to give up part of his or her income in order for others to have children and raise a family on its pooled amount with others likewise held up?  And especially when they may well not be able to afford to have a child or children of their own, and are being responsible citizens in not engaging in the same scam??

For scam it is.  I imagine that TPTB went along with the Left's creation of a welfare class (and thereby a voting bloc) out of delight: that it would create some more workers as they grew up, to pay taxes into the federal coffers, so that the fat cats could continue to make easy-picking money out of the deal.

Far-fetched?  But it's an MO; to say, to do this sort of thing in the same way that  - according to a Rockefeller family member, in a private conversation that subsequently got leaked to the public* - TPTB bankrolled the feminist movement: in order to get some more of the citizenry paying into the tax pot, in order for their minions in the nation's Congress to spend that money on the likes of the military-industrial complex.  (Remember that warning?  From President Eisenhower, on the occasion of his leaving of his federal office???)

I wonder how many liberated women realize that they were done so in order to finance the war industry... 

In any event: this is the sort of national world that has grown up, in spite of all the warnings that The People have been given, by "real patriots" like Ron Paul, and dating back to the very beginning, of this experiment in self-governance that has been the American experience.  

It doesn't say much for that ability.

But I, for one, still believe in it.

For I believe in the innate ability of The People to find their way through the thickets that were inevitably to grow up in their way, on their way to seeing, and taking, the path that leads them Home again.

And that won't come about by their succumbing to the siren song of 'welfare', and its accompanying 'principle' of 'equality' - which means, in the hands of its knowing perpetrators, redistribution of wealth; since the creation of a welfare class was cynically engineered in order for that class to be used as a battering ram for the introduction of socialism, and even more governmental power over The People -

which was, and is, the goal of both the far Left AND the far Right; meeting, in the end, at the same point: at the top of the pyramid of power, in the control of the same Elite, with their master plan for domination of the world in their vaunted New World Order.

Don't let these, your erstwhile Masters, do that to you.  To say: to use you, as cannon fodder, for the accomplishment of their ends.  And then toss you aside, when you are no longer of use to them. 

Become, instead, the eternal souls that you already are.  In the service of your Source.  And of yourself; as being a part of your Source.  

Inheriting, now, your better nature.  Not the one involved in deceit, and chicanery - and theft.

Been there.  Done that.  Don't need to do the same thing over and over and over again, in history; which, at its best, is to learn from.

It's time to get off that treadmill. And opt for something entirely New.

Break the bonds that have held Humanity down for so long.

And Soar.

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footnote:

* see Aaron Russo's 'From Freedom To Fascism'.

     Don't just think about it.  Do it.

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P.S. Am I, like Ron Paul, a libertarian??  No.  I don't go quite that far.  I was rather surprised recently to hear Judge Napolitano - whose opinion on political matters I usually heartily endorse (to the point of shaking my fist in delight at the screen when he so well defends the Constitution and the rule of law) - on his appearance on the Jon Stewart Show come out for no borders.  I didn't stay around on the video showing of that appearance long enough to find out what his reasoning is (I think it was just a snippet of his appearance anyway), and so I still owe him that.  But within the current paradigm of human affairs, I support America having strong borders; or it will be boarded to the point of imbalance and overturn.  

     Precisely what the Left wants; to move the nation into a state of socialism.  Precisely what I, as a good supporter of the Constitution and the rule of law and the American form of government, do not want.

     Do not give them the satisfaction of seeing their corrupt 'best-laid plans' come to fruition.

     There is a better outcome on the way.

     In point of fact: it is already here.

     We just have to claim it.

     And thus, move beyond the old forms, into that New.

     Only from, and for, the right reasons.

P.P.S. Oh - and the matter of the House of Representatives, and the Congress as a whole, having dishonored itself??

     That has to do with its failure, since 2008, to do its constitutional duty, and call the man who calls himself Barack Hussein Obama on his ineligibility for the office of the presidency.

     The Republican Party went along with this charade apparently on a quid pro quo basis: in order in the future to run their own illegal candidates for either the presidential or vice presidential offices; having found it just too difficult to get an amendment to the Constitution going through the Congress as a whole - in part, obviously, because that would make the matter a little too obvious to the public at large.  Best just to slip an amendment through, without anyone noticing; or if they did, well, between us, we can just do a little smear-and-ridicule job on them, can't we, boyos, eh, wink wink, nudge nudge???

     And just so - with the potential of such an old boys' network going in the halls of Congress - was the amending process to the law of the land made not so easy to accomplish: to make sure that any change to the Constitution was not 'for light and transient reasons'.  Because The People could be too easily manipulated, otherwise, by demagogues.

     Precisely the sort of characters that have grown up, in our day.

     Prescient folk, those Founding Fathers, and specifically the Framers of the law of the land - of the nation that was built to last.  As a constitutional republic.

     Not the plaything of scoundrels.

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King For A Day

Proclamation:

"My fellow citizens.  Not 'subjects'.  Citizens, of the Realm:

"First, I want to thank now-former Congressman Ron Paul for elucidating the founding principles of this nation so well, and for standing for them so well.  Principles such as self-reliance, and personal responsibility, and most of all, individual liberty.

"You did well, son; he said, who is two years older than this grand old man of current American politics."

[The Citizens present for this Proclamation-reading chuckle, even without cue cards.  And even without any audience prompters in sight at all. Strange…there was beginning to be a bit of a sense of nakedness in the air, as the King For A Day continued:]

"Next.  I want to admonish the practitioners in the modern allopathic medical profession, for failing to honor one of its founding principles: to First, Do No Harm, in the matter of vaccinations especially; and for failing to be proper scientists and members of their caring profession, in not monitoring properly all the results of their handiwork in that regard.  All of those results.

"Medicine is - was - an honorable profession.  These modern practitioners of the trade have brought it into ill repute.  And especially as part of the medical-pharmaceutical complex that has grown up, lo Frankenstinian-monster proportions, over the years.  And more on that  anon; with especial regard to its complete embodiment, as the medical-pharmaceutical-government complex, that is and has been haunting our current sick-industry culture with its malefic presence.

"I could go on, in admonishments; in particular of all the damage that has been wrought in the name of profit.  

'"For what does it profit a man, to win the whole world, and lose his soul.'"

[Some chuckles; but also, some unease developing.  The King For A Day was beginning to cut a bit too close to the bone for some in the audience.  He was taking the - much promoted 'new and improved' - Reality Show concept a bit too seriously…]

"But I will cut to the chase, as it were, and proclaim the end of money.

"At least, money as we have known it: a debt creator.  Through the instrument of what we humans have called interest.  Which will henceforth be no more; as we move up to a higher way of being, and level of consciousness, on this lovely planet that is itself moving up in the same way: to a higher level, higher reflection of its, and our, potential."

[Some in the audience are beginning to get restless, and look around, a bit embarrassed, at their neighbors.  But some of them were listening.  Even, apparently, intently…]

"For, all of creation is involved in evolution, to higher forms, reflections, expressions of the divinity within.

"For us humans, that takes the form of moving up out of third dimensional consciousness, quickly through a fourth dimensional level, marked by emotional detritus - the so-called Astral level - to fifth dimensional consciousness, and awareness.  Where 'neither moth nor dust doth corrupt'  - that is to say, where things of the 3D matrix, of illusory reality - a construct; a simulation - that we have been embedded in; and can even be said to have been incarcerated in - no longer exist."

[Some in the audience begin looking around them, with a different 'take' on what was going on; for having heard recently of just such a scientific concept of the universe: that it was like a computer simulation, with an underlying latticework of pixels.  What was going on here? they began to wonder.] 

"Including'" [the King For A Day was going on] "lower forms of emotions.  So, that baggage - of such as fear, and anger, and lust, and pride, and dishonesty, and oneupmanship - is left behind, as though in ballast bags, as we - and in order to - soar, now, where even the sky is no longer the limit.

"How do we live without money?  Ah; that is indeed the question.  And the answer, simply, is: Beautifully.  Fruitfully. Abundantly. 

"The more detailed answer, is because we will have released the concept of profit as our motivator, and will live in communion."

[Oh oh, some in the audience thought.  He's a damn communist.  Here it comes!  But he went smoothly right on:]

"With one another.   With Gaia, our home for the journey; for a time.

"And each with our higher Selves.  And all with our highest Self.  Which is our Creator; of which we, to say our individual souls, are fractals; points of view; pieces of the Continent, parts of the Main, in the words of the philosopher poet, in describing - trying to describe -  our relationship with each other and with our Source.  From which we came; and to which we are in the process of returning."

[The crowd is now eerily quiet.  Having sussed that this was no longer a Reality Show.  But the real thing.  Of, the real thing.]

"And more quickly now, as we face our ascension to this new, higher level of our being that we are already in the process of inheriting.  

"A realm where we will share goods and services with one another - and give of our beast in the process - out of a higher motive than the age-old but no longer appropriate one of profit.  Out of the highest motive there could ever be: out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.

"Out of, in a word: Love.

"And in that kingdom, not so incidentally, there is no strife, or poverty, or pollution; for in it we move up to a higher level of being, literally.  With free energy devices, and food replicators - 'manufacturing' food out of the latent energy of the Source Field; to say, out  of Light - and such.  

"And advancing quickly from that level of facility with our more rarified environment to a state and stage of not even needing food any longer, for living exclusively, then, in our Light bodies.

"In the Day when I Am - and You Are - a King."

[The audience was quiet.

[Nothing more needed to be said.  Or done.

IThe work was complete.]

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A Vision For The Future

First of all, to clarify some lessons for the present social situation; and as follow-on, and wrapping up, from just-previous comments I have made on the subject.

1) In a truly healthy society, no one should be rewarded for sitting on their bum, being paid by the taxpayers to do so, that involuntary handout enabling them to do so.  There are plenty of jobs in any society that need looking after.  I understand that a lot of this sort of thing has been phased out, by the Left arguing that such jobs - keeping the cities clean, or being bussed out to the farming countryside for agricultural work, say - are demeaning.  Excuse me?  What is more demeaning than robbing a human being of his or her sense of personal integrity??

And speaking of the females involved; and as for single moms, staying home with their young children: They should never have been allowed to have babies on the taxpayers' dime.  Helping a family in temporary need of financial assistance is one thing.  Creating a dependency class/way of life is quite another.

I recognize that they have been seduced into this activity, by the government's promises of financial assistance in their child(ren)'s growing-up years, and the offering of various.'freebies'.  But that practice needs to stop.  (Speaking of demeaning...)

Now, it can be argued, in a facile way - in a show of a sort of chutzpah - that such inducements are 'healthy', and of a 'positive' nature, in furthering the free will causes of life: that life is all about making, and giving people, moral choices.  And that 'take' on the matter has a bit of a legitimate point to it.  But when the moral atmosphere has become so perverted and polluted, so tainted as to cause the near-financial collapse of the nation,1 it has gone too far, and needs to be a) reined back; and even better: b) reset.

Totally.

Which I am here to help do.  In calling for:

1) a Jubilee on debt; and

2) a drawing of the line on such welfare problems as have been going on for long enough.2

The States, of course, can set their own policies; America being - still - a federal republic, having such a form of government.  But federal policy needs to change, and no longer support such a social order.

If I have my way.

The moral bottom line: Living on someone else's income, without their express permission, is theft.  Charity - giving, of one's free will - is a virtue.  Theft, besides being a vice, is a crime.

The federal government needs to cease, as of now, running, and being, a criminal enterprise (in many ways).

And that goes for any mandated use of the taxpayers' income; including for what is often euphemistically called 'defense'.  We need now to work for a world at peace with itself.  Until we - collectively, worldwide - get there, nations still have the need for, and right of, self-defense.  But that expenditure should be on the same basis as America making temporary financial assistance to and for its citizens; to say: on a voluntary (and well-monitored) basis.

People could indicate what percentage of their federal tax that they want to go to what federal program. And the States could choose to do likewise, if they so chose.  Their call, for their individual needs.

And so forth; in returning, or at least, getting to a more fair state of being, than what America has developed into, for some time now.

Now.  Having learned those lessons...

Is this all beginning to sound too confusing??

I have a better idea anyway:

2) The elimination of money altogether.  And the substitute creation of a social structure along the lines of what Jacque Frescoe and Roxanne Meadows have pioneered, with the establishment of a 'resource-based economy'.3

I will let their material speak for itself.  (thevenusproject.com.)  But I will say one thing here, in conclusion.

Some people have rejected these ideas, of a veritable paradise on Earth based on goodwill, and mere 'reason', as utopian, not taking into account 'human nature'.  Jacque has - effectively, in my opinion - dealt with this question, of 'human nature', by pointing out how so much of it has been developed by the life circumstances - by the environment; and therefore, is subject to change, is not a 'given' in its own right.  However, a weakness in their philosophical argument - again; in my opinion - is that it does not take into account the whole of the 'human nature' picture.

That Man is, as well  as a dominant species of mammal, hardwired for 'survival of the fittest' responses, 'a spiritual being having a human experience'.

And it is the incontrovertible recognition of that additional factor that will take their idea out of the realm of 'blue sky thinking,' and make it more tangible.

The recognition that can come, now - beyond anything available to previous generations - from the likes of all of the Near Death Experiences that people have reported on, in extremely credible and detailed ways, in books, and videos, and so forth; and the various studies that have been done in this area, because of this wealth of material coming out in our day and age.

Our day and new age.

Our Golden Age.

Just waiting for us to step into it.

By way of our free will.

For, once we get - really get - that 'we are all God's children' - literally; and come back for many goes at a bite of the apple of 3D life, and therefore have been playing, and exchanging, parts, in a drama of our making, with a purpose: that being to grow, in knowledge and wisdom, from the experiences - we can never go back to the old ways of being.  Of being separate, in our various nationalities, and races, and religions, and cultures.

In knowing - really knowing; now with evidence - that We Are One.

Aspects - fractals; points of view - of One Holy Being.

And that we have work to do.

To get back to a state of Unity with our sacred Root.

And it is that Root, for us to grow from, that will cause us to flower, in ways that we have only begun to dream of.


And so, we can now move to a moneyless society, based on a higher motive than the age-old one of 'profit' (which is only a concept; not a law of physics, or sociological determinator).  Sharing our goods and services with one another - and giving of our best in the process - out of the highest motive that we could ever have: out of gratitude to our Creator for life with meaning.

Out of, in a word: Love.

Which is what makes all such things - as individuals; as societies; as planetary communities - grow.

Straight.

To the Light.      

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footnotes:

1 as has been the point of the Left, in its application, for years now, of what is called the Cloward-Piven Strategy: a Marxist sociological scheme to crash the capitalist system - bankrupt it in trying to support an intentionally growing welfare class -  in order to establish socialism on its ruins.  And so much for the subject of 'morality'; and for a healthy debate on that subject itself.  


2 Although there has been a value in such moves bringing societal things to a head, beyond what the purveyors of such tactics have intended.  For more on which, read on.
     (And which is in the same vein as giving thanks to those arrogant and greedy bankers who have played their parts so well in creating the calamitous conditions for the need for a new societal paradigm; with people at the bottom of the pile AND at the TOP of the pile having caved in to the gimmee mentality.  And thus showing what happens when The People lose the prime vision about life.  But, as I say...)


3 And, independently of them, Peter Joseph with his Zeitgeist Movement, along the same lines.