Monday, May 6, 2019

THE CLIMATE CHANGE BU$INE$$

“Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.”
"Now is the time to draw up a master plan for sustainable growth and world development based on global allocation of all resources and a new global economic system.”
  • The Club of Rome: a global think tank made up of a group of concerned “world citizens” whose members have included many high-ranking members of government, business, finance and academia.
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(This article is a re-publish from 2015)

At an Academy Awards Ceremony full of controversy, the world saw Hollywood stalwart, Leonardo DiCaprio finally receive the Oscar that had alluded him for so long. However, instead of the typical acceptance speech where the recipient goes up and thanks a bunch of people, DiCaprio took this opportunity to once again pontificate about man-made Climate Change. This came just over two months after the world saw 151 world leaders, along with some 39,850 other diplomats, policy experts, activists and journalists convene in Paris for the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, a.k.a., the U.N. Climate Summit.

The public purpose for this meeting was to come up with solutions to solve the problem of “Climate Change”. After the summit was completed, one of the many “solutions” which were agreed upon was a “shift away from fossil fuels”. This is quite interesting given who sponsored the COP21 Climate Summit. The 2015 UN Climate Summit had over 50 corporate sponsors hosting the event including Google, 3M, Puma and IKEA. These corporate sponsors also included major international oil companies like Dutch Royal Shell, British Petroleum (BP), and Chevron.

Back over the holidays I was visiting a friend’s family in Wyoming, which in recent years had a large boom with natural gas and oil reserves, along with its rich coal deposits. My friend’s father works as a trucker hauling oil and gas. We talked about how the manipulation of oil prices to artificially low rates by OPEC had stagnated what had been a thriving economy in that part of the country. For those not familiar, OPEC is a group of oil-producing nations out of the Middle East like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar, along with the international oil companies that work with them like Dutch Royal Shell and BP. This relationship between the Arab elites and the Anglo oil barons was initially established at the turn of the last century through the British Imperial ventures into the Middle East. Since then, it has been a major powerhouse on the global economic stage. 20141206_LDP001_0
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21635472-economics-oil-have-changed-some-businesses-will-go-bust-market-will-be

This relationship was continued by the American arm of the Anglo-American establishment, when former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made a deal with the oil-producing Arab states that the United States would not compete on the international market with its own vast oil and gas reserves in the 1970s. This was done to ensure continued Arab cooperation with Anglo-American geopolitical goals in the Middle East (particularly when it comes to keeping Russia out), as well as support for the State of Israel. Recently, U.S. Congressional leaders passed legislation effectively revoking this deal to keep American oil and gas off the international market, allowing these smaller companies to compete. However, with the recent “decree” at the UN Climate Summit, it would appear that the international oil conglomerates along with our own President Obama, shot the foot off these American oil and gas companies before they had the chance to compete on the international energy market.

The use of government support to gain advantage in the market is nothing new here in the U.S. One may recall the debate that was going on surround the whole Keystone Pipeline, and the environmental concerns raised and then later echoed by President Obama. You may also remember the media portraying the “villains” of that whole debate as being the infamous Koch brothers, who run the country’s largest private (as in not traded on Wall Street) corporate conglomerate. What is not well known is that the real “fight” was about who was going to control the transport of the oil. The Kochs wanted to use the pipeline to funnel the oil to their refineries, while billionaire (and largest individual recipient of Federal bailout money) Warren Buffet, wanted to transport it on his rail lines. Warren Buffet has been a large financial donor of the Democratic Party and President Obama, so his voice was louder. An interesting note though, was that it was actually Charles Koch who launched the political careers of Bill Clinton and Al Gore, as he was once a major Democratic donor, before buying up the Neocon/GOP side of the aisle. For corporate power players, it is about whose policies will be best for business, not the actual political ideologies the politicians claim to espouse- that stuff is for the common folk.

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The “fossil fuel” sponsorship of the Climate Summit was jeered at by critics who saw the move as a “conflict of interest”, however, I would tend to disagree with that. If one looks at the bigger picture as a desire for a monopolistic control of the evolving energy market, and whatever technologies stem from that, then it is in the interest of these companies to get behind legislation and initiatives that will make it harder for others to survive and compete in the marketplace. In order to have a monopoly, you must first crush your competition. This was the purpose of the Obama Administration’s “War on Coal”, which was carried out through increasingly stiff EPA regulations, forcing American coal plants to shut down by the thousands, while driving up the cost of electricity to the American consumer. Coal is a major competitor to the international oil companies who finance much of the modern “green movement”.

However, General Electric, one of the largest energy corporations in the world and producer of coal-powered electricity, has thrived under the Obama Administration. GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt was appointed to head of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. GE is one of the largest producers of wind turbines in the world, and recently opened the largest solar panel production facility in the United States. GE’s power plants have raked in profits as Obama’s “War on Coal” crushed its less-wealthy competitors.

This is how crony capitalism works, with select insider corporations using their wealth and influence to secure government contracts. It is these international energy interests that lobby Congress and the Executive Branch to create laws and regulations that will squeeze out their competition and allow them to maintain their control over the energy market. Even if the legislation includes fees and penalties to give the public impression of a “crackdown” on climate polluters and are enough to potentially bankrupt less wealthy competition; the fees will tend to amount to little more than “a drop in the bucket” for an unfathomably wealthy megacorporation like GE.

An article out of Reuters points out the fact at the World Gas Conference this past June (also held in Paris), Shell, BP and other big European and international oil companies “sent a joint letter to the U.N… calling for measures to push up the cost of burning coal, which remains fairly cheap. The companies suggest governments could either tax carbon emissions directly or reduce the supply of carbon-emission credits, required to offset emissions, to make those credits pricier on the secondary market.”

This idea of taxing carbon emissions has been around for a long time. It also goes hand-in-hand with the carbon offsets and carbon credits that are traded on the market in a similar fashion as derivatives, credit default swaps, and other bizarre and fundamentally worthless things used by investors and hedge fund managers to make ridiculous amounts of money for producing nothing. This system has its origins with the notorious Enron corporation and a meeting in the Oval Office back in August of 1997 where President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore met with former CEO of Enron, Ken Lay, and former CEO of BP, Lord John Browne. This was before both Lay and Browne and their companies became immersed in scandal. The purpose of the meeting was to develop strategies for the upcoming Climate Summit in Kyoto that year.

Hopes and expectations among the environmental activist community were high for Kyoto, but EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstroem made it clear what the real intentions established at the Kyoto Climate Summit and by the resulting treaty were:

"[Kyoto protocol] is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the economy, about trying to create a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world. You have to understand what is at stake, and that is why it is serious..." Despite the scandal involving Enron and the U.S. Senate refusing to ratify the Kyoto Climate Treaty, the carbon market was launched with the conclusion of the summit. After a failed run for president, carbon investor Al Gore devoted his time heavily promoting the need for this “cap-and-trade” system with his film “An Inconvenient Truth” and his subsequent speaking tour. Of course, one might say (as Al Gore has) that making money off a “good idea” isn’t a bad thing. billederclimatology-dees2_zps9b68f050
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However folks in Africa may disagree with Al Gore. An article out of the New York Times in 2011 entitled “In Scramble for Land, Group Says, Company Pushed Ugandans Out” describes a little-discussed consequence of the carbon-offset business:

Across Africa, some of the world’s poorest people have been thrown off land to make way for foreign investors, often uprooting local farmers so that food can be grown on a commercial scale and shipped to richer countries overseas.

But in this case, the government and the company said the settlers were illegal and evicted for a good cause: to protect the environment and help fight global warming.


The case twists around an emerging multibillion-dollar market trading carbon-credits under the Kyoto Protocol, which contains mechanisms for outsourcing environmental protection to developing nations.


The company involved, New Forests Company, grows forests in African countries with the purpose of selling credits from the carbon-dioxide its trees soak up to polluters abroad. Its investors include the World Bank, through its private investment arm, and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, HSBC
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In 2005, the Ugandan government granted New Forests a 50-year license to grow pine and eucalyptus forests in three districts, and the company has applied to the United Nations to trade under the mechanism. The company expects that it could earn up to $1.8 million a year.

But there was just one problem: people were living on the land where the company wanted to plant trees. Indeed, they had been there a while
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The article describes people being beaten and villages burnt down, regardless of whether or not the residents had evacuated. Meanwhile, African nations are restricted from developing cheap coal-powered electricity and are given barely functioning solar panels to run hospitals. This has been a consistent policy towards the developing world, which was articulated by former California governor, Jerry Brown, when he stated that “It’s not viable for the poverty stricken developing world to emulate the prosperity of the US.” carbon_offset_car

Similar sentiments have been echoed by academics like UK professor Maurice King:

Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.”

Of course, there’s always the option of “safe” and CO2 friendly nuclear power as South Africa has chosen to do. It seems to be a clear politically scientific consensus that carbon dioxide (which plants breathe) is FAR more dangerous and harmful to the planet than nuclear explosions and radioactive fallout...

In any event, while the U.S. has been as a whole reluctant to partake in the business plan of foreign oil companies, nations like the European Union and Australia went “all-in” with the CO2 “reduction” business, which has become a multi-billion dollar industry. Investment banking powerhouses like Goldman-Sachs and the Jewish-European Rothschild banking dynasty, are leaders in the global carbon market. Meanwhile we have folks like the charismatic David de Rothschild as an "environmental storyteller", creating books about the dangers of climate change for children.

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Rothschild interests have also been vocal about the need to establish a carbon tax and a sort of global carbon-regulation system. Back in 2008, Simon Linnett, Executive Vice-Chairman of Rothschild, called for a new international body to regulate carbon trading. In his paper “Trading Emissions, for the Social Market Foundation”, Linnett applauded “cap-and-trade” and proposed the release of national sovereignty to combat “Climate Change”:

As a banker, I also welcome the fact that the 'cap-and-trade' system is becoming the dominant methodology for CO2 control. Unlike taxation, or plain regulation, cap-and-trade offers the greatest scope for private sector involvement and innovation.

Furthermore, taxation and regulation can only be levied at local or national levels, whereas cap-and-trade can operate on a global level. And remember, the problem is global.


But for the private sector to participate enthusiastically in a global carbon trading market, governments must collectively establish a robust framework within which trading can occur. It must be long, loud and legal:

  • Long: it is going to be around for a long time;
  • Loud: it will be the dominant mechanism for sponsoring changes in behaviour and we are going to make this perfectly clear to the world's people; and
  • Legal: we will enforce it through law.
A key implication of creating a legal yet global system of trading, is the loss of sovereignty it implies. Governments must be prepared to allow some subordination of national interests to this world initiative, on the issue of emissions.”

As an aside, it is interesting to note that Rothschild-owned RIT Capital actually recently completed a major merger with Rockefeller Financial Services. For those not familiar, it was the old Rockefeller Standard Oil Company that was broken up at the beginning of the 20th century, becoming, among other things, Exxon-Mobil. There was recently some schism between the family and Exxon as the Rockefellers are staunch advocates of the “greening” of big oil, while the board members of Exxon have been somewhat resistant to going “all-in” with this plan. Hence we see the demonization in the media of this oil giant almost exclusively, and the recent rumors that “Toward the end of the 1980s, Exxon curtailed its carbon dioxide research... (and) worked instead at the forefront of climate denial.” have led to the company being subpoenaed for the "crime" of climate change denial.

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Other big-money names are also cashing in on the climate change business, like Jewish-American billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who owning a data company focused on energy investment and carbon markets research. Bloomberg was also anointed Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, by U.N. Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon, where he consults with mayors and related key stakeholders to raise political will and mobilize action among cities as part of a long-term strategy to advance efforts on climate change. This is part of the U.N. Sustainable Development Agenda 21, which is a subject worthy of its own article.

This past December in Paris, we saw great strides toward this goal of “subordination of national interests to this world initiative”. However, given the enormous financial power as well as the somewhat dubious past-dealings of the players involved, one would be right to be more than a little skeptical of all of this. If one takes away the “sky-is-falling” scenario drummed up in the corporate-government sponsored media and academia, what we have going on is quite similar to the international trade deals like the TPP, which essentially hand over national sovereignty to global corporate interests and their front-groups.

Likewise, the “carbon tax” that is continually being proposed by these international banking interests will no doubt be collected in a similar manner to income taxes in most western nations- which is through the enforcement agencies of central banks owned by private banking interests. Regardless of one’s views on the “science” of “Climate Change”, a great many climate activists feel a global carbon tax would essentially be little more than a Ponzi scheme cooked up by international finance to profit off taxation of human activity, while doing little to remedy actual pollution.

At the end of the day, oil and other “fossil fuels” are on their way out with or without government assistance, but how this happens is being artificially manipulated to make sure it stays a “closed system”- that is making sure that energy cannot be independent of the control of a select few. Likewise, a great deal of the hype around “Climate Change” appears to be a creation of foreign and international energy corporations and financial interests in order to dominate the energy market, crush their competition (particularly in the U.S.) and create a seemingly infinite source of income through carbon trading and carbon taxation. Think about it- they want to tax the air you breathe. Who could come up with a better scam than that?

ANTI CARBON TAX RALLY Protesters attend the Carbon Tax rally outside Parliament House, Canberra, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has joined around 2000 protesters calling for a fresh election and end to the carbon tax. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch)[/caption]

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Back Again

Been kinda busy, runnin the canvass office while my boss has been out in Vietnam, or 'Nam, as I like to refer to it, on vacation. Things have definitely been fairly stressful, but rewarding in a way as far as being a personal test. Sounds like my boss is having fun, even though it looked like he almost got himself in a little bit of trouble with some of the locals from the video he emailed me...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sRHd5pngWE

Anyhow, some interesting stuff has been going on upon the world stage, and since I've been fairly delinquint We'll hop right into...



NEWS AND WHATNOT:


Ron Paul, Ralph Nader agree on 'progressive-libertarian alliance' http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/ron-paul-ralph-nader-agree-on-progressive-libertarian-alliance/

Nader: Progressive-libertarian alliance ‘the most exciting new political dynamic’ in US http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/progressive-libertarianism-the-exciting-political-dynamic-ralph-nader/#

Progressives Should Target the Real Robber Barons http://dailypaul.com/node/150655

WASHINGTON STATE JOINS MOVEMENT FOR PUBLIC BANKING

http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/washington_state.php

Olbermann Ouster: Immelt Helps Obama with his Left Flank on the Eve of a Monstrous State of the Union Address http://tarpley.net/2011/01/22/olbermann-ouster-helps-obama/

Shut Down The Federal Reserve, Break Up The Big Banks And 16 Other Ideas Barack Obama Could Have Proposed If He Actually Wanted To Fix The Economy

http://blacklistednews.com/Shut-Down-The-Federal-Reserve%2C-Break-Up-The-Big-Banks-And-16-Other-Ideas-Barack-Obama-Could-Have-Proposed-If-He-Actually-Wanted-To-Fix-The-Economy-/12465/0/13/13/Y/M.html

America Plundered by the Global Elite http://www.augustreview.com/issues/globalization/america_plundered_by_the_global_elite_2005051812/






Rethinking Veganism

http://www.realitysandwich.com/rethinking_veganism

Angels and Demons: Polar Energies http://newagegathering.com/News/article/sid=353.html

Ask the Unicorn: Introduction to the Five Bodies http://asktheunicorn.com/2011/01/12/introduction-to-the-5-bodies/

Time Control Technology Disclosure

http://www.realitysandwich.com/time_control_technology_disclosure

The Mystery Airship of 1896

http://www.unmuseum.org/airship.htm


Thursday, January 6, 2011



HAPPY GREGORIAN NEW YEAR!!!!!!

Albeit over a week late. Sorry, it's been a few days since I posted anything, I was bouncing around New England for the holidays visiting family and friends. I have, especially over the past few years, found myself intrigued by the concept of time, and the different human perceptions of it and how it effects our lives. From the earliest use of the sun and stars and the cycles of the moon and seasons by prmitive man, to the amazingly sophisticated calendars of the ancient peoples like the Egyptians, the Chinese and of course, the Mayans with their infamous calendar and the facts, theories, and falsehoods surrounding that. Then we have the Roman Julian calender named after one Julius Caesar. Finally Rome, (via the Vatican) and eventually the entire world, for all standard purposes, adopted the Gregorian calendar and method of tracking and viewing time. The Gregorian calendar, which is the calendar we use today was implemented by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. A long ass time ago. As we find ourselves in the early part of the 21st century, there have been many breakthroughs in the field of quantum physics, due to the work of such intellectual heavyweights like Albert Einstein, Steven Hawking, and many others.
Time is ingrained in nearly every aspect of modern life. People need to be on time to work; people always ask 'what time is it?'; people always say they don't have enough, if any time; then people kill time; people know, that in time, they will eventually die. Our view of time is very linear, with a "set" beginning and a presumable end. As a result of these impositions, many people feel time as a cruel slave master that will ultimately kill them. This is especially true for the debt slaves that find themselves in the "rat race" to work and consume and eventually be discarded when they become too old or sick to serve the machine's purpose and left isolated until their time runs out. Our modern linear view of time is a prison in and of itself.
Perhaps a new way of viewing and relating to time is in order to achieve a progressive evolution for humanity. What I mean by that is the human species living up to its highest potential, while honoring the sanctity of individual free will while having every sentient being realize the interconnectedness of all beings. A lofty goal I'm well aware, but I do believe achievable at some point given the right actions taken by all participants, including myself.
But enough ranting, here's the good shit...








Going round in circles
In contradiction to most cosmologists’ opinions, two scientists have found evidence that the universe may have existed for ever
http://www.economist.com/node/17626874

Time, Experience and Reality
http://www.abia29.hemscott.net/riveros_time.htm



Foundation for the Law of Time
http://www.lawoftime.org/home.html



NEWS AND WHATNOT:


US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords shot in Arizona
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12143774

Peter King, Leading Republican To Introduce Strict Gun-Control Legislation
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/11/peter-king-strict-gun-control_n_807323.html

Outlaw That Speech Because it MIGHT be a Threat
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/01/outlaw-that-speech-because-it-might-be.html

Wage Drop Has Been Worst In Decades
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/11/pay-cut_n_807241.html

US Says Too Much Fluoride Causing Splotchy Teeth
US Says Fluoride Is Causing Splotchy Teeth, Maybe Other Ills; Calls For Lower Levels In Water
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/07/ap/health/main7222263.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride_poisoning

'Second Thoughts about Fluoride,' Reports Scientific American
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS108377+02-Jan-2008+PRN20080102

Fluoride water 'causes cancer'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/jun/12/medicineandhealth.genderissues

Use of Sodium Fluoride for Population Behavior Control
http://nukesylo13.com/component/content/article/21-health/863-use-of-sodium-fluoride-for-population-behavior-control

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1016

Why is Fluoride Bad for You?
http://hubpages.com/hub/Why-is-Fluoride-Bad-for-You

An Untested Type of Flouride is Used in the Overwhelming Majority of US Water Supplies
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/01/untested-type-of-fluoride-used-in-vast.html

Obama's Internet ID Plan: Here's What You Need To Know http://www.businessinsider.com/obamas-internet-id-2011-1#ixzz1AoV1I9kg

WikiLeaks: Julian Assange 'faces execution or Guantánamo detention'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/11/julian-assange-wikileaks-execution-gantanamo

Sunday, December 26, 2010

12/26/10



I hope you all had a very, very happy Materialistic Consumer Day!! I hope it was filled with lots of crap that you didn't need, but wanted to fill the hole left in you that is itself, but a fabrication of the Corporate Madison Avenue machine that serves the forever-profit-hungry beast of Big Corporate Business, which, in turn is but a slave to Big Wall Street and offshore Finance Investment. Whew. Now that I got that out I'm sure a few of you also celebrated, (hopefully) the real reason I have any endearment for this originally pagan holiday, (yeah, if Christ was an actual flesh in blood man, which I do believe, but will not deny that legitimate argument exists to the contrary, he wasn't born on December 25th http://www.history.com/topics/christmas ) is the love of my family and being with them, the joy of giving, and the concept of charitas and good will towards men. Ultimately that birth of "Christ Consciousness" within humankind that is celebrated. The opening of the "heart" which is all about the love of your fellow man that ultimately needs to be a 24/7, 365 days a year thing if true change is EVER going to happen on this planet. The most effective way to combat darkness is to create something beautiful. One superb example comes from a man I met canvassing a couple years back. His name is Michael Chase, and he lives in Biddeford, ME. Michael runs a nonprofit called The Kindness Center. To quote the Kindness Center website, "Michael J. Chase, began The Kindness Center with the vision of creating a more peaceful and kindhearted world. Located in the beautiful state of Maine, he is accomplishing this by inspiring kindness in schools, the workplace, and in everyday life. Through his programs and events, Michael reveals the secrets to true happiness and the incredible benefits of a heart-centered lifestyle" http://thekindnesscenter.com/the_kindness_center/Home.html
I remember meeting Michael after knocking on his door randomly, (kinda what political canvassers do) and within moments of speaking with him and being in his presence, I picked up on his energy. He was one of those people that just made you feel good just being around them. He seemed to radiate positive energy in a manner that few people do. He told me about how he was on a negative path in his life when one day a chance encounter with a turtle in his car caused an epiphany that changed his outlook on the world, which changed his life. Here's more...














And truly inspirational, is his 24 Hours of Kindness...




Gnostic Nativity of Christ

It would be worthless for the Christ to be born one thousand times in Bethlehem if he is not born in our hearts as well. We have to form Christ within ourselves in order to enter through the doors into the triumphant and victorious city on Palm Sunday.
Christmas is a cosmic event that must be performed in each one of us. The Nativity (Christmas) is absolutely individual. It is necessary for the Christ to be born in each one of us... (read more): http://gnosticteachings.org/courses/path-of-the-bodhisattva/516-02-gnostic-nativity-of-christ.html




... and a little about the author, Samael Aun Weor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samael_Aun_Weor


NEWS AND WHATNOT:

Lobbyists Write the Tax Bill
http://www.thedailycrock.com/?p=1709

How Do We Shift Power to the People and Away from Concentrated Corporate Power?
http://blacklistednews.com/How-Do-We-Shift-Power-to-the-People-and-Away-from-Concentrated-Corporate-Power%3F/12040/0/39/39/Y/M.html

Pentagon’s Christmas Present: Largest Military Budget Since World War II
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/pentagons-christmas-present-largest-military-budget-since-world-war-ii/

Coming HomeHomeless; The New Homeless Among Veterans
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/coming-home-homeless-homeless-veterans/story?id=12478952&tqkw=&tqshow=TW

More Anti-war Activists Subpoenaed for Supposed Al-Queda Ties
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-anti-war-subpoenas-20101223,0,6520316.story

Homeland Security Coming to Hotels, Malls
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/homeland-security-coming-hotels-malls/

Mexico Says its Troops Killed U.S. Citizen, Covered It Up
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/26/joseph-proctor-killing-me_n_801282.html


Janet Napolitano: TSA Screenings with Full-Body Scanners, Pat-Downs, Not Likely to Change in near Future

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/26/janet-napolitano-tsa-scre_n_801311.html

Haiti Voodoo Killings Rise as Cholera Epidemic Increases http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/25/haiti-voodoo-killings-ris_n_801213.html

New Zealand Military Releases UFO Files http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/22/new-zealand-military-rele_n_800275.html

The Incorruptibles: A Requiem for Civilization
http://www.realitysandwich.com/incorruptibles_requiem_civilization

Thursday, December 23, 2010

12/24/10


Remember the Progressive anti-war movement that surged under Bush? Where are their voices? Remember our Nobel Prize-winning president's call for hope, change, and peace? What happened to that? Remember ALL that has come out of this "War on Terror" after the events of 9/11? You know, a war in Afghanistan that has taked the lives of 1, 368 Americans and injured 9,828 more (as of two days ago); a Patriot Act that our new president resigned after saying he opposed it which allows for unapolagetic spying on the American people; Homeland Security and their extra-precautious and extra-invasive security measures; an influx of heroin production and distribution; a society of increased fear; Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. Fear, lies, and control is what it's all about. Geopolitical control and domestic control. I have some tidbits about war, lies, corruption, tragedy, some out-of-the-box-thinking, and perhaps a dash of hope today, but first, I think I'll start with a prayer. The prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. A prayer for peace.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

NEWS AND WHATNOT:

NATO Attacks Official Convoy, Killing Two Afghans

Afghanistan: Obama Capitulates to the War Makers
http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/jan10_lerner_editorial_afghanistan

Number of Civilian Casualties in Afghan War Rises 20% U.N. Report Shows
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/23/AR2010122303521.html

"New START" Ratification Likely End of Obama's "Disarmament Vision," and of Arms Control Era, as New Political Alignments, Fresh Crises Loom
http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/20101222183707366

9/11 First Responders Health Care Bill Passed By House & Senate
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/22/911-first-responders-heal_1_n_800326.html

Woman arrested at ABIA after refusing enhanced pat down
http://www.kvue.com/news/local/Woman-arrested-at-ABIA-after-refusing-enhanced-pat-down-112354199.html

Passengers And ACLU Critique Random Baggage Checks
http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=126175&catid=188

Seth Walsh: 1997-2010
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt-rights/seth-walsh-1997-2010

LBJ-CIA Assassination of JFK
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/12/my-files-on-lbj-and-cia-assassination.html

No More Secrets: A Call for Transparency
http://www.realitysandwich.com/no_more_secrets

Carnival 2012—A Psychological Study of the 2012 Phenomenon and the 22 Classic Pitfalls and Blind Spots of Esoteric Research
http://www.zaporacle.com/carnival-2012-a-psychological-study-of-the-2012-phenomenon-and-the-22-classic-pitfalls-and-blind-spots-of-esoteric-research/

THE KEY TO DREAMSPELL
http://edj.net/mc2012/fap6.html


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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

12/22/10


Sooo, back again with an another piece of new work, some more thought provoking news and witings, and I might throw in a movie or two to boot. I'm a little upset that I missed the eclipse last night. It was the first lunar eclipse on a winter solstice since like 1338, and I didn't even realize it was happening til it was long since done. C'est la ville, I suppose. Anyhow, I'm back in Maine for the holidays hangin with the family, taking a much-needed two weeks off work, but the mind never rests... So first I'm posting up an interesting essay by a gentleman named Peter Wilberg entitled, "New Gnostic Politics, which is a unique take on the concept of implementing true social change. Enjoy!


"This spiritual and political essence of socialism is not collectivism but individualism fulfilled through relation – the recognition that by freeing human relations from the alienation created by their practical social relations, conditions could be created for a communist society as Marx defined it – one in which "the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all." The ideal of a communist society will forever remain a utopian one unless soul is put back into ‘socialism’. Only by recognising the reality of the soul world (‘in heaven’), can soul communities attain reality in the social world (‘on earth’) as social communities. The sole means by which this can happen is through a Relational Revolution which shows each individual how to sense and realise their inner soul relationships with others through bodily relational practices – practices which break down the illusory bodily boundaries of personal identity itself." (extract) ... continue to read more
http://www.thenewgnosis.org/newgnosticpolitics.htm


NEWS AND WHATNOT:

Arlen Specter's Farewell Speech Slams GOP 'Cannibalism'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/21/arlen-specters-farewell-speech_n_799893.html

START Treaty Clears Major Senate Hurdle
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/21/start-treaty-senate_n_799671.html

Attorney General's Blunt Warning on Terror Attacks
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/attorney-general-eric-holders-blunt-warning-terror-attacks/story?id=12444727&tqkw=&tqshow=GMA&tqkw=&tqshow=GMA&tqkw=&tqshow=GMA

BEWARE: The Real Terrorists Are Upping Their Chatter
http://www.activistpost.com/2010/12/beware-real-terrorists-are-upping-their.html

'Teleportation is Year's Biggest Breakthrough
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/17/beam-teleportation-years-biggest-breakthrough/

A Promise and a Threat: WikiLeaks' "Anonymous" and the Shaping of Online Protest
http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2010/12/21/a-promise-and-a-threat-wikileaks%e2%80%99-%e2%80%9canonymous%e2%80%9d-and-the-shaping-of-online-protest/

Wikileaks: a Big Dangerous US Government Con Job
http://www.voltairenet.org/article167733.html

Washington’s Geopolitical Nightmare: China and Russia boost economic cooperation
http://www.voltairenet.org/article167735.html

Extremes of Unequal Wealth in the U.S. Actually Impacts Directly on YOUR Life and the Life of Your Family and Friends
http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/article.php/20100414064237554

Responsibility Instead of Tax Demagoguery
http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2010/12/20/responsibility-instead-of-tax-demagoguery/

Take On the Corporate Bullies
http://www.progressive.org/sanders1210.html

Rethinking Veganism
http://www.realitysandwich.com/rethinking_veganism

Psychic Self Defense: Tower of Light
http://www.pathcom.com/~newmoon/defence.htm

Remote Viewing, Psychic Self-Defence & Remote Psychotherapy
http://www.viking-z.org/

Psychic Self-Defense (classic 1930 book by "white" occultist, Dion Fortune)
http://www.tarotinstitute.com/free/psychic.pdf


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