Thinking and Doing Differently is the Solely Way to Change our World

How to Defeat The Elite's New World Order... And Be Part of The Emerging Freedom Revolution - by David MacGregor

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:57:00 +0000

This is an e-mail I have received from Sovereign Life Newsletter this week. It is related to the Thrive movie which I have purchased lately and enjoyed a lot.

The article from David brings a very interesting point of view, as the Thrive website is also exploring unexplored and uninvestigated ideas.

I'll share David's article on this post and at the bottom of it, I will insert the link to the specific page David is relating to on the Thrive website.

This is for exploration and real fresh food for thoughts. Hope you'll enjoy!

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by David MacGregor

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I was first made aware of the elite's master plan for planet earth back in the early 80s. I read extensively on the subject at the time and became totally absorbed in it. Unfortunately, as a result of all my reading I also became so anxious and stressed I ended up throwing out all my books on the subject!

Why? Well, I found the entire idea totally depressing, because if there were indeed people in positions of power, who were pulling the strings of global events, then what could I do about it? Sure I could tell others and spread the bad news, but what could they do about it? Back then it was apparent the masses were powerless and my personal response to all this information was to feel powerless myself.

I made the decision that, regardless of what was happening behind the scenes, I could not afford to expend any mental energy worrying about it, as it simply undermined my own desire to build a life for myself. So I threw the books away and forgot all about it.

Fast forward to the present day...

Now, more than ever, there is constant talk of the elites - those hidden manipulators who manage to wield enormous power over global events and, as a result, our very lives.

I guess what has brought all this to the public's attention is the way in which, back in 2008, the elite bankers were able to persuade governments to bail them out, by throwing billions of dollars at the problem.

I thought at the time that if the government was going to print money and give it away, it would have been much better to hand it out to the general population, so we could pay off our debts. At least we would have all been better off as a result. But with the bankers' bailouts we're certainly not!

So talk of the elites is now commonplace.

But something else has changed dramatically - the perception that they hold the real power. This change in perception has been growing and was perhaps accelerated by the birth of the "Arab Spring" and watching all those ordinary people in Egypt overthrow their own elite tyrant.

Whatever the catalyst was, the underlying foundation of such an awakening is the internet itself. The net has connected the planet so that ordinary people can share information at lightning speed. It is this communication phenomenon that has sparked a real revolution in thinking - a rising awareness that the elites could be losing their grip, and that if people rise up, they have nowhere to run and hide.

All this came into clear focus for me when I came across a movie called Thrive. I read many of the pages on the promotional website, but the one that grabbed my attention was this one. Why? Because on that page the people behind Thrive lay out their vision of what liberty and a free society really is. And when I read it I knew I should watch the movie, so I ordered it immediately.

However, no sooner had I discovered this website, I was reading and hearing negative comments indicating that the whole project may be some sort of elite "front" group - even a disinformation campaign of some sort. But that didn't ring true to me because of what had I read on that "liberty" page.

You see, I absolutely believe there are key power control centres operating in this world - which includes the money system, the education system, energy and the media. Now, any front group would make sure to stay well away from a meaningful discussion of such control centres, and would certainly not talk about getting rid of them. But that's exactly what Thrive does. I know, because I've already watched the movie twice.

So in my opinion, because this movie contains subject matter that is certainly not discussed in polite, conventional circles, and presents scenarios that would obviously end any elite control over the world, I can only conclude that it's a legitimate attempt to wake people up.

And it does. What's more important though, is not only does it clearly lay out the dangers inherent in the current situation and expose the power levers that really do control this world, but it's also not depressing. On the contrary, by the time you get to the end of the movie it's positively positive!

Why is this so? Because it clearly shows how an ever-increasing number of enlightened people - who via the internet are learning all about these elite manipulations and their power games - can win. And it provides solutions and strategies for doing so.

If you're the type of person who enjoys digging into the unreported, the unspoken of, and enjoy having your eyes opened to the inner workings of the world, then I urge you to either watch this movie online, or purchase the DVD for yourself.

Yes, there are a number of speculations in the movie which may turn some people off - including discussion on the emergence of "free energy" and the possible influence of alien intervention in the past. But don't let that stop you from grasping the more important message, that there is an awakening going on, one which has the potential to truly revolutionise life on planet earth - and in the best possible way.

Compared to my negative reaction to all those books I read back in the 80s, all I can say now is: "bring it on!"

Thrive: What on Earth Will it Take?

Yours in freedom

David MacGregor

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You might be a slave if… - by Doug Casey

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:16:00 +0000

Happy New Year everyone! Hope you had great time with your close ones!

Without putting a negative shade on your recent Xmas festivities, here is a though article (at least to read at first) I have received in my inbox this morning. It's kind of direct in your face and I quite agree with most of observations described but I surely use my own discernment and not take it for grant.

Obviously, you first reaction might be like complete denial or rejection. This is quite normal when we are still not conscious of our own enslavement or when we are challenged with some cold hard truth. The word enslavement might be strong a little but at the same time describe the situation of too many people in North America and Western cultures.

Enjoy!

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by Doug Casey

This isn’t a quote from Mencken, Gibbon or Bakunin – my perennial favorites. But I’ll warrant they all would approve of the sentiments. I saw the essence of this on the Prison Planet website and then modified it a bit. It owes its format to comedian Jeff Foxworthy, whose routine is heavy on lists that start with “You might be a (pick a word – redneck is his favorite) if…”

I’d be impressed if Foxworthy added this list to his skit. But he won’t, because it strikes way too close to home. It’s kind of cool being a redneck in some circles. But not so cool being a slave, even though there are about three hundred million of them in the US. So Foxworthy won’t use this routine for that reason alone – but also because it’s not funny. You might be a slave if…

1. You hate when your alarm clock buzzes: If you don’t wake up every day with fantastic anticipation to be alive, you might be living under someone else’s command. In fact, if you have to wake up at the same time every day, you’re probably someone’s slave, especially if you then have to spend an hour commuting to a job you despise, because your time and life belongs to someone else.

2. You’re forced to pay for causes you vehemently oppose: If you’re a peaceful person but are forced to pay for wars done in your name, you might be a slave. Likewise, if you’re forced to pay for corporate welfare of failed institutions while you struggle to stay healthy, you’re surely a slave.

3. You expect someone else to take care of you: If someone other than yourself takes care of you, then you’re likely beholden to them in countless ways. Be careful, you might be a slave if you demand that the government give you something other than freedom.

4. You must follow laws that your Master may break: If the rule of law only applies to you and your lowly peers, while the Masters get away with murder, you’re clearly a slave in an unjust system.

5. You think mob rule is better than personal freedom: If you believe that majority rule is always better for you than free will, then you’re most certainly a slave.

6. You condemn beliefs of others you don’t even know: If you’re taught to hate the beliefs of others who have never harmed you, then your mind has been thoroughly confined by your Master’s implanted beliefs.

7. You believe people should be caged for consuming a product: If you believe that it’s okay to cage humans for consuming a product in private, then you probably love your enslavement.

8. You’re forced to wear a uniform: If you’re forced into a dress code of any kind, possibly including a suit and tie, you’re a show clown with someone to impress in order to receive your daily bread.

9. You watch over 20 hours of TV per week: And if you do that, you probably believe most of what they tell you.

10. You grin and make supplicating noises when dealing with a cop, a customs agent, or (if you’re really degraded) even a TSA goon. Clearly, you’re in fear of The Man.

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New Food Bill in New Zealand Takes Away Human Right to Grow Food - Investment Watch blog

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:03:00 +0000

I will begin my comment like the article: I was shocked by the title of this article!!! I have personaly been to New Zealand in 2009 and found that it was one of the best place on planet earth for agriculture. Now that the power-that-be are getting that far. It is simply incredible, in the name of food safety...

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I was shocked to learn from a friend on the weekend that a new Food Bill is being brought in here in New Zealand. The new bill will make it a privilege and not a right to grow food.

I find two aspects of this bill alarming. The first is the scope and impact the new bill has, and secondly that it has all happened so quietly. There has been VERY little media coverage, on a bill which promises to jeopardise the future food security of the country.

I read that the bill is being brought in because of the WTO, which of course has the US FDA behind it, and of course that is influenced by big business (Monsanto and other players). It looks like this NZ food bill will pave the way to reduce the plant diversity and small owner operations in New Zealand, for example by way of controlling the legality of seed saving and trading/barter/giving away; all will be potentially illegal. The best website to read about the problems with the new bill is http://nzfoodsecurity.org (I have no connection with this website).

Here are some snippets:

- It turns a human right (to grow food and share it) into a government-authorised privilege that can be summarily revoked.

- It makes it illegal to distribute “food” without authorisation, and it defines “food” in such a way that it includes nutrients, seeds, natural medicines, essential minerals and drinks (including water).

- By controlling seeds, the bill takes the power to grow food away from the public and puts it in the hands of seed companies. That power may be abused.

- Growing food for distribution must be authorised, even for “cottage industries”, and such authorisation can be denied.

- Under the Food Bill, Police acting as Food Safety Officers can raid premises without a warrant, using all equipment they deem necessary – including guns (Clause 265 – 1).

- Members of the private sector can also be Food Safety Officers, as at Clause 243. So Monsanto employees can raid premises – including marae – backed up by armed police.

- The Bill gives Food Safety Officers immunity from criminal and civil prosecution.

- The Government has created this bill to keep in line with its World Trade Organisation obligations under an international scheme called Codex Alimentarius (“Food Book”). So it has to pass this bill in one form or another.

- The bill would undermine the efforts of many people to become more self-sufficient within their local communities.

- Seed banks and seed-sharing networks could be shut down if they could not obtain authorisation. Loss of seed variety would make it more difficult to grow one’s own food.

- Home-grown food and some or all seed could not be bartered on a scale or frequency necessary to feed people in communities where commercially available food has become unaffordable or unavailable (for example due to economic collapse).

- Restrictions on the trade of food and seed would quickly lead to the permanent loss of heirloom strains, as well as a general lowering of plant diversity in agriculture.

- Organic producers of heirloom foods could lose market share to big-money agribusiness outfits, leading to an increase in the consumption of nutrient-poor and GE foods.
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Thrive - What on Earth Will it Take? (The Movement)

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:58:00 +0000

Here is a very interesting site (and its community) that just came across my desk. I have ordered the DVD already.

This video documentary helps connecting the dots about what is going on in the world today. There are lots of alternative journalists and truth seekers such as David Icke, Ed Griffin and Paul Hawken, which are part of the people I follow on a regular basis.

Click here to watch the trailer directly posted on the main website.

Click here to access the website of the movement.

I encourage you become part of the community! Enjoy!

The Unfractured Future - Corporate Money Vs. Water (NextWorldTV)

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:24:00 +0000

I've received this video through NextWorldTV newsletter and I wanted to share this one with you. I encourage you to subscribe to their newsletter, they are very inspiring and they show us the evidence that some people out there are very innovative and changing their way of doing things.

Here is a very inspiring video that show the evidence of power money (our needs) against mother nature (our children's future). I really hope New York state will lead the opposition movement about the madness of this natural gas extraction project. But there is hope...

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Hear Native American leaders wisdom about fracking and why it must be banned. It is nothing less than a system that is going to pollute the veins of Mother Earth.

We hear Senator James Inhofe (R- OK) enthusiastically declare that there is enough natural gas to supply our needs for the next 35 years in the Marcellus Shale (NY- PA).

The film then directs our attention to the following: It's about our needs vs. our children's future.

Where is the long term thinking and responsible leadership?

"Regulations and fines do not protect the environment. There is no way to undo the harm hydro fracking will cause" says Oren Lyons, faithkeeper of the Onondaga Nation. "When you sit and you counsel for the welfare of the people, think not of yourself, nor of your family, nor even your generation. Make decisions on behalf of the 7th generation coming... you have to defend and protect them so that they may enjoy what you enjoy today."

--Bibi Farber

This video was made by "Reel Change for Nonprofits" participants Tracy Basile and Scott Halfmann of WESPAC and Friends of Turtle Island.

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Is the New World Order Unraveling? - by Patrick J. Buchanan

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:07:00 +0000

That is an interesting point of view, temptations to unite the world into one global political and centralized governance is not possible (in my humble opinion) because the world is way too complex today, the information is not controlled anymore and is also flowing freely all around the Internet and people are waking up about the world elite's plan game.

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by Patrick J. Buchanan (Lew Rockwell's website)

With Greece on the precipice of default, and Portugal and Italy approaching the ledge, the European monetary union appears in peril.

Should it collapse, the European Union itself could be in danger, for economic nationalism is rising in Europe. Which raises a larger question.

Is the New World Order, the great 20th-century project of Western transnational elites, unraveling?

The NWO dates back as far as Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations, which a Republican Senate refused to enter. FDR, seeking to succeed where his mentor had failed, oversaw the creation of a United Nations, an International Monetary Fund and a World Bank.

In 1951 came the European Coal and Steel Community, love child of Jean Monnet, which evolved into the European Economic Community, the European Community and the European Union. A European Central Bank and a new currency, the euro, followed.

The hidden ultimate goal of economic union was political union – a United States of Europe as model and core of the 21st century world government.

With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the EU expanded to the east. And the New World Order, formally proclaimed by George H.W. Bush in 1991, was out in the open and seemingly the wave of the future.

Progress was swift.

A North American Free Trade Agreement, bringing the United States, Mexico and Canada into a common market that George W. Bush predicted would encompass the hemisphere from Patagonia to Prudhoe Bay, was signed in 1993.

A World Trade Organization was born in 1994. U.S. sovereignty was surrendered to a global body where America had the same single vote as Azerbaijan.

The Kyoto Protocol, brought home by Vice President Al Gore, set up a regime to control the worldwide emission of greenhouse gases.

An International Criminal Court, a permanent Nuremberg Tribunal to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity, was created.

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Governments Don't Create Prosperity - by John Stossel

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:27:00 +0000

Politicians say they create jobs, but they really don't. Or rather, they rarely create productive jobs. Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and give them to another. The pharaohs might have claimed they created work when they ordered that pyramids be built, but think how much richer (and freer) the Egyptians would have been if they'd been allowed to pursue their own interests.

It's individuals in the marketplace who create real jobs -- when they have the protection of life and property under the rule of law.

Economic freedom is the key. The theory couldn't be more clear, and at this late date in human history, it shouldn't be necessary to rehearse the abundant evidence. Look at the various indexes that correlate economic freedom with economic growth. The healthiest economies are those with the most economic freedom. Unemployment is low in those places -- 3 percent in Hong Kong, 2 percent in Singapore, 5 percent in Australia

Alas, the United States places ninth, behind Canada, and those countries with the least economic freedom have few real jobs and no prosperity.

Unfortunately, most politicians still don't understand -- or have no incentive to understand -- that economic freedom, and therefore less government, creates prosperity. Well, maybe that's changing. This year is first I've heard so many presidential candidates talk about the private sector. Indeed, one candidate, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, told me he created "not one single job. ... Government does not create jobs."

The truth is we have too few jobs today because government stands in the way. If I'm an employer, why would I want to hire someone when Congress and the Labor Department have so many rules that I might not be able to fire that person if he can't do the job? Why would I take a risk on an investment when still-to-be-written rules about Obamacare, financial regulation and the environment could turn my good idea into a losing venture?

I refereed a debate on whether government creates or impedes economic activity.

"Government can spend and create jobs," said David Callahan, cofounder of Demos. "If government steps up and provides stimulus money to hire people, what we get is more people spending money in this economy, more hiring, and we get that virtuous cycle going."

Yaron Brook, president of the Ayn Rand Institute, replied:

"It is ridiculous to assume you can tax the people that are working and give the money (to people) who are not working and somehow this creates economy activity. You are destroying as much by taking from those who are working and creating."

Callahan then invoked the magic I-word.

"One place we need more government spending is for infrastructure. Drive down any road, go across any bridge, you are likely to see dilapidation. There was a bipartisan panel that said we need to spend $2 trillion or more on infrastructure."

"Don't pretend that stimulates the economy," Brook rebutted. "That money has to come from somewhere, that $2 trillion that you would want to spend on infrastructure is taken from the private economy."

"This is a fallacy," Callahan replied. "Twenty million jobs were created in the 1990s when we had higher tax rates than we do today. After World War II -- also a period of high tax rates, also incredible job growth.

And, by Keynesian logic, war can stimulate the economy.

"World War II was the great stimulus. ... That kind of external crisis can inject a lot of new capital."

"This is one of the worst fallacies of economics," Brook said. "This is called the broken-window fallacy."

The fallacy comes from Frederic Bastiat's story of the boy who breaks a shop window, prompting some to believe that replacing the window will stimulate a ripple of economic activity. The fallacy lies in overlooking the productive things the shopkeeper would have done with the money had the window not needed replacing.

"World War II did nothing to promote economy growth," Brook said. "Blowing things up is not an economic stimulus. Destruction does not lead to progress."

Don't expect most politicians to learn this any time soon.

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Less Work, More Living - by Juliet Schor (Yes! Magazine)

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:02:00 +0000

Working fewer hours could save our economy, save our sanity, and help save our planet.

Millions of Americans have lost control over the basic rhythm of their daily lives. They work too much, eat too quickly, socialize too little, drive and sit in traffic for too many hours, don’t get enough sleep, and feel harried too much of the time. It’s a way of life that undermines basic sources of wealth and well-being—such as strong family and community ties, a deep sense of meaning, and physical health.

Imagining a world in which jobs take up much less of our time may seem utopian, especially now, when a scarcity mentality dominates the economic conversation. People who are employed often find it difficult to scale back their jobs. Costs of medical care, education, and child care are rising. It may be hard to find new sources of income when U.S. companies have been laying people off at a dizzying rate.

But fewer work hours for people with jobs is a key step toward solving the unemployment crisis—while giving Americans healthier lives. Fewer hours means more jobs are available to people who need them. Living on less pay usually means consuming less, making more of the things one needs at home, and living lighter, whether by design or by accident.

Today, driven both by necessity and the deliberate choice to live simply, more Americans are shifting toward fewer work hours. It’s a trend that, if done correctly, could get us out of our current economic crisis and away from unsustainable economic growth.

Finding Times

Economists today focus solely on growth as a mechanism for job creation. But for much of the industrial age, falling hours have been roughly as important a contributor to employment as market growth.

The grueling schedules of the 19th century undermined health and prevented people from achieving what we now call quality of life. Hours of work in the United States began to decline after about 1870—from about 3,000 a year to 2,342 by 1929. In 1973 annual work hours stood at 1,887 (fewer than 40 hours per week, on average). If hours hadn’t fallen, unemployment would have grown even before the 1930s Depression.

Since the 1970s, Americans have been working longer. According to government survey data, the average working person was putting in 180 more hours of work in 2006 than he or she was in 1979. The trends are more pronounced on a household basis. Many more men are working schedules in excess of 50 hours a week. (Thirty percent of male college graduates and 20 percent of all full-time male workers are on schedules that usually exceed 50 hours.)

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What Happens When a Nation Goes Bankrupt - by Simon Black (Sovereign Man)

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:00 +0000

September 14, 2011
Cape Town, South Africa
by Simon Black

Three years ago today, my best friend called me and told me to turn on my television. I remember the way he described it– “Lehman is finished.” The TV showed guys packing up their desks on Sunday afternoon, moving out of their offices forever.

That was the precipice from which financial markets plunged the following day, taking the global economy along for the next three years. We appear to be at that moment once more.

Greece is out of cash. Again. The Greek Deputy Finance Minister said on Monday that his country only has enough cash to operate for a few more weeks.

As I write this note, French, German, and Greek politicians are all on a conference call, feverishly trying to figure out a way to avoid default. Everyone seems to understand the consequences at stake… given the chain of derivatives out there, a Greek default will completely dwarf the Lehman collapse.

Unfortunately for the bureaucrats, dissent against the Greek bailout plan is spreading across Europe… and leaders can no longer ignore the growing wave of opposition in Finland, the Netherlands, Austria, and Germany.

It’s no wonder, when you think about it. Why should a German hairdresser who retires at age 65 stick his neck out so that a Greek hairdresser can retire at age 50? This, from a continent that was perpetually at war with itself for over a thousand years.

Europe’s great benefactor over the last several months has been China, whose treasury has been buying up worthless European sovereign debt to ensure that Greece doesn’t default.

It’s a testament to the absurdity of our failed financial system when the highly indebted rich countries of the world have to go to China, a nation of peasants, for a bailout.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum this morning, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao delivered a stern message: there is a limit to Chinese generosity, and it will come at a price.

The Chinese will undoubtedly use any further investment in European bonds as leverage to influence western politicians. They already bought Tim Geithner. The US government refuses to label China a ‘currency manipulator’. Similarly, European politicians will now be forced to acknowledge China as a ‘market economy’.

Ultimately, this charade will fail. It’s a simple matter of arithmetic. China could buy every single penny of Greek debt and it still wouldn’t solve the underlying problem: Greece would still be in debt! And more, still hemorrhaging billions of euros each month. Throwing more money at the problem only makes it worse.

Then there are those Greek assets for sale… like state-owned Hellenic Railways Group. It lost a cool billion euros last year. Or the notoriously inefficient, highly unionized, traditionally lossmaking Greek postal service, Hellenic Post. Any takers?

These are not exactly high quality assets… nor can Greece expect to get top dollar in what’s clearly a distress sale.

Over 200 years ago, Napoleon was forced to sell France’s claim to 828,000 square miles of land in the New World in order to cover his war expenses. US President Thomas Jefferson happily obliged, paying the modern equivalent of around $315 million (based on the gold price), roughly 59 cents per acre in today’s money.

According to US census records, there were around 90,000 people living within the territory during that time who literally woke up the next day to a different world. This is the sort of thing that happens when governments go bankrupt.

With the Lehman collapse, a lot of people got hurt… but it was mostly a financial and economic issue. When an entire nation goes bust, the pain is felt much deeper: the most basic systems and institutions that people have come to depend on simply disappear.

Argentina’s millennial debt crisis is a great example of this… suddenly the power failed, the police stopped working, the gas stations closed, the grocery stores ran out of food, the retirement checks stopped coming, and the banks went under (taking people’s life savings with them).

European leaders (with Chinese help) can postpone the endgame for a short time, but they’re really just taking an umbrella into a hurricane. It would be foolish to not expect a Greek default, and it would be even more foolish to not expect significant consequences. The only question is– how are you prepared to deal with what happens.

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Does Inequality Make Us Unhappy? - by Carmen Sobczak (Yes! Magazine)

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:49:00 +0000

by Carmen Sobczak (Yes! Magazine)

A new study suggests Americans' happiness declines when there’s a wider gap between rich and poor.

In 1980, the average American CEO's income was 40 times higher than that of the average worker. Today, it is well over 300 times higher.

A new study suggests this rising income inequality in the United States doesn’t just affect Americans’ pocketbooks; it affects their happiness. Over the past four decades, according to the study, the American people have been the least happy in years when there was the widest gap between rich and poor.

In the study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, researchers examined 50,000 responses to the General Social Survey, which has tracked well-being in the United States since 1972. The researchers, led by Shigehiro Oishi of the University of Virginia, zeroed in on Americans’ levels of happiness between 1972 and 2008, along with their perceptions of how fair and trustworthy other people are. Oishi and his colleagues compared these responses both with participants’ reported household income over those years and with a U.S. Census measure of income inequality.

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Toward a Post-Growth Society - by James Gustave Speth (Yes! Magazine)

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:44:00 +0000

by James Gustave Speth (Yes! Magazine)

It’s business as usual that’s the utopian fantasy, while creating something very new and different is the pragmatic way forward.

Today, the reigning policy orientation holds that the path to greater well-being is to grow and expand the economy. Productivity, profits, the stock market, and consumption: all must go continually up. This growth imperative trumps all else. It is widely believed that growth is always worth the price that must be paid for it—even when it undermines families, jobs, communities, the environment, and our sense of place and continuity.
The Limits of Growth

But an expanding body of evidence is now telling us to think again. Economic growth may be the world’s secular religion, but for much of the world it is a god that is failing—underperforming for billions of the world’s people and, for those in affluent societies, now creating more problems than it is solving. The never-ending drive to grow the overall U.S. economy hollows out communities and the environment; it fuels a ruthless international search for energy and other resources; it fails at generating jobs; and it rests on a manufactured consumerism that is not meeting the deepest human needs. Americans are substituting growth and consumption for dealing with the real issues—for doing things that would truly make us and the country better off. Psychologists have pointed out, for example, that while economic output per person in the United States has risen sharply in recent decades, there has been no increase in life satisfaction and levels of distrust and depression have increased substantially.

We need to reinvent the economy, not merely restore it. The roots of our environmental and social problems are systemic and thus require transformational change. Sustaining people, communities, and nature must henceforth be seen as the core goals of economic activity, not hoped for byproducts of an economy based on market success, growth for its own sake, and modest regulation. That is the paradigm shift we seek.

For the most part, reformers have worked within this current system of political economy, but what is needed is transformative change in the system itself. The case for immediate action on issues like climate change, job creation, and unemployment extension is compelling, but the big environmental and social challenges we face will not yield to problem-solving incrementalism. Progressives have gone down the path of incremental reform for decades. We have learned that it is not enough.

Growing Jobs and Well-Being, Not the Economy

It is time for America to move to a post-growth society where working life, the natural environment, our communities and families, and the public sector are no longer sacrificed for the sake of mere GDP growth; where the illusory promises of ever-more growth no longer provide an excuse for neglecting to deal generously with our country’s compelling social needs; and where true citizen democracy is no longer held hostage to the growth imperative.

Many of the policies that would help grow the kind of society most of us want to live in would actually slow GDP growth. For example, if productivity gains are taken as shorter worktime, personal incomes and overall economic growth can stabilize while quality of life increases. Juliet Schor points out that workers in Europe put in about 300 fewer hours each year than Americans.

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Why Egypt Ditched the IMF - by Mark Engler (Yes! Magazine)

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:41:00 +0000

It is good to see that another country is resisting the IMF which is to financially conquer countries by (...) hijacking national assets through government austerity. Their game plan (the IMF) is today extensively documented, fortunately and more contested. Enjoy the reading!
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By Mark Engler

As Egyptians continue their struggle for social justice and full democracy, there's one institution they don't want involved: the International Monetary Fund.

On Friday, crowds of protesters returned to Cairo’s Tahrir Square, with independent trade unions calling for the country’s yet-unfinished revolution to continue. The unionists, according to Ahram Online, “stressed the need to achieve social justice, the prosecution of all corrupt figures of the old regime, and the establishment of a full democracy.”

That activists are keeping up street pressure for democratic reforms is a positive sign. And it follows on the heels of another one: the recent, surprise decision by the country’s interim leaders to spurn the International Monetary Fund.

In late June, the BBC reported, “Egypt drop[ped] plans for [an] IMF loan amid popular distrust.” Despite the IMF’s insistence that it was offering financing on favorable terms, the story noted, “many Egyptians were unhappy, feeling it was a betrayal of the protest movement that had denounced the IMF as a tool of imperialism.”

From the beginning of the Arab Spring revolts, many progressive commentators have expressed concern that people in countries such as Egypt and Tunisia might win greater political freedoms but would have their nations’ economic policies hijacked by the international financial institutions. Walden Bello, for one, reflected on pro-democracy transitions in the Philippines, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, and bemoaned a sad pattern:

Even as traditional elites hijacked the resurgent parliamentary systems, the United States and the multilateral agencies subverted them to push through austerity programs that the authoritarian regimes they previously supported had no longer been able to impose on recalcitrant citizenries. It soon became clear that Washington and the multilateral agencies wanted the new democratic regimes to use their legitimacy to impose repressive economic adjustment programs and debt management policies.

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Global Awakening Defined: We Are Just Beginning to Find Out Who We Are! - David Icke's Website

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:31:00 +0000

Here is a very inspiring video available on David Icke's website. This incredible 12 minutes footage is, in my humble opinion, a great visualization of the shift towards love and awareness that is occurring on planet earth today and for the coming years.

The ones who are awakening will already understand the essence of the video. But for the others who are still locked up in the physical body consciousness or still decoding the 5 sense reality world only, hopefully will at least be curious about this video and hopefully will spark something within.

Click here to access the video.

How the Internet Makes False Flags More Difficult - The Daily Bell

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:19:00 +0000

The Internet is called by the Daily Bell the Internet Reformation and is compared to the Gutenberg Press, which is "the first concept of movable type printing which facilitated the printing press itself.", as described on DB website.

I strongly invite you to read this very well written article about what it means to the world, to the elite and the shift that is occurring right this moment.
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By Staff Report at Daily Bell

(Editorial)
The "Internet Reformation" (as we call it) is a natural outgrowth of our perception that the 'Net itself is a kind of modern-day Gutenberg Press. It's a concept we've been writing about for nearly a decade. Initially, it seemed like an interesting theory, but everything keeps falling into place and the historical parallels are startling. What they seem to reveal is an upcoming electronically-based Renaissance of sorts.

This is of course not necessarily a popular view. The alternative Internet media is often relentlessly gloomy. One is bombarded daily with information about the 5,000-year-old evil of the Illuminati, the impossibility of stopping the New World Order, the invulnerability of the world's great banking families such as the Rothschilds and Rockefellers who are said to control tens or even hundreds of trillions.

And yet, look around. Despite the challenges, there is plenty of evidence of pushback. And why shouldn't this trend continue, no matter what counterattacks are made?

Look at history. The Catholic Church launched its Counter-Reformation but wasn't successful in stopping either Lutheranism or Protestantism. The elites of the day tried to license printing presses but were not successful. They tried to confiscate books as well. Finally, they tried war, but eventually had to declare a peace via the Treaty of Westphalia that established the modern nation state.

What was seemingly at work then, as now, is Marshall McLuhan's "hive mind." People may scoff at the concept of a hive mind, but humans are seemingly structured to seize on the most modern concepts as part of the struggle to survive and get ahead. The stale nostrums of the modern Dark Age – the 20th century – are giving way to a dawn of knowledge hitherto repressed by the power elite.

The discovery of the 10,000 year-old-city of Dwarka off the coast of India, the probable reality of a universe organized by electricity rather than gravity, the existence of abiotic oil generated by geological processes, the reality of vitamin therapy and naturopathy have all found popularity on the Internet – along with the free-market economics of Austrians such as Ludwig von Mises. Twenty years ago, such concepts and discoveries would not have been mentioned, generally, let alone circulated.

The Internet has begun to blow up power elite memes – the fear-based promotions by which the Anglo-American elites have sought to control society. Literally trillions of dollars have been thrown into an effort to create a network of political structures (UN, IMF, BIS, etc.), think tanks, educational facilities and popular media that can amplify these dominant social themes. Once they have become part of the public consciousness, authoritarian and globalist solutions are inevitably proposed. It looks like a natural process but in fact, it is an entirely artificial one.

The same process takes place as regards investing. Fear-based themes such as global warming are promoted with increasing fervor over years and decades. International political solutions are introduced along with corporate solutions. Companies large and small proclaim "green" solutions even though global warming has been massively discredited.

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Scientists Push to Implement Edible RFID Tracking Chips in Food - by Ethan A. Huff (Natural News)

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:50:00 +0000

Take some time to digest the title of this article ;-)

To keep going on with "1984" from George Orwell's vision, here is a bogus technology that might, one day, become part of our daily lives. I hope it won't but at least be aware that's in the pipeline and in development.
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By Ethan A. Huff

(NaturalNews) It will monitor your calorie intake, show from where your food was sourced, and even let you know when the food in your fridge is about to go bad -- these are some of the enticing claims made by the developers of a new system that embeds edible radio frequency identification (RFID) chips directly into food. Its creators insist the technology will revolutionize the way humans eat for the better, but critical-thinking onlookers will recognize the ploy as just another way to track and control human behavior.

Developed by Hannes Harms from the Royal College of Art in London, the "NutriSmart" system is based on the idea that RFID wafers injected directly into food can help better track the food supply chain, further automate the supermarket shopping experience, and simplify the eating experience by programming data into food so that humans essentially do not have to think about what they are
doing.

The technology makes both eating and dealing with food in general mindless, as a person simply needs to plop an RFID-embedded food item onto a special RFID-laced plate, which then tells the person all about the item and how much of it to eat. RFID ovens and microwaves also eliminate having to think about how long to cook an RFID food item -- simply put it in the RFID microwave, oven, or toaster, and the machine will know exactly how long to cook the item.

As interesting and novel as this might sound, such technology is actually quite frightening when taken to its logical ends. NaturalNews previously warned that mad scientists have already developed edible RFID tags for use in pharmaceutical drugs (http://www.naturalnews.com/028663_h...). These tags, of course, can and will likely be used to monitor patients' compliance with doctors orders, and alert authorities if a patient refuses to take certain pills as prescribed.

And if such technology also ends up in food, it is safe to assume that evil powers will seek to control the food supply with it, as well as monitor the types of food people eat. In other words, if authorities one day decide that vitamin and mineral supplements are off limits, which is what is currently happening in Europe (http://www.naturalnews.com/032389_h...), it is plausible that RFID technology can assess illegal intake of such nutrients, and immediately send this data to the appropriate enforcement agencies.

This 1984-esque scenario appears to be more than just science fiction -- it is unfolding before our eyes just a little bit more every single day. And the NutriSmart system is just another piece of evidence that those in power wish to micromanage every single aspect of our lives, from the drugs we take to the foods we eat.

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Welcome to 1984: Bill Clinton Calls for a "Ministry of Truth" - by Forbidden Knowledge TV

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Wed, 25 May 2011 09:59:00 +0000

Bill Clinton recently commented that he wants to create a an "independent" yet "Federal" body to fact-check everything on the Internet.

How long can the Internet stay the way it is? What will it be like in 50 years?

With the quantity of information that is exponentially created today online, how can an entity verify the accuracy of the information? Good luck!

1984 refer to the well known novel written by George Orwell, published decades ago.

To watch video, click here.

To access complete works of George Orwell, click here.

The Gullible Mind Explained - by Mike Adams (Natural News)

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Sun, 08 May 2011 20:05:00 +0000

This article made me smile, simply because that is exactly what my perception of our today's society, unfortunately, looks like! No more comment, enjoy this very interesting article!
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by Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) In light of the string of the blatant falsehoods being announced by the U.S. government these days (FDA, DHS, White House, etc.) it's interesting that so many people still believe whatever they are told by "official" sources. It brings up the question of the functioning of their brains: How could a person swallow official information so gullibly and so completely without even asking commonsense questions about the reliability or factual basis of that information?

These people, it turns out, are operating from what I called The Gullible Mind. It is a psychological processing malfunction that filters out information based on its source rather than its integrity. People who operate from The Gullible Mind tend to have misplaced trust in governments, institutions, mainstream news networks, doctors, scientists or anyone who wears the garb of apparent authority.

Whereas a normal, intelligent person would raise commonsense questions about information they receive from all sources, the Gullible Mind wholly accepts virtually any information from sources that occupy the role of apparent authority in society.

Governments never lie

But how does this work inside their heads? It's an interesting process. Gullible Mind people do believe it is possible for a government (or institution) to lie; but they believe that governments, institutions and doctors choose NOT to lie even when it would serve their own self interests to do so.

Follow this carefully, because this is the fascinating part. These Gullible Mind people effectively believe that even though a government official could lie about something, they would never actually do so. And why wouldn't they? Because, ultimately, the Gullible Mind crowd believes that governments, institutions and mainstream media outlets operate from a sort of honor code. So even if it were in the interests of our own government to lie to us, it would never happen because that would violate this imaginary honor code.

Where does this honor code exist? Where is it written down? Nowhere, of course. It is imaginary. But to The Gullible Mind, it seems real. Interestingly, even though this "honor code" only exists in the imagination of The Gullible Mind person, they project this honor code onto sources of authority, imagining that they abide by it.

Extreme gullibility

This is how The Gullible Mind person believes that network news always reports the truth. The news networks have a sense of "honor," they believe, and this sense of honor requires them to always report the truth and never manipulate the news for any nefarious purposes. So news networks never "shape" the news and they only report what is factually true without any consideration whatsoever of politics or advertiser profits.

This view of the world is, of course, laughably naive. And yet it is the core belief system of at least half the population -- the Gullible Mind half that believes everything it is told by its own government, media or authority figures.

Interestingly, the Gullible Mind is also inwardly gullible because it does not recognize its own gullibility. Instead, it believes it is operating as a Rational Mind. This false Rational Mind believes it functions as a critical filter of incoming information, but even this is self deception. In truth, this false Rational Mind is on "auto filter" so that it filters out any information that conflicts with the information it is receiving from official sources.

This is the key to understanding the Gullible Mind -- it isn't the quality of the information itself that matters; it is the confirmation of the story from official sources that "makes it real" in the Gullible Mind.

The Easter Bunny killed Bin Laden!

For example, let's say a Gullible Mind person comes across an announcement that says the Easter Bunny has killed Osama Bin Laden. The report claims that colored eggs were found near Bin Laden's body, and there was evidence of feathers being left at the scene, which proves the Easter Bunny was there.

Now, an intelligent, rational mind would have a lot of questions about this. For starters, rabbits don't have feathers. And the Easter Bunny is a piece of fiction, too. On top of that, how could the Easter Bunny kill Osama Bin Laden? An intelligent person would, upon reviewing the holes in the story, be forced to conclude the story is fiction. The only logical conclusion from that is that the government is lying to them.

A Gullible Mind person, however, would not ask whether rabbits have feathers, or whether the Easter Bunny is capable of conducting a military raid. Instead, the Gullible Mind person would first look to other confirming news sources in order to determine the reliability of the story. They would turn on the TV or surf the internet, looking for the news to be repeated through "official" sources.

Once they found CNN, or Fox News, or some other "official" source reporting that the Easter Bunny killed Osama Bin Laden, then that news report would instantly become "real" in their minds. Suddenly it has shifted from their mental processing queue to the "absolutely truth" part of their brain, and from that point forward, no one can question that reality in their heads.

Don't bother arguing with a Gullible Mind - they are immune to facts
At this point, their rational mind is completely shut off on the topic. No accumulation of facts can, at that point, rattle their "reality." For example, a person who believes the government's story of 9/11 has already embraced the Easter Bunny version of terrorists flying airplanes into the World Trade Center towers. So how did this act cause the WTC 7 building to collapse in a demolition-style free-fall a few hours later, when WTC 7 was never struck by airplanes? How can a steel and concrete building suddenly and magically collapse in perfect structural synchronicity merely from being on fire?

The answers don't matter to The Gullible Mind, you see. There is no room for facts inside their heads, because all the space has been taken up with what is essentially a cult-like belief in institutions of authority.

We saw this in the Heaven's Gate cult in California a few years back. The leader of that cult, a man named Applegate, positioned himself as the one and only source of authoritative information among the cult followers. So HE became the authoritative source whose information was wholly accepted without questioning or skepticism of any kind. At that point, he was able to quite easily convince his followers that an alien race was going to land a UFO on the far side of a comet, and that if they killed themselves, they would be transported onto the alien ship (or something like that).

The belief in such a story may seem silly... until you realize that the governments of the world use the exact same cult-like tactics to get their own "followers" to believe everything they say, without question. So if President Obama announced that an alien race was going to land a mother ship on the White House lawn, and that people who voted for him would have their consciousness transferred to an immortal alien body, the remarkable truth is that millions of people would believe that. Perhaps tens of millions. They would even worship him as an interstellar saint.

Remember Orson Welles' radio program that announced aliens had invaded the Earth and were destroying our cities? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wa...) Huge numbers of people believed it was really happening... and not because it made any sense, but because the information came from the source they trusted. To those people, the alien invasion was just as real back then as Bin Laden's official death is to government followers today.

Throughout history, many conspiracy theories have turned out to be true

Government lying, of course, has been going on for as long as governments have existed. Not all conspiracies theories are true, of course, but so many of them turn out to be true that the idea of "not believing" in conspiracies makes no rational sense.

To not believe in conspiracies means you don't believe two people have ever sat down and plotted to take advantage of others in some unethical and deceptive way. Well gee, that describes virtually every board meeting of every large corporation in the world! Conspiracies are not just commonplace; they're practically synonymous with modern-day capitalism! Even right now, Apple is being accused of a conspiracy to keep employee wages artificially low: http://www.appleinsider.com/article...

I wonder: Do the Gullible Mind people also not believe in that conspiracy theory? Are all conspiracy theories automatically tossed out merely because of the word "conspiracy?"

For those who don't know their history, here's a list of 33 conspiracy theories that turned out to be true: http://www.newworldorderreport.com/...

The Manhattan Project, of course, was a secret government conspiracy. The Tuskegee Syphilis experiments on African Americans was a secret medical conspiracy. Operation Northwoods was a conspiracy plot to create support for a war on Castro by staging terrorism events in U.S. cities.

These are all historical facts. They are indisputable. But to The Gullible Mind, none of this history exists. What's real is only what they are being told right now by the White House. When George Bush occupied the White House, the daily fibs were things like, "The Iraqis want us to occupy their land with military personnel because we are setting them free!" Oh yeah, that's a bit of twisted logic, for sure. But it's no different from Obama's version of the war fairytales, which includes such gems as, "We're only dropping humanitarian bombs on Libya." Or, "It's not actually war. It's only kinetic military action."

But you see, it makes no difference whether anything they say is actually true... at least not to The Gullible Mind, which believes there is no such thing as a conspiracy theory. There is no such thing as a nefarious government, either. Heck, when Columbus landed in the New World, his entire crew shared food and wine with the Native American Indians, we're told. There was no raping, no murder, no genocide. That's why we continue to celebrate Columbus Day every year! Because the Gullible Mind wants a reason to get off work for a day, even if it requires a complete revision of actual historical facts.

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The World of Our Dreams - by David Korten (Yes Magazine)

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:54:00 +0000

---A stunning and hopeful truth: The world we must create in order to survive is also the vision that unites us.---

In 1992, I participated in the civil society portion of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It involved some fifteen thousand people representing the vast variety of humanity’s races, religions, nationalities, and languages. It was, at the time, the largest and most diverse global gathering in human history. Our discussions centered on defining, and committing ourselves to, the vision of the world we would create together.

These discussions were chaotic and often contentious. But at one point it hit me like a bolt of lightning. Despite our differences, we all wanted the same things: healthy, happy children, families, and communities living in peace and cooperation in healthy natural environments. Out of our conversations emerged an articulation of our shared dream of a world in which people and nature live in dynamic, creative, cooperative, and balanced relationships. The Earth Charter, which is the product of a continuation of this discussion, calls it Earth Community, a community of life.

I’ve lived in a lot of places with starkly different cultures: Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Indonesia, the Philippines, California, Massachusetts, Florida, Virginia, New York City, and Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound. Surprise! Look beneath the colorful differences in cultural expression and you find at the core everyone wants to breathe clean air and drink clean water. They want tasty, nutritious food uncontaminated with toxins. They want meaningful work, a living wage, success and happiness for their children, and security in their old age. They want a say in the decisions their governments make and they want to live in peace."

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Corporate Control? Not in These Communities - by Allen D. Kanner (Yes! Magazine)

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:11:00 +0000

This is an interesting article about how people are organizing themselves against corporations and protecting nature from their greed.

This should be an inspiration for the province where I live in Canada...

Enjoy!
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by Allen D. Kanner

Can local laws have a real effect on the power of giant corporations?

Mt. Shasta, a small northern California town of 3,500 residents nestled in the foothills of magnificent Mount Shasta, is taking on corporate power through an unusual process—democracy.

The citizens of Mt. Shasta have developed an extraordinary ordinance, set to be voted on in the next special or general election, that would prohibit corporations such as Nestle and Coca-Cola from extracting water from the local aquifer. But this is only the beginning. The ordinance would also ban energy giant PG&E, and any other corporation, from regional cloud seeding, a process that disrupts weather patterns through the use of toxic chemicals such as silver iodide. More generally, it would refuse to recognize corporate personhood, explicitly place the rights of community and local government above the economic interests of multinational corporations, and recognize the rights of nature to exist, flourish, and evolve.

Mt. Shasta is not alone. Rather, it is part of a (so far) quiet municipal movement making its way across the United States in which communities are directly defying corporate rule and affirming the sovereignty of local government.

Since 1998, more than 125 municipalities have passed ordinances that explicitly put their citizens' rights ahead of corporate interests, despite the existence of state and federal laws to the contrary. These communities have banned corporations from dumping toxic sludge, building factory farms, mining, and extracting water for bottling. Many have explicitly refused to recognize corporate personhood. Over a dozen townships in Pennsylvania, Maine, and New Hampshire have recognized the right of nature to exist and flourish (as Ecuador just did in its new national constitution). Four municipalities, including Halifax in Virginia, and Mahoney, Shrewsbury, and Packer in Pennsylvania, have passed laws imposing penalties on corporations for chemical trespass, the involuntary introduction of toxic chemicals into the human body.

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Who’s Afraid of a Free Society? - by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (LewRockwell.com)

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:24:00 +0000

This article introduce a new book written by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. about what would be the consequences of having no government. Yes you've read it right, having no governments ruling our life! I know it sounds unthinkable! But I find this idea very interesting to imagine!

Remember we are being told by the political class and the system that governments are absolutely essential in order to society to work. But I invite you simply open your mind to such possibilities. We never know what all the current world events will lead us one of these days.

As for my understanding and humble opinion, in order to succeed in a "government free" type of society, it entails a complete responsibility of our life as for health, finances, work, etc. and become more a sovereign person and a free mind. Not everyone is ready for such way of thinking.

Enjoy the reading!

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by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Today is the release date for my new book, Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse. It could just as easily have been called Everything Needs to Be Abolished, and Here’s Why.

The book does two things. First, it lays bare the true fiscal position of the U.S. government, and shows why some kind of default is not merely possible but inevitable. But this is not a book full of numbers about the impending collapse. The collapse is merely the jumping-off point. By far the more central part of the book is this: the critical first step for reversing this mess and checking the seemingly unstoppable federal advance is to stick a dagger through the heart of the myths by which government has secured the confidence and consent of the people.

We know these myths by heart. Government acts on behalf of the public good. It keeps us safe. It protects us against monopolies. It provides indispensable services we could not provide for ourselves. Without it, America would be populated by illiterates, half of us would be dead from quack medicine or exploding consumer products, and the other half would lead a feudal existence under the iron fist of private firms that worked them to the bone for a dollar a week.

Thus Americans tolerate much government predation because they have bought into the myth that state intervention may be an irritant, but the alternative of a free society would be far worse. They have been conditioned to believe that despite whatever occasional corruption they may observe in politics, the government by and large has their well-being at heart. Schoolchildren in particular learn a version of history worthy of Pravda. Governments, they are convinced, abolished child labor, gave people good wages and decent working conditions; protect them from bad food, drugs, airplanes, and consumer products; have cleaned their air and water; and have done countless other things to improve their well-being. They truly cannot imagine how anyone who isn’t a stooge for industry could think differently, or how free people acting in the absence of compulsion and threats of violence – which is what government activity amounts to – might have figured out a way to solve these problems. The history of regulation is, in this fact-free version of events, a tale of righteous crusaders winning victories for the public against grasping and selfish private interests who care nothing for the common good.

But let’s suppose that the federal government has in fact been an enemy of the people’s welfare, and that the progress in our living standards has occurred quite in spite of its efforts. It pits individuals, firms, industries, regions, races, and age groups against each other in a zero-sum game of mutual plunder. It takes credit for improvements in material conditions that we in fact owe to the private sector, while refusing to accept responsibility for the countless failures and social ills to which its own programs have given rise. Rather than bringing about the "public good," whatever that means, it governs us through a series of fiefdoms seeking bigger budgets and more power. Despite the veneer of public-interest rhetoric by which it camouflages its real nature, it is a mere parasite on productive activity and a net minus in the story of human welfare.

Now if this is a more accurate depiction of the federal government, we are likely to have a different view of the consequences of the coming fiscal collapse. So an institution that has seized our wealth, held back the rise in our standard of living, and deceived schoolchildren into honoring it as the source of all progress, will have to be cut back? What’s the catch? This is no calamity to be deplored. It is an opportunity to be seized. The primary purpose of the book, therefore, is to demonstrate that we would not only survive but even flourish in the absence of countless institutions we are routinely told we could not live without.

And with the exception of the final chapter, that’s what the rest of the book does. I wanted it to be a relentless presentation, such that even a skeptical reader would have to be impressed by the sheer number and force of the arguments.

Some of the topics covered include:

* Could we survive without the welfare state?
* Was the Industrial Revolution a disaster for workers, and evidence of the wickedness of the free market?
* The market vs. global poverty
* How the market, in spite (not because) of government, leads to higher living standards for everyone
* How the market leads to improved working conditions and does away with child labor
* Federal education programs: a critique
* Doesn’t Sweden prove a large welfare state is compatible with lasting prosperity?
* If government shrinks, won’t big business fill the void and oppress the public via predatory pricing?
* Why it’s impossible to design a wealth redistribution program that does not cause net harm
* The truth about "affordable housing" programs
* Iceland and the financial crisis: a case study of free markets run amok?
* California energy "deregulation" – proof that free markets don’t work?
* Is the Savings & Loan (S&L) crisis evidence of the failure of free markets?
* The real record of Sarbanes-Oxley
* OSHA and workplace safety
* The FDA
* Don’t we need to make an exception for government science funding?
* A primer on the War on Drugs
* Obamacare: the problems and the solution
* Why "stimulus" programs make things worse
* How prudential regulation contributed to the financial crisis
* Are some firms "too big to fail"?
* Did the "repeal" of Glass-Steagall contribute to the financial crisis?
* The real story of "deregulation" and the financial crisis
* Is Paul Krugman right to absolve Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of blame?
* The Pentagon’s impact on the U.S. economy
* Has the Federal Reserve really made the U.S. economy more stable, as so many proponents try to claim?
* What caused the bank panics of the nineteenth century? Are they evidence of the need for a central bank?
* The separation of money and state
* Do we need the Fed to protect us from deflation?
* Regulation as an anti-competitive device
* Possible approaches: agorism, jury nullification, Free State Project, and more

One of the goals in writing my books has been to help get people up to speed on important issues as efficiently (and, I hope, enjoyably) as possible. (In fact, much of what I write comes down to this: what do I wish I myself had known 20 years ago, so that I wouldn’t have had to come by all this information so laboriously on my own?) That way people can more easily prepare themselves to answer many of the most common objections to their position they are likely to encounter.

That’s what I’m trying to do in Rollback as well. The propaganda with which we are flooded regarding how indispensable the political class is – why, they are selflessly devoted to "public service"! – is unworthy of a fifth-grader. We would not die instantly in the absence of the Joe Bidens and Mitch McConnells. We would flourish. And here’s the proof.

February 7, 2011

Thomas E. Woods, Jr. [send him mail; visit his website], a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, is the author of eleven books, most recently Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse and Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, as well as the New York Times bestsellers Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse and The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. He is also the editor of five other books, including the just-released Back on the Road to Serfdom.

Copyright © 2011 Thomas Woods

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Find A Job? Good Luck In This Economy – 10 Reasons Why The Latest Unemployment Numbers Are No Reason To Cheer - from The Economic Collapse Website

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:36:00 +0000

By reading this article, it is just wondering why the US government are still mentionning that the economy is recovering and still try to make believe people that everything is getting better. Here is the other side of the story, article posted on The Economic Collapse website.

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The U.S. government is telling us that the unemployment rate fell all the way down to 9.0% in January. Should we all cheer? Is it now going to be a lot easier to find a job? Has the economy finally turned around? Are happy days here again? Well, it is a good thing to have a positive attitude, but the truth is that there is just not much to cheer about when you take a closer look at the recent unemployment numbers. First of all, the U.S. economy only added 36,000 jobs in January. Economists had been expecting an increase of about 145,000 jobs, and an increase of 150,000 jobs per month is necessary just to keep up with population growth. So why did the unemployment rate go down? Well, the government says that over half a million Americans suddenly dropped out of the labor force in January. That doesn't make a lot of sense, but this is how the government calculates their numbers. So what happened to those 500,000 Americans? Did they all win the lottery? Have they all become independently wealthy? Did they all die? No, the vast majority of them are still around and the vast majority of them still desperately need jobs. It is just that the government does not count them as "looking for work" anymore.

It would be great if the employment situation in America actually was getting better. All the time people send me absolutely heartbreaking stories about what they have had to endure in this economy. Soon I hope to share some of those stories with you all. It is hard to try to describe the absolute horror that many Americans are going through right now.

People would like to believe that things are going to get better, but unfortunately that is just not going to be the case. The government can try to massage the numbers to make them look better, but the truth is that the tens of millions of American families that are deeply suffering right now are not fooled.

The following are 10 statistics that reveal that the latest unemployment numbers from the government are no reason to cheer....

#1 According to CNBC, economists were expecting the U.S. economy to add 145,000 jobs during January. Obviously the 36,000 figure was a huge disappointment.

#2 Approximately 150,000 jobs need to be added to the economy each month just to keep up with population growth.

#3 The government jobs report also indicated that 504,000 Americans "dropped out of the labor force" in January. That may make the unemployment numbers look better, but the truth is that the vast majority of those 500,000 Americans still need incomes and still need jobs.

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The Story of our Unslavement - Sovereign Life Blog

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:13:00 +0000

Here is a very interesting video from Sovereign Life blog (brought by Freedomain Radio and Think Twice Productions 2010). It is a very philosophical point of view, as I LOVE them!

I especially love one of the image towards the end, when we see some western government buildings as ruins to be discovered in the future, as part of ancient civilization to study as we study ancient civilizations today. Very inspiring!

The Story of our Unslavement

No more comments to add, just enjoy the video!

Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About - by Kevin Trudeau

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:14:00 +0000

Good day everyone,

Someone from my surrounding proposed me to read a book (title in this post's headline) about natural cures lately. This is a 500+ pages book. I will share with you that I have literally absorbed every single word of this book!

Furthermore, it awakened within a very strong passion about health, nutrition, natural cures (yes they exist) and help me better understand in a broader way the core reasons why we are so sick in our industrialized world and why the masses are so brainwashed about pills for curing everything and everytime.

To make it absolutely simple and condensed, Kevin Trudeau explains in details the 4 core reasons why we are so sick and became unhealthy over the past few decades. Nothing is really new under the sun (for the ones who read about this subject) but is very well resumed as per the following:

1) Our bodies are highly intoxicated with toxins accumulated and compounded over the years (pollution, chemicals in processed food, etc.);

2) Our bodies are nutritionally deficient (food is today depleted of vitamins, minerals, etc.);

3) We are bombarded by electromagnetic fields such as wireless networks, satellite signals from space, HDTV, cell phones, etc.) and

4) We live in a high stress environment (job performance, lack of sleep, etc.) which contribute to shift our body from an alkaline to an acidic condition.

The book extensively talks about these subjects in details, absolutely educative!

The VERY interesting portion of the book is that Kevin Trudeau talks about the scientific and documented facts that our body become literally a self-healing machine if we simply give our bodies the conditions to work properly (detoxification, proper nutrition, etc.). Our body is design to cure itself and is able to eradicate and get rid of a whole lot of diseases (or sometimes should be called symptoms or conditions), even many cancers without radiation or chemotherapy!

There is a complete chapter entirely dedicated about what should be done to prevent and help your body self-healing from common diseases or conditions. Kevin Trudeau is not a doctor himself (he is not biased by the sick-care industry) but he has extensively researched and compiled references and documentations to support these recommendations and he has also consulted thousands of alternative health practitioners around the world.

There are other subjects that Kevin is talking about in his book such as how he is fighting against government agencies such as the FDA and exposing their horror stories, how this information (natural cures) is being kept suppressed or tightly controlled to protect profits from big pharmas and the fast-food industry, how far and deep manipulation is being used with advertising to brainwash the masses, etc.

Along with many other health freedom fighters I support, I decided to become a member of his website (paid membership and there is a VERY good reason why it is not free...) to support what Kevin is doing and also to access to more natural cures, products evaluation, recommended health practitioners around the world and further expand my general knowledge for my very own personal health and my close ones.

Click here to access NaturalCures.com website.

I strongly encourage you to become a member of his website as well! You will find a whole world of information that you would never suspected it exist and this information will never be seen on TV!

Kevin Trudeau is using his personal wealth and his businesses to further expand and share information, educate people and exposing what we all should know about: natural cures that are available, working and help you get back our health the natural way!

David Icke And John Lennon - We All Shine On (From Mind Prison To Paradise)

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:41:00 +0000

Good Saturday morning everyone!

This video from David Icke will probably resonate only for the ones who are in an spiritual awakening process. No judgement, no moral here, just personal observation.

For some people, David Icke is just a crazy guy who speaks absurdities and none sense. For others, it makes perfect sense. For some, they feel in between and are both intrigue and curious to explore what he has to say.

In my opinion, David Icke is brilliantly making the connection between the system or our society as we know it AND our level on awareness. It's a little like saying he is connecting the dots between our spirituality and the conspiracies around us. Hard to figure out? It is at first view. But more I explore these things by myself, more it makes sense.

As I mention on this blog, we feel we are seeing more ugly and the bads around us. But there is another way to look at all this: we are in a transition period, the current and present world and system still want to survive at all cost, but is slowly but surely crumbling. But at the same time, a new world is slowly emerging, another level of awareness is being unfold everywhere on the planet.

Make you own investigation, make your own research, make your own reading, dig it up yourself. Every awakening soul on this planet (and there are more and more) is building and making his/her own new path to shine and light in the darkness that is still surrounding us.

The following video is a very good overview about what Davic Icke is speaking about for the last 20 years or so.

Click here to view the 14 minute video.

Enjoy!

"Black Friday": Madness of a Lost Society

noreply@blogger.com (yanf) — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:58:00 +0000

Good Sunday morning,

Here is an interesting video from Forbidden Knowledge TV. I feel really sorry for the people wo are simply not aware of what they are doing, how insane it has become. No more comment to add.

Enjoy!

Click here to watch this 4 minute video