US Election: Neither Candidate Will Solve the Problem
“Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.” — David Broder “If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.” — Noam Chomsky Generally, I tend not to comment on elections, as I consider ... … Read entire article »
Physicists Say We May Be Living in a Computer Simulation
Back in 2003, Oxford professor Nick Bostrom suggested that we may be living in a computer simulation. In his paper, Bostrom offered very little science to support his hypothesis — though he did calculate the computational requirements needed to pull off such a feat. And indeed, a philosophical claim is ... … Read entire article »
Fear
If we were to pinpoint the one pervasive emotion in society today, it would be fear. People all around you are fearful of almost everything. They fear the police. They fear the IRS, ATF, TSA and all the other “alphabet police”. They fear losing their job. They fear losing their ... … Read entire article »
Anonymous: Imagine we Leak it All
Project Mayhem 2012: Dangerous Idea #1 Imagine we are Anonymous.Imagine you are Anonymous. Imagine we plant trees.Imagine we become Seed trees.Imagine we sow the world with seeds. Imagine we finally find the COURAGE needed.to BECOME THE CHANGE WE WISH TO SEE in the World. Imagine we are no longer afraid of Fear.Imagine we re ... … Read entire article »
The Dying God: The Hidden History of Western Civilization
“He who controls the past controls the future… He who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell. “History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.” — George Santayana. History as Propaganda It is commonly understood that Propaganda is usually employed to garner ... … Read entire article »
The Implosion of the U.S. is Impossible … Until the Day It Happens
All Great Catastrophes seem impossible until the day they become reality. If people took them seriously, they would act to avoid them. Did Caesar think his friend Brutus would join others one lovely day in Rome to cut him up? Did Romans think the Empire could finally fall? Did the Greatest ... … Read entire article »
John Lennon: The Last Great Anti-War Activist
“All we are saying is give peace a chance.” — John Lennon Despite the moving tributes that were paid to John Lennon’s lyrical vision of a world without war, racial or religious divisions or hunger at the conclusion of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, there’s really very little ... … Read entire article »
The Sheep Go to the Polls
The next United States presidential election is to be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. The sheep are invited to vote, that is to mark a check box next to the name of one of the shepherds designated by the sheepfold’s owner. What a privilege to be able to choose ... … Read entire article »
True Prosperity: Becoming an employee of the Universe
I love the word prosperity. Prosperity represents a fulfilling life encompassing not only material wealth but happiness and genuine fulfillment. I think of it as a state where abundance is free to flow uninhibited through all areas of one’s life. I think you could say most people long to live in ... … Read entire article »
The Politics of Fear in America: A Nation at War with Itself
“Fear is the foundation of most governments.” – John Adams. Turn on the TV or flip open the newspaper on any given day, and you will find yourself accosted by reports of government corruption, corporate malfeasance, militarized police and marauding SWAT teams. America is entering a new phase, one in which ... … Read entire article »
I Was Fooled by the War-Makers
Twenty years ago, as I was completing my freshman year in college, I was a full-blown neoconservative. Except I didn’t know it. Having concluded that I was not a leftist, I simply decided by process of elimination that I must be a Rush Limbaughian. Like most people, I was unaware that ... … Read entire article »
Democracy is Destroying Your Wealth and Freedom
Although almost every democratic country suffers from bloated government, over-regulation, heavy taxation and enormous public debts, few people see a causal connection between these problems and the democratic system itself. For many, the solution to these problems is more democracy, not less. Democracy tends to be equated by many people with ... … Read entire article »
Voting is an Exercise in Futility
“A people should know when they are conquered.” Maximus responds, “Would you, would I?” – From the movie Gladiator. One hundred years ago the American republic was overthrown and captured by financial elites and money power during the Taft and Wilson administrations, the first Republican and the second Democrat. Both the ... … Read entire article »
Lakota Sioux Nation Leaves America
America betrayed them and all Native Peoples. Throughout US history and earlier, genocide was policy. Historian Ward Churchill explained four centuries of systematic slaughter. It went on from 1492-1892. It continues today against Native culture. Churchill estimated around 100 million Native People throughout the Americas “hacked apart with axes and swords, ... … Read entire article »
Killed For Exposing Truth
He knew what was at stake. “My people are dying and I am waiting my turn,” he wrote. Maya knew that powerful forces were at work maligning his country. The 33-year-old journalist placed his own life in danger on several occasions because he wanted the world to know the truth about ... … Read entire article »
G. Edward Griffin: We Should Not Worry How to Save the System
G. Edward Griffin is a film producer, author and political lecturer. He is the founder of Freedom Force International, a libertarian-oriented activist network focused on advancing individual freedom. First released in 1994, Mr. Griffin’s best-selling financial book, The Creature from Jekyll Island, is a no-holds-barred look into the inner workings ... … Read entire article »
Science Set Free: Good News for Lumbering Robots
Three decades ago, few scientists were courageous enough to break ranks and question their own belief system. Even calling science a belief system sounded outrageous — religion is a matter of belief, science a matter of facts. The most far-seeing scientist who was willing to break ranks then, as now, ... … Read entire article »
Zombie Planet
“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.” — Colin Wilson. Society, it seems, has become less filled with life. Humanity as a whole is becoming more impotent and brain-dead by the minute, people finding meaning only in the most ... … Read entire article »
13 Major Myths of Our Time
The universe is alive and aware throughout – consisting of countless planes and species of consciousness – of which our own physical planet and species is but one manifestation… Truth is ‘objectivity’. Wrong. For the most self-evident truth of all is not the ‘objective’ existence of a universe of things or ... … Read entire article »
Herd Mentality is the Name of the Game
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde. All governments, no matter how they might appear, are made up by nothing but thieves and crooks — poisonous snakes who ... … Read entire article »