Yer Blues

Ask a Republican

Ask a Republican - Scooter/Limbaugh/Coulter

I Believe

Richard Martin (R-Ohio) Campaign Ad - I Believe

more hilarious vids here

this guy is too funny!

Chosen Ones

The 'Chosen Ones' Are Coming

Sue Bradley
March, 2008
RaidersNewsNetwork.com

"And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst." Luke 23:45

"The secret power of lawlessness is already at work"
II Thess. 2:7

There have been an extraordinary number of events in recent weeks which have placed the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, in the media spotlight. In Rome, on March 11 2008, Fra' Matthew Festing, 58, an Englishman, became the 79th Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, elected by the Council Complete of State (the Order’s electoral body). He succeeds Fra’ Andrew Bertie, 78th Grand Master (1988-2008), who died on 7 February.

Belgium, the small country between France and the Netherlands, is also the home of the European Union, a supercomputer known as 'the Beast,' and a lesser known but very elite mind control operation called the Janus Group which is based within NATO headquarters there.

In earlier times, Nimrod was Eannus, the god with two faces, and later became known to the Romans as Janus. Is it significant that within the conspiratorial fringe, William F. Buckley was code named "Janus?" Or is it that William F. Buckley was also a very prominent member of the Knights of Malta?

Is it possible that others of the global elite are sending cryptic signals to signal a transition? What else is known about the Knights of Malta?

Orwellian Ubiquitous Computing

Orwellian Ubiquitous Computing May Build Ultimate Surveillance Society

Old-Thinker News | May 26, 2008

By Daniel Taylor

"...just by walking down the street you could be subject to a personal biometric system, you could be scanned by the gateway of the transit system, there could be something embedded in the street or in the flooring beneath you... you could be touching other tangible interfaces in the environment around you... the lamp posts and the other features of the streetscape could have informational services... and last but not least there's the surveillance element, there's a UAV, a robotic helicopter which is also surveying the cityscape and communicating with all of these devices... This is really what I mean by a transformation of the relationship between user and device. This person is not a user anymore in any real sense of the English world, they are a subject."

It may seem like a vision of a distant science fiction world, but this scenario laid out by Adam Greenfield, author of "Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing", could be just around the corner. In fact, at this very moment in South Korea an entire city, a "U-city", is being built that utilizes ubiquitous technology. It had it's first test run in March of last year. Several other countries are currently planning, or are currently building cities modeled around South Korea's U-city.

What exactly is Ubiquitous Computing?

An "Everyware" world, as Adam Greenfield calls it, is a world in which computers are embedded and merged seamlessly everywhere in the environment. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags communicate their position and other information constantly in a vast network. Everyday objects become "searchable" as if they were part of the interconnected world wide web. Surveillance in an "Everyware" world is perfected to a degree that is unimaginable. Scientific management of people and the environment we inhabit becomes possible, and marketers' ultimate dreams come true.

Watch this clip as Adam Greenfield explains ubiquitous computing (skip ahead to 1:30 to hear his explanation)

-cont.

Flying Fish

Fast flying fish glides by ferry

The flying fish takes to the air

Some remarkable footage of a flying fish has been captured by a TV crew filming off the southern tip of Japan.

It is claimed to be one of the longest recorded flights of this acrobatic animal.

The fish was completely airborne for 45 seconds. This beats one previous, impressive report from an American researcher in the 1920s of 42 seconds.

-cont. @ bbc

Lust Telepathy

Lust Telepathy: An Unexplored Psychological Phenomenon (Poll)

Dr. Belisa Vranich

During the first rip-your-clothes-off phase of love, psychologist and author Dr. Helen Fisher describes lust as equal to drug addiction--specifically an addiction to amphetamines, as shown by actual brain scans. Hopeless romantics like me are both intrigued and saddened to learn that the crazy-in-love phase could be pinpointed in the brain as equaling something as plebeian as snorting a bag of cocaine. Classic psychology explains that the "merging" feeling--the well-sung "losing yourself in another" moment--is something that resembles the feeling infants have of being connected to their mothers, their gaze ("mirroring") being an intrinsic part of the development of the self.

A topic that has not been discussed is the hyper-attunement between couples that leads them to feel almost telepathically connected. When it's one-sided, it's similar to referential thinking, and can seem psychotic ("That song was telling me to call you"). When it's mutual, it creates a bond between two people who believe that there is something truly magical, even fated, about their meeting.

This feeling of being so intensely connected that you know what the other is thinking (or thinking of them at the exact moment they were thinking of you) is what I refer to as "telepathic lust." It primes the couple for the next phase of love when hormones quell and sanity returns. However, the "uncanny" similarities remain as stories that keep the couple attached. This "we were meant to be" feeling can help them get through the arguments about daily life that are inevitable--or, in the case of "love addicts" (who only remain for the initial "high" time), it adds to disillusionment since the significant other is supposed to be able to continue "reading" her or his mind.

-cont. @ HuffPo

Immoral Hazard

Immoral Hazard

By Stephen Lendman

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summation:

Direst forecasts have it in its early innings with the worst of things ahead. Only in the fullness of time will we know, but some things are clear. None of this happened by chance. Nor should it have in the first place. A combination of financial malpractice, outright fraud, and greed are to blame. The same mistakes keep getting repeated. The costs keep going higher. Sooner or later they matter, and some day it'll be too late to fix them. Some day may be closer than smart money folks think. Stay tuned, be cautious, and ignore Fed Chairmen and politicians promising miracles. If things were sound and improving, they wouldn't have to keep reminding us.

Chousing

Terminus of orbis terrarum ut nos teneo is

CHOUSING

By John Galt

May 20, 2008

Ontario,CA Homeless Tent City

“Chousing”

A word of several meanings but for the purposes of one of my economic rantings and ravings it is the solution to the housing crisis that most of us have long been seeking and found to become a reality in many an urban an environment. The problem with the perpetually homeless (we called them “bums” in the old days) has been around since America was born. But the newly homeless, those losing their homes in the “contained” housing crisis are another story. The American people got a great dose of this new reality in CNN’s recent housing crisis special but that’s just a taste. The problem has been moving into communities where the crisis is most severe and this solution I propose will both provide an economic and practical solution to the housing crisis our country finds itself in.

As one might expect the photographs in this article of tent cities are exactly what America has been crying out for. During the Great Depression, we called them “Hoovervilles” where tin, cardboard and scrap wood was slapped together in vacant, often undesirable locations that were not fit for families to be raised but provided shelter from the elements that the over-extended religious community could not. There was no government safety net then and in reality that net is about as viable as using silly string to catch Wile E. Coyote and the anvil after they were dropped from 30,000 feet. The problem is that like any plan, bureaucrats are involved and as the housing crisis expands and cripples our economy they will not have the money nor capacity to deal with the problems.

St. Petersburg, FL Homeless Tent City

Chousing is not what you might think. The term for my purposes is derived from the combination of the ‘tent’ or housing unit and the nation of manufacture, China. Thus “Chousing” is the new term to describe the development and it’s only a matter of time before starving realtors, developers and banksters jump on the bandwagon who seek to expand the Chousing projects and profit from a lot of the misfortune they originally created. To help these rookies in the concept of tents, here are some models for the developers to ponder and ideas for locations.

The problem with the developments you see in the photographs above is a lack of planning. There are no neighborhood associations, no taxable city services and worse the community restroom arrangements while a cost saving feature can often result in some rather disgusting results. Alas, that’s a cross the residents will have to bear after all, since it was their fault that they didn’t invest in the stock market like Cramerica told them to and lose just 70% of their plans instead of buying homes and losing 100%.

The urban Chondominium Project (CHOP for short) could be developed with relatively low overhead and contained within a two acre complex. The abandoned and incomplete shopping centers throughout Florida provide an ideal location as the commercial developers will be in bankruptcy soon anyways and the banksters will look at an opportunity for fifteen year mortgages on tents as an opportunity to revive the subprime markets. Chondominiums will house at least two families and while the original design of the tents does not develop separate areas for multiple families, that can be accomplished with this simple “Instant Wall” for sale at the Dollar Tree or Big Lots.

Once the construction loans are complete and the local housing inspectors and appraisers bribed off, finding residents should be no problem as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will buy anything now (I wonder how the DHMBS is working out-Dog House Mortgage Backed Securities). After residents start to move in, noise ordinances will have to be established and all units declared no smoking zones for insurance purposes. There should be some abandoned cars nearby that will serve as great locations for smokers unless the repo man grabs them first.

Next comes the Family Assigned Residency Tents (FARTS) which will cater to single families who can afford the upgrade from the Chondominiums. FARTS will give people a taste of that half million dollar home they lost on their fifty thousand per year income without the overhead (literally) and the property tax expenses that came with it.

read the rest @ Shenandoah

Bad Donkey

Mexican Donkey Jailed For Ornery Behavior

-HuffPo

Frogs Swarm

Frogs Swarmed in China Before the Quake--Now It's California
18-May-2008

California and China Toads

In the days prior to the gigantic earthquake that devastated Sichuan province in China, odd swarms of frogs were seen in the streets of cities in the area, and have subsequently been identified as unusual animal behavior of the type that is thought by some geologists to precede earthquakes. Now it has developed that similar frog appearances have been taking place in Bakersfield, California for about two weeks, and nobody is sure why. Strange swarms of frogs also appeared before the 6.9 Loma Prieta Earthquake in October of 1989.

-cont. @ www.unknowncountry.com

18 Months

Prince Charles:

Eighteen months to stop climate change disaster

By Andrew Pierce -www.telegraph.co.uk

The Prince of Wales has warned that the world faces a series of natural disasters within 18 months unless urgent action is taken to save the rainforests.

A chameleon in a Madagascar rainforest. Prince Charles has warned of 'disaster' if urgent steps are not taken to protect the forests

In one of his most out-spoken interventions in the climate change debate, he said a £15 billion annual programme was required to halt deforestation or the world would have to live with the dire consequences.

"We will end up seeing more drought and starvation on a grand scale. Weather patterns will become even more terrifying and there will be less and less rainfall," he said.

"We are asking for something pretty dreadful unless we really understand the issues now and [the] urgency of them." The Prince said the rainforests, which provide the "air conditioning system for the entire planet", releasing water vapour and absorbing carbon, were being lost to poor farmers desperate to make a living.

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Ballard Street

Olbermann Sets Record Straight

Olbermann To Bush: "This War Is Not About You...Shut The Hell Up!"

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | May 14, 2008

Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his angriest, most blistering Special Comment yet, aimed squarely at his favorite target: President Bush. Olbermann was responding to Bush's claim that he had given up golf in honor of the Iraq war — and his assertion that a Democratic president withdrawing from Iraq would "eventually lead to another attack on the United States" — a statement Olbermann called "ludicrous, infuriating, holier-than-thou and most importantly bone-headedly wrong." Olbermann continued in that vein for a full 12 minutes, frequently raising his voice and spitting out his words in disgust.

Olbermann turned Bush's reference to "cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives" around and threw it back at him, saying that such killers were "those in -- or formerly in -- your employ, who may yet be charged some day with war crimes." It didn't get any milder — saying that, to Bush, "freedom is just a brand name," and pointing out that al Qaeda in Iraq was a result of the invasion: "Terrorism inside Iraq is your creation, Mr. Bush!" Olbermann also criticized Bush's statement that he was "told by people" that there were WMDs in Iraq: "People? What people?... Mr. Bush, you destroyed the evidence that contradicted the resolution you jammed down the Congress's throat, the way you jammed it down the nation's throat."

Olbermann saved his most vicious scorn for Bush's no-golf pledge. "Golf, sir? Golf sends the wrong signal to the grieving families of our men and women butchered in Iraq?...You, Mr. Bush, let their sons and daughters be killed. Sir, to show your solidarity with them you gave up golf?" He then went on to lambaste Bush for failing to keep to that pledge — ostensibly made in August 2003 — and showing photos of Bush playing golf in October 2003. "Mr. Bush, I hate to break it to you 6 1/2 years after you yoked this nation and your place in history to the wrong war, in the wrong place, against the wrong people," said Olbermann (using slightly odd math), "But the war in Iraq is not about you....It is not, Mr. Bush, about your grief when American after American comes home in a box." The directive to "Shut the hell up!" came soon after.

Watch the video or read the full transcript here.

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Keith Olbermann - 'Countdown'

President Bush has resorted anew to the sleaziest fear-mongering and mass manipulation of an administration and public life dedicated to realizing the lowest of our expectations...

Hillary’s Downfall

Spicy Health

Boost Your Health With Spices

Source: http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?s=5900126

SATURDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Adding spices such as basil, oregano, garlic, curry, and rosemary to your diet can benefit your health, according to Suzanna Zick, a naturopathic physician and researcher at the University of Michigan Health System.

"Adding herbs and spices can help you maintain a healthy weight. Plus, they can help prevent certain cancers, and even lower blood pressure, control blood sugar and improve cardiovascular health," Zick said in a prepared statement.

By replacing traditional seasonings like sugar, salt and fat with herbs and spices, you can improve your overall health -- along with the flavor of your food.

Zick has the following 10 tips for picking the best spices for your overall health:

via: thepowerhour.com

Solar 'Volcano'

'Jaw Dropping' Solar Eruption
13-May-2008 -unknowncountry.com

Astonished scientists have never seen anything like it. -

Click for larger image. Courtesy SOHO Observatory.

A solar eruption has appeared that scientists are describing as "jaw dropping" and "amazing." The activity, on the sun's eastern limb, has the appearance of a gigantic volcano and may be a precursor to a major sunspot. For some months now, solar scientists have been expecting the new solar max to begin. In January, there was a reverse polarity sunspot that usually heralds the beginning of a solar max, but it was followed by little activity, and none that had the signature of the new cycle. In 2006, NASA scientists predicted that the upcoming cycle would be one of the most intense on record, and it appears to be starting off with the proverbial bang.
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Capitalism Must Die

Gravediggers of the world unite! Capitalism Must Die….

“What this means is that corporations and those who run them cannot stop exploiting resources and amassing wealth until they have… .I cannot finish this sentence, because the truth is that can never stop; like cancer, they can only continue to expand until they kill the host.”

–Derrick Jensen

By Jason Miller

5/9/08

(Perhaps my profane words will offend, but in light of the fact that we are in a race to eradicate capitalism before it renders the Earth uninhabitable, I don’t give a fuck).

Yes. It’s another anti-capitalist rant by Jason Miller. Big surprise! I’m the associate editor for Cyrano’s Journal Online, the anti-capitalist tool. We’re not big fans of free market ideology and its tacit socioeconomic license to rape, pillage and plunder.

Here’s a novel idea—if you don’t like my diatribes against the predominatingly rotten-to the-core system that ensures the most despicable human beings wield the most power, don’t read them! And you relentless “keepers of the faith,” dazzle us with more of your intellectually dishonest arguments supporting capitalism. I’m quite familiar with the mental gymnastics you do to buttress a heinous system that rationalizes and “legitimizes” your greed, ruthlessness, selfishness, speciesism, hyper-individualism, exploitative and abusive tendencies, and the wholesale commodification of the Earth and its sentient inhabitants. It is obvious to all but the most self-deluded that capitalism is destroying the planet and us. So go ahead and jerk us off with your inane apologetics “validating” capitalism. And then go fuck yourselves.

http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=702

What it is...

Liar

Liar, Liar

Source: Dalhousie University

How can we tell who’s lying, who’s not? New research out of Stephen Porter’s Forensic Psychology Lab at Dalhousie University determines the face will betray the deceiver’s true emotion, but not in the stereotypical ways we think.

Newswise — In making a public appeal for the safe return of his missing wife, Michael White broke down in tears and sobbed.

“My wife is a good person, never hurts anybody. If she’s out there and you see me or you see this, just stay out there and we’ll find you,’ said the tearful husband, sitting on the sofa in his living room in Edmonton after his pregnant wife Liana White disappeared in July 2005. Canadians watching his plea couldn’t help but be moved by the plight of the distressed man.

Three days later, flashes of anger broke through his sadness when talking with reporters. He said he was so frustrated with the police investigation that he was going to go and find his wife himself. He led volunteer searchers directly to her body in a ditch on the outskirts of the city, and was immediately arrested by police.

He’d been lying all along. Michael White was charged and convicted with second-degree murder and committing an indignity to a dead body.

How can we tell who’s lying, who’s not? New research out of Stephen Porter’s Forensic Psychology Lab at Dalhousie University determines the face will betray the deceiver’s true emotion, but not in the stereotypical ways we think. It’s not the shifty eyes or sweaty brow or an elongated nose (à la Pinocchio) the lie detector should look for. Instead, other elements of a liar’s face will give them away – “cracking” briefly and allowing displays of true emotion to leak on to the face. In fact, when Porter and his team analyzed White’s plea frame by frame, they found hints of anger and disgust in his face, not noticed by most of the supportive public.

“The face and its musculature are so complex—so much more complex than anywhere else in our external bodies,” says Leanne ten Brinke, a graduate student in experimental psychology who collaborated on the new research. “There are some muscles in the face you can’t control … and those muscles won’t be activated in the absence of genuine emotion—you just can’t do it.”

http://www.newswise.com

The Lords of Capital Decree

The Lords of Capital Decree Mass Death by Starvation

Glen Ford
Counter Currents
May 1, 2008

“No amount of emergency aid is sufficient to make up for the wild price rises that have already occurred.”

Fidel Castro called biofuels “genocide,” and he was right. And there can be no question as to the identity of the perpetrators of this global genocide: the Lords of Capital that formulate the foreign and domestic policy of the United States. That policy calls for 20 million acres of corn from states like Iowa to be converted from food to fuel. As should have been expected, such a massive diversion almost immediately pushed up the price of all other basic foodstuffs - a global disaster made quick and easy by the fact that, over the past several decades, planetary food production has been taken over by agribusiness - the speculative human parasites that control how food is bought and sold, and to whom, and for what purpose. These Lords of Capital are killers on a mass scale.

“Hot” money has totally distorted the “marketplace” for life-sustaining goods, causing millions of the desperately poor in scores of countries to take to the streets. “In less than a year,” writes the Guardian newspaper, in Britain, “the price of wheat has risen 130 per cent, soya by 87 per cent and rice by 74 per cent.”

These are nothing less than crimes against humanity, and cannot help but destroy the lives of millions who are already at the very edge of the precipice.

“The Lords of Capital have imposed a triage of death by starvation on the planet.”

-cont.

Live Long & Prosper

-from The Stephanie Miller Show Monday, May 5, 2008

A doctor in France has encouraged his countrymen and countrywomen to belch, fart, and sweat more in order to help prevent cancer. Isn't belching, farting, and sweating what the French do best? Hear from a French government official in today's Stand Up News!

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Very special thanks to Cassandra Peterson (a.k.a. Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark) for joining us in studio today to hang out and talk about all things politics and pop culture. Be sure to listen to her via the link below!

Cassandra Peterson Interview

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Purified Mind

IFISEEUS Imminent Fulfillment, Immortality, Safety, Empowerment, Equality, Unity, Society "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Henry David Thoreau

The Potential Power of the Purified Mind By Michael Goodspeed and Michael Armstrong Most spiritual aspirants have some familiarity with the concept of acceptance. The word permeates much of the spiritual literature as a corollary to the themes of "surrender" and "forgiveness." The popular prayer/adage "I must accept what I cannot change and change what I cannot accept" seems a noble and reasonable policy in this tumultuous and/or indifferent Universe. Bad things happen to good people and we accept it because, we tell ourselves, it's all part of God's great plan, it's "for our own good," and in any event, we don't have any other choice. Acceptance is surely a valid mental exercise insofar as it helps one experience life in a manner that is more lighthearted and friendly. We can't change other people, we can't undo the past, and we can't predict every trial and travail looming over the horizon. But what if man's tacit "acceptance" of his general helplessness and victim hood in a dangerous, troubled world is itself a major barrier to doing something about it? From the day we are born, we are taught to accept the unacceptable as a matter of course. We all learn quickly that illness, disease, injuries, pain, trauma, aging, loss, and finally death are a fair price to pay for the privilege of "living." And neither scientific, nor most religious or spiritual literature ever contradicts these expectations. Mainstream biology and medicine tell us that we are mechanistic organisms born by chance and destined to die in a hostile, disconnected universe. And both institutional religions and most spiritual philosophies treat "spirituality" as a mere anesthetic to the unavoidable human outcomes of suffering and death. If you view suffering and dying as a problem, you are supposed to be comforted by the promise of an afterlife in which one will be free from the endless heartaches and sorrows endemic to an earthly existence. Indeed, many religious and "spiritual" thought systems glorify suffering as a purifying force and/or badge of honor that will only increase the rewards one reaps in the eternal hereafter. So where can one turn if one is unable or unwilling to "accept" these seemingly immutable premises that define and limit the human condition? Improbable as it may seem, it can be said that NONE of the institutions, either secular or religious, that exist mainly to relieve human suffering have ever proposed how man may be uplifted from his damaged, limited state to one of true empowerment. Although the word empower is used casually in political discourse, most often to describe the government's dispensation of "civil rights" to certain individuals, to be truly empowered means literally to have absolute authority over one's own destiny. It is commonly accepted that such a thing is not plausible, possible, nor even desirable for mere human beings. In fact, both religious and governmental authorities relentlessly command us to acquiesce personal authority in favor of submission to some "higher power," be it earthly or "divine," for our own best interests. And since our helplessness seems confirmed in every facet of human experience, this call to submit goes largely unchallenged. In a highly religious world, those who aren't satisfied with their personal reality or the reality of the world frequently turn to God for an answer. People pray for everything from personal health to the safety of loved ones to financial prosperity to world peace. But in a world dominated by warfare, poverty, disease, and every conceivable form of injustice, it seems that these "prayers" are rarely if ever answered. The only logical conclusion one can come to is either A) prayers are never answered because no creator nor agency exists to hear them; or B) the practice of prayer by most human beings is misguided, because they are working with incorrect concepts of "God." So far—in the history of the world—the world’s religions have neither been able to inspire their god to do anything substantive about the “human condition”, nor have they done much of any significance themselves -- except to offer “coping” mechanisms! The “positive” coping mechanisms offered in the English speaking western world consist of 4 or 5 things: Temporary mystical experience, quasi-fellowship, quasi-miracles, prayer and meditation, some time oriented structure to their lives, and finally promises and hope. One is reminded of the popular axiom, “Hope makes a good breakfast but a lousy dinner”. Down through the ages into our time, religions have also promulgated every unflattering and insulting concept of god in the spectrum of the highest human value system. Right along side of being merciful, loving and gracious, God has been portrayed as inconsistent, mean, petty, vengeful, violent, vicious, unforgiving, dominating, demanding, unreasonable, alien (“who can know they ways” and “thy ways are past understanding), and cruel (he will be burning humans for ever and ever in some literal fiery hell). Books have been written to show that this is even an unwarranted interpretation of New Testament passages. The God of religion has in fact come to represent everything that could be characterized as anti-God. So pervasive are these imageries of God that, throughout much of the world, the phrase "Holy Warrior" goes unrecognized as an oxymoron. Countless millions of devotees have been willing to burn themselves and others at the stake in concordance with what they view as directives from God. Due to this overt and seemingly endless lunacy, more human beings today than ever before are skeptical of religion. ("Religion has made atheists of many honest men" – David R. Hawkins). Yet many choose not to abandon their inner call to spirit, seeking instead a spiritual thought system that is more benevolent and constructive to life. In the United States, countless bestsellers have been written on spirituality, with authors such as Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williams, and Deepak Chopra, et al. preaching a message of forgiveness, "acceptance," and unconditional love. Whereas much religion instructs the faithful to bow to an angry God, most proponents of what might be called "the new age" teach that the Universe is friendly—if friendliness is consonant with being born into an insane, troubled, dangerous world under a sentence of death--, and that happiness is achieved by simply existing in the present moment and “surrendering” to what is. In this thought system, the problems of the world and one's life are illusory – they exist only in our minds due to limited and/or false perception. Undeniably, this approach seems to be a brighter, better alternative to the darker and grimmer aspects of religion and religious concepts of god, and may be helpful to those who seek greater equanimity and inner peace. But the questions must be asked: Have these new approaches gone far enough? Are they correct (consonant with reality) enough? Can they succeed at truly resolving the human condition, and provide every human being with what they really want and need? From our perspective, the teachings of Jesus, when correctly interpreted and free from the selective coloring of religious dogmatists, provide a clear instructive path to a state of empowerment, i.e. a condition where human beings can change current “reality" for the benefit of all. Even physical death can be transcended for truly empowered individuals – on this point Jesus was particularly explicit. For those who seek a concept of God that is both benevolently healing, consistently loving and sane, any other point of view can only be described at best as inadequate, at worst as destructive. But in our purportedly "Christian" nation, the fundamental tenets of Jesus' teachings are barely discussed and almost never believed, even by the most devoutly Christian "faithful." In fact, one can argue that institutional Christian doctrine “reads right around the best parts” and has over centuries come to preach the precise OPPOSITE of Jesus' intended message to humanity. In the Gospel of John, we are told that "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life." But within traditional Christian denominations, physical death is not viewed as something that lowly human beings can entirely bypass because there is always a hiatus. The "everlasting life" promised by Jesus--the destiny of righteous "souls" that have been judged favorably by God—is only delivered after death. The Father for whom Jesus spoke, however, bore no resemblance to the capricious, schizophrenic entity of the Old Testament and other sacred writings. Jesus could not have been more clear that the Father was not in the business of dispensing judgement and wrath upon his own creation, nor was it God's will for human beings to suffer and die: "…as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he will….For neither does the Father judge any man, but he has given all judgment unto the Son…Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that hears my message, and believes him that sent me, has eternal life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed out of death into life…." A large part of healing may have to start with spiritual sanity, conceptual clarity and correctness. It might be stated that Jesus' primary intention was to change man's concept of God as being both separate from, and superior to, His creation. To the disciple Phillip when challenged to “show us the father”, Jesus replied—no doubt with frustration--, “If you have understood me, you have understood the father.” In the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, Jesus states, "The Kingship of Heaven is within you and without you, and any man who knows himself shall find it." This instruction and others by Jesus seem quite explicit – Heaven is not a "place" that man's "soul" travels to after death, nor is it a realm to which only a few are granted entrance after a favorable judgment. The Kingship of Heaven can be accessed IMMINENTLY, and all anyone need do to find it is "know himself." The teachings of Jesus also seem congruent with the revolutionary idea of a "holographic universe." A hologram is a single entity that is made of many individual units, and within each unit is the essence of the whole. In this analogy, where Jesus states that he can accomplish nothing in the absence of the Father, we might interpret this to mean that God Himself represents the totality of unfallen human consciousness. When Jesus performed miracles, he insisted it was not him doing it, but the Father, yet Jesus told his disciples, "Greater things than these will you do." The message is clearly that God is NOT separate from human beings – in a state of perfect unity and fellowship, all the power in the universe is available to man, and in this condition of empowerment, nothing that the mind can imagine is impossible. The evidentiary support for these seemingly "unusual" or "extraordinary" concepts exists for anyone with the inclination and discernment to see. The feats of the psychic mind have been anecdotally demonstrated for centuries, and in recent decades, experimentally. Even a cursory examination of the evidence reveals beyond a reasonable doubt that we live in a collective consciousness, damaged and fragmented but still undeniably active. In everyday life, human beings have regular psychic experiences ranging from the profound to the seemingly mundane. Since death is the most psychically traumatizing of all experiences, it's not surprising that many of the most intense psychic intuitions explicitly forewarn of one's own expiration. In fact, many people have been able to accurately predict the precise moment of their deaths, often years in advance. One of the more jarring demonstrations of this phenomenon was given by NBA star Pistol Pete Maravich who said in a 1974 interview, "I don't want to play 10 years in the NBA and die of a heart attack at age 40." Maravich played pro ball for exactly 10 years and died of a heart attack at age 40 in 1988. In the article "When Death is Prophesied," over a dozen historical accounts were presented of similar fulfilled prophecies among everyday people. (Full story: http://www.rense.com/general58/death.htm) And the psychic abilities of animals have been demonstrated perhaps even more forcefully than those of humans. No narrow, materialistic view of reality can explain the countless reports of lost animals that traversed hundreds or even thousands of miles to return home to their families, guided only by intuition. Consider this 1971 report of a cat whose 1,600 mile journey finally led her -- bruised paws and all -- to her owners' doorstep: News Journal, Sunday July 25, 1971, Mansfield, Ohio From The Family Weekly The Love Cats Feel For People...The Journeys Their Love Inspires By Felica Ames What built-in cat radar led Clementine through endless miles of unknown country to the one house and one family in the world she was looking for? How long would it take to walk from Dunkirk, N. Y., to Denver, Col.? A cat named Clementine could tell you. It took her four paw-bruising months to make that 1,600-mile trek. But then, Clementine didn't know the way. When Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lundmark moved from Dunkirk to Denver, they left their pet black cat with neighbors because Clementine was in the family way. Once the litter was weaned, however, Clementine abandoned her brood and hit the road. Four months later an exhausted female cat appeared on the Lundmark's doorstep. There was no doubt it was Clementine, for this amazing animal was unique in another way. She had seven toes on each front paw, two white spots on her stomach and a scar on her left shoulder. Full story may be read here Innumerable such accounts are also supported by the research of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, who has demonstrated the psychic connections between humans and their pets in his book, "Dogs That Know When Their Owners are Coming Home and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals" (see http://www.sheldrake.org). Many people may accept the existence of psychic phenomena, but the full implications of these abilities have seemingly yet to register. Not only is consciousness not locally limited to the brain, not only is it capable of instantaneous communication with every other mind, it is capable of affecting physical reality in ways we can barely imagine. Consider the research of quantum physicist John Hagelin, Ph.D., who co-authored a study in Washington D.C., which showed a direct correlation between a group's practice of transcendental meditation, and a reduction of crime in their area. (For an overview of this study, see www.istpp.org/crime_prevention). We must also consider the tangible physical affects that our minds have on our own bodies – such affects are far from merely "theoretical" or "anecdotal." For instance, it is well-documented that hypnotic suggestion alone can lead directly to the formation of visible burn-blisters on human flesh. (See Handbook of Hypnotic Suggestions and Metaphors, That a human being can mentally burn his own flesh should surprise no one. According to at least one controlled study in the 1960's, the human body produces "electromagnetic radiation phenomena" when consciousness is "in a state of intensed [sic] psychosensory excitation." (See More US Government Psychic Warfare) At a more profound level, cellular biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton argues in his book "The Biology of Belief" that "our beliefs, true or false, positive or negative, affect genetic activity and actually alter our genetic code." Rather than viewing man as a helpless victim of his inherited genetic structure, Lipton has demonstrated that "genes do not in fact control our behavior, instead, genes are turned on and off by influences outside the cell." At a public presentation in Phoenix, AZ, Dr. Lipton and author Gregg Braden presented a "rare video" of "a baseball-sized tumor" visible on a sonogram shrinking and disappearing as practitioners of a form of Qigong chanted a simple phrase. Or consider the experience of Michael Crichton while at Harvard U. After a year spent in the coronary wing of the Harvard Medical Center, he began asking the patients why they had their heart attack. Expecting the answer to be along the lines of too much smoking, drinking or bad diet, he was shocked that virtually all of the answers were couched in personal avoidance terms -- one man suggested that he had a heart attack because his wife resented his promotion at work. Another husband said that his wife was going to leave him. These answers indicate that their minds or mindsets had triggered the attacks. In fact, Crichton himself concluded, "We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us." The smattering of anecdotes listed above is only a bare bone glimpse of the burgeoning and increasingly mainstream fields of psychic, mind/body, and mind over matter research. And of course, not everyone is happy with this development. Self-styled "skeptics" of the so-called paranormal and/or religious/spiritual beliefs insist that it is DANGEROUS for human beings to entertain abilities and phenomena that official science does not yet recognize as real. They can point to endless charlatans and/or self-deceived individuals – psychic mediums, spoon-benders, dowsers, etc. – who make paranormal claims unsupported by facts as proof that the public must be disabused of belief in the “supernatural” for their own good. And "skeptics" can point to "Christian scientists" and other religious devotees who endanger their own lives and the lives of their children by relying on "prayer" (or their interpretation of prayer) as an antidote to sickness and disease. But any person with a genuinely skeptical approach must also consider the dangers of NOT exploring the mind frontier, and all its awesome untapped potentials. Consider the following warning from Colonel Dolan M. McKelvy in the 1988 USAF-funded scientific study, "Psychic Warfare: Exploring the Mind Frontier." In no uncertain terms does the author espouse the need for human beings to recognize the REALITY of the psychic mind’s powers and all its potential uses, both helpful and destructive: "Man's greatest potential remains a prisoner of man. Vast untapped mental capabilities create an entirely new battlefield dimension which, if ignored, pose a threat to self and country more serious than nuclear weapons. This threat starts from within. Our fears and cynical attitudes towards psychic capabilities make us our own worst enemies…. Exploring the mind frontier is essential and the key to successful exploration is a greater psychic awareness. The mind is rich in unfathomed resources ripe for exploration, a limitless source of treasures for advancing all mankind, and a serious threat to those who ignore its potential. We must overcome our psychic inhibitions, stop denying the existence of paranormal events, and start trying instead to understand the nature of these phenomena….Report When Jesus implored mankind toward unity and lovingness, he was speaking not only for unity among all human beings, but an INTERNAL unity for each individual. "The Kingship of Heaven is within you and without you, and any man who knows himself shall find it." For centuries, religious dogmatists have persuaded man that he is separate from and inferior to the Father, intrinsically flawed, judged as guilty and sentenced to die. The "enlightenment" of science -- the purported best alternative to murderous dogma -- has failed at resolving man's ultimate helplessness. In order to reach our true psychic, spiritual, human potential, we must have the courage to challenge our own belief systems, to abandon those beliefs that debase man's worth, and to embrace only those that support "the sustenance and enhancement of life." The real "good news" conveyed by Jesus is that we need NOT accept all the tragedies, heartaches, and deprivations that have defined human experience, that we are entitled to receive what every human being wants, the "'IFISEEUS' package of Imminent Fulfillment, Immortality, Safety, Equality, Empowerment, Unity, and Society." Bertrand Russell said, "Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones." According to Jesus, to be satisfied with bad beliefs is to condemn oneself – and all of mankind -- to an existence typified by suffering and ending in death. But Jesus also stated that a way out exists, that "My yoke is pleasant and my burden light." Very few of us have acquired the correct beliefs--if we had the world we live in would be transformed forever. But we can all begin to believe that the truth is friendly and, when properly understood, will never betray us or leave us wanting for anything. Was this the choice Jesus offered mankind during his time on Earth? Roughly 2,000 years later, does all the Universe still wait for us to finally choose correctly? For more complete background on the statements of Jesus concerning life see Life Verses

Michael Goodspeed is a freelance journalist who lives in Portland, Oregon. His e-book "Is the Universe Electric?' is available from Mikamar Publishing (http://www.mikamar.biz/thunderbolts-product.htm) Michael Armstrong also living in Portland, Oregon, is a long-time student of "ancient catastrophism," lecturer on the Electric Universe, and publisher/producer of video and newsletter material on the science of catastrophics and the Electric Universe

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Small Wind

'Small wind' power plants are blowing strong

Climate concerns, rising utility costs, better technology, and new laws are making home units more attractive.

By Mark Clayton | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

DOVER, Mass. - On a recent sunny afternoon Bob Loebelenz pauses to gaze 72 feet into the air at the spinning blades of his wind turbine, a small "clean, free electricity" smile creasing the corners of his mouth.

While giant wind turbines that supply power to utilities sprout along ridgelines across the United States, far smaller residential wind generators, like the one Mr. Loebelenz erected in 2003 to power his suburban Boston home, are still unusual in densely populated places.

That may be changing. Across the country signs are growing that "small wind" (a category that includes wind generators geared to supply a single home) is catching on in suburban and even urban settings.

"My phone has been ringing off the hook," says Mark Durrenberger, president and founder of New England Breeze, a Hudson, Mass., wind and solar power installer.

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"The growth we're now seeing in small-wind residential in the US is impressive," says Ron Stimmel, who tracks the small-wind market for AWEA. "Advanced technology and electronics have made these units more reliable, and more states are now offering incentives to build them."

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New World Chaos

The Forces of Order Just Create More Chaos

a review of strategies, issues with the gold standard, the importance of cheap credit to game the world economic system, oil lubricates world economic system, and the overall impact on the rest of us

For the benefit of our subscribers, we thought at this juncture that it would be a good idea to review some long-term elitist strategies that have been implemented by the Illuminati as part of their evil plan to destroy our economy and our sovereignty for purposes of moving us toward globalism, free trade and a one-world government. Many things are starting to come together as we review what has occurred since Nixon took us totally off the gold standard in 1971. This was the end of our golden era of growth that started shortly after WWII and ended that dreadful day in 1971 when we were sold down the river by the same man who soiled our reputation worldwide with the Watergate scandal. During this golden era, everyone was prospering and making good money, including our vastly growing middle class, but the transnational corporations of the military-industrial complex were especially prosperous. The owners of these huge corporations used their gargantuan profits to power their plans for world government by setting up subversive trusts and foundations, by donating to major universities to gain influence over our youth, by funding their pet projects at these universities to control the path of technology and innovation and most notoriously by purchasing and funding the best politicians and the best enemies that money could buy. This enabled these arrogant sociopaths to run our country from the shadows while our Illuminist-created enemies made their benefactors rich by waging cold wars and hot wars alike to put us in a perpetual struggle for perpetual peace and democracy so that these evil elitists could make perpetual and rapacious profits.

Also during this era of growth and prosperity, inflation was kept very mild, in the 2% to 3% range, in order to support our growth (and yes, those were both official and actual inflation figures from the good old days when we at least got some truth out of our government instead of the non-stop, pathological lying we have been forced to suffer from our reprobate government officials for the past three decades). This mild inflation was the result of our adherence to a watered down version of our original gold standard that kept our money supply in check until Nixon nixed the redemption of dollars held by foreign nations in exchange for our gold, thus completely removing us from the gold standard.

But if you want to create a world economy to pave the way for world government, you need lots and lots of money and credit, and the partial gold standard was making it impossible to sufficiently increase the money supply for this purpose. That is because a lot of those new dollars would have made their way into the dollar Forex reserves of foreigners who, for various reasons such as hedging against the inflation resulting from the increased supply of money, would have attempted to redeem a goodly portion thereof for the only real money, gold, and that would have quickly drained us of our gold reserves over a very short period of time as the elitists discovered from their London Gold Poole debacle in the late 1960's. Their attempt by use of this London Gold Poole to suppress the price of gold to cover up their mishandling of the US and UK economies by flooding the market with bullion (some of which may have come from Fort Knox) resulted in a bank holiday for London banks that had been drained of their gold by voracious demand, thus creating the real potential for a run on the banks.

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