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It has been three days since the massacre in Newtown Connecticut, and more details of the shooting of 20 school children and 7 adults have been released. The absurd number of inaccuracies of the previously reported news on the massacre makes the entire American news media a complete joke. The first errors in the details reported by the American news networks on Friday the day of the shooting,were the shooter’s name, his mother’s name and where the shooter lived. It was first reported that he lived in New Jersey, and that his father was found dead in his New Jersey home. Neither of these were true. The shooter used his older brother’s identification. Police could not identify the shooter’s mother either until one day later, who he shot in the face and left dead in their Newtown home. It turned out that all the guns the shooter used were registered to his mother. Anyone must ask what kind of mother in her right mind would own a Bush Assault Rifle and four semi atomatic pistols, knowing her 20 year old son who lived with her was insane. Yet according to reports by people who knew her said she proudly announced that she and her son would practice at the gun range together.
It was first reported on Friday the day of the shooting, that all the children murdered were in Kindergarten and 5 years old. Not until today when the bodies were identified was it released by the coroner that all the murdered children were between the ages of 6 and 7 and were in the first grade. As the national media swarmed on the tragic community more inaccurate statements were made by dizzy news reporters reporting hear say and proudly acknowledging that their news rooms were monitoring Twitter and Facebook for news updates. Today is Sunday and there are still strange and conflicting reports being reported by the media. Some still insist on reporting that all who were killed were Kindergarteners and their teachers. I read a brief report this morning on CLG.org that stated the Rabbi of the Newtown synogogue stated to the media that, the Principal of the school was shot execution style. The media has stated that she was shot as she tried to confront the shooter and protect the children and that she was a hero. There was no official statement that she was shot execution style.
The network news reported on Saturday and Friday that the shooter’s brother’s girlfriend and friend were missing in New Jersey, but were later found,and the older brother of the shooter was brought in for questioning. That was when the police realized the shooter had used his brother’s ID card,and that the shooter had been mentally unstable for years, and that he and his older brother hadn’t spoken to each other in two years. The shooter’s father was alive and totally baffled at his son’s actions. He had divorced his wife in 2008 and lived in New Jersey apart from his exwife and his youngest son, who both lived together in Newtown,Connecticut, and a short distance from the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
In the next few days and weeks hopefully more accurate information will come out about this massacre, but until then no one can trust anything being said about this massacre of 20 children, except that all were between the ages of 6 and 7 years old, and were found dead at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, and all the victims names have been officially released. It was also reported that one other person of interest was found in the woods near the school after the shooting dressed in black and camoflage. He insisted he had nothing to do with the massacre, but is still being considered a person of interest.
As is typical of the American News Media, nothing they ever say or report on is accurate. It is cleared first by the CIA and FBI agents who are assigned to the networks to review all news releasess,then the facts are rewritten and broadcasted as truth of a situation, when it is completely fabricated. The news coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre is more of a completely chaotic, crazy assault of the viewers by highly emotional reporting aimed at delivering maximum emotional responses from the audience with bogus facts, and the rewriting of the story to coverup the errors and incompetence of all who were involved with the crime, all who are investigating it, and all who are reporting it.
I cannot understand the horror of what happened yesterday in Newtown,Connecticut. I live in Connecticut, and Newtown is an hour away from where I live. The thought of someone murdering 20 children in a first grade school room is an incomprehensable act of evil that can never be understood. I cried when I heard the news of this tragic act of insanity. Every parent in the United States shed tears for those 20 innocent children. The parents of these children must be asking, if God exists and is all loving, how could he allow such a slaughter of innocent children? God has allowed this before and continues to allow it. Hundreds of thousands of children have been killed in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan in recent months and years by the direct orders of American Presidents or their genocidal allies. Millions of children and their parents have been murdered in African conflicts due to American interventions there. Billions of children are starving around the world due to American wars and sanctions and arm sales to brutal dictators. In the United States 1 in 4 children live in poverty. Unspeakable historical and biblical accounts of slaughters of innocent children have been known for thousands of years. Massacres of unbelievable proportions have been inflicted upon the American Indians, Russians, Jews, Chinese,Japanese, Cambodians, Africans, Irish, Asian Indians and countless indigenous peoples and continues, yet today Americans are concentrating on their most recent loss.
God never explains himself in these atrocities, he merely allows them to happen and continue to happen, yet everyone who escapes the massacres thank God for their safety and the safety of their love ones. Perhaps by allowing these horrors to continue to occur God tests our faith and strength, but today my faith is shaken. Today my strength is weakened. Today the country mourns the death of 20 innocent children, while they ignore the death of millions of children around the world. Newtown,Connecticut is an upscale white community in one of the wealthiest states in the country. What makes this tragedy so shocking to Americans is, that it happened in a White upper middleclass community, not a poor violence ravaged city, or country, where child murders are sponsored by the American government and its genocidal allies. No one in the United States today can ignore their own vulnerablity to an insane act of violence, but they still ignore the horrors their government inflicts on children in other countries. The age of American innocence is gone forever. The dreams of safe havens for American families have been shattered by the Newtown massacre. The joy of Christmas this year for many Americans and especially those of Newtown Connecticut has been turned off by this tragedy. We all stand like Christmas trees without lights or decorations.
There is no possible way to console the parents of those innocent children who needlessly died. Neither is there anyway to console anyone who has lost a child, either through accident, murder or war. The slaughter of innocence is an ancient omen for a great coming change. Herod killed all children in his kingdom under the age of 2 years old to prevent the coming of Christ. Perhaps we can understand the tragedy of this murder of 20 children, and the continued murder and starvation of millions of innocent children as an omen of what is to come. If we do not change our individual and national consciousness to end all war and conflict, these horrors will continue and worsen. In this time of great loss for America, I hope our national conscience will change by the shock of this event, to less selfishness and greater compassion for all who lose loved ones around the world. May the horrible, needless, sacrifice of those 20 Newtown children be a stark reminder to everyone of the preciousness of life.
Most Americans today are living on the edge of their own fiscal cliff, but this is a normal condition for billions of people around the world. It may be the times or the world economy but, so many reports from around the world state that the entire world seems on the edge of a cliff. Spain, Greece, Portugal are sliding over the edge, as their people hold on to the roots of their culture and families to survive the harsh austerity imposed on them. We see these problems in the U.S however, our media barely reports on the needs of Americans. Over 3 million homeless, 50 million dependent on food stamps, millions still in foreclosure. Even those with savings are receiving virtually nothing on their savings accounts. The desperation of so many people is almost impossible to comprehend, yet their resilience is keeping them alive.
As the winter weather settles in, the cost of fuel to keep warm is escalating as it always does in the winter. The great indifference of so many in our government and governments around the world is a crime against humanity. These government officials who receive big salaries and premium health benefits all paid for by the taxes of the people are ignoring those who elected them because it is an unpunishable crime and they create the laws that immune them from prosecution. Indifference to the suffering of others by those in power is a form of negligent homicide if anyone dies because of their indifference. Hundreds of thousands of people are dying from wars and famines caused by their own governments. It is an illusion of false security that keeps us all in some state of dependence on the same people responsible for our suffering. Dependence on those who cause the problems in society is exactly why our societies are failing. Domestic violence is rising, homelessness is rampant, serious health conditions are rising due to the nutritionless food we eat approved by the FDA and marketed to us by mega corporations as “tasty and good for us”. Deadly diseases are caused by vaccinations and harmful and contaminated foods, and cures are marketed as prescription drugs with deadly or severe side effects. The entire world system is designed for maximum population reduction and maximum profits for corporations. Eugenics advocates like Bill Gates have invested billions of their own money on methods to reduce human population and create global genocide.
I am amazed at the remarkable kindness and generosity of so many people helping friends and family members and giving to those in dire need. At the same time so many other people display obsessive selfishness, and cruelty. What possesses an individual to delight in being cruel and heartless? They may be wealthy or poor, income levels do not prevent cruelty or indifference to others. We see people fighting each other in stores over a flat screen televison or Iphone or some other consumer item. People are warned not to talk on their Iphones in public areas in American cities because of the recent rash of muggings of Iphone owners. All status symbols are in jeopardy of being stolen. Copper piping is being ripped out of homes and office buildings by thieves for the few cents per pound they can recieve for the metal. It is easy to understand why bank robberies, car thefts and burglaries are rising to unprecidented levels. What is hard to believe is how calm and seemingly indifferent the American society is to these crimes and the reasons for them. The worst crimes are corporate crimes. We see corporate CEOs stealing pension funds for their own bonuses, bankrupting companies by borrowing excessive loans against company assets with the intentions of destroying the company and laying off their workers. They steal their pensions and economically destroy entire communities.
These ruthless criminals are never punished, they are financially rewarded.
We are on the edge of disaster because we are ignoring all the signs of our own obsessions and indifference to others and what is happening around us. We burrow our heads in the wasteland of televison and video games, Facebook and Twitter, pop music, junk food, drugs and alcohol. The mind altering methods of the news and entertainment media have driven our madness into a psychosis. We believe their illusions of insatiable consumerism and corporate and governmental benevolence, while they steal from us and war against us. Our days are filled with anxiety and stresses caused by this system of world dominance by corporations and their croney governments. The world is on the edge of dramatic change, weither it is a good change or a bad change will depend upon the awakening of oppressed people around the world uniting together in a single force to strike down all that oppresses us and establish a world of individual freedom and true justice. A world where we can all live without fear or poverty or indifference to the suffering of others.
The Mayans did not predict Doomsday on 12/21/12, they predicted the merge of Humanity into a New Era and Age when human consciousness will ascend to Universal understanding. The Mayans call this time The Universal Age, the final stage of Humanity’s third dimensional consciousness. Those of us who study this transition have been experiencing it for several years. We see evidence of it all around us in the great technological and spiritual advancements and archeological discoveries and the awakening of political consciousness. We are witnessing the collapse of time and space, when all artificial systems end as we approach the Zero Point Merge, when space and gravity merge. The Mayans understood that the earth is imprisoned in time and space, unlike other advanced planets where inhabitiants have escaped their prison, by their evolved consciousness. We have entered that Time of No Time.
The Mayans understood this when they created their calendar. They state that they were given the Calendar of Creation by God. They had two calendars, one of Creation and the other of the planetary cycles. The Creation Calendar begins 1.6 billion years ago when the earth was first formed, and predicts through astronomy and astrology the 13 evolutionary steps of Humanity. The second calendar was 290 days,and was intricately interelated with the Creation Calendar. Together they structured the Mayans’ lives. Each day was celebrated and everyone born on a certain day was given a name and profession astrologically suited for that day. The Gregorian Calendar was designed to destroy all indigenous calendars and religions as well as beliefs in Astrology. Creating the Gregorian Calendar and militarily imposing it on on the world, the Catholic Church enslaved Humanity in their prison of Time and redirected the focus of the world population by rearranging the natural luner cycles into artificial measurements to impede the evolutionary rise of human consciousness. The Gregorian Calendar is a labrinth designed to miss direct our natural focus on enlightenment towards fear, and force us to worship false gods and icons by religious ceremonies, and celebrations performed only on certain days of the week, month and year according to the Gregorian Calendar.
Why the Sabbath or Sunday became the day of worship was this same idea. Prior to the new calendar Humanity worshipped their creator every day. They made prayers and offerings whenever their hearts and minds felt the need. Worshipping God on the Sabbath is a Judiac Christian mandate. The Biblical account of a 7 day Creation and God rested on the 7th day was the Judaic illusion of Time. Science proves the earth was created billions of years ago as was the entire universe. Scientists today have suspended time in their experiments, and are creating new ways to extend human life, but science is subordinated to a lesser status by religion and deliberately ignored as the key to immortality. We have the inherent power to heal ourselves. We cannot deny miracles happen every day around the world. We who have had miracles happen in our lives, understand the great gift we were given.
What we believe to be truth is not. One of the great Cosmic Laws states, “All truth is half truth.” What we know as fact is only what we know, not what remains to be known, and is hidden from us by our denial of the deception of others. The truth of Time is that it does not exist. It is an illusion. To some people time is quick, and for others it can be eternal. How can people truly understand what time is? The illusion of time creates great stresses in their lives.That is why the creation of time was paramount for gaining complete control of human activity. All industry, commerce and governments operate on Time. Days, minutes, seconds, and even nano seconds have been created to continue the illusion.
Anyone who believes their lives are not controlled by Time are living in complete denial.Every second we work for an employer is counted. Every thought or action we have or take is restricted in some way by Time. What day we begin something or go somewhere or achieve a goal, or meet a deadline is determined on Time. Taxes are due every month, year, or quarter. Payments on cars and homes, phones, electricity, and credit cards are due every month. Schools, businesses and governments are closed on certain days between certain hours. Lives begin and end at certain times announced by doctors or coroners or others. Everything we do is structured by time restraints imposed upon us. Once we understand the illusion of Time we realize we can never be late or early. We can never miss an appointment. Time is the veil in front of our eyes that prevents us from seeing who and what operates this vast illusion. If life is immortal, then why should anyone worry about time? We have eternity to live. Eternity is endless. It is timeless. We are told by religious leaders and their scriptures, that our spirits are immortal, but only they can judge where we spend eternity, either in the fires of Hell or the arms of God in Heaven. Once we understand their riddle, we realize no one can tell us where we will spend eternity. The entire concept of some man made intstitution or religious despot judging us and dictating our eternal destiny is absurd.
Those who live in the Illusion of Time are focused on their watches, clocks and calendars. Those who understand the Illusion of Time are immortal.
As a student, teacher, sales trainer, financial and real estate broker, author, writer, musician, artist, poet, documentary film maker, producer, director, television and radio show host, I was who I was. All of the titles I gave to myself and those that were given to me were discriptions of who I was. They were labels of my professional identity. They identified me. I was dependent on these labels to know who I was.
I now live my life in self abandonment. I have moved beyond who I was into an alternative self, apart from my past and labeled identity. I travel through a parallel dimension, where my life mirrors what I want it to be. I became aware of the possibility that a parallel dimension existed. The anchors that held me in one dimension kept me from entering into the parallel dimension. Quantum physics proves it exists. I had been their before, I visited it daily in my daydreams and sleep. How it differs from our present existence is, that nothing in the parallel dimension is mundane. It is exciting, pleasurable, physically, intellectually and spiritually stimulating without barriers, anchors or any restrictions. We can win at everything we undertake. We can fly as high as our imaginations carry us. We can create anything we desire. This parallel dimension does exist, but we do not live in it completely. The reason we do not is because we are unable or unwilling to accept that it exists
Physicists and Psychics have proven the existence of multiple dimensions and that everyone does enter this parallel dimension, but are unaware that they do. The trappings of their reality of work, children, home, and daily stresses, are constant reminders of what they must cope with, but on occasion everyone experiences self abandonment. Whenever we daydream or when we fall asleep in our beds, or when the world around us is quiet and we wonder about where we are and want to be, we enter the parallel dimension.
Everytime we enter this parallel dimension we feel at ease and comfortable when we arrive. Our minds are focused on what we are doing or want to do there. It relieves us of the constant irritants in our lives and for those special moments we enter that dimension we are free. No one can deny they have been there, they simply do not understand where they have been.
Nature has provided us with everything we need to enjoy this parallel dimension. It sings to us in the songs of birds. It dazzles our eyes with its beauty, it howls to us in the baying of wolves. It inspires us to understand the polarity of our own lives, as it mirrors our thoughts and attracts our attention by the marvels that it displays for us. We live in it and around it, but we will not accept it for the gift that it is. We too often destroy it, or ignore it by our herd like impulses. We run as masses of mindless animals in fear or frenzy toward some mirage of security. Like a herd of sheep or cattle we are led by herders to fresh grazing fields or to slaughter. Herds could easily ignore their herders or turn on them and trample them.
The herders are well trained to keep their herds behind fences and brand them with their mark, and how to keep the individual spirited bulls or rams isolated from the herds. They understand that the wild spirits of these great animals must not go unchallenged or the herds will realize their collective and individual strength and become impossible to control. Governments try to control all media and knowledge, and oppress us and imprison us by destroying the mirror of our parallel dimension, replacing its image with bombs, polution, debt, death, misery and fear.
Self abandonment is the way we protect ourselves from mundane and grim realities. We were created with an escape hatch, that allows us to always be free. Our self made prison is dark and we believe we are in bondage and convince ourselves we are blind. We fail to see the escape hatch within us, that leads to the parallel dimension and to our ulimate freedom.
I was looking at my website statistics this morning and was overwhelmed by the number of international vistors I have been receiving. November was the best month this website has ever had. Remarkably the majority of vistors have been from 60 countries other than the United States. China was outstanding at over 6000 vistors and 14,000 page views. The U.S total was fewer visitors but 16,000 page views. The Ukraine was outstanding at 9000 page views and 3000 visitors, and all the other countries accounted for thousands of visitors. One of the smallest countries in the world Luxembourg had over 2000 visitors to this site in November.
I’m thankful for search engine translators and I intend to install one on this website soon. I am glad that my writing is being read by so many, but I am not certain why my American English,often biased, bombastic and irreverent writings interest an international audience, though I am very grateful that they do. The American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson said,”If you write for yourself you are writing to everyone.”
To speak to a world audience we must first speak truthfully to ourselves. There is a unity consciousness rising now, that cannot be diminished. People around the world are listening to themselves and are realizing other people are listening to them. The great revolution happening now is because of this unity consciousness. The world wide anger and activism against international injustices is the revolution, and revolutionaries around the world are expressing their anger and fight, and are being seen and supported by sympathizers around the world through social media and websites. This global activism once fully united will soon topple all governments and destroy all monetary and military systems, and replace them with complete international freedom and unity. When these oppressive systems are destroyed everyone in the world will be free from the great prison, and rise in unity into the Fourth Dimensional Age of Aquarius.
We are almost there. Midnight of December 21, 2012 is the end of the old Age and the beginning of the new. I invite everyone around the world to join me in the great celebration on December 22.
December 1st is the Meterological first day of winter. It is cold today in Connecticut. Twenty degrees and no sun, only gray, cold, clouds. Why I felt the need to relay this to my readers I’m not really sure. I decided to share a moment of being cold with anyone who wants to read this article. Being physically cold often starts with your feet and hands and works its way through the rest of the body. Being emotionally cold is almost deathlike. I have been emotionally cold before, but more often I become emotionally enflamed, when confronted by something or someone I dislike.
It is cold today, but it has been much colder and so have I. I thought that my being cold today might be of interest to someone who is hot.
I heard today that two people won the $580 million dollar PowerBall Pick yesterday. I wasn’t one of them. Am I disappointed? Of course I am, just as are 316,999,998 other people this morning who didn’t win. I should have known better with the odds of winning at 175 million to one,but I had the same odds as the other two ticket holders who did win. It is a foolish hope that drives us to chance those amazing odds, however the $2.00 chance to make $580 million can’t be underestimated. It wasn’t by the two lucky people who did win.
The problem with losing the lotto isn’t the waste of the $2.00 ticket price. The problem is the disappointment of facing the fact, that it was a temporary illusion of winning that seemed so real. If you read my last post from yesterday $500,000,000 Fever, I was in a different frame of mind, clouded by the grand illusion of winning, but it wasn’t the money that motivated me to buy the ticket, it was the chance at freedom that inspired me. Freedom from all financial worry for the rest of my life. That was what really motivated so many millions of people like myself.
I have to wonder what those two lucky lotto winners are thinking right now or if they are thinking at all, or asleep and don’t know they won yet. It’s hard to imagine someone waking up today and realizing they are 200 million dollars richer. If they are awake, and know they won I would think they are in total disbelief at this moment. The thought occurred to me that what if I’m still asleep? Maybe I won but I am in complete denial. Maybe I am still in the great 500 million dollar illusion, and depended on the media this morning to announce who won. The media is an illusion, so it is more than possible for them to miss state the winning numbers so that only two people won and not everyone. The media is the marketer of the great illusion.
If every ticket holder won, their individual winnings would amount to the price of their ticket. We would win the cost of our ticket price and have bought one day to imagine we had won $580 million dollars. Those of us who did have a great day imagining our winning great wealth, and found out today that we didn’t win, we are still all better off for the experience. It has afforded us for one day to reach beyond our present into the uncertain future with our hopes and dreams, and may have made us more committed to succeed at whatever we undertake.
If you are living in America today you are now wondering what it would be like to win the $500 million dollar PowerBall Jackpot. Anyone with a powerful imagination is right now thinking what they would do if they won tonight’s jackpot. Personally I think I would go unconscious for a while. Then I would wake up and wonder what just happened to me. I heard the other day on a news program that studies have been done on people who have won large lottos and found that it takes at least 5 years after winning before their lives became nearly normal. Also that a winner’s IQ temporarily drops by 20% due to the tremendous shock.The sad part about this study is it proves to some, who are seeking lotto winner status, how many of the biggest winners became the biggest losers.
A strange fate awaits anyone who wins tonight. Imagine being able to afford anything you ever wanted or will want for the rest of your life. Wealth is the world’s greatest illusion. Millions, Billions or Trillions are all in our minds, hidden behind our veils of poverty. We are all rich beyond our imaginations, that is why others place limits on us to restrict our rise to their level of wealth. This is their only weapon of control. If they do not use it ruthlessly, they will lose their power, because everyone will have unlimited wealth and power of their own.
I can easliy imagine living on a quiet lake and laying in a hammock facing a beautiful sunset. I can imagine a better life than I have now. If I know I can have that, why could I not imagine winning 500 million dollars. It takes the same thought process. Imagination=Realization. They are the same thing. If we can imagine something we bring it into realization and it manifests. This is how the mind works and why the illusion of this world creates a false reality that parallels our own.
What we can imagine we have, if it is taken away from us it is because we forgot that we can imagine it again and again, and it can never be taken from us. When we are free from the illusion of the world we will rise unweighted to infinite consciousness.
It is snowing this morning. The day is cold and gray, caught somewhere between dimensions. My thoughts are in a heavy snowfall, where words fall silently, then melt on the page.
I remember walking at dawn in New York City, one November long ago. The street was deserted, dark and gray, and skyscrapers surrounded me. I was cold and hungry, frightened and lost, until someone hung an “Opened” sign on their glass door. I smelled the aroma of fresh coffee, when the glass door seemed to burst into flames by the sun’s rays reflecting against the window pane.
I can see the light striking my eyes and that gray November day, as I sip my coffee and wonder, what to write about today.
My television broke today. I got it three years ago and of course it would have to stop working on Thanksgiving and two years past its warranty. I always enjoy watching the Macy Parade and the dog show that’s on after the parade. These are traditional American Turkey Day pass times including watching football and stuffing our turkeys and stuffing our stomachs. Maybe not having a television on Thanksgiving is a blessing. It makes me inconvienienced and ticked off, but appreciative of everyone who doesn’t have a television, or who isn’t celebrating Thanksgiving with their families. It can be a sad day depending where you are. If you are like millions of unfortunate Americans today you may be having your Thanksgiving dinner at a soup kitchen.
It would be too cynical and cold to not think about all who are suffering today. 50 million Americans are dependent on Food Stamps and yet all the media can focus on this week is shopping on Black Friday. For my international audience who may have wondered what this American term means, Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving when all the retail outlets in the country offer their best sales and Americans go shopping crazy. It’s a buyers’ bacchanal. Oddly enough I guess it’s the best day of the year to have a broken television, when television sales are at their best prices of the year.
I wondered today if anyone outside of the U.S could understand what a crazy time of year it is in America. It is a national holiday that honors and eats a turkey. It is also a holiday when Americans’ obsession to buy drives them into a national frenzy. Americans’ patience is at its all time low and Americans’ credit card debt increases 10 fold. It is a prime example of societal insanity from now until shortly after New Years Day. Christmas is another insane American holiday that was meant to celebrate the birth of Christ, but has become the great American celebration of consumer madness. Any thought of Christ or religion during Christmas in America is secondary next to the thought of what to buy Dad and Mom and the kids for Christmas, and booking a plane flight for the Holiday.
The great Holiday tradition in America is to spend the Thanksgiving and Christmas week or weekend with relatives. It’s a fond tradition however, it often leads to over indulgence in spending, eating, drinking, anger and interfamily rivalries. So often many Americans will leave their homes and drive for hours or days on over crowded highways, and have to wait in airports for delayed or overbooked flights. But they all seem to do it unbegrudingly for the one time of the year, they can have so much fun. Societal insanity isn’t a strong enough description for what Americans go through this time of year.
To my American readers I wish you all good luck and a Happy Thanksgiving, and to all my international readers, I wish you peace and sanity.
There are times in everyone’s life when everthing seems to stop. It’s a dreaded time that we all hope is temporary, but some times it can seem permanent. My recent problems are quite petty compared to the problems of billions of other people. I often wonder when misfortunes happen to me if I am under some kind of cosmic cloud. This is a time when communications are restricted or cut off. An astrological term for this is when Mercury is in retrograde.
I am a believer in Astrology, just as I believe in many of the divining arts, however over the many years I have found divination to be a curse more than a blessing. In many cases divination by Astrology or Tarot will forecast misfortune. Some believe this is an aid in offsetting the misfortune by knowing in advance what may happen, however I’ve found that often these predictions of misfortune can become selffulfilling prophecies. Also the predictions of good fortune can often become disappointments. Prior to my friend and Astrologer passing away several years ago, I would call him when I wanted to know what was happening or what was about to happen. He would say that I should watch out for certain things, or that it was a good time planetarily to do certain things. It often served as a comfort to me knowing if I was about to have a good run of luck or if I wasn’t. I found that I became somewhat dependent on his predictions and wondered if I hadn’t known about their possibility of happening if they would have happened anyway, or not at all.
My knowledge of Astrology was and is limited to what my friend taught me. I was taught the Tarot by a Tarot reader and psychic and realized that I had some ability at interpreting the future, however I soon became dependent upon the Tarot whenever I had a question about my future. It is difficult for a Tarot reader or Astrologer or any diviner to not become dependent on his art or science, to the extent that he or she cannot make a move into the future or a major decision without first consulting the cards or the stars. I would be wrong to say I have lost faith in divination, but I have lost faith in my ability to predict the future. I have become more of believer in trusting the unknown. That may sound strange to some,but I would rather put my faith in my promise and manifestation of my goals, instead of placing faith in some magical deck of cards or someone’s interpretation of the stars and planets.
As I ponder the reasons for my present struggle I am beginng to recognize the fatal and favorable patterns that appear. If I consider all the faults and potential problems based on current faults and problems I will often revise my plans simply on the premise that they might fail. It is simply a matter of my attitude and belief that things will get better and opportunities will present themselves. If I do not keep this belief while I am planning a goal I become riddled with doubt and fear of failure.
Ah, the great cosmic cloud of confusion hasn’t completely disappeared but my cosmic connection of hope and achievement are becoming clearer. I just received a much delayed phone call that has cleared a great obstacle for me. I guess Mercury is no longer in retrograde.
I am confounded by the Arab countries not helping the Palestinian people. Turkey and Egypt appear to be coming to an economic agreement for aid, however it isn’t the economic issue that is so urgent as is their military aid that is needed. Israel is a rogue state, everyone but the U.S agrees to that. But as a human being of conscience I can not sit back and be silent about the worldwide indifference to the plight of the Palestinians. I have written on the Palestinian subject many times and have been criticized for it and have been called a racist for my anti Israeli views. However I believe that anyone who does not speak out against the genocide and illegal occupation of the Palestinian people are cold blooded sociopaths or simply ignorant of the entire Israeli Palestinian conflict. For the U.S to allie itself with Israel is unconscionable.
Israel is a Zionist state that has illegally occupied Palestine for over 40 years. The ruthless occupation has caused the deaths and displacement of over a million Palestinians. Hamas is the democratically elected government of the Palestinian people and has been declared by the U.S and Israeli governments as terrorists. The only terrorists in this equation are Israel and the U.S. The U.S government is entrenched with Israeli spies and lobbyists. Zionist sympathizers control the U.S media and the media of most industrialized countries. Voices of anti Israeli criticizm are silenced and ignored in the U.S. The only anti Israeli and American voices heard in the world are from the Arab countries. The incredible irony of this is that even those countries refuse to help the Palestinian people or be militarily or economically involved in the aid of the Palestinians.
Iran continues to state its concern and support and are allied with Hamas and the Hezbolah of Lebanon,but they have done little if nothing in the assaults against Palestine or Lebanon by the Israelis. If the Arab nations including the Arab Brotherhood now controling Egypt do not help Palestine in this war with Israel, then they will soon be Israel’s next target for expansion. How cowardly are these “Arab Brothers” if they will not defend the legitimate right of Palestinians to exist. I know from all I’ve learned of Arab history that the Arab people are proud, great and defiant, and have been dominated by European and American governments for centuries. If millions of Arabian people can take to the streets and arm themselves against the U.S for something as simple as an anti Islam video or book, why can they not see the greater abomination of genocide and hated being waged against them by Israel and its allies?
My tempermant would not be tolerated at the UN or in any tepid peace negotiations. Neither would my writings on the Israeli Palestinian war be considered by any pro Israel state or statesmen. It doesn’t matter to me if my words are considered by them, however I believe my words reveal themselves to the eyes of all readers with any concern for the Palestinian people. The Arab people must rise up in aid to the Palestinians. It is the only way that the illegal occupation of Palestine by Israel will end.
Almost anyone has the potential to be a revolutionist, if they are not one already. Revolutionists understand what is happening around them, and are well aware that some of them know more than others about the reality of the situation. Some of us are committed to changing the corrupt system, yet we are held back by others who fear change and refuse to hear radical ideas. I as many of my readers have faced these people and tried in some way to talk to them about current events or even the last election. Revolutionists question what is going on in government and in their environment and are trying to counter these atrocities with protest and petition. Those opposed to reform or revolution seemed fixed in their ideas and political beliefs though most know very little or nothing about any of the political and economic philosophies they profess to believe so ardently in. So why does anyone take them seriously? It is because they are resisting any and all change. Weither their lives are poor or rich, healthy or ill, they insist that nothing is better than what they already have, and nothing should change.
Anyone who questions their system of government is considered a revolutionist and possibly even a terrorist, depending on who we talk to. Americans were revolutionaries and somehow over the last 250 years we have become a nation of followers and herded like cattle and sheep to be slaughtered by bankers and corporations and their lacky politicians. It is vital to understand that a revolutionist revolts against an established system. Revolutionist actions can be done individually or collectively but they must be done to resist and prevent the onslaught against their freedoms,individual liberty and economic survival.
How can revolution be achieved under the watchful eye of the government? There is only one way available to everyone and that is to resist. American revolutionists must resist the lies and corruption that we see around us. We must insist on Non GMO foods, we must insist on the abolishment of the Federal Reserve and the establishment of our government issuing it’s own currency. We must insist that the make believe world of Marketeers be dismantled and that all products sold to us must be safe to consume.
We must insist that the defense budget be substantially reduced and that we end all wars in foreign countries. We must insist that our people have jobs that pay a livable wage. We must insist that our media be truthful and stop their ceaseless lies and propaganda. We must insist that Israel be cast off as an ally of America and seen for the rogue genocidal state that it is. We must insist on reducing our demand for electrical power and fossil fuels and demand that our voices be heard. But our voices are heard, they are just ignored. A revolutionary (one who is in a revolution) demands to be heard. A revolution is the demand for a major change. Revolutions begin with one individual and grows exponentially until the changes are made. Everyone of us who understand we are being severely manipulated and abused by our system and society must stand up against it, either physically protesting or intellectually protesting by writing or voicing our concerns and ideas to a growing audience. Never in known history has Humanity had such remarkable communication tools available to individuals. Tools such as the internet or the broadcast medium. We can all now verbally protest and influence a wide audience of like thinkers immediately to take revolutionary actions. Christianity began as an idea of a single individual who could no longer stand the hypocrisy and corruption of his own religion. His stand against the system cost him his life, but his revolutionary work is immortal and has been the basis of countless world wide revolutions for the last 2000 years.
We must be like Christ, Martin Luther,Martin Luther King Jr., Mandella, Ghandi, Washington, or Jefferson. Each created a national and international movement that created a revolution. We respect and honor these men today and have mainstreamed their revolutionary ideas into our educational system, and yet we fail to teach our children what these men really stood for and why they were so important to the world. Our Government and school systems condemn individual resistence to authority and yet teach the history and honor their lives as the world’s greatest revolutionaries. There is a great disconnect in these methods of education and government and the thoughtful and intelligent person. I as many others who value their independence and freedom of thought, are dismissed by the fools in powerful positions who refuse to listen to opinions and facts that are opposed to their own opinions. A Revolutionist is anyone who is angry enough and committed enough to resist the forces that imprison him by corruption and ignorance,and does all in his power to change a system of government and a society before it plunges off a cliff.
A dictionary description of the word Wow. “1510s, Scottish interjection, a natural expression of amazement. The verb meaning “overwhelm with delight or amazement” is first recorded 1924, Amer.Eng. slang. Used as a noun meaning “unqualified success” since 1920. “This old interjection had a new popularity in the early 1900s and again during the 1960s and later” [DAS].
I use the word Wow quite often lately, because I have been so amazed at things I have been seeing and hearing. The number of weird environmental,political, economic events and remarkable individual human feats that have occurred in the last few years is truly remarkable. What can anyone say about them other than Wow! The original Scottish version of the word has taken on a more general translation now referring not only to something good happening but also to something very bad happening. What can anyone say other than Wow at the devastation caused by hurricane Sandy, or wild fires destroying hundreds of homes and causing massive evacuations? Wow seems to sum up everything that is overwhelming into a simple three letter word.
Another often used phrase commonly abridged, is OMG, short for Oh, My God! I find this statement significant because it is used to account for the unimaginable, and credits the Creator. When someone is without words, or stunned by someone or some amazing event, either joyful or painful, we use this phrase more often than any other to describe our pleasure,pain or shock. I don’t know exactly why we feel the need to call out God’s name, but even in our most personal moments of pleasure or disaster we say
” Oh My God!” This phrase obviously connects our thoughts to the sublime or divine by expressing our joy, pleasure, pain or horror outwards into an infinite call for understanding or thanks. The letters OMG have now become commercialized into a generic universal phrase to sell something or to attract attention to something or someone. It might have originated as a prayer and for many who use the phrase it still is a way of invoking divine guidance, to understand our emotional reaction to something we do not understand.
As the world spins faster towards the new age of Aquarius and time and space as we know it will virtually disappear, new marvels will be discovered and learned, and the word Wow and the phrase Oh, My God! may become the only word and phrase humanity will be able to speak as we discover who we really are and who we are destined to be.
$250,000 dollars a year income is a lot of money even in today’s inflationary times. The average family income in America is slightly above $50,000. Adding another 200,000 dollars a year to the average American family would make them all rich. They could save. They could send their kids to college, they could own a nice home in the suburbs, they could take expensive trips to anywhere in the world, and have a financially happy life.
Taxing the $250,000 and up income bracket more would seem to rob the Yuppie and wealthy Baby Boomer of a few more percentage points in their tax bracket, but it would allow the 99% of Americans and the country to survive. Is it wrong to ask a wealthy person to give more of his earnings to subsidize the rest of the country so they don’t have to go on food stamps or welfare assistance? I feel little love for anyone earning millions of dollars a year and refusing to pay the same tax rate as a person making 25,000 to 50,000 dollars per year. They would still have far more money after taxes than the poor guy trying to get by with a family of four, under the poverty level.
The rich, richer and richest in America don’t understand the poor, poorer, and poorest in America. They were given great inheritances, they were given great jobs in the family business, or like Romney they were given a trust fund. Anyone making $250,000 or more in this economy are doing exceeding well. Anyone making more than that is doing extremely well. The one thing I have noticed of the wealthy is they don’t understand the poor. I have been fortunate in so many ways, but having been rich was a great experience. I regret my loss of wealth but I gained something valuable in its place. Peace of Mind. I found when I had money everyone in the world wanted it. But when I didn’t have money no one bothered me. Bill collectors gave up calling. Ex wives gave up trying to get more. The world ignores you when you’re tapped out and poor. That is the one great advantage of being poor. The other advantage of being poor is you find time to develop your mind and skills to create new opportunities if you are inclined to better yourself. Some unfortunately have given up. It is easy to give up but devastating to everyone who does. This world is a place where only those who are unwilling to give up ever succeed at anything. Even a hungry animal will still spend his day searching for food and shelter, until he starves or is prey to a hungrier and larger animal. Learning to never give up a goal or dream is the essense of our lives’ success or failure. Rationalizing failure is also a major part of our lives, but failure is only a temporary state if we allow it to be.
The poor American or poor European or Asian or any nationality, have the same basic needs. But their fates and government policies have crippled or ruined them or in some cases killed them. Basic health insurance, basic allowances for food and clothing are needed by a society however, so many Americans seem to ignore these basic needs of their fellow citizens. When someone is on top of the world and everything has gone well in their lives, they easily forget how miserable another human being might be. The homeless man or woman or family, who can barely scrap up enough money for food,or shelter or vital medicine are now estimated at over three million people in the United States. 50 million Americans rely on Food Stamps and other government programs just for the absolute basic necessities.
The Republican concept of small government with a huge military is about as bankrupt a concept of government as that of North Korea. Everyone but those in government and the military are working and have incomes, while everyone else is poor. Poverty is most often created by lack of opportunity. If major companies are rewarded for outsourcing American jobs, and hiding their income in foreign banks, they are denying the average American the opportunity to have a decent job and earning a decent wage as well as depriving their own country of the taxes and investments needed to grow the U.S economy. Mitt Romney supposedly has over 100 million dollars hidden in an offshore acct. His known fortune is estimated at over 250 million dollars. Is it any wonder why 82% of the voters in the U.S believe Romney has no connection to 99% of the American people. The closeness of this recent election between Obama and Romney was more media hype than reality. Obama won all of the most populated states, while Romney couldn’t even win Florida, the most Republican rigged state in the country. No one liked Romney as a leader, those who voted for him simply hated Obama, for what ever reason.
People will read this article and wonder if I am right or wrong in my assumptions of the rich and poor, but wether they agree with me or not the fact remains that if corporations and their Republican and Democrat sycophants continue to dominate American government policies, we are doomed to fall off the Fiscal Cliff. The advantage to being poor now as opposed to when the country falls off the cliff, is that the poor have already fallen and are at the bottom of the cliff. Others who aren’t rich have a lot shorter distance to fall than those earning $250,000 or more. Corporate and government game playing with the fate of 99% of us will soon backfire as their stock portfolios or cash reserves are depleted overnight, their corporations are bankrupt, and all the wealthy and their politicians are thrown or jump off the cliff, onto the hard ground. Where they will either crash and die or survive critically wounded.
In the last few months this website has been plagued with over 2000 spam messages. I get over 100 per day. I thank my many readers who have and continue to leave helpful or kind comments on my articles, however the vast number of spam I have been receiving has made it a burdensome job sorting through the legitimate comments and spam.
I don’t know how or why I am on their spam hit list, but I must ask that all spammers stop posting their advertisements on site. Spamming this site is a waste of time for me and for spammers. I trash all spam messages, so why do the same spammers continue to place their parasitic advertisements on this site? I’m asking all spammers who would take their time to enter this site not to. Don’t waste your time and mine? Please stop.
I was sorry to hear about the General’s affair, but knowing something about affairs of the heart I can understand some of what he was going through. His lady friend was too much for the guy to resist. She was a hot, forty year old woman, twenty years younger than he was, who devoted several years to gaining his confidence enough to write his biography. He’d been away from his wife and family for nearly 5 years commanding the Iraq and Afghanistan operations. The opportunity to have a sexual affair was there.
It appeared that his girlfriend got angry at another woman and sent a few threatening emails to her. Perhaps her jealousy, fear and anger prompted the threatening emails, but it was this stupid move on her part that caught the attention of the FBI. Why would an intelligent person who knows her emails are not private, send a threatening email to someone? And why would the General send his girlfriend solacious emails knowing his email acct was not private and could be viewed by the FBI and other security agencies?
The real irony in all of this is that the General was the one man in this country who had control of all the national military secrets, and accepted his new appointment to the CIA while he was having the affair. One would think he of all people could have kept his affair secret. The General faced bullets and fierce enemies his entire career, but a romantic seduction was the only thing that ever wounded him.
I saw the movie Skyfall this Saturday afternoon and felt the urgent need to warn all James Bond lovers, that if you haven’t seen the movie yet, you might be disappointed if you do. I think this movie was preparing the viewer for a new James Bond. As much as I like Daniel Craig in the role of 007, it’s hard to watch him in this movie without thinking of yourself ( If you’re a BabyBoomer) and begin to realize that anyone over 50 years old could never survive the stunts or fight scenes and battles that Craig does in this movie. He’s physically fit but past his prime.
I went to an afternoon matinee and walked into a packed theatre,except for the entire front row. I grabbed a seat in the front row to get the full effect of a stunt filled James Bond movie. Shortly after I sat down a young boy of 6 or 7 years old was joined by his 60 something grandfather sat in the front row a few seats away from me. I thought of how odd an appeal James Bond movies had on both the young and old. The opening scene was one of the best in the film. James Bond was fighting a Turkish assassin on the top of a moving train. (The same scene shown in the movie trailer).
The movie wore on uneventful from there, with odd Silence of the Lambs scenes of the villain a crazed former MI6 agent who was captured and given up by M and allowed to be tortured for the release of six other agents. His strange mother / boss fixation for a woman 20 yrs older than he is, M the head of MI6(played by Judy Denche) was not only strange but sick. The only reference to sex in the movie was Bond’s brief flirtation with the Crazy MI6 agent’s captured girl friend, who is forced to live with him. Unfortunately for her and the movie the Crazy MI6 agent kills her for her betrayal early in the movie.
There are a few good pyrotechnics towards the end of the movie when he blows up his own childhood estate. It’s a strange movie, unlike all other James Bond movies. It’s slow moving in many parts and has a lousy ending. I wasn’t at all impressed with this movie, and glad I only paid a matinee price to see it.
I was concerned about the outcome of the elections on Tuesday night until I saw so many people at my Town Hall voting, and saw reports of other states with voters standing in line for hours, then I realized that Obama would win. No one shows up in droves to vote for Republicans. My only concern was that the Republicans might have rigged the elections again in the major swing states, the way they did in 2000 and 2004. So many Americans hate what Republicans stand for and their outdated ideology, that even with rampant Republican election fraud the overwhelming numbers voting for Obama deluged the archaic voting system and any faulty machines were immediately noticed, and all election officials wanted to avoid corruption charges and class action lawsuits against them.
I was happy to see the state of Florida had no relevance in this election. Obama won enough Electorial College votes without Florida voters. Even as of today no voting tallies have been released from Florida. I laughed when I saw the Florida Registrar of Voters breaking down in tears as she tried to explain the breakdown in Florida’s voting process. All the tampering and election fraud committed by the Republicans in Florida finally caught up to them and crashed their entire system. The irony of this is almost unbelievable.
The only great concern I have about the outcome of this election is the frightening aspect that the American voters still insisted on keeping a Republican majority in the House of Representatives. This insures another deadlock and the almost certain reality of America falling off the “Fiscal Cliff”, but Romney would have made the fall much worse. Four years of Republican policies would have brought the U.S into complete collapse and revolution. It is time now for all to consider compromise, however if the House of Representatives continues to obstruct the will of the majority of the American people I believe they will regret their actions with the greatest outpouring of hatred and contempt the American people can direct at them. The voices of millions of screaming angry Americans will crumble the Capital Building and destroy all who allowed this country to fall into the abyss. Republicanism has become the Hooverism of the 1930s combined with massive racial hatred against Barack Obama and minorities and a cold,callous indifference to the poor and middleclasses. The American social structure is becoming undone, without massive government interventions millions more Americans will suffer even greater than they are now.
Recently conservative talk show hosts have said that conservatives must defy the results of this election and continue their support of Republican obstructionism in Congress. This is the most boneheaded group of people in the world. These fools would rather see the U.S destroyed than see a Black Man in the Presidency. They would rather destroy themselves and their country and be seen as idiots,racists, criminals and lackies for the Koch Brothers, rather than allow any necessary liberal or moderate legislation to be passed. It has come down to the great divide, experienced during the lead up to the Civil War. The hatred, greed and stupidity of all factions of conservatives and Republicans will destroy their political party, and their hopeless conservative movement to stop the tidal wave of progress and ignore the changing demographics and desparate needs of the American people.
America can not look back to the 1950s except in retrospect an learn from the failures of that time period. Segregation was legal, and a white population was in the majority. All the great legislation of the New Deal and the rebuilding of the war ravaged countries of Europe brought about the idea of Globalism and ended the isolationism of the United States, and made it the world power, both militarily and financially. Those days are beyond us now. Those dreams of our parents and grandparents have faded with age and indifference and become a grim illusion for millions of Americans who refuse to see their country crumbling. They refuse to see the changing population, or the failing infrastructure that they so proudly built in the 1930s and 1940s under work programs passed by a Democratic Congress and President. They fail to see the forward change of their children and grandchildren as the technological revolution has changed the way Americans and the world think, work and live. They have refused to aid in the restructuring of our public school system by creating an elitest system of vouchers and private schools that would isolate children into more divisive factions, to further the failed ideologies of the past.
The Republican Party should be seen as the Horse and Wagon Party. They keep believing that the horse and buggy were the best means of transportation, even though it is the slowest and least effective method of transportation today. Republicans will soon find themselves living as the Amish of Pennsylvania, who refuse all progress and modernism in their lives. This is the course the GOP has taken for their future. The Past can never be the Future. The people of the Future can only benefit from the accurate history of the Past, to understand the evolutionary and revolutionary changes that have taken place and are taking place. The Republican Party and its Conservative followers have buried their heads in the sands of time and have become absurd and laughable to entire new generations of Americans, who are faced with overwhelming problems and decisions for their future. No conservative ideology or political party can withstand the onslaught of the knowledge and intelligence of new demanding generations who aspire to dreams unknown and uninvisioned by past generations due to technological and social advances made in the last 100 years. The Republican Party will be abolished in the coming four years, as Americans and the people throughout the world will soon reach a global compromise without the aid of their inept governments. There will be a world wide revolution to fight for the freedom and safety of the world’s future. All governments as we know them will change dramatically to serve their people, in cooperation with the global population. Conservative ideals of isolationism, excessive greed and selfishness, unbridled capitalism and restricted educations, mid twentieth century homes and architecture will become regionalized into small segregated towns and villages, seen as odd tourist attactions and museums of America’s past. Foolish conservative slogans and ideologies will be advertised on falling billboards off isolated, potholed, two lane highways leading to the most desolated and impoverished areas remaining in the United States. Where the residents all listen to one conservative radio station that controlls the local airwaves.
I read today that Mitt Romney has stated his campaign for President has become a “Movement.” A better discription would be a bowel movement for the massive load of crap Romney and Ryan and the GOP are trying to disguise and fragrance as a campaign. If Romney is elected, the Dept.of Public Health will need to hire a sanitation crew to fix his plugged up government and flush him and his administration down the sewer.
Have you ever wondered about something that just doesn’t make sense to you? I’ve spent many hours trying to understand certain people or places or situations that just don’t make sense to me. I wonder most about why certain people hold political views that are diametrically opposed to my own. It seems that 50% of the American voters in this upcoming U.S election are Romney supporters. I can’t get my head around this. Why would anyone vote for a pathological liar, but then Obama is just as pathological. I’m writing this on the morning before their final debate. Romney has the upper hand in this debate only because he doesn’t have a past record on foreign policy,other than kissing Israeli leaders asses. I wonder if that is all an American elected official has to do to get elected. It seems that all of our foreign policy is somehow influenced by Israeli lobbyists and leaders.
Obama has tried to distance himself somewhat from the Israelis, however he can’t until he’s reelected. I have wondered if he were reelected if he would be much more resistent to their influence, and also if he would be stronger and more intolerant to Republicans. If he got a Democratic Congress and Senate, then he might be able to pass major economic policies that would put this country back on the right path. But so many Democrats are pathetically beholding to big business and the Israeli lobby that the possibility of any great changes foreign or domestic would be remote.
I guess I’ll still wonder until the election is over. Then I’ll wonder if anything will really change. If the world transcends into the new dimension next year as it has been predicted, will everything I’ve ever wondered about been a waste of time.
Somewhere in my awakened consciousness there is a place that is blurred and unrecognizable. A place in the mist of memory unknown and unexperienced. There is a place within my mind that refuses to reveal itself. It isn’t my subconscious, I spend my sleeping hours there and know it quite well. It is a place that all thought seems to go and end at a closed door. It is the end of all knowledge and wisdom. The end of all understanding both intellectually and spiritually. There is no great chain or lock on the door, it is a large closed door at the end of a hallway.
It may be fear or frustration or simply a confused state of consciousness that prevented me from entering the door, yet each time I attempted to open it, the door would suddenly vanish and transform into a wall. Even when I tried to become transparent or pray to the great power of the Universe, I could not open the door or pass through the wall.Once I felt a sense of hope and tried to enter, but nothing happened and I was forced to withdraw in frustration. Another time I spent many hours in the hallway wondering why I could not pass through the door. I wondered if there really was anything beyond the door and I had come to the end of all conscious and unconscious thought. I left my body and floated threw the universe where all stargates, all planets, all pathways were opened to me. Then I saw a great sun and travelled to it. It was brighter than anything I had ever seen. It was beyond all my imagination or spiritual comprehension. I felt embraced by its great light, but not blinded, or harmed or hindered in my approach to it. As I began to merge with its light I felt a oneness and completeness of mind and spirit. I never wanted to leave, I felt as if I had never left, and had always been there.
Without warning I immediately returned into my body, which I left in the hallway next to the wall. I became completely aware of everything around me, when suddenly the wall vanished and the door appeared and opened, and I saw nothing beyond it. It was not infinity or oblivion, or a void or darkness, it was simply nothing. Then I understood that I was everything.
As the World and Universe enter The New Era of Man, I have become pensive in my faith, that the end time is approaching. My great friend George Dickson up until his death in June of this year, believed that we were already in a new era and were merging into the Fourth Dimension. On so many occasions I experienced his belief and optimism, yet now that he has ascended I feel quite alone in my faith of the complete ascension of Humanity. Perhaps I feel this way because so little around the world has changed positively and seems to be plunging head long into chaos. As a revolutionary optimist I am inspired by the voices of discord I hear and read daily in my research of current events. However as I become more engaged with the revolutionary fever seeming to take over the planet, I become more aware of the opposition forces that have engulfed the world with military and political oppression,expanding police brutality and government indifference to it. Heinous crimes are being committed by supposedly peace keeping forces committed to protect and serve the people of their towns,states and countries. The development of a Police State is a very real threat to everyone in every country, but this is what has been predicted for the end times.
As the world population awakens to its heightened sense of the New Era, and merge into the Fourth Dimension, it must throw off the shackles of Third Dimensional imprisonment. Those who have imprisoned Humanity in the Third Dimension are struggling to keep us here to serve them. Unless we completely understand our imprisonment and slavery to our oppressors, we will continue to remain their slaves. Those who see and understand the New Era of Man, are rising in expectation for the merge into the new dimension. We feel ourselves changing. We see the world changing and our families and friends changing. Either they are changing towards an open and carefree transformation and acceptance of the change or they are closing into themselves and embracing their fear of the changing times. We are now witnessing this in our political debates. The fear of letting go of all that is trying to destroy us is diametrically opposite of all that has and will save us.
As Humanity enters a New Era and the new age of Aquarius, we must embrace this inevitable change that is occurring. We can not deny that it is happening nor can we deny that we are changing, we can only obstinately refuse to change and adapt as dinosaurs and Neanderthals refused to adapt to change. We must adapt completely and willingly, accepting the changes within us and the awakening of our minds and spirits to the new reality. That reality is what we are in now. It is what we will be in our future. Those who accept the great change that is occurring will thrive in the New Era. Those who refuse to accept the change and revert back to our unevolved selves will not survive well the coming change. The yet unfullfilled final Hopi Prophecy predicts the coming of the Blue Planet that will be seen clearly and brightly in our skies. The prophecy states that those who are to ascend will be drawn to the Blue Planet and rise to it, whereby those who fear it or wish only to remain on Earth will, and suffer the results of the cataclysm that will effect all of the inhabitants of the Earth, which is the Red Planet. This prophecy as hard as it is to believe now, may well reveal itself next year in 2013, when a large unnamed comet is schedualed to appear in our solar system. Revelation predicts millions of demons falling to earth. It describes the shapes and sizes of the demonic spirits, which resemble the mist and water that surrounds a comet. That mist is frozen ice that will become partially vaporized as it enters Earth’s atmosphere. Also it is possible for parts of the comet to fall to earth as it nears our gravitational field. Great pieces of comets have fallen to earth in our history. The great flood and destruction of Atlantis and the creation of part of the Atlantic ocean has been attributed to a large meteor or piece of a comet coliding onto the Earth. This also has been an explanation of the sudden extinction of the dinosaur. Some sources including the Bible have stated that 95% of the inhabitants on earth perished during this time.
If those who are awakened to the change and changes to come are aware of these ancient calamities in Earth’s history, why can they not now imagine it happening again? All scientific agencies devoted to studying seizmic activity around the world are predicting more violent erruptions. Numerous earthquakes have been reported and odd multiple quakes have been experienced by countries and continents within the last two years more than any other time in recorded history. There is already scientific warnings announced about a possible electromagnetic solar cloud that will reach the Earth sometimes in 2013, which could potentially wipe out the entire electric grid world wide. It is even possible that the solar storm if strong enough could destroy Earth’s atmosphere and destroy all life on Earth. These are not idle warnings. These are warnings from the foremost scientific communities.
I believe we are in the end times. I also believe that we all have a choice to escape a tragic event by embracing the change we already feel is here. We must understand ourselves and the reason for our being alive at this time. It is a time of great cosmic change as Humanity ascends into another dimension. I do not fear this transition. I understand Fourth Dimensional existence. It is one of clarity and spiritual mastery, where our bodies no longer imprison us in our five senses. Fourth Dimensional existence is where we manifest our every desire, but where only those who desire peace, love and the completeness of their own existence will embrace it and thrive. All who deny their spiritual ascension or the ascension of others in this way shall be doomed to experience the manifestation of their worst fears. They can not escape the changes that occurr for they will be involuntarily thrust into the Fourth Dimension. Their own reluctance and fear and pettiness of mind and spirit will manifest into all that their thoughts and actions represent. Many who are reading this understand me and are ready for the New Era of Man. Those who do not understand me I urge you to awaken soon for little time is left before the change is complete, or you will be forced to accept it in fear. Let us all prepare to join Humanity’s Greatest Celebration on December 22, 2012, when we celebrate our passing from the old Era of Man and enter the new.
THE EUROPEAN UNION WINS THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. WHY????
10/12/12
Ever since Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize I lost all interest and faith in this sham of an international prize. I fail to see the relevance of selecting a group of 27 countries for the most prestigious international prize that once honored Martin Luther King Jr and many other great and noble individuals, for their courage and vision to promote peace and human rights. How can the incompetent heads of European governments even remotely compete with the courage and suffering, and inspiration of those individuals and the recently assassinated Pakistani Girl Malala Yousufzai,who stood up against the Taliban for her right to an education and the right for all Pakistani girls and women to be educated? How can the Nobel committee panel of elitist globalist judges callously ignore the remarkable works of so many men and women around the world, who would use the substantial prize winnings to further their important humanitarian work? It is too obvious that the selection for the Nobel Peace Prize was to award the cruel and incompetent IMF puppet leaders, who have bankrupted their governments and are now demanding severe austerity measures and brutal police actions against the people who democratically elected them. The intelligent concept of awarding and recognizing those individuals who most humbly and compassionately serve Humanity has been callously and arrogantly ignored due to the absolute stupidity of the Nobel committee.
I have recently read a CNN Report that the world now has over 42 million refugees fleeing their countries due to wars and droughts. Of all the countries that are willing to accept refugees the U.S ranks highest with its recent acceptance of less than 60,000, which is far less than one percent of all refugees which U.S foreign and military policies have created. All 27 E.U countries put together fall short of this number of refugees they have accepted even though the European economy is the largest in the world. The member countries of the European Union are responsible for the exploitation of many third world countries and are active members in NATO and the U.N, whose military forces are involved in all the civil wars around the world that are causing the refugee problem. The hypocrisy of the Nobel Committee awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union has destroyed any credibility it once had as a international committee established for the purpose of recognizing individual achievements in the fight for world peace and their contribution to Humanity. I believe that the former great and worthy recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, would denounce their awards and the Nobel Committee for their selection of the European Union.
For my many European readers, I hope this article doesn’t offend you. If you are a regular reader of my website I hope you are as outraged as I am at the recent decision of the Nobel Committee.
It’s happening again. The Republicans have left the Democrats flatfooted and looking stupid. It reminds me of Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football. Everytime poor Charlie gets ready to kick the ball Lucy pulls it away from him and he falls flat on his back. One would think the Democrats after 30 years of falling on their backs during elections and debates would learn, but maybe that’s asking too much of Democrats. There seems to be an inherent stupidity that besets Democratic candidates and their campaign staffs. Either they trust that their Republican opponents will play fair, or they simply aren’t smart enough to remember their own history of failures. The Republicans never play fair. Either they rigged the e-voting machines or payoff the Voter Registrars or they purge the voter registries in battle ground states like Ohio and Florida. It happens every election cycle and for some odd reason Democrats still don’t get the fact, that Republicans always use negative advertising, alway lie, and always try to rig elections.
After reading several reviews and factcheck.org regarding the debate, I found out the reason Obama failed so miserably in his debate with Romney. It was because Romney lied and changed his policies 37 times in the 90 minute debate. Obama was so confused at the barrage of lies and changes of Romney’s rhetoric that he became virtually numb and had no comeback other than to say that Romney’s plans “lack basic arithmetic” or “Mr. Romney has said one thing in all his campaign speeches and now he’s saying never mind.” Romney apparently won the debate by not debating anything substantive and denying everything he has campaigned on previous to the debate. Obama was so confused, he couldn’t land one solid punch. Imagine practicing your debate performance for a week with experts based on the debate style and campaign speeches and stated policies of your opponent, then finding out at the debate that your opponent has changed his policies and continually attacks you with so many lies you don’t know where to begin to defend yourself. It’s a great tactic, and sold well with 50% of the mindless sheeple who watched the debate, but if anyone knew anything about either candidates before the debate and did any research after the debate, they would realize what a complete liar Romney is. The Republicans really do not have any coherent policies in their campaign platform, other than their apparent hatred for Obama, their desparation to win the Whitehouse,and to end funding for Public Television and fire Big Bird.
After hearing the Right Wing rhetoric of Rush Limbaugh and other Republican mouthpieces this week, I realize how they herd their audiences and the Republican base so well. They lie and mislead and say absolutely anything and their massive conservative audiences will agree with them and believe them. It doesn’t matter how stupid or insane or deceptive their statements are. Conservative talk show hosts and their mindless listeners are the same people who vote for Republicans. They despise all constitutional,legal, or ethical standards and regulations unless it affects their twisted religions or their right to bear arms, or stands in the way of their greed. It is obvious to anyone who knows anything about American politics, that most Republican campaign rhetoric, policies and practices are deadly to Americans, and are solely based on election rigging, hypocrisy, misanthropy, and their seething hatred of Democrats and 99% of the American people.
Tonight’s program is a reading of several essays I have written on both the positive and negative aspects of the philosophy of Conservatism and the leaders and institutions established to hold dear to the political philosophy highjacked by corporations and their controlled legislators. The Republican Party was replaced by the GOP and the ideals of Thomas Jefferson the founder of the Republican Party were twisted and perverted by charlatons and tools of major banks and corporations. Jefferson warned the country of the encroaching powers of corporations and banks and would be the first to condemn the Republican Party/GOP for its theft and perversion of his philosophy.
Like millions of people last night I watched the Presidential Debate. Unfortunately by 10pm my eyes started to glaze over and I couldn’t watch the rest of it. I watched Rabid Romney biting and humping Obama’s leg until it became too much to endure. Jim Leherer refused to call a foul or blow into his microphone and let Romney continue to froth at the mouth. Obama was reluctant to kick Romney. He seemed afraid to hurt him. However his reluctance to insult the rabid Romney was a bad tactic by Obama. When you are attacked by a rabid dog there is no time or reason to be diplomatic or politically correct. Obama could have put down and insulted Romney into complete stupified silence by simply stating that Romney didn’t have a clue as to what he was talking about. Four years in the position of the President of the U.S entitles the President to make his opponents and the people he serves understand, that they know very little of what is happening in this country and who the real villans are. The Republican Party vowed at the beginning of Obama’s term that they would do everything to destroy him. This was a public statement made by Mitch McConnel Minority Leader in the Senate. The Republican mandate is to do everything they can including destroying the country to prevent Obama from having a second term as President.
If a group of powerful people emphatically and publicly state that they will do everything in their power to destroy President Obama, why would anyone believe a word they say now, or anything Romney said in the debate last night? Romney is a liar, and the leader of the party that vowed to destroy Obama. If Obama had vowed to destroy the Republican Party I might understand their anger at him, but he didn’t and hasn’t and has tried to work with them on many major issues. Instead of compromising or even developing a viable solution to the problems facing the country they insist on continuing the bankrupt policies that caused all the problems; then condem Obama for trying to fix them,which is what he was elected to do by over 60% of the American voters.
Obama gave Romney a clear field against him without putting up any solid defense or comeback. He could have simply stated that Romney wanted General Motors to fail, as well as the U.S Banking system. That is all he would have had to say and Romney would have been knocked out cold. Instead Obama seemed indifferent to Romney’s attacks and casually let him continue to attack him. This is the folly of Obama. His entire time in office he has been this way. He prefers to sit with the women of the View rather than sit with the Republican leadership. He would rather have a beer with a disgruntled old friend who got arrested entering his own house, rather than have a beer with Boehner or Cantor and tackle the major issue of our country heading for default. He would rather smile at the camera and sing a song and entertain his audience rather than inform them of the dire straights this country is in, and who their enemies really are.
It appeared to me while watching the debate that Obama may not want a second term and may enjoy watching Romney and the Republicans sink into the annals of history as the party and president that destroyed the United States. As sitting President he knows full well the problems facing this country and has thousands of secrets, that can not be revealed due to national security, or devulging as Kennedy did, those who really run the world and the U.S. Perhaps that knowledge and the irony of it all was what Obama was thinking about last night as he allowed Romney to attack him. Romney forgot that Obama has the power to arrest him and his Republican opponents on grounds that they have threatened the President. He could have Romney arrested as a terrorist or revolutionary. The power of the President is far greater than any one other than the President can understand or appreciate. Mitt Romney may understand some of the power the President having been a Governor of a state, but I doubt he truly understands what a fool he really is. I also believe Obama knows he will have another four years. He has been told that by the powerful people who put him there in 2008.
The debate was little more than a 90 minute verbal wrestling match, where both wrestlers took a dive. It was great for television ratings, and a distraction for what is really happening to this country, and being able to blame it all on one or the other candidates. The reigning champ Obama really didn’t have to debate Romney for 90 minutes. He could have literally knocked him out with a single blow. But the great Democracy must have its heroes and villians, and losers and winners in order to keep the American people happily divided and excited for the coming election.
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The 2012 election is one of the most anticipated elections I have experienced in several decades. The desperation America and the world is facing is directly due to the failed policies of past Republican administrations and due in part to many of the failed policies of the current Democratic Administration. I believe most Americans are in a state of flux and fear as we consider as our leader the two candidates being offered by the Republicans and Democratic Parties. Third parties have been completely silenced in American elections because of media bias and lack of corporate donations. The last great hope for many right leaning Independents was Ron Paul, but he was a died in the wool Republican and could never denounce his true loyalty to the system or Party and suddenly and unapologetically, he stranded his millions of faithful supporters and dropped out of the 2012 Republican Primaries, and was never heard from again after his son Rand Paul betrayed his father and gave his support to Mitt Romney.
I have known and supported several third party candidates who were considered fringe candidates. I supported Ralph Nader in 2000, Ross Perot in 1992. In 1996 when Perot attempted to run again, most Americans including his former supporters realized he was insane. In 2004 I was a Dean supporter, until he proved to be a Democratic shill and the media destroyed his campaign by making him look insane. He obviously had enough intelligence to become the DNC chairman. His entire campaign was a scam to bring the Anti War liberals into the Democratic corner, then the Democrats made Kerry the nominee. This was devastating,since anyone with any pride and respect for his country could not stomach John Kerry. After the Republican Swift Boat attack campaign Kerry was seen as a national coward instead of a hero.
Despite the pathetic John Kerry as the Democratic candidate in 2004 Kerry still won the popular vote, and due to outrageous election fraud conducted by the Republicans and the introduction of electronic voting machines and corrupt Secretaries of State in the key states of Florida and Ohio. G.W Bush won that election and Kerry proved his cowardice to his supporters by not contesting the blatant fraud and unexplainable loss of over 3 million Democratic voter ballots in those states. Those of us who are not suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s remember the nightmare election of 2000, when the U.S Supreme Court unconstitutionally decided the outcome of that election and America got G.W Bush, 911, Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and the government and corporate theft of the U.S Treasury. It is amazing how Americans so quickly forget or simply deny their own history.
Now in 2012 the American voter is faced with the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Once again they are considering a hard right Republican candidate, who insists on cutting all welfare and social safety nets for the American people. Great programs such as Medicare and Social Security, Medicaid and school lunch programs, public works programs and work training programs, student loans and grants are on the Republican cutting block. These devastating assaults to our social fabric are what the Republicans want, it is what they stand for. Their only proposals and programs presented to the American people in this election will result in the annihilation of the greatest and most compassionate social programs in U.S history. Any American who would vote to end these programs is not only a ruthless traitor to his countrymen,but also a complete idiot. What kind of monster would deny their children, parents and grandparents food, medical care and a subsistence income for clothing and shelter. These programs are not entitlements, they are paid for by all who paid into these programs their entire working lives. Medicare and Social Security are solvent for the foreseen future. The theft of these funds by the Federal Government is the problem. The irresponsible policies of both Democrats and Republicans in Congress and the Whitehouse are the great threat to these programs. The endless wars and corporate subsidies and corruption have caused all of America’s problems. The cold hearted and blatant contempt towards the American people, and the corruption of our legislative and executive officials, and blatant stupidity of all who elected them, have caused this current economic crisis and all the social problems facing America today. Unless the American voter wakes up now it may well be the end of all that was ever good in our society and the end of The United States.
As a Baby Boomer I can look back at the mistakes I’ve made in my life with some regrets,but of all the regrets that I have, none equal the frightening realization of what has happened and is happening to my country. The virtues and standards that I believed in as a child and young man are virtually non existent in America today. Recently released government reports have alarmingly stated, that more Americans today die of suicide than automobile accidents. More children live in poverty in America today, than any other time in American history. There are more Americans going hungry today than in the Great Depression. The vast 47% that Mitt Romney says he doesn’t care about are these people that are deprived of the American Dream, and even the opportunity to make a livable wage. How can anyone look at Republican policies of the past and present and consider voting for any member of the political party that has and will literally destroy them? The evidence is clear. The crimes of past and present Republican controlled congresses and administrations have decimated the American economy and destroyed our national credit rating and the hope for America’s future. How can anyone be so ignorant not to see what has happened and is happening in front of their own eyes? How can any American regardless of his or her financial status or educational background deny what is happening, and insist on voting for any member of the Republican Party? The same politcal party that has caused the vast majority of all of America’s problems now promises in their campaigns, that they will create the worst economic and social collapse in the history of civilization?
The choice for the American voter is very clear in the 2012 presidential and congressional elections. However the mass media manipulations are masking the real issues, the real corruption, the real corporate and government contempt for the American people. One billion dollars will be spent by the presidential candidates in the 2012 election. Most of the money will be paid to the major media outlets. The news networks will say whatever their sponsors tell them to say, while pretending to present balanced news coverage and “independent journalism”. The hypocrisy of the American news media is so obvious and outrageous no reasonably intelligent person can take them seriously. Americans must use their own common sense,intuition and sensibility in the 2012 election. Unfortunately I fear,that the majority of Americans are mindless, and will prove it if they elect any member of the Republican party. I understand the concerns of intelligent Americans,who will vote in the upcoming elections,but may pause before voting for a Democrat. However the issues are what they are and the Democratic Party is the party that created and fought for all of the greatest social programs we have today. We have to believe that they will continue their firm commitment to preserve and protect the rights and dignity of the American people,and recommit to rebuilding and reestablishing America, and the trust of those who elected them.
I am still and always will remain and Independent but,in 2012 I have been put in the position of little choice. I can opt out of this election and let fate take its course, or I can vote for someone who hopefully will protect and fight for a better future, where I may have the chance to someday see an Independent candidate win the Presidency, and create a viable third party. Until then I must look realistically at the choices in this election and decide if I still want to be a part of this “democratic” system. If I decide to remain an American and not expatriate to some foreign country, then I must remain to fight and rebuild with the tools and weapons I have. The only tools I have are my vote and my voice, the only weapons I have are my hope and commitment for a brighter and better future for my country. I don’t believe the end of America is here, I believe the beginning could be very near and could begin in November 2012. However I do believe America will end soon if the Republican Party remains in power, and are not completely defeated.
If your bank account is down and out,
and you can’t afford food or gas,
don’t worry all things pass.
The world hasn’t ended,
and won’t for a while.
Put on a smile.
Put on a suit.
Polish your shoes.
Put on a hat.
Pet the dog.
Pet the cat.
Kiss your lover.
Hug your kids.
Thank the lady at the food bank
as you’re standing in line.
Thank the Unemployment Office workers,
who give you their time.
Thank the banker who deferred your loan.
Thank the creditors who leave you alone.
Thank the Mailman who delivers your mail.
Thank him again if he loses your bills.
Thank the doctor who discharges you and your debt.
Thank the cable company for shutting off your television set.
Thank the electric,water and phone companies
for forcing you off the grid and fullfilling your dream.
Things don’t get better if you are desperate and mad.
They only gets worse,then really bad.
Being broke is a blessing if you see it that way.
It reminds you of all the things you had and gave away.
It reminds you,when you’re on your feet again,
to appreciate your friends.
I saw another smackdown political ad this morning by Linda McMahon the CEO and cofounder of the WWE now running for Connecticut’s senate seat. This race for Joe Lieberman’s soon to be vacant senate seat is one of the best political races I’ve ever seen. I have never been an admirer of Chris Murphy former Congressman from my home state Connecticut, but neither have I been a fan of Linda McMahon(until recently) who is a wealthy Republican who seems to have unlimited funds and is developing a stong fan base. Recent polls show her running a dead heat with Murphy. I believe she will win this election, because she is relentless in her valid attacks on her Democratic opponent Chris Murphy. I am actually beginning to enjoy watching her ads successfully defending herself from the kitten scratch attacks by Murphy,then clawing his face off and smacking him to the floor. This new ad has thrown him over the ropes and onto the concrete floor and may have left him unconsious. I can’t see him getting up to defend himself this time.
It appears that Chris Murphy took his apprenticeship in Congress from ( the ran out of government) Senator Chris Dodd. Chris Dodd had a better attendence record as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee than Chris Murphy had on the House Finance and Banking Committee. Chris Murphy learned his lessons well of taking large donations from a bank then voting for a massive $400 million dollar bailout of the same bank. Not to mention his mastering the art of negotiation by refinancing his own foreclosure at a low interest rate by the same bank that got the bailout. This is the same type of criminal act that got Chris Dodd into trouble. It’s hard to understand how Murphy couldn’t pay his mortgage on $170,000 salary. One has to wonder if he has a gambling problem. Even if he doesn’t how can anyone trust him with allocating government funds if he can’t budget his own personal expenses.
It’s amazing that the Main Stream Media in Connecticut never picked up on that, nor for some reason never had a discouraging word to say about Chris Murphy and still doesn’t, except to insinuate that the negative campaigning on both sides are getting a little rough,but it doesn’t stop them from playing the ads. The hypocrisy of Murphy and Dodd has become synonymous with Connecticut Politics. I’m pleased that Linda McMahon is running for office in Connecticut, she’s exposing all the hidden flaws of her Democratic opponents. She virtually destroyed Richard Blumenthal in her 2010 run for Chris Dodds senate seat, after she exposed his lie about being a Vietnam Vet. But there were too many Jewish voters in Connecticut to end his career, and Connecticut hasn’t had a Republican senator since the infamous Lowel Wieker 30 years ago (unless you count the Crypto Republican Joe Lieberman).
Keep on kicking Linda and don’t let the Democratic dirtbag get away with anything. I think most Connecticut voters are surprised and pleased that she has uncovered so much dirt on Murphy, which is something the news agencies have neglected or refused to do. As an Independent I am enjoying my weekly colored flyer from Linda’s campaign with another often funny and factual smackdown of Murphy. I only hope that her victory will also be a victory for Connecticut residents.
I have yet to see a more arrogant imbecile run for public office. There is very little if anything to like about Romney. He and his wife remind me of the characters on the television series Madmen. Their lifestyle, morality and fashion are a complete throw back to the late fifties and early sixties culture of Madison Avenue advertising firms. Their entire existence is dependent on the delusion of false values and Mammon the god of money. Everything about the Romneys suggests their divorce from the economic reality faced by the majority of the American people. Romney has no morality. His entire public and private life is nothing more than a series of manipulations and destruction of people’s lives and livlihoods. His cynicism was completely obvious to everyone in the Mother Jones video. He was talking “off the cuff” to wealthy donors to his campaign, each having paid $50,000 to see and hear him speak. He was speaking to his base, when he said he didn’t care about half of America’s population. He didn’t care about them because they didn’t pay taxes and were dependent upon the government. He cynically overlooked that all of the 47% are grossly underpaid, unemployed or underemployed and underwater in debt because of his and the Republican economic policies of the last 30 years. He knows that his and Ryan’s policies would devastate that 47% and ruin the remaining 52% that he needs to get elected. The only people that would benefit from a Romney presidency would be the 1% that he is a part of.
I am disgusted by Romney. His distain and indifference to the American people is sociopathic. Electing this man as President would be suicidal for America. His qualifications for the presidency are only, that he was the token head of the vulture captial firm Bain Capital. Bain was founded by an Israeli Mossad agent, Romney was brought into the firm because of his father’s connections and they needed a token figure head, not because of anything he was capable of doing. His obvious amorality, arrogance and greed were the perfect qualifications for the figurehead Job of CEO of Bain Capital.
So, fellow 99 Percent, where does that leave us? As disappointing as Obama’s presidency has been, four years of a Romney Republican presidency would be completely devastating to us. I know there are many people who will vote for this vulture because they are vultures themselves. However, anyone else who votes for Romney is a complete fool.
By now most who are interested have seen the nude photos of Kate and Willy at play on their honeymoon. It was only a matter of time before someone exposed their frolicking in the sunlight of world fame. I find it strange how any security service assigned to the royals during their honeymoon could allow photographers anywhere near the royal couple”s honeymoon retreat. Any astute observer of these revealing photos of the couple could easily assume that the pictures might have been taken by a security guard. Maybe he or she had a quarrel with the royal couple or just couldn’t resist taking a few keepsake pictures of the pair on the balcony, to add a few British pounds to their retirement pension. I’m certain their are other photos or videos of the couple that haven’t been seen yet that are even more revealing.
Perhaps the most revealing photo was the one where Willy was putting sunlotion on Kate’s “bum” (that’s what the British call the rear end). In this day of embarrassing celebrity exposures I don’t believe too many people were surprised by these pictures. Actually Kate has a very nice body and will probably be more comfortable being seen in bathing suits and skimpy celebrity attire. It may not be as bad a public relations problem for the Royals as it first appears. Personally I was never interested in royal watching until lately. The Prince Harry photos were hysterical. He wound up being sent into combat in Afghanistan. Now Kate and Willy have been humbled and stripped naked of their royal refinements. I can see Willy being sent off to rescue someone in his helicopter while Kate is sentenced to the Tower of London.
Kate is a beautiful and lovely lady. She really has nothing but the loss of Royal modesty to be ashamed of. Many couples today post their honeymoon pictures on Facebook. So my advice to the Royal couple is to keep smiling and be cool about the whole thing. Everyone has been naked and seen someone else naked at sometime in their lives, and a lot of people make their living by posing for movies or pictures naked. Where would Victoria Secret Models be without their nude photo albums,or A list movie stars without their Playboy centerfolds. So Kate, just grin and bare it all and be thankful you are great looking and have a great body that the world can admire, imagine the nightmare of embarrassment and humilation if Camilla and Charles had been photographed naked. Aside from being a revolting picture of Camilla naked, it might remind everyone of Charles’s famous wish, to be Camilla’s Tampon.
Celebrating the Joys of Dying and Disease with Team Robin of Good Morning America
9/11/12
I have never seen such an incompetent production as the recent Good Morning America show on ABC. Since their co host Robin Roberts has developed bone cancer so has the entire show. I’ll be honest I never watched the show until Amy Roebuck was hired away from NBC. Within Amy’s first week the jealously of her “Team” mates seethed into the camera and became obvious especially with Robin.
Amy Roebuck is so great she sucks all the oxygen out of the room, when she’s on the air. The less than charismatic members of Team Robin including Robin herself immediately wilted next to Amy, then the trouble began. Within a week of Amy’s debut Robin realized she couldn’t compete with Amy’s great looks and personality and she suddenly takes off a week, as Amy continues as the perfect co host. Then upon Robin’s return Amy is no where to be seen and GMA’s ratings drop. Robin takes a dramatic step and gets sick on the air, and can’t finish the show and suddenly it’s announced she’s not coming back. Then the next day it’s announced that her mother died. Then after a week with her family she enters the hospital ready for her treatments, which will incapacitate her for 6 months if it doesn’t kill her. All the while “Team Robin “ announces her illness every 5 minutes and confirms that she is coming back to the show as they completely ignore and talk over Amy.
In another stupid move last week, they replaced Amy with some mousey looking unknown reporter for the week until their ratings plummeted further and they brought back Amy. On her first day back they suddenly announce Jessica Simpson will be co hosting. It’s a sickening and desperate display of stupidity and jealousy. It looks like Robin Roberts is directing the show from her hospital bed insuring her name is mentioned every five minutes and that Amy doesn’t have a shot at co hosting the program. If I were producing GMA I’d tell everyone to knock off the Robin’s dying crap and get on with keeping the show alive.
One week of Amy Roebuck as co host turned Robin into a sad, sick memory. “Oh, poor Robin.” everyone said. But no one wants to watch Robin dying except Robin. Her ego has become so bloated by her undeserved ratings,(all the other network morning shows are so incredibly bad.) It is becoming painfully obvious, that GMA’s producers and Robin Roberts want to insure if she dies so dies Good Morning America.
Today I heard that Jessica Simpson was going to co host the show with George Stephanopolis and Amy Roebuck will sit there like a statue or be reasigned to a reporting job. It is the ultimate humiliation for her, and I refuse to watch any more bubble headed blonde bimbos in the morning. Jessica Simpson is the ultimate bubble headed, blonde, bimbo now teamed up with the other bubble headed, blonde on the show.
Bringing Jessica Simpson in to deflect Amy Roebuck’s sunshine from her viewers was a stupid,blundering move that will bring GMA spiraling downward out of control and hit bottom; unless Robin dies or leaves the show permanently, or Amy is given the Co Host job and the proper respect she deserves.
So good bye Good Morning America. I can no longer stomach The Robin Roberts’ Self Pity Show, and I can no longer watch the show flounder and drown in its producer’s blatant stupidity. Hang in there Amy I wish you great success. Keep smiling that perfect winning smile, and you will beat out all of your jealous “team” mates sitting next to you, who will one day be announcing themselves as members of “Team Amy”. I am glad you are the only one who hasn’t said a word about Robin. That shows that you’re not a sycophant like the rest of “Team Robin”. I suspect their concerned comments about Robin are scripted. Don’t join the kiss up crew of idiots trying to win Robin’s fans’ affections, they will realize very soon that Robin has very few fans, and fewer everyday as this program format kills the show. Anyone watching the show now is tuning in to watch Amy, definately not George or the other unmemorable members of “Team Robin”, and not Jessica Simpson. I can’t believe many viewers will continue to tune in the show to hear the most recent update on Robin’s health every five minutes, or see pictures and videos specials of her in a hospital bed with IVs in her arms. I know I won’t. It will be interesting to see if NBC hires Brittany Spears to cohost with Matt Laur, and if CBS hires Maddona as a cohost to transfuse some life into their morning show.
OBAMA IS SKYWALKING WITHOUT A NET, AND WITHOUT A CLUE HOW TO GET BACK ON THE GROUND
9/8/12
Like the other twenty or so million television viewers I watched Barack Obama’s speech Thursday night. I was so unimpressed I couldn’t write about it for several days. I didn’t want to outright reject his speech, but I couldn’t accept it either. Everything he said he would do , except Obamacare wasn’t done. He continued the Bush/Republican wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and began other conflicts with Libya and Syria , retained all rendition policies and did not close Gitmo or any other special prison set up by G.W. Bush. He continues to send ceaseless drone attacks over Pakistan, he continues to bow to the Israelis, he continues to allow the Republicans to stall any intelligent legislation, and he allowed all the Bush criminals to walk away and all the bankers after they robbed the American taxpayer and government of trillions of dollars and wrecked the world economy. He reappoints Ben Bernanke as Chairman of the Fed and keeps all the bumbling financial and military idiots in his Cabinet and staff of advisors. He may be a “hard working president” but what I can’t understand nor it seems can anyone else, is what is he working at?
I am reminded of the great tight rope walker Walenda as he recently walked across Niagra Falls without a net. The only difference between Obama and Walenda is Walenda knew exactly what he was doing and calculated perfectly each move he had to make to accomplish his amazing feat. Obama makes things up as he goes,(like his speech). After the remarkable rhetoric heard from Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama all he would have had to say was “Listen to them”,but instead he felt he should recap what they said and try to be inspirational. He succeeded at the first and failed miserably at the second. The only thing in this election that makes him electable is exactly what makes Romney unelectable. The fundamental belief of Romney and Republicans is “The rich should get richer and the poor should get poorer.” The fundamental belief of Obama is “The poor should get richer and the rich should get poorer.”
I see nothing wrong with Mr. Obama’s basic ideal of the rich paying a greater percent in taxes and the poor paying less however, how hard is Mr. Obama really fighting for the poor and middle classes considering he has refused to indict or punish any the criminal banksters and Bush Administration thugs, who got the country into the greatest financial and military disasters we have ever been in. I loudly criticized G.W Bush’s use of Executive Orders and signing statements, but Mr. Obama has signed 943 Executive Orders since he has been in office for 3 ½ years, which is more than G.W. Bush signed in his 8 horrid years in office.
The destruction of our Constitution is nearly complete under Obama’s presidency. Ironically Obama was trained at Harvard Law as a Constitutional Lawyer. What began as outrageous attacks against our rights and freedoms under G.W. Bush’s regime has taken on tyrannical proportions and censorships of news and the internet, rights of Free Speech and Free Assembly have been severely crippled under the Obama presidency. The Fourth Amendment right of warrants and protection against illegal searches and seizures has been completely ignored by Obama’s administration. Jobs have been decimated under the current economic system. Actual unemployment in the U.S is over 20% surpassing that of the Great Depression. But what everyone seems to conveniently forget is, that the U.S now has over 300 million people,200 million more than in 1929. 20% of 300 million is 60 million people. 25% of 100 million people is 25 million. It would appear by proof of simple arithmetic that more than twice as many people today are unemployed than were at the height of the Great Depression.
So where does that leave us Mr. Obama? Where do we go from here? You’re the great cheerleader of “Hope and Change” well, since you came into office you have shattered the hopes and dreams of tens of millions of homeowners who suffered or are suffering foreclosures. You have violated the rights and hopes of all Americans who speak out against your incompetent policies and war mongering methods of dictatorial madness. Where is your leadership Mr. Obama? I haven’t seen it. I don’t see it in your opponent either. All I see is the great void facing the American people. Unless you can miraculously part the sea of despair now drowning 99% of Americans I see no future for you as President. I am horrified at the thought of a Romney presidency also,but it doesn’t matter who wins the election, because regardless which one of you become America’s leader America will remain lost.
GOP 2012 Convention is Infested with Bush Bugs,Tea Mites and Other Invasive Species
8/30/12
There is a bad infestation of Bush bugs at the GOP Convention. One of them gave a torturous rendition of her “achievements” as Secretary of State, wearing a Joker’s smile in bright red lipstick. Then a video appeared of two of the world’s most hideous Bush bugs G.W. Bush and his Father G.H.W Bush, then came a frightening long winded speech by the Legitimate Rape VP nominee Paul Ryan. Wow, I was so scared I had to pull the sheets over my head and shut off the television.
A sudden change in venue appeared last night when the Bush Bugs broke through the security barriers and invaded the GOP Convention. It was first announced that no Bush Administration members or family members would appear at the convention, but that could not keep out the nasty little creatures. Hurricane Isaac must of stirred up the creatures underground and brought them into the Convention arena. There were other frightening creatures that surfaced in the arena as well. A heavy set and vicious animal with a semi human appearance attacked the press corp. and others in attendance as he jumped up on stage and began to growl into the microphone for 30 minutes. The beast was identified later as a rogue wild bore from New Jersey, that became lost and disoriented and wandered down the east coast to the Florida pan handle. Many at the convention were horrified by his presence, when contrasted against the sedated, Red dressed, female Vulture Capitalist, who had just confessed her physical and mental weaknesses and apparent affection for her Male Vulture Capitalist mate. Other less visable invaders were present at the convention arena. Tea mites were prevalent throughout the place as they ate away the GOP Platform until it crumbled into splinters and collapsed.
Tonight will be the last night of the Convention when The Vulture Capitalist enters on stage to try and humanize himself to the American audience and to create a less frightening appearance to the GOP delegates, though many were already stripped of their power, and forced to nominate him as their leader. The skeletal remains of Ron Paul and his delegates will be hung through out the arena as a warning to others who try to disrupt the GOP Convention, or try to publicly protest or heckle The Vulture Capitalist during his primetime speech.
Between the Bush Bugs, the Tea mites, the Rogue New Jersey bore, the Legitimate Rape VP Nominee, the bright red painted lipped, Joker Smile, Bush Bug, The hideous father and son Bush Bugs on a big screen, the red dressed, Vulture Capitalist’s female mate, and Hurricane Isaac roaring past the convention arena on its way to devastate New Orleans, all of these have so far created an absolutely frightening spectacle of a disastrous political convention.
THE GOP KATRINA CONVENTION (A Hurricane of Republican Delusion)
8/27/12
On the same day as the delayed opening of the 2012 GOP Convention in Tampa Florida and the 7th year anniversary of Katrina, a CAT two hurricane is about to descend upon the Gulf Coast. The irony of this can not be ignored, nor can the absence of every member of the G.W. Bush Administration at the GOP Convention this year be ignored. One of the greatest failures of the G.W. Bush Presidency and the actions of the Republican held majority in Congress was their absolute failure to supply adequate aid to the cities and states devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
An estimated 20,000 people are (were) expected to attend the convention. No Tea Party celebrity was invited to speak and Ron Paul was only allowed a video taped speech. The last announcement by the Ron Paul Campaign was, “They expected to have an overwhelming presence at the convention.” That is yet to be seen. It is questionable if any Ron Paul supporters or delegates were even allowed to attend the convention because of the GOP fear, that they would cause a riot or a public protest against the Party and Romney. Ah, the Republican Masters of Delusion must be shaking in their hip waders about now. The postponement of the GOP Convention and its opening day expected on the 7th anniversary of Katrina has got to be a sign from God to send fear and doubt into the Fundamentalist Souls of the Republican delegates, and give the American people a sign of Heavenly Distain for the Republican Party.
I am looking forward to watching the off balanced beginning of the Tampa Convention. Latest news is that all the Republican Governors and major politicians from the Gulf Coast region will not attend the Convention, so they can prepare for the coming hurricane about to hit their states. Also they could not politically afford to be seen celebrating in Tampa as their states are assaulted by a CAT TWO hurricane. The frightening memory of Katrina is forever fixed in the minds of all Republican politicians as an unhealed wound on their already pathetic reputation.
It will be interesting to see if Romney and Ryan mention cutting FEMA aid or Medicaid and Medicare and Unemployment benefits in their nomination speeches, while millions of Americans on the Gulf Coast are being evacuated from the path of the hurricane. It will also be interesting to see if there is a sudden change in their public demeanors as hard nosed, uncompassionate, tax cutting conservatives, to liberal/moderate, kind and “compassionate conservatives “. Their taking the chance of referencing G.W. Bush’s campaign slogan in their speeches would be suicide for their campaign. The only choice they have is to ignore the storm and play to their base, however since they have deliberately ignored the Tea Party they no longer have a base. Their base now is the same one G.W Bush called his base, which is the “One Percent” who are feverishly funding Romney’s campaign.
So fare well Republican Party, as you set adrift your Convention Flag Ship , that will soon be devastated by hurricane winds and rain, and capsized by the storm waves of the American peoples’ hatred for your candidates and policies, as you sink into the depths of the sea of political contempt with all passengers lost.
This is my final reading of this remarkable story. Tonight’s reading entails the conclusion of the author’s confession involving the years of 1818 and 1819, as certain months and years that he tried to quit his addition, and how it was nearly impossible. His description of his remarkable visions and nightmares are some of the world’s greatest literature. Also he declares Homer to have been an opium eater and sites a passage from “The Pleasure Dome” as being similar to one of his own visions, without referencing the name of the poem or the poet Colridge, who was a known opium user and close friend of DeQuincy.
You have to admire Joe Biden for being one of the few politicians that says what he means. He’s had to apologize a few times for his bluntness however, this time with his “Unchained” comment he struck a dagger into the hearts of the Republicans. Americans and people around the world have been chained to a fraudulent banking system and a greed driven congress that has been dominated for the last two years by conservative Republicans, who want nothing more than to stall any progressive actions that might get the U.S out of the hole we are in. I’m not a great fan of Obama or his advisory staff, who have not prosecuted the banksters and have allowed gun running into Mexico, legalized illegal immigration and continued the expansion of wars around the planet all without Congressional or Constituional approval. However I am less of a fan of the Republican Party and its current presidential candidate and VP candidate and fear the potential harm that four years of Bush/Reagan/Romney/Ryan policies will doom this country and all middleclass Americans.
Joe Biden did not go far enough in his speech. He should have said that we must not only chain the banking system but put the fraudulent banksters and billionaires behind bars for maximum sentences. But as all political rhetoric during a campaign season is political rhetoric and has no real bearing on actual policies once politicians are elected to office I think Joe Biden should continue his blunt and very funny rhetoric and blast his Republican opponents as hard and as humorously as possible. Conservatives and Republicans have no sense of humor and are bullies who can’t stand criticism, especially when the criticism is true. They name call and threaten their opponents and rig elections, blatantly cuss out hecklers and protesters, then run off the stage in fear. Then they get their pitbull pundits on Fox News to cry about the unfair attacks against them. The entire political system in the U.S is a hysterical farce so why not have more rhetorical comedic moments with Joe Biden, and Obama shouldn’t hold back either. If they could make fun of Romney and Ryan and the entire Republican Party during the next few months, this election season could really be fun to watch as the Republicans all cry on stage and in Fox interviews and bring out their kids to cry with them.
So my advice to Obama and Biden is to unchain themselves from their politically correct restraints and hit their opponents as hard as they can. Have their speech writers punch up their speeches with humor and make as much fun of their ridiculous Republican opponents as possible. If they do this I guarantee they will win this election and brighten up a bleak and boring election season. I think the Democrats should begin a Republican joke campaign on the blogosphere and select the best to put in their debates or campaign speeches. Be bold, be Bidenesque, be funny, and put the Republicans and their ridiculous policies,pundits and politicians in the glaring and comedic light they deserve to be in and fear most .
It appears to me that I have run out of options in the 2012 elections. Locally,statewide and nationally I have not one decent choice amongst political candidates. I used to muster up enough excitement or (patriotism) to do my democratic duty, but the only option I now have in 2012 is not to vote. I have thought of this many times in past elections and in 2010 I was so disgusted at everyone running for congress and in local elections I didn’t vote. Guess what? I felt better and my vote didn’t matter one way or the other, but it mattered to me that I could silently protest the election. I didn’t need a megaphone or a protest sign, I just didn’t bother to vote.
It felt good to sit that election out and get on with my life. 2010 was a good year for me, things seemed to be going my way, but nothing political was changing or had anything to do with my happiness. In fact it was just the opposite. I realized that after writing and publishing my book Naked at the Mic / The Survival of a Liberal in a Time of Peril, that everything that upset me centered around politics. I was focused on politics and news as a radio talk show host and writer of essays on this website. Conspiracies were abound in the nation and around the world. No one could stop the criminals because everyone in power was a criminal. I realized late in 2010 that if I wanted to get through the year sane, I had to stop thinking about politics and get on with life. But once the elections were over and my political interests were drying up, my radio station was sold and my show was cancelled. As I recovered from the blow in early 2011 I began to wonder if the negative things all happened because of all the political negativity I put out in my book and broadcasts. I began to focus on repairing my karma by avoiding the added stress and negativity of politics and focused more on my philosophical and metaphysical research.
I still get pissed at Republicans and Democrats and elections and politics as usual, criminals not proscecuted and victims denied justice, wars, genocide, eugenics etc. But I realize now I only have one option and always did. That option was and is to be centered enough to understand that there never was or is any political options. The system is so rigged that only a fool would get involved with it. Only a fool could honestly believe he had a chance at changing a system so corrupt and embedded in the national psyche. Unless you are a “made” man or woman you do not have a chance at winning an election, and if you do win, the chances of changing anything but the name sign on your office door is next to nil. So I write this today after considering the possiblities of any “decent” candidate being offered to the American people, and I realize if there is a “decent” candidate somewhere he or she isn’t running for office in my state, town or country, and if there is a “decent” candidate running somewhere
they don’t stand a chance at being noticed, raising money, or getting local, state or national media attention simply based on the fact that they are “decent.” Unless they are embroiled in scandal, corruption or are outright liars and hypocrites, the media doesn’t take notice of them. The media assures the American public, that whoever they elect for public office must be stained and tarnished or foolish or simply incompetent. With the system so rigged against any decent candidate being elected I am announcing the end of my political career as a voter of undecent candidates. I will begin my search elsewhere for competent and decent candidates for politcal office, and search for them in an alternate universe.
Paul Ryan is the GOP choice for Vice President. I doubt if Romney really had a choice in this pick. The media talking heads have stated, that “Romney really likes him.” But the truth is the Koch brothers really like him, and so do the Madmen and Women in the Tea Party. To the average American now coming down from their Olympic high,and waterlogged patriotism we are forced to concentrate on Romney’s stellar choice for VP. Is it any wonder why he chose the day of the closing of the Olympics to announce his choice? It’s a Republican kick in the groin to the Moderate and Liberal American public.
I laughed at Obama’s “Romneyhood” quote last week. The idea of giving to the rich and taking from the poor goes back to the days of feudalism and the theft of Republicanism by the GOP. That is exactly what has been predicted for the New World Order Agenda. Corporations rule the fiefdoms, Masonic knights and Iluminati Dragons rule the remaining ruins of the world after the world war and genocide of billions of people around the planet. What remains will be ruled by the elite one percent remaining, and possibly another one percent of the rest of us to do the grunt work of maintaining some form of civilization.
Paul Ryan has made himself into a symbol of the cut throat mentality of the GOP and their Vulture Capitalist Presidential Wannabe Romney. It is time for all laid back liberals and mealy mouthed moderates to get mad enough to take a serious bite out of Washington Republicans and send them all back to the cages they escaped from. These vultures and hyenas have and will continue to bite the throats and suck the life out of the poor and middleclass Americans by taxing them to death and taking away all social services and safety nets for those already jobless, homeless and in complete dispair. May God damn all Ryan Romney loving hypocrites and may he put them in their pens with the other pigs of society. Let them swell the jails and federal prisons with their own fattened bodies and those of their corrupt families. It’s time that they be forced to eat the patriotic slop they have puked out at their own stump speeches. Unless real Americans (not tea partiers) stand up and smack down Ryan and Romney in their stump speeches and Facebook and Twitter them into the dirt that is the Republican Platform, we are destined to sleepwalk into the insane nightmare vision that is Ryan,Romney and The Republican Party.
We begin this reading with Thomas De Quincey’s description of the pleasures of opium, he describes his first experiences that began at 19,when he developed a chronic toothache which lasted several weeks. A friend told him about Opium and where to get it at a local London pharmacy. From that point on De Quincey developed his dependency on opium and in this segment of his story he describes his pleasurable experiences using the “Divine Drug”. This segment is humorous and honest with a stern criticism of the medical proffession.
I begin my reading where DeQuincey describes the sorrow of leaving his friend Ann, a fifteen year old prostitute, and his promise to return to her as he departed London on his quest for financial help from several friends and Jewish Money Lenders.
Great show tonight with Larry Dorman Public Affairs Coordinator for Council 4 AFSCME Union. We support unions to keep the American Middle Class strong. We talk about several strikes going on in Connecticut, and the nightmare of a Romney Presidency.
Anyone who is considering voting for this character is in a permanent fog of denial. This is an old Ron Paul video but, it caught the Romney character perfectly. Romney has so little conviction to anything but winning the presidency he would cosmetically change his race to Black or Latino if he thought it would win him the election. Please note, I do not support Obama either, though I admit I voted for him in 2008.
Aug 16 2012
Thomas DeQuincey’s”Confessions of an English Opium Eater”, reading Part V
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August 16, 2012
Tonight I read the section entitled Introduction to the Pains of Opium and The Pains of Opium.
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