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On December 27 the people of Gaza were suddenly and deliberately attacked by the State of Israel. The world now witnesses an unprecedented butchery.

Most of the dead and wounded are civilian men, women and children.

Israel didn’t attack Hamas, it attacked the whole population of Gaza. Israel is again guilty of war crimes because of its disregard of the Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

Hamas’ leader, Ismail Haniyeh, said “Palestine has never witnessed an uglier massacre.” Words do not adequately convey the tremendous human suffering and murder at the hands of Israel.

Hamas was democratically elected. It is the legitimate Palestinian government.

The January 2006 Palestinian elections, conducted under International scrutiny, were more open and honest than those that put Bush II into office in either 2000 or 2004. The response by the United States was criminal denial.

United States mainstream media ignores Israel blockading Gaza.

Ignored is the closing of all border crossings, the cutting off of most essential-to-life supplies, the creation of critical shortages of everything and the devastation of local production and agriculture which sent poverty and unemployment soaring while grievously harming the health and welfare of the population.

Ignored is the fact that Israel cut off all outside aid, imposed a crippling economic embargo and imprisoned 1.5 million Gazans in isolation.

Ignored is the fact that Israel never disengaged from Gaza.

Ignored is the fact that Israel relocated its Gaza settlers to seized West Bank land to strengthen its hold on the Territory.

Ignored is the fact that Israel redeployed to new positions and re-enters Gaza at will.

Ignored is the fact that Israel controls Palestinian airspace and coastline.

Ignored is the fact that Israel controls movement within and between Gaza and the West Bank.

Ignored is the fact that Israel controls virtually all other aspects of Palestinians’ lives.

Ignored is the fact of Israel’s repeated incursions, killings, targeted assassinations, mass arrests, incarcerations and torture.

All of this is aided and abetted by the United States.

Israel is a repeat offender. Hamas responds in self-defense as international law allows.

Article 51 of the UN Charter permits the “right of individual or collective self-defense (against an armed attack) until the Security Council has taken measures to maintain international peace and security.”

On December 21, 1965, the UN General Assembly adopted Res. 2131 titled: “Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States and the Protection of Their Independence and Sovereignty.”

It called armed intervention, subversion, and all forms of indirect intervention synonymous with aggression and recognized “the legitimacy of struggle by the people under colonial rules (including occupation) to exercise their rights to self-determination and independence.”

On November 22, 1974, the UN General Assembly passed Res. 3236 recognizing that Palestinians have the same right to self-determination as other sovereign states.

On June 8, 1977, Protocol 1 to the August 1949 Geneva Conventions was passed - “relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts.”

It declared the legitimacy of armed struggle (or resistance) to achieve self-determination as long as no proscribed methods are used. Further, “all states (are urged) to provide material and moral assistance to the national liberation movements in colonial territories (including occupied people seeking freedom).”

Earlier in the year, Hamas leaders agreed to a ceasefire and observed months of it unilaterally, despite repeated Israeli violations and Gaza being under siege. On November 4, it ended after the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) entered Gaza without cause and killed six Hamas officers.

Hamas responded to IDF violence and until December 27 no Israeli was killed or injured. Hamas attacks are mere pin pricks and only responded to first-strike Israeli attacks.

Palestinian flag above will long serve as a reminder of Israel’s atrocities committed with United States weapons, financial aid and political support.

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Amy Nelson sent us this letter and writes, “…this is from Lisa Jordan, my soul sister and spiritual teacher.”  Amy hopes you will consider this vision for 2009.

As 2008 comes to a close, I wanted to stop a moment to reflect on the year.  The ups, downs and roller-coaster loops have taken many by storm and my thoughts for 2009 isn’t in as much resolution thoughts as I’d like it to head towards a prayer/ creation form.  I hope you will join me in focusing positive and good intentions to the changes that are needed within and around us.

If you need to do the normal “I will give up…..” (resolutions) do so but I hope you will also join me in the process of “I am going to create….” instead.

As we all hope and pray for a change to occur in our country in economy, peace, etc, I ask that we all PARTICIPATE in a change and switch for our country.  I hope that we can start with a change and shift within our Self, in full mind/body/spirit and emotions.  Start within.  Find true peace within.  To thine own self be true – ESPECIALLY when no one else is looking.

Judge no one.  Truly, TRULY try to live and let live while trying to live as an example the world that we truly all hope to “be”.

Each and every one of us can help in switching gears if we allow it to.  Read, study and learn and then truly follow the laws of attraction.  See in your life how what you “are” is what is around you.  Your thoughts matter.  Lose the word “I hate” and realize that word is just as hurtful and ugly as some of the four letter words we don’t allow our little ones to say.  We’ve got to fully realize that children absolutely learn what they live.  Learn to control your anger or how you express yourself – it’s all an energy that creates more of the same around you.

Try life in a sober fashion.  Whew, what a concept.  See the world clearly and enjoy your down time and goof off time but make it more few and far between than the drunken states.  Display in life the world you want to be.

Take a look at some of the photos we put out in life.  Is this a true example of how we want others to view us or see us?  Is there a balance?

If people live in a world where lies, mistrusts, untruths, and major withholding of important information occur, I guarantee others are seeing it.  Children, learn what they live and that’s simply a proven fact.  If a child lives in lies, mistrusts, untruths, and major withholding of important information – they will do it too as they grow into adults.  If they live in a world of judgment or bigotry, they will show that as well.  If your household is a hostile one and the children are around watching, know that they are soaking it in like a sponge.  Look around and see what it is that you want the little ones connected to you to “be” to “carry” to “live” as they grow up.  There is no bigger inheritance you can give a child than the one you create while they are in our care.

If you don’t have children / grandchildren of your own, don’t think you get a ‘free ride’ because I guarantee, somewhere – some place close to you, a child is watching.  9 times out of 10, someone has found you for a reason and you are being a living walking example for them and it’s time we all start stepping up to the plate on a conscious level and realizing that we DO make a difference.

Realize if they are shown how to be calm in the moments of pisstivity and learn to deal with their anger differently, they’ll soon learn to live it.  If they live in a world of respect for all living beings, they will live it.  If they are given truth and honesty and taught the importance of it all, they will live it as they grow up and into adults.  Many of the children in your life won’t get this at home – isn’t it time we stop viewing them as objects of ownership and start seeing they we all belong to each other?  This world isn’t going to ever heal if we keep viewing it as a separate entity then “us”.  We are not just a part of this world…the world is a part of us !! Let’s work together in healing US !!  Doesn’t it just make sense?

People cross our paths for a reason and it is our responsibility to start living and walking a life daily that is going to switch the energy we are living in.  To help teach DIFFERENT lessons than the ones so many of us were spoon fed.  There is so much more to life….there is so much more TRUTH to life than what many of us believe.

I challenge you to start within.  Let’s dig deep and start leaving some of the ugliness behind.  My personal biggest challenge is to lose the word “hate”, I say it quite often – normally joking around but I still need to lose it for 2009.  I have loads of other things I need to start within about as well…but I want to start.  I am going to create a more peaceful “me” for 2009.  I am moving forward to consciously create a more peaceful me then I’m going to try and expand that energy around me.

I will visualize it often…moving into the rooms of my house and then the yard and the area around the property.  After becoming okay with that visualization and start feeling it, I’m going to move it towards my neighborhood and then the city in hopes that the energy really starts to catch on and move towards other people who I know are doing the same.

After that, I hope to move it towards the counties in the state and then the state and then outward until all conscious like minds start to help this energy to truly shift and catch on to all the other people I know aiming towards the same goal.

I am going to create an energy shift - a transformational energy shift and I hope and pray some of you will understand and join me.  We need a desperate change.

I ask that we all learn how important truth, honesty, loving deeply & sincerely, living truthfully and without hesitation or regret is.  I ask that we all try to learn that each and every crossing of another person can truly be a gift from God.  The good, the bad and the ugly – they are all here for a reason and maybe its time for us to stop from just saying ‘hello and how are you’ and listen to what others may be able to bring to our table.

The ‘bad’ connections doesn’t mean we have to keep those close to us on a permanent basis or real personal basis if they are making poor choices for themselves and for others but we can learn from the darkest of moments if we allow ourselves to. And I honestly believe if we try to look deep enough within any one person, you’ll see their light.

We may never truly know what makes certain people do certain things or why the homeless man on the corner is completely seemingly okay with just living holding a cardboard sign and not living the life we may choose but who are we to judge?  Live and let truly live, right?  To try to understand rather than to simply try to be understood.

Pray !!  Pray for change.  Send positive energy to those in need and who are incapable of doing it for themselves.  Let’s PARTICIPATE in a peaceful movement.  Let’s BE Peace and hope that we soon can help others to do the same.  I am going to create 2009.

Even if this war comes to and end in the future and we start to get our money back in this country, we are FAR from out of harms way from what this war has brought to us.  Our men and women in the military are coming home changed people.  There is little to no regime or transitional period for them to go through as they work their way back into society and their family and our country.

In 2005, an alarming 6200+ men/women committed suicide after being released.  The government is not taking care of our people in the mental capacity that is needed.  There are cover ups and nasty things going on because there isn’t enough money to help these people truly recover.  The Government has told our mental physicians to stop diagnosing post traumatic stress disorder and move towards a personality disorder.  Why?  Because PTSD is something the Government would have to treat for the long haul…a personality disorder is something that would have occurred “at birth”.  It’s simply not okay.

The money needs to stop going into a war we were never truly prepared to go into on any level.  Our men / women are coming back changed and that one fact alone is going to affect the inside of our country (“security and safety”) more than any thing else.  Bringing these people back ‘not whole’ is just as dangerous as the war reasons they claim to be fighting in the first place.  We are all going to pay for it if we don’t all stop our lives in some way to start PARTICIPATING in peace.

We’ve got to break the cycle and energy that is around us.

We need to speak out for those things of true importance because our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren are going to feel it for years to come if we don’t help and get involved.  Again…what an inheritance if we DON’T get involved !!

Speak out! Realize we can make a difference!!  Live the idea of peace but let’s help be a loud voice to help get these people such as the ones coming out of the military and rejoining our society, HELP - in full mind, body, spirit and emotions as we all should be trying to live our balanced life.

Many people need nurturing.  They need support.  Each and every person released from the war needs to have mandatory care to transition back into our society….it is going to affect us all if not.  And we shouldn’t stop there…look around, I guarantee there are others who could use your help.  Let’s start taking the approach of “lean on me” and realize we can all truly change the world we are living in.  “Change the world”…..”God is watching us”.

As for me, I have never supported this war for the exact trigger effect of nasty residue reasons that we are living now but for all of our own good, we’ve got to support the people coming back from the war because in the long run, in the long haul and in the big picture – it WILL affect us all !!

The families who are living in the homes of many broken people will start the domino affect and dysfunction of epidemic proportions and it could easily take over that energy if we don’t stop and try to get involved in whichever way possible.

Reach out.  Realize things aren’t as simple as “life’s a bitch and then you die”.  WE NEED TO CREATE!! 2009 - I challenge you…let’s change some things within and then outward.

Get involved.  Help.  Start within and work outward.  Learn.  Realize we are living in school house earth and how we live and who we choose to keep close to us in that life MATTERS!!  It truly matters.  What can we do in 2009 to make a solution for peace?  What can we do to bring together peaceful gatherings in hopes of allowing that energy to TRULY catch on and grow more of?  Let’s do it!

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me…………

I challenge you to please….”I am going to create…….” in 2009 with me.

Happy New Year !!  With lots of love……..

PeAcE ~

Lisa

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This is a great movie even just for the first part which gives an excellent explanation of where our money actually comes from. More people should be watching it since there seems to be so much confusion about what the banks did with the so-called bailout money.

To put it in simple terms, answer this question. If you write yourself an IOU for $500 then how much more money do you have? How much more if the IOU is for $1000? How much more if the IOU is for $700 billion?

You would not have any more money regardless of the amount of the IOU. You would have to go out, get your hands dirty and be productive to make the IOUs good.

Of course, whatever products you made to make the IOUs good could not be used to purchase stuff. If you actually tried to make the IOUs good you would freeze to death while going hungry in the dark.

You would need to do more than just being productive enough to make the IOUs good. You would have to increase your productivity just to be able to keep on living. Capitalist do this by expanding into new markets.

After the 1970s, when China entered the world markets, capitalism lost the ability for further expansion. All the large populations of the world are now included within the scope of global capitalism.

But let us suppose that you do not wish to get your hands dirty being productive. Let us suppose that you instead fool yourself into thinking your IOUs actually represent something of value.

Now here is another question. If you took a stack of these IOUs that you wrote to yourself, could you use them as collateral to go to a bank and obtain a loan? Perhaps you cannot, but that is exactly what Wall Street investment banks did.

Let us suppose you were able to obtain the bank loan based upon these IOUs you wrote to yourself. Of course, you will not be able to pay back the loan because you will never be able to make those IOUs good by actually producing something of value in ever larger amounts.

So now that you have this bank loan, based upon IOUs that can not be paid off, you could always try to write another batch of IOUs to cover both your original IOUs and the bank loan.

It does not matter how long this goes on, there was never more money in the first place and nothing you’ve done has made any more money. The money given to the banks for a so-called bailout is just another IOU written against funds that never existed.

And now people are writing checks, themselves nothing more than IOUs, against so-called money that is in fact nothing more that the deposits of IOUs themselves. Sooner or later the people who receive your checks are going to try and cash them.

The so-called bailout money only existed as an electronic transfer to the banks’ accounts. As explained in the movie, these so-called deposits stay in the bank and are used as collateral for the banks to create money to loan by ledger entries in their fractional reserve money system.

The so-called bailout funds are to replace so-called money deposits depleted by people demanding that the checks they were holding be paid off. The plan was to pay off all the IOUs with future profits coming from the future expansion of productivity of someone else.

The capitalistic system depends upon the law of supply and demand to make profits.

Demand must exceed supply for profits to be made.

Some people need to go without housing, or at least be forced to put up with inadequate housing, in order for the building industry to profit on selling housing.

Some people need to go without health care, or at least be forced to put up with inadequate health care, in order for the health care industry to profit on selling health care.

Some people need to go without food, or at least be forced to put up with inadequate food, in order for the food industry to profit on selling food.

To keep wages low for industry, labor must be available in surplus, in order for industry to obtain labor cheaply.

The only people doing without were those who were priced out of the market. This unmet demand, those who could not afford the high prices that generated huge profits for industry, became the only group of people not buying stuff.

The banks changed this by making easy credit available to everyone. The banks gave credit to the people who were going without and providing the unmet demand that allowed profits to be made.

But the profits made by creating this credit only existed as IOUs. The banks will not make any more loans because they know that no one will be able to pay them off.

The so-called bailout was supposed to pay off the banks. But the so-called bailout is just another round of IOUs and the banks know this.

Now you know it too. Another thing you probably already know is that the international corporations making stuff and the global financiers giving the credit are all the same small group of people.

ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM

- CREDITS -
WRITTEN, SHOT, DIRECTED,
EDITED & MUSICALLY SCORED BY:
PETER JOSEPH

FEATURING:
JACQUE FRESCO
ROXANNE MEADOWS
WWW.THEVENUSPROJECT.COM

JOHN PERKINS
WWW.DREAMCHANGE.ORG

CONSULTANTS:
ELLEN BROWN
JOHN PERKINS
ROXANNE MEADOWS
JACQUE FRESCO
ERIC CLINTON

BASIC SOURCES:
- PART 1 -
“WEB OF DEBT”
BY ELLEN BROWN
WWW.WEBOFDEBT.COM

- PART 2 -
“CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HITMAN”
BY JOHN PERKINS

- PARTS 3 & 4 -
“THE BEST THAT MONEY CAN’T BUY”
BY JACQUE FRESCO

VIDEO/AUDIO EXCERPTS:
J. KRISHNAMURTI: FROM “THE REAL REVOLUTION”
COURTESY OF THIRTEEN/WNET, NEW YORK

BILL HICKS:
FROM “RANT IN E-MINOR”, RYKODISC
WWW.BILLHICKS.COM

GEORGE CARLIN:
FROM 2006 INTERVIEW
WWW.GEORGECARLIN.COM

NETWORK:
MGM, 1976

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FOTOSEARCH
POND5
MOTION DROPS
ISTOCK
WORLD OF STOCK

THE VENUS PROJECT ANIMATIONS:
BY DOUG DREXLER

ILLUSTRATIONS
JACQUE FRESCO

* Special thanks to all those who
care about this project and have helped
spread this important message *

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and has been respectfully borrowed in accordance with the
Fair Use Doctrine of U.S. Copyright Code Section 107

Duplication of this education film is granted and encouraged
for Non-Resale Educational purposes only. Not-For-Profit
public screenings are also encouraged and require no permission from us.
©Copyright 2008, G.M.P. LLC

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Rachel Neulander, known as medicinesocks online, softly sings her version of “A Peaceful Solution” a cappella after a tasty guitar picking intro. There is so much peace and love in this version that it seems to just come off the page and embrace you.

This example of peace and love by medicinesocks will become more valuable in the days ahead. It will behoove us all to remember peaceful solutions.

As international financiers and multinational corporations manipulate governments to further impoverish normal people a few groups here and there have taken to the streets.  Mostly though, peaceful populations have chosen to accept the extortion and robbery as representative for business as usual.

One place this extortion and robbery shows up most strongly is in what passes for health care in the United States. The U.S. is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not have a universal health care system.

The U.S. lags other wealthy nations in such measures as infant mortality and life expectancy. No one seems to dispute the sad state of the U.S. health care system.

Extortion occurs when someone obtains money, property or services through coercion. Coercion is the practice of compelling a person or manipulating them to behave in an involuntary way (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats, intimidation or some other form of pressure or force.

Robbery can occur without any verbal or written threat. Of course, robbery is still the taking of goods against the will of another.

The current system of health care in the United States is extortion when threats and intimidation is used to take goods from people. The current system of health care in the United States is robbery when goods are simply taken from the people without the pretense of offering “protection.”

No one seems to dispute the threats, intimidation or the plain outright taking of money practiced by the health care system in the United States. This is one reason why health care reform is regularly debated in congress.

But still, with all the debate in congress and the widespread general knowledge of the faults of the current health care system in the United States nothing changes. No new laws are passed and the system is not significantly changed or replaced.

We are told the issue is complicated but are not told who complicates it and why they may be doing so. The obvious answer is that the various elements of the current health care system come together to complicate the issue intentionally to keep their profits flowing.

Washington’s largest lobby, the pharmaceutical industry, racked up another banner year on Capitol Hill in 2007, backed by a record $168 million lobbying effort. The American Medical Association ranks 13th among the top all-time political donors from 1989 to 2008.

The American Hospital Association, the American Dental Association, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Eli Lilly & Company, GlaxoSmithKline and all the major insurance companies show up in the same list of the top 100 of all-time political donors from 1989 to 2008. No other industry dominates political donations the way the health care industry does.

The top spending lobbies include the American Medical Association at number 2, American Hospital Association at number 4, Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America at number 6 and Blue Cross/Blue Shield at number 12. It is not any wonder why United States health care is in the state it is in.

We recently saw how the so-called Wall Street bailout was universally resisted by U.S. citizens and yet still passed once the holdout members of congress were individually bought off by pork barrel projects. Big money controls your health care and it does so to their exclusive profit.

Taking back America includes your health care.

A Peaceful Solution (New additional lyrics by Rachel Neulander)

There’s a peaceful solution. It’s called peaceful revolution
Now let’s give back America.
There’s a war– we gotta end it,
Let’s not lie to defend it!
We gotta get our conscience back, America.

It’s a dream, now believe it,
Get ready to receive it.
We gotta give back America!

To the people of first nations
Teaching wisdom, love and patience
We gotta give, give back America.
War is over, no one won it!
Let’s remember what we done
Let us study war no more, America!

It’s a dream, now believe it.
Get ready to receive it!
Don’t let’s ever, ever make a war again.

There’s a peaceful solution,
no more war no more pollution-
Let us heal the deal with hemp, America.
Jefferson and Edison
Would be proud if we grew medicine
Healing energy for all the earth,
America

There’s a peaceful solution, it’s called peaceful revolution
And its gonna heal the world
not just America!
We are children of the earth,
Peace and freedom ours from birth.
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on!

There was a peaceful solution
It was a healing evolution
When we gave and gathered love & peace,
America!

* * * * Artist’s Statement * * * * *

How long have you been working for peace?

Since I was about two years old. I’m one of those negotiator people. you see, my mother was an extreme, explosive, combative person, so, to protect myself and to help her and the world to get along a little better I started young in my career as a diplomat, anger management coach, translator and vibe mechanic.

I used (and still use) music and art as a form of meditation and medicine, to soothe myself and to make people like my mother and others smile and think. music and art will often work a spell of peace when words have failed.

when there’s conflict it’s best if at least one person stays calm and tries to translate the ideas of each side of the argument to the other in a way that makes conflicting ideas just a little more understandable to those who hold them.

art can do that, and music almost never needs translation. as far as i know, everyone on the planet loves and understands some kind of music.

it takes wit and sweat and it doesn’t always work to try for peace, but if at least one person in a crisis rises to the task, peace is restored and the crisis will be averted.

What motivates you to work for peace and the environment?

has there been a time without wars in the world ever since i was born 54 years ago?

my parents and older sisters lived through several wars before i was born, witnessed auschwitz and hiroshima. i was told as a child to never forget the evils of nazism and apartheid in europe, but too, that space was a race and that race and class and national politics were differences that mattered. i don’t believe any of that!

i was taught at school how to curl up under my desk in case of an atomic bomb attack, and my cousins and friends’ older brothers went off to the Vietnam war. what good ever came of that?

the war we’re in now is the gloomy, gory life and energy sucking backdrop to everything i do. to everything we all do now, isn’t it? hasn’t it only made matters worse? haven’t enough people suffered and died to call for an end to this dreary mess yet? and wasn’t this all based on a set of lies anyway, false threats and assumptions that didn’t turn out real at all?

for real, don’t we all yearn for peace, and freedom, at long long last? what would it feel like? how would it look? artists give us a vision of what we can become… cinema and video are such powerful media, our modern muses….

i saw the civil rights movement in america televised in black and white. we all watched those throngs of brave, vulnerable people, black & white, linking arms together and marching peacefully down american city streets singing hymns about peace and freedom and equality. i saw police with snarling dogs and sticks and tear gas and horses coming to strike those peaceful protests down. i witnessed this and more.

as a teenager i spent my 15th summer hiking and camping all over new england, sleeping under the stars. i fell in love with my planet then and resolved then to take care of her my whole life long.

like anne frank and gandhi and mlk and john lennon and bob marley and willie nelson and amy and my friends on youtube and every artist whose work ever stood for peace all in all we deeply love this planet of ours, and we’re proof that people, given the chance to live in peace, to work and play and make art and music together in a context of love and community, are happy, resourceful, generous and good at heart, and nature, well, we can all agree on one thing- nature’s magnificent!

and i have grown sons now. considering the life we’ve led, all i’ve tried to live by and teach them, as i learned it myself, about life, i’d be surprised and dismayed if they’re weren’t making music and art, and doing everything they do with their lives for the sake of their souls’ refreshment and to try to inspire a wholesome and healing response in others, if they’re not not in solidarity with the throngs still today crying out for justice in the battle-scarred streets of all the world’s cities, calling for the restoration of planetary health a reverence for all living things, for peace and accord and relief and cooperation among nations and equal rights for all humans, then what are we really about? what kind of mother was i?

i want to mention and thank my partner of fourteen years, fellow medicinesocks channeler Norman B, who is my angel, my muse, and most ardent collaborator. norm, thank you for believing in peace and in me. none of this would have happened without you. thank you for giving me an artist’s life!

Norman has been at work on a monster of a project. it is almost complete and about to go to press as i write this! seven broadside pamphlets will unfold the story of global warming in poetry and science, laid out so we can all understand what has happened and what we now (right away!) can do about it. inspired by this peace project norman has opened a new channel, GL0Warm to showcase the project. i hope you’ll all check in, soon and often. there is a peaceful solution! we can stop the pollution!

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The epoch of the bully nears eclipse.

Jim Bianco, president of Chicago based Bianco Research LLC, crunched the inflation adjusted numbers. The so-called bailout has cost, so far, more than all of these big budget government expenditures – combined:

• Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion
• Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $217 billion
• Race to the Moon: Cost: $36.4 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $237 billion
• S&L Crisis: Cost: $153 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $256 billion
• Korean War: Cost: $54 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $454 billion
• The New Deal: Cost: $32 billion (Est), Inflation Adjusted Cost: $500 billion (Est)
• Invasion of Iraq: Cost: $551b, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $597 billion
• Vietnam War: Cost: $111 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $698 billion
• NASA: Cost: $416.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $851.2 billion

TOTAL: $3.92 trillion

The so-called bailout has also already far surpassed our nation’s second largest historical expense, World War II, and is still growing. Perhaps someone would at first think that we would be getting something for all this money.

But no, remember, this expenditure is not for anything tangible. This is an act of appeasement to the biggest bullies the world has ever been victimized by.

There will be an end to this extortion only when there is nothing left to take and that day has nearly arrived. The parasite cannot live now that it has killed its host.

With not only all the low hanging fruit consumed but the entire orchard now pulped up for toilet paper, international capital turns on itself and cannibalizes its own financial appendages to survive. The so-called bailout is the price of our admission to the spectacle.

When no one has any lunch money left the bully starves. A starving bully is not a pretty sight and starving to death puts the bully into an evil mood.

Regardless of what the bully does next in its death throws, we are not obligated to come to its aid. Whatever goodwill the bully may have gained, in sharing the small parts that mattered to it least, has long been expended in backstabbing deceits.

The system has reduced itself to a handful of international financial corporations that have acted beyond redemption. No one cares about the so-called winners because they have won without honor and defeated kinder, gentler and more peaceful systems through deception, treachery and massive violence.

People have enough to deal with now that food and shelter have unnecessarily become uncertain for too many. The guarantees once taken for granted are proving to be ultimately empty promises exchanged for an impossible future of perpetual growth that outrageously profited only a few.

The great white bully’s dream, the racist ethnocentric manifest destiny, has been revealed as a grand con ultimately betraying those who once conquered the world in the name of civilization. Those who yet foolishly cling to it in denial will be the last consumed and to suffer the most as it fully vanishes from the realm of possibility.

The evidence is on the front pages of every surviving newspaper, regardless of how how the collapse of capitalism is spun. Indigenous people and other marginalized and excluded individuals stand on the periphery and nod their heads in unison as their prophecies come to pass.

No system can grow forever on finite resources, yet that was the essential promise of capitalism. The few who insisted on loudly exclaiming the obvious falseness of the lie were discounted and criticized if not out right silenced.

No more political challenges to capitalism exists, all serious opposition has been neutralized or converted. The global success of capitalism seals the certainty of its demise by destroying the necessary balance between human activity and the accessible resources of the planet.

The biggest consumer of liquid petroleum fuels is the U.S. Armed Forces. They will be the last to run out and they will run the last of it out dealing death and mayhem as long as business as usual persists.

The role of the U.S. Armed Forces is to guarantee that business as usual persists. It does not take more than two brain cells to bump together for anyone to figure this one out.

Already things have progressed far enough that those who had previously found alternatives to business as usual are now experiencing the benefits. There is no place else to go, you must liberate the land you stand on from the demands of business as usual.

For many people it is no longer an option to embrace something other than business as usual. As formidable as finding alternatives to business as usual may seem the sooner you start the better because you will then be less dependent upon a collapsing system and therefore escape a degree of risk.

Imagine, it may at first seem overwhelming for livestock to flee the security of habits and the promised benefits of the farm. But when it comes to butchering time any life on the other side of the fence surpasses the certain death of the paddock.

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