Political Discoveries by a Curious Student 1969 to 2009

Political Discoveries by a Curious Student 1969 to 2010

by Nicholas T

in wishing to serve humanity however possible . . . how can one have something to offer ? Do i first need to possess something to share with another ? What is it someone wishes of me ? . . . my time . . . care — peace & love . . . some of my life? . . . to share our common humaness together . . .

so here is my life’s experience — with a compilation of many minds addressing the connection of spirituality and politics - this is offered to you now . . .
My experience over the years has been that people have no idea the 
pervasiveness of socialism (including fascism and corporate socialism) in this country (U.S.A) .
I would not have known this either, however, starting about 1969, I read 
all I could of what was available at the time of the many socialist, 
Marxist, communist, and fascist newspapers. I was then able to see how 
each paper would perceive the same news event—very interesting to 
compare these ideas to that of the mainstream press.

After a couple of years, it became clear to me that the mainstream 
versions of current events are just watered down versions of the 
socialist views. I would tell people about my discovery but they had no 
reference, all they knew was the mainstream media. I then realized over 
the next thirty years that mostly all people know is the mainstream 
press — which is diluted state socialism.

So when I would engage people to see if they would consider other views, 
I saw minds close down, and get extremely attached to “their” 
political/religious ideas. People protect their attachment to whatever 
ideas they have internalized, and then unashamedly inflict “their” ideas 
through the force of government on others. It matters not, how 
thoughtfully they arrived at whatever they espouse, or what the 
consequences of their actions might bring.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with 
illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their 
illusions is always their victim. ~ Gustave Le Bon

“It is misleading to say that someone chose a dysfunctional 
relationship, or any other negative situation in his or her life. Choice 
implies consciousness — a high degree of consciousness — without it — 
you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you dis-identify from the 
mind and its conditioned patterns — the moment you become present. Until 
you reach that point — you are unconscious — spiritually speaking.”
from Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now

“. . . thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human 
existence.” — Eckhart Tolle - A New Earth

Thomas Hobbes realized that we are driven by fear to seek even more 
power, which frightens others into seeking power for their own 
self-defense. The inability to attain total security arises from this 
vicious cycle of fear-defense-fear, not from any innate human 
aggressiveness or avariciousness. Constant fear of death thus motivates 
our chronic state of insecurity and anxiety. So the effect of the 
current terrorism increases people’s fears which then increases demands 
on government to be more powerful which just causes people to be more 
fearful.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudice and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. ~Marianne Williamson

“It is a man’s world and he built it on sexual aggression. Male domination began in sex and in sex it continues unabated. Woman cannot alter this position by marching with banners or withdrawing from sex. She has tried all the means at her disposal down thru the centuries - non has worked and non will. The solution is now beyond the scope of any personal or social action - only consciousness beyond the person - or divine action can help. . . To find love you have to abandon all your preconceptions - the only way to love is to be available to the new now.” Barry Long - Making Love

“Much as I had done when frightened or upset as a child, I found that 
asking questions, tracking down answers as best I could, and then asking 
yet more questions was the best way to provide a distance from anxiety 
and a framework for understanding.” - An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield 
Jamison, p.167

. . . “if we don’t face the fear and anger in ourselves, then we risk 
projecting it onto a global sphere. This creates war and massive 
suffering in our human family. We must find inner peace before we can 
have outer peace.” Dr. Judith Orloff, M.D. - Living Naturally April 09 p.16

“A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. 
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, 
who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking 
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, 
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, 
Our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson
from a “Return to Love”

Franklin P. Jones says: “Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly 
from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.” I’d add that 
it is especially hard to take from yourself. Francis Bacon warns us that 
we are creatures of pride and arrogance and tend to worship the idols of 
our minds. We must for our own interests and of human well-being be 
cautious and suspicious of our own errors.

So as this famous bumper 
sticker reminds us, “Don’t believe everything you think”.

Lew Paz says: “ 
Everyone builds a barrier of defensiveness around their bubble of 
belief, whether spiritual, philosophical, or political. They want just 
enough truth involved to give them confidence in their belief, yet 
refuse to consider anything which demands that they expand their system 
of belief to coincide with more extensive validation of what existence 
is all about.”

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” 
Brian O’Leary

From Access Consciousness (www.accessconsciousness.com/about.asp). The 
target of Access is “clearing” of fixed ideas held in place by energetic 
patterns locked in the body and being; usually experienced as “positive 
or negative emotional charge” (what we really love or really hate) in 
different areas of life acquired from incidents earlier in this life 
and/or past lives. If a person is willing to let go of or erase their 
fixed point of view that is holding the limitation in place, then 
something else can show up.

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

Oscar Wilde

 

But there is that in us which doesn’t want to be free; which prefers discipline and acceptance and patriotic local tunes to the wild loose-haired love-music of the world. There is that in us which wishes simply to go along with the crowd, and to blame all naysayers and pelvis-wigglers for rocking our comfortable boat. “Don’t follow leaders,” Bob Dylan warned in “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” “Watch the parking meters.” Yet we continue to want to be led, to follow petty warlords and murderous ayatollahs and nationalist brutes, or to suck our thumbs and listen quiescently to nanny states that insist they know what’s best for us. So tyrants abound from Bombay to Mumbai, and even those of us who are notionally free peoples are no longer, for the most part, very rock ‘n’ roll.
from “Step Across This Line” by Salmon Rushdie p. 271

“Fear does not come from the unknown. Fear comes from letting go of the 
known.”
J. Krishnamurti - from “The Impossible Question”

As Gary Douglas says; An answer dis-empowers because nothing that 
doesn’t match your answer can show up in your life, and you literally 
stop the flow of anything coming into your life. Whereas a question 
invites the infinite possibilities of the universe for something 
different or greater to show up.
“The greatest power is the ability to change, transform and choose.”
Gary Douglas (founder of Access Energy Transformation)

Zhu Xi (1130-1200 AD) interpreted The Great Learning for cultivating 
oneself. One first needs to get one’s consciousness clear, which 
requires extending knowledge (consciousness), which requires investigating.

Swami Chandrasekharanand Saraswati asks, “What is spirituality?” The 
answer he finds is, “Spirituality is self-awareness, 
self-responsibilities. You are responsible for yourself. You must 
maintain constant, eternal awareness.”

In the Gospel of St. Thomas, Jesus says: “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”

from: Repeatlessness - A Life of Living Each Moment as New - An Owner’s Manual for the Human Mind by Joe Marshalla 
Self talk - sub vocalizations - the human mind has about 50,000 of these per day in 24 hours - science has shown that typically 80% of these are negative or limiting in some way - so 40,000 of these per day . . . out of these we only interact with 5% of them - the rest we miss - so we are only aware of 2,500 of the 50,000 . . . of those 2,500 - 80% are negative or limiting in some way - typically - so this means 2,000 negative thoughts to 500 positive ones . . .
So we limit ourselves - we teach ourselves the “Learned Helplessness Phenomenon” - we limit our day dreams - it can destroy us - unless we take control of our thoughts - there are many techniques for doing so - being conscious over time - realizing - inner awareness - meditations - focus techniques - 
Like Jesus said - also reflected in Swami Vivikananda - “Once we begin to know a thing, we may then have power over it.”
The reality for most of us is that we are in a tug of war with our minds & our minds are usually winning - the winning side is not helping us to be free of our shackles of negative thought - it appears only about 2% of us seem to reverse this & gain positive control over our minds.

We can learn to think in a way that will allow us to accomplish our goals.

 

Zhu Xi encourages individual moral responsibility, corresponding to the 
emergence of a more market oriented economic system. A system in which 
individuals participate in exchanges—a market place of ideas—not one 
that seeks to impose from political control. To make our own choices 
requires that we be politically free.

I think it was Nietzsche who said that the truth emerges only when we 
get as many perspectives as possible.

Professor David Zarefsky emphasizes in Argumentation: The Study of 
Effective Reasoning, that arguing about values is difficult, because 
they can be highly intense, basic to our world view. But not being able 
to argue about values is also dangerous because it leaves us no way to 
resolve value conflicts, except by who has the greater force.

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom’s existence. Totalitarian societies seek to replace the many truths of freedom by the one truth of power, be it secular or religious; to halt the motion of society, to snuff out its spark. Unfreedom’s primary purpose is invariably to shackle the mind. 
from “Step Across This Line” by Salmon Rushdie p. 215

“There is no vantage point from where real reality can be seen. We are 
all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels . . . 
every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world 
- if we are willing to listen.” Robert Anton Wilson explains Quantum 
Physics - 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEZtw1yt8Kc&feature=rec-HM-fres...

 

“My starting point is that our understanding of the world in which we 
live is inherently imperfect because we are part of the world we seek to 
understand. There may be other factors that interfere with our ability 
to acquire knowledge of the natural world, but the fact that we are part 
of the world poses a formidable obstacle to the understanding of human 
affairs.” The New Paradigm for Financial Markets by George Soros

One way to help seek a broader perspective is thru meditation — dying 
into — surrendering the ego — so as to become the infinite quantum space 
of cosmic nature.

Evaluating is a creative activity of humanity and we become responsible 
for our choices.

Creativity needs passion, aliveness, energy. Creativity needs that you should remain a flow, an intense, passionate flow. – from Osho Book “The Search”

Liberals and conservatives who are so firmly entrenched in their own 
arrogances both need to step back, meditate, relax and slowly begin to 
face their own fears so that we can begin to repair the damages of the 
political struggle for power over others. Our own internal fears and 
self-induced repressions mirror the repressions governments inflict on 
us. By not using force to achieve political or social goals, these 
arrogances are avoided — so that we may evolve more peaceably.

Charles Johnson calls for “epistemological humility” and an egoless 
listening to all that is around us”.

“The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, 
people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality 
becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality - the miracle of 
life that continuously unfolds within and around you . . .” — Eckhart 
Tolle - A New Earth

We have inherited words that are very ambiguous, hopefully the following 
will provide some definition and clarification of terms:

LIBERAL
Quoting David Boaz
“The word liberal, for the defenders of liberty and the rule of law, 
spread rapidly. The Whig Party in England came to be called the Liberal 
Party. We knew the philosophy of John Locke, Adam Smith, Thomas 
Jefferson, and John Stuart Mill as liberalism.

But around 1900 the term liberal underwent a change. People who 
supported big government and wanted to limit and control the free market 
started calling themselves liberals. The economist Joseph Schumpeter 
noted, “As a supreme, if unintended, compliment, the enemies of private 
enterprise have thought it wise to appropriate its label.” Thus we now 
refer to the philosophy of individual rights, free markets, and limited 
government-the philosophy of Locke, Smith, and Jefferson as classical 
liberalism.

But classical liberalism is not much of a name for a modern political 
philosophy. Some advocates of limited government began using the name of 
their old adversaries, “conservative.” But conservatism properly 
understood signifies, if not a defense of absolute monarchy and the old 
order, at least an unwillingness to change and a desire to preserve the 
status quo. It would be odd to refer to free-market capitalism—the most 
progressive, dynamic, and ever-changing system the world has ever 
known—as conservative. Edward H. Crane has proposed that today’s heirs 
of Locke and Smith call themselves “market liberals,” retaining the word 
liberal, with its etymological connection with liberty, but reaffirming 
the liberal commitment to markets. That term has been well received by 
market-liberal intellectuals, but it seems unlikely to catch on with 
journalists and the public.

“The 20th century was really the liberal century,” says Kesler, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, and the editor of the Claremont Review of Books. “Conservatives came on the scene very late--remember, there was no organized conservative movement until William F. Buckley Jr. in the ‘50s--but the liberal effort to expand the state dates back 100 years. What Barack Obama is trying to do is complete an old project.”
Liberalism, Kesler argues, established itself in three distinct stages. The first wave, which Kesler calls “political liberalism,” rolled in just after the turn of the last century.
The liberals in this first wave, also known as progressives, “regarded the Constitution and the old forms of American politics as outmoded,” Kesler says. Whereas the old order valued “tranquility,” a word that appears in the preamble to the Constitution, progressives valued movement, dynamism, change. They wanted “to take the American people in hand, showing them the New Jerusalem.”
President Woodrow Wilson, a leading progressive, spoke often of his “vision,” introducing a term that has now become central to our understanding of presidential politics. Wilson believed, as Kesler puts it, “that to become a leader you have to have a vision of the future and communicate that vision to the unanointed, mass public. You have to make them believe in your prophetic ability.”
The second wave of liberalism, which Kesler calls “economic liberalism,” crashed over the country during the Great Depression, informing Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.
Economic liberals quickly came to consider the original Bill of Rights insufficient. Americans, they believed, needed a second set of rights--economic rights. “A right to a job, a right to health care, a right to a home, a right to an education. All these things,” says Kesler, “became as fundamental to liberals as the rights to ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’ that we find in the Declaration of Independence.”
Kesler calls the third wave of liberalism “cultural liberalism.” It roared in during the ‘60s, right along with the birth control pill, psychedelic drugs, no-fault divorce, free love and hippie festivals like Woodstock. Liberals, Kesler argues, now came to believe that “the purpose of government is to take charge of your necessities so you can live in a new kind of freedom, the freedom of liberation, which is really freedom from responsibilities.”
http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/04/obama-liberalism-conservative-opin...

The right term for the advocates of civil society and free markets is 
arguably socialist. Thomas Paine distinguished between society and 
government, and the libertarian writer Albert Jay Nock summed up all the 
things that people do voluntarily—for love or charity or profit—as 
“social power,” which is always being threatened by the encroachment of 
state power. So we might say that those who advocate social power are 
socialists, while those who support state power are statists. — Quoting David Boaz

(Jeff Hawkins, author of On Intelligence describes that the evidence of 
human history shows that we are basically cooperative in our nature. I 
think that this human cooperative root has been subverted by the 
historical political institutions of power. We don’t need a strong 
government to keep us from killing each other, rather it is the strong 
governments that keeps the wars going.)

 

The "tuning fork" phenomenon, as described by Marc Ian Barasch in an article called A Quest for Kindness (Barbara Stahura), Science of Mind magazine, May 2005.

"When people help each other, they vibrate with a feeling known as "helper's high," that pleasure we get in being good to each other. A researcher named John Haidt has shown there is an automatic, involutary physiological response when we see someone being noble or selfless or showing extraordinary or even ordinary helping behaviors toward another. The Vagus nerve connecting the brain to cardiac tissue seems to become activated, and we get that sensation of our hearts soaring, of being choked up with tenderness. We're designed, as creatures, to rejoice in each other's caring.

 

So, it seems people's natural caring tendencies is taken & used against us - subverted - used by those who only want power over others - then we are no longer free to nurture each other because our scarce resources are taken by those in power to create armies to frighten and control us.

 

 

But alas, the word socialist, like the word liberal, has been claimed by 
those who advocate neither civil society nor liberty.”

SOCIALISM
Thus British economist F. J. C. Hearnshaw insists that there are “Six 
Essentials” to socialism:
(1) exaltation of the community above the individual
(2) equalization of human conditions
(3) elimination of the capitalist
(4) expropriation of the landlord
(5) extinction of private enterprise
(6) eradication of competition

Professor J. Ellis Barker, author of one of the most exhaustively 
documented and scholarly studies on the subject, was as skittish as his 
colleagues about tying socialism in any neat, precise, narrow package. 
After examining hundreds of Socialist publications, Barker concluded 
that it was a political, social, and economic hydra best explained by an 
examination of its assumptions:
(1) the labor theory of value -that labor is the only source of wealth
(2) the “Iron Law of Wages”-that the basis of wages is the cost of the 
laborer’s subsistence
(3) the “Law of Increasing Misery”-that technological improvements 
combined with an increase in capital and production lead to declining wages
(4) the “Surplus Value Doctrine”-that the difference between the value 
of what the laborer produces and the cost of his subsistence is surplus 
value, which is divided up among capitalists in the form of rent, 
interest, and profit
(5) that the laborer is entitled to the entire product of his labor
(6) that existing misery can be abolished not by increasing production 
but by altering the distribution of wealth produced
(7) that the capitalist system is responsible for poverty, want, and 
unemployment
(8) that there is an inevitable class war between owners and non-owners
(9) that private property is immoral and private wealth a crime
(10) that private property should be abolished
(11) that competition should be replaced by “co-operation”
(12) that the Socialist state will arise by natural development, and 
will handle business more efficiently than
do private individuals
Very few people that I’ve met understand the ethics of capitalism, and 
economics beyond Marx’s ideas. The understanding people have of 
capitalism is through the looking glass of Marxist philosophy.

 

Quoting Karl Marx:
“Money is the zealous one God of Israel, beside which no other God may 
stand. Money degrades all the gods of mankind and turns them into 
commodities. Money is the universal and self-contained value set upon 
all things. It has therefore robbed the whole world, of both nature and 
man, of its original value. Money is the essence of man’s life and work, 
which have become alienated from him: this alien monster rules him and 
he worships it.
“The God of the Jews has become secularized and is now a worldly God. 
The bill of exchange is the Jew’s real God. His God is the illusory bill 
of exchange.”

“Marx was going to convince others that he was not only NOT Jewish but 
also un-Jewish and he did a pretty good job of it by repeatedly 
attacking the Jews in his writing. And, in spite of his anti-Jewishness, 
Marx was publicly reproached for his Jewishness by Duhring and Bakunin 
and others less prominent — but nevertheless, he was still considered 
Jewish (of Jewish ancestry). As intense as his hatred would become, he 
could never rid himself of the way others saw him.” (Professor Richard 
S. Levy, U. of Illinois)

Why else would both the communist and fascist socialists choose to murder so many millions of Jews ?

Both the fascist and communist aspects of socialism and christianity 
shared this anti-Semitic anti-money obsession. The founding members of 
Fabian Socialism perfected the technique first used by Adam 
Weishaupt—that of penetrating the Catholic Church and then “boring away 
from inside until just an empty husk was left. “ It was called, 
“penetration and permeation. “ Apparently neither Weishaupt nor Gollancz 
thought Christians would be smart enough to see what was happening.
Gollancz was reported as saying: “Christians are not exactly bright, so 
it will be easy for Socialism to lead them down the garden path through 
their ideals of brotherly love and social justice.” Fabian Socialism 
targeted political, economic and educational organizations, in addition 
to the Christian Church.

From Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand:
“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns 
money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. So 
long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one 
another—their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a 
gun.”

"There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle." —Murray N. Rothbard

Responsibility, not to a superior, but to one's conscience, the awareness of a duty not exacted by compulsion, the necessity to decide which of the things one values are to be sacrificed to others, and to bear the consequences of one's own decision, are the very essence of any morals which deserve the name.

— Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom [1944]

 

From the Communist Manifesto:
5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a 
national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.

“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the 
Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly 
right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing 
basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all 
the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does 
it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.” — John Maynard Keynes

“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at the confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth.”

— John Maynard Keynes

 

 

I think the main reason for state socialism’s dominance here was the creation 
of the Federal Reserve System. This made it possible to direct the power 
of the money printing press into the hands that could then manipulate 
the direction the country would go. They aren’t actually printing 
money—they are printing debt notes—a poor substitute for real money. The 
few powerful people that created the Federal Reserve did so to further 
entrench and centralize their own power at the expense of us citizens. 
The ones now in control of the “money”, like Rockefeller, who hated 
competition and the free market system, helped finance the worldwide 
program for a controlled economy through the United Nations. I am 
interested to see how this manipulation has affected the Power Distance 
Index - by Geert Hofstede - 
http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/map/hofstede-power-distance-index.html. 
I think the centralized fiat banking system has made people less willing 
to confront authority - which appears very dangerous in the long run.

There seems to be unlimited money and power for those who control the printing of "money" -oppressing us with their money power - while we struggle to exist.

So why is it that even with the Federal Reserve printing nearly infinite quantities of Federal Reserve Notes - that both the government and us citizens have a scacity of money ?

Where does it go ?

“Since 1913, when the Federal Reserve was created by Congress, your 
money has lost 96% of its purchasing power due to inflation. The more 
“money” the Federal Reserve creates — the less your Federal Reserve 
“money” will buy.” (www.libertydollar.org/)

Control of the “money” made it possible to control institutions such as 
the FBI and CIA . This power to create money has historically 
blackmailed and terrorized both Republican and Democrat parties into a 
submissive compliance. It is responsible for the 1930’s depression, And 
makes wars economically possible for the Military Industrial Complex to 
feed upon —warning politicians, university presidents etc. to comply or 
die.

As was so eloquently stated by Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee in 1932:
“The sack of the United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers, but the truth is the Fed has usurped the government. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will.”

 

“Mismanagement of monetary policy was the main cause of the Great Depression.”
When Professor Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the prestigious Journal of Economic Perspectives, tells you that the stock market crash of 1929 was not a substantial cause of the Great Depression and that F.D.R.’s New Deal may have actually slowed economic recovery, he speaks with authority and credibility.
from History of the U.S. Economy in the 20th Century from The Great Courses lectures by the Teaching Company - http://www.teach12.com

(the following are some quotes from Larry Edelson — November 2009)
“The sacking and burning of the U.S. economy has begun
— led by the banks, brokers, and Washington itself.
And its survival rests in the hidden hands . . .”
“Everything that transpires in the global financial markets is, ultimately, bought and paid for through this ‘secret government’ — the Fed and its worldwide web of central bankers, government Treasury officials and economic ministers from the G-7 nations — and the Fed will ultimately be charged with fixing them.”
“Like a shopaholic living on a credit high,
America’s whirlwind borrowing and spending spree
is now hitting a brick wall . . .”
“It’s a perpetual cycle that can only lead to one thing: printing presses blazing on overdrive … a massive surge in interest rates … an explosion of inflation … and the total destruction of our standard of living — at least, for those who aren’t aware or prepared for what is happening.”
“In 1933, FDR confiscated gold, gutting the value of the dollar by 70% virtually overnight! It’s a strategy central bankers have employed in the past. One designed to ease severe financial crises and the burden of all bad debts in the world — by reducing the value of all paper, or fiat currencies — inflating away debts and thereby reinflating asset prices.”
“But savers — those counting on their hard-earned money to get them through the depression unscathed — got annihilated as their greenbacks lost nearly 70% of their purchasing power in a single day!
If you think it can’t happen now, think again …”
“The Obama administration’s brutal war on the dollar is rapidly giving rise to a “perfect storm” of cataclysmic proportions for the global economy —”
quotes from Larry Edelson — November 2009

"As the debt burden increases as a percentage of GDP, the total amount of interest payments required to support the additional debt (after adjustment for inflation) will rise, which means more and more tax dollars are being spent on merely paying interest rather than delivering government services. If taxes are increased to pay for the additional interest payments, taxpayers will have less incentive to work, save and invest productively and less money to spend — so economic growth and job creation will slow. This is not a matter of ideology but a function of basic mathematics.

Finally, given that politicians tend to be reluctant to raise taxes to pay for all of the additional spending and debt service they created, they often resort to printing excess quantities of money (or in modern central-bank-speak, “quantitative easing”) to paper over their earlier crimes — which results in the new crime of inflation. When inflation occurs, money buys fewer goods and services — and has many of the same effects as an additional tax — which, as noted above, can only result in slower growth and more unemployment."

Deaf to Deficit Warnings by Richard W. Rahn
Richard W. Rahn is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth.
This article appeared in the Washington Times on January 20, 2010.

 

Gold Monetary System Supports Peace
It is a simple fact that if the government had to pay their war costs with gold, there would be no war. It is one thing to defend the country when attacked such as the War of 1812. But it is quite different to attack a country based on a lie about weapons of mass destruction, destroy own country's monetary system, heap pain upon its citizens and then switch to another war!

from: LIBERTY DOLLAR NEWS:
November 2009 Vol. 11 No. 11

 

If there is a sin superior to every other it is that of willful and offensive war. Most other sins are circumscribed within narrow limits, that is, the power of one man cannot give them a very general extension, and many kind of sins have only a mental existence from which no infection arises; but he who is the author of a war, lets loose the whole contagion of Hell, and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

— Thomas Paine, “The American Crisis V” [March 21, 1778]

 

So it then becomes easy to control how children were “educated”, 
and what ideas would be promoted. If Amy Goodman really wanted 
“Democracy Now”, she would expose the Federal Reserve System and all the 
other government central banks that finance the international terrorism, 
but if she did, she’d be out of a job so fast that it would make a spin 
doctor’s head spin — faster than an E. Howard Hunt “Magic Bullet” ((see 
movie at www.infowars.com — Bush link to Kennedy Assassination by Alex 
Jones—(I do not personally know how accurate this information is, but 
clearly the government has covered up, mislead us and is keeping 
critical information from us—so without more facts, we are left to 
speculate)). - ( I also recommend studying JFK And The Unspeakable - Why 
He Died & Why It Matters by James W. Douglass - ISBN 978-1-57075-755-6 - 
Richard Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton 
University says of this book . . “devastating in its documented 
indictment of the dark forces that have long deformed the public life of 
this country.”)

So instead, Amy Goodman aims everywhere except at the target. Amy 
Goodman, Rush Limbaugh, Noam Chomski etc. are all hired hands working on 
the Federal Reserve Plantation picking debt notes to keep the Wizard of 
Oz’s machine running.

"Supposedly cheap money is a drug that has made addicts of us all. Now our economy is in withdrawal, and it hurts. Bernanke prescribes more of what made us sick in the first place — even lower interest rates and a fresh injection of dollars. What we really need is to get off the drug and make the Fed accountable." — Michael Ostrolenk— http://dailycaller.com/2010/01/14/its-time-to-shed-light-on-the-fed/

 

There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.

— Ludwig von Mises, Human Action [1949]

 

 

From Endless Money THE MORAL HAZARDS OF SOCIALISM
BY William Baker - Chapter 6: “Moral Hazard” 
"Consider the risk that no one wishes to discuss, which is the failure of the U.S. government. Today the only safe haven is investing in debt obligations of the U.S. Treasury, which define the risk-free rate. This solidarity has been unquestioned since the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913, which granted the Treasury Department unlimited power to confiscate the private property of its citizens.

The fiat era was successful as long as government had capacity remaining in its credit line.

Since the Great Depression, credit grew relative to GDP by an order of magnitude. Private debt was just 57 percent of GDP in 1944, with only 14 percent of this being mortgages. By 1954 it would be 71 percent, with 28 percent of this financing residential dwellings. These statistics would not skip a beat in the 1970s, despite a shakeout in the stock market, because inflation would be raging. By 1984, private debt rose to 140 percent of the economy; you could trend-line it right up to over 300 percent by 2007."

 

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

— William Somerset Maugham, Strictly Personal [1941

 

 

From “Zeitgeist Addendum”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912
“It is no measure of health to be adjusted to a profoundly sick society” 
J. Krishnamurti

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg_9YHQwTKM&playnext_from=TL&am...

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The fractional reserve policy perpetuated by the Fedreal Reserve which 
has spread in practice to the great majority of banks in the world is in 
fact a system of modern slavery. Just as the Federal Reserve keeps the 
American public in a position of indentured servitude through perpetual 
debt, inflation, and interest; the World Bank and the International 
Monetary Fund serve this role on a global scale.

The Money Masters - How International Bankers Gained Control of America

The development of fractional reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently to accumulate wealth. With the formation of the privately-owned Bank of England in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to a privately-owned "central" bank was first forced upon the backs of an entire nation, not removed but only made heavier with the passing of the three centuries to our day. Nation after nation, including America, has fallen prey to this cabal of international central bankers.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-515319560256183936&ei=...

http://www.themoneymasters.com/

 

It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense.... They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in society. Let them look well after their own expense, and they may safely trust private people with theirs.

— Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [1776]

 

 

“We are free! They don’t own my soul - not the intelligence community - not the military - not the oil cartels - not the money whores . . . We are free and that gives us enormous power that we don’t acknowledge And we have to acknowledge our power and use it.” Dr. Steven Greer presents “Contact & Disclosure: The Final Sequence” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0oLJNfs_rM&feature=email

 

Our country has stumbled into socialism during the past half century; by now -- 1958 -- we have adopted nearly all the things socialists stand for. Those of us who are aware of socialism's built-in destructiveness have watched this process with apprehension and are forever predicting, or warning against, the impending catastrophe which we think we see hanging over our society. Under socialism, some men are put at the disposal of other men, deliberately, legally, and on principle. Socialism, in other words, is premised in an immoral extension of political power.

— Leonard E. Read, Anything That's Peaceful [1964]

 

The spiritual decline of the earth is so far advanced that the nations 
are in danger of losing the last bit of spiritual energy that makes it 
possible to see the decline (taken in relation to the history of 
“being”), and to appraise it as such. This simple observation has 
nothing to do with Kulturpessimismus, and of course it has nothing to do 
with any sort of optimism either; for the darkening of the world, the 
flight of the gods, the destruction of the earth, the transformation of 
men into a mass, the hatred and suspicion of everything free and 
creative, have assumed such proportions throughout the earth that such 
childish categories as pessimism and optimism’have long since become 
absurd.
—(from: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger first 
published in 1953)

 

It is certainly true that our age is full of conflicts which generate 
war. However, these conflicts do not spring from the operation of the 
unhampered market society. It may be permissible to call them economic 
conflicts because they concern that sphere of human life which is, in 
common speech, known as the sphere of economic activities. But it is a 
serious blunder to infer from this appellation that the source of these 
conflicts are conditions which develop within the frame of a market 
society. It is not capitalism that produces them, but precisely the 
anticapitalistic policies designed to check the functioning of 
capitalism. They are an outgrowth of the various governments’ 
interference with business, of trade and migration barriers and 
discrimination against foreign labor, foreign products, and foreign capital.
— Ludwig von Mises, Human Action [1949]

"To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war." — Ludwig von Mises, Human Action[1949]

 

To the extent that a society limits its government to policing functions which curb the individuals who engage in aggressive and criminal actions, and conducts its economic affairs on the basis of free and willing exchange, to that extent domestic peace prevails. When a society departs from this norm, its governing class begins, in effect, to make war upon the rest of the nation. A situation is created in which everyone is victimized by everyone else under the fiction of each living at the expense of all.

— Edmund A. Opitz

 

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Capitalize

Capitalize:
intransitive verb: to gain by turning something to advantage
profit: 1 : a valuable return : gain: 1 : resources or advantage acquired or increased.

so we seek to capitalize on actively living . . .

 

Poetry is you . . . capitalizing on your beautiful spirit thru words.

Words are sacred capital.

We capitalize on the sacred silence that words exist in.

God capitalizes on nothing to make something.

Life is spirit Capitalizing on energy.

Peace is realized by us capitalizing on our inherently peaceful natures - to appreciate the value of consciously being - peace.

Free market capitalism begins with the farmer who is rich enough to save some seed (capital) to plant next season and have enough left over to trade with neighbors. The seeds, when planted, make use of (capitalize) on the nutrients in the ecology of the living soil. This is being “rich”.

Freely trading with your neighbor is a cooperative exchange where both benefit.

To make use of - to capitalize on our intelligence - so that we may learn how to nurture this planet earth - that feeds us - in a sustainable way - so that future generations of children shall live in harmony with this earth.

 

Capitalize on every breath.

. . present moment -
wonderful moment
to capitalize on emerging ecstasies

and the growth stock of bliss
overflowing in one’s heart :-)

“Freedom is the right to choose: . . .” — Archibald Macleish Quote

 

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated 
simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” — Quote by: Charles Mingus

 

Power struggles occur because the participants feel powerless and they 
choose to pursue external power. Power struggles can only occur between 
individuals who are pursuing external power. They seek to control each 
other. They are in pain. That pain is the pain of powerlessness. Instead 
of experiencing that pain, they reach outward in an attempt to rearrange 
the world. (p.253 “The Heart of the Soul” by Gary Zukav)

Looking inward rather than outward, finding the source of pain and 
changing it into a source of gratitude is the pursuit of authentic 
power. Authentic power is the alignment of the personality with the 
soul. Creating authentic power is using your will to change your life, 
not the lives of others. (p.255 “The Heart of the Soul” by Gary Zukav)

Power may justly be compared to a great river. While kept within its due bounds it is both beautiful and useful. But when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes. If, then, this is the nature of power, let us at least do our duty, and like wise men who value freedom use our utmost care to support liberty, the only bulwark against lawless power, which in all ages has sacrificed to its wild lust and boundless ambition the blood of the best men that ever lived....

— Andrew Hamilton, The Trial of John Peter Zenger [1735]

 

by Butler Shaffer
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer189.html
People with varied interests quickly discover the advantages of 
organizing themselves into groups to lobby the state for these apparent 
benefits. Ego-boundary identities have proven themselves an effective 
means of promoting collective ends. Race, religion, ideology, economic 
interests, ethnicity, lifestyle, age, nationality, provide just a 
handful of grounds upon which to organize mass movements. Those to be 
organized into such groupings, as well as those who control the 
machinery of the state, develop a symbiotic relationship in the 
perpetuation of the political process.

Of course, in order to maintain the seeming effectiveness of such 
practices, it is essential that group identities be reinforced. The 
boundary lines that separate one group from another (e.g., “employees” 
and “employers,” “straights” and “gays,” “Hindus” and “Muslims,” and 
other “us” versus “them” categories), must be clearly delineated and 
rigorously defended. . . . . Political systems thrive on “crises,” for 
they are used to generate the fear that causes men and women to huddle 
at the feet of state authorities who – like the “big daddies” of our 
childhood – promise to protect us from perceived threats. Any crisis 
will do, particularly those that can be seen by some groups as threats 
arising from others . . . from Butler Shaffer: 
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer189.html

 

These groups also aimed their persuasion at the worker by promoting their envy of the bourgeoisie, thus playing one class of against the other. It was then possible to use the ensuing conflict to justify their forced egalitarian redistribution of the wealth/poverty and their tyrannical central planning. 
In the history of Western political thought, Marxism stands out as perhaps the single most elaborate defense of equality. “Equality as the groundwork of communism is its political justification,” said Marx.

Unfortunately these attempts at equality produce more misery than equality and it is not even equal misery — those who deal out the equality — those in power —easily keep more of the equality for themselves — more of the wealth and privilege — look at how grandly Mao lived while preaching equality — while making millions of people miserable.

“Disappear into the mass,” the inmate is told repeatedly by the concentration camp guards: “Don’t dare to be noticeable. Don’t dare to come to my attention.” (This disappearing method was something I found appropriate while going through military basic training here in the U.S.A.)

 

Victor Gollancz, the Socialist publisher, said on many occasions that 
Socialism is necessary for world domination: “Socialism centralizes 
power and makes individuals completely subject to those who control that 
power,” the publisher said.
In 1902, Wallas was teaching outright Socialism at the Philadelphia 
University summer sessions. He had been invited to the United States by 
wealthy American Socialists who attended Oxford summer schools in 1899 
and 1902, the period when the summer school indoctrination classes were 
at the height of their popularity with rich Americans who had nothing 
better to do. The year 1910 found Wallas as the mentor of American 
Socialist leaders like Walter Lippmann, delivering the Lowell Lectures 
at Harvard. Graham Wallas was recognized as being among the Big Four 
Socialist intellectuals in Britain, and as such, he was sought out by 
the American Socialist Ray Stannard Baker, the emissary Colonel Edward 
Mandel House was sent to the Paris Peace Conference to represent him, 
and find out what the delegates were doing.
Between 1905 and 1910, Graham Wallas wrote “The Great Society” which was 
to become the blueprint for President Johnson’s program of the same 
name, and which embodied social psychology principles. Wallas made it 
very plain, that the object of social psychology was to control human 
conduct, thus preparing the masses for the coming Socialist State that 
would ultimately lead them into slavery—although he was careful not to 
spell it out that far. Wallas became a conduit into the United States 
for Fabian Socialists ideas, much of them going into Roosevelt’s’ ‘New 
Deal,” written by Socialist Stuart Chase, Kennedy’s “New Frontier” 
written by Socialist Henry Wallace and Johnson’s “Great Society” written 
by Graham Wallas. From these facts alone, the tremendous impact of 
Fabian Socialism upon the American political scene can be gauged.

From Darren M. Staloff: In the early 1900’s, the rise of the modern 
mass media and communications industry made changes that helped to 
contribute to the growth of mass consumerism. Figures like William 
Randolph Hearst helped to introduce the new era of cheap national 
newspapers — which were centrally owned and produced for a newly created 
national market. The power of such mass print conglomerations, 
particularly of public opinion, is well exemplified at the end of the 
19th century by Hearst’s role in fomenting the Spanish - American War to 
his rather jingoistic depiction of the sinking of the Maine in Havana.
Radio and motion pictures also emerged at this time followed by 
television. Each of these media were organized again in the centralized 
corporate industrial form. It was the rise of mass media that helped 
create a venue for a new scientific advertising—an advertising that was 
based on both an understanding of individual and group psychology as 
well as a very careful scientific market research, resulting in the 
creation of a popular culture of mass consumerism. This is significant 
because the same advertising techniques would be deployed in the 
political sector, and indeed they were—universally in times of war to 
propagate desired information and public attitude.
In subsequent decades the centralized media were used increasingly by 
authoritarian regimes. In fact the Nazi state had a ministry of 
propaganda headed by a person who claimed to have learned all his 
techniques from Madison Avenue advertising firms.

So the powerful groups of socialist theorists used the newly developed 
media to mold the liberal- conservative ideologies to be adapted within 
a state socialist framework so that the generations since have been weaned on 
this mass control ideology. It even appeared that we had a huge range of 
choice—all the away from the extremes of left to right—communist to 
fascist—like this was the whole political spectrum—no other choices were 
needed or available. Thus we had freedom of choice between the left and 
right, and so many sensible people chose a moderate position in between 
the two extremes where the manipulators of our minds could easily lead 
us in our new ideological conformity.
The message of the media was control and we were its object. So we 
arrived in a version of Aldus Huxley’s Brave New World long before 1984. 
The government meddling with the economy created the Great depression 
which was then blamed on the free market. The state socialists would lose 
control of us if we chose freedom, free exchange of ideas, and free 
markets, so they have effectively destroyed these world-wide and when 
they start to appear are quickly subverted and eliminated. World War I 
and II firmly established our indoctrined pattern.

In 1941, Mark Starr was appointed vice president of the American 
Federation of Teachers, an avante-garde Socialist teachers body of the 
day. After taking American citizenship, Starr was named by President 
Harry Truman to the United States Advisory Commission, authorized by 
Public Act 402, “to advise the State Department and the Congress on the 
operation of information centers and libraries maintained by the United 
States Government in foreign countries, as well as on the exchange of 
students and technical experts. “ This was indeed a “scoop” for 
Socialism in the United States!
Through the use of these elite university trained “technical experts”, 
the Democrat and Republican administrations prop up tyrants, like the 
Shah of Iran, which create fear in the citizens ruled by these American 
government supported tyrants which cause these citizens to lash out at 
the U.S.A..

From Liberty Against Power by Roy Childs:
David Rockefeller is the symbol of amoral international finance, the 
partisan of State Capitalism, bankrolling the most oppressive regimes, 
from the Soviet Union . . .

[You will have a revolution, a terrible revolution. What course it takes will depend much on what Mr. Rockefeller tells Mr. Hague to do. Mr. Rockefeller is a symbol of the American ruling class and Mr. Hague is a symbol of its political tools.— 
Leon Trotsky, in New York Times,December 13, 1938. (Hague was a New Jersey politician)]

. . . to Iran, ever fomenting “business government 
partnerships,” which blur the distinction between public and private 
sectors. A partner in business with the Shah of Iran—he was the Shah’s 
banker, and remains so to this day. Rockefeller befriended the Shah for 
more than twenty years, forming a joint banking enterprise with him, 
named Chase-Iranian, owned in partnership by the Iranian government and 
Chase Manhattan. The Shah also required that all letters of credit 
issued to Iran be done through Chase Manhattan, which meant that the 
billions of billions of oil revenues which Iran received over the 
years—including those since the OPEC price hikes (led by the Shah) in 
1973—would be funneled through Chase.
Seeing Rockefeller and Kissinger as symbolic figures—the one, of state 
intervention in the economy (using political power to amass economic 
power), the other, of an interventionist foreign policy used to cement 
“American” interests (setting up a global political order in which power 
elites can freely interact with stable governments, no matter how 
oppressive)—can help us to understand a great deal of the background to 
the Iranian crisis.
Western-trained technocrats armed with the latest gadgets of 
macroeconomics, led to fine tuning, forced industrialization, 
centrally-planned investment, monetary inflation, price controls and 
economic chaos. Even torture was aided by the West: SAVAK, set up as the 
Shah’s secret police in 1957, was trained in torture techniques by the 
CIA and Israeli Secret Service. Western technicians from Harvard, MIT 
and a host of other elite establishment institutions flooded into Iran, 
tens of thousands of them, to help the “progress” along. Harvard meant 
business when, in 1968, it awarded the Shah an LL.D., claiming that “the 
shah is a 20th-century ruler who has found in power a constructive 
instrument to advance social and economic revolution in an ancient 
land.” In a deep, spiritual sense, the Shah was as much a Harvard man as 
Henry Kissinger.
It was all too evident that, with American help, the Shah was wrecking 
their economy and their lives. Anti-Americanism began to rise. 
Demonstrations and protests began in late 1977 and early 1978, and the 
Shah brutally crushed the demonstrators, killing thousands over the 
course of the year.
SAVAK, too, stepped up its work, ugly work which saw torture become 
rampant. It had become one of the most feared secret police agencies in 
the world, numbering some 30,000 to 60,000 employees, holding tens—some 
say hundreds of thousands of Iranians prisoner. People were picked up by 
SAVAK and swept away, never to be heard from again, in classical 
terrorist style. Americans had better face squarely the things our 
government has helped to promote.

“Intelligence in the service of madness” — Eckhart Tolle A New Earth

I discovered that there is very little difference between fascism and 
communism.

 

Ernst Nolte writes: “Fascism is anti-Marxism which seeks to destroy the 
enemy by the evolvement of a radically opposed and yet related ideology 
and by the use of almost identical and yet typically modified methods, 
always, within the unyielding framework of national self-assertion and 
autonomy. This definition implies that without Marxism there is no 
fascism, that fascism is at the same time closer to and further from 
communism than is liberal anti-communism, that it necessarily shows at 
least an inclination toward a radical ideology, that fascism should 
never be said to exist in the absence of at least the rudiments of an 
organization and propaganda comparable to those of Marxism.” From: The 
Scientific Origins of National Socialism by Daniel Gasman

Fascism differs from communism in that it relies, at least nominally, on capitalism. It quickly becomes far removed from 
traditional American private enterprise in the hands of the politicians and bureaucrats.

Dr. Charlotte Twight in her book, America’s Emerging Fascist Economy 
warns that “Government licensing, government contracts, wage and price 
controls, manipulation of the money supply, rationing all of these are 
overt mechanisms creating actual, tangible economic dependence. A more 
subtle consequence of fascism is to make people psychologically 
dependent on the government for their economic well being. As a fascist 
government increasingly usurps the functions of private enterprise in 
providing such daily necessities of its citizens as health care, food, 
housing, energy, and insurance, the individual becomes acutely aware 
that his survival is dependent upon governmental decisions that he as an 
individual cannot significantly influence.”

A definition of Fascism
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a 
dictator, stringent socio-economic controls, suppression of the 
opposition through terror and censorship, and typically, a policy of 
belligerent nationalism and racism.
Some identifying characteristics of fascism:
powerful nationalism
distain for human rights
supremacy of the military
citizens controlled by fear
obsession with National Security (NSA, CIA, Homeland Security)
religion mixed with government
corporate power protected
rampant cronyism and corruption
fraudulent elections

 

The events in Germany were felt and somewhat echoed in the U.S.A. . Our own use of the egalitarian interventionist ideas tried in Europe also destroyed our economy, created the 1930s Depression, and prepared the way for our introduction to “worker housing.”

 

“The controls covered business, labor, banking, utilities, agriculture, housing, etc ... As a rule each new set of controls conferred benefits on some group(s) at a cost —the cost was incurred by other groups whose forced sacrifice paid for the benefits. Virtually everyone had to join or be identified with a group because an isolated individual had no chance against large vocal blocs.” (The Ominous Parallels, Leonard Peikoff)

“We are concerned today with questions of a general nature. The individual is losing significance, his destiny is no longer what interests us,” said architect Mies van der Rohe in 1924.

Gemeinnutz vor Eigennutze 
(The common good before self) 
Nazi slogan 
The poor hated the rich, the rich hated “the rabble,” the left hated the “bourgeoisie,” the right hated foreigners, the traditionalists hated the new, and the young hated everything, the adults, the Allies, the West, the Jews, the cities, the “system.” 
The Nazis promised every group the annihilation of those they hated. Just as Hitler offered Germany a synthesis of ideas so appealing to the nationwide, class wide spasm of seething fury, he offered the voters a synthesis of hatreds. In the end, this combination was what the voters wanted and chose. (Piekoff)

 

Nazism, officially in German as National Socialism - (German: Nationalsozialismus), refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party or NSDAP under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Nazism is often considered by scholars to be a form of fascism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism
From: European Thought and Culture in the 20th Century by Professor 
Lloyd Kramer: the 20th century “State” was an administrative structure 
increasingly dominated by a bureaucracy which was empowered to regulate 
and integrate the economy and provide social welfare service. Theorists 
of the Frankfurt School called this new structure of the state, "State 
Monopoly Capitalism" and its cause was championed in the U.S. by Social 
Democrats, Progressives, New Dealers, and by European Socialists.

 

“Governments oppress mankind in two ways, either directly, by brute force, that is physical violence, or indirectly, by depriving them of the means of subsistence and thus reducing them to helplessness. Political power originated in the first method; economic privilege arose from the second. Governments can also oppress man by acting on his emotional nature, and in this way constitute religious authority. There is no reason for the propagation of religious superstitions but that they defend and consolidate political and economic privileges.”
By Errico Malatesta 
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_Archives/malatesta/anarchy.html

 

The Mystery of Fascism
by David Ramsay Steele
Before turning 30, Mussolini was elected to the National Executive 
Committee of the Socialist Party, and made editor of its daily paper, 
Avanti! The paper’s circulation and Mussolini’s personal popularity grew 
by leaps and bounds.
Mussolini’s election to the Executive was part of the capture of control 
of the Socialist Party by the hard-line Marxist left, with the expulsion 
from the Party of those deputies (members of parliament) considered too 
conciliatory to the bourgeoisie. The shift in Socialist Party control 
was greeted with delight by Lenin and other revolutionaries throughout 
the world.
From 1912 to 1914, Mussolini was the Ché Guevara of his day, a living 
saint of leftism. Handsome, courageous, charismatic, an erudite Marxist, 
a riveting speaker and writer, a dedicated class warrior to the core, he 
was the peerless duce of the Italian Left. He looked like the head of 
any future Italian socialist government, elected or revolutionary.
Fascism was a movement with its roots primarily in the left. Its leaders 
and initiators were secular-minded, highly progressive intellectuals, 
hard-headed haters of existing society and especially of its most 
bourgeois aspects.
There were also non-leftist currents which fed into Fascism; the most 
prominent was the nationalism of Enrico Corradini. This anti-liberal, 
anti-democratic movement was preoccupied with building Italy’s strength 
by accelerated industrialization. Though it was considered right wing at 
the time, Corradini called himself a socialist, and similar movements in 
the Third World would later be warmly supported by the left . . .

To me the roots of these kinds of socialisms - state socialisms - is in the being forced to share. There is no heart in forced sharing - it must freely be done - freely sharing has heart in it - feels so very good to connect and freely share this way. This is where love is - in the sharing. A society based on love would be beautiful.

“You will not have any doubt that psychological time is a mental disease 
if you look at its collective manifestations. They occur, for example, 
in the form of ideologies such as communism, national socialism or any 
nationalism, or rigid religious belief systems which operate under the 
implicit assumption that the highest good lies in the future and that 
therefore the end justifies the means.
The end is an idea, a point in the mind projected future when salvation 
in whatever form; happiness, fulfillment, equality, liberation, and so 
on will be attained. Not infrequently, the means of getting there are 
the enslavement, torture and murder of people in the present.
For example it is estimated that as many as fifty million people where 
murdered to further the cause of communism — to bring about a better 
world in Russia, China, and other countries. This is a chilling example 
of how belief in a future heaven creates a present hell. Can there be 
any doubt that psychological time is a serious and dangerous mental 
illness ? How does this mind pattern operate in your life ?” . . . .

. . . The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an 
inner psychic pollution —millions of unconscious individuals not taking 
responsibility for their inner space . . .

“In the normal mind identified, or unenlightened state of consciousness, 
the power and infinite creative potential that lie concealed in the now 
are completely obscured by psychological time. Your life then looses its 
vibrancy, its freshness, its sense of wonder” . . .
from Eckhart Tolle in - The Power of Now

 

Closing thoughts:
In our dynamic cooperative cumulative endeavors; our knowledge, 
creativity, strength of character, human goodness, integrities need to 
be drawn upon so that we can live in productive, nurturing 
peace—together—now. So please for your own well being and for all of us, 
do your own crucial political work by learning from history, cultivating 
oneself—learning to be — now, meditating—now . . . facing your own fears— 
now, caring for yourself — without doing harm to others. Body work such 
as massages, exercises, Yoga, Tai Chi and Qigong are very helpful—even 
necessary. ( I personally recommend Sheng Zhen Healing Qigong)

“Real transformation is rare and depends upon whether you can become 
present enough to dissolve the past by accessing the power of the now” . 
. .from Eckhart Tolle in -The Power of Now

Learning to be responsible and do your own intellectual work also to do 
no harm (ahimsa), intentionally or otherwise, to others while avoiding 
being harmed yourself — a great challenge in these very harmful times 
since, for example, the taxes citizens all around the world are forced 
to pay include many harmful, corrupt aspects.

An ethical response to all the political corruption; in the tradition of 
Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the Dalai Lama is the Libertarian Pledge:

I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I DO NOT BELIEVE IN OR ADVOCATE THE INITIATION OF 
FORCE AS A MEANS OF ACHIEVING POLITICAL OR SOCIAL GOALS.

 

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." — Albert Einstein

 

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." — Albert Einstein

 

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." — Albert Einstein

 

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." —Albert Einstein

 

We are foolish to depend on government or religeous representatives to 
do our own work in this regard, since historically they have been the 
main agents of the long history of war. There is no peace with strong 
governments and weak people. There is no power vacuum if we each realize 
our own power and responsibilities—perhaps re-inventing something like 
the Chinese Self-Strengthening Movement of the late 1800’s at the 
individual self level of society. (The Chinese people would do well to 
instill in their leaders the compassion displayed by the Dalai Lama.)

from: Words of Truth A Prayer Composed by: His Holines Tenzin Gyatso The 
Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet
“... Those unrelentingly cruel ones, objects of compassion,
Maddened by delusion’s evils,
wantonly destroy themselves and others;
May they achieve the eye of wisdom,
knowing what must be done and undone,
And abide in the glory of friendship and love.”
As Gandhi said “ Non-violence in its dynamic condition does not mean 
meek submission to the will of an evil-doer, but it means the putting of 
one’s soul against the will of the tyrant”.
“Even the most powerful cannot rule without the cooperation of the ruled.”
Mohandas Gandhi

Richard Greeg wrote in The Power of Nonviolence “ Nonviolent resistance 
does not break the opponents’ will but alters it; does not destroy his 
confidence, enthusiasm and hope, but transfers them to a finer purpose.”

“The change now required must come from within ourselves, within our 
thinking — a shift in our attitude toward information itself. The 
information we choose is the information we serve. Like electricity, 
information is polarized; it is either creative or destructive. 
Destructive information is not evil; it is simply programmed to destroy 
... ”The human mind ... is designed to operate on the creative, 
energy-rich currents of living information. Destructive informational 
currents distort and eventually block its perception . . . . “We are 
embodiments of the universe’s truth, products of its creativity, 
interpretive mechanisms it has placed here to experience and enjoy 
dimensional life. Our human biocircuitry is designed to create, but 
until we clearly understand the vital distinction between forms of truth 
and truth’s living reality, our bodies’ higher creative functions cannot 
be activated.” Ken Carey, “Where Do We Draw the Line?,” from Solstice 
Shift, edited by John Nelson (Hampton Roads, 1997)

From The Heart of the Soul by Gary Zukav & Linda Francis: “The pursuit 
of external power—the ability to manipulate and control—is insisting 
that the circumstances you prefer are perfect for others. It creates 
only violence and destruction. Honoring the preferences of others 
creates harmony, sharing, and cooperation. It reveres Life. That is the 
pursuit of authentic power—the alignment of the personality with the soul.
Judging your circumstances to be imperfect keeps you from seeing clearly 
the choices that you have made—the choices that created your 
circumstances. In other words, it prevents you from taking 
responsibility for your circumstances.”

When we are shallow, we contribute to a shallow world. When we patiently 
explore, we discover life can have depth. We can follow the longing for 
truth that calls to all hearts.

. . . keeping your eyes to that which unfolds within you — now . . .

Humanity — ones only religion. Breath — ones only prayer, and 
consciousness — ones only god . . . consciousness am I . . . remain the 
same forever . . . your essential self . . . it is towards this end you 
must work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gue0XmItCOI
Meditation and Yoga ancient origins - Yogiraj Siddhanath

Let’s get to work, we’ll all feel much better—then we can more truly 
enjoy being human while singing and dancing together and caring for 
widening circles of loved ones . . .

This earth now . . . can be our temple of joy, song, dance, music, creativity, of love and life . . . a celebration of life . . .

Robert Heinlein wrote in Time Enough for Love, “The more you love, the 
more you can love---and the more intensely you love. Nor it there any 
limit on how many you can love.

“To find love you have to abandon all your preconceptions. The only way 
to love is to be available to the new now.” from Making Love by Barry Long

I think the failure of the existing financial system is natural due to 
its corrupt basis in the international fiat money system and is only 
fearful to those who cling to the past. I am hopeful that real values 
can now be established to trade upon to build secure, peacefully 
energized communities.

my vision . . . i view people being able to freely & spontaneously share 
& exchange ideas, talents, in all sorts of overlapping, creative 
endeavors, feeling the wondrous deep joys of community & belonging.

Knowing the security of family & friends in the real love connections 
that true trust in oneself & others — which is possible — now if we 
live with & nurture our courageous integrities — open to our ethical, 
spiritual individual ahimsa striving consciousnesses - with true respect 
for the lovely beingness of each of us — now in our precious individual 
lives . . .
The specific manifestations are not possible for me to imagine now 
because when these kinds of creative energies are free — the outcomes i 
expect to be beyond what i can envision. I can just expect to be 
surprised, thrilled, delighted and awed . . . :-))

I. 
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; The hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them. 
- A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

II. 
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.

Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.

We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them. 
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.
Our internal resources are great.

from the: Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms (July 6, 1776)

by Thomas Jefferson, John Dickinson & perhaps John Rutledge

 

“Can you hear the babies calling . . . the children . . . 20,000 generations waiting to come behind us here. So it is our sacred obligation to establish a firm direction for this planet in peace, sustainability - protecting gaia, and the biosphere and creating the world of our vision - and this is why we are on this planet today.”
Dr. Steven Greer presents “Contact & Disclosure: The Final Sequence” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0oLJNfs_rM&feature=email

 

"The great theme of true individualism is that in the spontaneous collaboration of many free minds there is a mysterious creative power far greater than the power in any individual mind."

— Garet Garrett, American Affairs [1949]

 

from Dr. Thomas Campbell - My Big TOE

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTE3MzI2OTU2.html

What this is really about is your big TOE (Theory of Everything)

find out - you have to be skeptical. . . find out — discover the big truth for yourself. That is how you grow.

Growth is your purpose, mission . . . it is your responsibility.

Let my big TOE be the catalyst for your big TOE

The fundamental reality is consciousness . . . go and explore . . .

Don't let fear block your process . . . you have to be fearless !

You will find and create your own fears. What you think is what you create and if you are carrying fear around with you — that will manifest itself into something you will have to deal with. But that doesn't necessarily mean you are in danger. Take whatever comes . . . however it is. . . If I never come back . . . I'll accept that — if you can't accept that and worry about that — then you won't go very far.

So you have to have a warriors attitude.

You have to be able to accept whatever comes and deal with it as it comes . . . or your fear will inhibit it.

Fear is the opposite of love. Fear is high entropy . . . love is low entropy.

http://www.mybigtoe.com/