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August 9, 2007 at 21:19:42

Finding the Exits from the Grids with John Judge

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On this day, August 8, 2007, America is at a tipping point. We arrived here through a series of incidents and actions, many unintended.. Our tools for creating the world we know were law and institutions, tools we thought would provide stability and order. Instead we have violence and growing fear.

Growing numbers of Americans now realize that those we trusted have used those tools to enrich themselves. The shock of understanding vies with an overarching sense of outrage. We are faced with the compelling need to change government because of the deceit and unbridled greed of those who used our trust to steal.

Greed is a long-understood human failing. Our institutions were used to deceive us. Those deceptions were created by people we trusted who stood to profit. We know their names and it is a long list including former presidents, the heads of corporations, and leaders from both major parties. This did not happen as a single conspiracy; it happened because when one person comes up with an original way to steal, it will be copied and applied to other circumstances to achieve the same purpose.

As John Judge says a conspiracy means to breath together. These people have bad breath and ambition combined with habits of larceny.

A blow dryer is a small appliance used to dry and style your hair. Dropped into the bathtub of someone you want to eliminate, it is a murder weapon.

Blow-dryers and institutions of all kinds are just tools. These 'leaders' and other individuals entrusted with American's tools are responsible for how those tools were misused. There are many tools we need to rethink. We have been too trusting.

Our monetary system was intended to provide the means for exchange, to securely hold money, and to provide a way to measure what money is worth. It has become a weapon in the war to steal the wealth of people around the world. Fractional banking is a monopoly license to print money, issued by Congress to the Federal Reserve System in 1913. This system has stolen the wealth of five generations, while reorganizing us to make stealing ever easier.

There are alternatives. Read Money, Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender by Thomas H. Greco, Jr., Chelsea Green Publishing, ISBN 9781890132378.)

We have learned that the greed inclined who work their way into power always want more of our wealth and lives. Politicians make a living making sure that Grid Corporations, for instance all the oil companies, Halliburton, Koch Industries, and scores of others keep us passive and paying.

Other Grid Corporations did this with electricity, transportation, for all financial dealings, for insurance, and for all government services including the police and military.

In cooperation with government and aided by the media they have been re-calibrating the police and military to control us when deceit finally fails, which it is now doing. The cows, us, have to stay in the pen.

How they accomplished this redistribution of wealth is an ugly story. It will get uglier.

Those in government, profitably employed by Grid Corporations, knew that we would eventually notice. Like a conman playing the old pea and shell game they used lots to distract us.

In the wake of WWII they terrorized us with the boogie man of Communism; When it seemed we would agree on the need for clean air and water the same corporations used operatives to take over the Environmental Movement, displacing the real Earth Day for the April Oil Day. Flags flew, rhetoric oozed, children were told to hide under their desks in the 50s. Today they are training our children to expect death at their schools at any moment.

Fear = Control.

During Iran – Contra Big Oil began overtly dictating when and where Americans would go to war. Our military slid a little further towards being just a tool for corporate profits. But America's servicemen and women were faithful to what they believed. They believed they were protecting our country.

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A "voice crying in the wilderness" against the polution of the Word of God with the vain traditions of men, the destruction of the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution. However, with a call to remember that we are all Americans; irregardless of what Church (or whether) we attend, our political affiliation, or the color of our skin. For only through our unity can we survive the dark night that approaches... "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God" Thomas...

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Chas A "voice crying in the wilderness" against the polution of the Word of God with the vain traditions of men, the destruction of the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution. However, with a call to remember that we are all Americans; irregardless of what Church (or whether) we attend, our political affiliation, or the color of our skin. For only through our unity can we survive the dark night that approaches... "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God" Thomas...

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The Sunshine Patriot and the Gathering Storm...

In the winds of the dynamic interplay of social discourse; the mighty weapon of free speech from the heart of those who refuse to be slaves, gathers the dawn of awakening; a realization of the true enemy. Terrible in its momentum; irresistible in its righteous indignation in the hearts of free men and women defending their homes, is the determination to resist being enslaved.

To the terror of money men, and the international corporations that would master ‘We the People’, the Spirit of 1776 arises from our collective memories to draw us in unity once again to the Lexington Green. Not in the crass defense of political affiliation or ideology, nor of enforcing some perceived moral norm upon society, but in the defense of the uniquely American defined rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; the clarion call of the defense of freedom for all mankind.

For it is certain, lest we forget, that the American people’s battle against being slaves for the profit of the British East India Company - or now for the elk of Halliburton, Union 76, Exxon and Blackwater - has defined the cause of liberty for the world; that the blood, lives and souls of men and women are not commodities to be listed on the balance sheet of any corporation. Thus, to the horror of those that would be our masters, the former sunshine patriots of America have begun to clearly define their common enemy; for it is in that definition and the resultant storm of their unified righteous indignation, that their doom is clearly pronounced.

by Chas (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 14 comments) on Friday, August 10, 2007 at 11:51:19 AM

Rasoul Acheh

Coming to grips with the "C" word

"...this didn't happen as a conspiracy". This fragment shows the author is still intentionally, or unintentionally, ignorant of the facts. In order to be of any use to themselves, or anyone else, contemporary Americans need to learn once, and for all, that:

A. Conspiracy, is neither a bad word, nor a joke.

B. Human history is often driven, by the conspiracies of powerful interests.

C. Denying this fact, is how Americans have gotten, where they are today.

D. Coming to grips with the reality, and the impact of conspiracies, is a must.

by Rasoul Acheh (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 122 comments) on Friday, August 10, 2007 at 12:35:31 PM

Melinda Pillsbury-Foster is the author of GREED: The NeoConning of America and A Tour of Old Yosemite. The former is a novel about the lives of the NeoCons with a strong autobiographical component. The latter is a non-fiction book about her father and grandfather. Ms. Pillsbury-Foster has been active in politics since the Goldwater Campaign. She left the Republican Party to join and become active in the Libertarian Party in 1973, working as an activist and party officer until she left the Liber...

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Melinda Pillsbury-FosterMelinda Pillsbury-Foster is the author of GREED: The NeoConning of America and A Tour of Old Yosemite. The former is a novel about the lives of the NeoCons with a strong autobiographical component. The latter is a non-fiction book about her father and grandfather. Ms. Pillsbury-Foster has been active in politics since the Goldwater Campaign. She left the Republican Party to join and become active in the Libertarian Party in 1973, working as an activist and party officer until she left the Liber...

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Conspiracy or just business as usual -

The author, meaning me, knows exactly what a conspiracy is. It means breathing together. These folks have really bad breath and cooperate as far as it benefits them PERSONALLY. That cooperation breaks down the moment one of them starts having problems. Think of those scorpions in the bottle. Right now this is going on with the comm industry; it will soon start with the electric barons. Ha!. They will start eating their own.

Wallowing in their fantasy world, much of it constructed by spooks paid for making up exciting theories only confuses the matter. Listen to John Judge on my show today. The facts cut past those myths and mumbo jumbo to the bottom line. That is always money, power and sex, the consumables that light the greed in the eyes of the unethical.

by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster (139 articles, 1 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 121 comments) on Friday, August 10, 2007 at 1:21:04 PM

Rasoul Acheh

Conspiracy is, Business as Usual

Your definition of conspiracy, is not only misleading, but is useless, in defining such an important aspect of human life. A better definition of conspiracy, is: To secretly agree, collude, and act, to achieve, criminal ends. Evading reality, is an unfortunate American defect. It keeps us ignorant, and victimized, by very real criminal conspiracies of powerful interests, which far too many Americans nonetheless, refuse to believe exist. Such is the paradox of the American citizen, initally granted freedom to think independently, we consistently choose, to not think at all! It isn't surprising that, the one-time "land of the free, and home of the brave", has now become, "the land of the crooks, and home of the useful idiot"!

by Rasoul Acheh (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 122 comments) on Friday, August 17, 2007 at 9:49:21 AM

Breathe Deeply

The word 'conspiracy' has been redefined by those who are engaging in the behavior. Avoiding that carefully preparted rabbit hole into spiral of irrelevancy is just good sense.

Enjoy your marginalization.

by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster (139 articles, 1 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 121 comments) on Friday, August 17, 2007 at 10:18:45 AM

Rasoul Acheh

The "Mainstream" is to be pittied, never emulated

The ease by which the American mainstream is manipulated, and kept largely ignorant, of what's really going on at home, and abroad, is the true test, of weather being "mainstream" is really better, than being "marginalized". Such words, merely mask the pretentious sophristry, which keeps the U.S. mainstream, among the most misinformed, populations on earth.

by Rasoul Acheh (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 122 comments) on Friday, August 17, 2007 at 12:36:39 PM

Tag, your it.

Sophistry? Never fall in love with your tools. Those pesky things can take you right to the bottom.

by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster (139 articles, 1 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 121 comments) on Friday, August 17, 2007 at 12:49:46 PM

Robert Chapman is greatly interested in developing political awareness among as many people as possible.
Robert ChapmanRobert Chapman is greatly interested in developing political awareness among as many people as possible.

au contraire

Greed is a long-understood human failing.

Greed is a long denied human failing.

Americans ignore the effects of greed in their lives almost as much as they much as they ignore the greed in their hearts.

The idea that government can be organized around the pursuit of happiness is utopian and unsensible.

Government can take two forms: it can be a social contract in which people negotiate and define their rights and obligations.

Or it can be the strong pushing around the poor.

Americans' obsession with personal gain- greed and our obsession with personal freedom- no responsibilities are embodied in political philosophies like objectivism, neo-conservatism and libertarianism.

These political philosophies and their relatives are merely philosophical facades for the domination of the weak by the strong.

The current strength of these cruel and unrealistic philosophies is the core of the failure of American democracy.

We don't need a return to past ideals or religion, we need to take a hard look at post-industrial society and develop new and ethical ways of dealing with each other and with nature.

by Robert Chapman (28 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 556 comments) on Friday, August 10, 2007 at 4:19:17 PM

A fools game: a redefinition of our Constitution

Such is underlying fallacy in the logic of any call for a redefinition of our Constitution and Bill of Rights; that these documents represent a definition of the rights and the obligations of the people in the first place. It is through such every ill informed and popularly promoted inaccurate representations of the fundamental premises upon which our Republic was founded, that has allowed would be dictators to transform our government into a ‘tin pot’ democracy on a fast slide to fascism in the first place.

Our nation’s government is supposed to be a Constitutional Representative Republic, and not some bastardization of a Parliamentary Democracy. The Constitution of the United States is the declared limitation of the powers and itemized responsibilities of the government; not the reverse. Never was it meant to define the limits of the powers or the rights of the people; it was to protect the liberty of the people from the necessary evil of government.

It was for the very cause of protecting the weak from the strong that our fore-fathers rejected all the variant forms of democracy for our government. It was through the perversion of our government into one of mob rule that current situation has been reached; the mobs can be brought off with popular economic policy pacification covered with plausible lies and justifications to assuage the collective conscience; while the all powerful, ‘nanny knows best’, governmental juggernaut eviscerates our freedoms on the way to a corporate world empire.

It is therefore the “cruel and unrealistic philosophies” embodied by the ‘spin-doctor’ defined ethics of the majority enforced on the minority by the weakening of constitutional safeguards that has brought us to this point in our history. Our quest then should not be to redefine our governing documents, but to return them to their original state, minus the ‘all powerful’ and ‘all knowing’ nanny our government has become.

by Chas (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 14 comments) on Friday, August 10, 2007 at 8:46:08 PM

Experimenting on people is generally unacceptable

Letting people decide that they are going to do with their own lives is not attractive to people who want to experiment with the lives of others. Such theorizing makes small men feel powerful.

The idea of freedom is still new since it has never actually been applied so don't worry about recycling it.

People confuse the complex nature of our species, based on a biological nature driven by reproductive imperatives over uncounted generations and subject to slow modification, with the ideas, mostly dumb, we use to construct human culture. Human culture is not natural. It is just ideas.

We can modify what we do and how we relate but there is a baseline beyond which we cannot go because ideas that contradict our nature do not work. People will put up with a lot. Then they get nasty.

Human culture is built on a cognitive and biological system that we cannot change. All the ...isms act on the belief 'they' can reprogram us.

Consent and cooperation are the only appropriate tools for building the future.

People who use coercion and force to experiment on others should instead go get a pig and try teaching it to sing.

Go get that pig.

by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster (139 articles, 1 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 121 comments) on Friday, August 10, 2007 at 9:46:31 PM