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Mass tort status is being considered in the lawsuits that have been filed against the makers of the birth control tablets Yasmin or Yaz and its generic form Ocella. This is largely because of the increasing number of suits being filed across the country where victims claim stroke and other serious health problems caused by taking Yasmin or Ocella. Yaz side effects extend from ischemic stroke or heart attack, to pulmonary embolism and other blood clot related injuries.

There are already numerous lawsuits charged in various counties across the country against the pill producer. This number is expected to reach 1,000. Typically, those effected by Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella can submit a case evaluation at thelegaladvocate.com to have a lawyer review their information in order to be provided with answers and eventually legal representation.

It is essential that women become their own advocates and take charge of the decisions being made about their health and their bodies. As a whole, the American public relies too heavily on doctors and pharmaceuticals to give them answers in a bottle. In the internet age, it is up to you to do your own research and become knowledgeable. Drug recalls and corporate lawsuits have become all too commonplace in America. At some point, the masses have to stop expecting the government and big business to have their welfare in mind. It is time for the public to ultimately take the first step and not be so quick to take anything handed to them in pill form.

Regarding the issues with the Space Shuttle and the in flight explosion of the Columbia. I believe that of course that hindsight is always easy to use to place blame, however we must continue the program and the Space Shuttle as it sits may not be the best technology as newer technology is now available for re-useable craft such as;

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/te…tps_030307.html

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/US/…ttle030210.html

There are newer ideas for heat tiles being considered and new technology of materials being introduced some of which obviously cannot be talked about here.

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/te…s_020130-1.html

Let me discuss a few ideas, which can be used to prevent a similar occurrence. Now anyone who owns a boat knows that before you sail your boat, you give it a once over, truck drivers take a bat to the tires, pilots pre-flight the planes. Why would you not send a remote controlled, self-propelled robotic tethered devise around a shuttle before heading for home for a visual inspection? The unit could be pointed toward the shuttle and continuously view the craft; spin it slowly. After all you are going to fly a spacecraft at mach 25, through the atmosphere at 2200-3000 degrees and pray that all is well?

Eventually we can send in the scram jet engines and fly it back under power at your discretion. Or ask the UFO people to tow you back? HA HA. You know things are different inside of a vacuum. All those who study space and vacuums know this. Just because you have an old piece of hardware that runs, does not necessarily mean that it can make the transition from the atmosphere into the vacuum of space and back again safely. Not to mention the inhabitants during solar flares in space.

Let’s see the new X-Planes and what they can do. Meanwhile let us put in a few simple techniques to use the current craft and allow those astronauts who feel they wish to take the risk to volunteer to use the older craft until it is replaced. We need these experiments and resources to be used; nothing should be wasted. I know these things happen, hell that is the cost of going for it, but it still sucks. The crew knew it and actually jet boat drag racing is still the most dangerous sport known to man, or underwater welding for a profession. I have a friend who was a TRW materials specialist and it just seems that it is old technology and we are better than that now. I have heard speculation by conspiracy theorists, crazy stuff like; talk that the UFO caused it and shot down a U-2 over Korea also. Then if you look at the Chinese, they have some devises also. Another rumor that the White Sands Chemical Laser Beam was tracking it and was able to cause the break up. Even if this talk is fiction still one might consider the need for some sort of reflective emissions during critical phases of space exploration to prevent such potential problems in the future.

Fiction or not shouldn’t we have a plan? A tethered video camera would solve this problem of possible damage during missions, okay then lets keep going and complete the mission, we have so many experiments that are worthy of our tax dollars and the future of mankind, we must stay on the cutting edge of technology, we must not allow over allowances for safety to prevent the need to risk it all for the betterment of the future. It is some of the most dangerous work known to man, yet it must be done. So with this solution, we can prevent a re-occurrence of that problem which downed one of our greatest accomplishments and killed some of our greatest Americans.

We must not allow them to die in vain, we must continue to push for the future and push the envelope and go where no man has gone before. Never, ever, ever, ever give up. Push forward; it is the only way to that anything has ever been accomplished by our species. We are on a roll, we must continue. Think on it.

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Samsung Vice Chairman Yun Jong Yong says “you don’t predict
the future and wait; you create the future.”

The South Korean adds, “we cannot live without change. The race
for survival in this world is not for the strongest, but the most
adaptive.”

And, he continues, “quality is the conscience of a company.
It’s the reason for the company’s existence.”

He practices what he preaches. When paternalistic management
practices threatened Samsung’s well being, Yun Jong Yong made
bold, decisive actions.

Declaring that “piling up inventory is a vice,” he allowed
production of goods only to fill orders. He reduced company
debt, got rid of products and divisions not related to the company’s core business, (electronics) and slashed the workforce by 30%.

It worked and now Samsung enjoys a major business turnaround. Samsung now thrives on change and creating the future.

We need to view the dismal situation here in America, then apply Yun Jong Yong’s principles to flourish under difficult, economic circumstances including:

1. News of the sharpest monthly increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in 25 years, up 1.2%. Annualized, that’s 14.4%. Hello, inflation. Remember Jimmy Carter?

2. Also news of the highest monthly increase in the Producer Price Index (PPI) (wholesale prices) in 31 years, up 1.9% or 22.8% annualized.

3. $700 billion in US Government debt, or 7% of Gross Domestic Product, the highest debt percentage in a long, long time.

4. In 2005, stocks up 52% in Latin America, up 17% in Europe, but US stocks down 5%.

5. Some 30 million American jobs eliminated in recent years.
Of these, 98% were due to downsizing. Only 2% were the result
of offshore outsourcing. In fact, 4.8% of new jobs resulted from
insourcingforeign companies creating jobs here.

6. The American auto industry emits a Detroit death rattle these
days. Delphi, the parts company spun off by General Motors, filed for bankruptcy (Chapter 11). Ford announced $284 million
quarterly loss. It’s stock sells at paltry $8.00 per sharerock bottom.

We must demand our political leaders start slashing taxes and government spending, get rid of federal and state income taxes (using consumption taxes in their place), end employer paid health insurance plans, and stop whining–wrongly blaming overseas trade and globalism for eliminated jobs.

Actually, government cannot solve these problems. As Ronald Reagan taught us, “government is not the solution, it’s the problem.” He was 100% correct.

And as Yun Jong Yong reminds us, we must:

1. Create the future, not wait for it and react to it.

2. Welcome change cheerfully as necessary.

3. Be adaptive, not rigid and backward.

4. Realize that quality is the reason for our existence,

particularly in business.

5. Emphasize profitability, not sales, and stay focused on your core business mission, not being distracted with less relevant possibilities.

Overall, we must create the futureour own future. Let’s get on with that.

John J. Alquist is a professional speaker, author, and business consultant. He is a powerful champion of almost universal self-employment. His business, Alquist Enterprises, advances self-employment in a multiplicity of ways.

The Capitalist system produces two classes: the Proletariat class and the Capitalist class. The first class produces all of the wealth of society, according to the instructions of the Capitalist class. The Capitalist class is composed of investors, businessmen, entrepreneurs, all persons who are in possession of the means of production. We are all aware of the variation of this class. There is the small business owner, who might make anywhere in between $50,000 and $250,000 in a year. There are business chain owners who probably make up to four times as much. Then there is the corporation: a single business that is owned unevenly by many investors. Those who are asked to lead the corporation, the corporate executive officers, are taking the traditional role of the business owner; they become responsible for sales, salaries, advertising, everything that a business functions on. Those who own the stock make millions a year, due to the CEO’s organizing and the workers laboring. The variety of the Capitalist class is clear — it provides different degrees of affluence. Variation of income is not limited to the Capitalist class. In America, for instance, a minimum wage worker might make only $10,000 a year, while a physician or engineer might make $80,000 a year, while other careers can make up to $100,000 or $150,000 per year. Those who work hard and can impress supervisors by the quality of their labor may be promoted and given wage increases. Laborers who enter vocational schools or universities improve their productive capabilities, increasing their wages. Likewise, artists and musicians in this society are paid according to how many people enjoy their creativity — theoretically. These are generalizations, but they are the primary defense of the system of Free Trade: people who work hard can advance and gain more privilege.

Privilege. If a person has social privilege, that means that they enjoy a greater part of the fruit of society’s production, what our economists call the gross national product. The use of privilege in a Capitalist system is obvious: it provides an incentive to the laboring class to increase their productive capabilities. If someone can create more wealth with their labor, then they will be given a larger quantity of the social wealth, that is to say, the total wealth produced by all society. The first rule of granting privilege, of course, is that the new amount of wealth assigned to the individual is smaller than what their productive capabilities can do. For example, if an assembly line worker gives more effort and energy in his labor, he might produce any extra $5 of profit for his employer per hour. In response, the employer might decide to award him a pay raise. But, the wage increase would not be higher than $5, since that wouldn’t make sense to the employer’s interests. Instead, it’s typical that such a raise might be $.50 to $1.00, if one were awarded at all. Here is the first trend of privilege: by improving your productive capabilities, where the present social order is maintained, you are rewarded by the system accordingly. By creating more social wealth, you are awarded a slightly larger piece of the whole of society’s productions.

Among the members of the privileged class, there is the police and the military — coercion used for attack and defense. This is the protective, security class. In order to induce members of society to join the ranks of the coercive class, the masters of the state have offered them one thing: privilege. It is common in every effective military or protective force that those who serve are rewarded with some kind of privilege — honors alone have never been enough. We often hear of the massive armies that ancient emperors could muster just by arming all of the males, however, they still received some payment. One author in 1683 tells us: “But just as soldiers fight under authority of the state, so what they take from the enemy, as properly acquired for the state, not for the soldiers. Yet it is everywhere customary to leave movable property, especially of small value, to the soldiers who have taken it; and this is connived at, or it takes the place of a reward, or sometimes of pay; or it is to tempt such as may be willing to sell their blood when there is no compulsion.” [”On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to the Natural Law,” by Samuel von Pufendorf, book 2, chapter 16, published in 1683.] In the United States today, we find that soldiers are still considered invaluable to the state. Their privilege includes a paycheck higher than your average minimum wage worker, plus benefits of health and financial aid for education. There are other techniques to gain compliance in mustering a military force. A ruler could use his present military strength to enslave others to the task of security. However, to do this, the ruler must already have a military strength with which to threaten the general population to do his will. One early example of this we discover in the pages of Aristotle, when we read of Pisistratus, who enslaved the public once they allotted him a tax fund to hire soldiers. [”The Athenian Constitution,” by Aristotle, translated by Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, section 14.]

The initial use of privilege as a means of controlling society was by the early despots and tyrants. The only privilege they granted to any member of society was freedom in exchange for their service as soldiers in keeping the majority enslaved. It has been several thousand years since the Spartan soldiers would enslave foreign villages, only so that they can live off of the labors of others. Though the origin of privilege is a part of the history of soldiers, modernized society has allowed this concept to have much more far-reaching effects. In today’s world, privilege is awarded to a class based on how much productive capability it possesses, or how much more the class adds to the social wealth based on their abilities, which make them unique, compared to the other classes. Factory workers, for example, have a higher income than other blue-collar workers, because they are a skilled class needed for their abilities. Physicians help create more productivity by maintaining the health of society and fending off illness, hence, doctors are paid more. Judges, legislators, and other politicians are paid extremely well. Naturally, any group that has authoritative and coercive control of the majority will reward itself the greatest when distributing privilege. The inclusive ruling class will always defend itself. The use of privilege and its role in modern society is very apparent.

What is the alternative to privilege? If a citizen in this society does not wish to obey the orders of the masters of the system, they will lose their privilege. They would still enjoy some of the fruits of society, but they would be among the class of the majority with little privilege. That is the only punishment given to those who do not accept the offers of the system to become more productive members. The offer of privilege reads as follows: “Adhere to these special orders and you will be rewarded.” On the other end, there is a threat: “Violate our laws, or the orders to the many, and you will be punished with imprisonment — the complete inability to gain or enjoy any privilege.” The use of privilege is two-fold, in that it is used as a method of reward as well as a method of punishment. The social system in place then has interests, desires, wants, goals. Its natural role is to force people to comply with orders. The privileged classes enjoy a higher quality of living, because the framers of the social system gave them more consideration. By having these privileged classes, the ruling class gains a tighter and firmer control of the majority. For instance, kings in Europe would assign nobles who in turn controlled knights, the class honored with the duty of force. Today, privilege is granted to all members of society that produce more, because the fruit of their produce is taxed to feed runaway military and police budgets. By granting a small amount of privilege to doctors, the whole of society can produce more wealth to feed more troops. In that respect, the system gains more protective strength, in order to maintain the present order.

The citizen possesses the option to reject the offers of privilege for special duties, such as enrolling in the military or becoming a more productive member of society. One might even theoretically say that he possesses the option to reject even the law, only if they are willing to accept the penalty of losing all privilege. And though it is not difficult for us to use the phrase “losing all privilege,” we cannot forget that waking everyday in a prison cell is a very stark and brutal reality for many. The ruling party of the state has one interest in mind: to maintain its present regime and its ability to use coercive force on the majority. Those who aid the state, the privileged classes, are rewarded for their duty. If the state were to lose its privileged classes, if the people were to reject all programs of privilege, then the ruling class would lose its power and authority. The benefits that the rulers enjoy as the leaders of people would disintegrate. It is the nature of government to be corrupt, manipulative, and exploitive, the first enemy of the people. The French Revolution was a response to the endless reach of poverty due to the ruling class. The Cuban Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Chinese Revolution, and many others were all started by citizens that were discontent with their government. If, in these cases, the government was wise enough to distribute more privilege instead of hording wealth, they might have survived. The nations of the world today have learned some lessons from history. They are willing to grant small concessions to the people, in order to maintain their power and oppress their citizens in other ways.

The use of privilege in modern society is simple. By many people accepting the offer of special tasks in order to accumulate wealth, the government’s coercion of the majority becomes stronger and stronger. The use of privilege is to fuel the system’s strength and ability to punish those who violate the law, the orders to the many. Those that accept this privilege are essentially the reason why the present system can be maintained. To describe this, our political theorists use the term oppression. A higher class is rewarded for its ability to maintain the present regime’s policies and laws. Though propaganda is always used to convince the privileged class that they are doing what is right, they are also rewarded a greater part of wealth, the key determining factor in their obedience. Aside from the privileged class of society, there is also the ruling class — this is the class that asserts coercive authority over the majority. The ruling class has provided the majority with every reason for revolt and resistance, from organizing massacres, to slavery, to torture and vindictive judicial processes, to violating civil liberties, and wrongfully imprisoning its citizens. Organized coercive authorities, or governments, are the instigators to the dark side of human nature. Their only goal is to maintain their control on the majority through oppression, aided by the use of privilege. If the people were able to reorganize the social structure on mutual and non-exploiting agreements, then poverty would cease to infect their nations; the people would be able to work and live in humane conditions.

The ruling class must oppose a fair and just society. If every person were fairly awarded wealth based on how important they are to society, then everyone would have much higher incomes. In a society where the majority is enslaved to the rule of one despot, those who are given privilege to be soldiers make less than they would if everyone was free. The reason that citizens give in to the offers that the ruling party makes is because there are enough others doing the same thing to the point where it is a protected status. A government with a small military or police force would be ineffective; it would instantly crumble the moment the people demanded freedom. Citizens join the privileged ranks because they are already swollen. They enter in for their mutual defense. In a free society, they would enjoy even more privilege. They do not seek a free society for two reasons. First, if they sought out a revolutionary change in the social structure, they would lose their present privilege unless every other member of the privileged class did the same thing. Second, they are convinced by the arguments of the ruling class that a truly free society could not exist. Their claim is that it is unnatural to humans to be free.

While the use of privilege has become a great deal diversified, the essential ethic of the state remains the same: the use of privilege to get a part of society to quell the majority is essential. Its role of privilege is natural. It exists to induce compliance with a social situation that would otherwise be unacceptable. Every piece of privilege is established on the same firm ground. It is established on the slavery and submission of the majority. Those who enjoy privilege hold it solely due to this slavery. When a citizen decides to reach up and grab a larger slice of the pie, they can only do this by stepping on the skulls of their so-called fellow citizens. To grant one person larger privilege is, in effect, to deny the majority a part of their wealth. Revolutionaries throughout history have denied all privilege for these reasons. Leo Tolstoy sent all the royalties of his books to charity, living as a father and a peasant. Che Guevara refused special treatment, eating side-by-side with ordinary soldiers in their Marxist militias. Peter Kropotkin, the revered philosopher of Anarchism, was born a prince, but he abandoned his privilege because it was built on slavery. George Orwell, author of 1984, served in the Spanish revolutionary forces as they battled the Fascist invasion. Siddartha Gautama, also known as “Buddha,” was born in to wealth, but he also abandoned everything that he had just so that he could understand truth. All of these great people give us an important truth that we must understand. In order to overthrow oppressive situations, in order to achieve a state of true freedom and equality, we must reject all privileges that are built upon slavery — we must have unity and solidarity. The revolution needs bold individuals who are willing to make sacrifices in order that the majority can understand and live in freedom. www.punkerslut.com

For Life,
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[Author’s Note: Started on October 13, 2005. Completed on October 30, 2005.]

Punkerslut (or Andy Carloff) has been writing essays and poetry on social issues which have caught his attention for several years. His website http://www.punkerslut.com provides a complete list of all of these writings. His life experience includes homelessness, squating in New Orleans and LA, dropping out of high school, getting expelled from college for “subversive activities,” and a myriad of other revolutionary actions.

A visitor to Moscow would be immediately struck by the fact that an otherwise dull Kremlin now seduces one to break the sound barrier in a mike, rediscover one self on a Compaq or simply feel Warner in a Pringles. If this is not enough then there is always Chairman Mao in Tiananmen Square calling upon workers and peasants to not only carry forward the revolution but also gulp down a Sprite, while they are at it. Numerous more examples abound from the Adriatic, so what does it all signify? Is it truly the end of History? Do we now see a time when a matter of ideology is drinking a Coke or a Pepsi? Closer introspection would reveal that it is not quite so.

Let us begin by noting that the world has not got rid of or minimized the areas of conflict. From the more recent Israeli- Palestinian clashes, to the problems in Chechnya, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, parts of Africa etc. The war on Terror has brought Afghanistan and Iraq into global focus. Tensions persist on one form or another and have the potential to assume more enormous dimensions at any time. Closely related to this point is the fact that there are vast areas of the globe that were, in a sense left behind in time: parts of the middle-east, chunks of Africa and Latin America and especially Afghanistan are regions where modernity as we know it has failed to penetrate let alone reach a critical mess to iron out medieval tensions and propel the inhabitants towards growth and self realization. Such geographical pockets are breeding grounds of what may seem outdated, yet in fact extremely potent ideologies and movements. These regions are not merely trouble spots of the world meant to be fumigated at will by the forces of modernity in their multi-billion dollar corporate avatars but are in fact pointers towards more serious matters. Namely how does one reconcile the difference between the majority of the human population that is battered by pressures of war, disease, hunger, natural calamities, apathetic rulers, poverty and ignorance everyday, and those who suggest that the panacea of all evils is to watch more movies, guzzle more beers drink more colas, and Just Do It?

Tied to the above factors is the fact that all over the world maybe in the countries themselves, the so-called engines of globalization seem to be acquiring local hues and colours as they clank. Be it the fact that fast food giants serving local cuisines, global television channels beaming programmes in regional languages or giant corporations trying to be more uniform global system, driven by the forces of profit and loss seems to be weakening.

If Bill Gates came to Hyderabad to sell his Windows XP, an Indian has moved to Redmond to design it for him. As a result America is browning and in a decade from now, the white man would be a minority on his island. Immigrants are no longer poor Italians, Irish and Jews sailing to their land of opportunity in claustrophobic ships but are in fact an important constituent of the demographic profile of every western country. Over the years these Patils and Changs have emerged as significant pressure groups in the government of their new homeland, and it is only with a passage of time that we will realize the full impact of these movements of migrants on the history of mankind.

Equally significant has been the revolution in the fields of science and technology. We are today witness to a rapid advancement in communication, especially information technology and networking. The world is increasingly shrinking to become one global village. One development in one part of the world soon affects the life of people in other parts of the world. Say for instance, oil production. If Saudi Arabia or any of the major OPEC nations decide to cut production, even if it is a marginal cut, oil prices shoot up and political climate can change. A country’s might and political clout now depends not just on sheer military power but also on the scientific potential. The case of India is ample proof of this and how different countries are analyzing its strategic importance in the 21st century. But here too there is a need to wait and watch as to how these developments affect history and its march forward.

Lastly, the world is seeing new ideologies and movements which cannot be simple bracketed as ‘right’ or ‘left’, ‘privatization’ or ‘nationalization’ and so on and so forth. Whether it is farmers in France preventing the development of genetically modified seeds, truckers in Britain blocking highways to protest against high fuel prices, Germans screaming ‘Inder Statt Kender’, Indians debating the merits of secularism or Americans calling for a ban on abortions and greater acceptance of gay rights, it all shows that each day new issues will present themselves before people and governments. These issues will remain just as pressing and significant even if they will not essentially involve tanks breaching iron fences or iron curtains.

To conclude briefly, all over the world, it seems newer forces are emerging and are yet to make their full impact. Therefore, far from it beginning the ‘End of History’, we have just managed to plough through the first few chapters and many more await us.

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Well the title is absolute Bull Crap, but this article is correct. Government regulation kills people. It destroys free enterprise. It causes people to have to work harder and get less. It inhibits competition and therefore raises prices. It prevents consumer choice. It stifles innovation. It causes a minutia piling effect and requires more justification of further laws to define the ones already written. Government regulations are like a drug once they take the first puff or shoot up, it is all over.

Government regulations increase the number of jobs in government and decrease the number of jobs in the private sector. Government regulation punishes the best companies and lowers standards for industries. Government regulation increases prices and causes inflation. Government regulation decreases health care benefits and increases costs. Government regulations cause wars that kill people, by escalating trade wars to help weakened companies and dying industries which refuse to adapt or innovate to changing markets. Government regulations are used by competitors to attack other businesses in the market place when they cannot compete because they have inferior products. Government regulations are a stepping-stone for government workers who lack the skills or brains to make it in the real world; allowing them to work in industry later to fight the future onerous over regulation. Government regulations have crippled the United States in world markets. Government regulations and regulatory body growth have raised the deficit. Government regulations are linear in thinking and cause more harm than good. Government regulations help insiders and hurt innovators. Government regulations have created a new paradigm where humans enjoy the right to be irresponsible. Government regulations will eventually destroy the United States and then the world.

Therefore Government regulations are pure evil and the only possible purpose of them would be to slow the forward progress of mankind. Why on Earth else would a civilization put up with such bull crap? Think about it.

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You have in front of you two buttons, one is green the other is black. The green button represents peace and love, the black button represents war and hate and you were put in charge of choosing what the rest of humanity will experience on earth. Which one will you choose and why?

New Age authors write that the thoughts of only a few can change the circumstances of the world.

Over twenty five years ago I was taught Transcendental Meditation and during that course we learned that critical mass (the minimum number of people that can sustain a major change) would come when only one percent of the world’s population learned to meditate. We understood that this small group of individuals had the power to change the outcome of the world’s circumstances.

In the book Edgar Cayce’s Millennium Prophecies by Mark Thurston, PhD., Mark suggests that only a few hundred people could achieve critical mass and this would cause the world to experience a quantum change, in other words the thoughts of only a few souls being in tune or harmony with God can bring peace and love to the world. As these souls raise their vibrational levels, others will automatically raise theirs by proximity as a single virus introduced into a cell can affect the whole body.

I would like to go all the way and say that I believe (know) that it would take only one soul in harmony with God (creator) to change the world.

For as many souls that we now have on this planet approximately 6 billion, there are also 6 billion different worlds existing in the same time and space. Each of us is experiencing and creating the circumstances of our existence in these physical worlds. To say less of us is to say less of the creator and it would suggest that we do not have unconditional love to experience unconditional freedom. The world exists only in our minds and we each choose individually how we are going to experience it. Thought, word and deed brings into physical manifestation which we want to experience.

We are all connected to the power that creates the world we wish to experience. Everything that is physical is drawn to us so that we can create our own world. It is not so for fetched if we consider that we live in an illusion, physical material is the densest form of light and is a projection of our own thoughts. We agree on certain things at a subconscious level of thought because the illusion is shared between souls, we assume consciously that we are experiencing the same world as one.

Peace cannot be experienced by trying to bring peace to the world. It can only be experienced by knowing that there is already peace. The road to peace starts in your own world, the one that you are creating. In all that you know, you must know peace first in order to experience it. Peace must be your experience; you cannot know peace while you are experiencing war or while you are fighting for peace. You cannot love while you hate and you cannot be for peace while you are against war. No war can be about peace. War is at the opposite end of the two ended stick; to know love you must move towards love and away from war. War simply means that there is less peace, in truth love is all there is.

In all that you do, you must do it peacefully. Create peace in your mind and you shall experience it in physical life. What you give away comes back to you, and what you hold onto you lose. Give away peace and you will always experience peace.

Do not try to change the worlds of others, but strive to experience what it is you desire for your world simply by thinking about it, speaking it and experiencing it. Give power to that which you are creating, not that which you do not want to create and the fastest way to experience peace is to know that you already have it. Faith, hope, trust and wishful thinking are steps to knowing that you are moving towards peace and that you do not have it yet. It also removes the responsibility from you for creating it.

You must always know that you have the power within self to create what you desire. You must know that it is you that is creating peace because you have the connection to the universal power and the creator responds to your demands, and finally you must know that you are the creator in individualized physical form. You are reacting to your own thoughts about what it is that you want to experience. You have both the thought and the power to experience peace. You are the “this and that,” the “ying and the yang,” “the giver and the taker,” “the peace lover and the war monger.” Choose what it is that you want to experience in this wonderful playground that you are creating.

You are the Captain this is your ship, you are the creator and the created. If it is peace that you want to experience, create peace in your life. If it is trying to move a warring world towards peace that you are experiencing, then that is what you have created, and you will never experience peace. Know that it is absolutely appropriate for other worlds to be at war given that we have absolute unconditional love to create our worlds as we see fit. To the level of awareness that we have that war does not work for us, will be the level of peace that we experience. As long as we believe that war works for us, we shall experience it.

If you are wishing for a peaceful world, then that is what you will experience. If you have hope for a peaceful world, that is all you will experience. If you trust that man or God will bring peace to the world eventually, that is what you will experience and that will always happen in the future, you will never experience peace now.

Peace comes now, to those that know they have it. Forget about the rest of the world, it’s not going to happen. Experience peace in your mind and your world will reflect that thought. Experience is a thought manifested, you are never a victim of circumstance you are creating it.

To the degree that you know that you have the power to change will be the degree that you will experience change. If you limit your power, you will limit your experience. If you are waiting for change you will always experience waiting for change.

If what I have written is not part of your philosophy you will probably already have a very good understanding of way you feel powerless to change your world. You have no power if you do not claim it. It is you the reader that does not experience peace because you do not know it and you are still searching for peace that is why you are reading this.

Peace is always an individual choice, simply choose to experience it and know that peace is what you represent.

If peace is simply a matter of pushing the correct button, what thoughts are holding you back? There-in is the truth that you seek, the answer to peace.

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In order to win the presidency in America, candidates must stir up the religious fervor of the voters (gay marriage/civil union) and then vocally (and in some cases visually) wear your (new) Evangelical beliefs on your sleeve. It used to be candidate vs. candidate, then party vs. party, big business vs. the common (wo)man, platform vs. platform, then region vs. region, but now none of that matters as a new America has emerged, an America in which the majority with a religious manifest rules the minority with a secular agenda.

Throughout the centuries, most of the wars have been based on religion, something all people realize to be true. Iraq is divided into a power struggle of three religious factions; the same in the former Yugoslavia; the annihilation of the Jewish people in Germany; African genocide, and let’s not forget the last 800 years in England and Ireland, to name but a few. The same thing is beginning to happen in America. We are so split between our ideals and beliefs - and religion is winning! Separation of church and state is being debated more and more often. Soon, if you’re not like everyone else, religion’s minorities will be faced with fear and uncertainty as history has proved throughout time. Proselytization will become rampant, with people converting so as to be in the majority. Missionaries will be like door to door sales(wo)men spreading their word that they are the true defenders of ‘the American Way.’

The First Amendment of the Constitution is just words. However, the actions to support it without question are what make it alive with meaning. With the division we now have in America, will it still be supported? Or will it be changed little by little by a soon-to-be lopsided, right-wing Supreme Court. No one knows, but many are fearful of what may happen, especially after last night’s surprising, or not-so-surprising, main issue.

In the presidential election of 2004, 82% of the voters said that their main concern was moral (religious) beliefs. That was more than the economy, education, the environment, terrorism, energy, and the war in Iraq. It was the number one concern in America; the basis of most people’s decision on who gets their vote. Does that make any sense when our country is filled with so many more pressing ills right now? However, in reference to it, and give it its due process, one must ask: Whatever happened to ‘live and let live?’ Whatever happened to tolerance? Whatever happened to ‘love thy brother?’ What has happened to America, the land of the free to live our lives as free, consenting adults and pursue our forefathers’ foresighted decree of ’separation of church and state?’

Ask yourself: Why do I have to swear on the Bible in court when the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed in a federal building?
What will happen next? Only time, and the actions of our President, will tell.

Bruce Schwartz is a lifelong political activist. THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, his novel on politics today, discusses this subject as well as others that affect every American. It is on sale on the Web at http://www.thetwentyfirstcentury.com and at http://www.amazon.com. All of the author’s royalties is being donated to the Alzheimer’s Association.

An American soldier is taken behind enemy lines and brainwashed as an unwitting assassin by communists in league with American political figures. This soldier then returns to the States to kill a presidential candidate as part of a political scheme to escalate and exploit Cold War tensions.

Sound familiar? It does if you’ve seen the classic movie “The Manchurian Candidate.”

Now consider this modified scenario: An American soldier is first brainwashed as an assassin and to behave as a communist by agents of his own government, then sent behind enemy lines as a defector, only to return to the States and assassinate an American president.

But this is no movie plot. Years of research have convinced me this is exactly what happened in the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963.

Before you dismiss this as yet another JFK conspiracy theory, look at how much it explains in light of what we’ve learned about the CIA’s skillful use of mind control and fake defectors over years of anti-communist operations.

* In a program known as MKULTRA, the CIA spent billions of dollars secretly perfecting mind control technology. Brutal methods of eliciting confessions from captured enemy agents (electric shock, sensory deprivation, hypnosis and truth drugs such as LSD) were developed on hundreds of unwitting victims. Used operationally for many years, this counterintelligence technology is now coming to light in the Abu Ghraib prison-torture scandal.

* In addition to “defensive” techniques, CIA researchers sought to develop countermeasures against human weaknesses identified by the MKULTRA tests to create “torture-proof” American agents who could be sent into enemy territory on intelligence missions or be used to infiltrate enemy organizations as convincing double-agents and provocateurs.

* But the CIA didn’t stop here. They also developed methods to brainwash so-called “involuntary assassins” who would not question orders to kill on command in Cold War operations. According to declassified government documents published by the New York Times, such agents would carry out actions “even against such fundamental laws of nature as self-preservation.”

Indeed, a CIA memo (NYT, 1978) describing an experiment using “involuntary assassins written before the JFK assassination predicted the details surrounding the crime with eerie precision. According to the declassified memo from the 1950s, as a “trigger mechanism” for a “bigger project” a defector would be manipulated to kill an American official under the influence of CIA mind control and then be “disposed of” after being taken into custody for the crime. Flash forward a few years to 1963. A defector (Oswald) kills an American official (Kennedy) and is then “disposed of” in police custody (by Jack Ruby). The “trigger mechanism” (death of a president) clears the way to a “bigger project”: escalation of the Cold War on an unprecedented scale.

The parallels are striking. But is there supporting evidence for the scenario of Oswald being unwittingly manipulated as an intelligence pawn in a similar operation?

Declassified memos and investigative reporting by various sources have taught us a great deal over the past 40 years of how involuntary operatives could be cleverly “programmed” by the CIA as apparent communist sympathizers to infiltrate and disrupt communist organizations. (We now know that during the 1960s scores of phony leftists were used by the CIA and FBI to infiltrate and discredit organizations through violent behavior in infamous programs such as COINTELPRO.) We have also learned how supposed “lone-nut” Lee Harvey Oswald’s seemingly irrational behavior actually complemented such espionage programs:

* His defection to the Soviet Union was secretly handled by the CIA as a counterintelligence mission and mirrored an elaborately staged defection involving another low-level American soldier (with a similar background) that began the very same year Oswald’s did.

* Following his return to the U.S., Oswald leveraged his defector credentials to play the role of pro-Castro activist while constantly surrounded by anti-communists with links to the intelligence world.

– His best friend in Dallas was a wealthy White Russian with ties to the CIA and the address of future CIA Director George Bush in his wallet.

– After moving to New Orleans, Oswald formed an unauthorized chapter of a Castro-friendly group targeted by the CIA and handed out pro-Castro leaflets printed with the office address of an FBI anti-communist expert.

– Future “lone-nut assassin” and pro-Castro activist Oswald even met with one of the CIA’s anti-Castro assassins in New Orleans, while under both CIA and FBI surveillance (NYT, 1993).

* Oswald’s supposed pro-communist behavior fit the profile of a hypnotized anti-Communist infiltrator as detailed in declassified documents from his era. Military hypnotist George Estabrooks even bragged of carrying out an operation employing a brainwashed Marine who was hypno-programmed with a pro-communist personality so he could be prematurely discharged from the service as a fake defector and then used in an anti-communist intelligence operation. Further, he claimed his hypnosis technique had been used to create assassins.

The more I study Oswald’s infamous career, the more I am struck by how his otherwise puzzling bipolar antics make perfect sense within a now well-established CIA pattern of using counterfeit pro-communists in its anti-Communist operations.
But I am also struck by the parallels between the “Manchurian Candidate” hypothesis and Oswald’s use within these espionage operations.

As I reveal in The Perfect Assassin, mind control had many fascinating benefits for creating convincing double agents with unquestioning obedience who could be used in dangerous espionage cases where plausible deniability was critical. Estabrooks described the advantages mind control would provide in creating credible double agents to infiltrate communist organizations. “Convinced of their own innocence they would play the ‘fifth column’ role with utmost sincerity.” And even if such an agent was captured, “He could not tell the truth about his life as a spy, because he would not know of it.”

Declassified documents from the early ’60s detail real-life CIA experiments with this mind control technology that had amazing parallels to incidents in Oswald’s life and the events leading up to the Kennedy assassination. And documents show that the CIA was seriously investigating the use mind control for the anti-Castro assassination operations in which Oswald was involved.

But the theory of Oswald’s being used as a pawn in ongoing anti-communist operations not only explains his activities leading up to the assassination. It explains the reasons behind the assassination itself and therefore helps solve the riddle of who was ultimately behind the crime.

Put yourself in the mindset of the early ’60s, when those entrusted with the nation’s security saw communist infiltration in every dissident group, danger lurking in every shadow. To them, we needed to escalate the Cold War, not step back from it. In their eyes, JFK failed them in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Castro’s Cuba. And then he actively resisted aggressive plans and ongoing preparations for a second invasion. Kennedy was even considered a pro-communist traitor by extremists within the intelligence community.

If this scenario sounds outlandish in the post-Cold War world, consider the latest declassified documents that have surfaced from the Kennedy-era. These documents detail a major Cold War operation called Operation Northwoods secretly initiated by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Memos from this operation, which was rejected by Kennedy, reveal a bold plan to justify a second invasion of Cuba. In one aspect of this plan, the CIA’s anti-Castro agents, disguised as pro-Castro militants, would engage in a series of violent actions, including staged assassinations on American soil. Such covert actions by apparent pro-communists were designed to provoke “a helpful wave of indignation” in the American public that could be channeled to support a more overt and militaristic Cold War crusade.

Now consider the convenience of Oswald’s actions to the covert warriors who not only had plans in place to kill heads of state (like Castro) but also had even discussed using mind control in these ongoing Cold War-era assassination attempts:

By killing JFK in the guise of a pro-Castro agent, Oswald eliminated a roadblock to the CIA’s more militant anti-communist policies (Kennedy had fired the CIA director who oversaw these policies and then served on the Warren Commission), and indeed provided a justification for them!

As the prophetic CIA memo on mind control foreshadowed, JFK’s murder served as the “trigger mechanism” for the “bigger project.” With Kennedy out of the way, thanks to the actions of a “Manchurian Candidate,” the Cold Warriors were free to escalate their mission with unspeakable brutality in Vietnam and elsewhere.

Far-fetched? Not when you sit down and really think about it.

Jerry Leonard is a physicist who has been actively involved in microelectronics research and production for over 15 years. He has numerous patents and publications related to his scientific career. In his personal research he has analyzed the extensive though hidden role American corporations played not only in creating Nazi Germany but in recruiting Nazi war criminals following the war. Jerry documents how this resulted in the continuation of the unethical human experimentation conducted in Nazi concentration camps–including mind control research, which he proposes ultimately led to the assassination of JFK.
http://www.winstonsmith.net

It’s been called everything from an accident to something more conspiratorial.

Both views and/or positions are wrong. The shooting of 78-year- old Harry Whittington by Dick Cheney on Saturday showed 3 things.

First, it unveiled the fallback plan by the Administration in the event that Social Security “privatization” fails again.

Take that AARP!

In taking the action, Cheney exhibited the “bottom-line” approach he touted in 2000 by referring to his background as CEO of Halliburton (now a subsidiary of U.S. Taxpayer Inc.)

During his tenure, the only spot on his record was leaving it teetering on the brink of bankruptcy because, as CEO, he bought Drexel during a hunting trip having done no “due diligence”, and leaving Halliburton absorbing Drexel’s asbestos litigation which, as Dana Milbank of the Post reported in 2002, “Investors . . . are betting the liability is $8 billion to $9 billion”.

Note* Watch the progress of the long- stalled, now quickly moving, Asbestos Trust Fund Bill (asbestos “reform” bill) going through Congress. It will become another subsidiary of U.S. Taxpayer Inc. (kind of like the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and some other fancy names for federal entities that step in when corporation “leaders” raid the… never mind).

Second, he showed why it is always important to stay “vigilant”. After all, apparently, the 78- year- old was sneaking up on him. He didn’t announce himself and was dressed in orange camouflage.

Taking into account the facts that:

!) Mr. Whittington managed to penetrate the security surrounding Dick;

2) He had a weapon;

3) He gave no warning;

4) He must have been sufficiently familiar with Western culture that, just like in cowboy movies (which depict places like Wyoming but were shot in Italy- “Linguini Westerns” or some such thing), he apparently knew enough to approach Dick with the sun at his back; and

5) Our security agencies failed to “connect the dots” again as Cheney’s phalanx of Secret Service agents, the CIA, the FBI, the DIA, and the Starship Enterprise all failed to note Mr. Whittington’s ominous “lurking”. All of which proves the point that the NSA should’ve been inside Mr. Whittington’s head- just to be on the safe side.

Lastly, the man is (hopefully- not “was”) a millionaire attorney. This shows how seriously the Administration takes “tort reform”.

While there is a confusion as to the gentleman’s field of specialty in the law, it is unlikely (or not) that he was an attorney that represented the “average person” (low to middle-class).

The fact that he is not dead (allegedly) would seem to indicate that Dick’s cat-like reflexes and knowledge of gun safety allowed him to “pull-up” in time to only hit Mr. Whittington in the chest, shoulders, and face indicating that he may, or may not have been a corporate lawyer. However, it should be noted that Bill Frist was seen behind a tree clapping when Whittington was hit which might indicate that he practiced “video medical malpractice” and/or specialized in suing those who engage in insider- trading.

More likely than not, we’ll all be briefed on the matter by Scott McLellan in a week or so. It would be unfair to ask the Administration’s Press- Secretary to say anything now.

That’s because it usually takes Andy Card a week to put events into DVD form for George Bush to understand.