Children Should Never Need Inhalers – Day 401

“Rise Up or Die” by Chris Hedges was difficult to read at 8 this morning. This sentence in particular, near the end of the article broke me up, “And the Appalachian Mountains, which provide the headwaters for much of the Eastern Seaboard, are dotted with enormous impoundment ponds filled with heavy metals and toxic sludge. In order to breathe, children go to school in southern West Virginia clutching inhalers” 

This how we treat our children? Our water? Our precious lives? How is it we are so removed from the unconditional support of this earth – this life provides for us? How do not do everything we can to support each other to figure out a solution?

I urge everyone to read this article and consider the world we are leaving for the children of the future, the animals and the plant life. We must take responsibility and step up to make our lives mean the difference between hell on earth or heaven on earth.

Hedges has summed up the bankruptcy of what we have created; a world based in self-interest and the privatization of happiness. 

It’s not THEM it’s US. There is no one else. Cynicism and blame are tools of enslavement.  To decide that one is entitled to “a good life” and to not join with others to correct our deviation is to live a massive psychotic break from reality.

Please investigate the Journey to Life Blogs and see and hear for yourself how a group of ordinary people are challenging themselves to stop living the Lie and to see what is possible to when we decide to stand up for each other and for Life.

“Best News”-Day 400

Today I saw my blog post, “Reverse Engineering” reposted on “Best Korean News” a wordpress blog  that claims to be “The News of the People of Greatest Friend Kim Jong Un” (North Korea) and there was my post , right up next to a picture of the ‘fearless leader.’ 

The world really is in reverse – my post on propaganda was sitting next to a picture of a Dictator.  I thought, “OMG, the NSA & co. are going to think I am some kind of subversive – and I’ll be put on some kind of a list”…This is not the kind of thought one should have in a democracy.
My friend said, “wouldn’t it be funny if it was like a sci-fi movie where we go  to North Korea and find the people supporting each other, living in equality,”

The absolute ridiculousness of it all struck me because we can change this world to be a place that is decent and provides for all, equally. It’s not far-fetched. My fear, self pity, and self judgment  are  only illusions which I accepted and allowed to be me – in this definition of it being me, I made it real, which then transformed the experience I had of ‘self pity’, ‘fear of me’ and ‘self judgment’ as being real – when they are not – and that’s how we have enslaved ourselves.

Unconscious Indoctrination – Day 399

Propaganda is the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person? 

Foundations (these quiet, mammoth, privately run organizations) fund such a large segment of educational, political and cultural institutions – using grants and monies to influence and mold society through selecting who gets research money, and who is deemed the “expert” in a subject – we could say, they control a whole lotta thought in this world.

They control thought through the granting of monies and/or the withholding of money. Those deemed a challenge to orthodoxy are shunned. Foundations carry out their operations in a private and undemocratic way; despite the fact they are expressly prohibited in the U.S. from “carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation.”

We live in a world of competing propagandas, but foundations – because of the lack of oversight, the cash cow nature of their “business” model and their “holier than thou” entrenchment in religion, politics, and “culture creation” live in world of their own, availing themselves of the good will of the public: using the resources of the public, and enjoying the monetary benefits provided by their tax shelter. Acting “under the radar” they quietly, generation after generation, put forward a private agenda that, that does not, for the majority of organization, consider that which is best for all.

We’ve allowed foundations and their spawn to run a very lucrative sideshow in our world, diverting us from the responsibility that  Democracy demands. The principle of “what is best for all” has few grants allotted to it’s study with few textbooks elaborating the natural responsibility we have towards each other. What happened to being a good Citizen? 

Why do we continue to repeat platitudes about “democratic process” when it does not exist? The infrastructure: the buildings, the voting apparatus, the armature of democracy may be here, but the recipe –the living principle that creates democracy – has been strangely omitted from our education – and it’s deliberate.

Investigate the Equal Life Foundation: self-responsibility to create a world that supports everyone, from birth to life. That’s the starting point.

 

Reverse Engineering – Day 398

I like to write about big issues to try and escape understand how and why we, as a world, have created such a massive f*%kup. I also write about my life and how I, the micro, mirror the macro; a ‘carbon’ of life – and so if only I could stop my mind and stop my fear and stop my need to be admired, and loved, and desire for comfort and how this is, naturally true for all of us…sigh

Lately pressure has been building: dread, frustration,self-pity, blame, justification, judgment of others, judgement of myself. I used to be so much better at – what was it, suppressing it? Now an overwhelming despair jumps me and it feels like an attack…. I breathe and breathe and I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to be overwhelmed by the sameness of my/our strategies, the sameness of my/our obedience to competition, the sameness of my/our acceptance that what we are doing is in any way sane… and then I’m thinking about the clothes I’m wearing or that someone else is looking this or that and then I’m not HERE.
And that’s how this world stays the same.

 The multidimensionality of my own mindf*&kery
My life ‘platform’ has two-fold: there had to be an element of “meaning” in my life, an appeal to conscience; there had to be an equal element of figuring out how to have money.  So if I work at this and it is does “x” amount of good and I get “x” amount of money I can still “do my thing” and go along, right?

But as a completely “signed on” mind (believing that my thoughts are me, are real: that who I am is what I believe and what I think  … I wanted MORE. Not in the world of commerce …maybe in the cooler world of art or the sublime world of the ‘spirit’ – even better if I don’t have to really work – (if I can figure out some scam role that would be “spiritual” that would support …me!…(just humble desires…yeah, humble like a fox…)\ I sold the Present (my gift, my present of Life) for future hope – believing I could come up with a personal strategy, my own game plan– keep it on QT – 

So now I reverse engineering myself to stand equal with what I have created.
That’s where I’m at: doing it without painkillers this time.

Journey to Life

More More More – Day 397

As a consumer slave I have more choices than ever, thanks to other slaves who create seemingly endless digital formats and connected devices. This allows me and all the other slaves I see everyday, coming and going to work, to keep buying and consuming various formats so we can spend what little free time we have left over (when we are not creating advertising and support networks for devices) on entertainment; dividing our time across more and more meaningless activities and games. 

As a High Entertainment Spender I am taking part in a larger variety of activities while  spending less time on each of them! I represent a third of the US population as we are more likely to be female, ethnically diverse and have young children.

This concept of “more” presents an interesting opportunity for content providers to engage me as a consumer slave over longer periods of time – so much so that I never have a minute to stop and think about the what is required in order to produce all these devices so slaves such as myself keep wanting more and more and more and more and more and because I have decided that some are more equal than others I gather my devices around me and sleep very well at night.

I am purchasing at a higher rate than ever before! I am making double-digit percentage increases in both one-time purchases and content subscriptions never stopping to consider the the real cost of my compliance and the debt slavery I am perpetuating. But it’s what everyone else does, so it must be normal, right?

 

 

 

What is UnAmerican? – Day 396

The McCarthy era of the 1950s was a time of hysteria in Washington D.C., when ideological and political witch hunts ruined people lives and curtailed freedom of expression and association. In their pursuit of what they feared was “UnAmerican activity”, the McCarthy ideologues acted … UnAmerican. But were they on to something?

Norman Dodd, the chief investigator for the Reece Committee had a pretty good definition for the term: It is a determination to effect changes in the country by unconstitutional means. He said, “we have plenty of constitutional procedures, assuming we wish to effect a change in the form of government, and therefore any effort in that direction which did not avail itself of the procedures which were authorized by the constitution could be justifiably called un-American.”

This is what some foundations and tax-exempt organizations have been doing for over a hundred years. As chief investigator for the Reece Committee of 1953, Dodd uncovered a determination, through the trustees in these large foundations, to get control over the content of American education to further an agenda of a controllable environment that would be conducive to monopoly capitalism. (see my previous posts)

Ingenuously, the President of the Ford Foundation, Rowan Gaither, asked Dodd why congress was interested in investigating foundations “such as ourselves.” He said, “we have all had experience in the OSS during the war and in Europe and we’ve had experience operating under directives. Would you like to know what the substance of these directives are? [They are] to use our grant-making power, so to alter life in the US so it can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union.” Dodd’s response was that legally, the Ford Foundation was entitled to make grants for this purpose but that they were not entitled to withhold this information from the people of America for whom you’re indebted to for this tax exemption. Gaither said, “we would not think of telling the people about this”

As Dodd put his case together, showing the complicity of foundations – working in harmony to use their influence and position to to rewrite educational books – he soon encountered official resistance.
After various attempts from the White House and other Washington insiders to discredit the committee and Dodd himself, these hearings were closed down and there was never a final report.

Dodd summarized his findings for interviewer Edward Griffin, “it’s [the foundations] one hundred percent … on the subject of our history as proving our original ideas to be no longer practicable. The future belongs to collectivistic concepts, and there’s just no disagreement on that….to them [the idea of funding] Communism represents a means of developing what we call a monopoly, that is, an organization of, say, a large-scale industry into an administrable unit…and they will be the beneficiaries of it, yes.”

Was McCarthy on to something? What has been omitted from history books: perhaps the actual job required by ordinary citizens in a democracy?
Investigate the Equal Life Foundation 
Democracy is Practical.

 

Ideological Differences & other Fairy Tales – Day 395

Anthony Sutton and his scholarship is an important piece of the puzzle in understanding the degeneration of democracy in the west. Sutton shows that the great dichotomies we take for granted as true – communism vs democracy, fascism vs free enterprise – have been manufactured and reframed to serve the interest of profit and the accumulation of capital. (and isn’t that what we all do on an individual level…?)

What we have been taught are vast ideological and philosophical chasms  – unbridgeable and inherent  – are actually paper tigers, intentionally made to scarify the shit out of us ….while producing incredible profit.

Sutton exposed that there is no true contradiction between the far left – as once upon represented by the Bolsheviks and the far right, and  Wall Street financiers…both are “absolutely collectivists.” Both recommend a totalitarian system based on “naked, unfettered political power and individual coercion…and by the late 19 century the financiers understood that the most efficient way to create an unfettered monopoly was to “go political” and make society, “work for the monopolies” under the name of foundations and tax-expempt “tips o’the hat” to the ‘pubic good.’

Frederick Howe in his 1906 book, Confessions of a Monopolistwrote, “these are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our partners and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly, let society work for you; and remember, that that best of all business is politics – [because] a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more that a Kimberley or Comstock lode [silver deposit] since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, for its exploitation.”

In his book, “Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler”, Sutton stated that the conflicts of the Cold War were “not fought to restrain communism”, since the United States, through financing the Soviet Union “directly or indirectly armed both sides in at least Korea and Vietnam”; rather, these wars were organized in order “to generate multibillion-dollar armaments contracts”.
And it continues today: China did not magically become an international player – The GATT treaty gave China massive infusions of capital and support. The Transpacific Agreement is the latest “oppressive plurilateral US-led free trade agreement currently being negotiated with several Pacific Rim countries.” [1]

So the question is: Why do we demand so little of ourselves?  Why do we knowingly spend our precious lives on stories and fables that do not deliver a solution?

If those in government do not serve and protect, and we do nothing, who is to blame?

Foundations: inconsistent with our democratic aspirations – Day 394

Power concentration: this is the real status of tax-exempt foundations.

Foundations exist as power concentrations, free from any formal responsibility – self-perpetuating, self-elected trustees and boards of directors.

In 1915, long before the 1953 Reece committee, the very first congressional commission included discussions about the influence and role of foundations. Justice Louis D. Brandeis testified about his “grave concern” with regard to such a concentration of social and economic power residing in foundations. He wrote, “there develops within the state, a state so powerful that the ordinary social and industrial forces existing are insufficient to cope with it” calling the whole system, “inconsistent with our democratic aspirations.”

Recommendations were made in 1915 to curb the powers of the foundations: they included the requiring of federal guidelines, non-permanent status, size limit and the inability of foundations to accumulate profit. These suggestions were never adopted.

These early critics contended that a democratic society does not need the services of “outside agencies” to “apply remedies it finds at it’s disposal.” They feared foundations would become interlocking agencies (which they have) causing, through their unbridled self-interest  “a paralysis” of democracy.

This was recognized as a problem within education: that “persons being educated would take the viewpoint, consciously or unconsciously, of the man that gave [them] the money” (in the form of foundation grants)

Why is this important?

For nearly a hundred years in America, we have allowed a parallel group of foundations to act as a quasi-government: funding and writing the majority of the school curricula; supplying teaching fellowships and steering intellectual inquiry in directions that may or may not be consistent with what is best for everyone. Individuals on the inside, – are unlikely to challenge it: that leaves the rest of us to restore democratic principles. And so we will.

How is a world that is BEST FOR ALL possible if we don’t Know our History? Day 393

Anthony Sutton, RIP

Antony Sutton’s mainstream career was shattered by his devotion towards uncovering the truth.

Once upon a time, a decent man from New Jersey, Norman Dodd, was named chairman of an investigation into the practices and intentions of tax-exempt foundations in the United States. What he discovered in his research for the Reece congressional committee of 1953 went far beyond the  original mandate of his query.

While what he discovered is shocking, it is supported by other investigators such as writer Anthony Sutton [1], whistleblower and educator Charlotte Iserbyt [2],  and Carroll Quigley [3], the official historian for the Council on Foreign Relations. Through a series of posts I will examine how this information and the history of U.S. has been deliberately suppressed  and that in order for us to create a truly democratic world,  we must first understand how we have deviated and why. 

Dodd stated that he discovered foundations were involved in the intentional instigation of the U.S. into WWI and were attempting to mold world history through the explicit control of education. He began with an examination of the powerful Carnegie Foundation. He contacted the newly elected Foundation President, Mr. Johnson, whose predecessor at Carnegie was Alger Hiss. Hiss was an American lawyer involved in the establishment of the UN. He was accused of being a Soviet spy and convicted of perjury. notes that were taken from multiple documents in the Soviet archives repeatedly identify Hiss as someone who was working with Soviet intelligence. [4]

Johnson invited Dodd to examine the minutes of the Carnegie Foundation trustee meetings. Dodd realized Dr Johnson was new to the job and guessed he had probably never read the minutes himself. Dodd selected his best candidate, an attorney, Katherine Casey, who he knew to be unsympathetic towards the mission of the Reece Commission. Her attitude was, “what could possibly be wrong with foundations [when] they do so much good ?” 

Given only two weeks to investigate ‘the minutes’ Dodd gave her specific dates to examine from the books. After two weeks she returned to Washington with the following information: beginning in 1908 the Carnegie Trustees, meeting for the first time raised a specific question which they discussed throughout the balance of that year in a “very learned fashion” and the question was: “is there any means known, more effective than war, assuming you wish to alter the entire life of an entire people? They concluded that no more effective means than war to that end is known to humanity.”

Casey learned that in the board meetings of 1909  the Trustees raised a second question: how do we involve the US in a war? They answered their own question: “We must control the state department” then they asked “how?” and they answered: “we must control the diplomatic machinery of this country.” 

Board meetings conducted during the first world war revealed a shocking dispatch to President Wilson, cautioning him to ensure that the war does not end too quickly!When the war was over the Carnegie Foundation sought to ensure there would not be a “reversion to life as it existed before 1914, prior to WWI.” 

They came to the conclusion that in order to prevent this they must control education… and in order to control education, they needed help. They approached the Rockfeller foundation and crafted a deal. “Domestic’ history would be handled by Rockefeller Foundation while the international section would be handled by the Guggenheim endowment.

Altering the culture required altering the teaching of US history. But who would write the new history books? They approached renown historians Charles and Mary Bird and “they got turned down flat.” They had to construct their own “stable of historians.”

They called up their cronies at the Guggenheim foundations (who specialized in fellowships) and said “when we find the right men studying for their doctorates [those who will tow the party line] will you grant them fellowships under our say-so?” and they said yes. Eventually they gathered 20 potential teachers of history and brought them to the mothership –  London – where they were  briefed and told what was expected of them.

That group of 20 became the nucleus of the American historical association.[5]

“The future of this country belongs to collectivism administered with characteristic American efficiency” – This is the info the Reece could have presented to Congress, but was never allowed to be told to Congress.

Katherine Casey she was never able to return to her law practice.  Ultimately she was hospitalized because of what she learned. Dodd said,  “It was a terrible shock for her…It’s a very rough experience to encounter”

Efforts began at the start to sabotage the Reece committee and the findings were successfully suppressed and never reported to congress.

to be cont. 

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_C._Sutton

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Thomson_Iserbyt

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Quigley

[4] Haynes, John Earl; Harvey Klehr, Alexander Vassiliev (2010). Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-16438-6.

[5] http://www.historians.org/

 

Dental Dread – Day 392

I’ve had so many dental x-rays, I’m surprised I don’t glow…hey, maybe I do!

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to have an energetic reaction of fear and dread about going to the dentist.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to project that my visit to the dentist tomorrow will be painful.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to have shame and blame because of my dental problems.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to have used my teeth to support consciousness systems: meaning allowing my dental issues to create thoughts that I accept as a belief about who I am.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to blame myself within not understanding the preprogrammed nature of who I am, located in the teeth, and how I have fought myself and the systems of the world and how I have had to live with the side effects of tooth pain and teeth problems since I was a very young child 

I commit myself to take back my power and to direct myself as who I really am, not who I thought I was based on identities I created in order to “win” within the world system.

I commit myself to prepare myself to stop the backchat and thoughts of despair and self-blame because of my teeth problems and I commit myself to support myself and stop my mind and do what I have to do to perfect my teeth and the rest of me and then …..the world….!!ta-da