Jul 30, 2013

Correlations In Religion & Science From The Middle East To India To China



Lecture:



"Allot of religious people prefer to be right, rather than compassionate." Karen Armstrong



The Nature of "The Self" - Plus easy techniques for self 're-creation' (i.e. stress relief)

In ancient India a concept developed called ‘Maya’ which means illusion. Since the world is considered impermanent and constantly changing - and you can interpret it in many ways with your mind - it is considered to be an illusion. Thus a common, though ancient, psychological perspective on 'attachment': if you hold on to it as your psychological/mental foundation, you are holding on to something that will dissolve away - eventually - so you are holding on to something which is inherently unstable.






Siddhartha (Buddha) agreed with the basic premise of ancient Indian philosophy that the world is an illusion but he took it one step further claiming that not only is the world an illusion, so is the ’self’. (Impermanence)

To put it in other words; you are not the person you were a year ago. You know this. You can probably see the ways in which you’ve changed and grown over the last year. You probably see the world in a different way then you did a year ago (or ten years ago). Since you see the world differently, you have a different image of yourself as well. You define yourself differently than you did 10 years ago. What you are capable of, what you can do, who you are, all these definitions tend to change for every person - given enough time.

The ancient philosophers noticed that as soon as you imagine a event happening to you - or your role in any situation - you first have to place yourself in it (i.e. you have to imagine your role or character) then you decide what to do or how to feel (this all tends to happen very fast for most events). In other words, every time you imagine yourself or a situation that you are in you are, in a sense, recreating yourself.

Scientific American Mind magazine in an interview with the Nobel laureate Neuroscientist Eric Kandel (click here to read article)

Mind: We tend to think of memory as a kind of library that holds a record of events and
facts that can be retrieved as needed. Is this an accurate metaphor?

Kandel: No, memory is not like that at all. Human memory reinvents itself all the time. Every time you remember something, you modify it a little bit, in part dependent on the context in which you recall it. That is because the brain’s storage is not as exact as written text. It is always a mixture of many facades of the past event: images, pictures, feelings, words, facts and fiction—a “re-collection” in the true sense.

Modern nuero-science agrees with the Buddhist idea of an impermanent self. As Eric Kandel points out that, “Every time you remember something, you modify it a little bit, in part dependent on the context in which you recall it.” In other words you recreate your image of yourself to fit the new situation. If the self was something permanent and real, then your image of yourself would always remain the same. The fact that you can consciously or unconsciously change your image of yourself and react to situations in a new way - or just create a new you - proves that the self is something you make up as part of living in society.

What does this mean?

This means that you are not limited to being any particular ’self’ or person. If you feel like you have low self-esteem you can change that self. If you feel like you are not comfortable is social situations, you can change that image too. Any limiting image you have of yourself can be changed as you create your 'self' or how you want to be.


Tools for Balance and 'Self' Creation...


To deal with phobias use the 10 minute phobia cure.
To deal with tough habits learn NLP's swish technique...

Finally, for ultimate in self-control and re-creation according to your highest goals and ideals,learn hypnosis and self-hypnosis... Here is a playlist which begins with soothing sounds followed by 6 self-hypnosis audios with affirmations for creativity, confidence, self esteem, relaxation, motivation, and weight loss;
Instructions: Use stereo headphones for the full effects of the binural beat relaxation sound effects. Find a comfortable position with your arms and legs uncrossed, close your eyes and enjoy! [Edit - Monday 2 Jan '12 - Note: Some parts of this article are extracts from the ebook "Become Like A Jedi"]

Energy Fields
Energy fields look/feel like this...



Using a specialized technique, called Kirlian photography (not the con where a camera is used to photograph your 'aura' but an actual electrical photographic method), some mechanical observations can be made...
The Ancient Peoples discovered energy pathways called meridians which acupressureand acupuncture utilize. These "meridians" have also been mapped in great detail...

Meridians have also been found using an imaging technique...
To summarize, they indicate that:No radioactive isotope was observed to migrate when it was injected into points of normal electric resistance. Nor was any migration observed when injecting isotopes other than sodium pertechetate in points of least electric resistance. 
Each time sodium pertechetate was injected into points of least electric resistance, its migration was observed constantly, approximately at 2.5 cms per minute and always following the same longitudinal pathway. 
The characteristics of the migration rule out the possibility that the radioactive isotope was carried through the nerves, vessels or lymphatic system. For example, when it was injected in a vein underlying the point of least electrical resistance, transport of a different speed and pathway was observed. Additionally on injecting sodium pertechetate and thallium at the same time, it was observed that the first was transported while the second was not.


Some scientific studies 

You can increase the level of the force in your body by doing deep regular breathing.
Everybody has detectable energy fields which can be increased with deep diagrammatic
breathing.


What was found: Emission of extremely strong magnetic fields from the head and whole
body during oriental breathing exercises.

“This article reports the result of an experiment that was designed to measure the
biomagnetic field emanating from two individuals who were practicing traditional
Oriental Qi Gong breathing exercises.

It is concluded that traditional Oriental Qi Gong breathing appears to stimulate an
unusually large biomagnetic field emission.”


What was found: Detection of extraordinary large bio-magnetic field strength from human
hand during external Qi emission.

“It is generally accepted that more than 10(-6) gauss order magnetism was not detected
in normal human condition. However, we detected 10(-3) gauss (mGauss) order
bio-magnetic field strength from the palm in special persons who emitted External Qi
(”Chi” or “Ki”).

This magnetic field strength was greater than that of normal human bio-magnetism by
1,000 times at least. A simultaneous measurement of bio-magnetic field strength and its
corresponding bio-electric current was examined in one subject. During exhibiting such
strong bio-magnetism, its corresponding electric current was not detectable. Therefore,
the extra-ordinary large bio-magnetic field strength can not derive from internal body
current alone, hence the origin of the large bio-magnetism is still unknown. We suppose
that the extraordinary large bio-magnetic field strength might be originated from “Qi”
energy in the oriental medicine or in the oriental traditional philosophy.”

“The “Bi-Digital O-Ring Test” imaging method has been successfully used not only to
outline the internal organs but also malignant tumors as long as identical reference
control tissue is available, regardless of whether it comes from the same individual or
others, without exposing the patient to undesirable radiation from X-Rays, strong
magnetic field or ultra-sound. While imaging the outline of the internal organs the author
found that, from the surface of each organ, lines or networks of lines extend to other
parts of the body. Such a line closely resembles well-known lines of meridians of major
internal organs in Oriental medicine.”

“It is imperative to define the fundamental concepts of Qi, channels, and the meridian
system of Chinese medicine in terms of scientific terminology before any meaningful and
mutually beneficial dialog can begin between Chinese and Western medicine. In the
Chinese theory, the meridian system as a whole is the system of the body. We propose the
existence of a meridian regulatory system that governs interactions between and adjusts
functions of internal organs, connects them to the body surface through a network of
pathways (channels) and displays their status on the skin.”

ACUPUNCTURE There is growing scientific evidence that acupuncture, a pillar of Chinese medicine, can relieve many kinds of pain, but there's no clear agreement about how it works. That was underscored by a German study of migraines: it found that inserting needles at various acupuncture points in the body relieved pain just as effectively as inserting them in the points that are supposed to affect migraines. Both therapies cut the number of episodes more than 50% over a 12-week period; a control group that did not receive either treatment continued to suffer as before.
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Basic energy balancing

First master basic breathing...
Basic breathing meditation tips

-Inhale and exhale slowly, taking full deep breaths.

-Keep your attention only on your breathing. Be aware of each inhale and exhale.

-If you notice your mind drifting (i.e. if you start thinking about something) then just return your attention back to your breathing. It doesn't matter if your mind wanders as long you bring your attention back to your breathing as soon as you notice your attention is not solely on your breathing.

-Do this for 5-15 minutes.
Next, imagine (or 'visualize') your entire energy field filled with golden light, as if you are sitting in the middle of a mini Sun that surrounds and encompasses you (about 5-10 feet ALL around you, on all sides).


The following balancing meditation is from here.
Exercise 1: Golden Light Breathing Meditation 
Visualizing Yourself Breathing in 'Golden Light' can be a Very Effective Breathing Meditation to Help Calm and Focus.
· All you have to do is imagine yourself surrounded by golden light and slowly start breathing it in.
· First breathe in the light through your mouth then pretend to breath it in through your skin.
· Breathe this light in deeply and breathe out any tension.
· Breathe through each part of your body in turn.
· Finally see if you can feel as if you are breathing in this light through every pore in your body.
· Fill your body with the golden light while saying to yourself, "I feel Wonderful, I feel Relaxed, I feel focused. I feel re-energized."



The Body Electric tells the fascinating story of our bioelectric selves. Robert O. Becker, a pioneer in the filed of regeneration and its relationship to electrical currents in living things, challenges the established mechanistic understanding of the body. He found clues to the healing process in the long-discarded theory that electricity is vital to life. But as exciting as Becker's discoveries are, pointing to the day when human limbs, spinal cords, and organs may be regenerated after they have been damaged, equally fascinating is the story of Becker's struggle to do such original work. The Body Electric explores new pathways in our understanding of evolution, acupuncture, psychic phenomena, and healing.

Energy/Emotional Healing - Help


The origins of acupuncture is over 5,000 years old and was practiced beyond the borders of China. An Egyptian treatise from 1550 Before Common Era (BCE) called the Papyrus Ebera refers to vessels that resemble the 12 meridians. South African Bantu tribesman scratched parts of their bodies to cure disease, while Arabs cauterized their ears with hot metal probes. Inuits used sharp stones for tattoos that seem to relate to acupuncture meridians, and Brazilian cannibals shot tiny arrows with blowpipes into diseased parts of their bodies to bring about healing.




In Depth Analysis:


Religion 1

Religion 2

Religion 3






Jul 15, 2013

Background Article 2: Why Rush Limbaugh and the right turned on Trayvon Martin

Background to understand this article:
Background Article 1: Five things you should know about the Trayvon Martin case 
Category: Rush Limbaugh
Category: Understand The GOP
Category: Understanding Glenn Beck's Place

The girl is some kind of nut and that other guy I've never seen before, but the other two and the general context of these coordinated "conservative" attacks are explained, in ever evolving detail, in the links above.

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UPDATE:




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Why Rush Limbaugh and the right turned on Trayvon Martin

A national tragedy became another awful political shouting match, thanks to vile pundits and talk-radio hosts




Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was killed by a gun-toting, self-appointed “neighborhood watch leader” named George Zimmerman on Feb. 26, in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman was not and has not yet been arrested. Martin’s death took some time to go from a local news story to a major nationwide controversy, but once it went national it quickly became huge. Coverage from the Huffington Posta March 8 CBS News report and related Associated Press stories led to widespread Internet and cable news coverage.
Except on the right. In the parallel conservative media bubble, of Fox News and talk radio and right-wing websites, Trayvon Martin’s story didn’t register. Even after the major national newspapers began getting into the story, after the NAACP began demanding the Justice Department investigate, the right-wing press and commentariat kept silent. Drudge completely ignored the story. By March 19, Fox News had done precisely one Trayvon Martin segment. It was still possible, on March 21, for Mother Jones’ Adam Serwer to write that “the right-wing reaction to the shooting of Trayvon Martin has been mercifully muted.”
When right-wing media figures first began to weigh in, it was with (occasionally surprising) thoughtfulness . On March 22, Allen West, a congressman who regularly explores new frontiers in unhinged right-wing provocation, posted an angered but measured response to the Martin killing on his Facebook wall, calling police inaction “an outrage.” Reihan Salam, writing at the National Review, said “I get the tentative sense that this conversation hasn’t gotten crazily polarized.” On March 23, National Review editor Rich Lowry wrote a piece astoundingly headlined “Al Sharpton is right.”
On March 23, two things happened: Buffoon Geraldo Riviera made his infamous remarks on the role Martin’s style of dress played in his death — a dumb point dumbly made — and President Obama told the press: “My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”
It was basically on this day that everything went to hell. The story of an unarmed teenager shot dead while walking home and a police force that decided that didn’t constitute a crime suddenly became a partisan issue with numerous points of contention.
Here are four reasons this became another right-versus-left shouting match:
1. The conservative movement denies the existence (or prevalence or impact) of racism.
Though toxic racial resentment is one of the most powerful driving forces behind contemporary right-wing populism, the conservative movement largely prefers to believe that racism was “solved” many years ago, most likely on the day Martin Luther King gave the “I Have a Dream” speech. The corollary to this belief is that accusations of racism are the new racism, and said accusations are invariably politically motivated.
As Elspeth Reeve pointed out in a sharp piece for the Atlantic Wire, the Trayvon Martin case posed something of a problem: No one was accusing anyone other than George Zimmerman of racism. There wasn’t an obvious political partisan advantage to raising awareness of Martin’s death. But some right-wingers find any acknowledgment of racism by liberals to be blood libel against all conservatives. And so … they began defending George Zimmerman’s honor, andsmearing Trayvon Martin.
Glenn Beck’s site, the Blaze, led the charge, suggesting without much in the way of evidence that Martin was “the aggressor,” based on nothing other than the fact that he had been suspended from school. (The site also threw in some speculation that Martin may have been an arsonist.) The sole reason for this was a pathological need to deny the existence of any form of racism that doesn’t take the form of liberals hating white people.
In order to argue that Zimmerman found Martin suspicious for some reason other than the sole fact of his black skin, conservatives began seeking evidence that Martin was terrifying. The evidence all basically revolved around his blackness, but “logic” doesn’t have much to do with the popularity of the fake “Trayvon” photo, sourced to the neo-Nazi message board Stormfront and briefly featured at Michelle Malkin’s new site “Twitchy.” (The photo was, in fact, of another black teenager that Stormfront and Twitchy had mistaken for Martin.)
Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller is now the Internet’s leader in the ongoing campaign to make Trayvon seem threatening. Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher had a good (or depressing) close reading of the Caller’s coverage, which ran the gamut from Martin-smearing to credulity-straining Zimmerman defenses (in one video freeze frame he looks like he might have a big scar, of the sort caused by scary black kids).
As you can see, The Daily Caller was very thorough when it comes to covering Al Sharptonriling up black people, or Jesse Jackson showing up late, or President Obama being a bad, bad man, or George Zimmerman telling his side of the story and gaining “momentum.” They were so thorough that they even managed to work communists and Father Pfleger(!!!) into their coverage, and obtain the expert legal opinion of Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). They’ve also been very thorough about conducting an internet grave-robbing, posting two rounds of tweets from the slain teenager’s closed Twitter accounts. [emphasis his.]
This devolved into the now common Internet practice of showing pictures of Martin posturing for the camera, giving the finger, arguing that the liberal media didn’t want you to know what Martinreally looked like. How do photographs like that affect the facts of his shooting as we currently understand them? People who are already scared of young black men and people who exploit the fear of young black men for political purposes simply and sincerely believe that Americans as a whole will be less likely to feel that an injustice has occurred if they learn that Trayvon Martin was scary and not adorable.
(The Caller has begun to slightly rein in its coverage, following widespread criticism of its awfulness, but we’ll see how long the restraint lasts.)
The “highbrow” version of this barrel-scraping garbage is, say, Jonah Goldberg’s ponderous column and blog post on how middle-class blacks don’t understand that white racism is no longer a problem in black communities.
2. The president is extremely polarizing
President Obama was careful to limit his comments on the Martin story (which were made in direct response to a question from the press, and not, say, prepared remarks) to a personal message of empathy for Martin’s parents and a call for everyone to take the situation and the investigation into it seriously.
Naturally, Newt Gingrich immediately called the remarks “disgraceful.” This is also around the time that Rush Limbaugh felt free to weigh in, too. Josh Barro noted some of the not particularly enlightened conservative response in his Forbes piece on the right’s race problem.
It is a simple fact that when the president takes a position on something, anything, roughly 50 percent of the nation then decides to take the opposite opinion. Once Obama spoke out, caring about Martin became a “Democratic” issue, and Republicans felt not just free but obligated to fling all sorts of shit.
Soon, even Peggy Noonan was weighing in to say that Obama’s response was more proof of his arrogance, or whatever. The New York Post’s attempt to cover the story insensitively but nottoo insensitively led to a front page accusing black political leaders (or “race hustlers” in Post parlance) of “hijacking” the tragedy. The real tragedy is that black people and Democrats won’t stop talking about Trayvon Martin!
3. The killing was already political.
Often, when people complain about people “politicizing” a tragedy, what they’re actually complaining about is people attempting to determine what policies helped lead to the tragedy. In the case of any given incident of gun violence, America’s lax restrictions on gun ownership can suddenly seem a bit irresponsible. In the Martin case, liberal journalists noted that Florida had passed “stand your ground” self-defense rules, lobbied for by the NRA and dreamed up by ALEC.
It’s unclear whether or not the “stand your ground” law would have any real effect on Zimmerman’s hypothetical defense in court, and though it’s plausible, we can’t know for certain whether the law made him feel emboldened enough to shoot, but it seems self-evident that Florida’s “robust” self-defense laws are part of the reason the police never arrested him. Their understanding of the law, correct or no, led them to believe that Zimmerman was immune from prosecution.
Conservatives feared, rightly, that outrage over the killing would lead to some pushback against their largely successful under-the-radar attempts to legislate gun control completely out of existence state by state. Libertarians were first out of the gate on this front, with Reason magazine’s contributors pointedly and repeatedly arguing that “stand your ground” laws had nothing to do with the shooting, at all. (This David French post at the Corner suggests that Trayvon Martin was the one legally protected by Florida’s laws. Having the law on his side wasn’t as useful as having a gun, of course, and if Martin had been armed I suspect the national conversation would be … very different, right now.)
Part of the frantic defense of Zimmerman is an attempt to ensure that liberals never, ever go back to the gun control advocacy they essentially gave up on after the 1990s.
4. Racism.
Of course at the root of the most noxious material from the far right is simple racism — the sincere belief that if a black kid got shot, he probably had it coming.


Going deeper:

Category: Southern Strategy Explained

Category: Racism Illustrated

Background Article 1: Five things you should know about the Trayvon Martin case

Background important for understanding these articles:
Category: Southern Strategy Explained
Category: Racism Illustrated


Five things you should know about the Trayvon Martin case

A year ago today George Zimmerman shot dead the unarmed black teen. Here's what you missed when headlines stopped


Had Trayvon Martin not been shot dead on this day last year, he would have turned 18 this month. In the initial weeks following Martin’s death, national anger fomented as his killer, George Zimmerman, had walked free, without any charges, claiming self-defense when he shot the unarmed teen. Across the country, thousands gathered for solidarity marches calling for justice and an end to the structural racism apparently characterizing the case.
Zimmerman, 28, was eventually prosecuted. In April he was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, and is currently awaiting trial set for June 10. While news about the case has perennially hit headlines in recent months — for example, when Zimmerman offered his autograph to his legal fund donors — the proceeding have general fallen under the media radar. Here are the major developments and issues to be aware of.
1) Contradictory evidence
Much of the case being presented to jurors in Florida focuses around video and photo evidence from the night of the shooting. Zimmerman’s defense team produced images reportedly from the night showing the shooter’s head bloodied and cut. It’s also unclear whether blurry video footage shows Zimmerman with an injury at the back of his head or not. According to the defendant, Martin had aggressively forced him to the ground and he shot in self-defense.
However, much evidence conflicts with Zimmerman’s account. For example, as CNN noted, “according to test results made public last May, which showed evidence of Zimmerman’s hands on the firearm, but not those of the teenager he killed. And an analysis showed that scrapings from underneath the teenager’s fingernails did not contain any of Zimmerman’s DNA, as may rub off in a prolonged struggle.” Zimmerman’s reenactment of events for police video has also raised questions based on memory lapses and accuracy gaps:
2) Racism
Martin’s death swiftly became a rallying cry to address racism in the criminal justice system. The allegations from Martin’s family that their hoodie-clad son was pursued by a zealous neighborhood vigilante resonated nationwide for those who had experienced and observed similar racial profiling — it was in this way that efforts to end stop-and-frisk NYPD policy aligned with efforts to seek justice for Martin. Zimmerman’s 911 call to report Martin as “suspicious” ahead of the shooting compounded allegations of racism.
Commentators have also argued that the “stand your ground” law under which Zimmerman was presumed able to initially walk free without charges inscribed a further structural racism into law. The law, born of model legislation from ALEC and the NRA, protects a shooter from prosecution if they “had reason to believe that an unlawful and forcible entry or unlawful act was occurring or had occurred” — what gets to count as “reason to believe” is troubling when dark skin and a hoodie serve as grounds for suspicion.
3) Is this about “stand your ground” laws?
Although the Martin case drew problems with “stand your ground” or “castle” laws to the fore, it is not on a “stand your ground” benefit that Zimmerman is hedging his defense:
Via CNN:
“In this particular case, George did not have an ability to retreat because he was on the ground with Trayvon Martin mounting him, striking blows, therefore the Stand Your Ground ‘benefit’ given by the statute simply does not apply to the facts of George’s case: it is traditional self-defense,” Zimmerman’s attorneys said on the web site detailing his legal case.
It’s worth noting, however, as Mother Jones points out, that in 2012 “['stand your ground' laws] spread to two dozen other states by 2012. Meanwhile, studies showed that Stand Your Ground laws do not deter crime, are racially discriminatory, and are associated with increases in homicides.”
4) Zimmerman takes on the media
The man who shot an unarmed black teen and had a history of making excessive 911 calls about black men is angered about his media image. However, Zimmerman has sued NBC with seemingly good cause over edits they made to his 911 call about Martin, which do appear to have played up a racial motivation narrative. As Salon noted late last year, the evidence against the network is damning. The first altered call that NBC aired included these statements, in which Zimmerman described Martin:
“Zimmerman: There is a real suspicious guy. Ah, this guy looks like he is up to no good or he is on drugs or something. He looks black.”
Dispatcher: Are you following him?
Zimmerman: Yeah.
Dispatcher: Ok we don’t need you to do that.”
On a different occasion, NBC changed Zimmerman’s remarks to this:
“Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good or on drugs or something. He’s got his hand in his waistband. And he’s a black male.
Dispatcher: Are you following him?
Zimmerman: Yeah.
Dispatcher: Okay, we don’t need you to do that.”
But the lawsuit says the conversation Zimmerman had with the dispatcher actually went like this:
“Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.
Dispatcher: OK and this guy – is he white, black or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.”
The suit alleges that about a minute of audio was deleted, but the above example alone is striking –  NBC’s decision to remove the dispatcher’s question about race certainly shifts the character of Zimmerman’s remarks.
5) “Justice for Trayvon” efforts spread beyond the trial
Martin’s parents have noted that the determinations of the jury are largely out of their hands. They have focused activism following their son’s death on combating gun violence and racism.
“We just want to have that trial, and let the jury decide,” said Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton. “And whatever decision comes out of that, we’re going to accept that.”
Meanwhile, Martin’s death was the spark that provoked hundreds of groups with varied political tendencies to take to the streets in “Million Hoodie Marches.” Those furious demonstrations have long since died down, but to mark one year since his shooting, marches have been called in to mark the anniversary in cities around the country.



Jul 14, 2013

Enemies of The Constitution - An Overview [Domestic and Foreign Policy]

Background:
Notes On The Emergence Of The Fascist Police State In D USA 

This is the full length 90 min. version of Bill Moyer's 1987 scathing critique of the criminal subterfuge carried out by the Executive Branch of the United States Government to carry out operations which are clearly contrary to the wishes and values of the American people...


Secret Government - The Constitution In Crisis (FULL)

The ability to exercise this power with impunity is facilitated by the National Security Act of 1947. The thrust of the exposé is the Iran-Contra arms and drug-running operations which flooded the streets of our nation with crack cocaine. The significance of the documentary is probably greater today in 2007 than it was when it was made. We now have a situation in which these same forces have committed the most egregious terrorist attack on US soil and have declared a fraudulent so-called "War on Terror". The ruling regime in the US who have conducted the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, are now banging the war drum against Iran.

Video Notes:

1. You start abroad and then you bring this behavior home

2. "A look at a government in the shadows"... 'and where the government will take us if the people let it!'

3. A policy of lies got accidentally exposed!

4. 'Since our adversaries know about our covert operations the only ones fooled are the America people.'

[Continues with history of US that explains how despotism could establish itself in the US]

FIRST...
An example of a covert operation in the middle east that few in America know about... (till possibly now, with Ron Paul on his third run for President)

History of U.S. Intervention in Iran - 1953 Until Present (9 minutes)



Currently...

‎"The establishment beats the drums of war for Iran & silences those who dare question otherwise. One side is definitely crazy, but it's not who the spinmeisters in D.C. would have you believe."

AND

"At present Iran's forces are sufficient to deter or defend against conventional threats from Iran's weaker neighbors such as post-war Iraq, the GCC, Azerbaijan or Afghanistan but lack the air power and logistical ability to power much beyond Iran's boarders or to confront regional powers such as Turkey or Israel." -US Dept. of Defense

BUT

War has become a very profitable enterprise...




SECOND...
A clip from Air America about CIA drug involvements (Starring Mel Gibson)


Info Links...

1. Opium is gone!... U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan -- once the world's largest producer -- since banning poppy cultivation last summer. A 12-member team from the U.N. Drug Control Program spent two weeks searching most of the nation's largest opium-producing areas and found so few poppies that they do not expect any opium to come out of Afghanistan this year. "We are not just guessing. We have seen the proof in the fields," said Bernard Frahi, regional director for the U.N. program in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He laid out photographs of vast tracts of land cultivated with wheat alongside pictures of the same fields taken a year earlier -- a sea of blood-red poppies..

2. Opium is back!... "If international drug- and law-enforcement officials are right, the Taliban might be hiding up to $3.2 billion worth of opium inside Afghanistan, potentially causing huge complications for NATO's decision this month to attack Afghanistan's opium laboratories and smuggling networks.

3. The clincher! = "Throughout the forty years of the Cold War, the CIA joined with urban gangsters and rural warlords, many of them major drug dealers, to mount covert operations against communists around the globe. In one of history's accidents, the Iron Curtain fell along the border of the Asian opium zone, which stretches across 5,000 miles of mountains from Turkey to Thailand. In Burma during the 1950s, in Laos during the 1970s, and in Afghanistan during the 1980s, the CIA allied with highland warlords to mobilize tribal armies against the Soviet Union and China.".


THIRD
Has this "messing with The Constitution" been brought home?...

1. From PBS = Are we becoming a police state? Five things that have civil liberties advocates nervous - 1. Indefinite military detentions of U.S. citizens, 2. Targeting U.S. citizens for killing, 3. Arresting witnesses for recording police actions, 4. Using GPS to track your every move, 5. Surveillance drones spying on American soil...



Notes: 

1. There are ‎"900 bases in 150 countries"

2. From The Economist: Indeed, the one lesson that can be drawn from the data is that today's strategic priorities can shape deployments for decades to come, long after the original reason for putting G.I.s in a particular region has gone.

3. ‎"[W]e can now remove almost all of our forces from Saudi Arabia. Their presence there over the last 12 years has been a source of enormous difficulty for a friendly government. It's been a huge recruiting device for al Qaeda. In fact if you look at bin Laden, one of his principle grievances was the presence of so-called crusader forces on the holy land, Mecca and Medina. I think just lifting that burden from the Saudis is itself going to open the door to other positive things." Wolfowitz, 2003.

4. Economics perspective: Manufacturing jobs have become more specialized requiring less labor and more technical expertise - i.e. small companies making big ticket items such as fighter jets; this means less people are employed, smaller number of people make huge profits and these huge profits make the economy look like its growing when actually its just a few companies making huge profits benefiting a small group of people.Senator Bernie Sanders also thinks sending manufacturing jobs abroad is bad economic policy.

5. Comedic perspective: Colbert Report: Solutions to America's Financial Worries - World War III

6. Millions of jobs vs hundreds, possibly thousands of jobs, created by small companies with big ticket items.

7. Article: 11 Ways That Amerika Is Becoming More Like North Korea .

8. Interview: Ben Lowy describes his photographic work in Iraq and Afghanistan. Arresting people just because someone says so with any due process of law.

9. "The Pentagon needs to conduct a "serious inquiry" into the Air Force for letting a retired general turned Boeing executive participate in a war game for a $51 billion aerial tanker contract Boeing was competing to win, Sen. John McCain said Thursday in a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta."

10. Remains of 274 Soldiers Dumped in Virginia Landfill - Fox News Video [Original article here.]

11. "They've taken all the heat they want to," Barr said. "They paid a lot of money for an aircraft that doesn't work."

12. ‎"How do you break an internet? Easy. SOPA." Judge Andrew Napolitano

13. Comedic perspective: At last, the U.S. government brings swift justice to hardened criminals on YouTube.

14. Interview: Colbert Report: Stop Online Piracy Act - Danny Goldberg & Jonathan Zittrain.


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Sanders Statement on Defense Authorization Bill:

"The bill continues to authorize heavy spending on defense despite the end of the 9-year-old war in Iraq. Ironically, the Senate vote came on the same day when Defense Secretary Panetta was in Baghdad officially declaring that our military mission there has ended and that virtually all of the combat troops will leave Iraq by the end of the year. At a time when we have tripled defense spending since 1997 and spend more today on defense than the rest of the world combined, I get concerned that my deficit-hawk friends say we've got to cut Social Security, Medicare, education, health care and other programs that help working families, but when it comes to defense spending the sky is the limit.

"This bill also contains misguided provisions that in the name of fighting terrorism essentially authorize the indefinite imprisonment of American citizens without charges. While we must aggressively pursue international terrorists and all of those who would do us harm, we must do it in a way that protects the Constitution and the civil liberties which make us proud to be Americans."


Read in full here.

Corporate money in politics has gone from bad to worse - Politicians, if opposed to Wall Street or even big pharmaceuticals, have to fear a possible Add attack by corporate money in the electoral process -http://youtu.be/G9qZZVqSQdo .




Going Deeper In to The Players Behind The Scene:

Everything About Newt Gingrich you Never Wanted To Know
Peter King & Bill O ReiIlly's - In Your Face - Hypocrisy
Watch As Stephen Colbert Plays Bill O'Reilly With Steve Martin
Shocking: NSA Poker Tells, Secret Service Prostitution, O Reilly's & The Conservative Senate's/Congress's "Trixie" & Newt Gingrich's Open Marriage

Breaking Scandal: Newt Gingrich's Blatant Hypocrisy... Backed by Sarah Palin



Jul 13, 2013

Breaking Scandal: Newt Gingrich's Blatant Hypocrisy... Backed by Sarah Palin


Background:
Everything About Newt Gingrich you Never Wanted To Know
Peter King & Bill O ReiIlly's - In Your Face - Hypocrisy
Watch As Stephen Colbert Plays Bill O'Reilly With Steve Martin
Shocking: NSA Poker Tells, Secret Service Prostitution, O Reilly's & The Conservative Senate's/Congress's "Trixie" & Newt Gingrich's Open Marriage


“The third thing I think you have to do, which is for a conservative a little controversial, is I think you’ve got to require everybody to either have insurance or to post a bond,” Gingrich said in 2008 speaking at the Alegent Health Clinic in Nebraska. Read Alegent‘s press release from Gingrich’s 2008 visit



His present position (i.e 3-4 years later he's on the opposite side!)...
Re-Frame Keyword = "Mandate" Video



Notice That Newt Gingrich Is So Used To Lying He Can't Even Tell The Truth About Defeat! ...

Indecision 2012 - Jump on the Blandwagon

Mitt Romney takes Florida by a landslide, and Newt Gingrich confuses getting his ass kicked with winning the general election.


Newt Gingrich is a compulsive liar...

One of the biggest cons Newt is pulling, is his on going effort to make people think he doesn’t support pretty much everything included in ObamaCare. 
Newt constantly says he doesn’t support the individual mandate “in ObamaCare” and this is the truth. Newt does not support the individual mandatein ObamaCare but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t support the individual mandate! 
This is how smart Newt is. And make no mistake, Newt is highly intelligent. Newt knows that he can ramble on and on about the individual mandate in ObamaCare and only the most observant, only those who actually know Newt’s real position on the matter will call BS. The average voter just hears Newt is opposed to individual mandates, and moves on. 
Worse than that, after hearing Newt doesn’t support the individual mandate [in ObamaCare] when presented with the facts that Newt actually DOES support individual mandates, as long as it’s in HIS plan, victims of Newt’s con get angry, and will often call you a liar. Or they go into a long explanation telling you that Newt gave a long explanation about it all. 
Newt can talk longer, and say less, than anyone in politics today. 
Even when shown video proof of Newt supporting individual mandates on many occasions, including as late as May of this year, victims of Newt’s con will tell you that you are wrong. That’s how good Newt is, and why he must never be allowed back in elected office. 
Newt absolutely supports individual mandates. Newt teamed up with Hillary Clinton back in 2005, not only pushing for government mandated health insurance, but showering Hillary with praise in the process. 
Now I think Newt is a true believer, just as he is in the man-made global warming hoax. That said, the $37 million he has been paid by various drug and insurance companies, all with a keen interest in seeing mandated health care insurance become law, wasn’t for “history lessons!”
This following is yet another example of a  position change WITHOUT any external pressure, i.e. another lie...
Gingrich the professor was a strong advocate for scientific research. Gingrich the presidential hopeful? Not so much. In a November 2000 forum on policy in Science, Gingrich advocated for more government investment in scientific research and technology. In his essay, he specifically highlighted the need to allocate more money for climate research to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He lamented that NOAA is "so strapped for money" that it could barely keep its basic programs running, let alone make major new investments in cutting-edge research. This sentiment sets Gingrich apart from the current batch of Republicans in Congress, who have long been after NOAA and made the agency's climate work their prime target.


Even Sarah Palin is helping him lie! Why?

 Wednesday September 3, 2008 Newt Gingrich: Newt Gingrich tells Jon that Sarah Palin brings a whole new breath of fresh air to the Republican Party...


[Concerning any argument about Oil prices read this...Oil Speculation Bubbles Are Pushing Up Oil Prices]


Here is a story about Newt and Palin... trying to make their dance them look like they are fighting!

Pretend Controversy: GOP Dinner Showdown Cable news loves reporting on a good fight, like the imaginary kerfuffle between Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich.


Sarah Palin has been pretending to be a Tea Party person!






About Death Panels

Death Panels

Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich speak out against death panels even though they don't appear in the health care bill.


"Death panel" is a political term that originated during a 2009 debate about federal health care legislation to cover the uninsured in the United States. The term was first used in August 2009 by former RepublicanGovernor of AlaskaSarah Palin when she charged that the proposed legislation would create a "death panel" of bureaucrats who would decide whether Americans—such as her elderly parents or child with Down syndrome—were worthy of medical care. Palin's claim, however, was debunked, and it has been referred to as the "death panelmyth;[1] nothing in any proposed legislation would have allowed individuals to be judged to see if they were "worthy" of health care.[2] Palin specified that she was referring to Section 1233 of bill HR 3200 which would have paid physicians for providing voluntary counseling to Medicare patients about living willsadvance directives, and end-of-life care options.
Palin's claim was presented as false and criticized by mainstream news mediafact-checkers, academics, physicians, Democrats, and some Republicans. Other prominent Republicans and conservative talk radio hosts backed Palin's statement. One poll showed that after it spread, about 85% of Americans were familiar with the charge and of those who were familiar with it, about 30% thought it was true.[1] Due to public concern, the provision was removed from the Senate bill and was not included in the law that was enacted, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In a 2011 statement, the American Society of Clinical Oncologybemoaned the politicization of the issue and said that the proposal should be revisited.
For 2009, "death panel" was named as PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year", one of FactCheck's "whoppers", and the most outrageous term by the American Dialect Society.

Another perspective: The “death panels” are already here

Sorry, Sarah Palin -- rationing of care? Private companies are already doing it, with sometimes fatal result.

The future of healthcare in America, according to Sarah Palin, might look something like this: A sick 17-year-old girl needs a liver transplant. Doctors find an available organ, and they’re ready to operate, but the bureaucracy — or as Palin would put it, the “death panel” – steps in and says it won’t pay for the surgery. Despite protests from the girl’s family and her doctors, the heartless hacks hold their ground for a critical 10 days. Eventually, under massive public pressure, they relent — but the patient dies before the operation can proceed.
It certainly sounds scary enough to make you want to go show up at a town hall meeting and yell about how misguided President Obama’s healthcare reform plans are. Except that’s not the future of healthcare — it’s the present. Long before anyone started talking about government “death panels” or warning that Obama would have the government ration care, 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan, a leukemia patient from Glendale, Calif., died in December 2007 , after her parents battled their insurance company, Cigna, over the surgery. Cigna initially refused to pay for it because the company’s analysis showed Sarkisyan was already too sick from her leukemia; the liver transplant wouldn’t have saved her life.

 Wall Street Journal acknowledges that Sarah Palin was sensationalizing...

WSJ: Death Panels Revisited

The real death panel myth is that the term ever had anything to do with something so potentially beneficial. We wrote at the time that Sarah Palin's coinage was sensationalistic, but it was meant to illustrate a larger truth about a world of finite resources and infinite entitlement wants.
Under highly centralized national health care, the government inevitably makes cost-minded judgments about what types of care are "best" for society at large, and the standardized treatments it prescribes inevitably steal life-saving options from individual patients. This is precisely why many liberals like former White House budget director Peter Orszag support government-run health care to control costs: Technocrats in government can then decide who gets Avastin for cancer, say, and who doesn't.
Democrats and the press corps accused Mrs. Palin of misrepresentation to avoid reckoning with this inexorable rationing reality that President Obama has himself implicitly acknowledged. In a 2009 interview with ObamaCare advocate David Leonhardt of the New York Times, he called for "a very difficult democratic conversation" about the costs that are incurred in the last six months of life. The President even mused about whether his own grandmother's hip replacement following a terminal cancer diagnosis represented "a sustainable model."
The real problem is the political claim that Medicare and other entitlements are imposing on the culture of U.S. health care. Everyone, on the left and right, now behaves as if every medical issue is a political matter that the government or some technocratic panel can and should decide. No wonder "the 'death panel' myth" has such currency among Americans who won't be doing the deciding.

But if you insist...

Texas has had 'death panels' since 1999


Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/24/3833274/texas-has-had-death-panels-since.html#storylink=cpy
If all you know about healthcare "death panels" is what you heard on a talk show, then you must think the feds will pull the plug on patients.
News bulletin: Texas already has death panels.
A Houston man's life was ended last week.
A leukemia patient identified only as Willie was denied nourishment and died, according to Texas Right to Life.
Since 1999, Texas has given hospital "ethics panels" the authority to end care even if the patient or family wants to continue.
It's called the Texas Futile Care Law. The Texas Senate bill passed in 1999.
Back then, the Senate's presiding officer was Lt. Gov. Rick Perry.
Yes, the governor who says, "I always stand by the side of life."
Willie went to the hospital a few weeks ago with chest pains, according to Texas Right to Life's Elizabeth Graham.
Doctors found pneumonia and leukemia, Graham wrote. After Willie underwent surgery and chemotherapy, his family asked about another hospital or hospice care.
Though he had plenty of insurance, no other facility would accept him. After the legally required 10 days, the hospital ended nourishment.
He was "dehydrated and starved to death completely against the family's desire," Graham wrote.
One of North Texas' more prominent anti-abortion groups is Arlington-based Texans for Life.
"It's not always clear, but sometimes hospitals jerk families around," Director Kyleen Wright said Friday.
"They run down the clock on the 10 days, then say, 'Time's up.' ... The hospital and the ethics board have all the say. Our position is that the family's and patient's desires should be respected."
During a 2010 gubernatorial campaign forum in Denton, a student brought up the law to Perry and opponents Kay Bailey Hutchison and Debra Medina.
All three promised they would repeal it.
Then, student Lauren Lutz, a Nolan Catholic High School graduate attending Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, delivered her zinger.
"If you were going to repeal the act," she asked Perry, "why haven't you done it by now? We have been pulling patients off ventilators when their families didn't want that."
He replied sheepishly, "I wasn't aware of that."
Lutz still opposes the law. "It's the whole pro-life question," she said Friday.
"The governor really didn't answer."
Lutz said Texans don't know about our panels because "the little people, the people who are really affected by what goes on Austin, aren't paying enough attention."
Except to talk shows.

Moment of Zen - Sarah Palin's Hypothetical Vote If Sarah Palin were a South Carolinian, she would vote for Newt Gingrich, but what's most important to her is the vetting process for candidates.