"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, (i.e., the "business cycle") the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."
John F. Kennedy
New Age Citizen www.newagecitizen.com October 4th, 2008 Edition [Last Update: October 11th, 2008]
Once again I would urge you to watch the following video, before proceeding, in order to offset the depressing, but necessary information that I'm about to convey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_wR22jTyyY
Yesterday -- Friday October 03, 2008 around 2:15 PM -- the United States, as we know it, ceased to exist. For it was at that moment the President George Bush signed the "Trillion Dollar Corporate Bailout" into law. While I am about to summarize the situation, you owe it to your parents, your spouse and your children to take the time to assimilate everything from the September 23rd "New Age Citizen" archive.
Here you will find hours of reading and videos by myself and others disassembling what has really taken place over the last few weeks. This is possibly the most complete assessment of what is certainly the biggest betrayal of the America People in the history of the United States.
Next I want you to watch the following video, by Lisa Ling, showing what is happening to 700 Californian residents each and every day now. With each eviction the "banksters" have hired companies to throw all of the remaining household items into a dumpster which then dumps tens of thousands of dollars worth of appliances and keepsakes into the local landfill. Why are they not taking this stuff with them was my first question. According to the "trashing" company it comes down to the fact that these people are so broke they cannot even afford to hire a moving van. And even if they could afford that they certainly don't have the money to store their hard earned possessions. I don't know about you but I found that the sight of this literally made my stomach turn.
The one thing that this 12 minute video got wrong was to blame it on "sub prime" mortgages that have turned "upside down," meaning that their value is now less than the mortgaged value of the home. And of course the reason the home values is decreasing is simple supply and demand. As the supply of foreclosed homes infects the market the average home price is invariably going to go down. Yes, some of these people did enter into ARM's (adjustable rate mortgages) whose interest rates ballooned and put the new monthly mortgage payments out of reach. But increasingly this is effecting American workers who hold conventional mortgages and the media remains silent on conveying this inconvenient truth. Below I have included a good synopsis of the subprime mortgage crisis:
The crisis began with the bursting of the United States housing bubble[1][2] and high default rates on "subprime" and adjustable rate mortgages (ARM), beginning in approximately 2005–2006. For a number of years prior to that, declining lending standards, an increase in loan incentives such as easy initial terms, and a long-term trend of rising housing prices had encouraged borrowers to assume difficult mortgages in the belief they would be able to quickly refinance at more favorable terms. However, once interest rates began to rise and housing prices started to drop moderately in 2006–2007 in many parts of the U.S., refinancing became more difficult. Defaults and foreclosure activity increased dramatically as easy initial terms expired, home prices failed to go up as anticipated, and ARM interest rates reset higher. Foreclosures accelerated in the United States in late 2006 and triggered a global financial crisis through 2007 and 2008. During 2007, nearly 1.3 million U.S. housing properties were subject to foreclosure activity, up 79% from 2006.[3] Subprime mortgage crisis (Wiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis
So what began as primarily subprime evictions is soon to be primarily conventional mortgage evictions. And what they don't want to admit, until the damage is irreversible, is that this is a direct result of the offshoring of American jobs and the insourcing of foreign labor: both legal and illegal. And this in turn is further exacerbated by the devaluation of the dollar which is being driven by the Federal Reserve. Of course the reason the value of the money is is decreasing is because the Federal Reserve is cranking out unprecedented amounts of new currency to bail out Wall street. Finally the devaluation of our currency is making it harder to entice countries such as China and Saudi Arabia to "loan" us any more money. After all, at the rate our dollar is loosing value, means that all of the Treasury Bills that they are buying are actually loosing value.
So that is what has brought us to the current Credit Crunch that threatens to seize up the global economy and brought about Bush's signing of the "Trillion Dollar Corporate Bailout" on October 3, 2008.
Well, I've got to stop now. Stay tuned for a further analysis of our current situation tomorrow or Monday. I think I've probably depressed you enough for one day.
But before I go let me give you a clue as to where we are headed. The Global Elite is out to force us into the North American Union and the issue of a new currency that will be shared by Canada, the United States and Mexico. We could well be seeing the end to our sovereignty and our Constitution. The following video provides a good primer if you are yet unaware of these developments.
Yours in Freedom,
Bruce W. Cain
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I have just come across one of the best "crash courses" in Globalist Economics and it is free. In many of my articles and videos I have stated that the current economic paradigm is unsustainable and this series does a great job of explaining just why that is. The crux of the problem is that exponential growth systems (e.g., the Federal Reserve and Centralized Banking) are inherently doomed to fail. It also amplifies what I am getting at in the video "Don't Vote for Traitors Obama or McCain." Here is the link to the series:
I just posted this new video on 10/08/2008. Unlike most of my videos this is extemporaneous (e.g., no teleprompter script etc.). This video looks at how both McCain and Obama screwed the American People by signing the "Trillion Dollar Corporate Bailout. Then it explains how the Amero and US Troops on US soil could be signs of the end of America as we know it. Presidential write-in Candidate Bruce Cain then explains for his "New Agenda for America" and his bailout plan would be better options for the American Working Class.
BANKERS SAY: Learn to Love the 'AMERO' by Patrick Henningsen http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/BANKERS-SAY-Learn-to-Love-by-Patrick-Henningsen-081006-534.html
================================= A Bailout for the American People =================================
Where is the Bailout for the American People? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j57qdQi8Qg
In Mid-July 2008 I post the video (above) "Where is the Bailout for the American People." Currently there have been nearly 1,000 viewings of this video making it the most watched "New Age Citizen" YouTube video to date. 500 hits per month ain't bad for a video where someone isn't dancing around in their underwear.
Although the prescription for cure is rather primitive I think the strength of the video is that it exposes "free trade" for what it truly is, a Global Ponzi Scheme. The transcript for the video is available in one of the past archives. Since I'm blazing through this "talk" at about 150 words per minute you may want to read slowly through the archive, or watch the video a few times, to fully assimilate all of the points made in this video.
At any rate please take 10 minutes to watch. It makes some points that your had really begin to understand in the wake of the "Trillion Dollar Corporate Bailout" that Congress passed and Bush signed into law on Friday, October 3rd, 2008.
I have provided links to the final votes in the House and Senate over the "Trillion Dollar Corporate Bailout." Do not vote for any representative that voted for the bailout included Senators Obama and McCain.
GovTracks.us is actually "nicer" than Thomas.gov in that these lists sort by state for quick and easy information. I encourage you to share these lists as widely as possible so that we can send a very strong message this November:
The reason for the "New Agenda for America" is well described in the following video from the Zeitgeist Movement that begins on October 10th, 2008 with the activation of their website:
This is why I am telling people to write in someone other that Obama or McCain. Of course I would be honored if you wrote me in ("Bruce W. Cain") but if not write in "Minnie Mouse:" just don't vote for Obama or McCain. They voted for the "Trillion Dollar Bailout," they will grant Amnesty to 12-30 million Illegal Aliens and upset the ecological balance; they will not Legalize Marijuana, they are the enemy of the American People. They were selected by the Global Elite. Do not give any further legitimacy to the "system."
Here is what will happen if we don't act. Right now we have just been forced by the Global Elite to accept the "Trillion Dollar Corporate Bailout." In the months to come inflation will sky rocket and foreclosures will go through the roof (pun intended). The next bubble will be the "Derivatives Market" whose estimated bad accounts are close to a quadrillion dollars. Yep, you got that right: a thousand trillion dollars.
Their strategy is to destroy the American People economically between the bailout of the "housing bubble" (10/03/2008) and the onset of the "Derivatives Bubble." It is necessary that the American People are economically powerless and have fully succumbed to this manifestation of "shock doctrine" before they allow the "Derivatives Bubble" bursts.
That is because they don't want the American People to be salvaged. Yet if we just bailed out by giving every adult $150,000 most debts could be erased. Considering a population of 200 million the costs of this "Main street Bailout" would cost 30 Trillion dollars. But when you consider the 1,000 Trillion Dollar "Derivatives Bubble" you begin to realize this is chump change.
The point of the "New Agenda for America" and the "Zeitgeist Project" is that we both recognize that the current global economic model is nothing more that a massive Ponzi scheme that is destined to crash. It is up to us to consider the millions of possible alternative courses that we could take to salvage the dignity of both the American People as well as people throughout the rest of the world. As John Lennon once sung in the famous song "All You Need Is Love;"
"There's nothing you can't do that can't be done" John Lennon and Paul McCarney, "All You Need Is Love"
At any rate this film, which I believe is authored by the makers of the film Zeitgeist, really embraces the philosophy that I share and that is truly behind the "New Agenda for America." So please take ten minutes to watch the film
In addition you can now watch the original "Zeitgeist" and the "Zeitgeist Addendum" which is a new 2 hour video that focuses on the flawed system of Central Banking and the Federal Reserve:
And when you have finished watching the film read through the "New Agenda for America (below)."
NEW AGENDA FOR AMERICA: Preliminary Planks ========================================== Help Influence the 2008 Presidency by writing in the author of the "New Agenda for America:" Bruce W. Cain
(1) Universal Health Care for All American Citizens (2) A 20-year moratorium on all immigration into the United States (3) Legal Marijuana for all Adults and Medical Patients (4) An immediate reversal to the Offshoring and Inshoring of American Jobs (5) A strict enforcement on issues of Separation of Church and State (6) An immediate move from so-called Free Trade Agreements to Bilateral Trade agreements (7) A major R&D project to bring energy independence to the United States and the World through recycling, reuse, ending hyper-consumerism and investing in the development of sustainable energy sources (e.g., solar, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal) (8) No further ownership of US Assets (businesses, homes, ports, stock exchanges) by foreign governments or individuals! (9) Replace the Federal Reserve with a People's Reserve which allows public oversight (10) Absolute support for Net Neutrality ==========================================
If you like the "New Agenda for America" then go to the following link to watch more videos about it and to find ways to spread the word:
And when you consider alternatives to Obama and McCain perhaps you might consider writing in "Bruce W. Cain" who is the author of the "New Agenda for America." I would guarantee that Marijuana would become legal the minute after my inauguration by granting clemency to all non-violent Marijuana offenders throughout the United States. The next day I would move forward with the implementation of all 10 planks of the "New Agenda for America." There is still hope for a better United States and a better planet. Something to think about?
This is a description of the "Venus Project" that is mentioned in the "Zeitgeist Project." Though I don't know enough to support it, this description seems compatible with the "New Agenda for America." Where is may disagree with the "Zeitgeist Movement" movie is that I do think each country should work towards self sufficiency. I do not agree with erasing borders as this would create the very kaos that the Globalists are attempting to create. Other than that the project appears interesting to me, though more information will not be available till October 12th, 2008.
The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. There are many people today who are concerned with the serious problems that face our modern society: unemployment, violent crime, replacement of humans by technology, over-population and a decline in the Earth's ecosystems. As you will see, The Venus Project is dedicated to confronting all of these problems by actively engaging in the research, development, and application of workable solutions. Through the use of innovative approaches to social awareness, educational incentives, and the consistent application of the best that science and technology can offer directly to the social system, The Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology, and nature will be able to coexist in a long-term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.
The plans for the Venus Project offer society a broader spectrum of choices based on the scientific possibilities inherent in current technology and direct that knowledge toward a new era of peace and sustainability for all cultures. Through the implementation of a resource-based economy, and a multitude of innovative and environmentally friendly technologies directly applied to the social system, The Venus Project proposals will dramatically reduce crime, poverty, hunger, homelessness, and many other pressing problems that are common throughout the world today.
One of the cornerstones of the organization's findings is the fact that many of the dysfunctional behaviors of today's society stem directly from the dehumanizing environment inherent in the existing monetary system. Moreover, the currently utilized random implementation of automation and other technologies have resulted in a fragmented, self-defeating trend occurring throughout the manufacturing and high-tech sectors of today's global economy--namely the technological replacement of human labor by machines. The Venus Project proposes a social system in which automation and technology would be intelligently applied and integrated into an overall social design where the primary function would be to maximize the quality of life rather than profits. This project also introduces a set of workable and acceptable human values that are more appropriate and in balance with our present state of technology. http://www.thevenusproject.com/
As I write to you on this 4th day in October the House has just completed the process of passing the "Trillion Dollar Corporate Bailout" which most economists have warned, will do nothing to solve the root problems that face America Workers today. The media has even admitted that 9 of 10 calls to Congress were against passage. And around 2:15 PM, Friday October 3rd, President Bush signed the bill into law. We have been betrayed.
What if I told you that the reason for the secret meeting, the other week, was to inform Congress that the Oil Producing Middle East had basically "blackmailed" Congress to pass this bill or they would turn off the oil spigot? Well that appears to be what has happened. The fact of the mater is that over half of the 700 Billion is going to foreign governments. It is bad enough that we would be forced to bail out American Banks. But bailing out foreign banks only makes it easier for them to buy our homes, businesses, banks and ports for literally pennies on the dollar.
Essentially what has just happened here is that a Global Elite, most certainly not restricted to Saudi Arabia, has just committed Economic Warfare on the United States. And your federal representatives allowed it to happen through their plurality of votes in both the House and the Senate.
But the question that looms before us is, "What are we, the American People going to do about it?"
Since both Obama and McCain supported the bill I would suggest that we De-Legitimize the 2008 Presidential Election. Do not vote for either Obama or McCain. Of course I would be touched if you wrote in my name: Bruce W. Cain. But if you don't agree with my political platform, contained in the "New Agenda for America," then vote for anyone else: just not McCain or Obama. You have Ron Paul, Barr, Nader and many other to choose from. Just remember, you will have to "write in" the name of your alternative choice.
Please take a moment to see if you agree with most of my agenda before proceeding:
========================================== NEW AGENDA FOR AMERICA: Preliminary Planks ==========================================
(1) Universal Health Care for All American Citizens (2) A 20-year moratorium on all immigration into the United States (3) Legal Marijuana for all Adults and Medical Patients (4) An immediate reversal to the Offshoring and Inshoring of American Jobs (5) A strict enforcement on issues of Separation of Church and State (6) An immediate move from so-called Free Trade Agreements to Bilateral Trade agreements (7) A major R&D project to bring energy independence to the United States and the World through recycling, reuse, ending hyper-consumerism and investing in the development of sustainable energy sources (e.g., solar, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal) (8) No further ownership of US Assets (businesses, homes, ports, stock exchanges) by foreign governments or individuals! (9) Replace the Federal Reserve with a People's Reserve which allows public oversight (10) Absolute support for Net Neutrality ==========================================
But on the assumption that you decide to write-in "Bruce W. Cain" let me direct you as to how to proceed. I have already provided instructions as to how you can promote my candidacy through emails and websites. But since only half of Americans are regularly on the internet this link also has files for copying and distribution on the streets, workplaces, bars and other places where Americans work, play and gather. Here is the link:
But we only have a month to change course. And like I said, if you don't vote for me just make sure you also don't vote for McCain or Obama.
We must take away any legitimacy to the 2008 Presidential Election. Our very future is a stake. And if by some miracle I were to be elected Marijuana will be Re-Legalized upon my inauguration and the United States will once again be ruled by the ideas of our founding fathers: Washington, Franklin and Jefferson. In the more likely event that Obama or McCain win, we must amass a broad coalition to push back their Globalist agendas.
On December 21st 2012 the Mayan Calendar predicts that beginning of a "New Age" according to Mayan astrologers. What I have always found fascinating is that this date corresponds with the date our solar system will cross the galactic plane of the Milky Way which occurs about every 26,000 years. Of course what is so fascinating is to ponder how and if they somehow recognized this "sine wave" oscillation around the plane, of the Milky Way Galaxy, at a time when no one even had a concept of a galaxy, much less the concept of a "heliocentric" solar system.
The Milky Way has a diameter of approximately 100,000 light years and is approximately 1,000 light years in height. As we think about the burgeoning deficit it is novel to consider that a light year is about 6 trillion miles, or about 186,000 miles per second. Furthermore it takes our solar system approximately 250 million years to make one rotation around the Milky Way: something that has only occurred 20-25 times during the 13.6 billion year existence of our solar system. There must be something I don't understand about this statistic as you would think it would be more like (4 * 13) 52 times, provided each complete cycle is taking 250 million years. Actually the earth was only formed about 5 Billion years ago: so in that case the 20 revolutions does make sense: (4 * 5) = 20. But in any case these time frames challenge us to wrap our minds around these great dimensions of time and space. And it is such mental exercise that truly increase our true knowledge and intuition.
While this is an "off topic" I must say I do find it rather fascinating to ponder. For more information on our relationship with our galaxy check out the following "Wiki" reference:
Most astronomers are now convinced that at the center of our Galaxy is a massive black hole the unimaginable seize of millions of our suns. This is where Science and Mythology truly meet. For what the center of our Galaxy may represent in terms of energy and the properties of time/space, no one has a clue.
But to the ancient Maya the Milky Way Galaxy represented the Great Cosmic Mother from which all Life was birthed. They saw our Galactic Mother stretching out across the night sky and somehow recognize the place where we all had come from. And the great central bulge at Her center they perceived as the Cosmic Womb. Within the central bulge there is what looks like a dark corridor, known as the dark rift. To the Maya it was referred to by many names but the most pertinent here is their reference to this area as the "birthing place".
Are we beginning to get the picture here?
Considering then the significance of the 2012 date in the Mayan calendar, it has been discovered that this year specifically points to a period of time when the December Solstice Sun aligns with and arises out from the backdrop of the dark rift, the "Galactic Birth Canal" in the central bulge. It's as if the Sun is actually being birthed anew from the Galactic Womb.
Most of us are not archaeologists or astronomers, anthropologists or astrologers. Yet the majority of what is written about one of the most exciting and relevant subjects of our day - the approaching Winter Solstice 2012 end-date of the Mayan Calendar - appears in words aimed at specialists and couched in language that can be hard to read. This article is written for the Everyday Earthling who may be hearing a lot about the Mayans, their calendars, hieroglyphs and mysterious temples scattered throughout the jungles of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras.
Let us begin with some questions. Why is there so much talk about the "end of the Mayan calendar" and what does it mean? Is there something significant we should know about the Winter Solstice date of December 21, 2012? How were the Mayans able to track long periods of time and why would they want to? Why should we care about the Mayans today? Is there anything we can learn from them? I'll begin by sharing how my own interest in the subject developed and go on from there.
I first learned about the Mayans in 1987 from Jose Arguelles' book The Mayan Factor. It was during the months leading up to the event known as Harmonic Convergence that Arguelles, artist and visionary, introduced me to the 20 Mayan daysigns and the thirteen Mayan numbers - and to the wonderfully engaging and mysterious 260 day Mayan ceremonial calendar, called the Tzolkin (pronounced chol-kin). My pursuit of knowledge about pre-Columbian culture had begun.
A great deal of scientific and visionary research work has been done about the Mayans, so I started reading. I learned that the Mayans tracked cycles within cycles within cycles of time. Their calendar acted as a harmonic calibrator, linking and coordinating the earthly, lunar, solar and galactic seasons in an aesthetically simple and elegant manner. The provocative simplicity of the daysigns and the sheer harmony of the calendar drew me in. Then a landmark article by John Major Jenkins appeared in Mountain Astrologer magazine in 1994, revealing for the first time in our era the true meaning of the end-date.
Is there something significant we should know about the Winter Solstice date of December 21, 2012? Yes. On this day a rare astronomical and Mayan mythical event occurs. In astronomic terms, the Sun conjuncts the intersection of the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic. The Milky Way, as most of us know, extends in a general north-south direction in the night sky. The plane of the ecliptic is the track the Sun, Moon, planets and stars appear to travel in the sky, from east to west. It intersects the Milky Way at a 60 degree angle near the constellation Sagittarius.
The cosmic cross formed by the intersecting Milky Way and plane of the ecliptic was called the Sacred Tree by the Maya. The trunk of the tree, the Axis Mundi, is the Milky Way, and the main branch intersecting the tree is the plane of the ecliptic. Mythically, at sunrise on December 21, 2012, the Sun - our Father - rises to conjoin the center of the Sacred Tree, the World Tree, the Tree of Life..
This rare astronomical event, foretold in the Mayan creation story of the Hero Twins, and calculated empirically by them, will happen for many of us in our lifetime. The Sun has not conjoined the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic since some 25,800 years ago, long before the Mayans arrived on the scene and long before their predecessors the Olmecs arrived. What does this mean?
Due to a phenomenon called the precession of the equinoxes, caused by the Earth's wobble that lasts almost 26,000 years, the apparent location of the Winter Solstice sunrise has been ever so slowly moving toward the Galactic Center. Precession may be understood by watching a spinning top. Over many revolutions the top will rise and dip on its axis, not unlike how the Earth does over an extremely long period of time. One complete rise and dip constitutes the cycle of precession.
The Mayans noticed the relative slippage of the positions of stars in the night sky over long periods of observation, indicative of precession, and foretold this great coming attraction. By using an invention called the Long Count, the Mayans fast-forwarded to anchor December 21, 2012 as the end of their Great Cycle and then counted backwards to decide where the calendar would begin. Thus the Great Cycle we are currently in began on August 11, 3114 BCE But there's more.
The Great Cycle, lasting 1,872,000 days and equivalent to 5,125.36 years, is but one fifth of the Great Great Cycle, known scientifically as the Great Year or the Platonic Year - the length of the precession of the equinoxes. To use a metaphor from the modern industrial world, on Winter Solstice CE (Common Era) 2012 it is as if the Giant Odometer of Humanity on Earth hits 100,000 miles and all the cycles big and small turn over to begin anew. The present world age will end and a new world age will begin.
Over a year's time the Sun transits through the twelve houses of the zodiac. Many of us know this by what "Sun sign" is associated with our birthday. Upping the scale to the Platonic Year - the 26,000 year long cycle - we are shifting, astrologically, from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. The Mayan calendar does not really "end" in 2012, but rather, all the cycles turn over and start again, vibrating to a new era. It is as if humanity and the Earth will graduate in the eyes of the Father Sun and Grandmother Milky Way.
Why should we care about the Mayans today? Is there anything we can learn from them? The trees give us oxygen to breathe and help create the nourishing rains upon which we depend, sustaining life. We are missing these rains in places where the trees have been cut down or burned. Fires begin that nature can no longer extinguish. For the Mayans, trees were intermediaries between the physical and spiritual worlds, and absolutely essential to life. They believed that without the tree man could not survive and that "with the death of the last tree comes the death of the human race."
The ancient carved stones and the stars themselves tell us we are on the brink of a new world age. There is no reason not to take a leap of faith into imagining what may be in store. We may trust that it is time for humanity to awaken into a true partnership with each other, with the Earth, and the Cosmos. By accepting this partnership we may claim our birthright and become Galactic Citizens who care for and sustain the planet, thus sustaining ourselves. This is clearly the challenge of our times. Yet, arriving just in time and on schedule is the Winter Solstice dawn on the day we may remember that we are truly Children of the World.
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I've just accepted an invitation to speak about Marijuana Policy at the TrumblePlex in Detroit on Sunday October 19th, 2008. I will be talking about the "Medical Marijuana" Proposal that is on November's the ballot because we collected over 400,000 signatures to get it there. I am proud to say that I collected over 1,000 of those signatures. The expected win in November will make Michigan the 13th State to make Marijuana available for medical patients, since 1996, when Proposition 215 passed in California. I will also be talking about the "MERP" Model for Re-Legalizing Marijuana, which you might call the final step in ending the War on Marijuana.
The MERP Model would allow all adults to grow up to 100 plants without any government taxation, regulation or other forms of interference. It would destroy the Mexican Drug Cartels, local drug gangs and would make our streets much safer in the process. It would also screw the police, attorneys and the prison industrial complex of billions in ill-gotten gains from the harassment of over 830,000 responsible Marijuana consumers each year in the United States alone. Citibank and many other banking institutions would also get screwed as they would no longer be profiting from basically "laundering" drug money.
Here is a more formal preview of what I will be talking about on the 19th:
At any rate it should be a great time. I will be speaking around 8:00 PM in the middle of the 5 Bands. Doors open at 5 PM and I believe there is a $6 donation per guest. Hope to see you there!
Here's a map. The "star" is where the TrumbullPlex is located:
I want to thank Richard Rawlings for nominating me on behalf of the United States Marijuana Party. To be clear it would take a historic viral internet campaign to actually deliver me to the White House in 2009. But it is my hope that we minimally build a large coalition, in the next several months, so that we can minimally push the "New Agenda for America" down the throats of whichever Corporate Candidate (e.g., Obama or McCain) actually "wins" the election.
Here are the initial "planks" of my Presidential Platform known as the "New Agenda for America:"
(1) Universal Health Care for All American Citizens (2) A 20-year moratorium on all immigration into the United States (3) Legal Marijuana for all Adults and Medical Patients (4) An immediate reversal to the Offshoring and Inshoring of American Jobs (5) A strict enforcement on issues of Separation of Church and State (6) An immediate move from so-called Free Trade Agreements to Bilateral Trade agreements (7) A major R&D project to bring energy independence to the United States and the World through recycling, reuse, ending hyper-consumerism and investing in the development of sustainable energy sources (e.g., solar, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal) (8) No further ownership of US Assets (businesses, homes, ports, stock exchanges) by foreign governments or individuals! (9) Replace the Federal Reserve with a People's Reserve which allows public oversight (10) Absolute support for Net Neutrality
Of course one of the 10 planks, of the "New Agenda for America" is the MERP Model for Re-Legalizing Marijuana.
The MERP Project The Marijuana Re-Legalization Policy (MRP) Project
This is the most progressive of all Marijuana reform models because it basically allows all adults over 18 to grow up to 100 plants without ANY federal taxation, regulation or other forms of interference. I would also argue that this small expansion of individual liberty is required, given the liberties that have been lost since September 11th, 2001.
If, by some miracle, I did win the election, my first official act would be to set up a special office that would grant clemency to EVERY non-violent Marijuana offender throughout the United States. This would be followed by executive pressure on both Houses to remove Marijuana completely from the Controlled Substances Act (1970). This would definitely end 70 years of needless Marijuana Prohibition throughout the United States of America.
The very next thing I would do is reinstate Habeas Corpus and Posse Commitatus. It should be remembered that the writ of habeas corpus goes all the way back to the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215 AD. That is a good measure as to how far George Bush has pushed back the rights of Americans in the last 8 years. After that is a long list which would include:
* Sending out the 12 million "No-Match" letters and deporting all Illegal Aliens and Visa "overstays" that these letters would surely identify. * Reopen the "911" investigation with the help of such experts as Griffin etc. * Drafting a massive "debt relief" program for legal American Citizens that will assure the ownership of their homes and the access to American jobs and other opportunities. * Complete disruption of funding to any nation (e.g., Saudi Arabia) that does not recognize inalienable rights such as Freedom of Religion and Separation of Church and State.
Well, I think you've got the idea. It would not be "business as usual" unless of course we are finally talking about the People's business. And it is sad to say that no one has talked about the business of the American People in at least 50 years.
Now for more information on the United States Marijuana Party:
The United States Marijuana Party - is a motivated group of Americans who are tired of living in fear of their government because of marijuana prohibition. We are fed up with the intrusion into our personal lives, with urine testing at work and at school, with armed home invasions, and with the possibility of prison because of a plant. WE are Americans and WE do not piss in a cup for anyone!
WE feel it is time for the 12 million Americans who smoke marijuana on a regular basis to stop hiding their love for this plant and unite as one large body of voters to demand an end to the unconstitutional prohibition of marijuana and the drug war. The U.S. cannot lock up 12 million people. The War on Drugs causes more harm than the drugs themselves ever will. United WE are a potential 12 million vote political machine. WE want to live free and WE must be determined to stand up, be counted, demonstrate, rally, and write. Waiting for the government to silence us all in the American prison system is not an option! Too many of our brethren are there, in prison right now.
More Americans are in jail today for non-violent drug offenses than at any previous time in American history. More Americans are in jail today for marijuana offenses than at any previous moment in American history. The war against marijuana is a genocidal war waged against us by a government determined to eradicate our plant, our culture, our freedom and our political rights.
The House of Representatives passed the bailout on Friday, 263-171, garnering fifty eight more votes in the affirmative than were captured in Monday’s stunning defeat. Certainly without delay, the President will commit the act to law. Like the coroner’s hand upon a death certificate, Bush’s signature acknowledges the passing of our democracy. And only a scattered few are showing up for the funeral. The rest seem content to join the raging party across the hall, unaware that they attend their own wake.
There was a brief sense of exhilaration among the people as the House struck down the obscene $700 billion bailout bill earlier this week. Years of apparently futile activism were once again inflated with hope—the Congress does listen and they will represent us, we thought. Hundreds of thousands of calls, letters, emails, and faxes inundated Senate and House offices, so much so that they had to shut down the email servers—apparently, their junk mail filter was not efficient enough to sort out our annoying insistence that our opinions matter.
There was elation because we surprised them and we knew it. It was evident that they were shocked—they expected we the people to roll right over when they first presented this plan, but we did not. In fact, we recoiled and then attacked, as all living things tend to do when they sense an eminent threat. The Internet was alive with deep discussion and every day that slipped away without the bailout coming into fruition allowed more and more of the citizenry to educate their selves and each other as to the realities of our economy. Thousands of notable thinkers, economists, journalists, and business leaders warned us that the bailout was a scam, a clear and present coup, an enormous power grab, and an idea completely without merit as a viable financial plan for our country.
They were caught off guard. Their computer models didn’t predict a popular uprising. Not yet—they know that’s coming, they’ve prepared well for it, but it wasn’t supposed to be last week. It wasn’t supposed to occur until after they had fleeced the American people one more time. It makes them nervous, these would-be lords, when they cannot render us as binary creatures on a graph. For all of their data, we continue to defy them as complex beings, beyond their arrogant and narcissistic appraisal. We have not grown so used to the routine of non-options as they would have hoped.
Today, our optimism is diminished. You see, in truth, there are those who do hate America and what we stand for. They hate our free will, they hate our resistance to arbitrary authority, and they hate our insistence of self-determination. They hate that we have friends without agenda. They hate that we have love without bribery or gain. They hate that we don’t hate each other, even with our many differences, and in spite of their best efforts to divide us. They hate that we won’t be controlled. They hate that we won’t follow their fear-mongering man-made clay-footed gods into the fiery abyss. They hate us for being random, for being creative, for being beautiful, sometimes in spite of ourselves. They hate us for being the breath of Providence, when they are merely the sigh of decay.
These people are not plotting against us in oversees bunkers. They are not hiding in hovels in the hills. They are not in Iraq, or in Afghanistan, or in Russia. No, they hide in the shadows right here in our own country, those shadows inevitably cast whenever freedom sees the light of day. They hide on Pennsylvania Avenue in buildings we own. They hide in the Treasury behind stacks of counterfeit bills. Apparently, they hide in Congress, behind hubris and hypocrisy. They hide right in front of us. They are the enemies domestic and the warnings of their subterfuge have accompanied their every action throughout the last century.
“Crises there will continue to be,” President Eisenhower stated in his final speech of 1961. “In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties.”
And today, October 3, 2008, the enemies domestic cemented their coup via their ‘miraculous solution’. In the face of overwhelming and undeniable popular dissent, they concluded that they knew better than us, once again. They have decimated the promise of our nation with one vote and somehow, for them, this is embraced as accomplishment.
Nothing changed from Monday to Friday, except the Senate, Caligula’s’ ever-faithful stable of horses’ asses, threw some bones to the floor so the lesser-capitalists with regional sway would give their Representatives the nudge. Mix that effort in with some thinly veiled threats and the people’s voice was easily dismissed. It’s the same con—a $700 billion dollar sweetheart deal given to privileged agencies and corporations who cannot even give us proper accounting of their own businesses. They will use this money to sweep up the juicy remnants of competitors as they collapse one by one. What possibly would lead the American people to think that the likes of Goldman, Morgan, and Citi were in this to help stabilize their competition? This is the crescendo of the great shift of wealth from many to a few.
We are going to have a Greater Depression. It is simply an unavoidable fact and, instead of gearing up the innovative spirit of the American people by giving them a true assessment of our economic affairs, the oligarchy continues to mislead, redirect, and steal. The ‘trickle-down’ prosperity of the eighties ended up being nothing more than condensation on the sides of the pigs’ troughs and even that is running dry.
We will expand our wars and try to solve this dilemma the same way as always, via the swollen military-industrial complex. Nothing stems unemployment like a big war. As we were distracted and urgently addressing the bailout crisis, the House quietly moved $600 billion towards the Defense war chest. That doesn’t sound like an effort towards ending the conflicts. It certainly doesn’t seem that Congress is anticipating change in the form of a new administration. They will crush dissent, our Army assigned to domestic missions, the police tight in the pocket of Homeland Security, and, one by one, everyone who does not agree will be targeted as unpatriotic and subdued. One by one they will be hunted, until they are all consumed by the unquenchable appetite of fascism.
A dark passage is now upon us and little on the horizon would indicate calm skies ahead. Our presidential candidates speak the same lines, frantically digging through thesauruses in the hopes that few will notice that they are saying the same things. Senator Obama promises us change, a tongue-in-cheek metaphor for coins dropped in a urine-stained hat, I have always guessed. McCain promises us change, like the abusive ex who beats you senseless nightly, then brings you a box of chocolates and a teary-eyed pledge towards better days.
Let me point out that we have had plenty of change in the last eight years. Our Constitution has been rendered anecdotal by executive orders, the Patriot Acts, and dozens of subversive policies that have the collective goal of subjecting all of us to the whims of an authoritarian regime. We’ve changed the way we educate our children, by choking off opportunity with deceitfully titled programs like No Child Left Behind, a warped elitist concept akin to weighing babies weekly and only feeding the fat ones. We changed our morals and concept of honor, by shrugging off the use of torture, imprisonment of the innocent, and the vile exploitation of weaker states. We’ve changed the structure of the Government by castrating Congress, empowering the executive beyond our founders’ wildest nightmares, and corrupting the judiciary. We’ve changed a lot already. Maybe we need to un-change a few things first, before our candidates change us anymore.
The pundits keep telling us we need new ideas for this new century; that we do not know what tomorrow will bring. Let me tell you what tomorrow will bring if we continue on this path. Tomorrow will bring yesterday, the echo of a hundred empires that have come and gone before us. You want to see the future? Pick up a history book. The timeless reprise of tyranny, as always, is easy to identify. It is always accompanied by death, suffering, and the dark cloak of angry greed. That’s the fruit that such tyranny bears.
We can resuscitate our nation. We can bring it back from the brink, even now. But this will require us to stand together, suspending mutual prejudice and our own pursuits of the utopist dreams (it’s only utopia to you--that’s the whole problem with trying to force utopia on others). We must stop parroting the scripts they prepare for us and realize that few of these public servants serve us. We have to stop letting them herd our dissent into organizations they control. We have to stop assuming the options they present are the only options, especially when it comes to our elected officials. We must remember why we believe in our nation and why we believe in each other. The mind of our nation is ever-changing and diverse; but the heart of our nation is constant: it beats for true freedom, for true hope, for true equality, and we keep making slow steps forward towards that end.
Until today. Today, we were stopped cold in that pursuit. Today, our lives were indentured under the yoke of massive debt, our liberties were signed away in a frenzy of fear and corruption, and our happiness has been redefined as a credit score.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust…let us drink to the fallen nation.
Far be it for me to be under the delusion that I have all the answers to our national and global challenges. So while I have not fully scrutinized "Plan B" I encourage my readers to look at the full spectrum of thought and solutions. In that spirit I encourage you to read through "Plan B" by Lester Brown. You can actually read through of the book online through the links above. Please share your impressions about "Plan B" at my "Yahoo" discussion group which you can join for free at the following link:
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“Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse,” says Lester Brown in Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble.
“Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,” says Brown, President and Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based independent environmental research organization.
Although it is obvious that no society can survive the decline of its environmental support systems, many people are not yet convinced of the need for economic restructuring. But this is changing now that China has eclipsed the United States in the consumption of most basic resources, Brown notes in Plan B 2.0, which was produced with major funding from the Lannan Foundation and the U.N. Population Fund.
Among the basic commodities—grain and meat in the food sector, oil and coal in the energy sector, and steel in the industrial sector—China now consumes more than the United States of each of these except for oil. It consumes nearly twice as much meat (67 million tons compared with 39 million tons) and more than twice as much steel (258 million to 104 million tons).
These numbers are about total consumption. “But what if China reaches the U.S. consumption level per person?” asks Brown. “If China’s economy continues to expand at 8 percent a year, its income per person will reach the current U.S. level in 2031.
“If at that point China’s per capita resource consumption were the same as in the United States today, then its projected 1.45 billion people would consume the equivalent of two thirds of the current world grain harvest. China’s paper consumption would be double the world’s current production. There go the world’s forests.”
If China one day has three cars for every four people, U.S. style, it will have 1.1 billion cars. The whole world today has 800 million cars. To provide the roads, highways, and parking lots to accommodate such a vast fleet, China would have to pave an area equal to the land it now plants in rice. It would need 99 million barrels of oil a day. Yet the world currently produces 84 million barrels per day and may never produce much more.
The western economic model—the fossil-fuel-based, auto-centered, throwaway economy—is not going to work for China. If it does not work for China, it will not work for India, which by 2031 is projected to have a population even larger than China’s. Nor will it work for the 3 billion other people in developing countries who are also dreaming the “American dream.”
And, Brown notes, in an increasingly integrated world economy, where all countries are competing for the same oil, grain, and steel, the existing economic model will not work for industrial countries either. China is helping us see that the days of the old economy are numbered.
Sustaining our early twenty-first century global civilization now depends on shifting to a renewable energy-based, reuse/recycle economy with a diversified transport system. Business as usual—Plan A—cannot take us where we want to go. It is time for Plan B, time to build a new economy and a new world.
Plan B has three components—(1) a restructuring of the global economy so that it can sustain civilization; (2) an all-out effort to eradicate poverty, stabilize population, and restore hope in order to elicit participation of the developing countries; and (3) a systematic effort to restore natural systems.
Glimpses of the new economy can be seen in the wind farms of Western Europe, the solar rooftops of Japan, the fast-growing hybrid car fleet of the United States, the reforested mountains of South Korea, and the bicycle-friendly streets of Amsterdam. “Virtually everything we need to do to build an economy that will sustain economic progress is already being done in one or more countries,” says Brown.
“Among the new sources of energy—wind, solar cells, solar thermal, geothermal, small-scale hydro, biomass—wind is emerging as a major energy source. In Europe, which is leading the world into the wind era, some 40 million people now get their residential electricity from wind farms. The European Wind Energy Association projects that by 2020, half of the region’s population—195 million Europeans—will be getting their residential electricity from wind.
“Wind energy is growing fast for six reasons: It is abundant, cheap, inexhaustible, widely distributed, clean, and climate-benign. No other energy source has this combination of attributes.”
For the U.S. automotive fuel economy, the key to greatly reducing oil use and carbon emissions is gas-electric hybrid cars. The average new car sold in the United States last year got 22 miles to the gallon, compared with 55 miles per gallon for the Toyota Prius. If the United States decided for oil security and climate stabilization reasons to replace its entire fleet of passenger vehicles with super-efficient gas-electric hybrids over the next 10 years, gasoline use could easily be cut in half. This would involve no change in the number of cars or miles driven, only a shift to the most efficient automotive propulsion technology now available.
Beyond this, a gas-electric hybrid with an additional storage battery and a plug-in capacity would allow us to use electricity for short distance driving, such as the daily commute or grocery shopping. This could cut U.S. gasoline use by an additional 20 percent, for a total reduction of 70 percent. Then if we invest in thousands of wind farms across the country to feed cheap electricity into the grid, we could do most short-distance driving with wind energy, dramatically reducing both carbon emissions and the pressure on world oil supplies.
Using timers to recharge batteries with electricity coming from wind farms during the low demand hours between 1 and 6 a.m. costs the equivalent of 50¢-a-gallon gasoline. We have not only an inexhaustible alternative to dwindling reserves of oil, but an incredibly cheap one.
“Building an economy that will sustain economic progress requires a cooperative worldwide effort,” notes Brown. “This means eradicating poverty and stabilizing population—in effect, restoring hope among the world’s poor. Eradicating poverty accelerates the shift to smaller families. Smaller families in turn help to eradicate poverty.”
The principal line items in the budget to eradicate poverty are investments in universal primary school education; school lunch programs for the poorest of the poor; basic village-level health care, including vaccinations for childhood diseases; and reproductive health and family planning services for all the world’s women. In total, reaching these goals will take $68 billion of additional expenditures each year.
A strategy for eradicating poverty will not succeed if an economy’s environmental support systems are collapsing. Brown says, “This means putting together an earth restoration budget—one to reforest the earth, restore fisheries, eliminate overgrazing, protect biological diversity, and raise water productivity to the point where we can stabilize water tables and restore the flow of rivers. Adopted worldwide, these measures require additional expenditures of $93 billion per year.”
Combining social goals and earth restoration components into a Plan B budget means an additional annual expenditure of $161 billion. Such an investment is huge, but it is not a charitable act. It is an investment in the world in which our children will live.
“If we fail to build a new economy before decline sets in, it will not be because of a lack of fiscal resources, but rather because of obsolete priorities,” adds Brown. “The world is now spending $975 billion annually for military purposes. A large segment of the U.S. 2006 military budget of $492 billion, accounting for half of the world total, goes to the development and production of new weapon systems. Unfortunately, these weapons are of little help in curbing terrorism, nor can they reverse the deforestation of the earth or stabilize climate.
“The military threats to national security today pale beside the trends of environmental destruction and disruption that threaten the economy and thus our early twenty-first century civilization itself. New threats call for new strategies. These threats are environmental degradation, climate change, the persistence of poverty, and the loss of hope.”
The U.S. military budget is totally out of sync with these new threats. If the United States were to underwrite the entire $161 billion Plan B budget by shifting resources from the $492 billion spent on the military, it still would be spending more for military purposes than all other NATO members plus Russia and China combined.
Of all the resources needed to build an economy that will sustain economic progress, none is more scarce than time. With climate change we may be approaching the point of no return. The temptation is to reset the clock. But we cannot. Nature is the timekeeper.
It is decision time. Like earlier civilizations that got into environmental trouble, we can decide to stay with business as usual and watch our global economy decline and eventually collapse. Or we can shift to Plan B, building an economy that will sustain economic progress.
“It is hard to find the words to express the gravity of our situation and the momentous nature of the decision we are about to make,” says Brown. “How can we convey the urgency of moving quickly? Will tomorrow be too late?
“One way or another, the decision will be made by our generation. Of that there is little doubt. But it will affect life on earth for all generations to come.”
This is Denniger's assessment of what the "Trillion Dollar Corporate Bailout" is going to cost you as well as a run down on the threats utilized to pass it through both Houses and have it signed into law on Friday October 3rd, 2008.
Although I don't agree with everything in this video I commend the author for getting beyond blaming any one group (e.g., Zionists) and rather understanding that there is really a interlinking web of Global Elitists that lie behind this most recent attempt to form a New World Order.
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On December 21st 2012 the Mayan Calendar predicts that beginning of a "New Age" according to Mayan astrologers. What I have always found fascinating is that this date corresponds with the date our solar system will cross the galactic plane of the Milky Way which occurs about every 26,000 years. Of course what is so fascinating is to ponder how and if they somehow recognized this "sine wave" oscillation around the plane, of the Milky Way Galaxy, at a time when no one even had a concept of a galaxy, much less the concept of a "heliocentric" solar system.
