"When you invite people to think, you are inviting revolution"

"It is the minorities who have made the history of this world. It is the few who have had the courage to take their places at the front; who have been true enough to themselves to speak the truth that was in them; who have dared oppose the established order of things; who have espoused the cause of the suffering, struggling poor; who have upheld without regard to personal consequences the cause of freedom and righteousness. It is they, the heroic, self-sacrificing few who have made the history of the race and who have paved the way from barbarism to civilization. The many prefer to remain upon the popular side."  Eugene Debs

"When you invite people to think, you are inviting revolution" -  Ivana Gabara  
  

"When the people liberate their own minds and take a hard clear look at what the 1% is doing and what the 99% should be doing, then serious stuff begins to happen." - Michael Parenti

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If the "War On Drugs" has Failed, is Legalization the Answer?
their names (members of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition): The "War on Drugs" helped create a situation where from gangs, to police to lawyers to jails, there is massive amounts of money to be made in this never-ending "war"
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Greek Society Unravels Under Austerity Measures
Costas Lapavitsas: Merkel's visit to Greece shows Eurozone leadership don't want to push Greece out, but situation is explosive as people are furious at austerity measures
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Black Financial and Fraud Report
Bill Black: Romney's Secret Plan; the 1% Now Have More Wealth than the bottom 90%
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EndGame HQ full length version=incrementally depopulating the world through eugenics!!!

Indigenous Peoples speak out against California’s carbon offsets scheme: “You cannot trade pollution for nature”

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 05:42 PM PDT

An international delegation of indigenous leaders from Brazil, Mexico and Ecuador is currently in California to oppose California’s proposed carbon offset scheme. The scheme could allow companies in California to meet limits on greenhouse gas emissions by buying carbon credits rather than reducing pollution at home.
The recent meeting of the Governor’s Climate [...]

Turkey Leads US-sponsored Military Encirclement of Syria

By Chris Marsden

Turkey is leading the way, using the pretext of stray mortar fire from Syria that killed five civilians to legitimise the deployment of 250 tanks, jets, helicopter gunships, troops, artillery emplacements and antiaircraft batteries on the border.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32785.htm 

No Panic in Iran Despite Currency Collapse, International Sanctions

By Gwynne Dyer

Since stopping the enrichment program would not end the sanctions, why would the Iranian government even consider doing so?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32788.htm 

Toward Barbarism: US Imperialism Unleashed

By Ben Schreine

With signs of a global economic downturn mounting, US aggression across the Middle East and North Africa ratchets up.  Once again, US imperialism stands poised to open the gates of Hell.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32786.htm 

Afghanistan: Video Shows Drunk, Stoned US Defense Contractors

Video

The contractor, Virginia-based Jorge Scientific, has won almost $1 billion in U.S. government contracts.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32780.htm 

David Hicks Book Banned In The USA?
Has the US Banned the Autobiography of a Former Guantanamo Prisoner?

By Richard Edmondson

People might remember the name David Hicks. He is an Australian who was held prisoner at Guantanamo Bay from 2001 until 2007.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32787.htm 

FBI Thwarts Dumbass Terrorist - After Helping Him, of Course

By Scott Shackford

The FBI has a stellar reputation for creating terrorist activities to thwart, organizing plans and pushing hapless goons along for the ride before arresting them.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32781.htm 

Post Election Bombs

By Linh Dinh

To keep this edge, now tied to its very economic survival, Uncle Sam must stoke tension worldwide.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32779.htm 

Progressives: In Swing States, Vote for Obama

By Daniel Ellsberg

It is urgently important to prevent a Republican administration under Romney/Ryan from taking office in January 2013.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32782.htm 

Al Jazeera to Air Opposition Presidential Debate Amidst US Black-out

By Mark Wachtler

US media outlets continues to enlist a strict media black-out of independent and opposition party candidates and will not air the otherwise widely-viewed event.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32784.htm 

Heather Brooke: My Battle to Expose Government Corruption

TED Video

Our leaders need to be held accountable: Brooke uncovered the British Parliamentary financial expenses that led to a major political scandal in 2009. She urges us to ask our leaders questions through platforms like Freedom of Information requests.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32783.htm 

Get The Military Out Of Our Public Schools

By Tim Martin

I'm not your typical tree-hugging, NPR listening, hippy-loving liberal.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32789.htm 

Syria air strikes on rebel town kill 44:  At least 44 people were killed in air strikes on the Syrian rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan on Thursday, rescue workers told an AFP journalist at the scene.
http://is.gd/BywAhp 

Syrian rebels may have acquired surface-to-air missiles:  France's foreign minister has hinted that Syrian rebels have acquired surface-to-air missiles, forcing President Bashar al-Assad's jet fighters to "fly extremely high".
http://is.gd/09C8HC 

KSA, Qatar clash over Syria... Salafists VS Muslim Brotherhood:  The French newspaper of the Lé Figaro has revealed in a report published on its page that a clash has been fired out between Qatar and Saudi Arabia to control on the militants in Syria.
http://www.breakingnews.sy/en/article/9316.html 

Syrian rebels said to cut deals for arms from extremists:  "Even rebels we've identified as somebody we could work with have partnered with jihadists, because they have their own sources of money and weapons," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said in an interview.
http://is.gd/8xQ0Uk 

French sneak cash to Syrians in direct aid program:  French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius met Wednesday with representatives of about 20 countries to share details about the secret French aid program and encourage others to join it. Five people from local Syrian revolutionary groups that have received the secret funds also attended
http://is.gd/yxsEqS 

Us troops in Israel, Jordan and Iraq. Strange?  American Troops Arrive in Israel for "Defense" Drill:
The first of 1,000 United States troops have begun to arrive in Israel to take part in a joint missile-defense exercise, which the lead American planner described on Wednesday as the largest in the history of the two countries' relationship and a testament to the strength of their military ties.
http://is.gd/YVeHNW 

Turkey 'Admits' Russian/Syria Air Cargo Legal:  "The Turkish side does not in principle question the legitimacy of the cargo that was seized but is unhappy with the transportation notification procedure," spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said. "Our Turkish partners have now effectively retracted the initial allegations that there was ammunition on board," he added
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20121018/176726456.html 

Meqdad warns Turkey against violating Syrian sovereignty:
Syria's Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Faisal Meqdad said in comments Thursday his government would respond to any Turkish violations of his country's sovereignty.
http://is.gd/pOZ3Eh 

Turkish warplanes penetrate Iraq/Kurdistan's airspace and bomb some villages. :  Turkish warplanes penetrated the airspaces of the Kurdistan region and bombed a number of villages in Amedee area of Dohuk governorate.
http://is.gd/AKSbci 

Iraq Intends to Deploy Troops in North of Country to Avoid Turkish Army's Military Operations:
Iraq urges the Kurdish autonomy to approve the deployment of troops on the border with Turkey to prevent the Turkish troops' entering Iraq, as well as to stop air strikes on the country against the militants of Kurdistan Workers' Party
http://is.gd/UnipSk 

12 Kurdish "rebels" killed in clashes:
Turkey's state-run news agency says security forces have killed 12 Kurdish rebels in clashes in the southeast, raising the two-day death toll in the fighting to 18.
http://is.gd/li4yJ5 

Eleven killed in Libya: Clashes between Libyan authorities and "Gaddafi loyalists" have left 11 dead during the siege of anti-regime bastion Bani Walid. Libyan authorities continue to struggle against multiple militia groups in the midst of growing political disarray.
http://rt.com/news/libya-militias-bani-walid-677/

US kills nine people in Yemen : -  Nine "suspected" al Qaeda militants were killed in what a local security source and residents said was a U.S. drone attack on a farmhouse outside a town in southern Yemen
http://is.gd/i8tXwV 

8 "militants" killed in NW Pakistan:  At least eight militants were killed, seven others injured and four militant hideouts destroyed when the Pakistani military launched an air strike over militant hides in the country's northwest tribal area of Khyber Agency, reported local TV on Thursday.
http://is.gd/nohN67 

114,000 US contractors active in Afghan war:  As of July, nearly 114,000 contractors were working for the US Defense Department in Afghanistan, compared to the 90,000 American troops in the country at the time, AFP reported Thursday, quoting "official statistics."
http://is.gd/5ZkFuv 

U.S. Navy, Allies Can't Find Own Sea Mines Planted in Key Exercise:  This outcome of the highly publicized military drills - not publicly known until now - underscores how difficult it may be for the United States and its partners to detect and incapacitate waterborne explosive devices that Iran has threatened to plant if its nuclear facilities come under attack.
http://is.gd/fB1PH7 

For first time, Palestinians in Gaza fire missile at Israeli Air Force helicopter:  IDF confirms that a Soviet-made Strela (SA-7) anti-aircraft missile was fired at a helicopter last week.
http://is.gd/G2B4Ub 

Libyan weapons flooding Gaza, Israeli official says: :  A top Israeli defense official says Gaza is being flooded with sophisticated weapons from Libya and that the anti-aircraft missile fired last week at an Israeli helicopter likely originated there.
http://is.gd/BoK279 

US Jews cancel talks with Protestants over Israel:
The Jewish groups announced their decision in response to a request by several mainline Protestant leaders for Congress to re-evaluate U.S. military aid to the Jewish state.
http://is.gd/8R371x 

Bahrain detains 4 for alleged anti-king tweets:  Bahrain has detained four people for defaming the island's king with Twitter posts in a case that is likely to test the limits of expression in the violence-wracked Gulf nation.
http://is.gd/qDXU08 

Revealed: Canberra shared intel on Assange with Washington:  WikiLeaks and Julian Assange have been the subject of intelligence exchanges between Australia and the United States for more than two years, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has revealed.
http://is.gd/mIrPGh 

Manssor Arbabsiar pleads guilty to plotting to kill Saudi Arabian envoy:  Iranian American, 58, enters guilty pleas at US court in Manhattan and claims Iranian army was involved in the plot. Defense lawyers say Arbabsiar suffers from bipolar disorder.
http://is.gd/47VK2o 

Manssor Arbabsiar: What Kind of Custody Is It When You Secretly Hold an American at a Military Base?:  For the 12 day period when he was being secretly interrogated without a lawyer, he was being held at a military base.
http://www.emptywheel.net/tag/manssor-arbabsiar/ 

Entrapment?
New York Federal Reserve bomb plot foiled:  Authorities emphasized that the plot never posed an actual risk. However, they claimed the case demonstrated the value of using sting operations to neutralize young extremists eager to harm Americans
http://is.gd/rhZc9m 

Bangladesh father denies son involved in New York bomb plot:  "The intelligence of the USA is playing with a mere boy whom we sent for higher study. The allegation against my son is not true at all. He could not even drive a car. How was he caught with a van?"
http://is.gd/6HXoIw 

Policing Dissent:  Boston Police Department are collecting and keeping information about constitutionally protected speech and political activity.
http://aclum.org/policing_dissent 

Appeals court rules Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional:  A U.S. appeals court in New York on Thursday ruled that a U.S. law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman unconstitutionally denies federal benefits to lawfully married same-sex couples.
http://is.gd/zGV2qi 

Mitt Romney debates himself: Video -  This video is a reminder that no matter what Mitt Romney says he believes, you can be pretty damn sure that not too long ago he said that he believed the exact opposite.
http://is.gd/JQvXnh 

Petrol bombs vs teargas: Thousands across Greece protest austerity measures:  Youths have clashed with the Athens police force, pelting officers with stones and petrol bombs during an anti-austerity march. More than 40,000 have taken to the streets in Greece in a 24-hour strike against wage and pension cuts.
http://rt.com/news/athens-greece-police-clash-706/ 

UK employment hits all-time high:  More people are in employment in the UK than at any time since records began in 1971, rising to nearly 30m for June to August, according to official Government data.
http://is.gd/yrczn0 

More gloom for Britain's High Streets as household retail names close 32 stores a DAY over the summer:  The figures will raise the spectre of yet more urban centres becoming 'ghost towns' as shoppers cut spending during the recession and switch to shopping online.
http://is.gd/jdMFCb 

Paul Tucker: 'worst may still be ahead' for UK banks:  The "worst may still be ahead" for Britain's banking sector, according to the Bank of England's deputy governor, as he warned that bank balance sheets were still not strong enough to withstand the "end-of-the-world risks" that still existed.
http://is.gd/hmR1aE 

Jobless claims take big jump in latest week:  The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits leapt to the highest level in four months in the latest week, erasing the large drop reported last week and then some.
http://is.gd/EJmG5Z 

U.S. to Get Downgraded Amid Fiscal 'Theater,' Pimco Says:  The sovereign credit rating of the U.S. will be cut as "fiscal theater" plays out in the world's biggest economy, according to Pacific Investment Management Co., which runs the world's largest bond fund.
http://is.gd/lPHnKR 

Walmart Strikes: More Workers Join Fight In Oklahoma, Claim Intimidation:
The wave of organized Walmart strikes that hit 12 states last week has now inspired more of the company's employees to take up the cause.
http://is.gd/M5ZFKm 

Fear Itself
by SurvivingSurvivalism.com

If we were to pinpoint the one pervasive emotion in society today, it would be fear. People all around you are fearful of almost everything. They fear the police. They fear the IRS, ATF, TSA and all the other “alphabet police”. They fear losing their job. They fear loosing their house. They fear their city or town government. And they fear the mother of them all – fear of continuing life without enough money to maintain their current lifestyle (or at least the one the remember from a decade ago). Most people rationalize these fears as normal because “everyone has them”.

We are trained from a very early age to act out of fear. We fear our teachers wrath, so we do our homework. We fear clergymen, for they decide if we go to heaven or hell, so we say all the right prayers. We fear older children who may bully us so we cross the street to avoid them. Later on in life we fear the cost and hassle of a ticket, so we fasten our seatbelts. We fear losing our house so we work in a job that means nothing, offers us no personal satisfaction other than just enough money to keep us trying to reach the carrot on the stick.

Try this experiment... list all your obligations for the next 30 days – work, social and financial – then place a star beside those that cause you any concern (fear). Most people who do this discover there are multiple things in their immediate lives that cause them fear.

Today, in 2012, there is plenty outside of our daily lives to fear: Will the world end on December 21^st? Will WWIII start in Iran? Will the economy collapse? Will the poles shift position? Will the sun (or another country) send an EMP that knocks out the electrical grid? Will martial law be implemented? Have we foolishly given the President of the United States so much power that he can become a dictator? Will food supplies run out? Will the weather continue to be abnormal? Will chemtrails ultimately poison us? Will GMO crops take over all others?

Are you scared yet?

Many of these fears are constantly and purposely reinforced by what I like to call “the pop culture”. Television is the greatest purveyor of fear, usually by embedding feelings of inadequacy. I recently read that the average American watches 34 hours and 39 minutes of TV per week. That's a good deal more than it would take to participate in a college course. Like the college course, you are being instructed and trained by the TV. Edward Bernaise coined the term “television programming” and his rationale was crystal clear – television was designed to program people into becoming happy consumers. These happy consumers are being motivated to purchase garbage by an external force that exploits feelings of inadequacy. Every time we watch a commercial that shows the handsome man with a real “babe” sitting next to him in his shiny new car, in our minds we feel inadequate for not having a new car, too. These feelings of inadequacy open the door to fear, especially when we are given nothing of real value to replace those desires.

Fear is the toolbox of “the powers that be” (TPTB). Fear is the lowest vibration humans can be affected by or give off. It impedes our path to higher (vibratory) levels of consciousness and ascension as human beings. People who live in a constant state of fear are very manipulatable. TPTB understand that if they can make people fearful, they can make them do anything.

It is fear – manipulated fear – that makes us compliantly stand in line to be groped before embarking on a plane, regardless of the fact that no terrorist plot has ever been discovered nor stopped by such action! Although some who suffer through the TSA's groping express anger, the real motivation for compliance is fear.

The manipulators, TPTB, are fostering fear of everything. The intensification of this fear began as a full-frontal assault in the days immediately after 9-11. It was fear that caused Americans to lay down – not once, not twice, but 3 times – and approve and abide by the Patriot Act and now NDAA. It was fear, not patriotism that caused many of us to cheer the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. It is manipulated fear that allows a once free society to accept such a campaign such as “see something/say something” – fear your neighbors, fear those who think the Constitution was a pretty good document before it was overruled by executive orders, fear those who are not dependent on “the system” for their lives, fear those who have a different opinion than you do. It is fear that keeps us from opening our mouths and saying “No” to those actions that we know are not right.

TPTB know this music very well and play it long and hard for all it's worth. They are congratulating themselves, patting each other on the back for causing 350 million people to be so fearful that they consistently act against their own self-interest – and against the last vestiges of freedom. Their jubilation is caused by knowing that 99.9% of you are easily controllable and predictable. Hitler's “final solution” required countless numbers of troops, gestapo and SS to carry it out. Today it is done with a TV ad campaign, shown in the aisles of Wal-Mart. Today TPTB brag that most will walk into what they know is their execution without even having to be told the lie that they are going being de-loused.

How do we overcome this fear that has been instilled in us? When I was a child and afraid of lightening and thunder, my mother go out the encyclopedia and we read about thunderstorms, about how the lightening was 1 mile away for every 5 second delay before hearing the thunder. I was never afraid of a thunder storm again.

Look at the reality of that which you fear. Do we need to fear Al-qaeda because of 9-11 to the point of fearing any Muslim person? It wasn't they who planned it out, they were simply to stooges used to perpetrate an evil action against 3000 innocent Americans, which action was at its essence an excuse to take Americans' freedoms away. There has been no secondary attack in the 11 years since that horrific event. If they wanted to destroy us, wouldn't they attack when we were still reeling from the first one?

Do we need to fear a neighbor who might be having an exercised conversation on his cellphone in a Wal-Mart to the point of calling in a SWAT team? Not if we take the time to take a walk passed our own house to our neighbor's to introduce ourselves and thereby learn who he or she is.

Do we need to fear an 83 year old grandmother taking her final flight to see her grandchildren to the point of humiliating her before allowing her on a plane? Or a 4 year old child screaming in terror? Or a business executive? Or YOU?  What do they have to fear from you that they need to grab your genitals as you run the gauntlet of TSA “agents”, wherever they set up shop?

The truth is, they do fear you. They fear that too many of us are waking up, thinking for ourselves and replacing that fear with self-determination. TPTB fear anyone who claims their own birthright to live the life they choose that does not harm another, without fear. They need you to fear them, or their plans won't work. You can't control 6 billion people with a whip, but you can control them with fear. It has worked since the days of Nimrod, who convinced his people to store all their grain in his grain bin to keep it safe from imagined attackers “lurking” outside the city walls.

Shed the fear. Be kind to each other. Help each other. Love each other. These actions leave less and less room for fear to take hold of you. If this is a new concept for you, start small. Start with your family, expand it to your co-workers, and then to people you don't even know. Once you feel how good it is to not live in fear, it may become a habit. And wouldn't that foil their plans?

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.......................keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons..........

...................kosmicdebris......................