To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist. The old distinction between artists and scientists must vanish. Every time we teach a child correct usage of an external symbol, we must spend as much time teaching him how to fission and reassemble external grammar to communicate the internal. Timothy Leary

 PINE RIDGE

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Russell Means dies at 72; American Indian rights activist: One of the leaders of the famed 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, he helped thrust the plight of Native Americans into the national spotlight.

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Russell Means dies at 72; American Indian rights activist:  One of the leaders of the famed 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, he helped thrust the plight of Native Americans into the national spotlight.

 Dennis Banks

Living Legend and Co-Founder of the American Indian Movement

This site is an attempt to inform visitors of the incredible life, accomplishments, and future endeavors of a man that has accomplished more than most people can only dream of.

Khalil Gibran

A Poet's Voice XV

Part One


The power of charity sows deep in my heart, and I reap and gather the wheat in bundles and give them to the hungry.

My soul gives life to the grapevine and I press its bunches and give the juice to the thirsty.

Heaven fills my lamp with oil and I place it at my window to direct the stranger through the dark.

I do all these things because I live in them; and if destiny should tie my hands and prevent me from so doing, then death would be my only desire. For I am a poet, and if I cannot give, I shall refuse to receive.

Humanity rages like a tempest, but I sigh in silence for I know the storm must pass away while a sigh goes to God.

Human kinds cling to earthly things, but I seek ever to embrace the torch of love so it will purify me by its fire and sear inhumanity from my heart.

Substantial things deaden a man without suffering; love awakens him with enlivening pains.

Humans are divided into different clans and tribes, and belong to countries and towns. But I find myself a stranger to all communities and belong to no settlement. The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

Men are weak, and it is sad that they divide amongst themselves. The world is narrow and it is unwise to cleave it into kingdoms, empires, and provinces.

Human kinds unite themselves one to destroy the temples of the soul, and they join hands to build edifices for earthly bodies. I stand alone listening to the voice of hope in my deep self saying, "As love enlivens a man's heart with pain, so ignorance teaches him the way of knowledge." Pain and ignorance lead to great joy and knowledge because the Supreme Being has created nothing vain under the sun.



Part Two


I have a yearning for my beautiful country, and I love its people because of their misery. But if my people rose, stimulated by plunder and motivated by what they call "patriotic spirit" to murder, and invaded my neighbor's country, then upon the committing of any human atrocity I would hate my people and my country.

I sing the praise of my birthplace and long to see the home of my children; but if the people in that home refused to shelter and feed the needy wayfarer, I would convert my praise into anger and my longing to forgetfulness. My inner voice would say, "The house that does not comfort the need is worthy of naught by destruction."

I love my native village with some of my love for my country; and I love my country with part of my love for the earth, all of which is my country; and I love the earth will all of myself because it is the haven of humanity, the manifest spirit of God.

Humanity is the spirit of the Supreme Being on earth, and that humanity is standing amidst ruins, hiding its nakedness behind tattered rags, shedding tears upon hollow cheeks, and calling for its children with pitiful voice. But the children are busy singing their clan's anthem; they are busy sharpening the swords and cannot hear the cry of their mothers.

Humanity appeals to its people but they listen not. Were one to listen, and console a mother by wiping her tears, other would say, "He is weak, affected by sentiment."

Humanity is the spirit of the Supreme Being on earth, and that Supreme Being preaches love and good-will. But the people ridicule such teachings. The Nazarene Jesus listened, and crucifixion was his lot; Socrates heard the voice and followed it, and he too fell victim in body. The followers of The Nazarene and Socrates are the followers of Deity, and since people will not kill them, they deride them, saying, "Ridicule is more bitter than killing."

Jerusalem could not kill The Nazarene, nor Athens Socrates; they are living yet and shall live eternally. Ridicule cannot triumph over the followers of Deity. They live and grow forever.



Part Three


Thou art my brother because you are a human, and we both are sons of one Holy Spirit; we are equal and made of the same earth.

You are here as my companion along the path of life, and my aid in understanding the meaning of hidden Truth. You are a human, and, that fact sufficing, I love you as a brother. You may speak of me as you choose, for Tomorrow shall take you away and will use your talk as evidence for his judgment, and you shall receive justice.

You may deprive me of whatever I possess, for my greed instigated the amassing of wealth and you are entitled to my lot if it will satisfy you.

You may do unto me whatever you wish, but you shall not be able to touch my Truth.

You may shed my blood and burn my body, but you cannot kill or hurt my spirit.

You may tie my hands with chains and my feet with shackles, and put me in the dark prison, but who shall not enslave my thinking, for it is free, like the breeze in the spacious sky.

You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all.

I love you for your Truth, derived from your knowledge; that Truth which I cannot see because of my ignorance. But I respect it as a divine thing, for it is the deed of the spirit. Your Truth shall meet my Truth in the coming world and blend together like the fragrance of flowers and becoming one whole and eternal Truth, perpetuating and living in the eternity of Love and Beauty.

I love you because you are weak before the strong oppressor, and poor before the greedy rich. For these reasons I shed tears and comfort you; and from behind my tears I see you embraced in the arms of Justice, smiling and forgiving your persecutors. You are my brother and I love you.



Part Four


You are my brother, but why are you quarreling with me? Why do you invade my country and try to subjugate me for the sake of pleasing those who are seeking glory and authority?

Why do you leave your wife and children and follow Death to the distant land for the sake of those who buy glory with your blood, and high honor with your mother's tears?

Is it an honor for a man to kill his brother man? If you deem it an honor, let it be an act of worship, and erect a temple to Cain who slew his brother Abel.

Is self-preservation the first law of Nature? Why, then, does Greed urge you to self-sacrifice in order only to achieve his aim in hurting your brothers? Beware, my brother, of the leader who says, "Love of existence obliges us to deprive the people of their rights!" I say unto you but this: protecting others' rights is the noblest and most beautiful human act; if my existence requires that I kill others, then death is more honorable to me, and if I cannot find someone to kill me for the protection of my honor, I will not hesitate to take my life by my own hands for the sake of Eternity before Eternity comes.

Selfishness, my brother, is the cause of blind superiority, and superiority creates clanship, and clanship creates authority which leads to discord and subjugation.

The soul believes in the power of knowledge and justice over dark ignorance; it denies the authority that supplies the swords to defend and strengthen ignorance and oppression - that authority which destroyed Babylon and shook the foundation of Jerusalem and left Rome in ruins. It is that which made people call criminals great mean; made writers respect their names; made historians relate the stories of their inhumanity in manner of praise.

The only authority I obey is the knowledge of guarding and acquiescing in the Natural Law of Justice.

What justice does authority display when it kills the killer? When it imprisons the robber? When it descends on a neighborhood country and slays its people? What does justice think of the authority under which a killer punishes the one who kills, and a thief sentences the one who steals?

You are my brother, and I love you; and Love is justice with its full intensity and dignity. If justice did not support my love for you, regardless of your tribe and community, I would be a deceiver concealing the ugliness of selfishness behind the outer garment of pure love.



Conclusion


My soul is my friend who consoles me in misery and distress of life. He who does not befriend his soul is an enemy of humanity, and he who does not find human guidance within himself will perish desperately. Life emerges from within, and derives not from environs.

I came to say a word and I shall say it now. But if death prevents its uttering, it will be said tomorrow, for tomorrow never leaves a secret in the book of eternity.

I came to live in the glory of love and the light of beauty, which are the reflections of God. I am here living, and the people are unable to exile me from the domain of life for they know I will live in death. If they pluck my eyes I will hearken to the murmers of love and the songs of beauty.

If they close my ears I will enjoy the touch of the breeze mixed with the incebse of love and the fragrance of beauty.

If they place me in a vacuum, I will live together with my soul, the child of love and beauty.

I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed by tomorrow to the people.

What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by many hearts

Khalil Gibran
Crazy Horse

!!Keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons!!

"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......................

Hypocrisy And The Shooting of Malala

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Dear friends,

Fourteen-year-old Malala was shot by the Taliban for supporting girls' education. We can help make her dream come true by calling on her government to roll out funding to encourage all Pakistani families to send their girls to school. Click below to give girls' education a fighting chance:

Malala has dedicated her childhood to championing education for girls like her in Pakistan. As she lies in a hospital bed, a tragic victim of Taliban gunmen, let's help make her dream come true.

One part of Pakistan has already started a successful programme of paying families which send their girls to school regularly. But in Malala's province the government is dragging its feet. Senior politicians have offered Malala help, and if we act now we can get them to commit to rolling this out nationwide.

Before the media spotlight moves on, let's raise our voices to demand that the government announces funding for all Pakistani girls who attend school. In days the UN Education Envoy will meet Pakistan's President Zardari and he says hand delivering 1 million signatures will strengthen his case. Sign and forward this email, and let's help make Malala's dream come true:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/malalahopenew/?binitdb&v=18768

North-west Pakistan has been in the grip of the Taliban since 2007 when they systematically started burning and destroying girls’ schools. The Taliban destroyed 401 schools in Swat between 2001 and 2009 -- 70% of them were girls' schools. Malala drew the world’s attention to the Taliban’s reign of terror, when she started writing a blog in Urdu for the BBC. Her writing is a crucial record of the devastating consequences of extremism on the lives of ordinary Pakistanis.

Pakistan's constitution says girls should be educated alongside boys, and the government has the resources to make it happen. But politicians have ignored that for years, influenced by extremist religious groups, and now, only 29% of girls attend secondary school. Study after study has shown the positive impact on personal and national income when girls are educated.

Let’s turn this shock and horror at the Taliban’s attack on a young girl into a wave of international pressure that forces Pakistan to address girls’ education. Click below to stand with Malala and support a massive girls’ education campaign in Pakistan, backed by resources, security, and most importantly, the will to fight the extremists who tear down Pakistan:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/malalahopenew/?binitdb&v=18768

Let’s come together and stand in solidarity with a brave, young activist, who is showing the world how one little schoolgirl can stand up to armed and dangerous extremists.

With hope and determination,

Emma, Alaphia, Alex, Ricken, Ari, Michelle, Wissam, Rewan and the rest of the Avaaz team


SOURCES

Pakistan girl shot over activism in Swat Valley, claims Taliban (The Guardian):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/09/pakistan-girl-shot-activism-swat-taliban

Malala Yousafzai: Pakistan bullet surgery ‘successful’ (BBC):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19893309

Pakistan: The schoolgirl the Taliban tried to kill (The Daily Beast):
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/09/pakistan-the-schoolgirl-the-taliban-tried-to-kill.html

Pakistan’s army is in the mood for a change (FT, Ahmed Rashid):
http://blogs.ft.com/the-a-list/2012/08/15/pakistan-army-is-in-the-mood-for-a-change-of-tack/#axzz28vFUsTZD

Pakistan rebuilds its education network after Taliban are driven out of Swat (The Guardian):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/jun/26/pakistan-education-swat-valley-taliban

State of Education in Pakistan (Pakistan Today):
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/04/28/comment/editors-mail/lack-of-education-is-adversely-affecting-girls/

Why Gender Equality in Basic Education in Pakistan? (UNESCO):
http://unesco.org.pk/education/documents/publications/Why%20Gender%20Equality%20in%20Basic%20Education%20in%20Pakistan.pdf

Nothing should stand in the way of a girl's right to education.

Dear L.J., Armed gunmen board your school bus and ask for you by name. All you want is an education. And now your life hangs in the balance. Today, Malala Yousufzai's condition is still critical, but improving. In fact, she's been transferred to a hospital in the UK for further medical treatment. The 14-year-old Pakistani girl was shot in the head last week by the Taliban in retaliation for promoting education for girls. Two fellow students, Shazia Ramzan and Kainat Ahmed, were also injured in the attack. Malala - along with every girl on that bus - is a face of courage. Send a message of support to Malala and all of her schoolmates. We will make sure that your messages get to Malala's school so that girls in Pakistan know that we stand with them as they pursue their human right to an education. The horrors that took place on the school bus last Tuesday are a child's worst nightmare. Sadly, this tragic story may not be over yet - the Taliban has repeated its vow to kill Malala. But Malala's story has struck a powerful chord. People in Pakistan and throughout the world are staging rallies and speaking out in support of Malala and the rights she was targeted for defending. Wish Malala and her friends a speedy recovery. Wish that Malala's dream for girls everywhere to have equal access to education becomes a reality. There is one more thing that you can do right now to protect women and girls like Malala from violence and discrimination. Because the U.S. has such a critical role to play in protecting women and girls in Taliban-influenced regions in Pakistan and Afghanistan, we must press U.S. officials to get at the root of what is being done to protect women and girls, like Malala, who are trying to claim their human rights. Tomorrow night's Presidential debate will discuss U.S. foreign policy, and we anticipate that the discussion will likely touch on the situations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We all know that human rights - and stories like Malala's - are rarely mentioned in the debates, and at best given lip service. More often than not, they're altogether absent from the discussion. Submit this question via Twitter to the debate moderator, CNN's Candy Crowley, and push for a real commitment to women's and girls' human rights so that no one ever has to experience Malala's real life nightmare ever again: Q for US Pres Candidates: What steps are needed to end threat of Taliban to safety/rights of women? @crowleyCNN #Malala Please continue to keep Malala and her schoolmates in your thoughts and her message in your hearts. Education is a human right. End this nightmare by helping Malala's dream come true. Sincerely, Cristina M. Finch Program Director Women's Human Rights Amnesty International USA

A girl's fight for education 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai was shot by Taliban gunmen on a school bus after being targeted for her outspoken campaign for girls' education. Send a message of support to Malala and her schoolmates.

Hypocrisy And The Shooting of Malala Yousafzai

By Shaik Zakeer Hussain

October 16, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - The shooting of 14 year old Malala Yousafzai has shocked the world, and shocking it should be, as children don’t deserve such ruthlessness.

What Malala stood for, and what she was fighting against, is not my concern at the moment, for such concerns, whether right or wrong, have already been addressed by a large number of so-called advocates for Human rights and justice. I am not even concerned in knowing who actually tried to kill her, for I as a Muslim do not condone such an act. What I am really concerned about is the hypocritical stance taken by some of the voices who are standing up for Malala today.

Two days after the activist girl was shot, American singer Madonna, dedicated a song for her, and said, “This made me cry. The 14-year-old schoolgirl who wrote a blog about going to school. The Taliban stopped her bus and shot her. Do you realise how sick that is?” Now whether Taliban is responsible for this act or not, I am not sure, but why doesn’t Madonna cry when drone attacks launched by her country kill hundreds of innocent men, women and children every day in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen? The children killed here, also wanted to go to schools, they wanted to live too.  Doesn’t she realises how sick that is?

UNICEF tweeted on October 11 that, “Today our thoughts are with Malala Yousafzai, the inspirational 14-year-old activist for girls’ rights.”  What made this organisation for children rights remain mum, when 16 year old Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki , the innocent son of Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed by the United States, when he was having barbecue with his cousin and friends?

What moral rights do countries like UK, USA, and their warmongering allies have, to condemn this shooting, when their hands are coloured with the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Iraq?

More than half a million children died due to U.S. sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s, and continue to do so till today. When asked whether these killings were worth the price, the then U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, said ’We think the price is worth it’. And the result? Ms. Albright got the Honorary Chair for the World Justice Project for this audacity of her’s, and her victims got Metal Contamination, and Birth Defects as lullabies to go to sleep.

The question we should all be asking is does the blood of children become worthless, when the super-power of the world does it, and is sacred when its adversaries allegedly do it? I don’t think so.

Shaik Zakeer Hussain is an independent writer and blogger based in India. He can be reached at: alhittin@gmail.com

 

.......given the history false flag operations have employed in the past by the u.s. this tragic incident needs closer scrutiny.  Such acts could just be what warmongers need to get the public on board. caveat emptor!! 

 kosmicdebris

Columbus doesn’t deserve a holiday any more than Hitler

 In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.….Voltaire (1764)

 
Columbus’s Road to Perdition
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it. A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they’re leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people. Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. You can close your eyes to reality but not to truth.

I am not whining when I speak of the indigenous injustice, I see the irony of the decline, and believe every American must fully understand where we came from so that we can more painfully appreciate what is going to happen next; and accept with a little grace and humility the hope of progress combating evil for the good of all future outcomes. 

This next very persuasive essay was written by an eight grade public school student gleaned from Mass. School district curriculum example. Taught 1985-95.…persuasive speech  is no longer offered, was dumped into a rhetoric sub-category, shushsshhssh. Sense there is no defense against historical records verses the truth. Only the victors write the endings to their story. War is not about who is right only who is left. The strategy is simple, do not teach the teachers to teach this stuff.  Forgotten., minor detail of history books omitted, ethnic cleansing 90 percent of native population biologically.  

Native Americans again are ready to take care of their own immigration policies, why would anyone object, if it was any of anyone’s, but themselves, business anyway. Let people be and no one will conspire to take us over. M-kay…the Spanish brought us conquistadors to deal with, not much has changed in 2500 years in looking for gold under the banner of the righteous…crown, cross equals creed. Formula for evil.

Columbus’s Road to Perdition…“In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” Taken from a poem written about Columbus’s voyage from Spain to America, it is a true enough statement. As for the rest of the poem, chances are, that most of what is said of Columbus is false, or “glossed over”, for this is the way of victors and Columbus was certainly named a victor. Victors write history and if history says it is so for long enough, the future will believe them. This is the case with Columbus’s story. So many gruesome, vicious things went on during Columbus and his follower’s time that our ancestors had to censor most of the details, just erase them in order to come up with a story fit to tell in the classroom. So now most of us know a story 95% hoax, absolute fiction. When in truth, Columbus doesn’t deserve a holiday any more than Hitler. (see some lies)

Through the years a story fit to tell Americans has evolved, a story told of a man named Columbus, who did great exploring and made great discoveries. And using his excellent navigational skills came upon America, where native Indians tried to viciously and savagely drive him back and take his provisions. But Columbus triumphed and conquered the Indians and in doing so, paved the road to opportunity for our future settlers.

This story is both untrue and offending, for in true retrospect the native people that Columbus came upon were neither savage nor vicious, but it was Columbus who most deserves the title. And he did not so valiantly fight the natives (Tainos). He slaughtered, raped, tortured, enslaved and mutilated them with many times more force than was necessary, all for the love and obsession of gold (something that was very rare in the natives lands).

As for his excellent navigational skills, Columbus didn’t even land in America. He landed amongst a group of islands off the coast of North America. And certainly not because he intended to, Columbus had originally meant to find a shorter means of travel by sea from Spain to the Indies. But he was blown off course during a storm. And when he and his three ships landed in the midst of a group of islands off the coast of North America he thought himself to be off the coast of India. He had not factored in the fact that 2 whole continents lay in his way. The information to prove these facts true can be found in books and movies such as 500 Nations and “Rethinking Columbus”.

I have nothing better to say of Columbus’s “discoveries” for as you now know, when he ran into the group of islands there were already natives there, and I’m sure that they were well aware and proud of their civilized cities and their way of living. The Taino’s for example had lived quietly and peacefully for hundreds of years before Columbus came and massacred their villages and stole their land and people. In fact all the islands and later continents that Columbus “discovered” already had inhabitants. Yet none of these inhabitants were treated with courtesy.

During Columbus and his followers rein of terror, natives’ hands were cut off if they did not bring the Spaniards enough gold. Entire villages were burned to the ground and millions died. Whether on their way back to Spain to be sold as slaves or at the hands of the Spaniards themselves.

Several would rather kill themselves than live to work or die at the hands of their brutal captors.

By the time Columbus had died only a handful of the natives remained, and the road to perdition had been paved, not the road to opportunity.

“Within 100 years of contact with European and American settlers the Native American population was reduced by 90%, (Howard Zenn.)

So, can you now believe that Columbus deserves his holiday? Do you still think he deserves his day of worship? My grandfather was of Inca heritage, and most of that civilization was wiped out by Spanish conquistadors following in Columbus’s footsteps.

If not for Columbus I may have gotten to know more of my history. I should only hope that ones conscience and compassion would make you realize that no man shape or form that causes this much pain and suffering to millions of innocent people deserves to have his name connected with anything more than genocide. Why not celebrate the natives? If anyone should be remembered because of those years it is the innocent lives that were left in ruin. 

Reconsider Columbus Day

By Peter Rothberg

If you'd like to know the true story about Christopher Columbus, please read on. But I warn you, it's not for the faint of heart.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32685.htm

 The Moral:
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.”

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