mystrangemind.com: June 2006

Friday, June 30, 2006

Like a dinosaur, US economy heads to extinction because of excessive indebtedness

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source: pravada.ru

Today the US economy is often compared with a dinosaur, because it is the next largest economy in the world and almost as large as that of the six other members of the Group of Seven combined.

Contrary to what we used to believe, leviathans like the diplodocus were not exactly sloths. It is now thought that they had the strength to stand on their hind legs in order to reach food at the top of trees. They may even have been able to run rather than merely plod. But it seems reasonable to assume that their reaction times were slow; it was a very long way from the diplodocus's tail to its brain. If a predator sank its fangs into that tail, it might have taken the diplodocus a few moments to feel the pain.

The big question about the dinosaurs is, of course, What caused their extinction? Why were so many species unable to evolve in response to environmental changes? The most common explanation is that a very sudden event, like a meteor's impact, gave the dinosaurs too little time to evolve and provided smaller and more dynamic life forms with an opportunity to take over.

An analogous question for economists is whether the United States is capable of evolving out of its present excessive indebtedness. Or could the global economic environment change so drastically as to threaten, if not extinction, then at least decline relative to smaller, more dynamic economies?

When the National Debt clock in Times Square was turned on in 1989, the federal debt amounted to around $2.7 trillion. Eleven years later, on Sept. 7, 2000, the clock read: "Our national debt: $5,676,989,904,887. Your family share: $73,733." That's when the clock was turned off, because, in those innocent days, it seemed as if the $5.6 trillion debt was set to decline, perhaps to disappear altogether. On that same date, CNN reported, "Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore . . . outlined a plan that he says would eliminate the debt by 2012." The proposal was uncontroversial. Economic advisers to the Republican candidate, George W. Bush, were said to have "agreed with the principle of paying down the debt," but their candidate had "not committed to a specific date for eliminating it."

That should have set the alarm bells ringing. ( more... )

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Breathing

by Shunryu Suzuki

When we inhale, the air comes into the inner world. When we exhale, the air goes out to the outer world. The inner world is limitless, and the outer world is also limitless. We say “inner world” or “outer world,” but actually there is just one whole world. In this limitless world, our throat is like a swinging door. The air comes in and goes out like a swinging door. The air comes in and goes out like someone passing through a swinging door. If you think, “I breathe,” the “I” is extra. There is no you to say “I.” What we call “I” is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. It just moves; that is all. When your mind is pure and calm enough to follow this movement, there is nothing: no “I,” no world, no mind nor body; just a swinging door….

Tozan, a famous Zen master, said, “The blue mountain is the father of the white cloud. The white cloud is the son of the blue mountain. All day long they depend on each other, without being dependent on each other. The white cloud is always the white cloud. The blue mountain is always the blue mountain.” This is a pure, clear interpretation of life. There may be many things like the white cloud and blue mountain: man and woman, teacher and disciple. They depend on each other. But the white cloud should not be bothered by the blue mountain. The blue mountain should not be bothered by the white cloud. They are quite independent, but yet dependent. This is how we live….

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything. Without air, we cannot breathe. Each of us is in the midst of myriads of worlds. We are in the center of the world always, moment after moment. So we are completely dependent and independent. If you have this kind of experience, this kind of existence, you have absolute independence; you will not be bothered by anything.

lock the door, kill the light, no-one's coming home tonight

The more people I encounter in life, the further I am inclined to give up the hope of finding genuine, caring individuals who posess compassion and understanding. I hesitate to count the number of times that I have gotten to know individuals who lack an understanding of what it is to posess compassionate awareness; instead they put up a facade, which appears to be compassion and morality, but it is only insofar as they can achieve their own self-centered goals.

Sure, they'll speak volumes about their altruism and how they are out to learn and grow as a person, but, this so often turns out to be a colorful lie. Even though I, and I'm sure many of you, encounter these sorts of individuals time and time again, it is difficult not to be affected by them when their despicable presence worms its way into your life.

Yes, I'm angry, while I usually reserve my angst, I intend to express some of it here and now; I simply cannot contain it any longer. This shit happens far too much for it to go on without even a word of dissent. It is simply unacceptable and a sign of the degenerate nature of today's civilization.

Virtually no-one wants to take responsability for their actions anymore. Should you make an attempt at pointing out someone's misdeeds towards their own self or others, you are likely to be completely ignored or even violently opposed. I feel that this is because the animal-driven egos have taken over the minds of many of us. Those driven purely by their primative egos are little more than beasts because they lack the essential character trait: compassion. It would be fitting if they were to be reborn as some lower form of life, because the human form is useless to such a wreck.

Here are a few situations that I find quite unsettling, yet are commonplace:

Someone claims that they will do something involving you during a certain time frame, but they don't.

Simple situation, yeah, and it happens all of the time, nonetheless I find it to be reprehensible. I usually like to think that the person has just forgotten, but when it happens over and over, I don't really know what to think. The only reason I can deduce is that the person really doesn't care about doing what they claim they will do; their ego complex has grown so large that they cannot even think of other people and their affect on them.

You form a friendship with someone only do find that, one day, they are totally ignoring you and refuse to communicate their grievances or even ackgnowledge that you exist.

I had this happen recently when I made the mistake of meeting a "friend" from myspace. I met with them a few times and had a jolly good time. We seemed to have simmilar interests and be getting along just fine until they decided that they didn't want to have anything to do with me. Thats just fine, I'm all for carefully choosing the one's you bring in your life, but if you don't like something about someone it is pretty spineless to just ignore them; thats just childish and I have no respect for them anymore, not because they didn't want someone in their life, but because they lacked the ability to stand up and express their true feelings on the matter.

Well, I could go on and on with a long list, but I'll leave it at that for now, since I lack the inspiration to continue this in a meaningful way.

I'm not saying that I've never done any of these things, I certainly have, as has almost every one of us. In my case, I felt remorse afterwards for what I had done; I also felt a strong desire to change my ways.

My only hope, in divulging these dark thoughts, is that it may help some of you to realize that this is something to be avoided, when you find yourself doing these things. We are all flawed in many ways, but the least we can do is express compassion towards the others we encounter in this long and arduous life.

Undeniable Link Between Mercury Containing Vaccines and Autism

"All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third it is accepted as self-evident."
~Arthur Schopenhauer, 19th Century Philosopher

Autism is a disease affecting one in every 166 children born in the United States. It is often a devastating and debilitating disease which causes untold strain on the lives of both parent and child. One would think that, when a link was found between the unethical practices of the modern medical establishment and Autism, that parents would raise hell and demand there be an purge of those responsible in the upper echelon of our medical establishment.

The problem has been traced to a preservative used in many vaccines, Thimerosol. The levels of Thimerosol found in vaccines is more than 10 Times the level considered toxic by the EPA. What's even worse is the fact that many of the vaccines are given to children under two years old who have yet to develop a blood-brain barrier.

Dr. Stephanie Cave presented enlightening data on mercury toxicity, drawn largely from the brilliant work of Sallie Bernard. Dr. Cave explained how:

By age two, American children have received 237 micrograms of mercury through vaccines alone, which far exceeds current EPA "safe" levels of .1 mcg/kg. per day. That's one-tenth of a microgram, not one microgram.

Three days in particular may be singled out as spectacularly toxic for infants:

Day of birth: hepatitis B-12 mcg mercury - 30 x safe level

At 4 months: DTaP and HiB on same day - 50 mcg mercury - 60 x safe level

At 6 months: Hep B, Polio - 62.5 mcg mercury - 78 x safe level

At 15 months the child receives another 50 mcg - 41 x safe level

These figures are calculated for an infant's average weight in kilograms for each age.

These one-day blasts of mercury are called "bolus doses". Although they far exceed "safe" levels, there has never been any research conducted on the toxicity of such bolus doses of mercury given to infants all these years.

So Americans give their children several toxic doses of mercury before the kids are even old enough to know what's happening; all of this with the blessing of the medical community! What a bunch of mad hatters we have here in America!

further reading:

Evil Empire Seeks to Punish Autism Expert

Why Don't the Amish Have Autistic Children?

Autism and Mercury

JFK Gave a speech on secret societies and the coming police state

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

The Beginner's Mind of Zen

Below is the prologue to Suzuki Roshi's collected talks in Zen Mind Beginner's Mind:

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."

People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to sit in the cross-legged position, or to attain enlightenment. It is difficult because it is hard to keep our mind pure and our practice pure in its fundamental sense. The Zen school developed in many ways after it was established in China, but at the same time, it became more and more impure. But I do not want to talk about Chinese Zen or the history of Zen. I am interested in helping you keep your practice from becoming impure.

In Japan we have the phrase shoshin, which means "beginner's mind." The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind. Suppose you recite the Prajna Paramita Sutra only once. It might be a very good recitation. But what would happen to you if you recited it twice, three times, four times, or more? You might easily lose your original attitude towards it. The same thing will happen in your other Zen practices. For a while you will keep your beginner's mind, but if you continue to practice one, two, three years or more, although you may improve some, you are liable to lose the limitless meaning of original mind.

For Zen students the most important thing is not to be dualistic. Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within itself. You should not lose your self-sufficient state of mind. This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

If you discriminate too much, you limit yourself. If you are too demanding or too greedy, your mind is not rich and self-sufficient. If we lose our original self-sufficient mind, we will lose all precepts. When your mind becomes demanding, when you long for something, you will end up violating your own precepts: not to tell lies, not to steal, not to kill, not to be immoral, and so forth. If you keep your original mind, the precepts will keep themselves.

In the beginner's mind there is no thought, "I have attained something." All self-centered thoughts limit our vast mind. When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners. Then we can really learn something. The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless. Dogen-zenji, the founder of our school, always emphasized how important it is to resume our boundless original mind. Then we are always true to ourselves, in sympathy with all beings, and can actually practice.

So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind. There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen. Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind. You should not say, "I know what Zen is," or "I have attained enlightenment." This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner. Be very very careful about this point. If you start to practice zazen, you will begin to appreciate your beginner's mind. It is the secret of Zen practice.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Beating the illegally run IRS in the legal system.

Labels: Conspiracy: Banking, U.S. Tax Law 0 comments

While researching the Internal Revenue Service and their lack of authority to collect taxes on wages, I came accross an interesting discussion thread and message board in which non-taxpayers discuss their run-ins with the IRS.

Many of the people on this forum are quite well informed about matters of law; much can be learned from a review of these cases involving the IRS.

The forum can be accessed here:
http://www.suijuris.net/forum/

The following is from the thread:
http://www.suijuris.net/forum/success-stories/8309-huge-victory-tax-honesty-movement.html

Please send copies of this post, or at least share the url, with all of your friends and associates who are non-taxpayers.

In case some of you have not heard, earlier this month, an American Citizen employed by Mitsubishi Motors, who was charged with and indicted on Willful failure to file tax returns, and tax evasion, and was accused by a Grand Jury of violating 26 USC 7201 and 26 USC 7203, had all of the 6 charges against him dismissed WITH PREJUDICE, after the USG attorneys learned that as part of his defense, his attorney would be introducing the Paperwork Reduction Act and the IRS's repeated failures to comply with that positive enacted law.

You can read the original indictment here:

http://www.cheatingfrenzy.com/lawrence.pdf

And contained below is the official entry from PACER.

Scroll down to the entires on May 10, 11, and then May 12, 2006, where you can see that the DOJ attorneys backed off, and asked the Court to dismiss the defendent's case "With Prejudice". Which means he can not be indicted or charged for those same alleged crimes, for the same 3 years. The Court then dismissed all charges against Mr Lawrence who earned about $174,000 in remuneration over a 3 year period. NOTE, I DID NOT SAY HE RECEIVED WAGES.

This is a huge victory for the Tax Honesty Movement. Hoo-rah!!

My assessment is that for those that can effectively argue the Paperwork Reduction Act as part of their defense when the write affidavits to the IRS's top lawyers at IRS HQs, they stand a far better chance of prevailing on the merits.

Remember, the IRS much prefers to attack those folks who have weak defenses and who have not done an effective job rebutting the IRS's false presumptions contained in one's IRS Administrative File.

IN a word, the IRS much prefers to prey upon the weak and the misinformed. By doing so, the IRS is more easily able to cherry pick the low hanging fruit and then point to their so-called victories in Court, as a way to beef up their propoganda and thereby scare other American Citizens into paying an income tax that no positive law and Implementing Regulation requires them to pay in the first place.

Also, from a legal strategy standpoint, it is very obvious that the risk of losing this case against Mr. Lawrence, was so great, that rather than risk going to trial and possibly losing and then establishing a very dangerous precedent that would have been immensely unfavorable to the corrupt IRS, the DOJ attorneys correctly concluded that it was much better to allow Mr. Lawrence, the defendent, to walk away a FREE Man, rather than risk having the PRA Defense widely publicized around America.

Further, I also conclude that the decision to dismiss all charges against Mr. Lawrence WAS NOT made by the local Assistant Attorneys General, but instead was made by the senior staff in the DOJ Tax Division, and it most likely also involved input from IRS Attorney Mark Matthews, IRS Deputy Commissioner for Enforcement, as well as several other senior IRS attorneys. Feel free to send a "Thank You" fax to Mark Matthews, and his loyal sidekick, Linda Kroening, Esquire, at fax # 1-202-622-4255, and thank them for the IRS's and DOJ dismissal of all 6 counts against Mr. Lawrence..

The decision by US government attorneys to dismiss a major tax crimes case such as this one, and to request the dismissal with prejudice, is not a decision that is made lightly. In the instant case, it is very obvious that the DOJ attorneys and the IRS senior strategists, jointly concluded in the days prior to May 12, 2006, that it was far riskier going to trial and possibly losing, or winning the initial case in the lower court, only to then eventually lose on appeal.

And I also believe that the DOJ attorneys knew well before May 12, 2006, that should the Defense Team be allowed to use the PRA as part of their defense, it was the intention of the DOJ attorney to pull the plug and drop all charges.

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Below is the offical docket of this very important victory for the Tax Honesty Movement. Please do your part to show America that American Citizens are winning cases against the corrupt IRS and DOJ, by standing up for their Constitutional Rights and using the PRA as part of their defense.

U.S. District Court
Central District of Illinois (Peoria)
CRIMINAL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 1:06-cr-10019-MMM-JAG-1

Case title: USA v. Lawrence
Date Filed: 03/16/2006

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Assigned to: Judge Michael M. Mihm
Referred to: Magistrate Judge John A. Gorman

Defendant
Robert Lawrence (1)
TERMINATED: 05/12/2006

represented by Oscar A Stilley
OSCAR STILLEY ATTORNEY AT LAW
2120 North B St
Ft Smith, AR 72901
479-573-0726
Fax: 479-573-0647
Email: oscar@oscarstilley.com
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Monday, June 26, 2006

Colorado

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Last week I took a long trip to Colorado for a variety of reasons: soul searching, hiking, sight seeing and a family reunion. Aside from a few issues having to do my relatives, the trip went well. I was able to hike some beautiful trails in the mountains and visit the summit of Pike's Peak (pictured above).

Hiking in the mountains near Colorado Springs

The Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs

Climbing on the rocks at the summit of Pike's Peak

View from the trail near Bear Creek, near Colorado Springs

Monday, June 19, 2006

The Black Pope, aka The Jesuit General

Jesuits are premiere assassins throughout the world; they rule one of the greatest organized crime networks that has ever existed. They are behind the Zionist movement, which has nothing to do with Judaism, as is commonly believed. Jesuits control the Catholic church and rule most of the Earth through the Black Pope, count Hans Kolvenbach

The Vatican Assassins, a lecture given at Consipiracy Con 2002, takes an In Depth look at the Jesuit organizations that have played a major role in the outcome of many events that shaped the world. Having recently watched the lecture, I can assure you that I am thoroughly convinced that Jesuits are behind much of what is going on. Once you understand who these people are and how they've played a role in our history, it will be easy to understand the greater plan behind what we are seeing happen in the world today.

>>watch The Vatican Assassins (google video) <<

The lecturer, Eric Phelps, authored the book Vatican Assassins. There are also a number of websites along the same lines as the lecture given by Eric.

Sunday, June 18, 2006

Timothy Leary: How to Operate Your Brain

Labels: Hallucinogens, Videos 0 comments

The complete owner's guide, How to Operate Your Brain, is a 29 minute, guided, electronic (spoken/musical) meditation. In it, Dr. Leary tries to impart to the listener essential aspects of his visionary psychadellic experiences.

Timothy Leary: How to Operate Your Brain (youtube video)

I have also included an article by one of Timothy Leary's friends. Its hard to believe that its already been 10 years since Mr. Leary's death.

10 years since Timothy Leary's death

source: JOI's Diary

Timothy Leary passed away 10 years ago today. I was with him the evening before he died and I still remember his humor even in his final hour.

I met Timothy Leary in Tokyo in the summer of 1990. Tim was excited about virtual reality and had told his friend David Kubiak in Kyoto to help him track down "young Japanese kids who know about virtual reality". I wasn't a VR expert, but I was into computer graphics, games and the rave/club scene. I had also just opened a nightclub in Tokyo. David, who lived in Kyoto, directed Tim to me and several others in Tokyo and we hooked up with him at a bar.

I hijacked the situation. After dinner I grabbed Tim and took him on a whirlwind tour of the Tokyo club scene. His visit happened to coincide with the time in my life when I was more tuned in to the Tokyo club scene than any other time in my life being the operator of one of the weirder nightclubs in Tokyo. I tried to explain how the Japanese youth were interpreting the rave and cyberpunk cultures. Tim got excited and we continued our dialog. He called these new funky Japanese kids "The New Breed". He changed the "tune in, turn on, drop out" to "tune in, turn on, take over." We talked a lot about neoteny, the retention of child-like attributes in adulthood, which he felt was exhibited in the culture of the Japanese youth at the time.

When I met Tim, I had been exposed to a lot of his work through his early writings and through the writings of people like Robert Anton Wilson. When I asked him whether he had actually talked to aliens as Robert Anton Wilson says in Cosmic Trigger, Tim explained that it was all a joke. A big joke. All that stuff about magic numbers and talking to aliens was a joke. Tim had an interesting relationship with the New Age culture that he helped create in the 60's but his interests had moved on to cyberspace and the next generation of youth. Tim was practical and analytical while also being an amazing performer and communicator. Above all, he was almost always very funny. He called himself a "performing philosopher."

When my mother moved to Los Angeles and I decided to base myself partially out of LA, Tim picked us up at the airport in LA and immediately threw a party for us at his home in Beverly Hills. That weekend, he insisted that we (mom, sister and myself) drive with him to San Francisco so he could introduce us to his friends there. He called Queen Mu, the publisher of Mondo 2000 and asked them to organize a party at the Mondo house. At that party, my sister met Scott Fisher, who she eventually married. We also met Mark Pauline of Survival Research Labs and probably 80% of the people I know in San Francisco. I have a feeling I might have met John Perry Barlow there as well. Tim also took me to the offices of The Well and introduced me to Stewart Brand. In one week, Tim had introduced us to his amazing network and had "plugged us in". I would not be where I am today if it were not for Tim's generosity in making his entire network available to us.

In LA, I spent a lot of time with Tim working on a book and producing a TV show in Japan called "The New Breed" based on our conversations. He enlisted me as a "God Son" which he has been known to do from time to time to people he considered family. I continued to meet people through Tim. Tim's house was always open to anyone and was a crossroads where Hollywood stars, hippies, technologists, academics, artists and just about any other kind of person you could imagine would come and hang out and enjoy his hospitality and share thoughts. I miss Tim very much and I miss the network of people he helped bring and keep together. I am still in touch with many of the people from those days but it's obviously not the same without him. However, I believe his influence and legacy lives on and every day I say my favorite words of his: "Question Authority and Think for Yourself." That is the motto that I live by.

I just got this from Zack Leary, Tim's son.

Zack Leary
Friends,
Ten years ago on this very day Timmy worked up every last bit of strength he had and plopped his cancer ridden vessel into his electric wheelchair. He did his morning ritual of barking at someone to make his coffee and to get his newspaper while he wheeled around the house to then soak up the sun outside on the Sunbrook Drive porch. This day felt different, however. The morning ritual never did go smoothly, but this day it seemed like it was just to much god damn trouble to begin with. He knew that too. After a sip or two of coffee he basically said “fuck it” and got what was left of his ass back in bed. There were not many words left – his fantastic world class verbosity was no longer. His tall proud gorgeous physique was long gone. His mental dance and history lesson of teaching us how to die was complete – it was time to cash in his few remaining chips.

It’s funny when you know that a specific day is going to be THE day someone dies. We all knew that May 31st, 1996 was going to be the day that Timmy was going to die. As he sat in his bed, the kind hospice people calmed his body down to a tranquil enough state for the rest of the crew to go ahead make the necessary arrangements. From about 10 a.m. until midnight many friends made one last trip to the foot of the bed to say their last goodbyes. The gracious republican landlords from next door, some of the wait staff from Mortons, old friends from Hollywood, team members, some family were all there to make good on his dying wish. What a day it was!

I think the only people who were truly freaking out were the rest of us, he was fine. His grace into death was legendary. As the day went on, he treated us to a spontaneous death rap called “Why? Why not” as about a dozen of us sat there laughing and crying. And then sometime very very late he said his last word “beautiful” and then drifted away.

As the coroners came to pick up the stiff we sat in the living room at Sunbrook freaked out and passed out. They wheeled his body out on the gurny and as he was approaching the doorway we have him one last rousing round of applause. A life well lived.

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“And then one day you’ll find ten years have got behind you...No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.”

-Roger Waters

“Everyone will get the Timothy Leary they deserve.”

-Timothy Leary

I received this from Michael Gosney.

Michael Gosney
Timothy Leary died exactly 10 years ago today, on May 31, 1996.
Here's a nice selection of his writings, online:
http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/leary_timothy/
And the WIKIpedia on Tim:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary

He was really just one of us, living a meaningful, full life...thriving in exemplary ways... making his unique contributions to our evolution...standing up when no one else would, telling stories along the way: fantastic tales, modern parables, simple foibles, profound insights, hilarious episodes...

Dr. Tim died on May 31, 1996. And on that day I would venture that the backplane of our planetary mind, the spirit world if you will...was vastly enriched with the new edge of human experience that Timothy's life so powerfully embodied. He was a modern hero with whom millions resonated, and whose mind and spirit opened many evolutionary pathways.

Tim was a friend and great inspiration to many. We remember and honor him as the human journey continues!

peace,
Michael

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Trans-national highway to bring about North-American Union

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In case anyone wondered why all of the immigration demonstrations were organized and funded by wealthy backers such as the Ford foundation, we now have the answer. It looks as if the solution, which is to be imposed upon this country without the consent of the people, is to combine the United States with Canada and Mexico.

The political and economic leaders of this country have been working quetly behind the scenes to build a massive highway through Mexico, the U.S. and Canada. This is sure to put even more U.S. workers out on the streets as it allows Mexican trucks loaded with goods from the far east easy access to the entire nation.

If you feel this is bad for all but the rich, as I do, then it is time to start writing your congressmen and telling them that this is proposterous.

Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway

Jerome R. Corsi / Human Events | June 14 2006

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.

Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoremans Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nations most modern highway straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST lanes, checked only electronically by the new SENTRI system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City.

As incredible as this plan may seem to some readers, the first Trans-Texas Corridor segment of the NAFTA Super Highway is ready to begin construction next year. Various U.S. government agencies, dozens of state agencies, and scores of private NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have been working behind the scenes to create the NAFTA Super Highway, despite the lack of comment on the plan by President Bush. The American public is largely asleep to this key piece of the coming North American Union that government planners in the new trilateral region of United States, Canada and Mexico are about to drive into reality.

Just examine the following websites to get a feel for the magnitude of NAFTA Super Highway planning that has been going on without any new congressional legislation directly authorizing the construction of the planned international corridor through the center of the country.

NASCO, the North America SuperCorridor Coalition Inc., is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing the worlds first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America. Where does that sentence say anything about the USA? Still, NASCO has received $2.5 million in earmarks from the U.S. Department of Transportation to plan the NAFTA Super Highway as a 10-lane limited-access road (five lanes in each direction) plus passenger and freight rail lines running alongside pipelines laid for oil and natural gas. One glance at the map of the NAFTA Super Highway on the front page of the NASCO website will make clear that the design is to connect Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. into one transportation system.

Kansas City SmartPort Inc. is an investor based organization supported by the public and private sector to create the key hub on the NAFTA Super Highway. At the Kansas City SmartPort, the containers from the Far East can be transferred to trucks going east and west, dramatically reducing the ground transportation time dropping the containers off in Los Angeles or Long Beach involves for most of the country. A brochure on the SmartPort website describes the plan in glowing terms: For those who live in Kansas City, the idea of receiving containers nonstop from the Far East by way of Mexico may sound unlikely, but later this month that seemingly far-fetched notion will become a reality.

The U.S. government has housed within the Department of Commerce (DOC) an SPP office that is dedicated to organizing the many working groups laboring within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada to create the regulatory reality for the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The SPP agreement was signed by Bush, President Vicente Fox, and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005. According to the DOC website, a U.S.-Mexico Joint Working Committee on Transportation Planning has finalized a plan such that (m)ethods for detecting bottlenecks on the U.S.-Mexico border will be developed and low cost/high impact projects identified in bottleneck studies will be constructed or implemented. The report notes that new SENTRI travel lanes on the Mexican border will be constructed this year. The border at Laredo should be reduced to an electronic speed bump for the Mexican trucks containing goods from the Far East to enter the U.S. on their way to the Kansas City SmartPort.

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is overseeing the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as the first leg of the NAFTA Super Highway. A 4,000-page environmental impact statement has already been completed and public hearings are scheduled for five weeks, beginning next month, in July 2006. The billions involved will be provided by a foreign company, Cintra Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A. of Spain. As a consequence, the TTC will be privately operated, leased to the Cintra consortium to be operated as a toll-road.
The details of the NAFTA Super Highway are hidden in plan view. Still, Bush has not given speeches to bring the NAFTA Super Highway plans to the full attention of the American public. Missing in the move toward creating a North American Union is the robust public debate that preceded the decision to form the European Union. All this may be for calculated political reasons on the part of the Bush Administration.

A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Bilderburg Group gets bullhorned by Alex Jones

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

The Jester Race

Rush faster on the one-way lane
the answers so silent

Rusty gods in their machine-mind armours
grind our souls in the millstone of time
the "deathbed harvest" is a dead man's banquet
of mold ridden bread and black, poisoned wine

Here we go...our step so silent
Here we go...our blooded trace
the Jester Race

Calling our to the gathered masses
their answers so silent

Here we go...

Embracing the tools of the neo-wolf age
that speak of silence and silence alone

Offering the tokens, the reliced idols
to the heirs of the newly raped ground
inferior even to the transparent winds
lesser in the motion and sound

Here we go...

There is no trace of me
in their altered blueprints of life

Gaia impaled on their horns and lances
the fumes from her body give chase
as the strong of blind men savour the scent,
dream-dead from Prozac and hate

-epilogue-

"Sunwind strokes the ElectroHeart,
ignition roars through the corridors,
stream launching the binary vessels"

Vanities in extreme formations
ride into tomorrow's rigid great face
The Machinery outlives the futile scripts
of our dying jester race

~in flames

Who's in charge of your U.S. Dollars?

The new croney in charge of the fed is Ben Shalom Bernanke; the name alone should tell you something.

Bernanke is well known for his famous "printing press speech" in which he advocates pumping money into the economy in order to solve our problems. In other words he proposes a hidden tax, monetary inflation, which devalues everyones dollars. This is to be done because the U.S. debt is too large to repay and must be "inflated away."

Whirly Ben really pulled one off when, in 2003, he engineered a deal with the Japaneese Central Bank (JCB) in which the Japanese bought and borrowed TRILLIONS of Yen in order to stabilise the U.S. Dollar and treasury market. The Yen were printed from thin air or borrowed and then the dollars purchased were placed in a custodial account at the Fed where they bought U.S. government bonds with them.

Back then I was avidly watching the live Foreign Exchange charts and saw the HUGE amounts of Yen that the bank would dump on the market all at once. It literally caused the dollar to swing an entire cent. This built up alot of speculation and brought dollar buyers into the market, causing the USD/JPY to swing 20% in favor of the USD!

One of the main problems that this "injection" causes, however, results from the fact that it placed an enormous amount of liquidity into the system and now we have the housing bubble and many more bubbles to come. The liquidity simply cannot be drained out of the system.

If Gold and Silver were used instead of paper backed by reserve-less central banks, then these kinds of shenanigans could not take place. The use of U.S. Federal Reserve Notes centralizes power and allows Central Bankers to devalue your dollars and collect interest on them without any consent from you or your elected officials. This is taxation without representation and I honestly don't see why it is so difficult to see why this is wrong and do something about it.

Sunday, June 11, 2006

Transitioning to a Healthy Lifestyle

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Introduction

I often encounter individuals who are depressed about their health; they feel that, although they know some of the basics of a healthy lifestyle, there is little to nothing that they can do to change the situation. I was once of the same mindset, and I can honestly say that much can be done with a few fundamental changes in perception.

Many of us fail to realize that, in order to break out of the cycle of self-abuse, it is essential that daily habits come under scrutiny. Unfortunately, however, most of us cleave tightly to our habits as if they were some sort of sacred ritual not to be criticized or changed in any way. This is individualism at its best. I cannot even begin to keep track of the number of health-related exchanges I've had with others in which they dismiss rock-solid scientific evidence because it is inconvenient or it causes them to call into question the beneficiality of their daily routines.

One thing that we need to keep in mind, however, is that the human body is a marvelous machine. When it is cared for properly, it will thrive and provide years of happiness and harmony. When it is abused, it will gradually break down and cause physical and spiritual degredation.

Many will argue that they are perfectly happy eating highly processed foods. Sure, they may feel quite well after gulping down a giant soft drink or eating a bag of cheezy poofs; but do any of these people realize what chemical reactions are taking place in their body after imbibing these substances?

Changing to a Vegetable-Based Diet

The human body functions best when its diet consists of un-processed natural ingredients. It is therefore essential that one avoid the center portion of the supermarket, as most of the foods in this portion are highly processed, utilize partially hydrogenated oils and may contain harmful sugar substitutes such as Splenda.

Optimally, 80-90% of our food should be fresh produce, with the bulk of that being above-ground vegetables. Fresh produce contains valuable enzymes, is easy for the body to digest and aids in the elimination of wastes and accumulated toxins.

If you find it difficult to believe that the typical diet is so far off from what it needs to be, try adding a decent amount of produce to your daily intake and note how you feel a week later. If your experience is anything like mine, you will achieve the necessary motivation once you feel the tremendous difference a produce-based diet makes.

Keys to a Healthy Lifestyle

I've discovered, through my experiences, that most of the effort consumed while sucessfully transitioning is geared towards restraint. There are many foods available in the supermarket which have some level of toxicity; we have to do our homework and understand this before we place these foods into our bodies.

Here are some interesting resources:

Avoid soft drinks, doughnuts, french fries, and chips

Avoid grains and sugars

Reduce Grains and Sugar to Lose Weight and Improve Health

Avoid artificial sweeteners such as Splenda

Carefully balance your diet using a scientific, not an emotional, approach.

Achieve Independant Health With A Nutrition Plan

see also:

Saturday, June 10, 2006

This is Cooling

As I sit here enjoying this Saturday morning thinking over the events of the past week, I am simply lost for words, only musical verses seem to make any sense to me at this time.

I'd like to share a beautiful song with you. This is the sort of song that, in order to grasp its meaning, you have to understand what is between the lines, because it is far more than it appears to be at first glance, as with most of the work from this artist.

I won't spoil the song by placing my point of view on it. I think that music is like literature, with its meaning best communicated directly from the musician. I only hope that some of you find it to be intriguing.

listen here, if it doesn't autostart for you

maybe i didn't like to hear
but i still can't believe speed racer is dead
so then i thought i'd make some plans
but fire thought she'd really rather be water instead

and peggy got a message for me, from jesus
and i heard every word that you have said
and i know i have been
driven like the snow

but this is cooling
faster then i can
this is cooling
faster then i...

but do i hate what she is
or do i want to be her
and don't we love something fresh
anything new, virgin

woman, you got too many brambles
hiding under these bushes
woman, you got too many brambles
but i always liked a good storm
always good for a storm

so then love walked up to like
said i know that you don't like me much
let's go for a ride
this ocean is wrapped around that pineapple tree
and is your place in heaven
worth giving up these kisses
these, yes, these kisses

and peggy got a message for me, from jesus
and i heard every word
that you have said
and i know i have been
driven like the snow

but this is cooling
faster than i can
hey...
faster than i can
cooling
this is cooling
this is cooling

~tori amos

Thursday, June 08, 2006

Dao De Jing: Chapter 1

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source:
Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation
by Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall

Way-making (dao) that can be put into words is not really way-making,
And naming (ming) that can be assigned fixed reference to things is not really naming.

The nameless (wuming) is the fetal beginnings of everything that is happening (wanwu),
While that which is named is their mother.

Thus, to be really objectless in one's desires (wuyu) is how one observes the mysteries of all things,
While really having desires is how one observes their boundaries.

These two--the nameless and what is named--emerge from the same source yet are referred to differently.

Together they are called obscure.
The obscurest of obscure,
They are the swinging gateway of the manifold mysteries.

U.S. -- getting ready to draft men and women ages 18-42

Labels: Conspiracy: Israeli Government, Middle Eastern Conflict 1 comments

I nearly gagged when I read the bill, H.R. 4752; a bill to draft nearly everyone in the U.S. for a minimum period of two years.

The bill was sponsored by a traitor named Charles Rangel (D-NY). This is the same guy who is trying to push a "Jewish American Month" on Americans; an obvious puppet for the evilarchy of Jewish Zionists who rule this country. This legislation reminds me of the laws in Israel and Russia that require everyone to spend a time in the Military.

I wonder if, should the draft be enstated, the American people will go along with it or will they do as was done long ago in this country?

Many of us don't realize that there was once a time when enstating the draft caused major uproar; people took to the streets, looted the buildings where the draft was conducted, dragged those who were involved out into the streets and killed them. They sent a message to the leadership, they made an example of the traitors involved and showed that we will not have our lives taken over by those in power.

There is one thing that we have to remember if we want to preserve any similence of liberty in this country. If anyone, foreign or domestic, undermines the founding principles lain out in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, it is our right and responsibility to stop them.

Why is this so important, you may wonder? Because there have been many occasions where the founding principles were undermined, a precedent was set, and, to this day, those principles are forever lost.

I will now cite numerous examples in order to make it clear to everyone that this has happened and, when it does, it is nearly irreversable:

Lets start by looking at Article I, Section 10:

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

Notice anything fishy about the way things are conducted now as opposed to the way they were lain out in this section? The first thing I noticed is that we are supposed to be using Gold and Silver coins for commerce. Unfortunately, this was done away with long ago. They had to stop this because those in control of this country simply could not prosper with an honest monetary system; they needed a way to produce unlimited amounts of debt with no checks or balances.

Another portion of this section that has been eviscerated concerns the use of warfare. As we all know, the United States was neither attacked nor threatened by Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan. It is thus unconstitutional for them to have gone to war and even worse, without the required declaration of war.

The founders of America wrote this section in order to maintain some similence of social and economic responsibility in our society; it is also meant to limit the powers of the government and the presidency. Now that Article I, Section 10 has been eviscerated, our generation and future generations will live under ever-greater forms of tyrrany.

Now lets have a look at the Fourth Amendment:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

It is clearly stated, in this amendment, that probable cause is necessary in order to perform searches. Unfortunately, however, the man now in charge of the CIA claims that there is no "probable cause" stipulation in the Fourth Amendment.

see for yourself:
Michael Hayden: "probable cause" is not in the 4th amendment

So it turns out that the constitution means whatever the judges and politicians say, regardless of what it actually says.

I could go on and on citing examples, but I've made my point. We must be prepared to do whatever is necessary to stop this cashist cartel from controlling every aspect of our lives. We must remember that they operate slowly, over many generations; they seek to create a world in which nobody will enjoy the liberties we do now; a world simmilar to that portrayed by THX1138, 1984, A Brave New World and Gattaca, just to name a few.

I know it is depressing to think about these things. Just imagine how depressed we will all be if this agenda continues much longer...

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

NiN: 6/6/2006 concert in Birmingham

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Last night I took a trip down to Birmingham with a few friends and saw Trent Reznor play a live show at the venue formerly known as the Oak Mountain Amphitheater. The last time I was at this place, Tool was playing the Lateralus tour.

Not having previously seen Nine Inch Nails life, I must admit that they put on an excellent live show. Trent really knows how to spread his energy to the crowd; the visual effects are also quite stunning. The show was combined with a number of interesting visual effects, many of them three dimensional and encompassing the whole stage.

During some parts of the concert, a sort of metal screen was lowered in front of the artists; images appeared on this screen from the lights that were on it. They combined the images on this screen with the stage-wide screen that was behind the artists for an excellent 3D effect. It truly made the whole stage come to life.

For example, they would show these detailed red droplets moving up on the rear screen and moving blocks of color appeared on the front screen. The effect choreographers did well to enhance the emotions expressed while retaining simplicity and sophistication.

Although I enjoyed the performance, I was disappointed with the way in which the Amphitheater was re-arranged. Remembering back to the days of that unforgettable Tool concert, I begin to notice many a change in the way concerts are conducted at this venue.

One of the most disappointing aspects was the lack of an open space near the stage. The only place where you could watch and listen to the music was in the confinement of your assigned seat and what fun is that? I and many others chose to take to the aisles only to have the security cops come by every 10 minutes and push everyone back into their rows.

Anyhow, I won't dwell on this subject any longer, let it suffice for me to say that the Verizon Music Center, formerly the Oak Mountain Amphitheater is a shitty place.

If I'm able to get my camera-phone to email me the pictures and videos, I'll post 'em up if anything came out good.

Monday, June 05, 2006

higher selves, above the etheric plane

Within each of us there exists an entity, one which is beyond this etheric plane; a purely spiritual entity which exists in the higher dimensions, this entity is known as the higher self. I often hear it referred to as the Third Eye.

During key periods of our lives, especially great periods of transition, if the individual is open to receiving help from their higher spiritual centers. This higher self, with its ability to tap into the infinite wisdom of the ages, lights the path. It is the force of hope and compassion that enters our lives when we feel we can continue no longer.

When we feel dead to the world and think that our life can offer no more truth, beauty or purpose of any kind, this is when the higher self, feeling empathy during our periods of darkeness and dispair, gives a warm embrace and a re-assurance that there is something worth existing for; it is not all just meaningless and cruel as it seems.

The only thing that stands in the way of the guiding compassion of the higher self is our lower self, which constructs many a barrier to preserve its own stability and prevent the loss of its various attachments. It is for this reason that we must meditate on ego-loss, we must eliminate our egos in order to access the wisdom of the ages and fulfill our purpose, whatever it may be, in this sphere of existence upon which we are incarnated.

The time has come to see what awaits on the other side; the time has come for vast changes in ourselves. We must call upon our higher selves, the guide who has been there for thousands of lifetimes, the guide who knows a great deal about all facets of existence. So that we may best live-out our fleeting moments here, in an existence which forever echoes loving compassion into the great many myriad things comprising this existence.

We ask it, should it see fit, that it help to produce the transformation that we feel is greatly needed at this time, to help us choose the right path; one which is of the greatest level of compassion, one which will lead us to the next great trials and tribulations of this lifetime.

We are ready to take the new path if the time is right. Wherever it may lead, we stand firm, we stand ready for this great period to arrive; the great hour when action is to be taken, an hour which will echo for all of eternity.

Friday, June 02, 2006

Documentary: Legend of Atlantis

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The search for the location of or information regarding Atlantis has occupied great minds for thousands of years. Psychics such as Edgar Cayce and Helena Blavetsky spoke of Atlantis in their readings. Adolf Hitler searched for the descendants of the white race of spiritual masters said to have descended from the Atlantean preisthood.

The following 5 part documentary is a fascinating look at some of the theories of the lost continent of Atlantis. All of the documentaries are available on google video.

Legend of Atlantis (google video)

Part I:

Part II:

Part III:

Part IV:

Part V:

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