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Adults & Play, Fun & Playtime not Just for Young Boy & Girls, Teens or Getting Drunk - The importance being silly and having fun and laughing to be happy.




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What is a Certified Clinical Nutritionist or CCN? Nutrition
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Diet Weight Loss Secret Healthy Tips - Clinical Nutrition
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Don't Worry, Be Happy, The Secret to Life & Good Health
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Radhia Gleis is a Certified Clinical Nutritionist, C.C.N. She is also a Certified BioNutritional Analyst. She has a Ph.D in pastoral counseling and a M. Ed. in Nutrition. She is a professional member of the International and American Association of Clinical Nutritionists, (I.A.A.C.N), and the American Naturopathic Medical Association (A.N.M.A.).

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More psychology videos

Psychology of Emotion, Recovery, Mental Wellness and Health
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glt1zdVYsE0

Dr. John Breeding gives you the four secrets to dealing with mental health issues and how to help other people achieve mental wellness.

Don't confuse transformational process as mental illness or a mental disorder such as depression or bipolar. This video contains comments on re-evaluation counseling and emotional release.

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Schizophrenia - Extreme States of Mind - Part 2
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On Depression, Hope, Recovery, Psychology & Antidepressants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqh9wwghEe0

Recovery: Schizophrenia & Mental Illness -- Psychology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGgsjXq7J6Y

Bipolar, A Quiet Mind, A Mystic Journey Out of Insanity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htsh328AM-s

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12 Year Old Boy Invents New Amazing 3D Solar Cell

Aloe Vera is the most healing plant on the planet

http://www.aloeverafarms.com/id4.html

How music works

Melody
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5234845264873057882
Rhythm
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6022103041352420187
Harmony
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3219853297286952687
Bass
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3370766593125048166

Cinnamon and Honey - the Miracle Cure

Facts on honey and cinnamon: It is found that a mixture of honey and cinnamon cures most diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Scientists of today also accept honey as a "Ram Ban" (very effective) medicine for all kinds of diseases. Honey can be used without any side effects for any kind of diseases.

Today's science says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic patients.
Weekly World News, a magazine in Canada, in its issue dated 17 January, 1995 has given the following list of diseases that can be cured by honey and cinnamon as researched by western scientists:

HEART DISEASE:

Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread, instead of jelly and jam, and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack. Also those who have already had an attack, if they do this process daily, they are kept miles away from the next attack. Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heart beat. In America and Canada, various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that as you age, the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and cinnamon revitalize the arteries and veins.

ARTHRITIS:

Arthritis patients may take daily, morning, and night, one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder. If taken regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured. In a recent research conducted at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon honey and half teaspoon cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week, out of the 200 people so treated, practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain, and within a month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis started walking without pain.

BLADDER INFECTIONS:

Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of lukewarm water and drink it. It destroys the germs in the bladder.

TOOTHACHE:

Make a paste of one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and five teaspoons of honey and apply on the aching tooth. This may be applied three times a day until the tooth stops aching.

CHOLESTEROL:

Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of cinnamon powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, given to a cholesterol patient, was found to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10 percent within two hours. As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken three times a day, any chronic cholesterol is cured. According to information received in the said journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complaints of cholesterol.

COLDS:

Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for three days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold, and clear the sinuses.

UPSET STOMACH:

Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and also clears stomach ulcers from the root.

GAS:

According to the studies done in India and Japan, it is revealed that if honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.

IMMUNE SYSTEM:

Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases.

INDIGESTION:

Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.

INFLUENZA:

A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural ingredient which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu.

LONGEVITY:

Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly, arrests the ravages of old age. Take four spoons of honey, one spoon of cinnamon powder and three cups of water and boil to make like tea. Drink 1/4 cup, three to four times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age. Life spans also increases and even a 100 year old, starts performing the chores of a 20-year-old.

PIMPLES:

Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.

SKIN INFECTIONS:

Applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections.

WEIGHT LOSS:

Daily in the morning one half hour before breakfast on an empty stomach and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup of water. If taken regularly, it reduces the weight of even the most obese person. Also, drinking this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.

CANCER:

Recent research in Japan and Australia has revealed that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully. Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month three times a day.

FATIGUE:

Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful rather than! than being detrimental to the strength of the body. Senior citizens, who take honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts, are more alert and flexible. Dr. Milton, who has done research, says that a half tablespoon of honey taken in a glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3:00 P.M. when the vitality of the body starts to decrease, increases the vitality of the bo dy within a week.

BAD BREATH:

People of South America, first thing in the morning, gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water, so their breath stays fresh throughout the day.

HEARING LOSS:

Daily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder, taken in equal parts restore hearing.

Biology, Psychology – “How does your memory work?”

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5688279003135893692

Into the Wild (2007)

Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.






Charlie Rose - A discussion about the film "Into The Wild"

Food As Medicine

Food as Medicine features:

- The power of pigments
- Make your plate a rainbow.

- Protection from cruciferous vegetables.

- The good oils.

- Fabulous fermentation.

- Eggs - The ultimate food.

- Butter vs.
Margarine
- The power of raw milk.

- What major minerals do-Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium, Phosphorous and Sulfur.

- The trace mineral catalysts-Copper, Manganese, Zinc, Boron and Iron.

- The forgotten five-Iodine, Molybdenum, Cobalt, Selenium and Chromium.


Part one



Length 1 hr 43 mins

http://video. google. com/videoplay?docid=-8841234327210711547

Part two



Length 1 hr 26 mins

http://video. google. com/videoplay?docid=-7798117152905143532

It's all about dominating the 'peasantry'

The Gospel of Consumption - and the Better Future We Left Behind

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/160806-The-Gospel-of-Consumption-and-the-Better-Future-We-Left-Behind

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Just saving this here for future reference -- Removing an asphalt driveway

Homeowner's Blog
http://www.catskillhouse.us/blog/removing-an-asphalt-driveway/
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Path to Freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCPEBM5ol0Q&feature=related

Here's where you'll find your
Path to Freedom

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Who Killed the Electric Car?

Corrupt Federal Reserve - Robbing Americans Since 1913

Corrupt Federal Reserve - Robbing Americans Since 1913 [1/3]


CFR - The Secret Government [2/3]


The CFR Controlled Media Cabal [3/3]

The Low Melatonin Level/Fluoride Connection

Recommendations for Low Melatonin Level:

Fluoride Reduction/Avoidance
Work from Dr. Jennifer Luke (50-51) indicates that fluoride reaches one very important gland in the body, the pineal gland, at very much higher concentrations than 1 ppm. This small gland is almost at the geometrical center of the brain, between the two hemispheres. However, it is outside the blood brain barrier. It also has a very high supply of blood (a perfusion rate second only to the kidney) and it is a calcifying tissue, laying down crystals of calcium hydroxyapatite like the teeth and the bone. Because of these observations Luke argued that one would expect the pineal gland to concentrate fluoride. When she had the pineal gland from 11 human corpses analyzed she indeed found this to be the case. The levels of fluoride in the apatite crystals averaged about 9,000 ppm (and went as high as 21,000 ppm). The average level is as high as you would expect in the bones of someone afflicted with skeletal fluorosis. The average projected by Luke for the whole tissue was 300 ppm, well over the 1 ppm found to inhibit many enzymes.

Luke next examined the effect of dosing Mongolian gerbils (the animal of choice for studying the pineal gland) with fluoride. She found that animals fed higher doses of fluoride had a significant decrease in their excretion of melatonin metabolite in their urine. She also found that the high dose fluoride animals took a shorter time to reach puberty. This is exactly what you would expect if melatonin production was lowered. If this result is confirmed by others it would make fluoride an environmental hormone or endocrine disrupter, a topic of intense discussion (52) and review by regulatory agencies in the US and around the world.

50. Luke, J. (1994). Effects of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland. Caries Research, 28, 204.

51. GGVideo [Grassroots and Global Video] (1999). Fluoride, the Pineal Gland and Melatonin: An Interview with and Presentation by Dr. Jennifer Luke. Videotape, length 40 minutes. Available from GGVideo, 82 Judson Street, Canton, NY 13617. Tel: 315-379-9544. Fax: 315-379-0448. E-mail: ggvideo@northnet.org

52. Colborn, T. et al (1996). Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? Dutton, NY, NY.


http://www.digitalnaturopath.com/cond/C304473.html

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Iodine and Chelation

Heavy Metals and Halogens
International Medical Veritas Association

http://www.alkalizeforhealth.net/Liodine2.htm

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The Drugging Of America With Fluoride

Subject: Articles on Fluoride in Drinking Water

http://www.loveforlife.com.au/node/777

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Chariots of the Gods

David Rockefeller Fears Ron Paul

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Lifetime Patterns

WATCHING THE CLOCK (Someday Came)
written in April 2002

I don't know where you came from, but it must be the same place I came from,
you said.

I haven't looked away since.

Sorry I can't go see your band play tonight, Sweetie --
My hair's not quite right.
Poor guy, you fell asleep waiting up for me again
It must be the hundredth time...
One of the shippers showed up at the end of the shift--
I just couldn't leave all that work undone.
Come on, let's get you tucked into bed --
I've got to do the laundry now.
I promise I'll be in to join you in a couple of hours...
(Let's just relax today, you say?)
But we can relax when everything's organized
When all the bills are paid
When enough money's saved...
(Sigh...) It's just another boring day -- the usual grind
But that's okay, 'cause we'll have fun when we retire (in twenty-seven years),
I said.

James, please come back for good --
I'm ready now.

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The Secret Government

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Ohio sues firms for pressuring appraisers to inflate home values

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Dark Side of the Rainbow

Pink Floyd - "Us And Them"

Us, and Them
And after all we're only ordinary men
Me and you
God only knows it's not what we would choose to do
Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died
Generals sat, and the lines on the map
moved from side to side
Black and Blue
And who knows which is which and who is who
Up and Down
And in the end it's only round and round and round
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
the poster bearer cried
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you inside

Down and Out
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about
With, Without
And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about
Get out of the way, it's a busy day
I've got things on my mind
For want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died.


ODDER THAN OZ

Copyright 1998 by Mr. Hugh Downs


Following is a transcript of Mr. Downs radio presentation, which he has graciously allowed us to reprint.

What do you suppose Alan Greenspan, Judy Garland, and the American Civil war have in common? Give up? They are all connected to turn-of-the-century U.S. monetary policy, of course! Not so obvious? Let me explain.

Just before the American Civil War broke out, Americans used dollar bills that had been issued by banks. The government didn't make any money, except coins. When the war began, the government (like all governments at war,) needed a great deal of money fast. President Lincoln decided to print it just like banks did. These early government notes were called "greenbacks" and, as you might expect, printing all those greenbacks led to rampant inflation.

Eventually, about 15 years after the war was over, people who held Federal notes, the greenbacks, could redeem them for gold coin. Few people bothered to make this trade because the war was long over, gold reserves were healthy, and people had faith in the government. Money was once again backed by real gold, but this created a new problem. The government could not print any more money that was not backed by gold, and that constricted the money supply.

People who already had money, that is rich people, didn't want any more money added to the supply because an inflated money supply, devalues savings. Inflation is always bad for people with money because their money becomes less valuable. But people without money, especially poor farmers, were clamoring for the government to print more. Inflation always helps the poor because debts can be repaid in cheaper dollars and money becomes more available for loans, investments, for everything. By 1874 a new political party called the Greenback Party demanded that the government mint unlimited amounts of coin, print more paper money and give $50 to every U.S. citizen. Poor farmers were demanding an inflationary monetary policy.

The Greenback Party dissolved in about 10 years, but a new party emerged and took up the inflationary baton. They were known as the Populist Party and legions of Midwestern and Southern farmers joined. The Populists eventually supported the Democrats because both parties were part of the Free Silver Movement. Remember the problem with the gold standard: the government couldn't print any more without discovering more gold to back it up. The Free Silver Movement wanted the government to add silver as yet another standard, in addition to gold. Having two standards would allow the government to inflate the money supply and provide relief to farmers. The price of crops had plummeted but debts still had to be paid in gold backed currency.

On July 8, 1896, during the Democratic national convention, a young 36 year old congressman named william Jennings Bryan gave a brilliant rhetorical flourish to the crowd's sentiments. Bryan exclaimed: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold." The ecstatic crowd elected William Jennings Bryan as their presidential candidate.

The "cross of gold," of course, referred to the single standard; the rigid link between gold and money. The gold standard, favored by Eastern bankers and financiers, was also known as the "hard money policy." Bryan and his friends championed bi-metallism instead. With two standards, the government could create and back more money - a policy known as "easy money." Farmers were burdened by bank mortgages on their farms. They were forced to borrow gold backed notes. But the price of gold continued to go up, while the price for crops continued to go down. If U.S. monetary policy eased the money supply, farmers might have a chance to survive.

William Jennings Bryan lost the 1896 election to William McKinley. He lost again to McKinley in 1900 and then, in 1908, Bryan lost yet another presidential election to William Howard Taft. But the dream of a looser money supply, and hatred of Eastern bankers lingered on. The Democratic and Progressive Parties, and others, adopted some of the economic principles forged in the Greenback and Populist Parties. Most interesting, though, is that the spirit of the Free Silver Movement and its resentment for Eastern bankers found its way into one of America's most original fairy tales: the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

In 1900, Frank Baum, the author of the Wizard of Oz, was a staunch supporter of the Free Silver Movement and, like many Americans at the time, he distrusted the East coast banking establishment. And now we learn a fascinating story told to us by anthropologist Jack Weatherford. Weatherford tells us, in his new book THE HISTORY OF MONEY, that Baum's tale of Oz is a thinly disguised parable of turn-of-the-century monetary policy. The Wizard of Oz is the wizard of the gold ounce, the abbreviation of ounce is, of course, oz.

Dorothy, the lead character made famous in the screen version by Judy Garland, represented the average rural American. Dorothy, says Weatherford, was probably modeled on the populist orator Leslie Kelsey who was known as "the Kansas Tornado." Dorothy, and Toto, are flung by the tornado to the East where they discover the Yellow Brick Road - meaning a gold road. The road leads to Oz "where the wicked witches and wizards of banking operate."

The Scarecrow is the American farmer. The Tin Woodman is the American factory worker, and the Cowardly Lion is William Jennings Bryan. Weatherford says: "The party's march on Oz is a re-creation of the 1894 march of Coxey's Army, a group of unemployed men led by ... Jacob S. Coxey to demand (a) public issue of 500 million greenbacks...for (the) common people." The Wizard himself represented Marcus Hanna who controlled both the Republican Party and the McKinley administration. The Munchkins "were the simpleminded people of the East who did not understand how the wizard ... pulled the levers ... that controlled the money, the economy, and the government."

The simpleminded residents of Oz were required to wear green tinted glasses fastened by gold buckles. Off to the West, the Wicked Witch of the West had enslaved the yellow Winkies, which Weatherford explains, "is a reference to the imperialist aims of the Republican administration, which had captured the Phillipines from Spain and refused to grant them independence."

At the end of the story the Wizard and the Witches are exposed as crude fakes. This dramatic revelation makes everything better. The scarecrow, who represents the farmer, discovers that he is really intelligent and not stupid. The Cowardly Lion, who is really William Jennings Bryan, finds courage. And the Tin Woodman, actually the American factory worker, "received a new source of strength in a bimetallic tool - a golden axe with a blade of silver."

In the original edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy returns to Kansas by clicking the heels of her silver slippers together. The moviemakers decided that red looked better on screen than silver and that's the way most of us remember the tale. As you can see, and thanks to Jack Weatherford for pointing it out, most of us have completely forgotten the secret story behind the Wizard of Oz.

Today, the Federal Reserve Bank determines America's monetary policy, but the Fed wasn't created until 1913. The modern equivalent of the Wizard of Oz - or Marcus Hanna - is, of course, the ever-charming Alan Greenspan. So now you know. The Civil War, Judy Garland and Alan Greenspan, really are connected.

http://www.monetary.org/hughdowns.htm

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The Income Tax Truth Movement

The majority of INCOME tax protesters are quite willing to pay LOCAL taxes (property taxes, excise tax, sales tax, ...) without objection. The reason for this is because LOCAL taxes pay for all the services our society uses on a daily basis. LOCAL taxes pay for our schools, our public water delivery services, keeping our roads paved, etc.

INCOME taxes, on the other hand, do NOT pay for any services our society uses. INCOME taxes only pay compound interest to private world bankers. Since our government has the right to issue its own money, why are we still (since 1913) foolishly allowing ourselves to be swindled this way by the corrupt World Bank and IMF -- via the PRIVATELY-OWNED Federal Reserve Bank of New York pyramid scam?

Let's follow Venezuela's brilliant lead

Venezuela takes operations from big oil companies

"It's for reasons like the subject of this article that the US wants to drive Hugo Chavez from power. The US-abetted failed coup attempt of a few years ago was simply the continuation of a long policy of destabilization of countries who dare to defy US "guidance" on economic matters. Defying the US with respect to the nationalization of oil is a particularly cardinal sin.

This time, however, the coup didn't work. An emboldened and strengthened Chavez emerged from it to become the face of the South American resistance movement. This long-awaited move to re-nationalize the nation's oil industry is critical for breaking the grip of corporate rule and returning true national sovereignty to Venezuela.

We know another country that needs to restore its national sovereignty."

http://911truth.org/article.php?story=2007050183707495

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Senator Mike Gravel at SC Debates

"It's like going into the Senate. The first time you get there, you're all excited -- "My God, how did I ever get here?" But then about six months later, you say "How the hell did the rest of 'em get here?"

"What we need to do is begin to deal with the rest of the world as equals, but we don't do that."

"The military-industrial complex controls not only our government -- lock, stock, and barrel, but they control our culture."

"With respect to Iran... We've sanctioned them for twenty-six years. We scared the b-jesus out of them when the president said "They're evil." Well you know something? These things don't work -- they don't work. We need to recognize them (referring to the people of Iran)."

"Who is the greatest violator of the non-proliferation treaty? The United States of America. We signed a pledge that we would begin to disarm, and we're not doing it. We're expanding our nukes."

Dear Abby on larks, robins, owls, and jobs

So it turns out I'm a robin-owl hybrid...

From the Friday, 4/27/07 column at uexpress.com:

DEAR ABBY: I just got out of college and have a part-time job in my field. The hours are horrible, but my job has been pretty easy and laid-back, so I had no problems.

Well, my job just got "upgraded," which means more responsibilities but no pay raise, and I am now being assigned more tasks than I can handle that early in the morning. I keep nodding off because no matter how much sleep I get, I just can't function that early.

There are other shifts that are open later in the day, and I have been thinking about asking my boss if he could put me on those, but my parents say it would be a huge mistake, and it will get me fired.

I want to keep my job, but I am just not a morning person (for the record, I tried doing the extra-caffeine thing for a while, and it literally made me sick and bedridden for two days). Any advice? -- TOO TIRED IN PARKVILLE, MO.

DEAR TOO TIRED: When it comes to biorhythms, not everyone is created alike. Some people are "larks" who spring out of bed fully alert in the morning, and that's the part of the day they are at their best. Others are "robins" who function best during the afternoon and evening. The rest are "owls." A lot of people in the entertainment business and those who work swing shifts fall into this latter category.

Because you are obviously not a lark, it seems you have two choices. The first is to approach your boss and explain that you could do a far more efficient and effective job if you were assigned to a later shift. The alternative would be to change jobs or find another field of endeavor entirely.

http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/?uc_full_date=20070427

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The Federal Reserve debunked

The Federal Reserve Act was brought upon us on December 23rd, 1913 at around 4 o'clock in the morning -- when nearly all members of the Senate had already left for the Christmas holiday. Hmmm...

"In recent American history, remarkable and knowledgeable authorities denounced the racket of the Federal Reserve. Here are some of their quotes:

Wright Patman (1893-1976) was a Democratic representative from Texas, who served in the U.S. Congress from 1929 to his death on March 7, 1976. He was chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency for 40 years. For 20 of those years, he introduced legislation to repeal the Federal Reserve Banking Act of 1913.

Here are excerpts from what he said on September 29, 1941, as reported in the Congressional Record of the House of Representatives (pages 7582-7583):

"When our Federal Government, that has the exclusive power to create money, creates that money and then goes into the open market and borrows it and pays interest for the use of its own money, it occurs to me that that is going too far. I have never yet had anyone who could, through the use of logic and reason, justify the Federal Government borrowing the use of its own money... I am saying to you in all sincerity, and with all the earnestness that I possess, it is absolutely wrong for the Government to issue interest-bearing obligations. It is not only wrong: it is extravagant. It is not only extravagant, it is wasteful. It is absolutely unnecessary.

“Now, take the Panama Canal bonds. They amounted to a little less than $50,000,000 — $49,800,000. By the time they are paid, the Government will have paid $75,000,000 in interest on bonds of less than $50,000,000. So the Government is paying out $125,000,000 to obtain the use of $49,800,000. That is the way it has worked all along. That is our policy. That is our system. The question is: Should that policy be continued? Is it sane? Is it reasonable? Is it right, or is it wrong? If it is wrong, it should be changed.

“Now, I believe the system should be changed. The Constitution of the United States does not give the banks the power to create money. The Constitution says that Congress shall have the power to create money, but now, under our system, we will sell bonds to commercial banks and obtain credit from those banks.

“I believe the time will come when people will demand that this be changed. I believe the time will come in this country when they will actually blame you and me and everyone else connected with this Congress for sitting idly by and permitting such an idiotic system to continue. I make that statement after years of study.

“We have what is known as the Federal Reserve Bank System. That system is not owned by the Government. Many people think that it is, because it says `Federal Reserve'. It belongs to the private banks, private corporations. So we have farmed out to the Federal Reserve Banking System that is owned exclusively, wholly, 100 percent by the private banks — we have farmed out to them the privilege of issuing the Government's money. If we were to take this privilege back from them, we could save the amount of money that I have indicated in enormous interest charges." (End of Patman's 1941 speech.)

Under Patman, a little booklet summarizing his views, in the form of questions and answers, called “A Primer On Money”, was prepared by the Sub-committee on Domestic Finance, House of Representatives, Committee on Banking and Currency — 88th Congress, 2nd session, August 4th, 1964. Here are excerpts:

Q.: Who has the right to create money in the United States?

A.: Under the Constitution, it is the right and duty of Congress to create money. It is left entirely to Congress.

Q.: To whom has the Congress delegated this money-creating right?

A.: To the banking system, that is, to the Federal Reserve System and to the commercial banks of the country.

Q.: If the Government can issue bonds, why can't it issue money, and save the interest?

A.: A few clear-headed and firm individuals, such as Abraham Lincoln, have insisted that the Government should.

The late Thomas A. Edison stated the matter this way: If our Nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30 million in bonds, and not $30 million in currency. Both are promises to pay: but one promise fattens the usurer, and the other helps the people.

However, it has long been one of the political facts of life that private banks must be allowed to create the lion's share of the money, even if not all of the money. Thus there is little opposition to the Government's printing bonds, and then permitting the banks to create the money with which to buy those bonds; but proposals that the Government itself create the money instead of the bonds have always set off tremendous political upheavals. For example, Abraham Lincoln set off a political furor when he insisted upon having the Government issue $346 million in money (the so-called “greenbacks”) instead of issuing interest-bearing bonds, and paying interest on the money.

Q.: If the Government issued more money instead of Government bonds, isn't there a danger that the Government would issue too much money, and cause inflation?

A.: No. It is no more or no less inflationary for the private banks to create $1 billion of new money than it is for the Government to create $1 billion of new money. Furthermore, as an agency of the Government, the Federal Reserve System decides in any case the total amount of money to be created.

Louis Thomas McFadden (1876-1836) was chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency from 1920 to 1931. He said, on June 10, 1932:

"We have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks, hereinafter called the Fed. The Fed has cheated the Government of these United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the nation's debt. The depredations and iniquities of the Fed has cost enough money to pay the national debt several times over."

Jack Metcalf, Washington State Senator for 20 years, and U.S. Congressman from 1995 to 2000, a republican senator in Washington, waged a war to abolish the Federal Reserve and restore to Congress its power to issue money, a power that is clearly stated in the U.S. Constitution:

"Our most basic document, the U.S. Constitution, states in Article 1, Section 8: `The Congress shall have the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof.' Nowhere is there the slightest hint of authorization to delegate that power even to another governmental institution — much less to a private banking system. That is absolutely outside the most broad interpretation possible."

In 1986, Metcalf single-handedly persuaded the National Conference of State Legislators to endorse unanimously a resolution urging states to challenge the constitutionality of the Federal Reserve. He wrote a book, “The 200-year debate”, and undertook a campaign to educate the population on the workings of the banking system. One of his favorite ways to explain the workings of the Fed is to tell the story of the “Federal Reserve saloon”:

"Four cowboys put up their belongings as collateral to borrow a deck of cards. The hitch is that each of the four must bring back 14 cards at the and of the evening — a mathematical impossibility (there are only 52 cards in all, that is to say, 13 to each). In the end, one player ends up with only 10 cards and loses his belongings... that is the problem with the fed. It creates money to make loans, but doesn't create the money to pay the interest."

http://www.michaeljournal.org/feddebunked.htm

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The Monetary Revolution of 2014 (2013?)

For as far back as I can remember, I had only ever heard about one economic great depression in this country -- that, of course, being the Great Depression which spanned from October of 1929 until December of 1941. Tonight I became aware that the U.S. has already experienced four great depressions in its history. From astrologer Robert Gover:

Saturn in Capricorn and Great Depressions

Every time the U.S. suffered through a great depression, Saturn was found in mid-Capricorn, square (90 degrees from) one of the "heavy" planets in mid-Aries. These heavies have been Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Mars. When Saturn has arrived in mid-Capricorn without Pluto, Neptune, Uranus or Mars being in mid-Aries at the same time, no great depression has occurred.

There have been four great depressions in U.S. history: the 1780s, 1840s, 1870s and 1930s. These are not to be confused with periods of less hardship over shorter time spans, often called depressions or recessions.

Anyone with a history book and a computer can inspect this pattern by acquiring astrological software and erecting two charts. One chart is for July 4, 1776,the United States, and the other for a date when a past great depression was at or near its most severe point. The two charts are then superimposed, the depression chart over the United States chart, creating a biwheel or synastry chart.

The Saturn Cycle

Until the 1990s, America experienced great depressions in roughly 30 and/or 60-year cycles. It takes Saturn 28 to 30 years to circle the zodiac. Whenever Saturn arrives in mid-Capricorn without squaring Pluto, Neptune, Uranus or Mars in mid-Aries (for instance, the 1910s and 1960s), the country has experienced economic or social problems, but not great depressions.

The United States was born on July 4, 1776, with the Sun at 13 degrees Cancer square Saturn at 14 Libra. Cancer is opposite Capricorn and Libra is opposite Aries, so by superimposing a chart for each great depression over the U.S. birth chart, a grand cross pattern becomes evident.

One way to visualize this is to imagine the U.S. birth chart as a clock face, and the twelve planets as the hands of a solar system clock. The clock face remains stationary while the twelve planetary "hands" endlessly circle the clock's outer rim, the zodiac. Great depression time has arrived when the grand cross pattern is formed by Saturn moving opposite the U.S. Sun, and another heavy planet moving through Aries opposite the U.S. Saturn in Libra.

Visualize mid-Capricorn as being at the 12:00 position, and mid-Cancer (the U.S. Sun) being at 6:00. Mid-Aries is at 9:00 and mid-Libra (the U.S. Saturn) at 3:00. All four great depressions in U.S. history have occurred when Saturn is at 12:00 and Uranus, Neptune, Pluto or Mars is at 9:00.

The Depression of 1783

The first great depression in the new nation's history became an undeniable fact around December of 1783, when this grand cross pattern was formed by Saturn at 12 degrees Capricorn square Mars at 13 Aries, with both simultaneously opposite and/or square the U.S. Sun and natal Saturn. Also involved in this grand cross were Uranus conjunct the U.S. Sun in Cancer, and Neptune conjunct the U.S. Saturn in Libra.

With Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Mars all involved in the 1783 grand cross, this first great depression is viewed by economic historians as being equally severe as the one that hit in the 1930s.

The Depression of the 1840s

The second great depression held the nation in its grip about 60 years later (during the 1840s) when Saturn in mid-Capricorn squared Pluto in mid-Aries to form the grand cross pattern with the U.S. Sun and Saturn. Mars added to the grim times by being at 14 degrees of Libra conjunct the U.S. Saturn.

Other Historic Depressions

It's interesting to note that while Saturn has anchored all four great depressions from mid-Capricorn, the planets occupying mid-Aries have been Mars (the 1780s), Pluto (the 1840s), Neptune (the 1870s) and Uranus (the 1930s). Uranus and Neptune were also involved during the 1780s, "fortifying" the grand cross.

As we shall see when we look at the 1870s and then the twentieth century, the grand cross pattern anchored by Saturn consistently correlates with great depressions. Yet when Saturn opposes the U.S. Sun without forming a grand cross with Uranus, Neptune, Pluto or Mars, no great depression happens.

In part two, we'll see that this grand cross pattern repeats with the great depressions of the 1870s and 1930s, but when there is no grand cross (the 1990s) no great depression occurs.

We'll also look at an ominous pattern due to become exact in 2014, a grand cross formed by Pluto in mid-Capricorn square Uranus in mid-Aries, and we'll look back in history for indications of what this one will bring.

The Depression of the 1870s

The United States suffered its third great depression during the 1870s. This time Saturn's trip through Capricorn formed a square with Neptune in Aries to create the grand cross with The U.S. Sun and Saturn, with Mars in Libra adding power to this most malevolent aspect.

The Depression of the 1930s

Sixty years later, the U.S.A. went through what is arguably the worst great depression of its history. I say "arguably" because existing historic data indicates that the great depression of the 1780s was as bad, or worse.

A biwheel chart for January 1, 1931, near the depths of this great depression, shows transiting Saturn at 13 degrees Capricorn square Uranus in Aries to form the grand cross with the U.S. Sun and Saturn. Ominously, Pluto was nearly conjunct the U.S. Sun in Cancer at this time.

What About the 1960s?

When Saturn arrived in mid-Capricorn opposite the U.S. Sun in the early 1960s, there was no heavy planet squaring Saturn from mid-Aries, and there was no great depression. Instead, the developments of the 60s were unprecedented (Uranus) and transforming (Pluto).

The Boom of the 1990s

Economists who track the 30- and/or 60-year rhythm of great depressions were sure the 1990s would send the U.S.A. into another. Dr. Ravi Batra's book, The Great Depression of 1990, was a bestseller in the late 1980s. But this time, when Saturn moved opposite The U.S. Sun, it was accompanied through Capricorn by Uranus and Neptune, with all three sextile (60 degrees from) Pluto in Scorpio. There was no grand cross, and no great depression.

Instead, during the 1990s we have had a record run-up of stock prices (speculative bubble), coupled with a widening gap between rich and poor, the two conditions that have always been extant when previous great depressions arrived.

Will the Bubble and Gap Bring Us Another Depression?

As we move into the new millennium, Saturn isn't due to arrive opposite the U.S. Sun until January 2019. At that time, it won't square another "heavy" in Aries. Thus, based on past astro-economic correlations, we can expect to suffer no great depression during the 2020s.

However, we are not likely to make it to 2020 without suffering something like a combination of the 1930s and 1960s. This is because Pluto, when it arrives opposite the U.S. Sun, will be square Uranus in mid-Aries to form a grand cross with the U.S. Sun and Saturn.

A Pluto-Anchored Grand Cross

What can we expect from a grand cross anchored by Pluto instead of Saturn? Past history of Pluto-Uranus combinations are instructive.

Pluto was conjunct the U.S. Sun in Cancer and square transiting Uranus in Aries during much of the great depression of the 1930s. Pluto and Uranus were conjunct in Virgo, with both conjunct the U.S. Neptune (which squares its natal Mars in Gemini) for that dramatic decade of upheaval now known as the 60s.

Pluto and Uranus in the 1750s

The last time Pluto was in Sagittarius was the 1750s. At the beginning of the French and Indian War, Pluto was at 12 degrees Sagittarius (about where it is right now) and Uranus was square Pluto at 11 degrees Pisces. This war was a major turning point, setting off the holocaust that decimated Native Americans and coincided with the social ferment that led to the American Revolution.

For a colony to rebel against its mother country was unprecedented (Uranus) and spelled the death of old kingdoms and the birth of new democracies (Pluto). The American Revolution virtually turned our assumptions about governance upside down.

Pluto and Uranus in the 1960s

The Pluto-Uranus conjunction of the 60s changed American cultural assumptions about race, gender, economic justice and the right of government to induct people into the military.

It's therefore a good bet that when Pluto and Uranus create a grand cross with the U.S. Sun-square-Saturn in 2014, we can look for another time of social upheaval and changing cultural assumptions. Whatever revolutionary angst has built up the most force will manifest (Pluto) in ways that cannot be predicted (Uranus).

Tied to the Past

Although the Pluto-Uranus combinations of the 1700s and 1960s moved us toward democracy, something like an umbilical cord continued to tie us to medieval autocracy. What had developed by the 1990s was governance by plutocracy masked as democracy. The rich still controlled democratically elected lawmakers.

The Pluto-anchored grand cross of 2014 appears destined to sever the umbilical cord to medieval autocracy and establish a purer form of democracy. How this will come about, however, is unpredictable (Uranus).

Saturn and Great Depressions Part 1
Saturn and Great Depressions Part 2

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Updated version of The American Monetary Act

I thought today -- the 18th -- would be an appropriate day to post this. In numerology, the digits 1 and 8 are added together to 'reduce' the final number to 9 -- the number representing everything that 'rescues' humanity on both a large and small scale. So, in numerology -- the 9th, 18th, and 27th of each month are the best dates to address humanitarian causes.

Lately, it's beginning to look a lot like another 'Black Tuesday' is looming on the horizon. If/When we enter another Great Depression, and the responsible parties all follow their buddy Lesar to the United Arab Emirates (Good riddance) -- will this be what saves us?

From the American Monetary Institute:

"Dear Friends of the American Monetary Institute,

Attached is the "American Money Scene" 4th bulletin. I hope you enjoy it. (Since time management isn't one of my better skills, I finally just read all the way through the bulletin. It's amazing how much important information I miss whenever I make an attempt at skim-reading.)

Also Attached is the latest version, in color of the American Monetary Act pamphlet. It places the Act into historical perspective which serves to explain what each section does. An important addition to the act is Section 503 which gives the Act a special local significance, through grants to the states for local use. The amounts are based on the amount of money created the prior year.

The fact is that EVERYWHERE, the states, counties and cities are under an obscene financial pressure to cut back on worthwhile and essential activities, including police, fire, health care, education, etc. The explicit intention to defund government at all levels leaves our population at the mercy of the financial companies which have presently usurped the money-creation process from our society - the "Enrons" of finance.

Section 503 serves to reverse that process. This gives us a crucial talking point with all local elected officials from state senators and reps to governors, county boards, mayors and school boards, etc. This gives us an entree to introducing the money reform concepts to any and all of them. These local elected officials can become our strongest ally in forcing monetary reforms at the national level.

Warm regards to all,
Stephen Zarlenga

P.S. Remember our AMI Monetary Reform Conference speakers have all been requested to tie in their presentations to explain how the present privately controlled monetary system creates a motivation for warfare (see the attached American Money Scene). Register by May 15 to obtain the discount."

Since the updated version of the American Monetary Act and the "American Money Scene" - 4th bulletin were sent as Attachments, I can't provide direct links to them. So, here is the link to the American Monetary Institute, where the updated version of the American Monetary Act can be viewed (Bulletin #4 of the "American Money Scene" doesn't appear to be linked at the site yet):
http://www.monetary.org/

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The Illusion of Money

The Real Story of the Money-Control Over America

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This study on money is not copyrighted. It may be reproduced
in whole or in part for the purpose of helping the American people.


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Americans, living in what is called the richest nation on earth, seem always to be short of money. Wives are working in unprecedented numbers, husbands hope for overtime hours to earn more, or take part-time jobs evenings and weekends, children look for odd jobs for spending money, the family debt climbs higher, and psychologists say one of the biggest causes of family quarrels and breakups is "arguments over money." Much of this trouble can be traced to our present "debt-money" system.

Economists use the term "create" when speaking of the process by which money comes into existence. Now, creation means making something that did not exist before. Lumbermen make boards from trees, workers build houses from lumber, and factories manufacture automobiles from metal, glass and other materials. But in all these they did not "create," they only changed existing materials into a more usable and, therefore, more valuable form. This is not so with money. Here, and here alone, man actually "creates" something out of nothing. A piece of paper of little value is printed so that it is worth a piece of lumber. With different figures it can buy the automobile or even the house. Its value has been "created" in the true meaning of the word.

Money "Creating" Profitable:

As is seen by the above, money is very cheap to make, and whoever does the "creating" of money in a nation can make a tremendous profit! Builders work hard to make a profit of 5% above their cost to build a house.

Auto makers sell their cars for 1% to 2% above the cost of manufacture and it is considered good business. But money "manufacturers" have no limit on their profits, since a few cents will print a $1 bill or a $10,000 bill.

That profit is part of our story, but first let us consider another unique characteristic of the thing -- money, the love of which is the "root of all evil."

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An adequate supply of money is indispensable to civilized society. We could forego many other things, but without money industry would grind to a halt, farms would become only self-sustaining units, surplus food would disappear, jobs requiring the work of more than one man or one family would remain undone, shipping and large movements of goods would cease, hungry people would plunder and kill to remain alive, and all government except family or tribe would cease to function.

An overstatement, you say? Not at all. Money is the blood of civilized society, the means of all commercial trade except simple barter. It is the measure and the instrument by which one product is sold and another purchased. Remove money or even reduce the supply below that which is necessary to carry on current levels of trade, and the results are catastrophic. For an example, we need only look at America's Depression of the early 1930's.

The Bankers Depression of the 1930's:

In 1930 America did not lack industrial capacity, fertile farmland, skilled and willing workers or industrious farm families. It had an extensive and highly efficient transportation system in railroads, road networks, and inland and ocean waterways. Communications between regions and localities were the best in the world, utilizing telephone, teletype, radio, and a well-operated government mail system. No war had ravaged the cities or the countryside, no pestilence weakened the population, nor had famine stalked the land. The United States of America in 1930 lacked only one thing: an adequate supply of money to carry on trade and commerce.

In the early 1930's, Bankers, the only source of new money and credit, deliberately refused loans to industries, stores and farms. Payments on existing loans were required however, and money rapidly disappeared from circulation. Goods were available to be purchased, jobs waiting to be done, but the lack of money brought the nation to a standstill. By this simple ploy America was put in a "depression" and the greedy Bankers took possession of hundreds of thousands of farms, homes, and business properties. The people were told, "times are hard," and "money is short." Not understanding the system, they were cruelly robbed of their earnings, their savings, and their property.

Money for Peace? No! Money for War? Yes!

World War II ended the "depression." The same Bankers who in the early 30's had no loans for peacetime houses, food and clothing, suddenly had unlimited billions to lend for Army barracks, K-rations and uniforms! A nation that in 1934 couldn't produce food for sale, suddenly could produce bombs to send free to Germany and Japan! (More on this riddle later.)

With the sudden increase in money, people were hired, farms sold their produce, factories went to two shifts, mines re-opened, and "The Great Depression" was over! Some politicians were blamed for it and others took credit for ending it. The truth is the lack of money (caused by the Bankers) brought on the depression, and adequate money ended it. The people were never told that simple truth and in this article we will endeavor to show how these same Bankers who control our money and credit have used their control to plunder America and place us in bondage.

Power to Coin and Regulate Money:

When we can see the disastrous' results of an artificially created shortage of money, we can better understand why our Founding Fathers, who understood both money and God's Laws, insisted on placing the power to "create" money and the power to control it ONLY in the hands of the Federal Congress. They believed that ALL citizens should share in the profits of its "creation" and therefore the national government must be the ONLY creator of money. They further believed that ALL citizens, of whatever State or Territory, or station in life would benefit by an adequate and stable currency and therefore, the national government must also be, by law, the ONLY controller of the value of money.

Since the Federal Congress was the only legislative body subject to all the citizens at the ballot box, it was, to their minds, the only safe depository of so much profit and so much power. They wrote it out in the simple, but all-inclusive: "Congress shall have the Power to Coin Money and Regulate the Value Thereof."

How the People Lost Control
to the Federal Reserve:

Instead of the Constitutional method of creating our money and putting it into circulation, we now have an entirely unconstitutional system. This has resulted in almost disastrous conditions, as we shall see.

Since our money was handled both legally and illegally before 1913, we shall consider only the years following 1913, since from that year on, ALL of our money has been created and issued by an illegal method that will eventually destroy the United States if it is not changed. Prior to 1913, America was a prosperous, powerful, and growing nation, at peace with its neighbors and the envy of the world. But -- in December of 1913, Congress, with many members away for the Christmas holidays, passed what has since been known as the FEDERAL RESERVE ACT. (For the full story of how this infamous legislation was forced through our Congress, read Conquest or Consent, by W. B. Uennard). Omitting the burdensome details, it simply authorized the establishment of a Federal Reserve Corporation, with a Board of Directors (The Federal Reserve Board) to run it, and the United States was divided into 12 Federal Reserve "Districts."

This simple, but terrible, law completely removed from Congress the right to "create" money or to have any control over its "creation," and gave that function to the Federal Reserve Corporation. This was done with appropriate fanfare and propaganda that this would "remove money from politics" (they didn't say "and therefore from the people's control") and prevent "Boom and Bust" from hurting our citizens. The people were not told then, and most still do not know today, that the Federal Reserve Corporation is a private corporation controlled by bankers and therefore is operated for the financial gain of the bankers over the people rather than for the good of the people. The word "Federal" was used only to deceive the people.

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Since that "day of infamy," the small group of "privileged" people who lend us "our" money have accrued to themselves all of the profits of printing our money -- and more! Since 1913 they have "created" tens of billions of dollars in money and credit, which, as their own personal property, they then lend to our government and our people at interest. "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" had become the secret policy of our National Government. An example of the process of "creation" and its conversion to people's "debt" will aid our understanding.

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We shall start with the need for money. The Federal Government, having spent more than it has taken from its citizens in taxes, needs, for the sake of illustration, $1,000,000,000. Since it does not have the money, and Congress has given away its authority to "create" it, the Government must go the the "creators" for the $1 billion. But, the Federal Reserve, a private corporation, doesn't just give its money away! The Bankers are willing to deliver $1,000,000,000 in money or credit to the Federal Government in exchange for the Government's agreement to pay it back -- with interest! So Congress authorizes the Treasury Department to print $1,000,000,000 in U.S. Bonds, which are then delivered to the Federal Reserve Bankers.

The Federal Reserve then pays the cost of printing the $1,000,000,000 (about $1,000) and makes the exchange. The Government then uses the money to pay its obligations. What are the results of this fantastic transaction? Well, $1 billion in Government bills are paid all right, but the Government has now indebted the people to the Bankers for $1 billion on which the people must pay interest! Tens of thousands of such transactions have taken place since 1913 so that by the 1980's, the U.S. Government is indebted to the Bankers for over $1,000,000,000,000 (trillion) on which the people pay over $100 billion a year in interest alone with no hope of ever paying off the principal. [In 1995, the total Federal Debt has grown to over $5 trillion, with an annual interest payment of $203 billion, 14% of the federal budget. -Ed] Supposedly our children and following generations will pay forever and forever!

And There's More:

You say, "This is terrible!" Yes, it is, but we have shown only part of the sordid story. Under this unholy system, those United States Bonds have now become "assets" of the Banks in the Reserve System which they then use as "reserves" to "create" more "credit" to lend. Current "reserve" requirements allow them to use that $1 billion in bonds to "create" as much as $15 billion in new "credit" to lend to States, Municipalities, to individuals and businesses. Added to the original $1 billion, they could have $16 billion of "created credit" out in loans paying them interest with their only cost being $1,000 for printing the origina1 $1 billion! Since the U.S. Congress has not issued Constitutional money since 1863 (over 100 years), in order for the people to have money to carry on trade and commerce they are forced to borrow the "created credit" of the Monoply Bankers and pay them usury-interest!

And There's Still More...............

In addition to the vast wealth drawn to them through this almost unlimited usury, the Bankers who control the money at the top are able to approve or disapprove large loans to large and successful corporations to the extent that refusal of a loan will bring about a reduction in the price that that Corporation's stock sells for on the market. After depressing the price, the Bankers' agents buy large blocks of the stock, after which the sometimes multi-million dollar loan is approved, the stock rises, and is then sold for a profit. In this manner billions of dollars are made with which to buy more stock. This practice is so refined today that the Federal Reserve Board need only announce to the newspapers an increase or decrease in their "rediscount rate" to send stocks up and down as they wish. Using this method since 1913, the Bankers and their agents have purchased secret or open control of almost every large corporation in America. Using that control, they then force the corporations to borrow huge sums from their banks so that corporation earnings are siphoned off in the form of interest to the banks. This leaves little as actual "profits" which can be paid as dividends and explains why stock prices are so depressed, while the banks reap billions in interest from corporate loans. In effect, the bankers get almost all of the profits, while individual stock holders are left holding the bag.

The millions of working famlies of America are now indebted to the few thousand Banking Families for twice the assessed value of the entire United States. And these Banking Families obtained that debt against us for the cost of paper, ink, and bookkeeping!

The Interest Amount is Never Created:

The only way new money (which is not true money, but is "credit" representing a debt), goes into circulation in America is when it is borrowed from Bankers. When the State and people borrow large sums, we seem to prosper. However, the Bankers "create" only the amount of the principal of each loan, never the extra amount needed to pay the interest. Therefore, the new money never equals the new debt added. The amounts needed to pay the interest on loans is not "created," and therefore does not exist!

Under this kind of a system, where new debt aiways exceeds the new money no matter how much or how little is borrowed, the total debt increasingly outstrips the amount of money available to pay the debt. The people can never, ever get out of debt!

An example will show the viciousness of this usury-debt system with its "built-in" shortage of money.

If $60,000 is Borrowed,
$255,931.20 Must Be Paid Back

When a citizen goes to a Banker to borrow $60,000 to purchase a home or a farm, the Bank clerk has the borrower agree to pay back the loan plus interest. At 14% interest for 30 years, the Borrower must agree to pay $710.92 per month for a tota1 of $255,931.20. The clerk then requires the citizen to assign to the Banker the right of ownership of the property if the Borrower does not make the required payments. The Bank clerk then gives the Borrower a $60,000 check or a $60,000 deposit slip crediting the Borrower's checking account with $60,000.

The Borrower then writes checks to the builder, subcontractors, etc., who in turn write checks. $60,000 of new "checkbook" money is thereby added to "money in circulation."

However, and this is the fatal flaw in a usury system, the only new money created and put into circulation is the amount of the loan, $60,000. The money to pay the interest is NOT created, and therefore was NOT added to "money in circulation."

Even so, this Borrower (and those who follow him in ownership of the property) must earn and TAKE OUT OF CIRCULATION $255,931, almost $200,000 MORE than he put IN CIRCULATION when he borrowed the origina1 $60,000. (By the way, it is this interest which cheats all families out of nicer homes. It is not that they can't afford them; it is because the Banker's usury forces them to pay for 4 homes to get one!)

Every new loan puts the same process in operation. Each borrower adds a small sum to the total money supply when he borrows, but the payments on the loan (because of interest) then deduct a much LARGER sum from the total money supply.

There is therefore no way all debtors can pay off the money-lenders. As they pay the principal and interest, the money in circulation disappears. All they can do is struggle against each other, borrowing more and more from the money-lenders each generation. The money-lenders (Bankers), who produce nothing of value, slowly, then more rapidly, gain a death grip on the land, buildings, and present and future earnings of the whole working population. The borrowers have become the servants of the lenders!!!!!!!

Small Loans Do the Same Thing:

If you haven't quite grasped the impact of the above, let us consider a small auto loan for 3 years at 18% interest. Step 1: Citizen borrows $5,000 and pays it into circulation (it goes to the dealer, factory, miner, etc.) and signs a note agreeing to pay the Banker $6,500. Step 2: Citizen pays $180 per month of his earnings to the Banker. In 3 years he will take OUT of circulation $1,500 more than he put IN circulation.

Every loan of Banker "created" money (credit) causes the same thing to happen. Since this has happened millions of times since 1913 (and continues today), you can see why America has gone from a prosperous, debt-free nation to a debt-ridden nation where practically every home, farm and business is paying usury-tribute to some Banker. The usury-tribute to the Bankers on personal, local, State and Federal debt totals more than the combined earnings of 25% of the working people. Soon it will be 50% and continue up.

$$$$$$$$This is Why Bankers Prosper in Good Times or Bad$$$$$$$$$$$$$

In the millions of transactions made each year like those above, little actual currency changes hands, nor is it necessary that it do so. 95% of all "cash" transactions in the U.S. are by check, so the Banker is perfectly safe in "creating" that so-called "loan" by writing the check or deposit slip, not against actual money, but AGAINST YOUR PROMISE TO PAY IT BACK! The cost to him is paper, ink and a few dollars in salaries and office costs for each transaction. It is "check-kiting" on an enormous scale. The profits increase rapidly, year after year, as shown below.




The Cost To You? Eventually, Everything!

In 1910 the U.S. Federal debt was only $1 billion, or $12.40 per citizen. State and local debts were practically non-existent.

By 1920, after only 6 years of Federal Reserve shenanigans, the Federal debt had jumped to $24 billion, or $228 per person.

In 1960 the Federal debt reached $284 billion, or $1,575 per citizen and State and local debts were mushrooming.

By 1981 the Federal debt passed $1 trillion and was growing exponentially as the Banker's tripled the interest rates. State and local debts are now MORE than the Federal, and with business and personal debts totalled over $6 trillion, 3 times the value of all land and buildings in America.

lf we signed over to the money-lenders all of America we would still owe them 2 more Americas (plus their usury, of course!)

However, they are too cunning to take title to everything. They will instead leave you with some "illusion of ownership" so you and your children will continue to work and pay the Bankers more of your earnings in ever-increasiag debts. The "establishment" has captured our people with their ungodly system of usury and debt as certainly as if they had marched in with a uniformed army.

For The Gamblers:
To grasp the truth that periodic withdrawal of money through interest payments will inexorably transfer all wealth in the nation to the receiver of interest, imagine yourself in a poker or dice game where everyone must buy the chips (the medium of exchange) from a "banker" who does not risk chips in the game, but watches the table and every hour reaches in and takes 10% to 15% of all the chips on the table. As the game goes on, the amount of chips in the possession of each player will go up and down with his "luck." However, the TOTAL number of chips available to play the game (carry on trade and business) will decrease rapidly.

The game will get low on chips, and some will run out. If they want to continue to play, they must buy or borrow them from the "banker." The "banker" will sell (lend) them ONLY if the player signs a "mortgage" agreeing to give the "banker" some real property (car, hnme, farm, business, etc.) if he cannot make periodic payments to pay back all of the chips plus some EXTRA ones (interest). The payments must be made on time, whether he wins (makes a profit) or not.

It is easy to see that no matter how skillfully they play, eventually the "banker" will end up with all of his original chips back, and except for the very best players, the rest, if they stay in long enough, will lose to the "banker" their homes, their farms, their businesses, perhaps even their cars, watches, rings, and the shirts off their backs!

Our real-life situation is MUCH WORSE than any poker game. In a poker game none is forced to go into debt, and anyone can quit at any time and keep whatever he still has. But in real life, even if we borrow little ourselves from the Bankers, the local, State, and Federal governments borrow billions in our name, squander it, then confiscate our earnings from us and pay it back to the Bankers with interest. We are forced to play the game, and none can leave except by death. We pay as long as we live, and our children pay after we die. If we cannot pay, the same government sends the police to take our property and give it to the Bankers. The Bankers risk nothing in the game; they just collect their percentage and "win it all." In Las Vegas and at other gambling centers, all games are "rigged" to pay the owner a percentage, and they rake in millions. The Federal Reserve Bankers' "game" is also rigged, and it pays off in billions!

In recent years Bankers added real "cards" to their game. "Credit" cards are promoted as a convenience and a great boon to trade. Actually, they are ingenious devices by which Bankers collect 2% to 5% of every retail sale from the seller and 18% interest from buyers. A real "stacked" deck!

Yes, It's Political, Too!(SURPRISE!):

Democrat, Republican, and Independent voters who have wondered why politicians always spend more tax money than they take in should now see the reason. When they begin to study our "debt-money" system, they soon realize that these politicians are not the agents of the people but are the agents of the Bankers, for whom they plan ways to place the people further in debt. It takes only a little imagination to see that if Congress had been "creating," and spending or issuing into circulation the necessary increase in the money supply, THERE WOULD BE NO NATIONAL DEBT, and the over $4 Trillion of other debts would be practically non-existent. Since there would be no ORIGINAL cost of money except printing, and no CONTINUING costs such as interest, Federal taxes would be almost nil. Money, once in circulation, would remain there and go on serving its purpose as a medium of exchange for generation after generation and century after century, just as coins do now, with NO payments to the Bankers whatever!

$$$MOUNTING DEBTS & WAR$$$$$$$$$:

But instead of peace and debt-free prosperity, we have ever-mounting debt and periodic wars. We as a people are now ruled by a system of Banker-owned Mammon that has usurped the mantle of government, disguised itself as our legitimate government, and set about to pauperize and control our people. It is now a centralized, all-powerful political apparatus whose main purposes are promoting war, spending the peoples' money, and propagandizing to perpetuate itself in power. Our two large political parties have become its servants. the various departments of government its spending agencies, and the Internal Revenue its collection agency.

Unknown to the people, it operates in close cooperation with similar apparatuses in other nations, which are also disguised as "governments." Some, we are told, are friends. Some, we are told, are enemies. "Enemies" are built up through international manipulations and used to frighten the American people into going billions of dollars more into debt to the Bankers for "military preparedness," "foreign aid to stop communism," etc. Citizens, deliberately confused by brainwashing propaganda, watch helplessly while our politicians give our food, goods, and money to Banker-controlled alien governments under the guise of "better relations" and "easing tensions." Our Banker-controlled government takes our finest and bravest sons and sends them into foreign wars with obsolete equipment and inadequate training, where tens of thousands are murdered, and hundreds of thousands are crippled. Other thousands are morally corrupted, addicted to drugs, and infected with venereal and other diseases, which they bring back to the United States. When the "war" is over, we have gained nothing, but we are scores of billions of dollars more in debt to the Bankers, which was the reason for the "war" in the first place!

http://people.tribe.net/572f7c53-d7b2-4e11-a154-988850a94c6b/blog/d3ac2623-bcc4-4943-bc14-81cf6ab01fb5

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Hard evidence that the American Cancer Society and chemotherapy are a multi-billion dollar fraud

Year after year, I witnessed newscast after newscast about fundraisers for this or that person's chemo treatments. And year after year, the inevitable news would come that each and every one of those same people "sadly lost the battle against cancer". It got to the point where I began to associate news of a chemo fundraiser with that person's imminent death. (The only reason greater numbers of people live through their first round of poisonous chemotherapy treatments these days is because the ACS knew enough to lower the doses they inflict upon their benevolent benefactors. Still, the cancer always returns in those chemo victims.) Now, with the lower doses inflicted by the ACS, the chemo victims' deaths are delayed until the (guaranteed) recurrence of the cancer. And yet, the American Cancer Society still is able to brainwash the masses into believing that this constitutes a "successful" cancer treatment.

I remember years ago when I first saw the news on television about the teenage boy from here in Massachusetts who ran away from home because he could feel his chemotherapy (mis)treatments killing him. Billy Best's parents promised him on the national news that if he would return home, they wouldn't make him undergo any more chemotherapy (mis)treatments. Billy returned home, and his parents kept their promise. I was elated by that news, because I knew then that Billy would live, and we wouldn't be hearing that grim news that "sadly, he lost his battle against cancer."

Meet Billy Best

Read about the mainstream news cover-up here:
714X VS. Dana Farber Cancer Institute

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The Iranian Oil Bourse

"Only the British will find themselves between a rock and a hard place. They have had a strategic partnership with the U.S. forever, but have also had their natural pull from Europe. So far, they have had many reasons to stick with the winner. However, when they see their century-old partner falling, will they firmly stand behind him or will they deliver the coup de grace? Still, we should not forget that currently the two leading oil exchanges are the New York's NYMEX and the London's International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), even though both of them are effectively owned by the Americans. It seems more likely that the British will have to go down with the sinking ship, for otherwise they will be shooting themselves in the foot by hurting their own London IPE interests. It is here noteworthy that for all the rhetoric about the reasons for the surviving British Pound, the British most likely did not adopt the Euro namely because the Americans must have pressured them not to: otherwise the London IPE would have had to switch to Euros, thus mortally wounding the dollar and their strategic partner.

At any rate, no matter what the British decide, should the Iranian Oil Bourse accelerate, the interests that matter-those of Europeans, Chinese, Japanese, Russians, and Arabs-will eagerly adopt the Euro, thus sealing the fate of the dollar. Americans cannot allow this to happen, and if necessary, will use a vast array of strategies to halt or hobble the operation's exchange:

* Sabotaging the Exchange-this could be a computer virus, network, communications, or server attack, various server security breaches, or a 9-11-type attack on main and backup facilities.

* Coup d'état-this is by far the best long-term strategy available to the Americans.

* Negotiating Acceptable Terms & Limitations-this is another excellent solution to the Americans. Of course, a government coup is clearly the preferred strategy, for it will ensure that the exchange does not operate at all and does not threaten American interests. However, if an attempted sabotage or coup d'etat fails, then negotiation is clearly the second-best available option.

* Joint U.N. War Resolution-this will be, no doubt, hard to secure given the interests of all other member-states of the Security Council. Feverish rhetoric about Iranians developing nuclear weapons undoubtedly serves to prepare this course of action.

* Unilateral Nuclear Strike-this is a terrible strategic choice for all the reasons associated with the next strategy, the Unilateral Total War. The Americans will likely use Israel to do their dirty nuclear job.

* Unilateral Total War-this is obviously the worst strategic choice. First, the U.S. military resources have been already depleted with two wars. Secondly, the Americans will further alienate other powerful nations. Third, major dollar-holding countries may decide to quietly retaliate by dumping their own mountains of dollars, thus preventing the U.S. from further financing its militant ambitions. Finally, Iran has strategic alliances with other powerful nations that may trigger their involvement in war; Iran reputedly has such alliance with China, India, and Russia, known as the Shanghai Cooperative Group, a.k.a. Shanghai Coop and a separate pact with Syria.

Whatever the strategic choice, from a purely economic point of view, should the Iranian Oil Bourse gain momentum, it will be eagerly embraced by major economic powers and will precipitate the demise of the dollar. The collapsing dollar will dramatically accelerate U.S. inflation and will pressure upward U.S. long-term interest rates. At this point, the Fed will find itself between Scylla and Charybdis-between deflation and hyperinflation-it will be forced fast either to take its "classical medicine" by deflating, whereby it raises interest rates, thus inducing a major economic depression, a collapse in real estate, and an implosion in bond, stock, and derivative markets, with a total financial collapse, or alternatively, to take the Weimar way out by inflating, whereby it pegs the long-bond yield, raises the Helicopters and drowns the financial system in liquidity, bailing out numerous LTCMs and hyperinflating the economy."

http://blogs.albawaba.com/Alexanderjames/2067/2006/02/03/14861-march_startup_of_iranian_oil_bourse_will_accelerate_the_dollar_empires_fall_unless_the_empire_strikes_back_with_an_invasion

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Aaaargh!!!!!

So, instead of making SENSE and using all that money to pay their employees well-earned higher wages, the worthless sacks of s*** that run Wal-Mart are WASTING it in courting Democratic politicians!!!

What the hell???!!!!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/02/AR2007040201749.html?referrer=email


It's time to begin building a true meritocracy. Starving the useless, non-working Waltons of their entirely unearned profits will be a good place to start.

Costco, here we come! All hail Jim Sinegal -- god of CEO's!

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1186981,00.html

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CIA coup in Guatemala 1954: keeping United Fruit Company in power

Methods for brainwashing Americans into consenting
to the military invasion

Via: VideoSift


And that was only the beginning of things to come:

Fast forward to 47 years later... Electronic voting systems in the U.S. had recently been rigged to "elect" a corporatist president, along with a corporatist majority congress. The apparent purpose for this first crime was mainly to enable the world's petro-chemical and banking industry giants to expand their racket of fleecing, plundering, and pillaging the entire world's man-made and natural resources (including its people) without retribution. It has become clearer by the day, that the centerpiece of their scheme was/is to enable the banking/finance, pharmaceutical, commercial real estate, and fossil fuel energy industries to gain control of the financially independent, relatively "un-medicated", oil-rich nations of the world.

The corporatist president and his co-conspirators knew those coveted territories were impenetrable through any means other than military force, as those nations' religious, military, and political leaders (often one and the same) were able to call forth powerful resistance from their citizens against the corporate invaders. In order to induce a majority of U.S. citizens to consent to such a brutal infiltration, the corporate giants needed to create a "national crisis" -- a pretext for declaring war against one of those financially-independent, oil-rich nations -- the one they perceived to be the "weakest link".

In July of 2001, commercial real estate tycoon Larry Silverstein gets a 99-year lease on the World Trade Center, along with a 3.6 BILLION dollar insurance policy reworked to include coverage for Acts of Terrorism, as well as the right to rebuild if the structures are completely destroyed. Seven WEEKS later -- yes, WEEKS -- the buildings are completely destroyed by an Act of Terrorism. Hmmm...

Silverstein then demands 7.2 BILLION from the insurers, claiming that the two towers' hits count as two separate Acts of Terrorism. He eventually DOES get the 7.2 BILLION dollar insurance payout. I wonder what the odds would have been for that succession of events to take place unplanned -- only seven weeks into a 99-year lease...

One would think that these facts alone would strike absolutely everyone as being suspicious. Is the practice of mass mind control that effective?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003&q=911+mysteries

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Which mask does your preferred candidate wear -- the Republican mask, Democrat mask, Independent Mask, ...Other?

Political parties serve only two purposes:

1. Fundraising for self-promotion; and

2. As masks for deceiving the sheep, in order to more easily herd them.

So far, the two major parties have done a very good job of brainwashing the masses into believing that our economic system is "free market capitalism", when in fact what we actually have is SOCIALISM FOR THE RICH. Oil subsidies for Big Oil, Medicare subsidies for Big Pharma, and farm subsidies for corporate mega-farms are all SOCIALIST practices -- NOT capitalist at all. Even rental subsidies are not really for the benefit of renters -- they, too, exist mainly for the benefit of wealthy corporate landlords. In fact, rent subsidies actually hurt many members of the working class, because they encourage landlords to charge higher rents, thereby artificially inflating market rent prices in those "Liberal" enclaves where their use is most prevalent. This type of socialism has been practiced consistently NO MATTER WHICH POLITICAL PARTY HAS BEEN IN POWER.

Here are two of our nation's true leaders -- both of whom I believe would do better on an Unenrolled ticket. They are currently members of opposing political parties, but that makes no difference, as neither of them hides behind the two parties' deceptive masks. The common thread between the two men is that they both see the desperate need for monetary reform in the U.S.

Although I don't agree that the particular detail of backing our nation's currency with gold would be the best option -- still, this man is generally correct that U.S. citizens desperately need to be freed from the grasping hands behind the mass deception known as the Federal Reserve:

Congressman Ron Paul of Texas




And only two words are needed to describe this man -- Brilliant Visionary:

Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio

An Uncommon View

REM - "Daysleeper"

receiving dept., 3 a.m.
staff cuts have socked up the overage
directives are posted.
no callbacks, complaints.
everywhere is calm.

Hong Kong is present
Taipei awakes
all talk of circadian rhythm

I see today with a newsprint fray
my night is colored headache grey
daysleeper

the bull and the bear are marking
their territories
they're leading the blind with
their international glories

I'm the screen, the blinding light
I'm the screen, I work at night.

I see today with a newsprint fray
my night is colored headache grey
don't wake me with so much.
daysleeper.

I cried the other night
I can't even say why
fluorescent flat caffeine lights
its furious balancing

I'm the screen, the blinding light
I'm the screen, I work at night
I see today...
don't wake me with so much. the
ocean machine is set to 9
I'll squeeze into heaven and valentine
my bed is pulling me.
gravity
daysleeper



Veruca Salt - "Number One Blind"

Be my blind.
Be it all the time.
Be it night or day.
Take my sun away.
Away... Levolor, which of us is blind?
Levolor left me in the dark
Levolor, I can't see a thing but you.
Is it morning?
Blind me, please.
I am on my hands and knees.
I can only pray.
Take my sun away.
Away... Levolor, which of us is blind?
Levolor left me in the dark
Levolor, I can't see a thing but you.
Is it morning?
It is time.
It is time, Oh, oh.
Levolor, which of us is blind?
Levolor left me in the dark
Levolor, I can't see a thing but you.
Is it morning?
Levolor, which of us is blind?
Levolor left me in the dark
Levolor, I can't see a thing but you.
Is it morning?
Levolor. [x4]



Deftones - "My Own Summer"

Hey you, big star
Tell me, when it's over

Hey you, big mood
Guide me, to shelter
'cause i'm through
When the two
Hits the six
And it's summer (cloud)

Come - shove it, shove it, shove it
Shove - shove it, shove it, shove it
The sun - shove it, shove it, shove it
Aside - shove it aside

I think god is moving its tongue
There's no crowds in the streets, and no sun

(in my own summer)

The shade, is a tool
A device, a saviour
See i try, and look up
To the sky, but my eyes burn (cloud)

Come - shove it, shove it, shove it
Shove - shove it, shove it, shove it
The sun - shove it, shove it, shove it
Aside - shove it aside

Come - shove it, shove it, shove it
Shove - shove it, shove it, shove it
The sun - shove it, shove it, shove it
Aside - shove it aside

I think god is moving its tongue
There's no crowds in the streets, and no sun

In my, own, summer

Come - shove it, shove it, shove it
Shove - shove it, shove it, shove it
The sun - shove it, shove it, shove it
Aside - shove it aside

Yet another case for the Zero Economic Growth model

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."
Ellen Goodman
American journalist (1941 - )

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LETTER TO CONGRESSMAN BARNEY FRANK

As some of you may already know, Congressman Barney Frank is Chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services. Upon hearing the news that Susan Bies is leaving the Fed as a strategic ploy to give the puppetmaster central bankers fourteen more years of unquestioned control via a Bush appointee, I decided it was time to have my say. But at Barney Frank's site it cautions that letters will only reach him directly if they are coming from mailing addresses in his own district -- the Fourth District. At first I thought I might be out of luck, since I live in the Fifth District... But -- Wait a minute... It dawned on me that my Mom lives in the Fourth District and I can still use that address. Success!

To the Honorable Barney Frank:

I know you are already aware of the news that Susan Bies will be leaving the Fed in March in order to give President Bush the opportunity to put another fourteen year long stamp on the world via the central bank.

When exactly will Bush be selecting Bies' replacement?

Will it all be done without informing the public (as has always been the case with Fed candidates), and just letting us know once the replacement has already been made?

The extreme control that the Fed has over our government has served to discourage me from striving to better myself economically. Home prices in particular have been driven beyond the reach of most workers, due to rampant speculation which was fueled by artificially low interest rates. Now it has reached the point where no matter how many hours we work, the majority of us can never hope to own even very small homes of our own. Rents too have been driven so artificially high by tax subsidies, that for many workers, there is no longer such a thing as discretionary income. As you can probably guess, this leaves workers with no incentives at all. Due to the fact that the dollar has so clearly bought less and less throughout my lifetime, I have become a devout anti-consumer -- immune to any and all marketing ploys, deliberately earning only the bare minimum income I need to support myself (so that less income tax will be funneled to the wealthy), and now finally buying only exactly what I need for survival (so that less profit will be available for wealthy shareholders).

The central banks' corrupt system has left some of us with only one goal in life. That goal is to get out from under their policies, by getting out from under any debt we're burdened with, and then refusing to take out any loans or credit cards for the rest of our lives, as well as to stop purchasing any new products or services whatsoever. I'm confident that I can easily reach that goal by the end of this year. At this point I couldn't care less if I eventually end up with no credit history at all -- I’ll be happy just to be out from under the corrupt central bank policies forever.

The central bankers who are in control of the Fed governors need to be informed that if they continue to live entirely off of other people’s labor without ever working themselves -- and if they continue to attempt to leech more and more hours of labor out of workers with no rest or reward in sight, people will just give up and stop purchasing anything at all. The reason for this is that, if purchasing a product or service will cost us very long work hours (suffering), we prefer to keep our restful free time (which equals good health) -- and will happily live without the criminally over-priced consumer products or services. We've come to attach the negative psychological association of working longer hours (suffering) to the purchase of new products and services. For this reason, more and more American workers are (thankfully) being made immune to any marketing ploys and are coming to value our free time over consumer goods and services.

Mr. Frank -- Will it be possible for you to draw enough media attention to the impact that the upcoming proposed Fed appointee will have on all of our economic lives -- in order that the bought-and-paid-for media will have no choice but to stop hushing Fed matters?

I understand that Bush will have the opportunity to appoint yet another Fed governor before the end of his term of office as well.

We need so desperately to take action now, so that the Fed may one day soon be held accountable to us -- the citizens it rules (and often ruins) with its flawed public policies.

Thank you for your time and consideration in reading this letter, and thank you so much for your efforts in protecting consumers.

Christina M. P-----

P.S. The American Monetary Institute's 2007 Monetary Reform Conference in Chicago will be held from September 27th - 30th.

Monopoly Men

Part I


Part II


Part III


Part IV


Part V

The American Monetary Act

The American Monetary Institute's 2007 Monetary Reform Conference in Chicago will be held from September 27th - 30th
http://www.monetary.org/2007%20conference%20announcement.html

Here is Version 10 of the American Monetary Act which the American Monetary Institute has drawn up for our collective benefit:
http://www.monetary.org/American_Monetary_Act_version_10_feb_06.htm

Update:
In a message to me (in Comments) at my February 9th post, Stephen Zarlenga gave me a link to a better presentation of the American Monetary Act.
http://www.monetary.org/amacolorpamphlet.pdf

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HOW THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM OPERATES AND WHY IT HAS FAILED

In 1916, just three years after the Federal Reserve System went into operation, President Wilson seems to have suddenly realized what a virtually uncontrollable power monopoly had been vested in the nation's new Federal Reserve System. He wrote:

"A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated [in the Federal Reserve System]. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men.... We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world-no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." (Quoted in "National Economy and the Banking System," Senate Documents Co. 3, No. 23, Seventy-sixth Congress, First session, 1939.)

http://blogs.albawaba.com/Alexanderjames/2067/2006/02/23/19948-the_modern_day_babylonian_monetarycredit_system

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Still trying to mellow out after six weeks of mandatory overtime

I don't remember ever having seen Neil Young when he was this young. Maybe it's because I myself was only a school-aged kid back then. So he probably looked like an 'older guy' to me. But now from the perspective of a 46-year-old woman, he practically looks like a boy at this show -- a very handsome boy, I might add.

Neil Young - "Old Man"


"A Man Needs A Maid"

Housing Bubble Bloodbath

Excerpted from the January 14, 2007 page at informationliberation:

"I wonder if Alan Greenspan takes a copy of the business page along with him on the chair-lift at the Aspen, so he can read about the plummeting housing market before swooshing down the well-groomed bunny-slopes at his favorite ski resort. After all, no one played a larger role in inflating (what the “Economist” called) the “biggest equity bubble in history” than the retired Fed-master. His low interest-rate bonanza triggered a stampede of speculation in the real estate market sending prices through the stratosphere and setting the stage for the biggest economic bust in American history.

The whole catastrophe was cooked up by Sir Alan and his coterie of brandy-drooling elites at the Federal Reserve.

Thanks, guys.

Greenspan has undoubtedly taken note of the sudden spike in foreclosures which have set off alarm bells from Wall Street to the American heartland. The effects of his “cheap money” policies are finally sending tremors through America’s fragile economic landscape. In September, 2006 the US Foreclosure Market Report released a statement that over 112,000 homes had entered some stage of foreclosure “a 63% increase from September 2005!?! September was the second straight month in which more than 110,000 new foreclosure filings were reported nationwide, evidence that the spike in August was not just a one-month anomaly.”

No, it is not a “one-month anomaly” and it is bound to get considerably worse as $1 trillion of ARMs (Adjustable Rate Mortgages) reset in 2007. The rising foreclosure numbers are the result of rising monthly payments on the new-fangled loans which have low introductory interest rates, but can unexpectedly double after a two or three year period.

Imagine mortgage payments that suddenly jump from $1,300 per month to more than $2,000 on a $129,000 house. That’s what many people will be facing in 2007 when their loans reset and they are suddenly forced out of their homes and onto the streets.

The housing bubble is actually an extension of the stock market bubble; Greenspan’s earlier swindle which cost American investors $7 trillion in retirement and life-savings. Both equity balloons can be attributed to the shabby and exploitative monetary policies of the Federal Reserve. By expanding credit and money supply via low interest rates, the Fed has kept the economy whirring along creating the impression of prosperity when it’s all just smoke and mirrors. America’s opulence is built on a mountain of debt that’s piled a mile high. Regrettably, that mountain is about to cascade-down on the American people sometime in 2007-2008. There’ll be no escaping the fallout from the $4.5 trillion dollars of new mortgage debt that’s built up in the last 7 years. By the end of 2007 we should be able to identify many of the painful trends that accompany a deep recession; prices of homes will steeply decline, GDP will fall, and Greenspan’s mighty Temple of Debt will crash to earth.

The New York Times reported last week that “about 2.2 million borrowers that took out sub-prime loans from 1998 to 2006 are likely to lose their homes”. That translates into about 10 million people! But that, of course, is just the beginning of the bloodbath. The real fun begins when the whole, ugly ball-o-corruption starts to unwind and we get an insider’s-view of a system that is rotten to the marrow. The housing industry is saturated with fraud; the banks, the mortgage lenders, the Fed and the homeowners themselves have all played a major role in this sordid confidence game."

For full article:
Housing Bubble Bloodbath

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Learning to Lifeguard

original version written in April 1996


Even a thousand spirits
All clearly marked "Fragile"
Should each and every one be set down slowly.

No, not always from the air --
At least not this one...

Hurried days spent with another
Wrapped in heart matters
Already held her so near

To the ground --
Leaving only two places to go,
But only one choice really...

So sometimes I feared for her she'd get the bends,
But now I know how to pull her back to the surface carefully
Whenever she ventures too far down --

When she's asleep, I tell her
That her half of the soul
Shared centuries ago, is still

Near its tranquil home
(Where it burrowed its way inside -- Remember?)
That way, I can still get her to laugh and smile sometimes.

Limbo -- That's where she lives now...
I'll keep her there forever if I have to.
I won't let her take any risks, 'cause I love her
Too much.


The original version of this poem was written about my idealization -- or perhaps a better term would be idolization -- of a former 'demigod' of mine named Greg. At the time that I was getting to know him, I was already sixteen-and-a-half years into a nearly eighteen year relationship with my very interesting, but also very human friend Jack. (Since demigods are only our own idealized images projected onto ordinary mortals we meet -- I think that using the possessive term 'mine' fits in with that perfectly. Through 'our' demigods -- those humans that for whatever reason we choose to view through rose colored glasses, we give ourselves -- at least for a time -- "something beautiful" or "something to believe in" when the world seems so self-serving that you just know that "God" was only some space alien kid who created us for one of his/her/its science projects. Since we were subsequently abandoned, I'm guessing that the project didn't get a good grade.)

For me, later sleep equals better sleep.

My suggestion for anyone out there who isn't sleeping well -- is to try a schedule change on the weekend to see if the problem is just a simple circadian rhythm disorder. If you keep yourself up until you feel naturally sleepy (instead of trying to make yourself sleep when your body isn't ready yet), you probably will sleep much more deeply and be able to stay asleep for a full eight hours or so. If this works for you, then it probably just means you have delayed sleep phase syndrome and your energy naturally peaks in the evening and night.

The only trouble with changing your sleep schedule is that you also have to change your work schedule. That works out fine for some professions such as musicians, health care workers, warehouse workers, night watchmen, college professors (afternoon/evening classes only, of course)... But it presents a challenge if you have small children to care for, or if you work in a field that only offers a traditional morning start time.

I believe that the best thing any of us can do for our health is to find and keep our own ideal sleep/work schedule -- then no one would be relegated to taking sleep medications.

"Are you a good witch or a bad witch?"

Girly men rule!

I've missed this guy...

Eddie Izzard - "Stonehenge"

Faith, by definition, is belief without proof -- therefore it must always be blind

Link to listen to
Tori Amos performing "God"






God, sometimes you just don't come through
God, sometimes you just don't come through
Do you need a woman to look after you?
God, sometimes you just don't come through

You make pretty daisies, pretty daisies love
I gotta find what you're doing about things here
A few witches burning gets a little toasty here
I gotta find
Why you always go
When the wind blows

God, sometimes you just don't come through
God, sometimes you just don't come through
Do you need a woman to look after you?
God, sometimes you just don't come through

Tell me you're crazy maybe then I'll understand
You got your 9 iron in the back seat just in case
I heard you've gone south
Well, baby, you love your new 4 wheel
I gotta find
Why you always go
When the wind blows

Will you even tell her
If you decide to make the sky fall?
Will you even tell her
If you decide to make the sky fall?

God, sometimes you just don't come through
God, sometimes you just don't come through
Do you need a woman to look after you?
God, sometimes you just don't come through



The Carpenters - "Superstar"

Long ago and oh so far away

I fell in love with you before the second show

Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear

But you're not really here

It's just the radio



Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby?

Said you'd be coming back this way again baby

Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh, baby, I love you I really do



Loneliness is a such a sad affair

And I can hardly wait to be with you again



What to say to make you come again

Come back to me again

And play your sad guitar



Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby?

Said you'd be coming back this way again baby

Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh, baby, I love you I really do



Jesus Christ Superstar - "Everything's All Right"

(Mary Magdalene)
Try not to get worried
Try not to turn on to
Problems that upset you
Don't you know
Everything's all right
Yes everything's fine
And we want you to sleep well tonight
Let the world turn without you tonight
If we try
We'll get by
So forget all about us tonight

(Apostles' Women)
Everything's all right
Yes everything's all right yes

(Mary Magdalene)
Sleep and I shall soothe you
Calm you and anoint you
Myrrh for your hot forehead
(oh) Then you'll feel
Everything's all right
Yes everything's fine
And it's cool and the ointment's sweet
For the fire in your head and feet
Close your eyes
Close your eyes
And relax
Think of nothing tonight

(Apostles' Women)
Everything's all right
Yes everything's all right yes

(Judas)
Woman your fine ointment
Brand new and expensive
Should have been saved for the poor
Why has it been wasted?
We could have raised maybe
Three hundred silver pieces or more
People who are hungry
People who are starving
Matter more
Than your feet and hair

(Mary Magdalene)
Try not to get worried
Try not to turn on to
Problems that upset you
Don't you know
Everything's all right
Yes everything's all right yes

(Jesus)
Surely you're not saying
We have the resources
To save the poor from their lot?
There will be poor always
Pathetically struggling
Look at the good things you've got!
Think while you still have me
Move while you still see me
You'll be lost
You'll be so sorry
When I'm gone

(Mary Magdalene)
Sleep and I shall soothe you
Calm you and anoint you
Myrrh for your hot forehead
(oh) then you'll feel
Everything's alright
Yes everything's fine
And it's cool and the ointment's sweet
For the fire in your head and feet
Close your eyes
Close your eyes
And relax
Think of nothing tonight

(Apostles' Women)
Close your eyes
Close your eyes
And relax
Think of nothing

Close your eyes
Close your eyes
And relax

Close your eyes
Close your eyes
And relax

(Apostles' Women)
Everything's all right
Yes everything's all right yes

Today's post is dedicated to a monkey named Jack Abramoff

Nine Inch Nails - "Head Like A Hole"

bow down before the one you serve.
you're going to get what you deserve.
bow down before the one you serve.
you're going to get what you deserve.

god money i'll do anything for you.
god money just tell me what you want me to.
god money nail me up against the wall.
god money don't want everything he wants it all.

[Bridge:]
no you can't take it
no you can't take it
no you can't take that away from me
no you can't take it
no you can't take it
no you can't take that away from me
[Chorus:]
head like a hole.
black as your soul.
i'd rather die than give you control.
head like a hole.
black as your soul.
i'd rather die than give you control.


bow down before the one you serve.
you're going to get what you deserve.
bow down before the one you serve.
you're going to get what you deserve.

god money's not looking for the cure.
god money's not concerned about the sick among the pure.
god money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised.
god money's not one to choose

[Bridge:]
no you can't take it
no you can't take it
no you can't take that away from me
[Chorus:]
head like a hole.
black as your soul.
i'd rather die than give you control.
head like a hole.
black as your soul.
i'd rather die than give you control.


bow down before the one you serve.
you're going to get what you deserve.
bow down before the one you serve.
you're going to get what you deserve.

Some music expresses our own outrage and deep sadness...

XTC - "Dear God"

Dear God,
Hope you got the letter,
And I pray you can make it better down here.
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer,
But all the people that you made in your image,
See them starving on their feet,
'cause they don't get enough to eat

From God,
I can't believe in you.

Dear God,
Sorry to disturb you,
But I feel that I should be heard loud and clear.
We all need a big reduction in amount of tears,
And all the people that you made in your image,
See them fighting in the street,
'cause they can't make opinions meet,
About God,
I can't believe in you.

Did you make disease, and the diamond blue?
Did you make mankind after we made you?
And the devil too!

Dear God,
Don't know if you noticed,
But your name is on a lot of quotes in this book.
Us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look,
And all the people that you made in your image,
Still believing that junk is true.
Well I know it ain't and so do you,
Dear God,
I can't believe in,
I don't believe in,

I won't believe in heaven and hell.
No saints, no sinners,
No devil as well.
No pearly gates, no thorny crown.
You're always letting us humans down.
The wars you bring, the babes you drown.
Those lost at sea and never found,
And its the same the whole world 'round.
The hurt I see helps to compound,
That the father, son and holy ghost,
Is just somebody's unholy hoax,
And if you're out there you'll perceive,
That my heart's here upon my sleeve.
If there's one thing I don't believe in...

It's you,
Dear God.


Crosby and Nash - "Immigration Man"

There I was at the immigration scene
Shining and feeling clean
Could it be a sin?
I got stopped by the immigration man
He says he doesn't know if he can
Let me in

Let me in, immigration man
Can I cross the line and pray
I can stay another day
Let me in, immigration man
I won't toe your line today
I can't see it anyway, hey-y

There he was with his immigration face
Giving me a paper chase
But the sun was coming
'Cause all at once he looked into my space
And stamped a number over my face
And he sent me running

Won't you let me in, immigration man
Can I cross the line and pray
I can stay another day
Won't you let me in, immigration man
I won't toe your line today
I can't see it anyway

Here I am with my immigration form
It's big enough to keep me warm
When a cold wind's coming
So go where you will
As long as you think you can
You'd better watch out - watch out for the man
Anywhere you're going

Come on and let me in, immigration man
Can I cross the line and pray
Take your fingers from the tray
Let me in, irritation man
I won't toe your line today
I can't see it anyway



Metallica - "One"

(gunshot noises)
"Stop it no! get your ass outta there! move it! go go go
move move!"

(bombs going off)

(Helicoptor noises)

I can't remember anything
Can't tell if this is true or a dream
Deep down inside I feel the scream
This terrible silence stops me

Now that the war is through with me
I'm waking up, I cannot see
That there's not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god, wake me

Back in the womb it's much too real
In pumps life that I must feel
But can't look forward to reveal
Look to the time when I'll live

Fed through the tube that sticks in me
Just like a wartime novelty
Tied to machines that make me be
Cut this life off from me

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god, wake me

Now the world is gone I'm just one
Oh god, help me
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god, help me

Darkness imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell

Landmine has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell

Sometimes it tells stories of mysterious mind travel...

But you must be very patient. Just lie back and meditate or find someone to slow dance with or to do something transcendent with, while you drink in the beautiful, long lead-in to the song...

Pink Floyd - "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
The telling of the story of Syd Barrett begins here in Part 2

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the
Steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend,
You martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the
Steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper,
You prisoner, and shine!

And sometimes we just plain like the way it sounds

Stone Temple Pilots - "Big Bang Baby"

I got a picture of a photograph
Of a wedding and a shell
It's just a burning aching memory
I never kiss and tell

So turn it up and burn it
There's a hole in your head
There's a hole in your head
Where the birds can't sing along

Does anybody know how the story really goes
Or should we all just hum along
Sell your soul and sign an autograph
Big bang baby, its a crash, crash, crash

I wanna die but I gotta laugh
Orange crush mama is a laugh, laugh, laugh

Spin me up, spin me, spin me out
Station love station send me up and out
Is this what life and love is all about
I think I think so

We used to see in color
Now it's only black and white
It's only black and white
'Cause the world is color blind

Nothing's for free, nothing's for free
Take it away boys
Nothing's for free, nothing's for free
Take it away boys



Shocking Blue - "Venus"

A Goddess on a mountain top
Was burning like a silver flame
The summit of Beauty in love
And Venus was her name

REFRAIN:
She's got it yeah, Baby, she's got it
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
At your desire

Her weapons were her crystal eyes
Making every man mad
Black as the dark night she was
Got what no-one else had
Wa!

REFRAIN



Nirvana - "Sappy"

And if you save yourself
You will make him happy

He'll keep you in a jar
And you'll think you're happy
He'll give you breathing holes
And you'll think you're happy
He'll cover you with grass
And you'll think you're happy
Now

You're in a laundry room
You're in a laundry room
Conclusion came to you
Ahh

And if you cut yourself
You will think you're happy
He'll keep you in a jar
And you'll make him happy
He'll give you breathing holes
And you'll think you're happy
He'll cover you with grass
And you'll think you're happy
Now

You're in a laundry room
You're in a laundry room
Conclusion came to you
Ahh

And if you fool yourself
You will make him happy
He'll keep you in a jar
Then you'll think you're happy
He'll give you breathing holes
Then you will seem happy
You'll wallow in your shit
Then you'll think you're happy
Now

You're in a laundry room
You're in a laundry room
You're in a laundry room
Conclusion came to you
Ahh



Soul Coughing - "Super Bon Bon"

Move aside,
and let the man go through.
Let the man go through.

If I stole
Somebody else's wave
To fly up.

If I rose
Up with the avenue
Behind me.

Some kind of verb.
Some kind of moving thing.
Something unseen.
Some hand is motioning
to rise, to rise, to rise.

Too fat, fat you must cut lean.
You got to take the elevator to the mezzanine,
Chump, change, and it's on, super bon bon
Super bon bon, Super bon bon.

And by
The phone
I live
In fear
Sheer Chance
Will draw
You in
To here.



Geffen no longer allows embedding of their videos, so here is the YouTube link to see White Zombie performing "Thunderkiss '65"

Well sweet little sista's high in hell cheatin' on a halo
Grind in an odyssey holocaust heart kick on tomorrow
Breakdown
Agony said ecstasy in overdrive she come a riding on the world
Thunder kissin' 1965
Yeah, wow! five, yeah, wow!!
Demon-warp is coming alive in 1965
Five, five, yeah!
Livin' fast and dying young like an endless poetry
My motor-psycho nightmare freak out inside of me
My soul salvation liberation on the drive
The power of the blaster move me faster 1965
Yeah, wow! five, yeah, wow!!
Demon-warp is coming alive in 1965
Five, five, yeah!
Gimme that, gimme that now, now, now, yeah!
Rollin' like a supersonic another fool that gets down on it
Pig sweat a million miles, I got a heart atomic style
I make it look easy, that's what I said
Blast of silence explodes in my head
Yeah, yeah, yeah, gimme that, gimme that now
Step to the moonshine frenzy hail: the resurrection
What's new pussycat, can you dig the satisfaction
Well, you can't take it with you, but you can! in overdrive
Yeah! some like it hot and twistin', 1965
Yeah, wow! five, yeah, wow!!
Demon-warp is coming alive in 1965
Five, five



Katie Melua - "Just Like Heaven"

Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream he said
The one that makes me laugh he said
And threw his arms around my neck
Show me how you do it
And I promise you I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you

Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed his face and kissed his head
And dreamed of all the different ways I had
To make him glow
Why are you so far away? he said
Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
That I'm in love with you

You, soft and only
You, lost and lonely
You, strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream
You're just like a dream

Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe his name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only boy I loved
And drowned him deep inside of me

You, soft and only
You, lost and lonely
You, just like heaven

You, soft and only
You, lost and lonely
You, just like heaven



The Beatles - "I Want You"

I want you
I want you so bad
I want you,
I want you so bad
It’s driving me mad, it’s driving me mad.
I want you
I want you so bad babe
I want you,
I want you so bad
It’s driving me mad, it’s driving me mad.
I want you
I want you so bad babe
I want you,
I want you so bad
It’s driving me mad, it’s driving me mad.
I want you
I want you so bad
I want you,
I want you so bad
It’s driving me mad, it’s driving me ...
She’s so heavy heavy, heavy, heavy.

She's so heavy
She's so heavy, heavy, heavy

I want you
I want you so bad
I want you,
I want you so bad
It’s driving me mad, it’s driving me mad.
I want you
You know I want you so bad babe
I want you,
You know I want you so bad
It’s driving me mad, it’s driving me mad
Yeh!

She’s so...



Foo Fighters - "I'll Stick Around"

I thought I knew all it took to bother you
Every word I said was true
That you'll see

How could it be
I'm the only one who sees
your rehearsed insanity, yeah

I still refuse all the methods you abused
It's all right if you're confused
Let me be

I've been around all the pawns
you've gagged and bound
They'll come back and knock you down and I'll be free

I've taken all and I've endured
One day it all will fade
I'm sure

I don't owe you anything

I had no hand in your ever desperate plan
It returns and when it lands words are due

I should have known we were better off alone
I looked in and I was shown
You were too

I've taken all and I've endured
One day it all will fade
I'm sure

I don't owe you anything

I'll stick around and learn
from all that came from it

And the winner is...

the CORPORATE LAWYER who admits he had doors opened for him by a scholarship to a prestigious private school, yet he decided that COURTING THE VOTES of the Boston Teachers Union and the American Federation of Teachers Massachusetts was more important than granting other children the same opportunity he had. Although I don't have children of my own, I do have a nephew who attends a public junior/senior high school in this state, as well as a five-year-old niece who will most likely attend Massachusetts public schools -- unless my sister wins the lottery.

As always, a song is floating through my head. I'm hearing Simon & Garfunkel singing "Mrs. Robinson"...

Sitting on a sofa
On a Sunday afternoon,
Going to the candidates' debate,
Laugh about it,
Shout about it,
When you've got to choose,
Every way you look at it you lose.


I know I should try to keep an open mind. That's been really tough for me over the past couple of days. After all these years, you'd think I'd know what's happening -- uh, hormonally -- for lack of a better term, when it's happening instead of after I've calmed down. Yup, all the signs are there -- craving sweets, then salt, sweets, salt... Then the crying jags start and I begin getting this (thankfully very temporary) irrational belief that "nothing matters because nobody cares", and that "everything's going to fail anyway so why even bother..."

When I finally come out of my lunar blue funk, it dawns on me (as if for the very first time) to check the calendar. And sure enough, it's almost that time again...

Anyway, this time the "irrational" belief turned into "all the candidates are only in it for their own personal gain anyway, so what's the point in voting?"

Hmmm... I'm thinking that maybe what the hormonal shift really does is helps us women to see the truth that we've refused to face for the other few weeks.

Okay, I'll try to be open-minded here: Here is our Democratic nominee for governor speaking to Quincy voters about solutions to MASSACHUSETTS' BIZARRELY HIGH HOUSING COSTS.

You see, that is how our local reporters are starting to describe our housing costs -- as "bizarrely high" -- in order to give people some idea of just how unrealistic the prices are. I myself think a better term for our "third highest in the nation" housing costs would be "ASSININELY high". At least in California and Hawaii (which have the first and second highest housing costs respectively), their residents don't have the additional burden of the high heating costs that we in Massachusetts have to add on to our expenses every year.

Never mind New York, New York -- if you can make it HERE in Massachusetts, you can make it anywhere!

Oh, I almost forgot -- I just read the best news ever in the Sunday Telegram... One of our local slithering corporate landlords who conspired to triple market rent prices in only one year's time (ultimately beyond the reach of working people) -- has gotten so deep into a financial hole, that he owes the city of Worcester (pronounced WOR-stir) $33,000 in back taxes. The glutton gorged himself on so much money, that now he's vomiting it out -- by the bucketful!

Ahhhhh, sweet revenge... Let's hope that's only a start. I won't be satisfied until every last extortionist corporate landlord is living in a dumpster, since -- after all, that's where trash belongs.

"Girls, who are boys, who like boys to be girls..."

(continued from previous post)

Finally I met my little work-friend Nate. I say little in reference to his youth -- the way I would say little brother -- and certainly not to his size, as he was towering in height -- somewhere around 6'5" tall. He was very thin, with dark brown eyes and dyed gold hair (a common fashion for his generation back in the 1990's). The age gap between us -- he was 19, exactly half my age at that time -- was bridged by our common affinity for the less commonplace alternative music creations. We were also united by our sadness. Misery really does love company.

Nate's sadness was mostly rooted in his break-up with his girlfriend, whom he had been dating since high school. According to his friends at work, he had numerous admirers his age, including the groupies that would go to see his band play at nightclubs on the weekends. But he couldn't think of anyone but her. He spoke of her often -- about how he was so proud of her athletic abilities, even though he himself was a decidedly un-athletic visual artist and musician... about the color and glitter of her hair being like that of gold jewelry... about how he was so struck by the fact that this beautiful and outgoing young woman wanted him, out of all the boys in school she had to choose from...

But there was something else lurking in the background which was contributing heavily to his deep sadness as well. One fateful night two years prior to our meeting, he had the grave misfortune of being in the company of a group of older teenagers who were using a particular opiate drug. The name of the drug is very hard for me to bring myself to say -- let alone write -- almost as if it's a curse word or something. It's the one that begins with an "h", and from what I understand, once someone becomes addicted to it, it's a lifelong battle to stay out of its grip.

Like a lot of teenagers, he wanted to fit in. So he did something he'd live to regret for the rest of his life -- he tried the drug. He told me that if he had been lucky enough to take the "wrong" dose that night, it would have made him sick and he probably never would have tried it again. But the poor kid took exactly the "right" dose, so it made him feel so incredibly good, that he was hooked right from the first time. He said that he never again felt that "perfect high" after that first use. The saddest thing is that subsequent use for him was compelled by the need to avoid withdrawal sickness, and not to feel high.

He tried so hard on his own to break the addiction -- all of us co-workers knew about it. We always knew whenever he was suffering from withdrawal, because he would have tremors and throw up a lot. One night at work, he ended up fainting and hitting his head on the bindery equipment on his way to the floor. We had to call his parents (they were well aware of his struggles with the addiction) to come and take him home.

Nate was very kind, and he seemed to have the soul of a woman. What I mean by that is, he was very interested in analyzing emotional and relationship matters, the way women typically are. One interesting thing to note, was that he described his former girlfriend as being the "strong, silent type". It makes me think of the words to the song "Girls & Boys" by the band Blur -- hence the title for this post.

It so happened that Nate was bi-sexual. He told me that he was attracted to both men and women, but so far he had only fallen in love with women. The odd (ironic?) thing was, one of his male friends at work was in love with him, but had otherwise always been attracted only to women. Until recently, some of this was still a little confusing to me. But when I asked a fellow blogger about something closely related to this subject, he cleared it up for me. Even though I myself have never been physically drawn to a woman, I do seem to be drawn to the few men who are only slightly to the masculine side of the androgyny line -- not so much in physical appearance as in a spiritual sense. I guess I want the best of both worlds -- strong and protective, yet emotionally sensitive and domestic.

As I was twice Nate's age and financially always broke, he had nothing to gain by befriending me. He used to make mix tapes for me -- some were of songs we liked in common, and some were his band's originals. It was quite a compliment, since in the 1990's that common practice of giving mix tapes as gifts was something usually reserved for close friends. In turn, I provided a sympathetic ear for listening to his troubles, since his guy friends would only try to get his mind off of things.

Yes, I had found a temporary oasis. The truth is, that when I was listening to Nate's stories, I was living vicariously through him. Finally, I was able to feel again -- even though it was his sorrow or his joy I felt. For the seemingly endless year preceding our meeting, my life had been so colorless that I had been unable to laugh or to cry. Eventually, Nate moved on to another job on the day shift. Almost immediately after that, divine providence gave me the gift of my beautiful friend James. But that started a brand new story, so I'll wrap up this one here.

Nate inspired another poem besides The Curing Well. He read it at work the night I gave it to him, and like a true female soul, he cried as he was reading it. I did let him know that I hoped my writing it as if it were about a woman didn't offend him in any way. He assured me that he didn't feel threatened (his word) by that. I changed the spelling of the name Glinda (the Good Witch of the North in the Wizard of Oz) to a variation -- since Nate's last name, which begins with a "G", also contains a "y" with the phonetic sound of the short "i". I just thought that spelling variation would fit well with his last name. Naming the poem "Glynda", turned out to be a curious coincidence... His guy friends at work told me that one Halloween, he dressed up as Glinda. They had never mentioned that before that point.

Here is the poem about my young work-friend. I thought that if I told the story first, it'd be easier to recognize him in it:


GLYNDA (Thank you Nate G.)
written in October 1998

Black-eyed Susans always were my favorite--
Long stems, dark brown eyes fringed with Sun Gold...

By that summer, so world-weary--I looked
up from the dry grass under
my hands and face and
There it was--
One with a voice--sad at first like me
A voice of sympathy
Sang me to sleep by gathering for me
Imprints of others who helped make her
So beautiful...

Through her incantations, I traveled back
to almost a lifetime ago--when I walked upright
yet close to the ground I once loved--
Forever smiling then--even in the sunlight
The pretty faces of her ancestors at nearly eye-level...

Now I felt tears begin to form, for somehow
Earth managed to grow at least one more
Who made it happier
One who gave without motive
of desire or greed or pride
Or any material return

The tears pour out never-ending
That now I could get up off the ground
But for this reason I fear
I'm made to continue without her
I want to keep stopping and looking back
And not take my eyes off her
I pray to the Universe this world's
poisons won't fade her
Part of me will end with her.

"Make the white queen run so fast she hasn't got time to make you a wife." (1971) Jon Anderson of Yes

In the summer of 1998, I had finally found a temporary oasis. By then it had been a full year since my long-overdue departure from an outgrown relationship. It was the ideal split -- gradual and amicable -- a very smooth transition. But transition to what? After nearly eighteen years of pure excitement, alternating almost hourly from elation to exasperation and back again -- all generated by my gregarious French Canadian-American friend Jack -- what would my life be now?

I should have been relieved. I finally got the quiet and predictable life I had longed to find. As the saying goes, "Be careful what you wish for,..." Although I've been blessed enough never to have been drawn into any of the usual vices, somehow it still felt like that year was spent coming down off an addiction. How would I be able to survive the passage from a life so incredibly busy that one year blurred right into the next -- to this new open canvas or fresh page or blank disc where it was now my responsibility for filling in all the creative material that would become my new life?

The desert outback was foreign terrain for me. I fairly thirsted for something novel and interesting to enter my life again. Thankfully, my fear of the unknown kept me from venturing into dangerous territory in search of excitement.

Finally I met my little work-friend Nate...

(In the interest of space, I'll continue this story in the next post.)

A Long Tale/Tail

I remember one time having had trouble seeing where I'd like to begin and end the lines of one of my poems. When writing free-verse, the arrangement of each line influences the overall feel and meaning of a piece, just as much as the sounds and individual word meanings do. While attempting to write this poem in the traditional left-to-right format, I just couldn't find an arrangement that conveyed the meaning just right. Then I remembered something I saw in the story Alice In Wonderland /Through The Looking Glass. In the story, the Mouse tells Alice its long, sad tale... As Alice listens, she visualizes the tale in the shape of the Mouse's actual physical tail. The book shows the mouse's tale printed from the top of the page to the bottom -- starting out slightly wider at the top, then simultaneously curving and tapering as it goes down the page -- finally coming to a point at the end of the tale/tail. I decided to try a variation of that format -- just a simple vertical arrangement -- and was happy with the result.

This, my Alice In Wonderland-influenced poem, was inspired by a very young, very artistically talented man I worked with at a local printing press. He sketched breathtakingly beautiful pictures laced with sad themes -- so vivid they brought tears to my eyes. He told me the sketches were a sort of therapy to help him mend his heart, which had recently been broken by his golden-haired girl friend.


THE CURING WELL
written in January 1999

If
I
could
learn
to
see
in
fine
detail
the
way
you
do
Like
you,
I'd
use
my
pens
as
keys
to
set
free
the
beautiful
bittersweet
pictures
imprisoned
in
me.

In
the
meantime,
I
draw
them
with
salt
water
which
streams
from
my
eyes
and
I
feel
well
again.

Very Mushy Rhyme

written in September 1998

Again I wondered,
Is there destiny which
Craft can't override?
If feelings are ever pure and right
And won't all disappear overnight...
They were fed by illusion some times before
No, don't let it be so once more
Sadly, much "love" proves nothing but worthless attraction
Jarred from sleep by some primitive electric reaction...

But this time I heard the answer those Teachers did give
It's that Love is something cumulative.

Is it mourning already?

written in June 1998

I cried inside when your halo fell off
the one I gave you many years ago --
Guess it just couldn't fit any more...
I tried in vain to put it back on
That wasn't right-- so sorry.

Where is he now --
the Innocent I first met?
Please tell me he's still there somewhere --
I miss him deeply.

I ask myself why it's so hard
for me to accept that you're human --
that maybe you needed to evolve that way
for the sake of survival --
The world is just that abrasive sometimes...

Still, I'm hoping you've kept him
somewhere inside you, and will
let me meet with him again.

Please tell me he isn't gone yet --

There are no demigods... There are no demigods... There are...

written in May 1997

You must be
a star
I can't climb to you out there
Just as well...we're all warned when we're young
we'd go blind if we were
to stare at one up close
Like the Sun --
mildly bright when its rays are scattered...

I've never cared
to go where the light and heat are intense
So why am I drawn this time?
It doesn't matter -- I'm scared
to take chances with anything I wouldn't survive without
once I had it...

You must be a star --
You're way out of reach.


P.S. After my good friend Todd (the English professor) read this poem, he told me about the story from Greek mythology of Icarus, son of Daedalus. He also answered the question I posed asking myself why I was uncharacteristically drawn to the source of the intense light and heat... He said the answer is that I was "a moth who had just taken wing." He was exactly right.

And now I find myself once again feeling irresistably drawn to a radiant source that enlightens and warms me. But will my fate be the same as the moth's?

Something tells me that it will be more like the end met by Icarus. Only, when the fastening wax is melted and my flight feathers fall away, the sea I drown in will be made of tears.

Mom! Dad! Look at what I can do!

One summer I had a weekend overnight temp job where all I had to do is babysit a computer. No experience was required, as all they needed us to do was watch the screen to make sure all the messages on it were showing up in the proper order while it was storing information. They gave us a sheet of paper which listed all the correct messages in the order they would/should appear throughout the shift. If anything went wrong, all we needed to do was to call any one of three British engineering consultants who were staying at a nearby hotel. All went smoothly for me -- a nice, easy way to make extra money. Now, all of this information is not directly relevant to this post, but I wanted to provide readers with the setting.

On my first night there, the guy who manned the computer for the second shift, stayed late (off the clock) to make sure I was all set with the instructions before he left. It turned out he was a high school teacher who had the summer off, so he was there for the extra income too. He was one of the most interesting people I'd ever met -- excellent company. I rarely remember how any particular conversation originated or evolved, but he ended up telling me about how psychology in the animal kingdom and psychology within and among humans, are sometimes closely related. He gave an example with zebras. It went something like this:

He said that after a baby zebra is born, its mother walks back and forth in front of the newborn several times, so that her unique pattern of stripes is etched or imprinted into her baby's memory. This enables the baby to easily identify which one is his mother out of the whole herd of zebras. My coworker went on to tell me that this same phenomenon happens with human babies. He said that after a human baby is born, all the people he or she comes into close contact with, leave an imprint in his or her memory. He told me that this theory explains why there is such a strong tendency in humans to unconsciously seek out -- or be drawn to -- people who seem familiar to them.


IMPRINT TRANSFERENCE
written in February 1997

At last I've found the reason
why I stood in awe --

Your self-expression matched my philosophies.

I wished I could have frozen time...
It's not that I would want you to stay down --
Not entirely a case of affinity through similar troubles...

It's that there's something strangely warming
about a small benign crack in a windowpane
It appears to me as a shield, blocking out greed and hypocrisy
I guess that in the real world, it might let in the cold
But standing alone in my memory, it is so beautiful...
It must stay that way.

I've both envied and admired your disarming ways
That is to say, I want them for myself
But mostly, I had never thought I'd find again
another soul not infected by vanity
Then there you were -- Hmmm...

I went on to wonder whether it could be
that a man so sensible as yourself
would ever fall ignorant
And the answer, as you know, was that
it didn't matter either way, since
the "ideal deity" had been created by (and for) me.

I haven't forgotten that
in a way, you gave me that answer
from the beginning
But clearly I need the distance of time
to test beliefs for myself.

Greg, if faith really does exist
do you think it is ever a good thing?

Pretty-Minded Hermits (Is the curiosity shop open today?)

I know most grown-up women would agree that a kindly and creative spirit in a man is by far his most attractive feature. Everything material that he possesses is left in the dust...


A SOUND VISION
written in August 1996

It would be a novel adventure for me
to collect your thoughts
along with all the notes you've sung --
You gave away another clue
when you sang me a few once --

You see, we all used to think you locked your worries
behind those vulnerable averted eyes...
That may be, but is it more that you
turn them away so as not to distract from
the uncommon listening way you mostly learn?
Lucky you.

I wonder, too, about the place where it first took new form...
You know, the one whose shoulder is just the right height --
who stockpiles all his pretty newborn music
like ammunition against collective future sadness
until some given hour will finally come.

Just one other thing for now...
Have you found your childhood paintings?


ISLAND CASTAWAYS
written in August 1996

One night I looked inside Greg's eyes --
only for a second, since that's all the time one has...
I saw there a doorway into some kind of wonderland that
only he himself had ever seen
I wanted to leap through it right then
in case it might slam shut
Now, like the cave dweller in Plato's allegory
I can never be happy remaining in the shadows.

It's hard to idolize up close

I have a collection of free verse poems I wrote between the Spring of 1995 and the Spring of 2002. I noticed that they all had a common theme. Seems I was searching for deities in humans. In retrospect, it became clear that this was very unfair of me. Who could possibly live up to that?

Here are the first and second in chronological order of writing:


GREG
from your friend Christina
written in May 1995

Someday it might just be
Images of you I'll see
In photographs and videos --
It won't be the same
As to feel you here with my own hands
To erase my hard days.

So kind, even when you criticize
Yes, that's what it is... You remind me of him
Only in pictures and memories himself now
Taken too soon to another time
But I've seen him before me again
In your gentle ways.

Will your senses lie by telling you that I'm
Not one of your kind --
Like all those girl singers?
I was born of your world...
And admitting I swore that I wouldn't go back --
Remembering how steep for them both was that hill
I was drawn in, just the same
By the comforting cradle of a life
Long familiar to me.

Your soothing voice is what I need
And not alone the recorded sounds of your hands
Directing deftly their listeners' hearts
Still, so much, my ears await those sounds --
If only I could touch their origin forever...

I said you were a butterfly
That no one should capture and put under glass
Then I wished I could build a globe around you --
A peaceful place where you might want to stay
And always be within my sight.

Just know that it would have been designed
With a clear way out -- never obstructed
For I myself know what it is
To need to be free
Besides, it's our right...

Yet here I am, helpless, my friend
Hoping that's not what you need
As I've never before found such an absence of want
As that which I feel when I'm inside your space
But if we ever say goodbye
Please don't forget me.


ANGLES OF BETRAYAL
written in June 1995

You held her in your open hands
protectively half-cupped around her
like a tiny injured bird
took good care, treated her as family
but she couldn't see the forest
and so she flew away.

For me, since seeing you again
the trees, instead, are now out of focus--
recognizing that what sits beside me
will shine brilliantly in the blue-black night
once the clouds have lifted...

It was all around her--
how could she not see?

They say a peculiar feeling comes
if lightning is about to strike you
well, I guess that's what it's like...

And soon the rest will feel it too
then I'll watch from the periphery
no longer at ease being on the inside
since nature doesn't incline us all
to vie for the light.

Is it karma that betrays us
or the planets in the sky?

Dreaming of a baked potato smothered in butter and sour cream

Only two-and-a-half inches to go. My "winter weight" just doesn't want to let go this year. But I refuse to give in, so I'm fighting it with every weapon at my disposal. Even in middle age the pressure is always on to get/stay thin. For me, this is a good thing, as it helps me feel energetic and remain agile. But the best part is, like an apple a day, it keeps the doctor away.

Sometime during the past several years, clothing designers figured out an ingenious way to discourage a lot of women from going too far in their quest for the ideal shape -- they created size zero jeans. To me, a size zero tag should read: "Okay, good enough. Lose one more ounce, and you'll be officially anorexic."

Finding Nino

This is Nino. His name means little boy in Spanish. He's a nestling robin I found a little over a week ago. He taught me that my learning style is much more tactile or kinesthetic, than visual or auditory.

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