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Hello Everyone,
I’ve thought over and over how to begin an ezine that could celebrate a holiday we’ve called Independence Day. So I ask: whose independence, and when did they live? Were they on this planet? From whom or what were they independent?
We global sisters and brothers are only at the start of living into a quickened economic transition that’s been apparently planned for more than ninety years. These days, we witness how the glitches are ironed out of the international ruling families’ and their bankers’ privileges of issuing monies and receiving installments from those indebted. How many families do you know who have strategic plans and legacies spanning five generations, influencing some 190 nations with an estimated 6,000 banks in the USA and more in UK and EUROPE?
As feuds and combats and wars have peppered our species’ existence, results produced have been webs of systematic indebtedness trapping many citizenries and nations and civilizations into dependencies on barons, lords, popes, bankers, and tax collectors for centuries, nay, millennia.
Aren’t global communities interdependent? How are we global sisters and brothers presently dependent on each other? Rather than speaking with undaunted confidence the word independent, we can easily ask, compared to what? It seems independence would be marked a mere illusion until it’s not.
In a 22-minute video titled A Declaration FOR Independence by Lawrence Lessig, law professor, Stanford Law School, we discover USA Founders’ definition for non-dependence in 1785. Lessig examines how America as a republic has manifested its present patterns of pathological competition and monetary dependencies within congresses; hence, refusing interests of inquisitive citizens. Below is another Lessig video, which he frequently replaces with another.
Hover here, then move your cursor to click the arrow in the middle of the video screen once it appears. KEEP THE CURSOR HOVERED anywhere in the video screen. To finish, press F5 on your Windows keyboard.
At this hardly imaginable, uneasy moment in lives world wide, I’m supposing the best we can do is climb back into and stay in our bodies. If you’re like me, we can go through days at a time, forgetting we actually live in physical bodies that have feelings about all the information tumbling our way.
Taking a deep breath is to remember you’ve got a physical presence living and breathing on a planet. Share your presence with others who enjoy your fun, your cajoling; listening to your sensibilities, gleeful in your hunches and inklings, those intuitions. Perhaps, that’s all we can do: to joyously surrender to Universe and Earth out of which we were birthed.
I think you ought to feel absolutely fascinated with yourself! Woe to people who easily distract themselves with too much despair, or who cannot be wholly influenced by their audacious powers of observation and intuition. Consider Staying Awake a hornet buzzing around your head with an intrusive idea: to remind you to observe and endorse whatever your capacities for noticing fortuitous moments that “Surprise!” you—that catch you off guard. Such things might rise to the top of your priority list for getting to know yourself.
Here’s an exercise, you may try if you wish. Have ready a one-second thought, which would serve you when experiencing fortuitous moments. Say, ‘Thank you. I am fascinating!’ That’s it. A reminder that your physical presence continues to perform its genius of energies coursing through you, so you can read to the end of this sentence.
People Who’ve Come Before
Mark Twain said something like: the only prominent community fundamentalists have so far established in any world, real or imaginary, is hell.
His words fit my recollections and feelings while hearing and watching fundamentalist preachers prance and shout rants about materialism, with a prophesied multi-headed beast showing up for all to see, and, of course, salvation by grace for eternal life as the only answer for a shamefully sinful existence within materialism—all was hell enough for me as a little boy.
To watch materialism unconcealed as corporate capitalism is by no means a religious prophesy magically come true. And watching gods of finance, to whom we are irredeemably dependent, again rearrange nations’ geographies through imperial maneuvers quakes my upset.
I’ve gotten great relief from devoting today’s ezine to numerous quotes by women and men who have come before us, and by others who are still with us; people who’ve suffered repetitions of history’s allusions of ‘make the world safe for democracy’ while generations of bankers became invincible, economic kingpins.
Observing media and global governments’ leaders co-opted by corporate CEOs; observing politicians co-opted by lobbyists; observing hyper-conforming presidential candidates profiteered into another war by poligions’ pimps is a massively incestuous parlor game the entire world gets to watch between TV commercials for corn flakes, pizza, lipstick, sun block, hummers, and ipods.
We global sisters and brothers are doing our best to pay bills and protect and feed our children, while being strong armed and stirred up by systemic bigotries played out incessantly in subtle extortions in this male dominated world addicted to religious pretexts; money and oil; wars and armaments.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
~ Albert Einstein (b 1879)
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Every ambitious would-be empire clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie; and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.
~ Henry David Thoreau (b 1817), American author, development critic, philosopher, environmental historian
Thoughtful
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.
~ Albert Einstein (b 1879)
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of their country.
~ Margaret Mead (b 1901), cultural anthropologist, focused studies on child rearing, personality, culture
We know ourselves to be made from this earth. We know this earth is made from our bodies. For we see ourselves. And we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature speaking of nature to nature.
~ Susan Griffin, eco-feminist, author
New World Order
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.… The government of the present day must deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
~ Benjamin Disraeli (b 1804), First British Prime Minister
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
~ Woodrow Wilson (b 1856), 28th USA President
Most of his thoughts were carefully manufactured for him in advance by the Council on Foreign Relations—One World Money Group. The United Nations is but a long range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power. The One-World government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve bank.
~ Curtis Dall (b 1896), Franklin D. Roosevelt’s son-in-law, refer book My Exploited Father in Law
The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England and believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one world rule established.… The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.
~ Carroll Quigley (b 1910), historian, polymath, theorist of the evolution of civilizations; refer book Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries.
~ David Rockefeller (b 1915), American banker, Trilateral Commission Founder; refer keynote Bilderberg conference, June, 1991
Central Banking System
If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless. I sincerely believe the banking institutions (having the issuing power of money) are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies. My zeal against these institutions was so warm and open at the establishment of the Bank of the United States (Hamilton’s foreign system), that I was derided as a maniac by the tribe of bank mongers who were seeking to filch from the public.
~ Thomas Jefferson (b 1743), 3rd USA President; refer Phases Projected by Carol Warner Christen, Swans dot com
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance.
~ James Madison (b 1751), 4th USA President
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning…
~ Henry Ford (b 1863), American industrialist
The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen. At the head of this octopus [is] a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually runs the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties.
~ John F. Hylan (b 1868), New York Mayor USA
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