Obstacles to Truth, Freedom, Justice
Wealth Inequality, Corporations, Media, Philosophy, Government, Money, Religion, Education, Elite Interests
If you are comfortable in your current lifestyle and you trust corporations and your government to keep you safe and maintain this way of life for the generations to follow, then go back to sleep because everything is under control. But if you are in the least concerned that the ever evolving status quo may not maintain life as you know it, then you will have to assume the responsibility of learning what drives the policies determining our direction.
This will entail embracing your self awareness, and accountability. Listen to those fleeting suspicions that impinge on your moral consciousness. Recognize your value. Recognize that everyone else has value. The rules could be as simple as do no harm.
You know there is something wrong with your world when ...
- How do you feel when you notice a police car following you?
- You feel powerless to have your voice heard by government
- The economy is a mystery, rife with crisis and beyond prediction
Corporations - the benefits of profit culture
- "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied" - Francis Claud Cockburn
- Yves Engler, Canadian Author & Activist
- Edward Louis Bernays, "the father of public relations," was part of the secret Committee on Public Information during WWI, wrote "conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country ..." - Propaganda (1928)
- Journalists share culpability for disinformation with government information machine
- Journalists rewarded by following or not harshly criticizing the government line
- Should propaganda machines be held accountable? How?
- Documentary trailers and interviews from the Sundance Film Festival, 46,000 attendees 2012
- Anthony Shadid (1968 - 2012)
- Dr. Paul Craig Roberts' Institute for Political Economy former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy & associate editor of the Wall Street Journal
- "A government and media that will deceive you about simple things such as inflation, unemployment, and GDP growth, will lie to you about everything"
- American Free Press, weekly newspaper from Capitol Hill since 2001: Populist & Independent
- Not the presstitute "professional" media such as ABC(Disney,ESPN,A&E), CBC, CTV(Bell,Virgin), CNN(HBO,Cinemax,Mapquest), Fox(Murdock,News Corp, cell phone tapping), CBS, ... etc.
Philosophy & Politics
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- "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose."
- - Mario Cuomo (b. 1932) American politician, in Fred Barnes, “Meet Mario the Moderate,” New Republic (8 Apr 1985)
- Rachel Corrie, years before she was killed at age 23, said "they are us, we are them"
- C. L. R. James' Every Cook Can Govern, 1956, "It must be said for Plato that, in the end, he came to the conclusion that the radical democracy was the best type of government for Athens" ... "Let all true believers in democracy and equality today strengthen ourselves by studying what they [Greece] did and how they did it"
- Alternative Information Center, 4 languages, Understanding the Palestine/Israel Conflict, "Price Tag tactics"
- Michael Tsarion's 2012: The Future of Mankind, Spiritual force of your own psyche.
- Stefan Molyneux's The Story of Your Enslavement and his Free Domain Radio, Canadian philosopher, prolific Libertarian
Governance, Policy, & Government
Policy. Where is it coming from?
Crimes Committed
North American Union, signed March 23, 2005
Canada - Who is running it?
Modern Monetary Theory MMT, aka Modern Monetary Realism MMR, aka neo-chartalists
- Where does it come from? Who owns or benefits from it? What are the different types of debt? National, Public, Federal, Provincial, Municipal, Private (Personal & Corporate).
In December 1917, Lloyd George [British Prime Minister] remarked to C.P. Scott [editor of the Guardian] that: "If people really knew, the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know, and can't know."
- Dirty Wars 2009, the world is a battlefield, not to be confused with Dirty War 2004 BBC.
- Percent Civilian Casualties: WWI 10%, WWII 50%, Vietnam 70%, Iraq 90%
- Sanctions against Iraq in the 90s killed 500,000 children
- Mark Curtis, British author, historian
- Soldiers Of Conscience, documentary
- What You Didn't Know About The War, documentary
What you can do & what others are doing to right Inequality
Zeitgeist Movement
More Reasons for Hope
Other Things Affecting Our Lives