Kevin Smith’s Dogma Boardroom Scene

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Facebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network

In The Know: Is The Government Spying On Schizophrenics Enough?

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The first and most important step to creating a “perfect world” is to restructure Education. For example, forcing straight-A students to have to sit through countless hours of classes teaching to failing students has got to go the way of the dinosaur. As for dinosaurs, I’m sorry, but T-Rex was not a vegetarian living alongside Adam and Eve.

While tracking in Education gains momentum, the second focus needs to be on acceptance of things different from ourselves with courses in ethics and dispelling xenophobic myths. The latter leads to violence at an early age when the former is nothing but an undefined word to students.

Concurrently, violent offenders including rapists and child molesters need to be exterminated like the vile wretch that they are. Add to that list those who would steal millions of dollars of people’s life savings in their selfish attempt at greed and gluttony. One simple means to this end is to walk a beautiful woman through a prison and execute every “dog” that barks.

Lying to children must also stop. Just how many kids have balled a tear when they learned that Santa Claus wasn’t real? How many adults to this day still believe in Santa Claus so much they’ll force their children to sit on some strange fat man’s lap who’s dressed in some freaky costume? On that note, even freakier looking than Santa Claus are the most popular televangelists telling absolute lies about The Bible so that they can build their Crystal Cathedrals and such.

On the subject of church, THE CHRUCH that started it all for the modern era is well know by many now to have been sexually abusing children for more than 1700 years, and yet they’re still consulted when it comes to politics involving ethics. (Again, ethics should be more than an undefined word for so many.)

Community Spirit needs to be instilled in not only our youth but our adult populations as well. In a small town, for example, people get to know everyone and get along well, but in the big city, people lock themselves away into their overpriced “jail” cells avoiding contact with anyone except who they feel they “have” to get to know. I need to distinguish Community Spirit from Community Action, though the two are intertwined. Countless rude people will pile up garbage in their yard and wage domestic violence and worse, bringing down the value of the rest of community around them when others choose not to step up and get involved. Burrying your head in the sand like the proverbial osterich does nothing to promote a perfect world.

Once these basic steps are taken, the snowball effect will take root, much as how the whole Jerry Springer snowball effect took root more than a decade ago helping lead to this current mess we find ourselves in.

We may also want to strive toward the example the nation of Bhutan presents, basing their nation’s strenghts and weaknesses not on how much money they make, but instead on how happy their citizens are.

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One week’s supply of food…

Chad: The Abaubakar family of Breidjing Camp – 685 CFA Francs or $1.23

Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkey Village – 224.93 ngultram or $5.03

The Ayme family of Tingo – $31.55

Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo – 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53

Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily – 214.36 Euros or $260.11

Poland: The Sobczynskcy family of Konstancin-Jerizona – 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27

Mexico: The Casales family of Cueranava – 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09

United States: The Revis family of North Carolina – $341.98

Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide – 375.39 Euros or $500.07

See also: http://heartsinunity.blogspot.com/2009/07/feeding-family-for-week-around-world.html

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The moderators of the livestream Occupy channels are laying down some strict regulations of what we can and cannot discuss. Since everything is interrelated, to block entire realms of discussion is ignoring the elephants in the room while freaking out about the mouse.

For starters, the moderators are banning posting links during live feeds while trying to get livestream up 24/7, meaning no links ever!

Solely targeting the Fed and banks and corporations is like denting the passenger side of the car. Meanwhile the driver’s side is getting smashed worse by inadequate education, competition, egotism, homogenization, and separatism, while being front ended by bad medicine, dangerous media, and of course organized religion. Then comes the rear end collision by those not paying attention.

Until we address every facet of society at once from both bottom up and top down approaches, we don’t stand a chance to improve the human condition.

For example, Ron Paul wants to eliminate the Department of Education. While he makes a valid point that it’s doing more harm than good, leaving school districts to decide their own standards is the worst possible thing we could do to the kids. We’d end up with some schools — such as my hometown of Bainbridge Island — using the latest in advanced technology and churning out top notch students, while at the same time other school districts falling back into the Dark Ages where science and history and free will is replaced by dogmatic adherence to the whims of authority figures.

Some would insist reality is a constant: it’s real or it’s not. Unfortunately, what is very real to some people (i.e., the most educated) is considered crazy by the least educated. The opposite is true as well where the least educated live in a reality defined by what the authority figures told them to believe depsite evidence proving otherwise.

How much one thinks they know is inversely related to how much they actually know; that is, the smartest people realize how much more there is to learn while the dumbest people think they know everything. Being raised in a box, all we know is the box.

Taking the Occupy the Planet protests, for instance, while the emphasis is on taking over public spaces and pushing the limits of the law, sitting around in a park all day every day is not very productive. A hundred people for 40 days is less effective than 40,000 people in one day.

I’ve taken my protests to the Internet through my websites and posting to facebook.com/WhiteHouse with the intent of bringing information to the public that isn’t included in their version of reality. For example, remote-controlled cynbernetic animals have been around since the 1960s, cloning is a century old, and governments are never on our side no matter how much we pray that they are.

To that extent, my research has changed history on several occasions. When the Roslin Institute announced in March 1996 that they had cloned an adult animal, the news refused to cover it. At the time I was aware of the 1993 report of humans having been cloned, so I was more than a bit curious. Then one day in 1996, I had a dream of being in class and the homework assignment was to write a paper on either cloning or brain implants… so I chose both, and spent weeks at the library researching the history of experimental embryology and finding what I could on brain computer machines.

In February 1997 I reached a good stopping point and mailed a copy of my research to local Seattle activists. A few days later I found myself sitting across the dinner table from someone in the Defense Department mentioning his reassignment to Woods Hole where the original American cloning experiments took place. He let me tell him about what I knew of cloning and was worried if news got out people might panic. I assured him it best come from recognized news sources to spur legislation and debate, and when I went to the store the next morning, Dolly the sheep was on most every front page. Now while he let me tell him about cloning, he refused to listen to what I knew about brain implants, but eventually Wikipedia credited my paper as the basis for their article on the subject.

My crowning achievement to date has got to be the result of a phone call I made in March 2006 while starting my book to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of burning my cover by going public with personal information I knew about corrupt government officials. Little did I know at the time in 1996 that former CIA Director William Colby who tried to expose “the family jewels” (abruptly replaced by George HW Bush as director) would turn up dead just days after I filed my first sworn statement to the FBI. In 2006, I asked the FBI for an official statement as to why they weren’t reporting missing children statistics, and after providing my credentials, I gave them one week before I’d look into it again before going to the activist community with my concerns. By week’s end, the Justice Department finally released the numbers, 16 years after the 1990 Child Protection Act mandated it.

Little did I realize way back when, when I was receiving awards for Government and Student Leadership by being a Vigilant Citizen that the mindset I adopted as far back as getting kicked out of Sunday School would get me as far as it has. Questioning Authority is my standard, and I’m my own worst critic. Playing Dumb has gone a long way as well. While I will often know the answer to a question, I will ask the question to vet out a response. I’m more interested in the psychology of the interaction rather than just the information.

The old saying, “Sticks and stones my break my bones but words will never hurt me” is so far from the truth these days, it’s frightening. A whispered word — or even a look — can lead to an explosion of hostility. It’s a fascinating phenomenon of the human psyche. People will make absolute fools of themselves because they simply think every thought in their head is their own and correct and worth its weight in gold. Again, this is inversely related to actual value. Like diamonds, worth is perceived by how pretty it is rather than anything substantial.

I should probably get off my soapbox now, but before I go, I want to leave you with my personal mantra: Even the smallest drop in the bucket makes a wave.

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Occupy Wall Street Mission Statement

source: http://jimarnoldblog.com/blog/?p=2903

As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.

As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.

• They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
• They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
• They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
• They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
• They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.
• They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
• They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
• They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
• They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
• They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
• They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
• They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
• They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
• They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
• They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.
• They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
• They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit.
• They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
• They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
• They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
• They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
• They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
• They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.

To the people of the world, We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.

Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.

To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.

Join us and make your voices heard!

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Think Different

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify and vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as crazy, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes

Chief Seattle’s Response

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In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.… [FOX] argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves.… In a stunningly narrow interpretation of FCC rules, the Florida Appeals court claimed that the FCC policy against falsification of the news does not rise to the level of a “law, rule, or regulation,” it was simply a “policy.” Therefore, it is up to the station whether or not it wants to report honestly.

The Media Can Legally Lie, Project Censored, 2005, at http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/11-the-media-can-legally-lie/ (retrieved: 25 September 2011).

Mercury is good for you! – US Mainstream Media Report,
HOW STUPID ARE THE PUBLIC.flv

Brain Neuron Degeneration via Mercury

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Christianity Debate

A Scientist Visits A Creationist Museum

Creationists Pollute Young Minds at Museum on Nightline

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