Written by So, I’ve been writing about Ron Paul a lot lately. Well, there’s not a lot being said about him on the establishment media who decided long ago to ignore him, so I figure why not write about him? He’s drawing large crowds at rallies. He’s getting lots of delegates to bring with him to the Republican convention. He has, in fact, won more delegates than any other candidate from some of the caucus states where the vote was just a poll, nothing more, and it’s the delegates that matter. That’s news worthy. Since the establishment media is determined to keep things hidden from the general public, it’s up to little under read and mostly ignored bloggers like me to report on him. READ MORE »
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Who are the (Anti-Ron Paul) Trolls?
A troll was, at one time, a nasty menace that sat under bridges waiting to eat little goats that may come along, or little children, depending on who’s telling the story. They would goad the creatures they sought to munch upon with jibes and insults. In the modern vernacular, the troll has become the hidden menace lurking around blogs waiting for someone to write something they feel they can discredit, usually by insults and barbs rather than by reason and persuasion. They are an ugly creature which unfortunately infest many a blog and can turn a pleasant forum full of reasonable discussion into the cyber equivalent of a shouting match. READ MORE »
How Much Does Darkness Weigh?
I heard someone talk about this question the other day in connection with the Titanic and thought it was a very interesting question. I thought I’d take a shot at answering it and perhaps take it in a direction the original querist never imagined. At first glance this looks like it might be an easy question to answer. READ MORE »
Radical Forgiveness and the Power Elite
There is something out there known as radical forgiveness. This would be the capability to forgive the perpetrator of an act or acts so heinous as to be indescribable. It would require an almost inhuman empathy to achieve such a high level of goodness, an unconditional love, as it were. This is the kind of forgiveness one would use on an Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, or a Pol Pot if one had been a victim of those monsters. This would be an extremely difficult practice to integrate into your life. It is, however, something we might have to look at incorporating into society if we are to ever break the cycle of violence that has imprisoned our souls since before the first man drew on cave walls. READ MORE »
Review: Hunger Games
Written by By Kristen Coughlan
The book is good read. The movie does follow the book very well but they added some extra scenes since the original book is from the point to view of Katniss and took some elements from Catching Fire, the second book in the series, to fill in some gaps.
Hunger Games takes place in the future in Panem which was once North America. Panem is ruled by the Capital and is surrounded by 13 Districts. Each district has their own job for Penem and trained in only that job. People in those districts are locked into their district and are forbidden to leave. Peacekeepers guard the district.
Seventy-Four years before the series begins, the districts rebelled against the Capital in the time known of the Dark Days. Because District 13, had nuclear technology and possibly of creating the a nuclear weapon, the capitol destoryed it. Since the Dark Days as punishment for rebelling, the Capitol has hosted an event called The Hunger Games where a boy and a girl aged 12-18 are chosen through a lottery or volunteering on Reaping Day and sent to the Capital to fight in an arena until there is only one remaining. A child can have more food and oil rations for their home for more ballots per member of household and the ballots roll over to the next year.
The book starts off in District 12, the mining district, through the point of view of Katniss Everdeen. District 12 is the poorest outlanding district were the citizens are very poor and starving. She takes her sister Prim’s place when she is called to be the female tribute. Peeta Mellark becomes the male tribute. Peeta once saved Katniss from starvation when Katniss father died in the mines and it would be months before she can qualify to get extra food by extra ballots in the reaping.
Katniss and Peeta are trained for the games and made over to look good for the cameras. Peeta makes a remark in the final interview before the games that she loves Katniss. Katniss doesn’t feel the same but the media spins it as they are star-crossed lovers.
During the games, after Katniss gives a final respect to Rue(District 11 female) by covering her in flowers. She had a tempary alliance with her before she was killed by Marvel (District 1 male). It in the movie, it causes a riot in District 11 and President Snow calls on the Head Gamemaker to make changes to prevent an uprising.
The gamemakers change the rules of that if two of the same district are left win but when Katniss and Peeta are left, they retract the rule wanting a dramatic finale. . Katniss and Peeta take poisoness nightlock berries to their mouths and the game makers change their minds making them both winners. Haymitch, Katniss and Peeta mentor, tells Katniss what they did would anger the Capital because not everyone would see it as an act of love but as an act of rebellion.
The book and movie does have a lot of predictive programming.
Both the book and movie show how propaganda is used on the citizens of Panem. The Capital doesn’t want people to see like Katniss laying the flowers on Rue and is cut out of the highlights. It has the feel in the book that some of citizens of the Capital are sheeple. The only people that leave the Districts are Peacekeepers, high officials, tributes, mentors, and their escorts. What the Capital tells them about the districts are from the propaganda. During the reapings as part of the speeches (PSA video in the movie) they talk about the destruction of District 13 as a way of saying to the people, remember what happened to District 13 if you think of going against the Capital.
The book makes a good ploy on the real reason for having fences. Katniss mentions how they are built to keep dangerous animals out but they are used to keep the people in. In District 12 an electric fence is used but due to the pity of the Peacekeepers and mayor it is not kept on all the time and some major laws are overlooked. Katniss learns from Rue that District 11 is run like a police state where theft is punished by death. Even that District 11 grows food, they are not allowed to take any of it.
My personal favorite parts in the book and movie is Katniss shooting the arrow at the Game-makers when they don’t pay attention to her and when Katniss bonds with Rue and learns of District 11 and how things can be worse off than she is.
Ron Paul Proves Election Myths False
Ron Paul has managed to prove certain popularly held beliefs about elections false. He has likely done this unwittingly. He has taken it on himself to deliver the message of freedom to the masses and has discovered some unusual phenomena that we as voters may not have otherwise believed. It is a truly wondrous world we live in when our firmly held beliefs can be so challenged. READ MORE »
Talking Politics to Worshippers of the State (Part 2)
There are a couple of things one might want to accomplish when talking to worshippers of the state. I think that first and foremost one wants is to turn the brain of the worshipper back on. One wants to get the state practitioner to think. That isn’t to say that worshippers of the state don’t think. It is simply that they have decided not to think about certain issues. They have been taught certain paradigms and have accepted them as truth. They simply don’t want to think more deeply about those issues as they go about their lives. The difficulty is getting through their programming to get them to reconsider the paradigms which they learned at a young age and continue to be propagated in the life they observe around them. READ MORE »
Talking Politics to Worshippers of the State (Part 1)
There have been several occasions in my lifetime when I have found myself in the presence of some red faced, very angry person yelling at me about some political issue or another. Indeed, there was a time in my life where I might have become just as red faced and yelled back. In fact, such an occurrence could possibly happen today if I was to be caught off guard or in some emotional moment when such a conversation comes up. Let’s face it, people just get real emotional when it comes to politics. They get these ideas in their heads and they’re so enamored by them that it becomes inconceivable that someone else could have a different view on things. Some people even become zealots about their politics, just like some do about religions. READ MORE »
What if Everyone Voted for Ron Paul?
What if everyone voted for Ron Paul? I think that would be a good thing. I think that would show the establishment that, indeed, freedom is important to each and every one of us. I think it would show that we all do care about shrinking the government. I think that would show that we all wish for the Constitution to be obeyed, as many of those who take an oath to it have not done for ages. I think it would show that honesty and principle are important to the voters and they look for such attributes in their politicians. But I wonder, if everyone voted for Ron Paul, would we even know it? Well, of course if everybody voted for him, I don’t think there’d be a problem because that would mean that the current power elite had admitted the error of their ways and were willing to let go of their control of things in favor of letting everyone run their own lives. I doubt very much that will happen. READ MORE »
Consciousness as Plasma and Software
I’d like to take a moment to step into the realm of pure speculation. Since time immemorial mankind has pondered his own consciousness. I wonder if even tens of millions of years ago, in a time when bizarre animals walked the earth, if some of these were able to ponder the deep questions of spirituality and wonder where they came from and why they existed. Indeed, one can see a certain intelligence in higher level mammals we keep around as pets as they try to communicate to us their needs and their emotions. What, exactly, is consciousness? What is mind? Is there such a thing as the soul? These are questions whose answers have eluded mankind in his physical form (the only form we can be certain of) since forever. Unfortunately, I don’t think that modern science is open minded enough to always ask the right questions or look for the answers in the right places. READ MORE »
The Groping, Power Grabbing TSA Scam
The TSA has become a poster child for government intrusion and ineptitude. It really is one of the worst excuses for a government program ever created. I’ve seen people refer to the TSA as anything from Thousands Standing Around to Total Sexual Assault. I have one of my own, Truly Scamming America. The only agency I can think of that is more hated by Americans would be the IRS. Yet there are still those who apologize for this horrendous boondoggle. There are still those who believe the hype and propaganda that helped bring about the agency in the first place. Perhaps for them there is no help. Perhaps they will always pray at the foot of the gigantic holy owl known as the federal government. Perhaps there are some people who will always wish to be enslaved, who need to be told what to do or they would be lost. I can only hope that one day they will come to understand their true power and the pride liberation brings. READ MORE »
The Harmful Influence of Politics on Everyday Life
It may seem to many of you that I like writing about politics. When I think back on it, I find myself thinking that actually, I don’t. I can think of so many better things to write about and I’ve shown this by my work as a novelist. I’d much rather be writing adventures and working with fiction than expressing my opinions on the political happenings in this nation and the world. The problem is, as I discovered long ago, politics doesn’t want to leave me alone. It wants to seep into every aspect of my life. It wants to micromanage my personal decisions. It wants to tell me what I can eat, what I can and can’t put into my body, what medications and medical procedures I can and can’t use, what businesses I can and can’t open, how I must operate a business when I open it, what I must accept as money from any given costumer, who I can and can’t marry, how I can travel, etc. They keep their hands in my pockets and their eyes on all my activities. In short, politics wants to control my actions from cradle to grave and make sure they get a piece of everything I produce during my time here on earth. READ MORE »
Energy Independence and Disempowering the Mob
In these economically tough times, it might not be a bad idea to think outside the box when it comes to saving money. In fact, I wonder if wandering away from the principles this country was founded upon hasn’t proven to be our downfall. These principles were pulled outside the box long ago and the box given to us by big government controlled by multi national corporate interests became very comfortable. I believe they felt we would completely forget about the “quaint” ways of our forefathers and succumb completely to their domination if they made us comfortable enough. I believe we really missed the boat in a lot of ways, but that’s okay, there’s always another boat scheduled to leave port at some point in time. READ MORE »
Russian punks Pussy Riot arrested over Putin protest
Russian punks Pussy Riot have been arrested over their February protest at Moscow’s Christ the Saviour cathedral. Beginning on 3 March, the day before the presidential election that saw Vladimir Putin return to power, six band members were charged in connection with hate crimes and violations of public order.
Two of the musicians remain in custody, where they have begun a hunger strike. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhin are protesting against the conditions of their arrest, which will see them kept behind bars until a late April hearing. They both have young children: Tolokonnikova has a four-year-old son and Alyokhin’s daughter is five. The women “will starve in jail until they are returned to their children”, Pussy Riot explained on their website.
If the accused are found guilty, they face up to seven years in prison. “These citizens were taken in on suspicion of committing a crime, one involving a gross violation of public order, including inciting religious hatred as part of a planned conspiracy,” announced the government’s press service. The band members claim they were interrogated for seven hours, beginning at 4am; the investigators allegedly revealed the case was being directed “from the highest levels”, with a focus not just on Pussy Riot’s protest but on “all anti-state activities”.
Government, Banks, Monopoly Privilege and Lack of Accountability
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When you talk to people, even the statists in this world, there are many that will agree that there is a huge problem in government when it comes to accountability. The problem stems from the monopoly privilege granted to government agencies. That privilege is the monopoly on legalized force and the claim of legitimacy to use it. Using this claim, agents of the government can more or less do as they want, when they want. Should they be caught doing something considered illegal, they will often claim immunity. While this does not always work, it certainly seems to me that it works a very high percentage of the time. Government agents more often than not get away with their abuses of trust and power. READ MORE »