The World is in Conflict - are You?

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Wow, you don't have to be Einstein to know something is dreadfully wrong with the world.  Turn on the television, pick up the newspaper or connect to your favorite app and you give up your brain, heart and soul to the dark side.

 

Today I'm writing about what you, the readers must think when you tune in to the news and tune out of the world.  For a long time and in a lot of different ways I have been a student of trying to determine how to make people think.

 

 

Most reporters tell you how to interpret the news they report.  Anyone who thinks they are unbiased reporters are as removed from reality as their stories.  When the reporter becomes a real person through the magic of television, look out!

 

Suddenly the ego kicks in and they must conclude that if millions of people follow them on television, isn't it their responsibility to help those followers improve their miserable lives?

 

So we get a kaleidoscope of fanatics preaching their patchwork version of right or wrong as if we had any intention of doing what they told us to do.  All 1000 channels of network and cable television are tools to melt your mind.

 

 

Along come bored defense contractors in need of a new boogie man since they are running out of places to start wars and still make an exorbitant profit.  They feed us the 21st century technology in the 20th century, the virtual world of the Internet and the billions of dollars to be made.

 

The consuming public is seduced immediately into the digital revolution because we now have at our fingertips all the information in the world, the ability to communicate throughout the world instantly, and someone else to develop all those wonderful Apps that have eliminated our need to be educated, creative, social, et al.

 

 

Apps?  Our new generation of teachers (data miners) started out by destroying the very foundation of a culture, the language.  They undermined the credibility of society by butchering the English language.  Apps?

 

There is something they forgot to tell us about the speed of the Internet.  It doesn't matter how fast the digital revolution can gather and process information when the recipient of the information is us humans, and we are still stuck in Granny gear when it comes to turbo-thinking.

 

 

Now that we have apps to do virtually all our thinking, we don't need to waste time thinking, or even need to know how to think.  We've got the Internet.  And we've got it through computers, PCs, laptops, cell phones, and a million other electronic devices all racing to meet your every need before you realize what you really might need.

 

What a great time to be alive.  We now have a jillion gigabytes of data available at our fingertip and no where to put it.  It won't fit in our brain, I mean nothing much has changed in our brain in about 55 million years.

 

What in the world are you going to do with all that heretofore unavailable information when you have no capacity in your mind for new material?  That might indicate one of the celestial design faults in the human body.

 

 

We were given the ability to accumulate a whole lot of information in a lifetime.  But we were given no ability to get rid of all the useless information we learned.  The mind seemed to keep things pretty much in balance for the first 54.9 million years.

 

But the 20th century AD seems to have shattered the ability of the mind to keep up with the information downloads.  Yet another world-changing result of the digital revolution beginning with the computer which spewed out the virtual universe which has now consumed every inhabitant of the Earth.

 

We fell into the black void of the virtual metaphysical world not realizing it was really a black hole and there would be no escape from it.

 

 

As for what to do with all the information we can no longer absorb into our brain, well the Virtual gods have an answer for that as well, they just keep it for you by storing it in the same virtual cloud where you got it from in the first place.

 

If you really thought about it, you are spending a fortune and giving up the ability to think for yourself in exchange for being part of the virtual cloud universe.  You should be pleased to know that you have just paid for what was free, all that stuff in the air.

 

If all knowledge exists in the form of undetectable electrical impulses available in our dimension to those aware enough of their gifts to tune in, and I have no reason to doubt the truth of such an assessment, then we always had the ability to tune in directly if we ever tired of being spoon-fed our information.

 

 

This reservoir of knowledge that some believe is the Akashic Records, [the universal knowledge of God!] seems to float all around our universe uninhibited by such obstacles as time, space or matter.  Perhaps they were referring to the electronic maze of quarks and quacks and all that subatomic physics stuff?

 

The simple truth is you have been stripped of your natural rights of self determination, free will and individual freedom.  Thanks to all the apps the Virtual Gods gave you, you didn't even notice the price you paid in return.

 

 

Did you ever wonder why virtual games never seem to be hacked or stopped by a denial-of-service attack?  Maybe they are a cover for the real hackers?

 

On the plus side of being a victim you can always feel better knowing most of your fellow man are victims as well.  Kind of like saying, "I'm not responsible for anything I do since I gave up my mind for the apps."

 

 

When it comes to the state of conflict in the world, rest assured the barrage of virtual bad news serves a purpose to the prince of darkness.  You empower and strengthen the power of negative emotions triggering all kinds of excuses for being depressed and popping a few more of those wonderful "feel good" pills my trustworthy doctor prescribed to help me make it through the day.

 

Of course then I will have to pop more of those doctor prescribed pills to bring me down from feeling good so I can sleep at night.  It is such a strain to just think about the pressure and tension I face every day from my apps that I also need a prescription from my wonderful doctor to keep my blood pressure from being out of control, and maybe another prescription to keep my blood thin so I don't get blood clots.

 

 

So who says we are not into preventative treatment.  You now take four prescriptions to keep you from feeling depressed.  How preventive is that!

 

Perhaps you never asked if you really needed the pills in the first place.

 

The lesson being this.  You contribute to the awful conflict the world is facing and most of you are actually empowering the conflict by getting caught up in the passion and prejudices of the TV commentator or virtual blogger you follow.

 

 

Before you tune in you should tune out and understand you can make an even far greater contribution to the empowerment of all things good like peace, good health and love.  If most of the world is trapped in the Virtual black cloud, then those few not caught in the clouds of illusion have a far better chance of being heard.

 

End the conflict by ending your addiction to apps and taking back your own life.  Why not try a Random Act of Kindness?

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"Carry on Carry on - cause nothing really matters..."

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"Carry on Carry on - cause nothing really matters..."
                        Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody

Can you believe I'm starting a story with the lyrics from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody?  Of course I always loved this "Rock Opera" and the legendary performance by writer and lead singer Freddie Mercury and the boys.

In the music and entertainment world the word "evergreen" has a powerful meaning and this song is truly ever green.  According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary it means:

Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Definition of EVERGREEN

1.  having foliage that remains green and functional through more than one growing season

2.  retaining freshness or interest

Examples of EVERGREEN
Most pines are evergreen trees.

First Known Use of EVERGREEN - 1574

For purposes of this story we rely on the 2. definition, the one that goes beyond mere biology or botany.  In the entertainment world this means something that is not dated or has the ability to capture the minds, souls and pocketbooks of the public.

The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, The Ten Commandments and Grease all meet that standard in terms of motion pictures.  Okay, so maybe Grease has not met the standard but it still has Olivia Newton John.

In music there are examples like; This Land is my Land, Blown in the Wind, America the Beautiful, God Bless America, Over the Rainbow, the Notre Dame Fight Song and Zip a Dee Doo Dah from Song of the South.

Freddie Mercury's words are timeless and reflect the age old battle between wanting to change the world or leaving things as they might be.  One of my favorite authors, Ayn Rand wrote a book called Atlas Shrugged released back in my favorite year of all time, 1957.

A philosophical masterpiece in my opinion, it was the last and longest fiction novel by Ayn.  Her book expresses the advocacy of reason, individualism, capitalism, and the failures of governmental coercion.

All seem rather important, even to this day.

The virtually unseen hero is John Galt who "rescues" prominent members of industry and hides them while the government collapses from greed.

The rather sarcastic attitude expressed by Freddie Mercury that nothing really matters is a call to arms much like the mysterious "Who Is John Galt" signs that appeared throughout Atlas Shrugged.

America has lost all her heroes and for the first time in my memory not a one stands on the stage or sidelines waiting for the chance to make a difference because we seem to have forgotten our mission in life as Americans.

Our ancestors came here to America to fix what was wrong with the world they left behind.  When we embrace the notion that nothing really matters anymore we have embraced the dangerous concept that this is as good as it gets.

Today things are at best okay.  Some things are way out of balance and some are not.  Most certainly "the failures of governmental coercion" are obvious.

So far our government intelligence and not so intelligent agencies have stripped us of any semblance of privacy by invading our phone conversations, our Internet email and social web files, and monitoring our conventional mail.

Edward Snowden

It only took a high school dropout with our nation's highest security clearance and an English newspaper to spill the beans on what Uncle Sam has been doing to our own citizens as well as about every other sovereign nation, friend and foe alike.

For a while it actually looked like nothing really matters when it comes to a government attack on our liberty and freedom.  Of course there has still been no real backlash here in the colonies but countries like England, Germany, Russia and China have all had quite serious private conversations with Obama so we probably have not heard the last.

Complacency, apathy and ignorance are the dark side trump cards in this game of high stakes poker, again echoing the sentiments of Freddie Mercury, nothing really matters.

It better matter!  We are either on the precipice of catastrophe or the cusp of salvation as mankind prepares to transition into the next and fifth cycle of civilization as told by the Hopi Indian elders and prophecies.

Either nothing really matters or everything really matters - the choice is ours.

Editors note: My fascination with John Galt is not just a literary thing but I also have a band called John Galt.  Check them out at:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=629449
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Race Baiting in America - The Lingering Cottage Industry

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

                                                Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 

What a shame that in a nation of laws and equality one can find race baiting as a sport reaching new highs or lows depending on your perspective.

 

The Zimmerman trial in Florida in which a jury dismissed all charges against the defendant, George Zimmerman, ruling self-defense, has demonstrated once again how some American traditions transcend politics, time and truth.
 

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

                                                Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 

Race baiting, that age old practice of proving people are inherently prejudiced even when they are not, is alive and well.

You notice, I trust, that I did not mention discrimination or equal opportunity because while I believe we have made great progress in our history, we are far from a society when there is only one race, mankind.

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
 

                                                Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you have cottage industries whose purpose seems to be more oriented toward prolonging race hatred, and inciting repressed fears, than helping society as a whole work to eliminate racism against everyone, you still have a problem.

"Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty."
 

                                                Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 

Here in America there are two distinct groups who never hesitate to use race baiting for their own purposes.  There are the so called advocates of an issue, those self-appointed mouth pieces for the invisible oppressed and repressed Americans.

These are the parasites who feed off parasites, grasping at any straw in the wind, no matter how remote from the truth it may be, in order to prolong their own interests like foundations, fund raising, consulting fees, kickbacks and the other benefits of the great American machine of capitalism.

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."

                                                Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 

Did I forget to mention the chauffeured limousines available to them, private jets on loan, significant tax deductible donations to their favorite charity?  What about the thousands of dollars in honorarium fees for speaking and the seven course gourmet dinner parties to help the super rich learn about the hatred and fear they missed in their finishing schools?
 

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
                                                Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 

These people have often taken extremely worthwhile causes and hijacked them for their own purposes.  The pioneers of the American Civil Rights movement, people like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave their lives to help wipe out racism and hatred.  Today's so called leaders use racism and fear to turn people against people.  They bring shame to the memory and work of such martyrs.

 

As for the parasites the parasites feed off of, they are the media, whether mainstream, main street, network, cable, Internet, wire service virtual, blogs or just plain stupid.
 

"When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."

                                                Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 

Back in the 1960's when Civil Rights had a cause and purpose, the most radical advocates for and against the civil rights movement were known as hate mongers and even bomb throwers.  But they did throw bullets and bombs.

 

Today's mouthpieces, whether from the special interests out to protect their special interest or the lawyers who created all the victim's non-profit funds that seem to pay huge salaries to lawyers to watch over the money to the media.

"Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else?  The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
                                                Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ah the media.  The only parasite class to give up all pretense of hiding the truth behind some sanctimonious purpose of serving the higher good.  No more lies about being "objective", "unbiased" or "truthful".

Today the media serves many masters and the truth is not one of them.  First and foremost in the media mind is corporate profits and profits only come from ratings in television and lies on the Internet.
 

It is in the best interest of the media ratings that all things good fail, all laws are subject to ridicule, any old storm must be transformed into a major natural disaster in the making, and sex sells. 

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”

                                                Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 

The more the public is upset the higher the ratings and the more opportunity to exploit hapless victims and their families and the more victims trust funds can be created.
 

Of course thanks to the media packaging of trials and the public response to jury and court rulings, the on camera reporters are so lame, apparently, that they need all kinds of bogus "experts" beside them to help hype the lies being spun to gain more viewers, higher ratings, and more advertising revenue.

Why have the very institutions whose people helped bring well deserved recognition to Dr. King now employed people and tactics that have sold out the very principles Dr. King stood for in the name of racial equality?

“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.
 

                                                Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fear and hatred empower racism and no one advocates fear and hatred more than the parasites who use human capital to make money.  They share the Greed Masters Hall of Infamy in American culture.

Did you know that the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the pioneers of the Civil Rights movement, has named 31 people as martyrs in the civil rights history of America.  Of the 31 there were 8, or 25%, who were white ranging from housewives to ministers to college students to plain old people.

Here is a sampling of the martyrs who gave their lives for others.
 

Southern Poverty Law Center

Civil Rights Martyrs

 

May 7, 1955 · Belzoni, Mississippi
Rev. George Lee, one of the first black people registered to vote in Humphreys County, used his pulpit and his printing press to urge others to vote. White officials offered Lee protection on the condition he end his voter registration efforts, but Lee refused and was murdered.

September 30, 1962 · Oxford, Mississippi
Paul Guihard, a reporter for a French news service, was killed by gunfire from a white mob during protests over the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi.

April 23, 1963 · Attalla, AlabamaWilliam Lewis Moore, a postman from Baltimore, was shot and killed during a one-man march against segregation. Moore had planned to deliver a letter to the governor of Mississippi urging an end to tolerance.

 

June 12, 1963 · Jackson, Mississippi

Medgar Evers, who directed NAACP operations in Mississippi, was leading a campaign for integration in Jackson when he was shot and killed by a sniper at his home.

 

 

September 15, 1963 · Birmingham, Alabama

Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley were getting ready for church services when a bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing all four of the school-age girls. The church had been a center for civil rights meetings and marches.

April 7, 1964 · Cleveland, OhioRev. Bruce Klunder was among civil rights activists who protested the building of a segregated school by placing their bodies in the way of construction equipment. Klunder was crushed to death when a bulldozer backed over him.

 

June 21, 1964 · Philadelphia, Mississippi
James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Henry Schwerner, young civil rights workers, were arrested by a deputy sheriff and then released into the hands of Klansmen who had plotted their murders. They were shot, and their bodies were buried in an earthen dam.

 

 

March 11, 1965 · Selma, Alabama

Rev. James Reeb, a Unitarian minister from Boston, was among many white clergymen who joined the Selma marchers after the attack by state troopers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Reeb was beaten to death by white men while he walked down a Selma street.

March 25, 1965 · Selma Highway, Alabama

Viola Gregg Liuzzo, a housewife and mother from Detroit, drove alone to Alabama to help with the Selma march after seeing televised reports of the attack at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. She was driving marchers back to Selma from Montgomery when she was shot and killed by a Klansmen in a passing car.

June 10, 1966 · Natchez, Mississippi

Ben Chester White, who had worked most of his life as a caretaker on a plantation, had no involvement in civil rights work. He was murdered by Klansmen who thought they could divert attention from a civil rights march by killing a black person.

February 8, 1968 · Orangeburg, South Carolina
Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr., Delano Herman Middleton and Henry Ezekial Smith were shot and killed by police who fired on student demonstrators at the South Carolina State College campus.

 

April 4, 1968 · Memphis, Tennessee

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister, was a major architect of the Civil Rights Movement. He led and inspired major non-violent desegregation campaigns, including those in Montgomery and Birmingham. He won the Nobel peace prize. He was assassinated as he prepared to lead a demonstration in Memphis.

 

Viola Liuzzo family

 

"I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law."
 

                                                Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Definition of COTTAGE INDUSTRY

 

1.  an industry whose labor force consists of family units or individuals working at home with their own equipment

 

2.  a small and often informally organized industry

 

3.  a limited but enthusiastically pursued activity or subject cottage industry for feminist academics — Wendy Kaminer

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The Disaster Master Strikes Again

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The following was released by the National Weather Service yesterday regarding a tornado in Southern Maryland.

DETAILS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

...BRIEF EF-0 TORNADO CONFIRMED IN COLTONS POINT MARYLAND...

LOCATION...COLTONS POINT IN ST MARYS COUNTY MARYLAND

DATE...10 JUNE 2013

ESTIMATED TIME...9:01 PM TO 9:01 PM EDT

MAXIMUM EF-SCALE RATING...EF-0

MAXIMUM WIND SPEED...65 MPH

MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH...50 YARDS

LENGTH...0.25 MILES

BEGINNING LAT/LON...38.223N / 76.755W

ENDING LAT/LON...38.226N / 76.753W

* FATALITIES...0

* INJURIES...0

* THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE

PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENT(S) AND PUBLICATION IN NWS STORM DATA.

...SUMMARY...


A GROUND SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...TOGETHER

WITH RADAR DATA FROM THE ANDREWS AFB TERMINAL DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR

DETERMINED THERE WAS A BRIEF EF-0 TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN COLTONS POINT

MARYLAND. MINOR TREE AND ROOF DAMAGE AND WAS NOTED IN THE VICINITY

OF THE INTERSECTION OF COLTON POINT RD...RT 242 WITH BAYVIEW RD AND

ALONG BEACH RD BETWEEN CHARLES HALL RD AND POINT BREEZE RD. A FEW

SHINGLES WERE BLOWN OFF SOME STRUCTURES IN THIS AREA. A TREE CAME

DOWN ON WIRES IN THE 38300 BLOCK OF BEACH RD. A TRAMPOLINE NEAR A

RESIDENCE ON COLTON POINT RD NEXT TO THE TOWN POST OFFICE WAS LIFTED

UP AND BECAME LODGED 90 FEET UP IN NEARBY TALL PINE TREE. TWO LARGE

WOODEN PLAY SET WERE BLOWN OVER...ONE WAS DRAGGED ABOUT 15 FEET.


THIS TORNADO WAS LIKELY THE EXTENSION OF A WATERSPOUT THAT CROSSED

THE POTOMAC RIVER JUST BEFORE 9 PM.

 

 

Well I live on the intersection of Charles Hall Road and Beach Road and at exactly 9:01 pm on June 10, about a month ago, I was standing in my yard taking photos of the nasty weather and hoping to get a picture of the tornado the National Weather Service said was between Fredericksburg, Virginia and Coltons Point, Maryland, on the banks of the Potomac River.  It was supposed to be headed right toward us.

 

Nashville

Suddenly the sky turned black and a roar of wind like a Cessna on steroids hit and the sky directly above me started twirling in a massive circle.  It was the second time I watched a tornado go directly overhead here in Maryland and my third experience as I was standing in a Nashville parking lot in 1998 when a large tornado swooped overhead and slammed that city.

 

 

But it gets better.  My homes in Iowa, Nebraska and New Jersey all got hit by tornadoes, one was destroyed.

And since arriving in Southern Maryland three hurricanes have hit.

Good thing I had all that practice growing up in Iowa and Nebraska when we had to fill sandbags to stop the Mississippi or Missouri rivers from flooding.

Or had to survive paralyzing blizzards and 35 below zero cold.

All of a sudden our torrid heat wave doesn't seem all that bad.
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