"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men” ~ Plato
One of
the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs,
where the small flies are caught and the great break through ~ Sir Francis Bacon
Assessing What's Wrong So It Can Be Fixed
The Gig Is Up:
Money, the Federal Reserve and You.
In the following video, populist lawyer, Gary Fielder, presents “The Gig Is Up: Money, the Federal Reserve and You. Live from Wolfe Hall at The University of Colorado School of Law, on December 4, 2008, Mr. Fielder, a criminal and constitutional lawyer from Denver, Colorado, presents a power point and video presentation on the creation of money with an historical analysis of our current banking system. With quotes from Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich and many others, Fielder makes his case to abolish the Federal Reserve and return to a sound and honest money system. Fractional Reserve Banking. Currency. Amero. World Government. International Banking. www.gigisup.net Produced by Jack Creamer, Side 3 Studios, Denver, Colorado. Video edits by Jonathan Ellinoff. Technical Assistant, Rye Miller. This video is for educational purposes only. Admission was not charged, nor will any effort be made to profit from its production or sale. The DVD is free.
Cynthia Cooper - WorldCom Whistle BlowerDiane Kleiman - U.S Customs Agency Whistle Blower
Peter Scannell - Market Timing Whistle Blower
Ed Bricker - Nuclear Safety Whistle Blower Jeffery Wigand "The Insider" - Cigarette Company Whistle Blower
David Franklin - Drug Company Whistle BlowerAbuse of Whistleblowers National security whistleblowers deserve more protection Related: Drake Indictment
The Nail in the Coffin of Whistleblowers
Telling the Truth & Paying the Price: Jesselyn Radack's Story
When the Whistles Don’t Blow
Feinstein & Whistleblowers: stranded passenger tarmac cabin air & comfort.
Justice for Bradley Manning! Petition to support Manning in his disclosure of wrongdoing in the US military.
Whistleblower Sites
National Whistleblowers Org
Project on Government Oversight
The Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy
Wikileaks
Congress delving into Corporate Crime; America in Cognitive Dissonance. Part 1 of 9, see the rest at YouTube
Who Broke America’s Jobs Machine? - A must watch. Radical concentration of power; shocking statistics, markets for innovative ideas and intelligent entrepreneurs
closed. "Unemployment
is the single greatest threat America now faces. Job growth, anemic
before the recession, is now non-existent, and promises to be weak for
years to come. Some blame foreign competition; others, a lack of
investment. But in the current issue of the Washington Monthly, Barry C.
Lynn and Phillip Longman point to a different culprit: corporate
consolidation, brought on by decades of weak antitrust enforcement in
Washington. Industries from banking to retail to microchips are now so
dominated by a few big firms that small businesses -- the source of most
new jobs -- have less and less opportunity to thrive, expand, and
challenge the behemoths. The result is a less innovative and dynamic
economy.
If this argument is right, then it's going to take a
good deal more than tax breaks and stimulus spending to get America's
jobs machine working again. It's going to require a federal government
that will enforce the nation's antitrust laws, bring more competition
back into markets, and unleash the creative energies of America's
entrepreneurs. ....recent Labor Department
statistics show that the loss of jobs here at home, be it the result of
sudden economic crashes or technological progress or trade
liberalization, does not appear to be our main problem at all. Though
few people realize it, the rate of job destruction in the private sector
is now 20 percent lower than it was in the late ’90s, when managers at
America’s corporations embraced outsourcing and downsizing with an often
manic intensity. Rather, the lack of net job growth over the last
decade is due mainly to the creation of fewer new jobs. As recent Labor
Department statistics show, even during the peak years of the housing
boom, job creation by existing businesses was 14 percent lower than it
was in the late ’90s...." Power
and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion - There is no hope left for achieving
significant reform or restoring our democracy through established mechanisms of
power. The electoral process has been hijacked by corporations. The judiciary
has been corrupted and bought. The press shuts out the most important voices in
the country and feeds us the banal and the absurd. Universities prostitute
themselves for corporate dollars. Labor unions are marginal and ineffectual
forces. The economy is in the hands of corporate swindlers and speculators. And
the public, enchanted by electronic hallucinations, remains passive and supine.
We have no tools left within the power structure in our fight to halt unchecked
corporate pillage.
Zeitgeist (Funny name - see below) but a Must See
Zeitgeist
(Wiki) (German) means "the spirit of the times" or "the spirit of the
age." [1] Zeitgeist is the general cultural, intellectual, ethical,
spiritual, and/or political climate within a nation or even specific
groups, along with the general ambiance, morals, socio-cultural
direction or mood of an era.
The
term zeitgeist is from German Zeit- 'time' (cognate with English tide
and "time") and Geist- 'spirit', without being really translatable into
English - this is why the German term is used..
The Evolution of Life, on a wall.
Michael Marshall, environment reporter
The rather excellent video below is a wall-painted animation: essentially a stop-motion animation created by painting a sequence of still images on a wall and photographing them, then running the photos together into a film.
It was created by the street artist Blu, who describes it as the result of "months of work and hundreds [of] buckets of paint". That's hardly surprising, given that it tries to illustrate the history of the universe since the big bang, with a particular focus on the evolution of life on Earth.
It's very impressive indeed, so without further ado:
Enlightenment
On a full-moon day in
May, Gautama sat under the Bodhi tree in deep meditation and said. "I will not
leave this spot until I find an end to suffering." During the night, he
was visited by Mara, the evil one, who tried to tempt him away from his virtuous
path. First he sent his beautiful daughters to lure Gautama into pleasure. Next
he sent bolts of lightning, wind and heavy rain. Last he sent his demonic
armies with weapons and flaming rocks. One by one, Gautama met the armies and
defeated them with his virtue.
As the struggle
ended, he realized the cause of suffering and how to remove it. He had gained
the most supreme
wisdom and understood things as they truly are. He became the
Buddha, 'The Awakened One'. From then on, he was called Shakyamuni Buddha.