“There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things.
I dare say you haven't had much practice,said the Queen.
When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Why do we need to step up to the plate?
US Senate
There Are No Words To Describe The Following – Regarding ‘trillions’ Grayson asks several questions, including “Have you done any investigation or auditing of the off balance sheet transactions conducted by the Federal Reserve? She can’t answer, Grayson concludes: Frankly, I am shocked that nobody is keeping track of this. This was in May of 2009. Nothing has changed.
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Must See:
Human Resources - Social Engineering in the 20th Century
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2012 - The Healing of Humanity
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Zeitgeist: Moving Forward 2011
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The Money Fix
Important video for creating a better more humane world... locally
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Collective Sovereignty How could we govern together, from the bottom up?
Why most Americans work ever more hours for ever less pay, while for most Europeans it has been exactly the opposite
22 Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America
The Rich Get Rich and the Poor Get
Poorer - 14.3 % were living in poverty in 2009, according to
the U. S Census Bureau. 50 million people from 17.4 million families are so
poor they couldn’t buy sufficient food last year. About one million children
from more than a third of these households missed meals regularly according to
a recent study by the Department of Agriculture. At dinner, families gather to
share together. But for the children, dinner time can be the cruelest part of
the day. Almost 1 in 4 of them doesn’t know when they will have their next
meal.
What if someone poured crude oil all over your crops and livestock? Wouldn't you try to stop them from doing it?
Pointed questions like these come from a man named Derrick Jensen. They provide a lens through which to view the havoc that corporate capitalism is wreaking on our planet. They are meant to jolt us into the awareness that we are watching life on earth annihilated. They are also meant to challenge us into thinking about what form our resistance to this should take.
"I think what we need to do is to stop deluding ourselves into believing that those in power will do what they have not done and they've shown no inclination to do, which is to support life over production," says Jensen, an author and environmental activist who lives in Northern California.
Business-as-usual activism and politics will guarantee catastrophic climate change, more environmental disasters like what we are witnessing in the Gulf of Mexico and continued corporate depravity. Wherever people stand in the debate on the use of violence versus nonviolence, Jensen's sense of urgency at this moment in history is unarguable.
Snapshots
Why We're At War? : [Democrats or Republicans] are Not The Problem.
John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" blows the lid of U.S. imperialism and provides the reasons as to why we are at war in the Middle East.
John discusses ‘Corporatocracy’.
2006 - Relevant as much today as then. 3 videos.
Democracy Now
The Corporation - A Must See 2 Hour + Video
Capitalism Hits the Fan: University of Massachusetts Economics professor Richard Wolff gives the clearest explanation of the decades long squeeze on the American people I have yet seen. Increase corporate profit, increase standard of living, from 70's on don't raise wages, ease people into debt, and feed off the jackpot! Is this not the most insidious form of Slavery?
Here's the Scam -Real Time with Bill Maher
Video: The End of America Trailer
Based on New York Times Best Seller by Naomi Wolf
The G20: A Global Menace Invented by Larry Summers:
Who Broke America's Job Machine?
TED: Core values of Liberal & Conservative:
Dave Berman's Manifesting Positivity is a perfect example of those
who are making a difference, creating platforms for change
"Major changes don't happen by accident and we will consciously cultivate the relationship between short and long term advances, particularly by using ruthless honesty. This allows us to distinguish false alternatives from genuine progress, and to maintain consistency between the way we say we see things, and the way we act with that same information. For example, "weapons of mass deception" is a phrase widely understood to refer to America's corporate media. When we are ruthlessly honest we frame the corporate media as the "weapon" we know it to be, disarming it by openly making it a tool for the purposes of our public service."
Pledge of Resistance
The Not in Our Name Statement of Conscience was organized independently of the national “project”. Information about the two nationally published statements: www.nion.us
We believe that as people living
in the United States it is our
responsibility to resist the injustices
done by our government,
in our names
Not in our name
will you wage endless war
there can be no more deaths
no more transfusions
of blood for oil
Not in our name
will you invade countries
bomb civilians, kill more children
letting history take its course
over the graves of the nameless
Not in our name
will you erode the very freedoms
you have claimed to fight for
Not by our hands
will we supply weapons and funding
for the annihilation of families
on foreign soil
Not by our mouths
will we let fear silence us
Not by our hearts
will we allow whole peoples
or countries to be deemed evil
Not by our will
and Not in our name
We pledge resistance
We pledge alliance with those
who have come under attack
for voicing opposition to the war
or for their religion or ethnicity
We pledge to make common cause
with the people of the world
to bring about justice,
freedom and peace
Another world is possible
and we pledge to make it real.