{"id":93620,"date":"2011-10-11T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecactusland.com\/2011\/10\/revolution-or-disengagement.html"},"modified":"2011-10-11T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T18:11:00","slug":"the-infomocracy-dilemma-revolution-or-disengagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/the-infomocracy-dilemma-revolution-or-disengagement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Infomocracy Dilemma: Revolution or Disengagement?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A very small yet conscious minority has come to the realization that the current world regime is one giant corporate infomocracy that needs to be terminated with \u201cextreme prejudice\u201d, disengagement being the weapon of choice. \u00a0The next revolution will not be carried out by mobs of angry people, guerrillas,\u00a0terrorists\u00a0or, god forbid, politicians. \u00a0It will be accomplished by a small (10%) militant minority that will simply unplug the matrix.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A Very Condensed Case for Revolution<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
An enormous, dictatorial corporate cartel is ruling the world through its proxies in government, banking, academia and media. \u00a0Our entire western culture has become an\u00a0insidious\u00a0farce\u00a0with the sole purpose of maintaining the enslaved masses in their conjured up democracies,\u00a0religions\u00a0and histories. \u00a0Two developments have increased its control exponentially: \u00a0globalisation and the information revolution.\u00a0<\/div>\n
The world is entering the final acts of a great social, political and economic shift. \u00a0The international currency regime, the keystone of control, \u00a0is peering into the abyss; the middle east is being turned upside down; the bankrupt United States government is fighting several wars and maintaining more than 560 military bases in over 120 countries. \u00a0The insatiable greed and desire for world control have created a breach in the system. \u00a0People are becoming aware while their masters scramble for control as the chaotic climax approaches.<\/div>\n
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Violence, crackdowns, massacres and all out wars are erupting from Libya to Bahrain. \u00a0As Yeats put it , \u201cthe centre cannot hold\u201d. \u00a0The Arab Spring will soon reach the Wall in the West Bank and when it does the\u00a0possibility\u00a0of a large scale conflict and the eventual involvement of Iran are almost\u00a0inevitable. \u00a0How the west reacts when this conflict erupts upon us will be the inflection point for the entire period.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The great strides made in western liberal societies since the Enlightenment have been \u00a0firmly based on the Greco\/Christian tradition. \u00a0It should be no surprise that the purveyors of consumerist agnosticism firmly reject this tradition within the western democracies. \u00a0By pulling the spiritual rug out from under Euro\/American culture, they have left a black hole that can only be filled by their circus and gadgets. \u00a0We have not only paid, but have in fact indebted ourselves, to worship at the feet of their materialist God. \u00a0This has nothing to do with theology and everything to do with culture<\/a>. \u00a0The West is paying a very dear price for having stopped thinking critically and educating its children.<\/div>\n
The great European experiment (much more than simply the EU<\/em>), thought by many to be the light of the world, is sinking like the Titanic. \u00a0With a total disregard for traditional culture, the ruling elites have turned our schools, universities, arts and mass media into a giant propaganda machine promoting\u00a0political\u00a0correctness,\u00a0pseudo\u00a0history & economics and the new world religion: debt based consumerism. \u00a0Anyone who questions their\u00a0version of science, world history or monetary policy is immediately branded as a malcontent\u00a0<\/span>and removed from the public discourse. \u00a0They control the message by controlling the money.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Many look at the twentieth century as a time of great economic and\u00a0technical\u00a0advance, but history, while recognizing the the technical innovation, will condemn this century as the most vile in man\u2019s history. \u00a0The miracle that began in Greece, expanded in Rome, flourished in the\u00a0Renaissance & Enlightenment and\u00a0finally found its \u00a0modern form in the western liberal democracy has been been gutted by a century of materialism, enslavement, slaughter and greed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The Corporation and Infomocracy<\/em><\/strong>

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There is no better example of fascism in\u00a0today’s\u00a0world than the major corporation: decisions made by a select group of insiders,\u00a0bureaucratic\u00a0conformism, communications ripe with propaganda, and the cult of power. \u00a0There is nothing democratic about the boardrooms of these\u00a0behemoths, so how can we expect the governments\u00a0they<\/em> rule to be democratic? \u00a0They have created a two party charade with news programs, talking heads and opposing \u00a0media facing off in\u00a0faux\u00a0battles to conjure up their infomocracy.<\/p>\n
The corporations control the creation and\u00a0distribution\u00a0of our money, our\u00a0foreign\u00a0policy, entertainment and news. \u00a0The only way to put a wedge between these monoliths and the liberty of individuals is to\u00a0completely\u00a0disengage from them. \u00a0They manipulate news and opinion to the extent that actual issues are never \u00a0discussed, only the distractions are debated. \u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Two Examples – \u00a0Health care and Iraq<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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The United States has by far the most expensive health care system in the world, and a decidedly unhealthy population. \u00a0Something is clearly wrong with this system. \u00a0The debate is carefully divided into those who want to maintain the status-quo – Republicans, and those that want to enhance the status quo – Democrats. \u00a0All of the actors fall into line and go either shirts or skins, but the truth is never discussed.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The Federal Government subsidizes the corporate health care system and the over payed\u00a0doctors by \u00a0regulating the market out of the system and creating a closed corporate hegemony over the industry. \u00a0The media and academic shills stick to their subsidized scripts and the real solution is never discussed because that solution would destroy the bottom lines of \u00a0the corporate players.<\/div>\n
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Simply deregulate. \u00a0Remove ALL regulations on who can practice medicine and how. \u00a0Any drug can be sold in the US, period. \u00a0End the FDA. \u00a0Private FDA’s will sprout up, vouching for the validity of drugs. \u00a0Some will be better than others, but the consumers will decide which ones work. \u00a0Any doctor can practice medicine and many private organizations will appear vouching for their credentials. \u00a0As long as there is a judicial system that can pass judgement on reasonable claims, the system will work out its kinks and we will have, without a doubt, the cheapest most effective health care system in the world. \u00a0It’s that simple. \u00a0The only thing the government is doing in healthcare is subsidizing corporate profits.<\/div>\n
Those\u00a0preferring\u00a0universal health coverage can\u00a0certainly\u00a0make their case at the local level without imposing it on a nation of over 300 million people.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The war in Iraq was started by taking advantage of the fear and confusion from 9\/11 with the intention of creating a safer Middle East for the state of Israel. \u00a0While this idea is far from novel, it’s not allowed to enter the mainstream discussion of the issue. \u00a0The truth is taboo because the consequences of accepting it would be beyond the pale for those who conceived of and pushed the country to war; \u00a0too much blood to be laid at the feet of the guilty. \u00a0The motives and consequences of Vietnam were argued in academia and the mainstream media ad nauseam, but you will not see a Pentagon Papers<\/em> come out of The New York Times<\/em> regarding Iraq because the\u00a0repercussion\u00a0would reverberate too close to home. \u00a0How can the\u00a0purveyors\u00a0of morality be nothing more than war mongers?<\/div>\n
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Why is there a world \u2018economic\u2019 crisis? \u00a0Is it a lack of able-bodied workers, natural resources, factories, or infrastructure? \u00a0Absolutely not. \u00a0It’s a lack of liquidity and\/or too much debt, however one decides to slice it. \u00a0The most important myth supporting the system is the belief in fractional reserve money as a valid store of value and means of exchange. \u00a0The banks are allowed to create the money out of nothing<\/a>, and charge interest for turning the trick while the masses have to earn it. \u00a0The right to create money is the right to\u00a0leverage, and it’s that financial leverage that hoists them to the top of the pyramid. \u00a0Without this leverage they would not be able to create such massive amounts of wealth and control. \u00a0The only way to destroy this system and create fair money is by creating awareness. \u00a0Once people understand the \u201ctrick\u201d, the whole house of cards begins to collapse. \u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
One simple thought experiment is to imagine what would happen if the the mega banks and the Fed came to an agreement to cut all personal debt by 50%, send a credit card with 20K to every American while at the same time paying off all government debt (federal, state and local). \u00a0In this experiment everything would be paid for by quantitative easing and removing bank reserve requirements for bad debts. \u00a0The \u201ccrisis\u201d would be over in about three months: \u00a0anyone who wanted to work would be able to find job, factory capacity would surge and the entire world economy would rise on a massive wave of prosperity. \u00a0The only trick would be keeping inflation at bay by reducing government spending to a balanced budget and keeping interest rates high enough. This is not to say that creating money out of thin air and giving it away is the answer, but it does point out that the entire crisis is abstract and contrived and the supreme charge of the government is to protect those that live off interest and leverage. \u00a0The debts pushed on the 99% by the powers that be are its main source of leverage and wealth, and by overburdening the productive population with debt they killed the proverbial goose.\u00a0<\/div>\n
People out of work, factories shuddered, fields unploughed, students without teachers, children without food – all because of digital debt money. \u00a0Why can\u2019t a man with a strong back and a working brain simply go out, work, create something and exchange it for money? \u00a0That would be too easy. \u00a0First someone has to create the money, with interest. \u00a0The fractional reserve system, by design, creates artificial scarcity, allowing the ruling banker class and their political puppets to skim enough off everyone’s work and turn abundant,\u00a0productive labor and private property into a giant banker-run slum- turf wars included. \u00a0They put massive claims on future production until, at the end of the cycle, their debt chickens come home to roost.<\/div>\n
Why is this basic truth not shouted from every newspaper, college classroom, church pulpit and street corner? \u00a0In a world of brands, they control who is deemed appropriate. \u00a0Anyone who states the truth is isolated, blacklisted or demonized as\u00a0inappropriate, which is now just another word for honest. \u00a0An entire caste of over-educated shills dominate media, film, the arts, literature, and academia. \u00a0Organized religion, when not protecting pedophiles and apartheid states, spends the rest of its moral capital railing against the basic pleasures of humanity that have yet to be monetized and securitized by Wall Street.<\/div>\n
They tell us to kill and we kill. \u00a0Current fashion is that it is okay to kill Yemenis,\u00a0Bahrainis, Palestinians, and some other assorted Muslims. \u00a0Libyans have been put on the no kill list and Syrians may soon find themselves on the same list. \u00a0That list means only NATO can kill them (see Afghanistan). \u00a0Iraqis have the special honor of being the exclusively killed \u00a0by Americans since May 2011\u00a0<\/div>\n
Education, Religion & Circus<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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One of the most amazing feats of the regime is how they coerce young people to go into extreme amounts of debt to be brainwashed and taught not to think\u00a0before they ever even have a career .<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Mainstream and not so mainstream religion generally tries to sell people on a hodgepodge of fear and fantasy, with a big pay-off for the self righteous who drink most from the sacred well of Kool-Aid. \u00a0What must never be attempted is to actually have an authentic spiritual experience, for this would cause the subject to run from the dogma and quite possibly bring most of the remaining parishioners with him. \u00a0Real consciousness as much an anathema\u00a0to religion as critical thinking is to academia.<\/div>\n
But even if one can escape the grasp of schools and universities, dodge the churches, few can evade the tempting trap of the circus. \u00a0The television, music, the press, spectator sports, movie stars and the like have an almost\u00a0hallucinatory\u00a0power over the sheeple. \u00a0Not only do these pastimes steal the money of the masses, they brainwash them to boot. \u00a0The regime’s mantra: pay the master for the right to be enslaved.<\/div>\n
SOLUTIONS<\/strong>

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Violent Revolution?<\/em><\/strong>

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In the\u00a0Allegory of the Cave<\/a>, Plato compares the awakening process to realizing the shadows on the wall are only reflections from lanterns in a cave, but he points out that there is a period during which the eyes need to get adjusted, in these moments the person can see neither the shadows nor make out the real images soaked in sunlight. \u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Those who awaken go through many stages, one of which is the strong desire to plant bombs and slit throats. \u00a0As Plato points out, there is a period of disorientation as one meanders out of the cave. \u00a0While violence is the most appetizingly simple of choices, it is also the most counterproductive. \u00a0Anything one does that can be utilized by the masters to fire up their destructive\u00a0paraphernalia is a mistake. \u00a0In fact, anything that even breaks their laws is harmful to the cause and will only create useless opposition. \u00a0All forms of violent resistance only generate energy which they use to manipulate news and events in order to create fear and\u00a0reactionism. \u00a0They thrive on our anxieties and use the very energy generated against them as the impetus to foment division among their opponents.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Enlightened Disengagement<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
The enlightened conscious man needs no school to raise his children, no church to know his God, no banker to validate his work and no government to choose his enemies. \u00a0He is free to do as he pleases, when he pleases and how he pleases. \u00a0His liberty allows him to need almost nothing, which is how the great evil matrix becomes undone: in a great fire of awareness.<\/div>\n
Money<\/em> \u2014 Use fractional reserve money only for what is needed in the short term. \u00a0Have no savings denominated in their dollars. \u00a0All savings in hard assets.<\/div>\n
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Work & Corporations<\/em> \u2014 Avoid, to the greatest extent possible, working for and using corporations. \u00a0Actively pursue locally owned alternatives and self-employment. \u00a0As a consumer, avoid all corporate products whenever possible. \u00a0This includes clothes, food, religion, news, etc.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Bread & Circus<\/em> \u2014 Cancel all cable subscriptions immediately. Sell all your televisions and take your best friend out for a night on the town with the proceeds. \u00a0Stop participating in the corporate entertainment network. \u00a0If you love baseball, follow a local independent team. \u00a0If you love dramas, frequent your local theater. \u00a0Read independent news services. \u00a0Always know the source of what you are consuming. Avoid corporate food at all costs. \u00a0Pay the premium for locally, independently grown and prepared food.<\/div>\n
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Follow the Law to the Letter<\/em> \u2014 That means paying all taxes, following all regulations, and submitting to all their rules while they are still in force. \u00a0The cause is not advanced by having militants ensnarled by the criminal justice system. All their efforts must be fully dedicated to disengaging themselves, their families and their friends. \u00a0Moves must be calculated to maximize strength\u00a0and staying power, even if it means remaining \u201cattached\u201d to parts of the system longer than one would like. A financially sound, secure militant family \u00a0disengaging and evangelizing\u00a0is their worst enemy.<\/div>\n
Politics\u00a0<\/em>– The obvious thing to be done is abstain from participation. \u00a0In most cases, this would be the clear strategy. \u00a0However, with an\u00a0iconoclastic\u00a0candidate like Ron Paul still in the running, it makes sense to give him support. \u00a0The more the mainstream avoids him and dances around his campaign, the more he should be backed. \u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We don’t need to convince the whole village, we only need 10% of them. A recent study<\/a> has confirmed that once an idea reaches the 10% threshold and that 10% is demonstrably fixed to the idea, the majority will quickly follow.<\/div>\n
“Three conditions are key: a majority that is flexible with their views, a minority that is intractable, and a critical threshold wherein about a tenth of the population advocate the minority opinion. They also saw that the time it takes to reach social consensus drops dramatically as the minority grows past this tipping point”<\/em><\/div>\n
The focus must be on the best and the brightest, the rest will follow. \u00a0There is no need to dummy down the message; on the contrary, the highest level of\u00a0argumentation\u00a0and language should be implemented to capture the critical thinkers, leaders and trend setters.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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There is only one path to freedom, and it is terribly straight and narrow. \u00a0To navigate it one must shed prejudice, education, political correctness, patriotism, greed and fear. \u00a0Realizing the profound depth of the deception can be frightening; a slew of long-held\u00a0beliefs \u00a0will come tumbling down. \u00a0Much of the truth is, by design, diametrically opposed to what we have been “taught” to consider moral, ethical, even decent. \u00a0Whatever term one wishes to apply to consciousness, revolution without it is simply exchanging masters. The enemy is ignorance in all its insidious forms.<\/div>\n
The real revolution needs no leaders, banners, or platforms. \u00a0Each\u00a0awakened man’s consciousness\u00a0is his own guide. \u00a0Those looking for a place to sign up are simply looking for more enslavement. \u00a0The controllers are well aware of the danger to their pyramid and will surely toss out some\u00a0interesting schemes<\/a>\u00a0to<\/span>\u00a0hold on to power. \u00a0The enemy of awareness is distraction, but the antidote is simple: \u00a0close out, turn off, unplug and ignore.<\/p>\n

This article was edited by Jim Horky<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A very small yet conscious minority has come to the realization that the current world regime is one giant corporate infomocracy that needs to be terminated with “extreme prejudice”, disengagement being the weapon of choice.  The next revolution will not be carried out by mobs of angry people, guerrillas, terrorists or, god forbid, politicians.  It will be accomplished by a small (10%) militant minority that will simply unplug the matrix.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A Very Condensed Case for Revolution<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
An enormous, dictatorial corporate cartel is ruling the world through its proxies in government, banking, academia and media.  Our entire western culture has become an insidious farce with the sole purpose of maintaining the enslaved masses in their conjured up democracies, religions and histories.  Two developments have increased its control exponentially:  globalisation and the information revolution. <\/div>\n
The world is entering the final acts of a great social, political and economic shift.  The international currency regime, the keystone of control,  is peering into the abyss; the middle east is being turned upside down; the bankrupt United States government is fighting several wars and maintaining more than 560 military bases in over 120 countries.  The insatiable greed and desire for world control have created a breach in the system.  People are becoming aware while their masters scramble for control as the chaotic climax approaches.<\/div>\n
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Violence, crackdowns, massacres and all out wars are erupting from Libya to Bahrain.  As Yeats put it , “the centre cannot hold”.  The Arab Spring will soon reach the Wall in the West Bank and when it does the possibility of a large scale conflict and the eventual involvement of Iran are almost inevitable.  How the west reacts when this conflict erupts upon us will be the inflection point for the entire period. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The great strides made in western liberal societies since the Enlightenment have been  firmly based on the Greco\/Christian tradition.  It should be no surprise that the purveyors of consumerist agnosticism firmly reject this tradition within the western democracies.  By pulling the spiritual rug out from under Euro\/American culture, they have left a black hole that can only be filled by their circus and gadgets.  We have not only paid, but have in fact indebted ourselves, to worship at the feet of their materialist God.  This has nothing to do with theology and everything to do with culture<\/a>.  The West is paying a very dear price for having stopped thinking critically and educating its children.<\/div>\n
The great European experiment (much more than simply the EU<\/em>), thought by many to be the light of the world, is sinking like the Titanic.  With a total disregard for traditional culture, the ruling elites have turned our schools, universities, arts and mass media into a giant propaganda machine promoting political correctness, pseudo history & economics and the new world religion: debt based consumerism.  Anyone who questions their version of science, world history or monetary policy is immediately branded as a malcontent <\/span>and removed from the public discourse.  They control the message by controlling the money. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Many look at the twentieth century as a time of great economic and technical advance, but history, while recognizing the the technical innovation, will condemn this century as the most vile in man’s history.  The miracle that began in Greece, expanded in Rome, flourished in the Renaissance & Enlightenment and finally found its  modern form in the western liberal democracy has been been gutted by a century of materialism, enslavement, slaughter and greed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The Corporation and Infomocracy<\/em><\/strong>

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There is no better example of fascism in today’s world than the major corporation: decisions made by a select group of insiders, bureaucratic conformism, communications ripe with propaganda, and the cult of power.  There is nothing democratic about the boardrooms of these behemoths, so how can we expect the governments they<\/em> rule to be democratic?  They have created a two party charade with news programs, talking heads and opposing  media facing off in faux battles to conjure up their infomocracy.<\/p>\n
The corporations control the creation and distribution of our money, our foreign policy, entertainment and news.  The only way to put a wedge between these monoliths and the liberty of individuals is to completely disengage from them.  They manipulate news and opinion to the extent that actual issues are never  discussed, only the distractions are debated.   <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Two Examples –  Health care and Iraq<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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The United States has by far the most expensive health care system in the world, and a decidedly unhealthy population.  Something is clearly wrong with this system.  The debate is carefully divided into those who want to maintain the status-quo – Republicans, and those that want to enhance the status quo – Democrats.  All of the actors fall into line and go either shirts or skins, but the truth is never discussed. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The Federal Government subsidizes the corporate health care system and the over payed doctors by  regulating the market out of the system and creating a closed corporate hegemony over the industry.  The media and academic shills stick to their subsidized scripts and the real solution is never discussed because that solution would destroy the bottom lines of  the corporate players.<\/div>\n
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Simply deregulate.  Remove ALL regulations on who can practice medicine and how.  Any drug can be sold in the US, period.  End the FDA.  Private FDA’s will sprout up, vouching for the validity of drugs.  Some will be better than others, but the consumers will decide which ones work.  Any doctor can practice medicine and many private organizations will appear vouching for their credentials.  As long as there is a judicial system that can pass judgement on reasonable claims, the system will work out its kinks and we will have, without a doubt, the cheapest most effective health care system in the world.  It’s that simple.  The only thing the government is doing in healthcare is subsidizing corporate profits.<\/div>\n
Those preferring universal health coverage can certainly make their case at the local level without imposing it on a nation of over 300 million people.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The war in Iraq was started by taking advantage of the fear and confusion from 9\/11 with the intention of creating a safer Middle East for the state of Israel.  While this idea is far from novel, it’s not allowed to enter the mainstream discussion of the issue.  The truth is taboo because the consequences of accepting it would be beyond the pale for those who conceived of and pushed the country to war;  too much blood to be laid at the feet of the guilty.  The motives and consequences of Vietnam were argued in academia and the mainstream media ad nauseam, but you will not see a Pentagon Papers<\/em> come out of The New York Times<\/em> regarding Iraq because the repercussion would reverberate too close to home.  How can the purveyors of morality be nothing more than war mongers?<\/div>\n
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Why is there a world ‘economic’ crisis?  Is it a lack of able-bodied workers, natural resources, factories, or infrastructure?  Absolutely not.  It’s a lack of liquidity and\/or too much debt, however one decides to slice it.  The most important myth supporting the system is the belief in fractional reserve money as a valid store of value and means of exchange.  The banks are allowed to create the money out of nothing<\/a>, and charge interest for turning the trick while the masses have to earn it.  The right to create money is the right to leverage, and it’s that financial leverage that hoists them to the top of the pyramid.  Without this leverage they would not be able to create such massive amounts of wealth and control.  The only way to destroy this system and create fair money is by creating awareness.  Once people understand the “trick”, the whole house of cards begins to collapse.  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
One simple thought experiment is to imagine what would happen if the the mega banks and the Fed came to an agreement to cut all personal debt by 50%, send a credit card with 20K to every American while at the same time paying off all government debt (federal, state and local).  In this experiment everything would be paid for by quantitative easing and removing bank reserve requirements for bad debts.  The “crisis” would be over in about three months:  anyone who wanted to work would be able to find job, factory capacity would surge and the entire world economy would rise on a massive wave of prosperity.  The only trick would be keeping inflation at bay by reducing government spending to a balanced budget and keeping interest rates high enough. This is not to say that creating money out of thin air and giving it away is the answer, but it does point out that the entire crisis is abstract and contrived and the supreme charge of the government is to protect those that live off interest and leverage.  The debts pushed on the 99% by the powers that be are its main source of leverage and wealth, and by overburdening the productive population with debt they killed the proverbial goose. <\/div>\n
People out of work, factories shuddered, fields unploughed, students without teachers, children without food – all because of digital debt money.  Why can’t a man with a strong back and a working brain simply go out, work, create something and exchange it for money?  That would be too easy.  First someone has to create the money, with interest.  The fractional reserve system, by design, creates artificial scarcity, allowing the ruling banker class and their political puppets to skim enough off everyone’s work and turn abundant, productive labor and private property into a giant banker-run slum- turf wars included.  They put massive claims on future production until, at the end of the cycle, their debt chickens come home to roost.<\/div>\n
Why is this basic truth not shouted from every newspaper, college classroom, church pulpit and street corner?  In a world of brands, they control who is deemed appropriate.  Anyone who states the truth is isolated, blacklisted or demonized as inappropriate, which is now just another word for honest.  An entire caste of over-educated shills dominate media, film, the arts, literature, and academia.  Organized religion, when not protecting pedophiles and apartheid states, spends the rest of its moral capital railing against the basic pleasures of humanity that have yet to be monetized and securitized by Wall Street.<\/div>\n
They tell us to kill and we kill.  Current fashion is that it is okay to kill Yemenis, Bahrainis, Palestinians, and some other assorted Muslims.  Libyans have been put on the no kill list and Syrians may soon find themselves on the same list.  That list means only NATO can kill them (see Afghanistan).  Iraqis have the special honor of being the exclusively killed  by Americans since May 2011 <\/div>\n
Education, Religion & Circus<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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One of the most amazing feats of the regime is how they coerce young people to go into extreme amounts of debt to be brainwashed and taught not to think before they ever even have a career .<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Mainstream and not so mainstream religion generally tries to sell people on a hodgepodge of fear and fantasy, with a big pay-off for the self righteous who drink most from the sacred well of Kool-Aid.  What must never be attempted is to actually have an authentic spiritual experience, for this would cause the subject to run from the dogma and quite possibly bring most of the remaining parishioners with him.  Real consciousness as much an anathema to religion as critical thinking is to academia.<\/div>\n
But even if one can escape the grasp of schools and universities, dodge the churches, few can evade the tempting trap of the circus.  The television, music, the press, spectator sports, movie stars and the like have an almost hallucinatory power over the sheeple.  Not only do these pastimes steal the money of the masses, they brainwash them to boot.  The regime’s mantra: pay the master for the right to be enslaved.<\/div>\n
SOLUTIONS<\/strong>

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Violent Revolution?<\/em><\/strong>

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In the Allegory of the Cave<\/a>, Plato compares the awakening process to realizing the shadows on the wall are only reflections from lanterns in a cave, but he points out that there is a period during which the eyes need to get adjusted, in these moments the person can see neither the shadows nor make out the real images soaked in sunlight.  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Those who awaken go through many stages, one of which is the strong desire to plant bombs and slit throats.  As Plato points out, there is a period of disorientation as one meanders out of the cave.  While violence is the most appetizingly simple of choices, it is also the most counterproductive.  Anything one does that can be utilized by the masters to fire up their destructive paraphernalia  is a mistake.  In fact, anything that even breaks their laws is harmful to the cause and will only create useless opposition.  All forms of violent resistance only generate energy which they use to manipulate news and events in order to create fear and reactionism.  They thrive on our anxieties and use the very energy generated against them as the impetus to foment division among their opponents.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Enlightened Disengagement<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
The enlightened conscious man needs no school to raise his children, no church to know his God, no banker to validate his work and no government to choose his enemies.  He is free to do as he pleases, when he pleases and how he pleases.  His liberty allows him to need almost nothing, which is how the great evil matrix becomes undone: in a great fire of awareness.<\/div>\n
Money<\/em> – Use fractional reserve money only for what is needed in the short term.  Have no savings denominated in their dollars.  All savings in hard assets.<\/div>\n
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Work & Corporations<\/em> – Avoid, to the greatest extent possible, working for and using corporations.  Actively pursue locally owned alternatives and self-employment.  As a consumer, avoid all corporate products whenever possible.  This includes clothes, food, religion, news, etc.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Bread & Circus<\/em> – Cancel all cable subscriptions immediately. Sell all your televisions and take your best friend out for a night on the town with the proceeds.  Stop participating in the corporate entertainment network.  If you love baseball, follow a local independent team.  If you love dramas, frequent your local theater.  Read independent news services.  Always know the source of what you are consuming.   Avoid corporate food at all costs.  Pay the premium for locally, independently grown and prepared food.<\/div>\n
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Follow the Law to the Letter<\/em> – That means paying all taxes, following all regulations, and submitting to all their rules while they are still in force.  The cause is not advanced by having militants ensnarled by the criminal justice system. All their efforts must be fully dedicated to disengaging themselves, their families and their friends.  Moves must be calculated to maximize strength and staying power, even if it means remaining “attached” to parts of the system longer than one would like.   A financially sound, secure militant family  disengaging and evangelizing is their worst enemy.<\/div>\n
Politics <\/em>– The obvious thing to be done is abstain from participation.  In most cases, this would be the clear strategy.  However, with an iconoclastic candidate like Ron Paul still in the running, it makes sense to give him support.  The more the mainstream avoids him and dances around his campaign, the more he should be backed.  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We don’t need to convince the whole village, we only need 10% of them. A recent study<\/a> has confirmed that once an idea reaches the 10% threshold and that 10% is demonstrably fixed to the idea, the majority will quickly follow.<\/div>\n
“Three conditions are key: a majority that is flexible with their views, a minority that is intractable, and a critical threshold wherein about a tenth of the population advocate the minority opinion. They also saw that the time it takes to reach social consensus drops dramatically as the minority grows past this tipping point”<\/em><\/div>\n
The focus must be on the best and the brightest, the rest will follow.  There is no need to dummy down the message; on the contrary, the highest level of argumentation and language should be implemented to capture the critical thinkers, leaders and trend setters.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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There is only one path to freedom, and it is terribly straight and narrow.  To navigate it one must shed prejudice, education, political correctness, patriotism, greed and fear.  Realizing the profound depth of the deception can be frightening; a slew of long-held beliefs  will come tumbling down.  Much of the truth is, by design, diametrically opposed to what we have been “taught” to consider moral, ethical, even decent.  Whatever term one wishes to apply to consciousness, revolution without it is simply exchanging masters. The enemy is ignorance in all its insidious forms.<\/div>\n
The real revolution needs no leaders, banners, or platforms.  Each awakened man’s consciousness is his own guide.  Those looking for a place to sign up are simply looking for more enslavement.  The controllers are well aware of the danger to their pyramid and will surely toss out some interesting schemes<\/a> to<\/span> hold on to power.  The enemy of awareness is distraction, but the antidote is simple:  close out, turn off, unplug and ignore.<\/p>\n

This article was edited by Jim Horky<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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