“The world needs new ideas. We should be learning from the past, instead of trying to resurrect it. Blind embrace of the old “isms” will lead us back to familiar places, which will not free us from our problems. Our nations deserve better. Humanity deserves better. It’s time to stop …See the Rest
The Links Between Big Government and Big Business
Why are all of these government positions held by insiders at Big Oil companies, Comcast, GE, Goldman Sachs, Media companies, Monsanto and Pharmaceutical companies? Click the image to see the connections…and click again to enlarge.
NDAA ‘Road to Tyranny’
Must see interview with Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell. Since his retirement, he has publicly criticized the planning and execution of the Iraq War and the global politics surrounding it. Is Iraq better off? NDAA a disgrace.
Complacency
What is complacency? By definition, it is a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; By example it is Nazi Germany, Occupation of Tibet by the Chinese, Rwanda Genocide of 1994, the Sudanese crisis, the “war on terror”, the government …See the Rest
The whole world is watching while the USA collapses
This post from someone on Reddit in the Netherlands really must have hit a nerve. It had over 7000 comments in the first 12 hours. by spiderfarmer “People in The Netherlands have always looked up to the USA. It won’t be long before that stops, I guess. These are stories …See the Rest
Thoughts From Helen Keller
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight with no vision.”
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
“One cannot consent to creep when one has an impulse to soar.”
VIDEO: Hillary Clinton: US Losing Information War to Alternative Media
The US is losing the global information war, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared while appearing before a congressional committee to ask for extra funds to spread US propaganda through new media. Clinton said existing private channels are not good enough to handle the job, naming as rivals Al Jazeera, China’s CCTV and RT — which she watches, she added. Clinton was defending her department’s budget in front of the House’s Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday. Clinton said the US should step up its propaganda effort and get back “in the game” of doing “what we do best.”
50 Economic Numbers From 2011 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
“Even though most Americans have become very frustrated with this economy, the reality is that the vast majority of them still have no idea just how bad our economic decline has been or how much trouble we are going to be in if we don’t make dramatic changes immediately. If we do not educate the American people about how deathly ill the U.S. economy has become, then they will just keep falling for the same old lies that our politicians keep telling them.”