Robert Says

I've been thinking of Maslow's hierarchy of human needs and noticing how the creeping "full spectrum" control of the population can be viewed as a similar hierarchy. It's just a way of getting ones head around it and the distinctions are somewhat arbitrary. If you wanted, using a systematic and scientific approach, to completely own human beings forever you would attack each component (need) of the human organism from the lowest evolutionary level to the highest:

1. Safety and Security
2. Food and Water
3. Shelter
4. Sexual Satisfaction and Procreation
5. Emotional Satisfaction
6. Community, Co-operation
7. Intellectual Functioning
8. Creativity
9. Sefl-Fulfilment/Spirituality/Self-Identification

You can easily think of institutional attacks happening at each of these levels, that destroy, cripple or divert each function. You participate in discussions about them all the time.

Self-ownership/sovereignty is a matter of taking control of each such aspect of ones being.

A straightforward (to see, not necessarily to do) way to do that is to look at the attacks and reverse them. Use their control system to see what a self-control system would be.

So for example, the jacking of the water and food supply is a method of attack (or a complex of methods) at level 2, and finding ways to have pure water and nutrient-packed, poison-free food is the remedy. One doesn't have to do it all at once but the model allows one to take each small step, deal with it and then the next thing and so on. As compared to just wandering confusedly or dashing about aimlessly.

Other examples of attacks: war is an attack at levels 1, 5 and 6. It hijacks those aspects of ones being. Team sport viewership, transmitted via television or in an arena, operates at level 5 and 6. Patriotism hijacks level 9. We "need" the state because of level 1, and gun prohibition is another attack at that level.

Then I thought about what we use for money, fiat currency, and it seems that it is unusual in that it infiltrates at all levels, as tendrils leading back to a puppet master. It passes through their system of banking and accounting and taxing and they can suck value out of it at their whim by inflation. The most enslaved people are thoroughly dependent on it at all levels. Reverse engineering the fiat currency attack means using media of exchange (which, along with a store of value, is all that money is) that is independent of the state, and then putting it in its place as just another tool and not some drug foisted on us that we need for everything. Silver coins are the most immediate and practical method. That in conjunction with barter networks and an agrarian lifestyle where people help others with building projects, vehicle maintenance, child-minding, bringing back the extended family, etc. Obviously, some things can be done right away, others might take years or a lifetime.

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  Christmas 2011 -- Birth of a New Tradition
  
  As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high gear to provide Americans with monstrous piles of cheaply produced goods -- merchandise that has been produced at the expense of American labor. This year will be different. This year Americans will give the gift of genuine concern for other Americans. There is no longer an excuse that, at gift giving time, nothing can be found that is produced by American hands. Yes there is!
  
  It's time to think outside the box, people. Who says a gift needs to fit in a shirt box, wrapped in Chinese produced wrapping paper?
  
  Everyone -- yes EVERYONE gets their hair cut. How about gift certificates from your local American hair salon or barber?
  
  Gym membership? It's appropriate for all ages who are thinking about some health improvement.
  
  Who wouldn't appreciate getting their car detailed? Small, American owned detail shops and car washes would love to sell you a gift certificate or a book of gift certificates.
  
  Are you one of those extravagant givers who think nothing of plonking down the Benjamines on a Chinese made flat-screen? Perhaps that grateful gift receiver would like his driveway sealed, or lawn mowed for the summer, or driveway plowed all winter, or games at the local golf course.
  
  There are a bazillion owner-run restaurants -- all offering gift certificates. And, if your intended isn't the fancy eatery sort, what about a half dozen breakfasts at the local breakfast joint. Remember, folks this isn't about big National chains -- this is about supporting your home town Americans with their financial lives on the line to keep their doors open.
  
  How many people couldn't use an oil change for their car, truck or motorcycle, done at a shop run by the American working guy?
  
  Thinking about a heartfelt gift for mom? Mom would LOVE the services of a local cleaning lady for a day.
  
  My computer could use a tune-up, and I KNOW I can find some young guy who is struggling to get his repair business up and running.
  
  OK, you were looking for something more personal. Local crafts people spin their own wool and knit them into scarves. They make jewelry, and pottery and beautiful wooden boxes.
  
  Plan your holiday outings at local, owner operated restaurants and leave your server a nice tip. And, how about going out to see a play or ballet at your hometown theatre.
  
  Musicians need love too, so find a venue showcasing local bands.
  
  Honestly, people, do you REALLY need to buy another ten thousand Chinese lights for the house? When you buy a five dollar string of light, about fifty cents stays in the community. If you have those kinds of bucks to burn, leave the mailman, trash guy or babysitter a nice BIG tip.
  
  You see, Christmas is no longer about draining American pockets so that China can build another glittering city. Christmas is now about caring about US, encouraging American small businesses to keep plugging away to follow their dreams. And, when we care about other Americans, we care about our communities, and the benefits come back to us in ways we couldn't imagine.
  
  THIS is the new American Christmas tradition.
  
  Forward this to everyone on your mailing list -- post it to discussion groups -- throw up a post on Craigslist in the Rants and Raves section in your city -- send it to the editor of your local paper and radio stations, and TV news departments. This is a revolution of caring about each other, and isn't that what Christmas is about?
  
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Occupy Your Life

Over the past few decades we have become a nation of outsourcers. Just as the giant corporations outsourced manufacturing and jobs to overseas, in our personal lifestyles we have outsourced the basic skills of daily living (often to those same giant corporations). We have given our lives over to reliance on giant systems — systems that are driven by the 1%, by the easy credit of Big Banking, and cheap oil. The resulting dependence has left us feeling disempowered, has created a dependence on high cash flow, and has left us vulnerable.
Skills our great grandparents knew as essential, most of us barely know how to do. For skills like growing food, cooking, food preservation, sewing clothes, basic building, basic medicine, we now turn to corporate interests. In fear, we tell each other one must use a “skilled professional.” It is time to “Occupy our Lives.” Time to participate in the other half of Gandhi’s model. Time to take back those portions we outsourced to the broken system. It’s time to take back the basic skills of daily life into our own hands. This action is protest, it is survival technique for hard times, and it is preparation for the dawning post-petroleum era. But it also brings with it that clean, fulfilling feeling of self-sufficiency, pride in accomplishment, and wholesome living.

“Occupy Your Life” is call to take it back.

1) Take back your food. Every dollar you spend to Big Agribusiness — every dollar you spend at Big Box stores or conventional grocery stores — reinforces, supports, and endorses the horribly broken system Vandana Shiva campaigns against. Instead, buy from farmers markets and Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs) as often as possible — they’re much more likely to be growing more sustainably. Keep your local farmer in business. As peak oil unfolds, we need that local food production up and running, in close proximity to the urban centers where the people are. Also, learn how to grow food yourself.

Fill every nook and cranny of your cityscape with food production. >> more: “Why Eat Local Food” (pdf) >> Food Not Lawns by H.C. Flores

2.) Take back your money. As you join the Move Your Money campaign to quit the Big Banks, get vocal. Urge your community bank or credit union to invest in our future — to invest in, support and promote local projects which better prepare your neighborhood for post-petroleum lifestyles. Additionally, realize that the U.S. dollar is not the only way to achieve transactions between people. Barter, time banking/LETSystems, sharing arrangements, and gift cultures are a few of the many ways to get our needs met without U.S. dollars. Diversity is necessary in our money supply too! >> more: “A Multiplicity of Financial Vehicles” >> Janelle Orsi, The Sharing Solution >> “Community-based investment”

3) Take back your health care. Learn the skills of basic wellness, yourself, without reliance on Big Pharma, the health insurance racket, nor AMA approval (a form of branding, of fear-based control, and a way of limiting the market solely to insiders). Learn the skills of traditional healing modalities and practice them with your family. >> The Healing Arts: Exploring the Medical Ways of the World, Ted Kaptchuk and Michael Croucher >> “Healing Without Harm ,” by Joel Kreisberg, DC >> Campbell, Anneke, “Sustaining our Health Care” >> more resources: Health Care subheader, here

4) Take back your livelihood. The hours of your working day, your time, are the very fabric of your life. If the crumbling conventional economy has already unseated you, become part of the new future. Take Vandana Shiva’s examples to heart — most of the world does not depend on corporate jobs for their living. What are your skills? In your times of unemployment or underemployment — or in your leisure time — what new skills can you pick up which better prepare you, your family, and your neighborhood for a powerdown future? As we localize our economies with the end of cheap oil and easy credit, what basic goods or services can you provide for your local community? What need can you fill?>> “Rethink the idea of ‘jobs’”>>“Resilience-building businesses and industries”

5) Take back your value system. Reclaim feel, taste, smell, as valuable attributes. That hard, red, round thing from Costco or WalMart doesn’t count as a tomato. Mere count or thingness isn’t where it’s at anymore. Allow your inner sense of “right” to overcome the advertising slogans of Wall Street. We certainly aren’t experiencing “better living through chemicals”! Reclaim environmental stewardship, social equity, and deep satisfaction. Yes, by the counting system created by Wall Street and the 1%, many of the practices I’m suggesting won’t seem to measure up. They won’t count on your bottom line nor on your income tax return. But they’ll count in your heart, in your soul, in your sense of justice and of satisfaction with life. more: “Redefine ‘Success’” Carl Honore, In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed Dave Wann, Simple Prosperity Cecile Andrews, Less is More “New Economic Indicators” It’s time to figuratively “sew seeds into the hems of our dresses.” Time to gather up the attributes of what is precious about life, to capture that vast diversity, and carry it with you as we journey to new frontiers — as our society moves into a new era. Joanne Poyourow is part of the Transition movement in Los Angeles. She is the author of three books, including “Economic Resilience: What we can do in our local communities.”  The full text of “Economic Resilience” can be read online at http://EconomicResilience.blogspot.com

Occupy Your Life

By Joanne Poyourow
15 November, 2011
Transition US

5 Ways We Ruined the Occupy Wall Street Generation

Excerpts from the full article. Juxtapose this against the witness of John Taylor Gatto.

by John Cheese, November 10, 2011 

5)...you guys are getting hammered for being too lazy or "entitled" to take on a low-paying job, and for standing up and demanding help paying for college, etc., instead of just being happy "flipping burgers." People my age and older will go on and on about how in our day we weren't too good to get our hands dirty when the good jobs dried up.

4)So, here's the thing. You have to go to college. Your parents told you that, I'm telling my kids that. Every high school teacher you have or had told you that. ("You don't want to wind up flipping burgers, do you?")

3) ...we've extended the awkward teenage years into the mid to late 20s.

2) Before we knew it, we had created a new reality in which creative content is effectively worthless. Now, kids trade iPod libraries in one swipe, a few gigabytes of songs zipping invisibly over a thin wire in a few seconds -- a library that, once upon a time, would have cost more than your first car.

1) But you kids are also missing something crucial. Not just the great outdoors and swinging into a creek on a rope or tackling somebody into a pile of raked leaves. I'm talking about in-person interaction, away from the grownups, outside the structure of a classroom or organized sport. I'm talking about kids, on their own, getting in trouble and setting things on fire. Kid stuff.

"We didn't do it on purpose. We didn't do any of this on purpose. But you'll suffer for it just the same."

October 19, 2011 - ROGER (General Response) said:

For years I have researched why the world is the way it is. I began my quest for the truth at age 30 while working on a trading desk. It was obvious to me nothing was as it seemed.

An elderly gentleman at the firm overheard my questions and disgust about the way I saw things. He called me aside and asked me to read a book. The book was Tragedy & Hope. I read it, and since that time I have always been searching for truth. I found,as you have,that the truth is within. Everything outside of us is a reflection of our thoughts, we cannot change the outside without first changing our innermost thoughts.

I long ago gave up caring about the outside, money and material things mean nothing to me. I realized how worthless they truly are years ago as I became successful, the more money I had, the less I wanted things it could buy. I was the opposite of most, I found "success" in the worldly sense very unsatisfying. My wife and children and our happiness through a simple family lifestyle was what brought me joy.

When Lehman Brothers collapsed so did my business, but the material loss had no lasting impact on us. I had awakened to the fact that money was an illusion, a trap, many years ago and therefore never let it get its hold on me or my family. I thank God everyday for the opportunity to experience life and I always put Him first.

I gave up on organized religion many years ago also. Everything of this world is of men, my true home is with God. I look at our human body as a vehicle to experience this life. Our physical bodies are not who we are, sadly most have been tricked to believe our bodies are all we are. What a shame to fall into that trap.

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Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox: We Will Never Pay, So Stop Harassing Us by Cindy Sheehan and Christy (Dede Miller)

GE not only did not pay any taxes for the year 2010, it received a “1.1 billion dollar tax benefit” (according to CNN Money) for its tax filings in the U.S. How did GE do this when it made a 10.8 billion dollar profit in 2010? The company recorded a loss here in the U.S. of 408 million...Well, our family recorded a loss in 2004 that is priceless.

Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox: We Will Never Pay, So Stop Harassing Us by Cindy Sheehan and Christy (Dede Miller)

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