flyingrose/politics

When elections cannot be won justly they are taken unjustly. No intelligent person would accept voting machines that do not have an audit trail. Allowing that is simply gullible.

Do not believe disinformation. Do not believe "pretend" polarized views of right/left conservative/liberal. The best way to keep real competition out is to provide your own so you control both sides.

I do not personally know if Ron Paul is the real deal. I do know that if he is, every possible tactic to damage his campaign will be used.

Don't be a sheep. A neighbor girl who used to feed horses for me had one. It was the least intelligent animal I have ever been around. Goats will eat whatever tastes best including your garden and fruit trees. That sheep ate only what was in her path. Made me wonder if she would just starve if there weren't anything handy to eat.

That lamb would follow anything. If I wanted to move her and didn't want to bother to catch her I would halter a burro and wherever you led it she would follow.

If you caught or challenged her she played dead. If the burro wasn't handy I could put her in a wheelbarrow and move her that way. Don't be a sheep.

From the page: "Ron Paul earns the world's attention - I have received more emails than I can count from people around the world who write to say that they wish they could be American citizens in order to have the privilege of voting for Ron Paul. -Thomas E. Woods, Jr. from Having Fun Doing Good

Blogs in the international community are spreading Ron Paul's message of freedom and giving tutorials on libertarianism, hoping to inform their fellow compatriots and to rally U.S. citizens in support of Ron Paul. The phenomenon is becoming widespread and growing as meet-up groups form around the world as far as Australia, Belgium, and Baghdad to discuss Ron Paul and create inspiring videos. This is what the world is saying about Ron Paul:"

We really do need to stop believing the "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics" used in propaganda and simply look around - and when you look, do look further than your immediate neighborhood and friends. REALLY look at the state of America.

And don't forget that appearances can be deceiving. Those who "appear" to be the wealthiest are often the deepest in debt and one paycheck away from down-and-out. And remember that "there but for the Grace of God go I".

Just a few clues:
1. Only those who have been "unemployed" for a particular amount of time are still counted as unemployed
2. Cooking the books is a favorite American pass-time as is Spinning the News.

From the page: " On Wednesday the government reported that the GDP growth was an impressive 3.9%. Then today the Labor Department reported the economy added 166,000 new jobs, twice as much as expected.
Everything is coming up roses for the economy.

Or is it?
If you keep reading the article you run across this little tidbit:

In contrast to the payrolls figures, a separate household survey showed a loss of jobs. The unemployment rate held steady because about 200,000 people left the workforce.

That's curiously suspicious because 340,000 people left the labor force in August."

Time to wake up, America. We are continually manipulated by advertising and the media. The most effective method is to introduce fear - the bigger the better - and then provide the solution.

That IS the most effective way to create a business and if you're really good you can use it to repeatedly generate new sales.

The solution is for us to quit buying into the fear and end the cycle.

People like me who choose to speak out publicly are taking a calculated risk. Even if we are individually affected, there are so many of us now that the word will still be spread and whatever happens will have been for the greatest good of all.

The stage is set for a tragedy. Only through enough individuals being willing to act courageously will it be averted. Will you join us? Will you speak out if someone who has risked all to warn you is unjustly treated? Will you be wise enough not to fall for propaganda asking you to turn in innocent people who are your friends, family or neighbors?

From the page: "most Americans do not realise that since September of last year - when Congress wrongly, foolishly, passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 - the president has the power to call any US citizen an "enemy combatant". He has the power to define what "enemy combatant" means. The president can also delegate to anyone he chooses in the executive branch the right to define "enemy combatant" any way he or she wants and then seize Americans accordingly.

Even if you or I are American citizens, even if we turn out to be completely innocent of what he has accused us of doing, he has the power to have us seized as we are changing planes at Newark tomorrow, or have us taken with a knock on the door; ship you or me to a navy brig; and keep you or me in isolation, possibly for months, while awaiting trial. (Prolonged isolation, as psychiatrists know, triggers psychosis in otherwise mentally healthy prisoners. That is why Stalin's gulag had an isolation cell, like Guantánamo's, in every satellite prison. Camp 6, the newest, most brutal facility at Guantánamo, is all isolation cells.)

We US citizens will get a trial eventually - for now. But legal rights activists at the Center for Constitutional Rights say that the Bush administration is trying increasingly aggressively to find ways to get around giving even US citizens fair trials. "Enemy combatant" is a status offence - it is not even something you have to have done. "We have absolutely moved over into a preventive detention model - you look like you could do something bad, you might do something bad, so we're going to hold you," says a spokeswoman of the CCR.

Most Americans surely do not get this yet. No wonder: it is hard to believe, even though it is true. In every closing society, at a certain point there are some high-profile arrests - usually of opposition leaders, clergy and journalists. Then everything goes quiet. After those arrests, there are still newspapers, courts, TV and radio, and the facades of a civil society. There just isn't real dissent. There just isn't freedom. If you look at history, just before those arrests is where we are now.

I remember one thing clearly from my childhood that I believe was printed in a Dear Abby or Ann Landers column. I share it again now:

They came for the Communists, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Communist;
They came for the Socialists, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Socialist;
They came for the labor leaders, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a labor leader;
They came for the Jews, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Jew;
Then they came for me - And there was no one left to object.

~ Martin Niemoller, German Protestant Pastor, 1892-1984

And down the same path to elitism go they...the United States is rampant with laws that punish those who do not have something because they can not afford it passed by those who can not understand WHY those people don't "just buy it" like THEY CAN.

Just yesterday PBS talked about families earning over $30,000 a year who are part of the working poor. This is primarily because we have allowed their incomes to be used up to fill the coffers of more corporate profits.

In the United States today so many expenditures have been passed into law that the "working poor" is consuming those who still think of themselves as "middle class" or even "upper-middle class".

Besides the enormous tax burden incorporated into TRUE NECESSITIES of life (water, food, shelter) are pricing them out of reach. Food is the prime example.

Americans can now more readily afford electronic toys such as televisions, Internet, cell phones, and so on than they can afford recurring expenses such as EATING! Healthy food was first made more expensive than junk food and now the prices on junk food are escalating to ridiculous levels.

P.S. Would you rather have someone wise but financially poor making decisions that control your life or someone wealthy and lacking in ability to understand how what they propose will affect you?

They're going "down the garden path" again - partly due to lack of knowledge/wisdom and partly to make big bucks at the expense of the poor. The reason the poor have multiple parasites, bacteria, and "diseases" is first nutritional and I challenge you to prove it to yourself.

Puppies and kittens can have serious tapeworm and flea issues. They will have pot bellies, rough dull coats, dull eyes, poor appetite or eat everything in sight. Instead of treating them give them a very high quality supplement such as PetCentRX Vim & Vigor available at pettogethers.com/PetCentrxTestimonials.aspx [pettogethers.com/PetCentrxTestimonials.aspx] .

I had a stray puppy show up. Really rough coat, dull eyes, pot-bellied, obviously wormy and flea-ridden. Put her on these vitamins and DID NOT treat her for the fleas or worms. Almost immediately she passed more tape-worms than I have ever seen from treating with Droncit. The fleas left. Her coat is silky and shiny and her eyes are shiny and clear.

Since I was giving her my other puppy's vitamins I ran low. As soon as I didn't give them the vitamins daily there was a visible change in their coat qualities and the fleas came back - and usually fleas here are horrible in the summer. All summer almost no fleas on any dog receiving these vitamins! This tells me that when nutrition is high enough in quality that immune function increases to the point that the effect of parasites and diseases is reduced and even eliminated.

I've observed the same thing in horses. Whatever horse is the least healthy is covered in flies while the horse standing next to them is not. Particularly weak horses sometimes even get plagued by fireants - but not the other horses in the same pasture.

We've got to quit thinking more poisons are the solution to poor health. They are NOT and they only make it worse. I highly recommend the books written by Dr. Tanton for further information on being healthy. See drtanton.com [drtanton.com] .

From the page: "NEW YORK, N.Y. - Sept. 27, 2007 - President Bill Clinton announced today at the Clinton Global Initiative the launch of the Sabin Vaccine Institute's campaign to eliminate thirteen diseases of poverty, known as Neglected Tropical Diseases� (NTDs). The "STOP NTDs" campaign seeks to raise $25 million for neglected tropical disease control and prevention. Neglected tropical diseases are the most common affliction of "the poorest of the poor" one billion people living on less than U.S.$2.00 per day more than HIV/AIDS and malaria combined. They blind, disfigure, disable, kill and contribute to an ongoing cycle of poverty and stigmatization that leaves millions unable to work or participate in family and community life. Joining President Clinton in inaugurating the campaign were: Peter Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.P., President of Sabin; and Dikembe Mutombo, STOP NTDs Campaign endorser, NBA star (Houston Rockets center) and Chairman and President of the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation."

Italy is trying to ban and tax Web sites and blogs. From the page: " Blogs And Websites Are Troublesome: Ban Them

The proposed law (in Italy) states that anyone with a blog or a website has to register it with the ROC (Registro degli Operatori della Comunicazione), part of the Communications Authority, produce certificates, and pay a tax, even if they provide information online without any intention to make money. Read!"

Warning: if you wish to continue being in denial avoid this stumbler at all costs. If, on the other hand, you are ready to be part of the solution and open your eyes - visit immediately and frequently. George Orwell (Author of the book 1984) had the year wrong but that is all. His predictions are rapidly coming true and what is in the image below is now:

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act."

I and others like me who continually tell the truth loudly and specifically online know they do so at their own risk. Gandhi somehow managed to inspire an entire country to risk their lives to obtain their freedom. We may be called to do the same at any time and I hope sufficient numbers will be ready to lead when that time comes. (Even better perhaps we can change the world fast enough that it never comes to that.)