Well, here we are, one year into the most cleverly contrived political coup d’etas in history with the election of Barack Obama and the democrats. Don’t get me wrong I am one, but soon to be I shall redeclare as “Decline to State” in New Mexico. I was a Green Party member who left that party to become a democrat in the last election, because I feared if I did not register I could not audit my vote even minimally. The voting machines in the State of New Mexico have been proved to be fraudulent and I did not trust either the state officials in charge of elections, nor the original Diebold machines used to tabulate the vote. We all learned how effective those mechanisms were at stealing the vote in 2000 and 2004 to allow for the “election” of a blatant tyrant.
I ran as a Green Party Write-In Candidate from the Green Party in District 2 of New Mexico in 2002 for the US Congress. I did this because I knew the day of 9-11 that no Arab terrorist could have possibly breached the security embedded in the twin tower complex, including building 7. I knew no jet plane or jet fuel could have possibly brought down a structure of such integral engineering. The kinetic energy at the target was infantile compared to the fortress of design and the fuel involved could not have possibly ignited the girders, let alone pulverize them so thoroughly that nothing larger than two-keys of a dial-up phone could survive. Nor could such an impact cause a building to pancake exactly into its footprint without toppling, leaning or causing a partial break-away of the structure at best. It did not take a rocket scientist to see that it was a perfectly engineered planned implosion by skilled demolition experts who knew precisely the exact engineering specifications of the building. I knew I was looking at a classic case of sabotage from within both intuitively and through logic-testing the criteria of what I had observed. It was an inside job, because no-one else had the skill, tools or motive, opportunity or access to pull it off. I knew it the day of 9-11 and I told and associate of mine that fact, it is a matter of record.
Understand, it is not important to my ego to be mentioning this, rather I do so to make sure you understand I did not come on these conclusions through the input of others after the fact. During the Clinton Era I stopped reading most newspapers, because I began to notice how propagandistic they had become. Then came the “shrug”, a despot incarnate, the Republican dictatorial shill we know as George W. Bush. By then I knew clearly what I was up against as a citizen, I had a government that had become patently conspiratorial and seamlessly plutonic. It had morphed into a Bi-Partisan Centrist Monster that had an agenda of its own, quite separate from the democratic civic process we had all presumed represented us. And as the nation recoiled from the devious criminal behavior and the impact of a demolished mainstream economy, it turned back in typical bipolar fashion to the alternative of the democrats in the hopeful visage of Barack Obama. But alas, here we are one year into his administration and what has he done? The first thing he did is cooperate with the opposing party to declare a fiscal emergency and then turned right around and rewarded his contributors and patrons the banksters and crooks in Washington. The next thing he did is staff his government with elitist Clintonities who are the blue dog fowlers of the Democratic Party.
As a Green Party Member, I got tired of watching my party, (at the time), give away elections to either a Democratic Vote or a Republican Vote. Both of these parties had been selling out the American electorate for years. I call it PING PONG POLITICS and it goes nowhere. If you honestly look at how it works, a very narrow set of voters in the middle of this bi-polar madness actually elects the party of “choice”. Both Democrats and Republicans fight over the votes of a few narrow centrists independents that aren't really progressive and aren't conservative either, in fact they can't quite make up their minds what the heck they are. They usually vote out of anger or they are knee-jerk one issue voters who chirp sound-bytes and thinking they are highly informed proceed to upset the apple cart for any real or significant progress on either side. This ugly equation has been disenfranchising Americans for years. Having analyzed this I finally came to the conclusion that short of a real revolution there was no way of solving this unless a Third Party could build significant momentum and overcome this conspiracy by the materialized interests of Wall Street contributors who rule the economy from their centrist position to stymie everyone else.
Both parties are guilty of leading us down this wicked road of iniquity and cheating us out of a truly viable political system. It finally dawned on me this was much like a schizophrenic behaves and it is true bipolar behavior in the clinical sense of the word. How do they pull this off?
Well, for one thing each always suggests doing things that are really largely red herring issues...ie, they set us up to believe, as Reagan did with his classic 12 points, that they are going to push for major reforms that they know will never stand the litmus of the courts in the end. In reality the populist sentiment for change merely gets side-railed and no significant change or reform is accomplished. They love it!
The other thing they were guilty of is that each attacked the Constitution from their preferred advantage at the behest of the most centrist elements within their parties that sought aspects of control that fed their bottomless hunger for power over the rest of us. Consider that the Republicans love to attack our civil liberties granted to us in the Bill of Rights by decimating the 1st, 4th and 5th and 6th Amendments of the Constitution, while the Democrats love to chip away at our 2nd Amendment rights in particular and they are plainly spend-happy when it comes to being responsible fiscally and staying within budget, although in the last administration the Republicans did a great job of pilfering the Treasury for their own reasons. Look at the subject of abortion for instance. The Republicans railed on and on about that for eight straight years, and for years prior, in order to control the so-called “Pro-Life” voters. Did we see any real implementation of this “mandate” they were so proud of? Of course not - it was merely a red-herring issue and they knew it would never get past the Supreme Court testing it would most assuredly come up against in the course of the process. But it served their manipulative purpose perfectly and motivated the one-issue voter to back them with zeal, the same zeal they ironically ascribed to in supporting the criminal prosecution of two illegal wars against a largely contrived “enemy” with a majority of subsequent victims of those wars who were in majority innocent women and children in foreign lands. Such is the true tenor of their “Pro-Life” strategy. Moreover, the same moralistic set of knee -jerk one-issues voters signed up in droves for insolvent zero percent loans and overly inflated home loans that were based entirely on lustful greed and piggery.
So again, here we are. Banksters, criminals and bone-heads get rewarded and we get to watch our entire system collapse to an even lower level of degradation.
Well, the solution cannot be going back to more of the same, so what do we do now? Political reform is the evident answer but how do you implement that when you have do appeal to the wolves to reform the hen house? I submit you don’t. Politics is the art of the possible, but the people themselves do not really understand how to implement reforms. Going back to your fellow partisans is no longer viable, intellectually honest or minimally reasonable. I believe the solution is to form a party that is truly Progressive Socially, accepts that the Bill of Rights is inviolable and insists on fiscal responsibility and on a sovereign currency that reflects a true standard of value and domestic solvency for the middle class American citizen. If you give this some consideration these are really constructive realistic limitations we have to eventually acknowledge. When you embrace your limitations you finally unlock your hidden strengths to overcome adversity. The motto of the Navy Seals is Improvise, Adapt and Overcome. By forming a value-based centrist coalition we acknowledge that we can only work our way out of this by reconstructing the ideology of the Commons in a more realistic fashion. (Although I literally hate centrism, if I am capable of “hating” anything, I know it is a fact of life in American politics. Realize that hatred is just a basement form of love, whereby the “hater” is hopelessly tied to the “hated” in a subjective perverted form of attachment equally powerful as the motive of love.) That way we unite the best elements of both parties and cut out the manipulators in our midst by finding a true common ground under a new party banner. If we keep mindlessly opposing each other within their formula America will be drained of its life blood in short order, but if we unite and combine the best of both mandates to create a Third Force we can steer a path out of this entropy and chaos. The time has come for the Third Party of the 21st Century - the PCP or Progressive Constitutional Party! Ideas for the platform include a foreign policy that reflects intrinsic American values, such as not doing business worldwide with any nation that does not accept our Bill of Rights within their own countries. We have to stop propping up people whose governments in many ways are diametrically opposed to our own in nature, such as our relationship with China and other despotic regimes. Just an idea, but that would be an example of what I would consider to be a more civically rooted stance rather than an economically convoluted one. Our domestic policy should be grounded on the essential values of the Bill of Rights which represents our basic values and is the heritage that we derived from our great history and the brilliant minds of the founders. Yet we must incorporate change as we move into the 21st Century, because things have changed a lot since 1776! To that end I am a solid progressive unafraid of the work required to reform this broken system. And then, logically, if we are going to be discussing “values” we have to accept that fiscal reform is very much a part of this essential prescription for saving the patient. We need to wrest the control of our money system away from the Private Banking Syndicate we love to endow with the misnomer of “The Federal” Reserve. It is neither. It is not Federal and there is no “reserve”. Our money is worthless paper. Everything under your feet is sixty-percent owned by China who owns the bulk of our debt. And what do we do to keep China buying up our debt at the very moment (after the Crash that just happened) that they were ready to walk away from our dollar currency? We continue the despotic policies of George W. Bush and continue to fight a war on two fronts to protect the bulk of mid-east oil as the barbarian soldiers for the Chinese Communist Government we support hand in glove. We are essentially doing the same things the Barbarian armies did for the Romans, which is, as you may remember, what led to the eventual demise of Rome. Yes we are in a terrifying state of iniquity, but there is only one solution to this unless we want even more terrible things to happen in the future.
My first suggestion is that we form the new populist party of We The People in the form of the Progressive Constitutional Party (PCP) and put these conspirators in their place forever. So to that end I have created a forum on the internet for that specific purpose: http://progressiveconstitutionalparty.ning.com. Go sign up, stand up against the snare of the fowlers and if you do nothing else with this effort, then send them a spine shivering signal of primitive FEAR. Give them a dose of their own terroristic guile. Do this by just exercising the sacred rights granted to you by our basic constitutional guarantees, before you lose the option. Stop playing linear checkers and start playing chess.
Moving on, there are limited options on the board on how you can protect the wealth that you have in the short term, but there are reasonable things you can do. I will, however, have to address this in three ways to suit the three classes of the monetary system as it exists. Whether you are poor or rich you can move your money to a credit union and get your money out of a bank. Credit Unions, because they primarily serve relatively spoiled government employed constituents, will probably be assisted (if possible) and or stabilized if the dire consequences of this time get worse. Plus they are much more friendly to their members because they think and act in common interest and it is a new vision of the Commons that we are all trying to craft here. Their fees and service charges are minimal, they buy cars at fleet sales prices in lots of 100 or more and greatly reduce the subsequent cost of the credit and the car as an asset. They also loan money at a much better rate than a bank and generally represent their customers very well. In California I bought my first new car through a credit union and when I compared my price to a bank deal on a cash basis the bank cost was $13,500 and my price was $6, 500. Big difference!
If you are dirt poor and can scrape any funds at all together or at best used lumber, some plastic sheeting and a few greenhouse-quality corrugated panels you can make a grow box, fully enclosed in your back yard and produce vegetables right straight through the winter. I have one in my back yard and I have Romaine lettuce, beets, spinach, cabbage and other vegetables growing quite well throughout the winter and in late January as of the date of this post they are thriving protected from the brutal windchill factors I have to endure up here on the high llano at 5000 ft. of elevation (high desert zone 5&6). You can collect a modest seed store for current and future use, but don’t overbuy them, because seeds don’t keep forever and hoarding only ensures a shortfall of seed production in the following years. Do not buy genetically engineered seeds as they compromise the integrity of quality seed by pollinating with them. (Don’t do anything that is unsustainable because it is only a short-term solution and will get you nowhere.) What you end up with is a degenerate seed strain no good to anyone. Thanks Monsanto and your buddies out there in the rackets!
If you live on a fixed income and are on disability or social security realize that if you purchase medical maintenance supplies for things like colostomies or diabetes you can ask your supplier to waive your 20% co-pay as it is not mandatory that you pay this and many providers are willing to waive it if you request a hardship waiver. Congress forced providers to collect this, but stopped short of making it mandatory in order to increase health care sector profits for corporations, but still provide a hidden mechanism to keep the pressure off people who are really in a helpless situation. Good companies that I know of are companies like Liberty who provide colostomy and diabetic supplies. I invite any other providers to give me their names if they will do the same for you and I will publish their names in this article in future updates. The same mechanism applies to most Doctors and healthcare providers if you just ask.
You can lower your car insurance prices by choosing a company like Amica Insurance, because it is a true mutual insurance company. Amica paid claims straight through the great depression and never laid off a single employee. To my knowledge they still have a similar level of integrity and the day they don’t they will lose me as a customer. Stay away from companies that claim to be mutual insurance companies and are not that at all. Amica is going through an intense expansion right now so don’t take your eye off them, keep googling their progress and make sure they don’t drift off into “greedyland”.
Go to a minute phone and find the absolute cheapest solution and if you own a computer for heaven’s sake join Skype.com, they are wonderful as a company. The owner of Skype is a true visionary. If you find a fast wireless free connection Skype works very well and it’s absolutely free if you call another Skype client. If you call a land line world wide it is seldom over 2 cents a minute.
Another great company is Twitter.com as it is an open platform communications program that opens you up to a worldwide community of Tweeters who use its 140 character message bar to talk to each other in one giant town hall meeting. I think it is a very progressive and democratic equalizer. I can’t say enough good things about them. Within their forum you will find Mashable.com and he will inform you on new and dynamic tools at your disposal all that work with Twitter.
Basically do not patronize companies that do not give you performance standards that you can use to track and measure their realistic progress. Do not patronize large multinational corporations unless you really need what they are selling to drive your business, look for smaller domestic entrepreneurs who are your neighbors and help bring manufacturing back to America. Stay away from disposable plastic garbage products that end up in land fills and are designed solely to force you to buy another cheap plastic piece of crap to replace it with. It’s mindless to spend your money that way. Stay away from Walmart if you can help it and shop selectively for basics only when you do have to go there. Their dog food is toxic - don’t feed it to your pets. They killed a bunch of my puppies and only confessed to having GMO products in their dog food (Starlink Corn, since removed from the market) after I threatened to have it independently tested and promised to sue them. They then, and only then, admitted it to me in a letter later. But all the Walmart management at lower levels denied it and lied to me repeatedly as I desperately tried to figure out the source of the attrition. Walmart is chronically dependent on garbage products like flashlights that use batteries and clog landfills with lead and toxins. And you can never find one that doesn’t break before you really need it. I believe they sell bootleg or rebuilt computers as new and the software that comes with them often does not load, because the loading codes they sell with them are not legitimate. I bought two Toshiba laptops, neither of which would load such purchased software that came with the computers. One failed completely and corrupted its own ram chip, that should never even be possible, but that’s what happened. I lost $850 on that deal. During the generator shortages due to Hurricane Andrew they were not past selling me a $350 generator for $900 and then wouldn’t honor the warranty within less than ninety days when they said that the manager who had sold it to me had been fired for being a drunk. Since he told me to bring it back and was no longer in their employ they disclaimed any responsibility. They are nothing but corporate crooks. I won’t belabor the point you can read multiple sources that reveal their chicanery.
Next thing I would say to you is pull the plug on any Citadel Communications Radio Stations and Fox News, CBS, NBC and ABC. They pander to their corporate handlers and dish out a constant stream of pap, disinformation and propaganda. Get a computer and get into independent media sources. Be selective and objective and don’t listen to people who spew forth venom and hatred. Five people control about 90% of what you see on TV and hear on the radio and stay away from theocratically based programming. Retrograding back into religious mythology doesn’t attend to life’s problems and only restricts the dialogue with more dogma.
In your home convert to a guerilla style homebuilt solar and wind system. Wire your house yourself with a standby system. Just make sure you put redundant fuses on each line to any service you are going to power. Do not tie into the grid as this will greatly increase your costs and you become a slave of the power company when you become part of it. You don’t need an expensive solar bank, rather a modest scaled down system. You can buy spiral florescent bulbs that use tiny amounts of power, dump the tube TV that sucks watts like a vampire and get a small flat-screen TV that operates on about 75 watts (about the same as a laptop computer). You don’t need 24 or 48 Volt systems - you can stay at 12 volts which is the same as the power system in your car and inverters for 12 Volt applications are reasonable and available in almost any auto parts store. Inverters change that 12 Volt current into 110 Volts so you don’t need to change out all your minor appliances to 12 Volts. You can run a straight 12 Volt line into your garage and provide a socket for plugging in a cheap tire inflator which you can carry in your car in case of a flat. If you carry a tire plug kit you can patch most tire problems and air them up without even removing the tire from the rim.
If you are limited financially get a solar freezer instead of a refrigerator and get a good cooler for a refrigerator replacement. By simply freezing a gallon of water each day in the freezer you can use that to cool your refrigerated food without freezing it. Keep your longterm meats and frozen vegetable concentrates in plastic bags in the freezer. Put cheap fused inverters in each room you want to light and you can plug in your low-wattage draw appliances that are 110 Volts into that receptacle instead of the grid power socket. By scaling down the draw of your appliances you effectively cut the number of solar panels and wind-generators you would have to purchase in half. Run your water heating by putting a solar collector on your roof and take your showers during the day or if you must use propane get a flash heater, not a water heater. These use much less propane and only heat water on demand. A poor man’s washing machine can be something as simple as a small barrel filled with soap and water in the back of your pickup truck, as you go down the road it agitates and rolls the clothes around absolutely free! But if you have the funds to provide enough sustainable power to your home then convert your washer to a 12 Volt washer and dry the clothes in the sun like your grandparents did it years ago. They smell better than machine dried clothing.
Although they cost a lot of money an Ecola Blue water purifier will clean up your water supply and wean you off of chlorinated and fluoride treated toxic water. It takes water out of the air instead of from city sources or a well. If you live in a remote area then build a cistern off your roof, capture rainwater for your house and garden and buy a pedestaled tank and create a gravity-feed water supply that needs no energy to push water. Use primitive rain barrels if nothing else is feasible.
Create a Tool Cooperative with your neighbors and share tools that can cost a lot of money thereby reducing redundancy in purchasing of things that are not that critical to your every day needs. Share - it builds good relationships and encourages responsibility. Yes it can be testing at times, but you can do it. Create shared wells and power systems if your neighbors live close, as this too can save you both lots of money.
Build habitat for wild critters around your home so they have something to eat and foster a bevy of wild birds in your backyard. By simply putting out a dove and quail block of seed in your yard you can guarantee a domestic food supply in the country. You can also pile up some dead tree branches and cover them with bird accessible openings, but nothing big enough for a predator, and they will nest in there and take up residence out in your fields. Wild and domestic turkeys, chickens and guineas will give you a good back up food supply and grow your own corn each year careful to grow the same variety as any neighbor within a mile or two to avoid pollination problems with competing strains. Get a storage device to put up some corn to feed your critters and you can buy it by the ton hauling it in your pick up truck from the mill instead of buying it by the bag.
Medical needs can be a real source of hardship if your are not prepared for hard times. Put together a basic medical supply kit to suit your essential needs - help may be a long way from you when you need it the most. Your physician can help you do this and be your best source of advice when you are figuring out what you need. Realize, however, that draconian laws have been put in place in the several states that can mean your hard sought supplies can be confiscated from you by the authorities so hide some of these where they’ll have a real hard time finding them so you don’t lose them. Having a firearm accessible to you is not out of the question, because you will have to defend yourself, but I do not advocate accumulating too many of these because it merely makes you a target for the worst and most dangerous elements out there in a lawless landscape. Audit medical preparedness and make sure you understand the ins and outs of how you would seek emergency care if you needed it. Know where the nearest trauma center and burn center are, because you will not be likely to survive if you go to a second rate hospital that can’t handle trauma. Keep hydration and electrolyte solutions on hand so you can stabilize a patient if necessary. Put together an herbal pharmacy of basic medications that can be of immense help for lack of anything else. Even simple garlic is a potent antibiotic if you have nothing else. Crush it, wait ten minutes, then put it in the wound after it is activated if you don’t have penicillin. Aloe Vera is great for burns. Golden Seal will stop bleeding in minor wounds and seal them with its own bandage, so too with Slippery Elm and Comfrey. They are all natural antibiotics and Comfrey can actually inhibit the progress of gangrene. Study, research, share your knowledge with your neighbors and build a support system to pull together. Good classical herbal knowledge can be found in my very favorite standby - Jethro Kloss, Back to Eden and another jewel is Where There is No Doctor (google it). It is translated into many different languages. The Ship Captain’s Medical Guide from the Royal Navy of England is also very sound.
When it comes to medical help you need to consider that most hospitals are very unfriendly to the indigent and often don’t even get diagnosis right. I am not saying you shouldn’t seek medical help, but seek alternative cures before you commit yourself to being irradiated mindlessly or drugged into insensibility and helplessness. Often the drugs these doctors prescribe are worse than the problem you are attacking. Many of them are in the process of being tested and you are the guinea pig.
I encourage anyone to use nutrition and natural medicine before they try “government drugs”. If you can afford a doctor spend your money here first as the body is a self-healing mechanism and if you give it the correct attitude and nutrition it’s own healing power can assert itself. A company I am truly impressed with is http://www.neurorelief.com or http://www.neuroscienceinc.com (it’s parent name). They have a network of doctors that use their products and are really worth checking into. They have studied the four hormonal systems of the body for over 30 years and arrived at standards for each of the critical hormones your body uses to regulate itself. My doctor sent me to have multiple blood tests for numerous body functions and I sent off a urine sample to this company and they sent my doctor the results. He subsequently prescribed the correct cutting edge medical supplements for me and the result so far has been plainly astounding. Where the doctors at the hospital only gave me cursory examinations and very shallow levels of testing discriminating against me because I was indigent they kept me marching in place and misdiagnosed for years - since 1981 and in multiple hospitals. I finally found out that it was a hormone imbalance probably due to chronic malnutrition and stress due to my complicated injuries sustained in an accident. I will be writing about this soon, but the first part of my experience can be understood by reading Apachacuti - A World Upside Down, A Personal Perspective on Healthcare under the Digest of Articles right here on Libertysteward.com. As the body fills in the nutritional blanks the regulatory systems of the body kick in and your immune system can conquer the disease syndrome. Something as simple as different types of sugar in the same product can cause liver and kidney disfunction that can look identical to other serious afflictions, when that is not what you are really dealing with. I highly recommend you check them out. Your money will not be wasted and they will help you with financial aid if you need help. May you stand in the Light Brothers and Sisters - more later as soon as I can give you more. Nemaste!
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