fear2love: Q.o.T.W.

quote of the week

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand" -Confucius

Confucius 551BC, profound, amazing, so ahead of his time...or was he? Evidently Buddha was born 563BC? 12 years difference? a coincidence? really?

What "was" that period in history about??? So much implication in every word...for us. Global corporations pushing from spirituality, contentedness, into consumerism and never ending cycles of self-gratification? Happiness Vs Happier? Happiness being a temporary state requiring constant update; as new models arrive, happiness fades. "Happier" sustains over much longer periods; health, energy, being loved, compassion for others, etc, yeild a happier life in general, which does not necessarily recede in actuality. What more do we really have today?

...distinct feeling; very shortly, we will look to this inciteful period of humanity for ultimate awareness into this time we live, on mass and we will listen. What draws, it stands to reason...must draw others.

fear2love: Q.o.T.M.

quote of the moment

"If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies" -Author Unknown

...ohh yeah!!!

QUOTEgATE Part 02

Illuminati, New World Order, Global Government (they're all the same thing)

...an extension of power that has been ruling our lives in one way or another for thousands of years

Don't despair though, this post is not going to be a comprehensive account of the historical facts or otherwise surrounding The Great Conspiracy, the Illuminati or any terms mentioned in the title. Information and research on this subject is immense, freely available and would be in the best interests of anyone whatsoever to at least familiarise themselves with these notions. Implied connotations are far too serious to ignore and even simplistic imagination dictates absolute possibility of potential harm.

As alternative offering, this post attempts to create an emotional, intelligence based awareness of main characters mentioned throughout these conspiratorial references, using quotations / question and will briefly touch few key points which are critical to acceptance as issue or least, concern.

...it's all about power, and potential or possibility

Ever since I can remember there has been a single, surreptitious and quite frightening political theory circulating throughout western society. Terms in the title above refer to the same thing; a sophisticated plan for one world government instigated by the largest banks and corporations on the planet. It is supposed that tactics employed in pursuit of this goal use above all else "perseverance" as primary weapon.

...doesn't sound so bad; perseverance? so what! until you realise what it actually means

This supposed tactic of "perseverance" translates logically and easily into more recognisable language when placed in correct context as "stealth" and "infiltration". Terms like stealth and infiltration when applied to military usage seem almost appropriate given current conditioning however when conceptually applied to government and the potential to interfere with, obstruct or impede ordinary life...there is no hypothesis more frightening.

Actual meaning implied by use of the term in this context is "the substitution and overthrow of governments and entire countries by stealth and infiltration"; a war of attrition, without instant fulfilment of plans, piece by piece, slow and steady wins the race.

...now that's a little scary, don't you think? considering that those evidently involved had billions/trillions before any of us were conceived; worth thinking about? Way my logic works is this...it's the only way it could happen, is very simple to start implementing and requires no direct military force; only money and cunning. Note that intelligence was not mentioned? Cunning is like intelligence...but bent, twisted, misshaped and seeks only to better itself. Intelligence is opposite.

Join your own dots but perhaps try this...

QUESTION-tIME: let the imagination flow

Next time you're walking through a large city, look up. "Look up" at the buildings surrounding you. I won't do it for you (HAHA! ...my imagination needs no work) but "look" at all facets of scale, materials, structure, shape, decoration, function, etc. What would it take to a.) have the opportunity and b.) financial ability to produce? Ponder infinite dollars involved in construction and look especially at older buildings, created by corporations and companies never heard of, before birth.

Contemplate the power these individuals or groups wielded, in that time. Use imagination, allow malicious intent. Are we surrounded by good? What have they really given us? Is love and kindness represented everywhere? Is it something else? What do we see? What "could" be going on now?

Consider the diverse interests of many of the largest corporations today, and then consider that some corporations are hundreds and hundreds of years old. Corporations like J.P. Morgan for instance; with enough cash to buy entire countries (post on World Bank coming) and bail out governments. Surprise, surprise, J.P. Morgan is a primary mention for almost every reference on the subject. Mull it over, especially of famous corporations, like Coca-Cola who currently produce over 2800 beverage products. What else do they own? Could they own? Food? Arms? Munitions? Consider the realistic goal of business, for profit only and then ponder on power billions/trillions of dollars provide with no rules, but to make more. What checks and balances are there for those with insurmountable dollars? What judge or officer cannot be bought? What laws really apply to the power mongers?

...then think of the power these individuals or groups could really wield, now, if they multiplied the money over the centuries?

Do we think this money just disappears over time? Money that made all those buildings (not about the buildings, merely to evoke imagination) vanished into thin air? No individuals attached? No other savings or bonds; all into the building? Those presently with an abundance of cash, don't cling madly to its opulent whisper, plotting and planning ever more? Investments, shares, stock markets, blah? Do we not know corporate nature at all, after this time? "Look" around. Is it "good"? Concrete and plastics, nature's replacement?

..."could" there actually be a grand conspiracy in place? One that's been slowly eroding society for hundreds of years through an inability to control greed and power? could there? could?

Fear though, unlike contemporaries in this field of writing is not the objective communication here but rather evocation of awareness leading to greater choices and understanding. It's about questioning everything. If answers independently arrived at verifiy what you're being told or think you know, so be it. If they don't...what then? ...and what does your gut say, always consider that, always.

Perhaps knowing, we would choose to do things differently. Maybe we'd consume differently and given "all" the information, we might choose a simpler more spiritual life after all, despite what's being pushed. Are we really so afraid of confronting even potential truths, locked in self-centred oblivious consumption? Conditioned each day to be more so via mass media advertising? What can you buy today? Think of yourself for tomorrow. Where do you want to go on your holidays? Look at my new jeans, like my new hairstyle, check my new phone. Fact is, too much information is concealed from us by governments and corporations...or governments on behalf of corporations which is more precise.

...big whoopdee on the scale of things isn't it? Me, me, me, me, me! ...it's about, "us". Look up into the sky at night, at the stars (if you can see them?)

Who first discovered/wrote about this ultimate theory of power and corruption? Did impetus come from various presidential speeches or quotes like those below? Who first named it a conspiracy? Was it government? An innocent patriot? Who had/has the most to gain? Is it worth finding out? Researching for ourselves? Not taking my word for it?

End QUESTIONtIME:

...it goes something like this

"On May 1, 1776, in Bavaria, Dr. Adam Weishaupt, a professor of Canon Law at Ingolstadt University and a former Jesuit, formed a secret society called the Order of the Illuminati within the existing Masonic lodges of Germany." ...blah, blah, blah

Pasted from <http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Illuminati.htm>

...but cut to chase, the bit we probably have missed, overlooked

• "Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." - David Rockefeller, Memoirs, page 405

...but do we get that bit, he says he did it? Head of the family all conspiracy theorists state is basically a modern day equivalent of the antichrist, the continuum of The Great Conspiracy, said he did it.

Ok, here...secret? cabal? working against? against the best interests? conspiring? conspiring with others? others around the world? building global political and economic structure? one world? building a global structure, one world, with other internationalists around the world? conspiring? charge? guilty? guilty? guilty? proud??? proud of conspiring against the peoples of all nations???????????? lol, WTF???

...not sure what's up with these people but I'm so glad I don't have it. greed factor infinitus maximus? gene slippage?

What's the argument again, against this conspiracy theory? With the evidence all around us, a quote above from most accused confessing exactly what all the great conspiracy theories have attempted to convey? "I stand guilty"? Do we still fail to believe? Or take these people (conspiracy nuts?) seriously...at all? Did we ever really stop to think that maybe, just maybe, it's not a "conspiracy theory" and that indeed the term itself was manufactured by those with power in effort to covert truth? is there potential, for that?

It's not that hard, anytime we want...to stop buying crap and remember the bond we once shared as humans, the bond we presently only enjoy with family and close friends. Another way to live or love, not involving inanimate objects perhaps or not so much or in a different way, not wasteful or polluting, in harmony with the environment? Love, compassion, that stuff? There are heaps of ideas out there, positive, kind, compassionate ones. I bet we all have them, we all know it.

...sorry, stupid idea! HEEEE!

The warnings are numerous, by political figures and statesman from all walks. Convictions of conscience, though seldom beginning that way. There are also numerous overt statements given by those involved or connected to this subject.

QUOTEgATE gets into full swing...

• "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson
  

• "The system of banking [is] a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction... I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity... is but swindling futurity on a large scale."- Thomas Jefferson

• "The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen....At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties." -New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922

• "We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent." - Statement by Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member and Rothschild banker, James Warburg to The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17th, l950

• "Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce." - US President James A. Garfield

• "US President John F Kennedy in a speech before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, whose own slaying was littered with intrigue and covered up at the highest levels of government."- <http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Hollywood_911.htm>

• "The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. " - Kennedy, 27 April 196?

• "The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent."-Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets

• "Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government." - Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference in Evians, France, 1991

• "In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all." - Strobe Talbot, President Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State, Time Magazine, July 20th, l992

• "Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed." - Sara Brady, Chairman, Handgun Control, to Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, The National Educator, January 1994, Page 3.

• "In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive....Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies with some of the world's most powerful and least visible men: the heads of 32 central banks, officials able to shift billions of dollars and alter the course of economies at the stroke of a pen." - Keith Bradsher of the New York Times, August 5, 1995

• "The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds' central banks which were themselves private corporations. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups." - Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World in Our Time (Macmillan Company, 1966,) Professor Carroll Quigley of Georgetown University, highly esteemed by his former student, William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.

• "We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money." - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in Foreign Affairs

...have to finish this bit with Huxley

• "There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Tavistock Group, California Medical School, 1961

...fluoride in drinking water anyone? ecstasy? cocaine? (come on, stop drooling over the last two...ahem!) etc, etc. just think about them in relation to the Huxley quote.

Note: Researched these quotes briefly 09/04/09, with a view to doing this post...wondering what I could have come up with if I actually tried? Scary thought.

...now let's see the kind of people we're really dealing with; we can get a sense using quotations from the men themselves and others who knew them

• "Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Naples, Portugal, Brazil, various German states and smaller countries. They were the personal bankers of many of the crowned heads of Europe. They made large investments, through agents, in markets as distant as the United States, India, Cuba and Australia." - G. Edward Griffin

• "Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to neither the electorate nor the civil service chiefs." - Derek Wilson

...have a listen to the old man (Australian term for father), maxed in the power tripping department or what?

• "God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God, to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience." - [John D. Rockefeller]

...his conscience? hmmm...

• "I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure." - [John D. Rockefeller]

• "Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in." - [John D. Rockefeller]

• "I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts." - [John D. Rockefeller]

• "I have ways of making money that you know nothing of." - [John D. Rockefeller]

• "The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets." - [John D. Rockefeller]

• "The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun." - [John D. Rockefeller]

...starting to build up an image? how about a few from the son?

• "We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." - David Rockefeller

• "We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years... It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." - David Rockefeller, Bilderberg Meeting, June 1991 Baden, Germany (in case you missed QUOTEgATE Part 01)

• "Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Maos leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history." - David Rockefeller, statement in 1973 about Mao Tse-tung: (NY Times 8-10-73)

...WHAT THE???

I'll leave it there for now, certain we're starting to get the picture that nothing, no TV, not a new car or dishwasher is worth the risk associated with not being aware in matters such as these. Potential has amazement and harm as consequences...good to be aware of consequence. Why are there F.E.M.A camps being built throughout the United States? Why has this man Obama turned around and done everything he said he wouldn't and worse despite being the first African American president in history? What's with RFID chips? Do we really want to be controlled...better, more efficiently? A whole lot more to get us thinking coming up in Part 03. Know your life, make sure "you" know, a politician won't tell us. It goes against their religion...to not lie.

Rothschild's next? The original and the best? Family evidently responsible for putting the modern day plan into action and passing it down through Rockefeller...and then to Obama the puppet. Oooooh!!! Stay tuned for QUOTEgATE Part 03, the final chapter (but not of us).

Don't be afraid, be aware. Nothing compares to truth, love, compassion and kindness...nothing.

fear2love: Q.o>T.W.

quote of the week

• “I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.” - John Steinbeck ( Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968)

...so funny 8) can't help wondering if it's true though

QUOTEgATE Part 01

bs detection in overdrive
Note: this post contains adult language, most notably the word "shit"


"Men often stumble on the Truth, but usually dust themselves off & hurry away..."
- [Winston Churchill]

...there's a saying in Australia,
"if it looks like shit and smells like shit, then it must be shit"

I believe some parts of the world use a similar expression substituting "rat" however it's not correct for my intent. It's a bad rap for the rat in fact. I've had (pet) rats; they're intelligent, extremely loving and affectionate.

Once upon a time bull shit detection was our thing. "That's bullshit maaate!" being possibly the most common colloquialism we have, apart from "faaark maaaaate!" Like the rest of the world however we're subject to 24/7 mass propaganda from government, media and corporations preaching fear and consumerism while informing us continually of "how nice and safe we'll all be...if we just follow the rules". With the amount of confusion and uncertainty permeating through society bullshit detection is becoming a lost art.

...but it's all bull shit mate! We've been duped, swindled, hog tied and we're being dragged behind the virtual horse

For the most part, BS-detection mechanisms seem to target everyday interactions with other people and not politicians (which they should) who, given the current crop, are the most blatant bullshit artists of all time.

Know this before we go on though...I'm not working for a government, not affiliated with any corporation in any way, shape or form, not a Socialist, Democrat, Liberal or Green, not a cop, a secret agent and not working for McDonalds or Coke (...and "I would" stand before a congressional hearing and testify to that fact - why did they get away with it? Bush/Cheney/911), but you know what?

...shit, still smells like shit

We're so busy being entertained...constrained. Modern day heroes are plentiful. Kicking dead cow innards full of air between big sticks makes crowds roar every Sunday for half the year...how would we know "anything" was going on?

...mainstream media? ...HA!!!

"In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press....They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. "An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers."

- U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917

...surprise, surprise. most reference material on "the great conspiracy theory" suggest JPMorgan interests as prime movers and instigators of a worldwide treachery; ninety two years! ...and there's this one

"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years... It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."

- David Rockefeller, Bilderberg Meeting, June 1991 Baden, Germany


...not for me it isn't %$#$@*!!

Surprise??? Yet again most of the reference material involving "the Illuminati, a New World Order, Global Government (latest, most inoffensive term given it) and the great conspiracy theory" all mention Rockefeller at or near the top of this modern day chain of deception. Essentially what these two quotes are saying to us is that "there has been no unbiased media coverage on significant events since 1915 and in fact media coverage has been able to be manipulated for other gain since that time".

...can't see or understand the significance of these quotes? ...still? with what is going on everywhere around us? the violence? crime? disassociation from each other? ridiculous, repressive laws? concepts of consumerism where power and possession have value over people and peace? excessive fear?

Ever seen "Wag The Dog"? What if I were to suggest infinitely more sinister things than any suspected moon landing had been staged? How about this one? Remember the famous video scene after the US entered Iraq, of Iraqis tearing down the statue of Saddam in victorious street celebration involving US forces and locals.

...the mass of people tearing the statue down? Remember?

It was all staged. The company involved is "The Rendon Group"; a public relations agency under contract from the pentagon that specialises in propaganda. It was featured in an Australian Cutting Edge documentary produced by SBS, the first and only time this info has been made public to my knowledge.

...there are entire corporations specialising in this sort of propaganda and disinformation. they get paid as much for their silence as for any work undertaken. when does mainstream media ever show things such as this? do we believe this is the only example? or that example is rife if we choose to look?

watch the clip -------------------------------------------------->

The Rendon Group, US Propaganda (Operation Saddam, America's Propaganda War - Cutting Edge)

...what is the implication of this information? ...to our lives?

Note: was going to include all relevant links to suggested viewing below, however in actuality what I am speaking about deals primarily with concepts of independent thought therefore is potentially in the best interests of all readers to research this information themselves, as I have done (although I do plan to add all links eventually anyway ...good game's a fast game). Most of the work is available freely online although some may require a little perseverance to find. It's quite an amazing journey; so good, to know your life ...feels, empowering ...closer to love? don't be afraid, be aware/awake.

...still having difficulty?

--> THEN WATCH THESE

Note: documentaries suggested below are by no means the only sources of information I am discussing presently. Viewed around four hundred and seventy something documentaries in three years, lost count of how many written papers, over a hundred and seventy gigabytes of information...gained in two massive, insanely weird, almost compulsive, synchronistic spurts - no wonder I'm full ...uuuurp!

• Orwell Rolls In His Grave - 2004 - Documentary On The Power Of Corporate Media In The USA
• WMD Weapons Of Mass Deception - Documentary
• PBS Frontline - News War, Part 1Of4 - Secrets, Sources And Spin (2007)
• PBS Frontline - News War, Part 2 of 4 - Secrets, Sources and Spin (2007)
• PBS Frontline - News War, Part 3Of4 - What's Happening To The News (2007)
• PBS Frontline - News War, Part 4of4 - Stories From a Small Planet (2007)
• The Denial Machine - CBC The Fifth Estate
• Peace Propaganda and The Promised Land -Documentary
• Globalisation and the Media -Documentary Britain Indymedia 24min
• The Globalisation Tapes -Indymedia - indypeer.org
• The Enemy Within - PBS Frontline Documentary
• Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media - 1992 Documentary
• Unconstitutional - 2004 - Documentary - Fascist new Laws in USA,
• The CIA's Secret War - CBC News - The Passionate Eye 2006 (Worldwide Torture Centres State Terrorism)
• Sticks And Stones - Liberal Vs Conservative In The U S Media - CBC News, The Fifth Estate - (Jon Stewart, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter; Jan 26 2005)
• Waco - The Big Lie - Documentary - US Government mass murder & cover-up in NWO CIA brainwashing cult (not my descriptor)
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - 2003 Documentary - Venezuela Hugo Chavez
• Iraq War - Operation Saddam, America's Propaganda War - Cutting Edge Documentary

...remember how these last three played out in the media? not quite the same is it? and how about this one, about the makers of RoundUp weed killer???

• Monsanto - Global food monopoly - Documentary

...ever hear of "that" going on? why not? whose side are mainstream media on? obvious now that it's not ours?

Screams from a distant audience, trained to believe everything is alright ..."that's bullshit mate!" That's where you hear it most now days, as objection to truth when it's right in front of our eyes. "That's bullshit mate!" has become a slightly twisted justification for inaction of our fears.

...but you know what? all this isn't bullshit, what we believe is

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man (and a woman) in everlasting ignorance - that principle is: Contempt prior to Investigation."
-Herbert Spencer

"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance"
-Albert Einstein

...do the research, make up your own mind, use gut instinct when all else fails. what does it smell like? look like? there's more to this life than we can imagine, both good and bad. don't be afraid, be aware; love and truth with set us free

Note: next post is mad with a capital "M" ...loving it! (nearly done) "a creative, conspiratorial awakening in quotation" (...now to meditate)

NETWORK: “You have meddled Mr Beale”

corporate cosmology

...such a great monologue

NETWORK 1976 (film)

Transcript: "You have meddled with the primal forces of nature Mr Beale and I won't have it!

Is that clear?

Do you think you've merely stopped a business deal? That is not the case. The Arabs have taken millions of dollars out of this country and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity, it is ecological balance.

You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations, there are no peoples, there are no Russians, there are no Arabs, there are no third worlds, there is no west. There is only one holistic system of systems. One vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petrol dollars, electro dollars, multi dollars, reichmarks, ren, roubles, pounds and shekles.

It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life, on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic...and sub atomic ...and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature and you will atone. Am I getting through to you Mr Beale?

You get up on, your little 21" screen...and howl...about America and democracy. There is no America, there is no democracy. There is only, IBM and ITT, and AT&T...and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide...and Exxon. Those are the missions of the world today.

What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Carl Marks? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions and compute the price cost probabilities of their transactions and investments just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies Mr Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the, immutable bylaws of business.

The world is a business Mr Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime...and our children will live Mr Beale, to see that...perfect, world...in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit. In which all men will share of stock. All necessities, provided...all anxieties tranquilised...all boredom, amused."

NETWORK - Corporate Cosmology


...Ned Beatty should have won an Oscar for this role, so good.

fear2love: Q.o.T.M.

quote of the moment



Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart





...all you need is love

famous WARNINGS: prophetic gloom (part one)

Aldous Huxley on "A Brave New World"

Throughout history there have been many prominent scholars and public figures who heralded uncannily accurate warnings of critical issues to confront the future of all humanity. We generally regard these people as among some of the most amazing figures history ever churned out however when they speak truth we cork our ears, close our eyes, hum loudly...and turn the other way.

...perhaps we should listen to just one of them?

Continually failing to heed these warnings we march blindly onwards into a more fearful, hurtful, hateful, violent and unaware society which "hasn't" gotten fundamentally better despite considerable (supposed) efforts and intention to the contrary. These warnings, both explicit and subtle are found everywhere from interviews and death bed speeches to entire books and are numerous enough to fill their own novel (hint, hint...for anyone with more inclination).

Presented first is Aldous Huxley whose prophetic writing "A Brave New World" recognises, extends and enhances concepts of totalitarian servitude put forth by the famous writer George Orwell in his novel 1984. Huxley actually wrote a letter to Orwell which expresses essential difference of concept between the two works...that of increased efficiency. He felt his novel much closer to the reality of our future enslavement and stated openly that Orwell's methods weren't efficient enough and for that reason would not be considered "useful".

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October 21st, 1949

Dear Mr Orwell,

The nightmare of 1984 is destined to modulate into A Brave New World. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency.

Thank you once again for the book.

Yours sincerely

Aldous Huxley

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...wonder if he actually realised it works as a guide book also??? He supposedly wrote it as a warning, but is it used as reference for tyranny?

Note currently looking for an interview with Huxley where he says "A Brave New Word was based on what was happening at the time", I've seen it/got it somewhere, quite interesting...a post or three away.

1934 (i think) - Aldous Huxley - interview about "A Brave New World"

Transcript: "what I may call the message is a Brave New World, but it is possible...uh, to make people, contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past but, and I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with, bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.

Well what is to me very interesting. It looks as though the totalitarian regimes of the future, will not be based upon terror because they will have other means. These...means...w...now presently described as brainwashing and propaganda, which will be much more efficient and much more economical than um, natural force, and more pleasurable to those who undergo them . There are techniques available at present which seem to, duplicate some of the techniques that I... invented"

Aldous Huxley on A Brave New World

...illusion or reality? which one will hurt more when it comes crashing down?

fear2love: Q.o.T.W.

quote of the week

“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”

-Aldous Huxley



…the only way

Coca-Cola CORRUPTION: the worldwide water crisis

fear2love boycott of "ALL" Coke and Coca-Cola related products: for these reasons
...no Coke for over 2 months now!!!

water is a precious human resource,
NO ONE CAN or SHOULD OWN IT!!!

KILLER COKE

...and here's why

It's a right associated with being alive, like breathing; something directly necessary for survival (supply of food is similar in situation and should never have been commercialised to the extent that is has due to reduction in the quality of life for the majority populating the planet in favour of a few).

...water, it comes down to this; without it we die.

There is currently a worldwide water crisis. One in six people don't have access to clean drinking water. Corporations like Suez are implementing "water cards" (pre-paid water???) in third world countries and Coca-Cola is one of the major players responsible for this crisis through its cloaked policy of "rape the earth for profit and brush it under the carpet".

The fact is, companies producing bottled water and all manner of carbonated beverages like Coca-Cola are scamming western nations, exploiting third world countries and causing a worldwide water shortage under cover of "global warming" (post on global warming coming).

...and again, we're lapping it up

Coca-Cola corporation are committing documented human rights abuses in several countries, two of which are India and Columbia. The corporation is sucking (along with many other international corporations) ground water from village water-tables, bottling it, selling it to us and have clocked up over one hundred and seventy human rights violations in Columbia alone.

• Q. how much water is in a can of coca cola?
• A. water constitutes 99% of the contents of a can of diet coke [Wiki Answers]
• FACT: it takes five to seven (5 ->7) times as much water in production to create one bottle of Coke
• FACT: Coca-Cola production consumes 290 billion litres of water per year around the world

Coke has pledged to conserve water by 2010 but it's an obvious public relations cover-up. Why not do it now considering the current statistics that one in six people in the world don't have access to clean drinking water? Why wait until then, when all the water has run out?

...one in six people??? Check it out. There are many sites presently dedicated to the sole purpose of distributing knowledge globally (mainstream media is accomplice to this tyranny) about the world water crisis and recently (2009) a documentary was produced about it called "Flow - For The Love of Water" which is a must see, magnificently produced, filmed and details many other abuses which have led to a worldwide water crisis.

FLOW the film

...by 2010, IT WILL BE TOO LATE!!!

To cover things up in places like India, Coke is the major sponsor of organisations like the World Environmental Foundation and ooooooh!...guess what Coke have coincidentally won for the last three years, in India, despite the environmental damage they are doing and human rights abuse? The prestigious Golden Peacock award. Who gives this award, the World Environmental Foundation.

...perhaps that really stands for Water Erosion Fund? WTF??? look people, LOOK!

YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS ------------------------->

DISPATCHES documentary
-Mark Thomas on Coca-Cola
- a.k.a. "Coca-Cola Corruption and the Nazi Connection"

Coca-Cola Corruption (DISPATCHES)

"controversy in India concerns allegations that some of the firm's bottling plants are using too much water in drought-prone areas, leaving poor local villagers with too little."

[source] Coca-Cola - In hot water - Oct 6th 2005 From The Economist print edition - http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4492835

"In 2000, Coca-Cola set up a plant in Kerala, India. Within a year the groundwater started to decline, and wells were polluted. After protests, the local government denied renewal of the plant's license and the Kerala High Court supported its action. On April 7, 2005, however, this decision was overruled by two other judges of the same court who placed Coca-Cola's right to use water over the local government's right to regulate water use."

[source] LET THEM DRINK COKE - Vandana Shiva - http://www.ipsnews.net/columns.asp?idnews=28907

"the Plachimada Coke-bottling facility (India) was shut down after intense community pressure, but has now been re-opened after the Kerala High Court now has permitted Coca-Cola to extract up to 500,000 liters of water from the common groundwater resource per day."

[source] Coca Cola India demand "unconditional apology" from photographer - Submitted by Dabitch on Mon, 07/11/2005 - 13:22. - http://commercial-archive.com/content/coca-cola-india-demand-unconditional-apology-photographer

"PLACHIMADA, KERALA -- On 22 April, 2002, more than 2,000 irate protestors, consisting mostly of indigenous people and dalits (oppressed castes), gathered at the gates of the Hindustan Coca Cola factory in Plachimada, Palghat district, Kerala. Residents from the villages surrounding Coke's greenfield soft-drink bottling factory here say that Coke's indiscriminate mining of groundwater has dried up many wells, and contaminated the remainder. At least 50 villagers have maintained a picket outside the factory gate every day since the strike began."

[source] No Water? Drink Coke! - By Nityanand Jayaraman - CorpWatch India May 28, 2002 - http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/2003/nowaterdrinkcoke.html

"As ironic commentary, Indian photographer Sharad Haksar created a billboard from a photo of water jugs lined up at a pump in front of a Coca-Cola billboard. Coke hated it so much that have demanded an apology and have threatened to sue him for 2 million rupees ($46,000) for defamation. Haskar told Coke, in essence, to fcuk (note my inoffensive spelling) off."

...how's the billboard? says so much

Indian photographer controversy

[source] stay free! daily - Post: I'd like to teach the world to sing ... for mercy - http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/07/id_like_to_teac.html

...nice one Haskar!

"The Coca-Cola Company is (also) one of the world's leading producers of bottled water. In North America, their bottling company, Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc., sets up plants in cities and uses billions of litres of our water each year to make Dasani and other Coke products. Exactly how much water they use remains a mystery as Coke (and the cities where they are established) refuse to release reports on plant water takings to the public."

[source] Inside The Bottle: The Peoples Campaign on the Bottled Water Industry - Coca-Cola Water Taking Petition - http://www.insidethebottle.org/coca-cola-water-taking-petition

Coca-Cola states it uses between 2.7 and 3.4litres of water to produce 1 litre of Coke (2002/2004) ...riiiight! as if we could believe them!

...some facts on the bottled water industry

"The bottled water industry has exploded in recent years, and enjoys annual sales of more than $35 billion worldwide. In 2002, almost six billion gallons of bottled water were sold in the U.S., representing an increase of nearly 11 percent over 2001. Americans paid $7.7 billion for bottled water in 2002, according to the consulting and research firm Beverage Marketing Corporation.

Bottled water is the fastest-growing segment of the beverage industry, and the product is expected to pass both coffee and milk to become the second-most-consumed beverage (behind soft drinks) by 2004. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), "More than half of all Americans drink bottled water; about a third of the public consumes it regularly." While most people would argue that bottled water is healthier than convenient alternatives like sugared sodas or artificially flavoured drinks, are the third of bottled water consumers who claim they are motivated by promises of purity (according to a 2000 survey) getting what they pay for?" Pasted from <http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1209-10.htm>

...they're wrong and in fact not getting what they pay for at all. it's called "being ripped off", "scammed"

"Figures from independent beverage research company Canadean show that at least two out of every five bottles of water sold around the world are, like Dasani, "purified" waters, rather than "source" waters which originate from a spring."

[source] Published on Thursday, March 4, 2004 by Reuters - Coca - Cola Admits That Dasani is Nothing But Tap Water by Trevor Datson - http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0304-04.htm

"An NRDC-commissioned study tested for hundreds of different chemicals in 38 brands of California bottled water. Two samples had arsenic contamination, six had chemical by-products of chlorination, and six had measurable levels of the toxic chemical toluene. Several samples violated California's bottled water standards. In a study published in the Archives of Family Medicine, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Ohio State University compared 57 samples of bottled water to Cleveland's tap water. While 39 of the bottled water samples were purer than the tap water, 15 of the bottles had significantly higher bacteria levels. The scientists concluded that although all of the water they tested was safe to drink, "use of bottled water on the assumption of purity can be misguided."

[source] Published on Tuesday, December 9, 2003 by E/The Environmental Magazine - Despite the Hype, Bottled Water is Neither Cleaner nor Greener than Tap Water -by Brian Howard - http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1209-10.htm

"Dasani was sourced and bottled in a factory in Sidcup, just a few miles down the road from Peckham. The cost to Coke is thought to run into the millions, but behind the financial loss is the possibility of an even more serious problem. After years of heady growth, sales of Coca-Cola are beginning to flatten out. Bottled water, by contrast, is now the fastest-growing of the soft drinks and Coke still need a successful bottled water for the UK and the European market. "

[source] Coke's water bomb - By Bill Garrett: BBC Money Programme - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3809539.stm

...but it seems that's not the worst of it

A powerful, right winged military group, the AUC Black Eagles has popped up in Colombia within the last ten years, from nowhere, with a mission. The group has killed nine men working for Coca-Cola in FEMSA which owns the Columbian bottling plant, specifically because those men had belonged to a union.

...check out the "mission statement" this group have recorded on video, as a warning to the public and trade unionists - (it's around the middle of the DISPATCHES documentary)

Black Eagles Transcript: "the paramilitaries of Magdelena Medio, call on the terrorist Coca-Cola trade unionists to stop bad mouthing the Coca-Cola corporation; given they have caused enough trouble already...

If there is no response we declare them military targets of the Black Eagles and they will be dealt with as they prefer...

death, torture, cut into pieces, coup de grace. No more protests!" [end transmission]

...Water Erosion Fund, Black Eagles??? think about it. What are the odds that Coca-Cola has instigated this to protect themselves? They do nothing to keep employees who are physically assaulted by this group safe. Why not?

Yes, it seems Columbia has become a dangerous place for trade unionists over the last decade and is over-run by right wing paramilitary groups who murder approximately two hundred (200) people per year that belong to or are related to trade unions (you know...spouses, entire families, friends, acquaintances; anyone who opposes them...that sort of thing)

...i wonder who sponsors these paramilitary groups? gives them munitions? corporations? Nooooooo!!!!

According to DISPATCHES - Mark Thomas on Coca-Cola; "in 2004 a New York city councillor led a fact finding delegation to Columbia. It found that workers for the Coca-Cola bottler were victims of at least one hundred and seventy nine (179) human rights violations and nine murders" including one man who was shot dead INSIDE the Coca-Cola plant.

The report found "the physical access that paramilitaries have had to Coca-Cola bottling plants is impossible without company knowledge, and/or tacit approval.

Coca-Cola's inaction, and its ongoing refusal to take any responsibility for the human rights crisis faced by its workforce in Columbia demonstrates at best, disregard for the lives of its workers."

...two Columbian judicial enquiries found no evidence of collusion by the bottler management to intimidate or threaten trade unionists. Riiiiiiiight!!! it's all just coincidental

Tim Beaty, director of Global Strategies, Teamster Union (represents 30,000 Coke workers) states that "Coke attempts to separate any responsibility it has from the behaviour of its bottlers and other subsidiaries. Inside the system Coca-Cola company was saying, hey we've got nothing to do with this, this is a bottler and their totally responsible and we don't have any control or responsibility".

We were able to say no wait a minute, there is a linkage between what the Coca-Cola company does in Atlanta and what its bottlers do around the country and around the world".

... as if Coke has no control over the situation! It's fairly common knowledge that corporations like Coke who trade in over two hundred (200) countries around the world and are among the largest on the planet...have more power and influence than "that".

...nooooo, Coke doesn't have trillions of dollars and could police these issues if they chose to

In protest to the killings in Columbia a campaign was launched calling for a global boycott of Coca-Cola, called "KillerCoke".

killercoke.org

...did you ever hear of this campaign? in any mainstream media? I hadn't before writing this! why? Is the "truth" of information such as this consistently slipping through cracks in our media networks, indicative that "something is very, very wrong" within society? why do we accept that it is, what it is? have we no imaginations, to dream of a better future for all?

Over 45 universities have kicked Coke off campus, including Sussex, Manchester and four colleges from Oxford University.

...the company has promised an independent inquiry but when does that ever happen independently anyway?

a list of all current Coke and Coca-Cola related products will be posted in the Pages section of fear2love when complete so those interested in NOT supporting this kind of overt repression, violence and greed can do so as informed consumers.

...to affect change

• don't drink coke
• tell everyone you know
• tell them to do the same
• don't purchase any products manufactured by Coca-Cola or Coke
• check out sites like http://www.killercoke.org for more information on this subject than thought possible
• think independently
• feel, think, look, see

The Daily Bruin, "Inform yourselves, boycott Coca-Cola: Students can, should pressure company to stop its perpetration of human rights crimes," By Megan Markoff, May 30, 2006

Read Article The article refers to the PBS Frontline World documentary "The Coca-Cola Controversy." Watch Videos Pasted from <http://www.killercoke.org/news2006.htm>

To get more information on this subject, start here http://www.killercoke.org/news2006.htm

...don't be afraid, be aware - love, compassion and truthful information lead to enlightenment

BILL HICKS: on fear and love

creatively espousing virtues of love and kindness through comedy

political, spiritual, awakened, a smile giver

I met Bill Hicks during his first tour of Australia years ago (awesome collection of unpublished shots somewhere, maybe a future post) working as his photographer to document one of his shows. We hit it off pretty much immediately, a like connection. He was very generous, let me have run of the house and shared any hospitality provided to him . I shot the entire show that first night and was subsequently invited back by Bill for the remainder of the week without him having seen any of the work, to shoot the remaining shows.

...insightful, wise, hilarious, in touch; such awareness from a really "human" view

Amazing guy! Every show like the first one; energetic, charismatic, poignant and laugh until you can't breath funny. It was quite difficult shooting at some points due to laughter in fact, mine. So much to this man, the way he saw life. A profundity and awareness unlike many others. Born in an awakened state, dealing with it creatively. I had no idea who he was at the time, had never heard of him before the shoot and not really again until years later when some friends were talking about him and I overheard that he had passed away.

...evidently in between, he rocked the world

Asking what had happened I relayed my adventures of that week and was told that he had developed over the years a massive world wide following of almost cult proportions and that he was really famous.

It figured, larger than life presence, kind and super funny. I feel very privileged, had an awesome time and laughed my guts out for five days straight but somehow I assumed all of his work was primarily focused on politics, religion, imbecile presidents, that sort of thing.

...never heard him do the following monologue until recently

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Bill Hicks - on fear and love

"The world is like a ride in an amusement park and when we choose to go on it we think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And it goes up and down and round and round, it has thrills and chills and its very brightly colored and very loud, and it's fun - for a while.

Some people have been on the ride for a long time and after a while they begin to question: Is this real, or is it just a ride? But some people have remembered, and they come back to us and they say. "Hey, don't worry and don't be afraid ever, because this is just a ride"

- and we kill those people..."Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride... Look at my furrows of worry... Look at my big bank account... Look at my family... This has to be real"

But it's just a ride.

But we always kill those good guys who try to tell us that and we let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride - and we can change it any time we want. All we need is the choice.

No effort, no work, no job, no savings or money - just a choice - right now - between fear & love.

The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns and and close yourself off, the eyes of love instead, see all of us as one.

Here's what we can do to change the world to a better ride right now. Take all the money we spend on weapons and defence every year and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded and we can explore space...together...both inner and outer...forever......in peace."

- Bill Hicks (1961 - 1994 R.I.P.)

...it's all right there, in front of our noses

Dr Bruce Lipton: where mind and matter meet

wondrous, educational, spiritual, energetic, awakening

...WoW!

Watched Dr Bruce Lipton's "The New Biology - Where Mind and Matter Meet" and it's totally blown mine. Scientifically spiritual revelations, a must see for all humanity.

...the implications of the information
presented in this video are staggering!

The New Biology

...feeling more alive and loving for having watched it

fear2love blog exists, to discover, present and explore information of exactly this nature which somehow always slips through mainstream cracks. It is these cracks in our information networks which are distorting evolution and perpetuating violence in the species; I have a theory.

We all know something is wrong, we always have. A feeling from birth which is suppressed for reasons of compliance from within the group. We develop different means, distractions, for dealing with the intangibility and difficulty of this sensation. Some people are conscious of it and find methods to face the fear however most are forced to tune out because traditionally there are no tools acceptable for use in western society which deal with it effectively.

...part of the reason we cling on so dearly to propaganda and hype is that it offers salvation from this sensation

The concept of looking into the self is not new. Buddhism is thought to have originated in India some 560 years or so (2500 years + ago) before Christ according to history books and we've all heard the saying which expresses concisely it's main premise, however the majority of westerners consistently ignore or miss it's meaning.

..."you've got to look in, to see out"

"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism."

-Albert Einstein

...how good is that? funny how we give him credit for so much else

The Australian Media: how full of crap are they?

who Started It?

I have completed several articles lately around the G20 summit protests in London which began based on information provided by commercial sources that initiated other notions within me to write on. However, all these sources have suggested violence at the protests began as a result of "masked hooligans" entering the mass behaving aggressively, and while this may have been true to an extent, it certainly wasn't the only instigator of the violence.

...it seems the police did their share also

WATCH THIS--------------------------------------->

...GO Truth Junkie!

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G20 protests death: victim of fear?

man killed in ineffectual protest?

it seems that the person who died at the G20 protests in London yesterday may not have been part of the rally after all and indeed may have just been trying to get out of the area and home from work.

...how sad is that? a victim of fear expressed as anger?

Individuals who were not involved, are now involved, there is no escaping it. The issue is too important, people concerned are not going to let it be brushed away by media propaganda or those regurgitating government hype. The fear of "what is to come" via deceitful activities perpetrated by corporations and governments is too much to bear and traditionally there has been only one way seen out of this type of human dilemma, revolution. Protest like this represents exactly that, mini revolutions and while unfortunate, are the only way we've learnt to do it. Ultimately though change must come from within, there is no escaping this fact.

...again people have let fear control their actions rather than love.

There are many ways to make others take notice of an action without resorting to violence against people. One is property damage, another vigilance. What if protesters had taken one one of the bank buildings in a destructive rampage instead of attempting to confront authority directly. What if violence against police (who are doing as instructed) was directed instead at inanimate objects of those responsible, i.e banks?

...think it would have made just as much noise? without the stigma of human casualty and violence associated with it?

The international press went loopy at the property destruction. Like dogs to water in a desert...they lapped it up. Check out these images. Specifically ones involving smashing the building window. How many cameras are poised to take a shot? Insane? Ridiculous? It's so bizarre that it almost looks set up, like they were told in advance to get there, as if they actually asked for something else to be thrown through. Can you imagine them sprinting to get that shot, to be there? Can you imagine one of them yelling "throw something else, we'll make you famous" ???? (subject for another post) Ohhhh yeah!!!

...stunning photographs, but what else do they say?

Do images like these speak of the power credited to property damage in making headlines? Does it present a future direction for ineffectual peaceful protests that get taken over by violent outsiders with ulterior motives?

There is all manner of information online related to freedom, protesting and activism. One such individual worth mentioning is John Zerzan, controversial philosopher whose call for property damage has inspired many to take to the streets. ”That is not violence. Sitting there doing dope and watching MTV . Then you go and get a job. Just schlep along. To me that is violence,” says Zerzan.

...some clarification: Peaceful protesting is not wrong, it just doesn't work any more and here's why; peaceful protest won't be effectual until those attending realise their obligation to keep these events "peaceful"

and it is their duty, no one else's; not the police, not the government, not the guy next door. It's the responsibility of everyone attending who feels strongly about "peaceful protesting" and the issues at hand to ensure it remains peaceful and effective; here's the bit they just don't seem to get.

...if "that" means becoming violent to keep it peaceful, THEN IT HAS TO BE DONE! A decision has to be made, is it important or not?

Using violence to ensure peace internally? It's the same thing tribal groups all over the world do to ensure honesty. i.e. Koorie example, Australia: spear in the leg of someone who steals from the tribe (doesn't have to be this harsh of course). Simply holding down offenders until police get there would suffice. It's so simple and humanly possible, something we are all programmed to do but not aware we can. All that need happen is for people to unite, before the protest action with defined knowledge of this required support. This in and of itself would deter anyone intent on misdirecting perception of the actual cause.

...35,000 people or more turning against them at the first sign of an outbreak of violence? Noooo, that wouldn't work...would it? ...should peaceful actions utilise directed violence to ensure intent when necessary?

They have to, it's the only way they can work and while I am in general an advocate of peace and non-violence, something has to give. It simply doesn't work and hasn't ever since violence first crept in to discredit groups and the objectives of these protests. Real action is needed, not pseudo attempts which repeatedly do nothing but deter others from joining important, life changing causes. Is there a realisation yet, after all the examples we've had over the years, that attacking police or authority figures does nothing to further any issue supported in the eyes of the rest of the world and doesn't effect change? No one, nobody in the protest, in any protest; ever does anything to stop these conspirator worms from causing this type of violence and discrediting the cause. Everone laps it up like a movie, 'yeah violence against the system!!" and joins in (group think). If anything THIS should make people angry and want to be violent, to stop the meaning being hijacked by these imbecile antagonists.

...when will we wake up and change tactics?

...there ARE many more!

Personal feeling is that we know exactly what is required yet are confronted by the same concept. That "we" need to be vigilant in prevention of violence at peaceful protests, that it is "our" responsibility and that it might mean "we" have to risk personal safety (which we're doing anyway just being there in the current circumstances). Disseminating instruction such as directives for group behaviour in case of violence before hand can change things.

...so here's what I recommend

Next time a peaceful protest is organised, those responsible for conception should ensure that all attending know unequivocably, that violence of any kind will not be tolerated and will be stopped by force if necessary, through the intense power and intervention of the entire mass.

If issues like this are to mean anything at all , those involved need to be prepared to "kick the crap out of anyone" who tries to change the focus, not the police. The main reason nothing happens as a result of these types of mass protest is because of violence to persons associated with them and what that does to fence sitters and others who would normally be involved, which is the majority of the population.

...stop fighting each other through attacking authority and begin to see, there are so many other ways.

This is only a minor example of what could be done to facilitate more meaningful and peaceful protest given the current climate. Other, more fear2love style examples of protest such as 50,000 people chaining themselves to each other around the city, mass hunger strikes, uniting in consumer onslaughts of corporations responsible by boycotting products would be preferable...the list goes on, unite in creativity.

...what does it really come down to? the perception of sacrifice? how much is your remote control and tv worth to you? what will the future be like because of what you do now? what we do in the present forms the future! for all of us (subject for another post)

G20 protests: a resounding NO -> slavery

SLAVES? NO wAY says London!!!

Well it seems as though some people don’t want corporations and banks walking over them after all. SBS television Australia reported tonight (other major networks also briefly) of rioting in the streets of London as G20 protesters united in this global cause.

...YESS!!!

SBS stated the protest was marred by violence which occurred when a group of men in hoodies with “faces covered” moved quickly to the front of the crowd and attacked police, setting the rest of the protesters off as police retaliated in defence.

Yawn! This is NOTHING new. There is footage freely available online of similarly dressed thugs jumping from the “police side of the barrier” at another G8 summit (suggesting they were undercover units) into the mass of people protesting and working their way to the front to perpetrate similar violence for the same purposes. Here too in Australia, a few years ago at the G8 summit (essentially same thing as G20) there was conflict between police and protesters which began as a result of hooded, “masked” thugs that attacked police via whatever means. ..so cliché, “hooded, masked thugs”

...it’s hard not to get “caught up in the hype”, it’s so prolific

In the current socio-economic conditions we live in this sort of violence occurs about every time a group of people have a valid reason to protest which might affect fortune 500 or arms manufacturers. It's to discredit an otherwise normal, justifiable expression of a group of people’s anger when the remainder of the nation might notice or worse still...do something about it.

It works because the majority of the population abhor violence (as they should) and incidents such as this serve to keep those people out of the fight. The cause conflicts morally with embedded notions of violence, becomes tainted and people are susceptible to propaganda, hype and will often reject an otherwise beneficial cause due to this conflict of values.

...it’s like a movie and we’re lapping it up but the thing is, suspension of disbelief is not required here for us to get it, it’s the opposite.

Wikipedia: Suspension of disbelief or "willing suspension of disbelief" was a formula devised by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge to justify the use of fantastic or non-realistic elements in literature. Coleridge suggested that if a writer could infuse a "human interest and a semblance of truth" into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend his judgment concerning the implausibility of the narrative.

It’s what we bring to movies/books, in our minds, so we can believe wild and far out stories. In our “real” day to day lives, we should do the opposite and use extremes of love, rationale and logic to determine truth in events such as these.

• look at effects to see causes (ask: what effect does it have – who benefits most)
• do we really think this fanciful schmultz only happens in films?
• if you don’t look, you can’t see

Apart from the perceived property damage and a few fractured skulls though, someone actually died during these London protests. ???? Yes a pretty big downside and absolute tragedy for the family and friends of this individual along with everyone attending, but in reality...nothing compared to the damage and death corporations pushing globalisation and G20 summits are doing every day in third world countries.

I’m going to say it again because it sounds ridiculous, like a movie...someone “died” at a world rally in London when a major protest over workers rights and the push for a global economy became violent. Is this the next push? Not merely violence to dissuade, but death? A victim of the movies?

It matters not, he died in a fight helping the whole of humanity, it was not in vain. We are one voice, one people, one earth, one mind connected in universal consciousness.

...his spirit will live on in us all; it made a noise on the other side of the world!