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The US led war against the Islamic State is a big lie.

Going after " Islamic terrorists", carrying out a worldwide pre-emptive war to "Protect the American Homeland" are used to justify a military agenda.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a creation of US intelligence. Washington's "Counter-terrorism Agenda" in Iraq and Syria consists in Supporting the Terrorists.

The incursion of the Islamic State (ISIS) brigades into Iraq starting in June 2014 was part of a carefully planned military-intelligence operation supported covertly by the US, NATO and Israel.

The counter-terrorism mandate is a fiction. America is the Number One "State Sponsor of Terrorism"

The Islamic State is protected by the US and its allies. If they had wanted to eliminate the Islamic State brigades, they could have "carpet" bombed their convoys of Toyota pickup trucks when they crossed the desert from Syria into Iraq in June 2014.

The Syro-Arabian Desert is open territory (see map below). With state of the art jet fighter aircraft (F15, F22 Raptor, CF-18) it would have been -from a military standpoint- a rapid and expedient surgical operation

In this article, we address 26 concepts which refute the big lie. Portrayed by the media as a humanitarian undertaking, this large scale military operation directed against Syria and Iraq has resulted in countless civilian deaths.

It could not have been undertaken without the unbending support of the Western media which has upheld Obama's initiative as a counter-terrorism operation.

THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF AL QAEDA

1. The US has supported Al Qaeda and its affiliated organizations for almost half a century since the heyday of the Soviet Afghan war.

2. CIA training camps were set up in Pakistan. In the ten year period from 1982 to 1992, some 35,000 jihadists from 43 Islamic countries were recruited by the CIA to fight in the Afghan jihad.

"Advertisements, paid for from CIA funds, were placed in newspapers and newsletters around the world offering inducements and motivations to join the Jihad."

3. Since the Reagan Administration, Washington has supported the Islamic terror network.

Ronald Reagan called the terrorists "freedom fighters". The US supplied weapons to the Islamic brigades. It was all for "a good cause": fighting the Soviet Union and regime change, leading to the demise of a secular government in Afghanistan.

Ronald Reagan meets Afghan Mujahideen Commanders at the White House in 1985 (Reagan Archives)

4. Jihadist textbooks were published by the University of Nebraska. ". "The United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings"

5. Osama bin Laden, America's bogyman and founder of Al Qaeda was recruited by the CIA in 1979 at the very outset of the US sponsored jihadist war against Afghanistan . He was 22 years old and was trained in a CIA sponsored guerilla training camp.

Al Qaeda was not behind the 9/11 Attacks. September 11, 2001 provided a justification for waging a war against Afghanistan on the grounds that Afghanistan was a state sponsor of terrorism, supportive of Al Qaeda. The 9/11 attacks were instrumental in the formulation of the "Global War on Terrorism".

THE ISLAMIC STATE (ISIL/ISIS)

6. The Islamic State (ISIL) was originally an Al Qaeda affiliated entity created by US intelligence with the support of Britain's MI6, Israel's Mossad, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Presidency (GIP), Ri'āsat Al-Istikhbārāt Al-'Āmah ( رئاسة الاستخبارات العامة‎).

7. The ISIL/ISIS brigades were involved in the US-NATO supported insurgency in Syria directed against the government of Bashar al Assad.

8. NATO and the Turkish High Command were responsible for the recruitment of ISIL and Al Nusrah mercenaries from the outset of the Syrian insurgency in March 2011. According to Israeli intelligence sources, this initiative consisted in:

"a campaign to enlist thousands of Muslim volunteers in Middle East countries and the Muslim world to fight alongside the Syrian rebels. The Turkish army would house these volunteers, train them and secure their passage into Syria. (DEBKAfile, NATO to give rebels anti-tank weapons, August 14, 2011.)

9. There are Western Special Forces and Western intelligence operatives within the ranks of the ISIL/ISIS. British Special Forces and MI6 have been involved in training jihadist rebels in Syria.

10. Western military specialists on contract to the Pentagon have trained the terrorists in the use of chemical weapons.

"The United States and some European allies are using defense contractors to train Syrian rebels on how to secure chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria, a senior U.S. official and several senior diplomats told CNN Sunday. ( CNN Report, December 9, 2012)

11. The ISIL/ISIS's practice of beheadings is part of the US sponsored terrorist training programs implemented in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

12. Recruited by America's ally, a large number of ISIL mercenaries are convicted criminals released from Saudi prisons on condition they join the ISIL. Saudi death row inmates were recruited to join the terror brigades.

13. Israel has supported the ISIL and Al Nusrah brigades out of the Golan Heights.

Jihadist fighters have met Israeli IDF officers as well as Prime Minister Netanyahu. The IDF top brass tacitly acknowledges that "global jihad elements inside Syria" [ISIL and Al Nusrah] are supported by Israel. See image below:

"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon next to a wounded mercenary, Israeli military field hospital at the occupied Golan Heights' border with Syria, 18 February 2014″ (see photo below)

SYRIA AND IRAQ

14. The ISIL/ISIS are the foot soldiers of the Western military alliance. Their unspoken mandate is to wreck havoc and destruction in Syria and Iraq, acting on behalf of their US sponsors.

15. US Senator John McCain has met up with jihadist terrorist leaders in Syria. (see photo below)

16. The Islamic State (ISIS) militia, which is currently the alleged target of a US-NATO bombing campaign under a "counter-terrorism" mandate, continues to be supported covertly by the US. Washington and its allies continue to provide military aid to the Islamic State.

17. US and allied bombings are not targeting the ISIL, they are bombing the economic infrastructure of Iraq and Syria including factories and oil refineries.

18. The ISIS caliphate project is part of a longstanding US foreign policy agenda to carve up Iraq and Syria into separate territories: A Sunni Islamist Caliphate, an Arab Shia Republic, a Republic of Kurdistan.

THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM (GWOT)

19. "The Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT) is presented as a "Clash of Civilizations", a war between competing values and religions, when in reality it is an outright war of conquest, guided by strategic and economic objectives.

20 U.S. sponsored Al Qaeda terror brigades (covertly supported by Western intelligence) have been deployed in Mali, Niger, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Somalia and Yemen.

"America's "War on Terrorism" By Mchel Chossudovsky

These various affiliated Al Qaeda entities in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are CIA sponsored "intelligence assets". They are used by Washington to wreck havoc, create internal conflicts and destabilize sovereign countries.

21. Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al Shabab in Somalia, the Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) (supported by NATO in 2011), Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Jemaah Islamiah (JI) in Indonesia, among other Al Qaeda affiliated groups are supported covertly by Western intelligence.

22. The US is also supporting Al Qaeda affiliated terrorist organizations in the Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region of China. The underlying objective is to trigger political instability in Western China.

Chinese jihadists are reported to have received "terrorist training" from the Islamic State "in order to conduct attacks in China". The declared objective of these Chinese-based jihadist entities (which serves the interests of the US) is to establish a Islamic caliphate extending into Western China. (Michel Chossudovsky, America's War on Terrorism, Global Research, Montreal, 2005, Chapter 2).

HOMEGROWN TERRORISTS

23. The Terrorists R Us: While the US is the unspoken architect of the Islamic State, Obama's holy mandate is to protect America against ISIL/ISIS attacks.

24. The homegrown terrorist threat is a fabrication. It is promoted by Western governments and the media with a view to repealing civil liberties and installing a police state. The terror attacks by alleged jihadists and terror warnings are invariably staged events. They are used to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation.

In turn, the arrests, trials and sentences of "Islamic terrorists" sustain the legitimacy of America's Homeland Security State and law enforcement apparatus, which has become increasingly militarized.

The ultimate objective is to instill in the minds of millions of Americans that the enemy is real and the U.S. Administration will protect the lives of its citizens. (see What is the Hegelian Dialectic?) 25. The "counter-terrorism" campaign against the Islamic State has contributed to the demonization of Muslims, who in the eyes of Western public opinion are increasingly associated with the jihadists.

26. Anybody who dares to question the validity of the "Global War on Terrorism" is branded a terrorist and subjected to the anti-terrorist laws. (see: REVEALED: Government Documents Expose FEMA Detainment List Criteria )

The ultimate objective of the "Global War on Terrorism" is to subdue the citizens, totally depoliticize social life in America, prevent people from thinking and conceptualizing, from analyzing facts and challenging the legitimacy of the inquisitorial social order which rules America.

PSSST ....it's called a POLICE STATE!

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On August 6, 1945, the world (unfortunately) entered the atomic age. Without warning, a single nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima killed about 90,000 people instantly and injured many others – who then died from radiation sickness. Three days later, a second atomic strike on the city of Nagasaki killed some 37,000 people and injured another 43,000. Together the two bombs eventually killed an estimated 200,000 Japanese civilians.

"The Library of Congress adds roughly 60 million pages to its holdings each year, a huge cache of information for the public. However, also each year, the U.S. Government classifies nearly ten times that amount – an estimated 560 million pages of documents. For scholars engaged in political, historical, scientific, or any other archival work, the grim reality is that most of their government's activities are secret." – Richard Dolan, historian, author (source) (you can read more about what is known as the "black budget" here)

A very important point made above, how can we really know anything about American history if a significant portion of it remains classified? That being said, how can we really know anything about American history when we have so many examples of dishonesty and misinformation? What will the history books say about 9/11? We will have to wait and see, but what our history books tell us about the atomic bomb and why it was dropped seems to be a complete lie, according to what are some very credible sources.

We are often taught that yes, use of the atomic bomb was necessary to end the war with Japan at the earliest possible moment, but judging by the statements of many high ranking political and military personnel this is simply not the case.

Here's what General/President Dwight Eisenhower had to say about it in his 1963 memoir, The White House Years: Mandate for Change, 1953-1956 (pp. 312-313):

"Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly, our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of "face." (source)

"The Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing... I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon." (source)

Given what I mentioned at the start of this article, I think it's also important to note that Eisenhower also said (in his farewell address) that:

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for a disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry, can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense, with our peaceful message and goals." (source)

Did this "misplaced power" influence the decision to drop the atomic bomb? It's impossible to say for sure, but it seems absurd to not consider the possibility.

"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." – Woodrow Wilson, from his book entitled The New Freedom (1913).

Another great example comes from General Douglas MacArthur, who sent a 40-page memorandum to President Roosevelt that clearly outlines five different surrender overtures from high ranking Japanese officials. This memo was also revealed on the front page of the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Times on August 19th, 1945.

Again, the memo unequivocally states that the Japanese were offering to surrender. What is even more eye opening is the fact that the surrender terms were practically identical to what was ultimately accepted by the Americans after the bomb had dropped. The memo (source) stated these terms:

Complete surrender of all Japanese forces and arms, at home, on island possessions, and in occupied countries.Occupation of Japan and its possessions by Allied troops under American direction.Japanese relinquishment of all territory seized during the war, as well as Manchuria, Korea, and Taiwan.Regulation of Japanese industry to halt production of any weapons and other tools of war.Release of all prisoners of war and internees.Surrender of designated war criminals

Japan also made multiple attempts to end the war through Sweden and Portugal, who were neutral at the time. They also approached Soviet Russia's leaders "with a view of terminating the war if possible by September." (source)

Here is a quote from Deputy Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence, Ellis Zacharias:

"Just when the Japanese were ready to capitulate, we went ahead and introduced to the world the most devastating weapon it had ever seen and, in effect, gave the go-ahead to Russia to swarm over Eastern Asia. Washington decided that Japan had been given its chance and now it was time to use the A-bomb. I submit that it was the wrong decision. It was wrong on strategic grounds. And it was wrong on humanitarian grounds." (source)

Similarly, Admiral Leahy, Chief of Staff to presidents Roosevelt and Truman, later commented:

"It is my opinion that the use of the barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan... The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children." (source)

There have also been some disturbing remarks like this one:

On September 9, 1945, Admiral William F. Halsey, commander of the Third Fleet, was publicly quoted extensively as stating that the atomic bomb was used because the scientists had a "toy and they wanted to try it out..." He further stated, "The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment... It was a mistake to ever drop it." (source)

He said this despite the fact that most prominent scientists were completely against it. The scientists involved with the Manhattan project even wrote to the Secretary of Defense to try and encourage him not to drop the bomb.

So ask yourself, why did they really drop the bomb? A number of theories have been purposed; history.com outlines how it could have been dropped to demonstrate a new weapon of mass destruction to the Soviets. In 2005, new scientist alluded to the same thing, claiming that it was done to kick start the Cold War.

"The conventional wisdom that the atomic bomb saved a million lives is so widespread that... most Americans haven't paused to ponder something rather striking to anyone seriously concerned with the issue: Not only did most top U.S. military leaders think the bombings were unnecessary and unjustified, many were morally offended by what they regarded as the unnecessary destruction of Japanese cities and what were essentially noncombat populations. Moreover, they spoke about it quite openly and publicly." Gar Alperovitz, University of Maryland professor of political economy – and former Legislative Director in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and Special Assistant in the Department of State (source)

What's My Point?

What I am trying to do here is get readers to think. If it was clearly unceccessary to drop the bomb, if it didn't have to be done, then what is the justification? Despite the fierce opposition from various military and political leaders, and the fact that Japan was ready to surrender, it was still dropped.

War is completely unnecessary, and there are always those who seem to thrive off of creating conflict. 9/11 is a perfect example, a supposed "terrorist" attack used to justify the infiltration of the Middle East.

There are more oddities, like the information suggesting that both sides of the war were funded by the same group. You can read more about that here.

Have we learned from our mistake? The fact that nuclear weapons even exist is a discouraging fact, and I am ashamed to be a part of a race who has developed so many of them. It would be great if we could use our brilliant minds/science to advance ourselves as a civilization, not destroy it.

We need to learn from our history, not accept textbook explanations that paint a false picture of it. That being said, we have come a long way since 1945; it's clear that the majority of people on this planet prefer to live in a peaceful world, so why are there so many obstacles in place preventing us from doing so?

Earlier this week, it was revealed that the College Board, the organization behind Advanced Placement and the SATs, had relented to Conservative attacks and would downplay less pleasant aspects of U.S. history, such as slavery. They even renamed the section on United States history"American Exceptionalism." When the new standards were released on Thursday, the whitewashing of history was far more severe than anyone could have imagined.

Did you know that the slaves created institutions to preserve their family unit and formed communities on their own? Did you know that Free Market created the American economy? Did you know that all Native Americans were killed off by the Spanish and the United States had only a minor role in their genocide? Or that Ronald Reagan single handedly caused the collapse of the Soviet Union? If you follow the new standards, you would be given this and more.

You find scant mention of the labor movement, and nothing on labor leaders such as Eugene Debs. If you followed the World War II section, it was the United States against Germany and Japan by itself. The standards even went so far as to claim that Liberalism was a modern idea – created in the 1960s as an expression of anti-Communism and with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Liberalism was dying off.

Zachary Goldberg, a spokesman for the College Board, wrote an e-mail trying to explain the changes:

"This new edition addresses the legitimate concerns expressed about the 2014 framework. Every statement in the 2015 edition has been examined with great care based on the historical record and the principled feedback the College Board received. The result is a clearer and more balanced approach to the teaching of American history that remains faithful to the requirements that colleges and universities set for academic credit."

In response to his letter, the standard's section on "Developing the Historical Thinking Skills" comes across as amusing, for those who drafted this standard clearly were not using "Historical Thinking Skills." Indeed, within the standards as written, they readily admit that proficiency may not be achieved with the new standards to the same level as with their other historical structures, such as World and European History. And the continual attempts to revise historical actions to match the claims of "Free Market" advocates makes the entire piece read more like a piece of propaganda, designed to push a particular viewpoint than a balanced assessment of American History.

As this is the framework for testing, teachers will inevitably teach to that test. This means that the history being taught to our youth is a sanitized, whitewashed form. The blaming of others, the misappropriation of terminology, the inaccurate portrayals, will impact these students for the rest of their lives.

And that is precisely what the conservatives wanted when they pushed for this. They have no cares for historical accuracy. This is to help produce a generation who will blindly follow whatever petty dictator waves a star-spangled banner in the future. The issues we have overcome, and the hurdles we still have to go, are being buried. This revised, sanitized history is what was fed to students by the CIA for decades during the 1950s and 1960s. So of course any attempt to correct the record is met with attacks.

Tragically, the College Board has yielded to these victims of propaganda. Those who would prefer the lie over the cold, hard truth, are always willing to attack those who speak of the failings of society. Now it is up to us to push back, to end the deception created by this sanitizing of history. After all, it is not that long ago when the use of smallpox blankets was considered fair game. And contrary to what this guideline tells us, it was not the Spanish who handed those out, but Lord Jeffrey Amherst, commander of the British forces within North America during the French and Indian War.

Back in the early 1990s, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was one of the hottest political issues in the country. When he was running for president in 1992, Bill Clinton promised that NAFTA would result in an increase in the number of high quality jobs for Americans that it would reduce illegal immigration.

Ross Perot WARNED that just the opposite would happen. He warned that if NAFTA was implemented there would be a "giant sucking sound" as thousands of businesses and millions of jobs left this country. Most Americans chose to believe Bill Clinton. Well, it is 20 years later and it turns out that Perot was right and Clinton was dead wrong.

But now history is repeating itself, and most Americans don't even realize that it is happening. As you will read about at the end of this article, Barack Obama has been negotiating a secret trade treaty that is being called "NAFTA on steroids", and if Congress adopts it we could lose millions more good paying jobs.

It amazes me how the American people can fall for the same lies over and over again. The lies that serial liar Barack Obama is telling about "free trade" and the globalization of the economy are the same lies that Bill Clinton was telling back in the early 1990s. The following is an excerpt from a recent interview with Paul Craig Roberts...I remember in the 90′s when former Presidential candidate Ross Perot emphatically stated that NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) would create a giant "sucking sound" of jobs being extracted away from the U.S. He did not win the election, and NAFTA was instituted on Jan. 1, 1994.

Now, 20 years later, we see the result of all the jobs that have been "sucked away" to other countries.According to an article by the Economic Policy Institute on 1/3/14:

"Clinton and his collaborators promised that the deal would bring "good-paying American jobs," a rising trade surplus with Mexico, and a dramatic reduction in illegal immigration. Considering that thousands of kids are pouring over the border as we speak, well, how'd that work out for us?

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Many Americans like to remember Bill Clinton as a "great president" for some reason. Well, it turns out that he was completely and totally wrong about NAFTA. The following are 20 facts that show how NAFTA is destroying the economy...

#1 More than 845,000 American workers have been officially certified for Trade Adjustment Assistance because they lost their jobs due to imports from Mexico or Canada or because their factories were relocated to those nations.

#2 Overall, it is estimated that NAFTA has cost us well over a million jobs.

#3 U.S. manufacturers pay Mexican workers just a little over a dollar an hour to do jobs that American workers used to do.

#4 The number of illegal immigrants living in the United States has more than doubled since the implementation of NAFTA.

#5 In the year before NAFTA, the U.S. had a trade surplus with Mexico and the trade deficit with Canada was only 29.6 billion dollars. Last year, the U.S. had a combined trade deficit with Mexico and Canada of177 billion dollars.

#6 It has been estimated that the U.S. economy loses approximately 9,000 jobs for every 1 billion dollars of goods that are imported from overseas.

#7 One professor has estimated that cutting the total U.S. trade deficit in half would create 5 million more jobs in the United States.

#8 Since the auto industry bailout, approximately 70 percent of all GM vehicles have been built outside the United States. In fact, many of them are now being built in Mexico.

#9 NAFTA hasn't worked out very well for Mexico either. Since 1994, the average yearly rate of economic growth in Mexico has been less than one percent.

#10 The exporting of massive amounts of government-subsidized U.S. corn down into Mexico has destroyed more than a million Mexican jobs and has helped fuel the continual rise in the number of illegal immigrants coming north.

#11 Someone making minimum wage in Mexico today can buy 38 percent fewer consumer goods than the day before NAFTA went into effect.

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#12 Overall, the United States has lost a total of more than 56,000manufacturing facilities since 2001.

#13 Back in the 1980s, more than 20 percent of the jobs in the United States were manufacturing jobs. Today, only about 9 percent of the jobs in the United States are manufacturing jobs.

#14 We have fewer Americans working in manufacturing today than we did in 1950 even though our population has more than doubled since then.

#15 Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs. Today, only 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs.

#16 As I wrote about recently, one out of every six men in their prime working years (25 to 54) do not have a job at this point.

#17 Because we have shipped millions of jobs overseas, the competition for the jobs that remain has become extremely intense and this has put downward pressure on wages. Right now, half the country makes $27,520 a year or less from their jobs.

#18 When adults cannot get decent jobs, it is often children that suffer the most. It is hard to believe, but more than one out of every five children in the United States is living in poverty in 2014.

#19 In 1994, only 27 million Americans were on food stamps. Today, more than 46 million Americans are on food stamps.

#20 According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades if current trends continue.

9/11 has been one of the biggest events in recent history that sparked a mass awakening across the world. There has been much debate as to how it happened, who is responsible and why. To this day about 1/3 of americans do not believe the official story. In other areas of the world as much as 90% of the country does not believe the official story.

Here is a list of 24 facts that cannot be debunked about 9/11.

1) Nano Thermite was found in the dust at Ground Zero. Peer reviewed in the Bentham Open Chemical Physics Journal. 'Niels Harrit', 'Thermite Bentham', "The great thermate debate" Jon Cole, 'Iron rich spheres' Steven Jones, 'Limited Metallurgical Examination (FEMA C-13, Appendix C-6)'. 'Nano Tubes'

2) 1700+ Engineers and Architects support a real independent 9/11 investigation. Richard Gage, Founder. 'Explosive Evidence', 'Blueprint for Truth', 'AE911′, 'Toronto Hearings', 'Kevin Ryan'.

3) The total collapse of WTC 7 in 6.5 seconds at free fall acceleration (NIST admits 2.25 seconds). Larry Silverstein used the term "Pull it". Steel framed high rise buildings have NEVER totally collapsed from fire or structural damage. Builidng 7 was not hit by a plane. 'Building 7′, 'WTC 7′.

4) Dick Cheney was in command of NORAD on 9/11 while running war games. 'Stand down order'. "Of course the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary?". Norman Minetta testimony. "Gave order to shootdown Flight 93.", 'NORAD Drills'.

5) 6 out of the 10 Commissioners believe the 9/11 Commission report was "Setup to fail" Co-Chairs Hamilton and Kean, "It was a 30 year conspiracy", "The whitehouse has played cover up", 'Max Cleland resigned', 'John Farmer'.

6) FBI confiscated 84/85 Videos from the Pentagon. 'Moussaoui trial' revealed these videos. Released Pentagon Security Camera (FOIA) does not show a 757 and is clearly Missing a frame. 'Sheraton Hotel', "Double tree', 'Citgo".

7) Osama Bin Laden was NOT wanted by the FBI for the 9/11 attacks. "No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11." CIA created, trained and funded "Al Qaeda/Taliban" during the Mujahideen. OBL was a CIA asset named 'Tim Osman'. OBL Reported dead in Dec 2001 (FOX).

8)100's of Firefighters and witness testimony to BOMBS/EXPLOSIONS ignored by the 9/11 Commission Report. 9/11 Commission Report bars 503 1st responder eyewitnesses. "Explosions in the lobby and sub levels", 'Firefighter explosions', 'Barry Jennings', 'William Rodriguez'.

9) 100's of firefighters and witness testimony to MOLTEN METAL ignored by the Commission report. "Like you're in a foundry", "NIST's John Gross denies the existence of Molten Metal", 'Swiss Cheese', "As of 21 days after the attack, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still running." Leslie Robertson'.

10) '5 Dancing Israeli's' arrested in 'Mossad Truck Bombs' on 9/11 that stated "We were there to document the event." 'Urban Moving Systems' front company, 'Dominic Suter'. "$498,750 Business loan (June 2001)". "Officer DeCarlo', 'Art Students', 'Israeli Spying'.

11) On September 10th, 2001. Rumsfeld reported $2.3 TRILLION missing from the Pentagon. 'Dov Zakheim' Pentagon Comptroller. Former VP of 'Systems Planning Corporation' (Flight Termination System). Signatore of PNAC document.

12) 220+ Senior Military, Intelligence Service, Law Enforcement, and Government Officials question the official story. '9/11 Whistleblowers', 'Patriots for 9/11′. 'Robert Bowman', 'Sibel Edmonds', 'Albert Stubblebine', 'Wesley Clark', 'Mark Dayton', 'Alan Sabrosky', 'Cyntha McKinney', 'Jesse Ventura', 'Kurt Sonnenfeld'. "patriotsquestion911.com"

13) Towers were built to withstand a Boeing jet(s). "I designed it for a 707 to hit it", Leslie Robertson, WTC structural engineer. "Could probably sustain multiple impacts of jetliners", "like a pencil puncturing screen netting" Frank De Martini, deceased Manager of WTC Construction & Project Management. "As far as a plane knocking a building over, that would not happen." Charlie Thornton, Structural Engineer.

14) History of American False Flag attacks. 'USS Liberty', 'Gulf of Tonkin', 'Operation Northwoods', 'OKC Bombing (Murrah Building)', '1993 WTC attacks'. 'Patrick Clawson'. Project for the New American Century (PNAC) needed "a New Pearl Harbor", "Rebuilding America's Defenses". 9/11 Achieved those goals.

15) BBC correspondent Jane Standley reported the collapse of WTC 7 (Soloman Brothers building) 20 minutes before it happened. CNN/FOX/MSNBC also had early reports. 'BBC wtc 7′, 'Jane Standley', Ashleigh Banfield'.

16) "Flight 93″ debris was spread out over many miles. Cheney admits to giving the order to shootdown 93. "shot down the plane over Pennsylvania" Rumsfeld, "nothing that you could distinguish that a plane had crashed there" 'Chris Konicki. "Not a drop of blood" Coroner Wallace Miller. "there was no plane." Mayor Ernie Stull.

17) Bush hesitated for 441 days before starting the 911 Commission. 'Jersey Girls'. 'Phil Zelikow' already wrote the outline before the commission began. Steel shipped over seas. Obstruction of justice. JFK and Pearl Harbor commissions were started within 7 days.

18) The 911 commission was given extremely limited funds. $15 million was given to investigate 9/11. (Over $60 Million was spent investigating Clintons' affairs with Monica).

19) Bush said he watched the first plane crash into the North tower on TV before entering the classroom. "The TV was obviously on." Was informed about the second impact while reading 'My Pet Goat' to the children. Remained for at least 8 more minutes while America was under "attack".

20) The PATRIOT ACT was written before 9/11. Signed into law October 26th, 2001.

21) Marvin Bush was director of Stratasec (Securacom, 'KuAm') which was in charge of security of the WTC, United Airlines and Dulles International Airport. All three were breached on 9/11. ICTS was another company that provided security at the airports. 'Wirt Walker', 'Ezra Harel', 'ICTS", 'WTC power downs'.

22) "Who killed John O'Neil?". Former FBI task force agent investigating Al Qaeda/Bin Laden. Transferred by Kroll Corporation to head the security just before 9/11. John O'Neil died in the Towers. 'Jerome Hauer' 'Jules Kroll'.

23) Insider trading based upon foreknowledge. 'Put Options.' Never identified insiders made millions. 'United and American Airlines' 'Raytheon.'

24) At least 7 of the 19 listed hijackers are still alive (BBC). No video footage of 19 hijackers or passengers boarding the 4 planes. Pilots of the 4 planes never squawked the hijacking code. 'Alive hijackers', 'ACARS', 'Pilots for 9/11 Truth'.

WTC 7 (The Smoking Gun)

http://rememberbuilding7.org/

Building 7 was a 47-story skyscraper and was part of the World Trade Center complex. Built in 1984, it would have been the tallest high-rise in 33 states in the United States. It collapsed at 5:20 pm on September 11, 2001 in 6.5 Seconds at free fall acceleration. It was not hit by an airplane and suffered minimal damage compared to other buildings much closer to the Twin Towers.

"The Republican Party is not a political party – it's a mental condition. And I mean that seriously because if you are for crushing the poor, unprovoked wars, there is no climate change, immigrants. It's like 'who are we'?"

~Actor and comedian Richard Belzer

As you might imagine, we receive a lot or emails every week – some good, some bad, some neutral. We received one on Saturday that amused the hell out of us and wanted to begin by sharing it with you.

The email was entitled "Name calling" and included the following message:

Do you get your rocks off by calling anyone you disagree with a vulgar name. The rabble that comes out of your mouth would make a rattlesnake puke. You are entitled to an opinion but try to keep it civil.

Curious, I looked up this individual on Facebook using his email address and found a wealth of amusing information there and wanted to share with you some favorites, many of which have us pondering whether or not being conservative – in some extreme instances – could be a form of mental illness. [And bear in mind, we have already discussed in detail whether the Republican Party is a mental affliction.]

Climate Change:

NASA connects the future discovery of alien life forms to global warming. The space agency has detected the existence of life far out in The Milky Way. They have been slow to release many details, however an anonymous source has leaked some information. This new life form is expected to arrive at our planet within 20 years. Now, how does that connect with global warming, the life forms is an amphibian and requires a very damp and hot environment. They have been using their highly advance technology to warm our planet. The space agency estimates that their arrival will be timed to the exact atmospheric conditions they require to survive.

Women's Rights And Abortion:

What does PETA and Abortion have in common "NOTHING". I have always wondered why people have a higher regard for a newborn alley cat than for a human life. By no means am I talking about rape, incest or the mother's health. The argument that women should have control of their reproductive rights is flawed. Women do ultimately have absolute control. They have the right to say no, they have the right to cross their legs, they have the right to use many types of contraception, they have right to insist that their partner wears a condom. ... Women exercise your absolute right not to become pregnant, exercise that right.

Student Loans:

If professors like Elizabeth Warren were not paid $300,000 for a few hours work per week. College would be affordable and hence no student loan crisis. Take some responsibility it all not Wall St. Fault. She could have worked for less than $300,000 and reduced the cost of her class. But Indians would not do that, it's like surrendering to The Pale Faces

Religious Holidays:

[T]here are not enough days in the year to celebrate for each religion. There are two solutions, one is to combine all religions into one day and call it The a Religious Day. The other solution is to extend the year from 365 days to 730 days. This would accomplish a great deal: fewer elections, fewer tax days, twice as many weekends, longer summers and of course more days to educate our children.

The NFL Hires The First Female Referee:

Let's hope she doesn't get run over by a 300 lb lineman.

Congresswoman Barbara Lee Talking About How SNAP Helped Her Out:

Sure, it allowed you to tell the world climate change would force women into prostitution. Completely insane.

Veterans:

Since medical costs are so high, and the quality of care so low, especially at The VA. We should send all of our veterans to Somalia where they can receive very cost effective treatment from some of the most experienced Witch Doctors.

Boycotts:

Today I am starting a worldwide boycott. I have shut the main electrical breaker (zero electricity), shut the main water valve (zero water or sewage charges), I will not leave the house, I will not drive, I will not buy anything including food, I will not use my cellphone, or anything powered by battery. And lastly I will stop breathing. Now that I have boycotted everything and probably boycotted life, there is nothing left to boycott. Oh, I forgot now that I'm dead I still have to boycott, the funeral, the coffin, the grave. So what to do with my remains? I guess I'll have to boycott all the boycotts and continue to put up with the ignorance in the world. Maybe I can just boycott the ignorance, it could be a solution.

Elizabeth Warren:

Warren is not a 1/32nd Cherokee. I spoke with The Cherokee Chief " Two Dogs in Heat" and he confirmed it.

People:

I used to ride the train to work, most people were busy reading the news. Today they are plugged into their MP3 player listening to foul mouthed rappers. Hats on backwards, pants down around the knees with the latest Nike $300 sneakers, and these are just the girls. They wonder why they have a terrible time grasping the brass ring. You want to look like that, because your friends all look like that, you certainly will wind up in the same place, yelling inequality. Working hard is one aspect of achieving success, the other is presenting yourself to society as someone who has it together. Not like someone who just woke up and rolled out of a box on the street. As an employer I would never hire and promote anyone who does not display self respect, if that is your way you probably not respect others.

The separation of church and state is one of the cornerstones of America's foundation. Conservative Christian fundamentalists have sought to crush this cornerstone in the hopes of establishing Christianity as the state religion, an action that would threaten the rest of the foundation that makes up the Constitution. These conservatives contend that the Founding Fathers dreamed of making America a Christian state at the expense of those who practice other religions or none at all.

So here are 35 quotes from the Founding Fathers. Perhaps your first thoughts are the first four Presidents and maybe Benjamin Franklin, but there were many other Founding Fathers. Many were signers of the US Constitution and The Declaration of Independence. They were lawyers, judges, soldiers, merchants, farmers, and even some clergy members. And the great majority of them signed the Constitution knowing that matters of government and matters of religion would be separate.

1. "If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution."
~Founding Father George Washington, letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia, May 1789

2. "Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society."
~Founding Father George Washington, letter to Edward Newenham, October 20, 1792

3. "We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition... In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States."
~Founding Father George Washington, letter to the members of the New Church in Baltimore, January 27, 1793

4. "The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses."
~John Adams, "A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America" 1787-1788

5. "The Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion."
~1797 Treaty of Tripoli signed by Founding Father John Adams

6. "Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind."
~Founding Father John Adams, "A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America" (1787-88)

7. "We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society."
~Founding FatherJohn Adams, letter to Dr. Price, April 8, 1785

8. "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Connecticut, 1802

9. "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is error alone that needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Horatio Spofford, 1814

10. "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear."
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787

11. "I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another."
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, January 26, 1799

12. "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson: in letter to Alexander von Humboldt, December 6, 1813

13. "Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every person's life, freedom of religion affects every individual. Religious institutions that use government power to support themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of the church tends to make the clergy unresponsive to the people and leads to corruption within religion. Erecting the "wall of separation between church and state," therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society. We have solved ... the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the laws. And we have experienced the quiet as well as the comfort which results from leaving every one to profess freely and openly those principles of religion which are the inductions of his own reason and the serious convictions of his own inquiries."
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson: in a speech to the Virginia Baptists, 1808

14. "Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814,

15. "The civil government functions with complete success by the total separation of the Church from the State."
~Founding Father James Madison, 1819, Writings, 8:432, quoted from Gene Garman, "Essays In Addition to America's Real Religion"

16. "And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in shewing that religion & Govt will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."
~Founding Father James Madison, letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822

17. "Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance."
~Founding Father James Madison, letter, 1822

18. "Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history."
~Founding Father James Madison; Monopolies, Perpetuities, Corporations, Ecclesiastical Endowments

19. "It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties."
~Founding Father James Monroe, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1817

20. "When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obligated to call for help of the civil power, it's a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one."
~Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, letter to Richard Price, October 9, 1780

21. "Manufacturers, who listening to the powerful invitations of a better price for their fabrics, or their labor, of greater cheapness of provisions and raw materials, of an exemption from the chief part of the taxes burdens and restraints, which they endure in the old world, of greater personal independence and consequence, under the operation of a more equal government, and of what is far more precious than mere religious toleration–a perfect equality of religious privileges; would probably flock from Europe to the United States to pursue their own trades or professions, if they were once made sensible of the advantages they would enjoy, and were inspired with an assurance of encouragement and employment, will, with difficulty, be induced to transplant themselves, with a view to becoming cultivators of the land."
~Founding Father Alexander Hamilton: Report on the Subject of Manufacturers December 5, 1791

22. "In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind."
~Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists (1771)

23. "That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forebearance, love, and charity towards each other."
~Founding Father George Mason, Virginia Bill of Rights, 1776

24. "It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a church with which their consciences will not permit them to join, and from which they can derive no benefit; for remedy whereof, and that equal liberty as well religious as civil, may be universally extended to all the good people of this commonwealth."
~Founding Father George Mason, Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776

25. "A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office or public trust under the United States. I am a friend to a variety of sects, because they keep one another in order. How many different sects are we composed of throughout the United States? How many different sects will be in congress? We cannot enumerate the sects that may be in congress. And there are so many now in the United States that they will prevent the establishment of any one sect in prejudice to the rest, and will forever oppose all attempts to infringe religious liberty. If such an attempt be made, will not the alarm be sounded throughout America? If congress be as wicked as we are foretold they will, they would not run the risk of exciting the resentment of all, or most of the religious sects in America."
~Founding Father Edmund Randolph, address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 10, 1788

26. "I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church — an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican sentiments — but if the Clergy combine, they will have their influence on Government."
~Founding Father Rufus King, Rufus King: American Federalist, pp. 56-57

27. "A general toleration of Religion appears to me the best means of peopling our country... The free exercise of religion hath stocked the Northern part of the continent with inhabitants; and altho' Europe hath in great measure adopted a more moderate policy, yet the profession of Protestantism is extremely inconvenient in many places there. A Calvinist, a Lutheran, or Quaker, who hath felt these inconveniences in Europe, sails not to Virginia, where they are felt perhaps in a (greater degree)."
~Patrick Henry, observing that immigrants flock to places where there is no established religion, Religious Tolerance, 1766

28. "No religious doctrine shall be established by law."
~Founding Father Elbridge Gerry, Annals of Congress 1:729-731

29. "Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one religious sect, and lay all others under legal disabilities. But as we know not what may take place hereafter, and any such test would be exceedingly injurious to the rights of free citizens, I cannot think it altogether superfluous to have added a clause, which secures us from the possibility of such oppression."
~Founding Father Oliver Wolcott, Connecticut Ratifying Convention, 9 January 1788

30. "Some very worthy persons, who have not had great advantages for information, have objected against that clause in the constitution which provides, that no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. They have been afraid that this clause is unfavorable to religion. But my countrymen, the sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution, and to secure to you the important right of religious liberty. We are almost the only people in the world, who have a full enjoyment of this important right of human nature. In our country every man has a right to worship God in that way which is most agreeable to his conscience. If he be a good and peaceable person he is liable to no penalties or incapacities on account of his religious sentiments; or in other words, he is not subject to persecution. But in other parts of the world, it has been, and still is, far different. Systems of religious error have been adopted, in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates, to maintain these errors. When the clouds of ignorance began to vanish, and the people grew more enlightened, there was no other way to keep them in error, but to prohibit their altering their religious opinions by severe persecuting laws. In this way persecution became general throughout Europe."
~Founding Father Oliver Ellsworth, Philip B Kurland and Ralph Lerner (eds.), The Founder's Constitution, University of Chicago Press, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 638

31. "Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. Take away the law-establishment, and every religion re-assumes its original benignity."
~Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man, 1791

32. "God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are distinct in their nature, and ought never to be confounded together; one of which is called civil, the other ecclesiastical government."
~Founding Father Isaac Backus, An Appeal to the Public for Religious Liberty, 1773

33. "Congress has no power to make any religious establishments."
~Founding Father Roger Sherman, Congress, August 19, 1789

34. "The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every honest citizen an equal right to enjoy his religion and an equal title to all civil emoluments, without obliging him to tell his religion. Every interference of the civil power in regulating opinion, is an impious attempt to take the business of the Deity out of his own hands; and every preference given to any religious denomination, is so far slavery and bigotry."
~Founding Father Noah Webster, calling for no religious tests to serve in public office, Sketches of American Policy, 1785

35. "The legislature of the United States shall pass no law on the subject of religion."
~Founding Father Charles Pinckney, Constitutional Convention, 1787

These are hardly the words of men who allegedly believed that America should be a Christian nation governed by the Bible as conservatives constantly claim. On the contrary, the great majority of the Founders believed strongly in separation of church and state. So keep in mind that this country has survived for over two centuries under the principle of separation and it is only now when conservatives are attempting to destroy that very cornerstone that we find America becoming more divided and more politically charged than ever before. If this right-wing faction has their way, America as we know it will cease to exist and the freedoms we have enjoyed thanks to the Constitution will erode.

The Founding Fathers had a vision of this nation and trusted that the people would protect that vision and improve upon it. Now is not the time to fail them. Because the day the people fail, so does America.

This article originally appeared on Addicting Info. Feature photo courtesy Quiet Mike.

"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."

"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old."

You may know Mark Twain for some of his very popular books like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He was a writer and also a humorist, satirist and lecturer.

Twain is known for his many – and often funny – quotes. Here are a few of my favourite tips from him.

1. Approve of yourself.

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

If you don't approve of yourself, of your behaviour and actions then you'll probably walk around most of the day with a sort of uncomfortable feeling. If you, on the other hand, approve of yourself then you tend to become relaxed and gain inner freedom to do more of what you really want.

This can, in a related way, be a big obstacle in personal growth. You may have all the right tools to grow in some way but you feel an inner resistance. You can't get there.

What you may be bumping into there are success barriers. You are putting up barriers in your own mind of what you may or may not deserve. Or barriers that tell you what you are capable of. They might tell you that you aren't really that kind of person that could this thing that you're attempting.

Or if you make some headway in the direction you want to go you may start to sabotage for yourself. To keep yourself in a place that is familiar for you.

So you need give yourself approval and allow yourself to be who you want to be. Not look for the approval from others. But from yourself. To dissolve that inner barrier or let go of that self-sabotaging tendency. This is no easy task and it can take time.

2. Your limitations may just be in your mind.

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

So many limitations are mostly in our minds. We may for instance think that people will disapprove because we are too tall, too old or balding. But these things mostly matter when you think they matter. Because you become self-conscious and worried about what people may think.

And people pick up on that and may react in negative ways. Or you may interpret anything they do as a negative reaction because you are so fearful of a bad reaction and so focused inward on yourself.

If you, on the other hand, don't mind then people tend to not mind that much either. And if you don't mind then you won't let that part of yourself become a self-imposed roadblock in your life.

It is, for instance, seldom too late to do what you want to do.

3. Lighten up and have some fun.

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."

"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

Humor and laughter are amazing tools. They can turn any serious situation into something to laugh about. They can lighten the mood just about anywhere.

And a lighter mood is often a better space to work in because now your body and mind isn't filled to the brim with negative emotions. When you are more light-hearted and relaxed then the solution to a situation is often easier to both come up with and implement. Have a look at Lighten Up! for more on this topic.

4. Let go of anger.

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

Anger is most of the time pretty pointless. It can cause situations to get out of hand. And from a selfish perspective it often more hurtful for the one being angry then the person s/he's angry at.

So even if you feel angry at someone for days recognize that you are mostly just hurting yourself. The other person may not even be aware that you are angry at him or her. So either talking to the person and resolving the conflict or letting go of anger as quickly as possible are pretty good tips to make your life more pleasurable.

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5. Release yourself from entitlement.

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing.It was here first."

When you are young your mom and dad may give a lot of things. As you grow older you may have a sort of entitlement. You may feel like the world should just give you what you want or that it owes you something.

This belief can cause a lot of anger and frustration in your life. Because the world may not give you what expect it to. On the other hand, this can be liberating too. You realize that it is up to you to shape your own life and for you to work towards what you want. You are not a kid anymore, waiting for your parents or the world to give you something.

You are in the driver's seat now. And you can go pretty much wherever you want.

6. If you're taking a different path, prepare for reactions.

"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."

I think this has quite a bit of relevance to self-improvement.

If you start to change or do something different than you usually do then people may react in different ways. Some may be happy for you. Some may be indifferent. Some may be puzzled or react in negative and discouraging ways.

Much of these reactions are probably not so much about you but about the person who said it and his/her life. How they feel about themselves is coming through in the words they use and judgements they make.

And that's OK. I think it's pretty likely that they won't react as negatively as you may imagine. Or they will probably at least go back to focusing on their own challenges pretty soon.

So what other people may say and think and letting that hold you back is probably just fantasy and barrier you build in your mind.

You may find that when you finally cross that inner threshold you created then people around you may not shun you or go chasing after you with pitchforks. They might just go: "OK".

7. Keep your focus steadily on what you want.

"Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it."

What you focus your mind on greatly determines how things play out. You can focus on your problems and dwell in suffering and a victim mentality. Or you can focus on the positive in situation, what you can learn from that situation or just focus your mind on something entirely else.

It may be "normal" to dwell on problems and swim around in a sea of negativity. But that is a choice. And a thought habit. You may reflexively start to dwell on problems instead of refocusing your mind on something more useful. But you can also start to build a habit of learning to gain more and more control of where you put your focus.

8. Don't focus so much on making yourself feel good.

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

This may be a bit of a counter-intuitive tip. But as I wrote yesterday, one of the best ways to feel good about yourself is to make someone else feel good or to help them in some way.

This is a great way to look at things to create an upward spiral of positivity and exchange of value between people. You help someone and both of you feel good. The person you helped feels inclined to give you a hand later on since people tend to want to reciprocate. And so the both of you are feeling good and helping each other.

Those positive feelings are contagious to other people and so you may end up making them feel good too. And the help you received from your friend may inspire you to go and help another friend. And so the upward spiral grows and continues.

9. Do what you want to do.

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Awesome quote. And I really don't have much to add to that one. Well, maybe to write it down and keep it as a daily reminder – on your fridge or bathroom door – of what you can actually do with your life.

Read more at http://expandedconsciousness.com/2014/05/15/mark-twains-top-9-tips-for-living-a-kick-ass-life/#EvJoCgrEruxTq8sm.99

Recognizing Enslavement

"The best slave is the man who believes he is free." ~ Goethe.

Even though evidence of global human enslavement is abundant and striking, people who have been raised in its clutches while being told repetitively they are free are generally unable to appreciate their situation.

"If a lie is repeated often enough, people will come to believe it." ~ Goebbels.

When truth is presented in literature, movies or conversation, we are told it is imagination or science fiction. The current atmosphere of potential 'terror' and increased police and military violence gel the quagmire of social thought and make escape even less visible. Thus we founder on.

Capitalism has reached its limit. There is no more room for material expansion, and the empire is crumbling. Our leaders grab unravelling threads of control as society implodes, all the while exhibiting their increasing impotence. When truth is spoken and solutions are available, the murder of messengers and censorship of information increases, in attempts to hide them. But truth abounds and solutions are everywhere — but they require different perspectives and changing beliefs to become effective.

Recognizing Enslavement

1. The 'New World Order'

For generations our world has been controlled by the 1%, the elite, extremely wealthy 12 families whose bidding is done by the 99%. The elite are royalty, presidents, congressional "representatives", corporate managers, bankers—the upper echelons of all organizations and professions—who have different genetics and goals. They tend to intermarry to minimize genetic contamination. Their interests are greed, riches, sex and control. They build massive empire to extract the remaining oil, gas, diamonds, minerals and jewels from the planet while attempting to reduce the 99% to a manageable half-billion.

The global agenda of the New World Order is a one-world government (United Nations), military (NATO), religion and currency. Nations would lose borders and be amalgamated into large geographic segments similar to the European Union: North American Union, African Union, South American Union, Asian Union and Pacific Union.

This plan has been activated and underway for at least 2,000 years. The elite have made public their agenda but cloaked it in environmental and humanitarian terms. Symbols of the New World Order—the all-seeing eye, pyramidal capstone, magical numbers of arrows, the eagle-phoenix, and even its goal in Latin—have been hidden in plain site on the U.S. $1 bill. A Stonehenge-like array of huge standing engraved stones was built years ago in Ellerton, GA, stipulating exactly the requirements for the New World Order to reach completion, a plan advanced over centuries and now in the final stages. Every aspect of our lives is controlled by the elite, from weather and carbon footprints to religion, every profession, media, arts, food and health.

The elite are duplicitous, always lying, attending to their real duty to ensure the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. The large middle class of America was built and employed to grow corporations. Now that corporations control much of the world and have replaced individuals as persons legally, the middle class is no longer needed and is being dismantled.

Despite the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, both of which have been trashed since 9/11, we have never really had complete freedom of speech or the press, just as racial equality has never been realized by most people of color. The United States has remained subservient to England and, more recently, to Israel. The U.S.A. actually does not exist any longer—we are part of the North American Union, consisting of Canada, the former U.S. and Mexico—one reason our borders are open to most immigrants. The amero, a new currency, has been minted but not circulated yet.

We fancy ourselves property owners. First we spend much of our lives serving and saving to purchase large items, then we're taxed again and again—federal and state income and sales taxes, local property taxes, estate taxes, inheritance taxes. We bail out "too big to fail" companies and banks, with inflation and our hard-earned pensions and savings.

And the rich get richer and the poor poorer.

The masses of people have reached uncontrollable numbers, especially if we wake up to realize our enslavement. Genocidal attempts are ubiquitous. Why reduce the 99%? We are too many for them. Indeed, once the masses understand we have been enslaved and hoodwinked, once we awaken and realize we can change the world radically and quickly, the 1% are finished, and they know it.

Population reduction is accomplished with war, famine, weather, pandemics, "earth changes", radiation, chronic illness. The false flag attack of 9/11 was designed to be a "new Pearl Harbor" which ushered in a long period of civil uprising and wars in Middle Eastern (energy sources, illegal drugs), African (oil, gold, minerals, jewels) and South American (ditto) nations. Weather has been controlled by the Air Force and Navy for over 20 years via HAARP (high altitude auroral research project), ultrasound weaponry and chemtrail cloud formation—causing a dust bowl in the western U.S. and floods and blizzards elsewhere; energizing and steering hurricanes, cyclones and tornadoes; decimating the gulf stream and the upper Pacific Ocean; triggering earthquakes and tsunamis–all the while orchestrating "end times" scenarios.

2. Banking and the Economy

Charging interest for bank loans and earning interest for savings began during the Crusades, when bankers lined the routes to Jerusalem and held and lent money owned by Crusaders. Banks have owned economies since. The Federal Reserve in this country is a consortium of private banks owned by the very rich which sets interest rates, prints legal tender, controls stock markets and other aspects of our economy, and lends huge sums to the federal government. Prices of gold, silver and other precious metals are controlled, especially post 9/11. The Federal Reserve manipulates stock markets to cause recessions and depressions, calling them "adjustments" and blaming the people for bad economies.

The greed of the elite is insatiable. The super-rich always want more and more. They fight among themselves and always measure the man by his wealth. The use of money as a goal in itself has fallen short for most of the 99%, who are usually left with a feeling of something missing, even in the face of monetary wealth.

3. "Health" Care

There are now many studies, mostly in alternative or minor medical journal, substantiating major injury caused by vaccines, environmental toxins, radiation, poisoned water and other drinks and genetically engineered foods. Look at the big picture. Neonatal and pediatric vaccines cause generalized physical inflammation, which is then accumulated and synergized with adult vaccines, genetically engineered foods, fluoridated water, soda and health drinks laced with pesticide sweeteners and caffeine, and environmental poisons. The goal of Western medicine, regardless of compassionate care delivered by multitudes of well-meaning healthcare givers, has never been healthcare but sickcare: causing and perpetuating illness while using tools and dispensing medicines which enrich the bio-pharmaceutical industries.

Big Pharma has completely ruled medicine for years from the highest echelons, meaning the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control, American Medical Association and societies of pediatrics, family practice, ob-gyn, etc., are all been complicit. American medical schools and journal editorial boards carefully screen out all data and opinion concerning alternative methods, especially if they are curative. Fortunately, modern students and practitioners are expanding their perceptions and are often eager to listen and pursue other healing modalities.

The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, held in great reverence by the medical establishment, is not only not a federal institution, it is a private corporation and holds patents on such germs as ebola. At least since the advent of AIDS and the HIV virus, epidemics have been caused by viruses, bacteria, spirochetes, prions and other types of infectious organisms which have mostly been synthesized in biowarfare laboratories in the military, medical and university institutions. "Emerging diseases" have been engineered! Why? Follow the money. And for every disease there are hospital and medical expenses, medications and new toxic vaccines.

There are known causes of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases and known therapies and cures for them in the alternative health community. When we learn to conceptualize and manage our physical health differently, we will begin to treat our illnesses more gently and successfully and acknowledge the doctor within.

The ranks of anti-vaccine physicians are swelling, as more professionals take the time to study the contents and terrible toll of "immunization." Search engines online often censor this information, but it leaks through multiple tags, conferences, you-tube and vimeo, newsletters and blogs. The expected push-back from mainstream medicine is loud and fierce, but the day will be won finally by those courageous practitioners who value truth over threats of penalty.

4. Education

Most Americans agree that success of public education is at an all-time low. Curricula are changed frequently; testing and discipline are out of control; classes are too big; teachers are depressed and frustrated; high-school students can't make change or write an essay, and generally graduates of the system are dumbed down.

College and graduate school, with inflated price tags and lack of job opportunities in healthful occupations, are becoming less attractive by the year. As histories are written by the victors, higher education curricula fit the mainstream, and independent thought and writing are discouraged. Some students and observers are perceiving "higher education" as "more brainwashing" to produce professionals in the same mold as our parents.

5. Religion

Organized religion, like other societal glues, offers small amounts of truth and large piles of edited debris that slave-holders use to keep us "in line." Examples of the latter are sin, war, retribution, contribution, sacrifice, repentance, and confusing the unrelenting judgmental Judaic/Old Testament God with the loving, gentle, infinitely patient, creative force of the cosmos.

The church overflows with symbols of chronic conspiracy: fish-helmets, pine cones (the pineal/spirit gland), crucifixes and crosses (bloody sacrifice), cannibalism (communion), rituals, commercialized holy days, intermediaries, crusades, genocides of indigenous peoples, hidden art and long-suppressed knowledge of extraterrestrials.

Most of the world's "great religions" have been designed, constructed and perpetuated by the elite and their controllers and until now have served their purpose in keeping us humiliated and meek.

7. Increasing Militarization of Local and Foreign Authorities

Gun-control legislation and many false-flag terrorist events, especially school shootings, are aimed at disarming the 99%. Simultaneously, swat teams are routine, police brutality increases, and local police and deputies receive truckloads of army equipment and munitions. When in recent world history have we seen these two phenomena together? In Hitler's Germany, before World War II. It is no secret that the American congress and many other politicians want desperately to begin World War III in the Mid-East. Why? War makes defense companies big bucks and loss of life contributes to genocidal control. Henry Kissinger calls our children and young people "cannon fodder" and our seniors "useless eaters."

So, here it is folks — the rise of the Fourth Reich, right under our noses. The corporate descendants of all those Nazi rocket scientists, doctors, geneticists and generals moved from Germany to the U.S. at the end of World War II have reached full bloom. They have continued to slaughter our prophets and heroes—Kennedy, King, Lenin, Kelly and many others—to keep us in line, in the box. We have spent most of our lives working 40-100 hours a week for pauper's pay, been made to return most of it in taxes, socially outcast if we follow a different drummer. We have been taught to fear, to fight, to wallow, to eat garbage, so that now we have an obese, ill, dumbed-down populace fit only for internment in FEMA camps, complete with crematoria. Our paid sadistic mercenary soldiers and CIA take pleasure in killing, torturing, maiming children and their parents and the environment. Our volunteer armies, enlisted for "freedom"-fighting and 3 square meals a day, find themselves paralyzed, vaccinated, medicated, mind-controlled and suicidal.

Such is the big picture of our matrix.

Solutions

How can we escape? How can we change the world? How can we birth utopia amid all the chaos?

If we're waiting for someone to help us out of this mess, the future is hopeless. If, on the other hand, we realize "WE are the ones we've been waiting for," (Hopi) and recognize our own divinity and responsibility, we can break away from the illusion of the matrix, rewrite the script of the play and recreate our reality and the world.

It all begins with us. The quantum universe reflects and magnifies our thoughts, words, emotions and actions. Like attracts like: If we are warriors, there will be great battles. What we resist becomes our albatross. If we see ourselves as victims, oppression follows. The more we release and surrender, the less conflict we endure. If we are serene, we have peace. If we are grateful, abundance is ours. If we love unconditionally, we are Christed and beloved.

Solutions lie within. The exploration of inner-space begins with meditation, and meditation is possible when we learn to cancel all extraneous noise and chatter of our left brain and enter the silent world of spirit. This is the place of being. This is the place where the still small voice lives—the spark of divinity we can fan into flame. Our breath is the fan—inhale love and exhale gratitude slowly and consciously. Inhale healing and exhale release. Inhale beauty and exhale surrender. Inhale crisp fresh air and exhale toxins. These practices bring us soul fusion with our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies.

Commune with the physical body—what does it need? What does it say? Appreciate the trillions of cells working in concert, the strength of our skeleton, the endurance of our heart, the knowledge in our brain, the nourishment of our lungs, blood, liver and kidneys. Enjoy stretching, walking, exercise, rest. Enjoy abundant, healthful food and clean water. Celebrate with meals, thanking the farmer, the plants and animals consumed. Thank the body for its years of service.

We are love. Love deletes fear. Love follows truth. Love discerns false information. Love is intuition. Through intuition the inner voice speaks to us through first impressions, a brief fluttering, a picture, a presence in our peripheral vision, a quiet knowing. Love is our government (no taxes required), and we naturally form communities to help each other while realizing our oneness.

Amazing new energies are bathing the earth, and the planet's cosmic isolation is over. Angels and benevolent extraterrestrials encircle us and the globe, awaiting only our requests for their assistance. They, with the new self-realized humans, wage peace and goodwill, love and understanding, acceptance and compassion, helping us as individuals and as a species to evolve spiritually into strong, ageless, joyful, gossamer beings.

We do not resist or protest; we simply go our own way with gratitude. We practice civil disobedience and unity, releasing negativity. We form spontaneous communities, grow our own food, play our music, sing our songs and dance through life. Our ET friends and angels guard and protect us.

We will not be denied. We are not afraid. We are strong, proud, healthy, peaceful instruments of love. The time is here. The time is now. We re-create ourselves and thus a utopian world. Each of us carries the heart of the Messiah.

How To: Not Get Busted

The United States Constitution provides the foundation for the rights that protect all US citizens from intrusive law enforcement practices. These rights should be exercised by everyone in all circumstances, regardless of whether or not an individual is guilty of a crime. Rights are like muscles -- if they are not exercised, they wither away.Rules of Thumb
Never leave anything in plain view: Although law enforcement officers must obtain a warrant before they can conduct a privacy-invading search, any illicit material that can be plainly seen by any person from a non-intrusive vantage point is subject to confiscation. An arrest and a valid warrant to search the rest of the area is likely to ensue. A "roach" in the ashtray, a pipe or baggie on the dashboard or coffee table, or a joint being smoked in public are common mistakes that can lead to prosecution. Never put anything incriminating into the trash: Various courts have ruled that law enforcement officers are allowed to rummage through curbside trash bags without a warrant. A few seeds or stems can then be used as a basis for obtaining a warrant to search the individual's home. In fact, anything discarded into the public domain can be picked up by the police and used as evidence. For example, if an individual throws an illicit substance out of his or her car window and a police officer sees it and picks it up, the person is almost certain to be arrested.

Never Consent to a Search
Most individuals arrested on marijuana charges could have avoided the arrest by exercising their Fourth Amendment rights. If a law enforcement officer asks permission to search, it is usually because: (1) there is not enough evidence to obtain a search warrant; or (2) the officer does not feel like going through the hassle of obtaining a warrant. Law enforcement officers are trained to intimidate people into consenting to searches. If an individual does consent, the officer can -- and will -- conduct the search without a warrant. If the officer finds any contraband, the person will be arrested. Moreover, the validity of the evidence will almost definitely hold up in court because consenting to a search essentially amounts to handing the evidence to the officer and saying, "Here it is -- arrest me." If an individual does not consent, the officer must either release the person or detain the person and attempt to get a warrant. The fact that an individual refuses to consent does not give the officer grounds to obtain a warrant. The individual should politely say: "I do not consent to a search of my person, belongings, home, or vehicle. I retain my Fourth Amendment rights and all other rights under the United States Constitution. I will say nothing until my attorney is present." If the officer conducts a search anyway -- without a warrant -- any contraband will likely be declared invalid evidence by the judge, and any charges will probably be dropped. If the officer does attempt to get a warrant and is successful in doing so, any contraband discovered may still be excluded as evidence if the individual's lawyer can convince the judge that the warrant itself was invalid --which, in many cases, it is. No matter what a law enforcement officer threatens or promises, it is always better to refuse to consent to a search.

Loose Lips Sink Ships
Whether arrested or not, individuals should always exercise the right to remain silent. Anything a person says to law enforcement officers, reporters, cellmates, or even their friends can--and probably will--be used as evidence against them. Individuals have the right to have an attorney present during questioning. Only a qualified attorney can ensure that the suspect or defendant does not say anything damaging. The right to remain silent should always be exercised; three hypothetical examples follow:
Cop: "Is this your pipe?"
Joe Citizen: "My attorney advised me to remain silent unless she is present."

Cop: "If I look in your trunk, I'm not going to find any drugs?"
Jane Citizen: "I do not consent to a search of my trunk, and I'd rather not answer any questions without an attorney present."

Cop: [during search of apartment -- with a warrant-- upon discovering and examining a tiny bag of leaves and stems]: "Looks like a couple pounds of good bud here ... too bad. You can do some serious time in the state slammer for this."
John Citizen: [says nothing at all]

Don't Stick Around Any Longer Than Required
From the time a law enforcement officer approaches, it is wise to remain calm and not arouse suspicion. Nevertheless, individuals should always find out if the officer requires them to stay; if not, they should explain that they are in a hurry, then leave. Law enforcement officers are trained to create the impression that their suspects are obliged to stay. Individuals being questioned by an officer should simply say: "Am I under arrest or otherwise detained? If not, I really need to get going. Have a nice day."

Don't be Hostile or Resist
Some law enforcement officers do not care about citizens' rights; sometimes, the suspect is caught red-handed; other times, there are special-case qualifiers to certain rights, or there are loopholes beyond the scope of discussion in this publication. In any case, there are times when individuals politely assert their rights and refuse to talk or give consent, but the officers disregard their wishes and proceed to detain, search, or arrest them. In such cases, it is important to keep in mind that law enforcement officers have clubs, mace, handcuffs, guns, back-up, and usually the trust of the court. Aggression against the officers can make matters far worse. This does not mean that individuals facing such circumstances should give up all rights. Sometimes it is best to simply say, "Do what you feel you must; I will not physically resist. However, I do not consent to this."

Don't be a Snitch
The police and prosecutors often try to pressure individuals into providing information that would lead to the arrest and conviction of others. Sometimes a person's own defense attorney will even encourage him or her to comply! A wise marijuana consumer will avoid the issue entirely by reducing the possibility of apprehension by knowing his or her rights. However, prudent marijuana consumers will keep in mind that the possibility of arrest always exists. They remember the adage: "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time." Threats and promises by police and prosecutors should be viewed with caution and skepticism. Decisions should only be made after consulting with an attorney and examining one's own conscience. Just remember, saving one's self by pointing the finger at others is the most cowardly thing a person can do. There is no justification for being a traitor in the War Against Marijuana Consumers.

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