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In this recent, short video interview Patrick Moore, PhD (ecology), a co-founder of Greenpeace, speaks out on the disinformation campaign of proponents of global warming / climate change. 

The act of voting does not imply consent of the people to those elected. The act of voting means the voter expects their candidate to fulfill the oath of office.  Our military swears an oath to the Constitution, not to their commanding officers, not to the government, and not to the Commander in Chief. Similarly, a citizen votes to support the Constitution and Amendments, including its assumptions and meanings, it is not a vote to simply support their candidate. One officer cannot blame his commander if the officer carries out an illegal order from the Commander. A concentration camp officer cannot blame Hitler for carrying out Hitler’s orders. National Security Adviser Susan Rice cannot blame Obama or anyone else for her lies to the mass media and the world.

There are several means still available to reject the power elite one party system in America, even before getting to our God given right to forcibly overthrow them to protect ourselves and property.

For example, if the taxpayers in unison refuse to pay taxes, even if 30% refuse to pay taxes by taking their legal postponements, then the government will negotiate surrender.  They cannot arrest 30% of taxpayers, and even if they tried they would be cutting their own throats because then the jailed would definitely not pay their taxes.  U.S. credit worthiness would immediately collapse, interest rates would soar, and government spending would of necessity be reduced in order to pay the higher interest on the existing debt.  

It is abundantly true that people and aligned groups can and do buy elections today, and this is done in the primaries and then again in the final elections.  They control our choices, at least until we wake up to what and how they do that. 

People must educate themselves.  The weakness of democracy as a system of government is that the people become incapable of resisting public opinion and consensus, especially journalists, writers, artists, and politicians, celebrities and anyone who is dependent on an audience; there is no longer a viable anti-democracy in a democracy.  As philosopher Allan Bloom explains, “The most successful tyranny is not one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable…Every man in democracy thinks himself individually the equal of every other man, this makes it difficult to resist the collectivity of equal men.  If all opinions are equal, then the majority of opinions…should hold sway.”  (“quoted from ‘Closing of the American Mind”)  And so the press or consensus present the people with two choices, and present talking heads defending both choices so that the people are not bothered to actually think.  But usually neither of those choices are correct, and the correct choice is seldom if ever presented.  But, if enough people become aware of this indoctrination process and then rebel against our defacto one party system and the systems (press, contributors, “education”, lobbyists, cronyism) that sustain that system, then Americans still have the right and can vote them out of power.  That is one non-violent way out of this mess.    

Alternatively, if Americans continually vote for the least of two evils in each election, then the end result is the same as term limits, because no politician is able to build and retain their power base…and interest in running for political positions will rapidly die because there’s no more money or power in those positions.      

Stephen Lendman, progressive, BA (Harvard), MBA (Wharton), Research analyst, Chicago:

“His [Obama’s] destructive pattern continues unabated. Throughout his tenure, he did what supporters thought impossible. He exceeded the worst of George Bush. His policies replicate Republican hardliners. Neocons infest his administration. He’s waging war on humanity. He’s doing at home and abroad. He wrecked America’s economy. He looted the nation’s wealth. He handed Wall Street crooks multi-trillions of dollars. He gave trillions more to war profiteers…Obama has three years left in office. How many more independent governments does he plan to target? How much more street violence will he cause? How many more wars will he wage? How much more carnage will follow? How much longer will Americans tolerate his lawlessness? The only solution is nonviolent revolution. Resisting tyranny is a national imperative.”

Read the scorching rant to the end here:

http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2014/02/obamas-multiple-regime-change-fronts.html

A deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Energy told members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that U.S. electricity prices will soar up to 80% under new EPA coal regulations…and on top of that …the Obama administration will be doling out an $8 billion loan guarantee, another $6 billion in Clean Coal Sequestration (CCS) investments and another $3.4 billion from the stimulus bill to develop CCS technology which is required in those EPA regulations but which does not yet exist and in any event will have no measurable effect on either climate or pollution.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/energy-official-electricity-prices-to-soar-80-percent-thanks-to-epa-coal-regulations/article/2543871 

And Obama told you that energy prices would “skyrocket.”

“The science of human sustenance is inherently a social science. Neither physics nor chemistry nor even biology is adequate to understand how it has been possible for one species to reshape both its own future and the destiny of an entire planet. This is the science of the Anthropocene. The idea that humans must live within the natural environmental limits of our planet denies the realities of our entire history, and most likely the future. Humans are niche creators. We transform ecosystems to sustain ourselves. This is what we do and have always done. Our planet’s human-carrying capacity emerges from the capabilities of our social systems and our technologies more than from any environmental limits.” ~ Erle C. Ellis is an associate professor of geography and environmental systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and a visiting associate professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/14/opinion/overpopulation-is-not-the-problem.html?_r=1&

A potential miracle cure is immediately ahead, but the ethical and moral obstacles are enormous because literacy in science and logic is so poor, and the need for reformation in government is so great.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/exclusive-the-miracle-cure–scientists-turn-human-skin-into-stem-cells-9117102.html

“We cannot approach any real inquiry into truth, with any assumption or belief what so ever. We must be willing to see things as they are, rather as we hope, wish, or expect them to be.” ~ Buddha

You might be interested in the articles at these three links. There is a huge amount of misinformation out there on GMO’s and pesticides. This first article is the UK government’s very large, long term study on pesticides, mortality and cancer. The results of this study were stunning and unexpected.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr958.pdf                                

Then there is this from a US government handbook on pesticdes on the NIH website.                   http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cpdb/pdfs/handbook.pesticide.toxicology.pdf

This third article discusses the precautionary principle as applied to GMO crops. http://goklany.org/library/Goklany%20BLR.pdf

Here on the Big Island of Hawaii, the local government voted recently to ban outright all new GMO foods from being grown here.  There were no discussions with scientists or even knowledgeable farmers.  Each Hawaiian island is a separate county.  Towns, villages, etc are not organized parts of government.  Local county officials in Kauai and Hawaii acted in haste and presumably with cautious intent, but without listening to opposing positions.  

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) mourns the passing of Dr. Shaker Al-Nabulsi, a liberal university professor and author of over 40 books who was a courageous advocate for freedom and reform in the Arab and Muslim world. Over the years MEMRI has translated from Arabic and published many articles by Dr. Al-Nabulsi, as can be seen in the list below. His last article, on the subject of solving the crisis of terrorism, was published in the Saudi daily Al-Watan in October 2013.
October 18, 2013: “The Way Out Of The Severe Terrorism Crisis”

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/7807.htm

October 18, 2013: “The Way Out Of The Severe Terrorism Crisis”

In an article title “The Way Out Of The Severe Terrorism Crisis” published in the Saudi government daily Al-Watan, Jordanian liberal intellectual and author Shaker Al-Nabulsi discussed the ongoing support for terrorism by, inter alia, fatwas encouraging it, and called to establish a terrorism court for dealing with it. He wrote:

“Who is it who permitted some of them [i.e. preachers] to mount political pulpits and dispatch feverish fatwas, which are [later] fired from the mouths of bloodthirsty people from among the idle, the homeless, the ignorant, and those [who think they hold] admission tickets to paradise? [I am talking about those] who abandoned classroom, plow, factory machine, and employment office so that they could buy counterfeit admission tickets to heaven like the indulgences that the medieval Church sold to the same sort of ignorant dupes who have no faith in life.

“Undoubtedly, [a number of factors] – the Arab political void, the fragile Arab politics, the political parties’ failure, the vacuum in the Arab political discourse, the collapse and decline of most Arab political institutions, the Arab street’s lack of awareness, the absence of an active public opinion that can create change, the disrespect for the Arab mind (if there is such a thing) and the failure to use it, and the way in which impulse takes precedence over thought in the Arab world – all of these have made it possible for a few individuals to mount political pulpits in the Arab world, from east to west, in order to lead Arab political activity that is in essence a call for bloodshed and more bloodshed.

“This is clear proof that as a nation, we have become politically bankrupt. We have inherited this political bankruptcy and we bequeath it to our sons… We need an international political bank to rescue us from this bankruptcy…

“Most of the Arab regimes are incapable of restraining [these preachers] and cannot stop their activity – because some of this activity is aimed at benefiting those very regimes and strengthening their influence. The Arab political parties cannot join forces because of the extreme partisanship that predominates among them. There is no Arab street – only [Arabs who are] hungry, ignorant and exhausted, and who have lost all faith in the Arab political forces. So these ‘pulpit-mounters’ provide them with the only thing they want and [the only thing] that can alleviate their resentment and the oppression, hunger, neglect and plundering to which they are subjected by some of the regimes…

“The intellectual and political elites in the Arab world cannot stand against these [fatwa-issuers] for fear of the power they wield – for some of them maintain armed militias with blood on their hands that can behead any intellectual or politician who opposes them. The best proof of this might be the assassination of Lebanese [communist] thinkers Hussein Mroue and Mahdi ‘Amil, and Egyptian thinker Farag Foda, as well as the [1995] assassination [attempt] against [Egyptian writer and philosopher] Naguib Mahfouz, the abduction of Egyptian journalist Reda Hilal, and other incidents. [Therefore,] most of the Arab voices opposing and attacking [these fatwa-issuers] reside in the West, far from the violence that they use against their opponents.

“So what should be done? One solution is for a vanguard of brave Arab intellectuals to draw up a progressive international communiqué, in 21st-century language, spirit, and logic. [They then must] submit it to the U.N. and ask the Security Council to discuss it and pass a resolution tasking the U.N. with establishing a Terrorism Court to prosecute anyone who calls for, engages in, or issues a fatwa encouraging or calling for terrorism – now that terrorism has become a global international problem that does not only concern the Arabs.

“Some will say, as usual, that [such a solution] internationalizes the Arab affairs and that Arab problems must be solved within the Arab homeland by Arabs. But no Arab problem has ever been solved within the Arab world… The Arab [debate] platforms will fill with preachers and pundits condemning colonialism, its forces and its history… and the satellite TV channels will fill with analysis, politicians, journalists, authors and artists who will prattle on and on about political issues. The Arab world will be in an uproar. So be it! When has the Arab world ever failed to calm down after an uproar?”