"What the Health" - Refute Doctor's Claims

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All of these photos are of vegan meals.

A Side of Fresh Carrot, Apple Juice

 I’m not sure exactly why this doctor,

--> Virginia Messina, MPH, RD, chose to so strongly refute the evidence in this film.  When she says that most of the countries that have higher hip fractures also ice-over in the winters, which increases people’s chances of falling and breaking a hip, she discredits herself.  Britain rarely if ever has any ice and most of the US does not ice-over in winter.  Yet the countries in the chart do have higher dairy consumption and higher hip fractures.  And I can sympathize with the idea that doctors are busy at non-profit foundations; however, for these non-profit websites to blatantly sell the idea of the very products that cause cancer to often very ill people looking for help and viable solutions, is extremely unethical, especially, as the film rightly explains, the fact that these foundations receive massive amounts of money from the corporations and medical industries that profit from the very sick, uninformed people who might be searching their websites. 

Raw Cajun Seaweed Cakes

In fact, I recently received a call from a cancer non-profit seeking funding myself.  I asked how much of the money would go to funding research and animal experiments.  The solicitor then hung up on me. How money is used and allocated should be part of the training for callers.  I worked for a non-profit in New Orleans a few years ago, going door-to-door asking for funding from residence for Gulf Coast Restoration Network, a non-profit that helps to not only lobby our state legislatures and Washington but funds scientific investigations, testing water quality and the health of fish and other animals consumed by humans.  We learned where the money goes and how much is used for administrative cost.  They knew that folks would want these questions answered.  In their case, only ten percent of their total funding went to administration cost, which is extremely low in the non-profit world.  I wondered while I watched “What the Health” whether the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Association and Susan B. Komen were just taking money to exist.  I know of people who sought help from some of these organizations and were told that helping people with cancer was not exactly what they funded.  I already knew these organizations were money-making schemes and mostly liars; the film just revealed that truth even more in bright Technicolor.

Totally Raw Veggie Burger

And for the doctor’s claim that a vegan diet cannot yield immediate results, she also discredits herself.  I have known of people myself whose lives and heath were quickly if not immediately transformed by changing to a vegetable based diet.  And the film does not claim that everyone can be cured from changing his diet.  Several doctors acknowledge that up to ten percent of some of these illnesses are actually hereditary.  I know of a vegetarian, mostly vegan who died of a brain tumor.  Coupled with his family history, he also had an early mobile-phone.  There are all kinds of factors that affect our health.  However, for ninety-percent of people, eliminating all processed animal products is one of the best ways to jump-start their health immediately.  The film does not lie in that regard.

Oyster Mushroom Sushi Prep

Nor does it lie about the actual amount of protein the average human being needs to be healthy.  Human mother’s milk, the perfect food for a growing baby, who will double his weight in the first 180 days of life, is only 2 percent.  And since this is the fastest a human being will ever grow, it is the most protein he will ever need in his diet, 2 percent, not forty to fifty percent as in the typical American loaded with protein and fat diet.

Vegan Tostado

I think the film stands as an exposé and a call to all who value their health and the health of the planet, which the film also rightly examines, to take action and become informed citizens and not just to gobble up whatever junk food information that the powers that be, via the FDA or AMA or some giant non-profit tell them to eat.  The film is asking everyone to consider some big economic and political issues that drive our current health crisis and how we are all a part of the problem via the small choices we make on a daily basis.

I'm Not Afraid!

 

 

Yee-Ha!

 

The white supremacist redneck revolution is upon us!  And I’m not afraid.  I surprisingly do not have the doom and gloom that I had when Bush Jr. was elected.  And yes I know he’s not a junior.  How can Trump trump Bush, who Nostradamus prophesied many years ago would be the village idiot who started WWIII, taking America from a balanced budget to owing trillions to banks and other countries (check that Armageddon move off of the list.) and who initiated the most un-American policies, the dreaded Patriot Acts, another great move?  The one thing that brought me some relief is that we don’t have to worry about the rednecks storming the gates, as some of them said they would do if Trump lost the election.  We don’t have to worry about this Armageddon event because the people who decided not to vote in states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina gave them the key.  And I hate to say that the election boils down to the bigger responsibility of folks in swing states, but it does because, unfortunately, our often-flawed electoral system does not always represent the popular vote.

However, the one thing that Trump will likely be able to trump Bush at is at having a lower IQ.  Bush slaughtered the English language, something that uneducated white voters do not seem to care about, and Trump is exactly the same in that regard, if not worse.  And Trump may be the king of the use of mantras, which are in his case repeated jargon to empress tabloid media viewers.  He is the king of tabloid media, again a mainstay of uneducated voters.  And when I say uneducated, I do not mean those who do not posses a college degree, although that is likely the case; I mean those who have no interest in learning and fill their time with listening to hate mongers on tabloid radio and television.  To these people, Trump is their idol and king.

His campaign goes to show that a little recitation goes a long way. The republicans have become very astute in that game.  They realize that if they recite something enough times, uneducated white voters will believe it and respond.  “I’ll end NAFTA and get your jobs back.” They believe this in Michigan, but unfortunately the factories are gone or lying in rubble never to return.  “She’s a liar!” They believed this one too, never even considering that the man they believe in lied to countless small and large contractors and businesses in his bankruptcies.  He told them repeatedly, “Don’t worry. I’m Donald Trump; you’ll get paid.” And then, not once but sixteen times, he filed for bankruptcies, leaving a trail of lies and billions of dollars of debt behind him.  This is the man disenfranchised white voters have put their faith in.

The day after the election, the stock market plunged; uncertainty is a dangerous game to investors, and, in one pull of a curtain’s evening, many of these disenfranchised white voters lost thousands and years of investments.  The stock investors realize that we face an uncertain future, and perhaps that is how it always has been; however, this time a little less than fifty percent of the American population has put their faith in a man who does not represent their touted religious values or their ideas of simplicity.  But what they resonate with may be that he speaks their language, the language of hate.  And I hate to admit that about my fellow Americans, that so much hate must reside within them, hate directed towards anyone not male and not white.  And yes many women obviously voted for him; they are the wives of the white supremacists. 

This is not the roar of the American people that I had hoped would one day happen.  This is more a case of the clash of the titans.  In this case the titan is Trump and the disabled people and veterans and anyone not white and not male are his potential victims. His idea of a great America is from another time, a time of racism and sexism and hate that we are still reeling from and, I’d hoped, for most of us, a time we were eager to leave in our wake behind us. 

But the real reason I woke up with some tiny morsel of hope is that Trump has been a registered Democrat for much of his life and had actually contributed to Hillary’s first attempts at the presidency eight years ago.  I wondered for a moment if this television personality, who knows nothing about politics, but knows very much about how to fool people, has actually duped the republican disenfranchised white male population into believing into a false idol.  

 

And even if he is that horrible and may be politically incorrect when he travels to visit foreign leaders and dignitaries, ultimately, we still have a congress and a senate, who, because they are a majority republican, will follow his lead mostly, but may actually do some thinking on their own.  Thinking is what is always a dictator’s enemy.  So even if he is that horrible, I dare ask, how horrible can he be?  I also considered what if he just wants the prestige of being president because he’s just that egotistical.  As Bush did, he may leave a lot of the real work to his vice president, which, as in the case of the Cheney Saw Massacre, may not be such a good possibility for us after all.  However, at least in Bush’s case, he was a two-term governor of the state of Texas, so he came to the presidency with some experience.  In Trump’s case, he has no experience in being a diplomat, nor a states-person.  But because of Trump’s mostly failed attempts at comedy and his shady past, hardly any, if any at all, note-worthy republican politicians dared to even be in the same room with him for fear of ruining their political careers or just because he disgusted them that much, and this too gave me some hope even though he apparently won the election.

About the only noteworthy republican that openly supported Trump would be the FBI Director James B Comey, the man who re-opened the witch hunt against Hillary in the last week of the campaign and only admitted to finding no new evidence two days before the election.  Hillary Clinton has never actually been charged for any of the crimes that Trump and many of his supporters had accused her of.  However, the FBI has spent millions in taxpayer dollars in one investigation after another. The mainstream media publicized the investigation, but neglected to properly show that this again was yet another witch hunt, a witch hunt that likely stole valuable energy away from her campaign via her staff’s and her own attention and time. 

I’m not a Hillary lover.  I voted for Bernie in the primaries.  However, she has the ability to behave presidential and to be the states-person this country needed.  She is a world different in class.  Yet, in my opinion, she did not rebuff his personal attacks effectively during debates.  She might have simply responded with her programs and plans, ignoring his childish remarks.  I know she did do some rebuffing, but I wish she’d done more.  And I wish that the moderators had targeted their questions towards policies and plans and had not allowed so much of the rude behavior of letting him constantly interrupt Hillary.  It was their job to control the debate.  And to the dismay of some viewers, they failed at it horribly. However, I do realize that because of the nature of at least one untrained participant, Trump, their job of monitoring two trained professionals became nearly impossible. And some viewers must have hooped and hollered after every time he ignored a question and just yelled, “She’s a liar.” I see characters like Beavis and Butt-head sitting on their sofas,  “Yeeeahhh man.  She, she, she’s a liar.”

And I wish that in her campaign commercials, she’d shown clips of him calling Americans stupid and acting like a disabled person in order to make fun of disabled people and the many other video clips floating around in the now tune of thousands, but democrats like to play fair even when the other kids on the playground are bullies. 

Still there are ways to stand up to bullies, but in the end; I don’t think I could have done any better.  In fact, I’m sure if attacked the way she was, I would have responded with much less diplomacy.  Republicans have personally attacked me during political debates many times.  In these situations, I usually try to bring the conversation back to the issues, but then the other angry person returns to name-calling, a personal attack on my character.  And the situation usually accelerates to verbal violence.  When someone begins to yell and lie about my character because he doesn’t like my views on a political issue, when provoked repeatedly, I have stabbed back with words that are truthful to the attacker and cutting and very hurtful to him because they ring true.  I have harmed relationships with members of my family in this way. Even if others choose to follow the bullies of the world by name-calling as a device to win an argument, yelling a truth or some flaw about the other person’s character or credibility is not always the best way either. 

And I do not think discussing the miles of Trump’s atrocities in a debate would have benefited Hillary’s position either, but pounding the airwaves with the truth about him would have been very beneficial since he was making cartoon images of her as advertisements.  The truth is that he is a cartoon character, no artist needed to draw that portrayal.  It was already there.  And just for clarification, name-calling in an argument is a tactic called an ad hominem, a word that sounds like the title of a cartoon, and in the world of logic and reason, this fear-based tactic is a logic fallacy.  To evade answering important questions, or in Trump’s case, to avoid revealing any real plans he might have as president by attacking all of his opponents with his tabloid primitive tactics of spewing insults, as in “pathological” in the case of Ben Carson, is more than a logic flaw, it is bullying behavior, something that is evidently endorsed by a little less than fifty-percent of the voting population.

I say less because, apparently, for the fifth time in a presidential election, the electoral votes did not go to the most popular candidate since Hillary actually received more of the popular votes.  For the honor of winning the popular vote and not the electoral votes, the actual election, she is preceded by Andrew Jackson, Samuel Tilden, Grover Cleveland, and Al Gore.  And we all know how loosing that last name turned out for the country, not very well at all.  Will the ballot boxes float back to shore this time also? Since Trump kept screaming voter fraud, I wonder if he had his had in that cookie jar too.  I know from experience that whatever bullies say about others is usually actually about the bully himself.  However, this may not be the case at all.  It may simply be the case of an imperfect system in an imperfect world. And even though the electoral system we have adopted may not be necessary any more, Hillary winning more popular votes, in the population as a whole, doesn’t explain what happened in the yellow states, which actually should be called purple for the mix of red and blue.  And unfortunately, very soon, these voters will likely feel bruised when they realize that none of the boisterous claims that Trump made hold any truth.  They will feel like the investors and contractors that he lied to and left with billions of debt.

I do, however, understand the idea of many citizens feeling angry about their circumstances.  Perhaps they have lost jobs or have had to accept much less paying jobs, or perhaps they have health problems because they eat so unhealthy but lack the knowledge to help themselves or think eating healthy is too lefty or hippy dippy, so they refuse to believe the brainwashing of eating more vegetables and less saturated fats made from hormone and pesticide filled animal products, which of course we know is not brainwashing but common sense.  Or perhaps they lack the fortitude to take care of themselves in getting back into the maze of finding new jobs and learning new skills because they’ve always relied on a corporation for a job, and change is very scary to them.  As in Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson, the little people known as the Haws will eventually get back into the game and leave the scared to change little people, the Hems, behind, hoping that the Hems will join them because the cheese has been moved and waiting for it to magically return is a recipe for insanity and failure.

 I think everyone knows that ignorance is not bliss.   But what I don’t understand is when perfectly content people with jobs, people who take vacations and have money to buy their children cars, complain constantly about how terrible things are.  And it never matters who is president or who is governor or who is the mayor of their town, these people are never happy.  Some of the ones I know live in rural areas.  And no, they are not college educated.  What I can’t understand is how these folks have fallen into the trap of living their lives in fear.  They fear other people even in their rural communities and never go to the theatre or to a movie or to a play or to the symphony or to a concert, either in a stadium or a free concert in the park.  They rarely if ever venture into a city to go to a museum or experience something of culture and beauty because they fear the dangerous cities. They may never even take bike rides or road trips along their scenic thruways. Instead, they stay home and brood over whatever fox news is telling them to be afraid of today.  So because they believe the world is bad and have to blame someone for their self-imposed imprisonment, they live in fear and spin more and more about fear and distrust and eventually hating people. This I do not understand.  Nor do I ever want to understand. 

And yes, I have called him names, but unlike his name-calling of every potential candidate and especially Hillary, there are volumes of video evidence to back up his un-presidential, gesticulating foul-mouthed cartoon persona.The media, unfortunately, also worked on Trump’s behalf by giving him enormous free publicity.  I suppose his antics made reporters’ jobs easy.  He is the king of the carnies, a constant over-the-top exhibitionist that his Apprentice followers and now his apostles have grown to love.  His racist and comedic gesticulations inspire them I suppose.  The media served up every grunt and scream, and scene of his personal attacks on both republican and democrat politicians; He was even repeatedly captured on video acting out slap-stick scenes in his performances, which could have been on Tom and Jerry.  And yes, he is Tom. 

He is a performer.  Americans have become used to being entertained by reality television comedic tomfoolery.  I wonder if some Americans actually despise fact-checking and discussions of actual topics that are of importance because none of his performances actually discussed any policies or proposals he might have as president except for bombing other countries for oil and Muslim deaths (to protect the Christian right), building factories in the rust belt, (which he will not do) and, for his big trick, building a wall around our Mexican border for which Mexico will pay (He forgot to mention that to the president of Mexico in their meeting). I call these performances because it’s a stretch to call his name-calling, shenanigans speeches.  Speeches usually rely on the foundation of argument; they have a point other than to call an opponent a liar or to make fun of veterans.  And on the rare occasions when a moderator at the debate actually asked him a policy question that took more than a reply of “I’ll bomb em,” he would say check my website; it’s all there.  He said this because the few policies he does have, he didn’t actually write and can’t actually explain them.

What president in history could say, “Grab em by the pussy,” on a recording, and still be elected?  What president could have not one but two ex-wives with which he committed adultery? Who would be elected after saying, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters?” He said this in the primaries. What man could win the heart of the religious right and be the same man who would encourage his wife to pose naked for a magazine? He is nothing that his constituents have ever stood for or voted for.  He goes against everything that they profess to hold valuable.  Touché! His plot to win them over with rhetoric has won, and he should be commended on his success in fooling so many people.

He has fooled these uneducated white voters thus far, but I wonder how he plans to read and comprehend the many bills that will soon cross his desk.  On President Obama’s first day in office, he not only read the bill he was about to sign out loud but also translated it into laymen’s terms because bills are written in highly formalized legal speech, which is difficult for the average person to understand.  And since Trump usually has a trainload of lawyers to deal with such inconveniences as actually reading documents, how will he handle having to read and understand documents on his own accord?  Americans have elected a man who not only does not speak standard American English, but who campaigned by not allowing none-white people to attend his conventions, and who may not be capable to actually comprehend and do the task of being president, which is to be a respectful states-person, representing everyone in our country - who we are to the rest of the world.  And if we have elected a buffoon who can barely finish a sentence, what does that say about us?

However, he won with less votes than John Kerry when he lost to Bush and than Mitt Romney when he lost to Obama.  Were the democrats in the swing states so angry that their candidate Bernie Sanders wasn’t nominated that they stayed home?  And how many voters saw the two, Clinton and Trump, as both substandard, so that they just opted out of the system as a way to show that they will not vote if they are not given viable choices?  I can see these arguments, but what I wrote to my friends, who thought this way, is that the alternative was unconscionable.  Hillary was a viable choice, not amazing like Bernie, but presidential, intelligent, well spoken, experienced in politics and actually concerned about other people. And now we are living an unimaginable reality and will be living it even more in the next few months and years.

A white supremacist, cartoon buffoon, may be unimaginable to me, but he is not unimaginable to many Americans.  The one thing that Trump must have in common with his supporters is that he is openly racist.  He threw out every African American who tried to attend his rallies, even the one guy who actually was a Trump supporter.  Does almost fifty percent of the American population agree with and support racism to that degree?  I thought that there was no way this clown could possibly be elected, that Americans were made of solid stuff, not the fluff of hate, created by the propaganda of the white supremacists, who I thought were an extreme minority in this country.  On November 8^th, we found out that uneducated haters are not an extreme minority but an almost majority. 

He called Americans dumb many times during this campaign, and he proved it on November 8th. Again, he was right.  He said he’d win, and he said that Americans were dumb enough to vote for him.  Sadly, he was right. 

And I blame myself.  I was busy going to the theatre while I should have been in Florida campaigning, being the educator that I am, inspiring folks to think by asking the important questions.  I’m sure I am not alone in my democratic guilt. And now we will all have to pay the price for our collective selfishness.

Dumb Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8PG_TPsjhU

“I could shoot someone.”

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/01/23/donald-trump-iowa-rally-shooting-sot.cnn

His one black supporter, he mistakes for a thug and throws out of the rally.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/29/trump-booted-a-black-man-from-his-rally-and-called-him-a-thug-turns-out-he-is-a-supporter/

Student’s who purchased tickets were thrown out.  How did he know they were protesting?  All they did was stand-up?  Oh, they were black. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqSynD3OJ6Q

Grab em…Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKB92ohXn20

What is left for us to do?…Be brave.

Misha Collins Video

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/09/misha-collins-emotional-election-video?xid=entertainment-weekly_socialflow_twitter

Who Moved My Cheese Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOUeHPS8A8g

Pornography, Just A Fancy Word For Prostitution and Human Trafficking

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Pornography, Just A Fancy Word For Prostitution and Human Trafficking

TV Land

Driving to my just above slavery J.O.B. today, I saw a sign advertising TV Land, a new network, or perhaps one that has been around that I was unaware of. TV Land to me was reminiscent of "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury. The characters in his book are addicted to the fantasy of television while completely unaware of the reality or lack of reality in their own lives. Isn't that where we are today as a society? And none of it is real, not even the so called reality television. This is comprised of just a bunch of "want to be actors" and people looking for the their ten minutes of fame. It's a complete fake, but no one is aware of this. And these guys work a whole lot cheaper than "real actors," which saves the studios a bundle and makes them enormous profits. Pretty smart move.

What came to me is that television and fantasy land and another fantasy yet to be discussed so-called "news" is just another form of addiction. Is it possible that inputting negative feedback into the brain on a regular basis could be addictive? And the answer is, yes. Negative input causes a chemical reaction in the brain and the body creating more toxins and poisons and weakening the bodies ability to handle outside toxins, which stress becomes. It elevates stress levels, and just like any other poison can become addictive.

Not only is this television society of ours addicted to negative feedback as can be seen in all forms of media and especially the "news," but because of this need to escape to a mind numbing poisonous state, makes society more susceptible to manipulation by the "people" that control the bad news media. Whatever information gets put in at this state sinks in and people believe it no matter how erroneous.

My first known experience with poisons created by bad news was during Katrina. I watched the news at work, at home, tried calling family and couldn't get through and began to smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol one after the other while filling up on the same bad shot of the same person being lifted from a house over and over. I kept wondering why they weren't reporting what was going on in other areas like Lake View, which had also flooded with over twenty feet of water. I felt sicker and sicker and kept hoping for some real news.

Finally, I went into a yoga studio and picked up the first book that caught my eye and opened to a random page. The page encouraged readers to be aware of the toxins we put into our bodies and our minds via news and television. It hit me instantly that the reason I was feeling so sick was from watching the news. I immediately went on a "no news" fast, followed by the "Master Cleanse," just to remove even more of the toxins I had been exposing myself to. I began to feel better almost immediately.

However, not long after I was again addicted to smoking and bad news coming from neighbors about the state of Los Angeles and from working a J.O.B. that is also mind numbing and full of "crabs in a bucket" - people who can't stand anyone else having the least bit of success. Then of course I'd have an argument with one of my sisters and again be full swing into the drama of Katrina and again embark on the journey of another mind, body, spirit cleanse.

My awareness of these cycles is ninety percent of the battle. I have begun to be less affected by bad news from the world. One way is to regulate my exposure to such toxins; becoming sick is no way to change society for the better. Also I remember the serenity prayer whenever I feel overwhelmed.

My message - escape from "TV Land" while you still have a mind left; the addiction will only get worse - like all addictions. And escape from the people who live in negative land too, they are walking mounds of toxins. Every story they tell is designed to shed some of their negative skin onto someone else. Yuck!

There is a world outside of TV Land; I know in Los Angeles that's a stretch, but I have found it. It exist in focusing on the moment you are in right now, not what happened on yesterday's news or your favorite program. I realized recently that I could reprogram my life to be whatever I choose letting go of all the bad news and the bad news people and not worrying about how my escape from the bucket of misery will affect others. Hopefully, it will inspire others to pull themselves out of their own bucket of misery to realize a happy life too.

This work is something we must do on a daily basis like taking a shower since the world we live in is surrounded by toxins. We must be the lotus flower in the mud.

The After Shock of the Corporate Kragen

While reading The Blue World by Jack Vance, I couldn't help thinking how the Kragen creature he describes that rules the story's water society by taking what he wants and destroying what he doesn't is similar to the stories on our home planet, Earth, of us paying homage to the church, the mafia, and most recently in our human development, the generous, omnipotent corporations who give us jobs and throw us bones and take our tax dollars and destroy any who get in their way.

I have several friends who were making good money last year and some who have been on the decline for a while. Some have been couch surfing and others near homeless. So many people can not even afford to fix their cars; my mechanic can attest to this. He was once over busy.

This is the after math of our visit with the Kragen, only this monster is not a hideous sea creature, but is in fact a well orchestrated corporate entity consisting of banks, the big five, and big corporations mainly those that make war materials and oil companies that have charged many times the amount for their product in order to bleed society of all of it's money. These creatures reek a similar havoc of the Kragen that destroys homes and businesses and eats the fruits of society at his will while the "Intercessors" pay homage to him with their pretty words and fancy robes. These noble intercessors who we have rightly elected to protect and serve our society have unfortunately just as those in the book, a primary purpose which is to serve the giant monsters, the corporations and banks, those that pull the strings in Washington and around the world. And when this monster decides to unleash his power he does so with many more tentacles than any sea creature you could imagine.

Are they as benevolent as the Kragen described in this 1940s tale of a society created on a water planet after escaping the tyranny of Earth. Yes, they destroy at their will, and possess the same soul, mainly none, yet they have their minions of followers and believers. A human can have a soul; a corporation is merely a machine with an eternal hunger. How does this monster feed and what does it eat? It eats the souls of humans by stealing their land, their time, their labor, and ultimately their dreams.

True Capitalism, Not Corporate Capitalism

Today my thoughts linger to defining the ubiquitous, Darwinian concept known as capitalism. Does capitalism mean the fittest survive? Does it mean the store front offering the best product at the best price will thrive? Does the trophy go to the company that provides the best service to their customers or the guy with the biggest guns?

In our modern day feudalism, the meaning of capitalism has been interpreted to mean that the guy with the biggest guns in Washington gets the prize. It also has meant that the big gun that can hire thugs to shoot the competition off his farm or oil rig or any other capitalist endeavor that he might be pursuing will win the price, steal the other’s land, absorb his business, take his customers, and leave the poor soul's family with the sorrow of his savagery.

Do the nice guys win, the ones that create their dreams and honestly want to provide a service to humanity? Yes, as long as they do not step on the dinosaurs' toes. I say dinosaurs, because their days are numbered. These giant overly-fed, eternally hungry beasts will leave this earth for good one day and no Jurassic Park will resurrect them.

You can be sure the Big Gun is not true capitalism nor free enterprise nor a free market. A free market also does not mean killing and stealing land in other countries so that they can offer the cheapest product, as has been the common practice of so called capitalist in the last few centuries. To enslave others and pay them as slaves, bullying other countries into selling their prize possessions, their land and human population, for a few bucks or pay the consequences of refusing to honor the tyrants, is not true capitalism.

And how have these soulless creatures convinced the world that they are the deity to be worshipped above all others? How have they convinced much of the population that their conquest are noble and good, all the while murdering, raping the land, and stealing the souls of all they touch, consuming everything in their path with a never ending hunger?

Why is it so easy for society to forgive those who kill millions for greed and enslave entire populations and spew their poisons not only on our earth but through the control of mass media into the world’s' minds. The people of the world have been brainwashed just like our elected officials to believe in the power of the big banks and the big corporations, to think that we need them as a child needs a mother.

I cannot even fault the politicians for falling for the scams of bailouts and fall outs and pay offs and free vacations and lifetime compensations; for they are under the same spell as all of society that bows down to the beast and whatever the beast produces, whether that be words in a paper, bills that ban viable products from our society, or wars that put more of our too hard earned money in their pockets.

Protecting the interest of tyrants who enslave others around the world is not true capitalism nor is it a reason to send our most precious resource, young men and women, who have in good faith committed to up hold our constitution and protect our citizens, into harms way. War is a last resort and in a civilized world, not an option at all. Today's wars are for greed and two-year-old's throwing temper tantrums.

And if you think for one second that our current wars have anything to do with true freedom or the Twin Towers, you are forgetting pipelines in Afghanistan and the black gold known as oil in Iraq. You might also have forgotten who is profiting from this war; you will find that it is the big banks we borrow money from and the big corporations, cousins to these banks who produce the killing products needed for this theatrical production. Only this is not a movie or a play, it is real with real blood shed and real karmic consequences.

What is Freedom?

Is freedom in a box? Could it be found in a bagel with lox? Is it true happiness? Is it the answer to all of our prayers? Does it exist? Can it exist in our modern day labyrinth of toil and trouble, in our self-created limbo, in the shadows cast on the cave of the mind?



Why do we think that some big brother or sister, which ever the case may be, is the answer to all of our problems? Is it not OUR government, our illegally collected tax dollars, our fragile piece of paper containing the ideas of democracy?



And why do we believe the paper dolls that report our news, the puppets on the stage miming the words of big banks, big corporations, big brothers that want to enslave the world? Why do we think we cannot take care of ourselves, but need to borrow until there is no blood left in our bodies? Do we not borrow the future of our children, casting the evil shadow of debt down with our genetic codes?



And if we think for one moment we are safe, because we have given all of our freedom away to be protected by the wolves that long to slay our souls, who are we fooling but ourselves? And is it not one assault after another on our precious spirit with each murder committed for the blood of oil. Have we not become the fiendish vampires ourselves? Does our lust for money, oil, land, enslavement, not increase with every conquest? Can we stop the madness?



Do you believe that you cannot live without that SUV or Motor Home or giant house in the hills? Ask yourself if you can? At least until you save for some time, saving your life from the demon of debt by living simple, appreciating what you have right now rather than living for gratifications that can never fulfill you.