I believe every family or group of persons must grow their own garden, whether it is in a commune or community. And for those only in a commune, it will be only a part of the food, the rest will be grown collectively, that is we share work time in the fields or green houses to produce grains like corn, rice, wheat, barley, etc. And the crops will be shared collectively by all. And, of course, it must be organic. That’s why I believe green houses, especially outdoors, is the best form of not only controlling the bugs but also poison from the “chem.- trails” we get daily. Also there will be more on “chem.- trails” and volcano ash fallout later. We will need dome shaped outdoor greenhouses with large semi-porous coverings that go to the ground. We can control the amount of water and sun light as well. Greenhouses are important also for the small gardens where we can grow vegetables for sale in the local markets.{Update; Aquaponics seems to be the answer. Growing fish and veges. The fish waste feeds the plants suspended in water and the plants can provide food for the fish and clean the water at the same time}

Food will be a great necessity in the very near future when the earth changes become too great for the commercial farmers and great loss of crops will occur from drastic weather, also because “the money changers” are creating a financial collapse and are now controlling “shortages” of food. The next big crisis conspiracy will be food. So food and shelter plus basic necessities and fuel will not be easy to attain. But if we take control back from “Big Cabal Brother” then perhaps we can survive no matter what happens, till we ascend!

If we can produce our own food, we can survive and be much healthier than we are now from all the chemicals and poisons in our so called “food” that they feed to us. Most all of the so called food we buy and especially the processed foods are dead and poisoned plus controlled. Let’s take the power away from them and put it back into the hands of the people because controlled “poisoned food, pharmaceutical drugs, “chem.-trails” and viruses are all weapons to kill us off.

Unfortunately, most of us don’t know how to grow our own food. We need to learn this first. We need help from our organic farms and communities like some of the old fashion Mennonites we have here in Belize. We could learn a thing or two from them. And we should also use new methods developed at the universities that have come out as well as the old ones. That’s why we need people in our communes who have this knowledge to teach others how to grow food correctly! They will be the first skills that we need to learn to start with.

Those who control the world market (NWO), including food, have already started a false food crisis. Incoming proof will be perceived very soon and together they will collapse the economy and things are going to be very hard for all for many years to come. As for animal husbandry, I don’t know much. Even though I was raised in the country my family didn’t grow much food or raise animals. We lived on canned food and packaged food like people do today. Still I have a pretty good idea of what to do by observing some of my relatives and others I have known who raised food and animals. But I don’t know how we are going to be able to take care of them or house them when things get too rough.

So I would say, keep it simple.

Use only animals that can provide basic necessities like chickens for food and eggs. Goats seem to be high on the list as their milk is much better than cow milk and they can mow the lawn for us at the same time so we don’t need to provide much food or shelter for them. Cheese from goats is good and so is yogurt. Goats are easy to take care of. I think we can even eat them, but I wouldn’t want to. In the end times we may all be vegetarians anyway. I’ll stick with my chicken and fish until then. I have been a vegetarian in the past, and there are many different kinds of them. I even did some micro-biotic food too/.

Pigs are out of the picture. Besides being dirty they require lots of work and the meat is bad for us. I would suggest rabbits for those who have to have meat sometimes and they reproduce very quickly and they can be sold at the market for food or pets.

Since we’re on the subject of food, the commune in North Scotland called Findhorn is one of the very best. They are extremely spiritual and grow the largest and best vegetables in the world “in the cold dunes.” They started in the early 1970s as well and are still going strong today. Congratulations!

Findhorn works with the divas or fairies of the plant world to grow vegetables in the high desert and to teach them spirituality. They also have amazing houses that withstand the high winds and wet cold there. Look them up on the Internet. They have several books out as well. Many people have visited them and wrote about them and there are many videos featuring them. They also hold seminars on various important subjects we need to know about in these changing times. I highly recommend them. They are a perfect example of what we need to do.

Back to the animals, I don’t believe we should keep any animals just as pets. I am a dog lover. I have a black and tan male and a female white German Sheppard’s (wolf inbred). They protect me and my property well. Having animals for protection is okay and useful, same as herding, hunting or working dogs. I am not a cat person. I see no use besides pets for them, except if we have a rodent problem. I was raised in the country. Cats and dogs were kept outside. We hardly fed the cats. They had to find rodents to eat. As far as horses go, it’s the same thing. If they’re going to be worked, say for transportation or work horse plowing or grinding corn, etc. then they are worth the trouble in feeding and taking care of them.

There will be a problem of food shortages in the future and if there are too many mouths to feed, large families will be borrowing from their neighbors and we can’t afford that. Better to keep it down to one or two children, no more. Schooling can be done at home or in one of the community centers or both. We need to teach our children well. They are our future. They become whatever we program into them.

I have seen some amazing children, raised outside of the system in small groups of families or communities. They were super intelligent and balanced. Many who come down here now are called star children or indigo children. Many of them are incarnating down from the mother ships and are born from us Star Seeds. They will shape our future. I once saw a hybrid child, large brown eyes and large head, out of proportion with his body in Eugene, Oregon. His mother couldn’t say who his father was. Anyway, they are all special. They know things that we do not. They learn faster and can handle more information than many adults. That is if they are the chosen ones. I believe we will also see more of these hybrids down here soon as we get closer to the paradigm shift and as our space brothers are now making themselves known. I think they keep in close contact with these star children.

We have to be very careful with these Star Children. With them we can’t tell lies like Santa Claus and Easter bunnies, then tell them later it was a white lie. It doesn’t work that way with them. They’re already ahead of us in many ways. Their genes and DNA codes are different. They’re more ready for the dimensional shift than most humans. We might say they are or have been programmed for this shift. We, on the other hand, had to deprogram ourselves and reprogram, even though most of the chosen ones have some of this higher DNA left over from the Garden of Eden in them. We can change the future by changing ourselves and our children. Cosmic consciousness is a reality that requires making correct decisions with the help of our higher self and replacing incorrect thoughts with correct ones. And for these children, they won’t need to do so much of that as we had to do because we will give them a correct program from the beginning and then let them do much of their own programming.

As ye sow, so shall ye reap. Children not only look but act like their parents. So when we see a confused child we know one or two of their parents are confused. When their parents do their re birthing, they will affect the children in turn. It would be best if families do not have marriage problems and if children do not have many problems. The life in a commune is very close knit. We will depend on each other greatly. We won’t have time to handle family problems created by the system and “nine to fivers.”

All people and families who join communes must already have made the change at least some what into higher consciousness. Those who want to join will be allowed to visit for a certain time and can attend some of the events in the commune. Then they can make a request for entry. The board will vote on it. Whether or not they can become a new member will be considered, and maybe even a test will be given because our lives will depend on each other. Also they must have skills that the community needs.

“Housing” will be the next subject and a very important one as well. So called normal houses will be a thing of the past. We need to construct underground houses that can withstand 200 to 600 mile per hour winds because in the end times of the earth changes there will be many storms, fallout ash from volcanoes, even worse than the chem.-trails that we have now, which we will have to be protected from as well. And don’t forget the coming floods and the ocean rising by 50 to100 ft. and later up to 600 ft. and more, extreme hot or cold weather that could come depending on where we are located.

Our space brothers and our angelic masters all tell us to be in a safe place, meaning no where near the ocean. We must be at least 40 miles from it. And then it’s better to have a large 1000 foot hill or mountain between the ocean and us, and we also should not be near any large body of water which can and will flood as well. Plus it’s better to be located on as high of ground as is possible when building communities and communes. In my first visions I saw my commune and others upon high grounds with many hills surrounding and protecting us. Also there were some small mountains not so far away as we might just need them.

Our space brothers say that if it gets too heavy or bad down here for us, we should go to the mountains and they will come to pick us up there if necessary. The smaller mountains or hills will protect us somewhat from the high winds and possible floods. So we should build our houses underground in these hills, mountains or large mounds. If we don’t have them we have to make our own mounds as some cultures have in the past. So the higher up you are the safer you will be.

The underground houses I saw in my vision were dome houses mostly about three quarters underground with the top one quarter sticking out. It was more like an upside down egg house with the pointy end down into the ground or way underneath the ground. I didn’t see what it was made of, but it would have to be very strong, and both domes and eggs are strong. There were two living levels, the basement or lower floor had a cellar door where we stored our food supply just like in the old days when people still had cellars to keep their food for the winter. It was even cool in the summer time.

The first floor or main floor had rooms with doors facing the center of the room where there was a wood stove or something of that kind. The heat could radiate into all the rooms and there was a large light that also lit up the rooms. Plus each room had its own small light. Also in the center was a spiral staircase going up to the top floor. The top floor was mainly for the plants and animals. The plants were in boxes that came out about one yard from the wall all around. Most had dirt in them. Others were just water, I presume we were growing hydroponics. Most of the plants were sprouts and vegetables, some herbs and spices.

This indoor greenhouse contained our food supply, especially for emergencies when we could not grow food in our outdoor dome greenhouses. The top third of the dome seemed to be glass or plastic. We could see through it, so the light could get to our plants. We also got some oxygen from the plants. Our water supply probably came from the ground, although I am sure there was a back up system as well. The dome could catch water from the sky if it was pure. I have lived the past ten years on fresh rain water alone. It’s much better and safer than the fluoridated chlorine and controlled poison water by Big Brother.If you filter or drain out the Chemtrails!

Natural News announces lifetime boycott of chemical pesticide companies opposing GMO labeling (Prop 37

Mike Adams  Natural News

Oct 25, 2012

What do Monsanto, BASF, Bayer, Dow, DuPont and Syngenta all have in common? They are all manufacturers of poison who are funneling millions of dollars into the campaign to try to defeat Proposition 37 in California (the GMO labeling bill). In doing this, these six pesticide companies have cemented their positions in history as being among the most evil corporations in human history.

Today, Natural News is announcing a lifetime boycott of all six companies. We are urging Natural News readers and all members of the human race who believe in a positive, healthful future to join in this lifetime boycott of these destructive companies:

• Stop buying ALL products made by Bayer (including their over-the-counter medicine products).

• Stop buying ALL products made by DuPont (including cookware and textiles).

• Stop buying ALL products made with Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds. This includes virtually all conventional corn and soy products. This is true across all groceries, storable foods and snacks. If it contains corn and it’s not USDA certified organic, it’s almost certainly Monsanto’s GMO.

• Stop buying ALL products made by BASF. BASF is also one of the companies that founded IG Farben, the criminal group in Germany that committed outrageous atrocities against humanity during the Nazi reign. BASF currently manufactures numerous pesticides, herbicides, pharmaceuticals, plastics and other toxins.

Empower yourself: Read labels, make decisions, deny evil corporations your business!!!!!!

To join in this lifetime boycott, you will have to make a real effort to avoid buying products produced by these companies, because their poisons are so insidious that they’re hidden in everyday products. You’ll find their chemicals in lawn care products, children’s medicines, new clothing, cookware, cosmetics, body care and all sorts of home care products.

Like nearly all large globalist corporations, DuPont has a dark and hidden history that you’ll only fully appreciate if you purchase and read the book, Du Pont Dynasty: Behind the Nylon Curtain. This book is out of print and very difficult to find, by the way.

If you really want a wild ride into history, check out the factual history of Bayer, whose chairman was convicted of Nazi war crimes. This is a company steeped in a history of anti-human activities, many of which continue to this day.

Join our lifetime boycott against these evil corporations whose products threaten the very future of life on our planet.

And IF we get through this “age of chemicals” and still have a human race remaining, I have no doubt there will be a museum of chemical atrocities committed against humankind and nature. That the museum will prominently feature the destructive activities of these very six corporations: Monsanto, BASF, Bayer, Dow, DuPont and Syngenta.

Why Did The Bundesbank Secretly Withdraw Two-Thirds Of Its London Gold?

Zero Hedge

Oct 25, 2012

Two days ago we reported that the German Court of Auditors demanded that the German Central Bank, the Bundesbank, verify and audit its official gold holdings consisting of 3,396 tons, held mostly offshore, namely New York, London and Paris, at least according to official documents. It also called for repatriation of 150 tons in the next three years to perform a quality inspection of the tungsten gold. Today, in a surprising development, via the Telegraph we learn that none other than the same Bundesbank which is causing endless nightmares for all the other broke European nations due to its insistence for sound money, decided to voluntarily pull two thirds of its gold holdings held by the Bank of England. According to a confidential report referenced by the Telegraph, Buba reclaimed 940 tons, reducing its BOE holdings from 1,440 in 2000 to 500 in 2001 allegedly “because storage costs were too high.” This is about as idiotic an excuse as the Fed cancelling its reporting of M3 in 2006 because “the costs of collecting the underlying data outweigh the benefits.” So why did Buba repatriate its gold? Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has an idea.

The shift came as the euro was at its weakest, slumping to $0.84 against the dollar. But it also came as the Bank of England was selling off most of Britain’s gold reserves – at market lows – on orders from Gordon Brown.

Peter Hambro, chair of the UK-listed gold miner Petropavlovsk, said the Bundesbank may have withdrawn its bullion in self-protection since it did not, apparently, have its own specifically allocated bars in London. “They may have decided that the Bank of England had lent out too much gold, and decided it was safer to bring theirs home. This is about the identification. Can you identify your own allocated gold, or are you just a general creditor with a metal account?”

The watchdog report follows claims by the German civic campaign group “Bring Back our Gold” and its US allies in the Gold Anti-Trust Committee that official data cannot be trusted. They allege central banks have loaned out or “sold short” much of their gold.

The refrain has been picked up by German legislators. “All the gold must come home: it is precisely in this crisis that we need certainty over our gold reserves,” said Heinz-Peter Haustein from the Free Democrats (FDP).

Speculation aside, the fact that central banks, and even banks of central banks (i.e., the BIS), have long lent out gold, is no secret to anyone, traditionally to satisfy short-term physical gold confirmation claims upon a spike in demand, usually associated with a liquidity shortage (when the value of gold as monetary collateral truly shines). The problem with this rehypothecation scheme is what happens when the counterparty suddenly finds themselves insolvent, the gold has since been re-re-rehypothecated, and nobody really knows whose gold it is any more. This becomes a drastic problem when a counterparty in a collateral chain suddenly goes broke… like MF Global did last year, and the lawsuits started flying trying to determine whose gold is where. Needless to say, it was the London office of MF Global that was at fault for breaching a rehypothecation chain (because only in London was there no collateral haircut limit on rehypotehcation), and once physical delivery demands arose, nobody could locate bar XYZ with a given serial number.

That, or the Bundesbank merely foresaw the ultimate unwind of the failed European mercantilist experiment at the start, and refused to leave its most precious asset in the hands of the banker oligarchy which it knew would do everything in its power to procure said gold once the feces hit the fan. Sure enough, BUBA’s ‘non-denial’ denial confirms this too:

The Bundesbank said it had full trust in the “integrity and independence” of its custodians, and is given detailed accounts each year. Yet it hinted at further steps to secure its reserves. “This could also involve relocating part of the holdings,” it said.

Yet what is left unsaid in all of the above is that Germany has done nothing wrong! It simply demanded a reclamation of what is rightfully Germany’s to demand.

And here is the crux of the issue: in a globalized system, in which every sovereign is increasingly subjugated to the credit-creating power of the globalized “whole”, one must leave all thoughts of sovereign independence at the door and embrace the “new world order.” After all this is the only way that the globalized system can create the shadow cloud of infinite repoable liabilities, in which we currently all float light as a binary feather, which permits instantaeous capital flows and monetary fungibility, and which guarantees that there will be no sovereign bond issue failure as long as nobody dares to defect from the system in which all collateral is cross pledge and ultra-rehypothecated… for the greater good. Until the Buba secretly defected that is.

And this is the whole story. Because by doing what it has every right to do, the German Central Bank implicitly broke the cardinal rule of true modern monetary system (never to be confused with that socialist acronym fad MMT, MMR or some such comparable mumbo-jumbo). And the rule is that a sovereign can never put its own people above the global corporatist-cum-banking oligarchy, which needs to have access to all hard (and otherwise) assets at any given moment, on a moment’s notice, as the system’s explicit leverage at last check inclusive of the nearly $1 quadrillion in derivatives, is about 20 times greater than global GDP. This also happens to be the reason why the entire world is always at most a few keystrokes away from a complete monetary (and trade) paralysis, as the Lehman aftermath and the Reserve Fund breaking the buck so aptly showed.

We are confident that little if anything will be made of the Buba’s action, because dwelling on it too much may expose just who the first country will be (or  already has been) when the tide finally breaks, and when it will be every sovereign for themselves. Because at that point, which will come eventually, not only Buba, but every other bank, corporation, and individual will scramble to recover their own gold located in some vault in London, New York, or Paris, or at your friendly bank vault down the street, and instead will merely find a recently emptied storage room with humorously written I.O.U. letters in the place of 1 kilo gold bricks.

2 October 2012 Last updated at 09:40 GM

JP Morgan sued over Bear Stearns mortgage securities

The New York Attorney General wants JPMorgan to pay damages

The New York Attorney General has sued JP Morgan Chase for allegedly defrauding investors who lost more than $20bn (£12bn) on mortgage-backed securities sold by Bear Stearns.

JP Morgan bought the investment bank Bear Stearns in March 2008.

It said that it would contest the allegations.

This is the first action to come out of a working group created by US President Barack Obama looking into the causes of the 2008 financial crash.

JP Morgan said: "The NYAG civil action relates to Bear Stearns, which we acquired over the course of a weekend at the behest of the US government. This complaint is entirely about historic conduct by that entity."

Crisis spark

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All this is a bit like the fifth instalment in a series of horror films, with each succeeding production gorier than the preceding one”

Robert PestonBusiness editor

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US mortgage-backed securities were the investment products that sparked the global financial crisis in 2008.

In essence, each security or bond was linked to pools of US mortgage loans, many of which were classified as sub-prime - mortgages awarded to high-risk and low-wage homeowers.

When many of those homebuyers defaulted on their mortgages as the US property bubble burst, it turned the linked securities into bad debt.

This caused billion-dollar losses at banks, who were forced to write down the value of their investments.

Banks around the world were affected, not just those in the US, because the securities were resold globally.

The securities had been widely purchased because rating agencies had mistakenly given them the highest possible credit rating.

As banks realised they were sitting on huge liabilities, they halted lending to each other, freezing up the global financial system in the process and making it harder for businesses and individuals to borrow funds.

'Ignored deficit'

The civil suit, filed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, accuses Bear Stearns of failing to ensure the quality of loans underlying residential mortgage-backed securities.

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It relates to securities sold by Bear Stearns in 2006 and 2007 - before it was taken over by JP Morgan.

The legal action claims the bank "systematically failed to fully evaluate the loans, largely ignored the defects that their limited review did uncover, and kept investors in the dark about both the inadequacy of their review procedures and the defects in the underlying loans".

It says that this led to the inclusion of mortgages on which borrowers were likely to default, and that investor losses in 2006 and 2007 totalled more than a quarter of the original £87bn value of the securities.

The NYAG wants the company to pay an undisclosed amount of damages for investor losses "caused, directly or indirectly, by the fraudulent and deceptive acts".

The BBC's business editor Robert Peston said there were some "jaw-dropping elements" exposed in the suit.

He said it disclosed "a manic and frenzied culture of procuring and packaging as many mortgages as humanly possible, to maintain the bonds spewing from the investment bank, to generate as much short-term profit as humanly possible".

"All this is a bit like the fifth instalment in a series of horror films, with each succeeding production gorier than the preceding one," adds our editor.

A JPMorgan spokesman accused the NYAG of not giving the bank a sufficient chance to discuss the accusations before launching the legal action.

He said: "We're disappointed that the NYAG decided to pursue its civil action without ever offering us an opportunity to rebut the claims and without developing a full record - instead relying on recycled claims already made by private plaintiffs.

"We will nonetheless continue to work with members of the president's RMBS Working Group and are fully co-operating with their inquiries."

Awakening

There are many who think they know

Just where it is they want to go

Sleep walking they near the road

Each carrying such a heavy load

Gently awaken them my friends

Open your heart and let them in

There’s plenty of room inside

If you put away your ego’s pride

Strange as it may seem to be

It’s all really a part of you and me

The road is long and narrow at first sight

There’s many choices, which is right

Some move fast, some move slow

Left or right, we all need to know

There’s not much time left to find the key

The answer is in you and me

We’re getting stronger as we grow old

Knowledge becomes wisdom as is foretold

To live a life without lies

Brings great peace, showing in our eyes

It’s never too late to join God’s plan

Strong we are to be, truly free we stand

There’s recruits coming soon

Angels and space brothers on the moon

This is the battle to end all wars

Look for your brothers coming from the stars

I know it sounds foolish to think

The world’s finished, we’re on the brink

The dark cannot stand the light

As the day always overcomes the night

All things return to their creator

We belong to that which is greater

God’s kingdom cannot fade away

It’s here to stay each and every day

You can’t find what you haven’t lost

Turning to the dark side is a great cost

Bring them back if you can

They’re the son of God and of man

Don’t’ go into the dark without your light

Obey the laws of what is right

God’s son is everyone you see

He is male and female, he is you and me

The mind of God is ours as told

Now we must learn to be bold

No harm will come to his son

We only have to remember we are one

God’s family is all there really is wow

We must learn to remember now

The warning goes unheard

By those who’ve forgotten his word

Time is now, bring them homebound

Be quiet, don’t make a sound

Life never ends where it begins

We are all in his arms again.Amen

Chapter 12

COMMUNES & COMMUNITIES and Rescue Plans (2007 – 2008)

Now that we have covered something about the earth changes and their rescue plan, we can go deeper into what to do “before” the rescue plans. Communities are the name of the game. I have mentioned them in bits and pieces but I think it’s very important if we go into more detail about them and the reason I think they will be the major plan or way of our future living, not only before 2012 but also after.

Cooperatives (co-ops), communes and communities are nearly the same. As I mentioned before, Christiania in Copenhagen, Denmark, was a community that I lived in and helped start back in 1971. It was more of a community than a commune, or maybe a cross between the two. A commune normally is started by a small group of people who share almost everything and they have strict guidelines of how to set the rules to live together. The members usually have the same belief system. Anyone wanting to join must believe like them or want to at least.

Also they share housing sometimes and they share work together for the common good of the commune itself. Most of them support themselves by some sort of business, arts and crafts, music, food, or in other ways. They meet together usually once or twice a week and members that have been there the longest have more say. But everyone gets to vote except the newcomers and they usually have to wait six months to a year or so. Visitors may sometimes be allowed in the meetings but do not speak or vote.

There are many ways to set a commune up, but the one I know best is the one I instigated or started. It was “channeled” to me. This is how it works: everyone joins into a group. Each group takes care of one necessity of life, one for food, housing, energy, transport, trash, income, communication etc. After seeing several communes I do believe that this one works the best. And these groups have a leader they choose and he or she meets with the other leaders of groups, say once a month, to discuss how things are going and what needs to be added or taken away. The work groups meet once a week and the larger group meets one or two times per month. Later I will a more detailed plan of how I plan to use this idea and this book to start a new commune, but first I will jump a little bit to communities.

Christiania wasn’t truly a commune but a community, even though there were these groups of workers. They represented those who would use Christiania as a spring board to start other projects or communities or communes like I did. The reason it was not considered a commune was because the buildings were inside of the city limits and they were sort of donated by the military. So we had people who wanted to organize and those who didn’t and many people went in too many directions. Therefore, it would never work as a real commune, but more like a community. But even that pretty much failed from what I hear lately.

Anyway, a community is different in that the residents do not necessarily have the same belief system, and they don’t always share work, except for co-ops that have close knit groups working together. But there is some kind of common ground or likeness. Residents do live in an area of close proximity to others, but it is much more loosely fitted together. There are still town meetings and a building for something similar to a city hall where many activities take place. And this is usually a village that has been abandoned, sometimes from mining or forestry. Once the money is gone the people leave and then many times new people or New Age people move in (many years ago it was the hippies).

Anyway, housing and the land is usually dirt cheap and everyone has to have some way of supporting themselves. This is where working the markets comes in. Others start their own business and some rely on tourists. I have seen many different kinds but ones near the cities like Christiania sadly fail. The Nimbin village and Rainbow valley in northern NSW, Australia, is a very good example of a community that works correctly. I spent a lot of time there back in the beginning of it in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Today it has grown from a small village that was taken over slowly by New Agers. The idea of it caught on and the people who came there were mostly artists and craftsmen at first, then small vegetarian cafes, a solar energy store, health food stores, a movie cinema, etc. And it all grew and grew. People came from all over Australia and even other countries and it grew to be a one 100 mile wide circle and then became known as Rainbow Valley by the time I left in 1992. And today from viewing their website, HTTP://www.nimbinaustralia.com/, the village seems to have grown even larger with many festivals and their income comes mostly from tourists. Many young backpacker type people come, mostly from Europe. They buy a van to camp in and travel, as I did, and they head out to discover Australia on wheels and one of their first stops is Nimbin.

So Nimbin is a very large community, not a commune, but it is a place where one could survive the upcoming earth changes that I talked about in the last chapter. In a way it is a rescue plan, although different from the one of our space brothers and spirit brothers. But I am quite sure they are there too because I personally had my first large healing mystical experience there. And today their slogan is “Come to Nimbin and get yourself healed.” The water there is pure and used as holy water or healing water. I think our space brothers are also interested in it as well since I saw one or two near Nimbin in the Rainbow Valley. But communes are more strict than these communities and for those who don’t want to join a commune or start one, because it is more difficult (but more safe in the end), then I suggest joining a New Age community.

A word to the wise, the New Age movement has been inflicted by the dark forces as well. So before we run off to join a New Age commune or community, here is a word of caution. The New Age movement is made up of many different belief systems that somehow fit together with much open mindedness. There is no one set of doctrines that dominate the others “except” our belief in “God” and “spirituality.” These are the so called foundations of the movement. We do not accept black magic or black arts or devil worshiping or any satanic rituals in this movement, and I have been in this movement for about 25 years. (Nimbin rock Aust.)

And yes, just like Christianity and other religions, dark forces have been trying to insert themselves into the New Age movement. Remember they are “tricksters” and just like what they did to the Christians or Catholic Church during the dark ages, “where they inserted new distorted documents (disinformation). And took out the more truthful ones.’’ well believe it or not, they are now doing the same thing to us.

There are many false Jesus books out there. And a magazine that I had a subscription to for over 10 years, Sedona Journal of Emergence, spoke out against the Illuminati (SSG) and exposed them for many years, but then in 2005 the journal turned around by publishing articles that embrace them even though they are evil because they’re all we’ve got to save the world. I and many others canceled our subscriptions because of this. I still get one magazine a year to see if they have changed.

Just last week I got a New Age DVD video called 2012 Odyssey by Sharon Rose. There were interviews with lots of people I know of in the New Age movement. I thought it was very good, until three quarters of the way through when it turned around and presented a pretty picture of the free masons who were taken over by the Illuminati (NWO) in the mid seventeenth century and which are pure evil. The video showed the free masons and all the supposedly good things that they have done for mankind for hundreds of years. They even exposed their new 10 commandments. The first was to bring the population down to 500,000,000, meaning to kill the rest off. This was cleverly done, woven into many New Age beliefs and concepts concerning 2012. They were very sneaky. A sly fox she was to say the least. She’s also making a sequel 2012 Odyssey II also with many New Age speakers. I wonder if they know they are being used or are they selling out to the dark side? We must be very careful of the tricksters.

So I sent her an e-mail explaining who she or they had teamed up with and how dangerous it was working with the dark side and that it wasn’t spiritual New Age at all but black arts, evil occults disguised as New Age. Sharon Rose answered my email stating that she felt the free masons were part of the good guys and they deserved a right to be known, that there have been many good free masons in our history. She didn’t deny that they were part of the groups (black lodges) of the Illuminati who plan to take over the world. I have seen her on other new age web sites as well, look out for her, she's one of them ,(SSG).

“Please, people,” I say “to be very careful out there with what you read, what you watch and who you join up with. Go only with what feels good in your heart and soul. If not, don’t go there. No matter how nice it sounds if it doesn’t feel good, don’t do it. Many will be fooled in these last days.”

But for those who want to be around people who believe more or less like themselves and are willing to go to many meetings, work closely together and share many more things together, then I do suggest joining a commune. And yes, a commune can become a community and a community can become a commune. They are interrelated. A community’s much easier to start or find and to get into, even for those who don’t have much money.

A commune does many times ask for dollar support (money) so they can grow, also they have many more rules to obey and we must have the same goals and beliefs to join. Also new members usually have to be approved by the whole group. But a community may grow far beyond their control of the housing or property like what happened in Rainbow Valley. For those who have the money, buy a house and land or just land and build. And there are also many mini cooperatives, collective communities, within the larger community. By this I mean there are small groups of people everywhere from between five and 25 or more living on a small or large farm or property like in the Rainbow Valley where people can move around in them until they find their people or they can start their own mini-commune, co-operative or collective.

Remember one of the main things in commune living is being honest and trustworthy, giving service to others, having an extended family with the same belief systems and growing food individually and/or together. Food is most important. It is number two on the list. We must learn to grow most all of our own food if that is possible. Big Brother NWO not only controls the money supply and energy but most of the food that is grown commercially as well. GM hybrids are poisoned leaving a very bad taste and providing little energy. Many years now they have been making GM hybrid seeds that will not reproduce plus they are tasteless and not good for us. Now tests have proven GM food is causing many diseases which are killing people! More on this in a later chapter…

LOVE- I AM

I AM the new light. in the morning sun..

I AM the moon rising, when the day is done

I AM the shining stars at night.. I AM the darkness and the light

I AM the grass that blows in the wind..

I AM the brightness that grows within

I AM the Father and the Son.. I AM duality, we are One

I AM the universe and all reality.. I AM the Oneness in the trinity

I AM the beginning and the end.. I AM the love you send

I AM the rain that falls.. I AM the One, who knows all

I AM the water that flows ever on.. I AM the awakening of the dawn

I AM the flower clinging to the trails..

I AM the lost child who cries and wails

I AM the rainbow in the sky..I AM the wonderer, watching all pass by

I AM the mother holding her new born child..

I AM the father standing there, meek and mild

I AM the children laughing and playing..

I AM the old wise man, contemplating

I AM the youth, lost in the folly.. I AM the mountains and the valley

I AM the buffalo that roams the prairies..

I AM the gnomes and the faeries

I AM the Mother Earth and Father Sky..

I AM the legends of that which came I

I AM the angels of the fallen ones.. I AM the spirit of the eternal sons

I AM the eagle soaring high.. I AM the lovely butterfly

I AM the bear big and strong.. I AM the sad one, who’s love is gone

I AM the precious minerals in the ground..

I AM the powerful Crystals all around

I AM the hungry and the poor..

I AM the stranger knocking on your door

I AM your brothers and sisters.. I AM your aches, pains and blisters

I AM that which you are to become.. I AM the total of all the sum

I AM the truth that never ends.. I AM the message which I send

I AM peace and joy in the community..

I AM the shining light eternal energy

I AM the vision of the Dream Time..

I AM the wisdom of the words in this rhyme

I AM you and you are me.. all that I AM, will always be

I AM truth in all the above.. I AM that I AM… ‘LOVE’

Side effects of GMOs - Ask your doctor if CANCER is right for you

S. D. Wells
Natural News
Oct 21, 2012

If I sprayed your salad with some “RAID” roach killer right now, just a little bit right on the lettuce and maybe a little more on the tomatoes, would you still eat it all, and just assume your body will simply filter out those “small amounts” of toxins? Better yet, what if I paid for it, a nice big, tasty, “bug killer” salad that you could even take outside and no bugs would bother you at all, would you eat it? How about this: If I sprayed a quick shot of some Raid ant killer into your orange juice or your apple juice right in front of you, would you drink it, especially if you’d save 25 cents on every drink you drank from now on? What if most vegetables, fruits, and fruit juice drinks were sold that way, and cheaper than the “Non-Raid” food, would you still buy them? Wouldn’t that pay off for you in the long run? I guess not, because you’re not stupid, are you?

What if the NUMBER ONE SIDE EFFECT of your medication was CANCER, would you still take it, just to temporarily make that headache go away, or maybe to make a little muscle ache disappear for a few hours? GMO means food and medicine are genetically modified, with bacteria and sometimes with viruses, or with weed killer, worm killer, bug killer and people killer. “Pesticide food” is well planned out and has been for decades. Let’s look at history for proof.

Pesticide food timeline

1920 – German chemical companies are hired by Adolf Hitler to create mustard gas, pesticides, and insecticides to be used to gas enemy soldiers at the front lines and in the trenches of WWI.

1940 – Hitler uses odorless gas created by the pharmaceutical conglomerate I.G. Farben (Monsanto, Hoescht, BASF and Bayer) to gas to death millions of Jews in WWII atrocity at Auschwitz and other concentration camps. (http://www.naturalnews.com)

1950s – Hitler’s scientists and “deadly gas” creators are sentenced for their war crimes of enslavement and murder. The scientists somehow only get put in prison for four to seven years for mass murder, and when they get out of jail, the U.S. government and major pharmaceutical firms hire them to work on food chemicals and pesticides for American farmlands (The “birth” of GMO). (http://frank.mtsu.edu/~baustin/trials3.html)

1960s – United States uses Agent Orange (created by Monsanto and Dow Chemical) to burn down the thick forestry of Vietnam, but millions of Vietnamese families get cancer from it, and tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers come home with cancer, most to die from it in less than a decade. (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Monsanto)

1980 – Aspartame, a genetically modified sugar substitute, banned for decades, was pushed through the system/legislation by Donald Rumsfeld and Ronald Reagan, who fired the head of the FDA and put in place their own partner in crime, right from the first day Reagan took office (http://rense.com/general33/legal.htm). This toxification of millions of innocent Americans auspiciously timed for the “weight loss” craze phase of the 1980s. Rumsfeld just happened to be the CEO of Searle Pharmaceutical, and Searle profited in the billions. So much for “insider trading” laws and “conflicts of interest.” The U.S. government was blatantly breeding cancer and selling it as food.

1990s – Reign of the biotech “Big Agriculture” and pharmaceutical giants: Monsanto, Dow, Dupont, Hoescht, BASF, and Bayer (German mass murdering scientists and their disciples) continue intense work on the real GMO “frankenfoods” that are most popular in the United States: cancer-causing corn and cancer-causing soy, both resistant to the pesticide ingredients used in Vietnam. (http://www.naturalnews.com/036484_Bayer_Nazi_war_crimes.html)

2001 – George W. Bush and his conspiring vice president, Dick Cheney, under advisement from Donald Rumsfeld, subsidize CORN AND SOY in the U.S., helping Monsanto Corporation basically enslave U.S. farmers with seed, equipment, and pesticide “deals” where they are legally bound to use toxic RoundUp pesticide on RoundUp Ready crops, the ones that contain pesticide in the seeds.

1940-2012 – No U.S. legislation restricting pesticides in food. The most evil biotech companies are allowed to “police themselves.” The government sets no limits on the amount of RoundUp contained in corn and soy, nor how much can be sprayed on them as well. No FDA regulations for GMO infant food, including GM pesticide in infant formulas. “Biotech” becomes the fancy umbrella name for PESTICIDE FOOD MANUFACTURERS.
(http://www.naturalnews.com/033926_infant_formula_corn_syrup.html)
(http://www.naturalnews.com/029863_Similac_infant_formula.html)

September, 2012 – French scientists conclude FIRST EVER long-term study of GMO on rats; extensive research PROVING GMO CORN causes horrific tumors in rats, killing 70 percent of females early, long before their average two-year life expectancy.
(http://www.naturalnews.com/037424_Monsanto_GM_corn_French_study.html)
(http://www.naturalnews.com)

October, 2012 – Europe-wide ban on Monsanto GM corn imminent in wake of French study linking it to cancer. Russia also bans all GM corn imports. (http://www.naturalnews.com/037328_Russia_GMO_Monsanto.html)

October 2012 – Monsanto, Dow Chemical, Dupont, Bayer, Dean Foods (the dairy giant), General Mills, Kellogg’s and Smucker are fighting to keep GMO foods UNLABELED so cancer can be perpetuated! Insurance companies invest in FAST FOOD industry, thus banking on more people getting cancer. (http://abcnews.go.com)
To make matters worse, several “organic” food companies sell out to the GM owned corporate elite. (http://www.naturalnews.com/036834_Kashi_Larabar_boycott.html)

2013 and beyond: No end in sight: Most VACCINES AND FLU SHOTS contain GMO ingredients. Chemotherapy (AKA “agent orange”) is pushed on the masses as a viable treatment for people who have been steadily consuming pesticide, fluoride, bleach, aspartame, MSG and GMO.
(http://www.gmasw.com/ao_terms.htm)
(http://www.naturalnews.com/033584_Dr_Maurice_Hilleman_SV40.html)
(http://www.naturalnews.com)

Side effects of GMO for ALL ANIMALS

Attention all humans, you are animals also, remember? Human beings have over 90 percent the same genetic make-up (DNA) as monkeys, dogs, cats, and rats. (http://news.nationalgeographic.com)
When you consume GMO corn chips, cereals, wheat products, soy “milk,” and the like, you are heading off a HEALTH CLIFF. Turn around now! Stop eating GMO, and that includes meat and milk which comes from animals shot up with GM hormones, steroids, and the “corporate” animals which eat GM feed like corn and alfalfa. (http://www.consortiumjournal.com/2012/32)

Find out exactly how to quit eating GMO food right now. Find out how to help get all GM food labeled! (http://justlabelit.org/) Side effects of long-term GM food consumption include liver cancer, kidney cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer (for men too), thyroid tumors, Parkinson’s disease, infertility, birth defects, autism and brain tumors. The dreaded diagnosis of cancer has been linked in over 260 studies worldwide to agrochemicals.
(http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_26429.cfm)
(http://www.nationofchange.org)

The three-tier cure for cancer

1. Drink spring water: If you don’t trust it in plastic bottles due to bisphenol/BPA, just find natural springs near where you live. (http://www.findaspring.com/)

2. Eat only “Certified Organic” food or grow your own. (http://www.raw-wisdom.com/organic)

3. Eat superfoods. (http://www.raw-wisdom.com/organic)

Remember, knowledge is power, and no person or organization can ever take it away from you. Remember that the body is the temple of the soul, so treat it that way. Otherwise, if you’re still considering a GMO food diet or regimen, be sure and ask your doctor if CANCER is right for you.

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http://www.naturalnews.com

http://www.naturalnews.com/Turmeric/Turmeric-Benefits.html

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Americans Consume Nearly 200 Pounds of GMOs Each Year

Lisa Garber   Natural Society  October 19, 2012

Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/americans-consume-nearly-200-pounds-gmos-annually/#ixzz2A0hPNcBh

Americans eat more than their body weight in GMOs every year, study shows

Ethan A. Huff

Natural News
Oct 18, 2012

The consumer advocacy organization Environmental Working Group (EWG) has put out a new paper that estimates the average person’s yearly consumption of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). And based on the figures, which EWG admits are very likely understated, the average person consumes more than their own body weight’s worth of GMOs every single year, a shocking reality with unknown, long-term health consequences.

For their study, EWG researchers compiled data from 2011 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data sheets on average per capita consumption of various GM foods, including corn-based sweeteners like corn syrup, salad oils, and various other “corn products” like corn oil and corn meal. They then analyzed these figures based on the percentages of each of the crops used to make these products that are genetically engineered in the U.S.

The average adult in America, it turns out, weighs 179 pounds, and consumes an average of 193 pounds of GM corn-based products and salad oils every year. And when various other GMOs are added into the mix that were not included as part of the original study — in addition to corn and sugar beets, soybean oil and other soy-based products, conventional papaya, and canola oil are all widely consumed foods of GM origin as well — the contrast between body weight and GMO consumption widens even more significantly.

“From these figures, EWG calculated that the average American annually consumes genetically engineered foods in these quantities: 68 pounds of beet sugar, 58 pounds of corn syrup, 38 pounds of soybean oil and 29 pounds of corn-based products, for a total of 193 pounds,” says EWG.

With more new GMOs on the way, consumption patterns expected to increase dramatically

These figures are only estimates, of course, as some Americans are health savvy enough to avoid many of the common GMO ingredients and additives used in conventional foods, while others chug down excess amounts of corn syrup-laden sodas and soy-glutted condiments and sauces like it is nobody’s business. But the fact of the matter is that Americans as a whole are being used as human guinea pigs in a massive biotechnology experiment with uncharted ramifications.

And the really bad news is that, unless GMO labeling laws like Proposition 37 in California are passed in the very near future, the biotechnology industry will continue to secretly release evermore GMOsinto the food supply. In the next few decades, in fact, Americans will very likely be subjected to a whole host of new, undisclosed GMOs if mandatory GMO labeling does not become a national standard.

“EWG considered only three genetically engineered crops (for its study), but more than 30 others are currently being tested in field trials, including apples, barley, bell peppers, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, cherries, chili peppers, coffee, cranberries, cucumber, flax, grapefruit, kiwi, lentils, lettuce, melons, mustard, oats, olives, onions, peanuts, pears, peas, persimmons, pineapple, radishes, strawberries, sugar cane, sunflower, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, walnuts and watercress,” adds EWG.

“While it is unclear how long it may take for these new genetically engineered crops to reach the market, this long list makes it likely that people could be eating two or three times their weight in GE food annually within the next decade.”

To learn more about California’s efforts to become the first U.S. state to mandate GMO labeling at the retail level, visit: http://www.carighttoknow.org/

Also, be sure to check out the hard-hitting new documentary Genetic Roulette by award-winning author, filmmaker, and Executive Director of the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT), Jeffrey Smith: http://geneticroulettemovie.com/

What’s Next for GMOs? How About Genetically Modified Trees!

Prisonplanet.com

Oct 18, 2012

Industries are all about making more money, at any cost. If they can develop something now that will save money and produce more down the road, they will—often tossing ethical concerns to the side. Need proof? Just look at Big Pharma’s sales of harmful drugs, their cycle of side effects and treatments, or even how they want to make genetically modified plants to produce pharmaceutical drugs. Need more proof? Look at Monsanto and environmentally destructive herbicides. The latest movement towards increased production at a lesser cost comes in the form of genetically modified trees.

Further Altering Nature, Now with Genetically Modified Trees!

Genetically modified trees are being developed in the U.S. and around the world. A new paper, circulated at outside of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the Convention on Biological Diversity cautions that GM tree research is being done without much oversight and with limited information.

As reported on the Science and Development Network, the industries pushing this research are those that can serve to make money off of the GMO trees. They are testing their genetic alterations in the lab with poplars, pines, acacias, and eucalyptus trees just to name a few.

So far, the U.S. has the most patents with 53% and Brazil follows close behind. In all, 21 countries are working on the GMO trees. So, what are they trying to do? From an industrial standpoint, they are looking to “perfect” the trees—make them more useful and more valuable, not recognizing the value of trees goes far beyond their ability to make nice paper or fancy hardwood floors.

They are working on developing wood with less lignin, for instance, which will make it easier to process. They are also working to develop trees that are more pest-resistant, obviously ignoring the issues of GMO crops and their damage to the delicate natural balance.

Isis Alvarez, of the Global Forest Coalition, cautions that these researchers are being hasty in their projects. She says they are pushing the industry to “escalate without any consideration to the environmental or social impacts, and with little or no oversight or monitoring from governments”.

One has to wonder if they’ve thought ahead, to what would happen, for instance, if the trees were completely pest resistant. What would happen to the pests who no longer had wood for homes and food? When they died off, what would happen to the birds who depend on them for their own food—and so on. Likely, the corporations which are no doubt behind the research are concerned with one thing and one thing only—their bottom line.

This post originally appeared at Natural News

HEMPSTEAD, NY - OCTOBER 16: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (L) speaks as U.S. President Barack Obama listens during a town hall style debate at Hofstra University October 16, 2012 in Hempstead, New York.  (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Back in 1968, Alabama Governor George Wallace thundered that “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Republicans and Democrats.” Wallace’s famous quote sprung to mind last night as Mitt Romney and Barack Obama squared off in their second debate.

Surely there were differences between them, but to watch the debate was to see two candidates vying to say who would cut taxes the least for top earners, who would “crack down” most on China, and who believed the most in an “all of the above” energy strategy. Neither said much of import, if at all, each candidate won certain segments, but the impossible to escape conclusion was just how unimpressive both candidates were.

It was like two beginners playing tennis with each other, neither able to hit the ball over the net. Both deserve to lose.

Obama And Romney Square Off In Second Presidential Debate

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Barack Obama And Mitt Romney Participate In Second Presidential Debate

HEMPSTEAD, NY - OCTOBER 16: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R) speaks as U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and moderator Candy Crowley (C) listen during a town hall style debate at Hofstra University October 16, 2012 in Hempstead, New York. During the second of three presidential debates, the candidates fielded questions from audience members on a wide variety of issues.

• It began with the first question asked by a Hofstra College student who wanted to know what either would do to ensure that future grads like him will have jobs.

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Romney responded that (all quotes paraphrased) “We’ll have to make a college education more affordable for all, and I’ll do this through growth of the Pell Grant program.” The problem, of course, is that it’s the federal government’s existing subsidization of college loans through programs like the Pell Grant that reduce the incentives for colleges and universities to lower tuition costs. And then in promoting a boost in Pell Grant funding, Romney’s calling for more of the same whereby the feds take money from one set of American hands, and place those funds in the hands of others. On the street this would be called theft, but when politicians propose it, it’s “compassion.”

After that, Romney basically repeated the same line over and over again: “I know what it takes to create jobs, and I’m going to make sure you get a job.” The president as our nanny, one supposes. The sad thing is that Romney, far more than Obama, does know how to create jobs, but to explain how he does he’d have to be more up front that he’s rich precisely because he’s expert at turning around companies.

Obama’s response was no better. He added his support for expanding the Pell Grant program that makes college more expensive, and then “bragged” that funding for Pell Grants had already increased during his deficit-ridden presidency.

On jobs specifically, the nanny standard bearer for the Democrats said “We need good jobs, jobs that can support a family.” Having said this, he then said that he wanted to create manufacturing jobs which, even if he could, would in today’s world at best foot the bill for a Starbuck’s latte – once a day. Barack Obama to families: Drop dead!

Moderator Candy Crowley followed up with a query about what either candidate would do about the high number of jobless Americans overall.

This segment went to Romney for the former governor pointing out that the unemployment rate is the same today as when Obama entered office. He added that the number is only 7.8% because so many have exited the labor force due to a lack of job opportunities.

Obama responded with his stock line about 5 million jobs created since he entered office, plus his wildly questionable assertion that he saved 1 million automobile jobs; jobs that would have disappeared under Romney for the latter having wanted to send GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy. Romney’s response was fairly good for him pointing out that Obama too took the ailing carmakers into bankruptcy; Romney simply having wanted to do it the normal way (you know, without the fleecing of secured creditors, gifting the automakers to the UAW) whereby the company continues to operate while restructuring its debt.

In the next question Obama was asked about Energy Secretary Steven Chu having admitted three different times that he’d like to see gasoline prices higher.

Obama predictably talked up how much oil and natural gas exploration has increased during his administration, then pivoted to the green energy he likes so much, and then proclaimed that he would “not cede green energy jobs to China and Germany.” Funny how much us taxpayers have had to pay so that Obama could pursue his green fantasy, and as for China and Germany, if taxpayers in both countries are so eager to fund the economic lie that is green energy, and if skeptics like this one turn out to be wrong, the good news is that we’ll be able to import the energy at a market price as though it was conceived in Berkeley. Does anyone want to bet me on my assertion that green energy will never be able to stand on its own absent major subsidies? Can I pay you back ten lifetimes from now when you win the bet?

Romney then predictably responded that yes, oil and gas exploration is up under Obama, but none of it on federal lands. He also brought up a criminal action the Obama administration took against a producer in North Dakota. And then ever a me-too candidate, Romney said he too was for an “all of the above energy plan”, which on its own is strange for someone who claims to believe in the free market; free markets surely devoid of national energy plans. Puzzling to this writer is why Romney didn’t attack Obama again for not just the costs of his green energy fantasies, but also how much of the companies funded are now bankrupt. A lost opportunity for Romney.

Romney perhaps drew blood for pointing out that a gallon of gas in Nasssau was $1.84 when Obama entered office, and now it’s $4. Obama drew blood in return with his reminder that gasoline was relatively cheap when he entered office precisely because the U.S. economy was collapsing under Republican policies that Romney would supposedly like to revive. Of course neither made the obvious point that gasoline is only expensive insofar as the Obama dollar is very cheap; Obama failing to make that point for obvious reasons, Romney failing to make it because his economic advisers such as Greg Mankiw actually support the Treasury and Fed’s so far successful, and economy wrecking efforts to debase the greenback.

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On taxes, Romney was asked what tax deductions he would limit in order to cut taxes for all Americans across the board.

Notable here was that the questioner pointed out the good in the Romney tax plan (20% across the board cuts for all earners); this something Romney has so far been reluctant to do given his odd and frustrating desire to not appear to support a reduction in the price of work for the top 1% in this country whose economic achievements improve all of our lives on a daily basis. Instead, Romney went out of his way yet again to oddly brag that the top 5% would still account for 60% of federal revenues (and you thought Obama was a socialist), while all the benefits would come to middle earners whose tax savings by virtue of them being middle earners can’t move the investment dial that leads to job creation. After that, Romney’s implicit message to middle income types with designs on making it into the 1% is essentially “If you have the temerity to achieve so much that you enter the 1%, your penalty will be higher taxes.” Romney’s the growth candidate. No seriously, he is.

Obama was naturally no better. He, much like his taxation doppelganger in Romney promised middle class tax relief, though in his case he proposed doing the impossible whereby he would try to fleece top earners even more than at present in order to close the deficit. Lots of luck with that. He then added that “Governor Romney thinks it’s fair and that it grows the economy when people making $20 million a year pay a lower tax rate than those making $50,000. That does not grow the economy.” Actually, Mr. President,it does grow the economy when you lower the tax burden on the vital few whose exploits elevate our economic existence, not to mention that any income not taxed away by the feds morphs into investment, investment authors all company formation, and through company formation there’s job creation. Economic growth is easy, though you wouldn’t know it from listening to either of the candidates.

Obama then asserted that Romney thinks economic growth can only occur if capital gains taxes on the rich are maintained at their present rate of 15%. Romney should have answered him in the affirmative, that capital gains taxes are a cost placed on investment, that if you want more jobs you need more investment, and that the job-maximizing capital gains rate is zero, but instead he repeated for seemingly the 6th time his platitudinous line about how “I know what it takes to create jobs, and my five point plan will get us there.” Those listening to the debate on the radio probably thought they were listening to a 4th grade debate, as opposed to a faceoff between two men vying to lead the richest, most important nation on earth. Seriously, we used to be a serious country with serious leaders.

On male/female income disparities, Obama talked about enforcing laws, ending discrimination and more education, and then Romney talked about how he made a point when governor to get more women into his cabinet. There was a time when Republicans decried affirmative action.

Up next was a question from an undecided voter who, though disappointed in our progress the last four years, is similarly worried that Romney would bring us back to the Bush policies that she similarly didn’t like. Good taste, this questioner.

Romney’s response brought new meaning to the word hopeless. Once again he trotted out his “Five Point Plan”, after which he talked up a rush to energy independence that would cripple us economically for violating comparative advantage, then he said “I’ll crack down on China, Bush didn’t.” Actually Bush bashed the Chinese too, and the result was a severely debased dollar that drove oil to nosebleed heights, and a horrifying increase of investment into the sink of wealth that is housing (the middle classes have to hedge governmental destruction of the dollar too) which led to a recession, and then led to a financial crisis thanks to massive bipartisan support of bank bailouts. And then channeling Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis, two presidential candidates who pandered to the little guy on the way to landslide presidential losses, Romney said “I’m for small business, Bush wasn’t.” Ok, the problem here is that though small businesses create lots of jobs, they tend to be able to thanks to their proximity to large businesses. Rest assured, absent big business, there would be very few small businesses.

In his response, Obama once again blamed the Bush administration for all of the economic problems during his own presidency, then he turned to Romney and said “Governor, you’re the last person who’s going to get tough on China.” Second graders could doubtless relate to the two candidates as they tried to out-protectionist one another.

The next question went to Obama. The questioner had voted for Obama in 2008, didn’t think things were so hot economically in 2012, so how would they be different if Obama were handed a second term.

Obama naturally blamed Bush yet again before talking about the 5 million jobs he created. Romney perhaps did a little better in response as he rattled off the economic statistics of what is Obama’s failed economic presidency. Romney noted that during Reagan’s recovery, and despite a much smaller population, two times as many jobs were created. He then had a good line about how Obama “is great at describing his vision, but his record doesn’t match his rhetoric.” Round to Romney, flyweight division.

And then Obama took the next round when a Hispanic woman asked about their immigration policies for productive, but illegal immigrants. Romney gave the usual GOP line about how he wants immigration, if it’s legal. “But I won’t grant amnesty to illegals”, and then he talked about his support of a computer system that would crack down on companies that hire illegals. No joke, we used to be a free country, and Republicans used to be into freedom.

Obama seemed reasonable after Romney in the sense that he acknowledged the truth that we’re a nation of immigrants, not to mention the happy truth that the world’s talented still want to come to the U.S. Obama then opened himself up to major smackdown from Romney when he noted that the illegal inflow of workers across the border is the lowest it’s been in 40 years. Romney could have easily said that the “inflow has plummeted precisely because your economy is so bad”, but to do so, he would have had to acknowledge just how foolish is his own immigration stance. Round to Obama, featherweight division.

And then they returned to jobs, and a questioner asked what both would do about outsourcing; outsourcing the economically stimulative process whereby low value work is sent overseas, the outflow of jobs boosts profits for U.S. companies, then those U.S. companies use their profits to expand while creating higher-paying jobs stateside. If we didn’t send jobs overseas, we’d be a very poor country for so many Americans still stuck in low value work. In short, outsourcing is beautiful.

Not to these two amateurs. In Romney’s case, as though he felt he hadn’t stressed enough his plan to start an economy-wrecking, stock market crashing trade war with China, the former governor, as if on auto-pilot talked up again his promise to “crack down” on China in order to bring jobs back to the U.S.

And then Obama, never one to let a bad, economy crippling idea go unanswered, followed up with his own bad idea, contradicting himself in the process. Specifically, he drooled that “Some jobs won’t come back to America because they’re low wage and low skill, and that’s why I want to bring back manufacturing jobs to the United States.” Translated: “Low wage, low skilled jobs aren’t coming back to America, so I want to bring low wage, low skilled jobs back to America.”

Last night’s debate has to be considered a draw, albeit one in which both fighters punched themselves out in the first round. It was truly an embarrassing night for each candidate, and as the world was watching, an embarrassing night for the United States more broadly. It’s been said that “When a Democrat runs against a Democrat, a Democrat wins.” I’ll have neither.

The Presidential Debates Are Nothing But Scripted Beauty Contests

Washington’s Blog
Oct 18, 2012

The “spontaneous” questions from audience members are actually pre-screened, and even the moderator is forbidden from asking follow-up questions:

Gawker’s John Cook succinctly sums up the rigged debates:

Leaked Debate Agreement Shows Both Obama and Romney are Sniveling Cowards

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Both campaigns are terrified at anything even remotely spontaneous happening.

They aren’t permitted to ask each other questions, propose pledges to each other, or walk outside a “predesignated area.” And for the town-hall-style debate tomorrow night, the audience members posing questions aren’t allowed to ask follow-ups (their mics will be cut off as soon as they get their questions out). Nor will moderator Candy Crowley.

Glenn Greenwald notes:

The moderators were selected to ensure that nothing unexpected is asked and that only the most staid and establishment views are heard. As journalism professor Jay Rosen put it when the names of the moderators were unveiled, using terms to describe those views that are acceptable in Washington media circles and those which are “fringe”:

“In order to be considered as a candidate for moderator you have to be soaked in the sphere of consensus, likely to stay within the predictable inner rings of the sphere of legitimate controversy, and unlikely in the extreme to select any questions from the sphere of deviance.”

Here then, within this one process of structuring the presidential debates, we have every active ingredient that typically defines, and degrades, US democracy. The two parties collude in secret. The have the same interests and goals. Everything is done to ensure that the political process is completely scripted and devoid of any spontaneity or reality.

All views that reside outside the narrow confines of the two parties are rigidly excluded. Anyone who might challenge or subvert the two-party duopoly is rendered invisible.

Lobbyists who enrich themselves by peddling their influence run everything behind the scenes. Corporations pay for the process, which they exploit and is then run to bolster rather than threaten their interests. The media’s role is to keep the discourse as restrictive and unthreatening as possible while peddling the delusion that it’s all vibrant and free and independent and unrestrained. And it all ends up distorting political realities far more than illuminating them while wildly exaggerating the choices available to citizens and concealing the similarities between the two parties.

To understand the US political process, one can just look to how these sham debates are organized and how they function. This is the same process that repeats itself endlessly in virtually every other political realm.

Indeed, the Republican and Democratic parties have long formed Gentlemen’s agreements – through the “Presidential Debate Commission” – on what topics are “off-limits” (and which journalists can even ask questions) during presidential debates:

As this 4-minute video shows, – they both ignore the desires of their own bases:

The American people are sick of both the Republican and Democratic party, and yearn for something different. See this, this and this.

No wonder … the mainstream Democratic and Republican parties agree on most matters which affect American lives the most directly. Here, here, here here and here.

Obama and Romney are virtually indistinguishable on most core issues. For example: jobs, freedomsand favoring fatcats instead of the little guy.

The Founding Fathers warned – at the very birth of our nation – against a two-party system as being destructive to liberty.

If we opened the debates up to third parties, it would show how similar the GOP and Democratic Party really are: