WAR BY OTHER MEANS

Water Scarcity

The nature of scarcity and economic power, and how they are created and used as a method of social control

Saturday, 28 December 2014

According to the Chinese zodiac, in 2015 we will be transitioning into the year of the sheep. What will this bode for a world living in the New Gilded Age? The sheeple will have to decide if they will accept the historic changes that are occurring on the domestic and international stage or if they will resist and struggle against the tide of elite domination. There are many transitions well under way in the coming years and they all surround the notion of scarcity and the exercise of economic power. We are in the midst of a global liquidity crisis that will lead to the abandonment of the US dollar as the global reserve currency; climate change politics and environmental pollution are leading to global carbon tax proposals; and the geopolitical fight for control of the precious natural resources of Central Asia between the West and myriad combinations of Eastern factions is flaring up. All of these ostensible political and economic cleavages are coming to a head as of late, and will begin to show themselves not as cleavages (more…)

NO MAN IS AN ISLAND

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The myth of the lone wolf and non-state actors in the war on terrorism

Saturday, 25 October 2014

The term “state-sponsored terrorism” is a distinction without a difference. All terrorist organizations that exist today are sponsored in some way by the state – that is of course if you include global financial interests as part of “the state”. If you accept the long-demonstrated seamless relationship between capital pools and political power (in fact the latter is simply an operating arm of the former) as the norm and not the exception, then the entire concept of state-sponsorship of terrorism becomes moot, and the mere attempt to construct such a narrative amounts to a clever attempt to return to the good versus evil paradigm that only serves to obfuscate the truth.

Seen through this lens, the decades-long struggle for control of Central Asia by the West (The New Great Game) becomes clearer. For example, if the last remaining source of petro-dollars were situated in North America, the Eastern States’ political and cultural narrative about the West would be that Christian Fundamentalist Extremists (more…)

THE HUMAN RACE FOR THE CURE

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Healing the planet and ourselves in the twilight of the Kali Yuga

Thursday, 25 September 2014

We are living in the age of the Kali Yuga – the Dark Age. We will transition out of this Dark Age in the year 2025. Whether a new and vitally needed Renaissance of consciousness will accompany this cosmological transition remains to be seen. It is clear, however, that the current paradigm makes the solutions to society’s problems dangerous to the survival of the world as we know it. The pursuit of cures, in the broadest sense, instead of freeing the world, actually threatens the foundations upon which our world currently rests.

To understand the true nature of the cure as it manifests itself in the world, one must first understand the difference between private agendas and public rhetoric, the honne and the tatamae of the oligarchs of society, who are referred to by many names: neo-liberals, globalists, the CFR crowd, or the New World Order. Once one fully grasps the sheer scope of the chasm between the former and latter, the reality that the race for a cure is happening on a treadmill becomes abundantly clear. This shift in consciousness represents the rubicon for understanding the world we live in today. This awareness forever changes the entire shape and color of the universe of possibility for economic, political, social, cultural, and spiritual change.

Nowhere is the race for the cure more prevalent than (more…)

BEING UN-AMERICAN IN AMERICA

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Un-Americans: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Colonial Perspective

Sunday, 16 March 2014

Let me begin by stating emphatically that it is un-American to call or accuse anyone of being un-American. Nowhere is being un-American as rampant as it is in America. Being un-American isn’t to be confused with being anti-American – the former being a state of not being American, the latter being a person who is against America. In order to fully understand this phenomenon, we must ask some fundamental questions that (more…)

ARE YOU AWAKE?

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Evaluating political language in the age of information overload

Wednesday, 11 March 2014

Seeing the amount of spending on political advertising rise to historic levels is certainly cause for serious concern, but perhaps even more threatening to the future of our democracy is the effect these messages have on our psyche. How are we to navigate the morass of messaging we are bombarded with from all sides of the political spectrum, the sole aim of which is to change or strengthen our opinions and biases about x, y, and z, when our minds have been attrited into a catatonic stupor?

I would like to propose that media literacy has actually gotten easier, not more difficult in the current political climate. It isn’t cynicism that brings me to this conclusion. It’s the realization that at the end of the day, there are only a few variables that reliably affect the opinions of the “average citizen”. You might be thinking, “It’s all about the money.” And it is, but there are two important concepts you need to keep in mind when evaluating political language.

Have you ever asked yourself how you form opinions about a particular issue or candidate, or what it would take for you to change your mind about the candidate or issue? The two most significant variables that are likely to affect your opinions about “Candidate X” or “Referendum A” are (more…)