Possible solutions to the worlds problems

The solution to the worlds problem is this:

We need the public to make the decisions at every level of their society

With the internet we have the means to hold votes on every issue at every level

The public should all be involved in the political system on a daily basis. This would give them a stake in the decison making and it would protect them from powerful interest groups

So for example you should be able to vote on local issues that affect your region and immediate community and you should be able to vote on national issues that affect your country as a whole

This is the answer to poltical corruption and to societal imbalances and yet how often do you hear anyone in the media discuss this concept of decentralised people power?

The swiss public vote on issues regularly and i think we should take that even further and decide on everything. This way the people become the government and no one is left out of the loop
 
NXTTY

A free service to send encrypted messages from smart phones:

http://www.nxtty.com/#

[video=vimeo;106090728]http://vimeo.com/106090728[/video]
 
Maidsafe

Decentralized internet

[video=youtube;RdGH40oUVDY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdGH40oUVDY[/video]
 
http://www.theguardian.com/technolo...-to-unlock-your-private-life-must-be-resisted

[h=1]Crypto wars redux: why the FBI's desire to unlock your private life must be resisted[/h] In 1995, the US government tried – and failed – to categorise encryption as a weapon. Today, the same lines are being drawn and the same tactics repeated as the FBI wants to do the same. Here’s why they are wrong, and why they must fail again
Your iPhone is now encrypted. The FBI says it’ll help kidnappers. Who do you believe?



Eric Holder, the outgoing US attorney general, has joined the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in calling for the security of all computer systems to be fatally weakened. This isn’t a new project – the idea has been around since the early 1990s, when the NSA classed all strong cryptography as a “munition” and regulated civilian use of it to ensure that they had the keys to unlock any technological countermeasures you put around your data.

In 1995, the Electronic Frontier Foundation won a landmark case establishing that code was a form of protected expression under the First Amendment to the US constitution, and since then, the whole world has enjoyed relatively unfettered access to strong crypto.

How strong is strong crypto? Really, really strong. When properly implemented and secured by relatively long keys, cryptographic algorithms can protect your data so thoroughly that all the computers now in existence, along with all the computers likely to ever be created, could labour until the sun went nova without uncovering the keys by “brute force” – ie trying every possible permutation of password.
The “crypto wars” of the early 1990s were fuelled by this realisation – that computers were changing the global realpolitik in an historically unprecedented way. Computational crypto made keeping secrets exponentially easier than breaking secrets, meaning that, for the first time in human history, the ability for people without social or political power to keep their private lives truly private from governments, police, and corporations was in our grasp.
The arguments then are the arguments now. Governments invoke the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse (software pirates, organised crime, child pornographers, and terrorists) and say that unless they can decrypt bad guys’ hard drives and listen in on their conversations, law and order is a dead letter.
On the other side, virtually every security and cryptography expert tries patiently to explain that there’s no such thing as “a back door that only the good guys can walk through” (hat tip to Bruce Schneier). Designing a computer that bad guys can’t break into is impossible to reconcile with designing a computer that good guys can break into.
If you give the cops a secret key that opens the locks on your computerised storage and on your conversations, then one day, people who aren’t cops will get hold of that key, too. The same forces that led to bent cops selling out the public’s personal information to Glen Mulcaire and the tabloid press will cause those cops’ successors to sell out access to the world’s computer systems, too, only the numbers of people who are interested in these keys to the (United) Kingdom will be much larger, and they’ll have more money, and they’ll be able to do more damage.
That’s really the argument in a nutshell. Oh, we can talk about whether the danger is as grave as the law enforcement people say it is, point out that only a tiny number of criminal investigations run up against cryptography, and when they do, these investigations always find another way to proceed. We can talk about the fact that a ban in the US or UK wouldn’t stop the “bad guys” from getting perfect crypto from one of the nations that would be able to profit (while US and UK business suffered) by selling these useful tools to all comers. But that’s missing the point: even if every crook was using crypto with perfect operational security, the proposal to back-door everything would still be madness.
Because your phone isn’t just a tool for having the odd conversation with your friends – nor is it merely a tool for plotting crime – though it does duty in both cases. Your phone, and all the other computers in your life, they are your digital nervous system. They know everything about you. They have cameras, microphones, location sensors. You articulate your social graph to them, telling them about all the people you know and how you know them. They are privy to every conversation you have. They hold your logins and passwords for your bank and your solicitor’s website; they’re used to chat to your therapist and the STI clinic and your rabbi, priest or imam.
That device – tracker, confessor, memoir and ledger – should be designed so that it is as hard as possible to gain unauthorised access to. Because plumbing leaks at the seams, and houses leak at the doorframes, and lie-lows lose air through their valves. Making something airtight is much easier if it doesn’t have to also allow the air to all leak out under the right circumstances.
There is no such thing as a vulnerability in technology that can only be used by nice people doing the right thing in accord with the rule of law. The existing “back doors” in network switches, mandated under US laws such as CALEA, have become the go-to weak-spot for cyberwar and industrial espionage. It was Google’s lawful interception backdoor that let the Chinese government raid the Gmail account of dissidents. It was the lawful interception backdoor in Greece’s national telephone switches that let someone – identity still unknown – listen in on the Greek Parliament and prime minister during a sensitive part of the 2005 Olympic bid (someone did the same thing the next year in Italy).
The most shocking Snowden revelation wasn’t the mass spying (we already knew about that, thanks to whistleblowers like Mark Klein, who spilled the beans in 2005). It was the fact that the UK and US spy agencies were dumping $250,000,000/year into sabotaging operating systems, hardware, and standards, to ensure that they could always get inside them if they wanted to. The reason this was so shocking was that these spies were notionally doing this in the name of “national security”– but they were dooming everyone in the nation (and in every other nation) to using products that had been deliberately left vulnerable to attack by anyone who independently discovered the sabotage.
There is only one way to make the citizens of the digital age secure, and that is to give them systems designed to lock out everyone except their owners. The police have never had the power to listen in on every conversation, to spy upon every interaction. No system that can only sustain itself by arrogating these powers can possibly be called “just.”
 
http://www.coindesk.com/block-chain-aid-fight-free-speech/

[h=1]How Bitcoin’s Block Chain Could Stop History Being Rewritten[/h] Nozomi Hayase (@nozomimagine) | Published on October 15, 2014 at 11:46 BST

Despite the recent drop in bitcoin’s price, cryptocurrency startups are now attracting more investment than ever and stories about major developments in the bitcoin ecosystem are being picked up by mainstream media on a regular basis.
The New York Times reported the news that popular bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain had raised $30.5m in financing. Last week, Time published an article titled How Bitcoin Can Save Journalism and the Arts, exploring bitcoin’s micropayment capability for creating a new model of content distribution that is free from advertising.
Yet, long before this new interest and innovation sparked outside the tech community, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange was seeing the promise of the bitcoin technology beyond currency.
The confluence of this stateless digital currency and the iconic whistle-blowing site first emerged when WikiLeaks faced a financial blockade by Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union, which reportedly blocked 95% of their revenue.
Bitcoin was used to circumvent the banking blockade. Here the advocates for the free flow of decentralized currency joined the fight for free speech.
[h=2]The WikiLeaks-bitcoin alliance[/h] In his conversation with Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt documented in his new book When Google Met WikiLeaks, Assange described bitcoin as “something that evolved out of the cypherpunks” and explained in detail the underpinning technology that made it possible for WikiLeaks to counteract the state’s economic censorship.
However, it seems this is just the tip of the iceberg of the WikiLeaks-bitcoin alliance and the revolutionary potential hidden within the encryption-based network. The ramifications of bitcoin technology go far beyond the economic domain.
Appearing in the form of a hologram at The Nantucket Project conference, Assange spoke of the significance of the block chain, the underlying technology of bitcoin, particularly in relation to journalism and holding those in power to account.
Assange addressed the use of the block chain to create an historical archive. Calling bitcoin “the most interesting intellectual development on the Internet in the last five years”, he described how the underlying architecture can be used for “providing proof of publishing at a certain time”.
See a video of Assange’s comments below:

<em>[video=youtube;MaB3Zw5_p9c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaB3Zw5_p9c[/video]


The block chain’s premise seemed to unite with WikiLeaks’ mission. In April 2010, Assange took the stage at the Oslo Freedom Forum, where he warned of the enormous force of control and power within the Internet and increasing censorship that threatens the free flow of information.
He spoke of the vital role of human intellectual content in civilization and described how, in this age of technology, everything is moving to digital. This power, often accrued by an unelected few, has increased through control of digital storage and access to information. This makes possible the erasing or altering of information that is critical to the historical record. He pointed out:
“We are now approaching the state of Orwell’s dictum, perfect dictum, that ‘he who controls the present controls the past’. He who controls the Internet servers controls the intellectual record of mankind, and by controlling that, controls our perception of who we are, and by controlling that, controls what laws and regulations we make in society.”
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[h=2]Preserving history[/h] Dismantling this force of control has been WikiLeaks’ mission. By employing its method of transparency in the form of ‘scientific journalism’, they aimed to open governments and reveal their actions behind closed doors.
Through liberating the flow of information that had been stagnated by secrecy, complexity and manipulation, the organization strove to break Orwell’s dictum and bring the power to shape history into the hands of ordinary people.
Four years later, WikiLeaks is still on the front lines of this battle. In his new book, Assange again addressed the escalating implementation of Orwell’s dictum.
Giving an example of an incident where the Guardian pulled six articles from 2003 without explanation, he emphasized how WikiLeaks’ primary focus was to preserve “politically salient intellectual content while it is under attack” by going after information that has been suppressed or deleted.
[h=2]Doing away with trust[/h] Assange found a solution in the evolving block-chain technology. This provides decentralized solutions to the problems of centralized time stamping, as this requires trust in central authority, making it susceptible to third-party alteration and intervention.
Bitcoin’s distributed trust network can offer immunity from central control of any historical record. Assange described the basic premise of this technology as a network of consensus where “you can prove a particular statement, particular consensus and particular contract that happened at a particular time globally and it requires the subversion of every single jurisdiction where people are running bitcoin to overturn that”.
“The invention of the block chain further empowers people and challenges the insidious culture of ownership and control.”
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In a nutshell, he noted: “bitcoin’s underlying technology breaks Orwell’s dictum”.
Some people have already used the block chain to store more than just transactions. In his blog, Ken Shirriff documented the result of his search through the block-chain ‘database’, reporting his discovery of interesting things including Satoshi Nakamoto’s white-paper, an image of Nelson Mandela and a 2.5-megabyte WikiLeaks cablegate backup. This information is now securely documented and cannot be erased or modified by anyone.
Proof of Existence is an example of the application of decentralized proof. This online service provides a way for people to publicly prove the existence of documents without revealing the data or their identity through bitcoin’s decentralized trust network.
It is a continuation of the earlier waves of decentralization of information seen in the last decade with the rise of Wikipedia, through its open-source collaborative production of a historical record – an online decentralized encyclopedia.
[h=2]Freedom from control[/h] Just as the Internet brought the everyday person the power to create their own narratives, the invention of the block chain further empowers people and challenges the insidious culture of ownership and control.
With unprecedented currency crises and government corruption, people are increasingly looking for alternatives to state and corporate control. As more begin to move into bitcoin to avoid government debasement, it isn’t far-fetched to imagine how this stateless public asset ledger could also become a new safe haven for investigative journalism and whistle-blowers.
A lot has happened since that day in Oslo when Assange identified the conundrum of our age. As the battle to break Orwell’s dictum intensifies, we now have in our hands a great tool to open up society.
Bitcoin can not only be used to fund revolutionary journalism like WikiLeaks, but also offers a decentralized platform for anyone to directly combat state censorship of information and create transparency for those in power.
The invention of bitcoin is just one crest of the continuous waves of a cryptographic revolution. As Assange said, this could free us from Orwell’s dictum.
In a time of seemingly universal deceit, reclaiming our past on the block chain is quickly becoming a revolutionary act.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of, and should not be attributed to, CoinDesk.
 
http://www.naturalnews.com/047288_psychological_attachment_self-sabotage_controlling_people.html#

[h=1]Four signs that you are letting yourself be controlled by other people[/h]

Friday, October 17, 2014 by: Mike Bundrant

Who wants to be subtly controlled by other people and larger systems?

It seems that lots of people do. Yet, few come right out and admit it. In fact, if you have a desire to be controlled, chances are nearly 100% that you are hiding this desire from yourself. It's buried deep!

How do you uncover it, then?

Look at your behavior. Trace the behavior's origin and connect the dots. This is something that most mental health professionals cannot do with you, unfortunately. But you'll learn to do it right here in this post.

[h=2]If you show one or more of the following signs, then you may very well be harboring a secret desire to let someone else call the shots[/h]Follow the logic behind each point and see if it applies to you.

[h=3]1. You don't speak up[/h]You're with someone or in a group. Ideas are flying all around. Just not your ideas. Of course, you have things to add. You have thoughts, talents and observations. You could even dispute some of the conclusions that are developing right in front of your eyes.

But no. You clam up, resisting the opportunity to participate. Look closely at your resistance. Beneath it you may find:

Fear. What will happen if they reject me?

Self-criticism. The voice in your head that says, "Your ideas are stupid."

Resignation. Who cares, there's nothing to be done, anyway.

All of these thoughts and feelings lead you into the safety of keeping a lid on yourself. Safety: A warm blanket of pleasure that keeps you insulated. Safety is a form of emotional pleasure. It is this pleasure that you seek by withholding yourself. You want freedom from the perceived risk.

[h=3]2. You can't say no[/h]People want things from you. They need favors. They expect things and aren't afraid to hold you accountable.

You tend to sign on for whatever people want, even when you simply cannot do it all. Saying "yes" to everything leads you into a miserable trap. You constantly have more to do than you can get done -- and people are not very understanding.

Let's look at this misery trap. Inside it you might find:

Resentment. How can people take advantage of me like this?

Fear. If I say no, people will hate me.

Guilt. If I say no, I am not a good person.

Resentment, fear and guilt are powerful emotions. Dealing with any of them would require leveling with people and putting yourself in a position of vulnerability. They might not like you. They might think that you are selfish. They might break ties with you.

Rather than take this risk, you opt for the oh-so-familiar role of taking on the burden yourself. This familiar role is where you find your safety from conflict.

We're back to safety -- which, again, is a warm blanket of insulation.

[h=3]3. You tell yourself that it doesn't matter[/h]You could open up and let people know who you are. You could express your opinions and make things happen. You could take a stand in life -- your stand.

But, instead, you roll your eyes, sigh and tell yourself that it doesn't matter. Nothing will change. Nothing works out in the end anyway.

What's behind that sigh? You got it. The safety of retreat and relief.

[h=3]4. You make yourself helpless[/h]You have dreams. You can set goals and make plans to make the world a better place. Yet, as with all goals and plans, the going eventually gets tough. When obstacles arise, you cave in, pack up and go home.

Making yourself helpless by seeing common obstacles as insurmountable is a common way to embrace helplessness. What's behind the helplessness?

The desire to be taken care of. The safety of avoiding potential failure. Who doesn't want to feel safe and be taken care of?

Finding safety in withholding yourself and retreating from opportunities is so compelling that some of us do it our entire lives. We simply aren't willing to take the social and emotional risks to make things different.

The problem is, there is a trade off. You buy the pleasure of safety with your sacrificed intelligence and lack of participation, as well as your forgotten desires and dreams. It's a self-destructive purchase.

[h=2]How to proceed if you are doing anything close to the above[/h]Own it.

This is always the first step. You cannot gain conscious choice about anything that lies squarely outside of your conscious awareness. Be honest with yourself. You can even say to yourself, "I prefer the pleasure of emotional safety over the risk and rewards of taking a stand in life."

Ok. There you are. What next?

Educate yourself about how your psyche has been turning these self-destructive acts into acts that lead to the pleasure of perceived emotional safety. This is self-sabotage. It's created by negative psychological attachments that were put in place a long time ago. Not many people are discussing the roots of self-sabotage these days, but you need to educate yourself anyway.

Watch this enlightening free video about how self-sabotage works at the deepest level. Then, you can begin to work your way out of it.

If you find yourself persisting in painful things and quitting things that give you joy, then you should read this article.

If you like this article, then like my Facebook Page to keep up with all my writing.

About the author:
Watch the free video The AHA! Process: An End to Self-Sabotage and discover the lost keys to personal transformation and emotional well-being that have been suppressed by mainstream mental health for decades.

The information in this video has been called the missing link in mental health and personal development. In a world full of shallow, quick-fix techniques, second rate psychology and pharmaceutical takeovers, real solutions have become nearly impossible to find. Click here to watch the presentation that will turn your world upside down.

Mike Bundrant is co-founder of the iNLP Center and host of Mental Health Exposed, a Natural News Radio program.

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[h=1]Max Igan - Deprogramming the Collective - The Rediscovery of the Self[/h]
[video=youtube;FrPY9lirpiQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrPY9lirpiQ[/video]
 
http://www.fullcirclenow.net/

[h=2]The Mission[/h] To embark on initiatives to bring mankind Full Circle back into their natural state of abundance
through positive common sense action undertaken by the people themselves.

[h=2]Goals of The Full Circle Project[/h] * To highlight the effects of rampant modernization and the loss of natural and shamanistic traditions has had, both upon the collective human psyche, and upon our home, the Earth. * To promote the global implementation of local workshops designed to re-educate people and demonstrate the folly of basing existence wholly upon an economic model. * To demonstrate the need to now, more than ever, blend the old ways with the new, as a means of creating an abundant and vibrant future for all. * To promote initiatives aimed at uniting the people of the world in a celebration of art, life and the uniqueness and diversity of human creative expression. * To create links, connections and dialogues with the masters, the shamans, the artists, the gardeners, and the everyday people of each respective culture. * To promote the sharing of information and empowerment via public speaking events, gatherings, festivals, workshops and ongoing community initiatives. * To work to affect positive change through direct engagement with leaders, political figures and common people. * To clearly show the need for mankind to reign our public trustees (Governments) back into their proper position of public servants, rather than the self styled rulers they have become. (This action must be undertaken as a matter of necessity in order to secure a viable, healthy and abundant future for all life on this planet.) * To undertake community action initiatives enabling the people to firmly stand as an impenetrable barrier to the corporate rape, business sponsored and government approved destruction currently waging unchecked across this planet. * To promote and commence initiatives aimed at the reforestation of the Earth. * To work to help construct and implement local agricultural co-operatives designed to create abundance and financial freedom for the participants. * To Empower and fund local communities with permaculture and self sufficiency initiatives. * To take immediate action to save the Amazonian Rainforests. It is imperative that a fund be created to be used for purchasing large sections of Amazonian rainforest to hold in trust for future generations. This will be where a large portion of funds are used. * To expose, and free mankind from the clutches the Global Central Banking system through private initiatives undertaken by the people themselves. * To work tirelessly to unite the peoples of Earth to the common cause of freedom and abundance for all, free of any corporate imposed restraints or economic slavery. * To implement decisive action designed to place the balance of power back into the hands of the people of Earth. Please help to make The Full Circle Project a reality Connect with people in your community today

[video=youtube;k8UGAcDxv_E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8UGAcDxv_E[/video]
 
An article from zero hedge speaking about what methods governments use to get countries out of debt

They look at a few different options all of which make governments VERY unpopular with the public before discussing a 4th option called FINANCIAL REPRESSION which is a way of taking money from the public without the public knowing who to blame; this way the government does not get a backlash from the public

It's a great article but it's presumming that the el-ites WANT to rescue capitalism! Really the aim of the el-ites is to change the system to a state-socialist system where a group of banksters run the economy centrally and the rest of us have no say in the decision making process...which is to say that democracy would be dead

Such a system needs strong police state apparatus in order to control the public who would inevitably end up feeling like they were living in the hunger games; we are seeing that police state being built...so that aspect fits in to the hypothesis

But perhaps even if they DO aim to change the system like that into an even more centrally controlled, planned economy they might still impose FINANCIAL REPRESSION as a tool of social control and as a justification for the change in the system

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-20/will-our-private-savings-be-sacrificed-pay-down-public-debt

Will Our Private Savings Be Sacrificed To Pay Down The Public Debt?


Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/20/2014 16:26 -0400

Submitted by Adam Taggart via Peak Prosperity,
Recently, an article by Daniel Amerman caught our attention. Titled Is There A “Back Door” Method For The Government To Pay Down The Federal Debt Using Private Savings?, it details the process known as financial repression, where sovereign debts are slowly paid off by syphoning private savings from an unaware populace.
In this week's podcast, Chris discusses the mechanics of the process, as well as its probability, with Dan:
To understand financial repression, we have to understand that we've been there before. Many nations have gone through periods in the past where they've had very high levels of government debt. And there are four traditional ways of dealing with that.

One of them is austerity. Everyone understands that. You raise the tax rates. You lower the government spending. This is a painful choice. It can last for decades. And what do you think the voters think about that?

There is another option and this we can call this the Argentina option. And that's defaulting on government debts. It’s radical. Everybody understands it. How do the voters feel about it?

There is a third option is rapidly destroying the value of currency. Creating high rates of inflation that very quickly wipe out the true value of a national debt. But that also wipes out the true value of everyone else’s savings and salaries and so forth. It is such an obvious process you can’t really hide it. So how do the voters feel about that?

Those first three – they all work. They've all been done before. But they're all very painful and make the voters very angry.

Now there is a fourth way of doing this. There's nothing controversial about its existence; it's not the slightest bit controversial for professional economists or people who have studied economics extensively. It's financial repression. And it works. It's what the advanced western nations did after World War II. It was a process that took 25 to 30 years, depending on the country. The West went from an average debt as a percentage of national economy from over 90% to under 30%. So we know it works in practice.

To understand what this fourth alternative is where governments like to go is that there are no political repercussions. It's actually just as painful for the population as a whole. You've got to get the money one way or another. But financial repression is, for most people, just complex enough that the average voter never gets it. And because they don’t get it, they're paying the penalty, but they don’t realize it. And they don't see anyone to blame. That's really good if you want to stay in office.

The key is a concept called negative real interest rates. If the rate of inflation is higher than the interest payments you are taking in, savers are losing purchasing power every year. Remember, this is a zero sum game between the borrower and the saver -- with the saver funding the borrower. Every dollar in purchasing power that the savers, which are you and I, are losing every year -- that goes to the benefit of the borrower, which in this case is the Federal government.
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Click the play button below to listen to Chris' interview with Daniel Amerman (56m:04s):

[video=youtube;y596KAzXbAw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y596KAzXbAw#t=674[/video]
 
http://peacefulstreets.com/about/

Peaceful Streets Project

Protect And Serve Each Other

[h=1]About[/h] The Peaceful Streets Project is an all-volunteer, grassroots effort uniting people to end the institutional violence taking place on our streets. Through community organizing and direct action tactics, the Peaceful Streets Project seeks to support communities in understanding, exercising, and standing up for our rights.

Vision: A society free of state-sponsored institutionalized violence.
Mission: Through community organizing, engaging in non-political and non-violent direct action tactics, and utilizing new technologies, the Peaceful Streets Project seeks to bring about a cultural shift where individuals understand their rights and hold law enforcement officials accountable, and communities protect and serve each other.
To fulfill our mission, the Peaceful Streets Project is undertaking the following actions:

  1. Ongoing, free training sessions on knowing your rights in police encounters and on recording police activity safely and responsibly. Please contact us if you are interested in hosting a training for your community.
  2. Ongoing “Police Complaint Department” events in public spaces to enable people to go on record with their stories of police abuse. Click here for samples of testimonies collected so far.
  3. Ongoing “cop watch” actions (peacefully video-witnessing police activity to assist those who may be victims of police misconduct). Peaceful Streets volunteers bearing witness in cop watch actions should adhere to the PSP Cop Watch Code of Conduct.
  4. Annual Police Accountability Summit, featuring a free, full day of workshops, speakers, and live testimonies of experiences of police abuse. This year the 2nd Annual Police Accountability Summit will be held on August 17th, 2013, at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center on the University of Texas campus in Austin. This year’s event will feature speakers and performers who are coming in from around the nation. Last year, on July 14th, 2012, over 200 people from all walks of life attended the First Annual Police Accountability Summit, where the Peaceful Streets raised funds to place 100 free cameras in the hands of community members willing to monitor police in their neighborhoods. See photos and learn more about the event here.
  5. Continuously building alliances with other community initiatives in chapter cities across the nation to support one another’s work.
  6. Supporting similar efforts across the country.
History
The Peaceful Streets Project has its roots in a story of police abuse and corruption. On New Year’s Day 2012, Antonio Buehler was a designated driver who pulled into a 7-11 in downtown Austin to fuel up his truck. At the gas station he pulled into, there was a DUI stop in progress. As Buehler and his passenger were about to leave, they heard a violent scream. They turned and saw one of the cops (Robert Snider) ripping the female passenger out of the car and throwing her to the ground. The other cop (Patrick Oborski) then ran over and joined in. As they twisted the victim’s arms behind her in what is a torture move, she cried out more. Buehler pulled out his blackberry and attempted to take pictures. When the victim saw Buehler, she begged him to please record the incident. Buehler then began yelling at the cops, telling them that she had done nothing wrong and demanded that they stop assaulting her.
After they picked her up, cuffed her and walked her toward the rear squad car, Oborski turned and approached Buehler. Oborski got in Buehler’s face and demanded to know who Buehler thought he was. Buehler said it didn’t matter who he was and that he had a right to take pictures. Oborski kept moving in on Buehler, Buehler took a couple steps back, and as Oborski raised his voice, Buehler raised his. Then Oborski shoved Buehler by hitting him in the chest area. Buehler shouted at him, telling Oborski to stop touching him. Oborski pushed Buehler back until he was trapped between Oborski and the bed of the truck. Oborski continued to push on Buehler, as Buehler leaned back over the bed of the truck, and then Oborski told Buehler that he was under arrest, put him in a choke hold, took him to the ground and cuffed him. Later, Oborski would told Buehler that ‘you don’t f*** with the police, you f***** with the wrong cop, and now you’re going to learn your f****** lesson!”
That lesson was being charged with a felony crime of spitting in a cop’s face which carries 2-10 years in prison. Buehler and his passenger began a campaign to get witnesses to step forward, and thankfully several did; each one willing to testify that the cops assaulted Buehler, and that Buehler did not spit in Oborski’s face. One witness then told took cell phone video of the assault, and published it on YouTube. The media ran with the story.
In Austin several people stepped forward. Pam Farley set up a legal defense fund, Harold Gray and others organized a couple of protests, and people from around the country started calling into local radio shows to demand accountability. Despite overwhelming evidence that the cops were the ones that committed the crimes that night, they did not back down. After the passenger (who was falsely arrested on a public intoxication charge) told the media her story, Austin Police came back a week later and charged her with two additional bogus crimes – resisting arrest and failure to obey a lawful order. The legal defense fund was able to cover the victims’ court fees, but each still has charges pending against them.
In the month that followed the New Year’s Day incident, numerous people approached Buehler to tell him their own stories of police abuse (to include being framed, violently assaulted and even raped), and none for personal gain, but just to encourage him to continue his fight. Buehler said that because of his West Point and Stanford background, his military service, his non-profit work, no criminal history, the circumstances of his arrest, the witnesses and video, and because he was not Black or Hispanic, he was building a strong base of supporters that spanned socio-economic, political and racial boundaries. He teamed with some local activists, namely John Bush, Harold Gray and Kaja Tretjak, to use his new platform to launch the Peaceful Streets Project to fight back against police abuse. The original vision for the Peaceful Streets Project was to be a non-violent, non-partisan, direct action grassroots effort to change culture so that people know their rights, stand up for their rights and the rights of others in order to curb police violence.
They organized the 1st Annual Peaceful Streets Project Police Accountability Summit, which was a big success. At the event they handed out 100 cameras to people in need so they could record interactions with the police. The Peaceful Streets Project then built on that success; they were named the Grassroots Activist Movement of the year in Central Texas, and they have since launched 14 new chapters from Honolulu to Sandusky (OH) to Manchester (NH). They have put a spotlight on criminal cop behavior, and for that they have been targeted and wrongfully arrested a couple more times, and they have even received death threats from cops. Their tactics have been innovative. In Manchester (NH) they use lasers to warn drivers about police checkpoints and they send letters to people who have been arrested for victimless crimes. In New York City they have written cops tickets and have conducted guerilla know your rights trainings in the subways. While in Austin they hold monthly corrupt cop of the month protests. Through these diverse and sustained tactics, the Peaceful Streets Project has also seen marked positive changes in the behavior of cops towards the people they interact with.
The fight for police accountability is on the verge of becoming a national social movement and the Peaceful Streets Project is leading the way. That is why the Peaceful Streets Project is hosting the 2nd Annual Police Accountability Summit in Austin. It’s free to the public, with free food and childcare, so that the people most likely to become victims of police abuse can attend. The keynotes are Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, and Radley Balko of the Huffington Post who just wrote a new book, Rise of the Warrior Cop. This event will be a celebration of the success we’ve had over the past year, and it will be used to propel the movement onto a national stage as we spread to cities in all corners of the country (and eventually, the world).
For more about Antonio’s case and the rise of the Peaceful Streets Project, check out this video, courtesy of our friends at copblock.org:

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We are currently looking for volunteers as well as donors and sponsors to help us build and expand!
Get involved!

  • E-mail peacefulstreets@gmail.com or call us at (512) 981-7675 to volunteer or request a training for your community!
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    You can also donate via snail mail:
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Many thanks for taking the time to learn about our work.
 
Reconnection with gaia....with the guiding light, the grail

The Gaia Navigation Experiment

Info on the following website; background explained in the awesome talk by John Lash posted at the bottom of the post

http://www.metahistory.org/index.php

The gaia navigation experiment

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Metahistory is a path beyond the received scripts of history and culture, toward a world free from enslavement to historical lies and unexamined beliefs.

Humanity is a species endangered by its beliefs, and most of all, its religious illusion of superiority. To go beyond history is not solely a human prerogative, for the path ahead is not ours alone, but the way of all sentient beings.

Closely aligned with deep ecology, and going deeper, this site develops open source spirituality that can reflect the innate sanity of humankind. It explores the question of what is a true planetary view, a way to live bonded intimately to the earth and coevolving with the non-human world. Toward that end, it invites a future myth, a storyto guide the species and align one person at a time to Gaia, the living planet....
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Knowledge of that which is alive can alone banish terror.
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It is also the exclusive source on the Internet for the inception of Planetary Tantra, an experimental path of interactive magic with Gaia.
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This essay contains an important message to readers of Not in His Image regarding corrections in the nine-episode version of the Sophianic myth in Ch.10 of that book, and elsewhere on this site. The corrections are minor but crucial, as they concern the identity and function of the Aeon Christos seen in the Gnostic perspective, contrasted to the view of convential Christianity.
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This essay (originally written in July 2011) describes the background of my discovery of the Terma of Gaia Awakening, sets outs its unique features, and presents nine standards or criteria for establishing the authenticity of wisdom treasures in Gaian Tantra.

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The Way Beyond Belief

Orientation to Metahistory​
One aim of Metahistory.org is to encourage and support belief-change. Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." Rephrased in metahistorical terms, "The unexamined belief is not worth holding." Easy enough to say, perhaps, but how many of the beliefs that you hold have you really examined?

Are the beliefs you hold innate to you, based on your own experience and judgment, or acquired from others without choice or examination on your part? You have the right to believe whatever you like, but is what you believe truly right for you, or is it someone else's idea of what you ought to believe?

Belief, by definition, depends on suspension of critical judgement. The power of beliefs inheres mainly in the fact that they cannot be judged, rationally refuted, or critically disproven—or proven. They are "unfalsifiable," to use Carl Popper's term. Beliefs may be patently absurd and ridiculous on face value, but those who adopt them are empowered... continue
All writings © John Lamb Lash and Lydia Dzumardjin.

Thanks for looking this way.​
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http://www.ocalapost.com/entire-cou...owing-citizens-arrest-by-2-military-veterans/

[h=1]Entire county board arrested following citizens arrest by 2 military veterans[/h]
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Clark County, Illinois — Sometimes citizens can be so frustrated with county board members they wish someone could just place them under arrest. Well, that is exactly what citizens in Clark County, Illinois did .
Illinois’ number one manufactured product is corruption. More than 95 percent of the Illinois legislature is safe in gerrymandered districts. The incumbent governor has three current federal investigations of his administration, but the Attorney General/state’s attorney class can’t find public vice anywhere.
Residents that voted in the recent election said they are hoping officials have learned from the past mistakes of others.
So what can the law abiding citizen do? The answer is coming from some regular guys in southern Illinois who decided to hold public officials accountable. They call themselves the “Watchdogs.”
Kirk Allen and John Kraft — two military veterans — live in Edgar County which just might be the most corrupt county in the country. For a couple of watchdogs, it’s a target rich environment.
In an effort to take back their government from self-serving politicians and bureaucrats, Kraft and Allen established a group called the Edgar County Watchdogs. Through a combination of public pressure, Freedom of Information filings, lawsuits, and media exposure, they have created a system that deeply threatens Illinois’ corrupt, entrenched political establishment. They operate a blog called Illinois Leaks that exposes corruption at the state and local levels. The blog is so popular that, it is trusted more than the local paper.
Considering the fact that, according to Forbes, their home county’s government has racked up over $79 million in debt all on its own while serving only 18,000 residents, Kraft and Allen have their work cut out for them.
By relentlessly pursuing justice for even the smallest infractions by bureaucrats and politicians, the Edgar County Watchdogs have driven 102 public officials to resign from their posts, including 33 officials in Edgar County alone. The pair busted the mayor of Redmond for attempting to hold office while living out of town. They represented themselves in court and beat Illinois Assistant Attorney General Emma Steimel in a lawsuit seeking access to state e-mails. Officials who have resigned due to the Watchdogs’ efforts include a property tax assessor, the Edgar County board chairman, an entire airport board and its manager, the attorney for Kansas Township’s fire department, Shiloh’s superintendent of schools, and Effingham’s health department administrator, among others. After they exposed corrupt, illegal, and self-serving spending habits by the Ford-Iroquois County health department, the entire bureaucracy was dissolved. In some cases, federal agents have even stepped in to investigate and issue subpoenas to local officials after receiving tips from Kraft and Allen.
Public boards are used to facing angry crowds, but most have never encountered what happened at one recent meeting in central Illinois.
In what was one of their most epic displays of political crime-fighting, which was captured on video, Allen and Kraft held the entire Clark County Park District Board under citizen’s arrest on May 13, 2014, for violating the Illinois Open Meetings Act, a Class C misdemeanor.
When asked if there would be public comment, one of the board members said, “I vote no.” Followed by five other board members.
Board attorney, Kate Yargus, could be heard on video saying there would be no public comment that night, and told the board members they were “free to go,” even after Kraft’s citizen’s arrest announcement. She tried to cite statute to Kraft, but before she could finish, he said, “Just sit down, you are making yourself look like a fool.”
Deputies were dispatched to the scene, but instead, Clark County Sheriff, Jerry Parsley, personally responded that night. Parsley said he knew it was a heated situation and felt it would be best if he handled it. He said that Kraft handled the citizen’s arrest responsibly, and the board was definitely in violation of the Open Meetings Act by not allowing the public to speak.
“It’s not that they should have. They’re mandated to,” Parsley said. “The people need to have their voice. It’s not a dictatorship. It’s a democracy.”
The sheriff arrested six of the board members. The seventh board member was not arrested because he voted against the other members. As they were escorted out of the building, the crowd cheered.
The board had previously laughed at the watchdog group, calling them trouble makers; however, the Sheriff and the State Attorney’s Office didn’t see it that way.
Kraft said, “Every citizen, in every state, county, and city, should take note. Make sure their local government officials are working for the people, and not for themselves.”
A lawsuit against the board is still pending. Their nest board meeting is scheduled for late November.
–Barry Donegan, Adam Andrzejewski, and the Better Government Association contributed to this story.–
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-child-actors-set-reveal-names-molesters.html

[h=1]New bombshell documentary set to reveal names of Hollywood's child actor abusers[/h]
  • An Open Secret, by Oscar-nominated documentarian Amy Berg, will debut at the DOC NYC festival on Friday
  • It features interviews with men who say they were sexually abused by Hollywood agents or movie bigwigs when they were children
  • Among the men named are talent managers Marty Weiss, Michael Harrah and Bob Villard, who represented Leonardo DiCaprio as a child
  • It also includes interviews with Michael Egan III who accused X-Men director Bryan Singer of raping him before dropping his suit earlier this year
By Lydia Warren for MailOnline
Published: 21:05, 12 November 2014 | Updated: 13:05, 13 November 2014


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Filmmaker: Amy Berg's documentary 'An Open Secret' will lift the lid on Hollywood's sex abuse

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An explosive documentary debuting at a New York film festival on Friday is set to name a list of men who have allegedly sexually abused minors in Hollywood.
An Open Secret, a documentary by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg, will screen at the DOC NYC festival on November 14, the Hollywood Reporter revealed.
It features interviews with men who say they were sexually abused or exploited by Hollywood agents or movie bigwigs when they were children.
Among the men named are managers Marty Weiss, Michael Harrah and Bob Villard - Leonardo DiCaprio's former agent - and internet company owners Marc Collins-Rector and Chad Shackley.
Collins-Rector and Shackley hit headlines earlier this year after former child model Micheal Egan III sensationally accused X-Men director Bryan Singer of abusing him at pool parties held by the duo.
MailOnline revealed in April that Egan was working with Berg on the then-unnamed documentary.
Egan ultimately dropped his suits against Singer and three others, TV exec Garth Ancier, former Disney exec David Neuman and producer Gary Goddard, after it emerged that some of his statements had been inconsistent.
An attorney for Bryan Singer also hit out at Berg, questioning why Egan's allegations were included, calling the decision to use someone with 'no credibility at all' 'disappointing and pathetic'.
Despite this, Berg, who worked on the documentary for two years, said that she believes Egan is a credible, valid part of her film.
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Accuser: Michael Egan III, pictured in April after he filed lawsuits against four Hollywood figures, appears in the film and recounts the alleged abuse he witnessed at pool parties hosted by internet company bosses

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Lawsuit: Egan, pictured left as a boy, accused X-Men director Bryan Singer, right, of abuse but later dropped the lawsuits after it emerged he had given inconsistent stories. Singer has always denied the abuse

'The question is, if you are an adult at one of these parties where so much is going on out in the open, what is your responsibility?' she told Hollywood Reporter, adding that his story was not unique.
Egan's account is 'only one aspect of the story. It's a much greater issue. When you meet the victims and see how prevalent this problem is, it's difficult to ignore.'
Her film looks at, in part, internet company Digital Entertainment Network, which was led by Collins-Rector and Chad Shackley, who held the alcohol-fueled parties attended by teen boys.

Rector-Collins was jailed in 2004 after pleading guilty to transporting minors across state lines to have sex with them. He was last believed to be in the Dominican Republic and renounced his American citizenship in 2011.
The film also looks at Marty Weiss, who pleaded no contest in 2012 to two counts of committing lewd acts on a child after he was charged with molesting a young performer he represented.
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Named: The film also looks at accusations that Marc Collins-Rector, an internet company owner, pictured, hosted pool parties for men and young boys

His alleged victim told police in 2011 that he had sex with Weiss 30 to 40 times and the abuse ended when he turned 15 years old.
Weiss is seen in Berg's film attending family meetings with one of his victims and is heard on tape admitting to molesting the child, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film also names Bob Villard, who represented Leonardo DiCaprio when he was a boy, who pleaded no contest to a felony charge in 2005 after he allegedly sold lewd pictures of boys on eBay.
Michael Harrah, a talent manager, is also accused in the film of having young boys stay with him in his home and of attempting to take at least one of them to bed.
In response, Harrah told The Hollywood Reporter: 'It's hard to respond to anything that is so nebulous.'
In a clip of the movie previously shared with Elle, one former child actor talks about the abuse he suffered at the hands of one of the men.
Berg explains that the clip 'depicts a former actor whose childhood dreams were destroyed by one man and covered up by the film industry... At 11 years old, he was forced to abandon his dreams and suffer the trauma of being abused.'
The alleged victim describes how the man would take him back to his house and tell him to take off his clothes so he could look at him. The man would also abuse the boy in his home movie theater.
'My memories are of me just sitting in there and being scared,' the now-adult victim recounted. 'We would sit in there and we would watch something, and then he would talk to me while he was doing it and say, "This is nothing to worry about, don't be scared, it's completely normal".
'I remember being scared, and I remember him saying, "come on think about a girl you really like".'
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Accused: Marty Weiss, a talent agent, pleaded no contest in 2012 to two counts of committing lewd acts

Berg, 44, is best known for her 2006 Oscar-nominated documentary Deliver Us From Evil, which looks ay abuse cases in the Roman Catholic Church. It focuses on Oliver O'Grady, who abused many children in California in the late 1970s and early 1990s.
After its success, she was approached by Matthew Valentinas, a Boston entertainment attorney, and hedge fund manager Alan Hoffman, about making the film about sexual abuse in Hollywood.
They pursued the project after listening to interviews where actor Corey Feldman spoke of abuse.
'We chose Amy because we didn't want it to be exploitative or tabloid,' Valentinas said. 'We wanted it to be empowering for the victims.'
And despite the criticisms from some of the men named in the documentary and their attorneys, Berg said she quickly learned that the alleged victims' stories needed to be heard and shared.
'They were all struggling with the same thing: trying to move on 10 years after the fact,' she said.
'I think this was healing for many of them. They also felt that there was a threat to other children, and that was another reason they wanted to speak.'



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On November 20th the british government is going to debate who should control the creation of british money

[video=youtube;QjR6xRN0PjY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjR6xRN0PjY[/video]
 
Invest in renewables:

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[h=1]What is Trillion Fund?[/h]
Trillion Fund is a crowd financing platform for renewable energy projects.
We are a group of developers, asset managers, energy boffins, tech geeks, journalists and campaigners who are all motivated by two things: helping
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We’re called Trillion Fund because this name represents the scale of funding needed worldwide to prevent climate change reaching damaging levels. It’s a
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Cut out the middle men and go direct
We feature a number of ways to back projects: peer-to-project loans, bonds, debentures or shares in a local co-operative or fund.
One of our objectives is to enable people to make their own financial decisions without a financial adviser or broker and to offer transparency: something you don’t often get when deciding where to put your money.
So if it says it is going to a solar farm in Kent, that’s where it is going.
We are also a place to find out more and get excited about the fast-growing and completely essential clean energy sector. Read our FAQs for more.

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Has there ever been a point in time where the public made all the decisions and had all the control? Do people just like to be lead?
 
SpecialEdition said:
Has there ever been a point in time where the public made all the decisions and had all the control? Do people just like to be lead?
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Yes there have been various attempts throughout history by the public to make the decisions and these have been violently opposed by the forces of centralisation

Further to this the forces of spiritual decentralisation such as the gnostics have also been violently suppressed by the forces of centralisation like the vatican
 
muir said:
Yes there have been various attempts throughout history by the public to make the decisions and these have been violently opposed by the forces of centralisation

Further to this the forces of spiritual decentralisation such as the gnostics have also been violently suppressed by the forces of centralisation like the vatican
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I think it will always be that way. I think some people are more comfortable being lead, and someone is always going to want to lead. Unfortunately sometimes people who lead like to abuse the power they get. I do believe human beings are naturally subject to corruption under the right circumstances and those who are not are subject to complacency or just outright ignorance.

I can't imagine how things would have to change for people to have autonomy over their own lives. I like the idea of Libertarianism and religious freedom but I am afraid there's always going to be someone who rises to the top and even if they go into it with the best intentions... they can't please everyone. I think this is why people like to have choices... They can choose a religion, a political party, a sports team, etc and they will stick to that passionately. Now that's not all people of course, but I do think the Western World gets very attached to who they perceive to be the "winning team." How does a society escape this?

Sometimes I think population control is the only way. I think it's really shady and I don't like it, but it seems we're so crowded into each other that we can't escape each others influence. How do you break free when you're locked in a room with a bunch of people locked in chains?
 
SpecialEdition said:
I think it will always be that way.
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I think its already changing and the kind of discussions and sharing of informatuion going on right now on the internet is all part of that change

One of the ways the el-ite have held power over the rest of society has been through hoarding knowledge

This is why the christians burned down the pagan library of Alexandria containing all the ancient knowledge; they pulled the head librarian from her chariot who was a gnostic intellegensia and they hacked her to death and they burned the library; what they didn't destroy they put under lock and key in the secret library of the vatican

This is why the vatican launched crusades against the cathars and other gnostic groups because they were afraid of the knowledge of these people

The horading of knowledge creates a knowledge gap between the el-ites and the general public or an 'information assymetry' which allows them to manipulate and control the general public

But the internet is destroying that gap rapidly. If the el-ite's don't know anything we don't and if the public wake upto the fact that money is an illusion then what have the el-ites got? NOTHING....they have nothing and that process is underway which is why there are protests all around the world as the newly empowered public start to rattle the cage

SpecialEdition said:
I think some people are more comfortable being lead, and someone is always going to want to lead. Unfortunately sometimes people who lead like to abuse the power they get.
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This is why decentralisation is so important because it means that even if a tyrant wants to dominate their say is diluted by everyone else

There is a difference between people agreeing with the voice of another because they respect their knowledge or expertise and people obeying another because they fear them; centralised power works by coercion, decentralisation works through informed choice

SpecialEdition said:
I do believe human beings are naturally subject to corruption under the right circumstances and those who are not are subject to complacency or just outright ignorance.
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There is a lot of truth in the saying: ''power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely''

This is why power must reside with the people and not with corrupted el-ites

SpecialEdition said:
I can't imagine how things would have to change for people to have autonomy over their own lives. I like the idea of Libertarianism and religious freedom but I am afraid there's always going to be someone who rises to the top and even if they go into it with the best intentions... they can't please everyone.
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Under a decentralised system their will would not override the will of the wider community

SpecialEdition said:
I think this is why people like to have choices... They can choose a religion, a political party, a sports team, etc and they will stick to that passionately. Now that's not all people of course, but I do think the Western World gets very attached to who they perceive to be the "winning team." How does a society escape this?
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By increasing conscious awareness

There are two levels to this: there is KNOWING and then there is truely UNDERSTANDING

So you could tell a person that the two party political system is a giant con game as both parties are just two wings of the same BUSINESS party and then later on someone says that to them and they say: ''yeah i know, i've already heard about that on the internet''

That person is at the KNOWING stage

But if they then continue to vote for one of the two parties then they haven't really assimilated the lesson because on some level they still believe in the two party system

It's only when they become totally aware of how much the two parties are controlled by the same monied interests that they then truely assimilate the truth into their being and really UNDERSTAND that it is so

People don't tend to change their behaviour until they enter the understanding stage

So i discuss a lot of stuff going on in the world with people online and they say to me ''yeah i know i read something about that'' but at the same time i can tell from what they are saying and from their actions that they have not truly understood that it is actually the case because to understand is to act

SpecialEdition said:
Sometimes I think population control is the only way. I think it's really shady and I don't like it, but it seems we're so crowded into each other that we can't escape each others influence. How do you break free when you're locked in a room with a bunch of people locked in chains?
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You spread conscious awareness so that those people aren't in chains anymore and are able to think clearly for themselves and make informed and responsible decisions

Until people UNDERSTAND whats going on and the implications of it they are potential liabilities because they will make bad decisions that will impact themselves and others and future generations in harmful ways
 
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