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Sovereignty Series: Lost in America

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Sovereignty Series: Lost in America

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As a young adult studying world history in high school I often wondered what happened to various countries that had turned despotic or dictatorial when previously they were republics or somewhat benevolent kingdoms. The list is endless and needs no repeating here other than a few recent examples for illustration purposes.

Just mention Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy and especially Japan in the run up to World War II and opinions are quickly offered by both apologists and those who wish to point fingers. All these countries were at some point peaceful and civilized, or at least not extremely dangerous to themselves and to others, before they tipped over into utter insanity and were consumed by their ‘self’.

While I do understand history is written not only by the ‘winners’, but by the propagandists in order to control and mold minds, certain trends and cycles are glaringly obvious even to the deaf, dumb and blind. Repeatedly it seems the sweet fruit of liberty and justice, however limited it may be, eventually turns sour and rots on the vine.

Why is that?

Most people would quickly quip, “Well, that’s just human nature.” And I might be hard pressed to successfully argue the flip side, especially if I were discussing the issue with someone who doesn’t see themselves subject to ‘human nature’. Because oftentimes when people blame the human condition as the source of global problems they rarely see themselves as part of the problem, of the herd that succumbs to the insanity. And yet there they are, smack dab in the middle of the mess, demanding someone else clean it up.

If I were to put a rat in a closed box with no other source of food save a lever which, when pushed, dispensed food pellets, would I be able to claim it is ‘rodent nature’ for the rat to press a lever for food? If devoid of all other distractions and pursuits other than a lever that dispenses food, would I be able to say the rat is obsessed with pushing the lever for food and this is also simply rat nature?

This is, of course, a gross oversimplification of the human condition. Humans don’t live in closed boxes and push levers for food. They live in closed boxes with doors and windows and a multitude of other distractions while pushing microwave buttons to dispense food after heating. Any other similarities between rats and humans are purely coincidental.

The above sarcasm was presented to illustrate how simplistic, silly really, our opinions are regarding both ‘human nature’ and what we personally attribute to human nature. Since as individuals we egotistically declare ourselves above the fray and not one of the great unwashed ‘them’, in other words isolated, alien even and most certainly nonhuman, we can quickly dismiss the behavior of others as aberrant while being just like everyone else.

If that boxed rat had been born into his or her captivity and since birth the entire world consisted of the box and nothing else, how narrow a slice of perceived reality would the rat be working with? And how limited is the rat in its ability to discern not only what the ‘real’ world was like, but what ‘rat nature’ consisted of if its mind was boxed up even tighter than its body?

Now extend that thought experiment outward and into our human world and recognize that while we are not physically isolated to any degree equal to the rat, for all intents and purposes our mind is. While the illusion of finite boundaries within the rat’s world is simplistic because the rat’s brain is (supposedly) limited, our externally (and internally) created illusion is infinitely more complex solely because our minds are exponentially more intricate and thus need more creative and multifaceted creations to sate the lazy brain and keep our curiosity dormant. We will not comprehend what we do not wish to see.

 

White Sands Dune

 

I contend there is but one simple explanation for Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the hive mind of WWII Japan and now an increasingly Tyrannical America. “We the People”, while proudly declaring our love affair for freedom and liberty, are increasingly boxed in both body and mind. Sadly we perceive little more than the images projected upon the walls of our closed box by our own ‘authorities’ and sociopaths. Of course, this explanation only applies to all of you out there and most certainly not me. Simply put the problem is you, not me. See how easy that was?

This is not to say there aren’t thousands, even tens of thousands, of sociopaths running loose throughout this country and the world. This includes the extremely destructive global central banks that administer the horribly exploitive financial system which is at the heart of the world’s insanity.

Nor do I dismiss the hundreds of thousands of other so-called ‘authorities’ out there, all those borderline sociopaths and wannabe despots who presently occupy nearly every seat of power, be it political, corporate, academic or private non-profit institutions. These individuals and groups are the puppets and puppet masters who pull the strings and apply the pressure and reap the benefits of corruption on a daily basis. I get all that, I really do. I am not dismissing their suffocating oppression and overwhelming influence upon every aspect of our lives.

But!

This condition, these individuals and groups, do not exist in a vacuum. They were not beamed down to Earth by some rogue alien world to act as a debilitating virus to soften up the population before the invasion force lands. These are ‘our’ sociopaths; we support them, if only indirectly, because we perceive it in our best interest to do so. If I bitch and complain about a nuisance animal on my premises, then continue to feed and care for it, how exactly am I to explain its continuing presence and my hypocrisy?

This is an ugly truth most will reject outright by declaring ‘I’ don’t do any such thing, ‘I’ didn’t ask for this and ‘I’ don’t wish it to be here. ‘I’ am most certainly not responsible for this situation. And yet not only does it exist, but it is flourishing and expanding. It is self evident this can all end very quickly if we truly wished it to be over, thus clearly we do not. ‘We’, despite the protestations by nearly everyone walking the streets that things stink and should change, do nothing to facilitate change because quite frankly the pain isn’t great enough to compel “We the People” to change ourselves.

Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the hive mind of Japan and now Tyrannical America all exist because the people of those countries wished it to be so. All the nations above, and every other maniacal nation/empire that existed throughout history, were loudly applauded, cheered and actively supported not only in the early stages of its creation, but as they grew increasingly dangerous not only to their friends and neighbors, but to themselves. The descent into tyranny is always warmly welcomed by the populace.

Is the present day political and corporate corruption, the abject and transparent central bank controlled and imposed financial swindle, the massive cultural debasement of moral values and personal responsibility, is all this and more the cause of our problems or just the symptom of an even greater dis-ease? Can we honestly point fingers at they, them and those and completely ignore the ultimate source of the illness, the personal dysfunction and corruption that springs from within “We the People”?

No substantial changes will ever take place until “We the People” collectively, and more importantly, individually fully accept the fact that while ‘we’ as individuals are not responsible for this country’s, nor the world’s, problems ‘we’ as individuals are completely responsible for our ‘self’ and the problems that result from our individual beliefs, pursuits and decisions.

The buck does not stop at the President and the executive branch, with Congress or any other legislative body, at the Supreme Court and the ‘justice’ system, in academia or the corporate world. The buck stops here, right here, within me and you and they and them. Since I have no control over anyone else other than myself, my first and most pressing responsibility is to enact change within my ‘self’ first if I ever wish to see it widely disseminated. Everything else flows from this inalienable truth, that “We the People” are ultimately and solely responsible for “We the People”.

Only after we as individuals have declared our own personal sovereignty, and then embody it on a daily basis, will we ever be able to unseat those who declare sovereignty over “We the People”. A sovereign individual does not blame others for issues he or she has the power to change. I must face my own hypocrisy first, a festering condition that feeds and nourishes the greater hypocrisy, before I can demand others to do the same and for the system to change. As long as I deny responsibility for my personal contributions to the ongoing tyranny nothing is going to stop our descent into hell.

It all begins within.

 

11-17-2014

Cognitive Dissonance

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Tue, 11/18/2014 - 13:45 | 5461730 Ulf Murphy
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Thank You, Cog, for another thought provoking article. I have started and erased this coment more times than I care to admit, and have come to my own conclusions, which seemingly sound both grandiose and shallow to me when I write them out. 

Maybe some day I will share, but for now know that the pride, and shame, your article instilled in me is something I never considered when I started to read just now, and I feel a bit cleansed with my choice of direction over the last few years. 

If nothing else, know that you were able to touch one person's inner feelings, and that person is walking away a better person for it.

Thank You.

 

 

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 14:11 | 5461838 Cognitive Dissonance
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"Maybe some day I will share....."

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Tue, 11/18/2014 - 12:51 | 5461461 headhunt
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As I see it the morality of America has been taught out of our society.

What ever you do is OK - the ends justify the means mentality.

No morals will always lead to the destruction of a society, the communists know this and have embossed it into our schools, courts and society as a whole.

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 16:52 | 5462355 Cognitive Dissonance
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Everyone is tuned to radio station WIIFM - What's In It For Me

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 10:45 | 5460988 sam site
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It all begins within as you say.  More ways than one.  The capture of the public all starts with the first toxic vaccine jab within hours of birth. 

The toxic assault from GMO foods, fluoradated water, poison-based agriculture and a food supply that's depleted of nutrition produces anxiety, low IQ and fear that stampedes the sheeple towards the perceived safe haven of the Establishment. 

Ninety five percent of the public have been captured through toxic injury.  It produces a blind allegiance to the Establishment.

To liberate your mind requires one to physically detoxify their body.  A good place to start is to supplement daily with Magnesium Chloride crystals mixed with juice.  Visit naturalnews.com and read the amazing articles on this powerful detoxer. 

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Tue, 11/18/2014 - 09:23 | 5460737 Nobody
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"If I bitch and complain about a nuisance animal on my premises, then continue to feed and care for it, how exactly am I to explain its continuing presence and my hypocrisy?"
This statement struck a chord with me because just recently we have done the same with a stray dog that showed up. Part of the rationalization is that the animal will chase off other more offensive animals and therefore the enemy of our enemy is our friend. However, if we discontinue our support does that not also change the paradigm?
Food for thought

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 09:42 | 5460777 Cognitive Dissonance
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Feed, or don't feed, the dog. That is not the question. The question is, why do you feed the dog and then complain when it hangs around while denying involvement?

Of course I am not discussing you, but rather our desire to eat our cake and have it too while complaining someone else should bake it and then clean up while leaving me a new cake.

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 15:03 | 5462015 Nobody
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I guess that my poorly stated analogy had more to do with our relationship with controlling entities such as governments. We accept the oppressing presence of one out of fear of being oppressed by another one.
We feed through our taxes, fearing what might come of us if we turn against them. Our common sense of being protected allows for all manner of abuse to be accepted.

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 16:54 | 5462360 Cognitive Dissonance
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My apologies. I was not attacking you, but after re-reading my post I certainly understand if you felt I was.

"Our common sense of being protected allows for all manner of abuse to be accepted."

When a society tips from mutual cooperation to every (wo)man for himself, well.......

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 09:04 | 5460695 lakecity55
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Good article, Cog.

There are numerous 'pyschos' operating within the USG.

I would make an observation, that is, the efforts of current shadow government to destabilize the US.

Let us look at Racial Destabilization as one example.

The first real attempt was in Florida.
TPTB made two mistakes: they used an Hispanic who turned out to be of mixed race as the 'bad guy.'
The courts did a pretty good job of resolving the Facts.

FF to Ferguson.
TPTB were able to take a white cop vs black thug to try and create their next FF racial war.
This is a much better approach. All TPTB have to do is scan news stories, then pick their Fight.

Brown, apparently, committed a strong-arm robbery. A short while later, stoned, feeling 'bad,' he strolled the streets of Ferguson where the police officer saw him hogging the middle of the road and ordered him to desist.

Brown, knowing he had committed the offense, was high on 'Bad Guy.' The officer was still unaware of the robbery and did not know Brown was the prime suspect.

A struggle ensued in the cruiser. Brown went for the officer's gun. A round was fired. Brown retreated, then rushed the officer with less than peaceful intentions.

Despite the juvenile photograph parroted by the media, we know the Mr Brown at that time was a hulking thug. The officer ordered him to halt. Brown refused. Forensics show the rounds that hit Brown were consistent with those of a heads-down rushing attack.

Despite his growing criminal record, the forensics report of drugs in his system, this Thug was promoted as an innocent 'kid' maliciously murdered by the Police. The numerous photos of his adult form, his FB dope postings, etc have been scrubbed by the Zio-Media.

pResident Obola even visited the area to ensure the Activists continued their plans for race war.

The Church Committee in the 70s proved the existence of agent provocateurs. However, there are actual independent communist agitators who have taken the period of time between the shooting and now to organize Action against Civil Authority. The current administration has very strong ties to these groups.

The only unknowns are the extent of shadow federal agents involvement in these activities.

The events in Ferguson are only one of several to destabilize the US.

What is obvious is there is an organized series of subversion against the US.
Borders, Fed Actions-- you can see the other subversive acts if you look.

Nobody wants to think their government is so corrupt it is actively planning the collapse of the economy and social order. What you have to accept is that it is NOT 'your' government!
This is where you have to go Outside the Box.

We are in danger. One of our defenses is to NOT participate.

 

 

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 04:50 | 5460440 Dan The Man
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"Any other similarities between rats and humans are purely coincidental."

LMAO! 

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 09:04 | 5460697 Cognitive Dissonance
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I didn't wish to insult the rats.

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 03:50 | 5460403 eishund
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so....start by withdrawing all our moolah from the banks?

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 09:03 | 5460696 Cognitive Dissonance
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Ironically, tragically, if we removed all our moolah from the banks, our mollah would suddenly have no value since the credit system would collapse which is what gives our mollah its perceived value and purchasing power.

Catch 22 was, and is, a bitch.

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 01:45 | 5460279 Dirtt
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THEY really screwed the pooch this time around. We been practicing Mr. & Mrs. Cogs way of life..me since well before Santelli's meltdown in 2008. Is it really 2014 with scant pushback?

Coincidences are seldom born. This Gruber ass wipe has been on the record for too long which should give us all pause. Ameteur Ass Wipe In Chief from Chicago or Oahu or who cares where might be guilty of forgetting who is puppet. Regardless. All of the Ass Wipes are now collectively swinging from the curtain rod.

The ACA is a final boot to the neck of the USA just a little too soon. The Puppet Masters perhaps are rethinking that calculus. The variable not lost on the Masters is the shear amount of gun powder distributed throughout the USA. The absurd math baked into the ACA is low enough for Americans to fathom and high enough to create itchy fingers. The homogeny of Germany Japan and Italy isnt quite that of the USA. Ergo thats two variables.

The war internal in that equation - lack of homogeny and dspersed firepower - is a conundrum even for the tyrannists. The sloppi ess inherent in this arrogance makes me think we are getting very close.

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 00:04 | 5460110 Hulk
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Hey CD, nothing to do with your article, but I thought you might enjoy this moon shine making  video of popeye sutton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp56sT66D1U

thanks to theta burn for turning me on to this...

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 01:03 | 5460234 Miffed Microbio...
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A large heavy package came for mr the other day and my curiosity got the better of me and I opened it to find a large copper container and a bunch of fittings. This was the damnedest cooking pot I had ever seen until it finally dawned on me what it was. Sometimes I think the secret of our relationship is we don't communicate. I think I'll refer him to this. ;-)

Miffed;-)

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 01:42 | 5460278 Hulk
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SOme great corn mash making videos on youtube. going to mke me some peach moonshine, we will hav to compare notes miffed !!! 

As I understand it, we need to remove the fusel oils from the finished product. perhaps you can elaborate

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/222783/fusel-oil

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 04:13 | 5460421 Nage42
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And if you live in California, you may need to remove the fossil-fuel oils from the water too...

(I have no idea what a fusel oil is, but i couldn't resist trying to make a [poor] joke)

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 11:54 | 5461283 Hulk
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Not bad...

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 15:42 | 5462111 Miffed Microbio...
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Tx!

Luckily I live 50 miles from the city and am on a well. I trust my neighbors more than Cali government. ;-)

Miffed

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 23:15 | 5459960 Reaper
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You raise the issues of collective guilt/responsibility vs individual guilt/responsibility. You skirt the issue of guilt/responsibility for unintended consequences. More basic issue is what code or standards are used? If we're sovereign as individuals, do we grant ourselves sovereign immunity for unintended consequences or for all consequences which we desired? Do we accept guilt/responsibility for the acts of others, either collectively, or due to our failure to properly influence them?

What is guilt or responsibility, but a construct of our mind or some collective dogma? Wherefrom comes this construct? What construct demands something from others? Quo iure?

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 23:28 | 5459995 Cognitive Dissonance
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I am attempting, rather poorly I must confess, to explain an idea that for many is completely foreign to them. We as a people are completely gripped in the victim mentality carefully hidden under the entitlement mentality. Even those who declare themselves self starters and independent thinkers are still so indoctrinated into the victim mentality that many don't see it at all in themselves.

Thus I am trying to keep concepts and the applications of these concepts as simple as possible. How do you convince someone they can climb a hill when they claim they cannot walk or do not need to climb? At this point I am using a 4 inch wide brush and you are asking why I am ignoring the trim and the 1 1/2 inch angle brush.

My analogies and application are imperfect and deeply flawed to those who have given this subject considerable thought. I know this to be the case and, as you state, skirt some issues. It is deliberate. I applaud you for pointing this out. If even one person decides to pull themselves up and out of their victim boots to challenge me I will consider that a success.

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 03:04 | 5460362 luckylongshot
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You  unfortunately snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in this article. If you had studied power you would understand that we are controlled today through disciplinary power where our rulers create the discourses that determine our reality. This is the basic view in social constructionism, which is the dominant paradigm in social science.

In order for disciplinary power to function the role of the elite needs to remain hidden and various methods are used by the elite to do this. One is dumbing down the public, another is divide and conquer using isms to get one group blaming another group for their woes- racism, communism, capitalism, anti-semitism and feminism are some examples

 

However the master stroke has been individualisation, which attempts to assign the blame for the woes of the world to us individually rather than to the elite at the top who are truly responsible. This is the trap you have fallen into. We have a fractional reserve banking system that is little more than a ponzi scheme that uses counterfeiting and accounting fraud to transfer the public wealth into the hands of a criminal banking elite and you blame the public. A very disappointing article.

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 04:11 | 5460418 Nage42
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Individualism != Seperatism

 

Individualism means one is capable of self-determination, whereas seperatism is a refusal to participate in social structures of any kind.

Disciplinary powers work because we give authority and power to the disciplinarian to act as our proxy because we are abrogating our responsibilities to have solid set of morality that we should be communicating socially (i.e., forming concensus).

I agree that seperatism is a diffusionary and distractionary tactic by power brokers; however, I think we should focus on empowering, activating, and socializing (communicating through social channels) according to each person's capabilities and will to do so.

Nage

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 06:09 | 5460486 luckylongshot
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I appreciate your comments but what individualism and seperatism both do is make any discussion on the role of power in society meaningless. It has recently been discovered that we have mirror neurons in our brains that cause us to follow leaders and that means that power is of critical importance. Hiding the role of power allows for the delusion that we are free and capable of self determination and this is how we are effectively enslaved. ?  "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. " - Goethe

 

 

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 12:19 | 5461359 papersheepdog
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Us vs them. Got it.

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 00:13 | 5460137 Reaper
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Victim is a just the role at the bottom. Their next role is to become a prosecutor on their persecutors. Then on to savior of other victims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpman_drama_triangle After playing those roles, they may be enlightened to see the theater in which they acted is a construct of others and their prior indoctrination.

Free, free, free at last. Or maybe, there's a greater freedom.

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 22:49 | 5459886 SaveTheBales
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As far as I can tell, the best way for little ole Bales to avoid being Part Of The Problem is to avoid, wherever possible, spending a dime with any of the Fortune 500 or a bank. Where I can, I buy from Mom & Pop.  Profits that stay in the community have built us hospitals, schools, and a police force that doesn't seem to be insane.  So, its a somewhat pleasant way to do my bit without having to, you know, erect a machine gun nest, or bother writing to people in the District of Communism since the only thing I care to communicate is "You're fired.  Go home."  All I ever got for my scribblings was moar junk mail telling me how much OPM I can have if I'll send $50, $100, or $500.  Who needs that?

 

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 06:00 | 5460477 tip e. canoe
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"Where I can, I buy from Mom & Pop."

what happens when Mom & Pop are also grifters? especially when they understand the movement to buy from "Mom & Pop" and capitalize on those latent desires within the populace to sink the hook?

in my neck of the woods, the art of the scam has permeated all levels of Amer-I-Con society. perhaps the corruption that we observe at the top is simply a reflection of what's been happening underneath for much more than a few recent generations? if so, then the corps, the "evil" bankers & the bureaucracies could be considered as simply efficient enablers of ensconsement, rather than establishers of the status quo.

Mark Twain wrote endless stories about this at the ground level over a hundred years ago. and good ol' J.D. Rockafella was a snake-oil salesman before he got into the oil bizness. maybe we're just living in the echoes of that time period.

denial's a bitch and will continue to be so until we look her straight in the face.

personally, i'm going to continue to pay my monthly toll to the evil corp in return for the ability to scrounge the intertubes for ways to DIY everything before i ever trust "Mom & Pop" just cuz they're "Mom & Pop".

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 23:00 | 5459916 Cognitive Dissonance
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Short of retiring to a cave somewhere there simply is no way to completely withdraw. But there are ways to diminish our footprint and you mention just a few.

I firmly believe in doing business locally and do so every chance I can. And I make sure I say this to everyone I do business with. It sounds a bit hokey when verbalized, but nearly everyone is pleased to hear it since it is rarely spoken of in our out loud voices.

Mrs. Cog and I are doing what we can as we can do so. We are documenting our progress (or lack of it) as well as much more on our new website www.TwoIceFloes.com

Much of it is free to nonmembers so stop by and take a look.

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 23:56 | 5460092 RockyRacoon
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Speaking of caves:

"Sadly we perceive little more than the images projected upon the walls of our closed box by our own ‘authorities’ and sociopaths."

Slathering on a little Plato are we?  Bravo!

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 00:53 | 5460217 Cognitive Dissonance
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I was actually thinking about the TV screen and the projections of conditioning and propaganda within our minds. It was only later, after editing and re-reading, that I saw Plato reference. I left it in because it sounded smart.

LOL

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 22:06 | 5459762 Oil_City_News
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As usual we enjoy your work ... Thank You for taking the time to share your thoughts with us. People that can express so much with writing just amaze me...

 

prometheus-jester said here at ZH on Fri, 10/31/2014 - 13:25

 

Once upon a time, there was a man who was a guard on the edge of the empire. His job was to sit in a tower with a rifle and shoot anyone who tried of climb over the wall and escape the empire.

 

One day the guard saw a man running toward the wall to escape.The guard's mind was filled with sudden turmoil. He thought "I can understand why this man wants to escape. We have no liberty here in this empire." He thought of not shooting the man in the back. The guard's mind raced with fear. He thought, what if I lose my job, what is the empire puts me in prison or kills me. What will happen to my wife and child? The guards first shot landed near the feet of the escaping man. Then with great certainty the guard said NO. I will not kill this man. By now the escaping man had thrown a blanket over the razor wire and is about to go over the top. The guards second shot rings out and misses the mans shoulder by inches as he goes over the top. The guard stands shaking and stunned as the commanding officers truck pulls up.He guard thinks, "This may be the last of me but at least I will die with a clear conscious." The commanding officer knows that the guard is a crack shot and should not have missed. The commanding officer asked the guard "What just happened here?" The guard stammers,I don't know , In my haste to pick up my rifle I think I knocked my sites out of whack. The commanding officer steps up, looks the guard straight in the eye, with a slight smile and a wink he says "Shit happens" and walks away without another word.

 

Meanwhile in the next watchtower down the line, another guard has just watched the whole thing go down with his binoculars. When he sees the smile and the wink from the commanding officer, a chill runs down his spine and a smile comes to his face as he says, Holy Shit! And that ladies and gentlemen is revoution

 

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 23:07 | 5459907 acetinker
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Are you and Prometheus fans of Joanne Collins' Hunger Games  series?  I am.  The critics say Joanne's work is aimed at impressionable teens.

I'm confused, I'm certainly not a teen and I know exactly who Collins is speaking to.  Katniss Everdeen represents all that is good in this world.

I reckon Collins is familiar with Huxley and Orwell, and has simply expanded on their meme.

Edit;  Old age alcohol take thier toll.  Her name is Suzanne, not Joanne.

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 23:51 | 5460070 Scott Pi
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As an aside, Orwell became disallusioned with the Fabian Socialists, and wrote 1984 as a warning.  Huxley never lost faith in the Fabians, and wrote Brave New World as a text book, or Blueprint.  He wholeheartedly approved of that Brave New World, and thought it inevitable.

  "And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods."  Huxley

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 23:08 | 5463653 acetinker
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Yeah, Orwell thought in terms of that which might happen, while Huxley pre-supposed that which was inevitable.

Doesn't matter, does it?  You are here, now.

What do you propose to do about it?  What are you doing right now?

Me?  I'm a non-participant.

I make stuff, but I avoid the ISO and QS obsessed asshole companies.  You don't even want to get me started on why, I just avoid them.

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 22:51 | 5459891 Cognitive Dissonance
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And thus the reason why ideas are far more dangerous to the empire than any standing army could ever be. And precisely why the NSA has run riot over all aspects of communication in this country.

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 21:51 | 5459698 acetinker
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While I'm certain that the "legal" systems are designed to ensnare us regular folk in a web of bullshit designed to confuse and thwart our pursuit of real justice, my gut tells me Winston Shrout is fulla shit.

He talks about hjr192 as if it was actual law.  It's not.  No resolution becomes law absent Senate and Executive approval.

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 21:35 | 5459624 anticultist
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Please see this one hour, Winston Shrout. The interviewer is not best and notice

the grace that Winston responds by.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWG-PR2ID38

 

This article is excellent explanation.

https://keystoliberty2.wordpress.com/tag/general-order-no-100/

 

So it is a dual gov system from a series of bankruptcies. Noteably 1993, the birth certificate

bond with SS, creates your strawman. Harvesting your natural life by 98%, by taxation and currency

devaluation, is followed by the death of your strawman, is what discharges 1933 chapter 11.

 

I watch closely their words. When you are doing corporation business related to the reconstruction amendments,

the citizen check box is The United States,

but when you buy a gun, the citizen check box is, the United States of America. Such that the corporation

does not have jurisdiction on the lawful constitution 2nd Amend, it has jurisdiction over chapter 11 discharge

amendments. That is your dual gov system, parallel, overlay.

This is also seen in 14th amendment stating you are a dual citizen of your birth state and of the "district" however

that is if you volunteered by consent to paticipate in the district such as carrying a SS card, you do not have to, you can remain a

State National citizen, see LB Bork, The Red Amendment.

 

State National citizens are exempt from "color of law", being alien to the district.

 

• Title 18 USC § 242. Deprivation of rights under color of law; (Criminal) [in part]: 

Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully 

subjects any person in any State, Territory, or District to the deprivation of any rights, 

privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United 

States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being 

an alien... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. 

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 20:07 | 5459332 livefreediefree
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Fuck. I killed 6 million Jews, 2 million Cambodians, 65 million Chinese, and 20 million USSRians. Plus, of course, a few miscellaneous hundreds of millions here and there, now and then.

Look. It's Heaven. See Hitler playing his lyre in perfect fusion with Archangel harps. See Christ marrying Stalin and Mussolini. See Pol Pol bowling with skulls. See every despot throughout history puttting protuberances into orificies, and begging for their orifices to be filled to overflowing with other protuberances. Oh. Look at the cute kitten.

Thank you so very, very, very much, author. I am now aware that I am responsible for the evils of the universe.

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 20:16 | 5459361 Cognitive Dissonance
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Maybe if you had read to the end you would have seen I said the exact opposite. Sadly you did not.

"No substantial changes will ever take place until “We the People” collectively, and more importantly, individually fully accept the fact that while ‘we’ as individuals are not responsible for this country’s, nor the world’s, problems ‘we’ as individuals are completely responsible for our ‘self’ and the problems that result from our individual beliefs, pursuits and decisions.

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 20:38 | 5459420 livefreediefree
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The right way to deal with tyrants is to deal with tyrants, not seek some fucking personal epiphany.

Tue, 11/18/2014 - 12:27 | 5461375 juangrande
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Tue, 11/18/2014 - 22:51 | 5463558 acetinker
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Do you think he's really gone?  I kinda doubt it.  ZH is the fount of being, as it were, at the present time.

Maybe you and me and Kilgore Trout can debate this at some time in the future, that is if we aren't consumed in the process.

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 21:11 | 5459535 livefreediefree
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The author:

Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the hive mind of Japan and now Tyrannical America all exist because the people of those countries wished it to be so.

How in the fuck can you interpret that other than "I killed 6 million Jews"?

Let's try logic. If I wished Nazi Germany, I wished the killing of Jews. Why? Well, Nazi Germany wished the killing of Jews, so, if I wished Nazi Germany, I wished the killing of Jews.

I think that's an integral syllogism, but it may not be. Shitty syllogisms happen. In any case, I don't think I misinterpreted the author's words.

Sorry for intruding here. It appears you all have a nice, little niche philosophy glorifying personal sovereignty, and contend that, if we all are sovereign personnally, then the lion will lay down with the lamb, or somesuch. Excuse me again if I misconstrue your airy-fairyness.

I shall leave, and never return. Childhood is short enough without some crusty, old curmudgeon like me shortening it.

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 21:58 | 5459579 acetinker
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Between you me and Cog, I reckon there's well over 150 year's worth of life experience.  As far as I know, Cog and I share much in common.

You however, have rubbed me wrong from the beginning.  Take a deep breath and while doing so, take a good, long and honest look in the mirror.  Are you really above reproach, really?

This is not 'new' news- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBecM3CQVD8

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 23:17 | 5459515 acetinker
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Say this three times as fast as you can:

 

I

Am

Sofa

King

We

Todd

Ted

I'm waiting...

Maybe I did something wrong, but this was intended as a smartass reply to livefreediefree, who seems to be a cross between Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones, but it now looks like I'm talking to Cog.

What purpose does this serve, Tyler?

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 21:01 | 5459503 Cognitive Dissonance
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Lot's of anger here tonight. May I suggest you direct your anger at the tyrants while you are dealing with them rather than at your fellow pleb?

Mon, 11/17/2014 - 22:39 | 5459861 forexskin
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and i shouted out who killed the kennedys, when after all it was...

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