The quote below is from the movie the Insider, which was based upon a true story.

How 60 minutes responded to threats of a large lawsuit from the tobacco industry was a major, and unfortunate, turning point in news broadcasting history:

“You pay me to go get guys like Wigand, to draw him out. To get him to trust us, to get him to go on television. I do. I deliver him. He sits. He talks. He violates his own fucking confidentiality agreement. And he’s only the key witness in the biggest public health reform issue, maybe the biggest, most-expensive corporate-malfeasance case in U.S. history. And Jeffrey Wigand, who’s out on a limb, does he go on television and tell the truth? Yes. Is it newsworthy? Yes. Are we gonna air it? Of course not. Why? Because he’s not telling the truth? No. Because he is telling the truth. That’s why we’re not going to air it. And the more truth he tells, the worse it gets! “

There’s one question that pundits and politicians keep posing to the Occupy gatherings around the country: What are your demands?

The demand for demands is an attempt to shoehorn the Occupy gatherings into conventional politics, to force the energy of these gatherings into a form that people in power recognize, so that they can roll out strategies to divert, co-opt, buy off, or – if those tactics fail – squash any challenge to business as usual.

The people who run this world are eager to contain the Occupy energy not because they believe that the critics of concentrated wealth and power are wrong, but because somewhere deep down in their souls, the powerful know we are right.

People in power are insulated by wealth and privilege, but they can see the systems falling apart. US military power can no longer guarantee world domination. Financial corporations can no longer pretend to provide order in the economy.

The Occupy gatherings do not yet constitute a coherent movement with demands, but they are wellsprings of reasonable illusions. Rejecting the political babble around us in election campaigns and on mass media, these gatherings are an experiment in a different kind of public dialogue about our common life, one that can reject the forces of terror deployed by concentrated wealth and power.

…”Robert Jensen”

There is no need to prove anyone is better than the other. Though people have different status in life, everybody’s dignity is the same. As we move forward I hope that we can start to respect each other.

The Biggest Conspiracy Theory Is…

 …THERE ARE NO CONSPIRACIES!

Since the advent of time, humans have come together to conspire for all sorts of reasons and objectives. On this day 9/11/11, I am in awe of how a group of people in power, inflicted destruction and death upon their citizenry to advance a political agenda. Then over time they were able to turn the events of that day into a patriotic celebration! Wow!

I am not asking for retribution or judgement of those involved. I am asking for awareness (nothing else). This is the first step to change. 9/11 has happened it cannot be changed, however being aware of what may have really happened starts us on a journey to self empowerment. That, my friends, is the biggest fear of those on top of a hierarchical power structure…that the masses wake up!

I personally believe that there are just too many questionable errors and omissions in the 9/11 Commission’s Report, for it to be the resolute truth that our government would like for us to believe.

The quote below is from a recent interview with Dr. Steve Pieczenik which came from his exasperation over the media event killing of Osama Bin Laden and also from his insider knowledge of the events on 9/11:

“It’s a total make-up, make believe, we’re in an American theater of the absurd….why are we doing this again….nine years ago this man was already dead….why does the government repeatedly have to lie to the American people,” asked Pieczenik.

During his interview with the Alex Jones Show yesterday, Pieczenik also asserted he was directly told by a prominent general that 9/11 was a stand down and a false flag operation, and that he is prepared to go to a grand jury to reveal the general’s name.

“They ran the attacks,” said Pieczenik, naming Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Stephen Hadley, Elliott Abrams, and Condoleezza Rice amongst others as having been directly involved.

In my opinion Dr. Steve Pieczenik cannot be discarded as a “conspiracy whacko”. He served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and/or Senior Policy Planner under Secretaries Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, George Schultz and James Baker.

During his career as a senior State Department official, he developed strategies and tactics that were instrumental in resolving major conflicts in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe and the United States.

Dr. Pieczenik was the principal International Crisis Manager and Hostage Negotiator under Secretaries Kissinger and Vance. During this time he developed conflict resolution techniques that were instrumental in saving over five hundred hostages in different terrorist episodes, including the Hanafi Moslem Seizure in Washington, DC, the TWA Croatian Hijacking, the Aldo Moro Kidnapping, the JRA Hijacking, the PLO Hijacking, and many other incidents involving terrorists such as Idi Amin, Muammar Quaddafi, Carlos, FARC, Abu Nidal and Saddam Hussein.

Dr. Pieczenik helped develop negotiation strategies for major U.S.- Soviet arms control summits under the Reagan administration. He was also involved in advising senior officials on important psycho-political dynamics and conflict mediation strategies for President Carter’s successful Camp David Peace Conference. In 1991, Dr. Pieczenik was a chief architect of the Cambodian Peace Conference in Paris. He is currently an advisor to the Department of Defense.

Dr. Pieczenik trained in Psychiatry at Harvard and has both an M.D. from Cornell University Medical College and a Ph.D. in International Relations from M.I.T. He was the first psychiatrist ever to receive a PhD. focusing on international relations.

Dr. Pieczenik is a critically acclaimed author of psycho-political thrillers and is the real life model for CIA analyst Jack Ryan in Tom Clancy’s novels.

Even more recently, a group of experts (highly regarded individuals in their respective fields) are part of a film to be released  ”9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out”

Fire Protection Engineers - Scott Grainger is a licensed fire protection engineer. He is licensed in 13 states. He has been in private practice for 25 years

Aeronautics/Nuclear - Dr. Robert Bowman is a retired Lieutenant Colonel,United States Air Force. He flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam and directed all the Department of Defense Star Wars programs under Presidents Ford and Carter.

Explosives - Steve Luce is a former 12 Bravo combat engineer in the U.S. Army. He trained extensively for 4 years in the use of plastic, liquid, and powder explosives.

Physicist - David Chandler holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from Harvey Mudd College and a Master’s Degree in education from Claremont Graduate University.

Mechanical Engineers - Ed Munyak is licensed fire protection engineer for the last 25 years and worked for a number of organizations. These positions were for city, federal, and large insurance companies.

Scientist - Lynn Margulis teaches at the Universityof Massachusetts. She has a PhD in genetics. In 1999, she received the President’s Medal of Science from President Bill Clinton.

Metallurgical Engineering - Kathy McGrade holds a Bachelor’s in Metallurgical Engineering from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (1979)

Family Members - Michele Little – Lost her brother, David, a first responder on 9/11. Ellen Mariani – Neil, her husband was on Flight 175 when it crashed into the second tower. Bob McIlvaine – The  father of Bobby McIlvaine, who was killed in the lobby of the North Tower on September 11th, 2001.

Electrical Engineers - Richard Humenn is a retired electrical engineer. He holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (1954).

Psychologists - Danielle Duperret, PhD, is originally from Switzerland where she studied psychology and psychoanalysis. For the past 15 years she has been empowering people who have experienced significant trauma.

Look around a little, go outside the mainstream media which is controlled by a very small number of people and see what you find. Read the 9/11 Commission Report and see if it holds water.

Check out a couple of websites I think are compelling and that you may not have visited:

http://www.loosechange911.com/

http://zeitgeistmovie.com/

Then you determine for yourself what resonates as the truth of 9/11.

Before handing you off to Einstein, I would like to provide my own thought on his comments below. I agree with all of his premises, however it is time for us all to let go of the judgements of others, moving to forgiveness of self and others as the more workable path to a changed world.

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which
differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”

“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

“I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.”

“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.”

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despiceable an ignoreable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”

“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”

“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”

“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!”

“Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind”

“The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service.”

…Albert Einstein

When we direct our attention to the outside world, we are forced into more and more “illusional” prisons. Until after many self inflicted pains and tortures do we find that the answers, and power, lie within.

Every form of government imprisons its people in some form, even if the people put the government in place. A government is outside ourselves and as such can never be “us”.

It can only try to define us in the ways the many, or the few, who control it see fit.

Our true power lies within each of us, not outside. My suggestion is that if we want to change the world, we need only go as far as looking in the mirror to start.

These lyrics written by Siedah Garrett and made famous by Michael Jackson put this thought wonderfully into music:

I’m Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
I’m Asking Him To Change
His Ways
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change

At a recent Council on Foreign Relations speech in Montreal, co-founder with David Rockefeller of the Trilateral Commission and regular Bilderberg attendee Zbigniew Brzezinski  warned that a “global political awakening,” in combination with infighting amongst the elite, was threatening to derail the move towards a one world government.

Brzezinski explained that global political leadership had become “much more diversified unlike what it was until relatively recently,” noting the rise of China as a geopolitical power, and that global leadership in the context of the G20 was “lacking internal unity with many of its members in bilateral antagonisms.”

In other words, the global elite is infighting amongst itself and this is hampering efforts to rescue the agenda for global government, which seems to be failing on almost every front.

Brzezinski then explained another significant factor in that, “For the first time in all of human history mankind is politically awakened – that’s a total new reality – it has not been so for most of human history.” Brzezinski continued, “The whole world has become politically awakened,” adding that all over the world people were aware of what was happening politically and were “consciously aware of global inequities, inequalities, lack of respect, exploitation – and stirring.”

He added that this in combination with a fractured elite “makes it a much more difficult context for any major power, including currently the leading world power, the United States.”