Crude Nationalism

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Pledge / Nationalism 
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I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG

OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

AND TO THE REPUBLIC 

FOR WHICH IT STANDS,

ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE,

WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL 

Sane vs Mindlessly Angry: A Rebuttal

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Government / Council on Foreign Relations 
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What have the elite really accomplished that is not worth the masses ire?

I for one cannot find one redeeming quality of the elite social and political class and I am one of them. I can trace my family through a long line of old world nobility, including early Kings of Britain, and some of the most beloved, Kings and Queens of Scotland and France. For one instance of familial lineage, the Thornton Chart can be used to show my family's royal lineage linked to the Earl of Warren that goes back to William the Conquerer in 1066. I know others with more distinguished pedigrees than mine. Royal and aristocratic lineages are robust in the American story, and those instances are not even counting the bastards. So you will speak to We the People with respect.

What happened in 1776 with the birth our nation: the United States of America became a level playing field. Descendants of royalty, aristocracy, and the peasant classes coexisted as equals. With the combination of a common goal to make this the greatest nation on the Earth, We the People achieved greatness.

Not because we are perfect. Not because we haven’t had our social squabbles. Because we are the makers of our own destiny. We are the Sovereigns. We are the royal class.

You, the elite, are supposed to work for us, not for your demented proclivities.

The “sane” elite as you call yourselves have done nothing since 1776 but to undermine our achievements at every turn: If it weren’t for funding both sides of wars to bankrupt our nation... If it weren’t for injecting yourselves into our monetary, political, and social systems in order to dominate and enslave us... If it weren't for creating social classes to control us... If it weren't for your agenda for the world to steal wealth from us... We the People would have lifted the entire world to create a utopia for every man, woman, and child.

We the People of the Earth are not responsible for the elite’s increasing and massive pollution, destruction, and manipulation in order to self ingratiate at the cost of others, their nations, and the Earth herself. You, the supposed “sane” elite, have treated the Earth like vandals, then blame your ignorance and malignity on the rest of us.

No more. We the People are tired of your blatant disrespect and lack of leadership. True leaders do not dumb down others and blame those others for being “mindlessly angry.” We have a right to be angry. True leaders uplift their people to be greater than the generation before them. True leaders educate, inform, and guide. True leaders create wealth and equality for all.

Tyrants are the opposite. Tyrants create strife for social control. Tyrants make activities like gardening, rain water collection, and feeding the homeless illegal. Tyrants spray the sky causing pollution, disease, droughts, extreme weather events, and ozone depletion and blame it on everyone else but the elite’s own idiocy. Tyrants poison the air, water, and food supply in order to reduce the population while making money on the pharmaceuticals that not only do not cure people but kill them quicker. Tyrants cause problems so they can enact their profiteering solutions to the public problems they create. Tyrants are so blinded by their own hubris that they do not see why in the world the rest of us are fucking pissed off.

The problem with the top 1% of the 1% is that you all are ignorant fools. What have you done all your lives but change laws so that the rest of us supplement your extravagant lifestyles while you blame us for your own inadequacies? The elite have become parasitic useless eaters of the resources that belong to We the People.

What have you done with your life? I matriculated at higher learning institutions while holding down a full time job, owning my own home, putting my younger sibling through college, and taking care of an disabled elderly parent. All beginning at the age of 24. I am polymathic and renaissance as I have degrees in geology, biology, small business, history, teaching, learning, technology, as part of my arts, liberal studies, and education degrees. Not to mention my abilities in journalism, creative writing, poetry, art, lecturing, and publishing.

What have you done?

You, the elite, have put your feet up on our backs, told us what to do, and contrived a system that belittles the masses. All for soothing of your depraved egos. That does not make the masses mindlessly angry. That is a natural and healthy reaction to an abusive relationship.

The elite have not held up their end of the bargain: better jobs, better future, better education. The elite are failures. The bread basket of the United States can feed the world four times over, yet there are starving children and families all over this Earth. Tell me why? Why do we need vaccines that are full of mercury and other poisons when disease is corrected by good nutrition, ecologically sound farming practices, and good soil maintenance? Instead the elite have given the masses: pesticides, chemical fertilizers, genetically modified foods. The elite said these products would expand food production and solve world hunger. Liars.

If the elites were so “sane,” then why is Fukushima still an issue? If you are so smart, then solve that problem today, but I bet even in your groupthink think tanks no one can come up with the solution to just bury that fiasco with cement and give Japan green technologies that would support their island population.

Oh no, the elite cannot do that. Technologies that do not produce funds through scheming like smart meters are, of course, undermined or made outright illegal.

So how are the elite in any way more than corrupt, evil parasites that live off the biggest ponzi scheme funded welfare system the world has ever seen? Bank cartels, real estate bubbles, Wall Street gambling, and the laws and regulations that support the funneling of wealth from the bottom 99% to the top 1% of the 1% are your welfare meal tickets.

President Obama whines on television that Donald Trump who has built his empire through hard work and treating people with respect is an elitist? Give We the People a break. An elitist has billions, trillions of dollars locked away in accounts that will never see an audit or a tax form. We the People understand fully who the elite actually are: spoiled, angry despots.

The true welfare class are the elites that sip champagne while a mother of three working at the local fast food joint cannot even earn a living wage. When in reality, the elite owe We the People more money than they will ever be able to pay back... national debt, my ass.

The only insane people are the ones who write for elite journals like the Council of Foreign Relations’ publication: Foreign Policy complaining about how We the People do not appreciate that you, the elite, have completely and utterly failed as a political and social class because of your hubris, selfishness, and inability to do one thing right.

So the question is: what has the elite class done? What did you do today besides wreck havoc on the world markets to blame Brexit as a temper tantrum to make you feel better? Was the stomping of your feet all you did or did you get your nails done too?

We the People are not mindlessly angry. We know full well what has been going on over the generations while you feign wars and terrorist attacks to try and divert us from your complete lack of skills and abilities to run even a push mower.

Grow the hell up and get off the stage. The elites are way passed their expiration date. Each one of you needs to be indicted, arrested, convicted, wealth that was stolen confiscated, and then hung in every town square around the world to warn other elite psychos of what happens to traitors.

The mindlessly angry masses have a world to clean up and We the People are tired of your useless bigotry getting in the way of our life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Now shut up, whiner. You have nothing to complain about from your Ivory Tower. We the People do have a list of grievances. Maybe it's about time the elite abdicate their rotting thrones. 

You are no longer relevant.

Source: Foreign Policy   

9/11 Truth, Building 7, and the New Fight For Liberty

Staff Writer, DB Holmes

911 / Government Overreach
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9/11 Truth, Building 7, and the New Fight For Liberty with Brian young

9/11 truth, building 7’s collapse, and the modern fight for truth and liberty in the face of increasing incremental infringement of your rights is discussed with Brian Young of High Impact Flix. How the TSA has been a weather vane for the usurping of freedom, and the casual nature of government spying, plus what Benjamin Franklin might say to today’s state of affairs in America is all explored in this half of the interview on Buzzsaw hosted by Sean Stone. Be sure to check out High Impact Flix for the rest of the interview + more content!

Source: Buzzsaw   

President George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)

Staff Writer, R. Patrick Chapman

Government / Documents
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Even historical documents have significance today.

President George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)

Friends and Fellow Citizens:

The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom a choice is to be made.

George Washington's Handwritten Speech

I beg you, at the same time, to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country; and that in withdrawing the tender of service, which silence in my situation might imply, I am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your future interest, no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness, but am supported by a full conviction that the step is compatible with both.  

The acceptance of, and continuance hitherto in, the office to which your suffrages have twice called me have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty and to a deference for what appeared to be your desire. I constantly hoped that it would have been much earlier in my power, consistently with motives which I was not at liberty to disregard, to return to that retirement from which I had been reluctantly drawn. The strength of my inclination to do this, previous to the last election, had even led to the preparation of an address to declare it to you; but mature reflection on the then perplexed and critical posture of our affairs with foreign nations, and the unanimous advice of persons entitled to my confidence, impelled me to abandon the idea.

I rejoice that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal, no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the sentiment of duty or propriety, and am persuaded, whatever partiality may be retained for my services, that, in the present circumstances of our country, you will not disapprove my determination to retire.

The impressions with which I first undertook the arduous trust were explained on the proper occasion. In the discharge of this trust, I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not unconscious in the outset of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved country for the many honors it has conferred upon me; still more for the steadfast confidence with which it has supported me; and for the opportunities I have thence enjoyed of manifesting my inviolable attachment, by services faithful and persevering, though in usefulness unequal to my zeal. If benefits have resulted to our country from these services, let it always be remembered to your praise, and as an instructive example in our annals, that under circumstances in which the passions, agitated in every direction, were liable to mislead, amidst appearances sometimes dubious, vicissitudes of fortune often discouraging, in situations in which not unfrequently want of success has countenanced the spirit of criticism, the constancy of your support was the essential prop of the efforts, and a guarantee of the plans by which they were effected. Profoundly penetrated with this idea, I shall carry it with me to my grave, as a strong incitement to unceasing vows that heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence; that your union and brotherly affection may be perpetual; that the free Constitution, which is the work of your hands, may be sacredly maintained; that its administration in every department may be stamped with wisdom and virtue; that, in fine, the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it.

Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments which are the result of much reflection, of no inconsiderable observation, and which appear to me all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a people. These will be offered to you with the more freedom, as you can only see in them the disinterested warnings of a parting friend, who can possibly have no personal motive to bias his counsel. Nor can I forget, as an encouragement to it, your indulgent reception of my sentiments on a former and not dissimilar occasion.

Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.

The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.

For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.

But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest. Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole.

The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The South, in the same intercourse, benefiting by the agency of the North, sees its agriculture grow and its commerce expand. Turning partly into its own channels the seamen of the North, it finds its particular navigation invigorated; and, while it contributes, in different ways, to nourish and increase the general mass of the national navigation, it looks forward to the protection of a maritime strength, to which itself is unequally adapted. The East, in a like intercourse with the West, already finds, and in the progressive improvement of interior communications by land and water, will more and more find a valuable vent for the commodities which it brings from abroad, or manufactures at home. The West derives from the East supplies requisite to its growth and comfort, and, what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets for its own productions to the weight, influence, and the future maritime strength of the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation. Any other tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength, or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.

While, then, every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations; and, what is of inestimable value, they must derive from union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves, which so frequently afflict neighboring countries not tied together by the same governments, which their own rival ships alone would be sufficient to produce, but which opposite foreign alliances, attachments, and intrigues would stimulate and embitter. Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. In this sense it is that your union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.

These considerations speak a persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind, and exhibit the continuance of the Union as a primary object of patriotic desire. Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of the whole with the auxiliary agency of governments for the respective subdivisions, will afford a happy issue to the experiment. It is well worth a fair and full experiment. With such powerful and obvious motives to union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.

In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations, Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views. One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection. The inhabitants of our Western country have lately had a useful lesson on this head; they have seen, in the negotiation by the Executive, and in the unanimous ratification by the Senate, of the treaty with Spain, and in the universal satisfaction at that event, throughout the United States, a decisive proof how unfounded were the suspicions propagated among them of a policy in the General Government and in the Atlantic States unfriendly to their interests in regard to the Mississippi; they have been witnesses to the formation of two treaties, that with Great Britain, and that with Spain, which secure to them everything they could desire, in respect to our foreign relations, towards confirming their prosperity. Will it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of these advantages on the Union by which they were procured ? Will they not henceforth be deaf to those advisers, if such there are, who would sever them from their brethren and connect them with aliens?

To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliance, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay, by the adoption of a constitution of government better calculated than your former for an intimate union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.

However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in changes, upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion; and remember, especially, that for the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.

This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.

Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.

There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield.

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?

Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.

As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it, avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertion in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear. The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives, but it is necessary that public opinion should co-operate. To facilitate to them the performance of their duty, it is essential that you should practically bear in mind that towards the payment of debts there must be revenue; that to have revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment, inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties), ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies may at any time dictate.

Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue ? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?

In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence, frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations, has been the victim.

So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.

As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils? Such an attachment of a small or weak towards a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.

The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.

Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government. the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.

Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?

It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them.

Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing (with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the government to support them) conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate; constantly keeping in view that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that, by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. But, if I may even flatter myself that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.

How far in the discharge of my official duties I have been guided by the principles which have been delineated, the public records and other evidences of my conduct must witness to you and to the world. To myself, the assurance of my own conscience is, that I have at least believed myself to be guided by them.

In relation to the still subsisting war in Europe, my proclamation of the twenty-second of April, I793, is the index of my plan. Sanctioned by your approving voice, and by that of your representatives in both houses of Congress, the spirit of that measure has continually governed me, uninfluenced by any attempts to deter or divert me from it.

After deliberate examination, with the aid of the best lights I could obtain, I was well satisfied that our country, under all the circumstances of the case, had a right to take, and was bound in duty and interest to take, a neutral position. Having taken it, I determined, as far as should depend upon me, to maintain it, with moderation, perseverance, and firmness.

The considerations which respect the right to hold this conduct, it is not necessary on this occasion to detail. I will only observe that, according to my understanding of the matter, that right, so far from being denied by any of the belligerent powers, has been virtually admitted by all.

The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without anything more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of peace and amity towards other nations.

The inducements of interest for observing that conduct will best be referred to your own reflections and experience. With me a predominant motive has been to endeavor to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption to that degree of strength and consistency which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.

Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence; and that, after forty five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest.

Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it, which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate with pleasing expectation that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever-favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

United States
19th September, 1796

Geo. Washington

Transcription courtesy of the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.

Source: Our Documents

Immigration Crisis: Government Problem-Making So Politicians Can Blackmail Voters into a Predeteremined Solution

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Immigration / Illegal Status

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Is there something the United States government is not telling the American people? In recent weeks there has been a surge of illegal aliens especially from Central and South America coming across the Mexico-United States border.

The law states:

Regulation of immigration. Informed by several constitutional provisions and  ultimately resting on the inherent right of every sovereign nation to control its borders, the authority to regulate the entry of aliens and the conditions of their stay is a plenary power of the Federal Government. Congress has exercised this authority primarily through the  Immigration & Nationality Act of 1952 (INA), as amended (8 U.S.C. §§ 1101 et seq.).  Under the INA, an alien, including an unaccompanied minor, who arrives without  proper migration documents has no right to remain and, indeed, is regarded as having no  constitutional rights within the immigration process.

Articles such as these ones are documenting the invasion: 

• Katrina of Illegal Immigrants Flooding into Border States Daily 
• Obama, Mexico Facilitate Illegal Immigration: 300 More Illegal Migrant Kids Flood U.S. Border
• After Leaked Photos Expose Unaccompanied Child Crisis, Border Patrol Agents Threatened With Firings

Not to mention the articles, interviews, and documentation being reported by Inforwars about illegal immigration, church and border patrol assistance to these aliens as well as exhibiting what happens to surrounding areas when the Federal Government does not enforce current and necessary immigration laws.

In the article, Central American Newspapers Encouraging Illegal Immigration, children are being sent northward because of the policies of the United States government:

“During their stay, in addition to accommodations and food, children receive English classes, play sports and participate in targeted programs while immigration authorities contact their families,” La Prensa of Honduras wrote, Newsmax reported Wednesday.

Diario El Mundo in El Salvador, meanwhile, quoted Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson as praising the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

“Almost all agree that a child who crossed the border illegally with their parents, or in search of a father or a better life, was not making an adult choice to break our laws and should be treated differently than adult violators of the law,” he told the paper.

President Obama enacted the policy in 2012, granting temporary legal status to many young illegal immigrants and ending the threat of their deportation for two years or longer.

How is Arizona being impacted by loose and impractical immigration policies?

• Arizona orders 2,000 mattresses in rush to provide for swarm of unaccompanied migrant children housed in crumbling air base
• Arizona sends supplies to illegal immigrant children 'dumped' in warehouse
• 300 more immigrant children shipped to Arizona
• Scores of undocumented migrants dropped off in Arizona
• HUMPHRIES: Exclusive interview with Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio

America is not stable. Our economy is in a depression. Our monetary system is rigged. Americans cannot afford new mattresses for themselves, yet other countries feel that the American taxpayer owes them a better life. 

People on Visas in America have to be self-sufficient and are unable to collect any type of public assistance. However, if you cross the border illegally, it appears that necessary rules and laws do not apply.  Why does the United States Federal Government believe we have the ability to take care of all these abandoned children?

We have laws. We have immigration laws. In the past few decades, these laws have been ignored, bashed, and unused so someone can "reform" our unbroken laws for their benefit. The question is: Who is benefiting?

The American people cannot find jobs, house all their population, feed everyone that already lives here, or  correct the financial system against middle class wealth creation.

So who is benefiting from the influx of illegal aliens that have continued across our borders for the past few decades?

It is not the United States' job to house, cloth, and assist the entire world. There are hundreds of other countries who can be of service instead of the poverty stricken middle class.

In the case of Elian Gonzales: "Asylum under the INA. Under § 208 of the INA, “[a]ny alien who is physically present in the United States . . . may apply for asylum.” At core issue in the Gonzalez case was whether the phrase “any alien” was sufficiently unclear to leave the Attorney General  discretion to refuse to accept an asylum application by or on behalf of a minor without  parental consent."

As our Federal Government creates this "Humanitarian Crisis" through Free Trade agreements and the North American Union that only benefit wealthy corporations as well as urges the American taxpayers to have "compassion." 

Where is the compassion and jobs for the American people?

The only true Humanitarian Crisis is the crisis of poor leadership, abandoning our Constitution and laws, and emotionally blackmailing Americans to usher in a government "Solution" that neither benefits Americans nor the legal immigrants who are already here.

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" 

Maybe the end of that poem should read: 

For we have these masses unfree, suspect

Already sleeping in our streets.

What will we do with more than 

We have to feed, clothe, and house

When we cannot educate them

With one, two, and three?

What are we to do, Mr. President?

Shall we give up more of our Liberties

for wars and terrorists of your own making?

We have a golden door, but no one is allowed to enter.

Unless your name is Bush, Cheney, Clinton, yours?

Americans are kind and generous 

and willing to help those  in need.

For now, Americans need you to be

the President of Change they voted for.

Not the same that asks of them to repent

for injustices you and your elites have sent.

Enough, Mr. President.

Abide by our laws and enforce our laws and border security.

Source: NY Times, Washington Times, Congressional Research, Liberty State Park,

How Sustainability Looks When Phoenix is Transformed into a Human Waystation

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

United Nations / Agenda 21

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Social Equity, Economy, and Ecology; Tenets of Sustainable Development

Have you wondered what all the marketing is on your city water bills? City mail? Why your electric company keeps sending you "energy score cards?" And, other waste of money mailings that try to tell customers their consumption of utilities is unmanageable? Unsustainable? Horrifying?

Have you ever wonder how much of the Sustainability scheme is a lie?

How about all of it.

Sustainability is not about creating a better Earth or ending pollution from corporate or governmental entities, it's about creating a human prison system on planet Earth.

Do you believe this plan is impossible? People who believe in Agenda 21 are conspiracy theorists? Then you need to get the facts:

Agenda 21 -Source Document from the United Nations

United Nations Document - Land should be Public, not available for Private Ownership: "Land, because of its unique nature and the crucial role it plays in human settlements, cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market."

MegaRegions

Picture Smart Growth - it's terrible b/c there's no room for you.

Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook with Model Statutes for Planning and the Management of Change

President's Council on Sustainable Development

ICLEI, the USA website

Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide - City of Phoenix's Planning Guidebook

Wildways Wilderness Project - Where are Humans going to Live?  Can you see how NAFTA was used to push Mexicans off their land and into the United States via Illegal Immigration?

Wildways Impact of their Projects - Guided slideshow showing Federal Government Land Grabs. Wonder why the ranchers in Nevada are being targeted? Agenda 21. (Ben Swann's Exclusive Videos: Fed’s 260K Acre Land Grab At Vail Lake as an example of this UN plan.)

Complete Streets - Nowhere to park and the disabled have little choices

Alliance for Biking and Walking - Pressure Lobbyists for less Logical Growth

The National Association of Regional Councils (NARC) - You didn't vote them in and you don't have a voice but they sure like to make decisions that directly impact your way of life and like to spend your tax money.

There are three cornerstones of UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development: Economy, Ecology, and Social Equity. Here is how the Post Sustainability Institute describes this trend toward the human island syndrome of current ideolog planning and zoning of Phoenix, Maricopa County, and surrounding communities:

Economic collapse creates a chain of events, but on a micro level (county, city) there is a marked reduction in revenue for maintenance of services. Loss of services to outlying areas means, for example, roads not being maintained to rural and suburban areas. Roads not being maintained to those areas, schools not being supported in those areas, law enforcement/fire/social services not being supported in those areas means a gradual movement into the denser city centers. Add to that the increased cost of gasoline (manipulated), and the higher cost of energy (manipulated) to heat and cool statistically larger homes, and you have more pressure to leave rural and suburban areas. Reduction of energy usage is key. Smart Growth/New Urbanism in Redevelopment Areas is the supposed answer: smaller units, attached condos, little or no parking, few private cars. More eyes on the street. Redevelopment projects are the implementation arm of the UN plan, and include rezoning of huge sections of your cities to Smart Growth zones. This physical manifestation of UN Agenda 21 is social engineering paid for with your property tax dollars. These areas then have their property taxes diverted away from your services and into the pockets of a few developers and bond brokers for 30-45 years. Result? Bankrupt cities and counties.

In addition to these factors, ecologically motivated regulation makes rural/suburban development prohibitive. From stream/creek/ditch protection to watershed protection, to bayland/inland/rural corridor prohibitions, to increased species protection (lists are growing), the use of land is greatly limited. Water well monitoring and loss of water rights reduce the opportunity for living outside of cities. Wildlands programs that prohibit roads and trails into rural areas while supposedly protecting them with conservation easements increase the loss of our food source independence. The sale of development rights to Agricultural Land Trusts that restrict farmers and ranchers from using their lands and therefore make it impossible to farm for more than one more generation endanger our ability to feed ourselves.

Add to this the pressure from ICLEI Climate Protection Campaigns to reduce our energy usage to pre-1985 levels, and increased regulations on industry and you have the perfect storm for loss of jobs and greater dependence on other countries for goods. As the population becomes more and more urbanized and less able to provide food or necessary products, more people are dependent on the government for housing, food, and other basic necessities. Government itself becomes dependent on grants and loans with requirements attached. In this way policy-makers are influenced and pressured by the corporatocracy. Public/private partnerships favor some businesses over others and completely unbalance the playing field. Independent businesses go bankrupt. Poverty works its way into the middle class.

Social equity, another one of the cornerstones of Agenda 21 comes in here. As a major leveler, the loss of money, land, food, and energy independence brings the US into 'social equity' with the poorer countries. This is a goal of Agenda 21. Health will suffer, presumably health care will suffer, nutrition will suffer. Psychological problems, stress from living in tight Smart Growth areas with other un- or underemployed people, and crime will result. Community Oriented Policing will encourage, if not require, people to watch their neighbors and report suspicious activity. More activity will be identified as 'crime'--such as obesity, smoking, drinking when you have a drinking problem, name calling, leaving lights on, neglect (in someone's perception) of children, elderly, and pets, driving when you could ride a bike, breaking a curfew, and failure to do mandatory volunteering. The 'community' will demand more law enforcement to restore order, and more rules and regulations will ensue. The lines between government and non-governmental groups will blur more and more as unelected local groups make policy decisions using the Delphi Technique to manufacture consensus. The Chinese and Russian models are instructive in what you can expect under Communitarianism. See Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai, and Alexsander Solzhenitsen's The Gulag Archipelago for real world examples. The war on terror is a Communitarian plan designed to terrorize YOU.

You can see that the groundwork for this has been laid and is being implemented throughout the nation. When you create deep dependence and then withdraw assistance the result is chaos and poverty. Propaganda infuses our culture with messages that there are just a few winners and many losers; that we are killing the earth and time is running out; that prosperity is an anachronism and detrimental to life; that individual freedom is selfish and injures those who are less free.

This is UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development.

Communitarianism is the 'balancing' or subsuming of individual rights below the needs of the 'community.' The community is defined now as the global village. So anything identified as serving the global village takes precedence over the rights of the individual. In the United States, our constitution guarantees our rights to life and liberty. Ownership of property includes that of our own persons.

Personal liberty is at odds with Communitarianism, the new standard of the Twenty-first Century. Join us in fighting UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development.

Angry yet? Then get involved with your city, city council, mayor, and county officials today. Voters can change this scenario. If the local planning commissions and representatives will not listen, then pressure state legislatures to pass laws against implementing these United Nations' directives.

This country is the United States, not the Soviet Union. What is happening in our country is nothing short of treason. Let's change it.

Source: Post Sustainability Institute

Fear Porn and the Doomsday Scenario

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Opinion / Journalism
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The United States is standing against Russia and China on a number of issues. 

Mainstream media compounds this sabre rattling with stories of military build ups, exercises, and threats to neighboring nations. Other journalistic outlets cry: FEAR! just as well with a twist of covering events the mainstream media does not care about reporting on.

In this day and age of rampant fear and speculation, how can anyone decipher between reality and insanity?

Is there really any difference?

It's the build up to World War III! The dollar is crashing! Police brutality! Gun confiscation! Vaccines! GMO's! Global Warming and Climate Change are harming the Earth! We're all doomed!

Then the people of the world call for resolution. Governments take notice. So political leaders can become the heroes, who caused the problems in the first place, and offer solutions if you give up something you hold dear.

Run the country by Executive Orders! Send the military into another perpetual war! Sign trade agreements that relinquish the people's rights to corporations! Tax! Tax! Tax!

It's a scheme.

Not one major or minor issue in the world has happened by accident. None of it. It's all been orchestrated.

Why? Why not, it's not like people aren't getting high off the prospect of fear porn and doomsday scenarios. Fear makes people pliable. The end of the world creates worshipers and believers, people who will not question the ill in the world as man-made.

But it is. All of it. Humans created the problems, but not all is lost. 

Humans can correct those problems. We don't have to give up our rights, homes, or lives to find peace and prosperity. People only have to realize that the life they're living isn't their own. It's a fiction. A web of lies secreted away into history and scoffed as conspiracy. Yet, all the signs point here. History is on the verge of revelation.

We can see it. The world is not what it seems. It's been created for you and not in a happy way. There are some people on this planet who are not sane. Unfortunately, those unclean souls are running the centers of power, these people have created the mayhem in order to seize power, control, and wealth at your expense. 

That expense is vast and encompassing on so many levels. These elite people in power have done everything to teach you and your children that you have no power, no intelligence, and no individualism. Well, they're wrong.

This country was founded on ideas: liberty and rights. Have you ever asked yourself the tough questions like: if the founders didn't believe in Americans, then why did they create America? A handful of people want you to think you are unworthy of such belief to carry on the original Republic.

Don't believe the negative spin. You have the power. You have the control. Or why would the elite spend so much time trying to convince you otherwise? 

Be the change you want to see in the world. Become active. Search out the possibilities governments forbade you to discuss without social consequences, you might then just find us: the free thinkers of the world. 

Fear porn and doomsday are offered to you as entertainment. An illusion to keep you guessing about tomorrow, when tomorrow is already here. Think about change and the world can be yours. 

For change begins with one thought: isn't there something better than this?

The articles from VDP Gazette's past and present have been answering the fear porn, doomsday scenario that plagues our media by discussing the facts about social norms, mores, and discourse while making the real issues known. In the coming weeks, VDP Gazette will show more of what the elite choose to hide from you. History will be hidden no more. 

Won't you be amazed.

The Day WE Fight Back

Take part

The SOPA and PIPA protests were successful because we all took part, as a community. As Aaron Swartz put it, everybody "made themselves the hero of their own story." We can set a date, but we need all of you, the users of the Internet, to make it a movement.

What we can do

Congress is considering two major bills.

• The USA Freedom Act curtails NSA surveillance abuses.
• The FISA Improvements Act attempts to legalize bulk data collection of phone records.

We need to tell Congress to pass the USA Freedom Act and amend it to make it even stronger.

Free Energy is Not a Scam: Our Fake Reality is

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Physics / Social Justice / History  / Banking  / Education
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Welcome to Reality. The biggest ponzi scam of the ultimate pyramid scheme that has ever existed. You are living in this matrix. 

Sounds hard to believe, doesn't it? 

What about free energy? Extraterrestrials? What if all you believed was a lie? The reality of an electromagnetic universe that could supply humanity with clean energy, wealth, prosperity, and peace does exist and you aren't being told about these wonderful advancements.

Wouldn't that make you mad? The Thrive Movement not only seeks to answer your questions but also to empower you to create a better world for everyone.

Thrive: What will it take?

Does their documentary sound far fetched or too good to be true? Does the alternative we are living now look better? Take a gander for yourself. 

Much of the facts that have been covered on the VDP Gazette have been individually verified via the Thrive Movement and its documentary. 

So pull up a chair and get ready to view the world you really live in. 

As an answer to the documentary, The Villa de Paz Gazette is funded solely by its Editor, DL Mullan. The Gazette takes no corporate money or advertisement of any kind. The only funding source the Gazette would ever consider would be from the Villa de Paz community itself. Even then, the VDP Gazette will remain independent, truth seeking, investigative, vigilant, and geared toward the ideals of liberty and justice for all. 

The VDP Gazette's Editor cannot envision a working Fifth Estate such as media in any other way. 

Now, on with the show...

Thrive: What will it take?

Every single one of us.

Tribute to JFK and a Reminder to Us in His Own Words

Staff Writer: DL Mullan
History / Education
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There are a few quotes from John Fitzgerald Kennedy that people like to quote, but why stop there when he had so many interesting things to say. So I'm going to let him tell us the story of us.

And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. 

 

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. 

 

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

 

Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us. 

We believe that if men have the talent to invent need machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

This nation was founded by many men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

 

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

 

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. 

 

The stories of past courage can define that ingredient-they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. 

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. 

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

Democracy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone will fail.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.

So let us dream in our mortal coil what lies beyond the daily grind are these words to live by.

Source:  The Quotation Page

Gettysburg Address 150 Today with Rebuttal

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Education  / News 

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"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." 

Abraham Lincoln 

November 19, 1863

Dear Sir,

We, the American People, thank you for your humble words and service to this great nation. 

Unfortunately, 150 years later we are again embroiled in a civil war. A war of thought, speech, action, and consequence. Our government no longer serves the interests of its people. It serves elites, corporations, banks, and the unilluminated.

The honored dead we sanctify now are liberty, our Constitution and Bill of Rights everything the Civil War fought to uphold. Our own government invades sovereign nations, taxes hard earned wages, spies on our every word, written or uttered, treats everyone as guilty before proven innocent, protects the wealthy from judgment, passes laws that imprison without due process, allows torture and secret charges, and causes Americans to despise the very institutions that are supposed to protect them from such imperialism.

Mr. Lincoln, our Civil War is about the corruption of ideas and words. Anyone who disagrees with the establishment is hounded and arrested. Anyone who is independent of thought is either called names or told to "just die." Anyone who protests is sprayed with poisons and beaten. Anyone who informs the public of government illegalities is exiled into hostile foreign territory or imprisoned.

If you weren't already passed into the next realm, I would be embarrassed to write such provocative and truthful invocations.

This Nation was built on ideas. Ideas that have lasted well into the 21st Century, but with great effort. We have technocratic elitists who believe the human race is unworthy of the Earth, yet these madmen have created the pollution and destruction and disillusionment blamed on the common person. 

Still your words, even these many years later, have resolve. As long as the American people believe and dedicate themselves to that belief, we can heal the wounds of strife.

I only hope that we re-conceive the notion of liberty to integrate all once again under a banner of red, white, and blue. So every man, woman, and child are born knowing that they have the inherent rights bestowed onto them by a greater force than any government. 

For in this knowledge, no matter the law or prison, we are still free. Freedom is why so many have perished for and against one another across the globe. Freedom is our only savior, our only dedicated belief, our only battle cry that no one can take away.

Yours Truly,

A Free American

Source: Abraham Lincoln Online