Archive for January, 2011

the story of stuff

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Here is a great short video that brings to light the vital flaws of our economy and consumerist ways. It is quite an eye opener to realize how greed, selfishness and vanity plug themselves into a system like this and pretty well make the whole thing tick.

This video got me thinking about something that I proposed in a post a long time ago. That thought was that  money is really just a mechinism used to keep us busy. While we work hard and spend and play and watch TV and sports and movies and going out to eat and traveling and buying clothes we are not thinking about the world we live and how it got to be this way or how we can be more responsible or selfless with what we have. What are your thoughts about the video?

If you put a library beside an amusement park you’ll end up with a lot of dusty books. Me

the Jesus never existed movement

Monday, January 10th, 2011

On the heels of the Zeitgeist movies an entire movement has been created. A false movement. The infamous documentary Zeitgeist and many other writers boldy claims that Jesus never existed and was merely a borrowed figure created out of other mythological pagan religions. Well today’s post if going to destroy that movement. Please watch the documentary contained in this post. It will help you see that the idea that Jesus never existed is a very new idea and one that is completely false.

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lindsey williams – author of energy non-crisis

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

Lindesy Willams is the author of a book title Energy Non-Crisis. In the speech made at a Q2 conference Lindsey speaks of the time he spent as a chaplain near the arctic working with nearly 25,000 men who where building the biggest pipeline project the world had ever seen at the time. He goes into great detail of insider knowledge of a wealth of oil that the U.S. is choosing to ignore and “classify” to instead persue oil from other countries. Why choose bondage over freedom? Lindsey explains…

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

It is the nature of the human species to reject what is true but unpleasant and to embrace what is obviously false but comforting. H.L. Mencken

inflation frustration – the devaluation of our hard earned money

Friday, January 7th, 2011

inflationI want to take a few moments to explain a very important and fundamental flaw in the money system we use. You may have heard the term inflation tossed around on the news and I bet there is a good chance you didn’t fully understand what the term means. Well, you really need to know what it means so here we go.

In our economy there exists a certain amount of money in circulation. When money is added to the total in circulation, the available money supply has been ”inflated”. Ok, so what’s the big deal right? Everyone likes lots of money so pile it on! Well let’s put on the brakes for a minute because inflation is far from beneficial.

Money works on the same fundamental principle that the economy itself works on, supply and demand. What I recall of supply and demand from OAC economics is that supply and demand fluctuate to create changes in prices (cost not value) and quantity of goods and services available.

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a chip on my shoulder and in my pocket…

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

You may have noticed in the last little while that your debit cards and credit cards have been resent to you with a new chip technology in them. This new technology is called RFID which stands for radio frequency identification. The technology is supposed to make cards more secure and quicker to read. Consider the following video.

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