The ‘societal and human rights’ Category

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…

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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multiple sclerosis and vaccines – my story

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Anyone who knows me well knows that back in 2003 I became ill and started down a path that led doctors and medical experts to determine that I had Multiple Sclerosis or MS. I use had for a reason. Since late 2003 when all my symptoms left my body I have been without symptoms for going on 7 years. I am thankful for that but have always wondered in the back of my mind if someday it would come back. After all, multiple sclerosis has that name because it happen multiple times. Then last winter I had a revelation at the onset of the flu season.

It’s not so long ago that anyone has forgot that before last winter we could not tune into the news and not hear about the swine flu. With all that hype a video surfaced on the internet about a previous swine flu scare in 1976. I watched this video as I recommend you should too. My story will pick up on the other side of the video players.

Once I heard of this woman’s account of Guillain-Barré syndrome I made a connection. Her symptoms while more sever than mine we’re incredibly similar.

I remember it was in late February or early March of 2003 I was at my desk at work on a Thursday afternoon when my feet started to feel numb, like they had the circulation slightly cut off. I took of my shoes and rubbed my feet, I got up and walked around but couldn’t shake the sensation. I went to bed that night sure it would be gone in the morning. I woke up the next day and it was worse. It had even spread its way up into my calf’s. By the time I got to work on the Friday the tingling sensation was up into my thighs. I dealt with it for the Friday and over the weekend but by the time Monday rolled around it was becoming clear it was not going to go away. I left work that Monday morning to go to a clinic and by the time I was through the clinic and to the hospital I felt numbness from my chest down. To make a long story short I underwent a number of tests over the weeks and months to come, which included a spinal tap and an MRI, I was eventually told that I likely have MS. At the height of it all I was partially numb from the chest down to such a degree that I could not feel water hitting my body in the shower. I even had very slight loss of mobility in my hands and fingers.

The revelation I had after seeing this video was that the winter of 2002/2003 was the last time I had a seasonal flu shot. Now I am not a doctor and can not give myself a 100% accurate diagnosis I feel pretty confident that I do not have MS given the research that I have done. I feel even more secure in that given that I am in my 7th year of being symptom free. As a side note I am yet to have the flu in the last seven years as well.

While most of my symptoms were MS like in nature I have done some reading on GBS and learned it fits the bill perfectly too. I have spent a good deal of time wondering why that was not even presented to me as an option while I was going through my tests. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that GBS is linked to the bodies response to foreign antigens in the body. Wikipedia states that one study suggests that some cases are triggered by the influenza virus, or by an immune reaction to the influenza virus. Considering that the flu shot is given with live influenza in the vaccine I give that possibility a lot of credit. Did I have an episode of GBS? I have not had the opinion of a medical doctor on that front but to me, it seems highly probable.

Not being a doctor I want to be clear, don’t take my advice as gospel. You need to educate yourself and make your own decisions based on good information (which is hard to come by). Last seasons Swine Flu scare came and went with minor incident. Did some people die? Yes. But the death toll cause by Swine Flu (H1N1) still trailed the typical seasonal flu by a large margin. I pulled the following from WikiAnswers:

3 March 2010 — As of 12 February 2010, According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it is estimated* that since the beginning of the pandemic, the US has had approximately 57 million cases of A-H1N1/09 Pandemic Swine Flu and approximately 11,690 resulting deaths. Based upon this, an estimate of the mortality rate in the US from the pandemic is 0.02%.
In comparison, the CDC and World Health Organization (WHO) have estimated that with seasonal flu, “we see over 30 million cases in the United States. We see 200,000 hospitalizations and, on average, 36,000 deaths.” (During the entire fall and winter flu season.) Based upon this, the average mortality rate of seasonal flu in the US would be 0.12%

Based on those numbers the regular flu claimed the lives of over three times as many people as H1N1 but there wasn’t any major news coverage or panic around those figures. I think it is worth mentioning too that many victims of the flu don’t die by the flu alone. It is usually the flu in combination with some other complicating health factors primarily when the flu and some sort of viral infection occur at the same time.

The vaccine subject can be a very touchy one. Some people are for it and think its a great medical achievement. Others think that they aren’t great and we don’t yet fully understand the long term effects that vaccines will take on people. I say get out there and do some research. I for one put a lot of weight on the first hand accounts of people. I think that we need to get the TV and medical establishment out of the way and start hearing the stories of individuals that have had good and bad experiences through vaccines and weigh the positives and negatives before rolling up our sleeves at the recommendations of the government and TV. For me I can’t shake this feeling that the higher ups are just a little to eager to have us lining up for our annual “safety shots”. Again, I want you to think for yourself and start doing your homework. The new flu season is only a couple months away so get on this now before we are in the heat of the moment with the TV screaming doom at us. It’s your life and your body. I myself am unlikely to ever accept another vaccine, but only the circumstances will tell for sure.

the internet and problem, reaction, solution

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

I saw this post not too long ago on another site I frequent.

False Flag Cyber Attack Could Takedown The Internet

In short the post discusses the governments growing concern over the internet and security issues found within. There are claims that the internet has left North America vulnerable to cyber terroism that could mess with our power/electrical systems, trains, water systems and other key infrastructure. However while many of these systems are networked they are not directly connected to the public internet. The bigger and unmentioned concern here is alternative news/opinion sites like mine and many others that are bringing peoples attention to the offside behaviour of those running the show. I will leave it to you to read the link above and watch the videos there-in so I can move onto my main point, problem, reaction solution.

A short summary of problem, reaction, solution is found in the below video…

Now that video uses clips of 9/11 through out to make its point which to me holds together with this topic of the internet and the post I provided from the Web of Evidence site when this quote is pulled from it;

Lessig told attendees of a high profile Tech conference that “There’s going to be an i-9/11 event” which will act as a catalyst for a radical reworking of the law pertaining to the internet.

What needs to be understood about the internet more than anyting is the freedom it provides. A person like myself is allowed to speak my mind, share my faith and call attention to sketchy behaviour where I see it. There are tons of sites that talk about government,  politics, war, money and business offering solid information that contradicts the mainstream news media which is owned and opperated by the very rich and often same people that are in government and big business and exercise change in public policy that want our opinions controlled. They are not interested in allowing a forum of free speech as large as the internet to stand. So here enters problem, reaction, solution.

Problem - The internet is not secure and provides too many dangerous opportunities for people to exploit.
Reaction - Scare the public to get the “something must be done” reaction.
Solution - Offer a solution which is the very thing that is desired but would be resisted without scaring the public.

The thing to take away from all of this is that as of right now people have a large means of free speech on the internet. Is there some things that should change about the internet? Of course there are. But the kind of changes discussed in the article provided will squash what is probably the last large public forum of free speech in the world. Many sites like mine would be lost in the shuffle. As a quick fact in many places in the U.S. you need a permit to protest or picket and if what you are wanting to protest is considered too contraversial or disturbing to the peace you are denied permission. Only time will tell what is going to happen.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson

Start to pay attention to the news and listen to what is talked about today and then what happens in the months to come. You can start to see the theory of problem-reaction-solution play itself out.

who knew math is dangerous

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

This is absolutley the most incredible lecture I have ever heard. It explores the idea that one of the hardest things for humans to understand is the exponential function in relation to how fast the world population is growing and the resources humans use. It’s titled Arithmetic, Population and Energy and is given by Dr. Albert Bartlett a professor from The University of Colorado in Boulder Colorado.Please watch it and leave some comments.

Here are some great quotes from the end of the lecture. The last one I have pulled from a documentary that I posted previously titled Money as Debt which has become painfully clear as true after having listened to the video above.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect, has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley

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

The chief source of problems is solutions. Eric Sevareid

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. Kenneth Boulding

Here is a link too the video on google.

one of the most frightening things i’ve read in a while

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Last week this story was sent to me by a co-worker. The snap shot synopsis is that Massachusetts has passed a law forcing is residents to get the swine flu/h1n1 vaccination. I think that is a very bad step in an incredibly dangerous direction from a human rights standpoint. Sure, on the outside the reasons seem good in nature but lately I have become a bit of a skeptic on the  needles and vaccines front. Personally I haven’t had a flu shot for 5 winter running and I am yet to have the flu once in that time. Many people around me that have gotten the shot have battled some of the toughest sicknesses I’ve seen.

There is a lot of contreversy surrounding all the vaccines that we are told we need. Check out the links below:
Massachusetts Passes Vaccine Law
Flu Vaccine Exposed
Thiomersal Controversy (mercury in vaccines – mercury is a poison to the human body)
Vaccine Controversy

blue skies over bad lands

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

As promised, and entirely to late in arriving, here is my dissection of blue skies over bad lands… a great song by Matthew Good.

The song sets the stage in the middle of the night and a person unexplainably awakes from their sleep and wanders outside without shoes.

What if you woke up in the middle of the night
And in your bare feet you walked outside

I think here the song takes a turn from someone being awake to someone thinking their awake but really find themselves in a vivid dream in which they can fly anywhere.

And realizing that you were awake that you could fly
Out over the world

This person then finds them self in a place they do not know but have only heard of, maybe in school, but presumably on the TV. I interpret the person in this song is somewhere in the middle east and is seeing people that the news has “sold” as evil people and terrorists, or in his words, murderers. Matt is pointing out that we really don’t know the people on the other side of the planet. We only know what the government, TV or the newspapers tell us.

To places that you’ve only heard of
See faces that you were sold as murderers

He suggests that they are people just like us. They are struggling with life and emotionally lonely like most people everywhere.

But just like you they’re only lonely boys and girls
Like all over the world

The question is asked, what if we could do something to change the situation. What if we could take some accountability for our role in the world and do something that would make times not so rough for other people that struggle too.

What if you could lift them up?
What if you could make it so that times weren’t tough?

The result of personal accountability would leave nothing but the weather to be reported on the news everyday.

So every morning when the world woke up
There’d only be weather on the news

Then something interesting happens. Matt reverses the situation with us back at home and our perceived enemies flying around above us. A lot of people don’t realize that people in the middle east live in the same situation as we do… fed lies to keep us scared and fighting with each other.

And what if you were back in bed
With one of them floating over your head

The next statement, I think, is the most powerful in the song. So many of us hate people we don’t even know. Really, what would you say to someone you “hate” when you don’t really know what kind of relationship could have existed had our minds not been poisoned.

What do you say to your enemies
When you don’t know what it is that could have been between you?

Then in concluding Matt says the following statement which conveys that there is nothing good going on anywhere. Even when it seems like a pleasant day there is still this ugliness in the air. It may be unseen but it is there.

There ain’t no blue skies over bad lands
Even if it ain’t raining in the mornings

Lastly, a very modest statement. We don’t have to have dreams and fly anywhere to get whats going on. We just need to have understanding of each other and compassion, not being swept up in the media hype.

But you don’t need to fly to understand it
Just understand understanding

The image I created focuses on the aspect of being sold lies and I chose to pick on Capitol Hill. I think most of the information that is brought to us from that building is very self serving and skewed. The blue dark sky is dreamy and ominous in nature. I inverted the image with the intent of communicating that a lot of news is confusing and in reality upside down in nature. This also puts the blue sky under everything… making no blue skies over bad lands.

Please view this post if you want to hear the song, it is the second video in the post.

This is such a powerful song. How does it make you feel? Do you have any opinions? Please share, I would like to hear from you.
this is an interpretive image I design inspired by this song... I think it's as moody and heavy as the song.

this is an interpretive image I design inspired by this song... I think it's as moody and heavy as the song.