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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Nicht So Gut: 7.5 mln Germans ‘functionally illiterate’ – YouTube
Published on Dec 23, 2012
To become one of the world’s industrial titans you need a work force that’s ready for anything, but grim statistics in the heart of Europe show millions of adults are being left behind because they have trouble reading and writing.
The History, Philosophy and Ethics of Gun Control – YouTube
Published on Dec 21, 2012
Did you know that 90 years ago, America still had 12 times the murder rate of the United Kingdom?
Did you know that criminals using guns are less likely to hurt their victims?
Did you know that citizens use guns to protect themselves against criminals over two and a half million times a year?
Sources: http://www.fdrurl.com/guncontrol
Keiser Report: Crazyflation (E383 ft. Peter Schiff)
Published on Dec 22, 2012
In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert look at the the central bank revolution that will end in disaster with Japan leading the way after voters have demanded even more aggression with the nation’s monetary policy. They also look at Moody’s ratings getting no respect because nobody has done better than flipping a coin for 50 years in a slow burning prison. In the second half, Max Keiser talks to Peter Schiff about bonds, dollars and governments buying their own debt.
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CoastZone – End of the Mayan Calendar Extravaganza
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| December 22, 2012 – See link below |
| End of the Mayan Calendar Extravaganza:On Friday’s program, George Noory checked in with various guests on the status of the post Mayan calendar world. Reporting live from the Mayan Galactic Cruise, C2C science advisor Richard C. Hoagland suggested that HAARP activity played a role in ensuring the worst case scenarios of Mayan prophecy did not come to pass. Prophecy expert John Hogue bid farewell to ‘end times’ thinking and encouraged listeners to face the future without pinning their hopes on a specific date or external events. Change must come from within, he noted.Remote viewing teacher Major Ed Dames looked to 2013, warning of a year filled with chaos and havoc as well as the beginning of the solar ‘killshot’ sequence. Author Mike Bara identified the day as one that provided humanity with an opportunity to vote with thoughts and prayers on the kind of world they wanted. Energy pulses from the center of the galaxy hit us every nine days and we can use it to change our culture positively he said. Social pioneer Barbara Marx Hubbard celebrated 12/22/12 as our first planetary birthday, adding that if we look to the impulse of creativity being born in us, we can in turn give birth to a world as we co-create it.Author L.A. Marzulli characterized the hype surrounding 12/21/12 as a red herring that has drawn attention away from real prophecy currently manifesting in the Middle East. Specifically, he pointed to the prediction in Isaiah 17 of Damascus becoming a ruinous heap as well as looming events foretold in Ezekiel 38. Marzulli said he believes the Mayans received their calendar from interdimensional ‘sky gods’ that may possibly be angels. Author and hospice volunteer Dannion Brinkley praised the Mayans for their advanced knowledge of astrophysics and remarkable understanding of galactic alignments. He revealed that we are moving from a Galactic Period in which corrupt institutions collapse into a Universal Period characterized by no more secrets.
Dr. Bruce Goldberg said he was not worried about the 12/21/12 apocalypse, as the future life progressions he has conducted with patients showed it would be just another day. Meso-American scholars have found nothing about the end of the world in Mayan records, he added. Goldberg advised listeners to access their higher selves and not let others bring them down. Glynis McCants offered numerological insights, noting that the master number for this auspicious date is ’11’. This is about communication and the opportunity to let things go and become a better person. McCants warned of conflict on 12/23/12 and said the new year will be about getting back to the basics in a ‘cycle of 6.’ Author Whitley Strieber credited the media with propagating end-of-the-world hype surrounding the date. He also corrected some misconceptions, noting that we are not passing over the lens of the galaxy and the planets are not in alignment. Researcher Wynn Free shared an opposing point of view, explaining that on 12/21/12 a celestial alignment allowed energy to flow into our realm at the strongest magnitude in the history of mankind. This energy is causing the Earth, a third chakra planet, to move into a fourth chakra marked by compassion and empathy, he said. Humans must open their heart chakras to the new energy to continue on their evolutionary track, Free added. Author and nuclear terrorism expert Robert Gleason pointed out that there is no evidence of any forthcoming apocalypse in the extant Mayan writings. Everything we know about them is really just from their monuments and oral traditions, he said. Huffington Post writer Lee Speigel expressed his concern about the psychological impact the doomsday date may have had on certain individuals. One science teacher claimed that parents of two of her students planned to kill themselves and the children, he reported. Mythologist William Henry identified the day as a ‘mile marker’ in an ongoing internal process, not a destination. Now the real work of rebuilding our world view begins, he announced. Investigator Graham Hancock said he is filled with joy at the idea of humanity waking up and taking back sovereignty from the state, corporations, and religion. Our destiny lies in our own hands, he added. Egyptologist Robert Bauval marvelled at the Mayan’s ability to calculate the apparent movement of the precession of the equinox. He also commented on the controversy surrounding archaeologist Zahi Hawass as well as the final round of voting on Egypt’s constitution. Scientist Maurice Cotterell explained that the Mayan calendar has not actually ended and contains accurate information about sun cycles and magnetic reversals. |
Tom Campbell in Ireland Q&A 6/6
12/21/12, meditation, reality
2012 Year in Review | David Collum
Free Markets, Rule of Law, and Other Urban Legends
[Every year, friend-of-the-site David Collum writes a detailed “Year in Review” synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year’s is no exception. Moreover, he has graciously selected PeakProsperity.com as the site where it will be published in full. It’s quite longer than our usual posts, but worth the time to read in full. A downloadable pdf of the full article is available at the bottom of the post — cheers, Adam]
The Astonishing Ron Paul by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
As 2012 draws to a close, it’s hard not to be reminded that 2013 will begin with Ron Paul retired from Congress. For all those years he was a fearless truth-teller, who exposed and denounced the horrors, domestic or foreign, of the regime. His farewell address – something practically unheard of for a congressman in the first place – will continue to be read years from now, as future Americans look back with astonishment that such a man actually served in the US Congress.
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Jonathan Turley on Rachel Maddow: “Obama is obstructing justice” – YouTube
Uploaded on Apr 16, 2009
On Rachel Maddow’s Show, Jonathan Turley talks about the release of the CIA memos on how the Bush administration authorized torture, and how Obama is guilty of obstruction if he refuses to appoint a special prosecutor or have the DOJ investigate and prosecute the Bush administration.
Psychiatry goes insane: Every human emotion now classified as a mental disorder in new psychiatric manual DSM-5
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) The industry of modern psychiatry has officially gone insane. Virtually every emotion experienced by a human being — sadness, grief, anxiety, frustration, impatience, excitement — is now being classified as a “mental disorder” demanding chemical treatment (with prescription medications, of course).
The new, upcoming DSM-5 “psychiatry bible,” expected to be released in a few months, has transformed itself from a medical reference manual to a testament to the insanity of the industry itself.
“Mental disorders” named in the DSM-5 include “General Anxiety Disorder” or GAD for short. GAD can be diagnosed in a person who feels a little anxious doing something like, say, talking to a psychiatrist. Thus, the mere act of a psychiatrist engaging in the possibility of making a diagnoses causes the “symptoms” of that diagnoses to magically appear.
This is called quack science and circular reasoning, yet it’s indicative of the entire industry of psychiatry which has become such a laughing stock among scientific circles that even the science skeptics are starting to turn their backs in disgust. Psychiatry is no more “scientific” than astrology or palm reading, yet its practitioners call themselves “doctors” of psychiatry in order to try to make quackery sound credible.
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