Fear Of Public Restrooms Prompts Creative Solutions As Some Businesses Reopen – NPR

Some people are afraid to use potentially germ-filled public restrooms as stay-at-home restrictions begin lifting. That’s boosting sales of products that offer creative alternatives.

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Great Things Are Happening! By Karen Kwiatkowski – LewRockwell

Before I explain how wonderful the COVID-19 era is, and is going to be, for us and for liberty, I must give a nod to the very real concerns about agriculturalization of human beings by the state. The new American project seems to be about converting the amber waves of Republican grain into one giant CAFO, complete with centrally controlled feeding, mandated meds, and plenty of one-way alleys and head-gates.

We are not all drinking Brawndo, not yet. While the state prefers that we be sheep, we should approach the government herd like a well-trained border collie, from rear vantage point, with a keen and focused eye.  What is the herd doing, and why is it doing that?  Where are the leaders, and where are the idiots (not mutually exclusive, of course)!  What is our objective for the herd?  After all, the border collie is as smart as any advanced four year old, knows its job, and has confidence in its ability to manage toward a goal.  Further, he has no doubts at all that he will be successful.

2020 is a great time to be an information consumer. Sure, social media and computer/TV/infotainment/humanitarian giants (talking about you, Bill Gates) and their political puppets are all about shaping what we consume and understand and know, to maintain confusion, promote fear and culture obedience as if in a lab, on agar.  Yet, I’m not only still able to read LRC, but many other resources proliferating Austrian economics, real history, and actual information in real context. The Last American Vagabond has a great list of news sources that any thinking person would be interested in. This simply was not available, even ten years ago.  The AIER, and FEE, as well as Mises.org and a hundred others have been offering solid economic and other content that is being picked up (perhaps unknowingly) by mainstream mouthpieces (the Post, The Times, Drudge, etc), and trending.  Even as mainstream media – which is to say corporate-government media – is struggling to stay relevant and interesting and “in control” – we are observing an evolution of wonderful global content that really matters.

I am seeing the genius of the younger generations, and the sweet agelessness of the internet community, and I’m beyond impressed.

Beyond that, here’s a short list that makes me smile.

The public education bubble is bursting.  Home, private, independent and unschooling is unstoppable, and technology makes it possible to outperform any public school in a thousand different ways. Colleges and the enormous federal debt they consume on the backs of students and parents are finally being held to account. Recent years of awareness of the burdens of college loan debt on younger generations, and improved information about what the economy (your neighbors around the world) really want and need you to do for them is causing improved decision-making by younger generations.  They were already borrowing less for college, and the current government response to the megacorona is driving the point home.

Prepping is trending.  Everyone is interested in cooking and storing food, being creative at home, learning skills of productivity and survival, and DIY’ing, always popular, is getting a real shot in the arm, so to speak.  The same media conglomerates, social media, Youtube and other corporate-government controllers (along the lines of CIA message shaping here and here) are finding that we like a lot of different things, and that includes prepping and survival skills.

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COVID and Releasing Obsessive Fear – Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson

Occasional anxiety and worry are a part of life. But when they disrupt the normal flow of life, work and school are harder, family and social relationships suffer, and life is not as enjoyable. Preoccupied by painful emotions and thoughts, we can begin to feel fatigued and hopeless, believing there is nothing we can do to change things.

Dr. Dan Kalb, an expert on anxiety disorders and OCD, explores how we can release obsessive fear during this particularly anxiety-provoking time.

ON THIS EPISODE WE EXPLORE:

·        What is an anxiety disorder?

·        Mindfulness and being in the present moment.

·        Releasing obsessions, and not becoming ensnared by negative                       thoughts.

·        Acceptance, and useful vs. harmful self-reassurance.

·        Fears of death, and how to manage them.

·        Key techniques for releasing fear.

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ASK RICK:

How can you find courage when everything around you is falling apart, even globally?

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It’s natural to feel stressed and overwhelmed by it all. My suggestion at times like this is to make a clear list of what you can actually do each day, and focus on that.

Take the steps you can. It’s classic advice for a reason: it’s profoundly true.

Time is like money: spend it where it will help you most.

For example, if you want to make a painting, set aside the time to do that and protect that time. Disengage from what you can’t change and focus on what you can. And then find confidence and refuge and self-respect in knowing that you are making honorable efforts and also making progress where you can.

Action and clarity can really help when we feel stuck in a fog; they are not the only things – self-compassion, perspective, and calming help, too! – but they are important pieces, and under our control.

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#MAYDAY | Universal Meditation Event

#MAYDAY | Universal Meditaion Event.

On May 21, 2020 at 2pm ET, the world will unite for the largest synchronized meditation and prayer in history.Together we will hold the vision for Peace on Earth involving some of the most-esteemed spiritual leaders in the world, such as SRF President Brother Chidananda, Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, Sadhguru, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Reverend Michael Beckwith and Tony Robbins, along with celebrities like Mike Tyson, Akon and Will.i.am. This global event will be live-streamed on Facebook at this link.

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Our Consciousness Can Affect our Gene Expressions – Epigenetics – Dr. Bruce Lipton

Stream more episodes 👉 https://bit.ly/InnerEvolution_BruceLi… 👈 Discover how to alter your biological destiny through understanding epigenetics and the spiritual intelligence underlying all of life.

Dr. Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. shares his revolutionary view of our conscious ability to affect gene expression. Throughout the eons of human history, our understanding of our place in the world has changed from a connection with the natural world, to completely separate from it. In modern times, this has led to certain notions, that have become recognized as scientific truths, which make us a victim of our environment. With new discoveries in epigenetics, our control over the wellbeing of our bodies is placed back into our own hands, if we are ready to accept it. From this revelation, we come to better understand:

• The four myth-perceptions that shape our current world view and how we can overcome them

• A brief introduction to epigenetics which shows our ability to consciously affect gene expression

• The role of chaos in our continued evolution as a species

• How we can create a new sustainable civilization from this chaos

Trailer for WTF: What The Fed?!?! (Round 2) – Maloney, Williams, Martenson, Smith & Taggart

WATCH THE FULL VIDEO FOR FREE: https://youtu.be/m1olEnqRKz4https://www.peakprosperity.com/wtf2

Back in mid-January, Grant Williams, Mike Maloney, Charles Hugh Smith, Chris Martenson and I sat down for an in-depth discussion on the dangerous distortions to financial markets and the global economy that central bank intervention is causing.

That video, titled WTF: What The Fed?!? was released soon after the US Federal Reserve had added $200 billion dollars to its balance sheet in Q4 2019. At the time, we worried so much liquidity being added to the system so quickly could recklessly exacerbate the extreme overvaluations in the markets, and further increase the instability of our over-indebted economy.

Little could we have guessed that a global pandemic would soon ensue, one that has seen the central banks collectively flood the world with an additional $4 trillion so far, with (much) more anticipated to come. Sure makes that $200 billion look pretty tiny now…

So, if this group of experts was highly concerned about systemic risk pre-coronavirus, what are they thinking now?

$Trillions in new fiat currency printed in less than 2 months. Over 36 million jobs lost. A GDP drop of -5% and a predicted Q2 drop of -42.8%. And that’s just in the US alone.

These are historically unprecedented developments on a Depression-level scale.

The impact of the economic production loss triggered by covid-19 will be painful and with us for years. How bad will it get? What should we expect next? And why are the prices of financial assets so divorced from the reality of the destruction to the economy?

For these answers and more, watch the full 80-minute video discussion here: https://youtu.be/m1olEnqRKz4