Surviving in the New World

Seven steps to personal freedom

(1) Educate yourself and take responsibility

From my groovy sister-in-law: A presentation that shows we are virtually trained elephants, living in learned helplessness, not knowing there is a way out through educating ourselves about government and law, and the steps we can take to protect ourselves from them.

We have a reached a point where the old methods of maintaining our personal freedoms are useless. Our governments don't like democracy; they have a combined agenda and no amount of banner waving protest will stop it from moving forward.

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(2) Realize that government is no longer in control of its faculties, if it ever was

We no longer need people of substance in our puppet governments. Actors will do. Even bad actors. Watch a Senate committee in action.

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(3) Think before leaping onto every "Green" bandwagon

Some Ottawa high tech folks have invented a light source from microchips. They were worried about the environmental consequences of the new energy saver bulbs. But apparently they're not worried about the toxic waste created in the manufacture and disposal of microchips.

Why should they be when all the waste is being sent to where we want to cut the populations anyway?

It's amazing how feigned concern for the environment can sell just about any gimmick to the grossly uninformed. We've been quite content with standard lightbulbs, except for their high energy consumption. But all we have to do is remember to turn them off when not needed (and convince Al Gore to do that too, and our government office buildings). If we all simply became more aware of our usage habits, consumption would drop dramatically.

I don't mean to brag but to encourage you with the below report from Ottawa Hydro showing how much I've lowered my own kilowatt hours with no discomfort at all. It dropped considerably when I started using a laptop for most of my work, and turned it off whenever it wasn't in use. After that I turned down my fridge a bit, plugged my appliances into a power bar with an off switch to avoid a "phantom" power drain, used a toaster oven instead of my range oven, and began reheating my coffee in my teeny, 400 kw, non-digital microwave instead of leaving the 1200 kw coffeemaker plugged in for hours. (The dates span the two-month billing period)

2008-01-03	2008-02-28	7.15
2008-02-28	2008-04-29	7.04
2008-04-29	2008-06-27	6.96
2008-06-27	2008-08-27	5.92
2008-08-27	2008-10-29	4.24
2008-10-29	2008-12-30	4.50
2008-12-30	2009-03-02	4.30
2009-03-02	2009-04-30	4.35

By the way, when you use your VISA card, just remember that by 2010 they will all be microchipped. Not to mention that VISA still kills a lot of trees with the tons of paper they send out each month, while so many other companies are now producing paperless, online bills.

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(4) Falling in love with politicians is bad for your health

In case you care:

Why is Sarah Palin resigning as Alaska governor?

The last reason seems the most likely. She's got a closet full of suspected skeletons.

Here are all the videos on Sarah Palin's resignation. I think she's in trouble, but she sure is a good talker.

The New York Times has a rundown on many of the articles being written.

The Toronto Star asks "Is Palin a Narcissist?" Well, duh. And it's patently untrue that "we don't usually see this particular kind of craziness in women".

We may not see it as much, because women are generally kept out of the limelight unless willing to act the sex kitten, but consider the female politicians who more or less "made it" in a man's world. Clinton and Rice are prime examples of cold, vain women - not mention Madeleine Albright who thought the price of half a million starved to death Iraqi children, due to sanctions aimed at Saddam, was worth it. (She still thinks it was worth it, she regrets only how she framed her answer.)

And we have a few here in Canada - Belinda Stronach, Lisa Raitt, to name only two. Everything they do is calculated to one purpose only - their personal status.

Terribly sad that the writer of the Star article loses further credibility by being Obamboozled. That's the other side of the narcissism coin. The pathetic women who fall for smooth talk from expensively dressed method actors.

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(5) Be your own bookie - calculate the odds

33 Canadian deaths associated with swine flu

Which means you have a one in a million chance of dying from it and, to qualify, you'd have to already be pretty sick from something else.

Who'd have thought this would make the news, eh?

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(6) Stand your ground against tyranny

A Canada Day message from Antonia Zerbisias: Four things we should be proud of

We hear a lot about "Canadian values" but it seems we don't care enough to protect them. Chief among them is free speech.

We hear also that Israel and Canada share the same values, but Zerbisias is saying, essentially, that it's not so much sharing as relinquishing.

Bernie Foobar has taken her on, of course. Talk about narcissism! Victimizing while playing the victim. It's done at the national level all the time. It's what the fake "war on terror" is all about. And it's Zionism at its most aggressive.

The Israel Lobby - and therefore the government - attempts to suppress any debate that dares include Israel, and merely commenting on that is "antisemitic". Even if the commenter is Jewish.

More on Zionism:

From PAJU, Montreal, an analysis of Netanyahu's recent doublespeak: A farcical position on statehood

From Ron with subject line: Israeli Housing Minister pushes segregation plan

Ha'aretz article excerpt:
"Atias argued that lands should be marketed to each sector separately, in order to create segregation"

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(7) Remember that the military is a propaganda machine not an information source.

The new U.S. directive on civilian casualties in Afghanistan:

Don't fire on the Taliban if there is a significant risk of civilian casualties -- even if it means they get away to fight another day.

"The guidance to the troops clarifies that citizens are the centre of gravity and that we should do everything to gain their support and we must do everything to avoid civilian casualties," is how army spokesman Col. Greg Julian put it in an interview with Canwest News.

They just now thought of this after 8 years of slaughter. Slow thinkers, the military. And it's not because we value human life; it's because we need their support.

But who are they kidding? You'd have to be super slow not to know they're putting on a public show so we bleeding hearts will think it's going to be a cleaner war from now on.