Truthout Daily Digest December 18, 2013

I normally post the Truthout Digest without commentary but the Paul Krugman article seems to me to be a distraction from the real issue of the fed.

His assessment of the economic incorrectness of the signatories to a 2010 letter about auditing the fed may be very logical and correct.

But, in my opinion the significant problem with the fed is not it’s investment policies or their potential for currency fluctuations.

The problem with the fed is that it is a ***privately owned for-profit business that issues our currency and charges us interest***.

Why should one of the most powerful nations on Earth go into debt paying interest to a private business when we could issue our own currency?

I have heard the arguments for it and they are not convincing.

The NATO invasion of Libya was very motivated by that country’s issuing its own currency as well as Gaddafi’s project of creating a pan-African currency.

When government oppresses people in service to corporations that is fascism-now nearly a global situation if you notice the power of banking and resource extractive corporations.

Marc McCord on How Dallas Was Saved From Frac’ing

Julie Dermansky, Truthout: Marc McCord tells Truthout about what it took to get the Dallas City Council to pass the most restrictive fracking ordinance in the United States.

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Richard D. Wolff | Capitalism and Democracy: Year-End Lessons

Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: Increases in payroll taxes, opposition to the use of eminent domain to slow foreclosures, the implementation of Detroit bankruptcy to steal from public workers’ pensions and the increase of repression against those who protest capitalism’s depredations indicate the widening contradiction between capitalism and democracy.

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The Fight Against HIV: Will Congress End the Syringe Exchange Funding Ban?

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Despite overwhelming evidence that giving drug users access to clean syringes prevents HIV and hepatitis C transmission, Republicans have worked to keep federal funds from supporting syringe exchange programs. Now lawmakers have a chance to change that.

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President Karzai, Stand Tall Against US Pressure to Sign the Troop Deal

Robert Naiman, Truthout According to the US news media, the fact that Karzai is holding out risks disaster. What’s the terrible thing that could happen if there’s no agreement? All US forces would have to withdraw from Afghanistan.

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Why Are Republicans Socking It to the Unemployed?

The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: While the current bipartisan budget deal does address some of this nation’s economic woes, what’s notably missing is an extension of unemployment benefits for 1.3 million Americans who will lose their unemployment insurance at the end of the month.

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“Men’s Rights” and “Revenge Porn” Sites Seethe With Anger Over Women’s Autonomy

Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check: On “men’s rights” forums and “revenge porn” sites, groups of men are gathering to find reinforcement for the plain old abusive belief that women who make their own choices about who to sleep with and who to marry are evil.

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Media and the End of Apartheid in South Africa

Maria Armoudian, Truthout: This excerpt from Kill the Messenger: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the Worlddetails how mass media helped create and exploit fractures in apartheid, ushering in a new age in South Africa.

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Noam Chomsky Inspires and Invigorates

Jeff Cohen, Consortium News: This month, Noam Chomsky turned 85 – and he is the subject of a new animated movie focused on his scientific and social philosophies. He actually has seen this movie, unlike other works about him: “I can’t stand watching myself.”

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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Super Rich Have Skipped Out on Paying $100 Billion Dollars in Estate Taxes Since 2000, and More

In today‘s On the News segment: The super rich have skipped out on paying $100 billion of estate taxes since 2000; Americans are working harder than ever, but most people won’t be seeing a larger paycheck; as renewable energy becomes more popular, the oil and gas industry is getting scared; and more.

Watch the Video and Read the Transcript

Paul Krugman | Auditing the Fed Is a Terrible Idea

Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: We know what it means to audit a private bank, but the Fed isn’t in the business of investing, except for tactical purposes. It’s there to manage money, not to make it. So what exactly would be audited?

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Some Spanish Police Protect Immigrants

Ines Benitez, IPS News: They are members of Spain’s Guardia Civil. But instead of pursuing undocumented immigrants like the rest of the police in Spain, they are there to defend them from the crimes to which they often fall victim.

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Local Government Is the Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Economic Inequality

Joelle Gamble, Next New Deal: Unfortunately, the United States, despite being the world’s largest economy, is in the top quartile of the most unequal states. In addition to high levels of income inequality, the United States still faces a jobs crisis.

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BuzzFlash

“A Society Under Surveillance Is No Longer a Democracy”

Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout:Freedom at its heart is the ability to think, write and live without being monitored or watched. The United States has not reached the zenith of ironclad surveillance states, but the apparatus is in place.

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USS Ronald Reagan Sailors Report Cancers After Fukushima Rescue Mission

Read the Article at Al Jazeera America

Paul Krugman and TPP

Read the Article at the Center for Economic and Policy Research

The Financial Crisis: Why Have No High-Level Executives Been Prosecuted?

Read the Article at The New York Review of Books

Elizabeth Warren Sheds Light on Washington’s Failure

Read the Article at The Washington Post

World of Warcraft: The Omnipresent Eye of the NSA

Read the Article at BuzzFlash

Obama and Climate Change: The Real Story

Read the Article at Rolling Stone

Flying Spaghetti Monster Joins Crowded Holiday Display at Wisconsin Capitol

Read the Article at Raw Story

Sensitivities of all Gaia inhabitants attain High Points…

Thank you!

GaiaPortal

Sensitivities of all Gaia inhabitants attain High Points, prior to commencement of next phase.

This is a vital step on path to global Ascension.

Corollaries are now abandoned; primes are on point.

Flash points have been reached; required sparks follow in short order.

Release of all projection-with-resultant-fear scenarios  is primary at this moment.

All is at Peace with Gaia.

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The Oracle Report Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Full Moon Phase: illumination, fulfillment, realization, shadow, experiences

Moon: Cancer

Diamond Sky Dakinis Rule This Lunar Month, Not The Mahavidyas

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Today’s energy is about bridges and bridging – going from one mental or emotional “space” to another, taking things from one level to another, and moving from the past into the future. Usually a bridge carries us over something treacherous or untraversable. So if something has been distressing you, in your mind’s eye project a bridge out in front of you and walk. Envision what you would want the situation to look and feel like. What elements of the past would you like to bring forward and which ones would you like to leave behind?
A great deal of change is happening at the macro level of the human collective and the micro level of individual lives. Changes that are happening now will open doors. New ways of thinking, feeling, and living are emerging. If you feel like you are in a whirlwind of change, remember to construct a bridge that will keep you grounded while you follow the changes.

Venus is preparing to go retrograde (December 22 – February 1) and is almost at a standstill before it does. A planet is “retrograde” when it appears to move backward in the sky. While Venus is retrograde, circumstances and situations with relationships will undergo reformation. Venus retrograde overhauls relationships. Things transpire that make us view things differently. We undergo a revision of what we feel is truly valuable in relationships and life in general. Venus is retrograding at the degree known as “a large aviary,” which symbolizes lots of chatter, voices, and confusion, and also a gathering of those of like-mind. Ultimately, much clarity will be gained during the retrograde. This will be the first time Venus has retrograded since the “return of the sacred masculine” so it will be different than it previously has. There will be dramatic correction within relationships.

We continue to pay close attention to what we are hearing and seeing, alert for messages that are important on our courses. This happens while we hold the mindset of connection with the natural world. Watch for animal messengers, particularly birds.

http://www.oraclereport.com/

A short update on the energies

Thank you Aisha!

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As these energies keep burrowing deeper and deeper into your very being, you may feel yourself at a loss to explain what is going on, but you will literally feel it in your very bones that something deeply transformative is indeed going down now. For you are changing dear ones, beyond recognition, for as you open yourself fully up to this influx of light, you will be as newborn again when this whole process is over and done with. Yes, there is indeed an end to this transformation process, and even if that end may seem far, far off at the moment, know that there will come a day in the not too distant future when you will draw a deep breath and just know that “this is it, now I am the one I came here to be”. And then, you will finally be able to look back over…

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Inelia Benz : Contracts – How to make sure they don’t hold you back…

What an interesting time we are having! There have been lots of “fearful” events predicted the past few months, which have not come to pass. And more fearful events predicted for the rest of the year too, which won’t come to pass either. The reason is that the human collective is raising its vibration, one person at a time. Yup, it’s you, and everyone you teach how to raise their personal vibration, who are creating the shift we want to see in the world. The higher our vibration, the more aware we become, the more able we are in creating the present life we want for ourselves and the planet. I’ve been searching for ways we can accelerate our life expansion as well as any limitations we may have that are holding us back.

One of the things I have been looking at, which limit us tremendously, are contracts. For this reason, I invite you to read the following article:

Contracts – How to make sure they don’t hold you back…

Have you made any contracts lately? In this lifetime? In previous lifetimes?

By “contract” I mean any piece of paper, notebook page, or electronic note where you have written what you want out of life. Where you make an agreement on what you want to manifest.

It could also come in the form of many manifestation exercises, such as collages, photo collections or drawings.

When we make contracts, they might feel very expansive. After all, we make them to improve our lives. Indeed they do work, most of what is in those contracts comes to pass.

Some contracts are contracts we have made with others, such as marriages, mortgages, work contracts, rent contracts, lease contracts, loans, and more.

However, if we take a step back, and look for limiting language, situations, and beliefs within these contracts, and process them, we can really expand our lives.

Even if they are contracts that are with third parties and we feel they are “not fair”, or no longer suitable, or we were forced to take the best we could, or we are unhappy with them now, we can really shift things in real life simply by sitting with these third party contracts and allowing all our negative emotions to exist, expand, and be infused with light and love, thus liberating them back into Oneness.

Now, the contracts we have made ourselves, we can go back and either wipe clean, or review and rewrite, and sign again.

This is a list with possible limitations:

1) A love relationship manifestation contract that has a named partner, whether a spouse, boy/girlfriend or the person of our dreams. This is a biggie. Energetically speaking this is one of the worst contracts we can write. Even if we really, really want our relationship with one particular person to manifest, or improve, by naming them, we limit the Universe from helping us manifest our greatest possible outcome. So, if you have one of these, erase the person’s name, remove the photo, throw away their personal possession (in case of using magik), and replace their name, or object, with a description of the ideal partner. Even if you describe them, make sure that you do not emotionally “wish” it was them, but simply concentrate on the happy and satisfied feeling you get when imagining yourself with that perfect person.

2) Any contract that specifies things you will do in order to get something else. Especially if those things are difficult to do, or involve other individuals to help you accomplish it. For example, an environmental contract that specifies you will, renew, decorate, declutter or make your home beautiful in order for it to be supportive of your life, but you live with one or more other people who do not cooperate or refuse to make the place the way you want it. Or you don’t have the income to renew or decorate it. Change it to making a contract with yourself to live in a 100 per cent supportive and nurturing, beautiful, safe, home.

3) A contract that specifies how you will receive wealth and abundance in your life. For example, you want to become rich, or successful in your chosen career. A popular artist, professional, well known, etc., and that is the only way you will become wealthy and abundant. Make sure that the two are not tied in together. So, in this case, you can make two contracts, one specifying that you will have multiple extremely effective income sources. And the other that you will be extremely happy, satisfied, and successful with your chosen profession.

These are just examples, but they delineate some examples of how we can limit ourselves.

Take a look at your contracts, manifestation exercises and art and documents, to make sure you clear up any limiting energies and vocabulary from them, then watch your life expand.

Reference Material:

1. One way to make sure that a certain manifestation exercise, or wish, is not limiting, is to do the goals exercise which you can find in the Ascension101 Course. The exercise teaches you how to “test” different outcomes, giving you very clear and precise information on how to achieve what you are aiming for without limiting factors.

2. If you haven’t already, do take a look at how to cleanse negative energies in this youtube video:

Until next time, remember that you are in essence joylightlove and everything else is an illusion 🙂

Inelia Benz

Obama Appoints UFO Disclosure Advocate as New Advisor

Thank you for posting this. Very interesting potential.

Openhearted Rebellion

Photo: President Obama with John Podesta

By Lee Speigel – Huffington Post – December 12, 2013

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For all of you who hope the U.S. government will lift the veil on its alleged stockpile of evidence that Earth is being visited by extraterrestrials — take heart. This week, former Clinton chief of staff and UFO advocate John Podesta was named as President Obama’s newest advisor.

Podesta, 64, has more than once publicly urged the U.S. government to release any UFO files that could help scientists determine “the real nature of this phenomenon.” Podesta’s stance on UFOs can be seen in the following video clip from the 2009 James Fox film, “I Know What I Saw.”

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