Why are there only two polytical entity’s (parties) that always hold the power?

It is a well thought out system to keep individuals thinking that they have an option.

This is an extract from a mysticl treatise but this is where we all stand today upon Earth. The people in the uSA particularly so….

“Man today is beset by strange fears which imprison his actions, his very outlook; which imprison his mind…... Fear is a weapon being now used by the darkest forces to cause you to become their ignorant pawns.

Break away from this fear by delving deep within yourself and discovering the Freedom which is latent there. Break away from this tight bondage by so Enlightening yourselves that this weapon may be rendered useless.

Study fear for what it is. Study it coldly without emotion. You will discover that it is but a state of mind which you have formulated for yourselves. This state of mind is the result of Karma, environment and present outlook.

Karma—you can, at this very moment, make for yourself a Karmic pattern which, when manifested, will not bring vague fear as a result. You can rise above environment, for it is a changing thing, it is not real.

Knowledge gained by adherence to the Unchangeable Laws can bring to you that stage of Enlightenment which dispels fear. A state of mind can be changed at once for good or for evil. It is just as easy to have a state of mind unclouded by fear as it is to allow it to be warped by this intrusion.

Have this outlook upon Life. Act in this way and fear becomes non-existent. When fear has been transmuted in the fires of applied knowledge, tempered by Love, you become Wise. In your Wisdom there is fortitude and BRAVERY.

The First Freedom—dispel fear. Go forth into BRAVERY and you will know many things, for you will have taken an essential step upon the ladder of Evolution. There will come a day when you will be examined in this Light….”

THE TIME IS NOW!!!

Ahh the streets, that great restorer of the balance of nature, that panacea for what ails the democratic process, the cure all for all that ails us…...

I took to the streets any number of times, first in 1961 for a Ban the Bomb demonstration in our capital, met some very interesting folks there, later joined SDS slightly before there was such a thing, saw the first draft of the Port Huron declaration in fact.

Later I marched in a large number of anti war rallies against our involvement in Viet Nam, some of which turned rather violent in fact. I was in Chicago, stood next to Pigasis, that worthy candidate for the presidency, before the Chicago police dept rudely seperated us…..

I would note that millions turned out world wide to protest Bushs’ coming invasion of Iraq, and a good thing too, otherwise he might have actually invaded the place….oh wait.

So do I have a point here you are probably asking, if you are even still reading. Why yes I do in fact.
Demonstrations have a place, and actually good does come out of them, mostly raising the consciousness of folks and putting like minded folks in contact with one another. But I do not personally know of a single such gathering that has altered policy or changed a nations direction.

It causes the testosterone to flow, yelling how we should all ” take to the streets”, it is an adrenaline rush to be certain to march a hundred thousand strong through the streets of our cities, and then go home feeling much personal pride in participating in the political process..bah humbug!

If you are serious about making essential changes
to the way this nation works, or perhaps fails to work, you should be very prepared to toil long and hard, not just run around the streets and feel so good about it.

How can this happen?

The bottom line is:

Should we allow a person to get away with a crime?

And that would include the president and all of his accomplices.

The Republican’s argument that there is no factual proof only highlights the Republican’s mastery of manipulating the issues and their expertise at hiding the evidence by not testifying or submitting incriminating documents.

In other words, without an impeachment, the Democrats would be aiding the Republicans in their cover-up.

In the end, politicians only serve themselves not their constituents and the media is their tool.

We can do something. National Strike. The Red, White and Blue Flu! September 10th and 9/11.
http://www.dailygrail.com/node/5066
http://www.truthmove.org/forum/topic/567

Spread the news, we can do this!

Mr. Cohen, I suggest you check the law, the only funeral your allowed to promote, is your own. It is still against the law, to pronounce someone else dead, or someone elses democracy for that matter, too.

Before, you people bury America, like you always keep trying, but somehow, she always manages to crawl back out of the grave, please note, we are alive, vigorously alive. Do not, believe the meida drivil, and if you believe anything reality TV teaches you, you are an idiot. We, are happy with our freedoms, and we keep exercising them, no matter what Bush’ and company do on the hill.

From, now on when you want to pronounce someone elses, freedom, dead, just climb in the hole you dig, and pull the dirt over you. If, one keeps digging a hole, and finds they cannot dig out of yet another hole, one should just stay, in this last hole, and rest comfortably, forever after in peace.

Respectfully,

Mark Robert Gates

please my blogs:
http://benevolentlybeloved.com/MindMatters/
http://benevolentlybeloved.com/DemocraticPartyIdealog/
http://benevolentlybeloved.com/WellnessEmpowered/

I know someone who talks of “calling ICE” all the time on people he suspects—suspects!—are “illegals.”

Compare this with how many people you know who flash their high beams at oncoming traffic to warn them the cops have a speed trap up ahead.

Nobody like’s a rat, but counter-rats, like whistle-blowers have a time honoured place in society.

You know, they want to know who they [Mexicans] are. They want to know where they are, what they’re doing. They don’t want them clustering in neighborhoods and changing the tempo of the whole neighborhood. They don’t want certainly crimes being committed by people here illegally. That can’t happen. That’s got to be zero tolerance there.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200707310003

That is Bill O’Reilly. And this kind of talk has been going on for a long time. But we are starting to see it in the prime time television hours now, when such talk used to be in obscure magazines and then on AM radio.

And there are people listening and agreeing with BillO.

I know someone who talks of “calling ICE” all the time on people he suspects—suspects!—are “illegals.”

Fascsim does not happen suddenly and only by the Government. It happens with support by the people.

This is just one example of many. When neighbors turn in neighbors we will have gone too far.

I’m finding it difficult to believe the US government will be any better at qwelling an insurgency in America than it has anywhere else in the world.

That’s not to say it might not try but Murphy’s law and all…

Perhaps ‘The People’ will use the technology of the Internet to hard-wire their next government to security monitors, especially where it rubs up against wealth, and never let it out of their sight again.

Go to the fucking streets!!!

And no one will see you. There will be no cameras, no coverage, no reports. For you might know that there are people “going to the streets” already, but no one outside those people—i.e. the rest of America—will ever know.

Protests ARE happening all over the world. The U.S. MSM will not ever cover it. Ever.

The answer is think global, act local, get off the grid, form your own communities… Forget the media for they will not help you.

The list “that goes on and on” that he ticked off at the start of the interview is not fascism in the minds of many Americans, those people who wrap themselves in the flag and keep saying that there is a worldwide battle of ideologies of good Christians against bad Islamists. That is why, contrary to so many on the left who believe otherwise, fascism is very likely to happen here—real, true fascism of doors being kicked in at night and people being hauled away without recourse. Mexicans and Arabs will just be the first victims.

I think the fascists have a great deal of control, however they don’t have it all.  They never will.  Fascist regimes have been “put out of business” again and again throughout history.  Sometimes the words, “fascism” or “the Nazi’s”, take on a surreal aura in people’s minds.  Sometimes it’s associated with overwhelming fear and dread, for some it is like looking death in the eye.  What everyone needs to remember is that “fascism” is a real thing.  The Nazi’s were real, but also just men.  Dangerous men but flesh and blood just the same.

It makes perfect sense for fascism to surface in America. First of all, half the damn Nazi brass ran and hid in America when they knew they were “finished”.  They’ve been spreading their rhetoric for decades!  Secondly, our laws make it easy for all types of perspectives to flourish.  Third, capitalism, which is based on greed, lines up rather well with fascist philosophies.  They are experienced in the use of religion to control and to gain the support of the people.  America, at least professes to be, by majority, Christian.  They were easy targets.

If you think that blogging/commenting here does nothing to change things, I’d say think again!  The Nazi’s/fascists first agenda was propaganda, which may seem like nothing more than words.  But is it.  The fact that they want to “censor” the Internet is proof that what we are doing here WORKS!  What was Bush’s latest approval rating….25%..?

I say take to the streets! Blog! Put up signs! Talk to your neighbor! Sign petitions! Attend meetings! WriteCongress! Do it All! AND KEEP IT UP!

WE WILL WIN, IF NOT FOR THE SIMPLE FACT THAT WE CAN’T AFFORD TO LOSE.

“Imagine if the whole world tried to operate like China and Russia. I canÂ’t think of anything that would knock our whole species on its ass faster.”

i can, it’s the way the u.s. is operating right now. you’re going to go down in history as the first nation that paid its way into slavery with a credit card. a colonoscopy might help you all find how far your collective heads are up your collective posteriors.

with the latest exec order your fuhrer signed you may not have to worry about the murdochs of this world shutting down blogs. delusional conspiracy stuff?? wake up!

American’s definitely need to take more responsibility for their governments actions. Fortunately my country isn’t trying to take over the world and what little role it is playing (in Afghanistan) is under increasing critical scrutiny. Thankfully it is looking like our poodle, Prime Minister Stephan Harper, is having second thoughts about his perch on Bush’s lap. This has been accomplished without resorting to rioting in the streets.

If its any consolation I’m acting locally where I can and thinking globally when I do. I’m working through various local committees and boards to strengthen local governance and regional management, for the day when distant governments collapse under the weight of their own crap, as they most assuredly will.

#91052 by Scott on 7/31 at 8:01 am
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#91051 by Leefeller on 7/31 at 7:54 am
(246 comments total)

Leefeller, I almost gave up the fight.  But I just can’t lay down and die.

Again and again and again, what do I suggest?  Go to the fucking streets!!!  What choice do we really have?  This bullshit of whining on the web is just what the fascists want.  If we can’t show bodies on the street we are done, cooked, fucked, finished!!!

In your heart of hearts you must know this.  Yes?  So…You really know what must be done, so do it!

This web site has no value if all we do is piss and complain.  This site is worthless unless it becomes a rallying point of real dissent!  Use this site for a real revolution!  The streets god damn it, the streets!  Bodies, we need bodies!  The media cannot ignore millions of people going to the streets…you and I know this.  It is the very thing that ended the war in Viet Nam and it can and must be the vehicle that ends this; the worst of all wars we have ever fought.

Jesus fucking Christ, the title of this very relevant, right on article is, “The Last Days of Democracy” and it is for real!

God oh god oh god….please wake up people!!!

He has spoken a truth!

http://OsiSpeaks.com or http://OsiSpeaks.org

I really do think the glass has become at least half full in terms of the growth of individual human decency and civility over time. Unfortunately these seem to be in a evolutionary race with our institutions and especially our corporations which are becoming anything but humane as time passes. More and more these seem like the natural precursors to the nightmarish Borg/Skynet/Matrix like entities of science-fiction.
I do believe however this corporate putsch will be entirely unsustainable from both an economic and environmental perspective. This is where I share Verne Arnold’s angst. I feel it with regards to the effect this might have on our environment. Imagine if the whole world tried to operate like China and Russia. I can’t think of anything that would knock our whole species on its ass faster.

Verne Arnold,

Good to hear you, have not seen your posts lately, ranting can be good for the mind and soul if you are a believer, sort of like a high colonic for those inclined.  Yes we are not doing much except pissing in the wind here, but what do you suggest?  When AT& T and arse holes like Murdoc take over the blogs we will not even have this form of release to vent and present ideas.

Actually I agree with the content of your post.

They must control all free thought and reasion.

I believe that we are potentially in the last years (not days) of democracy for all the reasons provided. The Truthdig interviewers are doing a disservice by the too strong comparison to the Hitler regime. The threat is more gradual than represented unless the extreme happens and BushCo has a devious plan to extend their leadership. For this to happen BushCo really would have to engineer a terrorist attack—something I don’t think was done before intentionally. As was pointed out, we are far more vulnerable then ever before with the corporate media, the tyrannical leaders we now have, the inattentive and apathetic people, money-infused politics, and corporate power.

#91032 by Steve Hammons on 7/31 at 6:18 am
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You’ll have to forgive me, but just what is your point?  You seem to be pushing your website and the fucking point here is that we are in the last days of this Republic.  Hello? Do you not get that we are really going down?  I’m grumpy and rightfully paranoid.  The fascists are in fact in control!  While we dumbfoundedly stumble around scratching our balls, these real fascist bastards are ripping our country away from us!  Do you get it?  No of course not…everyone has there own agenda and we go to the hell.  Jeez, why does anybody waste their time on this shit, you’all are just blogging away; happy in your own little world, while the bankrupt bastards of the world fuck us in the ass and we smile for the attention.

You poor sick fucks…you really don’t get it!  I’m really pissed because as one little individual I don’t count for shit, but collectively we make a difference…but you don’t fucking care about anything but your petty little lives.  Blog on and die.

This is what we get for letting our economic and political leaders cut deals with authoritarian dictatorships. Instead of these dictatorships becoming more democratic and free as a result of trading with democratic countries, democratic countries have become less free and open societies. The authoritarian capitalism growing in China and Russia is the bottom we’ve all been racing towards because it’s the most efficient way of feeding greed.

Of course these sorts of economies have proven to be entirely unsustainable due to corruption and pollution will only compound that. I doubt if this Cowardly New World will last long on a planet of diminishing natural resources. Big cities will definitely be places to avoid. Isolated communities especially on islands is probably the way to go.

Though it is true that Americans face serious problems from forces trying to hijack democracy ... it may be too early to rule out the strength of the grass-roots people.

The rich and powerful often feel they are smarter and better than average people ... don’t count on it.

Ideas on this explored in the article ...

“‘Dumbing downÂ’ of Americans may not be working”

PopulistAmerica.com  
Populist Party of America

http://www.populistamerica.com/dumbing_down_of_americans_may_not_be_working

The death knell of our country is being rung.  The passion against this death is sadly missing.  I guess when your already dead the rest doesnÂ’t matter.  I always thought weÂ’d go out fighting to the last citizen.  ButÂ…we go with the whimper of cowards!

empire at the precipice of its fall

Excellent cast!  It impeccably lends credence to the “you are not alone” mantra.  I’m at a loss for words, which by the way, is unusual if not astounding!  Thank you, Eliot Cohen for your forthrightness in bringing this issue to the people.  Way to Go!

We see what American Corps. are doing to the people of America.  The larger question is, if we do not stop them, what will happen to the WORLD.  This is no joke, or a liberal apparition.  As the decline of the American worker’s rights took place and the very obvious institution of “kiss-asses” in place of actual knowledgeable individuals took place any reasoning person just had to wonder, “what’s going on here”?

Americans are in an extremely dangerous position since this has ensued. It is obvious that these groups (the Bush administration being just one of them) are working to attain WORLD power.  A psychotic aspiration as history has shown.  Corporate America has gone awry and the very future of humanity is at stake, not just here, but the world over as well.

Thanks to Truthdig for keeping the voice of the people, front and center, where it belongs.

Addendum:
Check out what’s going on in New York regarding photography, tri-pods, groups taking pictures.

As I said…coming soon to a city near you.

Normally i would consider this sort of thesis to be pure delusional conspiracy theory stuff. Unfortunately this seems to be whats happening.

  And now we see that the Brits new PM Brown-nose, is not what the voters had asked for as a replacement for Bush’s Poodle.

This is very good stuff, duh.  Elliot Cohen is right on and has validated the very thing I have been saying about going to the street.  We are sliding down the last slope of our democracy.  Many of the most prolific posters here claim this site and blogging in general are more important than going to the street.  For the last time, I submit to you, if you maintain this fallacy you are doomed and you are wrongÂ…flat out wrong!

If we donÂ’t exercise our right of free assembly we will lose it and that I promise you, it is coming soon to a city near you.  I donÂ’t want to live to see that day, but itÂ’s looking as though I may.