| This nation born in bloodshed, grew mighty by | | | | kind of pain the image suggests. It's all about |
| bloodshed - and | | | | choice. You choose to change or you are changed |
| perishes in bloodshed. Or maybe not. Is it | | | | by those who pay for the privilege of training you. |
| unreasonable to | | | | If you don't choose freedom, you have chosen |
| imagine we have as good as a 50/50 chance? | | | | slavery, no matter what you call it. As |
| Help! Call 911! Done. | | | | Shakespeare might |
| Now what? The alarm clock rings and none can | | | | have said, A slave by any other name will smell |
| silence it. The | | | | as foul.For those searching for the New Age |
| people of the world fear and tremble. The great | | | | lifeboat, it is in your |
| warrior nation | | | | yard and in your home. You book passage on |
| goes again to war. The war on terrorism, like the | | | | this ship by learning |
| great wars on | | | | to feed yourself. Not by using utensils as you |
| poverty, crime, drugs, disease, education and | | | | were taught as a |
| family, will never be won, or ended. This is | | | | child, but by growing the food you need to live a |
| because the people who profit from war, write | | | | healthy and |
| the rules by which we agree to live. As long as | | | | prosperous life. Produce the basics of life and |
| business and government have unlimited credit, | | | | trade the |
| backed by workers, taxpayers, and consumers, | | | | surplus for the rest. Love yourself. Feed yourself. |
| war will continue and expand. America will | | | | Love your |
| perish.The message of 9/11 is change or perish. | | | | neighbor. Feed your neighbor. Sounds like a big |
| The people of America | | | | job, no? It |
| are getting the message. How about you? Have | | | | isn't. It can be done with less time and effort |
| you heard the | | | | than most folks |
| message? Have you learned to count your | | | | expend to buy poisoned, processed, disease |
| blessings, which include | | | | causing groceries.Farming is hard work for lousy |
| the ability to change your ways and by so doing | | | | pay. This is true enough for |
| those of your | | | | anyone who has not learned better ways than |
| neighbors? Have you learned you can no longer | | | | grandpa and the |
| depend on the | | | | corporate farmers have. New Age methods of |
| people you trust with your very life? Have you | | | | profitable gardening, |
| decided to abandon the sinking war machine for a | | | | orcharding and vinting are readily available for the |
| life of peace and harmony | | | | reading of |
| in the little lifeboats of the New Age? If so, | | | | a few books. It is a spiritually liberating exercise |
| welcome aboard, | | | | to produce |
| we desperately need your help. If not, we'll try | | | | good food, by the pound or by the ton. Even |
| to save you a | | | | small towns form |
| place and do without you - no hard feelings. The | | | | garden clubs to share know-how. The next best |
| name of the New Age lifeboats is Independence, | | | | thing for you to do is to help your neighbors grow |
| the unfulfilled promise of our founders.From birth | | | | good food for you, by purchasing their surplus at |
| we have been dependent on others for the | | | | the local markets, regardless of price. You are not |
| necessities of life; food, clothing, shelter, love, | | | | just buying food from such people, you are |
| caring, companionship. You name it. We demand | | | | buying insurance, that there will be food for you |
| others provide it and we pay whatever price we | | | | when the ship hits the bottom and you are |
| can afford. The more we can afford, the more is | | | | swimming for the lifeboats.The thugs of world |
| supplied. We pay top dollar for doctoring and get | | | | governments hold power by creating |
| greater disease as treatment only spirals in cost. | | | | dependents from otherwise free people. They |
| We die for lack of money and cure. Does this | | | | borrow credit, pay |
| make sense? Of course not. So why do we | | | | salaries, collect taxes, make rules, hire and arm |
| continue this fraud that kills us, makes us weak | | | | enforcers with |
| and foolish? One of the key answers is | | | | lethal weapons. All because people let them do |
| Tell-A-Vision. Once a week, TV news will tell us to | | | | this and expect |
| pursue a healthy lifestyle. Get regular xercise. | | | | them to. Then the people are taught they have |
| Drink more water. Eat more fruits and vegetables. | | | | no power to change |
| Eat less meat. Get more rest. When the typical | | | | anything. The people believe what they are |
| viewer/watcher gets this message, paid for by | | | | taught by the repetition from cradle to grave and |
| corporate sponsors, s/he will have received 100 | | | | nothing changes for generations. Personal |
| messages telling her to watch more TV, drink | | | | independence allows the thinking person to |
| Coca Cola, eat burgers and Doritos. Get new | | | | withdraw support from her/his providers, because |
| drugs from her doctor. Turn off this electronic | | | | indirect provision is no longer needed or desired. |
| mind bender.How did we learn the alphabet, our | | | | So ends the support of national and global |
| math tables, science, | | | | secrecy and the oppression of the poor by the |
| history? We learned by repetition, repetition, | | | | rich. So ends the exploitation of the peaceful and |
| repetition. | | | | humble by the ambitious and boastful war |
| Science has proven that anything repeated often | | | | mongers. He who creates an empire on an acre |
| enough becomes | | | | or a continent, is obligated to defend it against |
| accepted as truth by the subconscious. By this | | | | every threat, internal and external, real and |
| simple method, | | | | imagined. He is in competition with every other |
| the Machine Age has created entire nations of | | | | empire builder, seeking to expand his holdings. War |
| uncritical, | | | | is unavoidable. Peace is what they call the cease |
| unthinking, uncaring robots. There is hardly one of | | | | fires between battles.The empire builders need |
| us that | | | | our support. They will have it if it |
| wants to be a cog in the machine that is Enron, | | | | takes scaring us to death and a lifetime of |
| Exxon, Arthur | | | | hypnotism. But as |
| Anderson, World Com, Quest or America, | | | | Ronald and Nancy Reagan told us, we can just |
| because we perceive the | | | | say no. No, I won't |
| machines are breaking down, as they always do. | | | | depend on warmongers to protect me from all |
| America is | | | | the threats they |
| looking for its soul - and finding it. Hooray for | | | | themselves create. Nor will I pay them to |
| America!The message of Tell-A-Vision is consume, | | | | provide you with their |
| consume, consume. We | | | | wonderful services. It is so clearly a gang style |
| have lost so much respect for the customer of | | | | protection |
| yesteryear, we are | | | | racket they run, in the name of the people. |
| called consumers. Implied in that label is the idea | | | | Throw out some life |
| we produce | | | | lines. Man the lifeboats.(PUBLISHERS! Free |
| nothing of value and our purpose in life is to | | | | Promotion Here - Now! If you will leave a |
| consume what we | | | | comment and your URL or hyperlink on this or |
| are told, and like it. We are nothing if not | | | | any article of mine: 1.) Some of my on - site |
| obedient and we are | | | | readers will visit your website. 2.) I will visit your |
| sad to learn how much truth there is in this | | | | website. If I like what I find, I will write a positive |
| implication. If and | | | | review and publish it here at EzineArticles. You |
| when we learn this truth that oils the machine. If | | | | may delete this generous offer when re - |
| we should decide we will no longer sail the ships of | | | | publishing this article.)Ed Howes sought and found, |
| state or competitive nationalism, rather than go | | | | knocked and entered. Now he sees things |
| down with the captains, we must totally abandon | | | | differently. To see more of what he sees, please |
| ship. To leave one foot in the ship of state and | | | | visit or do an author search here at Ezine Articles. |
| the other in the New Age lifeboat, is to cause the | | | | |