Utopia

[winston]

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

A feature length documentary work which presents a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society.

This subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical "life ground" attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social paradigm called a "Resource-Based Economy".

Source: IMDb

http://www.mindbendingvideos.com/zeitge ... g-forward/

[winston]

Auschwitz-Birkenau: Hate’s Shameful Showcase

‘For ever let this place be a cry of despair and a warning to humanity…’ screams a plaque at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

January 27, 1945, about 7,500 Jewish prisoners were evacuated by the Russian Red Army from the most notorious of Nazi concentration camps.

The plaque was erected by the survivors of the Holocaust, the horrific ordeal that began in 1941 when Heinrich Himmler, Nazi Germany’s Minister of the Interior, designated Auschwitz-Birkenau as the destination for the “final solution of the Jewish question in Europe.”

In those three years, the Third Reich systematically aggregated and annihilated 1.5 million Jewish internees in the death camp. Most were gassed to death but a great number also died of starvation and disease.

Today, the camp is a memorial museum and a 120 Zloty (€35) daytrip from the Polish city of Krakow, 70 km away.

On the occasion of the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which fell last week, AMANDEEP SANDHU shares memories of the seven life-changing hours that he spent there.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/photos/auschwi ... slideshow/

[winston]

And from the land where there's some Democracy, Free Press, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, Two Term President, you now have the Defense Authorization Act ....

The Defense Authorization Act, for the first time, allows the US government to use the military as a police force and allows the warrantless and secret removal and detention without representation of ANY US citizen deemed, in the opinion of the President or authorized party, a terrorist threat.

[kennynah]

well...there are many PRCs, who until today dream of going to usa...just like their ancestors who were tricked into slavery

[winston]

What You Should Be Able to Say to a Cop… But Don’t Dare To By eric

One word – no.

It used to be a word that carried a lot of weight. Not just morally but also – and critically – legally.

You could say no to cop and, provided he didn’t have a warrant issued by a judge – or at the least, some specific probable cause that would stand up before a judge – he had no choice, legally speaking, but to back off.

If he did not – if he say forced his way into your house or forced you out of your car or forced you onto the ground – the odds were pretty good that down the road, any charges leveled against you would be dropped ( “fruit of the poisoned tree” doctrine) and – even more significantly – the cop himself would likely find himself looking for a new line of work.

Or at least chastened.

But that was the past, alas.

http://epautos.com/2012/02/23/what-you- ... -to-a-cop/

[winston]

World Peace Within 20 Years

World peace is more than just a dream.

We are closer than ever before to making peace a reality.

Come hear some rational reasons to be optimistic about the future.

http://www.mindbendingvideos.com/world- ... -20-years/

[winston]

And for those "leaders" who have been pushing for higher GDPs, as a measurement of "success" ...

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This "underdeveloped" country is not inappropriate in any way.

It has different desires and different standards, and it is not lesser than — it is just different.

We did not all come to do it the same way. We did not all come to be alike.

We came as a diverse bunch of Non-Physical Energies wanting different experiences.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in North Los Angeles, CA on Monday, August 13th, 2001 # 368

Source: abraham-hicks.com

[winston]

The goal of all governments should be to end suffering.

~ Dr. Pillai

[kennynah]

I disagree.

The goal of all governments should be to end suffering.

~ Dr. Pillai

Ending all sufferings is the job for God.

It's the goal of all governments to serve the people.

[winston]

Do You Live in An Exceptional Nation? by Alexander Green

Of all the arguments being made this political season, perhaps none is sillier than the left/right debate about American exceptionalism.

As every schoolchild knows, the United States has a unique history founded on principles of individual freedom. Our Declaration is a timeless statement of inherent rights, the proper purposes of government and the limits of political authority.

Our core beliefs are enshrined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the longest-serving foundation of liberty in history.

Our economy produces almost a quarter of the world's wealth. The U.S. is the primary defender of the free world. Our nation plays an extraordinary role in world leadership. And the American people are the most hardworking, affluent and charitable in the world.

Yet Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen calls American exceptionalism a "myth" and insists that we should junk a phrase "that reeks of arrogance" and narcissism.

Political commentator Michael Kinsley similarly mocked the idea in an essay for Politico, calling the very notion a "conceit."

Even President Obama seemed to equivocate. Asked early in his Presidency whether he believed in American exceptionalism, he replied, "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."