Sunday, August 17, 2014

worldconcerns indeed...

Must-see footage: Ferguson, Missouri police are deliberately targeting journalists
"This is no longer about looting..."

Putin advisor: Backed into a corner, Russia is now preparing for war
"We won't leave an escalation of sanctions unanswered..."

Must-read: This could be the beginning of the end for America
"When the money runs out... so does the empire..."

Forget Russia… This new law could "destroy" Ukraine from the inside out
"Ukraine doesn't need Russia to take it down... Kiev is doing fine by itself..."

Covered up for years: Just-released report shows your toothpaste could have shocking health risks
"Millions of Americans are putting it in their mouths every day..."

Must-read: "Prepare for war. Possibly on multiple fronts."
"Don't worry, war is a 'small price to pay'..."

Forget what you've heard… This is why the U.S. is bombing Iraq again
"Obama is the fourth president in a row to bomb Iraq... while claiming it is for humanitarian purposes..."

"Kill switch": What every American should know about this new California law
"The Californian bill is... likely to become a de facto national law..."


Doc Eifrig: Stop worrying about this dangerous health myth
"Ignore this misinformation..."

While the world is watching Ukraine, Russia is quietly moving to control this critical metal
"Russia is already the world's number two producer..."

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Porter's "wealth mentor" almost never appears on camera. But he agreed to reveal his simple wealth strategy in a free online training just for S&A readers.
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These "small" habits are simple and easy-to-do. But they just might make you a productivity superhero.
"You can build a major habit by thinking small enough to get started..."

The market is following the "presidential cycle" very closely now
"A brief pause in the decline is due over the next few days..."

Be careful what you wish for: New data suggest inflation could be taking hold
"I can feel the inflection point coming..."

"Big picture" update: If you're worried about a market crash, read this now
"Folks are worried..."

Steve Sjuggerud: I thought I was living right. But this experience opened my eyes.
"Ultimately, if you're unhealthy, who cares how much money you have?"

"Forced retirement": New study reveals some shocking facts about the U.S. economy
"More than half the county is on a paycheck-to-paycheck struggle..."

Casey Research: Seven reasons to buy silver today
"Silver, purchased at current prices, could be a life-changing investment..."

Your credit score could be about to go way up. Here's what you need to know.
"This will increase the credit scores of many, some substantially..."

the state of the state we're in...


Monday, August 11, 2014

ISIS

Right now, the US military is bombing US weapons on the other side of the world. Good thing we are rich and can afford this nonsense!  Bad thing that we have no morals whatsoever.

Friday, March 14, 2014

JFK April 1961

...after a brief introduction, president J.F.Kennedy proceeded to go on with his speech about secrets and secret societies, related to the press and freedom and responsibility of the press. We must understand that these words were spoken at a time well before the internet and instant news on the cable networks. The press at that time still had a lot of power to mold and influence the public and public opinion.          .... and he went on:-


I want to talk about our common responsibilities in the face of a common danger. The events of recent weeks may have helped to illuminate that challenge for some; but the dimensions of its threat have loomed large on the horizon for many years. Whatever our hopes may be for the future—for reducing this threat or living with it—there is no escaping either the gravity or the totality of its challenge to our survival and to our security—a challenge that confronts us in unaccustomed ways in every sphere of human activity.
This deadly challenge imposes upon our society two requirements of direct concern both to the press and to the President—two requirements that may seem almost contradictory in tone, but which must be reconciled and fulfilled if we are to meet this national peril. I refer, first, to the need for far greater public information; and, second, to the need for far greater official secrecy.
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.
But I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country's peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort, based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In time of "clear and present danger," the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public's need for national security.

Today no war has been declared—and however fierce the struggle may be—it may never be declared in the traditional fashion. Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.
If the press is awaiting a declaration of war before it imposes the self-discipline of combat conditions, then I can only say that no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of "clear and present danger," then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent.
It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions—by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence—on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.

Nevertheless, every democracy recognizes the necessary restraints of national security—and the question remains whether those restraints need to be more strictly observed if we are to oppose this kind of attack as well as outright invasion.
For the facts of the matter are that this nation's foes have openly boasted of acquiring through our newspapers information they would otherwise hire agents to acquire through theft, bribery or espionage; that details of this nation's covert preparations to counter the enemy's covert operations have been available to every newspaper reader, friend and foe alike; that the size, the strength, the location and the nature of our forces and weapons, and our plans and strategy for their use, have all been pinpointed in the press and other news media to a degree sufficient to satisfy any foreign power; and that, in at least one case, the publication of details concerning a secret mechanism whereby satellites were followed required its alteration at the expense of considerable time and money.

The newspapers which printed these stories were loyal, patriotic, responsible and well-meaning. Had we been engaged in open warfare, they undoubtedly would not have published such items. But in the absence of open warfare, they recognized only the tests of journalism and not the tests of national security. And my question tonight is whether additional tests should not now be adopted.

That question is for you alone to answer. No public official should answer it for you. No governmental plan should impose its restraints against your will. But I would be failing in my duty to the Nation, in considering all of the responsibilities that we now bear and all of the means at hand to meet those responsibilities, if I did not commend this problem to your attention, and urge its thoughtful consideration.
On earlier occasions, I have said that these are times that appeal to every citizen's sense of sacrifice and self-discipline. They call out to every citizen to weigh his rights and comforts against his obligations to the common good. I cannot now believe that those citizens who serve in the newspaper business consider themselves exempt from that appeal.
I have no intention of establishing a new Office of War Information to govern the flow of news. I am not suggesting any new forms of censorship or new types of security classifications. I have no easy answer to the dilemma that I have posed, and would not seek to impose it if I had one. But I am asking the members of the newspaper profession and the industry in this country to reexamine their own responsibilities, to consider the degree and the nature of the present danger, and to heed the duty of self-restraint which that danger imposes upon us all.
Every newspaper now asks itself, with respect to every story: "Is it news?" All I suggest is that you add the question: "Is it in the interest of the national security?" And I hope that every group in America—unions and businessmen and public officials at every level—will ask the same question of their endeavors, and subject their actions to this same exacting test.
And should the press of America consider and recommend the voluntary assumption of specific new steps or machinery, I can assure you that we will cooperate whole-heartedly with those recommendations.

Perhaps there will be no recommendations. Perhaps there is no answer to the dilemma faced by a free and open society in a cold and secret war. In times of peace, any discussion of this subject, and any action that results, are both painful and without precedent. But this is a time of peace and peril which knows no precedent in history.
It is the unprecedented nature of this challenge that also gives rise to your second obligation—an obligation which I share. And that is our obligation to inform and alert the American people—to make certain that they possess all the facts that they need, and understand them as well—the perils, the prospects, the purposes of our program and the choices that we face.
No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition. And both are necessary. I am not asking your newspapers to support the Administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. For I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed.
I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers—I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for, as a wise man once said: "An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.

Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed—and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian law-maker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment—the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution—not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants"—but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.
This means greater coverage and analysis of international news—for it is no longer far away and foreign but close at hand and local. It means greater attention to improved understanding of the news as well as improved transmission. And it means, finally, that government at all levels, must meet its obligation to provide you with the fullest possible information outside the narrowest limits of national security—and we intend to do it.
It was early in the Seventeenth Century that Francis Bacon remarked on three recent inventions already transforming the world: the compass, gunpowder and the printing press. Now the links between the nations first forged by the compass have made us all citizens of the world, the hopes and threats of one becoming the hopes and threats of us all. In that one world's efforts to live together, the evolution of gunpowder to its ultimate limit has warned mankind of the terrible consequences of failure.
And so it is to the printing press—to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news—that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
...again, be reminded that these words were spoken at a time not so long ago when the printed press in the form of daily and weekly papers as well as magazines represented the bulk of how we, Americans, Canadians received our opinion forming information.

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Secrets and control of the world...

I guess in the end the biggest secret there is today is how the world is ruled, managed  by those who manage our life  on the grand scale. Is this a matter of influence and rule by the big powers, USA, Russia, the emerging China, the old diminishing  in influence pair of Britain and France? Or to what extend  are Germany and Japan allowed to play their economic roles on the world stage?
Is what I'm trying to question here nothing but a bunch of crap by a confused old man who has been around too long but getting nowhere.
For a long time I believed that the world was ruled by a handful of fools who by being able to rise to the top managed somehow to keep the world somewhat stable. What I'm trying to say here is that the owners and keepers of the big bombs more or less managed to rule the world. There is no need to take stock of these gadgets who knows how much of this horrible junk is hidden and where but much information is in the public domain.
At the top of the list: The USA and the  Russian Federation ,  The United States  has 2500 bombs  stored and constantly dragged around in the air, the 7 seas and god knows where. Then Russia, Submarines and stationary installations, one place is the former Koenigsberg where a bunch of these things are still aimed or ready to go and wipe out Europe. Russia is estimated to have 8000 of these gadgets, smaller configurations but similar firepower to the USA. So much for the big boys.
France and Britain, own and control  about 300 each. And then there is  China. India & Pakistan. North Korea. Israel of course.
I'm not sure I missed anybody. A few other countries are tinkering with the idea of joining this devils club.



Wednesday, January 29, 2014

the blog:- another look at hatha yoga. blogspot.com


Why is this culturally significant blog, content and or age restricted?

...frankly, good question and I do not have a good answer at this time. As well, I am not interested in feedback, criticism, judgement, angry readers, happy readers and followers, in short, nada. If you get something out of it, fine and if not, just leave it alone it is that simple. Thank you. I'm sure glad I got this off my chest.

A gentle warning here:
Yoga can and will enrich your life. The practice of some of the many forms of yoga do not compete or interfere with any practised religion or beliefs as far as I can tell. However, some of the techniques, advanced postures, meditation and breathing exercises should be thought by a qualified guide, teacher, guru or they can under certain circumstances proof to be quite dangerous.

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Religion C/M/J 101 gods,prophets and basics core believs and understanding

State of mind, living in the now mode, meditation, believe structure, teachings of the various religions and the effect on humanity, now and in the past.
It is probably helpful to demystify what we have grown up with, look beyond the teachings and rituals and understand a number of  some basic established known facts.