Waking early the other day, I was taking the extra time to just consider recent events and resolve my day’s plans before I headed into them.

The oddest thing occurred to me – do we own ourselves, really?

(Warning – standby – rant alert.)

Here’s some points that have come across my lines recently:

• Government seems to be taking a larger run out of our lives (like enforcing healthcare choices), whether we want it to or not.
• Congress and elected officials seem to be listening to lobbyists and party officals more than the voters who elected them.
• Our food has increasingly had to be shipped in from thousands of miles away instead of being grown where we can ask and find out what went into it.
• We are being discouraged from working and being independent, since if we did make a fortune to retire on, we’d have it all taxed away – but people who never earn enough to pay taxes are given money from those who do.
• Various scams abound, from credit card companies and usury-level charges along with extraneous fees, to career politicians with their perks, to interest groups who are taking government money (ours) and being paid to promote some extremist agenda, to “Humane Societies” who aren’t trying to handle excess dogs and cats, but are rather trying to make us all into vegans by driving our farmers out of business with regulations.
• Our state-run, mainstream media won’t report on public demonstrations with more people attending than the President’s inauguration, but will tell us about a flu which is less harmful than the regular one – and that we should all line up and pay for shots to protect ourselves against this fiction.
• While the earth has been growing colder since the late 1990′s, our pollution has been growing greater but the only solutions is to what: raise taxes and cost of living for everyone.

So it seemed to me that we needed to stop and take all this into account and see what we could actually do about it.

Of course, the bulk of the problems above really deal with government issues – we are trusting an unresponsive, lobbyist infected government to handle situations we could and should handle ourselves.

Let’s look at some simple solutions to these:

1. People have stayed healthy for many more years than there have ever been insurance companies. And some of the cheapest health care right now has been started in some states where you pay a monthly fee directly to the doctors’ office in order to keep you well – not just when you are sick. No middleman – no one betting against your survival – no one saying you now can’t get any further treatment. And guess what – it’s cheaper by more than half.

2. Career politicians (and career government workers) are really a self-perpetuating business all by themselves. According to the Golden Rule, you have to give before you can get. But government has to take before it can give. And do you know who is writing all these bills that the Congressmen don’t have time to read? Lobbyists and professional government clerical workers – neither of which are elected, both protected from being fired for incompetence. Politicians only want to be re-elected so they can get the perks they voted in for themselves. They live in a different world and even if convicted still get a posh annual retirement income of hundreds of thousands each year – while they are in prison.

3. While there is all these complaints of Cargill, ADM, and Tyson controlling our food chain – no one is telling the stories about how community gardens have been springing up on empty lots inside our cities, as well as on rooftops. Where people are contributing their own labor and getting – literally – the fruits of their endeavors. There is the movement of locally-grown food, some call it the 100-mile diet, getting your food from within a hundred-mile radius of where you live. That way you could know what was in it and maybe even lend a hand in raising it, if you wanted.

4. Taxes have less and less to do with supporting the common good, and more for supporting the friends of whoever is in power in government. (Look at where those “stimulus” funds are actually going to…) Factually, if you take the recommendations given by the IRS guidelines, the most inexpensive way to work is for yourself as a corporate entity and increasingly resorting to barter of your business goods. That is the least-taxed method of making a viable living these days.

5. It looks like all the biggest scams are government sponsored or sanctioned. Credit card companies used to be regulated by the states and had to keep their interest fees low until the Feds in their “OCC” elected to take this right away from the States – and credit fees doubled, to nearly 1/3rd of the original loan. The Humane Society of the United States is actually anti-pet and anti-breeder and anti-farmer. Anything that has four-legs and reproduces is under their auspice – and is getting laws passed to make it more difficult to have pets or eat meat. Yet is runs no animal shelters – and had closed many down, destroying all their occupants. They are a special interest in Washington and do nothing humane. But government scams abound – since the government has a monopoly, who can stop them?

6. Our media has never been accurate in its whole history. They have always, always written sensationalist stories to sell advertising space. Any idea of “Journalist Ethics” was invented by Academics in order to sell classes for journalist wannabe’s. And when they lose their joint control of the air waves to cable and the Internet, they complain about how these “aren’t really journalists” – thank Gawd – and continue to pander to various government officials for “scoops”. The mainstream media has never, ever reflected the real world. Their soap opera’s actually get the closest, way more than their “reality” shows. (Who eat bugs in the jungle for a living?)

7. Read the actual NASA reports and you’ll see the global warming issue is a hoax. Warmest year on record was about 1998, last two years we have had record snowfalls and cold internationally, this summer was one of the coolest on record in decades for many states. Who started this rumor? A career politician. But is CO2 rising? Yes. Effect on global temperature – nothing. Our problem with CO2 starts with our governments, which expel this by the megaton every year and have nothing to show for it. Meanwhile, we truck our food in from thousands of miles away with all that exhaust and refuse permits to set up windfarms off some politicians’ East Coast homes. (Because they are unsightly?) Solutions to this fictional global warming are to tell polluting companies they have to buy credits from less-polluting companies. But the states with politicians in charge get more credits assigned to those states – instead of states with huge forests and pastures filled with grazing animals. (Oh, finally tracked down that other fiction. Excess cow flatulence is caused by feeding them corn and other grains, not their natural diet of grass – which most cattle are raised on for the bulk of their lives.)

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OK, take a breath, slow down.

The world isn’t all bad. Nor is it all that bad.

But the question comes back – Who Owns You? Or — Do You Really Own Yourself?

Consider this – if you own property and don’t pay the taxes on it, what happens? Some government employees are able to come in and seize your properties for the back taxes with guns and put you in prison if you resist. If you use a gun to defend your property, they are able to use lethal force (kill you) in their “defense”. And your relatives probably can’t even sue for “wrongful death”.

However, if you don’t make enough money to pay taxes because you don’t work, then you qualify for the government renting a house on your behalf and even giving you all sorts of handouts. Who pays for these? Oh, they tell some people who do work for a living to cough up – or they will come and take it, this all backed by gun-toting government employees, against which you can’t defend yourself.

Now if your property is owned by a corporation that you run, the taxes are much less and if it’s a non-profit, you might not pay taxes at all. Similarly, if you don’t really work for a living on anyone’s paper, and barter for everything you own, your taxes are very low, if not non-existent. But you do work for a living and control your own property – and don’t pay for someone else’s upkeep.

Can you control government? No.

Can you improve the government you have? Yes.

Solutions you can do to own yourself

• Let’s do one thing – make all government employees (including the elected ones) all term limited. States can do this for their own Senators and Representatives, they don’t have to get a Federal law passed (which will never happen).
• Another thing: educate yourself on taxes and learn to avoid high taxes by being smart. Only the dumb rich are taxed. Only dumb governments tax the dumb rich enough to make them move to lower-tax states. (Ask New York and California how this works. Both are failed experiments.)
• Vote your representatives out of office on a regular basis, otherwise. Let someone else have a chance.
  How about sunset provisions in every law, including the ones which have been on the books forever? This would mean government officials have to re-vote in all laws every few years to keep them on the books. (Like the Civil Rights Act, which is now being used to protect White minority voters.)
• Get your food all locally. Help grow it yourself to keep your costs down.
• How about insisting your city start recycling materials (they can actually sell the metal and plastic today, while organic materials can be composted back into – yes – local city gardens, or parks, or local farms. (Why does NYC keep dumping it into the ocean – isn’t that just more pollution?) And so we won’t have to spend all that fuel and CO2 trucking, training, and shipping food from California to NY, or Florida to California, or Arkansas to Alaska…
• Quit watching TV. Period. Rots your brain.
• Cut off your power usage by unplugging anything that doesn’t have to be on (like a refrigerator). See if you can’t get a solar cell to run some devices (like night lights). Figure out how you could have the same quality of living without extra doo-dads that someone sold you during a TV infomercial…

Those are just some of the ideas I’ve had for your to reclaim your life for yourself.

You can own yourself.

It will take some work.

But the more you can limit government and work it out for yourself – or in cooperation with your neighbors – then the saner life we can all have.

Try it.

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If you thought pork from Washington was bad and out of control — how about those journalists spreading the H1N1 hysteria?!?

But at a farm show today,  I ran across some very fascinating data – which turns the fictions churned out by our “main-scream” media.

Where I started out today was from visiting with a local farmer who had bottled elderberry juice available for sale – that he had raised and gotten processed. The info sheet he had told about this flu property of elderberries, so I thought to look it up tonight.

And so much for mandatory shots with mystery compounds that drive the conspiracists nuts.

Research centered on Sambucu nigra, the black European elder shows that while elderberry doesn’t prevent one catching the flu, it is able to give almost incredibly fast relief.

His approach is to create a tincture (alchohol based) from the dried berries.

6. How to make elderberry tincture(or any herbal tincture)? Use any REALLY clean, preferably sterilized, glass jar – size does not really matter, but quart canning jars seem to be preferred for ease of storing, sterilizing, and filling. In ANY size glass jar, fill the jar 1/3 full of dried black (S. nigra) elderberries, this does NOT have to be exact, eyeball measurement is just fine. One pound of dried elderberries will eyeball fill 3 quarts with a bit left over or you can just evenly divide a pound of the dried berries between 3 quart jars. More really does NOT make the tincture stronger. Now fill the jar almost to the top with vodka, not less than 80 proof. DO NOT USE any other alcohol you happen to have in your stash no matter the proof, brand or type. VODKA = TINCTURE; Other alcohol = non-medicinal alcohol. Now, cap the jar securely, give a shake or two, and store in a cool, dark area for 7-10 days. That is the universally accepted time period to produce tincture. Longer does not make stronger; phases of the moon MAY have some effect but there is no documentation on that so far. After the 7-10 days you can strain off the liquid and toss the berry residue. DO NOT think to reuse that residue, the resulting liquid will not work as you expect. Your tincture is now ready to use should there be influenza in your area. You do not have to strain off the liquid, but the tincture is not going to get any more medicinal just sitting there soaking the berries. The alcohol molecules fill up to capacity within the 7-10 days and can absorb no more no matter how long it soaks.

7. How do you use elderberry tincture? Since elderberries medicinal properties work directly on Influenza A or B virus present in the body it is NOT a preventative, so taking it in hopes of avoiding infection will not work. When an adult exhibits symptoms of influenza infection i.e. sudden onset of high fever, dry persistent cough, weakness, commercially prepared elderberry preparations suggest taking internally 2 teaspoons of preparation every 4 hours i.e. Sambucol. To use homemade elderberry tincture consensus of opinion seems to be that taking 2 Tablespoons every 6 hours or so for 8-10 days will do the trick. There will be a reduction in symptoms within 2-3 days of taking elderberry tincture as per recommended above, but the virsus will still be present so take for the full 8-10 days just like taking an antibiotic for a prescribed treatment course. Some are hesitant to take after infection due to elderberrys’ VERY slight immune boosting properties.

And this author suggests you make a syrup for children and those who’d rather not use alchohol.

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WebMD had other favorable reports, stating in unqualified terms that relief from flu symptoms started within 72 hours.

In folk medicine, flowers from the black elder bush have been used to ease flu symptoms, colds, and sinus problems. In recent years, researchers have begun formal studies of Sambucol — a formulation of elderberry extract — to better understand this herbal remedy.

A small study published five years ago showed that 93% of flu patients given Sambucol were completely symptom-free within two days; those taking a placebo recovered in about six days. However, the study took place during an outbreak of influenza B — so it was unclear whether Sambucol worked with type A virus.

This current study shows that, indeed, it works for type A flu, reports lead researcher Erling Thom, with the University of Oslo in Norway.

Thom’s findings were presented at the 15th Annual Conference on Antiviral Research in 2002. The study has been accepted for publication in the Journal of International Medical Research.

The study involved 60 patients who had been suffering with flu symptoms for 48 hours or less; 90% were infected with the A strain of the virus, 10% were infected with type B. Half the group took 15 milliliters of Sambucol or and the other group took a placebo four times a day for five days.

Patients in the Sambucol group had “pronounced improvements” in flu symptoms after three days: Nearly 90% of patients had complete cure within two to three days. Also, the Sambucol group had no drowsiness, the downside of many flu treatments.

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Another report – just as recent as Nov 5 – says a clinical study confirms its efficacy against H1N1 virus

In a randomised, placebo controlled, double-blind in-vitro study the black elderberry extract was found to be 70 per cent effective in preventing the H1N1 virus from infecting healthy cells and reduced intracellular replication by the same amount. The extract, commercially available in the UK under the name Sambucol, was shown to have a significant effect on cells after just five minutes incubation time. Details of the study are available at www.blackelderberry.info.

This new research suggests that black elderberry extract could provide a two-fold solution to both the prevention and treatment of the H1N1 swine flu virus. The study also substantiates earlier trial findings which showed that the black elderberry extract was effective in reducing the duration of influenza symptoms by four days. In comparison, Tamiflu only reduces the duration of symptoms by one day. Previously, an in-vitro study also found black elderberry extract to be 99 per cent effective against the H5N1 strain of Avian Flu.

Following these results, scientists are investigating the possibility of applying for permission to engage in in-vivo studies on swine flu sufferers – something which is currently prohibited under European law.

Black elderberries are thought to contain a compound which coats viruses and prevents them from penetrating and infecting healthy cells. As a result viruses are unable to replicate. Any virus infected cells are then killed and ingested by the body’s white blood cells to remove the virus from the body.

Of course, that’s from a Press Release promoting the drug.

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And the natural cures are more effective than the unnatural ailments.

But hasn’t that been the Way all along?

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Look over the programming and content on either network television or cable and tell me that they don’t think you are stupid.

That they aren’t looking down on you as just another person to put their ads in front so you can buy their stuff.

Let’s compare their shows with the all-time great books.

• Bible
• Shakespeare
• Indian classics as the Bhagavad Gita
• 500-year bestsellers such as “Secretum Secretorum” (The Secret of Secrets) – (don’t worry, it was before printing presses and barely made the transition – but it was an Arabian classic for hundreds of years before it was “borrowed” for the European elites.)

Or you can go more modern with Dickens’ works, but let’s stay out of the 20th century where mass-marketing and dumbing-down of the general public has reached and attained heights of lunacy. (That made “Valley of the Dolls” an all-time fiction bestseller because is was sold in five or so colors at grocery store checkout stands.)

If it’s on TV, they don’t think you are stupid, they know it for a fact.

Which is why every single commercial uses Madison Avenue tactics to appeal to your emotions instead of your logic. Ever wondered why they call it the boob tube?

Top shows are about crime, crime, and crime – oh, and superheroes who kill people. If they aren’t “reality” TV shows which are completely unreal and never happen in real life. (Come out and film me checking cattle, repairing farm equipment, fixing fence, and sitting in front of my computer by myself – do you thing this would sell advertising? – or would you rather see quasi-celebrity types eating bugs in the Amazon while they do truly silly competitions? Both are as interesting, but one “sells” television ads – does this mean they also think advertisers are stupid?)

And then there is what they call the “news” which is a half-hour of “top” stories and supposed to condense the entire day into 30 minutes so that you can “keep informed” – what they don’t tell you is what else went on in the world, or what they don’t want to tell you about. And that you already know about what your news media channel is about to say, because cable news and the Internet beat them to it hours ago. Just another government scam.

How about that TV special called “Swine Flu”, which never came from pigs (it actually was the other way around – they get sick from us) and depressed pork prices. And also is less dangerous than regular flu. Or how they always lean left but say that they are really centrist. It’s a story how they favor one candidate over the other in every election – all three main networks at the same time. Sounds like another government scam.

Funny thing is, their credibility stays at an average of 30%, which is just above Congress and used-car salemen. (Lawyers are at the bottom, but that’s OK, they have a lobby to get laws past just for them – and most politicians are lawyers, too – a step up from the Geico caveman.)

And when is the last time you learned anything from an Infomercial that immediately improved your health, income, intelligence, or personal relationships?

Look, TV is written and produced for the lowest common denominator of our society – to sell them stuff. That’s it. Nothing more.

Is it really worth your time watching it for any reason at all?  You can get all the news or titellation you want from the Internet. Even the tabloid stuff – but you pick what you want to see or involve yourself with. Nothing is force fed you.

You can be as intelligent or stupid as you want. But we all aren’t stupid.

My advice: turn off the TV – and leave it off. (Worst case scenario – record the sports games and play them back when you have time by skipping through the commercials, but the warning still exists – the announcers dumb it down for you.)

Be as smart as you want – but get over your dumb-downed TV.

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Are Quantum Jumping or Sedona Method actually scams? NO. Yes. Well, maybe…

But why do people think they could be?!?

You can get scammed by about anything in your life, including this blog.

While making myself an expert on scamming by spending the last couple years ferreting out data in order to get out from under some unscrupulous Internet Marketing ripoffs — one lesson came home:

If you don’t get what you want or expect, you think it’s a scam.

The trick is that your own thoughts are traitors (as Shakespeare put it). If you think you can’t do something, you can’t. If you think something doesn’t work, it doesn’t. (See Earl Nightingale’s “Strangest Secret”.)

Sure, a very, very, very small percentage of people  did actually make it. As well they had some odd-ball, non repeatable successes when people fell into a rich niche no one else had particularly found. But the majority who were sold by these ripoff artists could not get their refund – the statistics were something like 1 in 10,000 actually made it.

Sedona Method and Quantum Jumping both work – if you want them to and are willing to see them through. In fact, using Sedona release techniques on Burt Goldman’s methods will actually make them work better – well, they can if you want them to.

And you can also get their touted results just by just sitting in a chair and being quiet – or taking a long walk in the woods. Doesn’t make them scams and it doesn’t prove they aren’t.

The basic underlying problem is that people want more and better stuff in their lives. And when they don’t get it, it’s a scam.

Well, here’s the basic: Life is basically a Scam.

Why? Because at the highest level of philosophy and spiritual awareness on this planet, from time immemorial, they’ve all held that life is basically an illusion. And that concept explains all thought, and mental process, and human condition below it.

Everything around you, you’ve put there. And everything that comes into your life, you make show up. And all the “scams” out there (name any number of them – higher education, government, military-industrial complex, corporations, environmental extremists, terrorism) and you’ll see they all have that same underlying situation – you made your self the “unwilling” effect of these guys. Because you wanted it that way.

Politics and government (along with their mainstream media flunkies) run scams all the time. Health care is scam upon scam, as are the politicians trying to “reform” it. This latest “H1N1″ virus didn’t come from swine, but it lowered pig prices. And it is shorter and affects people less than the regular flu – but who is paying for all this air time the “TV journalists” are giving it and how about the price of those inoculations we are all supposed to be getting? More tax dollars wasted – but being taxed is a scam, too, isn’t it? Both recent presidents were scams – even if you voted for them.

The list – just – goes – on.

You don’t get what you expected or wanted – it’s a scam.

You actually can get anything you want in life via any method or technique. You can make any of these work. And you can make them all fail. Your choice.

But of course, you can also say that what I write here is simply a scam, can’t you?

All the tests you take in school don’t prove anything. All the diplomas on the walls don’t prove a thing to anyone. All the money in the world doesn’t make you happy. People are going to believe what they want, what aligns with their other thoughts.

Like Patrick Swayze said, “The only think you take with you is your Love.”  This is what Charles Haanel was mentioning in his “Master Key System” – that Love is a primal element and creates everything else around it. And his methods, those 24 lessons, were quoted by “The Secret” – which is also held by some to be a scam.

The bottom line is what you believe and what you think. Above that is how much Create, how much Love you hold in your life. And those determine the quality of this illusion called life and living that we exist in.

So, again, it’s all your choice – and yours alone.

Scam, fame, or fortune – life is what you make it.

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And – the podcast (5:23):

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