Glenn Beck Really GETS It !!

Yes, he does!

I've been a fan of Beck for a long time ... and i've noticed that the people who are so against him seem to be people who either have not watched his show or, if they have watched it, they came with such a strong preconception of what they were going to see (and what they wanted to see) that they didn't see or hear what was actually being presented.  they were determined to hate him, and nothing he could say was going to change that....

On the contrary, i have found him to be quite enlightening — especially good at digging up and presenting the true history of America, the one that has been assiduously removed from the school textbooks; and at reminding us of what our own Constitution and Declaration of Independence say, and of how they have been repeatedly violated and nullified by the current and recent governmental regimes.  and Beck has been masterful at simply allowing members of these regimes and their cronies to incriminate themselves on videotape ... collecting the tapes and playing them for us, revealing lie after lie and broken promise on top of broken promise.

I hadn't watched Beck's TV show in months — but i watched it the past two days, wanting to see what was happening in the wake of his "Restoring Honor" rally (held on Saturday in Washington, D.C.) . . . .

"he realized ... that the key to everything is just for all of us to be our Real Self — which is totally peaceful and loving. we don't need to do anything but that."

Well, of course — as anyone could have predicted — the media mafia were out to say the nastiest things they possibly could about Beck and the rally.  All kinds of hype about what a dangerous event it was going to be, full of hate and political venom.  anyone reading their stories and foolish enough to believe them would have thought Glenn Beck was the new Adolf Hitler!  and of course we knew, in their reports of the event itself, they would greatly shrink the number of people attending, and would minimize the event in any way they could.

The New York Times did it by hiding the story on page 15 (knowing, i suppose, that no one has the stamina to read through 14 pages of their other malarkey, in order to get to page 15!).  and the undisputed champion for under-reporting the number of attendees had to be CBS, who came up with a figure of 87,000!  they tried to protect themselves from it by saying it wasn't their figure, they had paid an "independent" company to come up with an estimate; CBS was only repeating what the company had told them... : ^ >

"when we are being Real, we are nothing but love ... and love always wins."

Apparently they got so much flak for their astoundingly bogus number, they have now published a long and detailed explanation of the methods used by the "independent" company in arriving at it.  in fact, now they introduce another "expert," who estimated the crowd size at only 80,000!  and, to give a sense of contrast, they tell us that this expert had estimated the crowd at President Obama's inauguration at 800,000!!  WOW — ten times as many people!!  if true, it seems that crowd would have stretched all the way to the Canadian border, eh?!?!

Judging from the aerial shots i've seen (including CBS's), and shots of the crowd at Martin Luther King's rally in the same place in 1963 ... if CBS is correct about the Beck numbers, then it looks like there were only about 53,000 people at Dr. King's rally in '63 (even though the widely accepted number for that day is 200,000!)....

HEY — i know what it is!!  Americans were that much smaller in 1963!!  we have become so gigantically fat now ... that only 80,000 of us can fit in a space that used to hold 300,000!!!  woww — glad we solved that mystery...!  and it's a good thing Mrs. Obama is working on the obesity problem for all of us...!

"those who are not being Real — the liars, the promise-breakers, the schemers and manipulators — will always destroy themselves with their own falseness. no one needs to raise a finger against them...."

BUT, PLEASE ... don't let me get sidetracked on the subject of the cartoon media...!  i must get back to Beck himself, and the fact that HE REALLY DOES GET IT...!  he understands what is truly important — our spirituality!!  of course, we know, he had been saying all along that the Restoring Honor rally was not about politics, it was about restoring our spiritual character — or, as he put it, "Faith, Hope, and Charity."  but, i watched his show yesterday, and he said the most beautiful and amazing thing....  he was so happy, and he told his viewers it was because he had had a fantastic realization: "You've won," he said to them, "You've won already."  by your kind and peaceful behavior at Saturday's rally — i'm paraphrasing now — you have already won....  he realized, he said, that the key to everything is just for all of us to be our Real Self — which is totally peaceful and loving.  we don't need to do anything but that.  BINGO, Mr. Beck!!  a million congratulations to you, because there are so few people who understand that!!  but maybe now, thanks to you, a lot more people do understand it....

All we need to do is to be our Real Self, to be authentic and honest.  Beck has understood this for a long time, even if he had not put it into words until now.  i know he's understood it ... because he's been living it ... and that's why he has attracted such a huge following.  everyone knows, in the depths of his/her gut, that truth and authenticity are all we really need — the connection to the Real Self, connection to the Source (God, Allah, etc., Blah-blah-blah)....  when we are being Real, we are nothing but love ... and love always wins.  those who are not being Real — the liars, the promise-breakers, the schemers and manipulators — will always destroy themselves with their own falseness.  no one needs to raise a finger against them, Truth itself will either make them truthful eventually or it will destroy them (if they insist on continuing to fight it)....

Another big flap that was generated around Saturday's event was the accusation that Beck was trying to "steal" the issue of Civil Rights from its rightful owners...!  as if Civil Rights were a box of donuts or a baseball glove.  and who, pray tell, are its rightful owners...?  oh, yeah, i remember — the folks who have repeatedly used "Civil Rights" to pit one group against another, for their own purposes....  gee, sometimes i forget, we're living in the upside-down world of Orwell's 1984, where everything is the exact opposite of what it claims to be....

Another person who really, truly gets it, and who was also a participant in the Restoring Honor rally, is Alveda King, a niece of MLK Jr.  what a GEM she is!!  i've seen her on TV several times in the past few days, being interviewed and assailed about having the audacity to associate herself with the likes of Glenn Beck, etc., etc....  but, obviously, the Truth and authenticity in her recognizes the Truth and authenticity in Beck — and i don't know how she can take the falseness and the stupidity of her attackers with such grace and continuous peacefulness ... but she does it.  she sits and just radiates peacefulness, and speaks the truth, for anyone willing to hear it....

I spent some time online looking for a way to contact her, because i wanted to tell her how grateful i am for her presence among us, and for what she's doing ... but i didn't find a way.  So, Glenn, if you happen to read this, please give her my thanks...!! : ^ ))

Two final things about the rally:

1. looking at photos of the location, taken after the people had left ... not one molecule of trash was visible anywhere!  (compare these with photos of the same area after the inauguration of President Obama ... and the Washington Post's reporting that "Washington trash trucks hauled away at least 130 tons of garbage after the inauguration of President Obama, with more to go.")
2. one media outlet that did report the event with a fair degree of accuracy was the Wall Street Journal.  here's an article from them ... and here's an opinion piece.

The Peasants are Revolting!

First  — a big Thank You to Shannon Kennedy for the photo of Miss Liberty (above).  i LOVE it!  an equally big Thank You to my friend Steve Walsh in Hawai'i, who sent me the photo (and was with Shannon when she took it).  you may enjoy Steve's and Shannon's websites — OldManGoneWild.com and GreenMonkeyTales.com — both of which are quite adventurous!

REMEMBER that old joke?  "Sire, Sire — the peasants are revolting!"
--- "Yes, I know — not to mention, smelly and uncouth, and plenty of other things...."
--- "But, Sire, I mean, the peasants are ... rebelling!!  Look out the window...!!!"

Well, it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, Babe,
If'n you don't know by now.
Ain't no use to sit and wonder why, Babe,
It'll never do somehow.

When your rooster crows at the break of dawn,
Look out your window and I'll be gone,
You're the reason I'm a-travelin' on....
Don't think twice, it's all right.

(hey, i'll take any opportunity to include Bob Dylan lyrics! : ^ )

Yes, Lords and Ladies, take a look out the castle window and down into the street, and ye shall see, the peasants are indeed rebelling...!

A friend recently reminded me of the pronouncement, over a year ago, issued by the Catholic Bishops, that Reiki is "in the realm of superstition," and that Catholics should stay away from it.  the realm of superstition! — how's that for the pot calling the kettle black?!

My friend (thanks, Becky!) directed me to a web page on the site of the National Catholic Reporter — a short article about the pronouncement, followed by a long chain of comments from readers.  and i was so delighted and heartened by comment after comment after comment, because the message is unmistakable: the peasants are leaving the castle grounds, in droves, and they will not be returning...!

This is not happening just with Catholics, either.  it's a full-blown, wide-screen, Surround-Sound phenomenon — YEE-HAWW!!  "The Authorities" are rapidly losing their ability to spell-bind us....  We The People are starting to wake up from our long nightmare, starting to reclaim our sovereignty as Human Beings.  we're starting to realize and assert our divine right of self-determination; that no other particular being has any power over us unless we agree to give it to them...!

And the most beautiful thing about this revolution — yes, it is so much more than just a revolt or rebellion: it is a Revolution of cosmic proportion: the great spiral of the cosmos is reaching the end of the Age of Pisces, about to reverse direction and embark on the Age of Aquarius — is that it's a peaceful one.  that's why it will succeed, and that's the only way it will succeed.  the peasants have put down their pitchforks this time — realizing that anger and hostility are not the keys to our freedom, that they are indeed what keep us enslaved; that the only "weapon" we need is true peacefulness, inside ourselves....

If you read the comments on that web page, you will see the lack of hostility.  people have no interest in fighting, they're just saying: These Bishops are crazy, and we're not going to play their games any longer, we're walking away from them.  HOORAY!!

This is happening everywhere.  it's what the movies Zeitgeist and Esoteric Agenda and Kymatica are all about.  and The Matrix, of course (can you believe how long ago that was made?  seems like yesterday — and it was 1999!!).  it's why Glenn Beck has rocketed to such immense popularity, with things like The 912 Project and the Restoring Honor rally: because he's telling people, Wake up, remember the Declaration of Independence that this country was founded on!

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness....

Now the growing determination of people to assert the natural sovereignty of their own lives is manifesting as official "movements" toward Individual Sovereignty and State Sovereignty...!

Here's a guy named David Singhiser, with a great explanation of "What is a Sovereign Individual" ... in his blog LIBERTAS.

He also has a very interesting article called "The One Solution To Illegal Immigration Everyone Wants, Especially The Government" — interesting in itself, and also because of something that occurred to me on that subject shortly before i found his article: something that has just been dawning on me over the past couple days, an epiphany really....

in my recent posts on the subject of Arizona and illegal immigration, i was advocating the enforcement of our existing immigration laws — even while admitting that it seemed strange for me to be taking the side of Law and Authority — and now it seems even stranger to me, because i see that the impetus to ignore those laws is in fact another manifestation of this whole movement toward reasserting everyone's natural human sovereignty!!  it's another manifestation of people finally being so fed up with governmental interference in their lives that they just say, Enough is enough, we're not going to subject ourselves to someone else's rules any longer!  We're free human beings and we'll go where we please!

Having had this epiphany now, what can i say but, Hooray — go for it!!  yes, the "illegal" immigrants are merely going with the flow of the cosmos.  The Age of Aquarius is dawning, Bruddah — the Age of disappearing borders, disappearing governments, and the reestablishment of natural human sovereignty.  HOORAY!!

The great irony in this is that so many politicians are advocating that we ignore the immigration laws.  not just advocating it, but even suing the State of Arizona for attempting to enforce the existing laws!  the irony is that these very people are trying with all their might to stop the coming of the Age of Aquarius — do they really believe they can do that??? — and the only reason they are against enforcement of immigration laws is that, having repeatedly betrayed the trust of their "constituents," they are now desperately casting about for a new population of suckers who can be convinced (bribed) to vote for them, to keep them in office.  they are hoping that the flood of "illegal" immigrants is that population.

I suppose we should not be surprised that the rank-and-file politicians are trying to stop the coming of the Age of Aquarius.  it's not really that.  they are just going about business-as-usual.  there must be few if any of them who know the slightest thing about cosmological Ages.  they simply expect that the cosmos will continue working the same way it has been, in their favor....

What boggles the mind is that the guys above them — the SMOTU (Self-proclaimed Masters Of The Universe) — really seem to believe they can stop the coming of the Age of Aquarius.  in many ways, those guys are not stupid, they are extremely clever and they seem to have an especially good understanding of Time.  but it must not be a real understanding, it must be only cleverness and perseverance....  it has to be stupidity, after all.  otherwise, they would not be doing what they're doing!  they would know that their plans are absolutely doomed to failure!  how can anyone be so arrogant as to believe he has the power to overrule the entire cosmos...?  it's like a flea trying to stamp an elephant into the ground — ain't gonna happen, Jack!! : ^ >

I Say Tomato, You Say Tomahto . . . .

How do you say "Rothschild"...?  okay, you probably don't say it — but how would you, if you had to...?

I've always heard it pronounced as "Roths-child" or, usually, in fact, "Roth-child" ... and i always wondered about that silent "s"....  but now it seems the "s" was never meant to be silent ... because the name is not "Roth-child" or even "Roths-child" — it's "Roth-schild" !!

The name is actually German — "Roht-shilt" — meaning Red Shield ... and, considering the bloody history of the people involved, it's a very fitting name.  but, even then, it's not their real name.  The first of these "Roth-schilds" was born Mayer Amschel Bauerburg, in Frankfurt, in 1743 or '44.  at some point he shortened the name Bauerburg to Bauer ... and later got rid of it entirely and replaced it with Rohtshilt, "Red Shield"....

Here's something funny: even the lexicographers have apparently been hoodwinked into saying the name as "Roths-child" or "Roth-child"...!!  at least it's presented that way in the 2 dictionaries i looked in.  they both give the English pronunciation as "Roths-child" or "Roth-child" ... followed immediately by the German — "Roht-shilt"...!  if these people were paying attention, wouldn't they notice that "s" is the first letter of the second word, not the last letter of the first word...?  and that, just by putting the "s" in front of the English word "child" ... we get "schild" — exactly the German word for shield...?

Ah, well ... what brought all this to mind is the following video.  it's Part 1 of 6: a talk given in 2007 by a man named Jack Otto.  This was the last public talk he ever gave, because he died shortly after it.   hmmmm.... according to the website Forbidden Knowledge (the source of the video), Jack's family did not think "foul play" was involved in his death ... or at least that's what they said....

In any case, i found these videos to be a fascinating look into the background of the "Roth-schild" family, among other things.  i must say, i don't know where Mr. Otto got one of his assertions, and i've not found any evidence to back it up: the idea that Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture was written to commemorate the death of Mayer Amschel Rothschild...!  indeed, M.A.R. died in 1812, but it's generally agreed that Tchaikovsky's Overture was written in commemoration of the Russian defense of Moscow against Napoleon's army in that year.... 

CONTINUE WITH PART 2 (at YouTube) . . . .

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws."

~ Mayer Amschel Roth-schild

Another Good Movie: Tunkashila

This one is called Tunkashila: The Revolution . . . .

Part 1:

Tunkashila 1/2

United Natures Independent Media | MySpace Video

Part 2:

Tunkashila 2/2

United Natures Independent Media | MySpace Video

Double-Feature Movie Night

Ahh, Summertime....  slow down and watch a movie!  please take a break from Hollywood, and watch the 2 movies below....

I've noted some points in the movies, where particular subjects are addressed — in order to whet your appetite !! : ^ >


Zeitgeist: The Movie - 2007 --- by Peter Joseph

• 13:03 — The Greatest Story Ever Told (and told, and told....)
• 39:09 — The Myth Of September 11
• 76:00 — The Men Behind The Curtain (the SMOTU, Self-proclaimed Masters Of The Universe, a.k.a. BANKERS)
• 87:50 — Income Tax Unconstitutional...???  SHAZAMMM, Gomer!!
• 90:09 — The Business Of War
• 103:1 — Mass Media and Education
• 107:2 — Aaron Russo and Nicholas Rockefeller (the ultimate goal: a microchip for everyone!)
• 111:3 — Divide And Conquer

Zeitgeist: The Movie - 2007 by Peter Joseph from ZeitgeistMovie.com on Vimeo.

Zeitgeist: Addendum - 2008 --- by Peter Joseph

•  04:25 — The Power of Social Institutions
• 05:55 — Money: The Lifeblood of Society
• 06:46 — The Scheme of Financial Slavery
• 25:05 — The Economic Hit Man
• 49:00 — "Terrorists" and the Myth of Al Qaida (Al Qaeda)
• 54:25 — The Venus Project: Designing a Sustainable Society...?
• 75:51 — A Resource-Based Economy
• 96:25 — Time for a New Social System...?
• 97:00 — The Trap of Religion
• 101:2 — The Unity of Nature
• 101:1 — Weapons of Mass Creation
• 112:1 — Actions for Social Transformation 

Zeitgeist: Addendum - 2008 by Peter Joseph from ZeitgeistMovie.com on Vimeo.

If you find these movies enlightening, you may like to get involved in The Zeitgeist Movement....

. . . And Not-So-Funnies

Not-so-funny videos about the illegal immigration situation in Arizona.  These are from the Center for Immigration Studies — an independent,  non-partisan, non-profit, research organization, founded in 1985.

Gaming the Border: a Report from Cochise County, Arizona ---

Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border 2: Drugs, Guns and 850 Illegal Aliens

Esoteric Agenda

Thanks to Anne for directing me to the movies Esoteric Agenda and Kymatica, by Ben Stewart.  i'm pasting them below.  especially interesting to me were the parts about our legal systems.  in Esoteric Agenda, please watch at least the five minutes beginning at 1:17:33 (you can click and drag the slider to that exact time, as soon as you start playing the movie)....  and, in Kymatica, the part starting at 24:14....

Esoteric Agenda:

Kymatica:

Ben Stewart's websites are: Hanged Man Project and talismanicidols.com.  another version (seemingly the final one) of Esoteric Agenda can be seen at http://esotericagenda.net/eawatch.html.

The Magic of Mujdei

This year in Romania, i encountered mujdei for the first time.  one of my friends said she had told me about it last year, but i have no memory of that — you know how it is, we tune things out until we are ready for them.  apparently i wasn't ready for mujdei until this year...!! : ^ >

It is strong stuff — a sauce made of raw garlic!!  its full name is mujdei de usturoi — "mujdei" itself just means sauce ("usturoi" is garlic) — but it's such a staple of the Romanian diet, people just call it mujdei, and everyone knows what they're talking about.

This woman is making a big mug full of mujdei.... "Hey, that bottle of oil is blocking my shot!" Anyway, the little girl seems happy — and the mujdei was quite good!

The woman in the photo here set me straight on the proper pronunciation of the word.  i had eaten the wonderful stuff in a few restaurants before i encountered her making it at a barbecue.  i asked if she was making mujdei — and she looked up from her work to say, with great passion, "mujDEI, mujDEI !!"  because of that, i will always remember how to say it.  i really felt the love in her voice ... and i think of that scene every time i think of mujdei....

From restaurant to restaurant and home to home, there are many variations in mujdei.   the garlic may be more or less crushed; varying amounts of water or milk may be added, or even tomato paste; and different oils or other ingredients (i found a recipe on the web including sour cream and black pepper, for instance)....  but the recipe i was told, by a friend who is an experienced mujdei-maker, is wonderfully simple: garlic, salt, lemon juice, olive oil.

Naturally, when i got to Turkey, i told my friends there about mujdei.  they said there was nothing exactly like it in Turkish cuisine — but that garlic was often combined with yogurt in Turkey.  so, when i made mujdei in Istanbul, i put a little yogurt in it (and it was very good : ^ ).  my friend Zeyneb has since written me the following additional information about the Turkish use of garlic and yogurt:

the ancient turks in central asia ... were nomads. they travelled around with their animals and discovered how to make yoghurt so that they can save the extra milk [keep it from spoiling]. when they were in a new place and encountered a plant they hadn't seen before, they'd eat it together with yoghurt. in case the plant was toxic. so here we have this custom of eating veggies with yoghurt - and that yoghurt has garlic in it most of the time, because garlic is also believed to be a remedy for intoxications.  for example yoghurt, with or without garlic, is almost a must for spinach. also for stuffed peppers, zucchinis, deep fried vegetables etc.  when someone is thought to be intoxicated, even with toxic vapors, the folk remedy is to give them yoghurt and garlic.

 It seems that many cultures throughout history have recognized the ability of garlic to remove toxins from the body, along with having other vitalizing effects.  here's a very informative web page on that.

I'm intrigued and delighted not only by mujdei itself, but by the word.  i couldn't help wondering if the "dei" in it refers to "deity" — some connection with the Divine.  and then i learned that, in Turkish, there's a word almost identical — müjde — which means "good news."  and it's not just "good news" as in "guess what — i just won the lottery!"  it's Good News as in Christian/Gospel/New-Testament...!  in Istanbul there's even a "Müjde FM" radio station !!*_*!!

In Romania, i was eating mujdei mainly with mamaliguta (polenta) and cartofi (potatoes) — both of which had a nice, muting effect on the garlic.  strangely enough, eating mujdei with bread (pâine) made the garlic louder and sharper!!

Don't you love the word cartofi...?!  and there's almost nothing more delicious than cartofi piure (mashed potatoes) with plenty of mujdei...!

Back in Arizona now, i've been making mujdei with tamari (soy sauce) and rice vinegar, instead of salt and lemon juice.  tamari because i feel that the fermentation and aging of it makes the salt easier for the body to handle than raw salt.  and rice vinegar because lemons are not in season, we're in summer now.

Mujdei is easy to make; the only thing that even takes much time is peeling the garlic.  every time i make it, i think of my friend Elif ... because i think of the wonderful grinding-stone she has in her kitchen! : ^ ).  she lived 11 years in Nepal, and she carried this very heavy grinding-stone all the way back to Turkey!  and it was well worth the effort.  she grinds everything imaginable on it, and with lightning speed!  it would take her maybe 30 seconds to transform a whole head of garlic into garlic paste, on that stone.  Whoff, Whoff, Whoff — and it would be done!

I don't have anything so appropriate for the job ... so i peel the garlic by hand, then put it through a garlic press.  then i put it in a small bowl, sprinkle it with tamari (not too much!), and start crushing it with the bottom of a shot glass....  (hey — necessity, mother of invention!)  then i add the rice vinegar (or lemon juice in season), and crush it more.  then i add the olive oil and keep crushing ... until the mujdei has become nearly homogeneous, with the texture of a thick sauce — in fact, more like a spread.

YUM-M-M-M-M . . . .