"WHAT GOT YOU HERE WON'T GET YOU THERE" by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter :
Imagine that you're 95 years old and ready to die. Before taking your last breath, you're given a great gift: The ability to travel back in time - the ability to talk to the person who is reading this page, the ability to help this person be a better professional and lead a better life.
The 95 year old you understands what was really important and what wasn't, what mattered and what didin't. What advice would this wise "old you" have for the 'you' who is reading this page ???
Take your time and answer the question on two levels: personal advice and professional advice. Jot down just a few words that capture what the old you would be saying to the younger you.. pg. 221
Many older people say they were so wrapped up in looking for what they didn't have that they seldom appreciated what they did have..to find happiness NOW, not next month or next year (or when you have a more stable future) when you buy that house, or .. when I get that money..or the next achievement .. follow your dreams. Figure out your true purpose in life and go for it!..go to that exotic local that's always held your fascination, learn how to play the piano....... p.222
I don't remember where I read it but it went something like this:
What would you like your family and friends to say about you in your eulogy?
Live that LIFE
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
5 Ways to Invest Your Money For Maximum Profit
http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/5-ways-to-make-your-dollars-make-sense
BECOME YOUR OWN BANKER
There is one absolutely guaranteed place where you can get a rate of return well over 7 percent —in fact, often over 15 percent or 20 percent. Pay off the damn credit cards and stay out of debt! As the Sage of Omaha, Warren Buffett, says, “Nobody ever goes broke that doesn’t owe money.” Besides being expensive and self-destructive, credit card debt winds up sucking money out of your community and into the hands of distant banks, back offices, and collection agencies.
[Caveat - In the middle of a deep recession and financial crisis, if your job is uncertain or your home is in foreclosure, it is a good idea to pay only the minimum balance on credit cards so that you can save cash in case of unemployment, as even your credit cards can be frozen by the banks.]
Another consideration underscoring the value of keeping a modest reserve of cash is that we are entering turbulent times. In the last few years, both the stock market and the housing market have tanked and many serious analysts fear that both could crash again, perhaps even more catastrophically. ..... a hedge against uncertainty so he can control in his own federally insured bank account. - and put it in a Locally owned bank and you receive additional dividends as that money will be invested locally in the community, thereby creating more jobs and a more stable local economy -
INVEST IN YOURSELF
Warren Buffett says, “Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do—anything that improves your own talents. Nobody can take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar could become worth far less, you’re gonna have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a terrific asset.”
Think of how many educational courses you could take, how many new skills you could acquire, or how many new degrees you could complete that would increase your earning power. Forget about enrolling in an expensive private university. ....classes to broaden your skills. If .... more than $4,800 in additional pretax income, your education will generate the needed 16 percent rate of return to do better than your tax-deferred IRA. Adrianne McVeigh, a management consultant and clinical psychologist in Atlanta, tells her clients that “the most successful executives and managers invest time and energy in their own self-development.”
INVESTING IN YOUR HEALTH
Everyone knows that prevention of health problems is more cost-effective than treatment. The assumptions required to work out the cost–benefit numbers are admittedly rife with speculation, but there are plenty of low-cost ways most of us would agree would save us more than 16 percent per year. If you’re a smoker, for example, investing several thousand uninsured dollars to quit can pay off in years of longer life with fewer maladies and health-care costs, as well as immediate savings by eliminating hundreds of dollars of cigarette purchases each year. There are similar, if perhaps less dramatic, payoffs by investing in whatever it takes—nutrition classes, exercise programs, spending more cooking healthy meals—to reap the myriad benefits of a healthier you. - cooking classes -
Your reduced electricity bill will not pay your grocery bill after you turn sixty-five. To make this analysis work, you have to be committed to capturing your savings and placing them into some kind of savings account or asset that ultimately pays you an income stream. ....
Read the whole article .....
http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/5-ways-to-make-your-dollars-make-sense
My mom's favorite reminder when I was growing up was: "The only thing that can never be taken from you is your education.". She would know. Communism took away the family businesses, incomes, even the relationships between friends and families changed for the worse when Community Reporting Brigades were established to spy on neighbors.
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BECOME YOUR OWN BANKER
There is one absolutely guaranteed place where you can get a rate of return well over 7 percent —in fact, often over 15 percent or 20 percent. Pay off the damn credit cards and stay out of debt! As the Sage of Omaha, Warren Buffett, says, “Nobody ever goes broke that doesn’t owe money.” Besides being expensive and self-destructive, credit card debt winds up sucking money out of your community and into the hands of distant banks, back offices, and collection agencies.
[Caveat - In the middle of a deep recession and financial crisis, if your job is uncertain or your home is in foreclosure, it is a good idea to pay only the minimum balance on credit cards so that you can save cash in case of unemployment, as even your credit cards can be frozen by the banks.]
Another consideration underscoring the value of keeping a modest reserve of cash is that we are entering turbulent times. In the last few years, both the stock market and the housing market have tanked and many serious analysts fear that both could crash again, perhaps even more catastrophically. ..... a hedge against uncertainty so he can control in his own federally insured bank account. - and put it in a Locally owned bank and you receive additional dividends as that money will be invested locally in the community, thereby creating more jobs and a more stable local economy -
INVEST IN YOURSELF
Warren Buffett says, “Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do—anything that improves your own talents. Nobody can take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar could become worth far less, you’re gonna have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a terrific asset.”
Think of how many educational courses you could take, how many new skills you could acquire, or how many new degrees you could complete that would increase your earning power. Forget about enrolling in an expensive private university. ....classes to broaden your skills. If .... more than $4,800 in additional pretax income, your education will generate the needed 16 percent rate of return to do better than your tax-deferred IRA. Adrianne McVeigh, a management consultant and clinical psychologist in Atlanta, tells her clients that “the most successful executives and managers invest time and energy in their own self-development.”
INVESTING IN YOUR HEALTH
Everyone knows that prevention of health problems is more cost-effective than treatment. The assumptions required to work out the cost–benefit numbers are admittedly rife with speculation, but there are plenty of low-cost ways most of us would agree would save us more than 16 percent per year. If you’re a smoker, for example, investing several thousand uninsured dollars to quit can pay off in years of longer life with fewer maladies and health-care costs, as well as immediate savings by eliminating hundreds of dollars of cigarette purchases each year. There are similar, if perhaps less dramatic, payoffs by investing in whatever it takes—nutrition classes, exercise programs, spending more cooking healthy meals—to reap the myriad benefits of a healthier you. - cooking classes -
Your reduced electricity bill will not pay your grocery bill after you turn sixty-five. To make this analysis work, you have to be committed to capturing your savings and placing them into some kind of savings account or asset that ultimately pays you an income stream. ....
Read the whole article .....
http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/5-ways-to-make-your-dollars-make-sense
My mom's favorite reminder when I was growing up was: "The only thing that can never be taken from you is your education.". She would know. Communism took away the family businesses, incomes, even the relationships between friends and families changed for the worse when Community Reporting Brigades were established to spy on neighbors.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Ron Paul on Changing Government
Ron Paul Speech at College of Charleston, Sc
Thursday, January 19,2012 - during the Republican Presidential Primary
C-Span -Capital Hill Hearings
Exerts:
"You want to galvanize people and get them excited and put pressure on the people in Washington. .. What we have to do is change your hearts and your minds to know what you expect from Government. .. But Government is a reflection of the people. If the poeple want us to go to war under UN banner and not declare war, and occupy more and more countries.. unless you decide as a generation that enough is enough. If you want your rights back again .. We have to hear from the people. "
"Obviously, you need to tell your Representatives what you believe, and if you disagree with the Bill, you tell him you disagree with the Bill. Now if there is 2 or 4 of you, it's not going to do any good. Just yesterday, Rubio switched his vote (on SOPA) because he heard from his people. Alot of people in Washington aren't philosophically interested. They're interested in re-election. That's what motivates most of them, re-election and power. If there are enough people that send that message, they ... change their mind. ...So what I would do is encourage (you) to contact your Representatives that don't agree with you... "
TERM LIMITS:
"I introduced the first term limit bill even in the 70s when it wasn't even a subject. We had a chance to vote on term limits in the 1990s, after the Republicans took over in 1994. We had about 6 votes (none passed). I voted for all of them. I support term limits, (ME TOO) but I don't think it's the answer. ... If you have somebody who believes the same thing (as you) and they leave, and you put somebody else in who believes in the foreign policy, and the monetary policy and the Federal Reserve, and ... all the bailouts.. But what I think you are suggesting is the turn-over you are going to get a better chance... After we had those 6 votes in the 1990s it was passed by. Your second option to that is the people who aren't responding to you, there is still such a thing called an election. You have to work harder at that I guess."
"Government... certainly can't manage all these countries around the world, and I think we've been getting sick and tired of what they're trying to do (!!) About the only thing they've been good at is running up the debt."
"But over-all our main issue is that of Individual Liberty. That's what's made America great. That's what the Founders fought for. When you look at the Bill of Rights and the 4th Amendment has been so severely undermined. If you take the Bill that was passed shortly after 9/11, The Patriot Act, that hasn't given you any more freedom. That's given you LESS FREEDOM."
"Also yesterday in Washington I introduced a piece of Legislation. It was my typical very long complicated piece of Legislation. It was 1 page. It says repeal that provision in the National Defense Authorization Act that gives the President the authority to arrest Americans by the military and held indefinitely. I want to repeal that part."
Disclosure - I usually skip parts i don't agree with or in which I'm not very interested .
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Thursday, January 19,2012 - during the Republican Presidential Primary
C-Span -Capital Hill Hearings
Exerts:
"You want to galvanize people and get them excited and put pressure on the people in Washington. .. What we have to do is change your hearts and your minds to know what you expect from Government. .. But Government is a reflection of the people. If the poeple want us to go to war under UN banner and not declare war, and occupy more and more countries.. unless you decide as a generation that enough is enough. If you want your rights back again .. We have to hear from the people. "
"Obviously, you need to tell your Representatives what you believe, and if you disagree with the Bill, you tell him you disagree with the Bill. Now if there is 2 or 4 of you, it's not going to do any good. Just yesterday, Rubio switched his vote (on SOPA) because he heard from his people. Alot of people in Washington aren't philosophically interested. They're interested in re-election. That's what motivates most of them, re-election and power. If there are enough people that send that message, they ... change their mind. ...So what I would do is encourage (you) to contact your Representatives that don't agree with you... "
TERM LIMITS:
"I introduced the first term limit bill even in the 70s when it wasn't even a subject. We had a chance to vote on term limits in the 1990s, after the Republicans took over in 1994. We had about 6 votes (none passed). I voted for all of them. I support term limits, (ME TOO) but I don't think it's the answer. ... If you have somebody who believes the same thing (as you) and they leave, and you put somebody else in who believes in the foreign policy, and the monetary policy and the Federal Reserve, and ... all the bailouts.. But what I think you are suggesting is the turn-over you are going to get a better chance... After we had those 6 votes in the 1990s it was passed by. Your second option to that is the people who aren't responding to you, there is still such a thing called an election. You have to work harder at that I guess."
"Government... certainly can't manage all these countries around the world, and I think we've been getting sick and tired of what they're trying to do (!!) About the only thing they've been good at is running up the debt."
"But over-all our main issue is that of Individual Liberty. That's what's made America great. That's what the Founders fought for. When you look at the Bill of Rights and the 4th Amendment has been so severely undermined. If you take the Bill that was passed shortly after 9/11, The Patriot Act, that hasn't given you any more freedom. That's given you LESS FREEDOM."
"Also yesterday in Washington I introduced a piece of Legislation. It was my typical very long complicated piece of Legislation. It was 1 page. It says repeal that provision in the National Defense Authorization Act that gives the President the authority to arrest Americans by the military and held indefinitely. I want to repeal that part."
Disclosure - I usually skip parts i don't agree with or in which I'm not very interested .
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Ron Paul on War and Sanctions
Ron Paul Speech at College of Charleston, Sc
Thursday, January 19,2012 - during the Republican Presidential Primary
C-Span -Capital Hill Hearings
Exerpts:
"Keynes and Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics" by Nicholas Wapshott :
Henry Kissinger on "Charlie Rose" on Bloomberg channel, Febuary 6, 2012:
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Thursday, January 19,2012 - during the Republican Presidential Primary
C-Span -Capital Hill Hearings
Exerpts:
"I want to offer friendship and trade with any one who will accept it. That would be the opposite of punishing the people of these countries, like in Iran, (where) we are putting punitive punishment and not allowing them to import or export... so I wouldn't do that, because it hurts the people, never hurts the governments. In fact, it enhances the power of the government, because there are alot of people in Iran right now who don't like the government. You offer friendship and trade. And you say, 'well some of these people are bad people.' Well, did we talk to the Soviets when they were killing hundreds of millions of people as well as China?. But eventually we got over this. We should talk to people. One example I've used frequently is the crises when I was drafted in 1962, with the missile crisis in Cuba. Kennedy and Khrushchev talked. We took missiles out of Turkey and (they) took missiles out of Cuba, and we didn't have to have that war. We need more diplomacy and more talking.."
"We go to a country and we say, look we want you to be our buddy and our dictator, like Mubarak, and give him $40 million and look what happened there. So if they do our bidding, we give them alot of money. If they don't do it, then we bomb them and occupy them. In Pakistan we have [had] 3 ways of doing it . We bomb them, kill innocent people. They get angry at us and angry at their government and we keep giving money to their government. No, the founders were right. The more trade and communication with people, the less likely we are to fight with them. When I was in high school we were fighting the Chinese, so I was delighted when Nixon decided to talk with them. Just think what was achieved in Vietnam. The French and the Americans probably killed over a million Vietnamese, we finally left, we lost 60.000 Americans, ... many more sick and injured .. finally we leave and guess what? There was no Communist domino effect. They became westernized. China became our banker, and we invest in Vietnam. All achieved through peaceful means and not war. This is why I think we should be talking to people.. "
"This doesn't mean you have to condone what they do. And if they are a threat and they have nuclear weapons, I don't want anyone to get anymore nuclear weapons. I don't want the Iranians to have nuclear weapons. But we contained the Soviets. They had 30,000 of them. So the last thing we need is a war in Iran over a weapon they don't have."
"Keynes and Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics" by Nicholas Wapshott :
"What Keynes found at the Peace talks in Paris (end of WWI) shocked him. ... He believed that to deliberately beggar a modern trading nation like Germany was to impose crippling poverty on its citizens, which would provide the conditions for extreme politics, insurrection, and revolution. Rather than bringing a just end to World War I, Keynes thought the Treaty of Versailles was planting the seeds of WW II. Back home, he penned The Economic Consequences of the Peace, a devastating indictment of the folly of the allied leaders. (xvii) ... Keynes's predictions that the burdensome reparations would lead to political instability and extremist politics would turn out to be chillingly prescient." (p.5 )
Henry Kissinger on "Charlie Rose" on Bloomberg channel, Febuary 6, 2012:
Kissinger: They believe, or some people when I was in Russia, argued that the situation in Syria is going to become chaotic. That all these various groups are going to become .. a kind of civil ware between factions. .. Well my perception, first of all, at this point, there is not alternative to the change of government in Syria.... Change in government is now inevitable. I have my own doubts that it's possible to negotiate an outcome agreeable to all sides. It should be attempted.... But if you ask me for my prediction for what is likely to happen, I think there is a great danger that Syria will be in turmoil for a substantial period of time.
Rose: "But is there anything that the United States or the west can do about that???
Kissinger: "Probably not... Not every problem of the world has a short-term solution. In the 19th century somebody said, 'once a play is started, it will be completed either by the actors or by the audience who mount the stage."
Rose: In Libya, was the west, France, Britain, the United States, right to do what they did, ... leading to the overthrow of a man like Qadafi ?
Kissinger: I had great doubts about the policies, for the following reasons. Qadafi. ... at this stage of his evolution had maintained tolerable relations with the west. I am worried about a situation in which there is no central government left in Lybia... In which the west will be put into the position of nation building in a society that hasn't been a nation. Again it's one of those things in which once the process had started it had to be brought to a conclusion. ... I am very uneasy a country in which militant groups occupying parts of each country, which is sort of the Somali condition, which could become a center of radicalism. ... Where we started, I could understand the concern to prevent a massacre in Bengazi. But we have to learn or understand that revolutions rarely end the way their organizers proclaim them. And once you start that process, it has its own momentum.
Rose: But can't you argue that stability and the status quo is not always in the best interest of the long term ??
Kissinger: Absolutely I agree with that. ... I don't think it was possible or perhaps even desirable to avoid the outbreak of the Arab Spring.
Kissinger: The 2nd phase of a revolution is to distill, out of this bundle of resentments, an organizing group that can restore enough authority so that you can conduct long-range policy. That then becomes a very difficult problem. And if it doesn't go well that isn't our fault. That doesn't mean we could have avoided it. But we ought to understand it. ...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Investing Locally - Sources of Capital
"Locavesting: The Revolution in Local Investing" by Amy Cortese
excerpts
When small enterprises create 3 out of every 4 jobs and generate half of GDP ...
At the same time, the traditional funding sources for small business - savings, friends and family, venture capital, and bank credit and loans (and credit cards and Equity Lines of Credit) - have become mighty scarce ... (p. IX)
But that, I saw, was about to change.
In Wisconsin ... the state's rural cooperatives were demonstrating that more harmonious and productive models are possible. (p. x)
Kiva (http://www.kiva.org/) and Kickstarter (ww.kickstarted.com) have shown how the small donations of many people can have a big impact on the lives of other. Now this peer-to-peer crowdfunding model of aggregating many small sums promises to unlock new opportunities for investing in business whose needs are not being me by conventional sources. (p. x)
Social Media is also reviving the direct public offering, or DPO, a little-known method of selling shares directly to the public, without Wall Street underwriters. ... Ben & Jerry's raised capital through a DPO. (x) --disclosure : Ben & Jerry's now owned by the mufti-national Unilever-
Meanwhile, communities from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Hawaiian islands are attempting to bring back local stock exchanges, like the ones that thrived in the United States from the 1830s until the mid-20th century, to provide liquidity and spur investment in regional economies. (x)
Rather than synthetic Collaterized Dept Obligations (CDOs) and computerized robo-trading....
Milk Thistle ... what is it about this milk that inspires grown people to gush breathlessly and line up at farmers markets to pay $7 for a half-gallon..? ... not merely organic, it comes from grass-fed cows .. pesticide-free pastures .. sold his milk in bulk to a bigger dairy operation... he was on the fast track to ruin ... then... (started) selling his milk directly to the public at New York City Farmers Markets, to immediate acclaim. (p.xvi).. When he needed to expand.. . successful in raising money from a customer-led group of investors. (xix)
Moebius Technologies manufactures high-tech medical equipment in Lansing Michigan... They contribute to the community's prosperity by employing local workers and spending profits locally, allowing that money to recirculate in the community - know by economists as the multiplier effect. (p.5-6) .. and their tax contributions pay for local services.
A study by Harvard professor Edward L. Glaeser highlight the link between firm size and employment. Analyzing census data from 1977 to 2007, Glaeser found that the U.S. counties with the smallest firms experienced job growth of 150 percent. As average firm size increased, job growth decreased almost in lockstep. Large corporations create a lot of jobs, to be sure, but they eliminate more - at least domestically - making them net job destroyers.
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Buying Locally grown (Farmer's markets), Eating at Local restaurants, Investing Locally ... look for Locally Owned Businesses:
Restaurants
Farmer's markets
Supermarkets
Community Banks and Credit Unions
Dance Studio, Pilates, gyms, Karate
Beauty Salon
Books store
Liquor stores
Travel Agencies
Laundry
Roofer
Electrician
Plumber
Bowling alleys
Piano teachers
Freight Forwarders
Printers
Day Care Centers
Accountants
Advertising
Largest outlays of monthly income: (local in bold):
Housing, Health Insurance, Food, Property Taxes, Housing Insurance, Car, Car Insurance, Cable,....
Housing - Local Builder(?) Local construction worker (Yes) Local Bank(?)
Local Markets and Restaurants, finding local Health Insurance and investing in Local Banks will make the biggest impact...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Prospering within Negative Power Structures
There is no enviornment in which humans cannot prosper and find fulfilment. The key is finding the cultural skills that work best to achieving these goals
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/davidkennedy03
David Kennedy, director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control, recounts the development and execution of his plan to curb inner-city violence in Boston in the 1990s. Mr. Kennedy's proposal, dubbed the "Boston Miracle," brought together all the key actors in a neighborhood from the police and community members to gang members and drug dealers to openly discuss their issues in a way akin to an intervention. Boston's youth murders were cut by two thirds after installation of the program and it was replicated in over seventy cities, including Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. David Kennedy responded to questions from members of the audience at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
hydrogen helium solar flares
give love
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/davidkennedy03
David Kennedy, director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control, recounts the development and execution of his plan to curb inner-city violence in Boston in the 1990s. Mr. Kennedy's proposal, dubbed the "Boston Miracle," brought together all the key actors in a neighborhood from the police and community members to gang members and drug dealers to openly discuss their issues in a way akin to an intervention. Boston's youth murders were cut by two thirds after installation of the program and it was replicated in over seventy cities, including Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. David Kennedy responded to questions from members of the audience at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
hydrogen helium solar flares
give love
Saturday, January 28, 2012
HISTORY OF THE U.S. CORPORATION - Reclaim Democracy
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RECLAIM DEMOCRACY.ORG:
In 1776 we declared our independence not only from British rule, but also from the corporations of England that controlled trade and extracted wealth from the U.S. (and other) colonies.
After fighting a revolution for freedom from colonialism, our country's founders retained a healthy fear of the similar threats posed by corporate power and wisely limited corporations exclusively to a business role. These state laws, many of which remain on the books today, imposed conditions such as these:
�� A charter was granted for a limited time.
�� Corporations were explicitly chartered for
the purpose of serving the public interest--
profit for shareholders was the means to that
end.
�� Corporations could engage only in
activities necessary to fulfill their chartered
purpose.
�� Corporations could be terminated if they
exceeded their authority or if they caused
public harm.
�� Owners and managers were responsible
for criminal acts they committed on the job.
�� Corporations could not make any political
contributions, nor spend money to influence
legislation.
�� A corporation could not purchase or own
stock in other corporations, nor own any property
other than that necessary to fulfill its chartered
purpose.
Read more... http://reclaimdemocracy.org/pdf/primers/hidden_corporate_history.pdf
INDIVIDUAL ACTION:
Do business with your neighbors--patronize
independent community-based businesses. The
ultimate source of corporate power is our wallets
--help cut off the fuel supply! Set specific goals to
shift more of your spending to community-based
businesses. Local Banks, Credit Unions, Restaurants...
Read more... http://reclaimdemocracy.org/pdf/primers/what_you_can_do.pdf
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RECLAIM DEMOCRACY.ORG:
In 1776 we declared our independence not only from British rule, but also from the corporations of England that controlled trade and extracted wealth from the U.S. (and other) colonies.
After fighting a revolution for freedom from colonialism, our country's founders retained a healthy fear of the similar threats posed by corporate power and wisely limited corporations exclusively to a business role. These state laws, many of which remain on the books today, imposed conditions such as these:
�� A charter was granted for a limited time.
�� Corporations were explicitly chartered for
the purpose of serving the public interest--
profit for shareholders was the means to that
end.
�� Corporations could engage only in
activities necessary to fulfill their chartered
purpose.
�� Corporations could be terminated if they
exceeded their authority or if they caused
public harm.
�� Owners and managers were responsible
for criminal acts they committed on the job.
�� Corporations could not make any political
contributions, nor spend money to influence
legislation.
�� A corporation could not purchase or own
stock in other corporations, nor own any property
other than that necessary to fulfill its chartered
purpose.
Read more... http://reclaimdemocracy.org/pdf/primers/hidden_corporate_history.pdf
INDIVIDUAL ACTION:
Do business with your neighbors--patronize
independent community-based businesses. The
ultimate source of corporate power is our wallets
--help cut off the fuel supply! Set specific goals to
shift more of your spending to community-based
businesses. Local Banks, Credit Unions, Restaurants...
Read more... http://reclaimdemocracy.org/pdf/primers/what_you_can_do.pdf
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Estate Tax, Aristocracy, and Concentration of Power
The Very Soul Of A Republic
The Roots Of The Estate Tax
http://www.tompaine.com/Archive/scontent/7082.html :
William H. Gates Sr. is the co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle. Chuck Collins is the co-founder and program director of Boston-based United for a Fair Economy. -The following text is an excerpt from chapter two of Wealth And Our Commonwealth by William H. Gates and Chuck Collins, published by Beacon press. More information about the book is available on the Beacon Press Web site.
The essence of the American experiment is our collective of rejection of European hereditary aristocracy and grotesque inequalities of wealth. When Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, he noted that equality of condition permeated the American spirit: "The American experiment presupposes a rejection of inherited privilege."
The nation's founders and populace viewed excessive concentrations of wealth as incompatible with the ideals of the new nation. Revolutionary era visitors to Europe, including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Ben Franklin, were aghast at the wide disparities of wealth and poverty they observed. They surmised that these great European inequalities were the result of an aristocratic system of land transfers, hereditary political power, and monopoly
In two other articles, "Rights of Man" and "Agrarian justice," Paine extended his contempt of inherited political power to a critique of inherited economic power.
The distrust of concentrated wealth was so great that, in an extreme sentiment, Ben Franklin argued "that no man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state."
In 1776, artisans from Philadelphia put forward a provision for inclusion in the original state constitution of Pennsylvania. They advocated for a limit on the concentration of wealth. "An enormous Proportion of Property vested in a few Individuals is dangerous to the Rights, and destructive of the Common Happiness of Mankind; and therefore any free State hath a Right by its Laws to discourage the Possession of such Property."
Indeed, central to American republicanism was the principle of a broad and fair distribution of wealth and property. Noah Webster, writing in favor of adopting the U.S. Constitution in 1787, expressed that "a general and tolerably equal distribution of landed property is the whole basis of national freedom" and wide spread distribution of property was "the very soul of a republic." Too much inequality was a threat to a self-governing society. Without an equitable land distribution, the founders believed, the republic would not survive.
John Adams also viewed broad land ownership as a key ingredient in maintaining a balance of political power. He was greatly influenced by seventeenth-century philosopher James Harrington, who argued that the widespread distribution of property dispersed power. Adams believed that when "economic power be came concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny." In a 1776 letter to James Sullivan, Adams articulated his perspective that a balance in property owner ship was essential to liberty.
Jefferson wrote:
Noah Webster exuded confidence in the justness of the American system: "Here the equalizing genius of the laws distributes property to every citizen."
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson wrote confidently that America's land tenure system encouraged subdivision and a broader distribution of land ownership, preventing aristocratic concentrations of ownership.
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The Roots Of The Estate Tax
http://www.tompaine.com/Archive/scontent/7082.html :
William H. Gates Sr. is the co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle. Chuck Collins is the co-founder and program director of Boston-based United for a Fair Economy. -The following text is an excerpt from chapter two of Wealth And Our Commonwealth by William H. Gates and Chuck Collins, published by Beacon press. More information about the book is available on the Beacon Press Web site.
The essence of the American experiment is our collective of rejection of European hereditary aristocracy and grotesque inequalities of wealth. When Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, he noted that equality of condition permeated the American spirit: "The American experiment presupposes a rejection of inherited privilege."
The nation's founders and populace viewed excessive concentrations of wealth as incompatible with the ideals of the new nation. Revolutionary era visitors to Europe, including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Ben Franklin, were aghast at the wide disparities of wealth and poverty they observed. They surmised that these great European inequalities were the result of an aristocratic system of land transfers, hereditary political power, and monopoly
In two other articles, "Rights of Man" and "Agrarian justice," Paine extended his contempt of inherited political power to a critique of inherited economic power.
The distrust of concentrated wealth was so great that, in an extreme sentiment, Ben Franklin argued "that no man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state."
In 1776, artisans from Philadelphia put forward a provision for inclusion in the original state constitution of Pennsylvania. They advocated for a limit on the concentration of wealth. "An enormous Proportion of Property vested in a few Individuals is dangerous to the Rights, and destructive of the Common Happiness of Mankind; and therefore any free State hath a Right by its Laws to discourage the Possession of such Property."
Indeed, central to American republicanism was the principle of a broad and fair distribution of wealth and property. Noah Webster, writing in favor of adopting the U.S. Constitution in 1787, expressed that "a general and tolerably equal distribution of landed property is the whole basis of national freedom" and wide spread distribution of property was "the very soul of a republic." Too much inequality was a threat to a self-governing society. Without an equitable land distribution, the founders believed, the republic would not survive.
John Adams also viewed broad land ownership as a key ingredient in maintaining a balance of political power. He was greatly influenced by seventeenth-century philosopher James Harrington, who argued that the widespread distribution of property dispersed power. Adams believed that when "economic power be came concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny." In a 1776 letter to James Sullivan, Adams articulated his perspective that a balance in property owner ship was essential to liberty.
The balance of power in a society, accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of equal liberty and public virtue, is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society; to make a division of land into small quantities, so that the multitude may he possessed of landed estates. If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will take care of the liberty, virtue, and interest of the multitude, in all acts of government.
Jefferson wrote:
The descent of property of every kind therefore to all children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree, is a politic measure and a practicable one. Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.
Noah Webster exuded confidence in the justness of the American system: "Here the equalizing genius of the laws distributes property to every citizen."
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson wrote confidently that America's land tenure system encouraged subdivision and a broader distribution of land ownership, preventing aristocratic concentrations of ownership.
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Thomas Jefferson on Corporations
THOMAS JEFFERSON
LETTER TO GEORGE LOGAN
j. mss.
Poplar Forest near Lynchburg, Nov. 12, 1816
—I received your favor of Oct. 16, at this place, where I pass much of my time, very distant from Monticello. I am quite astonished at the idea which seems to have got abroad; that I propose publishing something on the subject of religion, and this is said to have arisen from a letter of mine to my friend Charles Thompson, in which certainly there is no trace of such an idea. When we see religion split into so many thousand of sects, and I may say Christianity itself divided into it’s thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one another for abstractions which no one of them understand, and which are indeed beyond the comprehension of the human mind, into which of the chambers of this Bedlam would a [torn] man wish to thrust himself. The sum of all religion as expressed by it’s best preacher, “fear god and love thy neighbor” contains no mystery, needs no explanation. But this wont do. It gives no scope to make dupes; priests could not live by it. Your idea of the moral obligations of governments are perfectly correct. The man who is dishonest as a statesman would be a dishonest man in any station. It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings collected together are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately. It is a great consolation to me that our government, as it cherishes most it’s duties to its own citizens, so is it the most exact in it’s moral conduct towards other nations. I do not believe that in the four administrations which have taken place, there has been a single instance of departure from good faith towards other nations. We may sometimes have mistaken our rights, or made an erroneous estimate of the actions of others, but no voluntary wrong can be imputed to us. In this respect England exhibits the most remarkable phaenomenon in the universe in the contrast between the profligacy of it’s government and the probity of it’s citizens. And accordingly it is now exhibiting an example of the truth of the maxim that virtue & interest are inseparable. It ends, as might have been expected, in the ruin of it’s people, but this ruin will fall heaviest, as it ought to fall on that hereditary aristocracy which has for generations been preparing the catastrophe. I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country. Present me respectfully to Mrs. Logan and accept yourself my friendly and respectful salutations.
Read more...
http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=808&chapter=88352&layout=html&Itemid=27
I wonder If he was referring to 'crony capitalism' or 'banking schemes' ?
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LETTER TO GEORGE LOGAN
j. mss.
Poplar Forest near Lynchburg, Nov. 12, 1816
—I received your favor of Oct. 16, at this place, where I pass much of my time, very distant from Monticello. I am quite astonished at the idea which seems to have got abroad; that I propose publishing something on the subject of religion, and this is said to have arisen from a letter of mine to my friend Charles Thompson, in which certainly there is no trace of such an idea. When we see religion split into so many thousand of sects, and I may say Christianity itself divided into it’s thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one another for abstractions which no one of them understand, and which are indeed beyond the comprehension of the human mind, into which of the chambers of this Bedlam would a [torn] man wish to thrust himself. The sum of all religion as expressed by it’s best preacher, “fear god and love thy neighbor” contains no mystery, needs no explanation. But this wont do. It gives no scope to make dupes; priests could not live by it. Your idea of the moral obligations of governments are perfectly correct. The man who is dishonest as a statesman would be a dishonest man in any station. It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings collected together are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately. It is a great consolation to me that our government, as it cherishes most it’s duties to its own citizens, so is it the most exact in it’s moral conduct towards other nations. I do not believe that in the four administrations which have taken place, there has been a single instance of departure from good faith towards other nations. We may sometimes have mistaken our rights, or made an erroneous estimate of the actions of others, but no voluntary wrong can be imputed to us. In this respect England exhibits the most remarkable phaenomenon in the universe in the contrast between the profligacy of it’s government and the probity of it’s citizens. And accordingly it is now exhibiting an example of the truth of the maxim that virtue & interest are inseparable. It ends, as might have been expected, in the ruin of it’s people, but this ruin will fall heaviest, as it ought to fall on that hereditary aristocracy which has for generations been preparing the catastrophe. I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country. Present me respectfully to Mrs. Logan and accept yourself my friendly and respectful salutations.
Read more...
http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=808&chapter=88352&layout=html&Itemid=27
I wonder If he was referring to 'crony capitalism' or 'banking schemes' ?
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
The Better Angels Of Our Nature
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Those who can make you believe absurdities
can make you commit atrocities
Voltaire
via
The Better Angels Of Our Nature
by Steve Pinker
http://www.amazon.com/Better-Angels-Our-Nature-Violence/dp/0670022950
You can watch the video on C-Span:
http://www.booktv.org/Watch/12923/The+Better+Angels+of+Our+Nature.aspx
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
FOOD CURES
Stop subbsidies to the Farming and their Grain monocultures:
Grass fed chicken and cattle, their natural diet, are high in Omega3, re-establishing the healthy ratio of Omega3 to Omega 6. Animal protein is the best source for Selenium, Zinc, D, chromium, DHA, taurine, the full set of essential amino acids, and for B12, which is not found in any other source. All of which are essential for brain health. The opposing thumb allowed us to use rocks and become the first animal to break into the cranial cavity of animals, providing us with the richest source of Omega3 and amino acids. The review of research is showing that the causes of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, bone diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, and even tooth decay is sugar and its close cousin grains, especially refined carbohydrates, and the lack of certain important parts of fish and animals. (1) (6) (16)
Research on present day hunter gathers in Africa whose diet is composed mostly of blood and milk and occasionally meat showed no heart disease or cancer, but when members moved and started consuming other diets, cancer and heart disease developed. Populations in different areas of India were compared. Those eating diets lower in sugars and don’t use refined carbs had very small rates of heart disease and cancer compared to other populations which had adopted refined grains and added sugar. The French have lower levels of cancer and heart disease than Italians. The French diet uses high fat sauces but less carbs compared to the Italian diet which is heavy on pasta and other grains. Research done on the Greenland Inuit tribe showed they consumed large amounts of fat but displayed virtually no cardiovascular disease. The high levels of Omega3 in the food reduced triglycerides in the blood. (6) Even child birth was quick and easy till they changed to a more modern diet.
AVOID sugar, refined carbs (a sugar), excess copper(chocolate), caffeine, and alcohol. All leach minerals from the body. All are things we tend to do in excess when stressed. All have high correlation with mental health illnesses, including depression. Stress causes the secretion of cortisol and also causes loss of volumes of vitally necessary vitamins and minerals.
CORTISOL is a stress hormone which releases amino acids from the muscles, glucose from the liver, and fatty acids into the blood stream to produce a tremendous amount of energy. These are released so they can be available for "Fight or Flight." Since our modern stresses don’t require either, the cortisol remains in the system and causes the release of more cortisol and continues the process of depleting our organs. Sustained elevated stress levels lead to widespread tissue destruction, muscle loss, bone loss, immune system depression and brain shrinkage! 200mg of CAFFEINE increases blood cortisol levels by 30%! EXERCISE is the natural way to use up the cortisol, getting it out of your system. (18)
The AMISH have low levels of Depression, Cancer, and Cardiovascular disease and eat grains, meats, lard, cookies, etc.. BUT they average 14,000 steps daily vs 2000-3000 steps by average American. A farmer planting a field was recorded at 51,000 steps.
Seventh Day Adventists are vegetarians and have excellent health and longevity but they don't smoke, drink alcohol nor coffee and are very health conscious. Mormons with the same restrictions but on a non-vegetarian diet have better health. (5)
EXERCISE lowers insulin, cortisol, and the symptoms of stress and depression. It’s one of the healthiest things you can do to calm stress and feel more able to deal effectively with whatever the day brings. (3)(8)(10) (12)(16)
So, consider grass-fed animals, eggs, and milk, plus vegetables and fruits. A couple of ounces of animal protein with every meal is all that's needed - excess isn’t healthy in any form- and exercise.
CHECK OUT THESE RESOURCES:
(1)Cure Tooth Decay: Heal And Prevent Cavities With Nutrition by Ramiel Nagel
Highly recomend this book
(2)Nutrition and Physical Degeneration [Paperback] Weston A. PriceError! Hyperlink reference not valid. Weston A. Price (Author) (Author), Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation (Editor) The original researcher on tooth and jaw diseases and the foods that were involved. Cod Liver Oil helps counteract tooth decay.
(3) http://www.drlwilson.com/
(4) Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith Gorgeous powerfull metaphors, but very angry, so it is difficult and painful to read. The author lives in pain caused by the distruction of her body through veganism and its dependence on grain monocultures.
(5) Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World by Joel Salatin Salatin is managing to increase his soil by 1" per year
(6) GOOD CALORIES BAD CALORIES by Gary Taubes Great book. Cites a lot different studies, past and present. (7) Neanderthin byRay Audette, Roy Gilchrist
(8)CORTISOLE http://lowcarb4u.blogspot.com/2010/05/cortisol-versus-insulin.html
(9) Salinization - http://people.oregonstate.edu/~muirp/saliniz.htm
(10) What if Bad Fats Are Actually Good For You? http://www.menshealth.com/health/saturated-fat According to lead study author Jeff Volek, Ph.D., R.D., ... Insulin's job is to return your blood sugar to normal, but it also signals your body to store fat. As a result, your liver starts converting excess blood sugar to triglycerides, or fat. All of which helps explain why the low-carb dieters in Volek's study had a greater loss of fat in their blood. Restricting carbs keeps insulin levels low, which lowers your internal production of fat and allows more of the fat you do eat to be burned for energy. .. Volek's study, participants who followed the low-fat diet -- which was high in carbs -- also decreased their triglycerides. " The key factor is that they weren't overeating," says Volek. "This allowed the carbohydrates to be used for energy rather than converted to fat." Perhaps this is the most important point of all. If you consistently consume more calories than you burn, and you gain weight, your risk of heart disease will increase
( ) Sepp Holzer's Permaculture - By Sepp Holzer
(11)Saving US grasslands: a bid to turn back the clock on desertification By Judith D. Schwartz, October 2011 http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2011/1024/Saving-US-grasslands-a-bid-to-turn-back-the-clock-on-desertification
(12) CONQUERING DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY THORUGH EXERCISE -Keith Johnsgard
(13) Putting it All Together: The Orthomolecular Nutrition -By Abram Hoffer, MD,phd, Morton Walker, DPM
(14) The Weston A Price Foundation http://www.westonaprice.org/
(16) THE DEPRESSION CURE – Stephen S. Ilardi PHD
(17) ORTHOMOLECULAR MEDICINE FOR EVERYONE by Abram Hoffer, Andrew W. Saul"In the era of wonder drugs, medical schools forgot about nutrition." p.2 "nutritional treatment is effective, free of side effects, and cheap." uses blood and hair tests to determine deficiency
(18) SIX TIPS TO CUT YOUR CORTISOL http://www.womenshealth-naturalsolutions.com/6_tips_to_cut_your_cortisol_production.htm
(19) Nutrition and Mental Illness: An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemistry Carl C. Pfeiffer Ph.D. M.D. (Author)
Pyroluria: b6, zinc, magnesium
PMS - same
Research on prisoners and the vitamins and minerals they are missing
Grass fed chicken and cattle, their natural diet, are high in Omega3, re-establishing the healthy ratio of Omega3 to Omega 6. Animal protein is the best source for Selenium, Zinc, D, chromium, DHA, taurine, the full set of essential amino acids, and for B12, which is not found in any other source. All of which are essential for brain health. The opposing thumb allowed us to use rocks and become the first animal to break into the cranial cavity of animals, providing us with the richest source of Omega3 and amino acids. The review of research is showing that the causes of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, bone diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, and even tooth decay is sugar and its close cousin grains, especially refined carbohydrates, and the lack of certain important parts of fish and animals. (1) (6) (16)
Research on present day hunter gathers in Africa whose diet is composed mostly of blood and milk and occasionally meat showed no heart disease or cancer, but when members moved and started consuming other diets, cancer and heart disease developed. Populations in different areas of India were compared. Those eating diets lower in sugars and don’t use refined carbs had very small rates of heart disease and cancer compared to other populations which had adopted refined grains and added sugar. The French have lower levels of cancer and heart disease than Italians. The French diet uses high fat sauces but less carbs compared to the Italian diet which is heavy on pasta and other grains. Research done on the Greenland Inuit tribe showed they consumed large amounts of fat but displayed virtually no cardiovascular disease. The high levels of Omega3 in the food reduced triglycerides in the blood. (6) Even child birth was quick and easy till they changed to a more modern diet.
AVOID sugar, refined carbs (a sugar), excess copper(chocolate), caffeine, and alcohol. All leach minerals from the body. All are things we tend to do in excess when stressed. All have high correlation with mental health illnesses, including depression. Stress causes the secretion of cortisol and also causes loss of volumes of vitally necessary vitamins and minerals.
CORTISOL is a stress hormone which releases amino acids from the muscles, glucose from the liver, and fatty acids into the blood stream to produce a tremendous amount of energy. These are released so they can be available for "Fight or Flight." Since our modern stresses don’t require either, the cortisol remains in the system and causes the release of more cortisol and continues the process of depleting our organs. Sustained elevated stress levels lead to widespread tissue destruction, muscle loss, bone loss, immune system depression and brain shrinkage! 200mg of CAFFEINE increases blood cortisol levels by 30%! EXERCISE is the natural way to use up the cortisol, getting it out of your system. (18)
The AMISH have low levels of Depression, Cancer, and Cardiovascular disease and eat grains, meats, lard, cookies, etc.. BUT they average 14,000 steps daily vs 2000-3000 steps by average American. A farmer planting a field was recorded at 51,000 steps.
Seventh Day Adventists are vegetarians and have excellent health and longevity but they don't smoke, drink alcohol nor coffee and are very health conscious. Mormons with the same restrictions but on a non-vegetarian diet have better health. (5)
EXERCISE lowers insulin, cortisol, and the symptoms of stress and depression. It’s one of the healthiest things you can do to calm stress and feel more able to deal effectively with whatever the day brings. (3)(8)(10) (12)(16)
So, consider grass-fed animals, eggs, and milk, plus vegetables and fruits. A couple of ounces of animal protein with every meal is all that's needed - excess isn’t healthy in any form- and exercise.
CHECK OUT THESE RESOURCES:
(1)Cure Tooth Decay: Heal And Prevent Cavities With Nutrition by Ramiel Nagel
Highly recomend this book
(2)Nutrition and Physical Degeneration [Paperback] Weston A. PriceError! Hyperlink reference not valid. Weston A. Price (Author) (Author), Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation (Editor) The original researcher on tooth and jaw diseases and the foods that were involved. Cod Liver Oil helps counteract tooth decay.
(3) http://www.drlwilson.com/
(4) Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith Gorgeous powerfull metaphors, but very angry, so it is difficult and painful to read. The author lives in pain caused by the distruction of her body through veganism and its dependence on grain monocultures.
(5) Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World by Joel Salatin Salatin is managing to increase his soil by 1" per year
(6) GOOD CALORIES BAD CALORIES by Gary Taubes Great book. Cites a lot different studies, past and present. (7) Neanderthin byRay Audette, Roy Gilchrist
(8)CORTISOLE http://lowcarb4u.blogspot.com/2010/05/cortisol-versus-insulin.html
(9) Salinization - http://people.oregonstate.edu/~muirp/saliniz.htm
(10) What if Bad Fats Are Actually Good For You? http://www.menshealth.com/health/saturated-fat According to lead study author Jeff Volek, Ph.D., R.D., ... Insulin's job is to return your blood sugar to normal, but it also signals your body to store fat. As a result, your liver starts converting excess blood sugar to triglycerides, or fat. All of which helps explain why the low-carb dieters in Volek's study had a greater loss of fat in their blood. Restricting carbs keeps insulin levels low, which lowers your internal production of fat and allows more of the fat you do eat to be burned for energy. .. Volek's study, participants who followed the low-fat diet -- which was high in carbs -- also decreased their triglycerides. " The key factor is that they weren't overeating," says Volek. "This allowed the carbohydrates to be used for energy rather than converted to fat." Perhaps this is the most important point of all. If you consistently consume more calories than you burn, and you gain weight, your risk of heart disease will increase
( ) Sepp Holzer's Permaculture - By Sepp Holzer
(11)Saving US grasslands: a bid to turn back the clock on desertification By Judith D. Schwartz, October 2011 http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2011/1024/Saving-US-grasslands-a-bid-to-turn-back-the-clock-on-desertification
(12) CONQUERING DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY THORUGH EXERCISE -Keith Johnsgard
(13) Putting it All Together: The Orthomolecular Nutrition -By Abram Hoffer, MD,phd, Morton Walker, DPM
(14) The Weston A Price Foundation http://www.westonaprice.org/
(16) THE DEPRESSION CURE – Stephen S. Ilardi PHD
(17) ORTHOMOLECULAR MEDICINE FOR EVERYONE by Abram Hoffer, Andrew W. Saul"In the era of wonder drugs, medical schools forgot about nutrition." p.2 "nutritional treatment is effective, free of side effects, and cheap." uses blood and hair tests to determine deficiency
(18) SIX TIPS TO CUT YOUR CORTISOL http://www.womenshealth-naturalsolutions.com/6_tips_to_cut_your_cortisol_production.htm
(19) Nutrition and Mental Illness: An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemistry Carl C. Pfeiffer Ph.D. M.D. (Author)
Pyroluria: b6, zinc, magnesium
PMS - same
Research on prisoners and the vitamins and minerals they are missing
Friday, October 7, 2011
Follow Your Bliss & Loving the Work You Have
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"Follow Your Bliss" - mythologist Joseph Campbell - "If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living."
"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. ." Robert A. Heinlein
http://positivesharing.com/2007/01/how-to-find-a-job-youll-love/
Focus on what you like at work, not on what you don't
when you’re picking a new job, it’s not enough to look at all the things you want to avoid. Partly because there are an infinite number of things to avoid. ... To be happy at work, you also need good things, not just the absence of bad. The best way to find out what you want at work, is to look at what has previously made you love your job.
Ask for what you want
It’s a lot easier to get what you want if you actually ask for it. In your job interviews, let them know that being happy at work matters to you, and tell them what it takes to get you to love work.
It’s true that asking for these things may mean not getting the job, and that’s precisely the point! If that job won’t make you happy, you don’t want it!
Ask yourself: What would I work on for free???
Do it on your free time and see where it leads
http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/
Start a lot of small projects and see which ones grab me. Rather than try to analyze my way to an answer to which opportunity is the best/will make me the most money/will be the most fun, I float a lot of ideas in a lot of places. Some happen, most don’t. The ones that happen are by definition the right ones, and they are always fun to work on. Always.
http://ask.metafilter.com/197798/How-do-you-find-what-you-love-doing
Another Perspective:
I think it is more important to "love what you find." I am not living where I thought I would live, I am not working in the field I thought I would, and I am not with the person I thought I would be... but, I love every aspect of my life because I have discovered how to love my job, how to love my city and ultimately how to love my partner (who is WAY better for me than the person I thought I should be with). It's all about perspective... in my opinion.
Another
I began opening my heart to friends, family, and even work supervisors, asking them what kind of work they thought I was suited for. In quick succession, I received the same response from three different people. It was something that for some reason hadn't occurred to me, but as soon as it was brought to my attention, my inner response was, "Of course! I organised to do some work experience in the field .... I gained education and (unpaid and then paid) experience.
I've found that trying to do something I love for money is a surefire way to make me quit loving it
The top 10 advantages of low-rent living
truly excellent reasons - Freedom
http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
nearly all lured onto the rocks(hating the work) by prestige or money.
Similarly, if you admire two kinds of work equally, but one is more prestigious, you should probably choose the other. Your opinions about what's admirable are always going to be slightly influenced by prestige, so if the two seem equal to you, you probably have more genuine admiration for the less prestigious one.
Another test you can use is: always produce. For example, if you have a day job you don't take seriously because you plan to be a novelist, are you producing? Are you writing pages of fiction, however bad? As long as you're producing, you'll know you're not merely using the hazy vision of the grand novel you plan to write one day as an opiate.
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:
The classic model of dicovery is as follows: you serach for what you know (say a new way to reach India) and find something you didn't know was there (America). ... almost everything of the moment is the product of serendipity ... Alexander Fleming was cleaning his laboratory when he found that penicillin mold.... Engineers tend to develop tools for the pleasure of developing tools... some of these tools bring us more knowledge. .. it is only the engineer's gusto and love for building of toys and machines that contribute to the augmentation of our knowledge. ... The Economist askes Charles Townes, the alleged inventor of the laser, if he had had retinas on his mind. He had not. He was satisfying this desire to split light beams.. Nor was the computer invented to let you talk to your friends in Siberia..
selection bias
What if everyone that existed was a Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg, Gates, Einstein, Voltaire, Renoir, Shakespeare, Galileo, etc... For instance, if all the most famous painters existed at the same time, many of them would have to be considered mediocre and even bad -depending on the tastes of the day. Which one of them would make the garbage cans, or be the meter maid, the government auditor, the farmer, or the grocer ???? I think someone would really enjoy each of these jobs.. Maybe we really have just settled... I can't think of anything more mind numbing than doing accounting, and I know people who absolutely love accounting.
"Follow Your Bliss" - mythologist Joseph Campbell - "If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living."
"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. ." Robert A. Heinlein
http://positivesharing.com/2007/01/how-to-find-a-job-youll-love/
Focus on what you like at work, not on what you don't
when you’re picking a new job, it’s not enough to look at all the things you want to avoid. Partly because there are an infinite number of things to avoid. ... To be happy at work, you also need good things, not just the absence of bad. The best way to find out what you want at work, is to look at what has previously made you love your job.
Ask for what you want
It’s a lot easier to get what you want if you actually ask for it. In your job interviews, let them know that being happy at work matters to you, and tell them what it takes to get you to love work.
It’s true that asking for these things may mean not getting the job, and that’s precisely the point! If that job won’t make you happy, you don’t want it!
Ask yourself: What would I work on for free???
Do it on your free time and see where it leads
http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/
Start a lot of small projects and see which ones grab me. Rather than try to analyze my way to an answer to which opportunity is the best/will make me the most money/will be the most fun, I float a lot of ideas in a lot of places. Some happen, most don’t. The ones that happen are by definition the right ones, and they are always fun to work on. Always.
http://ask.metafilter.com/197798/How-do-you-find-what-you-love-doing
Another Perspective:
I think it is more important to "love what you find." I am not living where I thought I would live, I am not working in the field I thought I would, and I am not with the person I thought I would be... but, I love every aspect of my life because I have discovered how to love my job, how to love my city and ultimately how to love my partner (who is WAY better for me than the person I thought I should be with). It's all about perspective... in my opinion.
Another
I began opening my heart to friends, family, and even work supervisors, asking them what kind of work they thought I was suited for. In quick succession, I received the same response from three different people. It was something that for some reason hadn't occurred to me, but as soon as it was brought to my attention, my inner response was, "Of course! I organised to do some work experience in the field .... I gained education and (unpaid and then paid) experience.
I've found that trying to do something I love for money is a surefire way to make me quit loving it
The top 10 advantages of low-rent living
truly excellent reasons - Freedom
http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
nearly all lured onto the rocks(hating the work) by prestige or money.
Similarly, if you admire two kinds of work equally, but one is more prestigious, you should probably choose the other. Your opinions about what's admirable are always going to be slightly influenced by prestige, so if the two seem equal to you, you probably have more genuine admiration for the less prestigious one.
Another test you can use is: always produce. For example, if you have a day job you don't take seriously because you plan to be a novelist, are you producing? Are you writing pages of fiction, however bad? As long as you're producing, you'll know you're not merely using the hazy vision of the grand novel you plan to write one day as an opiate.
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:
The classic model of dicovery is as follows: you serach for what you know (say a new way to reach India) and find something you didn't know was there (America). ... almost everything of the moment is the product of serendipity ... Alexander Fleming was cleaning his laboratory when he found that penicillin mold.... Engineers tend to develop tools for the pleasure of developing tools... some of these tools bring us more knowledge. .. it is only the engineer's gusto and love for building of toys and machines that contribute to the augmentation of our knowledge. ... The Economist askes Charles Townes, the alleged inventor of the laser, if he had had retinas on his mind. He had not. He was satisfying this desire to split light beams.. Nor was the computer invented to let you talk to your friends in Siberia..
selection bias
What if everyone that existed was a Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg, Gates, Einstein, Voltaire, Renoir, Shakespeare, Galileo, etc... For instance, if all the most famous painters existed at the same time, many of them would have to be considered mediocre and even bad -depending on the tastes of the day. Which one of them would make the garbage cans, or be the meter maid, the government auditor, the farmer, or the grocer ???? I think someone would really enjoy each of these jobs.. Maybe we really have just settled... I can't think of anything more mind numbing than doing accounting, and I know people who absolutely love accounting.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
The First Duty of man is to conquer fear
"The First Duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it.” Thomas Carlyle, counseled: http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Walter-Rodgers/2011/0927/Is-America-still-the-home-of-the-brave/(page)/2
what helps me is not to look into the future
but to work on today
today's problems are never too large or too difficult
i've imagined terrible outcomes before
and they never came to pass
My son told me yesterday
that he was feeling worse each day
'it must be something bad'
it's only a cold
it keeps getting worse
until
it starts getting better
"Mercy and goodness shall follow you all the days of your life"
a promise to each of us everywhere
a message written on every leaf and dale
in river and stream
bird songs, cell membranes and neutrinos
conceived in liberty
single celled ameobas to multicelled organisms
individuals to social networks
simple to complex, individual to network and again
the web of life
could a cell have ever imagined that one day
together would think and speak in a single voice
and it was good
the tree of kowledge of good and evil....
there's an interesting thing
nothing is more terrible
than endless days of having nothing to do
the Budha forgets himself
and just does
Piers Plowman:
"Thou shalt not hate thy brothers secretly in thy heart, but rebuke them publicly." (Lev 19:17)
"They'll produce a passage too," said I, " a proof from the Gospel: 'Do not judge anyone' (Mt 7:1)
"And what purpose does Law possess," said Lewte(Justice), "if no one reproves them - Falseness and fraudulence?"
to do the right as God gives me to see the right
to do the best i can as best i can
LIFE
cell-to-cell communication imperative
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what helps me is not to look into the future
but to work on today
today's problems are never too large or too difficult
and God will get us there
i've imagined terrible outcomes before
and they never came to pass
My son told me yesterday
that he was feeling worse each day
'it must be something bad'
it's only a cold
it keeps getting worse
until
it starts getting better
"Mercy and goodness shall follow you all the days of your life"
a promise to each of us everywhere
a message written on every leaf and dale
in river and stream
bird songs, cell membranes and neutrinos
conceived in liberty
single celled ameobas to multicelled organisms
individuals to social networks
simple to complex, individual to network and again
the web of life
could a cell have ever imagined that one day
together would think and speak in a single voice
and it was good
the tree of kowledge of good and evil....
there's an interesting thing
nothing is more terrible
than endless days of having nothing to do
the Budha forgets himself
and just does
Piers Plowman:
"Thou shalt not hate thy brothers secretly in thy heart, but rebuke them publicly." (Lev 19:17)
"They'll produce a passage too," said I, " a proof from the Gospel: 'Do not judge anyone' (Mt 7:1)
"And what purpose does Law possess," said Lewte(Justice), "if no one reproves them - Falseness and fraudulence?"
to do the right as God gives me to see the right
to do the best i can as best i can
LIFE
cell-to-cell communication imperative
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
the only thing you can change
mnmlist: the only thing you can change
myself
Being in the world what i would like to see in the world
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http://mnmlist.com/small-changes
You can’t change your entire life.
You can only change your next action.
—
You can’t change a relationship with a loved one.
You can only change your next interaction.
—
You can’t change your entire job.
You can only change your next task.
—
You can’t change your body composition.
You can only change your next meal.
—
You can’t change your fitness level.
You can only start moving.
—
You can’t declutter your entire life.
You can only choose to get rid of one thing, right now.
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You can’t eliminate your entire debt.
You can only make one payment, or buy one less unnecessary item.
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You can’t change the past, or control the future.
You can only change what you’re doing right now.
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You can’t change everything.
You can only change one, small thing.
And that’s all it takes.
i love the mnmlist blog
ps.
The only thing i can changemyself
Being in the world what i would like to see in the world
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
You are an Angel and your Life is your message
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"You are an Angel and your Life is your message"
from Don Miguel Ruiz, author
MT 7:7 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Don’t just pretend that you love others: really love them. Hate what is wrong. Stand on the side of the good. Love each other with brotherly affection and take delight in honoring each other. Romans 12: 9-10 TLB ( Hate the bad deed NOT the person )
Don’t be selfish; don’t live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. Don’t just think about your own affairs, but be interested in others, too, and in what they are doing. Philippians 2: 3-4 TLB
And may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high His LOVE really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God himself. Ephesians 3: 18-19 TLB
Matthew 5
3 Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
7 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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"You are an Angel and your Life is your message"
from Don Miguel Ruiz, author
MT 7:7 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Don’t just pretend that you love others: really love them. Hate what is wrong. Stand on the side of the good. Love each other with brotherly affection and take delight in honoring each other. Romans 12: 9-10 TLB ( Hate the bad deed NOT the person )
Don’t be selfish; don’t live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. Don’t just think about your own affairs, but be interested in others, too, and in what they are doing. Philippians 2: 3-4 TLB
And may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high His LOVE really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God himself. Ephesians 3: 18-19 TLB
Matthew 5
3 Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
7 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Acercate a mi alma y redimela;
Librame a causa de mis enemigos
Tu sabes mi afrenta, mi confusion y mi oprobio;
Delante de ti estan todos mis adversarios.
El escarnió ha quebrantado mi corazon y estoy acongojado
Esperé quien se compadeciese de mi, y no lo hubo;
y Consoladores, y ninguno halle
Me pusieron ademas hiel por comida
y en mi sed me dieron a beber vinagre
Psalm 69:19
A quien torturan?
See the least of these
I am there
Gracias al Redentor
yo siempre hallé consoladores,
amigas, y quien me sirviera buenos consejos
y amor
pero muchos son los que lloran
y no encuentran quien les de alivio
muriendo de hambre, sed, sequias
y torturas sin razon de ser
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Librame a causa de mis enemigos
Tu sabes mi afrenta, mi confusion y mi oprobio;
Delante de ti estan todos mis adversarios.
El escarnió ha quebrantado mi corazon y estoy acongojado
Esperé quien se compadeciese de mi, y no lo hubo;
y Consoladores, y ninguno halle
Me pusieron ademas hiel por comida
y en mi sed me dieron a beber vinagre
Psalm 69:19
A quien torturan?
See the least of these
I am there
Gracias al Redentor
yo siempre hallé consoladores,
amigas, y quien me sirviera buenos consejos
y amor
pero muchos son los que lloran
y no encuentran quien les de alivio
muriendo de hambre, sed, sequias
y torturas sin razon de ser
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Saying I Love You
sometimes its hardest
to tell those you love most
everything you feel for them
too much to express
thank you for teaching me about friendship
about being a daughter
the value of a phone call
the joy
of hearing a caring voice
the strength
in telling it like it is
for being a strong tough woman
for reminding me
of all the gifts my mom possessed
thank you for growing in kindness and wisdom
AND SHARING IT WITH ME
thank you for Being
my friend
thank You
Infinito Creador Inexpressable
for Being
and for so many blessings
My Most Beloved Friend
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to tell those you love most
everything you feel for them
too much to express
thank you for teaching me about friendship
about being a daughter
the value of a phone call
the joy
of hearing a caring voice
the strength
in telling it like it is
for being a strong tough woman
for reminding me
of all the gifts my mom possessed
thank you for growing in kindness and wisdom
AND SHARING IT WITH ME
thank you for Being
my friend
thank You
Infinito Creador Inexpressable
for Being
and for so many blessings
My Most Beloved Friend
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Thank You For Being My Friend
I sat by the pool and watched my friend unpot an orchid
and patiently cut off each dead root, one at a time, for hours,
she pruned orchids
and it seemed the most people healthy thing
I know of the how less - Rabia, Sufi poet
al que produce le dan la pelota
pero
even when you're not
God surrounds you with little gifts
small blessings all the time
a wet kiss
a bird spreading its little wings on my lawn
Who’s kissing you now? Who’s touching you, tasting you, whispering words of love and praise to you? Could it be you? – joining forces with Life Itself -Barbara Emrys
getting wet by your sprinkler
thank You for being
my Friend
He spread his Form of Love throughout all the world
- Kabir - Songs of Kabir
Love
and heaven and earth are one
the biggests gift would be for you
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and patiently cut off each dead root, one at a time, for hours,
she pruned orchids
and it seemed the most people healthy thing
I know of the how less - Rabia, Sufi poet
al que produce le dan la pelota
pero
even when you're not
God surrounds you with little gifts
small blessings all the time
a wet kiss
a bird spreading its little wings on my lawn
Who’s kissing you now? Who’s touching you, tasting you, whispering words of love and praise to you? Could it be you? – joining forces with Life Itself -Barbara Emrys
getting wet by your sprinkler
thank You for being
my Friend
He spread his Form of Love throughout all the world
- Kabir - Songs of Kabir
Love
and heaven and earth are one
the biggests gift would be for you
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Friday, June 3, 2011
Cuando Dios te quita algo de las manos
An Offering
Cuando Dios te quita algo de las manos, no te está castigando, te esta abriendo las manos para que recivas algo mejor
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all EXCEPT the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we truly are. - Arthur Golden
El poder de Dios nunca te llevará donde la GRACIA de Dios no te pueda proteger.
Consejos de Sulma:
La vida es una cosa tras otra
hay que hacerse a la idea
se hace lo mejor posible
y estar en entrenamiento
Sin importar los problemas
me acuesto a dormir tranquila
y por la mañana
por donde salga el sol se resuelve
Cae un arbol
buscas con que cortar
y sigues
No es lo que uno piensa
ES lo que Dios le pone a uno por delante
LA SOLUCION VIENE
Dios te la va ha poner por delante
No hay nada mejor que
UN DIA TRAS OTRO
-Luis
Do what you can control now
If you can't do anything about it now
don't think about it
-Ana
Cuando uno está solo
tiene que resolver las cosas en cuanto se presentan
no se puede dejar acumular
porque entonces es mucho para una sola persona
-Marixa
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Cuando Dios te quita algo de las manos, no te está castigando, te esta abriendo las manos para que recivas algo mejor
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all EXCEPT the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we truly are. - Arthur Golden
El poder de Dios nunca te llevará donde la GRACIA de Dios no te pueda proteger.
Consejos de Sulma:
La vida es una cosa tras otra
hay que hacerse a la idea
se hace lo mejor posible
y estar en entrenamiento
Sin importar los problemas
me acuesto a dormir tranquila
y por la mañana
por donde salga el sol se resuelve
Cae un arbol
buscas con que cortar
y sigues
No es lo que uno piensa
ES lo que Dios le pone a uno por delante
LA SOLUCION VIENE
Dios te la va ha poner por delante
No hay nada mejor que
UN DIA TRAS OTRO
-Luis
Do what you can control now
If you can't do anything about it now
don't think about it
-Ana
Cuando uno está solo
tiene que resolver las cosas en cuanto se presentan
no se puede dejar acumular
porque entonces es mucho para una sola persona
-Marixa
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