2012: Depression & Oppression

Four years from the Mayans' end time, 2012, let's hear Art Bell's interview of Graham Hancock, an ancient mysteries investigator. Apparently our solar system will pass the galactic center in that year's winter solstice (December 21), exposing the Sun to extreme energy; the Sun, in turn, will reflect some of that energy towards Earth, changing our polarity, and much more, perhaps. That, or nothing happens. Or maybe we shouldn't care, at least this month, as March Madness brings us our annual college basketball tournament fun.

Plus, the fourth and final Battlestar Gallactica series is about to begin! (Speaking of outer space, here's Exopolitics' Alfred Webre interviewing Stephen Greer about the UN Conference on Disclosure - will ETs be part of our life in a few years? apparently so, specifically in 2013).

According to Yogi Bhajan, people are supposed to raise their consciousness via kundalini yoga or some similar spiritual discipline, to survive the 2012 transition and prosper in the Aquarian Age. Christians can start on this journey by learning about their spiritual sage, St Francis of Assisi, as former Soviet Premier Gorbachev has done. Back to space, yesterday Arthur C. Clarke, the great SF writer who helped develop space communications and travel, passed away - he saw religion as evidence of humanity's infancy.

Narayan the Face Reader said the Powermongers would amass as much control as possible as the Piscean Age comes to an end (in 2012). And that they would fight like hell, like cornered tigers, to protect their gains. One aspect of control comes from buying off the intelligentsia; indeed, this interview shows how taxpayer funded research tends to brainwash scientists into an innovation-threatening conformity. And with this enforced conformity, some congresscritter now is proposing funding FDA salesmen visiting doctors to give "unbiased" info, to counter the "biased" info of Big Pharma reps.

And the scientists are ganging up on simple, effective drugs, like opioids for pain (such as Oxycontin); but Reason's Jacob Sullum writes that Prohibition has no basis in science. Whether it's scientists behaving like nazis, or Drug Warriors ravaging the lives of pain patients, government is getting out of control. But when reformers try to uncover government abuses with FOIA requests, there is less sunshine on govt now than ever.

It's not like the Powermongers are amassing power just now, as 2012 approaches. Since time's beginning the Governing Class has abused the majority, often with the approval of the Sheep-like masses. Ike warned us against this Military-Industrial Complex, perhaps because he knew that WWII was not as necessary as the conforming majority insists? Of course, if you discuss the crime FDR committed in withholding foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor from his Hawaiian military officers, or if you study the problems in the 9/11 Investigation, as Obama's Rev Wright did (and as this Japanese politician is doing), you get attacked as a bigot by the NeoCon Axis. [And speaking of Japanese, it turns out that next door in Korea, that country had a classical liberal worth praising back in the 1700s.]

On the 5th anniversary of the West's immoral and counterproductive preemptive attack on the sovereign nation of Iraq, the usually great George Mason economist, Walter Williams, falls into a jingoistic, nationalistic frenzy with respect to fear of "IslamoTerrorism". How pathetic. As Rose Wilder Lane wrote in her 1943 classic, "Discovery of Freedom," the safest place to be for a dissident, during the Dark Ages Millenium from 500 AD until 1500 AD, was in the Islamic Empire, from Spain to Central Asia's Samarkand. Yesterday 200 peaceful anti-Iraq War dissidents were arrested, when protesting in front of the IRS. (And Oklahoma, a conservative state, may jail these CONSERVATIVE activists, for, well, activism).

The best defense against terrorists or criminals is commerce, to build wealth which decreases the demand for redress of greivances. The second best defense is being armed with a gun; but Alex Jones disagrees with libertarians who seem confident that the Supreme Court has the necessary 5 votes to overturn D.C.'s gun ban.

To protect your assets as the New (information/gnossis) Age starts, Investment Biker author Jim Rogers discusses investing in "things," while abolishing the Fed Reserve, which Robert Novak castigates here for entering new territory with its unauthorized bailout of an investment bank. For those laughing at gold's sudden minor reduction, dont' be fooled! (But Gary North does suggest an exit strategy for gold). And here's the Times urging caution before joining Rogers in buying up commodities.

To save the environment, which apparently is going to hell as 2012 arrives, from Big Business polluters, the solutions touted by Big Environment usually fail - witness ethanol. Now, the Prius Car does just as poorly. As I often recommend, property rights and restitution are the environment's best friends, as Mary Ruwart ("Healing Our World" author) can explain. McCain's worldwide "cap-and-trade" system is a govt effort, and thus is doomed to failure.

One of the most shocking revelations of our supposed modern world is that more humans suffer as slaves than ever before. Will they be free by 2012? Only with free trade, in my opinion (which is a prerequisite to building a middle class, which is a prerequisite to building a broader array of small businesses, which will need to pay labor, thus cutting slavery). If we accepted Mencken's definition of slave, we'd have even more than the referenced report.

Let's forget about the Powermongers' march to 2012 for a month, though, as we watch 20 year olds try to win basketball games.