Many elite world leaders belong to a group called "Bilderberg," yet when they had their annual meeting outside Washington, DC, this past weekend, not one Big Media source covered their agenda.  A friend covered this Cabal with a YouTube video, and here's Alex Jones bullhorning the conspirators.  One Big Media hack begged to differ about lack of media coverage (and today a neighboorhood flier did a story).  With Elite disparagement of our Rights, such noncoverage by the Media just removes one more check on their Lust for Power, a lust which stems, according to this book review, on man's innate desire for power over others.  (Did we become so avaricious by evolution, or intelligent design?)  Anyhoo, hurting consolidationist plans, the Irish voted down the new EU treaty.

One agenda item at Bilderberg was a discussion of universal chipping.  This threat and others were discussed at ACLU's panel on loss of privacy since 9/11, whose commission has received a fresh critique from David Ray Griffen, a stern condemnation from an Arizona politician, and a petition in Canada's parliament for a new investigation.  Another elite control mechanism occurs with checkpoints, like the ones in DC to control crime.  If DC wants security, repeal the gun ban.   Checkpoints, including those run by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), as Cato's Jim Harper says, are about control, not security.  After June 21, fliers will have to have ID.   And if our grassroots doesn't stop Congress, they're about to give Spooks more powers to spy on us.  But the Supreme Court just limited the Power to deny judicial rights to political prisoners they call enemy combatants.  Even businesses, not just individuals, are losing Rights.  One bill, to save the housing crisis, would register mortgage brokers' fingerprints in a national database. 

A more expansive checkpoint lies in the theory of border control; despite fears of immigrants, however, open borders are really in our long-term interest.  Instead we get marginal interferences in movement around earth, this time penalizing spouses.  Why support Big Government when it comes to Immigrants?  And when we penalize trade with developing countries, we jeopardize their lives, resulting in tragedies like this Sudanese plane crash.  The Bush Administration's crimes against humanity are so pervasive, that Congressman Kucinich has filed for Impeachment, but Judiciary Chairman Conyers resists.

One agenda item for Elites that hasn't changed in centuries is the importance of dumbing the populace via centralized government education.  So when School Choice or Charter School programs succeed, both must be dismantled, according to the Elites.  But "we're doing it for the children," claims DC Delegate Norton, in threatening the Choice program.  Even the Washington (com)Post calls the new Charter School barriers a "mean-spirited" policy.  Folks who care about education innovation need to be at AERO's education conference June 26 in New York.

The nomination of Obama and McCain have got the Elite happy, since there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans.  Someone whom the Elite's agenda will preclude from support is Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr.  Another candidate who won't get Elite support is Amit Singh, who's running in today's Virginia GOP primary, to earn the right to take on Jim Moran this November.  Amit is a Ron Paul Republican, and thus is someone who wants small government not just domestically, but also overseas when it comes to Empire (update:  Singh lost).  Activists still have an opportunity at the GOP Convention, to participate in Ron Paul's "breakout" event.  While Ron Paul's Campaign is over, more people than ever can now join his Campaign for Liberty.

Opposition to Elites' Empire goes back a long time.  World War Two now even is losing its invicibility in terms of support (book author Buchanan responds to the rabid criticism).   And now our Empire wants 58 more military bases in Iraq. These empires are possible only if the Gang in charge can raise more money than afforded via taxation and loans - that extra funding comes from central banking, as Fed Chairman Bernake confessed and as Rockwell explained at this past weekend's Future of Freedom Conference (speeches by Ron Paul and Justin Ramaindo were well received too).  Instead of decentralizing the banking system, the Intl Monetary Fund (IMF), going in the opposite direction, wants a global currency; and some at the Fed itself want a global financial regulatory framework. To learn how to fix the economy and make a profit, read The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism (or listen to this impressive interview with the author.)  And all Fed-funded Imperial attacks - and torture of terrorist suspects - could come back to haunt the US with more catrastrophic blowback, according to this FBI agent.  To avoid more terrorism against us, this group is trying to stop our pending Iran Invasion.

While I can be convinced that some government condemnation of private property can be justified, as long as 5th Amendment compensation is paid to the owner, such seizures nowadays go often to politically-connected land developers.  So, Congress may be right to punish this confiscating behavior.  Speaking of theft, it turns out that those polygomous Texas kids - stolen by Texas bureauthugs in a disgusting raid - weren't so abused after all - surprised?

The Elite certainly are profiting from the inflation, including higher oil prices.  Is Congressman Feeney right with these Top Ten Changes for Affordable Energy?  Obama's plan, on the other hand, is a global oil profits tax - typical.  There's even evidence that lots of oil remains untapped - unleashing more exploration could reduce gas prices.  For the truth on high oil prices and Recession, always read Ron Paul.  The globalists would like to cap and trade carbon emissions to stop "global warming," but perhaps we should instead protect the economy and learn to adapt?  Legalizing hemp could ease oil demand and address global warming.  The globe's warming is marginal and involves more than carbon pollution.  Punishing polluters, though, remains important, regardless of the veracity of global warming.  How we stop pollution, then, is the real debate:  Statists wants coercive solutions, libertarians have better ideas based on property rights, so more land is sustainably owned, and restitution in judicial proceedings - to "make polluters pay" for their encroachment on property.

Natural remedies like hemp are a big threat to Big Businesses like pharmaceutical companies.  Big Pharma has once again gotten Sens. Kennedy and Durbin, and Reps Dingell and Waxman - the enemies of natural healing in Congress every year, according to the following link - to introduce legislation that would jeopardize the supply of supplements.  On the other hand, consumers have good news with a little more acknowledgement of the dangers of mercury in dental fillings, but grassroots in New York is needed to water down its vaccine mandate.  Charlie Sheen's refusal to vaccinate his kids will educate a portion of the audience to wake up about the lack of safety of so much of what Big Pharma is pushing. Grassroots also is needed to protect the weight loss supplement from Big Pharma attack.  And before a Trilateral agreement with Canada brings nutrient regulation to the US, Canada's threat must be smothered.  Natural healing isn't the only thing under attack in Canada, as this publisher is learning in a persecution of  THOUGHT crime.  Staying outside our borders, let's hope Ireland strikes back at consolidation by rejecting the EU Treaty, which, apparently, would allow cruel attacks on civil dissidents.

It will be nice to free the world of the Elite's interference, so we can pursue life's opportunities in a way as full as William Shatner appears to do (or as Jim Fedako does with his camping around the continent, despite government obstacles).  Another expansive opportunity for a wider array of communication lies in FM's expansion, but the Internet's promise may be snuffed out.  (Check out this amazing new internet offering - radio from Pandora's genome project).   At Pandora you start stations based on your favorite groups, such as, for me, Rush, whose libertarian drummer has this awesome website.

And in a more open world, we could encourage studies in more exotic countries, like at this libertarian university in, of all places, Guatemala.  And this week brings the annual PorcFest in New Hampshire, for those wanting to gain majority power in a state and secede from the Union.  Or we can watch Europe's soccer championship.  Or go to the movies to watch the new Indiana Jones flick, which includes stuff about all these ancient, mysterious crystal skulls.  Maybe Shatner's so adventurous because he knows the world will end in 2012?  (If that info doesn't freak you out, perhaps you're ready for more ancient mysteries!  Beware though, of persecution if you get too involved against the Elite).  By 2012 perhaps this libertarian candidate, appearing Tuesday night on the Letterman show (here's a review of the interview), will have gotten Congress to disclose what the government knows about Captain Kirk's ET friends.  In a few years any of us will be able to meet such friends in private space stations; ours isn't our grandfather's space program anymore.

 

Kucinich filed for Bush’s impeachment, but the first politician to face War Criminal charges, ironically, may be the witty, anti-war Mayor of London.  England’s a mess, libertarian-wise, but maybe controversial David Icke’s campaign for Parliament will set things right.  Musician Neil Young agrees on the need to put Bush in his place for fomenting a culture of Fear. Writer Gore Vidal says it’s too late, that Bush has already eviscerated our beloved Republic.  Not only is the country of our Founders dead, but also a great saint has just passed away:  I knew Kent Snyder - he even asked me to staff Congressman Paul on one of his early campaign visits to New Hampshire; and, so important to me, he was a yogi.  Bless you Kent, and here's a eulogy from his boss, Candidate Ron Paul.

The impeachment of Bush can be justified on myriad grounds.  One of the lousy statements he made was condemning certain countries as belonging to “an axis of evil”.  North Korea is one of these nations, but it turns out anyone can travel there.  The Founders were right, in that the only foreign policy that works is commerce, including commerce involving human travel.  Book your flights!

Another impeachable offense was Bush’s unconstitutional spying on citizen’s property, including communications.  And the Democrat Congress’ revamping of the FISA law is no improvement, as congressman Paul explains.  One would think Obama would restore civil rights, but no – all he’ll do is empower some bureaucrat to stop any agency abuse of FISA.  Our only chance is for Feingold to stop the revamp in the Senate – he even says bill passage could protect Bush from evidence that’s impeachable.  Every government atrocity is usually an incremental step.  The next step in domestic spying is that from satellites, ostensibly to be helpful in natural disasters.  A whistleblower condemns the Democrat Congress' cave-in to Republican Administration pressure to revise FISA, including telecom immunity from lawsuits for violations.

One of the presidential candidates, McCain, is perceived to support a continuation of the NeoCon Imperialist policy.  Perhaps it’s this warmongering that puts him behind Obama by double digits.  McCain’s struggle gives an opening to the Libertarian candidate, former Congressman and prosecutor Bob Barr.  One analyst suggests Barr could get independents to flock to his campaign using these 5 promises.  Not bad on the issues, but I’d add solutions to oppositions. 

For example, not only would I show the weaknesses in the Global Warming argument, but more importantly I’d show how property expansion and restitution reform would better protect flora and fauna (global warming may lessen as a risk, if the Dutch bogart pot smoking at their awesome coffee shops).  And the problem with ending the Afghan occupation removes the criticism that Iraq was a distraction from going after Obama in his caves near the Pakistan border.  A better way to leave Afghanistan would be an indirect end to the Drug War.  Taking away the heroin profits from Afghan’s farmers would defund the terrorists, thus removing the reason for being in central Asia.  Unfortunately, all Barr would do in this scenario is make life easier for prescription pot users.  From those five recommendations I also like cutting corporate welfare, especially if couched in terms of paying for the cut in the gas tax.  Maybe if enough corporate welfare were cut, we’d have enough money to really investigate these unexplained phenomenon flying in the sky, in this case with witnesses who are soldiers, and thus deemed more reliable and believeable.

One piece of corporate welfare that everyone can agree deserves abolition are farm subsidies.  These Big Agri gifts subsidize the poisoning of the food supply, a crime becoming more awful in more places around Earth, particularly in the developing world, thanks to “killer seed” companies, and fertilizers.  Desocializing farming may allow for more local, organic – and pesticide free – farming.  Desocializing education, too, might allow vegan teachers to avoid being fired for violating the Top-Down rules of school bureaucracy.  And more scrutiny of government water systems may free them from poisonous chemicals like fluoride, mercury and chlorine (warnings continue to proliferate on mercury in dental fillings).  And no professional doctor will cure your cancer; all they’ll do is slow its growth with poisonous therapies.  These Big Pharma parasites now want to infect little boys with their gardasil vaccine.

One issue that’s not mentioned above for Mr. Barr is the economy, whose Recession McCain blames on the economists for missing the housing collapse and mounting recession.  We libertarians – informed by the Austrian School of Economics – have been well aware for decades that every Boom, especially the 20^th century ones aggravated by central banking, must precede an equally geometric Bust.  It’s the nonlibertarian economists who are clueless – although even faux libertarian Greenspan now is admitting a Recession is growing.  Friends of mine with any sense will move all of their investments – now – to EuroPacific Capitol or Adrian Day Investment.  Both companies will put your money in non-dollar, dividend-paying stocks and metals worldwide.  Make no mistake, we are headed to Recession, and perhaps even Depression, as bad as the 1930s.  The only good thing about a McCain administration would be naming Phil Gramm as Treasury Secretary - although he'll probably fail to live up to my ideals, so I take that back.  Bottom line is, if you want to have a clue on how bad things are, and how to save your assets, you have GOT to read this Barron's interview of Peter Schiff, of Europacific.

My investors at EuroPacific and Adrian Day can protect your assets because they understand something that confuses even Wall Street’s best – the role of central banking and fiat currency in ruining economies and helping the Elite oligopolize even more of markets in which they already have near monopoly control.  Candidate Barr may touch on this issue, but really only Ron Paul can competently discuss this topic.  This famous bond investor certainly has no clue.

And it turns out that foreigners’ departure from dollars into other currencies may be a cause of War.  Indeed, Iran’s move to the Euro, not Iran’s nuclearization, may be the trigger for the next “peace action”.  If the stock market falls, watch out Iran.  If we do attack Iran, will any soldier stand up against our atrocities?  Apparently not, since moral courage is in short supply in the military. 

If the US illegally and immorally attacks another sovereign nation, we will face more terrorism just like 9/11, probably.  And if such terrorism occurs in the form of a bioterror incident, chances exist that some poor sap will be blamed unfairly, just like this victim of the weird anthrax attacks that just won a lawsuit against the Justice Department.  Recent laws allow any kind of undefined “condition” to allow the President to declare martial law, but the Senate just stopped a bill that could have tarnished any civil disobedient activist as a “homegrown” terrorist.  Actually, if we faced Iranian reprisal, wouldn’t it already be justified by this disgusting murder of hundreds of civilians - the tragic missle attack on a giant jetliner that the US supposedly mistook for a tiny F-14?  And regarding the September 2001 terrorism, the suspicions aren’t going away anytime soon, as this new movie trailor makes clear.  And the BBC will run a major program on this undying controversy.  Or maybe the fact that, since we sanctioned Iran, we've now been sending covert soldiers into Iran, is grounds for retaliation?

Governments’ endless attack on our freedoms makes our 2^nd Amendment right of armed defense all the more important.  Thankfully, the Supreme Court on June 26, in overturning Washington, D.C.’s gun ban, affirmed the Founders’ belief that our gun rights rest in our individual defense rights, not just the responsibility to maintain a state militia.  But the ruling isn’t very strong, as Reason’s Doherty explains lots of regulations on gun ownership can remain.  Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert nicely belittled conservatives’ disdain for the constitution in a story about the ruling helping detainees in Guantanomo; but Cato’s Boaz wonders why Colbert didn’t apply this good analysis to the liberals who ruled insanely in the gun case.  Kinsella, though, is very disturbed by the Ruling, especially the use of the 14th Amendment to enforce Rights on the State level.

The Founders were right on armed defense, and they were right on War – that it’s only for extreme survival reasons, and that, otherwise, the only foreign policy worth supporting was commerce.  So when an industrial job opens in a developing country, instead of condemning it as a “sweatshop,” we instead should see it merely as the bottom rung on a ladder that will lead to greater opportunity down the road.  Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt believes this. 

Recession breeds desperation, manifesting in this case in boosted membership in extreme circles.  This fringe Catholic group focuses on the Protocols as evidence.  It’s politically incorrect to talk about such inflammatory writings, and one does have to be aware of potential forgeries like the Protocols.  But that never stopped the late comedian George Carlin from attacking all political correctness and sacred cows.  (Such as the sacred cow of voting - is NOT VOTING the best decision we can make this November?  This Onion story on Diebold's voting machine snafu is more truth than satire.)

It's a shame that spouting the truth can ruin careers and reputation.  I've thought about teaching, for example, but worry that teaching the facts, instead of the sophistry in textbooks, will get me fired.  The great Lew Rockwell thought about teaching, too, but seeing this blog entry about fights in academia can understandably give one pause about undertaking the great risk of daring to want to educate kids with reality, instead of with government propoganda.

Kids need to know this stuff, because knowing harsh episodes in history is critical to avoid repetition in the future.  And it’s getting easier to know history more accurately, as astronomy now has helped experts determine when exactly the Greeks used a wooden horse to sneak soldiers into Troy, thus assuring an end to the war over a kidnapped wife.  So-called experts have dismissed the existence of Troy because Homer’s Illiad says the war was started not by men, but rather by gods, a fact which renders the story myth.  Sitchin confirms that gods indeed were interfering in the Trojan War.  But Laura has a completely different take on Troy.  If this anti-aging conference has impact, some of us may be alive thousands of years from now, so Troy-like controversies can have a person “who was there,” to clarify confusion.  Assuming many of us will be around in the year 2025, here’s what the National Intelligence Council says the world will be like.  Or life truly could end soon, even before 2012, if Switzerland's atom smasher creates, well, a black hole.

I love heroic tales like Troy, and I like heroic movies like the ones Schwarzenegger made.  One of the actors from his awesome “Predator” movie is now a libertarian candidate for Senator McConnell’s seat in Kentucky.

So, government and its big business backers continue to ruin our lives.  (Are we surprised anymore - Mencken's favorite Nock said a more mature attitude about reality is necessary, and that what we're doing is Isaiah's Job.)  But that’s no excuse not to get active to box in the Oligarchs, so we have more opportunities to be entrepreneurs in adding value, serving each other.  To be better servers, let’s open our heart with a little shabd, this from Summer Solstice Ren Sabhai two years ago, and here's Grammy nominee Snatam with her mother, joined by guitarist GuruGanesha (who opened for the Allman Brothers in 1970), and my fellow libertarian yogi, Livtar Singh, is recognized as one of the best musicians and lyricists.*  All of us, to prepare for the Aquarian Age, need to open up to the truth.  Only attendees of Ganesha’s retreat on ancient mystery school lessons, though, will be able to tell if this conference presents a good opportunity to start grokking the truth.  If you can't get to Miami, you can click from your own laptop this podcast from Guru Singh, the next Bob Dylan who's become one of the most popular yoga teachers in the world.

Happy Summer Solstice.

* If you enjoyed that performance and want more, click here to listen to the all-night concert from the 2006 Summer Solstice.  Be patient if a particular musician doesn't float your boat; each group has about 20 minutes to sing their heart's out, so there's endless variety, from traditional Indian rag, to folk-like tunes with only guitar accompaniment.  Oh what the heck, one more short one from the beautiful Bachan.