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		<title>Leuren Moret on Population Reduction</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leuren Moret describes how the use of Uranium endangers us all.
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<p>Information about how the power and money elites are planning a global genocide.</p>
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From a Sociopath
 
I am not nervous of being physically injured because I know that no matter how far the other person takes it, I would take it farther, its like a game and I will not let myself lose. At a young age I discovered that being punched or tackled created an immediate adrenaline rush [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com&blog=5113114&post=2531&subd=flourishingincrisis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p><a class="alignleft" title="sociopath" href="http://sociopathcomments.blogspot.com/2008/11/comments-on-common-everyday-sociopaths.html" target="_blank">From a Sociopath</a></p>
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<blockquote><p>I am not nervous of being physically injured because I know that no matter how far the other person takes it, I would take it farther, its like a game and I will not let myself lose. At a young age I discovered that being punched or tackled created an immediate adrenaline rush that seemed outweigh the negatives of being hit. Yes, it may sound unusual because I am telling you about myself right now, but but in the real world I only let people see or know the things I want them to know about me. I am in complete control of my actions at all times and can remain in any character according to each scenario. I also dont seem to experience or &#8220;feel&#8221; the same sense of fear as others do. I dont fear anyone because I believe in the end I will always have the last laugh. Fear does not play a prevalent role in my life however i constantly inflict fear upon others that enables me to control their actions through behaviour analysis and manipulation.</p>
<p>At no point during a relationship can I feel inferior to the other person; I must always be seen as superior not only to them but I must also view myself as having the complete upper hand. When a challenge is made for the upper hand/control of the relationship I cannot back down and I cannot allow myself to show any weakness. To me relationships are a game and its a game I do not lose. </p>
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<p><a class="alignleft" title="sociopathnarcissist" href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Discuss:What_is_the_difference_between_a_narcissist_and_a_sociopath" target="_blank">The difference between a narcissist and a sociopath</a></p>
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<p>Narcissist wolf says to everyone: &#8220;I&#8217;m a sheep, I&#8217;m a sheep, I&#8217;m in the sheep club. The sheep are the best. Those wolves are terrible. You have to be a special sheep to be in the high-wool club like me. If you don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m a sheep then you are calling me a liar. I was only eating meat because my boss made me do it. I was howling at the moon because you made me angry. I have always been a sheep. You are paranoid, I don&#8217;t have canine teeth. You are imaginging it. I&#8217;m a sheep. I won best sheep of the year award. We have to be on the look out for SueTarget. She&#8217;s a wolf in sheeps&#8217; clothing. I am the one that did all the work. SueTarget messed it all up. SueTargets&#8217;s fur looks fake. I&#8217;m the biggest sheep so I should be the boss. I have every right to punish SueTarget and eat her. It will be good for her, and teach her a lesson. I&#8217;m not doing it for me, I&#8217;m doing it for the team. I have to be the enforcer here and eat bad sheeps to help keep society clean. I used to be a vegetarian but because all these lazy sheep won&#8217;t do anything, I am forced into keeping order and forced into being the bad guy and have to do all the eating of sheep.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sociopath wolf says: &#8220;Become the sheep. Believe you are the sheep. Keep the wolf hidden. Don&#8217;t act like a narcissist and don&#8217;t try to &#8220;talk your way&#8221;. Become the sheep. Do sheep things. Behave like sheep. No one will see the wolf. Baa baa baa. Eat grass for a while. Give up meat for a while. Tell the sheep things that will make them feel good about themselves. Gain their trust. Be humble. Make them the center of attention. Get them to lower their defenses. Tell them you lost your teeth in a car accident and your parents could only afford wolf-teeth replacements. Keep past a secret so they don&#8217;t research. Let them do all the talking. Then when the time is right, devour! It is worth the sacrifice and the wait. Then on a polygraph when they ask if I am a sheep, I will have all the sheep memories because I became a sheep. I have memories of eating grass and living like a sheep. I&#8217;m telling the truth.&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">Summary Of <em>Sociopaths<br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">1. They make you feel sorry for them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">2. They make you feel worried or afraid.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">3. They give you the impression you owe them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">4. They make you feel used.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">5. Sometimes you suspect they don&#8217;t care about you.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">6. They lie to you and deceive you.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">7. They take a lot from you and give back very little.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">8. They make you feel guilty (and use that to manipulate you).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">9. They take advantage of your kindness.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">10. They are easily bored and need constant stimulation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">11. They don&#8217;t take responsibility but place blame elsewhere.</span></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Whom do narcissists malign? Almost everyone.</title>
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Whom do narcissists malign? Almost everyone. If you suspect someone of being a narcissist, praise a person who obviously deserves it to him or her and observe their reaction. It shows. 
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<blockquote><p><span style="color:#000099;">Whom do narcissists malign? Almost everyone. If you suspect someone of being a narcissist, praise a person who obviously deserves it to him or her and observe their reaction. It shows. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000099;">Malignant narcissists speak well of very few others. Only their narcissistic parent (when no longer vulnerable to that parent) and anyone they can aggrandize themselves by association with at others&#8217; expense. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000099;">For example, if you don&#8217;t get along with someone, the narcissist will say, &#8220;<em>I</em> get along with him fine.&#8221; He will have nothing but praise for that person. Likewise, if you got bad service at a restaurant, the narcissist will say, &#8220;They gave <em>me </em>excellent service.&#8221; The narcissist praises the other because it reflects badly on you and well on him.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000099;">Similarly, the narcissist with a trophy wife goes around praising her beauty. He&#8217;s aggrandizing himself by association with her. And at the expense of everyone not good enough to win a trophy wife like his. He&#8217;ll likewise aggrandize himself by association with some important person he knows, praising that person everywhere he goes to name-drop.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000099;">But such special cases are the only ones you hear a good word about from a narcissist. In fact, a narcissist will stubbornly refuse to admit any fault in them at all. They are ideal, perfect in his or her eyes.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000099;">But the rest of humanity get the opposite. Often, narcissists glibly sneak bad ideas about others into your head. They do this by chipping away at that person&#8217;s image subtly and relentlessly every time they mention him or her. Often perfuming the bad offering to cover up its smell.</span></p></blockquote>
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The global economic crisis isn&#8217;t about money &#8211; it&#8217;s about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution.
It&#8217;s over — we&#8217;re officially, royally fucked. No empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ago, when the buffoons who have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com&blog=5113114&post=2479&subd=flourishingincrisis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>The global economic crisis isn&#8217;t about money &#8211; it&#8217;s about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s over — we&#8217;re officially, royally fucked. No empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ago, when the buffoons who have been running things in this country finally went one step too far. It happened when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was forced to admit that he was once again going to have to stuff billions of taxpayer dollars into a dying insurance giant called AIG, itself a profound symbol of our national decline — a corporation that got rich insuring the concrete and steel of American industry in the country&#8217;s heyday, only to destroy itself chasing phantom fortunes at the Wall Street card tables, like a dissolute nobleman gambling away the family estate in the waning days of the British Empire.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Wall Street Wants By MICHAEL HUDSON 
Tuesday’s announcement of the Obama-Geithner recovery plan is basically an extension of the Bush-Paulson plan – yet more giveaways to financial insiders, with a view to concentrating the U.S. banking system into a cartel of just a few large banks. This is not altogether bad news for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com&blog=5113114&post=1932&subd=flourishingincrisis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#990000;font-size:small;"><span>T</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">uesday’s announcement of the Obama-Geithner recovery plan is basically an extension of the Bush-Paulson plan – yet more giveaways to financial insiders, with a view to concentrating the U.S. banking system into a cartel of just a few large banks. This is not altogether bad news for the still relatively healthy part of the banking system (healthy in the sense of still avoiding negative equity). Smaller, less troubled banks will be bought out by the large “troubled” ones, to the personal financial benefit of their stockholders. This cannot solve today’s financial problem: the fact that the debt overhead far exceeds the economy’s ability to pay. In fact, it will spread the distortions that the large banks have introduced, until the entire system presumably looks like Citibank, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But this clearly is only Stage One of a two-stage plan that has not yet been announced, although the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>’s op-ed page has provided enough hints trickling out for the past three months to tip the hand of Wall Street’s “dream recovery plan.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is not exactly what most people are hoping for. In fact, it threatens to be a nightmare scenario for the economy at large. Watch for the magic phrase: “equity kicker,” first heard in the S&amp;L mortgage crisis of the 1980s.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The first question to ask about the Recovery Program is, “recovery for whom?” The answer is, for the people who design the Recovery <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0745319890/counterpunchmaga"><img src="http://www.counterpunch.org/superimp.jpg" border="0" alt="" align="right" /></a>Program and their constituency, the bank lobby. The second question is, what is it they want to recover? The answer is, another Bubble economy, having seen the Greenspan Bubble make them so rich with his particular kind of “wealth creation”: wealth in the form of indebtedness of the “real” economy at large to the banking system, and unprecedented capital gains to be made by riding the wave of asset-price inflation. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For the financial elites, the problem is that it is not possible to inflate another bubble from today’s debt levels, widespread negative equity, and still-high level of real estate, stock and bond prices. No amount of new credit or capital for the banking system will induce banks to provide credit to real estate that already is over-mortgaged, or to individuals and corporations already over-indebted. All professional observers have forecast property prices to keep on plunging for at least the next year, which is as far as the eye can see in unstable conditions such as we are experiencing today.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While the Obama administration’s financial planners wring their hands in public and say “We feel your pain” to debtors at large, they also recognize that the past ten years have been a golden age for the banking system and Wall Street. The wealthiest 1 per cent of the population has raised its share of the returns to wealth – dividends, interest, rent and capital gains – from 37 per cent of the total ten years ago to 57 per cent five years ago, and an estimated 70 per cent today. Over two-thirds of the returns to wealth now go to the wealthiest 1 per cent of the population. This is the highest on record. We are approaching Russian kleptocratic levels.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yet the financial Hard Right of the political spectrum – the lobbyists now in control of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the Justice Departments for starters – repeats the new Big Lie: that it is the poor who have brought the system down, “exploiting” the rich by trying to ape their betters and live beyond their means. Subprime families have taken out subprime loans, the lying poor have signed documents to obtain “liars’ loans,” as Alt-A, no-documentation loans are called in the financial junk-paper trade.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I learned the reality a few years ago in London, talking to a commercial bank strategist there. “We’ve had an intellectual breakthrough,” he said. “It’s changed our credit philosophy.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“What is it?” I asked, imagining that he was about to come out with yet a new junk mathematics formula?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“The poor are honest,” he said, accompanying his words with his jaw dropping open as if to say, “Who could have guessed?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The meaning was clear enough. The poor pay their debts as a matter of honor, even at great personal expense. Unlike Donald Trump, the poor are less likely to walk away from their homes when market prices sink below the mortgage level. In today’s neoliberal Chicago School language, the poor behave “uneconomically.” That is, they make choices that do not make economic sense, but rather reflect a group morality. This sociological gullibility is what made them rich pickings for predatory lenders such as Countrywide, Wachovia and Citibank.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As I said above, it was a golden age. The financial and real estate bubble is the world that America’s financial power elite would love to recover. The problem for them is how to start a new bubble and make yet another fortune. The alternative would be to keep what they have taken and run – not so bad, but a scenario that perhaps they can improve on.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discussions about emergency bailouts have focused on putting in place enough new lending capacity by the banking system to start inflating prices on credit once again. But a new bubble can’t be started from today’s asset-price levels. This week’s $2 trillion or so in new bailout money for the banks (“capital,” and specifically finance capital, not to be confused with industrial capital) will only be lent out once prices fall by another 30 to 50 percent. So this can represent only Stage 1. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The question for Stage 2 is, how can the $10 to $20 trillion capital-gain run-up of the Greenspan years been repeated in an economy that is “all loaned up”?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One thing Wall Street knows is that to make money, you not only need asset prices to rise, they have to go down again – and up again, and down again. Without going down, after all, how can they rise up? The more frenetic the price fibulation, the easier it is for computerized buy-and-sell programs to make money on options and derivatives. What is being planned today looks like a similar up-and-down movement in real estate. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The first trick is to preserve the wealth of the creditor class – Wall Street, the banks and the other financial vehicles that enrich the wealthiest 1 per cent and indeed, the richest 10 per cent of the population. Stage One involves buying out their bad loans at a price that saves them from taking a loss. This is done by shifting the loss onto the “taxpayers” – labor, onto whose shoulders the tax burden has been shifted steadily, step by step since 1980, with the Greenspan Commission imposing an onerous Social Security tax on the middle class and using the proceeds to slash taxes on the higher brackets. Next comes an “aggregator” bank (sounds like “alligator,” from the swamps of toxic waste) to buy the bad debts and put them in a public agency. The government calls this the “bad” bank. But it does good for Wall Street – by buying loans that have gone bad – or perhaps nearer the truth, loans that never were good in the first place.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The harder part is to revive opportunities for creditors to make a new killing. (And it’s the economy that’s being killed.) Here’s how I imagine the plan might work.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Suppose a recent buyer has purchased a home for $500,000, with a $500,000 adjustable-rate mortgage scheduled to reset at 8 per cent. Suppose too that the current market price has fallen to $250,000 – a loss of 50 per cent by the end of 2009. After all, there needs to be enough time for prices to decline. Otherwise, there would be no economy to “rescue.” Mr. Geithner and Summers need to “feel your pain” to come out with the package that I’m describing. The government will swap “cash for trash,” printing new Treasury bonds (interest to be paid by “the taxpayer) in exchange for the $500,000 mortgage that is going bad, heading toward only a $250,000 market price.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The “Bad” bank that the Obama plan decided was not quite ready to be created this week will take the form of a public/private partnership (PPP), of the sort that Tony Blair made so notorious in Britain. It will be financed with private funds – in fact, with the funds now being given to re-capitalize America’s banks (headed by the Wall St. banks that have done so poorly). Banks will use the money they receive from the Treasury for selling their junk mortgages at par – along with other bailout funding – to buy shares in a new $5 trillion institution. Something like Fanny Mae or Freddie Mac will be created and its bonds guaranteed (that’s the “public” part – “socializing” the risk). The PPP institution will start with, say, $3 trillion in funds, and will have the power to buy and renegotiate the mortgages that have passed into the hands of the government and other holders. This “Middle Class Homeowner Recovery Trust” will use its private funding for the “socially responsible” purpose of “saving the taxpayer” and homeowners by renegotiating the mortgage down from its original $500,000 to the new $250,000 price.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here’s the patter talk you can expect, with the usual Orwellian euphemisms. The “rescue the homeowners” PPP, a veritable Savior Bank, will go to a family strapped by its home mortgage debt and feeling more and more desperate as the price of its major asset plummets deep into Negative Equity territory. An offer will be made: “We’ve got a deal to save you. We’ll renegotiate your mortgage down to $250,000, the current market price, and we’ll also lower your interest rate to just 5.50 per cent. This will cut your monthly debt charges by nearly two thirds. You will escape from negative equity, and you can afford to stay in your home.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The family probably will say, “Great.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But they will have to make a concession. That’s where the new public/private partnership makes its killing. Its Savior Bank, funded with private money that is to take the “risk” (and also the rewards) will say to the family that agrees to renegotiate its mortgage: “Now that the government has taken a loss while we’ve let you stay in your home, we need to recover the money that’s been lost. So when the time comes for you to sell, or to renegotiate your mortgage, our Savior Bank will receive the capital gain up to the original amount written off. If we’ve made you whole, we want to be made whole too.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In other words, if the homeowner sells the property for $400,000, the Savior Bank will get $150,000 of the capital gain. If the property sells for $500,000, the bank will get $250,000. And if it sells for more, thanks to some new clone of Alan Greenspan acting as bubblemeister, the capital gain will be split in some way. If the split is 50/50, then if the home sells for $600,000, the owner at that time will split the $100,000 further capital gain with the Savior Bank. The Savior Bank will thus make much more through its share of capital gains than it extracts in interest!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This plan will be even better for Wall Street than the Greenspan bubble was! Last time around, it was the middle class that got the gains. To be sure, it really was the bank that got the gains, because mortgage interest charges absorbed the entire rental value. But at least homeowners had a chance at the free ride, if they didn’t squander their money in refinancing their mortgages. And many did use their homes “like a piggy bank” to support their living standards.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But this time around, Wall Street is not obliged to make its money by making middle class homeowners rich. Debt-strapped homeowners are willing to settle merely for a plan that leaves them in their homes! It can get for itself the capital gains that have been the driving force of U.S. “wealth creation,” Alan Greenspan bubble-style.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The irony is that the only kind of policies that are politically correct these days are those that make the situation worse: yet more government money in the hope that banks will create yet more credit/debt to raise house prices and make them even more unaffordable; to inflate a new bubble; to give what really should be called the “bad banks” – the Big Four or Five where the junk mortgages, junk CDOs and junk derivatives resulting from junk mathematics are concentrated – yet more money to buy out smaller banks that have not yet been infected with reckless financial opportunism.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And by the same token, lobbyists for these bad banks are screaming at the top of their voices that all solutions to the problem are politically incorrect: debt writedowns to bring the debt burden within the ability to pay. That is what the market is supposed to do – by bankruptcy in an anarchic collapse, if not by reasoned government policy. The bad banks, after demanding “free markets” all these years, have stopped the free market when it comes anywhere near them and their bonuses. For them, markets are free of regulation against predatory lending; free of taxing the wealthy so as to shift the burden onto labor; free for the financial sector to wrap itself around the “real” economy like a parasitic vine around a tree and extract the entire surplus in the form of financial engineering.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is a travesty of freedom. But worst of all is the “freedom” of today’s economic discussion from the wisdom of classical political economy and from the experience of economic history regarding how societies have coped with the debt overhead through the ages.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An alternative policy to save the economy from being “rescued” by Wall Street</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is an alternative to ward all this off. A debt writedown, followed by a land tax so that the “free lunch” (what John Stuart Mill called the “unearned increment” of rising land prices, a gain that landlords made “in their sleep”) would serve as the tax base rather than labor and industry being burdened with an income tax.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One move would be to prevent banks from lending against the land’s value. They could lend against buildings, but not land. This would cut the maximum permissible loan to 50 to 60 per cent of the total property price – unless the government did what classical economists advocated and tax the land’s market price (its rental value) as the tax base, shifting the tax back off of labor. This would achieve the kind of free markets that Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and Alfred Marshall described, and which the Progressive Era aimed to achieve with America’s first income tax in 1913.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A land tax would prevent housing prices from rising again. This would save homeowners from taking on so much debt in order to obtain housing. And it would save the economy from seeing “wealth creation” take the form of the “unearned increment” being capitalized into higher bank loans with their associated carrying charges (interest and amortization). The key to real estate bubbles is to inflate site valuations.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Michael Hudson</strong> is a former Wall Street economist. A Distinguished Research Professor at University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), he is the author of many books, including <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0745319890/counterpunchmaga">Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire</a> (new ed., Pluto Press, 2002) He can be reached via his website, <a href="mailto:mh@michael-hudson.com">mh@michael-hudson.com</a></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Downey

Jan 19 2001
Inauguration day is a day away, but you can already picture it–a proud father standing in the background as George Walker Bush places a hand on the Bible and raises another, to take the oath of office:
“Psst! George!”
“Quiet, daddy, I’m being ‘naugurated.”
“The other hand, George.”
“What?”
“Left hand on the Bible, right hand in the air.”
“You sure?”
“Yes, I’m sure.”
“And this one’s the left?”
“YES!”
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<p>Jan 19 2001</p>
<p>Inauguration day is a day away, but you can already picture it–a proud father standing in the background as George Walker Bush places a hand on the Bible and raises another, to take the oath of office:</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>Psst! George!”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>Quiet, daddy, I’m being ‘naugurated.”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>The other hand, George.”</p>
<p>“What?”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>Left hand on the Bible, right hand in the air.”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>You sure?”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>Yes, I’m sure.”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>And this one’s the left?”</p>
<p>“YES!”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>Got it. <span class="caps">OK</span>, go ahead, I’m ready to be sweared in now.”</p>
<p>*</p>
<p>Repeat after me, the 43rd president will then be told.</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>I do solemnly swear … ”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>I do solemnly swear … ”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>That I will faithfully execute … ”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>That I will fatally execute … ”</p>
<p>“Faithfully.”</p>
<p>“What?”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>Not fatally–faithfully.”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>You sure?”</p>
<p>“Yes!”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>OK, that I’ll faithfully execute … ”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>The office of president of the United States … ”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>The office of president of the United States … ”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>And will, to the best of my ability … ”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>And will do the best of my ability … ”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>TO the best.”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>Do the best of my ability to the best of my ability?”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>No, <span class="caps">TO</span> the best of my ability … ”</p>
<p>“OK.”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States . . . ”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>Preserve, protect and prevent the Constitution of the United States . . . ”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>Close enough.”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>Close enough.”</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>So help me God.”’</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>Help me, God!”</p>
<p>And that’ll do it. George <span class="caps">W.</span> Bush will thereupon become the occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania, the king of the hill, the top banana, the head cheese, the leader of the free world.</p>
<p>The first thing curious George will probably do in office is call a meeting of his top aides to ask: “OK, which part of the world isn’t free?”</p>
<p>The second thing he’ll do is find a closet where he can hang his 100 red ties next to his 100 blue ties.</p>
<p>The third thing he’ll do is put <a class="contextual_link" href="http://topics.latimes.com/politics/people/dick-cheney">Dick Cheney</a>’s and Colin Powell’s phone numbers on speed dial, for anything important that comes up.</p>
<p>And that’s just the first 24 hours of the next four years.</p>
<p>After the inauguration, there will be only 1,460 days or so remaining in Bush’s first term. We can start X’ing off days on our calendars right away, like convicts scrawling on cell walls.</p>
<p>It shouldn’t take very long for Bush to begin putting his personal imprint on the presidency.</p>
<p>For example, if the governor of Minnesota can do it, there is no good reason why President Bush can’t freelance as a <span class="caps">TV</span> analyst for the Xtreme Football League.</p>
<p>Furthermore, <span class="caps">GWB</span>’s fireside chats could become as popular as <span class="caps">FDR</span>’s. He can even reassure us in times of crisis … say if Saddam Hussein stirs up trouble and Bush has to threaten “to send American troops to Ireland.”</p>
<p>It’ll be President Bush who will give our next “State of the Union” address, saying that he’s pretty sure there are 50, including Alaska and Hawaii.</p>
<p>President Bush who will never be able to remember which one’s <span class="caps">NASA</span> and which one’s <span class="caps">NATO.</span></p>
<p>President Bush who will think a subcommittee runs a boat that travels underwater.</p>
<p>President Bush who will hear about Burkina Faso and hope to meet her someday.</p>
<p>President Bush who will think the Bureau of the Census has something to do with sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch.</p>
<p>President Bush who will ask how many greens got damaged, because he’s heard about a hurricane hitting the Golf region.</p>
<p>President Bush who will say that he hopes to represent the American people just as our founding fathers like George Jefferson did.</p>
<p>*</p>
<p>The word inauguration comes from “to augur,” or to practice augury.</p>
<p>In ancient Rome, an augur was any of a body of officials who interpreted omens as favorable or unfavorable, at the outset of a new undertaking.</p>
<p>So, may there be no bad omens as our new president’s rule begins on Saturday.</p>
<p>Let us all pray for a perfect day, before George <span class="caps">W.</span> Bush begins fatally executing the office of president.</p>
<p>*</p>
<p>Mike Downey’s column appears Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Write to: Los Angeles Times, 202 <span class="caps">W.</span> 1st St., Los Angeles, <span class="caps">CA</span> 90012. E-mail: mike.downey@latimes.com</div>
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Ben Bursten has identified four types of narcissistic personality:

The Craving personality is very demanding, clinging, and needy.  He saw     this as an oral need to be FED.
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<p>Ben Bursten has identified four types of narcissistic personality:</p>
<ol>
<li>The Craving personality is very demanding, clinging, and needy.  He saw     this as an oral need to be FED.</li>
<li>The Paranoid personality is characterized by hypersensitivity, rigidity,     unwarranted suspicion, envy and a tendency to blame others.  Anger is a     problem.</li>
<li>The Manipulative personality employs deception to gain something at the     expense of others.  The result is contempt and a satisfying feeling of &#8220;putting something over&#8221; the victim.</li>
<li>The Phallic personality tends to be exhibitionistic in terms of sexuality.     Arrogance, above all, is the feature of this personality. (Bursten, 1986)<br />
<h3>Proposing Nine Types of Narcissism</h3>
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<h4>1. The Craver</h4>
<p>A Craver may have a haunting sense of anxiety and a terrible fear of abandonment.  There is always an edge of desperation.</p>
<p>The Craver has a bottomless well of need.  It is experienced as an aching hunger that is rarely satisfied.  He or she finds it hard to hold on to the experience of being loved.</p>
<h4>2 Special Lover</h4>
<p>The Special Lover is a true believer in the ideology of romantic love.  A citizen of a far away land.  Naturally a pure romantic is exciting, stimulating, even exhilarating.  There may be a rich emotional life, full of feeling and perhaps selective empathy.  Intimacy is easy based on unguarded self-disclosure.  But there is an underlying theme of grandiosity: Our love is unique.  No one can love you like I can.  You may be in pain, but my love can heal.  Initially there is idealization, then denial but eventually a realization of an unwelcome reality.</p>
<h4>3. Power Broker</h4>
<p>The Power Broker is in love with power.  It may be expressed in bullying ways &#8211; humiliating and even terrorizing employees.  Or it may be cold and bureaucratic.  But power is embraced and used in an instrumental fashion.</p>
<p>Arrogance is the most obvious quality of the Power Broker who has arrived. Ambition is most apparent on the way up.  There is a profound lack of empathy for others.  Contempt is shown for &#8220;inferiors&#8221; who are barely recognized as human.  Decisions are made without thought of the consequences for those affected.  All that is important is the pursuit of career goals.</p>
<p>Although this description of the Power Broker is hardly flattering, such a person can be charming and have qualities widely admired in our society. Status and power attract.  There can even be a genuine sense of benevolence towards others &#8211; though mostly in somewhat patronizing ways.</p>
<p>The Broker also finds it natural to also use power in relationships.  A partner may experience this as being very possessive and highly controlling &#8211; or simply abusive.</p>
<h4>4. Body Shaper</h4>
<p>The Body Shaper looks good!  But the assets are all external.  The values are familiar: image, fashion, glamour, youth and beauty.  This form of narcissism is so much part of our times that it is hardly obvious.</p>
<p>What I am identifying is not just a office worker on the way to the gym for a regular workout but a disturbance in personality.  There is an exaggerated need for admiration.  Characteristics include self-esteem linked to body image, a nagging perfectionism, and an obsession with the perfect body.</p>
<p>The Body Shaper tends to externalize internal problems, as if adding muscle bulk or looking more beautiful will solve anything.  Denial is the most common defense.  It is a refusal to see what eventually extends to trying to fight the aging process.  This is the ultimate narcissistic injury.</p>
<h4>5. Rager</h4>
<p>The Rager is a common and somewhat obvious narcissistic type of personality.  A barely controlled rage simmers below the surface and often lashes out at anyone nearby.</p>
<p>What is most characteristic is hypersensitivity to any perceived insult &#8211; whether intended or not.  Everything is taken personally and usually interpreted as an attack.  What sparks the rage is narcissistic injury.</p>
<p>A relationship with a Rager is always exciting if only for the variation in emotions and unpredictable behavior.  But this is not the whole story.  Some Ragers can be very loving and generous in affection. The aftermath of even ugly conflict can be intense sexual encounters which feel all the more erotic because of earlier menace. The Rager can be intensely controlling and it is almost the norm that the relationship will be abusive.</p>
<h4>6. Trickster</h4>
<p>The Trickster is charming and may have many social graces.  Adjectives of first impression are easy to find: engaging, smooth and inviting.  Unfortunately this attractiveness is a veneer on a disturbed personality.  Behind the &#8220;trust me&#8221; messages you will find a malicious intent.  It is the personality of the &#8220;con-artist&#8221;.  The motives are covert and include exploitation, limitless entitlement and a cruel twist when the victim realizes the script of betrayal.</p>
<p>The Trickster is ruthless in relationships.  He or she delights in fooling the trusting lover with betrayals such as sexual infidelity, fraud, or criminal conspiracy.  Usually there is intrigue and considerable pleasure in the set-up. The theme of manipulation is always central.  Inevitably trust is shattered. In this elaborate way the Trickster is justified in the contempt of victim &#8220;who was easily fooled&#8221;.</p>
<p>It is a cruel game.  The impact on the victim is usually shattering.  It can be likened to psychic vandalism.  The resulting damage is not easily repaired and may take years of patient re-building of boundaries, finding ways of better self-protection and perhaps eventually the capacity to trust again.</p>
<h4>7. Fantasy Maker</h4>
<p>Fantasy Maker has an elaborate inner world.  All excitement is in the realm of fantasy.  The real world intrudes, naturally, but it is exactly that &#8211; an intrusion and often resented.  He or she may have an external appearance of superficiality, flightiness, and emptiness.  There may also be considerable social anxiety and awkwardness.  It is inner riches, outer poverty.</p>
<p>Just how is this narcissistic?  After all some people are just being helpful. But the Rescuer has an hidden grandiosity: &#8220;It is only me that can really change things.&#8221;  It is the grandiosity that distinguishes the Rescuer from what has been labeled codependency.  The common ground includes: always remaining in control, emotional pursuing and unacknowledged needs.  Both may be hidden in a helping profession including psychology, social work, medicine, pastoral care or counselling.  Blurred boundaries are natural in this form of narcissism.</p>
<p>It is hard for the Rescuer to step out of role.  It&#8217;s origin may be in childhood with the parentified child in a dysfunctional family.  The difficult way forward is to break the stereotyped nature of relationships, allow more vulnerability to show, to both give and receive, and to even encourage the more childlike qualities of spontaneity, joy, emotional expression and playfulness.</p>
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
<p>There are no absolutely pure types.  Narcissism, like coffee, usually comes in blends.  For example a Craver who becomes a Rager when needs are blocked.  Some types may be close such as the Power Broker and Rager, or Craver and Special Lover.  Each of the types is a caricature but even an artificial schema can help to illuminate therapeutic issues.</p>
<p>This understanding of the types of narcissism is offered in the hope that it might be helpful to distinguish cold from warm varieties of narcissism.  The more general DSMIV description is of a cold variety characterized by being aloof and arrogant.  This comes through in types such as the Power Broker and Trickster.  Perhaps also in cold types of the Rager.  However it is equally obvious that some varieties of narcissism are warm and relationship centered. This will include the Craver and Special Lover.  Some, such as the Body Shaper and Fantasy Maker, can be either.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[*The failure of our world to resolve the issue of war, poverty, and corruption, rests within a gross ignorance about what guides human behavior to begin with. &#8216;Zeitgeist-Addendum&#8217; addresses the true source of the instability in our society, while offering the only fundamental, long term solution. 

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		<description><![CDATA[What is a NARCISSIST?
It is a person who murders other people
One insult at a time.
Who enjoys their God given superiority.
It is a stage mother who pushes her child
Not to enjoy or celebrate their successes,
but to triumph, win and ridicule the dumb ones.
They never feel loved, or love.
A narcissist
Sees only the prey, the strike and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com&blog=5113114&post=858&subd=flourishingincrisis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>What is a NARCISSIST?</p>
<p>It is a person who murders other people<br />
One insult at a time.<br />
Who enjoys their God given superiority.</p>
<p>It is a stage mother who pushes her child<br />
Not to enjoy or celebrate their successes,<br />
but to triumph, win and ridicule the dumb ones.</p>
<p>They never feel loved, or love.<br />
A narcissist<br />
Sees only the prey, the strike and the kill.</p>
<p>They see life in black and white.<br />
Their toys are rascist, elitism, misogeny, classism,<br />
they are on Top</p>
<p>And the more starved, disordered or deprived<br />
others are<br />
The more comfortable the Narcissist is.</p>
<p>They do charity to remind themselves<br />
How disadvanged and needy<br />
The regular common people are.</p>
<p>They become teachers, advisors and therapists<br />
Not to help teach or guide,<br />
But so their students and clients will look up to them.</p>
<p>They masquerade as human beings<br />
But they have sold their souls for applause<br />
and become inhuman.</p>
<p>Not aware that others are beings<br />
they may become presidents who commit genocide<br />
on whole populations who are ignorant, powerless, defenseless.</p>
<p>Like any good narcissist who sees how they can profit<br />
From standing on anothers heart of life.<br />
Snuff. Extinguish. Then laugh at them.</p>
<p>The thrill of their secret contrived ascendancy<br />
Is that other people don’t exist for them,<br />
only as audience or victims.</p>
<p>How do you know when you meet one?<br />
They seem bigger than life, so charming, capable, wise<br />
You feel suddenly smaller,</p>
<p>your stories about yourself<br />
seem boring in comparison,<br />
Your achievements and happiness shrink.</p>
<p>They may even tell you you talk too much<br />
After the honeymoon is over,<br />
And you might never feel confident enough to talk freely again.</p>
<p>They have an aura, a presence, a confidence<br />
You meet them and say WOW! Others meet them and say<br />
I’ve never met anyone so  (fill in your favorite compliment).</p>
<p>You are sure that you are blessed to share the same blood<br />
With these lucky successful grand personalities<br />
Maybe some of their panache, charisma, glory will rub off on you.</p>
<p>But scratch the surface. Dare to criticise them<br />
and watch the claws, the fangs, the incisors unsheathe,<br />
that clever subtle smirk that masquerades as a smile,</p>
<p>And wait for the payback. They will strike<br />
Unobtrusively, say, when you have finally gotten a raise<br />
And they say you deserve more. They rain on your parade</p>
<p>Raising the bar for you, to unreachable heights.<br />
They may even remind you<br />
That anyone can buy a diploma.</p>
<p>The narcissist will tell you its good to be able to laugh at oneself,<br />
But they never do.<br />
They laugh at other people</p>
<p>They call them, poor souls, poor bastards, losers,<br />
Or if it is you,<br />
they just glance at you with pity.</p>
<p>The narcissist is a world unto themselves, insulated beyond reach.<br />
Their Heart is in a prison they closed, when young,<br />
When someone  hurt them,</p>
<p>(we all get hurt)<br />
but instead of them forgiving or forgetting or understanding<br />
that this is just the human dilemma</p>
<p>and accepting that sometimes you just have to lose<br />
at the game of life, lose face or stature<br />
or lose the moment of sweetness they longed for…</p>
<p>They swear to themselves, I WILL NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN<br />
They put their heart in a safe.<br />
A defense system unparalleled by modern weaponry.</p>
<p>No one ever penetrates their shell, ever again.<br />
They might have a loving spouse who stays at home<br />
Takes care of the kids. But their spouse is just a utensil</p>
<p>someone to use up, like any other type of fuel.<br />
And discard if they get too sick, or are dying,<br />
or in California, too old or fat.</p>
<p>The narcissist will take everything they can<br />
from you<br />
And applaud themselves for how well they did, how lucky they are.</p>
<p>They won’t even give you the credit for a lifetime of loyalty,<br />
Or for your enjoying their successes.<br />
You are just another inferior person to strut in front of.</p>
<p>The narcissist does not believe in love,<br />
In sharing, hates to give gifts, hates when you are happy.<br />
It reminds them they are not the only ones who exist.</p>
<p>The narcissist goes through life looking in their mirror.<br />
They are snow white,<br />
and you are their dwarf.</p>
<p>JGrace</p>
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		<title>Narcissists &#8211; Identify them&#8230; then Flourish Without Them.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say you are flourishing, starting to see the fruits of your committments&#8230;
and of course you run to someone close to you, to celebrate,
but they are too busy, or want to tell you how they did something special&#8230;
Their lack of enthusiasm for your successes or even improvements
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Say you are flourishing, starting to see the fruits of your committments&#8230;<br />
and of course you run to someone close to you, to celebrate,<br />
but they are too busy, or want to tell you how they did something special&#8230;<br />
Their lack of enthusiasm for your successes or even improvements<br />
is a tip-off. They might be too narcissistic to care about you,<br />
they may have narcissistic traits or even full blown NPD.</p>
<p>It might come as a shock, or maybe then you recall<br />
many times before they just weren&#8217;t interested&#8230;<br />
Here are some questions to ask yourself&#8230;</p>
<p>Do they put on a conspicuous display of kindness and goodness?<br />
Do they never do anything for others unless someone is around to admire them?<br />
Are they a control freak, who trample others privacy or boundaries?</p>
<p>Do they secretly or obviously feel superior to other people?<br />
Do they help others, but feel pity towards those they help?<br />
Do they rarely praise anyone else, and have a hard time giving credit to others?</p>
<p>Are they bored when other people talk about themselves?<br />
Do they rarely or never say they are sorry.<br />
Behind other people&#8217;s backs do they disparage, gossip or belittle others?</p>
<p>Are they disliked by people close to them for mysterious reasons?<br />
Do they rarely laugh at themselves, but laugh at others?<br />
Are they sure their way is always the best way?</p>
<p>If someone else is in physical or emotional pain<br />
do they seem bored or like they just want to get on<br />
with their own pursuits? No ability to empathize?</p>
<p>ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTORS IN FLOURISHING<br />
is to IDENTIFY THE NARCISSISTS.<br />
Because they will secretly or openly, knock you down<br />
a few notches. Consistently diminish your energy and enthusiasm,<br />
and try to disable your future successes.</p>
<p>Beware. They are all around. Some say that 30-50%<br />
of all Americans are quite Narcissistic.<br />
I think there are many more of them, than is generally recognized.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex welcomes back New World Order researcher, author, and radio talk show host Alan Watt 
Part one

Part two

Part three

Part four

Part five

Part Six

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><span>Alex welcomes back New World Order researcher, author, and radio talk show host Alan Watt </span></p>
<p>Part one</p>
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<p>Part two</p>
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<p>Part three</p>
<p><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/alan-watt-buckle-your-seat-belt-and-wake-up-fast/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/QGau-h-nLRg/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
<p>Part four</p>
<p><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/alan-watt-buckle-your-seat-belt-and-wake-up-fast/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/czlqbZ0tNbw/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
<p>Part five</p>
<p><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/alan-watt-buckle-your-seat-belt-and-wake-up-fast/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/F-OdkUlL5B0/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
<p>Part Six</p>
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		<title>Slavery or Freedom?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[3a. Lies We were taught]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[3e. Without Conscience: Narcissists and Psychopaths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3f. The Money Powers and Global Fascism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Debt System]]></category>
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Financial dominance is a method of total conquest. Most citizens have not begun to understand the power and the scope of economic conquest in this reality. In this Game, the conquered are slaves to a system designed to demand tribute as stated in the form of taxes, interest and inflation. The tribute is collected through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com&blog=5113114&post=1090&subd=flourishingincrisis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>Financial dominance is a method of total conquest. Most citizens have not begun to understand the power and the scope of economic conquest in this reality. In this Game, the conquered are slaves to a system designed to demand tribute as stated in the form of taxes, interest and inflation. The tribute is collected through provisional governments who have formed legal systems which legislate and enact laws which demand payment of taxes and allow for the creation of debt against your labor. You have become a slave without knowing it, without the use of visible force or coercion so that you are now a victim and you do not realize that you have been conquered. You believe you are paying for your own good, for the good of others or to protect you from some enemy. Your captors have become your benefactors and protectors. Total control took time as the conspiracy against the entire world demanded double agents working in corporations and government.</p>
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<p>The control is surreptitious. Most do not even suspect they are imprisoned and unable to live in sovereignty.</p>
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		<title>George Carlin &#8211; on the Money Powers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of George Carlin&#8217;s last statements, about how the Money Powers
own everything.

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<p>own everything.</p>
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		<title>The Vision of A Utopian Life that is Possible to Awaken Towards</title>
		<link>http://flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/the-vision-of-a-utopian-life-that-is-possible-to-awaken-towards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>flourishgrace</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2d. Power in the hands of Goodness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3e. Without Conscience: Narcissists and Psychopaths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3g. Surviving Empire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the formula of sovereign ownership is the ability to accept, to know the truth and to be one with the will of the greater good. With the ownership of your life beats the rhythm of emotion guiding the harmony of humanity&#8217;s purpose.

The spiritual oneness of the planet centers the wholeness of each person, each [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com&blog=5113114&post=1077&subd=flourishingincrisis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>In the formula of sovereign ownership is the ability to accept, to know the truth and to be one with the will of the greater good. With the ownership of your life beats the rhythm of emotion guiding the harmony of humanity&#8217;s purpose.</p>
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<p>The spiritual oneness of the planet centers the wholeness of each person, each life, each communication, each transaction and each idea for the betterment of the civilization of the world. The plan of transformation is for all to know and to follow.</p>
<p><a class="alignleft" title="oneness" href="http://goldring.wetpaint.com/page/1-The+Game" target="_blank">http://goldring.wetpaint.com/page/1-The+Game</a></p>
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		<title>The world as we know it &#8211; the Evil Powers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[3e. Without Conscience: Narcissists and Psychopaths]]></category>
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The Game begins once the player sees the end of the game is scarcity, poverty, depression and the fascist control of the few over the rights of the many. The Game starts when there is a realization that the biggest lie and the biggest theft was the willing enslavement of each individual to a corruption [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com&blog=5113114&post=1069&subd=flourishingincrisis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<div>The Game begins once the player sees the end of the game is scarcity, poverty, depression and the fascist control of the few over the rights of the many. The Game starts when there is a realization that the biggest lie and the biggest theft was the willing enslavement of each individual to a corruption beyond the scope of comprehension, the discovery that the power that is held by the elitist is based on the giving up of each individual&#8217;s sacred labors and the fruits thereof.</div>
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<div>The simple formula is sovereign ownership of what you are and your divine heritage will initiate the key organizing principles which will bring to light that which is the magic and<br />
the timing of the advent. It is close. If you listen to my words then you will see that you are growing in new ways and seeking to understand on new levels. The challenges to your body, your economic systems, your world of inter-relationships, all these things are a catharsis, a period of purification where you are releasing the repressed feelings, anxieties, fears and depression you have experienced within this dark realm.</div>
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