Thank you for this opportunity to bring attention to the significant problem of chronic pain in America. In terms of societal costs and personal human suffering, it is the highest health concern across our country.
Fibromyalgia is one of the most common chronic pain conditions, affecting 2 – 6% of the US population. This makes fibromyalgia the second most common rheumatological disorder, with only osteoarthritis being more common. Fibromyalgia is not only very common but is typically also very disabling; depending on the sample up to 15 – 20% of fibromyalgia patients may be on long-term disability.
The US pharmaceutical industry recognizes the importance and impact of this condition. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent translating our increased scientific understanding of this condition, into performing clinical trials. Three drugs have been specifically approved to treat this condition over the past five years. This has helped lead to significantly increased recognition of the condition amongst both patients and providers. But in spite of the acknowledged frequency and disability associated with fibromyalgia, this condition has received relatively little NIH funding. NIH funding of fibromyalgia is less than that for nearly any other common rheumatological disorder, averaging only $9M annually from 2007 – (est) 2012 (http://report.nih.gov/rcdc/categories/).
Investing in research in fibromyalgia will not just allow us to better understand fibromyalgia. For example, in addition to considering fibromyalgia as a "stand-alone" diagnosis (i.e., a given individual has fibromyalgia as their primary diagnosis), many individuals with other conditions develop fibromyalgia as a co-morbidity to their primary diagnosis. We now know that approximately 15 – 30% of individuals with osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and even cancer develop co-morbid fibromyalgia, or "centralize their pain." This means that instead of their pain primarily coming from damage or inflammation of peripheral tissues, the central nervous system amplifies and causes pain and other symptoms. Thus the study of why individuals develop fibromyalgia and how we can prevent or treat it can not only improve the lives of millions of individuals with the second most common rheumatological disorder, but also similarly help tens of millions of individuals that have developed fibromyalgia as a co-morbidity.
If these individuals with these conditions such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and other disorders develop co-morbid fibromyalgia, this significantly worsens their pain and disability, unless/until the fibromyalgia is identified and treated. Worse yet, in addition to much co-morbid fibromyalgia going untreated, this lack of recognition of co-morbid fibromyalgia also leads to the use of expensive and toxic treatments that the patient may derive no benefit from. For example, if an individual with osteoarthritis suffers from co-morbid fibromyalgia, he or she may be one of the 10 – 20% of individuals who will not get better when they receive knee or hip replacement (costing roughly $50,000), because their pain is not coming from their knee or hip – but their brain. If an individual with rheumatoid arthritis has co-morbid fibromyalgia, he or she may fail to respond to toxic and expensive immunosuppressive drugs that are attacking peripheral inflammation, but not the central nervous system pain amplification of fibromyalgia. Thus the failure to recognize and treat fibromyalgia based on a better scientific understanding of this disorder is extremely costly, both in terms of pain and disability, but also misspent and unnecessary direct and indirect medical costs.
The concept of fibromyalgia (FM) being the prototypical "central" or "centralized" pain state. The term "central pain" was originally used to describe a condition that occurred in individuals who, following a stroke or spinal cord lesion, subsequently developed pain. In this case "central" referred to the fact that the lesion leading to pain occurred within the CNS—either spinal cord or brain. More recently, however, the term has expanded to describe any CNS dysfunction or pathology that may be contributing to the development or maintenance of chronic pain.1 Another term that has often been used to describe this same phenomenon is "central sensitization.".
Thus FM like any other chronic pain condition may indeed be a "mixed pain state." Many individuals clearly develop FM precisely by mechanisms such as a motor vehicle accident, deployment to war, an infection, or some other painful and stressful event which first leads to regional pain, and then eventually becomes "centralized" and expressed as the full-blown FM phenotype.41-44 Research is needed to identify risk factors for, and the consequences of, developing "secondary" FM and centralization of pain. The reason for this is that centralization and chronicity in rheumatic disorders appears to occur at a much higher frequency (15 – 30%) than in individuals having an acute painful or stressful experience. The data suggesting that there is evidence of centralization of pain in each of these other rheumatic disorders is presented below. While the significance of only four overlapping conditions is discussed and suggested for research here, FM co-exists, or overlaps with virtually any chronic pain syndromes, as well as following cancer, and in association with deployment and especially traumatic brain injuries.
All classic rheumatic disorders, and many other medical conditions characterized by chronic pain, are mixed pain states, with co-morbid fibromyalgia playing a prominent role. The earliest evidence that FM may contribute to the pain and other symptoms associated with classic rheumatic disorders such as osteoarthritis (OA), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) came from studies suggesting that approximately 15 – 30% of individuals with these disorders may have FM as a co-morbid diagnosis.45-48 In the pain field at present, when both "peripheral" and "central" contributions to pain are recognized, we then refer to a pain condition as "mixed pain state." But roughly the same frequency of individuals with cancer, or deployed to war, may develop centralization of pain, or a mixed pain state (similar to FM). This is consistent with the broader literature suggesting that a variety of acute pain states and/or stressors can trigger the development of FM in susceptible individuals, including infections, trauma, and deployment to war.41,42,44,49-55 However, studies are needed to closely followed the longitudinal development of FM by following individuals from when they first develop acute symptoms, to when they develop co-morbid FM.
Summary.There has been an explosion in the knowledge and recognition of the importance of fibromyalgia amongst the general public, healthcare providers, and the pharmaceutical industry. NIH funding has simply failed to keep pace with these advances, in parallel with low funding for NIH pain research in general, as succinctly pointed out by the recent IOM report. Increased funding for FM will serve two constituents: the approximately 10 million individuals in the U.S. with FM, as well as the millions more that have this as a (usually unrecognized) co-morbidity.
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Chant it down radio.com
Series of shows
Truth Filled Trajectory
ARE YOU ATTATCHED TO THE SYSTEM'S TENTACLES? DOES IT HAVE YOU?
Does the system have you strangled by it's many tentacles? Can you overcome them or have they overcome you?
When people say the system, it is a real vague term that most people dont really have a mental image of, but they know it exists in some form or type of structure.
Picture it as a giant invisible beast that has everyone you know under its control, with it's many tentacles protruding outward from it. A giant invisible leviathan, that controls everything we think, eat, and have the inspiration to do. It is not for us, but against us.
Many people would love to say: "I'm not caught up in the system" or "I'm not fooled by it" but then, go home and watch 2 hours of TV, or possibly fall into one of the many control methods of the system that they don't see or are unaware of. The truth is, we're all caught up in the system in some form.
This leviathan of control is not some out of control faceless monster that has lost direction naturally, but a carefully designed masterpiece, created by a controlling dark occult elite who have controlled everything to do with civilization since it's inception.
I'm going to explain, what I call the "system tentacles". This is based on my series of shows, on Chant It Down Radio called that very name. This is sort of an abriviated 2.0 of the series. Go through the 'series of shows' page on Chantitdownradio.com and listen in order.
As anyone progresses in this series, they will more then likely be challenged by this progression because of the severity of cutting ties with, or seperation of believe systems that hold us back.
To truly say that you are not caught up in the system, you must really deeply understand the many methods of control that attach yourself to it. Identify them. Know their purpose.
The system is who you are not.
When we eliminate it from our minds and bodies we become who we really are. Truth always stays the same, man has been misled by the system and gone so far off coarse from universal truth and consciousness, that the truth actually seems foreign.
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Breaking down the system is not a simple explanation, because its everything in our lives, so this blog is overly long. Take a day here, and there, to read it all and take it in.
Notice how they all intersect and feed into each other. You can see how they become an all encompassing beast that has a hold of all parts our lives.
The system Tentacles are:
1. Foolishness and shallowness
2. Ego ran amok
3. Media mind control
4. Food and nourishment
5. Alcohol and waste-old culture
6. The health industry
7.Operation Indoctrination (schools)
8.Occupational hazards (your job)
9. Order taking
10.The money trance
11.Time
12. Sweating the petty
13. Faith in technology
14. Nationalism and culture
15. Closed minded belief systems
16. Belief in politics and the left-right paradigm
17. Belief in government, rulers and bosses
18. Civilization
Tentacle #1 Foolishness and shallowness
The simple action of not caring, being interested in nothing of substance is a trait of people who are media mind controlled. This heavily connects with that strand of the system, but deserves a look on it's own.
This tentacle is about where people's attention is not. Lack of attention on the truth and reality of this life has created large swaths of the population that are foolish and shallow.
People that couldn't care that they are being taken advantage of and poisoned by the system and it's many tentacles. Instead, they'd rather look at images of themselves on Facebook or watch tv that dumbs them down into complacency.
It's the People that care more about fluff and don't have even the know-how to dive deep and asemulate this information.
It's the meaningless conversations you hear everywhere. People that don't have the will to prioritize what's really important. Someone of that caliber can stop right here. They've been totally devoured by the system and there is no further help that can be taken unless an outside force knocks them on their head.
It takes real care, to have the will to want to learn and change. If someone has an inkling of that, then a wider window awaits to see what this world is really all about. Ripping this tentacle off is monitoring your quality of attention. It's accepting that there is a greater purpose and reason to our existence. To want to take a step into a larger more important world, is how someone can rise above this.
Tentacle #2 Ego ran amok
A more hidden tentacle is, the ego of people preventing themselves from rising to a higher consciousness. The ego ran amok in society is from loss of humility and humanity. People have let layers of the system tentacles grow around them and then built egos off the ways of the system. Similarly to foolishness and shallowness, people caught by this tentacle, don't have the will to care, but it's because they think they know better.
People can be too left brained, and taught by the system to except that there is such a thing as a system that has been designed to keep them down. People can be too right brained, and not want to take a look at the negative.
People can be too attatched to their belief systems to think that the system has a head, and that the people at that head have created a giant system that controls every aspect of your life. That hurts their ego, because they have built their egos on the ground of this system, which is all they ever knew.
Too much faith in a system to see the real truth. These same people have learned to love and defend their slavery even.
Many have let the media tentacle feed their minds with lies, which goes hand and hand with the indoctrination from the school system. Narratives in various forms of untruth have resonated with them and they think they have the world all figured out.
The know-it-all professionals that have built their ego around career achievements have a version of the system cemented in their minds so well that, it would take a lifestyle cataclysm to change their world view.
Overcoming this tentacle requires humility, to take a second look at reality, and to do research. It requires the left brain to be willing to look past what it's been told and take in the information. Holding it with no bias view.
It requires a right brain to be open yet, bouncing back to the left for desernment. More importantly It requires a person to use their heart and swallow their pride.
This tentacle often branches off into...
Tentacle #3: Media mind control
Media is everything you take in from news, TV, movies, music, internet, magazines, newspapers, and any information that we ingest from those sources. (Even alternative media, which we have to investigate )
The Elite that are behind the system are aligned in making sure that the information we receive flows through their large corporate channels of information.
Only six major companies own more then 90% of mainstream media in America, Disney, GE, Newscorp, Viacom, CBS and Time Warner own all of the major news that comes your way, compared with 50 companies in 1983.
All have their freemasonic logos, and all are in cahoots in bringing you what the Elite desire. All are serving the same agenda to keep you in the dark, no matter what political affilitiation.
What do Freemason's do? They keep oaths. Oaths are also contracts.
High level masons and other dark mystery schools run all news, Hollywood and any form of mainstream entertainment that you come across. It shows a higher elite that these top level masons can be trusted with secrets and be on the same page as the agenda.
The media has taught you how to think, how to act, how to be, how to live, how to view the world, how to dress and shape your very thought processes. Organizations like the Frankfort school of thought and Tavistock institute are evil geniuses with a deep level of understanding into human psychology. They know the inner workings of the human mind, and know how to socially engineer and cultivate whole societies through simple entertainment.
These elite that run our world know that you've been busy all day working and have all of the television "programming" waiting for you when you get home. Right when you're most vulnerable and your guard is down, after a hard day, you turn on the television.
It only takes 20 seconds of watching to go into alpha state. (Light hypnosis) So, even if you consider yourself awake to what's really going on, you can easily be lulled in and relaxed by that box with it's plethora of many controlled messages to keep you in the frequency that they want you at.
The answer is simple with this tentacle : Turn it off!!
If it's off, it doesnt have you. It's the ultimate passification tool to fill your mind. The average American watches 35 hours of TV a week. (Look at the results)
People say: "But it's entertaining and it's good." Of coarse it is, thats how they get you. The same with music, it's influence can do the same.
Even Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of the television said to his children: "There's nothing on it worthwhile and we're not going to watch it in this household. I don't want it in your intellectual diet."
Turn it back on for quick stents when you fully understand what it's doing to the masses and it's so obvious and entertaining in itself.
(Check out also on Chant it down radio the series: Tell-lie-vision visions
Tentacle #4: Food and Nourishment.
Just like the media, what you feed yourself, you become. It is absolutely one of the most important things you can improve on, your diet.
With this tentacle of the system, it's more about what to take out of your diet.
Free yourself from processed packaged food with no nutrient value. Free yourself from high fructose corn syrup. Corn syrup is one of leading causes of obesity and diabetes.
Free yourself from GMO foods. These foods are genetically modifying humans. Changing are DNA. Tinkering with the unseen. Diminishing the nutrition value.
Free yourself from hormones injected meat and milk.
If you go to a 7-11, can you find anything of nurtrional value there? Convenient stores are located everywhere to conveniently help dumb everyone down, and keep people nutrient deficient.
It's been designed that way. Sugar is overloaded in everything. A perfect tool to keep everyone tired and not feeling at their peak. So many foods are filled with empty calories to give you the feeling of being full, but offer nothing to the body except to store in your fat cells.
There is also a diliberate dumbing down by certain ingredients to keep the public docile and dulled down such as sodium fluoride. 11 countries put sodium fluoride in their tap water to 50% or more of their population. America, 64% Australia, 80% New Zealand 50%, Hong Kong 100%, Singapore 100%.
Sodium fluoride was used to dumb down nazi prisners and is used today to calcify your penile gland, which is a conductor for consciousness.
I dedicated a whole entire show to excitotoxins. Ingredients like aspartame, msg and it's many other tricky names, which are put into your food for the same reason: to dumb you down. If you want to control entire populations, you cant have them sharp minded and questioning reality.
Excitotoxins flood the blood brain barrier, so it spills over into your brain. These chemical compounds excite brain cells, then burn them out.
What most people are not concerned with is: nutrient density. High doses of green leafy vegetables are forgotten in our diets the most. Juicing is so beneficial here. The key is getting a nutrient filled diet for optimum health. Try to link everything you eat to promote optimum performance in life.
This tentacle takes time to pluck becuase it's easier said then done. Slowly taking out of your diet the unessary and replace it with the necessary. Cut out: corn syrup, gmo foods, hormone injected foods, aspartame, msg, fluoride and sugar filled foods and someone is on the right track. Replace with nutrient dense, organic foods and good exercise.
Tentacle # 5: Alcohol and waste-oid culture.
The system has made a deliberate effort to ensure that alcohol is readily available at every neighborhood corner store. The US governement has allowed the circulation of deadly man-made drugs such as the crack-cocaine epidemic of the 80's, distributed by the CIA to drug cartels, or the rise in opiates brought in from middle eastern countries.
This has created a broken society by design.
Even if none of this has touched you on a personal level, another more subtle takeover is there for you as well: the abuse of substance, which we are all guilty of.
It's the habit of getting off a hard day of work (slavery) and escaping it. This becomes habit slowly, therefore we don't realize it contributing to a less sharp mind, and a more dysfunctional life.
This ties in heavy to the media tentacle also. In pop culture, it's all about going to the club, drinking and dancing. This lures young teens to this lifestyle and breeds them to be club goers when they become of age.
This tentacle latches on, and some never are able to remove it, letting it drag them down to a life of failure and disfunctionality.
There's a big push to drink alcohol from all directions, whether it's sports games, liquor stores on corners, or holidays that push gathering together and drinking.
There's a reason that people want to escape, and that's the very wrong way in which we live. It's even okay to escape, but not let a substance get one up on you.
Removing this tentacle requires extreme discipline and attention to self. Knowing when a substance has a stranglehold on you to where your life is being stalled and cut short by it.
Tentacle #6: The Health industry
Those who run the system, have made sure that they control every aspect of our lives. Because of the horrendous diets out there, people develope a plethora of disease and problems.
Who is waiting for you to come to them with these illnesses?
The giant health industry. Where it's not about your health, but about their wealth.
Doctors are trained through medical school to stay within the perimeters of their schooling. Mainstream doctors do not take nutrition coarses.
They are cultivated through a learning system to treat symptoms, but not treat problems.
Many doctors get big kickbacks from big pharma.
All those wonderful cures to our problems, with that huge paragraph of side effects that the commercials name off in record audible speed, like the micro machine man.
It's an industry designed to make money off of your illness and keep you ill. It's not your doctor, but their schooling that created them to be like that. It's designed to get you on prescriptions or put you under the knife. Actual healing has become secondary, to making money.
Vacinations are full of poisons such as thimerosal that is mercury based and a known neurotoxin. Aluminum is also found in vaccines. Both substances accumulate in the brain causing many forms of neurological damage that affect motor skill, learning and social behaviors.
Vaccines have been linked to autism. Mainstream society will thwart these claims but a very simple look into the Amish communities, where they do not vaccinate, has 0 cases of autism. By the age of 6, a child in the system, has as many as 30 vaccines, before the immune system has even formed on it's own. Even the actual introduction of vaccines to your system is not correct as it enters the bloodstream instead of how most viruses enter through.
To remove this tentacle, we must become our own doctors. We must research ourselves. If there's a problem that requires some type of pharmaceutical cure, try looking for a natural alternative. While the system is here, use the diagnostic parts of western medicine.
Not all things from western medicine are bad either. One must learn to think for themselves and take the good from it, and leave the rest.
Don't take vaccinations, but instead, up your immune system. You have one for a reason. Go to a naturopathic doctor, get second opinions. Most of all, think for yourself, and don't think that doctors are all knowledgeable because of credentials, and plaques on walls.
Tentacle #7: Operation indoctrination (schools)
The 3 major factors that shape people in our society, is media, your loved ones, and the school system. In order to continue to create a civilization of "SYSTEMITES" the controllers must get children when they're young and mold the way that they learn into a single way that helps pave the way for future workers of the system.
We are taught that you're smart in this world if you're good at intellect., while wisdom is put on the back burner.
The hidden job of schools is to get the kids to conform. Some kids take longer then others. The kids that question everything and misbehave in elementary school eventually get hammered down by the school system and made to conform at some point or they eventually just drop out.
It's all about conditioning your children so they can be repeaters of the system.
Schools ween out any critical thinking or questioning to the point that it no longer exists. From the beginning, it's designed to destroy kid's imaginations, so they can't imagine a world based on real truth and freedom.
You're not attached to this tentacle if you understand that schools are there to condition kids into being robotic slaves for this system. To factory process people out of their natural state, requires a series of brainwash from as early as preschool, to and through, adolescence to being nonquestioning cogs in this machine.
If you understand this, then youre not taken by it.
Tentacle #8: Occupational hazards (your job)
They've convinced you that it's so important and if you don't go, then your finances will shrivel up and you will be on the streets, hungry.
Nearly everyone hates their job but, people need to understand truly what it is: Slavery.
It's where your time, energy and attention all go.
Not enough can be said here. The corporate world has eaten up many of the jobs that were at least decent, but in reality, we shouldn't have to work to make money at all. We shouldn't have to pay to exist in this world.
Corporations and businesses that copy corporate-like formats have put humanity second to making money. This has taken the 'human' out of the equation.
It's the epitome of all of our slavery. It's not hard to get past this system tentacle in anyone's mind. Everyone hates it. You work five days a week, get 2 days off and it starts all over again. It takes up all of your time. Work becomes your life.
It's not hard to hate it and identify it as slavery (depends who you are) but, it's not taking it so serious and, not letting it get the best of you.
Most people don't look at the effects of this lifestyle and how it spirals out into the world. When families are seperated all day in work and school, they become fragmented and isolated, which later leads to disfunctionality, confusion, divorce, and the inability to relate. Because everyone wants to work the same schedule, 8-5 Monday-Friday, it creates a crowded and stressful world, with rush hours, and pinched time in which to sustain everything else to prop up this crazy existance.
Don't let it have power over you. A mass quitting of everything needs to happen. A mass quilting of our jobs needs to happen to stop this beast. People won't because they dont have an alternative. Realize in your mind that humans were not meant to go to work everyday and use up their lives. Know it to heart.
Masses of people are not coming into the power that we don't have to work everyday, so this stays on the back burner till a mass quitting happpens. The best thing to do till then is, keep doing what you love and align yourself with what you were born to do.
Tentacle #9: order taking
The worst excuse that you'll hear is: "I was just doing my job" The world is set as a pyramid structure on a need-to-know basis, because people unquestioningly follow orders.
The people that keep this system and slavery in place are people who unquestioningly take orders. It's the very fabric that keeps the system in place or otherwise people would be excercising real freedom.
It's acting out what someone else told you to do without taking it inside first, and not stopping to think if it's right or wrong. There wouldn't be wars if there wasnt order taking. The biggest atrocities of mankind are all from taking orders. The biggest gatekeepers of our freedom are those that take orders from someone else.
The most morally culpable are the those that follow orders to do something violating, universal natural law. More culpable then their uppers, are the ones that carry it out.
Who took a life, the man in the uniform who shot the man, or his commander who told him to do it? Who really killed the person?
As Obi Wan Kenobi once said: "Who's the bigger fool, the fool, or the fool who follows him?"
Would you follow orders from someone who puts you down all the time?
"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as foreign policy" - Henry Kissinger
The US military does.
Military, police, government agencies, or you taking orders at your slave job are taken by this tentacle. To overcome it, we must not look up to any of these types as righteous and question anything your asked. It's not worth any job, no matter what.
The only righteous army is those who are unified by truth and consciousness trying to make the world a better place. The only way for humanity to move forward, past the elite, is stop following orders and live for truth. Order taking was never and will never be a good thing. Look at history.
Tentacle #10: The money trance
The dangling carrot in front of us all that we chase daily. This is the reason why everyone stays in the system, for obvious reasons. It is the glue that binds everything in the system together.
It's the spell that everyone is under.
In order to exist in this world, we have to pay. We have to pay extraordinary amounts to have what the indigenous had the whole time for free. Food, water shelter and loved ones. You have to pay exorbitant prices for those bare necessities and we're taxed on top of that.
People are in a deep trance trying to collect pieces of paper. People put its importance above what we really should be focusing on. Putting an economy over the planet and its precious resources, or putting comfort over truth and freedom.
Money creates false notions of comfort. People become prostitutes for paychecks so they can stay comfortable. This program is so deep, that it would take a giant catalaclysm to get people to stop being on the treadmill of collecting money.
To not be taken by this system tentacle, you have to understand what money is, and that we don't need it. To understand that freedom is what you really want, not money. Don't let it be your God. It won't feed you if you had to live in nature.
Realize that it's just paper and digits on a screen. Laugh at it. Overcome it.
Overcome addiction to shopping. The system has people addicted to consuming. That's where the media tentacle grabs people too. It's an addiction to materialism.
Know that having money is not "it." It's not the life that you're looking for. It's a replacement of a real currency...time.
Tentacle #11: Time
Hand in hand with your job and money, is time itself. How much does it rule our lives? How often do you check the time.
Part of our prison in the system is us being a slave to time. It keeps us in a grid. A gregorian grid, separate from nature. While there is time within nature, seasons, days, nights, people getting older, etc, the system makes you too aware of the past and future, and not enough focus on the present.
Being a slave to the clock keeps us in confinement. How often do you get a break from time? It keeps us in a constant cycle.
Severing this tentacle off is not easy in this world, but be aware of time ruling your life. Set aside time to allow timelessness. Get so busy doing something you love, that time unfolds into a new dimension. Good things take time. Quality is often missing from the modern world. Allow time to work for you and it can help you overcome this tentacle.
Tentacle #12: Sweating the petty
What may seem like a small tentacle attached compared to some others, is sweating the petty. Sweating the small stuff. How often do we blow things out of proportion in our heads and realize later that it wasnt really that big of a deal and worth the stress? Your job, schools, money, time, taking orders, all cause stress in our lives. Up to this point in the tentacles, I've mentioned some of the biggest contributors to stress.
The controllers have designed a world that keeps us on flight or fight mode so we cannot rise above and be real humans. Scarcity of money and time keep everyone on the treadmill of worry. Worry and fear keep people on survival mode which activates the stress hormone. This causes emotional problems in people and takes away present moment awareness. Fear is a heavy energy that holds us down and can cause mental illness amongst other human disease.
All these many tentacles of the system have us stressed, and invade our sane, natural mind. The acronym for F.E.A.R. Is: false evidence appearing real. It's allowing the system to take away the miraculous divine forces of the universe, and letting the system settle in as supreme.
Roughly 85% of what we worry about never happens. 40% of worry never happens, 30% of your worry is residual and has already happened in the past, and 22% is out of your control. 8% of your worry is in your grasp. What does what you're worrying about today matter in a week? A month? A year? 10 years? Your death bed?
Getting grounded in nature and prioritizing what is important to be concerned about, is how you rip this tentacle off. Laughing at our silly suffering is important. Put it in perspective of the universe and what really matters. Don't take life too serious. It's not worth emotionally worrying about the system's crazy world that is not your creation, fault or part of your true heart. Be a warrior, not a worrier.
Tentacle #13: Faith in technology
Does technology have you? Are you consumed by it? Where does technology come from? Who provides it to you? Giant corporations produce it and there is never an end to it's sophistication and advancement.
Reliance on it, is being caught up in it as well. We all fall into it's clutches because, the way we do everyday life, revolves around it working and we dont know any other ways without it. How would you deal without internet? Electricity? Your phone?
The farther away that man gets away from nature, the less connected to the Earth humanity will be. Chief Seattle said "remove a man from nature, harden his heart" Is technology all bad? I think it's an answer yet to be determined, but the more man has adapted his evironment to suit him, the more complicated life has become.
Technology says that our natural life is not good enough and that we must uprgrade it. It says that technology knows better then the miraculous universe. Technology is a product of intellect not brilliance so it has left behind consciousness, therefore nobody asked if it was a good thing to create.
The biggest problem is that technology is in the wrong hands. It is being used for surveillance and control. It is being used to to make money and take from the resources of the Earth. It's being used for man to play God.
It is not being used to evolve consciousness. As a whole, the world is suffering from having practically all the information on earth in one place, but instead using the internet for self promotion and ego display on social networking sites. It shows the level that humanity is on, and what people are doing with technology.
To unhinge from this tentacle, is to not be reliant on it, nor be too awed by it. Man is trying to be God and using technology to act as if it's better then nature. Don't fall for it. Humans lived fine without it for thousands of years and its come up too fast. The faster it comes up, the faster it falls.
Prepare physically and mentally to live life without technology and develope the human in you.
Tentacle #14: Nationlism and culture
This Tentacle is all about group-think. Blind belief in a nation is what creates order followers. Belief in a country and allegiance in to one is a false set of belief because every country on Earth was brought about by theft, coercion and some type of violence.
 The audacity to think that a free human must live between the imaginary lines of a country, and follow rules within those lines that confine freedom.
Identifiying yourself with a nation is dangerous and it excuses behaviors for wars, taxation and the takeover of land, just because it's supposedly belongs to a government. Someone into their nation is believing that their government grants them the rights they have.
Culture is similar because people identify with a culture rather then become an individual. An entire culture can be built on the wrong things. Culture from historical backgrounds has lots of meaning, which stems from, music, food and dance. Those are all positive things. That's heritage. What if one culture took over another by force long ago and built up off of it?
That culture is still wrong for holding that other culture in a lesser place today.
Many people are focusing on race. The media promotes continual focus on race and racism. While there are many genuine racist people, most people that are slightly predjudice, dont really know anybody of the race they dislike on a personal level. When it comes down to it, people are people. We all have souls and feelings and are similar in more ways then different.
What people are truly seeking with these beliefs is a tribe. Instead people are mistaking nations and their culture as unfailing truth that somehow overrides what's right.
People are wrongly unified in getting behind their country or culture and not examining whether its right of wrong.
To properly overcome this complicated tentacle wrapped around so many, people must be able to get past their belief in country and culture and be able judge these things on merit of natural law. People need to stop being afraid to realize that what they stand behind might be wrong. Let go of these belief systems and rise above these things that hold us back.
Tentacle #15: Close minded belief systems
Religions, cults, science and new age beliefs all fall into this category that is deeply attached to people. So attached to these beliefs that it's often people's core. It's great to have a personal relationship with the creator and to believe past this life, but it's man's laws and rules that have become the belief which just holds people back.
So many religions are based on tradition and have lost their core meanings of spirituality. Partly due to the ways of the system itself, which is unethical and put's money as the most important thing. How many religions are saying they worship the God of love, yet support war and destruction of planet Earth?
A lot of the time, religion intertwines with the next tentacle, Politics. Religion is often married to culture and anyone who tries to break away from either, can be ousted by their own family.
The biggest problem with religions is the blind exceptance of a school of thought without questioning it's origins. Blind exceptance that creates a human heard following without examination. The elite don't care what belief system you have, as long as you have one that keeps you from seeing the real truth. They want people to have opposing belief systems and different sects, so we cannot come together as real humans and become true spiritual beings.
Then there is 16 percent of the world that claims no religion, but many people just get caught in other forms of believe systems that keep them from truth. People that believe textbook science knows all, end up closing off themselves from divinity and the understanding of beyond, that we are just matter. Many New age people don't identify themselves as a religion yet, believe that there is no subjective truth and that we can make morality. It's just another way for people to wall themselves off from truth.
All of these believe systems obey their controllers and are not speaking about what's really going on. That's why so few people know about the truth. How to pluck this tentacle, is to understand that there is a force out there that wants you to live for real truth. Call it God, the creator or what ever label you want to put on it, but it is connected to your heart. People are so distracted in this world, that they don't make time to connect with this force and therefore don't believe it exists.
There is a force that will always take care of you. Synchronicity does exist. The power of belief is strong and it is often misused but, belief in real freedom, love, natural law, truth and miracles can transform life. It gives you purpose and you can witness miracles. Use what works for you to have a divine connection to this creation force. It's about that individual, personal connection to the creator, which is the most important thing someone can get aligned with.
Tentacle #16: Belief in politics and the left-right paradigm
If someone believes in politics for an answer, then they are definitely caught by the systems tentacles. Not only by this tentacle, but often by mainstream media mind control. Politics are a way for the elite to get us to channel our energy into as some form of power of choice we have. The want you to think we have the freedom of choice because of a 2 party system.
Good people do not run for president in the first place. A savior mentality is the wrong approach to the future of this planet. A president or prime minister might change the cosmetics of the country, but never do they solve the root problems in our society. Getting caught up into politics is believing that we should continue on with our current way of life but, just change a few surface problems, and everything will be ok. Right.
In America, people are heavily hinged and focused on politics. The left-right paradigm has captured everyone so much that they forgot that they were falling for one of the oldest control tactics in the book: Divide and rule. Divided we fall. The divide is getting wider, yet most people who are staunch believers of either side could learn a lot from each other if they sat down and actually met in the middle. Each modern American presidency has been designed to further this divide on purpose to destabilize the country so "they" can roll out their global agenda.
Most people have no idea that a network of secret societies run the globe and they funnel into think-tanks such as the Trialateral commission, the Club of Rome, Council on foreign relations, Bilderberg group, Royal institute of international affairs, and the United Nations.
These groups pick your selection of leaders and dictate how the globe should run without your consent. Higher up the pyramid are banking families and royals who can be traced to around 13 family bloodlines. The term "Illuminati" is often used but, that term often just leads to disinformation, hiding the darker lesser known occult societies that are unified in a global agenda. (I.E. freemasonry, satanism, order of the golden dawn, the Jesuits, dark lucifarianism, OTO.) Secret societies within secret societies, that are part of a "need to know" basis, much like how any corporation is set up, or the military.
Without that crucial knowledge, people get heavily taken by this tentacle and fall for the media wrapping and furnishing it's tentacle around you, taking the world "as you see it" as solid fact. The world is much different then people think it is laid out. They want you, on one side or the other of debates and not meeting in the middle. They want you falling for politics and not seeing the hidden agenda.
Unbiased research is needed to get past this left-right paradigm. Unbiased research with an open mind and quest for truth. Once people find these truths out, a much larger picture unfolds and all of these previous system tentacles are able to be seen as this interconnected web that has a hold on people. Knowing this allows a person to no longer fall for the illusion and it no longer has power above you.
Tentacle #17: Belief in governments rulers and bosses.
A deeply embedded concept throughout society is the belief in authority. For as long as civilization, people have believed that we need authority to take care of our lives. We are told that without 'it' we wouldn't survive and there would be chaos everywhere.
Besides children who need looking after, do you think you own someone else? Is someone else your body, your mind or your consciousness? Of coarse not. That would be wrong. If it's wrong on a small level, it's also wrong on a bigger level in the form of government. The concept of government is psychopathic on it's face and completely insane.
How has authority made your life better? Do you like being owned? If you have authority above you, then you're owned in some form. Governments, rulers and bosses are the reason that there is so much corruption in the world. Wars, taxes, scarcity, and corruption on so many levels can be blamed on a system of authority and thinking that they know best. Order followers just perpetuate it.
People avoid plucking this tentacle for reasons they think the world would turn to chaos if we had no governments. The problem is, this world is chaos because we have governments, rulers and bosses. Ultimately, people are afraid of their own personal responsibility. They would have to follow universal natural laws. They would have to work on themselves on becoming moral and ethical humans that are not afraid of personal responsibility and seek true freedom.
Severing yourself from this tentacle is very difficult in the physical right now because too many people blindly support being ruled. Knowing in your mind that authority is wrong and it doesnt exist in nature is very different.
Not being caught up in believing in a leader is liberating. To know that, we are free autonomous beings that are able to survive without them, gives them less power over your soul, because you know that authority is wrong from it's very inception. We are all equal, and nobody is supposed to have power over you as long as you're following universal laws.
Tentacle #18: Civilization
A lot of people might miss this one, but it's the biggest one, and all other tentacles hang from this one. The way that we live on planet Earth and mind-set of civilization does not line up with universal law.
Every big civilization has collapsed, due to what it is based on.
Civilization is based on the rape of the natural Earth. It is set up so it has to have a hierarchical structure in order for it to function. It is always built on slavery and violence.
It's the thought pattern of Man adapting the Earth to work for him. The thought pattern of Man playing God and other careless and unconscious acts. Strip mining, mountain top removal, dams, deforestation, oil spills, radiation and chemical leaks, nuclear warfare, chemtrails, fracking, mass agriculture, DNA tampering, pulse weopons, large manufacuturing just to name a few.
Built by economics, but not common sense. Western civilization being the most destructive of all. It's not just the western countries, but everywhere has adapted and become like that of the western countries, wether it's Asia, South America or Africa, or a small town on an island, the world copies the format of living against the Earth. Civilization must take from the Earth to exist.
Unfortunately, the Elite have also taken hold of environmental movements and used them as a way of controlling the narrative. For example, global warming from gas emissions has become an excepted scientific norm, and it's "all your fault" because of your "carbon footprint". They wont mention anything about ionospheric heaters messing up the jetstream or chemtrail operations controlling the weather, or mass manufacturing by large corporations, who are protected by governments.
Civilization has destroyed the way of life of the indigenous hunter gatherers that lived off of the land for thousands of years. Cultures, plant medicines, ethnobotany, unique adaptations to environment, oral histories, shamanism, all lost for the planet eating machine of civilization. People that had a relationship with the land, completely wiped out by a way of life that lives in oppostion to the land.
From ancient Sumer, to Acadia, to Babylon, to Assyria, to ancient China, to ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Maya, Aztecs, Incas, none of them have put humanity first and had relationships with the land. All of them have never let humanity be free to thrive.
Civilization is not a natural way to live on the planet. These are confining pens for human beings. Cities are farms for humans to labor and live under a hierarchical control pattern. Humans were meant to be nomadic and free. They were not meant to do the same things day after day. The Elite of this planet have been ruling for so long that people don't recognize civilization as the elite's creation to put a lid on humanity.
It is an insane existance and people think its normal. The lifestyle of civilization is making people fragmented and insane. Civilization is a structure that keeps people in a grid of life that doesnt allow freedom beyond the confines of paying to live. People lie to themselves everyday that this existance is normal, but it doesnt satisfy their natural instincts so it leaves people feeling inept.
To completely become free of the system tentacles, we must go back to nature and remember what it's like without the system. Understand that there is only natural law and the rest is a usurped version of life meant to confine humans of their true power and essence.
Civilization is a mind set that has been imposed on the natural. It assumes that it's ways are greater then the Earth's ways. It assumes it's at the penicle height of human evolution and that it's ways are greater then the indegenous lived. It assumes that an economy is more important then a living planet.
We must unhinge from civilization by realizing that all of the systems tentacles are under this umbrella of civilization. That it's not natural and know that humans are not the system. Knowing this will set you free, to know that we serve a beast and we don't have to serve it, and that there's much more to life then what we've been brought to believe. It's the elite's model of living. It's "their" system, not ours. We are much greater!
CONCLUSION...
Don't let this information get you down, but let it empower you! Knowing this information does not mean you can't have fun. It's just the opposite, we become more powerful knowing all of this information. It creates a better head on your shoulders.
Look at all of the civilizations that have fell. The reason is, humanity cannot be kept in confinement for too long. Look at at the tentacles of the system that are latched onto us. The elite have to have all of those things under their control, to in turn, hold us down. That should tell you something. It says that they are afraid of what humanity would become if they were left free. This system wouldn't hold us.
They know that when people unify in true freedom, that we would become much greater then "their system". Our power lies outside the system. We must slowly unstring ourselves from the tentacles of the system to figure out how to make a new existance on this planet!
Enjoy becoming unbound by the system so you can know who you were before someone told you who you were. Chant it down everyone...
Are you attached to the system tentacles? Does it have you?
Let go of the system and reclaim you. That's what this post is all about.
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ADAA recently received a small grant to launch a Spanish speaking version of the online community. The Spanish site is ready to launch; however, we need to identify a number of Spanish-speaking "ambassadors" that can monitor the site and answer inquiries. These can be students in the mental health professional field, or any colleagues who might like to become more involved with ADAA. Our staff would train the volunteers on how to serve as an administrator. Please email us if you would be interested in participating in this exciting project.
ADAA Live Professional Webinars — 1 Hour Interactive Format — Earn CE Credits
Tomorrow — October 4. Still time to register
Marketing Your Practice On-Line: Social Media and Beyond — not eligible for CEs
Timely Topic Webinar Series
Coming November 30, 2017 Promoting Positive Adaptation in Youth Exposed to Disasters: The Harvey Resiliency and Recovery Program.
October 18, 2017 Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry on Management of Treatment Resistant Depression
March 8, 2018 How to Use Behavioral Sleep Medicine Strategies to Help Your Clients with Depression and Anxiety
Coming December 2017 How to Conquer Negative Thinking Habits and Depression Through CBT
Coming March 2018 The Psychosocial Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
Coming February 2018 Using Behavioral Activation Treatment to Treat Perinatal Mood Disorders
January 11, 2018 Treating the Family: Addressing Family Accommodation in the Treatment of OCD
Coming May 2018 OCD and Medication Management
November 2, 2017 PTSD: From Cells to Communities
November 16, 2017 Acupressure, PTSD and Emotional Freedom Technique — An Innovative Approach to Healing
Coming February 2018 Eating Disorders & Co-Occurring Conditions and their Mental Health Impact
Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry on Management of Treatment Resistant Depression
OCD and Medication Management. Coming May 2018
Tomorrow! October 4, 2017 Marketing Your Practice On-Line: Social Media and Beyond — not eligible for CEs
December 14, 2017 Mining for Gold: Alternative Strategies for Successful Careers in Academic Medical Research
Keeping Imposter Syndrome at Bay: Using Social Media and Other Creative Tools to Build Mentorship and Confidence as an Early Career Professional — Coming May 2018
October 26, 2017 How to Optimize Your Work with Immigrants in our Current Political Climate: 5 Tips for Successful Interventions
February 22, 2018 Using Behavioral Activation Treatment to Treat Perinatal Mood Disorders
November 16, 2017 Acupressure, PTSD and Emotional Freedom Technique — An Innovative Approach to Healing — not eligible for CEs
January 15, 2018 Prescribing Exercise for Mood and Anxiety-Related Disorders
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ADAA Depression and Anxiety Journal
Depression and Anxiety, the official journal of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, is available online. ADAA members can subscribe at no charge. The journal welcomes original research and synthetic review articles covering neurobiology (genetics and neuroimaging), epidemiology, experimental psychopathology, and treatment (psychotherapeutic and pharmacologic) aspects of mood and anxiety disorders, and related phenomena in humans.
Error-related brain activity and internalizing disorder symptom dimensions in depression and anxiety
Stephanie M. Gorka, Katie L. Burkhouse, Kaveh Afshar and K. Luan Phan
Version of Record online: 20 SEP 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/da.22648
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9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Nov. 13 at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
This college health symposium will be a high-impact gathering of students and leading voices in higher education, public health, public policy and campus mental health. Panelists and symposium attendees will raise awareness of the growing mental health and wellness challenges facing of our nation's 19 million college students and will evaluate trends, research and innovations.
The American College Health Association, in partnership with the American College Health Foundation, is pleased to collaborate with the American College Health Foundation, ACPA — College Student Educators International, Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Active Minds, the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors, the Center for Collegiate Mental Health, The George Washington University, the Healthy Minds Network for Research on Adolescent and Young Adult Mental Health, The Jed Foundation, Mid-Atlantic College Health Association, NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, and NIRSA: Leaders in Collegiate Recreation on its inaugural symposium. The goal of the symposium is to bring together university leaders, mental health providers, public policy leaders, students and philanthropists to begin a national dialogue on developing an actionable blueprint for addressing the mental health crisis on campus.
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RESEARCH AND PRACTICE NEWS
Study: Your moods are contagious, depression is not
True depression is a health condition in need of treatment, just as much as diabetes or hypertension, while mood results from the normal ebb and flow of emotions. One way to demonstrate this is by showing that it's possible to pass along your good and bad moods to others, but not your depression. A new study reveals exactly that. READ MORE
Smartphone apps reduce depression
Western Sydney University via EuerkAlert!
New Australian-led research has confirmed that smartphone apps are an effective treatment option for depression, paving the way for safe and accessible interventions for the millions of people around the world diagnosed with this condition. The study was published recently in the journal World Psychiatry. READ MORE
Drugs plus therapy best for children with severe anxiety
Teens and children struggling with anxiety are often prescribed medication or therapy to treat their symptoms. For many, either drugs or therapy is enough, but some young people can't find respite from anxious thoughts. For them, a study suggests that using both treatments at once can help. The study was published in the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology. READ MORE
Rat study suggests link between cognition, sleep and schizophrenia
Schizophrenia affects more than 3.2 million Americans. The illness is not rare as around 100,000 Americans are newly diagnosed every year. Many with the disease have trouble with learning and memory. For many, this is the first sign of the disease. Now, a new study by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine has found intriguing links between sleep, cognition and a compound called kynurenine. READ MORE
Increased mortality in Parkinson's disease linked to low antidepressant adherence
A four-year follow-up study is the first of its kind to show an inverse relationship between adherence to antidepressant medication and all-cause mortality in a large, population-based cohort of patients with Parkinson's disease. Findings from the retrospective analysis of medical data from the Clalit Health Service, the largest healthcare provider in Israel, were published in Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. READ MORE
MISSED AN ISSUE OF ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION INSIGHTS? VISIT AND SEARCH THE ARCHIVE TODAY.
Anxious moms' babies more alert to threatening faces
New research finds that mothers often worry, but babies of anxious mothers may also spend more time focusing on threats in their environment. Using a novel experimental design, Pennsylvania State University scientists used eye-tracking technology to measure how long babies spent looking at happy, neutral, and angry faces. They found that the babies with anxious moms had a harder time looking away from an angry face. READ MORE
Lithium remains underused for mood disorders in US clinical practice
Although evidence regarding the antisuicidal effects of lithium has been reported over the last 40 years, "the use of lithium is still underrepresented in clinical practice and should be incorporated more assertively into current guidelines," according to findings of a recent review. During the review, the study authors aimed to assess the best evidence evaluating the effect of lithium on suicide and self-harm rates. READ MORE
How childhood trauma affects the brain
It is not news that people abused as children are more exposed to clinical depression, anxiety, and a higher risk of death from suicide. But now, researchers have begun to reveal what happens in the brain following this kind of trauma. The findings were published recently in The American Journal of Psychiatry. READ MORE
Postpartum depression likely to recur
HealthDay News via WebMD
Women who have suffered from postpartum depression are more likely to go through it again after subsequent pregnancies, a new Danish study shows. Postpartum depression occurs 27 to 46 times more frequently during subsequent pregnancies for mothers who experienced it after their first birth, researchers reported Sept. 26 in the journal PLOS Medicine. READ MORE
UCLA offers depression screenings for incoming students
Emilia Szmyrgala turned into a zombie during midterms and finals — a sleepless, non-showering, isolated study monster focused entirely on acing her exams. The 21-year-old senior at UCLA remembers it being worse in her freshman and sophomore years. When she got into this mode, she might not eat anything all day, except for some Twizzlers. Fears of failure crept in, and life became overwhelming. READ MORE
7 simple changes to your home that fight depression
Anyone who's ever been seriously depressed or knows someone who has been understands that it's not something you can easily "snap out of," and that working with a mental health professional is often crucial. Most people do best with a combination of therapy and medication, but other lifestyle factors may also play a role. Just as surrounding yourself with positive people may help keep your mood up, your surroundings matter, too. READ MORE
Brain inflammation linked to suicidal thinking in depression (Science Daily)
2 studies explore depression and the brain (By Dorothy L. Tengler)
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CHUCK HAGEL, BILL BRADLEY, JOHN HUNTSMAN: some good suggestions for filling openings in the Cabinet
I was listing to Saturday's edition of "On Point" on WBUR this morning. There was a discussion about who might make a good selection to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, and Ben Bernanke, who is expected to step down (or be asked to?) as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
I jumped for joy when I heard the political analyst suggest crossing party lines to fill some of these positions.
I had always wished Obama had picked Republican Chuck Hagel as his running mate back in 2008. Could such a move have avoided the incredible split and polarization that has made Congress appear to be hopelessly partisan and completely useless when the country is facing such serious challenges?
From Wikipedia: "Since his election to the Senate in 1996, Hagel served as deputy whip for the Republican Caucus. He was chair of both the Senate Global Climate Change Observer Group and the Senate Oversight Task Force. He served as co-chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. He also served on the NATO Observer Group. Hagel was a member of four Senate committees: Foreign Relations; Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; the Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Rules and Administration."
I heard Hagel -- one of the only members of Congress to immediately oppose Bush's decision to enter Iraq after 9/11 -- interviewed on NPR when he was stepping down from the Senate. His independent intelligence, and honest connections with and respect by high ranking members of the military impressed me. I immediately thought he would be a great running mate for Obama. Here's some more interesting information on Hagel from Wikipedia:
"On August 18, 2005, Hagel compared the Iraq War to Vietnam and openly mocked Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes".[28]
In November 2005, Hagel made a much-publicized statement:
"To question your government is not unpatriotic — to not question your government is unpatriotic."
(This was in reference to the lack of open debate in Congress regarding the Iraq War, and in
defense of his assertion that the United States should withdraw its troops.)
In January 2006, Hagel took issue with Karl Rove over controversial statements the White House advisor made concerning the mindset of Republicans and Democrats. Hagel said, "Well, I didn't like what Mr. Rove said, because it frames terrorism and the issue of terrorism and everything that goes with it, whether it's the renewal of the Patriot Act or the NSA wiretapping, in a political context." He also said that "dark clouds" are hanging over the Republican party, and "If you look at the environment and the atmospherics politically in this town, read any poll. The sixth year of a governing party usually ... is not good ... the country is tired, a lot of complications in these international issues, we're at war."[30] Hagel further criticized the Bush administration, saying, "National security is more important than the Republican Party or the Democratic Party. And to use it to try to get someone elected will ultimately end up in defeat and disaster for that political party."[30]
Both Hagel and John Huntsman were suggested as possible replacements for Hillary Clinton. I think either could prove to be effective and intelligent choices. Not only would it cross party lines (offering voters the beginnings of a "hybrid" government, a symbol for the need for dialogue, compromise in solving problems, and mutual respect), but each of these individuals have great experience in Inernational Relations.
Regardidng a replacement for Ben Bernanke, the name of BILL BRADLEY -- one of my all-time favorite politicians -- came up. I was impressed by his brilliant mind, thoughtful and responsible speaking, dedication to problem solving, his work ethic, and innovative thinking.
Please -- do yourself a favor and CLICK HERE to watch Bradley comment reflect on the need for Campaign Finance Reform.
Bradley has since written a book, "We Can All Do Better," and continues to serve his country as a public speaker and dedicated, altruistic thought leader. His in-depth knowledge of macro-economics is among his many skills.
In spite of my overwhelming respect for Bradley, I cross registered in the political primary the resulted in G.W. Bush running for the GOP. I did this to vote for John McCain over G.W. Bush who did not impress me. I knew Bradley had no chance to win in the primary over the incumbant Al Gore. But he remains in my mind as one of the most impressive individuals in American politics. I have often joked (along the lines of Ayn Rand?), "I think Bill Bradley is just too good and too smart for most American voters."
Finally -- regarding the "Fiscal Cliff," I just received the following data points from an educated source:
The following ten items reveal the deadening effects of inequality in our country, and confirm that tax avoidance, rather than a lack of middle-class initiative, is the cause.
1. Only THREE PERCENT of the very rich are entrepreneurs. According to both Market watch and economist Edward Wolff, over 90 percent of the assets owned by millionaires are held in a combination of low-risk investments (bonds and cash), personal business accounts, the stock market, and real estate. Only 3.6 percent of taxpayers in the top .1% were classified as entrepreneurs based on 2004 tax returns. A 2009 Kauffman Foundation study found that the great majority of entrepreneurs come from middle-class backgrounds, with less than 1 percent of all entrepreneurs coming from very rich or very poor backgrounds.
2. Only FOUR OUT OF 150 countries have more wealth inequality than us.
In a world listing compiled by a reputable research team (which nevertheless prompted double-checking), the U.S. has greater wealth inequality than every measured country in the world except for Namibia, Zimbabwe, Denmark, and Switzerland.
3. An amount equal to ONE-HALF the GDP is held untaxed overseas by uber-wealthy Americans.
The Tax Justice Network estimated that between $21 and $32 trillion is hidden offshore, untaxed. With Americans making up40% of the world's Ultra High Net Worth Individuals, that's $8 to $12 trillion in U.S. money stashed in far-off hiding places.
Based on a historical stock market return of 6%, up to $750 billion of income is lost to the U.S. every year, resulting in a tax loss of about $260 billion.
4. Corporations stopped paying HALF OF THEIR TAXES after the recession.
After paying an average of 22.5% from 1987 to 2008, corporations have paid an annual rate of 10% since. This represents a sudden $250 billion annual loss in taxes.
U.S. corporations have shown a pattern of tax reluctance for more than 50 years, despite building their businesses with American research and infrastructure. They've passed the responsibility on to their workers. For every dollar of workers' payroll tax paid in the 1950s, corporations paid three dollars. Now it's 22 cents.
5. Just TEN Americans made a total of FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS in one year.
That's enough to pay the salaries of over a million nurses or teachers or emergency responders.
That's enough, according to 2008 estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the UN's World Food Program, to feed the 870 million people in the world who are lacking sufficient food.
For the free-market advocates who say "they've earned it": Point #1 above makes it clear how the wealthy make their money.
6. Tax deductions for the rich could pay off 100 PERCENT of the deficit.
Another stat that required a double-check. Based on research by the Tax Policy Center, tax deferrals and deductions and other forms of tax expenditures (tax subsidies from special deductions, exemptions, exclusions, credits, capital gains, and loopholes), which largely benefit the rich, are worth about 7.4% of the GDP, or about $1.1 trillion.
Other sources have estimated that about two-thirds of the annual $850 billion in tax expenditures goes to the top quintile of taxpayers.
7. The average single black or Hispanic woman has about $100 IN NET WORTH.
The Insight Center for Community Economic Developmentreported that median wealth for black and Hispanic women is a little over $100. That's much less than one percent of the median wealth for single white women ($41,500).
Other studies confirm the racially-charged economic inequality in our country. For every dollar of NON-HOME wealth owned by white families, people of color have only one cent.
8. Elderly and disabled food stamp recipients get $4.30 A DAY FOR FOOD.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) has dropped significantly over the past 15 years, serving only about a quarter of the families in poverty, and paying less than $400 per month for a family of three for housing and other necessities. Ninety percent of the available benefits go to the elderly, the disabled, or working households.
Food stamp recipients get $4.30 a day.
9. Young adults have lost TWO-THIRDS OF THEIR NET WORTH since 1984.
21- to 35-year-olds: Your median net worth has dropped 68% since 1984. It's now less than $4,000.
That $4,000 has to pay for student loans that average $27,200. Or, if you're still in school, for $12,700 in credit card debt.
With an unemployment rate for 16- to 24-year-olds of almost 50%, two out of every five recent college graduates are living with their parents. But your favorite company may be hiring. Apple, which makes a profit of $420,000 per employee, can pay you about $12per hour.
10. The American public paid about FOUR TRILLION DOLLARS to bail out the banks.
That's about the same amount of money made by America's richest 10% in one year. But we all paid for the bailout. And because of it, we lost the opportunity for jobs, mortgage relief, and educational funding.
Bonus for the super-rich: A QUADRILLION DOLLARS in securities trading nets ZERO sales tax revenue for the U.S.
The world derivatives market is estimated to be worth over a quadrillion dollars (a thousand trillion). At least $200 trillion of that is in the United States. In 2011 the Chicago Mercantile Exchange reported a trading volume of over $1 quadrillion on 3.4 billion annual contracts.
A quadrillion dollars. A sales tax of ONE-TENTH OF A PENNY on a quadrillion dollars could pay off the deficit. But the total sales tax was ZERO.
Food for thought as we, the voters, put increasing pressure on our apparently useless members of Congress to take some action to fix what is broken, now that the voters -- not Congress -- have decided who will be president for the next 4 years (with no ability to be re-elected.) I hope Congress spends more time doing their jobs, and not the jobs of the voters.
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