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GUNS: THE ESSENCE OF AMERICA

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Since I was a kid growing up in the 1950s guns were promoted as THE toy to own and “play” with.  America is country built on guns.  The invaders of the American continents from European countries we able to kill and enslave all of the indigenous population because they possessed and used one thing:  GUNS.  Americans WORSHIP guns.  A gigantic number of movies, TV shows, books, etc. glorify the use of guns.  Killing with guns is an entertainment.  Killing with guns is a sport.  Guns are power.  Power is “good”.  Killing with guns is the RELIGION of the United States of America.  The right to own and use guns to kill anything and everything that moves is guaranteed in the Constitution of The United States of America.  The US also spends more than 2/3rds of every tax dollar on the military.  So, if you are “shocked” by the use of guns to massacre small children in classrooms of America, you are either an idiot or a hypocrite, or both.  What goes around, comes around.

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE HERE:  Papa Says It’s Safe”: 20 Astounding Gun Ads | Mother Jones.

 

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10 TESLA INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED OUR WORLD

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10 INVENTIONS OF NIKOLA TESLA:

1. Alternating Current – This is where it all began, and what ultimately caused such a stir at the 1893 World’s Expo in Chicago.  A war was leveled ever-after between the vision of Edison and the vision of Tesla for how electricity would be produced and distributed.  The division can be summarized as one of cost and safety: The DC current that Edison (backed by General Electric) had been working on was costly over long distances, and produced dangerous sparking from the required converter (called a commutator).  Regardless, Edison and his backers utilized the general “dangers” of electric current to instill fear in Tesla’s alternative: Alternating Current.  As proof, Edison sometimes electrocuted animals at demonstrations.  Consequently, Edison gave the world the electric chair, while simultaneously maligning Tesla’s attempt to offer safety at a lower cost.  Tesla responded by demonstrating that AC was perfectly safe by famously shooting current through his own body to produce light.  This Edison-Tesla (GE-Westinghouse) feud in 1893 was the culmination of over a decade of shady business deals, stolen ideas, and patent suppression that Edison and his moneyed interests wielded over Tesla’s inventions. Yet, despite it all, it is Tesla’s system that provides power generation and distribution to North America in our modern era.

2. Light – Of course he didn’t invent light itself, but he did invent how light can be harnessed and distributed.  Tesla developed and used florescent bulbs in his lab some 40 years before industry “invented” them. At the World’s Fair, Tesla took glass tubes and bent them into famous scientists’ names, in effect creating the first neon signs.  However, it is his Tesla Coil that might be the most impressive, and controversial.  The Tesla Coil is certainly something that big industry would have liked to suppress: the concept that the Earth itself is a magnet that can generate electricity (electromagnetism) utilizing frequencies as a transmitter.  All that is needed on the other end is the receiver — much like a radio.

3. X-rays – Electromagnetic and ionizing radiation was heavily researched in the late 1800s, but Tesla researched the entire gamut. Everything from a precursor to Kirlian photography, which has the ability to document life force, to what we now use in medical diagnostics, this was a transformative invention of which Tesla played a central role.  X-rays, like so many of Tesla’s contributions, stemmed from his belief that everything we need to understand the universe is virtually around us at all times, but we need to use our minds to develop real-world devices to augment our innate perception of existence.

4. Radio – Guglielmo Marconi was initially credited, and most believe him to be the inventor of radio to this day.  However, the Supreme Court overturned Marconi’s patent in 1943, when it was proven that Tesla invented the radio years previous to Marconi.  Radio signals are just another frequency that needs a transmitter and receiver, which Tesla also demonstrated in 1893 during a presentation before The National Electric Light Association.  In 1897 Tesla applied for two patents US 645576, and US 649621. In 1904, however, The U.S. Patent Office reversed its decision, awarding Marconi a patent for the invention of radio, possibly influenced by Marconi’s financial backers in the States, who included Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie. This also allowed the U.S. government (among others) to avoid having to pay the royalties that were being claimed by Tesla.

5. Remote Control – This invention was a natural outcropping of radio. Patent No.613809 was the first remote controlled model boat, demonstrated in 1898.  Utilizing several large batteries; radio signals controlled switches, which then energized the boat’s propeller, rudder, and scaled-down running lights. While this exact technology was not widely used for some time, we now can see the power that was appropriated by the military in its pursuit of remote controlled war. Radio controlled tanks were introduced by the Germans in WWII, and developments in this realm have since slid quickly away from the direction of human freedom.

6. Electric Motor – Tesla’s invention of the electric motor has finally been popularized by a carbrandishing his name.  While the technical specifications are beyond the scope of this summary, suffice to say that Tesla’s invention of a motor with rotating magnetic fields could have freed mankind much sooner from the stranglehold of Big Oil.  However, his invention in 1930 succumbed to the economic crisis and the world war that followed. Nevertheless, this invention has fundamentally changed the landscape of what we now take for granted: industrial fans, household applicances, water pumps, machine tools, power tools, disk drives, electric wristwatches and compressors.

7. Robotics – Tesla’s overly enhanced scientific mind led him to the idea that all living beings are merely driven by external impulses.  He stated: “I have by every thought and act of mine, demonstrated, and does so daily, to my absolute satisfaction that I am an automaton endowed with power of movement, which merely responds to external stimuli.”  Thus, the concept of the robot was born.  However, an element of the human remained present, as Tesla asserted that these human replicas should have limitations — namely growth and propagation. Nevertheless, Tesla unabashedly embraced all of what intelligence could produce.  His visions for a future filled with intelligent cars, robotic human companions, and the use of sensors, and autonomous systems are detailed in a must-read entry in the Serbian Journal of Electrical Engineering, 2006 (PDF).

8. Laser – Tesla’s invention of the laser may be one of the best examples of the good and evil bound up together within the mind of man.  Lasers have transformed surgical applications in an undeniably beneficial way, and they have given rise to much of our current digital media. However, with this leap in innovation we have also crossed into the land of science fiction.  From Reagan’s “Star Wars” laser defense system to today’s Orwellian “non-lethal” weapons’ arsenal, which includes laser rifles and directed energy “death rays,” there is great potential for development in both directions.

9 and 10. Wireless Communications and Limitless Free Energy – These two are inextricably linked, as they were the last straw for the power elite — what good is energy if it can’t be metered and controlled?  Free?  Never.  J.P. Morgan backed Tesla with $150,000 to build a tower that would use the natural frequencies of our universe to transmit data, including a wide range of information communicated through images, voice messages, and text.  This represented the world’s first wireless communications, but it also meant that aside from the cost of the tower itself, the universe was filled with free energy that could be utilized to form a world wide web connecting all people in all places, as well as allow people to harness the free energy around them.  Essentially, the 0′s and 1′s of the universe are embedded in the fabric of existence for each of us to access as needed.  Nikola Tesla was dedicated to empowering the individual to receive and transmit this data virtually free of charge.  But we know the ending to that story . . . until now?

Tesla had perhaps thousands of other ideas and inventions that remain unreleased.  A look at his hundreds of patents shows a glimpse of the scope he intended to offer.

( Information source:  http://www.expressionoftruth.com/2013/05/the-10-inventions-of-nikola-tesla-that.html )

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EGALITARIAN DREAMS

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keep-calm-were-all-equalRecently I received the following E-mail message from my friend Eduardo  in Thailand who read the book Alien Interview, and sometimes shares his thoughts related to the ideas in the book.  Here is the message he sent and my response:

“Hi Lawrence.  I’ve been imagining the potential of DNA studies in social theory. It is the sort of research that may or may not have been done without publishing results. It deals with the meaningful comparison of DNA samples from both a subject claiming to be someone’s reincarnation with that of the dead body. After some experiments, Scientifics, are sure to come up with a pattern of identification. A good number of studies will be needed to confirm the hypothesis. Then it could become a subject of speculation by politicians and social change geeks.

Perhaps one of the first and easiest policies could be making possible for every citizen buying some land for personal use -without property taxes, for fairness- and offering its return after death using the DNA data. It’s just a dream but -in my opinion- consequences could be far reaching.

– The citizen will be the basis of government power in itself, the sole beneficiary of government decisions, and the final responsible of upholding national integrity.  Biological constitution while subject to degeneration and death, does not need to be the target of exploitation by perverted policies as in the human past. Every citizen has the right to participate in society. Individuals in need will be the target of social reinsertion programs and dedicated installations during hardship. Animals, like humans, are sentient beings, the excuse of human superiority to make them suffer will not be tolerated. Biased social theories based on disguised vexation followed by adulation to claim control over a community are not the only alternative for government.

– The government will be the body dedicated to the management of individuals, resources, the healthy relationship between both, and ensuring their sustainability and safety. – All the land and resources within national borders will be the sole property of the government. Resources of concern are those regarded as finite by the government, hence its administration is regulated to compensate for its loss accordingly. Resulting scientific-technological improvements from government research will be available without further fees, licenses or patent rights to every citizen.

– Services required by property owners’ may be offered by the government for a fee. Property owners are under no obligation to contract these services as long as their replacement meets the standard for natural resources use.

– Wealth will be the reward of an individual or group of individuals diligence to provide a product or service in exchange for currency. The government, through its banking services, will be the sole manager of national currency. The government, through its employment office will be the sole manager of the labor force. The government, through its social security service will be the sole manager of individual needs. The government will manage national research and development programs. National employee wages in both public and private enterprises will be tiered to factors of preparation and experience level of the employee. The government source of revenue is derived from taxation on commercial enterprises.

Obviously, the big problems are collective amnesia between lives, lack of time for individual development, the need for a personal exclusive space, and intolerant short-sighted governments. This is just my point of view on something better.   How does it sound to you? ”

Cheers, Eduardo

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“Hi Eduardo,   How do it sound?  As I am sure you are aware, the ideas expressed in this article are an “Egalitarian Dream”.  That is, such a government and state of existence can exist only where the population is selfless, and the leaders and administrators of government are sane and benevolent.  On Earth, as described by Airl in Alien Interview, the population are prison inmates.  The self-appointed and anointed “leaders” of what is called “civilization” on Earth are repetitively (due to reincarnation and amnesia) the criminal psychopaths — parasitic thieves, mass-murderers, and predators in pursuit of nothing more than a single lifetime of personal power, control and immediate gratification.  Simply stated, Earth is a prison planet.  Like any prison its only purpose is to dispose of, or control, unwanted individuals deemed to be “undesirable” or “unmanageable” beings.  The egalitarian, selfless qualities of benevolence do not exist in “government” of Earth, any more than the “government” of any prison.

However, there are a multitude of social, selfless citizens of Earth.  Each of these have amnesia, and do not know they are INSIDE a prison. Yet  there remains a “feeling” deep within each immoral being that a society of beings can exist without brutality and inequality.  Egalitarian civilizations may have been possible in a dimly perceived, but unknown place in a forgotten past.

Perhaps, on Earth, a monastery, or isolated commune of selective individuals an ideal Egalitarian civilization could be realized beyond the reach and retribution of the “prison guards”. There have certainly been many attempts.  It has been written that any group of people is only as sane, and able coexist equitably, as the individuals members. Therefore, each individual being must be, or become, capable of egalitarian co-existence within themselves.  Alone we may tolerate, or even admire, our own behavior.  But can such equanimity be extended to include one other person? Three, twenty or ten million? Every “civilization” is composed of individual beings.  An benevolent, egalitarian civilization must have members who are each willing and able to co-exist as such. Personally, I am not sure that such behavior exists in the essential nature of any immortal spiritual being in this universe. But, one can dream of such beings — or be one.”  — LRS