[CitizensTruth] Obama as change vs. more-o-same-Empire-guy

[Janice Matthews]

Interesting question, and worth considering, personally, and I think for 
all of us. This is difficult work we're doing, trying to create a better 
world, and it's pretty easy to get "lost" in that work, as I've 
certainly  experienced (and still do sometimes). There is a balance 
required with knowing the truth of the political/social realities and 
investigating the truth for our Selves and our own immediate World, 
yes...  I've been doing that a lot more lately. Part of it is avoiding 
Information Overload Disorder, as I've come to call it, which can be 
quite deadly.

I'll be very interested to read more about other people on this list, as 
I value the input from you, ... e-affinity group, I guess :)
So as for me--
In addition to "administering" an international organization with 
200-250 local groups (911truth.org) and facilitating our website and 
online store, outreach to other groups, and investigating possibilities 
to work internationally with people toward justice (in general), and 
posting articles to WorldCantWait.net and participating with their web 
group, I ...
just got my substitute teaching emergency certificate and am hoping to 
be able to sub several days a week, in spite of holding the school 
accountable lately for some really shitty policies toward kids...
have an editing/transcription business called PDQ Word Services, which 
is growing a little but not nearly enough...
have six children, eldest married, three at home, one on the 
hippy-trail-to happiness (?), one graduating high school this year who 
lives with dad...
participate with local kids' sports groups and two schools (elementary 
and middle school) and 4H and science fair ...
play the guitar and piano and listen to music a LOT...
dance on my deck when I get stressed out ...
don't have television and /do/ support my community radio station ...
have a flock of 12 poultry (chickens, guineas, & ducks) laying a LOT of 
eggs at the moment, and have 38 more chicks coming in the mail next 
week, 2 dogs and 2 cats, and milk goats and a pig coming later this 
spring ...
am working with my neighbor (who rents from me the small cabin on the 
hill above me and has just written a Thoreau-inspired book I'm editing 
now) to get the ground broken and ready for a 20' x 40' garden with 
heritage seeds here pretty quick, near the apple/peach/berries/grapes 
orchard area ...
am preparing to be prepared if we go off-grid in the next year (uhm, 
that's a hopeful stretch...)
grew up hunting and fishing and still think the second amendment is 
valuable, especially out in the woods where I live, and especially when 
the weird phone guy shows up on my back porch hooking into my phone 
lines and then won't tell me what the hell he's doing, and won't leave 
until I give him "exactly 30 seconds" to show me the warrant or get in 
his truck and get the ____ off my property (yeah, think Deliverance if 
you want) ...
have a great picture of "Unbought & Unbossed" Shirley Chisolm under a 
Doctors Without Borders world map and We Will Not Be Silent postcard on 
my wall; with a fabulous little picture of women and children building a 
school in El Salvador, the best part of which is a woman with her arms 
around two children holding flowers, machine gun slung over her 
children, smiling; next to a card that says "When injustice becomes Law, 
RESISTANCE becomes Duty" ... and the huge abstract print of two midwives 
holding babies behind me, with the warrior scripture "But the midwives 
feared (respected) God, and did NOT as the King of Egypt commanded them, 
but saved the children alive."  [Yeah, once upon a time I helped babies 
get born peacefully, before I started trying to save the world so they 
could actually /live/ in it :)  ]
Okay, fine, I'll admit it--I taped up the little fairy birthday card my 
ex sent me last year under that. (Even Warrior Women need pretty 
pictures of winged fairies with butterflies sometimes, right?)...
oh yeah... and my daughter's first place science fair trophy, with 
multiple "I love you so much mommy" drawings and paintings here and there :)

Oh yeah, and I burn a lot of nag champa...

If you looked in my eyes you would see weariness, and laughter, I think.

Janice




Kris Knight wrote:

> All great points, and thank you.  Just keeping up with the facts is 

> formidable, much less having an educated opinion about things...   But 

> I would also ask...in what ways can we move forward without putting so 

> much energy into being steered by those in politics?  We are 

> surrounded by negativity, including much coming from within our ranks 

> which feeds the collective of negativity.  HOW can we withdraw our 

> energy from that and INVEST our energy in redirecting outcomes TOWARD 

> positive?  One initial question which on the surface seems shallow, or 

> redundant, but isn't really---where do I put my money?  And where do I 

> put my attention, my fascination, my gratitude?  They are all currency.  

> What do you fill your daily brain/mind workings with?  what is the 

> ratio?  And then, what do you suppose you truly emanate to others, 

> which is NOT what you do but what comes from or actually IS the 

> essence of everything that makes you up, incl. every thought.  Since I 

> know little about each of you and what you fill your lives with 

> outside of what I read, it is difficult to know to whom I am writing 

> this...but it is relevant for each of us.  For me every day.  WHAT DO 

> I EMANATE INTO THE ENERGETIC WORLD???

> I'D honestly like to hear more about people who are of this group 

> list.  Perhaps we each are emanating much that is positively feeding 

> the web of LIFE but use this group to focus on a really challenging 

> aspect of LIFE on this planet.  Hal probably knows alot about each of 

> us, but I know nearly nothing about most of you.  And if you think 

> this is poppycock to request more info about what it is you fill your 

> lives with behind the words we all read on this list, why, I wonder, 

> would this seem so irrelevant or  pointless to you?  Not so much what 

> you DO but what you feel you emanate out into the world when you're 

> standing still...and don't be modest.  Be honest.

> Right now I"m looking at an extraordinary picture of Jane Goodall, 

> having eye contact with a huge gorilla that is literally holding her 

> in its arms, looking at her.  WHAT they emanate is abundantly clear. 

>  If I looked into your eyes right now, what would I see, what would 

> they tell me?  If you put your hand on me right now, what would that 

> contact tell me?  

>

> On Feb 16, 2009, at 8:59 AM, Janice Matthews wrote:

>

>> Yeah, I'm afraid I agree here and would like to be shown what's 

>> changing for human beings under the Obama Regime. I still see him as 

>> the new, much more eloquent, convincing, and thus dangerous, face of 

>> the desperate and crumbling Empire. USA Today reports this national 

>> poll today, showing 2/3 of Americans want investigation (and nearly 

>> half of those want prosecution) : 

>> http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-02-11-investigation-poll_N.htm 

>> . I would like to see investigation/prosecution begin, rather than 

>> hearing "I prefer to be forward-looking but will let Eric Holder 

>> decide whether to prosecute." (The same Eric Holder who managed to 

>> keep OKC/Kenny Trentadue's death under wraps, and those perpetrators 

>> to go free? great...)

>>

>> That does not look, at all, like change to me. Further, Jason Leopold 

>> (ConsortiumNews.com) just published an excellent piece called 

>> "Torture Report Erodes Bush's Defense." And Jonathan Turley and other 

>> Constitutional lawyers (remember, Obama is one...) are stating firmly 

>> that he /must/ prosecute or he will be guilty of the same! The 

>> Raytheon executive in charge of the Pentagon finances when it was 

>> announced (9/10/01) they'd lost 3.2 TRILLION DOLLARS from the 

>> Pentagon budget has been appointed BY OBAMA as Deputy Defense 

>> Secretary (www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12291 

>> <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102460153564&e=001KoGnquAjw2k0H9H53TBPRgryQD4Ddwo-D5lYHVFOKlzSf63qvZTEtVuZcamJHADHe1LwSAH5W7qtHN7Xzk1YM0J9Uz4niHPEVzuZLCzyySnX4N-TC0lPrFCCva8H7_Nt2q_HBy3ccZ-UhsnbG8t-MzQGLEYQzCYww4WjJ-I8DYM=> 

>> ). I could go on and on about who he's appointed, but won't. Oh, and 

>> he just sent more drones into Pakistan and killed another 60 

>> "terrorists."

>>

>> Honestly, I simply do not understand how people can see this as a 

>> string of positive events, though I'm willing to listen if there's 

>> some truth and reality I'm not seeing ... top-down convincing people 

>> that they should "sign up" to organize repairing the nation feels to 

>> me like convincing the worker-bees to produce more, to bolster the 

>> company's future, while selling the assembly-line products to powers 

>> destroying the world... "Produce more of these genetic seeds... 

>> they're good for the world." kind of thing. He may be eloquent, but 

>> my opinion is that makes him a more believable liar. Look at what 

>> he's DOING, not what he's saying.

>>

>> And frankly, what's the question here... If I beat my children, and 

>> am caught (and admit it on national television), I would be arrested 

>> and tried for it. No question. If I did it to hundreds (or thousands) 

>> of people, I'd make front page headlines, endless hours on the 

>> 24-7-news channels, and fear to walk the streets, lest people 

>> beat/kill me for my heinous crimes. So really. What's the 

>> difference?! I simply do not understand people having any question 

>> about this whatsoever!! Crime -> investigation -> admission -> trial 

>> -> sentencing. Period. No matter why we feel the need to consider 

>> whether we should push for prosecution, the fact that we're having to 

>> "consider whether" to prosecute is what needs to be looked at!

>>

>> Thanks for listening...

>> Janice

>>

>> Jay Becker wrote:

>>> In what ways is the Obama administration "restoring control of the 

>>> government to the people"? Not some words dug up from a speech that 

>>> appeals to our prejudices but in fact, in deeds. The wars continue 

>>> and are being expanded, despite the fact that millions have voted 

>>> for the Democrats in two election cycles as a vote to end those 

>>> wars. The bail-out? Commentators across the political spectrum agree 

>>> that it is essentially the same approach that the Bush 

>>> administration took, with a few revisions. Ending renditions? Last 

>>> week the Obama Dept. of Justice (!) went into court and argued just 

>>> what the Bush DoJ had: "Don't let lawsuits by detainees seeking 

>>> redress for the crimes committed against them go forward because 

>>> they will expose state secrets" - namely, the crimes against 

>>> international law this government wants to continue behind the veil 

>>> of state secrets!

>>>

>>> If we go along with all this because of a few crumbs thrown our way 

>>> (precious few, in fact), then we are indeed complicit with that, and 

>>> much more.

>>>

>>> "On the inauguration, crimes...and complicity"

>>> By Bob Avakian

>>>

>>> http://www.revcom.us/a/157/Avakian_on_Obama-en.html

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>> * *//Stop thinking like an American,

>>> Start thinking about humanity!

>>>

>>>

>>> --- On *Mon, 2/16/09, Hal Snyder /<hal at drxyzzy.org>/* wrote:

>>>

>>>     From: Hal Snyder <hal at drxyzzy.org>

>>>     Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] Icke on Obama

>>>     To: citizenstruth at six.pairlist.net

>>>     Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 7:15 AM

>>>

>>>     David Icke is an interesting phenomenon. He can be insightful,

>>>     charismatic, absurd, and hateful. I don't think he makes a

>>>     strong case against Obama.

>>>

>>>     Barack Obama and his administration clearly present a mixed picture.

>>>

>>>     However, in response to Icke's charge that he is working to

>>>     control the masses, there is ample evidence that Obama wants to

>>>     restore control of the government to the people. We see attempts

>>>     at taking community organizing to a national level. Community

>>>     organizing is the opposite of top-down mind control. It is based

>>>     on encouraging people to develop their own power.

>>>

>>>     /... a viable organization can only be achieved if a broadly

>>>     based indigenous leadership — and not one or two charismatic

>>>     leaders — can knit together the diverse interests of their local

>>>     institutions/

>>>     - Barack Obama

>>>

>>>     References:

>>>

>>>     Documentary, DAVID ICKE: The Lizards and the Jews

>>>     http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2912878405399014351

>>>

>>>     change.gov

>>>     usaservice.org

>>>

>>>     Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner City - by Barack

>>>     Obama, 1990.

>>>     http://www.edwoj.com/Alinsky/AlinskyObamaChapter1990.htm

>>>

>>>     On Feb 16, 2009, at 12:44 AM, andrew ritter wrote:

>>>

>>>>     I'm sure there are a variety of opinions on David Icke, but I

>>>>     think he has some pretty solid arguments against Obama.  I have

>>>>     included some highlights below.  Full posting is very long and

>>>>     sometimes wanders, but also has a lot of indisputable facts &

>>>>     worth a read here:

>>>>

>>>>     Barack Obama: The Naked Emperor

>>>>     http://www.davidicke.com/content/view/18281

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>     ...

>>>>     I worked in television for more than a decade, often reading

>>>>     autocue while a director spoke in my ear telling me

>>>>     what cameras to look at. I have, since the early 1990s, spoken

>>>>     my truth on public stages across the world. I know, therefore,

>>>>     the difference between artificial autocue delivery and body

>>>>     language and talking from the heart without a script. Obama, I

>>>>     repeat, is coming from the autocue, not the heart.

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