After months of wrestling with the County Building Department about permits and codes, excruciating financial gymnastics and down and dirty back-breaking spadework, we finally got our solar installation up. It’s a massive 3 kw (stc) photovoltaic pole mount.
We feel like we created the best of two worlds, too, since we live way back in the woods while, at the same time, are generating a lot of electricity. We inscribed a Sun Mantra, OM Suryaya Namaha, around the base of the installation, honoring the Sun as the principal of light, life and love. In Vedic Philosophy, the Sun represents the soul—the causal body or reincarnating entity, as well as the mind of clarity and illumination.
As Charles Eisenstein, in ...
The Wall Street Journal reported on January 19 that the Obama administration was pushing heavily to get the 50 state attorneys general to agree to a settlement with five major banks in the "robo-signing" scandal. The scandal involves employees signing names not their own, under titles they did not really have, attesting to the veracity of documents they had not really reviewed. Investigation is revealing that it did not just happen occasionally, but was an industry-wide practice, dating back to the late 1990s...
This is such a great debate on the floor of the Scottish Parliment. Can you imagine this kind of debate happening in United States???
As-it-happened: First Minister's Questions on Thursday, 26 January
Here is some additional material on Scotland's bid for independence:
Twelve unresolved questions on Scottish independence
"5) How much debt would Scotland take on?
There's little doubt that Scotland...
It was typical Obama, taking credit for what should be condemned. He's a fraud, a crime boss, a war criminal multiple times over, a moral coward, and serial liar. His State of the Union address was beginning-to-end doublespeak, duplicity, coverup, and denial of failed policies complicit with Wall Street crooks, war profiteers, and other corporate favorites while popular needs go begging.
Not according to fawning New York Times writers, however. Suppressing truth and full disclosure, Helene Cooper headlined "Obama Speech Makes Pitch for Economic Fairness" saying Obama:
"pledged on Tuesday night to use...
In response to Obama's duplicitous and delusional state of the disUnion speech, and the ongoing criminal conspiracy that comprises our national government, as defined by the Nuremburg Principles, I offer the readers a copy of my recent letter to the IRS regarding my tax refusal for 2006 and 2007. Substitute Obama for Bush in the letter below and there is no difference. Sheeple, if you are nauseated by your choices this year and by your government you will have to starve the beast. As former Reagan Secretary of State Alexander Haig said, "Let them protest all they want, as long as they pay their taxes."
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I was doing some digging and I found a short essay I posted on facebook in early August of 2011. I thought Vermont Commons might find it relevant. I was responding to an article that suggested that the youth of America have been successfully pacified. I disagreed. I don't mean to brag, or suggest prophecy, but "occupy" started three weeks later.
Here's the article I was responding to:
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance...
A storm is coming. I’m in for 2012, as part of the Vermont Thirty, taking back our Legislature from corporate control.
You may find my positions here, the evolving platform that earned my status as a Liberty Candidate for 2012. The platform may be summed up in the words of Sitting Bull, Chief of the Lakotah Nation: Let us put our minds together, and see what kind of life we can make for our children.
In 2012, I’m going to be a grandpa. Folks, it takes something like this to...
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Defying the will of Vermonters, Entergy Nuclear has successfully won the first stage of its trial to allow it to break its word and to usurp the rights of the Vermont legislature. Judge J. Garvin Murtha effectively delivered a slap in the face to the people of Vermont by saying that [contrary to prior Supreme Court judgements] the legislature has no right to regulate the operation of the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor. The Public Service Board is now the only state entity that has the power to decide VY's future. The judge also bought Entergy's...
How do we FREE VERMONT from this madness? Where is rule of law?
Insight: Top Justice officials connected to mortgage banks by Scot J. Paltrow
(Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, were partners for years at a Washington law firm that represented a Who's Who of big banks and other companies at the center of alleged foreclosure fraud, a Reuters inquiry shows....
On last week's PODCAST, Duncan and I yakked about an important concept introduced by Nicole Foss at THE AUTOMATIC EARTH blog site. This concept was "the trust horizon," which outlines how legitimacy is lost in the political hierarchy. That is, people stop trusting larger institutions like the federal or state government and end up vesting their interests much closer to home. Thus, life de-centralizes and becomes more local by necessity. Your own trust horizon extends only as far as other persons, businesses, institutions, and authorities immediately around you - the banker who will meet with you face-to-face, the mayor of your...
Why America Failed is a devastating and eviscerating critique proving convincingly that America has failed, and abominably, even tragically. That makes it a very important book that I hope will find an attentive audience, particularly among those of the media and intelligentsia who need to understand its truths and rid themselves of the increasingly common idea that there is some kind of palliative that will reform and restore American government to some imagined efficient and democratic past. (Please copy, Occupiers, Tea Partyers, Tenthers, and all Democrats,etc.)
I cannot...
People talk about the New World Order either as something that will happen in the future, or as something that will never happen, as it's only a paranoid delusion. The fact is that the New World Order, to a considerable extent, is already here.
In Ireland, for example, all important national decisions are now being made by an IMF administrator: the nation is under the direct rule of a personal agent of the bankster dynasty. As far as Ireland is concerned, a centralized bankster regime is already in effect. Same is true for Greece and Italy.
The NWO's global regime-change project, leading to the end of...
I used to write how this or that event was a great opportunity for the Second VT Republic. Well folks, if we blow this one we should give up. Really.
Judge Murtha has handed us our ammunition on a silver platter. So - Ian, Rob, Rick, Robert, Gaelan, Thomas, Dennis and Dennis, Gary, Carolyn et al - what are we going to do? Wring our hands?
I suggest that (pending the appeal) now is the time for every single Vermonter to prepare for the big one. This is tories v patriots. The right to self preservation has been abridged. This is the most basic, inalienable right we have.
First, Shumlin should inform the guard and state...
Occupiers march en masse on the National Mall in Washington D.C.
BURLINGTON- In the rainy mid-morning of January 17th, a group of Occupiers some 1,000 strong march down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the United States Capitol building. They are here to speak to their elected representatives on their first day of legislative session. Arriving at the capitol, the occupiers are initially met with about a dozen members of the...
You expect it in the Third World — the poor and undeveloped nations of Africa or South America. As you walk the city streets, dressed for business, beggars will approach and, well, beg. But there is a limit to what you can do, and there are defenses you can employ. Defense No. 1 is to avoid eye contact, keep moving and look purposeful. You can pretend you don’t see them. Sunglasses are helpful, for avoiding eye contact.
But I didn’t have sunglasses last week, and I wasn’t in a strange country. I was in my country, Harrisburg, walking between appointments on the streets around the Capitol. But I might as well have been in...
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This is not hyperbole, demagoguery, or exaggeration. If we are honest with ourselves we will have to admit that eight out of ten of the Bill of Rights have been revoked. Chris Hedges is suing Obama and Panetta for the NDAA which revokes the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, not to mention Amendments 4,5,6,7,8. See link
I Have listed the Bill of Rights here which are the first ten amendments to the US Constitution. Anyone can look at this list and see that these rights no longer exist: Assassination of U.S. citizens by drone...
I am always trying to think of ways to make the idea of Vermont independence palatable to the uninitiated person. By uninitiated I mean someone who hasn't spent a few years in the uncomfortable headspace that rejects the assumption that Vermont, or any state, is required to remain in a posture of political and financial subservience to the presumptive higher wisdom of a federal government; an entity that is chronically and systemically unresponsive to the needs of the people, having chosen to assign the well-being of the rich and their corporations as flimsy proxy for the well being of the citizenry. In Vermont we rally...
The awesome exertions of the global banking system to evade the mandates of reality finally yield in a sickening slippage to epochal unwind. What a bad idea: to try to juke nature itself. In case you weren't paying attention over the weekend - and who really wants to? - the cosmic Brinks truck of free money went over a cliff, and the darn thing will keep free-falling until (at least) the American markets open again on Tuesday.
So, everybody and his uncle over in Europe got a sovereign debt downgrade and now the math changes for all the pretend bail-outs and back-stops that had been so exquisitely rigged through the long,...