Remind me NOT to get the swine flu vaccine.

Interesting/disturbing new article from The Doctor Within...

http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/swine/swine-flu-vaccine.php

The Matrix is a system

What is money anyway?

Just lately a burning question has been occupying my mind: WHAT IS MONEY, REALLY? I used to take it for granted that money was just paper notes and coins that have a fixed value and that you exchange for goods and services...right? And money was created by the mint, or so I thought. But as a self-confessed conspiracy theorist in the middle of an alleged banking crisis I feel I should learn more about how the economy actually works. It's long been one of those big topics on my growing list of "things to research".

So I've been watching a few videos and doing some reading. Above all it's made me realise that money has no inherent value. Apparently when gold was originally used as currency and was deposited in a bank, it was exchanged for slips of paper which eventually came to be traded directly out of convenience instead of the gold itself, and that's how the modern money system originated. But those bits of paper at least had something of concrete value backing them (i.e. gold). What makes our money worth something today?

As you can see, I have more questions than answers at the moment. What does seem clear though is that, in a fair system, no one should be able to become extortionately rich from doing nothing. The money one earns should be proportionate to one's labour, effort, innovation, responsibility etc. I find it interesting, no pun intended, that Islam prohibits lending at interest (or at least excessive interest). I learnt that in religious studies in school but never understood the rationale behind it - now it makes sense.

Here's what I've been reading/watching.....
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http://www.kalincolninvestments.co.uk/article_pure_money_system.html

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-515319560256183936#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVkFb26u9g8

http://www.mustaqim.co.uk/usury.htm

"Conspiracy is Disempowering"

So here we go, the first proper post of my new blog. Admittedly I let my site fall by the wayside in recent weeks because my life has just taken a new direction and it's required a lot of my time and energy to plan it all. I am actually doing something I swore I would never do: I'm going back to university to give it a second try.

No doubt I'll explain that decision another time. What really inspired me to post was a conversation I had with someone I met over the weekend. This man is a born-again environmentalist and basically gave up his career and possessions to live 'more sustainably', and now travels around in a mobile home giving talks on environmental issues and sustainability. We were discussing the issue of energy and I mentioned the possibility that viable alternative forms of energy had been suppressed because you couldn't make money off it or form a monopoly on it. He replied dismissively that he "chose not to believe in all that conspiracy stuff, because it's disempowering". According to his logic, you either believe that everything is exactly as we've been told it is and act accordingly, OR you believe that there is an all-powerful elite controlling everything and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it so we may as well just give up. Sounds pretty black-and-white to me.

It's true that there is a lot of negativity and passivity in the conspiracy community; this simplistic worldview of the elite, who are all-powerful and unstoppable, then the asleep unsuspecting majority, or 'sheeple', and finally us 'awakened ones', who are the only ones aware of how bad everything is. It's as if some conspiracy theorists want their hellish New World Order to be realized just so they can be proven right and say "told you so!" - which is, of course, ego.

But this is only disempowering if you choose to believe that there's nothing we can do to effect change. I believe in a powerful elite, but I also believe that we, the people, have much more power than we dare to realize. I believe that just one person or a few people challenging illusions and raising their minds above the noise of the mass consciousness can create a ripple effect. That is far from disempowering. On the other hand, to deny reality because it makes you feel uncomfortable, to refuse to believe in evil because you feel defenceless against it - that only serves to neutralize what power you DO have. Which attitude is the more disempowering?