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Inner Activism – Ensuring “We” Don’t Become “Them”

By Jack Adam Weber
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Breaking the Silence.

This article was inspired by the documentary video, Breaking the Silence Truth and Lies in the War on Terror. It ;moved me deeply. It brought up my outrage, my sadness, my helplessness, my love, my hope, my passion — all of which I share with you below.

Whether you watch the video (below) or not, the article will still make sense to you. It’s not an easy watch, but well worth the while.

As John Pilger says in the introduction, “This film is about the rise and rise of rapacious imperial power and a terrorism that never speaks its name, because it is our terrorism.”

We are all disgusted with videos like this that reveal what might be closer to the truth of what American and other first-world foreign policy is really about. The effects on people’s lives and on the Earth itself are devastating, and frankly, almost unspeakable. What is done to people, to animals, and to this gorgeous planet is insane. While we all have hatred, violent, and evil tendencies, for most of us, it’s not as big a part of our agenda as it for elite imperialists.

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Life on Earth Is a Gift from God

God said:

You have the opportunity of life on Earth. It is a gift I give to you. This life I give to you is not a penance. It is an opportunity. It is an opportunity of all possibilities. It is not to be taken for granted. This gift of life is not given to you to be an imposed sentence. Have you somewhere along the line had the idea that you are in servitude to a difficult life?

How different your life would be if you will carry the idea that life is a blessing. Keep this idea close to you, and you will reap benefits. For one thing, you will receive life differently. You will become a boon to your life and exhilarated about it.

Life in the world is a treasure. Life is to your advantage. Have respect for your God-given life. Disregard what you see as impediments. Your purpose here on Earth is not to grumble at its disparities. True, life on Earth may not always be your cup of tea. You may see life as bitter. Dear ones, drink the Goblet of Your Life as a champion downs his delicious protein drink. You are not meant to deny yourself.

I cast you as a leader. Show the way to yourself, and you will show the way to others. You were never intended to be downtrodden. When life doesn’t give you what you want, shrug your shoulders if you must, and then lightly keep going toward the sun. You cannot dispute that the sun also shines. Bask in it. Bask in the sun. Drink the rain, and bask in the sun.

Move through the hay fields.

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Native Americans Now Have Full Legalization of Marijuana On Reservation Lands

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The United States Justice Department just announced that it will instruct all U.S. attorneys to no longer prevent any Native American tribes from growing, or selling marijuana on reservation land.

This includes reservations within states that prohibit marijuana use, as the reservations are sovereign entities, apart from the states that surround them.

That means, in the words of High Times, “the law of the land will be left up to each individual tribe.”

“Finally, Native Americans are really beginning to experience true sovereignty,” Dan Skye, the editor-in-chief of High Times said, weighing in on this decision by the U.S. government: “Cannabis – whether it’s industrial hemp, medical or recreational marijuana – can provide employment and economic stimulus on Indian reservations which is so desperately needed.”

GFP Newsletter - 9/25/2015

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This whole world now has to be interdependent. All ideas of independence and dependence are out of date. Forget about them. The world is now one organic unity; it is already one organic unity. Your nations are just fading realities, overshadowing the present and the future unnecessarily, just dead bodies, stinking. They have to be burned and thrown away.

This world now is one, and the question of dependence, independence does not arise. It is an interdependent world. Let this word become very significant; it is going to become significant in the future.

-Rajneesh

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Amazing new collection of high-resolution Pluto images opens a new page in its future research

A new collection of high-resolution images of Pluto, collected by NASA's New Horizon, has revealed the minor planet's surface in amazing, previously unseen topographic and compositional details. The collected data has opened new horizons in the future research of this small planet on the edge of our solar system. 

The New Horizon's research team has been mesmerized by a newly uncovered immense rippling landscape of strange, aligned linear ridges stretching over hundreds of kilometers.

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Salvia Divinorum: Mexico’s Most Mysterious Healing Herb

HJ: Not nearly as well-known as Ayahuasca, but every bit as miraculous, Salvia Divinorum is a small leafy shrub growing in Southern Mexico’s Oaxaca province that is one of nature’s master healing herbs with significant psycho-spiritual effects.

– Truth

Salvia Divinorum – Mexico’s Most Mysterious Healing Herb

By Bruce Fenton | Salvia Documentary

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This Brilliant 13 Year Old Won Google’s Science Fair With A Water Purifier Made Out of Corn Cobs

Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai is a 13-year-old genius. She’s only in 9th grade, attending DPS Damanjodi, a school in a small town in the Koraput district in the Indian state of Odisha.

She won the ‘Community Impact Award’ at the Google Science Fair in California for her incredible invention. She won in the 13 to 15 year old age group and received 10,000 USD as her prize. She also has the opportunity to be supported by Google to help build her project.

Lalita created a low cost bio-absorbent based water purifier. How does it work? Surprisingly, it uses corn cobs to purify the water!

Corn cobs are incredibly absorbent, making them perfect for collecting contaminants like salts, detergents, different floating particles, coloured dyes, and even some heavy metals.

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How the Media Keeps Us Distracted From Things That Matter

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The media is supposed to tell us everything important. We need media outlets that will direct its mass audience towards what truly counts: justice, truth and wisdom. So why is it that after spending just a few hours watching a news broadcast, you’re likely to feel overloaded, confused, unfocused, and distracted from what really matters? Below is a thoughtful video that explores what is wrong with mainstream media and what tools it uses to exploit our psychological weaknesses.

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Mathematician suspicious of election fraud hires lawyer to force Kansas to hand over voting records

A Kansas mathematician said this week that she had retained a lawyer and had scheduled a discovery hearing to force Secretary of State Kris Kobach to hand over voting records after they showed evidence of election fraud.

“I don’t understand why those patterns are there, the patterns are very definitely real. But we don’t know what’s causing them or why they’re there,” Wichita State University statistician Beth Clarkson told KSHB last month. “They do fit what would be expected if election fraud is occurring, and that’s very concerning.”

Brad Blog’s Brad Friedman explained the suspicious activity in a recent column...

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‘Snowden Treaty’ drafted to end mass surveillance, protect whistleblowers worldwide

Two years after Edward Snowden leaked information about the US government’s mass surveillance to reporter Glenn Greenwald, the two were joined by other journalists and leaders to draft an international pact for privacy rights called the Snowden Treaty.

Officially called The International Treaty on the Right to Privacy, Protection Against Improper Surveillance and Protection of Whistleblowers, the global agreement seeks to “curtail mass surveillance and protect the rights of whistleblowers,” according to the website.

“Protecting the right to privacy is vital not just in itself but because it is an essential requirement for the exercise of freedom of opinion and expression, the most fundamental pillars of democracy.”

Greenwald, who originally broke Snowden’s story, and other journalists were joined at a Thursday forum in New York by the image of Edward Snowden being broadcasted remotely.

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