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I agree.

For a second there i thought u were describing America. I think it goes beyond big business, big business is controlled by money, private Central Banks issue and regulate money. Central Banks are the problem, the very thing America fought against in the American Revolution. But nobody really seems to care. We never try to cure the disease, just the symptoms.

Well I really can't do anything to stop terrorist attacks that happened in the past, I can only attempt to stop future ones from occurring. We have to look at what motivates a terrorist to be a terrorist. It's because we are over there bombing and killing. People get angry when they lose family or friends. These foreign policies are increasing the likely hood of a terrorist attack occurring. There does not always have to be terrorism, that is a myth There will continue to be terrorism as long as we keep working against each other instead of with each other. countries need to change there foreign policies, they are based on flawed ideologies. Why continue these wars, for intimidating reasons, revenge? maybe we are just blinded by rage. Let it rain I dunno, we could maybe learn from our mistakes. But this world is to proud to admit any of its mistakes so i guess we can't really learn from our mistakes if we don't know what they are. The problem that every aspect of our society/life is dictated by a few at the top. What system and under attack by who?

I mean from "Al Qaeda", more frequent. I'm not afraid, all I'm saying is that these foreign policies are not making us safer, they make it more likely that there will be a terrorist attack. Seems counter productive in winning the War on Terrorism. the sky inst falling, it's just no longer blue. At what cost? 1 million lives? Do you think this war on Terrorism solved any problems or is solving any problems, personally I don't think so.

Wiki They got America to help them, yes, they helped Saddam Hussein. "Current events form future trends" -Gerald Celente Eventually terrorists will achieve a successful attack in America, it's only a matter of time. Not trying to be a downer or anything but you can't go bombing countries without making people mad. These foreign policies are not making us safer. What if it's not just one, what if it's two or three, maybe not 9/11 scale but attacks none the less. What will America do to tighten security and in what would they do in retaliation? Would Canada follow? What if there is an attack in Canada? Look, I'm just trying to keep things real, we act like there won't ever be any consequences to our actions. These foreign policies need to change or we will be headed to WW3. Wars solve nothing, the stubborn hearts remain the same.

The movie was about a system that controlled humans without them even realizing they were under its control. Just like in real life, we have a system that controls us, in which billions are oblivious to or at least don't understand what amount of control it has on us. We power the system, in a sense we are like batteries, that is why they used humans as batteries. make a little more sense now?

I'll agree that we need a healthy society but our society at its current state is far from healthy, if anything it already has cancer and it is on the verge of having a heart attack. As for a strong economy, I don't agree it is necessary to have in order to have a healthy society. Only because I don't believe an economy is needed to have a healthy society. If someone has a strong economy(Canada) then there must be a weak economy(Iceland) for the strong economy to be compared to, to be considered a strong economy. Why should the people with the weak economy have to suffer? How about defaults on mortgages, right now we kick families out of their houses to live on the streets. How is this in any shape of form solving poverty, if anything it creates more poverty and more problems associated with poverty. I just saw on BNN today that said the US is expecting record defaults this year, so we'll kick more families on the streets. If our system involves kicking people out of their homes and forces them onto the streets, maybe its time for a new system, maybe a system that is a little closer to the heart. The US has started four since 2000 and it seems like they would love to start a fifth with Iran. I would say we are on an increase or at least an increase for countries on this side of the pond. I believe if the US goes to war with Iran, it will quickly turn into world war 3. I don't think the Persians will go down without a fight.

I don't think that is our goal but if so, then collectively how are we trying to achieve this? In order to obtain individual happiness should we not work on achieving global peace for we are a product of our environment. If the world is at war then we are at war with ourselves. Honestly, I think we are on a path towards World War 3 and nobody even cares. Can anyone prove me wrong that we are not headed at least in the direction of WW3?

No I mean we, if you haven't noticed we are putting full body scanners in airports. What freedom of choices, Paper or plastic, Big Mac or Whopper, West Jet or Air Canada, is that what you mean by choices? The real important choices we have no say in, its the ruling class that makes all the important decisions, the politicians, corporate leaders, big bankers, the problem is, they don't care about us. "Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice . . . you don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying . . . lobbying, to get what they want . . . Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want . . . they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that . . . that doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin' years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers . . . Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it . . . they’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fuckin' place. It’s a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in The big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people . . . white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means . . . continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you . . . they don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you at all . . . at all . . . at all, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth. It’s called the American Dream cause you have to be asleep to believe it . . ." - George Carlin "Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain." -George Orwell, 1984

Things are not getting better and better, what makes you believe that they are? or I guess just elaborate on what you mean by things. We are now living our lives in fear. We are in a new age, the Age of Paranoia. We are losing our trust in each other because we're afraid of everything now. The most messed up thing about it is that nobody even cares, in fact we don't care about anything, if the Main Stream Media doesn't think it's important, guess what, it isn't important. This is conformity on a grand scale. You may call them old values but they are the most important values to have.

Wait till you come to the realization that the matrix is real what is the matrix? Morpheus: Do you want to know what IT is? The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. Neo: What truth? Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind.. excellent movie The Matrix is, as is Avatar, going to see it in again tomorrow.

I understand how the world "really" works, The problem is everything we are doing is wrong. What are we trying to prove, seriously. Are we just trying to preserve our way of life, is that it?..I'm being serious. The system of governance and economics we live in, we've been using it for how long? Guess what, it's not that effective, It just creates fake problems to avoids solving real problems. Governments and Banks aren't the solution, they are the problem. Seatbelt and air bags are great if you get hit from the front or the back, what if you get hit from the side? why not have round/saucer cars. Why not create cars that will avoid tragedies all together before they even happen. I see H1N1 commercials that say "wash your hands, it's the best way to avoid getting H1N1". Why not tell the full truth and say "Proper nutrition and washing your hands are is the best way to avoid getting H1N1". Why not due away with patents and copyright? why not let every mind in this world together on new ideas and inventions, why restrict our creative thought? We should of learnt by now that working together is far more effective then working against each other. We need to be more open minded and more open hearted. There is too much hate going on in the world right now, where are all the peace advocates? Causes without rebels. Don't think of it as me asking a political question. Just think of me asking you, person to person, Globally and Nationally what do you feel our goals are?

Really, barely anyone replied, I thought this was a really important question.

Agreed, I believe it is because of the propaganda that the news media delivers to us on a daily bases. "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." - George W. Bush "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." - Joseph Goebbels "Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise." - Adolf Hitler In a word, Greed. Governments just own more pieces of the economy now. We still aren't trying to solve poverty. Idea, lets have a war on poverty, everyone seems to be down for wars these days, it's the cool thing to do. Imagine if the US government spent that 700+ billion dollar stimulus plan on trying to solve poverty, and I don't mean through economics, I mean on things that would really help solve poverty like water purification systems for 3rd world countries.

Nationally and Globally what are our goals? What are we trying to achieve? My take. We're not working towards peace We're not trying to stop pollution We're not trying to solve poverty We're not working to cure diseases I know there is the War on terrorism, so we are trying to stop acts of terrorism and live "safer" lives. There is a war on drugs so we are trying to prevent people from using drugs. We're trying to save the economy. and I guess we're trying to stop Climate Change. The problem with the War on Terrorism is our solution to stopping terrorism is to create terrorism in other countries. The problem with the War on Drugs is it hasn't prevented people from using drugs. It has succeeded in creating an underground market that funds gangs and terrorist groups. The problem to us trying to save the economy is we are using the same logic as the War on Terrorism, we're trying to solve the problem of debt by going into more debt. The problem with climate change and a Climate treaty is, it doesn't solve the problems of pollution and fossil fuel dependency. We are working towards becoming more socialist We are working towards a one world government (United Nations, European Union, G8, G20, World Trade Organization, World Health Organization, possibly a world climate treaty in the future) We are slowly becoming more Fascist. "The debate of global warming is over", no it's not. We are slowly losing freedoms/liberties and rights in the name of security. Why we are doing what we are doing, I have not a clue.

So you guys really don't think that we are headed to a New World Order? It is happening right in front of our eyes. System of a Down - Tricks to Deceive "Repeat monotonous images misleading and fake propaganda texts showing a way that the mind cant take Many believe whats in front and never need ask why feeling happy and contented by this lie until they die" Rise Against - Entertainment "All we are is entertainment Caught up in our own derangement Tell us what to say and what to do All we are are pretty faces Picture perfect bottled rage Packaged synthesized versions of you" Muse - Uprising "The paranoia is in bloom, The PR, the transmissions, will resume, They'll try to push drugs to keep us all dumbed down, And hope that we will never see the truth around Another promise, another scene, another package not to keep us trapped in greed, With all the green belts wrapped around our minds, And endless red tape to keep the truth confined They will not force us, They will stop degrading us, They will not control us, And we willbe victorious" Billy Talent - The Dead Can't Testify Well they cast me out when the word spread around That I never sang in the church. And it took one night for the town to decide I'm afflicted by the curse. So they marched me down to the center of town, With their pitchforks high in the air. I was chained and bound with a blindfold around So the judge wouldn't catch my stare. And they hung my soul from the gallows pole But the witch they never found. So to those who don't fit society's mold, Learn to swim or you will drown. K’naan - Waving Flag Born to a throne, stronger than Rome But Violent prone, poor people zone But it’s my home, all I have known Where I got grown, streets we would roam But out of the darkness, I came the farthest Among the hardest survival Learn from these streets, it can be bleak Except no defeat, surrender retreat So many wars, settling scores Bringing us promises, leaving us poor I heard them say, love is the way Love is the answer, that’s what they say, But look how they treat us, make us believers We fight their battles, then they deceive us Try to control us, they couldn’t hold us

We were in a depression last year, just the early stages of it. You can call it a recession if you want. It took 3 years into the Great Depression for them to finally declare it a depression. 85,000 jobs were lost in December in the States, over 7 million jobs in the US have been lost since the beginning of this recession. The US economy is based 70% on consumer spending. People without jobs aren't spending money. The only thing propping up the economy up now is the bailouts, government intensives, and mortgages rates at zero. Debt is what caused the recession and now we are being encouraged to go in more debt to stimulate the economy, we're just creating an even bigger bubble. We are trying to spend our way out of this recession. All we are doing is going more into debt and creating more inflation. Companies are selling off assets and laying off employees to cover losses, they can only do that for so long before they go bankrupt and more jobs are lost. This is gonna be the worst depression yet. May turn into an inflationary depression over time. Governments are lying to us. We should be mad. Central Banks are private corporations, they are the ones who put nations in debt. Money is created out of debt, it is loaned at interest to nations by central banks. This is the very thing that America fought against in the American Revolution. But it seems Americans or Canadians didn't learn a lesson from that. They both fell into the hands of the International Bankers. So much for the land of the free... The people no longer control the country. Welcome to new age fascism.

I didn't say it would come true, I just thought I should post it, hear what other people other then mainstream media are saying I can guarantee we are headed for a depression though

Its because we have become a left brain society The left brain is responsible for rules, fear, logic, structure and law The right brain is responsible for faith, love, creativity, beliefs, and intuition. Many of us are mainly using the left side of their brain, we must use both sides of the brain equally.

Thoughts?

Foo Fighters, Long Road to Ruin (1st verse) Here now don't make a sound Say have you heard the news today? One flag was taken down To raise another in its place A heavy cross you bear A stubborn heart remains unchanged No home, no life, no love No stranger singing in your name

Cancer can be cured and cancer is also preventable. I don't understand how the Iraq war is still going on. Wasn't the reason of the war because they had "weapons of mass destruction". They didn't have any. shouldn't people be mad that the government lied, why is the war still going on? The world is to proud to admit its mistakes, every country in the world needs an ego suicide. I know many Americans who don't want the wars to go on, but they are ignored. There is no democracy only the illusion of democracy. We do as we're told, We're just worker bees. That's not the point, life shouldn't have rules yet we are enslaved by a system of rules. From not being allowed to smoke pot to having to pay taxes. This reality or whatever you wanna call it, it is just an elaborate dream. It is just a ride, we should be enjoying it, what we are doing now isn't living, it's surviving. Can you tell heaven from hell? All I know is we can be living in heaven if we wanted to. I suppose a lot of people want to, but we get caught up in these lies and these endless compromises. Governments are only governments when the people give consent to be governed. Micheal you want policy, lets end every war. All of them, the war on drugs, the war on terrorism, the war in Afghanistan and any other wars, the are senseless, counter productive and only profit the few at the top.

this new decade will make the passed decade look like paradise.

I'm still amazed he won the noble peace prize... He's only starting more wars. But it really doesn't matter who is in the white house, they are all puppets anyways.

I'll agree, but that is only part of our evolution. And as for Individual liberty and choice, why can't I smoke marijuana legally? Governments should not tell us what we can do with our bodies, this is not the reason they were established.