Just saw this well-produced video on YouTube and thought it good enough to promote.

For those of you who are hear to find out about Sedona releasing or Bert Goldman scam, I apologize.Of course, this just gives us some stuff to release, doesn’t it?

Should be back to more interesting releasing technique fare shortly. Though it might be about mob grazing grass fed beef cattle…

Anyway – enjoy:

Waking early the other day, I was taking the extra time to just consider recent events and resolve my day’s plans before I headed into them.

The oddest thing occurred to me – do we own ourselves, really?

(Warning – standby – rant alert.)

Here’s some points that have come across my lines recently:

• Government seems to be taking a larger run out of our lives (like enforcing healthcare choices), whether we want it to or not.
• Congress and elected officials seem to be listening to lobbyists and party officals more than the voters who elected them.
• Our food has increasingly had to be shipped in from thousands of miles away instead of being grown where we can ask and find out what went into it.
• We are being discouraged from working and being independent, since if we did make a fortune to retire on, we’d have it all taxed away – but people who never earn enough to pay taxes are given money from those who do.
• Various scams abound, from credit card companies and usury-level charges along with extraneous fees, to career politicians with their perks, to interest groups who are taking government money (ours) and being paid to promote some extremist agenda, to “Humane Societies” who aren’t trying to handle excess dogs and cats, but are rather trying to make us all into vegans by driving our farmers out of business with regulations.
• Our state-run, mainstream media won’t report on public demonstrations with more people attending than the President’s inauguration, but will tell us about a flu which is less harmful than the regular one – and that we should all line up and pay for shots to protect ourselves against this fiction.
• While the earth has been growing colder since the late 1990’s, our pollution has been growing greater but the only solutions is to what: raise taxes and cost of living for everyone.

So it seemed to me that we needed to stop and take all this into account and see what we could actually do about it.

Of course, the bulk of the problems above really deal with government issues – we are trusting an unresponsive, lobbyist infected government to handle situations we could and should handle ourselves.

Let’s look at some simple solutions to these:

1. People have stayed healthy for many more years than there have ever been insurance companies. And some of the cheapest health care right now has been started in some states where you pay a monthly fee directly to the doctors’ office in order to keep you well – not just when you are sick. No middleman – no one betting against your survival – no one saying you now can’t get any further treatment. And guess what – it’s cheaper by more than half.

2. Career politicians (and career government workers) are really a self-perpetuating business all by themselves. According to the Golden Rule, you have to give before you can get. But government has to take before it can give. And do you know who is writing all these bills that the Congressmen don’t have time to read? Lobbyists and professional government clerical workers – neither of which are elected, both protected from being fired for incompetence. Politicians only want to be re-elected so they can get the perks they voted in for themselves. They live in a different world and even if convicted still get a posh annual retirement income of hundreds of thousands each year – while they are in prison.

3. While there is all these complaints of Cargill, ADM, and Tyson controlling our food chain – no one is telling the stories about how community gardens have been springing up on empty lots inside our cities, as well as on rooftops. Where people are contributing their own labor and getting – literally – the fruits of their endeavors. There is the movement of locally-grown food, some call it the 100-mile diet, getting your food from within a hundred-mile radius of where you live. That way you could know what was in it and maybe even lend a hand in raising it, if you wanted.

4. Taxes have less and less to do with supporting the common good, and more for supporting the friends of whoever is in power in government. (Look at where those “stimulus” funds are actually going to…) Factually, if you take the recommendations given by the IRS guidelines, the most inexpensive way to work is for yourself as a corporate entity and increasingly resorting to barter of your business goods. That is the least-taxed method of making a viable living these days.

5. It looks like all the biggest scams are government sponsored or sanctioned. Credit card companies used to be regulated by the states and had to keep their interest fees low until the Feds in their “OCC” elected to take this right away from the States – and credit fees doubled, to nearly 1/3rd of the original loan. The Humane Society of the United States is actually anti-pet and anti-breeder and anti-farmer. Anything that has four-legs and reproduces is under their auspice – and is getting laws passed to make it more difficult to have pets or eat meat. Yet is runs no animal shelters – and had closed many down, destroying all their occupants. They are a special interest in Washington and do nothing humane. But government scams abound – since the government has a monopoly, who can stop them?

6. Our media has never been accurate in its whole history. They have always, always written sensationalist stories to sell advertising space. Any idea of “Journalist Ethics” was invented by Academics in order to sell classes for journalist wannabe’s. And when they lose their joint control of the air waves to cable and the Internet, they complain about how these “aren’t really journalists” – thank Gawd – and continue to pander to various government officials for “scoops”. The mainstream media has never, ever reflected the real world. Their soap opera’s actually get the closest, way more than their “reality” shows. (Who eat bugs in the jungle for a living?)

7. Read the actual NASA reports and you’ll see the global warming issue is a hoax. Warmest year on record was about 1998, last two years we have had record snowfalls and cold internationally, this summer was one of the coolest on record in decades for many states. Who started this rumor? A career politician. But is CO2 rising? Yes. Effect on global temperature – nothing. Our problem with CO2 starts with our governments, which expel this by the megaton every year and have nothing to show for it. Meanwhile, we truck our food in from thousands of miles away with all that exhaust and refuse permits to set up windfarms off some politicians’ East Coast homes. (Because they are unsightly?) Solutions to this fictional global warming are to tell polluting companies they have to buy credits from less-polluting companies. But the states with politicians in charge get more credits assigned to those states – instead of states with huge forests and pastures filled with grazing animals. (Oh, finally tracked down that other fiction. Excess cow flatulence is caused by feeding them corn and other grains, not their natural diet of grass – which most cattle are raised on for the bulk of their lives.)

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OK, take a breath, slow down.

The world isn’t all bad. Nor is it all that bad.

But the question comes back – Who Owns You? Or — Do You Really Own Yourself?

Consider this – if you own property and don’t pay the taxes on it, what happens? Some government employees are able to come in and seize your properties for the back taxes with guns and put you in prison if you resist. If you use a gun to defend your property, they are able to use lethal force (kill you) in their “defense”. And your relatives probably can’t even sue for “wrongful death”.

However, if you don’t make enough money to pay taxes because you don’t work, then you qualify for the government renting a house on your behalf and even giving you all sorts of handouts. Who pays for these? Oh, they tell some people who do work for a living to cough up – or they will come and take it, this all backed by gun-toting government employees, against which you can’t defend yourself.

Now if your property is owned by a corporation that you run, the taxes are much less and if it’s a non-profit, you might not pay taxes at all. Similarly, if you don’t really work for a living on anyone’s paper, and barter for everything you own, your taxes are very low, if not non-existent. But you do work for a living and control your own property – and don’t pay for someone else’s upkeep.

Can you control government? No.

Can you improve the government you have? Yes.

Solutions you can do to own yourself

• Let’s do one thing – make all government employees (including the elected ones) all term limited. States can do this for their own Senators and Representatives, they don’t have to get a Federal law passed (which will never happen).
• Another thing: educate yourself on taxes and learn to avoid high taxes by being smart. Only the dumb rich are taxed. Only dumb governments tax the dumb rich enough to make them move to lower-tax states. (Ask New York and California how this works. Both are failed experiments.)
• Vote your representatives out of office on a regular basis, otherwise. Let someone else have a chance.
  How about sunset provisions in every law, including the ones which have been on the books forever? This would mean government officials have to re-vote in all laws every few years to keep them on the books. (Like the Civil Rights Act, which is now being used to protect White minority voters.)
• Get your food all locally. Help grow it yourself to keep your costs down.
• How about insisting your city start recycling materials (they can actually sell the metal and plastic today, while organic materials can be composted back into – yes – local city gardens, or parks, or local farms. (Why does NYC keep dumping it into the ocean – isn’t that just more pollution?) And so we won’t have to spend all that fuel and CO2 trucking, training, and shipping food from California to NY, or Florida to California, or Arkansas to Alaska…
• Quit watching TV. Period. Rots your brain.
• Cut off your power usage by unplugging anything that doesn’t have to be on (like a refrigerator). See if you can’t get a solar cell to run some devices (like night lights). Figure out how you could have the same quality of living without extra doo-dads that someone sold you during a TV infomercial…

Those are just some of the ideas I’ve had for your to reclaim your life for yourself.

You can own yourself.

It will take some work.

But the more you can limit government and work it out for yourself – or in cooperation with your neighbors – then the saner life we can all have.

Try it.

Go ahead – leave your comments below. Agree? Disagree? Could care less?

The scales of Justice are false, actually. There is no balance. The reason for law is to determine the truth (see Jurisdictionary^® for more data.) Law is based on an absolute datum of the Golden Rule – some sort of low-grade enforcement for ensuring people treat others as they would themselves.

Here’s the logic of that balance question:

• What you push, you become. Thoughts become things, they make the world you live in.
• Evil is only mis-applied good. You don’t shovel out the darkness, you turn on a light.
• Equally matched opponents results in a draw. Competition is destructive, not creative. Each side limits themselves to their opponents’ standards in order to play the game.

Initially, I was going to label this “The Discipline of Hope.” Because in life, there is only the positive, creative. And to the degree that you follow and push up these efforts, you get more positive in your life. To the degree that you work against something, you get more of that enemy into your life. (Which is a short-hand for why politics and government never solve anything.)

There is no black and white, no light and dark. There is only white and the absence of white, light and the absence of light.

As it takes energy to light a room, this is where you’re concentration should be. Sure, it might be easier to sit in the dark, but where’s the fun in that? Lots of things creep around in the dark. Sunlight is the best disinfectant – or you can get the fuel to run a generator to scare the critters back into the shadows.

That’s the point, isn’t it? If you are pushing forward a positive, the negatives ultimately fall away. Unless you start fighting them. Simply out-creating them by constantly finding better solutions to problems presented will always pull the rug out from under any negative being presented. If you simply, rationally defuse their basis for arguing, then there is no debate needed.

And this is actually how life runs. Look around this planet. Where there is war, starvation, oppression – it can be traced to a handful of people who are busy pushing this for their own personal gain. North Korea compared to South Korea. All those people in the North could be living a prosperous, healthy, long life – were it not for their agreeing to follow some knucklehead whose got the world’s largest porn collection and spends money (counterfeit US bills) to create rockets instead of developing their economy, particularly agriculture so they could feed themselves.

But anyone who really wanted to could simply leave that country. And if everyone simply quit doing what that guy said, then there would be no government of that sort to oppress them anymore.

(Same thing happens in this country. When people get fed up with a President, they quit listening to him. And Congressional representatives know this for a fact – don’t listen to your constituents and forget your re-election. )

So don’t fall into this trap. Only do good with your life. Only seek optimal solutions around you – and keep looking for even more optimal solutions.

Then you win, and everyone around you wins. As we get more and more people to work on this point, the whole world can win.

How to get real and useful 2008 Presidential Candidate Election News: Turn off your TV, radio – and quit reading anything but the comics and sports section…

What is the “main-scream media” riveted on these days – what’s their aim, slant, and glory?

The 4 C’s: Controversy, Cacaphony, Consternation, and Chaos.

You need to be listening to the news like you need (another) hole in your head. Because:

1. You can’t really trust them to give unbiased news (right or left or center).
2. They are in the business to keep you listening, reading, or viewing so they can make more money selling advertising.
3. You only make yourself stressed out and sick by filling your life with bad news all the time.

This opinion is the result of all the research I’ve been doing into self-help books. One of the reasons the world is considered to be in such bad shape is all the negative (and false) press that is being generated.

I could go on and on about the way our media is set up. First, they are in business to sell advertising. Pure and simple. If people won’t subscribe to their stories, then they go out of business, since advertisers can’t get a return on their investment. So they have to slant their stories in such a fashion that they get people “hooked” on that channel of “news”.

And so, we have the shocking, the bizarre, the grotesque – all tabloid stuff – so we as viewers remain “addicted” to this channel of data. So we will get to see those advertisements and the news channel can stay in business another day.

Were the press ever really working in our best interests? Actually, no. The idea of journalistic standards was invented in Academia in order to get Journalism students (yes, colleges and universities are money-making organizations…). But did the press ever listen? No – they were run by business men who had to make a profit for their stockholders.

Is this a bit too cynical? Perhaps. But then again, look at what sells and is really trusted these days. The Bible is the all-time bestselling book – unless you’re in an Islamic country and then it’s the Koran. What gets the highest ratings on TV? Entertainment shows – amateur singing and dancing. Sports comes up next. Highest rating of all time – final show of MASH, a comedy.

What is the “main-scream press” doing then? God only knows – and He isn’t saying.

By surveys, only Congress is trusted less – and they’re competing with the President.

It’s mostly because they are putting out silly trash that people don’t “need to know” and mostly wish the press would keep their mouths shut and their eyes out of someone dying on a street corner because of their own or another driver’s stupidity.

But we are wide of the mark for today. Our topic is what the media should be doing about presidential candidates. Below is a Press Release which gives my general views on the subject.

Far more tools about what you can do to insulate yourself from the “main-scream media” can be found in my “Go Thunk Yourself, S’more!” book – which ad follows this release:

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Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Best Way to Choose Your 2008 Presidential Candidate: Turn Off ALL TV and Radio, Successful Self Help Author Claims

MEXICO, MO. Dr. Robert C. Worstell, author and editor of over three dozen self help and personal development books, stated today that if a person is going to honestly evaluate and choose the best candidate, that person should turn off all TV programs, quit listening to the radio, and throw away all the paper except the classifieds, comics, and sports pages. He said that the proof of this is in the underlying system all self help authors use to make their books bestsellers.

In an interview with the Midwest Journal, Dr Worstell claimed that all media gets it wrong – and especially politics.

“You can’t trust the media to get anything right. So why are you believing that they are going to tell you anything worthwhile about a candidate?” He said, candidly. “All the media are advertising-supported, right? So they only tell you stuff that makes you want to watch their show or buy their paper. Who advertises in election years? That’s right – candidates and their flunkies, the organized groups for one side or the other.”

He further reasoned that anything which makes you feel bad isn’t good for you. And you only really trust people you can talk to. So his advice is to only talk to your friends about what they think about candidates and then make up your own mind. But if you hear a lot of trash talk, then figure that you’re getting bad data that isn’t going to do you any good.

“All these bestselling self help authors knew that. That’s why Obama does great when he talks in uplifting terms – like Ronald Reagan and Winston Churchill. When Hillary goes sour, it hurts her.” Dr. Worstell explained, “While Harry Truman spoke straight talk from his convictions, it also gave him the worst ratings in history for any president (Coasties don’t understand Flyover). Why does America think Congress is screwing things up? Because they are constantly bickering and not getting anything done. Politicians and Politics is just wasting American’s time. Tell them to shut up and go buy a nice book or listen to an audio tape. Much better for you.”

His approach to self help comes from his rural roots, plus a long hitch in the West Coast. The contradictions in lifestyles forced him to evaluate their approaches to life. Ultimately, he returned to his native Missouri and took up farming while he completed his research. The result of those studies netted him several advanced degrees and ultimately a “Go Thunk Yourself!” book series, which lays out a common sense approach to improving your life. One of the points in his book is to turn off the TV, radio, and ignore the newspapers.

“I do tell people to get the news they need from the Internet, but don’t live your life there.” Dr. Worstell says, “Get on, get the data you need, and get off. With the various podcatcher programs and newsreaders, you can get condensed format for any vital news you need. But the real news you want is what is happening around you. How is your garden, how are the kids doing in school, how’s your spouse doing at the job – you know, that type of thing. The more people live vicariously through the ‘main-scream media’, the more they have truly lousy lives filled with problems and worries. Just turn all that stuff off and help your kids with their homework. Or take up a hobby the whole family can enjoy. Or play card games with the neighbors. But go out and live some life, for Christ’s sake.”

The opinionated farmer-doctor lives and operates a working farm near a town called Mexico, Missouri. He says his inspiration comes from those wide open spaces and hard physical work daily.

Dr. Worstell also maintains several blogs, and has written numerous articles and whitepapers. He’s posted several videos on YouTube, as well as many podcasts. Two of his books are available on Amazon and other online retailers, while the rest are published through Print-On-Demand Online Publisher Lulu. All of his books are available for download as well through Lulu.

For more information, contact:

Dr. Robert Worstell
15559 Audrain Rd 921
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Phone: 573-581-3003 (daytime is best, Central Time)
email: robertworstell[remove this]@robertworstell.com
Websites: http://gothunkyourself.com
http://robertworstell.com
http://stores.lulu.com/robertworstell
Blogs: http://worstellr.blogspot.com
http://amodernview.blogspot.com
http://intmillplan.blogspot.com
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/joethunkyourself

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