Editorial

Playing for Change: "Stand by Me"

Wow! No matter what's going on with you right now, this five minute clip is guaranteed to lift your spirits and make them soar. In the spirit of "Where the hell is Matt?" we travel the world as one musician after another adds their part to the great blues classic Stand By Me.

Nearly two and a half million people have watched this clip on You Tube, and in the space of two hours the counter jumped up another 17,000 views today. Clearly I'm not the only one moved and inspired by the passion of these little known musicians.*

Why are they so compelling?

We live in a world increasingly dominated by heartless corporations that understand only power. They worship money, and the most superficial kind of sex appeal, and encourage us to do the same.

This materialistic emphasis hurts all of us, whether we be rich or poor, ugly or beautiful. For the rich know that their money might not always be there (just ask Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet) and beauty fades (ask Elizabeth Taylor.) Deep inside we long to be loved for more than surface attributes that can change from year to year, we want to be valued for our essence.

This video of musicians around the world singing Stand By Me gives a big middle finger to the corporate values of greed and superficial perfection--with foot-tapping joyous music.  The song, from the Rob Reiner movie of the same name, tells of the matchless power of love. 

Irish musician Jim Corr speaks out about 9/11 Truth

Jim Corr of the Irish band the Corrs gave an eloquent 10 minute interview back in June about the New World Order, 9/11 and the plan for a global dictatorship. He does a great job of explaining it to his apparently completely naive host. Thank you Jim for speaking out.

Jim has a website, here is an excerpt from his homepage:

The light at the end of the tunnel is that millions upon millions of people are waking up to this unfolding Orwellian nightmarish agenda which I have spoken about on radio, and which will be averted as soon as we collectively wake up! 



The unfortunate reality is that the mainstream media is failing the people in crucial areas. In order for us to get closer to the full truth, we need to circumvent it, because it's controlled and indeed mostly owned by a handful of elite multi-national corporations controlled by the global elite that have a vested interest in keeping the full truth from us lest we awaken to the real agenda that's being played out behind the scenes. Am I saying that Irish national television and radio for example could be lying to the people all the time? Of course not. But they are most likely getting their international news from the likes of either Reuters or the Associated Press which are controlled news agencies. This realisation by a lot of people goes some way toward explaining the dramatic rise in alternative media where more and more of us are now getting our news from sources we feel we can trust better, particularly on the internet.

You will meet people as I do occasionaly who are unable to grasp the reality of what's really going on. You may even meet them amongst family and friends but don't get frustrated, It is understandably inconceivable for some people the contemplation that some governments at the behest of their globalist puppeteers could be staging terrorist attacks against their own populations, particularly for people who's reality doesn't extend beyond the Television set which is being used highly effectively as a Weapon of Mass Deception.

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."

"A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."

--Dresden James

note:  I love this quote, but can't find any information about who Dresden James was. Anyone know?

"You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed--

If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly--

You may come to the moment when you have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.

There may be even a worse fate.  You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

--Winston Churchill

Compound fractured fairy tale

Once upon a time a child was born in a place called the land of the free and the home of the brave.  She was told that she was very, very lucky to be born in this land, the best country on earth.  In school every morning, her entire class stood, placed their hands over their hearts, and solemnly recited a Pledge of Allegiance to her nation’s flag.  After that the class sang a stirring song about the greatness of this land and its purple mountain’s majesty.  The same songs were heard on Independence Day, and, as the music swelled to a crescendo, she felt both gratitude and pride at being a citizen of such a wonderful land. 

In other countries, rulers did terrible things to their people, but few of their people would hear about it, as the newspapers printed only lies in support of the evil rulers.  That would never happen in her country, Amerika, where the right of free speech had been enshrined for centuries as the first and the most important amendment in the founding documents of the republic.  She learned that although her country had fought in many wars, it was always as either a victim of an unprovoked attack, or as a brave ally to those who were innocent victims. 

The years passed and she lived her life with little regard to the work of her government.  She voted every four years, wearing proudly her “I voted” sticker for the rest of the day.

To be sure, there were disturbing occurrences every now and then.  A president was gunned down in broad daylight on a city street, then later his brother, an influential senator, was killed.  A charismatic leader of the descendants of the slaves was shot and killed at the height of his popularity.  But each time, thanks to quick police work, the lone nuts who committed these deeds were located within hours and punished, making the streets safe once again.

Everything you know about AIDS is wrong

 Published in the November, 2008 Rock Creek Free Press.

By Sheila Casey / RCFP

On April 23, 1984, Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler and researcher Robert Gallo from the National Cancer Institute held a press conference and announced that Gallo had found the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the retrovirus HIV. Heckler estimated that a vaccine would be available in just two years. That same day in 1984, Gallo patented the blood test to detect the HIV antibodies.

As a retrovirus researcher, Gallo had previously tried to pin the blame for Alzheimer’s, leukemia and neurological disorders on a retrovirus, all without success. Now AIDS was in his sights.

But Gallo had skipped an important step in the scientific process: his HIV research had never been subjected to peer review, and was not published until after the press conference with Heckler had already conferred legitimacy on it.

Billions of dollars poured into research programs and millions of people lined up to have their blood checked; by 2006, 72 million Americans had been tested, with a third of that number tested every year. As its creator, Gallo received a percentage of the cost of each test.

To receive a positive HIV test result was considered a death sentence: you would get AIDS and die a miserable death, sooner or later.

As the years passed, it became apparent that this was not true. Only five percent of the people who tested HIV positive went on to develop AIDS. A vaccine has never been found. And there is now a growing group of scientists who dispute that HIV causes AIDS.