Our Neighborhood - The Milky Way Galaxy

- By Bahram Maskanian

The arrow points to our Star the Sun, which is only one of several million stars in our Milky Way Galaxy, pictured below. - The Star closest to our Sun is 4.5 light years away. - A Light Year is the distance light travels in one year. - Light moves at the speed of 186,282 miles or 299,792 kilometers per second. - Our Sun is 30,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. - So, the light that we see coming from our Milky Way Galaxy's center, left there 30,000 years ago. - The known Universe contains over 1,000,000,000 billion other Galaxies. - The Milky Way Galaxy contains over 1,000,000 million other Solar Systems, similar to ours.

We are living on a planet that is in constant high-speed perpetual motion, rotating around itself and traveling on its orbit counter-clockwise around the Sun, as our Sun rotate on its axis counter-clockwise in perpetual motion as well.! The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 25,000 miles, or 40,000 kilometers.! The Earth rotates around its axis counter clockwise, once every twenty-four hours time, or one whole day and night.! While Planet Earth is rotating on its axis at over 1,000 miles, or 1,609 kilometers per hour, Earth is also traveling, revolving on its orbit around the Sun at the amazing speed of 67,000 miles, or 107,200 kilometers per hour, once every 365 days, or a whole year.

Planet Earth’s four seasons is caused by our planet’s axis of rotation tilt at an angle of 23.5 degrees, relative to our orbital plane, the plane of Earth’s orbit around the sun.! Which means it will always be summer at the equator and when at the northern hemisphere we are enjoying summer, people at the southern hemisphere are experiencing winter.!

Planet Earth compared to other planets and stars in size

Pledge Allegiance to Our Home - Planet Earth

"All great acts of genius began with the same consideration do not be constrained by your present reality." Leonardo Da Vinci

THRIVE: A Revolutionary Film That Will Set You Free

Published: November 17, 2011 - By Christine Lynn Harvey, Editor-in-Chief, New Living Magazine

You feel something’s not quite right with the world. Kind of like you’re stuck in a dysfunctional relationship with a lover who’s been cheating behind your back, but telling you how much they love you. Like when the mainstream media and politicians tell you everything’s OK when you know it’s not. Well, now you can learn just how much you’ve been manipulated and deceived.

“Thrive: What on Earth Will it Take?” is a ground-breaking documentary that awakens people to the REALITY of what’s going on in our world today. Produced and directed by husband and wife team Foster Gamble and Kimberly Carter Gamble, the film points out the real culprits of world crises and offer solutions to change the status quo.

“We are at a critical turning point in human history,” say the filmmakers. “The path we are on is leading toward a global police state. We must change direction, but how? What are the guiding principles that would lead to freedom from war, hunger, and domination? How do we work toward a world where no one is violated or coerced in any way? Rather than trying to improve the status quo, the film integrates traditional progressive, conservative, and libertarian viewpoints, reconciling divisions that have long kept us separated.”

“Thrive” includes interviews with leading experts and best selling authors in finance and economics, government, science, the environment, education, health, energy and more. The documentary exposes how the same ruling families that control the 12 sectors of human endeavor (arts, economics, education, environment, governance, health, infrastructure, justice, media, relations, science, spirituality and worldview) have consolidated their power with a fake fractional reserve “Monopoly money” system.

Big Oil, Big Finance, Big Pharma, Big Agra and Big Media have manipulated the masses for the past 100 years causing society to be locked in perpetual war and inflation, starvation, disease, ever increasing energy prices and debtitude among other things. The power junkies of vulture capitalism and anti-libertarian collectivism are on a runaway train of mass destruction that will eventually derail humanity and the planet unless more people wake up and put an end to the insanity.

“Thrive” suggests that extraterrestrial life forms have visited the earth and knowledge of their free energy technologies has been suppressed by the power elite. Free energy would permanently end our reliance on fossil fuels, liberate humanity and heal the planet. It also posits how those in power have suppressed free energy technology by threatening, sabotaging and even killing inventors.

When you begin to realize why such technologies have never made it to market, why the “wars” on cancer, drugs, poverty and starvation are never-ending, or why you seem to be on a treadmill that you can’t get off even though you’re working harder and longer for a paycheck which no longer buys what it used to due to the inflationary practices of the “Federal” Reserve, a private banking cartel - things start to make sense. Don’t look for an explanation from the mainstream media which is controlled by the same people who profit from keeping you permanently in the dark.

Chem trails, weather modification, false flag operations, the collapse of the US dollar to usher in an electronic world banking system, an international tax in the guise of a carbon tax to “save the planet,” GMOs and vaccinations designed to control world population through stealth sterilization and an ever growing police state among other topics are presented through stunning visuals, enlightening interviews, footage from other ground-breaking news sources and special graphics. The film points to one irrefutable conclusion - the terrible suffering of humanity and the destruction of the planet are being caused by only a handful of people who think they are superior to the rest of us. Their ultimate plan is to create a one-world government in which every single person is surveilled and controlled in an Orwellian-nightmare-come-true. When we wake up to this fact, our numbers are our strength and we will overpower the evil few.

Like many people, Gamble says he had a hard time believing so few could carry out such a large plan without anyone catching on, but, this plan is successful and continues because of a “need to know” compartmentalized strategy often employed by intelligence agencies like the CIA. David Icke, best-selling author of “The Biggest Secret” explains: Most of the power elite operate on a pyramidal scheme, concentrating power and wealth into a few hands at the capstone of the pyramid. Banks, universities, government agencies, medical institutions and transnational corporations all work this way. The public is at the bottom of the pyramid. The local bank teller is at the next level and doesn’t know what their bank manager is thinking or doing; at the next level, the bank manager doesn’t know what the regional manager is doing; the regional manager doesn’t know what the CEO knows, and the CEO may or may not know what the bank owner knows. In this way, only a few people ever really know what the real agenda is, however, everyone is contributing to the end game.

While the information offered in this film is a real eye-opener and may overwhelm you at first, the age-old adage, “The Truth Shall Set You Free,” couldn’t more aptly summarize this film. Leaving off on an inspiring note, Thrive offers a framework of solutions for humanity’s greatest challenges. Once you are informed, there is no turning back only the road to transformation before you.

George Carlin's Two Commandments

The Two Commandments - Transcript

- by George Carlin

This is from George Carlin's book "When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?" Hyperion, 2004, which contains several critical articles on religion and on other issues, and which is recommended for your reading pleasure.

I have a problem with the Ten Commandments. Here it is: Why are there ten! We don't need that many. I think the list of commandments was deliberately and artificially inflated to get it up to ten. It's clearly a padded list.

Here's how it happened: About five thousand years ago, a bunch of religious and political hustlers got together to figure out how they could control people and keep them in line. They knew people were basically stupid and would believe anything they were told, so these guys announced that God - God personally-had given one of them a list of ten commandments that he wanted everyone to follow. They claimed the whole thing took place on a mountaintop, when no one else was around.

But let me ask you something: When these guys were sittin' around the tent makin' all this up, why did they pick ten? Why ten? Why not nine, or eleven? I'll tell you why. Because ten sounds important. Ten sounds official. They knew if they tried eleven, people wouldn't take them seriously. People would say, "What are you kiddin' me? The Eleven Commandments? Get the fuck outta here!"

But ten! Ten sounds important. Ten is the basis for the decimal system; it's a decade. It's a psychologically satisfying number: the top ten; the ten most wanted; the ten best-dressed. So deciding on ten commandments was clearly a marketing decision. And it's obviously a bullshit list. In truth, it's a political document, artificially inflated to sell better.

I'm going to show you how you can reduce the number of commandments and come up with a list that's a bit more logical and realistic. We'll start with the first three, and I'll use the Roman Catholic version because those are the ones I was fed as a little boy.

• I AM THE LORD THY GOD, THOU SHALT NOT HAVE STRANGE GODS BEFORE ME.
• THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN.
• THOU SHALT KEEP HOLY THE SABBATH.

Okay, right off the bat, the first three commandments - pure bullshit. "Sabbath day," "Lord's name," "strange gods." Spooky language. Spooky language designed to scare and control primitive people. In no way does superstitious mumbo jumbo like this apply to the lives of intelligent, civilized humans in the twenty-first century. You throw out the first three commandments, and you're down to seven.

• HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER.

This commandment is about obedience and respect for authority; in other words it's simply a device for controlling people. The truth is, obedience and respect should not be granted automatically. They should be earned. They should be based on the parents' (or the authority figure's) performance. Some parents deserve respect. Most of them don't. Period. We're down to six.

Now, in the interest of logic - something religion has a really hard time with - I'm going to skip around the list a little bit:

• THOU SHALT NOT STEAL.
• THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WTNESS.

Stealing and lying. Actually, when you think about it, these two commandments cover the same sort of behavior: dishonesty. Stealing and lying. So we don't need two of them. Instead, we combine these two and call it "Thou shalt not be dishonest." Suddenly we're down to five.

And as long as we're combining commandments I have two others that belong together:

• THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.
• THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE.

Once again, these two prohibit the same sort of behavior; in this case, marital infidelity. The difference between them is that coveting takes place in the mind. And I don't think you should outlaw fantasizing about someone else's wife, otherwise what's a guy gonna think about when he's flogging his dong?

But marital fidelity is a good idea, so I suggest we keep the idea and call this commandment "Thou shalt not be unfaithful." Suddenly we're down to four. And when you think about it further, honesty and fidelity are actually parts of the same overall value. So, in truth, we could combine the two honesty commandments with the two fidelity commandments, and, using positive language instead of negative, call the whole thing "Thou shalt always be honest and faithful." And now we're down to three.

• THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S GOODS.

This one is just plain stupid. Coveting your neighbor's goods is what keeps the economy going: Your neighbor gets a vibrator that plays “O Come All Ye Faithful,” you want to get one, too. Coveting creates jobs. Leave it alone.

You throw out coveting and you're down to two now: the big, combined honesty/fidelity commandment, and the one we haven't mentioned yet:

• THOU SHALT NOT KILL.

Murder. The Fifth Commandment. But, if you give it a little thought, you realize that religion has never really had a problem with murder. Not really. More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason.

To cite a few examples, just think about Irish history, the Middle East, the Crusades, the Inquisition, our own abortion-doctor killings and, yes, the World Trade Center to see how seriously religious people take Thou Shalt Not Kill. Apparently, to religious folks - especially the truly devout-murder is negotiable. It just depends on who's doing the killing and who's getting killed.

And so, with all of this in mind, folks, I offer you my revised list of the Two Commandments:

First:

• THOU SHALT ALWAYS BE HONEST AND FAITHFUL, ESPECIALLY TO THE PROVIDER OF THY NOOKIE.

And second:

• THOU SHALT TRY REAL HARD NOT TO KILL ANYONE, UNLESS, OF COURSE, THEY PRAY TO A DIFFERENT INVISIBLE AVENGER THAN THE ONE YOU PRAY TO.

Two is all you need, folks. Moses could have carried them down the hill in his pocket. And if we had a list like that, I wouldn't mind that brilliant judge in Alabama displaying it prominently in his courthouse lobby. As long he included one additional commandment:

• THOU SHALT KEEP THY RELIGION TO THYSELF!!!