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The goal of mindfully.org is to provide useful information to people who would not obtain this information otherwise. Mindfully.org is to be used as a nonprofit research tool. Our opinion is indeed biased — because it seems to us that the "balanced news" of today's journalism is accomplished by blending fact with fiction. Each article on this website is far from the final word on any subject and one can only get an overall view by viewing a lot of it. In other words, don't base your opinions on one file or even a few files from Mindfully.org. As for our political affiliation, we have none — not conservative or liberal. We see liberals and progressives as kind-hearted conservatives who can only add to the downward spiral of society in the US. We live in a world of contradictions where conservatives are willing to bring on Armageddon and liberals resist change at all costs. In other words, conservatives are liberal and liberals are conservative. 

Considering what this county has done to Iraq, Afghanistan and many other places in the past few years, it will take many generations before the dignity and purpose of this nation returns. The USA had previously been synonymous with freedom — at least with people who could overlook its annihilation of Native Americans and the brutal kidnapping and commodification through slavery of hundreds of thousands of African-Americans. To those people who could overlook such history, it had seemed a force of good — the myth of America. But, hark, the beast still lives! And, we might add, it still thinks it can get away with its vile acts.

One would have to live cloistered away in a basement, totally hidden from any sense of reality to hold onto that old view of Truth, Justice and The American Way. The illusion is gone and only the debt remains. It seems today that the US can do no good. The blame for this mess goes directly on those at top levels — from the president down. 

A significant number of soldiers are screaming that something is terribly wrong with the leadership and judgement of those who pushed us into this war — the false reasons for starting it; the slipshod manner in which it was begun; the lack of support for those on the ground; and the lies to the soldiers; not to mention the broken promises that Iraqis have suffered. And we at home are lied to when we are told that the US has "turned this war around." While hostilities have reduced, it is quite far from being turned around. 

With every minute Bush remains in office, his twisted image spews forth more lies as he gleefully whittles away at our rights. Corporations are now the full citizens while ordinary people are second- and third-rate citizens — more like indentured slaves than citizens. As the embodiment of evil, this administration has now sent troops back into Afghanistan. Of course we never really left. But now we'll see a big push to renew US presence in Afghanistan, followed closely, we suspect, into Iran, where we will truly be in troubled waters. Iran is not the mess that Iraq was when we invaded. And it possesses nuclear arms. At the same time pay attention to Israel, the mad hatter of the nuclear world. Once the victim, now the monster, Israel needs no excuse to invade. And the US is its eternal ally and partner in world crime. Make no mistake about it, the US would use force on its own citizens. Actually it has done so many times in the past — one time not so long ago.

The next president must make a complete u-turn away from most of what George W. Bush and his administration have done. Truth must be restored. Justice must be restored. We must find a sense of fairness again. And we must live within our means, while not stealing from our neighbors. The troops need to come home and help with healing must be offered to the Iraqis. But the Iraqis do not want Americans in Iraq. They have made it abundantly clear that nothing the US can do at this point will help. We know of at least one candidate who would make the required changes. Contrary to the other candidates, he's not part of the problem. And his name is not Clinton, Obama, or McCain. (What a lineup!)

Truth, Justice and The American Way

In this country that prides itself on truth and justice, there really hasn’t been any for quite a very long time — at least a handful of decades or more. And is what we are doing right now really the American Way? Furthermore, what is the American Way? 

Democrat and Republican approval ratings are bottoming out and are about equal to that of our buffoon-called-president. And if one were able to combine the messages of the Democrats and Republicans with those of the Anarchists, Communists, Greens, Libertarians and Socialists, we would still be in very troubled waters.

Fewer than 28% the US population approves of Bush's job performance. And Cheney says it doesn't matter what US citizens want. He has contempt for most of us. Bush's stance on energy is appalling. While most of us are witnessing now is a fast descent into depression, Bush thinks we need to take a relaxed attitude.  The government's official figures on unemployment do not actually count those who are unemployed, but only those who are newly unemployed, forgetting entirely about the long-term unemployed. Economic indicators refrain from including energy and food costs, while these are the ones that can have the greatest effects on people living in or on the edge of poverty. It is hard to hide the level of foreclosures that have risen to the highest point in the survey's 37-year history. The disparity of income is also at a high point. Health benefits and pensions are rapidly disappearing. And wages have stagnated and not kept pace with inflation. 

The war on terrorism, as it is being fought, will not be won — by anyone.  The money being spent on it is only increasing the wealth of those who invest in it. The lives of the valiant warriors lost in it are not considered by the people in the US who started it and keep it going because the sons and daughters of the rich rarely, if ever, fight in it. 

What else could go wrong you ask?

The plain truth is that the US lives in a constant dream state and has only begun to awake with this massive economic downturn. With a little truth and openness, this country has a slight chance of pulling itself back out of the gutter. Truth is desperately needed in government, academia, journalism and our personal lives. Every part of this country could benefit heavily with a liberal dose of truth.

Got Honesty?

If you think you have honesty in your life, think long and hard. Think about it in different ways at the same time. There can seemingly be honesty at one level while there is complete pandemonium at all others. Life can go on as if everything is OK right up until the time that chaos is apparent. That is when the house of cards — built by lies — comes crashing down. The effort required to rebuild after that point will only be available over a very long period of time. That applies to economic and political factors.

Now, when it comes to physical factors such as the health of our bodies and the earth we are bound to, there really is no return for us once we reach the breaking point. The viability of the human race is rapidly disintegrating. While cancers are still on the rise, the American Cancer Society and the rest of the cancer industry focuses on finding “The Cure.”  They don't stop cancer from appearing, but remove it after the fact. That is a deception — a lie, if you will. Of course we all want to be cured of cancer. But wouldn't anyone much rather have not had cancer in the first place instead of being cured of it?   Nowadays, everyone knows one or more people who have had cancer or have died from some form of cancer. 

Everyone also knows someone who has had difficulty in having children. The sperm count in industrialized nations has been falling at 1.5% each year for many decades. Women are similarly finding it difficult to conceive. Incredibly, this is good for the fertility industry, which is yet another subset of the health care industry. The unstated purpose of the health care industry has nothing much to do with health care. By following the health care industry, we choose the downward spiral of the lies — that the technologies we live with are not harmful and that the health care industry maintains health. 

But we are now clearly on the edge of living those lies whereby we will actually require technology in order to just live — at any level of health. You must understand that cancer is not the worst thing that can happen — that there are many changes happening to the makeup of our species that, to say the least, are not beneficial to our longevity or the general quality of our lives.

In order that we might avoid that place of complete chaos in our physical status we must cease living the lifestyles that almost everyone lives presently — in both quality and quantity. This includes most of what modern society has to offer.  Environmental factors such as nuclear radiation (power generation and weapons), microwaves, plastics, pesticides, genetic engineering and other toxicants that we are exposed to on a daily basis need to be halted immediately. Most of what is claimed by the regulators to be safe is quite detrimental to our long-term viability. We have seemingly been able to get away (ignore) with living the lie for quite a while. But the results are becoming painfully clear. 

Human Impact

Too many people consuming far too much energy and resources have overburdened the earth for thousands of years. It is all well beyond anything it can withstand. We don't need technology to save energy. We just need to stop doing whatever uses energy, including the computer.  It is an arrogant delusion to think that it is a right to live such lives. It is also a delusion to think families can (and should) have 3 and more children. No matter what we do to reduce our impact, we are still too many in number. 

How can we possibly get through this mess? 

A little honesty right now would go a long way.

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