Thrive (a movie & a movement)

[Ed Jewett]

My internet security program warns me when I go to the webpage published on the first post above ...

Peter, was that on the link to the thrive movement web site or the one linking to the George Washington" blog?

"George's" works are hard-hitting, especially on the economy, Wall Street, the Fed & OWS. Many of them are mirrored at GlobalResearch.ca. The "movement" thing is home base for the Gamble husband-and-wife team's project.

I'm not intimately familiar with the family and businesses of their predecessors; the people noted in the film are themselves published and noteworthy. I don't claim to be an expert in Ludwig von Mises or libertarianism, though the "Free State" movement is in nearby New Hampshire, and I have an audio CD of "the scholar's edition" of "Human Action". Fitts is well-known and has her own web site, blog, history, etc., all of which are easily found. Being a DVD, it is of course viewable again, and the web site for it can be browsed at leisure.

I take note of the tremendous wealth of 'information' about the history of the Fed, the banksters' families, etc. I haven't looked at the "back-up" at the web site; I have seen it directly with my own eyes, and can quote the sources and the books, many of which are easily found on the Internet. I find them on my bookshelf.

The point about Internet freedom is right on.

The core foundation of the movie theme about Tesla free energy I'll leave to the scientists, engineers and experts; however, it all resonates with me and what I understand. I suspect if there is cyber-interference, we can probably assume pretty correctly as to the source of that interference. We are going so see more and more of it for those who choose to criticize the government, its wars, the Fed, and their main "movers" in the real political world. Indeed, the process will probably ratchet up in the future and move beyond mere annoyance; they have set the stages, drafted the legislation, practiced the techniques. Gamble's point about the incremental nature of their process ("totalitarianism by tiptoe") is right on the money.

I was interested to see Gamble's explanation of the Hegelian dialectic, his short brush past "secret societies' and their role and influence, etc.

I was especially thrilled and amused to see the reference to Morihei Ueshiba. I have been a student of his discipline (mostly at the cognitive level) for well over a decade, and I am on my way back to the mat. I have a substantial library; his grasp of non-violence is seminal.

I am also especially interested in Gamble's narrative comment about the role of the individual versus the collective, the needs of the whole versus the needs of the individual. This is a very deep philosophical understanding (certainly cause for argument and discussion as the discussants come embodied from within their own development, world-view, and understanding). I took my cue on that subject a long time ago when I read Tim Galley's series on "The Inner Game" as part of my "Summon The Magic" project. It is the same understanding that emerges from within the field of somatics, and is expressed in books by aikido practitioners who bring other backgrounds (I think particularly of Heckler's works, as well as others from people in Heckler's circles of colleagues and friends).

The moneyed elite are demonstrably against the development of an individual, for it is through that development and exploration [whose primer is Eric Booth's book "The Everyday Work of Art"] that an individual gets to see through the maze and haze of propaganda, Hegelian games, etc., and begins to take responsibility for his own self.

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Galeano's book is an example of superb writing and translation, and Magda is correct in saying that most people are not familiar with the history he portrays. Few of us have had the direct visceral experience. And most (especially the media) "maintain a silence closely resembling stupidity".