The Count of Monte Cristo Is On KTLA Channel 5 Right Now!!! I LOVE This Movie! It's One Of My Favorites. If You Need Inspiration, Then This Movie Is For You!

I ♥ this movie!!!

omg... I was just flipping thru the channels and came across The Count of Monte Cristo! This is one of my favorite movies and helped me finish college. I watched every time I needed encouragement, along with a few other select movies. The Count of Monte Cristo is airing on KTLA channel 5. I LOVE this movie! Great inspirational story. :) Missed the 1st hour of movie, which I feel is the best part. You really need to watch from beginning. It helps you understand the 2nd half.

Come to Me ~ by France Joli ♥

I want to share one of my all time FAVORITE songs with you! France Joli is a Canadian singer. "Come to me" was her first single, released when she was 16 and it hit #1 on the US Disco Dance chart in 1979. On the Billboard Hot 100, it was her biggest mainstream hit, breaking the Top 20 at #15. The success of the single put her in demand for talk shows with Merv Griffin, Dinah Shore and a Bob Hope special.

I never get tired of hearing this song. My spirit just loves to dance to this song. This is how God started tugging on my heart while on the dance floor at a night club. Can you hear God? God is knocking on the door of your heart. Will you invite Him in and have a little chat about life? I promise you, His presence alone will transform your life. Instead of imagining someone else singing this song to you or you singing this song to someone else, just try for a moment to hear God's voice singing this song to YOU. Enjoy the lyrics! ♥

 Come to Me ~ by France Joli

Come to me
When you're all alone and feeling down
Come to me
When there's nobody else around
Come to me
I'm still waiting open-armed for you
Come to me
'cause I will comfort you
When you've no one to turn to
I will be here just for you

Come to me
When your world is empty and cold
Come to me
When you need someone you want to hold
Come to me
In my arms I will keep you safe and warm
Come to me
I will shelter you from the storm
I'm not one to pretend

Why can't you understand
That I love you
And I love you
And I need you
And I want you
And I love you
And I love you
And I need you
And I want you
Come to me

(instrumental break)

I'm a lonely man
Living in a world of dreams
I've got everything
But the one thing that I really need

Come to me
I'll give you all the love you'll need
'cause I have love just for you

Come to me
When your world is empty and cold
Come to me
When you need someone you want to hold
Come to me
In my arms I will keep you safe and warm
Come to me
I will shelter you from the storm
I'm not one to pretend
Why can't you understand

That I love you
And I love you
And I need you
And I love you
Come to me
I need you
And I need you
And I want you

The Boss ~ by Diana Ross ♥ I Included A Bonus Track/Vid For More INSPIRATION And To Let You Know That YOU ARE NOT ALONE! :)

My mom has always been a huge Diana Ross fan. I grew up listening to her albums and dancing in the living room with my mom. I was also fortunate enough as a child to experience Diana Ross live in concert with my mom on several occasions. Diana Ross would always wear the most beautiful elaborate gowns on stage and change gowns after every set. She would also walk out into the audience and shake everybody's hand. She always without fail LEFT ME MESMERIZED! Diana Ross is an AWESOME entertainer! Pure CLASS.

The Boss was a huge hit when it came out. Nevertheless, this is actually a very powerful spiritual song if you really choose to listen. God is LOVE. Therefore, God is The Boss! Creator and Source of ALL living things. Love to you all. Enjoy this song and lyrics! This was me. I can totally relate to this song, as I am sure many of you can as well or soon will. ♥

This is such an AWESOME song! I can't get enough of it tonight! :) This was not released as a spiritual song. It was a dance hit in 1979. The lyrics just have more meaning for me. ♥

The Boss ~ by Legendary Diana Ross

Fancy ME
Thought I had my degree
In life and how LOVE
Ought to be a run
I had a one step plan to prove it
Guide in my pocket for FOOLS
Folly and fun
LOVE had to show me ONE THING:

I was so right
So right
Thought I could turn emotion
On and off
I was so sure
So sure (I was so sure)
But LOVE TAUGHT ME
Who was who was who was The Boss!
(Taught me who was who was The Boss)

I'D DEFY
Anyone who claimed that I
Didn't control whatever moved in MY SOUL
I could tempt
Touch delight
Just because you fell for me
Why should I feel uptight
LOVE had to show me ONE THING:

I was so right
So right
Thought I could turn emotion
On and off
I was so sure
So sure (I was so sure)
But LOVE TAUGHT ME
Who was who was who was The Boss!
(Taught me who was who was The Boss)

LOVE TAUGHT ME
Taught ME
Taught ME
Taught ME

I was so right
So right
Thought I could turn emotion
On and off
I was so sure
So sure (I was so sure)
But LOVE TAUGHT ME
Who was who was who was The Boss!
(Taught me who was who was The Boss)

BONUS TRACK

God wants you to know: "If you need me, call me. No matter where you are, no matter how far. Just call my name. I'll be there in a hurry. On that you can depend and never worry.

I know you must follow the sun. Wherever it leads. But remember. If you should fall short of your desires. Remember life holds for you one guarantee. You'll always have me." ♥

10 Keys To Happier Living: GREAT DREAM

Ten keys to happier living

GREAT DREAM

[source: Action for Happiness]

Action for Happiness has developed the 10 Keys to Happier Living based on a review of the latest scientific research relating to happiness.

Everyone’s path to happiness is different, but the research suggests these Ten Keys consistently tend to have a positive impact on people’s overall happiness and well-being. The first five (GREAT) relate to how we interact with the outside world in our daily activities*. The second five (DREAM) come more from inside us and depend on our attitude to life.

Giving: Do things for others.

Caring about others is fundamental to our happiness. Helping other people is not only good for them and a great thing to do, it also makes us happier and healthier too. Giving also creates stronger connections between people and helps to build a happier society for everyone. And it's not all about money - we can also give our time, ideas and energy. So if you want to feel good, do good!
Q: What do you do to help others?

Relating: Connect with people.

Relationships are the most important overall contributor to happiness. People with strong and broad social relationships are happier, healthier and live longer. Close relationships with family and friends provide love, meaning, support and increase our feelings of self worth. Broader networks bring a sense of belonging. So taking action to strengthen our relationships and create new connections is essential for happiness.

Q: Who matters most to you?

Exercising: Take care of your body.

Our body and our mind are connected. Being active makes us happier as well as being good for our physical health. It instantly improves our mood and can even lift us out of a depression. We don't all need to run marathons - there are simple things we can all do to be more active each day. We can also boost our well-being by unplugging from technology, getting outside and making sure we get enough sleep!

Q: How do you stay active and healthy?

Appreciating: Notice the world around you.

Ever felt there must be more to life? Well good news, there is! And it's right here in front of us. We just need to stop and take notice. Learning to be more mindful and aware can do wonders for our well-being in all areas of life - like our walk to work, the way we eat or our relationships. It helps us get in tune with our feelings and stops us dwelling on the past or worrying about the future - so we get more out of the day-to-day.

Q: When do you stop and take notice?

Trying out: Keep learning new things.

Learning affects our well-being in lots of positive ways. It exposes us to new ideas and helps us stay curious and engaged. It also gives us a sense of accomplishment and helps boost our self-confidence and resilience. There are many ways to learn new things - not just through formal qualifications. We can share a skill with friends, join a club, learn to sing, play a new sport and so much more.

Q: What new things have you tried recently?

Direction: Have goals to look forward to.

Feeling good about the future is important for our happiness. We all need goals to motivate us and these need to be challenging enough to excite us, but also achievable. If we try to attempt the impossible this brings unnecessary stress. Choosing ambitious but realistic goals gives our lives direction and brings a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction when we achieve them.

Q: What are your most important goals?

Resilience: Find ways to bounce back.

All of us have times of stress, loss, failure or trauma in our lives. But how we respond to these has a big impact on our well-being. We often cannot choose what happens to us, but we can choose our own attitude to what happens. In practice it’s not always easy, but one of the most exciting findings from recent research is that resilience, like many other life skills, can be learned.

Q: How do you bounce back in tough times?

Emotion: Take a positive approach.

Positive emotions – like joy, gratitude, contentment, inspiration, and pride – are not just great at the time. Recent research shows that regularly experiencing them creates an 'upward spiral', helping to build our resources. So although we need to be realistic about life's ups and downs, it helps to focus on the good aspects of any situation – the glass half full rather than the glass half empty.

Q: What are you feeling good about?

Acceptance: Be comfortable with who you are.

No-one's perfect. But so often we compare our insides to other people's outsides. Dwelling on our flaws - what we're not rather than what we've got - makes it much harder to be happy. Learning to accept ourselves, warts and all, and being kinder to ourselves when things go wrong, increases our enjoyment of life, our resilience and our well-being. It also helps us accept others as they are.

Q: What is the real you like?

Meaning: Be part of something bigger.

People who have meaning and purpose in their lives are happier, feel more in control and get more out of what they do. They also experience less stress, anxiety and depression. But where do we find 'meaning and purpose'? It might be our religious faith, being a parent or doing a job that makes a difference. The answers vary for each of us but they all involve being connected to something bigger than ourselves.

Q: What gives your life meaning?

The Golden Rule = RESPECT!

The Golden Rule = RESPECT!

[source: unionps]

GOLDEN RULE: DO: Treat others the way you want to be treated. • Respect the dignity, privacy and freedom of ALL INDIVIDUALS. • Value and honor all people, no matter what they can do for you or to you. • Respect others’ property -- take good care of property you are allowed to use and don’t take or use property without permission. • Respect the autonomy of others -- tell them what they should know to make good choices about their own lives. DON’T: Use or manipulate others. • Abuse, demean or mistreat anyone.

TOLERANCE AND ACCEPTANCE: DO: Judge others on their character, abilities and conduct without regard to race, religion, gender, where they live, how they dress or the amount of money they have. • Be tolerant, respectful and accepting of those who are different from you • Listen to others and try to understand their points of view.

NONVIOLENCE: DO: Resolve disagreements, respond to insults and deal with anger peacefully and without violence. DON’T: Use threats or physical force to get what you want or to express anger.

COURTESY: DO: Use good manners. • Be courteous, polite and civil to everyone. DON’T: Use put-downs, insults, yelling or ridicule to embarrass or hurt another.

The Golden Rule - The Ethic of Reciprocity

The Golden Rule - The Ethic of Reciprocity

[source: Hubpages-Food for the Soul]

"Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal." The Dalai Lama

While religions and religious groups may vary in their practices and beliefs, the Golden Rule, also known as the Ethic of Reciprocity, is routinely a part of their philosophies and beliefs. It is considered by some to be the most consistent, moral teaching throughout history. While the most commonly known version is Christianity's Golden Rule, routinely stated as "Do onto others as you would have them do onto you," the concept that one should treat others with fairness and respect has been expressed many different ways:

Baha'i

"Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for anyone the things you would not desire for yourself. " -- Baha'u'llah"

And if thine eyes be turned towards justice, choose thou for thy neighbour that which thou choosest for thyself." -- Epistle to the Son of the Wolf

Buddhism

"Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful." -- Udana-Varga 5.18

Christianity

"All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." -- Matthew 7:1

Confucianism

"Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you." -- Analects 12:2

Hinduism

"This is the sum of duty: do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you." -- Mahabharata 5:1517

Islam

"None of you [truly] believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself." -- Number 13 of Imam "Al-Nawawi's Forty Hadiths."

Jainism

"One should treat all creatures in the world as one would like to be treated." -- Mahavira, Sutrakritanga 1.11.33

Judaism

"What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. That is the law: all the rest is commentary" -- Talmud, Shabbath 31a

Native American

"All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One." -- Black Elk

"We are as much alive as we keep the earth alive." -- Chief Dan George

Sikhism

"I am a stranger to no one; and no one is a stranger to me. Indeed, I am a friend to all." -- Guru Granth Sahib, p.1299

Taoism

"Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain and your neighbor's loss as your own loss." -- T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien 213-218

Unitarianism

"We affirm and promote respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part." -- Unitarian principle

Wiccan

"An it harm none, do what ye will." -- Wiccan Rede

Zoroastrianism

"Do not do unto others whatever is injurious to yourself. -- Shayast-na-Shayast 13.29

Please remember as you go about your day, and interact with others, to treat them as you wish to be treated.

"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." (Aesop)

THE GOLDEN RULE

THE GOLDEN RULE

[source: World Scripture]

The Golden Rule or the ethic of reciprocity is found in the scriptures of nearly every religion. It is often regarded as the most concise and general principle of ethics. It is a condensation in one principle of all longer lists of ordinances such as the Decalogue. See also texts on Loving Kindness, pp. 967-73.

1. Judaism and Christianity. Bible, Leviticus 19.18

"You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

2. Christianity. Bible, Matthew 7.12

"Whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them."

3. Islam. Forty Hadith of an-Nawawi 13

"Not one of you is a believer until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself."

4. Jainism. Sutrakritanga 1.11.33

"A man should wander about treating all creatures as he himself would be treated."

5. Confucianism. Mencius VII.A.4

"Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence."

6. Hinduism. Mahabharata, Anusasana Parva 113.8

"One should not behave towards others in a way which is disagreeable to oneself. This is the essence of morality. All other activities are due to selfish desire."

7. Confucianism. Analects 15.23

"Tsekung asked, "Is there one word that can serve as a principle of conduct for life?" Confucius replied, "It is the word shu--reciprocity: Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you.""

8. Buddhism. Sutta Nipata 705

"Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill."

9. African Traditional Religions. Yoruba Proverb (Nigeria)

"One going to take a pointed stick to pinch a baby bird should first try it on himself to feel how it hurts."

10. Jainism. Acarangasutra 5.101-2

"One who you think should be hit is none else but you. One who you think should be governed is none else but you. One who you think should be tortured is none else but you. One who you think should be enslaved is none else but you. One who you think should be killed is none else but you. A sage is ingenuous and leads his life after comprehending the parity of the killed and the killer. Therefore, neither does he cause violence to others nor does he make others do so."

11. Buddhism. Samyutta Nikaya v.353

"The Ariyan disciple thus reflects, Here am I, fond of my life, not wanting to die, fond of pleasure and averse from pain. Suppose someone should rob me of my life... it would not be a thing pleasing and delightful to me. If I, in my turn, should rob of his life one fond of his life, not wanting to die, one fond of pleasure and averse from pain, it would not be a thing pleasing or delightful to him. For a state that is not pleasant or delightful to me must also be to him also; and a state that is not pleasing or delightful to me, how could I inflict that upon another?

As a result of such reflection he himself abstains from taking the life of creatures and he encourages others so to abstain, and speaks in praise of so abstaining."

12. Judaism. Talmud, Shabbat 31a

"A certain heathen came to Shammai and said to him, "Make me a proselyte, on condition that you teach me the whole Torah while I stand on one foot." Thereupon he repulsed him with the rod which was in his hand. When he went to Hillel, he said to him, "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor: that is the whole Torah; all the rest of it is commentary; go and learn.""

13. Christianity. Bible, Matthew 22.36-40

""Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" Jesus said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.""

The Six Pillars of Character

The Six Pillars of Character

[source: Character Counts]

The CHARACTER COUNTS! approach to character education doesn't exclude anyone. That's why we base our programs and materials on six ethical values that everyone can agree on — values that are not political, religious, or culturally biased. Use the points below to help young people understand the Six Pillars, and use the mnemonic devices at right to help them remember.

For a more detailed discussion of the Six Pillars, consult our book, Making Ethical Decisions, reprinted in part HERE. <== FREE online outline.

Trustworthiness

Be honest • Don’t deceive, cheat, or steal • Be reliable — do what you say you’ll do • Have the courage to do the right thing • Build a good reputation • Be loyal — stand by your family, friends, and country

Respect

Treat others with respect; follow the Golden Rule • Be tolerant and accepting of differences • Use good manners, not bad language • Be considerate of the feelings of others • Don’t threaten, hit or hurt anyone • Deal peacefully with anger, insults, and disagreements

Responsibility

Do what you are supposed to do • Plan ahead • Persevere: keep on trying! • Always do your best • Use self-control • Be self-disciplined • Think before you act — consider the consequences • Be accountable for your words, actions, and attitudes • Set a good example for others

Fairness

Play by the rules • Take turns and share • Be open-minded; listen to others • Don’t take advantage of others • Don’t blame others carelessly • Treat all people fairly

Caring

Be kind • Be compassionate and show you care • Express gratitude • Forgive others • Help people in need

Citizenship

Do your share to make your school and community better • Cooperate • Get involved in community affairs • Stay informed; vote • Be a good neighbor • Obey laws and rules • Respect authority • Protect the environment • Volunteer

Self-Acceptance... Why It Is So Important For Your Well-Being! This Story Is Such A Beautiful Analogy ♥

Self-Acceptance
Heart's-ease in the king's garden
[source: Osho International]

You cannot improve upon yourself. And I am not saying that improvement does not happen, remember--but you cannot improve upon yourself. When you stop improving upon yourself, life improves you. In that relaxation, in that acceptance, life starts caressing you, life starts flowing through you. Nobody else has ever been like you and nobody else will ever be like you; you are simply unique, incomparable.

Accept this, love this, celebrate this--and in that very celebration you will start seeing the uniqueness of the others, the incomparable beauty of the others.

Love is possible only when there is a deep acceptance of oneself, the other, the world. Acceptance creates the milieu in which love grows, the soil in which love blooms.

I have heard:

A king went into his garden and found wilted and dying trees, shrubs and flowers. The oak said it was dying because it could not be tall like the pine. Turning to the pine, he found it drooping because it was unable to bear grapes like the vine. And the vine was dying because it could not blossom like the rose. He found Heart's-ease blooming and as fresh as ever. Upon inquiry, he received this reply:

"I took it for granted that when you planted me you wanted Heart's-ease. If you had desired an oak, a vine or a rose, you would have planted them. So I thought that since you put me here, I should do the best I can to be what you want. I can be nothing but what I am, and I am trying to be that to the best of my ability."

You are here because this existence needs you as you are. Otherwise somebody else would have been here!--existence would not have helped you to be here, would not have created you. You are fulfilling something very essential, something very fundamental, as you are. If God wanted a Buddha he could have produced as many Buddhas as he wanted. He produced only one Buddha--that was enough, and he was satisfied to his heart's desire, utterly satisfied. Since then he has not produced another Buddha or another Christ.

He has created you instead. Just think of the respect that the universe has given to you! You have been chosen, not Buddha, not Christ, not Krishna. You will be needed more, that's why. You fit more now. Their work is done, they contributed their fragrance to existence. Now you have to contribute your fragrance.

But the moralists, the puritans, the priests, they go on teaching you, they go on driving you crazy. They say to the rose, "Become a lotus." And they say to the lotus, "What are you doing here? You have to become something else." They drive the whole garden crazy, everything starts dying--because nobody can be anybody else, that is not possible.

That's what has happened to humanity. Everybody is pretending. Authenticity is lost, truth is lost, everybody is trying to show that he is somebody else. Just look at yourself: you are pretending to be somebody else. And you can be only yourself--there is no other way, there has never been, there is no possibility that you can be anybody else. You will remain yourself. You can enjoy it and bloom, or you can wither away if you condemn it.

How To Stop Thinking, Worrying And Analysing And Just Start Creating! I Have To Admit That I Sometimes Suffer From Analysis Paralysis lol ;)

How To Stop Thinking, Worrying And Analysing And Just Start Creating

[source: Coach Creative]

Being the creative person you are, I’m pretty sure that at any one time you have probably a few hundred thoughts zipping around your mind, all vying for your attention.

They range from the trivial every day thoughts like “What shall we have for dinner tonight?” and “When is our car due a service?” to deeper concerns like “Is this dull pain in my stomach anything to be concerned about?” and “Will I ever be as creative as I was in my early 20s again?”.

Along with just about everything in between.

It’s ironic that although we’re capable of being highly creative and have a constant source of ideas pouring forth in our minds, the flip side is this equally infinite onslaught of thoughts and worries, all capable of distracting us, and at times it seems completely debilitating us from creating anything at all.

Then there’s that whole OTHER layer of worries about worrying, and analysis of analysing.

“If only I didn’t worry so much I could just get on and enjoy my life and what I want to create. I worry I worry too much, then that makes me worry even more! What’s wrong with me, I think I need to figure this out, think it through thoroughly, before I get to creating anything…”

Sound familiar?

I know as I was writing that last paragraph my own mind was saying: “Hey, that’s my line, did I give you permission to say it loud in public?”

What if we could just stop all the worries, thoughts and concerns? What if there was a switch that just stopped them all in an instant so we could get on and focus on creating what’s important to us, what we’re passionate about?

What if we could put them all in a huge box, chain it shut, put it in a dark corner down in the basement, lock the door and never see it again?

Well, that’s not going to happen. There’s no magic trick, no secret method to removing all those thoughts from your head. Not one that doesn’t involve invasive brain surgery at least.

But you know what? This is a GOOD thing!

Because as we said just now, all this thinking – all this endless activity in your mind – is the flip side of being creative and being able to pour out ideas like a barman pours out beers on a Saturday night in the busiest bar in town.

You know I said there wasn’t a trick or a secret to switching all your thoughts and worries off? Well, that is true, but there IS a way to deal with them far more easily, to all but eliminate their impact on hindering your creativity.

You can’t turn them off, but you can turn them down, and you can tune them out.

Imagine your mind as a radio, where you can tune into thousands of different channels. Whilst all these channels are still broadcasting a signal 24 hours a day, you can choose which channels you listen to, which you tune into.

So if you don’t want to listen to that annoying high pitched host of W.O.R.R.Y FM, then you don’t have to.

Actually imagine in your mind how this DJ sounds, endlessly rambling on with their fears and concerns. Then tune them out, turn them down. See them disappearing in your mind. Instead of being on full volume at the front of your thoughts, picture them fading away into grainy black and white and receding into the distance.

See them drifting away, become ever quieter and more transparent, their image and voice breaking up and fading like a ghost disappearing as day breaks. Imagine them just drifting into a single collected mass of your thoughts, a gentle low background presence that doesn’t concern you.

You know like when your in a building in a city and you can hear the traffic outside? You know it’s there, and if your bring your attention to it, you hear the rush by of every car, truck and bike. But most of the time it is just a background presence. You don’t need to listen, it’s just there, not doing any harm, whilst you get on with what you need to get on with.

Practice tuning out your own inner radio channels that have up until now distracted you.

Give them names, imagine the host’s face, give them a personality, rather than have them as an ominous floating fearful entity.

Then tune them our, watch them fade away into the soft background melee of sound you don’t need to focus on or pay any attention to.

The more you do this, the easier it will become.

In the meantime, just create.

Give yourself specific dates and times, mark it in your calendar, a short block of time each day. You only need 10 or 15 minutes to begin.

Building this daily creative habit, making full use of the time rather than endlessly worrying will make a huge change in your creative life.

You can start today, and I’m confident you will. Because we need to create, it’s not an option. It’s what we do. It’s what we must do.

So it’s goodbye W.O.R.R.Y FM, hello Creativity Central…

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More Jokes To Help Lighten The Mood! ;)

God's Favorite Sound Is LAUGHTER!

Q: What do you call a schizophrenic Buddhist?

A: Someone who is at two with the universe.

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A Buddhist nun, an atheist and a Catholic Priest are on the Titanic when the ship hits an iceberg. So they all run out on deck to get into a lifeboat.

"Women and children first!" yells the Buddhist.

"Screw the women and children!" yells the atheist.

The Catholic Priest yells,"Do you think we really have that much time?".

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So the Zen master steps up to the hot dog cart and says: "Make me one with everything."

The hot dog vendor fixes a hot dog and hands it to the Zen master, who pays with a $20 bill.

The hot dog vendor puts the bill in the cash drawer and closes the drawer.

"Where's my change?" asks the Zen master.

The hot dog vendor responds: "Change must come from within."

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Q: What is the name of the best Zen teacher?

A: M.T. Ness

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Disciple: Oh wise and all knowing one, show me the place of perfect peace.
Master: If I show it to you it will no longer be peaceful.

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Q. Have you heard of the cow who attained liberation?

A. It was dyslexic and kept on repeating OOOOMMM !

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A new monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He notices, however, that they are copying copies, not the original books. So, the new monk goes to the head monk to ask him about this. He points out that if there were an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies.

The head monk says "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son." So, he goes down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original.

Hours later, nobody has seen him. So, one of the monks goes downstairs to look for him. He hears a sobbing coming from the back of the cellar, and finds the old monk leaning over one of the original books and crying. He asks what's wrong. "The word is 'celebrate'," says the old monk.

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Q. What happens when a Buddhist becomes totally absorbed with the computer he is working with?
A. He enters Nerdvana.

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Three monks decided to practise meditation together. they sat by the side of a lake and closed their eyes in concentration. Then suddenly, the first one stood up and said, "I forgot my mat." He steeped miraculously onto the water in front of him and walked across the lake to their hut on the other side.

When he returned, the second monk stood up and said, "I forgot to put my other underwear to dry." He too walked calmly across the water and returned the same way. The third monk watched the first two carefully in what he decided must be the test of his own abilities. "Is your learning so superior to mine? I too can match any feat you two can perform," he declared loudly and rushed to the water's edge to walk across it. He promptly fell into the deep water.

Undeterred, the wet monk climbed out of the water and tried again, only to sink into the water. Yet again he climbed out and yet again he tried, each time sinking into the water. This went on for some time as the other two monks watched.

After a while, the second monk turned to the first and said, "Do you think we should tell him where the stones are?"

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Four monks were meditating in a monastery. All of a sudden the prayer flag on the roof started flapping.

The younger monk came out of his meditation and said: "Flag is flapping"

A more experienced monk said: "Wind is flapping"

A third monk who had been there for more than 20 years said: "Mind is flapping."

The fourth monk who was the eldest said: "Mouths are flapping!"

Buddhist Zen Cartoons To Make You LAUGH! I Just Laughed So Hard, I Cried! Enjoy :D

WARNING: Puns Ahead! Humor To Help Us To LIGHTEN UP! :)

WARNING: Puns Ahead!

[source: Jokes Galore]

Love 'em or hate 'em, it's Pun time. Puns, or "groaners" like some folks like to call them are fun. Try 'em on your friends and relatives, but keep a straight face when you tell them and be preapared for GROANS... then you'll see why they are called so... enjoy and pass 'em on!

1.  Energizer Bunny arrested; charged with battery.

2.  A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.

3.  A pessimist's blood type is always b-negative.

4.  My wife really likes to make pottery, but to me it's just kiln time.

5.  Dijon vu: the same mustard as before.

6.  Practice safe eating: always use condiments.

7.  I fired my masseuse today. She just rubbed me the wrong way.

8.  A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

9.  Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death.

10. I used to work in a blanket factory, but it folded.

11. I used to be a lumberjack, but I just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the ax.

12. If electricity comes from electrons, does that mean that morality comes from morons?

13. A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy.

14. Marriage is the mourning after the knot before.

15. A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

16. Corduroy pillows are making headlines.

17. Is a book on voyeurism a peeping tome.

18. Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a form of floor play.

19. Banning the bra was a big flop.

20. Sea captains don't like crew cuts.

21. Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?

22. A successful diet is the triumph of mind over platter.

23. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

24. A gossip is someone with a great sense of rumor.

25. Without geometry, life is pointless.

26. When you dream in color, it's a pigment of your imagination.

27. Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion.

28. Reading whilst sunbathing makes you well-red.

29. When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.

Philosophical HUMOR: Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road? LOL! :)

Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?

[source: Space and Motion]

Plato: For the greater good.

Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained.

Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!

Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.

Douglas Adams: Forty-two.

Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.

Oliver North: National Security was at stake.

B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will.

Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.

Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.

Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Aristotle: To actualize its potential.

Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken- nature.

Salvador Dali: The Fish.

Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.

Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.

Epicurus: For fun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.

Johann von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.

Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.

Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.

David Hume: Out of custom and habit.

Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.

Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?

Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life.

Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.

Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.

Wordsworth: To wander lonely as a cloud.

Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl.

Dr Johnson: Sir, had you known the Chicken for as long as I have, you would not so readily enquire, but feel rather the Need to resist such a public Display of your own lamentable and incorrigible Ignorance.

Oscar Wilde: Why, indeed? One's social engagements whilst in town ought never expose one to such barbarous inconvenience - although, perhaps, if one must cross a road, one may do far worse than to cross it as the chicken in question.

Kafka: Hardly the most urgent enquiry to make of a low-grade insurance clerk who woke up that morning as a hen.

Swift: It is, of course, inevitable that such a loathsome, filth-ridden and degraded creature as Man should assume to question the actions of one in all respects his superior.

Macbeth: To have turned back were as tedious as to go o'er.

Freud: An die andere Seite zu kommen. (Much laughter)

Hamlet: That is not the question.

Donne: It crosseth for thee.

Delegate Allocation Summary For The 5 Republican Party Presidential Primaries Held Today April 24th.

Republican Party Presidential Primaries 2012

[source: wikipedia (scroll down to bottom of page)]

Tuesday April 24, 2012 elections

Connecticut (primary-closed)
State Delegation (only voting delegates)
RNC: 3 State At-Large: 10 Congressional District: 15 Total: 28
Unbound delegates: 3 Bound delegates: 25

Delegate allocation State At-Large: Proportional
Election date: April 24th Type: Slate

Delegate allocation Congressional District: Winner-take-all
Election date: April 24th Type: Slate

Delaware (primary-closed)
State Delegation (only voting delegates)
RNC: 3 State At-Large: 11 Congressional District: 3 Total: 17
Unbound delegates: 0 Bound delegates: 17

Delegate allocation State At-Large: Winner-take-all
Election date: April 28th Type: Convention

Delegate allocation Congressional District: Winner-take-all
Election date: April 28th Type: Convention

New York (primary-closed)
State Delegation (only voting delegates)
RNC: 3 State At-Large: 34 Congressional District: 58 Total: 95
Unbound delegates: 3 Bound delegates: 92

Delegate allocation State At-Large: Proportional
Election date: May 23rd Type: Committee

Delegate allocation Congressional District: Winner-take-all
Election date: April 24rd Type: Slate

Pennsylvania (primary-closed)
State Delegation (only voting delegates)
RNC: 3 State At-Large: 10 Congressional District: 59 Total: 72
Unbound delegates: 13 Bound delegates: 59

Delegate allocation State At-Large: No allocation
Election date: June 10th Type: Committee

Delegate allocation Congressional District: No allocation
Election date: April 24th Type: Direct vote

Rhode Island (primary-semi closed)
State Delegation (only voting delegates)
RNC: 3 State At-Large: 0 Congressional District: 16 Total: 19
Unbound delegates: 3 Bound delegates: 16

Delegate allocation State At-Large: N/A
Election date: N/A Type: N/A

Delegate allocation Congressional District: No allocation
Election date: April 24th Type: Direct vote

The 2012 Republican presidential primaries are the selection processes in which voters of the Republican Party will choose their nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 presidential election. There will be 2,286 delegates chosen, and a candidate MUST accumulate 1,144 delegate votes at the Republican National Convention to WIN the nomination. The primaries and caucuses can be binding or nonbinding in allocating delegates to the repective state delegations to the National convention. But the actual election of the delegates are many times at a later date. Delegates are elected in different ways that vary from state to state. They can be elected at local conventions, selected from slates submitted by the candidates, Selected at committee meetings or elected directly at the caucuses and primaries. Until the delegates are actually elected the delegate numbers are by nature projections, but it is only in the nonbinding caucus states where they are not allocated at the primary or caucus date.

USA: Republican Party Presidential Primaries, 2012 It Takes 1,144 Delegate To Win. 5 States Vote Today AND 13 States Have Yet To Cast Their Vote! Romney, Paul, Gingrich Are Still On The Ballot. Vote Your Conscience NOT The Media Hype. Romney Has NOT Won The Nomination!

Republican Party Presidential Primaries, 2012

[source: wikipedia]

The 2012 Republican presidential primaries are the selection processes in which voters of the Republican Party will choose their nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 presidential election.

There are 2,286 delegates. It takes 1,144 delegate votes to WIN the nomination.

Superdelegates

According to the Republican National Committee's Council's Office, there are 132 superdelegates in 2012, delegates whose votes are not bound by their state's results. As only 6% of the total delegates, the Republican superdelegates are not expected to have the same impact the Democratic superdelegates had on the 2008 primary. Of the 132 superdelegates, as of December 27, 2011, 12 had endorsed Romney, 3 had endorsed Perry, and 1 had endorsed Santorum.

Convention

The 2012 Republican National Convention is scheduled to take place the week of August 27, 2012 in Tampa, Florida, one week before the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Date of caucuses

The 2012 Iowa Republican caucuses were originally scheduled to begin on February 6, 2012, much later than the date in 2008, which almost immediately followed the beginning of the year in January 2008. On September 29, 2011, the entire schedule of caucuses and primaries was disrupted, however, when it was announced that the Republican Party of Florida had decided to move up its primary to January 31, in an attempt to bring attention to its own primary contest, and attract the presidential candidates to visit the state. Because of the move, the Republican National Committee decided to strip Florida of half of its delegates. Also as a result, the Iowa Republican Party, along with New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada then sought to move their caucuses back into early January. All but Nevada, who agreed to follow Florida, confirmed their caucus and primary dates to take place throughout January, with Iowa deciding to hold their contest on January 3, 2012.

NH will be penalized from 23 delegates to 12, SC from 50 to 25, FL from 99 to 50, AZ from 58 to 29 and MI from 59 to 30.

Tue., January 3, 2012 Iowa: nonbinding caucus; 28 delegates

Tue., January 10, 2012
New Hampshire: semi-closed primary; 12 delegates

Sat., January 21, 2012 South Carolina: open primary; 25 delegates

Tue., January 31, 2012 Florida: closed primary; 50 delegates

Sat., February 4, 2012 Nevada: binding caucus; 28 delegates

February 4–11, 2012 Maine: nonbinding caucus; 24 delegates

Tue., February 7, 2012
Colorado: nonbinding caucus; 36 delegates

Minnesota: nonbinding caucus; 40 delegates

Tue., February 28, 2012
Arizona: semi-closed primary; 29 delegates

Michigan: open primary; 30 delegates

Sat., March 3, 2012 Washington: binding caucus; 43 delegates

Tue., March 6, 2012
Alaska: binding caucus; 27 delegates

Georgia: open primary; 76 delegates

Idaho: binding caucus; 32 delegates

Massachusetts: semi-closed primary; 41 delegates

North Dakota: nonbinding caucus; 28 delegates

Ohio: open primary; 66 delegates

Oklahoma: closed primary; 43 delegates

Tennessee: open primary; 58 delegates

Vermont: open primary; 17 delegates

Virginia: open primary; 50 delegates

March 6–10, 2012 Wyoming: nonbinding caucus; 29 delegates

Sat., March 10, 2012
Kansas: binding caucus; 40 delegates

U.S. Virgin Islands: caucus; 9 delegates

Northern Mariana Islands: nonbinding caucus; 9 delegates

Guam: nonbinding caucus; 9 delegates

Tue., March 13, 2012
Alabama: semi-closed primary; 50 delegates

Mississippi: open primary; 40 delegates

American Samoa: caucus; 9 delegates

Hawaii: binding caucus; 20 delegates

Sat., March 17, 2012 Missouri: binding caucus; 52 delegates

Sun., March 18, 2012 Puerto Rico: binding caucus; 23 delegates

Tue., March 20, 2012 Illinois: open primary; 69 delegates

Sat., March 24, 2012 Louisiana: open primary; 46 delegates

Tue., April 3, 2012
Maryland: closed primary; 37 delegates

Texas: open primary; 155 delegates

Washington, D.C.: closed primary; 19 delegates

Wisconsin: open primary; 42 delegates

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THE FOLLOWING STATES HAVE YET TO VOTE!

==> 18 State Primaries Remain <==

Tue., April 24, 2012
Connecticut: closed primary; 28 delegates

Delaware: closed primary; 17 delegates

New York: closed primary; 95 delegates

Pennsylvania: closed primary; 72 delegates

Rhode Island: semi-closed primary; 19 delegates

Tue., May 8, 2012
Indiana: open primary; 46 delegates

North Carolina: semi-closed primary; 55 delegates

West Virginia: semi-closed primary; 31 delegates

Tue., May 15, 2012
Nebraska: semi-closed primary; 35 delegates

Oregon: closed primary; 29 delegates

Tue., May 22, 2012
Arkansas: open primary; 36 delegates

Kentucky: closed primary; 45 delegates

Tue., June 5, 2012
California: open primary; 172 delegates

Montana: semi-closed primary; 26 delegates

New Jersey: closed primary: 50 delegates

New Mexico: closed primary: 23 delegates

South Dakota: closed primary: 28 delegates

Tue., June 26, 2012 Utah: closed primary; 40 delegates

USA: EXCLUSIVE: EPA Ponders Expanded Regulatory Power In Name of 'Sustainable Development'

FOX news

EXCLUSIVE: EPA Ponders Expanded Regulatory Power In Name of 'Sustainable Development'

written by George Russell

December 19, 2012

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to change how it analyzes problems and makes decisions, in a way that would give it vastly expanded power to regulate businesses, communities and ecosystems in the name of “sustainable development,” the centerpiece of a global United Nations conference slated for Rio de Janeiro next June.

The major focus of the EPA thinking is a weighty study the agency commissioned last year from the National Academies of Science. Published in August, the study, entitled “Sustainability and the U.S. EPA,” cost nearly $700,000 and involved a team of a dozen outside experts and about half as many National Academies staff.

Its aim: how to integrate sustainability “as one of the key drivers within the regulatory responsibilities of EPA.” The panel who wrote the study declares part of its job to be “providing guidance to EPA on how it might implement its existing statutory authority to contribute more fully to a more sustainable-development trajectory for the United States.”

Or, in other words, how to use existing laws to new ends.

According to the Academies, the sustainability study “both incorporates and goes beyond an approach based on assessing and managing the risks posed by pollutants that has largely shaped environmental policy since the 1980s.”

It is already known in EPA circles as the “Green Book,” and is frequently compared by insiders to the “Red Book,” a study on using risk management techniques to guide evaluation of carcinogenic chemicals that the agency touts as the basis of its overall approach to environmental issues for the past 30 years.

At the time that the “Green Book” study was commissioned, in August, 2010, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson termed it “the next phase of environmental protection,” and asserted that it will be “fundamental to the future of the EPA.”

Jackson compared the new approach, it would articulate to “the difference between treating disease and pursuing wellness.” It was, she said, “a new opportunity to show how environmentally protective and sustainable we can be,” and would affect “every aspect” of EPA’s work.

According to the study itself, the adoption of the new “sustainability framework” will make the EPA more “anticipatory” in its approach to environmental issues, broaden its focus to include both social and economic as well as environmental “pillars,” and “strengthen EPA as an organization and a leader in the nation’s progress toward a sustainable future.”

Whatever EPA does with its suggestions, the study emphasizes, will be “discretionary.” But the study urges EPA to “create a new culture among all EPA employees,” and hire an array of new experts in order to bring the sustainability focus to every corner of the agency and its operations. Changes will move faster “as EPA’s intentions and goals in sustainability become clear to employees,” the study says.

The National Academies and the EPA held a meeting last week in Washington to begin public discussion of the study.

Even as it begins to go public, EPA, which has come under renewed fire for its recent rulings on new auto emissions standards and limits on coal-fueled power plant emissions, is being determinedly low-key about the study.

Initially questioned about the document by Fox News weeks ago, an EPA spokesman eventually declared that “we are currently reviewing the recommendations and have not yet made any decisions on implementation.” During the deliberations, he said, “the agency will seek a wide range of perspectives on the recommendations from the business community, non-governmental organizations, the scientific community, and others.”

The spokesman also said that EPA had “no current plans” for the so-called “Rio + 20” environmental summit next summer “that pertains to the Green Book’s recommendations.”

The U.N. summit meeting, however, is mentioned in the Green Book itself as an instance where “sustainability is gaining increasing recognition as a useful framework for addressing otherwise intractable problems. The framework can be applied at any scale of governance, in nearly any situation, and anywhere in the world.”

When it comes to applying the framework via EPA, the study says it is likely to happen only “over time.” The Red Book risk assessment approach now in use, it notes, “was not immediately adopted within EPA or elsewhere. It required several years for its general acceptance at EPA and its diffusion to state and local agencies.”

What is “sustainability” in the first place? That is a question the study ducks, noting that it is only advising EPA on how to bring it within the agency’s canon.

The experts take their definition from an Obama Administration executive order of October, 2009, entitled Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance. It defines sustainability in sweeping fashion as the ability “to create and maintain conditions, under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations.”

The study specifically notes that “although addressing economic issues is not a core part of EPA’s mission, it is explicitly part of the definition of sustainability.”

The experience of the European Union is deemed “particularly relevant” to achieving the sustainability goal.

That European strategy involves a virtually all-encompassing regulatory vision. The study notes that its priorities include “climate change and clean energy; sustainable transport; sustainable consumption and production; conservation and management of natural resources; public health; social inclusion, demography, and migration; and global poverty and sustainable development challenges.”

In an American context, the study says sustainable development “raises questions that are not fully or directly addressed in U.S. law or policy.” Among them: “how to define and control unsustainable patterns of production and consumption and how to encourage the development of sustainable communities, biodiversity protection, clean energy, environmentally sustainable economic development, and climate change controls.”

The study notes that sustainable development is “broader than the sum of U.S. environmental and conservation laws.”

It adds that “a great deal more needs to be done to achieve sustainability in the United States.”

The experts say they found the legal authority for EPA to foster sustainable development without further congressional approval in the wording of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, or NEPA. The study says the law, the cornerstone of U.S. environmental policy, declared that the “continuing policy of the Federal Government” is to “create and maintain conditions, under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations.”

Please click HERE to read the entire article...

United Nations To Debut Plan For World Socialism At The Rio+20 UN Conference On Sustainable Development

Head's up everyone. There's no denying this, it's in writing. This is what we're up against. God help us all. :/

And for those of you who are unaware, Mitt Romney signed major UN Agenda21 Sustainable Development legislation into law when he was governor of Massachusetts. I shared this information on my blog today. Please scroll down my blog to read for youself and then share the information with others.

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h/t The Patriot Update

The Examiner: Political Buzz

U.N. to debut plan for world socialism in June--time for US to exit?

Friday April 20, 2012

The United Nations is holding its' "Conference on Sustainable Development" in Rio de Janero, Brazil, over three separate sessions in June, to which organizers, led by UN Conference Secretary-General of Rio+20, Sha Zukang [who 'really doesn't like Americans'], expect 193 attendees from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other stakeholders, according to the Sarah de Sainte Croix March 20, 2012 article in The Rio Times.

The stated themes of this colossal conference, which is structured around a 204-page report titled, "Working Towards a Balanced and Inclusive Green Economy, A United Nations System-Wide Perspective," are “the green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication,” ... [by and through] ... "the institutional framework for sustainable development,” according to George Russell's excellent and quoted-filled FOXNews article today.

More specifically, the debates will cover a ... 'breathtaking array of carbon taxes, transfers of trillions of dollars from wealthy countries to poor ones, and new spending programs to guarantee that populations around the world are protected--from the effects of the very programs the world organization wants to implement.

According to Russell, the Obama Administration officials have supported this "agenda," which is designed to 'make dramatic and enormously expensive changes in the way that the world does nearly everything—or, as one of the documents puts it, "a fundamental shift in the way we think and act."

According to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, proposals on how the “challenges can and must be addressed,” include:

--'More than $2.1 trillion a year in wealth transfers from rich countries to poorer ones, in the name of fostering “green infrastructure ... climate adaptation ... other green economy” measures.'

--'New carbon taxes for industrialized countries [amounting to] about $250 billion a year, or 0.6 percent of [US] GDP by 2020. Other environmental taxes are mentioned, but not specified.'

--'Further unspecified price hikes ... derived from agriculture, fisheries, forestry, or other kinds of land and water use [industries], all of which would be radically reorganized--[to] “contribute to a more level playing field between established, 'brown' technologies and newer, greener ones."'

-- 'Major global social spending programs, including a "social protection floor" and "social safety nets" for the world's most vulnerable social groups for reasons of “equity.”'

--'Even more social benefits for those displaced by [this] green economy revolution—such as those put out of work in undesirable fossil fuel industries. The benefits, called “investments,” would include “access to nutritious food, health services, education, training and retraining, and unemployment benefits."'

--'A guarantee that if those sweeping benefits weren’t enough, more would be granted ... “Any adverse effects of changes in prices of goods and services, vital to the welfare of vulnerable groups, must be compensated for and new livelihood opportunities provided."'

“Transforming the global economy will require action locally (e.g., through land use planning), at the national level (e.g., through energy-use regulations) and at the international level (e.g., through technology diffusion),” the document says.

It involves “profound changes in economic systems, in resource efficiency, in the composition of global demand, in production and consumption patterns and a major transformation in public policy-making.” It will also require “a serious rethinking of lifestyles in developed countries.”

This 'UN guidebook for global social engineering,' was prepared by the Geneva-based United Nations Environmental Management Group (UNEMG), a consortium of 36 U.N. agencies, development banks and environmental bureaucracies--all of which rely on the contributions, from tax collecting nations for their very existence--not a single entity engaged in the production of goods or services, producing a profit and owning singular wealth.

This UN doctrine seems to directly channel Marx and Engel's scribe of 1848, "The Communist Manifesto," wherein its' organizational and operational structure appears to largely be a paraphrasical equivalent to the 10 short-term demands Marx prescribed in section II., "Proletarians and Communists."

However, instead of the UN overthrowing the capitalist system, it simply wants to tie it to a leash and be subject to the UN ... [a] 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' to redistribute wealth around the world to "magically elevate the poverty class to the middle class.

The United States, arguably the most fertile and favorable ground for such a massive experiment, has already spent $15 [T]rillion in taxpayer treasure over the past 47 years attempting to circumvent market forces and eliminate poverty--with no affect.

Additionally, study after study has revealed the UN to have grown into an impossibly dysfunctional gargantuan, having negligent management skills, metrics and accountability, and a source of financially wasteful pandering--second only to the U.S. General Services Administration.

Actually, as this directly smacks of the long-discussed "UN Agenda 21," America must treat this audacity of the United Nations as a wake up call, and say "[last] check please"--then hit the UN exit doors without delay.