Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Friday,October 26, 2007, 4 pm PST
This Week's Show
Guest: August Franklin
Just when you thought everything bad that could happen was over, suddenly, you found out about...the Carbon Rangers.
It was a quiet morning in the office of carbon enforcement, the officer of the watch is drinking cup of coffee. The headline on his copy of USA Today starts with a question – “The summer of 2015?” His attention is taken from the paper to his computer that is chirping that a notification has been received. There has been an unapproved house sale at a local Land Conservation Bank office. He moves the details of the transaction as an attachment to a folder on his desktop marked immediate action.
It can get worse, and it will. Even if your house it completely paid off they can still get you. Every piece of policy that comes out of government is bait set with hook, sounding good but intended to sink that hook deep into your gut and life.
Never forget to notice the bottom line, those thinking up these naked grabs for our money and property certainly do not.
On February 26th of this year Governors Christine O. Gregoire of Washington, Theodore R. Kulongoski of Oregon, Janet Napolitano of Arizona, Bill Richardson of New Mexico, Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an agreement to enforce mandates to reduce carbon emissions. If you think this means they will hold petroleum companies liable for supplying fuel that makes this impossible, think again. This time they are casting hungry eyes on your home.
Carbon emissions and Green House Gases are a problem but those problems could have been handled years ago. Today we should be living in homes that generate their own clean power, using recycling water systems in the west, and connect to each other easily and cheaply, getting entertainment, music, internet and phone service for one low monthly fee. How does $50.00 for all of that sound to you? But that would not have lined the pockets of such as Kevin Martin of the FCC so it did not happen.
What kind of sense does it make to allow Big Oil and utility companies to pollute, selling us infrastructure that is inherently polluting then require us to pay to clean up the mess? That is exactly what your smog certificate is. Now they will go after your house.
Stay tuned for our next show that will provide solutions to the real problems.
This week on my show we will hear August Franklin on the specifics of this ominous development signed into law under Clinton, now affirmed by several of the states.
This is the bottom line, sounding so sweet and reasonable going in only to become outright confiscation when the Carbon Ranger rolls up to your door. We re all struggling and it is about to get worse while Big Oil and Energy register all time high profits.
The governor of your state is probably in bed with them.
From the Western Regional Climate Action Initiative:“NOW, THEREFORE, we, the undersigned Governors, jointly establish the Western Regional Climate Action Initiative and agree to collaborate in identifying, evaluating and implementing ways to reduce GHG emissions in our states collectively and to achieve related co-benefits. This collaboration shall include, but is not limited to:
• Setting an overall regional goal, within six months of the effective date of this initiative, to reduce emissions from our states collectively, consistent with state-by-state goals;
• Developing, within eighteen months of the effective date of this agreement, a design for a regional market-based multi-sector mechanism, such as a load-based cap and trade program, to achieve the regional GHG reduction goal; and
• Participating in a multi-state GHG registry to enable tracking, management, and crediting for entities that reduce GHG emissions, consistent with state GHG reporting mechanisms and requirements.
They do love to hear themselves talk, don't they?
Do you think this means accountability for the electric company? Big Oil? Wrong.
Added to that there is nothing about which they will not lie, manipulating the facts to suit their greedy plans.
As in every other case what this means is another weapon for criminalizing your behavior to bring you under control and seize your property. On the Spiritual Politician we will show you what the future brings, using a skit, written by August Franklin, that should scare you silly.
See you Friday at 4pm at BBSRadio.com
What the Show is about and being a Spiritual Politician
Bringing government into alignment with the Lessons of Jesus:
The focus of our show is how to bring government into alignment with truth of our spiritual nature. So America started with the idea we are all, inherently free. We are free to choose, free to live, to breath, and to live our lives as we see fit. Government does not own us; government is just a contractor, providing service.
That framework is in alignment with the spiritual truth that each of us connects to God directly, needing no agency as an intermediary. To be free is to be free in the spirit and so in the flesh that temporarily holds the spirit.
When Thomas Jefferson said we were all possessed of inherent rights, existing before government he was extending a spiritual truth into a civic form. It is that Mission Statement from the Declaration of Independence we need to keep in mind.
Because we are free and reject, as did Christ, the use of deceit, manipulation or violence we need to be conscious about our relationships with others and find ways to grow into the sense of connection and community that makes us One in Him.
This is especially true for Christians but it is true for everyone else as well.
Nearly every major spiritual viewpoint enunciates the idea that we are connected to each other and should be good to each other. Christians just have an even more exacting mission. Christians are to love every one, treating them as they would Jesus.
Jesus was very clear about how we were to treat others. He did not say that it was alright to be abusive, deceitful, and violent if we used government as our tool and agent. There was no exception, He wanted all of our hearts, minds and souls. Christ did not lay out any plan of government, but left it to the conscience of the individual, the same way He connects to each of us.
We are Americans but we are also members of a human family that connects us to something truly wonderful and immense.
So our job here at the Spiritual Politician is to look at Government as a human tool we use every day. We need to consider if government is working in a way that speaks that common understanding about our connections to each other and, if it is not, we need to change it.
Americans have had many successes over the last 231 years since our founding and, learning from both mistakes and successes we can consider that question. So here at the Spiritual Politician we look at the truth behind of rhetoric.
Given what is going on today in Government what we may decide to do it reboot the whole system.
To provide the examples of what has gone right and what has gone very wrong we here at the Spiritual Politician have put together several different kinds of segments you will hear on our show from time to time.
Founder and president of the Arthur C. Pillsbury Foundation
Books by Melinda: Links to Melinda's sites:
How the NeoCons Stole Freedom
Shards of Verse Melinda's Poetry
Greed: The NeoConning of America
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