This Sick Dying thing; Government.

what would an ideal world be like for you? If you were able to create a new country here, what would it be like; how would it deal with it's own population (health, distribution of population, food), ecosystems, energy production,

and foreign relations?:

Would you send envoys of help and real education (easy DIY natural health techniques, organic sustainable permaculture food production, DIY energy production/water purification) to the disempowered? or would you send Cheap food to them that would undermine their local farming populations like happened in Haiti prior to the earthquake?

Or would you leave the problems of the world to the citizens of your new country? In other words: Would you like to create a world where faith in each other exists and anything absolutely anything, is possible ...or in your heart of hearts do you desire a world of control and limitations?

Jivatma

Hearing many voices in the land does help understand the wide variety of fellow citizens out there. Hearing most of the hopes and fears is helpful to understand, just what is happening out there. Media agendas and nay-sayer agendas both can help balance and differentiate the prospects which come and go in our life. Hearing some distant foreign voices should also help understand the bigger pictures and contexts today. This is much healthier than the old days where it got fairly expensive with subscriptions or fairly laborious or inconvenient with short wave radio. Many voices help inform responsibility.

Of great concern today is that the "powers that be" are irresponsible, selfish and deceitful. So that nay sayer research should become more interesting, while one should also, constantly cross check information sources. May the world population increasingly self educate themselves, with truthful aspiration.

Part of fact-checking will depend upon good data collection. I believe camera and audio collection could ultimately help immensely. Therefore the wide installation of government or private camera networks, could conceivably evolve towards omni-directional data collection-- On a more balanced fact checking agenda. Rather than just spying on drivel or innocents-- Why not also demand surveillance of breaches at mid and high level management? Let big-boys build these surveillance systems. Later, heal governance itself, through popular support. Demand balance and fairness in governance and in commerce. Develop laws to surveil (monitor) public offices and by observing the harmful effects of "scorch and burn policies", (by whom ever or whatever). Learn to identify grossly harmful effects and learn to document them, to withstand examination in courts of law.

No matter what happens in the future, laws will be there to arbitrate. There are countless observable harms evident today, which manage to escape 'judgement', only because of complex bribe systems like lobbyists and scripted media powers. Populations are over medicated and hypnotized by big-box-pharma and the older "bread and circus" programs. People have become docile, largely through these means. (Perhaps also by ease of feeding, as compared with ancient times of working much harder for daily food). It will require many creatives and assertives like artists and technicians to continually break through the 'dumbing processes' and establish a rational intelligence, at large. Coming food shortages may also liven up public interests in the governance.

Keep informed and balanced, self educate, get ahead of the curve on things looming ahead.

i agree completely with Sky Harmony...
the only power anyone or anything has over you is the power you give it. most of us are too damn lazy (laziness being The "original sin") and comfortable with the status quo to do the hard work it takes to even INITIATE change, much less complete the process.

the only way to usher in change is to live your truth.
let's start living what we're talking.

When you see news reports like the one you saw, "Terror Attack Certain in 3-6 Months" - that's called a scare tactic and it's not implemented by the news agencies nor is it meant to scare the general public. It's meant as a warning to terror groups that those who work in the field are on their tail, that they've uncovered important information and they are making public the fact that "we know what you're up to." But they can't give more specific details without blowing their entire investigation. There are people whose jobs it is to monitor these groups 24/7. That's actually a good thing. It's why I can ride the Metro to work in Washington DC without fear.

Government agencies can't even agree with each other on how to get things done. They don't share information, they duplicate their efforts. It is a blueprint of inefficiency. The government has no idea what you're doing. They might have access to find you if they wanted, but presumably you haven't given them reason. Believe me when I say they don't have the resources to be watching ANY of us on a continual basis. It's hard enough for them to keep up with the "bad guys."

Our best hope as individuals is to go off the grid. The more public services we rely on, the more vulnerable we are when things go bad. Become more independent, grow your own food, generate your own electricity. It can be done. Now is the best time to learn.