will the average American Christian be rewarded with Heaven?

Luke 18:18 And a ruler asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 19And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 20You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.’” 21And he said, “All these I have kept from my youth.” 22When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” 23But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was extremely rich.24Jesus, seeing that he had become sad, said, “How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! 25For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” 26Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?” 27But he said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” 28And Peter said, “See, we have left our homes and followed you.” 29And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, 30who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the age to come eternal life.”

is Jesus being "sarcastic" when he says this?  not likely, but that is one reason I've heard...that Jesus is perfect and no one else can be perfect, so he is saying this "sarcastically" because only the devil wants to be as perfect as Jesus.
can you be "good enough" as a person and still get into Heaven?  no, that's the entire point of this story...the rich man does good things, he follows the old commandments, but he would rather enjoy material goods on Earth instead of sacrificing his comfort for the benefit of others.
but...surely you can have your comfortable life and right before you die "confess" that you sinned and Jesus will forgive you.  sure.  Jesus will forgive those who honestly repent, but if you plan on being a sinner and "know" that Jesus will forgive you...that's not repenting.  and forgiveness doesn't equal a ticket into Heaven.  you can be forgiven and avoid hell, but there is another place for souls to go.
well, surely a savings account as a safety net is allowed...well...not really. Jesus tells his followers that God loves the birds in the trees and provides them their daily food, and God loves humans more than any beast he created, so there is no need to save money, God will provide your needs.
3.5 million homeless Americans...some people might not see themselves as "wealthy" because they only take a vacation every other year, and they only own three cars for the three drivers they have in their house, a house with two spare bedrooms...well, Jesus was homeless, he lived off of the kindness of strangers...so comparing your "wealth" to a millionaire isn't the right direction, you should compare your wealth to those that have nothing.  is it a sin to spend $5 on Starbucks coffee five says a week...well, based on everything I've read from Jesus, yeah, it most likely disappoints him that his followers don't follow the example and the message he left.

Luke 6

27“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. 29To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic^b either. 30Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. 31And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

32“If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 34And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount. 35But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. 36Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Give to EVERYONE who begs from you.  If they want your coat, give them the shirt off your back too.  Give without expecting anything in return, give to the point it really hurts you.  Give up all these small comforts in life, because it is difficult...and then you will be worthy of calling yourself a Christian.  Saying you are Christian and showing up at church isn't being a Christian.  Fake Christians bother me.  A lot.  Those that wish violence on others, that want the death of their enemies are not true Christians.  Being a follower of Christ (which is what a Christian is) can be very, very difficult.  Failing is okay, but not trying is slapping Jesus in the face.

Luke 12

22And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. 23For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! 25And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?^c 26If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? 27Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,^d yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! 29And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. 30For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31Instead, seek his^e kingdom, and these things will be added to you.

32“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. 34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Again...sell your possessions and give to the needy.  I have yet to find a passage where Jesus says, it's okay to spoil yourself with Earthly comforts, as long as you are decent enough a person.  He doesn't say, it's okay to give a tiny bit of your wealth and live your life in luxury, because a little bit of charity is good enough.  Most of the world lives in poverty, because of the greed based system we have in America.  Jesus doesn't say, it's every man for himself.  Nor does he say, he who dies with the most toys wins.  But that's the attitude of the average American.  Your life on Earth is NOTHING compared to an eternity in Heaven, and yet, most people who identify as Christian build up treasure on Earth, live a comfortable, wealthy lifestyle, and convince themselves that they are doing good enough by doing a small amount of good from their extra wealth, charity that doesn't come with personal sacrifice...where in the Gospels does it say that?  Several times Jesus says the exact opposite of that philosophy.
I am no longer Christian, but still a huge fan of the philosophy of Jesus.  I am one of those people who do little bits of charity when I can afford it...but I don't believe in Heaven or the afterlife...Christians do, and yet, the act as if they really don't believe in God, they don't believe in sacrificing their wealthy lives to benefit the needs of others...so they are going to the same afterlife I would be put into...not hell, but not Heaven either...I've challenged dozens of people all over the internet and haven't found one person who is willing to give up anything, not one who gave to me when I begged.  And to deny someone on Earth is to deny Jesus.
Matthew 25

31“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. 34Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ 37Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ 40And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers,^f you did it to me.’

41“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’45Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’46And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

is there anybody out there?

well...
I was going to blog more often, but Facebook is just so easy...and I don't know if anyone reads my blog, so I've been slacking...
let me know if you are reading this!

birthers

It seems to me, if Obama was white, there wouldn't have been birthers demanding to see the birth certificate or claiming still that the one provided is a fake.  McCain was born in Panama, but I didn't hear any talk about that.  there are many who still believe Obama isn't an American...when all known evidence shows he was.  from this lie comes the myth that he's some secret communist secret weapon and that his goal is to destroy America.  This is the empty chair, the make believe president, that republicans fear...a monster created from their own myths and big lies.  no matter what evidence reality provides, there are millions of Americans who hate Obama, think liberals are plotting to destroy America, and that republicans are honest, church going folk with strong moral values and the only hope for America...because all they listen to is republican propaganda and everything that disagrees with the propaganda is part of the huge conspiracy against them, so all other news media are the ones lying, but Fox is the one bringing the truth. 

Both sides see the evil in the other side.  I see both.  I see the good they try to do, too.  It seems there are certain issues that people are deeply passionate about, and those issues are how they vote, so politicians pick one side or the other, continue the debate, the blame, and keep us distracted, so both parties can work together to do the evil biddings of the coporate overlords.  that's the conspiracy that makes sense to me.  I see the obvious manipulations of FOX as well as the failure in other networks to report the truth, to tell the American people the real information, the important truths...most people like me become apathetic or activists.  I ache to become more revolutionary. 

Occupy Portland

On Saturday I returned home at about midnight and watched the live news showing the police and protesters and the deadline for the occupy movement to empty the park by midnight.  A lot of the people did leave, pack up and clean up.  some tents remained, a group chained themselves to buckets of concrete or something.  At about 2:30, something was thrown from the crowd, injuring a police man in the leg.  Out of nowhere, mounted police came into the streets and protesters retreated to the sidewalks.  Police in riot gear showed up also out of nowhere and threatened to use nonlethal weapons and chemicals against the protesers unless they cleared the streets.  The crowd grew larger and stood their ground.  The riot police eventually backed down.  then in the early morning, the smaller crowd was forced out, using the big night sticks and being peaceful, they were pushed back and the remaining tents were destroyed and the park was blocked off. 

Today is Thursday, November 17th.  A massive march all over the world has been planned for this day, the two month anniversary of the movement.  Watching the march live on the news and live on the internet, the march is again to bring attention to the corrupt banks and how their greedy actions have wrecked the economy, maybe past the point of repair.  7 people were arrested for being inside Wells Fargo and protesting the corrupt money as debt system. 

Another thing planned by some people within the massive crowd was to switch the flag outside the bank upside down.  Displaying the flag upside down is not disrespecting America, it is used "as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property."  we are in great danger, our property, our fake money that is over-inflated to the point it has almost no value.  JFK was going to end the banking system that was slowly taking over but was assassinated.  Ron Paul would've done it in 2008 and protected us from this looming problem, but the media almost totally ignored him, would ridicule and dismiss his success.  Obama said he would work towards solving these problems, but has done the opposite. 

The enemy we face, the super rich and powerful, are very intelligent.  Even with most people understanding our economy is in real trouble, they keep the left fighting against the right.  Republicans don't want Obama to get re-elected and are doing what they can to make him look bad instead of doing what is best for the 99%.  we keep playing this game, where they can break or make the rules and the vast majority of us will fail.  We need to recognize all the warnings about banks and established government that the Founding Fathers laid out.  "Resist austerity.  Rebuild the economy.  Reclaim our democracy."  that is the message of today's movement. 

The 1960s saw the threat the military industrial complex was, the need to protect the environment, the need to end war, the need for equality and civil rights.  they won many of their battles, but they didn't have much support from their elders.  We need those ex-hippies, those revolutionaries to help guide us, to support us, to educate us and to stand with us.  Too much government is a problem, the purpose of the Federal Government is to protect us.  They were blinded with greed and failed to police the economy, letting the wealthy break the rules.  Several of these bubbles burst at the same time and there is no growth in real industry in America, in fact there is a sharp decline as technology replaces jobs.  the entire system is ready to burst.  OWS is desperately seeking to change things for the better, to get the money back to the 99% and letting us all enjoy life and be free to pursue happiness. 

Right now, more people are protesting at the Bank of America building.  They dressed in suits and then revealed themselves as protesters.  Why target Wells Fargo and Bank of America?  if you have money in those banks, maybe you should do some internet research and see for yourselves.  Fiat money, end the Fed, money as debt, inflation, the 1% owning 40% of the wealth, the 400 richest people and 400 richest corporations, money and lobbyists and politicians, tax breaks and loop holes for the super rich, corporations are legally people which is obviously not true...all of these things and even more are problems we face today that we can no longer push off until tomorrow.  for at least 50 years that is the method used to solve problems, create massive debt and push it off to the future...but corrupt banking activities have ruined the value of our dollar, out of control government spending has erased our savings and created so much debt we will never be able to pay it off, the energy monopolies use their massive wealth to limit alternate fuels that would spread the wealth to a greater number of people.  I could go on and on about this...but instead...

People have been talking about this for decades.  Politicians have lied about how they will save us, telling groups what they want to hear but rarely following thru.  It is up to us to force the change we need.     

What's New, Earth?

     In June, Anonymous declared war on the system, a plan that contained three phases.  The first phase included hacker attacks on what Anonymous sees as internet criminals.  Information is free, the internet is information.  phase two should be announced pretty soon.  one claim Anonymous has made is that it will shut down, perhaps erase the social network site called Facebook. 
     I don't know that Anonymous planned the occupy Wall Street movement, but it promoted it and I'm sure members are all over there.  So far the movement has endured several acts of police brutality without a violent response.  Women standing on the sidewalk sprayed with pepper spray for no reason.  Mopeds running over people, nightstick beatings and random arrests.  Last night, Oakland police smashed the tents in the park after the protesters refused to leave.  A few people threw rocks and bottles at the police during this attack.  The people refused to leave still, stood in the streets, then riot police used flash grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd. 
     The media distorts the truth, as they always do to suit their agenda and protect the 1%.  There are a lot of angry people, but the movement is peaceful.  But I wonder...I worry...how far can we be pushed before we push back?  I'm sure the establishment is eager for violence to break out.  The media tries to label any movement in a way to get one party for it and the other party against it, to minimalize the support.  Which is why I like the 99% message.  If anyone should pay to fix the mess we are in, it is the criminals who created the mess and the criminals who profited on it.  It isn't that I hate rich people or think they don't deserve to be wealthy, the evidence shows that a certain level of wealth turns a corporation into a thing of evil.  Money doesn't have to be the root of all evil, it's the abuse of power that comes with excessive wealth that makes it evil. 
     This isn't an American problem, it is global.  We still have it good compared to most other nations.  But unchecked greed has wasted an incredible amount of resources.  A quick example: it is cheaper to pay for fruit grown in South America and waste fuel shipping it to Washington, but it would be better for the environment to grow it locally and better for the long term economy to save that fuel.  Concern for profit outweighs everything and we are paying the price.  Not in a philosophical sense, but a real physical sense.  Oil is getting harder to find, we've past Peak Oil, and there will be less available, making everything more expensive.  Our way of life is unsustainable...as long as profit for the few is the power that runs the world.  We have the technology and resources to feed and house everyone.  We can make an i-phone 4 for everyone.  we have materials, we have a population, we have people willing to work, we have machines that can do almost everything humans can do.  We can have a paradise world.  Instead we are heading into a crash, an Epic Depression. 
     Will the 99% put the small differences aside and see our common enemy, avoid food riots, homeless people starving, and avoid an actual class war?  Will Anonymous be able to shut down our most powerful enemies?  Will their weapons defeat our numbers?  We will find out.  There's gotta be a way, a better way, a better tomorrow for my daughter's generation.  Let's find that way. 
     If you can't occupy a city, write a few letters to your congressmen and senators.  state your opinion, your worries, your demands...talk about it with a neighbor, an old friend and think about what you want to see changed in the world, but do something about it.  something small, something big, something brief or something risky.  be the 99% 

the 99%

     I am a single father that couldn't afford to finish college and become a math teacher.  I support myself by fishing in Alaska despite major back problems and other health issues related to the dangerous work.  I write stories and self published a few mini-comics that haven't really sold.  I rent an apartment with fading dreams of owning a home, having a yard.  I have no retirement fund and am aware of our nation's tax problems, debt problems and the looming failure of the social security systems that simply won't exist a decade from now.  My daughter is almost in high school and I fear there will be no solution to our economic problems by the time she graduates.  We are the 99% and we have equal right to life, liberty and the freedom to seek our own happiness. 
     Why march on Wall Street?  What will bodies on the streets and sidewalks and in jail actually change?  Over three weeks before the protest got any media attention, all slanted to make the movement seem weird, angry and pointless.  Waiting for the peaceful protest to be pushed to outbursts of violence...but so far, all over the country it remains peaceful.  The Occupy Wall Street movement growing in numbers, spreading awareness.  When the media dismissed the crowd as being unfocused, socialist, anarchists, jobless hippies, they stated some of the issues that need attention and real solutions.
 http://www.care2.com/causes/occupy-wall-street-issues-first-official-declaration.html
     This isn't a left vs right issue, unions vs corporations, socialist vs conservative type of game.  Ignore the button pushing of the mainstream media that wants to create labels and have people remain ignorant of the truth.  These are real people, the 99% of us that don't make tens of millions of dollars a year, that don't get billion dollar bailouts, that don't get to take home profits of over 2 billion and tax loopholes that allow us to pay zero in taxes, that don't get to make the laws.  Half of the world's wealth is in the hands of the other 1% but somehow more than half of us willingly or ignorantly believe this economic game is the only way of life. 
     Debt has no place on the periodic table, it has no atomic weight, is invisible and does not exist.  You may not agree with my views but I hope you can agree with that last statement.  Debt is not real.  Yet we allow it to control us, we give it so much power, and we think paper money will one day be our ticket out.  We pretend that the Earth is a place of infinite space, of endless resources, and that everything will always work out.  Too many of us believe that we are powerless, that a person can't do anything to change.  But we are not a person.  We are the 99%.
     I am not too far away from Portland, but haven't been able to go to the Occupy Portland event, which was said to be a 24 hour march and is starting day six with a smaller crowd still camping out.  From what I've seen and read, all has been peaceful and no arrests.  Things weren't so calm in New York last week. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_1bYVMwg8k
700 arrested in all that day for protesting.  I am a full time single dad and can't be arrested right now.  My heart is with those that are doing the brave and important thing.  Being out there, sharing what happens with the world over the internet.  I'm sure I'll get a chance to put my feet on the street in the near future but for now my support comes in words.  I am part of the 99%.  My voice is my power.  My mind is my own.  My time shouldn't be for sale, forced into a rigged monetary that creates money and debt out of thin air, printed on worthless paper or backed by horded heavy metals. 
     For six or seven years now I've been discussing the problems our nation, our world, our very species faces.  As time goes on, the same statements make more sense.  Fears have become fact.  The machine continues to betray us, to diminish us, and to fail us.  My advice remains the same.  Secure property with land that will grow food, with space to raise chickens and hopefully cattle.  Invest in real things, canned food and water, solar power options...prepare to live off the grid.  Prepare to create an abundance of goods.  Invest in tools, in green technology and the end of oil.  Free yourself from the monetary system.  Or take steps in that direction.  Get family members and friends to help buy this land, to travel to it and work on bringing it online and self sustaining.  Find a job that is a real skill that serves a real and meaningful purpose in the world and help eliminate what is wrong with the world.  Educate yourself on what it would be like to lose your job, your home, and imagine where you would be if all your debt was called in vs your tangible assets and realize that you are part of the 99%.
     If you earn tens of millions every year, this blog post is not for you, this movement is not for you.  Unless you have compassion and choose to do your part and help end this massive imbalance of resources.  The elite have the money to create the technology that would end poverty, provide health care, to house everyone, to end the evil that is created by money and cure the world of this cancerous concept of debt.  But I doubt any multi-millionare will read these words.
     I don't think capitalism itself is the problem, but the criminal activity it allows, that we don't challenge and in fact encourage, is the problem.  Money was a decent idea, when it was relevant and regulated by the people.  The system has grown out of our control and it basically enslaves us.     
     You have the right (and I believe the duty) to speak your voice.  I think Ron Paul is the treatment our government system needs in 2012 but I believe we need to transition into a new kind of social system, the resource based economy of Jacque Fresco as shown in the Venus Project and promoted by the Zeitgeist Movement.  We are as close to a new successful system as we are to failure.  The next ten years will make or break us.  The beginning is near. 
     We are the 99% and this world is ours to make.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth
(from wikipedia) A PBS report by Solman on Aug. 16, 2011 now found that financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the "tippy-top" of the economic food chain as more people fall out of the middle class. The top 20 percent of Americans now holds 84 percent of U.S. wealth.[2], the 2nd 20 % holds 11%, the third 20 % 4 %. The following figure shows the actual distribution of wealth in the US. The 4th 20% (0.2%) and the Bottom 20% (0.1%) are not visible:

 

Okay, so 40% of our population shares .3% of the wealth, not even visible on the chart.  almost half our people.  then the middle class shares 4%, the upper middle class has 11% to share.  This doesn't state what the richest 1% has, but in 2007, they had 38% and only the mega rich have been getting richer since 2008 and the upper middle class has shrunk, so let's say 40% of the wealth is owned by 1% of the population and 44% of the wealth is shared by the remaining 19%, but not evenly, the top part of that would have more.  Let's see if I can make these numbers make more sense.

Imagine $100 and 100 people.  

The rich person gets $40.

the next 4 get $6 each

the next 5 get $2    

the next 10 get $1 each

and that is the top 20% of the population taking 84% of the money. 

the next 20 people get about .50 each

the next 20 people get about .25 each

the last 40 people get .02 or .01 each

But keep in mind, these all have a range.  in that middle class range, some are getting .80 and some are getting .35.  but we are the 99% and are here to take a look at the top 1% that guy who gets $40 when we should each get $1 and find ourselves working hard and have only .50 or so as our reward.  Imagine going to school as a kid and you get to go to the candy store with 99 other kids and one kid gets $40 and you get .32.  Or maybe you are poorer than that and only get a nickel.  or a penny.  and all you can get is a piece of a broken mint.  when you wanted a chocolate bar, but that costs .35 or maybe the giant sucker that costs $1.  The kid with $40 is known by the shop owners and gets free samples that are bigger than the nickel sized mint.  He has more than he can carry and hasn't spent $10 yet.  80 kids have about .50 or less and we fight amongst each other?  We envy the 10 with $1 and imagine we could be there, or maybe even in the $2 or $6 crowd and so we don't want to ask them to share.  Plus when they eat their candy, some pieces might trickle down onto us.  But this is about the 99% of us and that one kid with $40.

     Imagine that kid had the field trip rigged, a game set up by his powerful parents, the school, the candy shop all benefitting.  Most of the kids who received $1 or more also cheated the game.  The kids know they could've each had a dollar, but they were tricked into thinking they didn't earn it and that the elite 10 kids deserved what they got.  But on that first day of school, you noticed how different things were for those certain kids, the advantages they had.  You could see the horrible conditions that most kids suffered, the scraps of food they had.  You had an ok lunch, not a fancy meal like a few, not a private chef like the one richest, and you were afraid to end up with the 40 really poor kids so you didn't want to complain.  It's just how things are.  You believe in the promise that if you work hard, you can be a kid who gets a dollar, who gets their fair share.  You have text books and calculators.  A few have laptops and tutors and answer sheets and siblings and parents who can influence the teacher.  They get caught cheating and no punishment, in fact, sometimes the teacher will bail them out and cheat for them.  

     Do you ignore those that have a penny or two?  Do you play the game, knowing they make the rules and that they can't lose and that you probably will never "earn" that dollar?  Or do you tell your teacher you have had enough, that she needs to stop being blind and start being fair?  Do you let them cheat the system into giving ten kids more than their fair share?  Or do we do our duty as Americans and rebel against a corrupt fascist government that is no longer of the people, by the people, or for the people? 

Things to Know

     Here is a list of things to learn about.  If you already know about all of these things and see things I missed, let me know.  If one or more of these things are unfamiliar or haven't been researched, take some time to read about them. 
The Great Depression, how the banks, the elite, and Wall Street made it happen and why.
Corporate Income Tax and how it became "personal."
Woodrow Wilson, how he destroyed America and the warning he gave.
The Federal Reserve bank, which isn't federal at all but a private bank with no gov't oversight and private owners.  And the World Bank.
Tuskegee experiments, to see what the gov't does to its own people.
The Manhatten Project, how many people can keep a massive project secret.
 Nazi scientists in America after WW2, the weapons and propaganda tecniques they taught us.
Project MKUltra, America's mind control/brain washing program.
Freedom of Press and how it no longer is free but controlled by corporations and gov't agencies.
Television propaganda and censorship of the truth.
The Gold Standard, why our money is no longer based on something real, how inflation happens. Foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor.
UFOs in the late 1940s and early 1950s and how the CIA decided to deal with the problem, mocking witnesses, to the point that today people who see UFOs are seen as nutjobs.
Eisenhower's exit speech, how he warned us about the industrial military complex.
The assassination of JFK, the cover-up of the truth. 
The Gulf of Tonkin.
The military shooting college students in America.
CIA running drugs in the 80s.
Assassination attempt of Reagan and the World Bank and how he suddenly stopped pursuing a return to the gold standard.
Presidents and Freemasons. Skull and Bones.
Big oil and how their money controls the world.
Peak Oil...have we crossed this point already?
Global Warming, scientific evidence vs. political rhetoric.  Pollution is bad and fossil fuels running out, so a green energy solution is needed, even if you don't believe the science that shows pollution is causing climate change.
US Military strikes since 1950, how much money and how many countries we've bombed.
Money to support the war against Palestine, how much we give Isreal and why the Middle East hates our foreign policy.
Selling arms to our enemies, like the Taliban in the early 90s, then declaring them our enemy in the early 00s.
Chemtrails, a conspircay you can see in your own sky.
9/11 truth, how the official story can't be true and what this means for our future. 
The endless war on terror and why we are creating enemies instead of making America safer.
The Pentagon budget, $500 billion or more every year, with little of this going to the military.  We spend more on military than the rest of the world combined.  How the Pentagon lost track of $2.3 trillion, yes TRILLION dollars, announced on 9/10/01. 
I can go in depth on any of these topics, but I could use some feedback on what you guys want to hear about.  Having spent the last few years researching how the world works, how conspiracies happen, how apathy and fear keep the masses in control, I am very afraid for the near future.  We could be living in the age of miracles, yet the powers that are in control keep us at a savage level, limit our potential, and rob us of a better way of life.  I can't tolerate doing nothing.  I can't remain silent, ignorantly blissful.  I refuse to be a slave, I refuse to believe I am powerless.