James Corbett: “If you believe you are a slave, well, then you are already lost. And you might as well sit in a corner and suck your thumb.”

This week’s Corbett Report points out that in the past few years the global conversation has transformed. As examples, he covers how growing global awareness is forcing changes in MSM coverage, fluoride defeat (again!) in Portland, March against Monsanto, Bilderberg, plus a terrific little video from about 21 to 25 minutes from someone I’ve only just heard about here: Richard Grove, of tragedyandhope.com, his ten reasons why we’re still winning. Corbett’s attitude is one I share: that it only takes a small percentage of people to shift the direction of society. And that rather than fighting against the system that would enslave us with our compliance, let’s instead ignore it while we build another from scratch — which we are doing, via permaculture, alternative currencies, localization, community-building, simplifying our lives, opening our minds, learning how to cooperate, on and on.

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From an economic point of view:

Countering Disaster Porn

From an activist point of view:

The paradox of power is that the real power is with us, if we have the courage to use it.