Dr. Strangelove [1964 Film]

or
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v19483133d9a7jQka

psyops and propaganda (illegal in America)

War Phyops & Propaganda Questions about WAR, Murder, War Crimes = manipulate the American Public (illegal by Federal Law & Congress; Our Representatives) Abu Griab, Torture, Murders & War Crimes by "Private Contractors"/Blackwater, No Bid Contractss to Halliburton/KBR even after many violations & even fines, Privatization & shifting of Military Responsibility, like $100 dollars/bag of a soldier's laundry (Halliburton), same with Food & Fuel, Pat Tillman, Jessica Lynch, no photos of Military Caskets, the Largest U.S. Embassy being built in Iraq, Paul Bremmer's action, Iraq's oil NOT control by Iraq, U.S. Geological Department analysing all of Afghanistan's resources, mineral and fossil fuel, etc by U.S. Military:

also:

and:

Garden of Eden (on Earth Day, 2011) NRPS

the Green Approach to Economics

http://youtu.be/umjoyNmhMPY
also see gp.org
Green economics is rooted in ecological economics. Our economy should serve us and our planet. Our economy should reflect and respect the diverse, delicate ecosystems of our planet.

Our current economic system is gravely flawed. It is unjust and unsustainable because it is premised on endless economic growth and destruction of nature. Our market economy, by externalizing the environmental and social costs of greenhouse gas emissions, is creating the greatest market failure in history: climate change, and its devastating effects. Our government's top economic goal - increasing Gross Domestic Product - impels us to perpetually intensify our resource use and environmental destruction.

Green economic policy places value not just on material wealth, but on the things which truly make life worth living – our health, our relationships, our communities, our environment, and building peace and justice throughout our nation and the world. We aim to maximize our quality of life with a minimum of consumption. We aspire to less "stuff" but more happiness. We propose a shift away from materialism to help people live more meaningful lives as we save the planet from climate change and ever larger mountains of waste. We need to acquire the ability to distinguish between need and greed.

We must also end the colossal waste of taxpayer funds for armaments and war, to reduce our nation’s federal debt, and fund our environmental and social needs.

Greens intend to provide a green job to anyone who wants one. We support using the tax system to bring more equality to our nation. Rising income inequality makes us all poorer in myriad ways. More equal societies are happier, healthier, safer and greener.

Greens supportly strong local economies and regional trade. The best model of economic security is for a community and region to be largely self-sufficient in the production of its necessities. We support not the corporate control of “free trade” – which, through the machinations of the World Trade Organization places the enrichment of multinational corporations above the level of national laws – but “fair trade,” which protects communities, labor, consumers and the environment. Local economic vibrancy and regional trade keep more money in the community and the region, rather than going to distant corporate headquarters. This is the most sensible model for economic security.

Greens will change the legal design of the corporation so that it does not maximize profits at the expense of the environment, human rights, public health, workers, or the communities in which it operates. We believe the giant multinational corporation is the world’s most potent force for environmental and social destruction.

Unlike other political parties in the modern era, the Green Party views economics not as an end in itself but as a service to community development through the building and strengthening of community bonds that constitute the social fabric.

Greens are defenders of the commons -- the vast trove of wealth owned by the people, the social and tangible assets we inherit from generations past. Most people living in this country yearn for a more vibrant and lively commons, such as a richer community life, more parks and protected wilderness, clean air and water, more silence, better access to information and knowledge, and a more nourishing culture. We must stop big business from undermining and stealing our common wealth, such as our public forests and minerals, the fruits of federal research, the public airwaves and the Internet.


A. Ecological Economics
To create an enduring society we must devise a system of production and commerce where every act is sustainable and restorable. We believe that all business has a social contract with society and the environment--in effect a fiduciary responsibility--and that the concepts of socially responsible business and shareholder democracy can be models for prospering, successful business.

We call for an economic system that is based on a combination of private businesses, decentralized democratic cooperatives, publicly owned enterprises, and alternative economic structures. Collectively, this system puts human and ecological needs alongside profits to measure success, and maintains accountability to communities.
Community-based economics constitutes an alternative to both corporate capitalism and state socialism. It values diversity and decentralization.
Recognition of limits is central to this system. The drive to accumulate power and wealth is a pernicious characteristic of a civilization headed in a pathological direction. Greens advocate that economic relations become more direct, more cooperative, and more egalitarian.

Humanizing economic relations is just one aspect of our broader objective: to shift toward a different way of life characterized by sustainability, regionalization, more harmonious balance between the natural ecosphere and the human-made technosphere, and revival of community life. Our perspective is antithetical to both Big Business and Big Government.

Greens support a major redesign of commerce. We endorse true-cost pricing. [See section E.1.]; True Cost Pricing We support production methods that eliminates waste. In natural systems, everything is a meal for something else. Everything recycles, there is no waste. We need to mimic natural systems in the way we manufacture and produce things. Consumables need to be designed to be thrown into a compost heap and/or eaten. Durable goods would be designed in closed-loop systems, ultimately to be disassembled and reassembled. Toxics would be safeguarded, minimally produced, secured, and would ideally have markers identifying them in perpetuity with their makers.
Sustaining our quality of life, economic prosperity, environmental health, and long-term survival demands that we adopt new ways of doing business. We need to remake commerce to encourage diversity and variety, responding to the enormous complexity of global and local conditions. Big business is not about appropriateness and adaptability, but about power and market control. Greens support small business, responsible stakeholder capitalism, and broad and diverse forms of economic cooperation. We argue that economic diversity is more responsive than big business to the needs of diverse human populations.
Greens view the economy as a part of the ecosystem, not as an isolated subset in which nothing but resources come in and products and waste go out. There is a fundamental conflict between economic growth and environmental protection. There is an absolute limit to economic growth based on laws of thermodynamics and principles of ecology. Long before that limit is reached, an optimum size of the economy is reached which maximizes human welfare in an holistic sense.
We support a Superfund for Workers program as envisioned by the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union in 1991. Such a program would guarantee full income and benefits for all workers displaced by ecological conversion until they find new jobs with comparable income and benefits.
The Green Party supports methods, such as the Index of Social Health Indicators, the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare, and the Genuine Progress Indicator, that take into account statistics on housing, income, and nutrition.

B. Measuring Economic Progress – Economic Growth and the Steady-State Economy
Economic growth has been a primary goal of the American policy. Corporations, politicians beholden to corporations, and economists funded by corporations advocate a theory of unlimited economic growth stemming from technological progress. Based upon established principles of the physical and biological sciences, however, there is a limit to economic growth.

American economic growth is having negative effects on the long-term ecological and economic welfare of the United States and the world. There is a fundamental conflict between economic growth and ecological health (for example, biodiversity conservation, clean air and water, atmospheric stability).

We cannot rely on technological progress to solve ecological and long-term economic problems. Rather, we should endeavor to make lifestyle choices that reinforce a general equilibrium of humans with nature. This requires consciously choosing to foster environmentally sound technologies, whether they are newer or older technologies, rather than technologies conducive to conspicuous consumption and waste.

Economic growth, as gauged by increasing Gross Domestic Product (GDP), is a dangerous and anachronistic American goal. The most viable and sustainable alternative is a steady-state economy. A steady-state economy has a stable or mildly fluctuating product of population and per capita consumption, and is generally indicated by stable or mildly fluctuating GDP. The steady-state economy has become a more appropriate goal than economic growth in the United States and other large, wealthy economies. A steady-state economy precludes ever-expanding production and consumption of goods and services. However, a steady-state economy does not preclude economic development - a qualitative process not gauged by GDP growth and other measures that overlook ecological effects.
One way to measure the economy is to assess the value of non-monetary goods and services and measure the rate of infant mortality, life expectancy of people, educational opportunities offered by the state, family stability, environmental data, and health care for all people. Another measure is to quantify human benefit (in terms of education, health care, elder care, etc.) provided by each unit of output. Measuring the gap between the most fortunate and the least fortunate in our society, for example, tells us how well or poorly we are doing in creating an economy that does not benefit some at the expense of others.
For many nations with widespread poverty, increasing per capita consumption (through economic growth or through more equitable distributions of wealth) remains an appropriate goal. Ultimately, however, the global ecosystem will not be able to support further economic growth. Therefore, an equitable distribution of wealth among nations is required to maintain a global steady-state economy. A global economy with inequitable wealth distribution will be subject to continual international strife and conflict. Such strife and conflict, in turn, ensures the economic unsustainability of some nations and threatens the economic sustainability of all.
C. Curbing Corporate Power
People before profits

Our Position: Greens want to reduce the economic and political power of large corporations, end corporate personhood and re-design corporations to serve our society, democracy and the environment.

Unelected and unaccountable corporate executives are not merely exercising power in our society -- they are ruling us. Greens will reduce corporate powers and privileges, including by stripping them of artificial "personhood" and constitutional protections. The Green Party supports strong and effectively enforced antitrust laws and regulation to counteract the concentration of economic and political power that imposes a severe toll on people, places and the planet.

Greens believe the legal structure of the corporation is obsolete. At present, corporations are designed solely to generate profit. This legal imperative -- profit above all else -- is damaging our country and our planet in countless ways. We must change the legal design of corporations so that they generate profits, but not at the expense of the environment, human rights, public health, workers, or the communities in which the corporation operates.

One point remains unequivocal: our planet cannot afford business as usual any longer. Because corporations have become the dominant economic institution of the planet, we must compel them to serve human and environmental needs, so that our peoples, nations and environment may live long and prosper.

Green Solutions

End corporate personhood.
Federal chartering of corporations that includes comprehensive, strict and enforceable social responsibility requirements.
Strengthen the civil justice system to ensure that it holds corporations strictly liable for corporate crime, fraud, violence and malfeasance. This would include revoking the charters of corporations that routinely violate safety, health, environmental protection or other laws.
Empower shareholders to stop abuses by the managers they hire through a structure of democratic governance and elections.
Enforce existing antitrust laws and support even tougher new ones to curtail the overwhelming economic and political power of large corporations.
Increase funding for and strengthen oversight of federal antitrust enforcement.


D. Livable Income
We affirm the importance of access to a livable income.

We call for a universal basic income (sometimes called a guaranteed income, negative income tax, citizen's income, or citizen dividend). This would go to every adult regardless of health, employment, or marital status, in order to minimize government bureaucracy and intrusiveness into people's lives. The amount should be sufficient so that anyone who is unemployed can afford basic food and shelter. State or local governments should supplement that amount from local revenues where the cost of living is high.
Job banks and other innovative training and employment programs which bring together the private and public sectors must become federal, state and local priorities. People who are unable to find decent work in the private sector should have options through publicly funded opportunities. Workforce development programs must aim at moving people out of poverty.
The growing inequities in income and wealth between rich and poor; unprecedented discrepancies in salary and benefits between corporate top executives and line workers; loss of the "American dream" by the young and middle-class - each is a symptom of decisions made by policy-makers far removed from the concerns of ordinary workers trying to keep up.
A clear living wage standard should serve as a foundation for trade between nations, and a "floor" of guaranteed wage protections and workers' rights should be negotiated in future trade agreements. The United States should take the lead on this front - and not allow destructive, predatory corporate practices under the guise of "free" international trade.


E. Fair Taxation
Our Position: Federal and state taxes must be strongly progressive.

Our current tax system is outrageously unjust. It is riddled with loopholes, subsidies and dodges for corporations and the super-rich. Most working people pay too much in taxes compared to corporations, multi-millionaires and billionaires. Many of our biggest and most profitable corporations pay little or no tax. Much investment income is taxed at less than the rate workers pay.

We can afford to cut taxes for most people if we make corporations and the super-rich pay their fair share. Then we can cut them even more when we halt our nation's wasteful spending on wars, weaponry and militarism.

We call for progressive taxation, shifting tax from individuals to corporations, taxing "bads" not "goods," taxing unearned income at the same rate as earned income, taxing speculation on Wall Street, and cutting corporate tax giveaways.

We will institute comprehensive tax reform to simplify the tax system. We will eliminate loopholes and other exemptions that favor corporate and wealthy interests over tax justice.

Small business, in particular, should not be penalized by a tax system which benefits those who can "work" the legislative tax committees for breaks and subsidies. We support substantive and wide-ranging reform of the tax system that helps create jobs, economic efficiencies and innovation within the small business community. We will end "corporate welfare." Smaller businesses are the U. S. A's great strength. Greens believe government should have a tax policy which encourages small and socially responsible business.

Political democracy remains a distant promise without economic democracy. A principal instrument for achieving economic democracy is our tax system. Taxes are the means whereby we fund our public services. They can also help create equity, justice, health and sustainability.

Green Solutions

1. Cut taxes for wage-workers
Exempt people earning less than $25,000 per year and families earning less than $50,000 per year (adjusted for inflation) from the federal and state income taxes.
Exempt food, clothing, prescription medications, other necessities and second-hand goods from sales taxes.


2. Fair taxes for corporations and the wealthy
End corporate welfare, such as the bailouts for Wall Street, the big banks and the automobile industry; subsidies for agribusiness, Export-Import Bank loan guarantees; tax abatements for big box stores; the tax loophole for “carried interest” from private equity and hedge fund managers; tax deductibility for advertising and business entertainment; offshore tax avoidance schemes; giveaways for new sports stadiums and casinos.
Impose a financial transaction tax on trades of stocks, bonds, currency, derivatives, and other financial instruments.
Block financial transactions with tax havens, to stop tax evasion.
Decrease the $1 million home value cap on the mortgage interest tax deduction for federal income taxes, to reduce the tax subsidy provided to those living in the most expensive homes.
Restore the estate tax.
Apply the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (Social Security and Medicare) taxes to investment income and to all levels of income, not merely the first $106,800 earned.
Oppose the privatization of Social Security.
Enact a wealth tax of 0.5% per year on an individual's assets over $5 million.


3. Eco-taxes to help save the planet
Establish a system of carbon taxes on all fossil fuels, to begin to reflect the real environmental cost of their extraction and use. Carbon taxes should be applied as far upstream as possible, preferably when possession of the carbon-bearing fuel passes from extraction (for example, coal mine; oil wellhead or tanker; gas wellhead) to the next entity in the supply chain (for example, coal shipper or utility; oil refiner or importer; natural gas pipeline). Offset potential regressivity for lower income individuals via the Green Tax shift that lowers income taxes and/or other approaches.
Eliminate tax subsidies for the oil, gas, coal, nuclear and timber and mining industries.
Enact a Green Tax Shift that shifts from taxing people and work (via income and payroll taxes) to taxing natural resource extraction, use, waste and pollution.
Enact a system of Community Ground Rent/Land Value Taxation that distinguishes between the socially and privately created wealth of land, by increasing the taxes on the former to retain for society the value that it collectively creates and lowers them on the latter to reward individuals for their initiative and work.
To ensure that prices reflect their true environmental cost, enact a system of True Cost Pricing (TCP) for goods and services. TCP is an accounting and pricing system that includes all costs in the price of a product. TCP charges extractive and productive industries for the immediate or prolonged damage (pollution of air and water) and diminishment of natural resources caused by their acts.
Impose a carbon fee on goods imported from nations with lower carbon taxes than in the U.S., based upon the carbon spent in manufacturing and transporting them to the U.S.


4. Taxes for a better, healthier USA
Simplify the tax code. Make it transparent, understandable and resistant to the machinations of powerful corporate and wealthy interests.
Eliminate tax incentives to send jobs overseas.
Raise taxes on tobacco, alcohol, soda pop and other junk food.


F. Local Economic Involvement
Our Position: Greens support reforms that give communities more control over their own local economies.

Greens support decentralization, and call for a community-based economics whose aim is local prosperity and self-sufficiency.

We support local production, local manufacturing, local sales, local recycling wherever and whenever possible. We encourage face-to-face relationships with local business owners and shopkeepers.

Successful local Green communities nurture everyone of all ages, generate good jobs and housing, and provide public services; creating cities and towns that educate everyone, encourage recreation, and preserve natural and cultural resources; building local governments that protect people from environmental hazards and crime; and motivating citizens to participate in making decisions.

Green Solutions

Protect local businesses from the predatory pricing practices of chain and "big box" stores.
Support incentives for co-operative enterprises, such as consumer co-ops, workers' co-operatives, credit unions and other institutions that help communities develop economic projects.
Allow municipalities to approve or disapprove large economic projects case-by-case based on environmental impacts, local ownership, community reinvestment, wage levels, and working conditions.
Allow communities to set environmental, consumer, human rights, labor, health and safety standards higher than federal or state minimums.
Invest in the commons: rebuild infrastructure; improve mass transit; protect and restore the environment.
Support local living wage laws.
Establish local currencies such as Time Dollars, Ithaca Hours and BerkShares, to strengthen local economies.
Enact place of origin labeling.
Enact corporate "good character" laws, requiring corporations, when applying for a permit, to disclose all violations of law they have committed. Empower officials to deny permits based on such information.


G. Small Business and the Self-Employed
Greens support a program that counter acts concentration and abuse of economic power. We support many different initiatives for forming successful, small enterprises that together can become an engine of (and sustainable model for) job creation, prosperity and progress. Small business is where the jobs are being created. Over the past decade and a half, all new net job growth has come from the small business sector.

The Green economic model is about true prosperity - Green means prosperity. Our goal is to go beyond the dedicated good work being done by many companies (referred to as "socially responsible business") and to present new ways of seeing how business can help create a sustainable world, while surviving in a competitive business climate.

We believe that conservation should be profitable, and employment should be creative, meaningful and fairly compensated.

Access to capital is often an essential need in growing a business. [See section I. Banking and Insurance Reform]

The present tax system acts to discourage small business as it encourages waste, discourages conservation, and rewards consumption. Big business has used insider access to dominate the federal tax code. The tax system needs a major overhaul to favor the legitimate and critical needs of the small business community. Retention of capital through retained earnings, efficiencies, and savings is central to small business competitiveness. Current tax policies often act to unfairly penalize small business.

Government should reduce unnecessary restrictions, fees, and bureaucracy. In particular, the Paper Simplification Act should be seen as a way to benefit small business, and it should be improved in response to the needs of small businesses and the self-employed.
Health insurance premiums paid by the self-employed should be fully deductible.
State and local government should encourage businesses that benefit the community especially. Economic development initiatives should include citizen and community input. The type and size of businesses that are given incentives (tax, loans, bonds, etc.) should be the result of local community participation.
Pension funds (the result of workers' investments) should be examined as additional sources of capital for small business. [See section J. Pension Reform]
Insurance costs should be brought down by means of active engagement with the insurance industry. Insurance pools need to be expanded.
One-stop offices should be established by government to assist individuals who want to change careers or go into business for the first time.
Home-based and neighborhood-based businesses should be assisted by forward-looking planning, not hurt by out-of-date zoning ordinances. Telecommuting and home offices should be aided, not hindered, by government.


H. Work and Job Creation
There is plenty of work to do that does not jeopardize our future, does not widen the gap between the richest and the poorest in our society, and that can enrich our communities. We must encourage the creation of these opportunities. People whose livelihoods depend on supporting remote, multi-national corporations cannot be expected to support changing the system.

The Green Party proposes a third alternative to a job or no job dichotomy: that is to provide everyone a sustainable livelihood. The need of our times is for security, not necessarily jobs. We need security in the knowledge that, while markets may fluctuate and jobs may come and go, we are still able to lead a life rooted in dignity and well-being.

The concept of a "job" is only a few hundred years old; and the artificial dichotomy between "employment" and "unemployment" has become a tool of social leverage for corporate exploiters. This produces a dysfunctional society in various ways: (1) It is used to justify bringing harmful industries to rural communities, such as extensive prison construction and clear cutting of pristine forests. (2) It has been used to pit workers (people needing jobs) against the interests of their own communities. (3) It has created a self-esteem crisis in a large segment of the adult population who been forced into doing work that is irrelevant, socially harmful, or environmentally unsound.

We will also promote policies that have job-increasing effects. Many people will still need jobs for their security. We need to counterbalance the decline in jobs caused either by new technology, corporate flight to cheaper labor markets outside our borders, or the disappearance of socially wasteful jobs that will inevitably occur as more and more people embrace a green culture.

To begin a transition to a system providing sustainable livelihood, we support:

Creating alternative, low-consumption communities and living arrangements, including a reinvigorated sustainable homesteading movement in rural areas and voluntary shared housing in urban areas.
Universal health care requiring coverage for all. [See section F. Health Care in chapter II]
The creating and spreading local currencies and barter systems.
Subsidizing technological development of consumer items that would contribute toward economic autonomy, such as renewable energy devices.
Establishing local non-profit development corporations.
Providing people with information about alternatives to jobs.
Creating Jobs

For creating jobs we propose:

Reducing taxes on labor. This will make labor more competitive with energy and capital investment. (See Taxation above.)
Solidarity with unions and workers fighting the practice of contracting out tasks to part-time workers in order to avoid paying benefits and to break up unions.
Adopting a reduced-hour (30-35 hours) work week as a standard. This could translate into as many as 26 million new jobs.
Subsidizing renewable energy sources, which directly employ 2 to 5 times as many people for every unit of electricity generated as fossil or nuclear sources yet are cost competitive. Also, retrofit existing buildings for energy conservation and build non-polluting, low impact transportation systems.
Supporting small business by reducing tax, fee and bureaucratic burdens. The majority of new jobs today are created by small businesses. This would cut their failure rate and help them create more jobs.
Opposing the trend toward "bundling" of contracts that minimizes opportunity for small, minority-owned, and women-owned businesses.
13. Reducing consumption to minimize outsourcing - the exportation of jobs to other countries - thus reducing the relative price of using U.S. workers.


I. Banking and Insurance reform
Greens will overhaul the financial industries to end their culture of impunity and to prevent them from committing fraud or malfeasance so severe as to drive our nation into a massive recession or depression.

Since finance, banking, and insurance institutions occupy a privileged position of power at the center of commerce, this special advantage brings with it special social responsibilities. We must ensure that the institutions chartered for these roles take that responsibility seriously and serve the public interest.

Greens aim to reform the financial industries to eliminate usury (exorbitantly high interest rates on loans) and ensure that they meet their obligations to taxpayers and local communities.



1. Banking reform
Break up our nation's largest banks and financial institutions so that none is "too big to fail." End taxpayer-funded bailouts for banks, insurers and other financial companies.
Regulate all financial derivatives, ban any predatory or gambling use of derivatives, and require full transparency for all derivative trades, to control risk of systemic financial collapse. Require regulatory pre-approval of exotic financial instruments.
Re-enact the Glass-Steagall Act, which prohibited bank holding companies from owning other financial companies and engaging in risky economic transactions.
Oppose the federal government being the final guarantor of speculative investments. During a financial crisis, if the federal government and/or a central bank must provide relief, it should be given in an equal manner and at the most local level possible, so that benefits are equitably dispersed and burdens are equitably borne. So rather than pouring trillions of dollars into the banking system, they should have provided direct mortgage relief to homeowners suffering the most from the housing bubble and negotiated with lenders to provide partial loan forgiveness.
Ensure that low and middle income people have access to banking services, affordable loans, and small-business supporting capital, especially through credit unions.
Oppose disinvestment practices, in which lending and financial institutions move money deposited in local communities out of those same communities, damaging the best interests of their customers and community.
Support the extension of the Community Reinvestment Act to provide public and timely information on the extent of housing loans, small business loans to minority-owned enterprises, investments in community development projects, and affordable housing.
Strengthen disclosure laws, anti-redlining laws, and openness on the part of lenders regarding what criteria they use in making lending decisions.
Oppose arbitrary or discriminatory practices that deny individuals or small business access to credit.
Support development of charter community development banks, which would be capitalized with public funds and work to meet the credit needs of local communities.
Support the expansion of co-operative credit unions.


2. Monetary Reform (Greening the Dollar)
The crisis in our financial system makes it imperative that we restructure our monetary system. The present mis-structured system of privatized control has resulted in the misdirection of our resources to speculation, toxic loans, and phony financial instruments that create huge profits for the few but no real wealth or jobs. It is both possible and necessary for our government to take back its special money creation privilege and spend this money into circulation through a carefully controlled policy of directing funds, through community banks and interest-free loans, to local and state government entities to be used for infrastructure, health, education, and the arts This would add millions of good jobs, enrich our communities, and go a long ways toward ending the current deep recession.

To reverse the privatization of control over the money issuing process of our nation‚s monetary system; to reverse its resulting obscene and undeserved concentration of wealth and income; to place it within a more equitable public system of governmental checks and balances; and to end the regular recurrence of severe and disruptive banking crises such as the ongoing financial crisis which threatens the livelihood of millions; the Green Party supports the following interconnected,

Nationalize the Federal Reserve Banks, reconstituting them and the Federal Reserve Systems Washington Board of Governors under a new Monetary Authority Board within the U.S. Treasury. The private creation of money or credit, which substitutes for money, will cease and with it the reckless and fraudulent practices that have led to the present financial and economic crisis.
The Monetary Authority, with assistance from the FDIC, the SEC, the U.S. Treasury, the Congressional Budget Office, and others will redefine bank lending rules and procedures to end the privilege banks now have to create money when they extend their credit, by ending what‚s known as the fractional reserve system in an elegant, non disruptive manner. Banks will be encouraged to continue as profit making companies, extending loans of real money at interest; acting as intermediaries between those clients seeking a return on their savings and those clients ready and able to pay for borrowing the money; but banks will no longer be creators of what we are using for money.
The new money that must be regularly added to an improving system as population and commerce grow will be created and spent into circulation by the U. S. Government for infrastructure, including the „human infrastructure‰ of education and health care. This begins with the $2.2 trillion the American Society of Civil Engineers warns us is needed to bring existing infrastructure to safe levels over the next 5 years. Per capita guidelines will assure a fair distribution of such expenditures across the United States, creating good jobs, re-invigorating the local economies and re-funding government at all levels. As this money is paid out to various contractors, they in turn pay their suppliers and laborers who in turn pay for their living expenses and ultimately this money gets deposited into banks, which are then in a position to make loans of this money, according to the new regulations.


3. Insurance Reform
Clean up the insurance industry. Eliminate special-interest protections, collusion, over-pricing and industry-wide practices that too often injure the interests of the insured when they are most vulnerable. Prohibit bad-faith insurance practices, such as avoidance of obligations and price fixing.
Enact single-payer universal health insurance. Until single-payer is established, we support laws that act to make insurance policies transportable from job to job.
Support and encourage the insurance industry's efforts for "loss prevention," that is, to reduce the incidence of death, injuries, disease and other calamities.
Support initiatives in secondary insurance markets that expand credit for economic development in inner cities, affordable housing and home ownership among the poor, sustainable agriculture and rural development maintaining family farms.
Prohibit companies from being the beneficiary of insurance on their own employees.


4. Broader financial industry reforms
Support a 10% cap on interest rates, above inflation, for credit cards, mortgages, payday loans and all other consumer lending.
Aggressively crack down on crime, fraud, malfeasance and tax evasion in the financial and insurance industries.
Reduce excessive executive pay.
Support the formation of Citizens' Utility Boards to defend the interests of consumers and policyholders.
Favor a tax on stock, bond, foreign currency and derivatives transactions to discourage excessive speculation.


J. Pension Reform
Working people--who own over $3 trillion in pension monies (deferred wages in effect)--should have financial options in where their money is invested apart from the current near-monopoly exerted by a handful of managers, banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds. Pension funds should not be used for corporate mergers, acquisitions and leveraged buyouts, corporate decisions that undercut workers rights, employment, and retirement while generously rewarding non-productive speculation. The current system has allowed vast amounts of American workers' hard-earned money to be squandered on job-ending, plant-moving, corporate downsizing.

Pension funds are gigantic capital pools that can, with government support, be used to meet community needs and benefit workers and their families directly.

Corporate-sponsored pension funds (the biggest category of funds) should be jointly controlled by management and workers, not exclusively by management.
Federal law must be changed so that pension funds need simply to seek a reasonable rate of return, not the prevailing market rate which greatly restricts where investments can be made.
A secondary pension market established by the government to insure pension investments made in socially beneficial programs must be considered as one method that could greatly expand the impact of this capital market, as demonstrated in the case of federally insured / subsidized mortgage lending.
Prudent pension fund investing should both make money and do good work. Creating jobs and supporting employment programs in public / private partnerships can become a priority as we seek to expand towards opportunities where new jobs are created - small business, not transnational business. We could target the under- and un-employed. We believe there are myriad opportunities for a profound shift in how the capital of America's workers is best put to use.


K. Anti-trust Enforcement
The Green Party supports strong and effective enforcement anti-trust regulation to counteract the concentration of economic power that imposes a sever toll on the economy. The anti-trust division of the Justice Department has had its scope and powers reduced. An explosion of unregulated mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, and leveraged buyouts has overwhelmed the federal government's capacity to provide effective oversight. Financial and trading markets have become particularly vulnerable to insider trading. Securities and Exchange Commission regulation of these markets has seriously fallen short. Overall, what we see in unchecked market power is self-serving abuse of the democratic political process, price gouging, loss of productivity and jobs, reduced competitiveness, and of predatory and monopolistic practices.

The Federal Trade Commission must vigorously oversee mergers where the combined sales of the companies exceed $1 billion.
The Justice Department must redefine "relevant market share" in assessing mergers.
The Congress must enact its calls for competitiveness by stopping illegal monopolistic practices.
We oppose the largesse of government in the form of massive corporate entitlements.


L. Advanced technology and Defense Conversion
1. The Green Party supports defense technology transfer towards a peacetime technology-based economy, particularly new industrial applications and developments in the areas of advanced communications, alternative energy, non-toxic battery technology and waste management.

Consolidation of the nuclear weapons complex should move toward alternative civilian technologies and non-proliferation work, not toward a new generation of nuclear weapon design and production.
We recognize the need for de-escalating the continuing arms race, and we strongly oppose putting nuclear weapons, lasers and other weapons in space in a new militarization policy that is in clear violation of international law. [See section F. Demilitarization and Exploration of Space in chapter I]
Let us go forward with government and civilian space programs; research initiatives in sustainability science, environmental protection, ecological economics and transportation, appropriate technologies and technology transfer; environmental sampling and monitoring; systems testing; laser communications; and high speed computers.
Let us devote a larger percentage of our nation's research and development budget, both private and public, toward civilian use and away from military use. Let us address our chronic trade imbalance in this fashion - not by increasing exports of military weapons and technologies.
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We call for a federal Technology Assessment Office to examine how technology fits with life on Earth, with our neighborhoods, and with the quality of our daily lives.


2. Telecommunications
Advanced telecommunications technologies (many of which came originally from defense applications), such as fiber optics, broadband infrastructure, the Internet, and the World Wide Web hold great promise for education, decentralized economies, and local control of decision-making. We believe we must move toward decentralization in these efforts, carefully protecting our individual rights as we go forward.

Advanced and high definition TV, digital communications, and wireless communications hold promise and challenge. For example, the public airwaves that will accommodate the new generation of telecommunications technology should not be free giveaways to media giants. An auction and built-in requirements that attach licenses to act in the public interest is needed. Technology provides tools: we must use these tools appropriately and ethically.
Broadband Internet access should be open to bidding, not simply the current choice between cable or telephone company monopolies, where grassroots Internet service providers must merge or go out of business. Broadband access should be a taxpayer-funded utility, like water and sewer, ending the "digital divide" that keeps low-income folks from access to the Internet.


3. Open-Source Software
Open-source software is necessary to achieve personal, cultural, and organizational security in the face of technological threats brought by corporations and individual criminals.

Government has a vital role in breaking up software monopolies, not so much by filing antitrust suits, but by buying nothing but open systems. The U.S. Government and the larger states are buyers large enough to influence the computer and software systems through their purchasing. It should be illegal for a government agency to create and store information vital to its operations in a format it doesn't control. Governments should always consider storing information with open-source software and in-house staff instead of only commercial systems, vendors and software. One way to achieve this would be to add a virtual bid for in-house open source deployment whenever a software purchase goes out for bid.
The Green Party supports protection of software (free or proprietary) by means of the copyright. We strongly oppose granting of software patents. Mathematical algorithms are discovered, not invented, by humans; therefore, they are not patentable. The overwhelming majority of software patents cover algorithms and should never have been awarded, or they cover message formats of some kind, which are essentially arbitrary. Format patents only exist to restrain competition, and the harm falls disproportionately on programmers who work independently or for the smallest employers.


4. Nanotechnology
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The Green Party calls for a halt to nanotechnology development until the following conditions are met:

Development of full and open public debate about the implications of nanotechnology and the fusion of nanotech with biological materials and information sciences.
Development of democratic public control mechanisms which would regulate the direction of nanotechnology research and development.
Expanded research into the environmental and health consequences of exposure to nano-scale materials.
Development of technology to contain and monitor nano-scale materials, and.
Development of precautionary safety measures for the containment and control over nano-scale materials.


M. National Debt
Greens will reduce our national debt.

Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama have irresponsibly expanded our national debt by trillions of dollars to finance tax cuts for savings of our workers are wealthiest citizens, war, corporate welfare and bailouts of Wall Street and the automotive industry. This debt and the interest that must be paid on it is not sustainable.

Working people and the small business community are bearing a disproportionate amount of the federal debt burden. Yet the federal debt is, to a large degree, the end product of tax cuts for the wealthy and big business, and the military-defense industry buildup.

For many years the federal government borrowed trillions of dollars. Money that should have been going into a better "safety net" for the poor, homes for the homeless, environmental and public lands conservation, sustainable jobs, research and development, roads and bridges, schools and the technologies of tomorrow, has been lost to servicing the national debt. We cannot ignore the consequences of our nation's past deficits and the related costs of debt service.

Reduce our national debt by increasing taxes on large corporations, the super-rich and pollution; and decreasing expenditures in some areas, especially for war, armaments and corporate welfare.
Oppose privatization of Social Security.
Increase funding for green jobs, Social Security, public housing, higher education, public transportation, environmental protection, renewable energy and energy conservation.


"The Green Party is no longer the alternative, the Green Party is the imperative"
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moving to N Cali, Jah willing, & william @ younger age

2009 Fire > Great Picture from space orbit of Hayfork Area. Hayfork South West of Fire on Trinity Mountain



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below, william on Right and younger Brother John
on Left looking @ pet Gerbil:::::::::::::::::
40 years ago!

the Stress-Disease Connection, ADD, new medication

Air Gun Vaccine injector

Jah jireh



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above, Body Mind Connection, healing and disease^^^
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below, Drugs, like Cannabis and Natural Hallucinogenic drugs
or -Mind-Opening" drugs can be Good for People.
Should have FREEDOM TO USE CANNABIS, just like coffee!!! (adults)
Natural Drugs for Healing Cognitive Issues, Spiritual Growth.
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part 1

part 2


Please keep william in prayer, as he is starting a temporary (~60 Days) amphetamine (Adderall)(@ "wake-up" & 2 PM) to try to stop damging side effect to 50 weeks of Interferon/Ribavirin Chemotherapy, contracted by U.S. Army Air Gun Vaccination. SEE: http://hcvets.com/

Air Gun HCV Contraction, when entered U.S. Army, to work in Army Hospitals, in April, 1981 & went to Boot Camp @ Fort Dix, NJ, training, medic & nurse, @ FT Sam Houston (91bravo=Medic/EMT &&& 91Chalie=Nurse)(later 91Wiskey=Nuclear Med. Tech. w/ A.S. graduated from G.W.U.) Good Conduct Medal, Honorable Service & Expert (highest) M-16 Medal (was a Pacifist, expert shot)

******************** analogy OF A BROKE BONE & WEARING CAST FOR 60, THE AMPHETAMINE (only aid); needed a plan/strategy & SUPPORT, MOM, LYNN, DAVID for "crutches/cast" while on Adderall with Goal of stopping Cognitive Dysfuntion/Panic Attacks ("Nervous Breakdowns") which i have had 200 to 300 since March, 2003, 10 weeks into 1 year Interferon Chemotherapy. They will also be helping with "Monitoring and Evaluation" over the 60 days, along with "self-evaluation" with suggestions of coping/Living skills/tools. This will be done every Sunday (last Sunday was Day 1 of amphetamine) and Wednesday.
Lynn, David and Mom, thought this could be helpful, with special noting of step 7.
Here are seven-steps for an effective problem-solving process.
1. Identify the issues. (william: getting and staying on course to stop me from having these panic attacks/scrambled, confused thinking/nervous breakdowns which are damaging to my body and brain, my life and my relationships with others. Use my energy, which i only get so much a day, "an allocation or amount", well or constructively instead of burning it all up in an "episode".)
Be clear about what the problem is.
Remember that different people might have different views of what the issues are.
Separate the listing of issues from the identification of interests (that's the next step!).
2. Understand everyone's interests.
This is a critical step that is usually missing.
Interests are the needs that you want satisfied by any given solution. We often ignore our true interests as we become attached to one particular solution.
The best solution is the one that satisfies everyone's interests.
This is the time for active listening. Put down your differences for awhile and listen to each other with the intention to understand.
Separate the naming of interests from the listing of solutions.
3. List the possible solutions (options)
This is the time to do some brainstorming. There may be lots of room for creativity.
Separate the listing of options from the evaluation of the options.
4. Evaluate the options.
What are the pluses and minuses? Honestly!
Separate the evaluation of options from the selection of options.
5. Select an option or options.
What's the best option, in the balance?
Is there a way to "bundle" a number of options together for a more satisfactory solution?
6. Document the agreement(s).
Don't rely on memory.
Writing it down will help you think through all the details and implications.
7. Agree on contingencies, monitoring, and evaluation.

Conditions may change. Make contingency agreements about foreseeable future circumstances (If-then!).
How will you monitor compliance and follow-through?
Create opportunities to evaluate the agreements and their implementation. ("Let's try it this way for three months and then look at it.")
Effective problem solving does take some time and attention more of the latter than the former. But less time and attention than is required by a problem not well solved. What it really takes is a willingness to slow down. A problem is like a curve in the road. Take it right and you'll find yourself in good shape for the straightaway that follows. Take it too fast and you may not be in as good shape.
Working through this process is not always a strictly linear exercise. You may have to cycle back to an earlier step. For example, if you're having trouble selecting an option, you may have to go back to thinking about the interests.
This process can be used in a large group, between two people, or by one person who is faced with a difficult decision. The more difficult and important the problem, the more helpful and necessary it is to use a disciplined process. If you're just trying to decide where to go out for lunch, you probably don't need to go through these seven steps!

Don't worry if it feels a bit unfamiliar and uncomfortable at first. You'll have lots of opportunities to practice!
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>>>to be posted on the following dates, Hopefully with Progress and success. The Brain MRI showed servere atrophy from Interferon Chemotherapy Brain Toxicity with progressive damage due to ongoing, persistent side effects~7+years(see end of post).

Monitoring and Evaluation.
by 3 Way Call, here in MS, Seattle and Denver
(Done and documented by consensus by lynn, Mom, David and William-self-eval)

below Sun./Wed. dates; suggestions & 0 to 4 rating scale of items lynn, David, and Mom discussed (Plan/Strategy post "Brainstorming") with 0 being "balanced" w/ calm voice/demeanor, dealing well w/ cognitive dysfunction w/out "frustration", better speech/communication,low confusion and better productivity (work on house to sell to get to Califoria for Further Healing-years: http://memory.ucsf.edu/

On the scale, with "0" being Good,
on the Evalations "1 to 3" are based on severity of bad behaviors/Cognitive Issue or Stress, as well productivity toward sale of house.
4 would be the worse,falling back into "side effect actions or behavior" with the possibility of having to stop, failed!, the amphetamine/Adderall Pharmo therapy (& cognitive behavioral therapy/"the Srategy" by lynn, Mom, David and myself.)

6-19: started Adderall

6-22: immediate improvement in many areas, and used "tools", as needed, on Strategy List. Need to increase William's work/production incrementally/progressively (Daily hours getting house interior finished) score "0"!!!
***(extra comments by william: told lynn i loved her 5 times, as which was spontainiously done up till 2 years ago, as Persistent Chemo side effects" had got worse, felt like i was losing "myself"/functioning, 6 years after "side effects" continued. MFB was used more often than; i love you. On day 2 while at the kitchen sink and looking out open window, i felt a breeze come in, heard "Nature's Noises", and felt like "myself" with clarity of mind. For years, it has felt that i had a mouse running on a spinning wheel, just burning up ENERGY all the Time. I would often be exhausted by the afternoon or early evening. From Day 1 on amphetamine/Adderall, that stopped and i felt as if the mouse {stress???} stopped burning up ENERGY uselessly!!!)

6-26: lynn write Day of Medication (helps think of "moving forward/improvement"). "Trying" more especially in A.M., more Attention & Awareness.
eval score: Mom/David; 1.5 getting better to 0. William's thought of the last 4 Days eval score; 3- to 2+. Lynn eval score; 3- to 2+.
Also, keeping Time to 20 minutes or less.
***(William's suggestion; having Concensus Process with some forethought so will have balanced Time ~5 minute/person~ talking per individual with David, lynn & Mom having "Objective view" with william's being subjective. Thoughts can be more concise to save Time. Everyone should have the same highlighted - see, "7 Steps, Organized after step 3; "brainstroming"! Can take note of eval on back page left open for this.)
(extra comments, william: We are keeping track of how i am doing on the calendar, by marking over the date with a pink highlighter for "Good Days", which the 1st 4 days were. On Thursday, the Day after my 1st eval.-above, i had a Day which felt like i had a Cognitive Dysfunction Day, but did NOT "act out" trying to use the written "Strategy" to help me, i.e., #4; "keep a calm voice and demeanor". We have a blue highlighter for "Bad Days" and Thur., 6-23 was marked 3/4 pink (Good) & 1/4 blue (bad/issue~s). Friday i felt the TOO FAMILIAR after effects, depression, increase cognitive problems, frustration... >>> BUT I DIDN'T "ACT OUT" or "lose my cool"~at least "outwardly"! Mom said she was proud of me, 6-24 is marked all Pink. The next Day, Friday, was "rough" in the morning, including raising my voice to lynn about Thursday being too close to an (Lose your cool episode). I have been trying so hard, including not raising my voice, which I CANNOT DO ON ADDERALL {the whole point is stopping "episodes" and let Healing begin}. Through what was written on the "Strategy" {which includes a section of "what-ifs"} and talking with Mom AND lynn, the rest of the Day went MUCH better. I started feeling "recovered" from "setback" on Thursday. Lynn {who is also disabled-developmentally-alcohol use by her mother during pregnacy} use and i have a better understanding. She is also writing what day of Adderall treatment, every morning, i am on. Today is Day 8, Sunday, 6-26, and SO FAR * SO GOOD.
...still have Goal!!! >>> increase hrs/Day of house prep for sale.
Thurs., 6-24 was TOO Close to "an scrambled Brain/ panic epipisode" for comfort. Goal to not go "there" again while on Adderall pharmo therapy!!! & Glad lynn and i came to better communication with Mom's Help, and a determination to be careful about this!)

6-29 eval score(s): lynn, David & Mom; 0 to 1 (fairly Good), william's self score; 1 (because of below comments by william & issue discussed on phone)
Mom's comment: Gold stars to continueing trying & keeping things done in a Good Way, without "losing my cool".
David's comments: Just like the saying "Illegitimi non carborundum" meaning; "Don't let the bastards grind you down", also, "Don't let the battles grind you down". In Latin: (burnout, stress from past).
Lynn's comments: william had moments of stress, Mon., Tues. & Wed., but worked through them "not perfectly, but with effort" and sincerely.
(extra comments, william: Lynn has been sincerely making effort to be more "AWARE", even looking over Strategy/Plan for Behavior Change/stopping detrimental "stress/frustration episodes". On 2nd page, near bottom, of "what-ifs", section "Underlining stresses" added "a concern for failure or success in stopping episodes, especially after the "TOO CLOSE!" incendent last Thursday {see last eval}; stressed and expressed to lynn, myself and Mom; "It is easier or "natural to fall back into "old behavior pattern", but will take extra vigilant effort, concern and awareness to establish "New behavior pattern" {episode free, breaking vicious cycle of last 8 years, since March, 2003. Concern, that i am not getting max benifit of Adderall, as some nervousness, anxiety and an increase in scrabled thinking has occured after last Thursday, as last Saturday showed. Also. still concerned that i have to increase productive use of energy, which motivation builds on constructive productivity, instead wasted anxiety/confused energy leads to decreased motivation, frustration, stress, depression. We need to turn it around to the positive, and NOT the latter of above sentence. Have limited allocation of Energy per day, to NOT be wasted in stress and evenly!!! throughout the Day. Momentum from previous Day{s} can work for Good or be an obsticle-bad. Try to have "Good Days" lead to "Good Days", not bad to bad.)

7-3 eval score(s): Mom/David; 0-1 (Good), lynn; 1+ (had difficult moments), william; 1.
Mom's comment: Used Energy allocation (see above) well and equally through the Day on Our anniversary.
David's comments: ?
Lynn's comments: had difficult moments
(extra comments, william: Our 18th wedding promises anniversary, July 2 {married @ Lakewood Church, 1993, Houston, TX ~http://www.lakewood.cc/~}, and Thank you lynn for standing by me, even through these past difficult 8 years, since the Interferon Chemotherapy. This is especially true, as it has been sooooooooo long and We have had little knowledge that others suffered almost identical long term cognitve issues. Finally, there is a little more Light/Knowledge of the negative effects cause by long term Interferon on the brain, with cognitive effects, >>>... also, finally on a Medication that seems to be the first real aid to the Path of Recovery, along with "Cognitive Behavior Therapy"; http://www.anxietynetwork.com/hcbt.html, support of Family and Friends and the 7 Step outline to solving a problem. The main issue that i feel i need help in is items #'s 17 & 4 (highlighted on main "brainstorming") & item #8 on william's 10 item list". Had some problems in this area. It also corresponds to the the first and second items on Page 2 of the "What-if's" {has star and arrow @ top of page}. Want to discuss this with you, and what Our phycotherapist, Milton, {mutiple tours in Vietnam, 6'-4" w/ hands twice my size}, about a "stress scale of 1 to 10. Going past 10 would be "out of control" or a "4" on the scale "reverse scale" We are using. I am too often, all this past week going to high, 7-8, on the 1 -10 scale. I DON'T need to create a pattern of too high stress, as well as stopping the "congnitive dysfunction/panic episodes"}. While on the Adderall and during this Time, i want to have a pattern of lower stress. It concerns me that my stress level has gone too high thoughout the weeks, = "too many Days/week" = lost productivity, disappointment and damaging to healing physical and mental/emotional". Might increase dose next Thursday, as Psychiatrist suggested, as he told me it a very short "half-life", has only 4 hr effect, that's why i take first dose waking up, and second dose around Noon to 2 PM. Also, the effectiveness of the Adderall decreases w/ "drug tolerance", indicating a slightly higher dose if working well during first assessment by Psychiatrist.)

7-6 eval score(s): Mom/David; 2, lynn; 1+, william; 4 to 1.
Mom's comment: Mom gave me Hope when she gave advice from "the 7 steps of Problem Solving, as she said there could be setbacks, and the ealier steps need to be examined to find solutions and "get back on Right Path".
David's comments: Find root cause(s) and make changes to offset "episodes", not push, take your time (slow down). (william's response; "root causes" are varied, some before Interferon Chemotherapy, during the Chemo & the toxity of 1 year of Interferon/Ribavirin Chemo, and some after the Chemo including creating 200 + "Nervous Breakdowns/"Episodes", Trauma, stress and inadequate "after-care" and monotoring by the V.A. Medical System. To offset "Episodes", i have to stop having them or they just continue. i would be 19 days w/out an episode, except for the "setback" Tuesday. Even 3 Days later there are "episode" side effects and issues that last for several Days, by pattern in past. I still feel fatigue, cognitive issues and feel lynn also is affected for several Days, as her behaviour has indicated.)
Lynn's comments: Refer to Strategy/"Solution Plan" and see what relates to setback on Tuesday, July 5th, and possible areas or items that need to be given more attention and consideration. (Daily Actions that are suggested in the "Solution Plan"~Strategy to move to healthier behaviour pattern with out "setbacks"/Episodes.
(Williams self ~ subjective thoughts: (thinking/belief processes)
1. "it’s important we address 'setbacks". What does "address" mean? Pls. define by consensus comments!!! (Tonight)
2. "Conditions may change. Make contingency agreements about foreseeable future circumstances (If-then!).
How will you monitor compliance and follow-through?
Create opportunities to evaluate the agreements and their implementation. ... Effective problem solving does take some time and attention more of the latter than the former. But less time and attention than is required by a problem not well solved. What it really takes is a willingness to slow down. A problem is like a curve in the road. Take it right and you'll find yourself in good shape for the straightaway that follows. Take it too fast and you may not be in as good shape.
Working through this process is not always a strictly linear exercise. You may have to cycle back to an earlier step."
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3. "Here we learn new methods and ways to change our old thinking patterns and habits. If we’re always thinking and expecting the worst, then we will continue to suffer. We train or condition our minds to think and respond differently than we have in the past. Or think of it this way – if we can be conditioned to think and feel negatively, then we can be reconditioned to think healthfully.
We have dozens of specific methods and techniques that we use -- and you only need to find several methods that work well for you. We usually start CBT (cognitive-behavioral therapy) at this stage.
Some effective techniques are:
Slow-talk/slow walk/slowing down.
Stopping automatic negative thinking (ANTs).
The acceptance paradox: how we keep the fires burning and how to put them out. (Serentry Prayer: God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.)
Rational and helpful self-statements that can become permanent and "automatic".
Continuing to move our self-statements up.
Whose voice are you listening to, anyhow? Do we have to listen and believe all those old lies?
The determination factor: becoming more focused and gently determined.

Focusing: What are you paying attention to?

Later, it’s important we address: setbacks, perfectionism, anger, frustration, and Our View of the World.")
We are all equal Members of One Human Family with equal "importance".
The World was made for Parties, but please leave it as you found It!
The Green Party: gp.org
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Restarting Adderall at Proper (HOPE) higher therapuetic dose. Twice a Day, upon waking and around Noon. Increased dose from 10 mg x 2/Day up to 20 mg x 2/Day.
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~~~~~~~~. DAY 1 OF RESTART, @ "THERAPUETIC DOSE", JULY 9TH, WITH SOME "BUGS" WORKED OUT.
AND THE 4 OF US MORE ON THE SAME PAGE TO HELP ME! >>> Goal 30 + Days without "Episode" working CBT http://www.anxietynetwork.com/hcbt.html, and giving lynn extra support & help as she has Congnitive issues which have been labled "developmental disability"/alcholic baby sydrome=lynn's Mother drank hard liquer during her pregnacy>>>Memory + other cognitive issues. Keeping a focus for more than a Day. Iasking for and needing encouragement for this "Restart", as i suffer from Hopelessness, failure, burnout (i was trying!!!) and depression. We will really have to go to the Basics of the CBT, and put more attention to "options" (need defining) on the "Problem Solving 7 Steps", and look at the other items on the "Strategy for Success" to have more attention given to. These should be I.D.'ed Tonight or thought about till next Eval/Monitoring on Wednesday. Also, on the "What-Ifs" 2 pages, should anything be added??? & the "underlining stresses" need Consideration, Thought and Discussion, i feel.
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7-10 ~ DAY # 2 (therapuetic dose)!: eval score(s): Mom; 1.5, David/william; 1 - 2, lynn; 1+.
Mom's comments: Mom agreed with David about "root cause(s)" and offsets. Impotant to keep up medications and "push forward". She said it takes Time to make Progress and "let it grow". William's requested homework: Mom had said that setbacks may occur, and that some of the previous steps need to be revisited, so i asked her to look at steps 1 to 6 of "problem solving 7 steps" to see whether anything was skipped or not thoroughly done or could be adjusted somehow.
David's comments: If dispondent, don't give up. Keep trying. Looking positve and making Progress since start. William's request to David; I.D. "root causes" and "offsets" if different from my response (see 7-7 eval).
Lynn's comments: Still having after effects from last Tuesday's episode, in mood & actions and trouble following "Strategy".
william's (subjective) comments: in lynn's notes, it mentioned NOT getting to close to the edge of the cliff, which refered to stress levels 7, 8 or 9. Please see my comments from last Eval/Monitoring, which i stated this about (before the "# 4 Day" event last Tuesday, during the "PRACTICE ATTEMPT"). Milton, my therapist @ Vietnam Vet Center, St Pete, FL, emphasized 2 things; 1. Good/Better commucation w/ lynn & 2. The 1-10 stress scale, where he said i would be dead by 55 if i didn't change better. He said that i need to be at lower levels of "0" (calm, at peace in Life taking it "easy" as Life's issues happen Daily) to "3". If it goes higher, i need to deal with it (reduce level) and this is easier @ lower levels, 3 to 5, but gets more difficult @ 6, 7 & 8, very dangerous @ 9 or 10, as it is hard to reduce level and too close to "falling off cliff" or "Out of Control" episode, where there is little to control or change this. Also, i was still having after effects from the "#4 Day last Tuesday.
Additional comments, need to refer more to "Plan/Strategy" including the "What-If's" Q's & A's. Moving statements and thoughts to more positive (CBT). One chance at this Human Life and want to be Healthy in Personality (emotions, world outlook, thoughts, habits, ...) and be "Gently Determined" (right use of will) to get better and for healing.

7-13 eval score(s): Mom, David and Lynn; 1 to 2, william ?
Mom's comments: Not go over past hardships (ruminate). Work Today's issues. Enjoy youself.
David's comments: Don't go into "detail" about past hardships. ...or "take-over".
Lynn's comments: None, as phone call was short, ended.
William's comments: "Limited"
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>>>Wrote email about invitation to John & efficiency in Communication, Monitoring & Help to william having room for Improvement, and the disapointment of "bugs" that i thought might have been corrected or improved so the "Process" (Wiki: Process or processing typically describes the action of taking something through an established and usually routine set of procedures or steps to convert it ...)
would be Easier, Smoother and more efficient.
(he was attacked by bandits, stripped him of his clothes, beat him up, and left him half dead beside the road. *how william feels from Brain Damage Behavior Pattern w/ Confused/Panic Episodes* >>> By chance a priest came along. But when he saw the man lying there, he crossed to the other side of the road and passed him by. A Temple assistant walked over and looked at him lying there, but he also passed by on the other side.

Then a despised Palestian came along, and when he saw the man, he felt compassion for him. Going over to him, the Palestian soothed his wounds with olive oil and wine and bandaged them. Then he put the man on his own donkey and took him to an inn, where he took care of him. The next day he handed the innkeeper two silver coins,[b] telling him, ‘Take care of this man. If his bill runs higher than this, I’ll pay you the next time I’m here.’

Now which of these three would you say was a neighbor to the man who was attacked by bandits?

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William needs help for a short period, so that "longer" will be better (Changed Behavior Pattern and on Path of further Healing/Restoration w/out Relapse by moving toward Mind/Brain/Body Health through CBT and MBCT + tools/Principles of A.A. and "Spiritual or Life Principles", i.e. Compassionate Kindness & True "Good Shepherd/Prince of Peace" LOVE.

ALL BELOW WROTE BEFORE TELECONFERENCE (& could have been reviewed prior to teleconference/Monitoring/Evaluation w/ and constructive criticism, perhaps some creative or intuitive Helpful suggestions)

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Had bad experience Monday Morning. Sunday seemed to have "lingering confusion" which is NOT the best condition for following "Success Strategy/Plan". I woke up and over-reacted to a small thing which i "projected" that "Lingering Confusion" would be repeated. I raised my voice and lost item # 4 (calm voice and demeanor) which confirmed that while on Adderall as aid to healing process, i have to NOT raise my voice!!! It is almost like anabuse and an alcoholic. It is a "luxery that others can afford" which i absolutely cannot while on Adderall
>>> like oil and water, they don't mix and have terrible effects if they are.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~continued william's thoughts:
from email titled "Brain Shrinkage", about my FTD (frontaltemporal dementia):"In addition to frontotemporal dementia, executive function deficits are associated with a number of psychiatric and developmental disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette's syndrome, depression, schizophrenia, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism and addiction.

Executive functions are difficult to assess directly since they coordinate other cognitive skills. Damage to memory, language, visuospatial skills and other cognitive functions can impact how a person performs on tests of executive function. Executive skills are also grounded in real world experience, which makes laboratory tests more difficult to create. The instruments used to assess executive behavior require mental agility, foresight, planning and freedom from distraction."
Please NOTE the above mentions ADHD which Adderall pharmo-therapy can be an aid in treatment, as well as changing or improving many of the syptoms included in that email. When lynn read that email ("Brain Shrinkage", dated 7-11), she saw MANY symtoms or discription of disabities that have developed and became worse or more frequent over the last 2 years. It also implies that could be further complications, such the TAU protiens of the Damage already done, causing progressive deteration of cognitive funtioning and "hemeostasus" (in many varied possible ways). Therefore, it show the importance of arreasting further damage, as much as possible, and be on a Path of Healing, Restoration and "Exercising my brain"...and reprograming through CBT, as mention in email written this morning titled "Restoration & Healing in "Restart" after practice attempt".
My main focus needs to be on the basics for now, such as NOT raising my voice, having a calm voice and demeanor (item #4) and reducing stress, using "Daily Allocation" of Energy productively and evenly through out the Day. Please refer to Eval/Monitoring above dated; 6-26, 6-29 & 7-3.

7-17 (Sunday Teleconference for Monitoring Evaluation canceled, because it was said Mom was tired and was playing Golf in the Morning. Now, suggested to be postponed for next Day, Monday, 7-18, Evening.)
eval score(s):
Mom's comments:
David's comments:
Lynn's comments:
William's comments: (NOTE to william/self: Be grateful, considerate and understanding: Try to follow Principles of "Prayer of St Francis", even if in place of need of "self" for change toward Healing. Look over both highlighted lists. On "my brainstorming" be attentative to #'s; 7, 5, 2 & 9. Have Gentle Determination. TRY!>to be easy on others and self. "Swim with Good currents/the flow". Catch the next Wave ??? and do better toward success.)

Allow myself to "bow out" of teleconference after "greetings", if Consensus directs/allows, so dynamics could or might be easier, efficient, improved and "the Process" worked on.
<(myself, feeling it would be helpful & Good, perhaps most for lynn, & also for Mom & David, but then need responses/"feelings"/thoughts, for Censensus, from lynn, mom & David, who last night said opinion of yes, but not Tonight)>

Also, unless John, who while in Denver last Wednesday, and i felt (never had response of David or Mom on this) could be invited to be involved, for positive reasons of Experience of Medical issue(s), including head injury, and his knowledge of Buddhist Practices and Teachings. If i do "bow out" for reason of increased unity/Harmony, better "Process", so just Mom, David and lynn could discuss things itimately and objectively to move to greater ease and mutual understanding, then the "invitation" to John would be inappropriate for that. Maybe "invite" to John in near future. (... a bit confused, as didn't want to miss helpful input from John. Also, how does this "fit in" to what David said last night, about Mom, lynn & David set Time to talk privately, but not at regular scheduled Monitoring Discussion/Evaluation?)

Perhaps, need another "Start-over" & Go back to a "Day One" of another attempt. I made it 15 Days the first Time. This Time, 1 and a half Days. New Behavior Pattern/Neural renetworking/State of Mind fell back (in part only, perhaps; might have seeds of change there) into "Pattern of least resistance" = no change or the "old pattern". If nothing changes nothing changes. Instead of Path toward Healing and Change, old path is a path of increasing progressive illness of Brain Deterioration and Damage, as well as physically damaging; lower immune health/defense & healing, other organs and A & P systems. Over longer periods this has greater manifestation, consequences and outcome. Not Good for me or others. I did try.
See email Day of my last "Try Again" on July 9th, titled: "Need encouragement~Failed??? Pls HELP!!!follow through=Re: Eval/Monotoring written for "7-6"
THANK YOU!!! Lovin' you.

7-20(resd. 7-22)
eval score(s): Mom & lynn, 1 and 1/2, David, 0 -1, william, 2
Mom's comments: had tough days, but improved. Look for or see things that help you be motivated and optimistic.
David's comments: Sounds like you tried to have some good days and did.
Lynn's comments: n/a
General Discussion: inf on New Psychiatrist & Medication.
william's (subjective) comment's: Change from downward circle (vicous cycle)(damaging) to upward circle (snowballing analogy) of less stress, incresed cognitive functioning, using "daily allocation of Energy" evenly, efficiently and productively, which then, daily increases Cognitive Behaviour Therapy retention, reception and utilization, which decreases (over Days, as above "upward cycle" happens) stess and cognitive dysfunctioning, ...which, over Time reverses "Circle" to Mental/Mind/Body Health & Wellness, Restoration and Better Living, regardless of uncertain future, evironmental or cicumstantial "unknowns".
Get Better as above stated: "My main focus needs to be on the basics for now, such as NOT raising my voice, having a calm voice and demeanor (item #4) and reducing stress, using "Daily Allocation" of Energy productively and evenly through out the Day. Please refer to Eval/Monitoring above dated; 6-26, 6-29 & 7-3."
need to continue CBT & Mindfulness based CT, such as from
(Good Vid for David): http://blueberrypeacefarm.blogspot.com/2011/07/is-it-true-or-false-beautiful-or-ugly.html
7-24 Sunday,
Assessment score(s):
Mom's comments:
David's comments:
Lynn's comments:
Article about treating nueropsycopathology as inadequate in Mississippi; From Jackson Clarion Ledger: http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20110724/NEWS/107240348/1001/RSS01
william's (subjective) comments: ... haven't started new Medicine, Donepezil (Aricept), as i have Questions, such as how much and the posible bad side effects, including making me more "unstable".
... need to progress as oulined right above, last "eval/Assessment".
For CBT & contiplation/meditation: (from Book) "make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love." & "Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."

7-27
Assessment score(s): Mom & David; 2, lynn & william didn't give assessment scores
Mom's comments: MORNINGS! Mom discused and raised ??? Question of how to function better and healthy in the mornings. Would lead into Better Days> William strongly agreed and said there were numerous Ways but keep the basics first, and use the other "tools" (i.e. the "What-Ifs" page of Strategy/Plan for Success) as appropiate to situations.
David's comments: Asked about "start of Day"??? Get Right sleep and rest, and DON'T stay up too late!
Lynn's comments:
william's (subjective) comments: Good, calm, rational, good communication~lynn & me on same page~ is ESSENTIAL for "Recovery, Healing, Therapy Effectiveness and change of Direction of "heading to disaster" or the desired change toward Wellbeing, Wholeness, Mental Health (Stabele & well, grounded by Therapy FOUNDATION), +++ on Way to Healing , Personal Growth & Potential and Helpful Service (God works in mysterious Ways) to others, Persons + + +
PERSONAL AND GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY
We encourage individuals to act to improve their personal well-being and, at the same time, to enhance ecological balance and social harmony. We seek to join with people and organizations around the world to foster peace, economic justice, and the health of the planet.
"Hopeful, but see what "Loyd" says (Truth!)http://keepontrudging.blogspot.com/2011/07/loyd-tells-truth.html
CBT related from Book: "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."


Videos above for lynn and David, (& Mom, if she can see them) below article for Mom, by same U of T PhD, Psycology: http://www.wildestcolts.com/psych_opp/a-coercion/5-axioms.html espcially, when the article gets to "Implementing a Solution" Love you. Thank you.

7-31
Assessment score(s): lynn; 3, william; burnout 4, Mom; 1&1/2, David; 3-
Mom's comments: Mom said this was significant (from letter; Romans): "Love in Action
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.

Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord. On the contrary:

“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."

David's comments: "look forward", and he said i sounded a bit blue.
Lynn's comments: n/a
william's (subjective) comments: "Hopeful, but NEED better morning routine that does not lead to cognitive dysfunction/disstress, rather clam, rational, considerate, thoughtful Discussion/Communication! that leads into a Day that i PROGRESS in Healing and Mental Health"
...(feel crushed, but Hope something "Inside" and Grace helps me to persevere and "SEEDS FOR SUCCESS OF GOAL ARE PLANTED AND READY TO GERMINATE!"= Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness/attention/awareness based Conitive Therapy and "Pyscodynamic Cognitive Therapy) ,& look @ From above: "William needs help for a short period, so that 'longer' will be better (Changed Behavior Pattern and on Path of further Healing/Restoration w/out Relapse by moving toward Mind/Brain/Body Health through CBT and MBCT + tools/Principles of A.A. and 'Spiritual or Life Principles', i.e. Compassionate Kindness & True "Good Shepherd/Prince of Peace" LOVE."
Also, included with CBT, MBCT and Psycodynamic CBT i am trying to allow the following to "Soak In" for "Wellness":
http://www.hinduism.co.za/bhakti1.htm
http://www.erowid.org/spirit/yoga/yoga_jnana.shtml
CBT from Book: "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."

+++++++++++++++++++ Marriage Communication: http://www.equalityinmarriage.org/dmtalk.html

8-3
Assessment score(s): william 4- (all the elements for a "Change/Turn around" are still there, just not complete>>>would a "4+", otherwise)
Mom's comments:
David's comments:
Lynn's comments:
william's (subjective) comments: see below, but "Burnout". i don't feel change in Cognitive/Behavior/"Mind State" moved to Right Direction, rather, a wrong "pattern" has been established which is in opposition and even decreasing move to "Right Cognitive/Behavior Pattern". Adderall ,short acting, 4-5 hrs, amphetamine that the Psychiatrist said was "Risky". It can/could increase Dopamine and Focus and even, with attention/intention, stop the "Episodes" almost immediately and permanately with proper effort(PLEASE!!! 200 to 300 since 2003 = TORTURE & further Cognitive and Brain Damage). I have had weeks of wrong state of Mind, preventing healing and behavior & pysche change. Now, perhaps, or Yesterday was when the "Window of Opportunity" was (is???) open. There has been too much fucking confusion, making simple things harder and longer to do, not being able to be effeciently productive in more complex tasks, and lacking drive or motivation (enthusiasm) for things when scared and stressed too much of the Time, even recently waking up in that state.
As a well needs priming, then changes to working right. &&& A Broken bone, like leg, needs to be in a cast (proper protection, an aid or help to heal/Change to "Health", the Right Environment!) for 6 to 8 weeks to change to healed, and be "Functioning" correctly. Without the cast, it WILL NOT HEAL PROPERLY. ... for a better understanding of pscodynamics of "States of Mind" ... for psycodynamics, in part, see: Brain Waves ... the "Alpha" or even toward the "Theta" state is most conducive to being receptive to CBT (Therapy=stop episodes) ... this One also: http://www.bringchange2mind.org/
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from last Sunday's Assessment Discussion: "Hopeful, but NEED better morning routine that does not lead to cognitive dysfunction/disstress, rather clam, rational, considerate, thoughtful Discussion/Communication! that leads into a Day that i PROGRESS in Healing and Mental Health".
~~~ added for Tonight's Assessment/Discussion: the before leading into a pattern of better "State of Mind" with decreased Stress, increased cognitive functioning which MIGHT lead to a Change to a Healing Pattern and progressive Wellbeing, Productivity, Motivation and Wholeness as a Person and in Personality, as much as possible (IT IS POSSIBLE! or was???) even with Brain Damage. The CBT, MBCT, Pyscodynamic CBT, Bhakti and Jnana yoga's (http://www.sivananda.org/teachings/fourpaths.html), along with AA Transforming/Healing Life steps and Principles (Step 10-12, below) and teachings, Life Principle from the Bible (as Mom wrote from letter to Romans). All this might seem like it is complicated, but i have 10 to 35 years exposure and gained Knowledge in these areas that all have correlation to Therapy and are resources or "additions" to help with CBT.
(From AA: 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.)
***********!!!!!!!(below; old shit, needed to be addressed)
(from last month): 7-6 eval on:
http://blueberrypeacefarm.blogspot.com/2011/06/stress-disease-connection-add-new.html
please HELP follow through with what was written for 7-6, such as "addressing setback"/last Tues., as it was devastating to me, and i ABSOLUTELY cannot have it happen again while on Adderall pharmo-therapy and working the CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy). It is Saturday evening and i have had lingering effects from what happened last Tuesday even some Today and since Tuesday, both physical, functioning ability and cognitive. PLEASE HELP GET ME BACK ON THE RIGHT PATH!
When you have a major "fall", like i did last Tuesday, it is even hard to have the motivation (burnout issue) to even try to start over, as my mind was splattered from here to Jackson. Lynn has been very helpful, and she can tell you how i have been since last Tuesday. She had stopped writing the Day of Adderall Therapy 2 Days before my breakdown. She has restarted with Today as Day 1, as the Psychiatrist doubled my dose (in mg, but still upon wakening and around Noon, only 2 Adderall pills/Day) to a "Therapeutic amount", as the lower dose was for trial.
I was ready to "give up" (All in all is all we are) until Mom read from the "Problem Solving 7 Steps">>> (to try again) "Working through this process is not always a strictly linear exercise. You may have to cycle back to an earlier step."

8-7(8-8)
Assessment score(s):
Mom's comments:
David's comments:
Lynn's comments:
william's (subjective) comments: ~~~ 0 days without Episode (Scrambled Brain Panic Stress attack)
Be Especialy Calm during first 20 minutes of the day after taking meds upon wakening, Do not raise voice and talk things out with lynn or "let them go", temporarilly to address later or not. Lower Stress level, use energy more equally through the Day, and prgressively increase "Productivity". Continue with "CBT+" (MBCT, Psycodynamics CT, Brain/Thought rebuilding, discipline and exercise)

Discipline and Rebuilding after Brain Damage, CBT, MBCT and Socialpsychology:


Responsibility, Reactions, Responses and Acceptance, 8 virtues or powers to have to Live Right:


Change Behavior Pattern (CBT) Stop Episodes and Replace with Possitive:

8-10
8-14
8-17
8-21(maybe final)





How Interferon Ruins Your Brain
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