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@Johnny5 I highly recommend for you to read Ecodharma.

Does Bernie being a reptile matter though? Protecting our elections' integrity and informing others about the current and past history of DNC rigging is conscious politics. Giving the establishment the benefit of the doubt instead of staying on guard after they've fooled you numerous times is ignorance. I already presented to you on the ground evidence. History of the DNC's past actions is also something important to consider. Your bias is blinding YOU just like it blinds you to believe all accusations the MSM throws at Trump.

The DNC did cheat last time...

Bernie's campaigns app seemed to have worked just fine though. I just wonder why they approved to use this rinky dink app for an important primary. What about the other evidence I presented from people who were there on the ground? And would you say rigging is unlikely despite having the people in charge of the DNC being the same people who were caught cheating in the 2016 primaries?

I will say that nothing is definitive, but I just want to provide information you might not have come across. I am not jumping to conclusions, just speculating based on evidence. I am not trying to be biased. This just being a bug is likely, but my non biased assessment tells me that likeliness is not very high. Some evidence has emerged, so I will only present those for discussion. Still one of the many conflicts of interests.

@Leo Gura Ok, and if I already do that and nonbiasly see that you're believing proven misinformation and then spreading it to your platform of thousands of people who trust you, would it be conscious of me to sit in silence?

@Leo Gura How can we refute your claims with factual evidence without being called idealistic or attached? Can we have open-minded discussions about this? History and current evidence shows there are myriad of reasons to be concerned about rigging.

Make what you will of these articles as well: https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/17/national-security-mandarins-groomed-pete-buttigieg/ https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/30/coup-plotters-cia-agents-mayor-pete-endorsers/

I'm probably going to get banned for speaking out about this even though I'm trying to promote more consciousness about our political system. I do my personal spiritual work in addition to staying properly informed. I'm generally a very reserved person until I see someone being mislead, in which case I will speak up and try to educate. I'm confused about why @Hatfort post got locked? What did we say that was a conspiracy theory? The DNC rigged the elections in 2016 is a fact concluded in court Pete Buttigieg having ties with the CIA is a fact, to what extent is he an asset is up to debate but simply mentioning his strong ties is not a conspiracy theory. The app created by the company Shadow Inc. which is filled with former Clinton staffers and received $47k from the Buttigieg campaign is a fact, not a conspiracy theory. The wife of the CEO of this company also works in Buttigieg's campaign. The establishment not liking Bernie Sanders is obvious. Yet when it comes to believing an actual conspiracy theory (Russiagate), one that lacks legitimate evidence and has a myriad of evidence that helps to disprove it is ok to believe. Is this really what we're going to come down to? Biased selectivity on what we call conspiracy theory and what we don't just because it suits a preconceived narrative that we want so bad to be true despite lefty journalists providing meticulous work disproving it? Then when there's a myriad of evidence supporting one notion, the current Iowa election rigging, we're not allowed to talk about it. How are we going to achieve higher levels of consciousness if we're so busy hyper focusing on personal work that we ignore what's happening in the systems that dictate how we live our lives? We can't be politically conscious if we don't properly inform ourselves.

I've been practicing Kriya as described in the book by JC Stevens. I've been focusing on raising my Kundalini from my root (Muladhara) Chakra to Bruhmadya. For about a week I've been feeling depressed. I'm not sure if this has to do with doing something wrong during my practicing Kriya.

@mandyjw Thank you!

@Hatfort https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/buttigieg-campaign-paid-firm-that-developed-voting-app-blamed-for-iowa-caucus-delays Apparently, the Bernie camp was prepared for something like this to happen because of what happened I'm 2016. They have their own app with captain in each precinct in Iowa reporting the results, and they're not matching with the DNC's paid for app developed by Shadow, which also has strong funancial ties with Pete Buttigieg. Pete went on CNN a couple of hours ago and declared himself the winner before any results were even reported. It's important to also know that Pete Buttigieg has had strong ties with the CIA since his days as a Harvard undergrad: https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/17/national-security-mandarins-groomed-pete-buttigieg/ https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/30/coup-plotters-cia-agents-mayor-pete-endorsers/amp/ We are seeing consistencies about Biden coming in last place or second to last. I think it's time for him to pack his bags and leave. There's never been am instance in recent history when a candidate loses Iowa by such a large margin and then becomes the nominee let alone president.

https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/ We have never been so close to doomsday in the entirety of human history or all biological life for that matter. The biggest threats are nuclear catastrophe and climate change. What would be the best action to take as conscious people?

@Leo Gura So then it can potentially lead to fascism because of how easily they can be exploited.

@Leo Gura You're making these irrational excuses for them because you're attached to this idea of Trump being the most corrupt person ever. You want it to be so true. Hillary Clinton told a room full of wallstreet donors that "(she) believes in having a private position and a public position" and then went on to cheat Bernie out of the primaries. They've done way more bad than good. Their actions are driven by receiving money from lobbyists; from fossil fuel, to pharma, to prison, to MIC, the banks etc. Then they started their own organization, the Clinton Foundation, which, for one example, took advantage of an earthquake in Haiti to sell cheap food while the local markets were damaged. They put local markets out of business and then increased the price to unaffordable standards. They know the statistics of how damaging laws like NAFTA, the 94 Crime Bill, and canceling welfare were towards people and the millions of civilian casualties resulted from their horrible foreign policy. They even admit it saying "it was a mistake blah blah blah, but" and then they go on pushing for another similar policy and also doing nothing to repeal their damaging policies that were already passed while they're in positions of power. They know the damages, they just simply don't care in their elitist circle in the same exact way that Trump doesn't care in the very same elitist circle about personal enrichment. Their kids are friends with each other and they all invite each other to weddings and other grand events. It's all about career and personal gain for these people. Their foreign policy was done to please their corporate donors. They don't care about civilian lives, they know how damaging increased fossil fuel emissions are to the planet, they just pretend to care and then continue to push for damaging laws anyway. All to personally enrich themselves. Pretending to be on the side of the people by saying they agree with science on climate change yet pushing for these damaging policies like fracking and taking control of other countries for their oil is worse than being up front about not caring. At least we know what side you stand. In the wide words of Malcom X: "The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative. Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro's friend and benefactor; and by winning the friendship, allegiance, and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or tool in this political "football game" that is constantly raging between the white liberals and white conservatives." There's also documented evidence of the Clintons knowing about Harvey Weinstein and trying to bury that story just because he was a big donor to them. Not to mention a study that came out recently that showed how statistically impossible it is for so many people to have died tragically (on accident or through suicide) and be connected to one person (Hillary Clinton).

@Leo Gura Arming terrorist, secretly selling uranium, sanctioning countries without congressional approval, taking advantage of disasters to benefit their Foundation (see what they did in Haiti), their strong ties with Jeffrey Epstein, accepting donations from infamous rapists knowingly (Harvey Weinstein), bombing and invading countries without congressional approval, overthrowing governments left and right while laughing about it ("we came, we saw, he died!"), passing a racist crime bill, gutting welfare, deregulating telecom, deregulating the banks and other industries ultimately leading to the market crash of '08. All these actions committed for personal enrichment. Millions of lives destroyed and still being destroyed. I'd say you're not very politically conscious if you don't recognize that as "the same ball park." Probably even as more corruption than Trump's. You wouldn't have Trump without the Clintons. But let's also not forget that they were friends.

@Leo Gura I thought the argument was about what leads to fascism. I'd say all that free coverage they gave Donald Trump before and after his popularity helped him win. There's potential for corporatist incompetence to aid in the rise of fascism.

@remember Why would Russia ask the US to partner in setting more international laws to protect cyber interference but the US refused? Why would Trump commit all these acts that hurt Russia? What you pointed out is true but continuing to call someone an asset when it is far from proven, what's the point? @randomguy123 I'm not saying to keep a scorecard, I'm saying to notice biases that blind.

@remember You're speculating based on a limited amount of information you've heard from the MSM whose goal is to make ratings, protect their reputation, beat the drums for war and tensions with other countries, and prevent progressives from taking higher office because they'll regulate and tax them more.

@Leo Gura So are the Clintons.

Morality is subjective. I think that in the grand scheme of things neoliberalism is hurting the Self in a global scale. Evolution will lead to the installation of more protection on people and the environment, thus leading to more consciousness. Hillary Clinton is damaging people's consciousness if she's put in power and at the same time is increasing people's consciousness as some of us awaken to several Democratic corruptions that we thought was exclusive to Republicans. It makes no logical sense to say that Trump is a foreign puppet yet they vote to give him more militaristic and surveillance power. I know based on your posts that you don't support neoliberalism, don't worry. Overall though, the damaging foreign policy of each administration has carried over and exacerbated: Raegan arming middle eastern terrorists to fight off communism laid the groundworks for GHWB to go to war with Iraq which laid the groundworks for Clinton to continue to sanction and bomb Iraq which laid the groundworks for Bush to go to war with Afghanistan and Iraq which laid the groundworks for Obama to expand the wars from 2 to 7 which laid the groundworks for Trump to attack Iran. One way we can end these senseless wars is to make corporate lobbying illegal so that the MIC stops influencing our presidents. Same thing with the Fossil Fuel industry and other giant conglomerates that want to expand their businesses overseas by force. Such acts are egoic. We need to increase our consciousness so that we can be aware of the realities in our politics harming the Self and finding the proper solutions by understanding the root problems.

@Hatfort Every US President we've had in recent history has been corrupt. Russia and China prefer presidents who will interfere less in their growth, which is why they also preferred Obama over McCain and Romney. Hillary was being hawkish towards Russia, Iran, Syria, Lybia, etc. so they preferred Trump over her. That doesn't mean there's evidence that they interfered in our election. Now that Trump has been president, his stupidity has increased tensions with Russia by pulling out of the Iran nuclear treaty, increasing sanctions in Iran, Russia, and Syria, attempting coups in Venezuela and Bolivia, continuing to push a pipeline in Syria, continuing to bomb Syria, etc. All of these actions overshadow any notion that he is helping Russia. Then there's the hypocrisy of the anti-Trump "Resistance" within the Democratic party that calls him a Russian puppet but then go ahead and vote to give him more surveillance power and increase the already bloated military budget. He's committed so many crimes like violating the emoluments clause, arming Saudi terrorists who are generating a genocide in Yemen, torturing kids on the border, and rape allegations. Obama installed a coup in Ukraine and threatened to withhold aid to their country if they fired a lawyer that was investigating Biden's son's energy company. This is why this impeachment is weak. Trump can easily turn this around to make Biden look like the one on trial. I agree that Trump should be impeached but it needs to be a stronger case like what I listed at the end of my 3rd paragraph.

@Leo Gura There were Trump Towers built all over other countries too like Indonesia. Padesta, Hillary Clinton, and other Clinton staffers also have financial deals with Russians and their government and asked for dirt on Donald Trump, so by that logic why aren't they considered Russian assets/puppets? It's funny that every time I ask you, or @Serotoninluv or I see others ask Cenk Ugyr, you all never want to tell what evidence they have for still believing this after being told of Trump's international actions that go against Putin's interest. Surely listing at least some of the evidence would help your argument, no? And given this recent attack on Iran, you guys still believe he's a Russian asset or that they have leverage on him? Do you think you might be blinded by Trump derangement syndrome? It wouldn't hurt to deeply check within you why you're not seeing what many lefty journalists that aren't TYT see.

I'm a little over 6 months in to reading several books for Self-Actualizing. The book list is very helpful and I've also found a couple others. I would like to hear what books helped you the most in your journey. Thanks!

@Gneh Onebar So far I've read two books on Kriya Yoga. I would like to get into more meditation. Thank you!