posted 04-23-2004 11:54 AM            

Kristina Borjesson has been an independent producer and writer for almost 20 years. Among her many accomplishments besides editing this volume, she worked at CBS network where she won an Emmy and a Murrow Award for her investigative reporting on “CBS Reports: Legacy of Shame” with Dan Rather and Randall Pinkston.

You don’t choose to have the kind of experience I had while trying to report on the demise of TWA Flight 800. You fall into it. At CBS, I’d recently picked up an Emmy for investigative reporting when I was assigned to investigate the crash. I had no idea that my life would be turned upside down and inside out—that I’d be assigned to walk into what I now call “the buzzsaw.” P. 103

The buzzsaw is what can rip through you when you try to investigate or expose anything this country’s large institutions—be they corporate or government—want kept under wraps. The system fights back with official lies, disinformation, and stonewalling. Your phone starts acting funny. Strange people call you at strange hours to give you strange information. The FBI calls you. Your car is broken into and the thief takes your computer and your reporter’s notebook and leaves everything else behind. You feel like you’re being followed everywhere you go. P. 103,104

Pierre Salinger announced to the world on November 8, 1996, that he’d received documents from French intelligence proving that a US Navy missile had accidentally downed [TWA Flight 800]. That same day, FBI’s Jim Kallstrom called a press conference to deny Salinger’s allegations. [At the press conference,] Kallstrom rattled off a prepared speech, and then it was time for questions. A man raised his hand and asked why the Navy was involved in the recovery and investigation while a possible suspect. Kallstrom’s response was immediate; “Remove him!” he yelled. Two men leapt over to the questioner and grabbed him by the arms. There was a momentary chill in the air after the guy had been dragged out of the room. Kallstrom acted as if nothing had happened. P. 110, 111

A few weeks after the FBI’s visit to CBS, I received my walking papers. Law enforcement consultant Paul Ragonese eventually got his walking papers, too. Ragonese was replaced by none other than the FBI’s TWA 800 task force chief, James Kallstrom. P. 127

posted 04-23-2004 01:42 PM            

I love this page!

Creating a New Paradigm
How We Can Create a Brighter Future

The Old Paradigm

In order to give suggestions for creating a brighter future, we first need to speak candidly about what’s going on behind all the cover-ups. It appears that there is a relatively small, powerful group of elites who desire to control as much of our lives as possible. They exert control through manipulation of public perception, and by attempting to create a one-world government controlled by huge multinational corporations. Once these mega-corporations have stretched their fingers into almost every aspect of our lives, this control group plans to create a chokehold on us. This will allow them to use us for their own personal gain as our freedoms are increasing taken away, often without our even realizing it.

The means for establishing this control are through destroying purpose and creating fear and victimization in our lives. Television, radio, and movies are filled with greed, violence, and empty sex. Our educational system increasingly prioritizes passing tests over developing intelligence and creativity. Corporate control of the media limits what news we receive, and often shapes our decisions and the way we think. All this and more adds up to the “dumbing down” of America. Our attention is being diverted from our deeper purpose in life to the superficial attractions of sex, consumerism, and money. The control group is consciously manipulating people all over the world into losing touch with their spiritual core as they subtly convince us that what they want is what we want.

The control group also manipulates us through keeping us in fear and in the role of victim. “America is under attack! Your job, savings, and retirement are no longer secure. The terrorists want to kill us all. You are either for us or against us. This war will never end.” All of these messages are designed to push us into fear. And by encouraging us to focus blame on terrorists and “evil” leaders, those in control push us towards the role of helpless victims, and away from feeling in control of our lives. The more we slip into fear and feeling like victims, the easier it is for us to be manipulated. Through continually weakening our sense of purpose in life, and through increasing our level of fear and victimization, the control group is increasingly able to manipulate us into doing just what they want us to do.

A New Paradigm

What can we do about all this? Several actions can help us to step away from being controlled and to step fully into our own creative energy and power. First, we can choose to live with full awareness of our purpose and intentions in life. To live full, rich lives in today’s world, it’s vitally important that we each find and develop our own, unique life purpose. We must then choose to live that purpose and to live our intentions as fully as we can. If we set aside time to deeply explore what is most meaningful in our lives, we can reclaim our power. Consider writing down your life purpose and intentions and reviewing them often. As we develop and live our life intentions, we are choosing to give less focus to the seduction of consumerism and media hype, which deaden our ability to create. Instead, we are choosing to create a brighter future filled with meaning and purpose for us.

Second, we can become conscious of when we slip into fear, and choose to transform our fear into love. When we notice ourselves being overtaken by fear, we can trace the roots of that fear, so that we are able to identify our core issues and deal more consciously with them. We can open to guidance from friends, teachers, and spiritual sources in moving from fear to love. We can also choose to open to the ever-present love of God, and to the love that lies always deep in our own hearts, and in the hearts of those close to us. In doing this, we begin to recognize fear as an invitation to growth.

We can become aware of when we are playing the role of the helpless victim and choose to take responsibility for creating a better future. When we blame “them” for our problems, we often avoid taking responsibility for how much we create our reactions to what happens in our lives. Whenever we catch ourselves blaming others for everything that’s wrong in our lives, we can choose instead to look inside ourselves and find our role in what’s wrong. We can then do our best to improve our lives by working on ourselves. By taking more responsibility for the way we interpret everything that happens to us—by starting from the inside in making change—we can open to our own creative potential and choose to play a more active role in creating a healthy, happy future both for us and for those around us.

In choosing love and personal responsibility over fear and victimization, we step out of the control group’s old paradigm of “good vs. evil,” of “us vs. them.” We open to the realization that every one of us, each in our own way, is doing what we believe to be right based upon our beliefs, circumstances, and upbringing. We focus less on judging ourselves and others, and more on loving and healing all of us. We begin to embrace a new paradigm where we recognize that deep down, all of us are divine beings worthy of love. By challenging ourselves to move beyond fear, blame, and judgment, and by challenging ourselves to live with a desire to love, heal, and empower the divine spark in all people, we are creating a new paradigm and a brighter future for us all.

And finally, we can come together in groups to support each other. In these groups, we share our life intentions and encourage each other to live these intentions. We support each other in transforming fear into love. We inspire each other to take responsibility for our lives and to develop our creative potential. We make a commitment, both in these groups and with those close to us, to love and support each other to the best of our ability. Consider inviting groups you’re already involved in to use some of these ideas, and explore global groups which share this focus at www.WantToKnow.info/resources#community. When we gather in groups to remind each other of our purpose and intentions in life, we join in creating an inspiring network of love and support around the planet.

These suggestions are biased towards changing the world by starting inside of ourselves. By starting with change on the inside, we develop a solid foundation. This gives us more balance and strength to then work towards change outside of us. It is important to do what we can out in the world to stop the manipulating, destructive behaviors of the control group and others. You can find excellent suggestions for this at www.WantToKnow.info/youcanhelp. Yet when we focus on trying to change the outside world without first having a solid internal foundation, it’s easy to fall into blaming others, and into the “us vs. them” ways of thinking of the old paradigm.

As we change ourselves from the inside out, we send ripples of inspiration and healing out into the world. By coming together to support each other in creating a new paradigm, those ripples become waves of love and empowerment which help to harmonize the entire fabric of the universe. If each of us is willing to make a commitment to focus on our life purpose and on choosing love and personal responsibility—and to support all around us in doing the same—we will create a brighter future for us all.

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Thanks, KT, I will keep this one and explore it more thoroughly.

BTW, you're a pretty spiritual guy, you know that, don't you? I feel your great spirit through your writings on this board!

Namaste! That means my spirit recognizes your spirit and salutes you!

love,

posted 04-23-2004 03:50 PM            

Namaste! That means my spirit recognizes your spirit and salutes you!"

Right back at you, and thank you for your kindness. I've been enjoying reading your posts for some time now.