In a ever changing society seemingly going in circles there are many positive things to consider.  Within our current state of personal dissatisfaction, our creative process can help us weed through vast amounts of filtered information. Critical thinking now more than ever is going to give us a sense of peace and contentment. while kicking paranoia to the curb.

Terror and paranoia:  what are you protecting? The news is circular reasoning with fear and confusion, making you emotional and making you want to act. With paranoia on the verge of being an epidemic, we will buy anything for safety and bear arms to defend ourselves.  When you are on the defense you are not thinking. Article: http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/518

Beware of following suite from our slandering politicians: The news media caters to a small populous of very closed off minds. This small majority is classified as normal everyday average Americans. In the same category anywhere from 25-50% of the population is Bipolar according to suicide.org and medicalnewstoday.com. Article: http://www.harpers.org/archive/1964/11/0014706

Paranoia is an illness that is powerful and very destructive. Fear slows mental and physical growth; when your internal mechanisms have a bug it will show in your external actions. It seems very prevalent on collective, but individuals who feel ill want to get better, they want to BE better. Try to apply everything to hear to a small level; communities, classrooms and families who try desperately to break this cycle. Always question heavily where is the news getting its data? who are these “experts and doctors” researching and diagnosing the mentally ill. 25-50% is a huge gap and what is the solutions that are being offered or not offered? If the only goal is more research, data, better chemicals we as a whole collective people need to questions all of these things. We need compassion and love for those who are desperately trying to be right and feel like they belong.  Article: http://www.criticalthinking.org/articles/ct-emotional-intelligence.cfm

Just a spoon full of sugar and a great sense of humor can easily put all this into perspective. Remember your priorities and revise if needed and feel your brain get empowered and react less. See the current situation for what it is and being compassionate and loving puts the control back in your mental hands. Don’t expect the news to change; get your news else where and do it often, check the source and take it with a grain of salt. remember no man is an island and get curious about change and be passionate for progress. Root with your community and turn a deaf ear to the propaganda.

“The talk shows with Glenn Beck and others on Fox News, I think, have deliberately distorted the news.” – President Carter

It is about time someone of prominence stood up and lambasted FOX & all those other pandering monstrosities of so-called-pseudo-news. This is the main reason we are doing this podcast. Take a listen. This one is important to share as well!

Wow, what a really interesting story.  Check this one out for all those space geeks like me out there.

Astronomers have found an alien planet confirmed to come from another galaxy for the first time, a new study finds. The Jupiter-like planet orbits a star that was born in another galaxy and later captured by our own Milky Way sometime between 6 billion and 9 billion years ago, researchers said. A side effect of the galactic cannibalism brought a faraway planet within astronomers’ reach for the first time ever.

See the original story: First Alien Planet From Another Galaxy Discovered by CBS News Staffer

This argument that human-caused carbon emissions are merely a drop in the bucket compared to greenhouse gases generated by volcanoes has been making its way around the rumor mill for years. And while it may sound plausible, the science just doesn’t back it up.

Read more: Valcanoes Release Carbon Dioxide – The Daily Green

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In an emotional FPR, Joe & Dru talk about the plans for Health Care Reform in America (in all facets of the problem), as well as the problem with the news as celebrities pass away.

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Joe & Dru talk about the news with special guest Marley Klaus, and the GM Bankruptcy: was it the right move for recovery?

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