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Smokescreen: East Versus West Ukraine, Comment by Rostislav

I wanted to publish this comment in its entirety because of the perspective it offers for the Western reader who is in effect blind to opposing sides in the discussion on Ukraine. We are fed a very foreign perspective not found in Ukraine and definitely not in Russian speaking Ukraine, only in America. Once America achieves its obligations to one country’s people where a conflict has ensued to create a truly positive outcome, I will believe that it is possible for us to care for the people’s rights in a country. Perceived benefits to be obtained have not been typically fulfilled in the countries where conflict has occurred. If you have a story that contradicts this, please email me and I will publish it. I am pro-Ukraine remaining united, and I wish our leaders would have the courage to acknowledge all sides and help develop a mutually beneficial solution. Ukraine could be the diplomatic bridge between East and West, if this bridge only had a chance from all sides. I enjoyed this comment even though I did not agree with it entirely, I wanted to publish it. It comes from the article entitled, “DECONSTRUCTING THE RESULT OF THE FOUR PARTY TALKS.” I wanted these talks so badly. I wanted all sides to come up with a resolution to create a beneficial outcome for everyone and avoid war for stupidity that costs everyone. Here is the site where you can read the article http://darussophile.com/2014/04/deconstructing-the-result-of-the-four-party-talks/ ,and here is the comment by Rostislav:

It is much easier to campaign on an independent pro Russian state made of the Eastern and Southern Ukraine in union with the Russian Federation as the Soviet Ukraine was in union with the RSFSR. It is much more salutary to restructure a new Ukraine of Center, South and East, excluding the West in its own, separate and new deNazified state.

The biggest smokescreen here in all of this Ukrainian crisis legerdemain is that this is somehow East versus West Ukraine. This created enmity and national divorce is a symptom of a larger disease. Who is paying for this civil war? Well, there is a reason why the Maidan seized power without trying the electoral process. Because the appeal of the Orange Revolution and its political platform lost its electoral majority and credibility in Ukrainian politics. There is a reason why a Central – Western dictatorship was declared over the East and South: because electorally a pro EU/NATO orientation alienating and antagonizing Russia has no mandate Ukraine-wide when the East and South are allowed to participate in the political process. There is a reason why Neo NAZI Svoboda, Right Sector, C14 with not a few salutes from Batkivschina and UDAR has been allowed to form fascist cadres which have been armed and set loose on the Eastern and Southern Ukraine: decentralized but state sponsored terror in a situation like this allows a politically unpopular minority to suppress the political will of all majorities, because public policy is established by intimidation, secret arrests, murders, etc. They are using these fascists for the clear purpose of dominating a national electoral process which will allow all Western political objectives to be pursued, Since these groups are Neo NAZI, once the electorate has been brought down and deceived into “accepting the electoral will of the Ukraine,” the NAZIs can then be easily “removed” from the scene by turning the pressure valve to the East and “calling on the Easterners to save the Ukraine from fascism.” After, of course, their electoral victories are established (with Russia supposedly intimidated out of this Banana Republic CIA directed operation on its border by “crippling sanctions”) to “save the Ukraine.” Then a member of the Party of Regions will claim some sort of Western backed mandate (and Russia’s blessing), “create a government of national reconciliation” and lead the “crusade for a fascist free Ukraine,” where Svoboda, Right Sector, C 14 muckity mucks will end up with UDAR or Batkivschina or some “Petlurist Anti-Fascist Party” allowing “a united Ukraine to rise against hooliganism.”

And the same, woeful scenario of Ukrainian dysfunctional politics of the last 23 years will go on and on.

No, this Ukrainian politics is going to be delivered to Brussels in an EU funded casket draped with an American flag with Greystone pall bearers.

Who benefits from this? Who has made the money, pays Shuster’s check to say “we must not mention the names of people not here” except of course when it is “Hitler Putin”? Who is the one who always wins whether it is Kravchuk, or the Orange Revolution or Party of Regions? Who are the billionaires while the Ukraine is billions in debt? Akhmetov, Kolomoisky, Taruta, Poroshenko, Timoshenko, et al. People want to crusade against corruption? They want to know what will save the Ukraine? They want to know why the country is breaking apart and falling into chaos and civil war? STATELESS OLIGARCHY is the cause of the Ukrainian Civil War. These are the people whom the Ukrainians should rise up against if they “want to combat corruption and create a brighter future for their children.” Such a political platform could possibly even resurrect the dead corpse of the artificial state called the Ukraine. Of course, we all understand that fascism (AKA UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ETHNOGENESIS [ethnic cleansing]) and oligarchy would never allow such “Russian destabilization.”

Who in their right mind would celebrate a NAZI collaborationist movement responsible for the genocide of 500,000 Jews, Ukrainians, Poles, Roma, Russians, etc.? Who in their right mind would celebrate a movement whose entire program received a swastika imprimatur from Hitler’s Reichstag? Who in their right mind would believe that they could pull off some sort of Big Lie Fraud and shout loud enough to the world and to the Ukraine “that Stepan Bandera was not a NAZI war criminal” only to when they were found out belch revisionist, nonsense which distills to the rarified stupidity of “the defeat of NAZI Germany was a disaster for the Ukrainian nation,” that “the Red Army was a worse enemy of the Ukrainian people than the German Wehrmacht,” and that “the Galician Waffen SS Division emobodied the vision of patriotic forces and the best aspirations of patriotic Ukrainians.” It takes a certain sort of delusional ignorance to hold to these types of idiotic ravings, which are clearly fringe positions, but have somehow been mainstreamed by the EuroMaidan.

Playing on the basest and most deranged aspects of Ukrainian nationalism, the oligarchs have created a disorganized chaotic mass of orcs to take the attention off of them and thereby spin a message of “democratic Maidan as a struggle against corruption inherited from supposed ‘Russian interference in Ukrainian internal affairs’.” Here we are today with Russophobia and Neo NAZI-ism running violent cover for the oligarchs. Igor Kolomoisky is the enemy. Not Vladimir Putin. If someone needs to be sanctioned (in every meaning that that word can possess), his sanction is a more fitting measure to bring de-escalation and peace to the Ukraine than economic threats against Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

The Ukraine has a Yeltsin government, and look where it stands. The West wants to use the Ukraine to insert another Yeltsin government in Russia to create an even larger Ukraine.

Russia did not want to get involved in the Ukrainian struggles between East, West, Regions, Batkivschina, Maidan, Yanukovich, because there was nothing to be gained from paternalism in an ethnically confused and conflicted economic basket case experiencing the forces of Western funded ethnic polarization which were sparking demographic fissures and sociological disengagement which was/is offering every rebuttal to the quack ultra-nationalist claims of Ukrainian ethnogenesis. (Legitimate ethnogesis is not the work of brown shirts.) All Russia needed to do was simply sit back, make money and let the Ukraine fall apart on its own until it began voting itself into separate regions forming new nations. That is the trajectory of today’s Ukrainian political climate, carnage. Russia was pulled in to pay for an EU/NATO/US Ukraine, to stabilize it, to “be punished for being an upstart which would not sing ‘Uncle Sam uber alles’,” to begin its own process of “democratic regime change” ala the Orange Revolution (or Maidan in current Western dementia).

Going forward, Russia has a simple task actually. Economic enforcement. Don’t pay your bills? Well, you lose. Pay your bills but act in ways to breach your contracts, your prices go up. If you don’t want to pay? You lose. China will buy the energy. Don’t want to build pipelines? China is someone who does. India needs a higher standard of living and is a reliable trade partner. You don’t want to disarm Right Sector? Well, a “Berlin Airlift” of Russia’s very own could be conducted. Don’t want to talk to the East and send Galician fascists to occupy cities and murder and intimidate civilians? Russia could recognize the breakaway governments of these regions as legitimate and answer calls for humanitarian aid and advisors. Don’t want to hold the oligarchs accountable and take their money first to rebuild the Ukraine? Russia’s tens of billions are not going to be sent to Kiev so that Igor Kolomoisky can siphon off more money to send to a Cayman bank. EU, you “pay the bill” like you did for Greece and see how long the Ukraine is in your orbit (you should never have taken the bait of Polish Neo-Prometheanism, Europe!) As a matter of fact, EU/USA/NATO, you want Russia to stabilize the Ukraine for you? Write Russia a check after clearing all sanctions. Russia is in a winning situation in the Ukraine by doing nothing. By simply providing a pole for the Eastern and Southern Ukraine to gravitate toward once the Ukraine collapses is enough. Feeding, clothing, medicating, treating the East and South with dignity will go much further than any Maidan could ever go. Then the peoples’ governments of the various regions of the Ukraine gain credence and the situation is resolved.

Let’s think for a minute about the reality of a “Novorossija.” Inclusion of Ukrainian regions in the Russian Federation will mean an increase in these peoples’ living standards, pay, economic opportunity and promote the native and historical ethnogenesis of these regions. Inclusion in a Eurasian Union having a political and economic charter not unlike the old Soviet Union carries a similar benefit to regions of the Ukraine. This is academic. What is also academic is that the Russian Federation gets the pain and absorbs the costs of the integration of these regions and experiences the same types of economic corrections West Germany did when it absorbed East Germany. But, honestly, how much will Russia have to pump into the current artificial state of the Ukraine over the next twenty years to “keep it stable and democratic”?

Having the Ukraine led by Galicia will only break it apart quicker. Kiev can choose to come along into an Eurasian Union if it wants. But Galicia and the West have to be separated from the territory of any future, stable and prosperous Ukraine. The best thing for Russia is to leave the Central Ukraine with Galicia. That will end Galician “ukrainoznavstvo” for all Ukrainians once and for all.

Bottom line. The oligarchs have to return their ill gotten gains and stolen Ukrainian wealth and answer to the Ukrainian people. In the case of Igor Kolomoisky who has commissioned the murder of Ukrainian citizens and incited ethnic violence by financing and contriving the new “anti Semitism revelations” in the “separatist East,” charges of high treason should be pressed. Regime change in the Ukraine begins not with clowns like Yatsenyuk and Turchinov and Tyagnibok, it begins with removal of the oligarchs.

The Eastern and Western Ukraine are victims. The West moreso willingly than the East. They are pawns in the games played by oligarchs trying to steal more money and protect the pilfered fortunes they have already stolen from Ukrainian national wealth. Any real resolution of the Ukrainian quagmire means the thieving oligarchs have to be put out of business. If Russia does get involve, that means that the oligarchs, not Galician idiots, are the prime targets. Simply, for V V Putin to run the Ukraine in 18 months, he would not have to even use military intervention. He could simply sit by and use diplomacy and “humanitarian relief” to “aid and alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Eastern and Southern Ukraine” while dusting off the old KGB architecture aimed at “neutralizing personal assets which are a direct threat to the stability of democratic workers’ interests.” In this way, the dominoes fall, and the shanty town certain people made of the Ukraine starts getting torn down and being improved by its own people. East and West Ukraine turns its gaze at these oligarchs being deposed and does something a little more constructive than SS marches and mob violence for Russophobia and ethnic cleansing.

Just a few thoughts about a few different Ukrainian scenarios.

America’s Two Party System- For the Elites and To Cover Up What is Really Happening

I spent days reading many blog articles trying to understand the situation in Ukraine. I keep expecting the State Department to be the great diplomat, listening to and understanding all sides then developing the best solution to bring all sides together. But, it never happens anymore. I tweet about it, talk about it on Facebook and try to ask our leaders to do this, but they don’t. Perhaps I was always naive, believing that America was a country based on our ideals, that we were not bought and paid for like the rest, but finally, I am willing to admit my idealism is incorrect, and that’s fine. I think that we should change our two party system to feature prominently its rightful names on the ballot. Why not just call it the Haves and Have Nots? If you are a Have, you control foreign policy and are willing to risk everyone’s assets so you personally may gain. If you are a Have Not, your “interests” do not matter and the Haves can do anything they want with your money, freedoms and even in their hubris, if they are wrong, turn your assets over to the rival through debt that you are responsible for. The Haves have the benefit of the real two party system which is designed to divide and conquer. This in reality forms the cover-up for the Haves because we are too busy arguing with each other and attacking one another to notice we are being controlled by the Haves who enjoy taking both sides for sport. Any questions on that you can see that the elites have funded both sides of just about every conflict. Look it up.

Does President Obama realize how vulnerable we are on the world stage right now? China and Russia are benefiting from our failures in Iraq and Ukraine. Someone at the State Department needs to tell him that, but I am sure that they must be happy with America’s weakness based on its overreach, because no one is talking that way. That is why I titled this article an America’s Two Party System, we have become a Have or Have Not party country, no matter what your party is. “Interests” are interests. Some of the elites, Haves, do make mistakes. They too insure their demise if they are not part of the .001%, who probably make fun of them. The .999% do their dirty work for the perceived 1% crowd which is really the .001% crowd. For the .999% of the 1%, I would like to ask a question, “Do you think you are in with them, or will you be caught, a front person for them so that they may escape away? You know you have made ridiculous money. Are you willing to hurt those who could be and in fact are you?” Perhaps the answer is yes, that’s why Secretary of State John Kerry is not questioned. “Where is that multilateralism, Mr. Kerry? Why do you work for “them,” or do you? Will you stand up for us as President John F. Kennedy did or is your new inheritance your blindfold that keeps you away from helping US?” Our sniveling, sad, American foreign policy where we hope as citizens you are doing your job. Yes you have a job that you swore allegiance to our Constitution to protect us against Them too.

Our job is to maintain peace, balance and American interests for its people, not its corporations. This means not to create conflict for NATO’s benefit or oligarch’s profits or even to put the country in jeopardy for companies like Cargill, Chevron, etc. The companies win and we loose. We loose financially and ideologically by not following our own “democratic” principles overseas and are slowly becoming the laughing stock of “democracy” internationally. We are supposed to favor ballots not coups and take-overs. If our foreign policy does not become more like our national policy then what are we fighting for? Do you think that governments and people around the world do not see what $5 billion did in Ukraine? Perhaps it is like our national policy that favors the wealthy now in cases of campaign contributions and voter suppression laws. So perhaps, you are doing a good job enabling the two party system, the Haves and Have Nots.

My guess is that in the “End Game,” Americans will loose stability financially, diplomatically and the people of the world will no longer see a glimmer of the shinning light that America once was for freedom, civil rights and democracy as an ideal for all governments to follow. We are nearing that dark, blind spot in the world where our rivals will be in control, not based on their aggression but on our imperialism. Every war we have fought since 2001 has put them more in control of us, and they have gained many financial benefits. These include access to more resources including oil and natural gas, new partnerships because of conflict with us and a potential change away from the dollar as the reserve currency. In addition, we have emboldened terrorism in the Middle East through Syria and Iraq. Why is our foreign and national policy stacking the deck against the America people? All roads seem to lead to the .001% who would benefit from a controlled, surveilled society where no one has wealth but them and their henchmen. Perhaps this is doom and gloom, but with no care for diplomacy, our ideals, true democracy and contrasting positions, what else can there be? I’ll try to keep the light on for you but its becoming a dark, cold night.

Questioning the IS:IS PORTAL ACTIVATION PART 1 Easter 2014 04-20-2014?

I had an interesting yet spiritually scary encounter with the people promoting the IS:IS PORTAL ACTIVATION PART 1 Easter 2014 04-20-2014 / 04-21-2014. They discouraged participants from protecting themselves with their own heart energy. I did not feel comfortable posting the information on Facebook. I suspect they potentially may want to hurt people and/or don’t understand spiritual sovereignty because no one who is spiritually aware would discourage participants from protecting themselves with their own energy. They then tried name calling. How strange is that? 

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China, Petroyuan- American Leaders have Heads in Sand or is it Nixon’s Plan?

Reading the article in Veterans Today about “China’s power move against the US dollar,” it is so frustrating to watch US loose. I have been watching this since 1997, and while it is not surprising that we are loosing the currency battle, it is amazing that no one sticks up for our country financially. The average people work every day, have families and struggle to make it while bankers and government officials negotiate our future. That is what we pay them for, but how do we know they are working on our behalf and not for themselves?

We would assume that someone is watching? With all of the mass NSA surveillance, the CIA masterminds, Think Tanks and government sponsored research, we assume that we would be protected, but it seems no one is watching. One of the most telling portions of the article is a quote by Paul B. Farrell, “Early warnings of a crash are dismissed over and over (“just a temporary correction”). They gradually numb us about the inevitable. Time after time we forget history’s lessons. Until finally a big surprise catches us totally off-guard. Financial historian Niall Ferguson put it this way: Before the crash, our world seems almost stationary, deceptively so, balanced, at a set point. So that when the crash finally hits — as inevitably it will — everyone seems surprised. And our brains keep telling us it’s not time for a crash.

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World Peace Agreement Set to Be Signed April 15, 2015

From APN (Animals for Peace Network), April 1, 2014

A formal agreement between all countries, peoples, plants and animals will be signed on April 15, 2015. All people, animals and plants residing on Earth have determined to live and work together. They have uniformly decided that dominionism is a mistranslation, it should have been stated in the Bible, “And God blessed ALL, and God said unto them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and CARE FOR IT: and HUMANS SHALL SERVE AS CUSTODIANS OF the fish of the sea, and OF the fowl of the air, and OF every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”

Please join President Barak Obama at the White House for the formal signing of the agreement at 11 am on April 15, 2015. This may be his most powerful accomplishment while in office, so please be there.

April Fools… Don’t we wish!

Sovereignty: Our Need to Uphold It on All Sides

With the Western escalation of the situation in Ukraine by basically attempting to put NATO at Russia’s front door, we have to wonder what our political leaders are thinking, and if they are not aware of Russian interests and sovereignty. While I am not a fan of Russian policy towards internal control and potential manipulation, our lack of ability to look at ourselves and the real danger our actions may cause is disconcerting. The West is using Russia’s protection of their naval base in Crimea and for ethnic Russian people in Crimea, who have themselves chosen Russia over a Western backed “revolution,” to increase dominance in an area of historical, political and military significance that is almost sacred to Russia. Western leaders are not attempting to understand, balance all interests and come to mutually accountable talks and agreements between Ukraine, the European Union and Russia. If the “revolution” had been provoked by a less favored country, it would have been called a coup to potentially secure military dominance, and we would have fought against it.

For example, if Russia would have invested $5 billion in a pro-Russian revolution in Poland, employed diplomats and protestors to assist in a mass pro-Russian uprising in the country, had FSB assets on the ground handing out leaflets on how to protest and then not investigated an event where snipers on roof tops shot both protestors and police, while Russia was saying the government in power did this to the Russian leaning protestors, and while shortly after international officials were caught on tape suspecting it was the Russians themselves that killed the protestors and police, the West would be screaming “coup!” even if the leader in power was as corrupt as former President Viktor Yanukovych. So why is this not happening now. and what are the unseen implications?

I read an interesting comment the other day on Veterans Today in an article entitled Russian Defense Minister urges Hagel to stay cool by Arjan, who said, “Is it totally out of the question that the real objective of the true powers of this planet is to bring Putin and Russia to world power? I do not have totally convincing reasons to think this, just some small clues.

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Tunisian Constitution, Civil Rights as a Basis for Syria Geneva II Talks to Avoid Egyptian like Instability

An issue being seemingly ignored during the negotiations with Syria at the Geneva II talks is the same issue that was ignored in Egypt’s constitution and has potentially caused Egypt to be plagued with instability after the Arab Spring – basic enforceable civil rights for the people including freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to peacefully assemble, freedom of religion and equal rights for women and men.

On this, three year anniversary of the January 25 Movement in Egypt, it is important to look at why freedom is dramatically lessened in Egypt, and why they experienced a coup or removal of their first elected President Mohamed Morsi, just a month and a year after he was elected. Civil rights should be the first step to form a reformed government in countries previously controlled by dictators because it provides power for the people to address the overreach of the elites previously in charge.

Support for civil rights for the people of Syria or Egypt is not only locally beneficial to the security of Syrian or Egyptian people, but it is important for world security from terrorists who are in opposition to those very same civil rights.

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The Dying Art of Questioning Authority in America

What makes America so great, or rather what has made America so great? It is the freedom to ask questions and get truthful answers.

With the issues such as Whistle-blowers, freedom of the press and rights to privacy on the table, why is the main focus on the messengers and discrediting them? This can only be because they, those in power, do not want the questions asked and want to manipulate any person who is only listening to sound bites, the majority of the struggling American population, into to accepting their position.

Why? Because questions either by the people or the press don’t fit into the national narrative, “they are a  threat to ‘National Security.’ ”  From my understanding National Security involves serving the people, not the criminals.

In my opinion, we are no longer great if we do not uphold the Constitution, and if we continue to let the “terrorist” bogeymen erode our freedoms. It has been almost 12 years since 9-11 and the strange thing is that no one was allowed to question then and to have an honest investigation and answers provided that had to stand up to criticism. With the wars, questioning was seen as traitorous. “Either you are with us or you are against us.”

By our government not answering our questions with solid, documented, scientific, open investigation that is allowed to be questioned from all sides to insure the truth, we have been kidnapped as a country. Why now are things spilling over? Is it because the real boogie man is coming out of hiding?

Based on the Nuremberg Principle IV, “defense of superior orders” is not a defense for war crimes. Why were none of the potential crimes being internally investigated conjunctively – Iraq, WMDS, blackballing Joe Wilson, outing Valerie Plame & discrediting Scott Ritter, just to name a few? How about Afghanistan – Bin Laden’s need for kidney dialysis, the CIA meeting in July 2001, the Twin Towers and Building 7 destruction, opium production increasing to its highest level ever after the war, billions of US dollars spent or stolen, just to name a few?

The Nuremberg Principle IV states that “The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.” What about all of the people we killed based on false assumptions or evidence? Isn’t that what Bradley Manning was trying to bring light to?

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Waking Up to the Ideology behind Gaza

When I awoke yesterday morning, I tuned in to CNN and then Democracy Now. I was hit with the most prominent contrast of life in a deplorable violent situation in Israel and Gaza. On CNN was the site of rockets being fired and intercepted in an upper middle class neighborhood in Israel. The homes looked much like those in the US, wide paved streets adorned with globe shaped street lights. The homes in the neighborhood were large, single and two-story stucco homes much like those in California, where I live.

The news anchor was discussing the fact that children were being kept indoors and said that the trauma they felt by being kept indoors was severely uncomfortable to them and their parents. Apparently, the parents were going to have to struggle because the children needed to be kept indoors.

Next I watched Democracy Now hosted by Amy Goodman. The images shown there were of the Palestinian children of Gaza and their parents that only wished that they had the safe haven of indoors. Burnt children were being brought into a hospital. Many burnt children were dead. Their parents and relatives were crying and screaming. Later, I saw people being excavated from piles of rubble, in the background were demolished apartments and old buildings that lined and sometimes covered unpaved streets.

This stark contrast kept me glued all day to the events as they unfolded as I prayed for peace for all of the children, that no child may have to face a day living in fear because of adults’ aggression and warlike behavior towards one another. I also hoped that no child would have to live in a bombed-out, destroyed building in what seemed to be an area that was so unequal to its neighbor.

I wondered why no one cared about the disparity and/or saw it as significant to the conflict? So I wanted to have a better understanding for the mentality behind the indifference.

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The Election Results – Time to Work Together

After 2012 Election Democrats and Republicans can work together. Image courtesy of 123rf.com

I retweeted @audsquad’s tweet today because I couldn’t find a better statement which reflected on how I felt. I was amazed that everyone I was supporting won. What was also worth noting was that I heard very strongly within President Obama’s Victory Speech, his desire to work with the Republicans and bring the country together. The word self-reliance came to mind. I happened to be googling around the internet the words self-reliance and I saw an article written yesterday by Bill O’Reilly talking about self-reliance in regards to Hurricane Sandy. He said, “That in order to ride out any storm effectively, you should be self-reliant and resilient. That means you have to anticipate problems and have some solutions at the ready.”

This got me thinking about the words, self-reliance and the words that are used by greenies like me such as sustainability.  We both mean basically the same thing in a very significant way. When I say sustainability, it comes from inside out. You create sustainability by being self-reliant and finding innovative ways to take care of yourself that support yourself and the world around you because you are a part of the world around you. The survivalists are more concerned with their own survival but once they feel secure, they do help others. Survivalists and greenies want the same thing, to survive and thrive.

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