What was first drink? Coffee, tea, wine?

Of course it has to be water, good old H2O, no, mother's milk, in a shot glass for comfort.

How old is the Mexican drink we call chocolate (xocolatl) cocoa from Theobroma cacao?

What was the first beverage?

Not gonna say water, right? Don't say water. Water is too obvious. Shoulda known it was water.

There's a new drink in town, in a can, with microdoses of shrooms and maybe CBD: BREZ

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Tea party for Tara (Jetsun Dolma), Aztec cocoa?

(PBS Eons) When exactly did we start drinking other things and why? To find out, we have to look at the world’s oldest beverages – which are not what we expected.

• References: docs.google.com/document/d/1A...
• Theobroma cacao was chocolate, food of the gods

How To: Mindful Drinking

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Our federal income TAX is VOLUNTARY

Adel Weiss (weissparis.com); Diego Rivers, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

We've "elected" (volunteered) to pay federal income tax, so we can revoke our election.

IRS payment website fails on Federal US income tax day; extensions to be granted

Pay my goddamn taxes, peons.

It's nearly April 15th. Is there a way to legally exit the U.S. Tax Club? The federal income tax is voluntary. Are American taxpayers fed up with handing over a large percentage of their hard-earned money to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) every year?

"Your income tax is 100 percent voluntary tax, and your liquor tax is 100 percent enforced tax."

- Dwight Avis, head of Alcohol and Tobacco Tax division in 1953 speech to Congress 

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If so Weiss+Associates Financial Freedom Consultants can help Americans keep their money. But how can this be achieved in a manner that will not make a person a target?

Use the law. The U.S. Supreme Court declared the Federal income tax to be unconstitutional unless the law included the population-based Rule of Apportionment. The 16th Amendment clearly excluded this requirement.

Americans can, however, VOLUNTEER to join the Tax Club. And if anyone can volunteer his or her way in, that person can also EXIT.

Truth is, no one actually reads the Constitution

Please be aware. There are two "United States." The Constitutional Republic -- the 50 states of the Union -- is vastly different from the corporate "United States" in regard to the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

People born in the District of Columbia and territories like Puerto Rico do not have the Constitutional protections that are inalienable to [not able to be taken away from] other Americans.

It's up to you to clarify your true and correct status as a sovereign Constitutional American. The Revocation of Election Weiss+Associates offers meets the criteria for opting out of the Tax Club -- an option provided by the U.S. Congress, not Weiss+Associates.

This frees you from any obligation to file and pay the U.S. Federal Income Tax for the current tax year plus all future years.

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Weiss and associates understand many live in fear of their government, and part of that comes from the repeated silence from government employees -- your servants. It is their responsibility to inform We The People (whom they serve) on legitimate questions regarding the law. 

 

THE LAW applies to the government AS MUCH as it applies to the People. And it is your job -- as the sovereign -- to demand they follow the law.

Read (and re-read) Weiss+Associates' Mission Statement above. If you correspond with a government employee, require of them to show you THE LAW, and reject any hyperbole they may offer to dance around the key subject of jurisdiction.

No government employee or agency has EVER shown us THE LAW as it relates to an obligation upon American Nationals (those living and working in the Constitutional Republic) to file a Form 1040 without first making an election.

Most critical-thinking people can assume this equates to the fact that no law exists. If you remain skeptical, the truth is self-evident. Force your government to answer the key element: SHOW ME THE LAW!

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What happened to Republocrats? (comedy)

Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS); JimmyDoreComedy.com

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others" - Not Churchill

What are R's about? Republicans for the 1%?

Libertarian turned Republican candidate Ron Paul may be on the right of our one-party system (Republocrats), a corporate-ruled party split into two right wings. Obama is in one wing, Paul would be in the other. But instead the Powers That Be have selected B.S. Obama to go again. Hillary Clinton stands a better chance of ascending to the Oval Office than Paul Ryan and Mittens Rmoney, who continues to suffer from severe bouts of Foot-in-Mouth disease, according to political psychic Sean David Morton. "But Hillary's not running," you say? It would not take much to install her in an "emergency" at the height of her popularity.

Meanwhile, accusations of "racism" continue to dog Ron Paul for years of racist rants that appeared in his newsletter, which he claims he did not read. VP candidate Paul Ryan, who according to Romney's introduction will be the next "president of the United States," is getting much more press. Will Ron Paul still crash the Republican convention? One can only hope. Will all the live ammo the police state has purchased to deploy at both Democratic and Republican national conventions be used? One can only hope not.
  
(But even the National Weather Service is buying hollow point bullets to militarize as many federal agencies as possible before "the troubles" begin and America is transformed into an Orwellian experiment). Would Ron Paul have slowed the pace of that transformation? How if Obama is full steam ahead on any and everything the George Bushes and Dick Cheney planned for decades in advance?

Gay Sheriff wants to be Republican politician

...after sodomizing immigrant male lover, Jose, and threatening to deport him for telling while co-chairing Romney election in AZ

Gay Republican candidate, Sheriff Paul Babeu, who hypocritically was hard on Arizona's Mexican immigrants in public while being extra soft with one in private. He formerly co-chaired Romney's Arizona campaign while allegedly illegally extorting his lover to be silent or be outed to immigration and deported.

(RawStory.com) Paul Babeu, an emerging Republican figure and strong border defense sheriff, resigned from his position Saturday afternoon as Arizona co-chairman of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign for allegations of threatening deportation on a former [homosexual illegal alien] lover, according to The Arizona Republic... More

Young Turks' showdown: Cenk Uygur tells Andrew Breitbart to "stop having gay sex in bathrooms"

The fix is in: Mittens Romney (video)

Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS)

Just as we predicted: "The fix seems to be in. It is Romney all the way for Iowa, no matter what the voters say: Ron Paul has no chance to be certified the winner with the Republicans doing the counting" (Dec. 29, 2011).

Deserving or not, Mormon or not, eight votes up or not, Romney has been selected to compete when the people want Ron Paul. To ensure that Paul gets no opportunity to gum up the system, fanatical Rick Santorum has been elevated to runner up. Sanctimonious Santorum is the fall back guy to push Romney to the right.

What does a raucous caucus tell anyone? No black voters attend, none at all. It is by and large a conservative, Christian fundamentalist, all-white affair. Hispanics and Asians comprise 1%, which amounts to less than token status. Iowa's Republican straw poll process, caucus process, and primaries only set the tone for the selection.

As the dictator Joseph Stalin pointed out, "It doesn't matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes."

Elections (popular voting) have become a charade. We can say we elect people, but our electoral college systems shows that that was never the case even before Bush-Cheney instituted an easier way to manipulate elections. The Powers That Be (Wall Street bankers, Military-Industrial Complex officials, key figures in the shadow government, clandestine services directors, and occasionally movers and shakers) pre-select candidates, with money and through insider influence, and they control the counting of the votes.

• Rigging elections electronically: How it's done
  

Bush, for example, was not elected. He was selected, twice. The people had no real say, just an opinion to manipulate and miscount by design. Romney? Fine. His father almost made it to the White House. He has a net worth of nearly a quarter billion. And his underwear are magical.

Willard "Mittens" Romney is a far better choice than the unbearable hubris of Washington-insider Newt Gingrich. But the only candidate with a difference, despite his many flaws, is Ron Paul, who must have known the power brokers were not going to give him a fair shake.

• COMEDY: Jim Dore looks at the news
• VIDEO: Jews rush to stop Ron Paul (from former Jew)
• VIDEO: Bill O'Rielly debates Ron Paul on Iran
• VIDEO: Ron Paul on Israel and intervention abroad
• VIDEO: "Obama will be last president of US as we know it"
• VIDEO: Mass chipping of Americans has already begun
  

Herman "Koch" Cain: Sexual Harasser?

Wisdom Quarterly, NY Daily News.com

Sharon Bialek, the fourth woman to claim presidential hopeful Herman Cain harassed her, is shown here at a press conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred (TMZ).

Cain, who is funded by the notorious Koch multi-billionaire brothers -- who also funded the Tea Party AstroTurf campaign and Scott Walker's betrayal of the people and unions in Madison, Wisconsin -- is in a lot of trouble.

Rising in the polls, laying waste to Willard "Mittens" Romney and Rick Perry, corporate darling Herman Cain is facing mounting allegations. At least three lawsuits were settled, but only one accuser has since stepped forward and gone public. It would have been nice to finally have black president, but not if he got there by being a worse sell-out than our warmongering yes man, B.S. Obama.

Controversial poster almost revealing a woman's body covered up (steroidtimes.com)

Cain faces fourth sexual harassment claim
New York Daily News
Herman Cain won’t be getting “back on message” anytime soon. Sharon Bialek, a fourth woman accusing Cain of sexual harassment, went public on Monday in a press conference with celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred.

Bialek, a mother of three that Allred introduced as a registered Republican, revealed her encounter with the Republican candidate in 1997 in which she says he crossed the line when she asked him for help getting a job after being let go from the National Restaurant Association's educational foundation.

"He put his hand on my leg under my skirt and reached for my genitals," Bialek said. "He also grabbed my head and brought it to his crotch." At that point, Bialek says, Cain justified his actions by saying, "You want a job, right?" More (+ video)

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• Woman says Cain put hand up her skirt
• Herman Cain has 4th sexual harassment accuser
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Cain feels the heat during DC meeting after fourth emerges (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters).

Ayn Rand Atheists Crashing Tea Party

Gary Weiss (Frum Forum)

Different faces of the right wing (which, yes, includes fearless B.S. Obama)

One of the seminal moments in the presidential campaign slipped by at the Republican debate in Las Vegas on Oct. 18. It didn’t involve the frontrunners, and it had nothing to do with Herman Cain’s “9-9-9” plan or the sexual harassment claims.

If you were watching, you’d have heard Ron Paul say, “We need to see everybody as an individual. And to me, seeing everybody as an individual means their liberties are protected as individuals, and they are treated that way, and they’re never penalized that way.”

Rick Santorum responded, “I disagree in some respects with Congressman Paul, who says the country is founded on the individual. The basic building block of a society is not an individual. It’s the family. That’s the basic unit of society.”

(citizenx.cx)

Ayn Rand had again loomed in the presidential campaign. It wasn’t the first time, and you can bet it won’t be the last. What this exchange demonstrated is that Rand’s views reach well beyond the advocacy of laissez-faire capitalism for which she is best known. They extend into a wide variety of other areas -- and they are capable of making the right, especially the religious right, as uncomfortable as liberals.

Paul is strongly influenced by the Russian-born novelist-philosopher. Rand believed that the individual is supreme, owing no duty to anyone else, including his family. Rand’s novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which set forth her philosophy [which greatly influenced her main student, former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan, and the downward course of the USA]... More

Koch-Brother-Cain: "Get a Job, Hypocrites!"

Wisdom Quarterly

Those darn 99% trying to rock MY boat with their labor, student, anti-war organizing!

Sweetheart Republican candidate Herman "999" Cain rises in polls... with the help of the infamous multi-billionaire Koch Brothers, who started the AstroTurf Tea Party movement and supported Scott Walker in Madison, Wisconsin who with other Republicans destroyed the unions in spite of unprecedented protests.

When Cain, an actual Black man (unlike Dick Cheney relative B.S. Obama) yet somehow more of a sellout, was asked about the Occupy Wall Street protesters, he had something shocking to say.

State-sponsored assassin Obama -- who has signed off on drone attacks for the extrajudicial execution/assassination of numerous unindicted targets -- is at least trying to pander to both sides of Wall Street (Zuccotti Park and the Stock Exchange) as if he were a moderate. Obama's actually a conservative zealot pushing Bush-era policies while mumbling "the change we need" but in a lovable way.

Occupy Wall Street spreads worldwide (theatlantic.com)

Have people noticed that China took out the Panchen Lama and replaced him with a stand in just the way America took out MLK and replaced him with B.S. Obama. But he is no more the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr's dream than Herman Cain.

Asked about Wall Street occupiers, Cain sent them a message: "Get a job, hypocrites!" Maybe he meant he would like to hire them at Burger King and Godfather's Pizza, two places Koch-Brother-from-another-mother-Cain knows a lot about. Cain is also infamous for pointing out that "Black people are too poor" [for his taste], which he says keeps them out of the Tea Party, not racism.

British musicians Miss Dynamite and Charlie Simpson, fifth and sixth in line, join unemployed outside job center in a bit of performance art for the Battlefront Campaign, raising youth unemployment awareness (Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images).

Herman Cain to Wall Street protesters: Get A Job, Hypocrites

Jon Terbush (BusinessInsider.com, Oct. 14, 2011)
Herman Cain (shown here courtesy of the Atlanta Post with Tea Bag favorite Michelle Bachmann) doubled down Friday on his statement that the Occupy Wall Street protesters should blame themselves for being poor or out of work, adding that they were also hypocrites for using corporate technology to promote their cause.

In an op-ed for the New York Post, the former Godfather's pizza CEO turned Republican presidential candidate wrote that the protesters would, "rather have a handout than work." Citing his own family as an example of how hard work can lead to financial success, Cain wrote that the protesters had no one to blame for their "failures" but themselves. More

A night at the opera, Koch Brothers Charles and David with singer Samuel Ramey (left) at the NYC Opera Theatre debut celebration Nov., 2009 (PatrickMcMullan.com).

Koch Brothers Get Rich with Secret Sales to Iran

Bloomberg.com, GoHarrison.com, Oct. 3, 2011

In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world’s largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France. In less than a week, she discovered that the company had paid bribes to win contracts.

“I uncovered the practices within a few days,” Egorova-Farines says. “They were not hidden at all.” She immediately notified her supervisors in the US. A week later Wichita, Kansas-based Koch Industries dispatched an investigative team to look into her findings, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its November issue. More

• Herman Cain sings Lennon's "Imagine" parody
• Lawrence O'Donnell interview with smart Cain
• From a hashtag, protests have encircled the world
  

Obama: "The Man Who Sold the World"

Wisdom Quarterly (just pointing out the obvious)

I never intended my phony negotiation style to sink world markets, honest! My handlers misled me. I caved right in like I was told. Blame the Republicans, blame Boehner, blame Reid. Obamacare? I'm ready to slash social security and anything else the people need or are entitled to... so long as the bankers keep their promise to re-[s]elect me.

Once Nirvana premiered this great new song on MTV's Unplugged. Only it wasn't new. It was David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World." Kurt had a knack for spotting hits and even making them sound better than the original acoustically.

The song tells the tale of a fictional president: "We passed upon the stair, we spoke of was and when. Although I wasn't there, he said I was his friend, which came as some surprise. I spoke into his eyes. I thought you died [inside] alone, a long long time ago.

This secret New World Order plan actually makes sense.

"Oh no, not me.
I never lost control!
You're face to face
With The Man Who Sold The World.

"I laughed and shook his hand, and made my way back home. I searched a foreign land [Afghanistan]. For years and years I roamed. I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions here. We must have died alone, a long long time ago.

"Who knows? Not me.
We never lost control.
You're face to face
With the Man who Sold the World."

But this song is only part of the story. Obama is the "Savior Machine"

"How ya like me now?" w can hear Obama asking. And the amazing thing isn't that he sold us all out. That's why they selected him for the job in the first place. No, the amazing thing is that the same people will vote for him again.

True, he's an improvement on Dick Cheney. But how much betrayal is enough to rethink American political propaganda and go in a new direction beyond the rigged two party system?