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The Lorax and What Matters

Anart Grey
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Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:36 UTC

I was thinking about the state of the world yesterday, having gotten off the phone with my sister. She was once again reminding me that even though she and her husband both work, they barely make it most months and things just keep getting worse. She said that they feel they have no connection to anything, since fewer things just make common sense - that she has no control - that no matter how hard they work, for so many years, the rules keep shifting and the liars keep making more money while normal people drown a little more every day. She's right. The rules have changed and they changed while no one was watching. In fact, I'd say they changed because no one was watching.

My favorite news site, SOTT.net, is holding a fund raiser right now and when I think fundraiser, I think money and when I think money I think lack, because for most of us these last ten years have ensured one thing - we have less money now than we did then. We have less because while we weren't paying attention, a bunch of pathological politicians and business men pulled the carpet out from under us, lining their own pockets on our loss. A big part of why we weren't paying attention is that it's easier to find hen's teeth than it is to find unbiased objective news and analysis of the world and what's really going on. It's even harder to find a source that intelligently combines apparently disparate events and shows how they are linked together. It's hard to blame people for not paying attention when the only information that is easily accessible is entertainment news. There is something deeply - deeply - wrong with the fact that you hear more about Whitney Houston than you do about how much you're paying to fight wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - or how likely a new war with Iran really is. That's why SOTT.net matters.

Then I thought about the fact that truth matters, not in a theoretical way, but in a real life way. If we don't know what's really going on in the world, that means we have no connection and no control, just like my sister said. That means we have nothing to fight with, nothing to build on and nothing to use to navigate these increasingly dangerous waters. It matters that we pay attention. It matters that we try to figure out what's going on. It matters that we accept the truth as the truth and point out the lies we're being told every day in order to keep us where we are, or worse. It matters because we're alive right now - this is our world - these are our children and no one else is going to clean all this up for us. It's up to us. That's why SOTT.net matters. That's why the research the SOTT.net team produces and publishes for free, matters - because it gives those of us trying to make some sense out of this increasingly insane world a source of information that we can trust and turn to for a guidepost or two along the way.

Speaking of guideposts, at the end of this article is an abbreviated list of the research the SOTT.net team has published over the last three years, since the last time they raised their hands for a fundraiser. That's why I'm donating what I can to SOTT.net, and my sister too. Nothing is going to get us out of this other than the truth - because it's lies that got us into this - and we are all swimming in lies, thanks to the mainstream media and their 'infotainment'. Oh, one other thing about that conversation with my sister... she told me that my niece was reading The Lorax by Doctor Seuss just the other day. She really liked this part:

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

2009 to 2012, SOTT.net Works (last three years):

Some Highlights During 2011

This is just a sampling of the activities that the supporters of SOTT (YOU!) make possible! Thanks to our readers/supporters, we've been able to purchase decent computers, video equipment, and have the time to devote to research and complex, projects. You allow us to have the tools, WE GIVE OUR TIME AND TALENTS/ABILITIES FOR FREE. While QFG/SOTT does sell books and videos, everything is ALSO posted online for FREE. So when you give to SOTT, you are giving to help the whole world gain knowledge and awareness. That means that virtually everything you give to QFG/SOTT ultimately is passed on to everyone, including BACK TO YOU!

Additionally, during 2009 and 2010, there has been the production of:
Éiriú Eolas Breathing and Rejuvenation Program
Dot Connector Magazine
... and The Sott Report
See also: Cassiopaea on Youtube
All that, and more - so there is no limit to what can be produced in the next few years, if they get the chance, which comes back to 'someone like you caring a whole awful lot'.

Reader Comments

Aeneas · 2012-02-22T06:45:09Z

So true

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

If everyone gives 10 cents for every day that they go and check out the news or headlines or the health forum. It can at most be 70 cents a week but just about everybody can afford that.

Let's say that just 1 million check out Sott everyday, then in one week sott will have the money to get them out of trouble and we will be able to continue to receive the best researched articles available.

THIS IS POSSIBLE and will show the power of people and a combined effort. Some people might find that they can afford 1 dollar everyday ( less than the price of a newspaper). Then just tally up EVERY week and click donate.

Let us show sott that we are serious and willing to put this into action.

I have to say that I don't know if their is a minimum using worldpay or paypal, but then just tally up the days needed for the minimum amount and do it. ACT! Put the 10 cents aside today for sott.

Aeneas · 2012-02-22T07:03:09Z

If you read sott every day, then at 10 cents a day, it makes 3 $/€ per month or 30 $/€ per month. Sign up for the monthly donation scheme, whereby you act and show your commitment. Putting the commitment into action.

Anart mentions the articles of the last 3 years.
If you have been reading sott every day for the last 3 years and had contributed just 10 cents then it would have amounted to 108$. Then there even wouldn't have been the need for a fundraising drive.

Now we the readers have the power to keep sott online and take care of the financial side of keeping this site going.

If you the 20000 + people who are facebook supporters of sott signed up to the 10 cent scheme, then sott would have 720000$/year. And just for 10 cents a day.

We can do it!

Aeneas · 2012-02-22T07:05:22Z

Correction to the above:
If you read sott every day, then at 10 cents a day, it makes 3 $/€ per month or 30 $/€ per month if you are contributing 1 $/€ a day.

akar · 2012-02-22T08:26:51Z

Stats

Good article Anart, but about the number of subscribers, you always have to count that only a 5-6% of them are really "followers" in the real sense. Most people, just click once "I like", check a few times the site, and that is all.

Online marketers also know that, when you send a newsletter, article, or email, if you get a 10% open ratio, well, you can be happy!
So count that on those 20.000 people liking SOTT, maybe 2000 are real supporters donating money and spreading the articles. This is why no matter how many RSS subscribers, twitter followers, facebook likes and so on, the big part of it are just passive users, they will not react as we expect.

I really do not know the stats behind SOTT, and I wish those ratios are wrong for us here, but in general terms and due to my own experience, this tends to be the case normally.
In any case, the work has to continue, so let's make it possible.

turin · 2012-02-22T08:33:22Z

an essential sounding board

I value SOTT, granted some of the content is a little out of my realm of understanding, but much of it is things that myself and others like minded have been speculating on and talking about for a long time now. the thing is while at one point it seemed the conversations were largely "this is what could happen if we don't do something, if we don't start trying to get others to pay attention" that has changed.

what could happen, has happened, is happening and to few are seeing the set up, the endgame.

beware the PIIGS of march, as the entire Global ponzieconomy now sits on the most unstable of platforms massive, juggernaut debt piled upon the backs of those who already have nothing, nations being stripped of their statehood now falling under the outright ownership of the Banks. here in the US soon $5 a gallon gas will wipe out another 200 billion or so in GDP and drive a white oak steak into the heart of what remains of our consumer driven economy. the fed will print, the dollar will further devalue, and the stagflationary death spiral will put more and more basic essentials out of reach for many more millions of people which will in turn bring the whole thing to grinding halt. the PIIGS will most likely be the first dominoes to fall followed by bank runs and holidays all across the EU and UK and the fallacy of uber broke nations borrowing from other uber broke nation will be exposed for what it really is, a epic disaster waiting to happen. perhaps this was all intentional long planned and prepared, but can the PTB's hope to manipulate and control all the outcomes, all those unintended consequences?

as bad as that is, it's Iran and Syria that really worry me right now, just imagine the gateways that a war with Iran will open for the PTB's. here in the US it would be the ultimate excuse to lock the country down, to put the NDAA into action, legally declare the homeland a battlefield and in the interest of securing it, crush all dissent and protest. It's not coincidence that the MSM is running the "Iran will use terror attacks in the US" angle hard right now, we are being prepped to accept the need for de-facto martial law in order to keep the statue of liberty from being blown up by Iranian used car salesmen. I don't imagine it's much different in the EU as they seem at this point to be a little further down the NWO road than the us is.

and the other big question is will China and/or Russia simply sit a NATO/ Israeli attack out, will they be content to stay on the sidelines while the western powers consolidate control over vast energy resources that they are heavily invested in? I don't think it would be wise at this point to count on their inaction, I think that may be the only reason Israel has not yet attempted to strike Iran's nuclear power programs, uncertainty over just how friendly relations between Tehran, Beijing and Moscow really are. It might be a little dramatic to say but Iran could very well be the gateway to WW3.

yes we should donate to SOTT and others like it, those that give a meeting place to exchange thoughts, experiences and ideas to those of us who have chosen the red pill over the blue, let us just hope that SOTT survives not only their current troubles but also the restrictions and censorship to come.

stay safe, keep you head up and your wits about you.

Foxx · 2012-02-22T08:58:02Z

Great article Anart!

Great summary of some of the research the SOTT team has been doing over the past few years! Hopefully people will see the need to value and contribute to the open pursuit of truth more than they need to drown out reality with lies and garbage.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2012-02-22T09:39:57Z

Yeah, but I can't donate, not because I don't have money, but because I don't have a babylon VISA card, and am in no rush to get one despite being spammed every day of my life by my bank to get one. This is my third comment on this situation and still no bugger at SOTT has a thing to say about it.

elbo · 2012-02-22T10:28:45Z

maybe

try sending an email to SOTT@SOTT.net?

DonaldJHunt · 2012-02-22T10:34:57Z

Can you mail a money order or certified check? Not sure what country you're in Highland Fleet Luke, but Visa cards aren't the only way to donate.

herondancer · 2012-02-22T10:35:11Z

There are many ways to support SOTT. If you use the contact link ("email us at sott") at the left on the bottom of the page, you can get information on alternative ways to donate.

Barbara · 2012-02-23T01:45:12Z

@ Highland Fleet Lute

"because I don't have a babylon VISA card"

I don't have it, either but I've figured out how to solve this problem.

You don't need a credit card in order to set up an account with PayPal. You can simply transfer funds from your regular bank account to your PayPal account and then donate to SOTT from PayPal directly.

Go & check whether it's possible to do in your country.

thorbiorn · 2012-02-22T11:22:29Z

SOTT.net matters and so does the fundraise

Anart:wrote: " There is something deeply - deeply - wrong with the fact that you hear more about Whitney Houston than you do about how much you're paying to fight wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - or how likely a new war with Iran really is. That's why SOTT.net matters."

Indeed it is deeply disturbing that issues that involve the life, suffering and future of humanity are of so little concern to so many. Therefore I am happy that SOTT.net digs into the whys of what is going on and make their research available, so it can be accessed by those who are or become interested. The fundraise gives us as readers a chance to help make this knowledge-sharing available to others. SOTT.net matters and so now does the fundraise.

aurora · 2012-02-22T11:29:39Z

Knowledge

True and objective knowledge cannot be valued by money. It is like the air you breath and the water you drink when thirsty, like the blood running through your veins - without it life is no more.

Antti Joukahainen · 2012-02-22T13:19:31Z

Good article!

Thank you Anart, it really puts things in perspective.

Lindie · 2012-02-22T18:44:45Z

Excellent!!!

Thank you, Anart.

bngenoh · 2012-02-22T18:49:35Z

Excellent Anart, i especially liked this part

"A big part of why we weren't paying attention is that it's easier to find hen's teeth than it is to find unbiased objective news and analysis of the world and what's really going on."

Sums it up rather nicely.

parallax · 2012-02-22T21:55:15Z

To The Very Point

of matters Anart. As to what you have linked above, these very things that help us to unravel our times, can be seeing as only the tip of the information knowledge iceberg and the PTB would rather it be forbidden, manipulated or sunk, pulling many rabbits out of hats to make this so. The only things that can keep it visible for all to see and hear are in the mirrors we face every day.

Thanks for all the DOing SOTT!

Electricdragon · 2012-02-22T22:48:29Z

So I went out today

and bought a copy of The Lorax by Dr. Seuss.for my not-quite-two-year-old granddaughter. My 21-year-old daughter said it was her favorite Dr. Seuss book! I like it too.

Send your donation today, please. It really does matter.

hchabot · 2012-02-23T12:59:59Z

Optimism or wishful thinking ?

Hi Laura and SOTT team,

Let 's say that i am really surprised about you, expecting to get 400 K !!!...This is wishful thinking big time !

99.99999 of the population don't give a shit about truth !...look around you for god sake !!!....people were / are /will be asleep until WW3 or a good meteoric shower !!!...come on !

People want to have fun !...truth's ain't funny, truth is depressing !

You don't believe me ?...Try this:

For all donation above 20 euros, earn a chance to win a trip to Las Vegas for a week...now it sounds fun !

PS: i already make my donation, please add my name to the lottery ! ;-)

Love you all !

Good luck !

Laura · 2012-02-23T14:45:39Z

Yes, wishful thinking, no doubt because, as you might guess, we have no wealthy supporters. Back when we were discussing creating FOTCM, I wrote on our forum about one of our really rich readers who came to visit me. He isn't the only one who has ever done this - we've been visited by a few powerful/rich people with the intention of buying us. Anyway, his remark that I reported on the forum, I believe, was that people who don't wake up deserve to die, to be culled from the gene pool.

I was very offended by this remark because I have always felt that there are lots of people who simply can't "wake up" the way we talk about it, because they have been deliberately dumbed down by deception, but they still deserve to be treated decently. The authoritarian follower types, for example, will follow The Authorities, whoever they are. Right now, they are following psychopaths to their own destruction.

What if we had good and decent leadership? They could have good and decent lives and be good workers for good purposes even if nothing every penetrated deeply. It's kind of like what Mouravieff wrote about pre-Adamic humans: that they can "grow a soul" if they are exposed to the right examples and treatment over time. He also spoke about the duty of those who CAN wake up to do so and to do all they can to fight this war for the sake of those who cannot see or fight.

Anyway, my point is: I think that we don't have any more super rich followers because a number of them have tried to move in on me, sway me, influence me, buy me, etc, and it just doesn't work. I still think that making as much information available to the little guy is important, and also to make it understandable to them.

PLUS, there is the fact that those with the most heart and maybe the most creative talent, are completely marginalized because psychopaths rule the world. They are put in the position where they have to spend every waking minute trying to keep a roof over their head and food on their table and are unable to spend the time doing the things that would benefit society that they are most capable of doing. When a society relegates its most creative and intelligent members to scrounging for a living, that society is doomed.

We've got about 5 more weeks, so lets see what the little people can do.

Sakura Yamato · 2012-02-23T17:33:39Z

Thanks Anart for that great article. It really hit the nail on the head of what this site is all about. I have already donated and will do so more if I can, because I think it's the right thing to do. Sott has given a lot of great information out over the years about health, politics and science/paranormal stuff and I really enjoy the Dot Connector magazine as well. All the hard work everyone does is invaluable - you just can't put a price on it - but at least we can help. So come on everyone! Let's help create a world where Sott doesn't disappear and let's all help better our world!

hchabot · 2012-02-24T10:15:48Z

New strategy

Hi Laura,

About my last post, i was serious when saying that contests / sweepstakes would be helping your foundraising.

Just look at the readers digest magazine...they sell millions of them because of the sweepstakes !

Trust me about it, its a marketing strategy that is working for many companies....for the simple reason that your foundraiser candidates are SDS !...you got to give them something in exchange !...people loves contests !

Do it and you will get your 400K...satisfaction guaranteed !

Here is some prizes ideas that you could use:

-The whole collection of your books

-trip / travel

-A dinner with you

-prizes in cash

This is a free advice that will enhance your foundraising big time !...Everything is about strategy, when something's not working you got to change your way to make it work !

But beware of any rules / regulations that USA may have about contests / lottery...we have a lot here in Canada.

Succes is awaiting !!!

HowToBe · 2012-02-24T14:08:19Z

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