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Research on the Roman Empire's Wealth Inequality Spells Bad News for the American Empire

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Grant Lawrence--Bodhi Thunder


Researchers have found that the income inequality in the United States is far worse than that experienced in Ancient Rome. 

According to research done recently by historians Walter Schiedel and Steven Friesen, cited by Per Square Mile's Tim De Chant, the income inequality gap in modern day America is far greater than the separation within the societies during the days of Julius Caesar. During the Ancient Roman Republic, says the duo’s study published in Per Square Mile, the top one percent controlled 16 percent of society’s wealth. If you fire up the Delorean and go from the Diocletian Empire to twenty-first century USA, you’ll see that things are a little more uneven. Today, that one percent on top controls 40 percent of the country’s wealth.

In coming up with their research, Schiedel and Friesen mulled over papyri ledgers, old school estimates and Biblical passages, specifically at around the times when the Roman Empire was at its population peak — around 150 C.E. Putting together the top members of the hierarchy around that times — the patricians, senators, equestrians and decuriones — the researchers have determined that the top 1.5 percent of the 70 million or so citizens of the empire had all-in-all around 20 percent of the wealth....Read More at RT

One of the major reasons identified for the collapse of the Roman Empire is that the common people no longer cared about supporting an Empire that favored the Rich Patricians over them.

Today we see the 99% of Americans realizing that the system is rigged against them. That their politicians are puppets of the Super Elite. That the endless wars and the destruction of the Constitution is the byproduct of our Globalist Empire.

2012 may not be the end of the world, but it may be the beginning of the end for the American Empire.

http://grantlawrence.blogspot.com/2011/12/research-on-roman-empire-wealth.html


News Report: See Secret UFO Being Transported Down Kansas Hwy



In the news report below, you will see a strange "UFO" craft being towed down a Kansas Highway.

The local Sherrif says he was told to keep quiet about it.

Residents say it looked to be a UFO.

Reports are that it was some sort of governmental experimental craft.

http://grantlawrence.blogspot.com/2011/12/news-report-see-secret-ufo-being.html 



5000 Years of UFO Visits May Offer Clues to Stonehenge and Crop Circles 

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Grant Lawrence--Bodhi Thunder

Wiltshire, England is one of the most mystical spots on earth.

Not only does it have Stonehenge and surrounding stone monuments, but it also boasts of numerous crop circles that generally appear there every year.

But there is something else strange about Wiltshire and Stonehenge. UFO sightings have been going on there for thousands of years.

...In fact, the recently released British government UFO documents state that “Stonehenge is off the chart when it comes to reported UFO sightings over the past 5,000 years.” At the same time, ancient druids considered Stonehenge to be sacred ground were “ancient astronauts” would visit “over the centuries;” while a vortex around these famous stones produces a “concentrated energy field” that druids say “radiates from both the stones and the ground” producing a sort of mental energy and awareness that allows some druid members to “understand such things as if the New Year will be good or bad.” According to the “Stonehenge vortexes,” good things are in store for the planet and its people in 2012; as a counter to the Mayan Calendar predicting 2012 as “a time of apocalypse.”....Read More at Huliq.com

Recently it was reported that the massive stones of Stonehenge came from Southwest Wales. Many people cannot understand how an ancient people with presumably limited technology could transport these stones hundreds of miles. In fact, many cannot understand how the stones were even cut and placed in their positions by ancient Celts.

So some people attribute these massive stones to the work of UFO Aliens. A similar theory is used to explain the pyramids around the world.

But massive stones, like those on Easter Island, have perplexed even the scientists that laugh at an ET explanation.


However there does seem to be a strange link between the UFO sightings, the crop circles, and Stonehenge. Perhaps in the future this link will become better understood.


http://grantlawrence.blogspot.com/2011/12/5000-years-of-ufo-visits-may-offer.html



Another Fukushima? Not If, but When.

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Grant Lawrence--Bodhi Thunder 

As I have previously reported,

 Japan's Buddhist Federation Warns "Nuclear Power Threatens Life"

The Federation consists of 96 million Buddhists and they are rightly taking a stand against nuclear power.

Japanese mothers are also trying to stop nuclear power in Japan.

Japan's nuclear power industry, which once ignored opposition, now finds its existence threatened by women angered by official opaqueness on radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was struck by an earthquake-driven tsunami in March.

"Mothers are at the forefront of various grassroots movements that are working together to stop the operation of all nuclear plants in Japan from 2012," Aileen Miyoko Smith, head of Green Action, a non- governmental organisation (NGO) that promotes renewable energy told IPS.

More than 100 anti-nuclear demonstrators, most of them women, met with officials of the Nuclear Safety Commission this week and handed over a statement calling for a transparent investigation into the accident and a permanent shutdown of all nuclear power plants....Read More at Guardian.co.uk

It is important to keep in mind that another Fukushima could happen in Japan at any time. That Island nation could be hit with another massive quake which would destroy another nuclear plant. Those plants, as we have seen with Fukushima, are not capable of handling big quakes.

It is also important to keep in mind that a major quake could hit California as well as other quake prone parts of the world causing Fukushimas outside of Japan.

Clearly we are playing a dangerous game with Nuclear power and people the world over are beginning to wake up. As long as we have these nuclear power plants, there will be more Fukushimas. The question is not if, but when. 

http://grantlawrence.blogspot.com/2011/12/another-fukushima-not-if-but-when.html


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