prepareforchange--2020-01-22--Five Ways to Stop Comparing Yourself with Others

One area of life that many of us struggle with is comparing ourselves to others .
Sometimes , people are better than us at certain things , have things we wish we had , or live the lives we want to live .
But it doesn ’ t have to be this way .
In fact , there are a few things you can do starting today to stop comparing yourself to others .
See Yourself and Others as if You ’ re on a Journey One of the simplest ways to stop comparing yourself to others is to see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re on a journey .
It may seem trite , but if everybody is on their own personal journey then there ’ s no right or wrong way to be doing what anybody is doing .
If you ’ re on a journey , the things that matters are the destination or the experience of getting there .
And if you ’ ve ever been on a long hike you know that the people who are overly focused on the destination are often the ones that have the worst time because as everybody @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hike and looking around at the trees , birds , wildlife , etc.
, the person who is overly focused on the destination is often having a bad time on the hike .
They don ’ t want to be hiking anymore , they just want to get to the waterfall or wherever you ’ re going .
This is true with many things in life .
For instance , many people fail at New Year ’ s resolutions for similar reasons .
They don ’ t really want to get into a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t really want to go see a therapist .
What they really want is to be fit or to overcome a block magically .
And they ’ re never really going to get where they ’ re trying to go until they realize that the results they crave are not just going to magically appear because they need to be earned through efforts toward their goals .
So , the real key thing to keep in mind is that you and others are on a journey .
Life is an exploration .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this way , it ultimately doesn ’ t matter how quickly you get where they ’ re going .
You ’ re not in a race .
You ’ re not in the triathlon .
You and them are just exploring the world at the pace and speed that ’ s right for you .
Keeping in mind that life is a journey means that you ’ re in it for the experience of the process of getting there .
The thing I find the most fascinating about this specific quote is that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the goal , but to focus on becoming the kind of person who can achieve that goal and that is so much more powerful than just focusing on the goal itself .
If you ’ ve been around the spiritual or personal development world for even a short amount of time , you ’ ve probably met quite a few people who have really lofty goals but never seem to achieve them .
This often has to do with their inability to accept the fact that you need to change in order @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allow yourself to think about life as a journey rather than a means to an end of getting to a specific goal , you ’ ll be far happier and you will compare yourself less and less to others , which should help you achieve your goals far more easily .
Study Success Stories of Those Who Became Successful After 35 Often when people compare themselves to others , they think about how they wish they ’ d done things earlier in their life or “ before they missed the chance ” .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but more often than not , there are enough counterexamples to prove that it ’ s falsifiable .
And sadly , it leads many people to compare themselves to younger people living their dreams or to people their own age who have already achieved success in some areas of life .
Something I got fascinated with about a decade ago was the author Napoleon Hill and what he calls the philosophy of success .
And something I found very odd is that there are quite a lot of people who don ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at least as defined by others , until they ’ re much older .
For instance , the colonel from Kentucky Fried Chicken didn ’ t end up starting Kentucky Fried Chicken until he was 40 .
Joy Behar and Samuel Jackson didn ’ t get their start in the entertainment industry until they were in their 40s .
It ’ s crazy to think that Samuel Jackson played a ton of incredibly harsh intense characters in his 40s and 50s .
He was 43 in 1991 when he got his first actual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jungle Fever .
Stan Lee wrote his first comic at age 39 .
Vera Wang didn ’ t get in the fashion industry until she was in her 40s .
Ray Kroc bought McDonald ’ s and turned it into the business that we now know when he was in his early 50s .
One of the beautiful things about life is that it ’ s not over until it ’ s over .
There ’ s rarely a perfect time to start something and there ’ s rarely an impossible time to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all think about examples like I ’ m in my mid-thirties and am miserably bad at basketball .
So , I ’ m probably never going to join the NBA .
But that doesn ’ t mean that I can ’ t be successful in so many other areas of life .
But if I fixate and focus on the fact that I ’ m never going to get in the NBA and I feel bad about it , then I probably won ’ t get very far at anything else either .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ my life that I ’ m good at and I ’ m passionate about , there ’ s still time for me to do a lot of things in my life .
And the same goes for most everybody .
All of the people above became incredibly famous well into or after their late 30s .
There are so many things that can be done in our lives and fixating on the idea that our lives are over at a certain age is foolhardy .
Likewise , given the way that the internet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people can do in this time period that they wouldn ’ t have been able to do before .
An example of that is the late life coach Sean Stephenson .
He had a bone disorder that kept him in a wheelchair most of his life and if he sneezed too hard he could break a rib .
Yet he was able to do things like become a professional speaker , teach others how to be a professional speaker , and he ended up building a huge group of friends including famous life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Joe Polish .
So , just keep in mind that you have plenty of time to do what you want to do as long as you get started exploring what it is that ’ s really important to you .
Exploring spirituality can help you quit comparing yourself to others because it can help give you a piece of a personal narrative that tells you not only who you are , but why you ’ re here .
Once you become involved in spirituality , you ’ ll start to see the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ honestly it doesn ’ t matter what spiritual path that you choose because almost all of them are focused on helping you to develop who you are as a person and getting you to rethink how you interact in the world .
Really you just need to find one that resonates with who you are as a person .
Likewise , most religions or spiritual paths have different methods for helping people to begin to develop themselves in much deeper ways .
For instance if you become involved in safe Buddhism you can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meditation techniques that will help you develop a type of mindfulness that will allow you to drastically rethink who you are as a person and how you fit into the world .
But again it doesn ’ t matter what religion you choose or what spiritual path to choose .
Almost all of them can help you to develop yourself and to develop your connection to the world around you .
This will likely change how you view others and help you to stop comparing yourself to them as much .
There are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ harsh than others and think about other people in ways you may not agree with .
So , consider that before joining any spiritual paths , but really just ultimately make sure that the spiritual path resonates with you .
As long as you do that , you should find that your life shifts and you ’ re no longer interested in comparing yourself to others because you start to see things that are far more important .
Get in Competition With Yourself This one ’ s a little bit different than the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one is something that pretty much anybody can do regardless of their spiritual path or their personal beliefs about themselves or life .
And all you really need to do to really start to take benefit from this is to start thinking about yourself as in competition with yourself .
And what I mean by this is that rather than thinking about yourself in competition with others you think about how much better you ’ re getting than you were before .
If you ’ re going to think about yourself as if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it might as well be who you used to be.An example would be as if you were a track runner .
Say at the current moment you ’ re able to run a mile in 7 minutes .
You know for most people that ’ s actually really awesome , but for somebody looking to be a track star that ’ s probably a little slower than you want to go.Of course the interesting thing is that there was a point when running a mile in 5 and 4 minutes was actually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ’ s expected .
Rather than focusing on how your teammate or friend can run a mile in four minutes , 30 seconds , we want to focus on the idea that right now you can run a mile in seven minutes.Work toward being able to run a mile faster than that , maybe even six minutes and 55 seconds .
And once you ’ re able to achieve that , then work on being able to run a mile in six minutes and 45 seconds.Rather than focusing on where you ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whether you feel good enough to be on the track team , if someone is “ better than you ” , or other negative thoughts.Instead focus on continual improvement because rather than thinking about where others are at , you ’ re thinking about where you were at before and allowing that sense of competition that you have inside of yourself to focus on being better than you were rather than hoping to be better than somebody else or upset that you ’ re not .
The real joy of this scenario is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ improve and not only that , if you ’ re really working this process you ’ ll likely find yourself improving greatly .
Have Gratitude for Where You ’ re at in Life Jim Rohn wisely says about gratitude for your current lot in life , “ Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
” Having gratitude for where you ’ re at in life is one of the best ways to stop comparing yourself to others .
Because if you ’ re happy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you don ’ t really need to compare yourself to others .
Think about it : if you were living in a situation where you had the kind of spouse that you wanted to have , you lived in the kind of house you wanted to live in , you made the kind of money that you wanted to make , you owned the kind of car that you wanted to have , and you didn ’ t really want for anything because anything you wanted you could have , how often would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Likely very rarely .
And the reason is that generally if you ’ re happy with where you ’ re at , there ’ s no reason to compare yourself to others .
Comparing yourself to others is usually a fixation on a certain lack something that you don ’ t have but wish that you did .
And if you did have that thing , then you wouldn ’ t have this lack anymore .
As simple as this is , if you ’ re able to really have gratitude for where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there ’ s not much of a reason to compare yourself to others because you ’ re not really lacking anything you love .
You could have more and that would be great , but there ’ s no real reason to feel frustrated or bad about what you have or where you ’ re at in life .
That ’ s the power of gratitude .
Now this last way to quit comparing yourself to others is probably the most difficult but it ’ s also the most helpful because it will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the pain and frustration that you have .
I mentioned above that if you ’ re comparing yourself to others , generally you feel like you ’ re lacking something .
Often , this lack will be turned outward towards others and create a certain element of resentment and jealousy .
Because when you ’ re comparing yourself to others generally you wish you had what they have .
So , one of the best ways through this is to actually feel genuine gratitude for others and the successes that they have .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ jump up and down and say , “ Yes !
Johnny got the job I want !
” Really what this means is that you say to yourself and maybe to the outside world that you ’ re happy for them and that you actually genuinely feel happy inside of yourself for this person who ’ s gotten the thing that you wanted .
At first , this will likely be very difficult , but that ’ s okay .
Doing this will create a major shift in your life .
Really all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ start feeling genuine gratitude for others is to just think about how you ’ d feel in their situation and be happy that they feel that .
For instance if you and somebody else were both up for promotion and they get the promotion , then think about how you imagined you would feel if you had gotten the promotion .
They ’ re probably ecstatic in the same way that you would have been ecstatic if you got the promotion .
So just think to yourself about how they must feel and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same thing was happening to your best friend .
As I said , this isn ’ t easy but a lot of things that are difficult are really worth doing and I think that this one is one of those .
As I ’ ve mentioned above most of the time if you ’ re comparing yourself to others you ’ re feeling a certain sense of lack in your life .
So , if you ’ re able to push yourself past that feeling of lack , generally the need to compare @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Using any of the above techniques can help you out in this process and allow you to work towards a place in your life where you feel much more gratitude for the place where you ’ re at .
And I know that it can be very difficult to begin these processes or even to continue working on these processes , but keep in mind that many things in life that are frustrating at first get easier with time .
The real question you have to ask yourself is it worth it to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that really moving you toward your goals ?
And nine times out of ten the answer to that is no it ’ s not .
I hope that you ’ re able to take the things that I ’ ve suggested above and implement them in your lives and really start to see the way that it shifts and changes things for you .
Disclaimer : We at Prepare for Change ( PFC ) bring you information that is not offered by the mainstream news , and therefore may seem controversial .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ information we present are not necessarily promoted , endorsed , espoused , or agreed to by Prepare for Change , its leadership Council , members , those who work with PFC , or those who read its content .
However , they are hopefully provocative .
Please use discernment !
Use logical thinking , your own intuition and your own connection with Source , Spirit and Natural Laws to help you determine what is true and what is not .
By sharing information and seeding dialogue , it is our goal to raise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ free us from enslavement of the matrix in this material realm .

By Joshua Howard from Fractal Enlightenment:
The Buddha says, “The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride, but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.”
One area of life that many of us struggle with is comparing ourselves to others. Sometimes, people are better than us at certain things, have things we wish we had, or live the lives we want to live. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
In fact, there are a few things you can do starting today to stop comparing yourself to others.
See Yourself and Others as if You’re on a Journey
One of the simplest ways to stop comparing yourself to others is to see yourself and others as if you’re on a journey. It may seem trite, but if everybody is on their own personal journey then there’s no right or wrong way to be doing what anybody is doing. If you’re on a journey, the things that matters are the destination or the experience of getting there.
And if you’ve ever been on a long hike you know that the people who are overly focused on the destination are often the ones that have the worst time because as everybody else is enjoying the experience of the hike and looking around at the trees, birds, wildlife, etc., the person who is overly focused on the destination is often having a bad time on the hike.
They don’t want to be hiking anymore, they just want to get to the waterfall or wherever you’re going. This is true with many things in life. For instance, many people fail at New Year’s resolutions for similar reasons. They don’t really want to get into a new workout routine. They don’t really want to go see a therapist. What they really want is to be fit or to overcome a block magically.
And they’re never really going to get where they’re trying to go until they realize that the results they crave are not just going to magically appear because they need to be earned through efforts toward their goals.
So, the real key thing to keep in mind is that you and others are on a journey. Life is an exploration. And as long as you think about life this way, it ultimately doesn’t matter how quickly you get where they’re going. You’re not in a race. You’re not in the triathlon.
You and them are just exploring the world at the pace and speed that’s right for you. Keeping in mind that life is a journey means that you’re in it for the experience of the process of getting there.
Jim Rohn says, “The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.”
The thing I find the most fascinating about this specific quote is that it encourages you not to focus fully on the goal, but to focus on becoming the kind of person who can achieve that goal and that is so much more powerful than just focusing on the goal itself.
If you’ve been around the spiritual or personal development world for even a short amount of time, you’ve probably met quite a few people who have really lofty goals but never seem to achieve them.
This often has to do with their inability to accept the fact that you need to change in order to change your life. If you allow yourself to think about life as a journey rather than a means to an end of getting to a specific goal, you’ll be far happier and you will compare yourself less and less to others, which should help you achieve your goals far more easily.
Study Success Stories of Those Who Became Successful After 35
Often when people compare themselves to others, they think about how they wish they’d done things earlier in their life or “before they missed the chance”.
Sometimes, this is a true insight, but more often than not, there are enough counterexamples to prove that it’s falsifiable. And sadly, it leads many people to compare themselves to younger people living their dreams or to people their own age who have already achieved success in some areas of life.
Something I got fascinated with about a decade ago was the author Napoleon Hill and what he calls the philosophy of success. And something I found very odd is that there are quite a lot of people who don’t find success in their lives, at least as defined by others, until they’re much older.
For instance, the colonel from Kentucky Fried Chicken didn’t end up starting Kentucky Fried Chicken until he was 40. Joy Behar and Samuel Jackson didn’t get their start in the entertainment industry until they were in their 40s. It’s crazy to think that Samuel Jackson played a ton of incredibly harsh intense characters in his 40s and 50s.
He was 43 in 1991 when he got his first actual film roll in Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever. Stan Lee wrote his first comic at age 39. Vera Wang didn’t get in the fashion industry until she was in her 40s. Ray Kroc bought McDonald’s and turned it into the business that we now know when he was in his early 50s.
One of the beautiful things about life is that it’s not over until it’s over. There’s rarely a perfect time to start something and there’s rarely an impossible time to start something. Obviously, we can all think about examples like I’m in my mid-thirties and am miserably bad at basketball. So, I’m probably never going to join the NBA.
But that doesn’t mean that I can’t be successful in so many other areas of life. But if I fixate and focus on the fact that I’m never going to get in the NBA and I feel bad about it, then I probably won’t get very far at anything else either. But if I focus on areas of my life that I’m good at and I’m passionate about, there’s still time for me to do a lot of things in my life.
And the same goes for most everybody. All of the people above became incredibly famous well into or after their late 30s. There are so many things that can be done in our lives and fixating on the idea that our lives are over at a certain age is foolhardy.
Likewise, given the way that the internet works there are so many things that people can do in this time period that they wouldn’t have been able to do before. An example of that is the late life coach Sean Stephenson. He had a bone disorder that kept him in a wheelchair most of his life and if he sneezed too hard he could break a rib.
Yet he was able to do things like become a professional speaker, teach others how to be a professional speaker, and he ended up building a huge group of friends including famous life coaches and marketers like Tony Robbins and Joe Polish.
So, just keep in mind that you have plenty of time to do what you want to do as long as you get started exploring what it is that’s really important to you.
Explore Spirituality for Personal Peace
Exploring spirituality can help you quit comparing yourself to others because it can help give you a piece of a personal narrative that tells you not only who you are, but why you’re here. Once you become involved in spirituality, you’ll start to see the world in an entirely different way.
And honestly it doesn’t matter what spiritual path that you choose because almost all of them are focused on helping you to develop who you are as a person and getting you to rethink how you interact in the world. Really you just need to find one that resonates with who you are as a person.
Likewise, most religions or spiritual paths have different methods for helping people to begin to develop themselves in much deeper ways. For instance if you become involved in safe Buddhism you can learn a lot about different philosophies and meditation techniques that will help you develop a type of mindfulness that will allow you to drastically rethink who you are as a person and how you fit into the world.
But again it doesn’t matter what religion you choose or what spiritual path to choose. Almost all of them can help you to develop yourself and to develop your connection to the world around you. This will likely change how you view others and help you to stop comparing yourself to them as much.
There are some religions that are a bit more harsh than others and think about other people in ways you may not agree with. So, consider that before joining any spiritual paths, but really just ultimately make sure that the spiritual path resonates with you.
As long as you do that, you should find that your life shifts and you’re no longer interested in comparing yourself to others because you start to see things that are far more important.
Get in Competition With Yourself
This one’s a little bit different than the other ones in this list. This one is something that pretty much anybody can do regardless of their spiritual path or their personal beliefs about themselves or life. And all you really need to do to really start to take benefit from this is to start thinking about yourself as in competition with yourself.
And what I mean by this is that rather than thinking about yourself in competition with others you think about how much better you’re getting than you were before. If you’re going to think about yourself as if you’re in competition with someone, it might as well be who you used to be.An example would be as if you were a track runner. Say at the current moment you’re able to run a mile in 7 minutes. You know for most people that’s actually really awesome, but for somebody looking to be a track star that’s probably a little slower than you want to go.Of course the interesting thing is that there was a point when running a mile in 5 and 4 minutes was actually thought of as impossible, but now it’s expected. Rather than focusing on how your teammate or friend can run a mile in four minutes, 30 seconds, we want to focus on the idea that right now you can run a mile in seven minutes.Work toward being able to run a mile faster than that, maybe even six minutes and 55 seconds. And once you’re able to achieve that, then work on being able to run a mile in six minutes and 45 seconds.Rather than focusing on where you’re at on the track team, whether you feel good enough to be on the track team, if someone is “better than you”, or other negative thoughts.Instead focus on continual improvement because rather than thinking about where others are at, you’re thinking about where you were at before and allowing that sense of competition that you have inside of yourself to focus on being better than you were rather than hoping to be better than somebody else or upset that you’re not. The real joy of this scenario is that it encourages you to continue to improve and not only that, if you’re really working this process you’ll likely find yourself improving greatly. Have Gratitude for Where You’re at in Life Jim Rohn wisely says about gratitude for your current lot in life, “Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” Having gratitude for where you’re at in life is one of the best ways to stop comparing yourself to others. Because if you’re happy with where you’re at then you don’t really need to compare yourself to others. Think about it: if you were living in a situation where you had the kind of spouse that you wanted to have, you lived in the kind of house you wanted to live in, you made the kind of money that you wanted to make, you owned the kind of car that you wanted to have, and you didn’t really want for anything because anything you wanted you could have, how often would you be comparing yourself to others? Likely very rarely. And the reason is that generally if you’re happy with where you’re at, there’s no reason to compare yourself to others. Comparing yourself to others is usually a fixation on a certain lack something that you don’t have but wish that you did. And if you did have that thing, then you wouldn’t have this lack anymore. As simple as this is, if you’re able to really have gratitude for where you’re at in life then there’s not much of a reason to compare yourself to others because you’re not really lacking anything you love. You could have more and that would be great, but there’s no real reason to feel frustrated or bad about what you have or where you’re at in life. That’s the power of gratitude. Feel Genuine Gratitude for Others Now this last way to quit comparing yourself to others is probably the most difficult but it’s also the most helpful because it will allow you to overcome a lot of the pain and frustration that you have. I mentioned above that if you’re comparing yourself to others, generally you feel like you’re lacking something. Often, this lack will be turned outward towards others and create a certain element of resentment and jealousy. Because when you’re comparing yourself to others generally you wish you had what they have. So, one of the best ways through this is to actually feel genuine gratitude for others and the successes that they have. This doesn’t mean that you jump up and down and say, “Yes! Johnny got the job I want!” Really what this means is that you say to yourself and maybe to the outside world that you’re happy for them and that you actually genuinely feel happy inside of yourself for this person who’s gotten the thing that you wanted. At first, this will likely be very difficult, but that’s okay. Doing this will create a major shift in your life. Really all you need to do in order to start feeling genuine gratitude for others is to just think about how you’d feel in their situation and be happy that they feel that. For instance if you and somebody else were both up for promotion and they get the promotion, then think about how you imagined you would feel if you had gotten the promotion. They’re probably ecstatic in the same way that you would have been ecstatic if you got the promotion. So just think to yourself about how they must feel and be happy about it as if the same thing was happening to your best friend. As I said, this isn’t easy but a lot of things that are difficult are really worth doing and I think that this one is one of those. As I’ve mentioned above most of the time if you’re comparing yourself to others you’re feeling a certain sense of lack in your life. So, if you’re able to push yourself past that feeling of lack, generally the need to compare yourself to others will go away. Using any of the above techniques can help you out in this process and allow you to work towards a place in your life where you feel much more gratitude for the place where you’re at. And I know that it can be very difficult to begin these processes or even to continue working on these processes, but keep in mind that many things in life that are frustrating at first get easier with time. The real question you have to ask yourself is it worth it to continue comparing yourself to others? Is that really moving you toward your goals? And nine times out of ten the answer to that is no it’s not. I hope that you’re able to take the things that I’ve suggested above and implement them in your lives and really start to see the way that it shifts and changes things for you.
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prepareforchange--2020-01-22--The US Government Continues to Side With Saudi Arabia Over 9/11 Families

Who is the U.S. government trying to protect ?
The 9/11 Report states that “ we have found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded the organization [ al-Qaeda ] .
” The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( KSA ) has used that sentence numerous times defending itself against families of 9/11 victims that are attempting to sue them for financially supporting the 9/11 attacks .
9/11 family member , September Eleventh Advocate , and Jersey girl , Kristen Breitweiser addressed the issue here .
For a long time , the U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not on the State Department ’ s list of state sponsors of terrorism , the 9/11 families couldn ’ t sue the Kingdom in a court of law .
But in 2016 , a bill called the “ Justice Against Sponsors Of Terrorism Act ( JASTA ) ” was passed allowing 9/11 families to sue , despite the formality .
President Obama attempted to veto the bill but his decision was overridden by Congress .
Unfortunately , the United States ’ diplomatic and legal protection of Saudi Arabia over its role in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ precedes President Obama ’ s veto and continues long after .
This has been covered extensively by both advocates and by the family members of those killed in the attacks .
Following a well over a decade of persistence and tireless work , those advocating for clarity and accountability on the Saudi role in the attacks seemed to be getting new traction .
The 9/11 Commission had what was called Memoranda For The Record ( MFR ) , which detailed the Commission ’ s interviews with witnesses .
The MFR ’ s described @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the answers given .
One of the newly released MFR ’ s that had been classified for years was that of Prince Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud , the former long-time Saudi Ambassador to the United States .
It has long been known that Bandar ’ s wife , Princess Haifa , sent money to associates of two of the alleged hijackers .
When the famous “ 28 redacted pages ” of the Joint Congressional Inquiry ’ s report was finally released ( with 3 pages still redacted and with redactions throughout ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ personally gave money to one of the alleged hijackers ’ associates .
That knowledge was withheld from the American people for years .
The 9/11 Commission , as the newly released MFR revealed , “ did not question the Ambassador [ Bandar ] about it.
” Yet despite the success of advocates and family members in pushing for the release of the Memoranda , the government has continued to stonewall those seeking transparency about the government ’ s knowledge of the Saudi role in the attacks .
Disclaimer : We at Prepare for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that is not offered by the mainstream news , and therefore may seem controversial .
The opinions , views , statements , and/or information we present are not necessarily promoted , endorsed , espoused , or agreed to by Prepare for Change , its leadership Council , members , those who work with PFC , or those who read its content .
However , they are hopefully provocative .
Please use discernment !
Use logical thinking , your own intuition and your own connection with Source , Spirit and Natural Laws to help @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not .
By sharing information and seeding dialogue , it is our goal to raise consciousness and awareness of higher truths to free us from enslavement of the matrix in this material realm .

Who is the U.S. government trying to protect?
By Jon Gold,
The 9/11 Report states that “we have found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded the organization [al-Qaeda].” The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has used that sentence numerous times defending itself against families of 9/11 victims that are attempting to sue them for financially supporting the 9/11 attacks. 9/11 family member, September Eleventh Advocate, and Jersey girl, Kristen Breitweiser addressed the issue here.
For a long time, the U.S. Government argued that since Saudi Arabia was not on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism, the 9/11 families couldn’t sue the Kingdom in a court of law. But in 2016, a bill called the “Justice Against Sponsors Of Terrorism Act (JASTA)” was passed allowing 9/11 families to sue, despite the formality. President Obama attempted to veto the bill but his decision was overridden by Congress.
Unfortunately, the United States’ diplomatic and legal protection of Saudi Arabia over its role in the 9/11 attacks has a long history that precedes President Obama’s veto and continues long after. This has been covered extensively by both advocates and by the family members of those killed in the attacks.
Following a well over a decade of persistence and tireless work, those advocating for clarity and accountability on the Saudi role in the attacks seemed to be getting new traction. The 9/11 Commission had what was called Memoranda For The Record (MFR), which detailed the Commission’s interviews with witnesses. The MFR’s described what questions were asked as well as the answers given.
One of the newly released MFR’s that had been classified for years was that of Prince Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud, the former long-time Saudi Ambassador to the United States. It has long been known that Bandar’s wife, Princess Haifa, sent money to associates of two of the alleged hijackers. When the famous “28 redacted pages” of the Joint Congressional Inquiry’s report was finally released (with 3 pages still redacted and with redactions throughout), it was found that Prince Bandar personally gave money to one of the alleged hijackers’ associates.
That knowledge was withheld from the American people for years. The 9/11 Commission, as the newly released MFR revealed, “did not question the Ambassador [Bandar] about it.” Yet despite the success of advocates and family members in pushing for the release of the Memoranda, the government has continued to stonewall those seeking transparency about the government’s knowledge of the Saudi role in the attacks.
It’s important to note that Prince Bandar was a close personal friend of the Bush family. In 1997, the elder Bush called on Prince Bandar to educate his son on foreign affairs and on March 15, 2001, just months before the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush and Prince Bandar were discussing the need for decisive military action in Iraq. Prior to the invasion of Iraq, two high-ranking officials in the Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, reassured Prince Bandar that: “once we start, Saddam is toast.” Bandar was apparently skeptical because he knows in the first Gulf War we didn’t get Saddam out.” One Step Forward, Two Steps BackThe Florida Bulldog, a small independent news outlet that extensively covers the Saudi role in the 9/11 attacks, attempted to compel the government to release additional documents related to the attacks but were turned down when a split federal appeals court concluded that “the public interest in knowing what happened is outweighed by the privacy interests of suspects, witnesses, and FBI investigators.” In September, an attorney for Florida Bulldog filed court papers asking a Miami judge to make public “one critical piece of information” – the name of the person who tasked two Saudis living in Southern California with assisting the 9/11 suicide hijackers. The Justice Department announced last week that the FBI finally declassified that name “in the public interest,” but provided it only to the attorneys representing 9/11 family members suing Saudi Arabia in federal court. Those attorneys are under a court mandate not to release the declassified FBI records to the public without the court’s permission, effectively nullifying the ‘public interest’ under which the FBI released the records in the first place. Despite fighting what seems to be an increasingly uphill battle, its clear that the unwavering push for transparency has rattled some in the upper echelons in the Saudi government. A lawyer for the 9/11 Families, James Kreindler, recently claimed that the real motive for the Saudi government’s murder and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was his knowledge concerning the Saudi role in the 9/11 attacks. “Khashoggi was killed not because he was a dissident, but because of his contact with us,” Kreindler claimed. For years, the U.S. government’s handling of the investigation surrounding the role of Saudi Arabia in the 9/11 attacks has been a slap in the face for the families of victims. Cover-ups, lies, and deception have marked the myriad attempts by the American people to find answers about the Kingdom’s role in the attacks, leaving many to question not only who the government is trying to protect, but also what else it is being dishonest about. Source: https://themindunleashed.com
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prepareforchange--2020-01-22--Urgent! Meditation for maintaining peace in Virginia every 4 hours

From our friends at WeLoveMassMeditation.com : The U.S. military , Carrier Strike Group Four ( CSG4 ) , is jamming GPS signals across the East Coast of the United States from January 16th to 24th .
Aircraft pilots are been warned that GPS will fail for “ several hours each day ” during this military jamming exercise .
South Carolina , North Carolina , Virginia , Eastern Tennessee , Alabama and all of Florida will be affected by this jamming of GPS signals .
At the same time , FBI invokes eminent domain to seize high-end night vision tubes that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United States .
Both of these actions may be the prerequisites of the planned false flag event in Virginia .
This is because there will be a “ Lobby Day ” event in Richmond , Virginia on January , 20th .
Therefore , we are organizing a peace meditation every 4 hours from now on , in order to maintain peace in Virginia , especially on January 20th .
The meditation will begin on January 19th , at 12:15 PM UTC , and continue every 4 hours until January 24th when the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the current interval time schedule for selected time zones : You can also do this meditation in your own time as frequently as you feel guided .
Here is the Facebook event link for this meditation : And the link to the guided audio Youtube playlist for this peace meditation : Please note : this peace meditation was originally recorded to help harmonize the conflict in Iran .
You can simply focus on Virginia and replace the phrase “ the situation in Iran ” with “ Virginia ” in Step 2 of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ replacing the phrase “ the Iranian conflict ” with “ everybody in Virginia ” in Step 4 and 5 .
Instructions of this meditation : ( Suggested time for this meditation is 15 minutes ) 1 .
Use your own technique to bring you to a relaxed state of consciousness 2 .
State your intent to bring peace and healing to Virginia .
3 .
Visualize a pillar of pink Light , emanating from the Galactic Central Sun and then descending down through your body and deep into the center of the Earth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through your heart and then through your hands directly to everybody in Virginia , harmonizing everyone and bringing peace .
Let the pink Light then flow onwards , healing all other conflicts worldwide .
5 .
Ask the Goddess presence ( the divine feminine ) to direct energies of peace and harmony to everyone in Virginia .
Let these energies then flow onwards and heal all other conflicts worldwide .
Allow these energies to continue to flow through your heart and then through your hands into this situation in Virginia for a few @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Columns upon Richmond or other places in Virginia during the daily Buddhic Column meditation at 3:30 PM UTC if you feel so guided , to help establish a protecting energy grid .
Goddess wants peace and peace it will be .
Disclaimer : We at Prepare for Change ( PFC ) bring you information that is not offered by the mainstream news , and therefore may seem controversial .
The opinions , views , statements , and/or information we present are not necessarily promoted , endorsed , espoused , or agreed to by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , members , those who work with PFC , or those who read its content .
However , they are hopefully provocative .
Please use discernment !
Use logical thinking , your own intuition and your own connection with Source , Spirit and Natural Laws to help you determine what is true and what is not .
By sharing information and seeding dialogue , it is our goal to raise consciousness and awareness of higher truths to free us from enslavement of the matrix in this material realm .

From our friends at WeLoveMassMeditation.com:
The U.S. military, Carrier Strike Group Four (CSG4), is jamming GPS signals across the East Coast of the United States from January 16th to 24th. https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-01-17-military-to-jam-gps-signals-fbi-asserting-imminent-domain-seize-night-vision.html https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whats-going-military-jams-gps-across-east-coast-fbi-seizes-night-vision-devices Aircraft pilots are been warned that GPS will fail for “several hours each day” during this military jamming exercise. http://www.faasafety.gov/files/notices/2020/Jan/CSG4_20-01_GPS_Flight_Advisory.pdf South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Eastern Tennessee, Alabama and all of Florida will be affected by this jamming of GPS signals. https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2020/january/14/gps-jamming-expected-in-southeast-during-military-exercise At the same time, FBI invokes eminent domain to seize high-end night vision tubes that power night vision goggles from distributors in the United States. Both of these actions may be the prerequisites of the planned false flag event in Virginia. https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-01-16-democrats-conspiring-to-stage-false-flag-bloodshed-charlottesville-2-virginia.html https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/were-ready-fight-1000s-expected-massive-gun-rights-rally-virginia-capitol
This is because there will be a “Lobby Day” event in Richmond, Virginia on January, 20th.
Therefore, we are organizing a peace meditation every 4 hours from now on, in order to maintain peace in Virginia, especially on January 20th.
The meditation will begin on January 19th, at 12:15 PM UTC, and continue every 4 hours until January 24th when the GPS jamming exercise is finished:
12:15 AM UTC
04:15 AM UTC
08:15 AM UTC
12:15 PM UTC
04:15 PM UTC
08:15 PM UTC
Here is the current interval time schedule for selected time zones:
day before actual day next day
Time zone City #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 HST Honolulu 02:15p 06:15p 10:15p 02:15a 06:15a 10:15a PST Los Angeles 04:15p 08:15p 12:15a 04:15a 08:15a 12:15p MST Denver 05:15p 09:15p 01:15a 05:15a 09:15a 01:15p CST Chicago 06:15p 10:15p 02:15a 06:15a 10:15a 02:15p EST New York 07:15p 11:15p 03:15a 07:15a 11:15a 03:15p BRT Rio de Janeiro 09:15p 01:15a 05:15a 09:15a 01:15p 05:15p UTC Reykjavik 12:15a 04:15a 08:15a 12:15p 04:15p 08:15p GMT London 12:15a 04:15a 08:15a 12:15p 04:15p 08:15p CET Berlin 01:15a 05:15a 09:15a 01:15p 05:15p 09:15p EET Cairo 02:15a 06:15a 10:15a 02:15p 06:15p 10:15p MSK Moscow 03:15a 07:15a 11:15a 03:15p 07:15p 11:15p ICT Bangkok 07:15a 11:15a 03:15p 07:15p 11:15p 03:15a CST Taipei 08:15a 12:15p 04:15p 08:15p 12:15a 04:15a JST Tokyo 09:15a 01:15p 05:15p 09:15p 01:15a 05:15a AEDT Sydney 11:15a 03:15p 07:15p 11:15p 03:15a 07:15a NZDT Auckland 01:15p 05:15p 09:15p 01:15a 05:15a 09:15a
You can also do this meditation in your own time as frequently as you feel guided.
Here is the Facebook event link for this meditation:
https://www.facebook.com/events/162759648379345/
And the link to the guided audio Youtube playlist for this peace meditation:
http://bit.ly/2YhMNJ1
Please note: this peace meditation was originally recorded to help harmonize the conflict in Iran.
You can simply focus on Virginia and replace the phrase “the situation in Iran” with “Virginia” in Step 2 of the meditation instruction, as well as replacing the phrase “the Iranian conflict” with “everybody in Virginia” in Step 4 and 5.
Instructions of this meditation: (Suggested time for this meditation is 15 minutes)
1. Use your own technique to bring you to a relaxed state of consciousness
2. State your intent to bring peace and healing to Virginia.
3. Visualize a pillar of pink Light, emanating from the Galactic Central Sun and then descending down through your body and deep into the center of the Earth.
4. Visualize this Light flowing through your heart and then through your hands directly to everybody in Virginia, harmonizing everyone and bringing peace. Let the pink Light then flow onwards, healing all other conflicts worldwide.
5. Ask the Goddess presence (the divine feminine) to direct energies of peace and harmony to everyone in Virginia. Let these energies then flow onwards and heal all other conflicts worldwide. Allow these energies to continue to flow through your heart and then through your hands into this situation in Virginia for a few minutes.
You can also build Buddhic Columns upon Richmond or other places in Virginia during the daily Buddhic Column meditation at 3:30 PM UTC if you feel so guided, to help establish a protecting energy grid.
https://www.welovemassmeditation.com/2018/10/daily-buddhic-columns-meditation-at-330.html
Goddess wants peace and peace it will be.
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prepareforchange--2020-01-23--Five thousand inventions in limbo and under “secrecy orders” at the US Patent Office

I wrote and posted this article in 2018 .
I recently revisited it and confirmed how important this information , gathered by Steve Aftergood , is .
For decades , people have been accusing the government of hiding advanced technology .
Here we have a serious clue .
Something in the record and on the record .
It is only a very small piece of the puzzle , but it ’ s a potent piece , if you ’ ll stop and think about it .
The world is waking up to censorship of information by the press , by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we have what amounts to a US government POLICY of censoring certain inventions , groundbreaking inventions .
Here is my brief 2018 piece : How many of these patents , if granted , would be game changers for planet Earth ?
Who knows ?
Buckle up .
Here we go .
From FAS ( Federation of American Scientists ) , Secrecy News , Oct. 21 , 2010 , “ Invention Secrecy Still Going Strong , ” by Steven Aftergood : “ There were 5,135 inventions that were under secrecy orders at the end @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Patent and Trademark Office told Secrecy News last week .
It ’ s a 1 % rise over the year before , and the highest total in more than a decade.
” “ Under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 , patent applications on new inventions can be subject to secrecy orders restricting their publication if government agencies believe that disclosure would be ‘ detrimental to the national security ’ .
” “ The current list of technology areas that is used to screen patent applications for possible restriction under the Invention Secrecy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been denied under the Freedom of Information Act .
( An appeal is pending . )
… ” “ Most of the listed technology areas are closely related to military applications .
But some of them range more widely.
” “ Thus , the 1971 list indicates that patents for solar photovoltaic generators were subject to review and possible restriction IF THE PHOTOVOLTAICS WERE MORE THAN 20 % EFFICIENT .
Energy conversion systems were likewise subject to review and possible restriction IF THEY OFFERED CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES ‘ IN EXCESS OF 70-80 % ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) “ One may fairly ask if disclosure of such technologies could really have been ‘ detrimental to the national security , ’ or whether the opposite would be closer to the truth .
One may further ask what comparable advances in technology may be subject to restriction and non-disclosure today .
But no answers are forthcoming , and the invention secrecy system persists with no discernible external review.
” If you ’ re one of those people who maintains that advanced technology is being held away from the public , here is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stance .
And you can see that breakthrough energy tech , which would radically lessen the need for oil , would be on the secrecy-do-not-release list .
What else is on the list ?
Old Tesla patents , for example ?
The US Patent Office is an official chokepoint for the “ planned society ” —or should we say the “ restricted society.
” But this is not to say advanced technology is always shelved or scuttled .
The patent applications , in suspended animation at the US Patent Office , can be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government researchers engaged in black-budget projects , where the data and the research are turned to “ other uses.
” Innovative inventors , who can revolutionize society for the good , incur risks if they submit their patent applications to the State .
Getting trapped in limbo , while outright theft of their research occurs , is one of those risks .
On the other hand , if a giant corporation has an invention that deploys the genetic engineering of food crops , and adds millions of tons of toxic pesticides to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ review at the Patent Office… Disclaimer : We at Prepare for Change ( PFC ) bring you information that is not offered by the mainstream news , and therefore may seem controversial .
The opinions , views , statements , and/or information we present are not necessarily promoted , endorsed , espoused , or agreed to by Prepare for Change , its leadership Council , members , those who work with PFC , or those who read its content .
However , they are hopefully provocative .
Please use discernment !
Use logical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ own connection with Source , Spirit and Natural Laws to help you determine what is true and what is not .
By sharing information and seeding dialogue , it is our goal to raise consciousness and awareness of higher truths to free us from enslavement of the matrix in this material realm .

by Jon Rappoport,
I wrote and posted this article in 2018. I recently revisited it and confirmed how important this information, gathered by Steve Aftergood, is.
For decades, people have been accusing the government of hiding advanced technology. Here we have a serious clue. Something in the record and on the record. It is only a very small piece of the puzzle, but it’s a potent piece, if you’ll stop and think about it.
The world is waking up to censorship of information by the press, by corporations, and by government. Here we have what amounts to a US government POLICY of censoring certain inventions, groundbreaking inventions.
Here is my brief 2018 piece:
How many of these patents, if granted, would be game changers for planet Earth? Who knows?
Buckle up. Here we go.
From FAS (Federation of American Scientists), Secrecy News, Oct. 21, 2010, “Invention Secrecy Still Going Strong,” by Steven Aftergood:
“There were 5,135 inventions that were under secrecy orders at the end of Fiscal Year 2010, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office told Secrecy News last week. It’s a 1% rise over the year before, and the highest total in more than a decade.”
“Under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, patent applications on new inventions can be subject to secrecy orders restricting their publication if government agencies believe that disclosure would be ‘detrimental to the national security’.”
“The current list of technology areas that is used to screen patent applications for possible restriction under the Invention Secrecy Act is not publicly available and has been denied under the Freedom of Information Act. (An appeal is pending.)…”
“Most of the listed technology areas are closely related to military applications. But some of them range more widely.”
“Thus, the 1971 list indicates that patents for solar photovoltaic generators were subject to review and possible restriction IF THE PHOTOVOLTAICS WERE MORE THAN 20% EFFICIENT. Energy conversion systems were likewise subject to review and possible restriction IF THEY OFFERED CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES ‘IN EXCESS OF 70-80%’.” (Emphasis is mine.)
“One may fairly ask if disclosure of such technologies could really have been ‘detrimental to the national security,’ or whether the opposite would be closer to the truth. One may further ask what comparable advances in technology may be subject to restriction and non-disclosure today. But no answers are forthcoming, and the invention secrecy system persists with no discernible external review.”
If you’re one of those people who maintains that advanced technology is being held away from the public, here is an overall smoking gun that validates your stance.
And you can see that breakthrough energy tech, which would radically lessen the need for oil, would be on the secrecy-do-not-release list.
What else is on the list? Old Tesla patents, for example?
The US Patent Office is an official chokepoint for the “planned society”—or should we say the “restricted society.”
But this is not to say advanced technology is always shelved or scuttled. The patent applications, in suspended animation at the US Patent Office, can be quietly disclosed, for example, to government researchers engaged in black-budget projects, where the data and the research are turned to “other uses.”
Innovative inventors, who can revolutionize society for the good, incur risks if they submit their patent applications to the State. Getting trapped in limbo, while outright theft of their research occurs, is one of those risks.
On the other hand, if a giant corporation has an invention that deploys the genetic engineering of food crops, and adds millions of tons of toxic pesticides to the environment, its patent application sails through review at the Patent Office…
Source: https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/
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