Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster is the grand-daughter of Arthur C. Pillsbury Home. AC, as the family calls him, invented the first circuit panorama camera as his senior project at Stanford in 1896 while majoring in Mechanical Engineering. His highly credentialed senior advisor told him not to bother to try building it. Such an approach was impossible. AC built it. It worked. He left college and went to the Yukon, using the camera to record the opening of the mining fields. In 1906 he used the camera to take this photo of the San Francisco and Fire. That disaster, less serious than the one now facing Americans, moved AC to begin a life long work of creating the means for individuals to see the world as it really is. In 1912 he built the first lapse-time camera to save the wildflowers in Yosemite. In 1927 he built the first microscopic motion picture camera to show scientists and all of us the dynamic, living world beyond their scope of vision. That was following in 1929 by the X-ray motion picture camera and the underwater motion picture camera.
She has been studying the market and economics through the filter of politics and anthropology for twenty years. She began her studies because it became clear to her that those in positions of power were much like her grandfather's senior advisor.
Her political blog is at How the NeoCons Stole Freedom.
She is presently working on a book titled, "Climbing Off the Grids to Freedom in One Easy Lesson."
She has been studying the market and economics through the filter of politics and anthropology for twenty years. She began her studies because it became clear to her that those in positions of power were much like her grandfather's senior advisor.
Her political blog is at How the NeoCons Stole Freedom.
She is presently working on a book titled, "Climbing Off the Grids to Freedom in One Easy Lesson."
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Articles by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
March 16, 2009
Today, getting off the grids is more important than hoarding gold or politics at either the State or Federal level. Go local now and lose your illusions about partisan politics.
March 01, 2009
Today you are deciding what kind of future you will leave to your children and grandchildren. It can be wonderful, more so than any of us could have imagined. Lose your illusions. REturn to Community and make it so.
December 16, 2008
Lying is now considered simple corporate policy. In that way it dovetails neatly with government policy. But you have a natural right to the truth reinforced by the First Amendment to the Constitution. This year give Truth for Christmas
December 12, 2008
The gifts most worth having, that we remember, are the ones that last. They are made of love and tell you that the giver understands what matters.
November 26, 2008
This Christmas can be a time of renewal for all of us. Now, we have the opportunity to see the world as it is, come together, and understand the things that matter to all of us. Give yourself that gift this Christmas, all you need to do it lose your illusions.
November 08, 2008
A little over a year ago I predicted the present melt down. It will get worse. That said, this is still a time of promise. We can change the present course; we can establish for ourselves and our children a future more wonderful that we ever imagined. Go Home to the Real America.
October 31, 2008
National politics is pointless. America was to be the people who govern themselves. That is what we were; that is what we need to become again. Go Home to Community and find America.
October 24, 2008
When you lose your illusions you see yourself and your own actions clearly. We need to see our present circumstances as they are and not as we want them to be. We have an opportunity to take back our country but that window of opportunity will close rapidly. We need to return to the form of governm...
October 01, 2008
Seeing the world as it is, the wizard behind the curtain and reality instead of myth, matters now more than ever. Lose your illusions. Now they could kill you.
September 23, 2008
For two thousand years people have wondered at the message left to us by John of Patmos. Now, we know the answer. What was incomprehensible to him is now seen. In the End Times all, we were told, would be known.
September 11, 2008
Today, September 11th, is a day to remember the dead, and renew our hope. On this, the 7th anniversary of the attacks on the Pentagon and the Twin Towers, we have much to consider. Never in our history have we needed more wisdom; never have we so needed hope. Now cast your mind back in time. I...
September 06, 2008
The fix is in and Sarah Palin as VP candidate will be the sugar that makes it go down smooth.
September 06, 2008
Assault on a Family: An American Family Fights Back
Robert Fields has some questions he wants to ask of Child Protective Services in his home town in Florida. Those questions are, "How much did you make for trying to destroy my family?"
Robert Fields is a good man who knows his own mind and...
September 06, 2008
We can return to a form of government that is directly in the hands of the people. The tools are simple; get to know them and get busy.
August 08, 2008
Arthur C. Pillsbury had a vision. Now it belongs to all of us.
July 25, 2008
Nuremberg send a message that continues today. If you do not follow the law there will be an accounting. Those employed by the American people through government take stock. The time is coming.
July 02, 2008
This 4th of July consider our Founders, the struggle they faced and the struggle we face today. America can dump the FED, and we can find a new and amazing prosperity. The tools are in our hands.
June 28, 2008
American taxpayers fund a racket that wrenches the stomach. That is CPS. Some of those involved claim their are just following orders, others just pocket the bounty on children wrenched from their parent's arms. Nuremberg answered the question of orders; profiting from human trafficking should be a capital offense.
June 28, 2008
Charlie just wanted to be left alone. The CHP just wanted to shake him down. Today Charlie is still winning the war for freedom, one weeping judge at a time.
June 28, 2008
How do you restore the Constitution to the minds and hearts of America? How do you recover when the power elite decide you need to die? Copper Cards.
June 19, 2008
As we all grow more uneasy about the routine tasering of ordinary Americans the question of the militarization of the police has moved from mild concern to major issue. What those in law enforcement are doing is unconstitutional; undefendable. As we saw at Nuremberg, the accounting will come. Read the book that delivers the message; give it to every public official and officer that you see. It could make the different.
June 01, 2008
An honest judge, a prize beyond rubies and diamonds and not to be found in America today. But there are solutions.
June 01, 2008
The largest and most significant power for governance is the people. Government is best likened to the plunger you use to clear your toilet; it is just the tool used by the people to order their business. The people precede all government and possess absolutely the right to alter or change government as they deem necessary. When government gets uppity the people should remember who is in charge.
May 19, 2008
Courts, the IRS, CPS, you name it. You think it is government. It is the system that harvests your money and assets as profits. It is also used on people who present problems to make sure they stop doing that. You need to know.
May 11, 2008
Have no doubt, Social Services has been effectively privatized, that means corporatized. The government that runs it is a corporation that views children and disabled adults, and all of us, as unrealized profits. Their scam is ugly and it is time it was stopped.
April 19, 2008
The things that matter you can keep forever. Remember the shining light in your daughter's eyes when she brought home her first report card? All 'A's. You cried then; now you still mist up when you think about it and now she is a mother herself. Those are the jewels you can hold on to, no matter what. Hold on to what matters now. They are your guide to a future that will enrich all of us.
April 12, 2008
You knew that Cato had a covert agenda aimed at selling us into serfdom. But you may have missed what happened on the way to privatizing America. The Troll of the Roads, Bob Poole is coining money on the program that includes the Real ID, the NAU, and globalization. You need to know.
March 23, 2008
You can help stop the Real ID, the North American Union, and throw a real monkey wrench in the plans the CorporaState has made to enslave you. Find out how.
March 18, 2008
You most likely think that Earth Day is in April. Surprise! You have been celebrating Pour Oil on the Earth Day all of these years. Now, you need to wake up and climb off the grids.
February 06, 2008
The examples of how they steal elections are now thick upon the ground. Now, the most credulous and trusting have to see that elections are easily fixed. Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and now the swath of states that comprise Super Tuesday,...
February 05, 2008
Out of Many, One. The time has come to erase the divisions between us and move forward as one people, starting with clean elections.
June 30, 2007
My family has been celebrating the 4th of July with a reading of the Declaration of Independence for a long time now. I am descended from many families; all of them include individuals who participated in the American Revolution. My application to the Daughters of the American Revolution used Benjam...
January 08, 2008
Cedar Slope is a glowingly lovely place that was homesteaded by Nellie Marshall in the 1881. Nellie was the great niece of James W. Marshal, the man credited with the discovery of gold in California. There is a monument and educational center dedicated to that discovery, which took place in 1848 on ...
December 28, 2007
Future historians will debate the point. Historians being what they are there will doubtless be as many opinions as there are historians.
“ If the Ron Paul Campaign had been competent would we still have taken back America?”
They may hold conferences to consider the points, assay the i...
December 22, 2007
Remember how Charlie Brown always fell for it when Lucy held the football? The “Oh Noooooo! You can't fall for that AGAIN!” moment occurred to me again this morning when I saw the Joseph Farah article about light bulbs. Of course, Farah is the one who makes money writing this kind of drivel. I...
December 18, 2007
Food that costs less and solves your health problems AND builds a new world for all of us.
With the economy tanking and the weight of fear hanging over us, the future looks bleak. Right now many Americans are facing the reality of becoming homeless and hunger and malnutrition will most likely...
December 05, 2007
“ I spent 33 years in the Marines, most of my time being a high-class muscle-man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for Capitalism.”
from War is a Racket by Brig. Gen. Smedley Butler
“All of them are racketeers, but the corporate kinds are nasti...
November 29, 2007
Wednesday morning early the power company came out and turned off her electricity. She was not expecting it; the bill was a little late but she had called. She had decided that the money that had come in would have to be used to pay the mortgage this time.
She is Paula T., a mortgage broker an...
November 14, 2007
Blackstone Group, the giant vacuum cleaner of a limited partnership which was constructed to suck the last bits of capital out of Americans, is now tanking. Goodness knows, it has done its job. On November 13th the New York Times blandly reported that, “ Blackstone’s financial disclosures are more...
November 12, 2007
“You wouldn't spray your child's head with an aerosol can of roach spray because they had head lice. But you might as well if you use those bottles of stuff you get from the drug store.” That was the comment by Steven Tvedten, President of PEST, Prevent Environmental Suicide Today during th...
October 18, 2007
Scientist discovers process that produced the Manna rained down on the Chosen People during the Exodus.
Homer's Odyssey was treated as ancient fiction, bearing little or no relationship to the facts of ancient history until German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann rediscovered Troy using the t...
October 11, 2007
"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator" -GW Bush 12/18/2000
If you were school age in the 1950s to 1960s you probably remember the frightening experience of cowering under your desk. That threat, screaming from posters and from the m...
October 04, 2007
There is no greater need in America today than the need to get the Federal government out of our lives. That is the opinion expressed by individuals across the political spectrum.
America's Constitution laid out a limited role for the Federal government. That role was clearly defined; nearly a...
September 26, 2007
You feel terrible. You are sure you are dying. You don't have health insurance but what else can you do? You go to the hospital, that is the place you have been told will help you. At one time that might even have been true.
There, you see a sweet little lady with forms to fill out who expr...
September 24, 2007
America is now poised for an event that has happened elsewhere in the world but never, for living Americans, here on US soil. That event is a hyperinflation that will destroy our savings, milking Americans dry. Those who planned this event have been in charge of the monetary system, and in charge...
September 15, 2007
Now, our subject for today: Phyllis Schlafly and her well paid work over the last 40 years. Her career was founded on, “A Choice, Not an Echo.” The book, well written and researched, itself turned out to be the persuader that focused attention on Schlafly's potential to feed a disinformation ca...
September 10, 2007
“When in 1951 I was inducted into the CIA as a deep cover agent, the procedures for disguising my affiliation and my work were unsmilingly comprehensive. It was three months before I was formally permitted to inform my wife what the real reason was for going to Mexico City to live. If, a year later,...
August 29, 2007
The encounter began in a stark waiting room in a Japanese hospital in Tokyo. My older sister, Anne Pillsbury Gripp, was occupying a room in intensive care there, having suffered a heart attack while attending an orchid show in Tokyo in 1994. Anne was the owner of the Santa Barbara Orchid Estate lo...
August 17, 2007
America is at a tipping point. We arrived here through a series of incidents and actions, many unintended.. Our tools for creating the world we know were law and institutions, tools we thought would provide stability and order. Instead we have violence and growing fear.
Growing numbers of Ame...
August 03, 2007
Kevin Martin is a name you should get to know. He looks harmless, even as a troll. But he isn't. He is going to cost you huge chunks of money and significant portions of your freedom. Kevin Martin is the Bush Troll presently overseeing the sale of stolen property at the Federal Communications Com...
July 19, 2007
A Recipe and Insight from the life of James Dean.
The Eclectic Sandwich Delight
(Ingredients vary depending on what is available)
Peanut Butter
Strawberry Jam
2 slices of bread
onion so thinly sliced you can see through it.
Tomato “ditto”
Lettuce “ditto”
One of the big, fat dill pi...
July 19, 2007
Ronald Reagan was a wonderful, warm man. He made you love him by small acts of kindness and beautiful gestures.
But what America needed was the simple truth and a champion for individual rights and the Constitution; That Ronnie did not have to give. Today we need that individual even more desper...
July 14, 2007
It probably should have occurred to me that some people reading my article last week, Blackstone Group LP and Your Piece of the Rock would have a more than academic interest in the vulnerability of money held in such instruments as mutual funds. It didn't. So I was slightly flummoxed when I started ...
November 30, 1999
As I write, the richest people in the world are divesting themselves of long term investments. Paris Hilton's personal fortune, something she probably does not know originated from a loan from John D. Rockefeller, will probably receive a notification that her interest in Hilton Hotels has been sold....