Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Positive Possibilities and Diet Coke Parties


Positive Possibilities are not a party per se, but a new pan-Patria movement that has developed over the course of Campaign 2010 to bring a new dimension to Patria's consciousness and spiritual growth for a new decade. Positive Possibilities' main campaign slogan is "I AM open, ready, willing to be completely restructured around the positive possibilities of the 49th Congress".

Positive Possibilities is a conscious company launched in Toronto, Canada in 2009 by the innovative singer/songwriter/producer/performer Parvati. The company’s mission is to enhance the quality of people’s lives by connecting our communities with products and events that support co-creation through music, arts, education, community, cultures and the environment by bridging the market leaders in holistic industries with the music and entertainment industries. Since Yoga is officially Patria's national sport, Positive Possibilities is taking it beyond the traditional settings of ashrams and yoga studios and into daily life, even seeking to take yoga into nightclubs with its Yoga in the Nightclub campaign.

The Positive Possibilities movement is also seeking to move Patria towards I AM consciousness. What is I AM consciousness? To live in I AM is to live knowing that one's true nature is love, that we are all interconnected and that one is loved unconditionally. To live I AM is to be in service to the creative flow, which is beyond the limited grasp of our ego or personal will. I AM is also related to the IAM (Integrated Amrita Meditation) technique developed by Amma and the Mata Amritanandamayi Math organization.

On the other side of Positive Possibilities ("Negative Possibilities" perhaps?) are the Diet Coke Parties, Patria's version of the Tea Party movement. There aren't a lot of tea drinkers in Patria, and in any case the movement needed a name to distinguish itself from the US bunch of Tenthers, Truthers, Birthers, gun-loving NRA members, economic conservatives, social conservatives, and other assorted hard-right patriots. As in the US, the Diet Coke Party movement an ideological mix of libertarianism and conservativism with the common denominator being lower spending and smaller government.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Who's on your ballot?

Election Day is a little over six weeks away. The campaign is now into the home stretch. Today (March 1) was the deadline for parties to register with the Election Commission of Patria in order to appear on the ballot.

The following are the parties that will appear on all 49th Congress ballots in all 13 Precincts and the Federal District of Castoropolis.
  1. Amrita Party
  2. Chakra Party
  3. Chastity Party
  4. Christian Heritage Party
  5. Family Values Party
  6. Freedom Party
  7. Green Party
  8. Incel Party
  9. Jungle Party
  10. Libertarian Party
  11. Lilith Party
  12. National Union
  13. Party for Personal Responsibility
  14. Peoples' Party
  15. Rationalist Party
  16. Reconstruction Party
  17. Social Democrats
  18. Spiritual Regeneration/Swadeshi Ramrajya Movement (SRM)
  19. Victory and Peace Party
On April 17 voters will have a staggering nineteen parties to choose from, as well as space on the bottom of the ballot for a write-in vote. One or more additional parties may appear on your precinct's ballot, such as Alpha-Omega Party (Caesarea), Lazurian Independent Party, National Democratic Union (Nova Columbia), and the Popular Front of Pottsylvania.