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cyber blackmail

2012-01-29T13:20:00.003-06:00

This week, Google announced a new privacy policy effective March 1. The new policy is consistent across the vast majority of Google products, and it’s in English; you don’t have to speak legalese to understand it. But, the new privacy policy makes clear that Google will, for the first time, combine the personal data you share with any one of its products or sites across almost all of its products and sites (everything but Google Chrome, Google Books, and Google Wallet) in order to obtain a more comprehensive picture of you. And there’s no opting out.

Keep fighting the good fight......with your minds as weapons!!!..........kosmicdebris

gonzo

2012-01-16T22:26:00.000-06:00

Category: News and Politics

Holy Shi'ite! Batman
We've been fighting the Shi'ites for a few months now, like 1500 years worth or so, and nobody seems to want to ask the obvious question: who are these loonies, anyway?
Well, for starters, there's that embarrassing name, "Shi'ite." I can't help it if it reminds me every time I see it of a certain four-letter word. But that's not their fault either. I don't claim to speak Arabic….my Spanish isn't even that good….but from what I've read, in Arabic, "shiat" means something like "party," as in political party, and "Shi'ite" is short for "Shiat Ali," which means "the Party of Ali." Incidentally, the Shiites demographics reveal that only 15% of Muslims are Ali adherents, viewing the Koran as mere suggestions (kindda like most Christians view the ten commandants), while the remaining 85% sunnies are fundamentalist Koran thumpers placing the highest value on faith and family. No less vicious really, both dangerous. The one quality I can appreciate about both is that they are not hypocrites. They clearly mean what they say and do…. passionately. In Islam they don't hold grudges they hold decapitations, no lawyers here, just dissections…….hands, tongues, eyes or whatever the offending appendage. Say what you will, it works, crime as well as homosexuality is rare, no bottleneck of the courts or closets here either. The judges are master backgammon players and expert wife beaters. I don't know for sure, but I would have to say that polygamy was a female invention…….that way she only got beat every 10-15 days, plenty of time to heal before the next start, go team harem.
Ali was Muhammad's adopted son. He saved the Prophet's life and became his favorite. Muhammad even gave Ali his favorite daughter, Fatima. But the most important thing to remember about Ali is…..he lost. And Ali's son Husain, another loser, was killed in battle charging the Caliph's whole army with a few friends…..a couple dozen riders against a horde.
To us, that's just stupid. To the Shi'ites, it's glorious. That's what's hardest for Americans to understand about the Shia: they don't think winning is everything. It'd be closer to the truth to say that they think losing is everything, that losing is a sign of being in the right.
The point is, they don't think like us. A whole lot of what's gone wrong in Iraq comes from thinking that everybody in the world wants to be like us. That's just plain wrong. Hell, I'm sure I don't want to be like us. And I know for certain the Shi'ites don't.
We believe in winning. Remember the beginning of Patton, when George C. Scott stands up in dress uniform and says, "No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country……he won it by making some other poor son-of-a-bitch die for HIS country"? That sounds pretty obvious to us, but it's not the only way you can think about war.
In fact I'd say Patton (Patton in the movie, not the real Patton) is wrong. You can kill twenty of the enemy for every guy you lose…and still lose the war. That's what happened to us in Nam. We made a million or so of them die for their country, vs. 60,000 of us, and still lost. The British killed dozens of Kikuyu for every settler or soldier they lost fighting the Mau-Mau, and they still got run out of Kenya. Body count is the WORST way to figure out who's winning a guerrilla war.
If the Shi'ites wrote the script for Patton, George C. Scott would get up and say something like, "Go ahead and kill us…you'll be sorry!" We're talking about a martyr culture here, where dying makes you stronger. You know, that shouldn't be so hard for us to get, because we've got Christ, who won by losing, by dying. But that was a long time ago, and it's so prettified that now anti-Semite Mel Gibson had to make a whole movie to remind people that martyrdom actually hurts, oh the irony. (never watched the movie, never will, the book was good enough for me.)
The Shi'ites' martyrs are a lot more recent. Their favorite disaster happened in 680 AD, at the battle of Karbala. Yup, THAT Karbala…. the same city where we've been fighting Shi'ites for the last few months. Karbala means "anguish." That should tell you something about the way Shi'ites see the world, that they named one of their holiest cities after something we'd call "clinical depression." They're not smiley-face optimists. If a Shi'ite coached your kid's football team, he'd start every practice with a video of the team's biggest defeat: "Yet again we see Jason missing the goal! Truly we AM/PM Minimart-starbucks Big Gulps are out of the playoffs forever and a day!"……..the half time locker-room pep talk at the big OU/TU game: "As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not decomposing……he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting and fragmenting….Darrell Royal, Texas football coach……."so get out there splatter some guts, show'em your spleen boys, hang half a hunnerd pink mist vapors on 'em!! Hooray Coach Barry, Go Boomer Sooner…."
For the Shi'ites, the battle of Karbala is like Christ's crucifixion and the Alamo, all rolled into one: a doomed last stand with God on the losers' side. Karbala was a fight over leadership, the kind you get when an empire based on one man has to deal with that man's death. Muhammad's armies blasted out of the desert in the early seventh century and ended up in control of most of the Middle East. When he died, he left a power vacuum like a black hole centered on Baghdad, the capital of the Islamic world. The winner would become "Caliph"……a pretty cushy job, sort of like Pope and Emperor rolled into one, with total control over everything, religion and government both.
With that kind of power at stake, the feuding got pretty intense. Ali got himself assassinated, which was a tradition for Caliphs…..life insurance salesmen ran from Caliphs like they were motocross riders. His killers, a rich, mean clan called the Umayyads grabbed the Caliphate. This is the key moment for the Shi'ites. The Umayyads won, Ali's family lost. It's time to face facts, right? You can't argue with success, right?
Wrong. The whole Shia psychology is that you CAN argue with success, and you DON'T have to face facts. Ali's son, Husain, stayed calm when the Umayyad killed his dad; he even accepted the first Umayyad Caliph. But when that Caliph died and the Caliphate went to another Umayyad, Husain realized he had to take back the Caliphate or die trying. Husain was riding to a rendezvous with some rebels with only about 30 men guarding him when he found himself facing the Caliph's whole army near Karbala.
Victory was impossible. Escape was impossible. So Husain did what any red-blooded boy would do: he charged. And naturally, the Caliph's soldiers did a Benihana on Husain and his men.
That's the key moment for Shi'ites. The way they see, everything that happened after Husain's martyrdom is sleazy, dirty, worthless. The real world is trash; the only good people are the martyrs. In Shia culture, you ain't nobody till you're dead. The world won't be worth living in until the return of the "Mahdi," the messiah. (You may remember that Sadr's posse is called the "Mahdi Army.") The Shia are the Travis Bickles of Islam: "someday a real rain will come, to wash the scum off the streets," and if they can help it along with a car bomb or two, so much the better.
They have a huge death wish, so naturally their holiest places are tombs. That's why Shi'ites make that pilgrimage to Karbala, to visit the tomb of Husain. Shi'ites commemorate Husain getting himself sliced and diced for ten days every year, slashing themselves with knives and bashing themselves with chains to celebrate that glorious defeat. Ayatollah Khomeini, the biggest Shi'ite hero of the 20th century, used to preach "Every day is the anniversary of the battle, and every place is Karbala." The inspirational message was: wherever you are, go get yourself massacred. What are you doing sitting around breathing? Why ain't you out there getting slaughtered, you lazy godless bum?
And these are the people we're picking off one by one, then bragging about body counts. Still wonder why the war's going so badly?
At the moment, Sadr is toast and the Mahdi-ettes are withdrawing, and Bush's PR guys are claiming Sadr's going into politics to play nice. You have to wonder if they really believe that. I hope not; I hope they're not really that dumb.
Any guerrilla war has lulls, slowdowns, little coffee breaks that last a week, a month, sometimes years. It doesn't mean the war's over. The VC used to go home when it was time to harvest the rice crop; every time they did, the Saigon PR office would declare that the insurgency was beaten. Sadr and his boys are going to work us the way you work a can lid: back and forth, over and over, sheer metal fatigue. They've got a whole new crop of martyrs to worship, and all they have to do is wait for another dub'ya policy mistake to outrage all their followers. One thing you can be sure of, if you're an Iraqi Shiite: outrages are like trains, there'll always be another one coming along, the 310 to Allah. When it arrives, they'll get on board, fight us again, lose again, win the propaganda battle again, and come back a little stronger, with more of the Shi'ite poor on their side. After a half dozen years of lost battles, they'll be so strong we'll be glad to catch the last chopper out of Najaf and let'em martyr each other, instead of paying hundreds of billions of my tax money to be their Santa-Claus bogeyman…………….this will be a continuing saga from the kosmic gonzo files…….I got lots more to say before I leave the on the last train to Christville.
…………………*Special shout-out to Jon D., who sent me a story on Darfur from the Guardian newspaper with a note: "Dude you should check out this sick shit." Well Dude, I did. And it was pretty disgusting. Turns out that while the Janjaweed Arab militia is raping the women in black villages, these Janjaweed women, sort of backup singers, sing songs making fun of the women getting raped. Some of the insults in the songs are a little surprising. For example, one song goes, "You are gorillas, you are black, and you are badly dressed." Who would've thought these Sudanese peasants were such fashion snobs? It's not bad enough being raped and killed, but insulting somebody's clothes…….that's a low blow, ladies. Somebody better call Oprah about this.
………………………Kosmicdebris
PARTIES SHARE SAME RHETORIC

Enough already! When are you going to figure out that you've all been had. It's not that hard to figure out. I know it's supposed to be a secret, but the cat is out of the bag.
Question: Regardless of whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, is your party acting in your best interest? Are you happy with what they are doing on the issues that matter to you? Or more appropriately, not doing? Are you so deeply faithful to your party that no matter what it does, it has to be right?
If so, voters and activists like you appall me. To cast your vote for a party rather than the person is absurd. It is that kind of blind loyalty that has gotten us in the dire situation that we now find ourselves. Please allow me to enlighten you to the reality of the truth.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Democrats and the Republicans are, here it comes, are you ready? on the same team ... . Other than getting your vote, you mean nothing to them! And what they have planned for us isn't pretty. I won't go into that now, knowing how hard the truth is. If you are seeking the truth, may I suggest you start by searching youtube.com and enter: You can handle the truth. Watch and learn because knowledge is power. And if we all don't learn the truth soon, it will be too late.…… signed disgusted voter.
While I am on the subject…….I am an online student of Michael Moore's temple of liberal enlightenment. I am working on my thesis titled "The Hypocrisy of Democracy." here is an excerpt:
The Cheney-Burton company moved its headquarters to Dubai. This is the corporation that provided our troops with dirty drinking water, gets no-bid contracts and will be there forever to facilitate the continued extraction of billions from American taxpayers. This is money that should be used (here!) to build better roads, bridges!, schools and border security systems to name a few examples of lost opportunities because of gee dub' ya's foreign policy decisions based on hidden agendas foisted on Americans using his favorite techniques of deception, misinformation, dirty tricks to steal elections and executive privilege to conceal the process and keep his villainous henchmen anonymous and out of prison, all designed to enrich the energy empire, the defense establishment and other corporations that thrive on perpetual wars.( we wont mention the federal lawmakers that have a vested interest some industry that directly or indirectly profits from the military-industrial complex, on the good senators own home turf, talk about conflict of interest.)
The surge against the insurgents is a tactical blunder and a strategic nightmare, like trying to extinguish a fire with gasoline. The Bush occupation in Iraq opened a Pandora's box that can only be closed by Iraqis politically and not Americans militarily.
Things may seem alright now, so is the tip of an iceberg, that which was hidden doomed the titanic, America may just be using Iraq as a staging area to occupy? Iran?. The Iranians have never stopped arming themselves, or spent many shells, yet. Who knows, Israel is looking at Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. The perfect storm is brewing. American diplomats are finding that it is becoming more and more difficult to keep Israel on the short leash. History has proven that Israel doesn't need US permission to neutralize a threat. ( neutralize, v. a popular military and political euphemism for offensive aggression, formally referred to as an attack) it's a safe bet the jewish state will receive the first nuclear bomb Iran builds or buys, inside or outside king David's borders. So the yarmulkes are motivated, if not poised for self preservation. Seems I read a book that spoke about this revelation. Rumsfield told the truth once when he made the most telling statement: "There are things we don't know we don't know."
Bottom line: Republicans are bullies and democrats are sissys and the voting public ?? the lights are off, but someone's home? Most likely Apathy and indifference.
……………………Kosmicdebris
Runs on tap water.....for real dude.
Category: News and Politics
BIG OIL WILL PROTECT ITS OWN INTERESTS
Anyone who thinks these big oil conglomerates won't do anything to keep those big incomes should know about this report.
A man by the name of Stanley Meyersinvented an engine that ran on water. He had a patent on his invention and was working on establishing production. His amazing invention on his own vehicle got 100 miles per gallon. Not gasoline, one gallon of water. He was offered a million dollars for the plans and the patents, but had refused to sell his invention. He had repeatedly mentioned being threatened by oil companies, but refused to abandon his water car project.
What happened? On March 26, 1998, Stanley was poisoned and killed. He died in his hometown of Grove City, Ohio. Later that same week, all of his equipment and the car that he was using disappeared; stolen! Who killed him? No one has yet been found, but it isn't hard to figure out who benefits the most by his invention not making it to the market.
This one thing we know, Stanley is gone and we continue to buy gasoline at exorbitant prices. We also continue to create global warming at an alarming rate. So what is happening because of the greatest invention of the century? Nothing! Although this could solve most of the world's problems, it makes no sense that after Stanley's discovery, this country has failed to use his technology.
First, the suspicious death of Stanley Meyers, and now the financial rape of the American people by the oil conglomerates. While some of us have had to alter our lives and skip road trips to visit family and friends this summer, Exxon Mobil reports another unbelievable jump in profits this last quarter of some $10 billion.
It is difficult to pay for gas at all without thinking of how we are assisting the thieves in blocking action on global warming. Personally, I have adjusted and plan to adjust even more to living without giving them any more than I absolutely must. Exxon's own report card shows that its contribution to the pollution of the world is up this year by 5 percent. It is not only economic rape but environmental rape too, they are stealing our children's future potential. Water would be so cool, I would love to see every gas pump disappear in my lifetime. Without oil no one from Texas will be able to afford to buy their way into the Whitehouse. Yeah! ………………………………...................Kosmicdebris……………………………….......

2012-01-16T18:31:00.000-06:00

Category: News and Politics
Forth generation warfare
I've decided to step back a bit and take a look at modern warfare, a sort of mid-term summary of everything I've been trying to teach so far. I'll give you the bad news first: no 21st century war is "purely military." The days when countries duked it out on the battlefield are over for the foreseeable future. What we have now is something very strange. It goes by a lot of names, from "terrorism" to "asymmetrical warfare" to "fourth-generation warfare" depending on whether you're for it, against it, or just trying to sound cool. But whatever you call it, the key factor is that it never involves WW-II style conventional war between nation-states.
Oh, there'll be a few good old-school conventional wars from time to time. My favorite is the Ethiopia vs. Eritrea war of the 1980s. And you could include the Iran-Iraq War from that same decade.
But those wars are rare, and going to get rarer. Because there's a much cheaper, easier way to make war. This way doesn't require any of the building blocks of conventional war: you don't need industry, aircraft, armor or massive armies. In fact, this kind of war can be played by any group of wackos that can round up a dozen or so bushwhackers.
All you need is small arms, a grudge and a Toyotathose are the only three commodities most of the world has a surplus of…….. shown: Akmed Cheney third from left (circa 1967 file photo)
It's a heartbreaker for you hardware freaks, this idea that it just doesn't matter whether our tanks are better than their tanks (or planes or artillery or whatever). But it's time you grew up, guys: haven't you kind of noticed that in most wars, the other side doesn't even use tanks, or planes, or artillery (except mortars, which are so portable they can be considered small arms)? You guys are stuck in the dream about a classic NATO/Warsaw Pact Sumo match in Central Europe, and you just don't want to think about all these brush wars. Well, time to wake up. The Warsaw Pact doesn't exist any more, so that war is never going to happen. The fact is, it never was. If the Soviets had sent the tanks into the Fulda Gap, it would have been a nukefest, not a tank battle like Kursk. Not exactly a war-gamer's dream: before you can even get your corps deployed, the whole playing field would melt down.
So I'm preaching real war here. If you want tank duels, go replay the Kursk Salient or project yourself fifty years into the future, where maybe, just maybe, the Asian powers will have a good all-out war. If you want to know about war now, then you have to jump into the weird world of "asymmetrical war."
And I'll tell you: once you make that jump, you find this kind of war is just as interesting, just as satisfying as set piece battles. I made the jump ten years ago, when I realized my hardware research wasn't helping me understand the wars that were actually happening in Africa and Asia. And I'm glad I did, because I understand the world way better than most people. I knew Iraq would go bad because I've studied this kind of war. I wish more people had. Maybe we wouldn't have jumped into this mess.
To get your head around this kind of war, you have to delete most of your ideas about warfare. That's right: get your Black & Decker out of the garage, charge that puppy up, and do some brain surgery on the part of your cortex that stores your favorite ideas about war. Here's a list of War Myths, so you'll know where to drill:
1. War involves battles.
Wrong! Most of the "armies" in the world right now avoid battle and focus on killing civilians. This is the hardest thing for Americans to understand: armies that don't aim at victory and actually avoid battle. So many war buffs who ought to know better just won't see this. If you read military blogs, you know the type: guys who say "we won every battle in Nam!" as if that proves we should have won. Those boneheads at the pentagon! The NVA/Viet Cong strategy was classic irregular warfare stuff, based on outlasting the enemy, not defeating him in battle. When they did go for military victory, like in the Tet Offensive, it was a near-disaster, saved by the other key fact about this sort of war:
2. You win by killing the enemy.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. In this kind of war the enemy wants you to kill a lot of people. A lot of irregular warfare groups start their campaigns with a suicide raid, where they expect to be slaughtered.
3. Hi-tech beats lo-tech.
Not lately it doesn't. Here again it's a matter of you hardware freaks facing hard facts. If we take Iraq 2003 as a familiar and painful example, you saw a classic outcome: our hi-tech beat their wanna-be hi-tech in the conventional battles. Then we started getting picked off by low-tech ambushes where the insurgents used homemade IEDs in combination with old, rugged Soviet weapons like the RPG-7 and Kalashnikov. After 4 years, those simple weapons are still effective -- and they're actually getting lower- and lower-tech! Take IEDs: when the Iraqi insurgents started using them, they'd hook the detonator up to a garage-door opener or cell phone so they could be set off by remote control signals. Our convoys started using jammers to stop those signals from getting through to the detonators. So now the insurgents are using wires or even string to set off the IED. You can't get much lower-tech than a string. And that's why it works, because you can't jam a string either.
4. "Overwhelming force! Hit the insurgents hard enough, and they'll quit."
Wrong. Americans are pretty well anti-death, but lots of other tribes are in love with the idea of the martyrdom thing. Like the Shi'ites, whom I've written about already, some might say with admiration. People who woof about "hittin' 'em hard" haven't thought cold and hard enough about what they mean. We have a problem with the Iraqi Sunnis. There are about seven million of them. All you need for an effective insurgency is a few hundred urban guerrillas (with a much bigger base of civilian supporters). So they're never going to run out of young men. And no overwhelming force short of neutron bombs will solve the problem. Which brings us to another very interesting question, the future of genocide and nuclear weapons. But as long as we're wimping around with this "no nukes" rule, there just ain't no kind of overwhelming force that can convince every testosterone-poisoned Sunni kid to ware crocks and join the Pepsi Generation. Consult your own experience, remember what young males are like! Remember high school PE! How hard would it have been to get those guys, Beavis and Butthead times 80, to plant a bomb or shoot a sentry if they thought they could get away with it, or better yet, be seen as heroes by their fellow countrymen? Teenage boys are the cannon fodder of any guerrilla war, and teenage boys are nothing but weasels who stand on their hind feet sometimes. Meerkat Muslims….Keep that in mind when media types try to hand you our next piece of total crap:
5. People want democracy and peace and all that kind of stuff.
No. In fact, HELL no! Let me repeat your first lesson: consult your own experience instead of believing the talking heads. Do you care about those things….I mean, compared to money and sex and taking revenge on the suburban that cut you off a couple of blocks back? The only ideology I see around me is religion, not God…religion. Most people in the 'quah have a bad case of religion. It takes up all their brain power trying to read the Bible and mind everybody else's business. They wouldn't care if Charles Manson took power as long as he said God and Jesus every few seconds. Out of all the people I've met, I can only think of one who cared about democracy: my Social Studies teacher. But he was one of these decent old…… confused country girls, goodhearted, too soft for Muskogee, committed to ignoring reality. His wife, another big Secular Humanist, left him for a dyke, his students called him "Gums" and he admitted once to our class that he'd lost his Faith. That made him Public Enemy 1 with us Christian Teens for Christ types and he had to transfer to another school district. That's what believing in that stuff'll get you.
If this is a democracy, it's weird how the only people who go in for it are conmen and closet cases like Senator Craig. No normal American would go near it. They know better. We all know local politics belongs to real estate developers at civic level and to the corporations at Federal level. Which is fine with me, and with most Americans, but why call it democracy? Hypocrites!
And as for peace, I was always against it. Peace is for people who have satisfying lives. The rest of us want that flood, that real rain. Like the man said, "Bring it on, line-up and double-up, lets go kick(or save) some Ben laden ass"
Look around the world and you'll see that people are divided into ethnic gangs, like the planet's one big San Quentin. All they want is for their gang to win. If they have any ideology beyond that, it's more of the religion stuff, and you need thorazine to cure that. Sunday-best wearing gang-bangin' hypocrites. The majority anyway. The church we have today is not the one Jesus gave Peter….Martin Luther and John Calvin attempted to fix the deteriorating foundation, but despite their best efforts and good intentions they only managed to splinter Christianity exponentially. One of my earliest childhood memories/traumas was a fight between my Baptist Sunday-school teaching mother and her Pentecostal preacher blood brother. The argument left an early lifelong psychological scar. A vitriolic bible battle, over the same bible, about pre-destination, once saved always saved thing; they never spoke again, I still miss my cousins. Both mom and uncle bill are dead now, I wonder if they have made up yet?
Lets take what we ran into in Somalia, 1993. Half the population of Mogadishu turned on our guys who were trying to provide aid for the starving. They didn't want peace, democracy or any of that shit. They wanted their clan to win and the other clans to lose. And if stopping the aid convoys from getting food to those enemy clans was the only way to win, they were ready to make it happen, ready to die fighting our best troops backed by attack helicopters and APCs. We killed maybe a thousand of these "civilians" and lost 18 Rangers and Delta operators. And the Somalis made the anniversary of that fight a national holiday. It's worth giving a moment to let that sink in: these people fought to the death against overwhelmingly superior US forces, because they wanted their clan to win by starving rival clans to death. Seems to be working.
Yes, Grasshopper, you must meditate on the fact that People are superstitious tribalists. Democracy comes about 37th, if that. Nobody wants to face that fact: we're tribal critters. We'll die for the tribe. More to the point, we'll kill for it. We don't care about democracy. And I'm not just talking here about people in tropical hellholes like Somalia, I mean your town, your street. Most Americans are just like me: old-school nationalists. We want America to be Roman, to kick ass. The rest is for Quakers.
Just remember, everything they told you is wrong. Here's a quick list of the main points. Go and meditate upon them. Memorize them while I whack you with this stick like a good Zen teacher should.
1. Most wars are asymmetrical / irregular.
2. In these wars, the guerrillas / irregulars / insurgents do NOT aim for military victory.
3. You can NOT defeat these groups by killing lots of their members.
In fact, they want you to do that.
4. Hi-tech weaponry is mostly useless in these wars.
5. "Hearts and Minds," meaning propaganda and morale, are more important than military superiority.
6. Most people are not rational, they are TRIBAL: "my gang yay, your gang boo!" It really is that simple.
Well there it is folks, my take on the war, I had to rush and get it all out there in cyberspace this week. According to my stat tracker my files were phished last night from someone in Fairfax Virginia. I know, I'm paranoid by nature, but Fairfax is twenty minutes down the beltway from the pentagon and a bunch of other scary offices in Washington D.C., so it got me thinking. I'd be cool if I did….. That is arouse suspicion, other than my own, my thinking's another blog. Well, oh what a mighty God I serve…….. Ain't scared.
fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons!……………………..Kosmicdebris

war nurd...Gary Breacher

2012-01-16T12:23:00.001-06:00

Where do you live? Now answer fast: Who lived there 300 years ago? The reason you can live there without asking some chief's permission is that your tribe wiped out their tribe. Primitive warfare paid the mortgage on your house, dude. And it happened every bit as cold-bloodedly as it's happening in Africa and the middle-east right now.
Take Montana. Now it's vacation land for every Hollywood leftie but 150 years ago it was up for grabs. As the Anglos muscled in on them, North American tribes fought, negotiated or ran. The ones who fought lost. They won some battles along the way, but they were little tribes against the Anglos, the biggest and scariest tribe in the world. The ones who negotiated knew from the start that the stronger tribe always takes what it wants, sooner or later. The ones who ran faced the same old problem: the only places you could run to were already claimed by other tribes. The only solution, in the simple hard rules of primitive warfare, was to wipe out the other tribe. (remember ol' Josh?)
That was how the Sioux decided to wipe out the Crow in 1860. The Sioux were fierce people. Don't believe that Kevin-Costner Dances-with-Wolves bullshit. The Sioux ate wolves for breakfast. They took what they wanted….land, horses, slaves….from anybody they could. But they were already beginning to realize they couldn't fight the white men. Basically, it was the Navajo vs. Ute story on a bigger scale: farmers always beat hunters in the long run, because they can feed so many more mouths. The nomadic, buffalo-hunting Sioux were some of the finest light irregular cavalry in the world……Genghis Khan would've admired them. But they couldn't cope with the sheer numbers of white farmers overrunning the Sioux lands on the plains.
If you don't believe this is happening elsewhere today you are not in denial, no….not blind either, you're an idiot and a disgrace to the race. And if that last statement pissed you off….then it is a confirmation.

*‘Ethnocentric political correction will betray intellectual honesty every single time PC is challenged.’ Big mountain , what was that business Lincoln said about a house divided cannot stand? Now is it "big mountain or black mesa, Babylonia or Iraq?" *me
The Crow tribe's country, in Eastern Montana and Wyoming, was still beyond the range of the whites, so the Sioux decided to wipe out the Crow and take their land. The Sioux chief made a speech setting out the strategic goals of primitive warfare with classic simplicity:
"Today when the sun sets, there will be no more Absarokee (Crow) left! We will kill all their warriors and even the old men; we will save their young boys and raise them to become Dakota Sioux warriors, and we shall marry their wives and daughters to raise more warriors to fight the whites when they follow us to our new land."
It was a sound plan. It failed because the Crow got word of it. They were waiting when the Sioux attacked. There was a battle…..which wasn't part of the Sioux plan……at Pryor Creek near where Billings, Montana is now, and the Sioux were beaten. One of the ironies of the battle is that Pryor Creek feeds the Big Horn River, where the Sioux were going to win their greatest victory against the whites, wiping out Custer's entire force, 16 years after losing at Pryor Creek.
Even if the Sioux had taken the Crow's lands, it wouldn't have done them much good. By 1900 the Crow, the Sioux and all the other Plains tribes were destroyed. The mismatch was too complete. In a classic primitive-warfare scenario such as what you'd have in Africa, they would have been wiped out, with a few boys spared to be raised as members of the conquering tribe. And that's pretty much what happened: the remnants of the tribes were corralled, pushed onto the least desirable land anybody could find, with their kids sent to US government boarding schools (my grandmother e.g.) to learn Anglo culture. (until oil, coal, gold, or a turd is discovered to be valuable and useful profit centers)
The famous massacres, like the one at Wounded Knee in 1890, where 300 un-corralled Sioux were shot down by the Seventh Cav (which was still a little pissed about Custer, are usually treated as shocking, evil things, "senseless" outbreaks of savagery. That's just nonsense. Massacre is standard primitive-warfare policy for handling prisoners from defeated tribes, especially if they get ornery.
The Sioux who died at Wounded Knee were hard to handle. They were followers of the new "Ghost Dance" religion(Black Elk). Religion is the last refuge of defeated tribes. The Byzantines spent their last days praying, when the Turkish cannon were blasting down the walls of the city. The Sioux turned to Wovoka, a Ute "messiah" who had the word from God that if the Plains Indians danced the Ghost Dance, their ancestors would return, wipe out the whites, and put the Indians back in total control.
If you read what the Ghost Dancers were preaching, you can see that they saw the situation in classic primitive-warfare terms: wiping out the other side totally. If they could've done it militarily, they would've; instead, they dreamed about it. (sound familiar?)
Wovoka's vision was counter-genocide, pure and simple: God was going to create a new layer of soil 30 feet deep, and all the whites were going to be buried under it instant fossilization. The new soil would make excellent grazing…..lots of paleface fertilizer down there…..for the buffalo that God was going to spread across the prairies, and the Indians would inherit the earth.
In other words, both sides were talking genocide, because that's the point of all primitive warfare.
Us Americans can't seem to face facts like that. We're not as consciously cold-blooded or clearheaded as the Brits, who did hundreds of Wounded Knees all over the world without flinching, and without losing any sleep either.
We had to lie to ourselves about it……first one lie, then the opposite one. Right after the "battle" of Wounded Knee, Congress went into a frenzy of patriotic bullshit. They handed out more than a dozen Congressional Medals of Honor, the highest decoration our country has, to troopers who died in the "fight," even though most accounts of the battle agree that the Cav's casualties were almost certainly caused by friendly fire. The troopers had made one of the most basic mistakes you can make in an ambush. They surrounded the Sioux encampment from all sides, so when they started firing, anything that missed its target (and that included two Hotchkiss rapid-fire cannon that could get off almost a round per second) was likely to hit the troopers across the way.
Then, a few generations later, when the Plains were safely turned into farmland, the media started telling the opposite lie, turning the Sioux into heroes and the Seventh Cav into monsters.
It really pisses me off, the way these Kevin Costner types romanticize rebel tribes, once they're safely annihilated. It's been happening for hundreds of years, too. The Brits totally wiped out the Scottish Highland tribes……and they were tribes…..after they rebelled in 1745. It was merciless, classic primitive warfare: men hanged on the battlefield, farms burned to the ground, kids dragged away to be trained as Englishmen, the native Scottish language and songs forbidden by law. And then, once they were sure the Highlanders were gone, the English started romanticizing everything about them, even those dumb skirts the Highland men wore because they were too dumb to make pants that fit.
When I was growing up, Hollywood cinema and my teachers tried to make the Cav into saints and the Dakota into murderers. I wanted to ware that uniform, that cool hat, carry that sword, ride that horse…….I wanted to become a product of that glorified environment, and it was all a bullshit fantasy.
I read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee book in 1975 while serving in the 9TH cavalry, at eighteen years old. History and those that made the headlines of past days were my favorite subjects in school, and I felt betrayed by the sin of omission, by the lies I was taught and the truth I was not taught. I was forced to rethink just about my whole belief system, my faith and the origins there of, my patriotism with regard to my newly forged military indoctrination, loyalties to the cavalry and to my heritage. My psyche was cleaved and polarized from that time on. There are two sides every story depending on which side of the long-knife you are standing. Geography is what separates mankind, think about it, if I was born in Tehran, Iran instead of Muskogee, Oklahoma, the Koran instead of the Bible would be setting on top of my computer monitor at this very moment as it is now. Everybody had a great time crying for the poor Indians but I noticed nobody said anything about giving them back any thing of real value, because dignity is irrevocable, and you cant give away something you ain't got…..no man can. Well……. I guess you can, thanks for the Bible paleface, that is for packing it on the boat. I wonder where the they got it, as in from whom?…..GOD, Wakan-Taka, YHWH, Elohim, Shaddai and 'Elyon, Adonai, Allah…and then there is the secret one that everybody forgot out fear of taking the name in vein, LOVE.
You have noticed that everything an Indian does in a circle,
and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles,
and everything and everything tries to be round.

In the old days all our power came to us from the sacred hoop
of the nation and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people
flourished. The flowering tree was the living center of the hoop,
and the circle of the four quarters nourished it. The east gave peace
and light, the south gave warmth, the west gave rain and the north
with its cold and mighty wind gave strength and endurance. This
knowledge came to us from the outer world with our religion.

Everything the power of the world does is done in a circle.
The sky is round and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball
and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon
does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great
circle in their changing and always come back again to where they were.

The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is
in everything where power moves. Our teepees were round like the
nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation's hoop,
a nest of many nests, where the Great Spirit meant for us to hatch our children.

Black Elk, Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux 1863-1950
Over a hundred years ago Black Elk had a vision of the time when Indian people would heal from the devastating effects of European migration. In his vision the Sacred Hoop which had been broken, would be mended in seven generations.
The children born into this decade will be the seventh generation.
Pray for God's will, then thank Him, amen….
……Fighting the good fight.!
…………………….Kosmicdebris…
What have you got when a drunk horse thief sobers up...

ethnocentrism

2012-01-16T10:04:00.001-06:00

Just the facts:
Ethnocentrism is the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture. It is defined as the viewpoint that "one's own group/tribe is the center of everything," against which all other groups are judged. Ethnocentrism often entails the belief that one's own race or ethnic group is the most important and/or that some or all aspects of its culture are superior to those of other groups. Within this ideology, individuals will judge other groups in relation to their own particular ethnic group or culture, especially with concern to language, behavior, customs, and religion. These ethnic distinctions and sub-divisions serve to define each ethnicity's unique cultural identity.
One must be careful, of course, not to throw around charges of "ethnocentrism" to try to discredit people with whose views we disagree. The best use of an understanding of ethnocentrism is to use it to correct our own ethnocentric attitudes and behavior rather than that of others.
The feeling that one's group has a mode of living, values, and patterns of adaptation that are superior to those of other groups. It is coupled with a generalized contempt for members of other groups. Ethnocentrism may manifest itself in attitudes of superiority or sometimes hostility. Violence, discrimination, proselytizing, and verbal aggressiveness are other means whereby ethnocentrism may be expressed
Proselytism is the practice of attempting to convert people to another opinion, usually another religion. Historically in the New Testament, the word proselyte denoted a person who had converted to the Jewish religion. Though the word proselytism was originally tied to Christianity, it is also used to refer to other religions' attempts to convert people to their beliefs or even any attempt to convert people to another point of view, religious or not. Today, the connotations of the word proselytism are often negative but this blog will use the word neutrally to refer to any attempts to convert a person or people to another faith.
The difference between legitimate proselytism and illegitimate proselytism may not be definable. What one person considers legitimate, another may consider improper or even illegal. Proselytism can include:
No attempt to convert others unless they specifically ask about one's religion….Jewish, e.g."
Preaching…Billy Graham, "
Providing physical benefits in hopes that recipients will be open to listening … Mother Teresa, "
Providing physical benefits only to those willing to listen…homeless shelters, salvation army, "
Providing physical benefits only to proselytes….*Money, Republican party, e.g. * (sorry, couldn't help it, politico-centric, perhaps?)J
Forcing people to become proselytes….Islam, American economic sanctions…..do it 'our' way…..starve, fight or die…choose one.
Why is ethnocentrism bad?
Ethnocentrism leads us to make false assumptions about cultural differences. We are ethnocentric when we use our cultural norms to make generalizations about other peoples' cultures and customs. Such generalizations…..often made without a conscious awareness that we've used our culture as a universal yardstick…..can be way off base and cause us to misjudge other peoples. Ethnocentrism also distorts communication between human beings.
Ethnocentric thinking causes us to make wrong assumptions about other people because ……...(insert skin pigment, religion, big ears, speaks with accent, funny clothes, poor dental /personal hygiene….…..et cetera, et cetera, here……….)
Ethnocentrism leads us to make premature judgments.
"They" may not be very good at what we are best at.
*By evaluating "them" by what we are best at, we miss the many other aspects of life that they often handle more competently than we do.
*(statements that begin with "you people or those people" should be a red flag.)
Some very simple benign examples of ethnocentric thinking. . .
We often talk about British drivers driving "on the wrong side" of the road. Why not just say "opposite side" or even "left hand side"?
We talk about written Hebrew as reading "backward." Why not just say "from right to left" or "in the opposite direction from English."
Ethnocentrism leads to misunderstanding others. We falsely distort what is meaningful and functional to other peoples through our own tinted glasses. We see their ways in terms of our life experience, not their context. We do not understand that their ways have their own meanings and functions in life, just as our ways have for us.
At the heart of this is that we do not understand that we do not understand! So we aren't aware that we can develop more valid understandings about how they experience life.
At the best, we simply continue in our unawareness. Yet this can have consequences within our own society and in international relations. We may be well meaning in inter-ethnic relations, for example, but can unintentionally offend others, generate ill feelings, and even set up situations that harm others. For example, it is easy not to see the life concerns of others (particularly minorities and the disadvantaged) or conversely to pity them for their inabilities to deal with life situations (like poverty or high crime rates). How do we feel when someone doesn't recognize our concerns, or feels sorry for us because we can't "just let go" of a stressful situation?
A lack of understanding can also inhibit constructive resolutions when we face conflicts between social groups. It is easy to assume that others "should" have certain perspectives or values. How often are we prone to address conflicts when others tell us how we should think and feel?
Ethnocentrism is also most evident in international relations, creating conflicts and inhibiting resolution of conflicts. For example, how might our Western binary conflict view of life (A versus B) influence our interpretation of another group's intents when they express a different position on an issue? Is it just another" viewpoint, or is it "against" our viewpoint? If we don't "win" the conflict, will we "lose"? We may have positive intentions (from our viewpoint) in "helping" other groups deal with certain "problems," but how do they see the problem and what kind of solution do they want? Some peoples around the world see Americans as very competitive and violent people, as evidenced by our business practices, Hollywood movies, and events like the Columbine High School massacre. (many perceive the blanket statement: "All Americans are wealthy wasteful apathetic snobs as truth.") How much does this describe your personal experience? How do you think this perception might influence their assumptions about our intents in relations with their societies? An ultimate case of such misunderstandings is warfare, where many people are killed, maimed for life, have their families, subsistence, health, and way of life disrupted, sometimes forever.
There are extreme forms of ethnocentrism that pose serious social problems, of course, such as racism, colonialism, and ethnic cleansing. These views are generally condemned by the world community, but we regularly ignore such cases in the news.
Can better understandings of others' life experience avoid conflicts that drain the resources and well-being of all parties, and instead promote cooperative relations between peoples to the mutual advantage of all?
So here we have a paradox: we falsely assume because we are not even aware we are assuming... and furthermore it is the normal thing to do. We cannot not be ethnocentric, and we cannot will it away or make ourselves have a completely open attitude. Is it ever possible not to be ethnocentric? (we cannot, however.…we can be aware of it)
Raw population statistics overwhelm you. Here's one way of visualizing the world and its economic, housing, health, religious and educational needs:
Shrink the earth's population to one village of exactly 100 people. Apply the earth's racial, economic and other ratios to these 100 people. Here's how this village would look:
Origins: Remember these are one-hundred people not percentages representing the entire globe.
60 would be from Asia
12 would be European in origin
15 would have come from the Western Hemisphere (9 Latin Americans, 5 North Americans, and 1 from Oceania)
13 would be from Africa
Source: UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, "World Population Prospects: The 2000 Revision."
Sex / Gender:
50 would be female
50 would be male
Skin color
80 would be non-white
20 would be white
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census International Data Base, Table 001 : Total Midyear Population 2001, assuming the populations of South America, Asia, and Africa are "non-white" and those of North America, Europe, and Oceania are "white."
Religion:
67 would be non-Christian
33 would label themselves as "Christian", (only six apple pickers)
Economics
20 people would be receiving almost 90% of the village's total income
Housing:
25 would live in substandard housing
Literacy
17 would not be able to read at all
Nutrition
13 would be malnourished
Life and death
1 would die within the year
2 would give birth within the year
Education
2 would have a college education
Technology
4 would own a computer
This list is not presented to cause guilt; although I am reasonably certain it does not; it is simply the picture of reality. This post took a great deal of restraint on my part, meaning I attempted to omit my own crude ethnocentric redneck subjective color commentary. (I bit the crap out of my tongue in the process) I try, I say try to remove euphemisms that shield and sugarcoat our reality with politically correct "NEWSPEEK",

2012-01-07T04:18:00.000-06:00

occupy

2011-11-30T10:01:00.001-06:00

LISTEN LIVE NOW
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http://www.alancanfora.com/"When even one American-who has done nothing wrong-is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth-then all Americans are in peril" Harry S. Truman

Document Your Arrest
Designers have begun to tackle the erosion of our rights. Gabriel Lam has created Miranda, a wearable black box-like arrest documentation device that records video, audio, motion, impact, location, and other data and streams it over cell phone networks to third party observers such as the ACLU. By creating a visual, aural, and data snapshot of an arrest, it can provide evidence of police brutality (or stop it before it happens), or can prove that officers conducted themselves.... Buffalo Springfield

PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THIS ADVICE. A wide variety of people are arrested every day and the majority of the individuals make the same mistakes which make there situation even worse. Many of these reactions are understandable, however some defy logic and reason. Nobody plans on being arrested, but you may be arrested for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Share this with your colleagues, friends and family because it will come in handy for many of you. The basic rule is to simply listen to the officer and do as your told, "Put Your Hands Behind Your Back" and do NOT do any of these Ten Things:
1.Talk.
Do not say a word to the officer. Shut the F. up! I cannot stress to you the importance of this rule. Do not talk! Do not attempt to convince the officer of your innocence. Everyone is innocent, no one should be arrested and no one should be in jail and that is all the officer hears all day every day. He / she does not care generally whether you are innocent or guilty and there is nothing that he / she can do at this point. Most times, when people speak to officers they say something that makes their situation far worse. Keep your mouth shut, there will be plenty of time to talk later.
2.Run.
I said above to listen to the officer and follow his / her instructions. Do not be scared and do not let the liquid courage aka alcohol convince you that you can outrun the twelve officers and helicopter that will track you down. Also, police become highly suspicious that someone running has a weapon and may be quick to draw their weapon. Additionally when they do run you down expect much stronger force used to subdue a fleeing suspect.
3Resist Arrest.
Perhaps the most important thing not to do is touch the police officer at all! Again, sober up quick and follow what the officer says. Many people attempt to bump the officer or swat an officers hands away. This often falls under the assault statutes and now a minor misdemeanor arrest becomes a FELONY. Thus a reckless driving charge leads to a year or more in state prison. Additionally, touching the officer in any way can lead to a batton in the mouth.
4. Believe the Police.
It is perfectly legal for the police to lie to get you to make an admission. The police frequently separate two friends and tell one the other one ratted him / her out. Because of the lie, the other friend now rats the first friend out. Police and detectives also state that "it will be easier" to talk now...LIES!!! DON'T BELIEVE THIS BS! It will only be easier for the police to prove their case!
5. Searching.
Do not allow the police to search anywhere! If the police officer asks, they do not have the right to search and must have your consent. If you are asked make sure you proclaim to any witnesses that "You (the police) do not have consent to search." If they perform the search anyway, that evidence may be thrown out later. Also, if you consent to a search, the officers may find something that you had no idea you had placed somewhere, ie: marijuana left by a friend.
6. Look At Places Where You, Want Police to Search.
Police are trained to watch you and react to you. They know that you are nervous and scared and many people look to the areas that they don't want the police to search. Do not react to the search and do not answer any questions. LOOK DOWN AND KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!!!
7. Do Not Talk Shit to the Police.
I don't care if you have been wrongly arrested and the true culprit is standing in front of you. Don't talk shit! Police hear all day that my dad is the Governor's Assistant's Intern and I will have your badge for this! Police have a lot of discretion in the upcoming charges brought. Police can add charges, change a misdemeanor to a felony, or even talk to the prosecutor that is ultimately prosecuting you.
8. If Police Come to Your Home, Do not Let Them In and Do Not Step Outside Your Home
If the police are confident you have committed a felony, they are coming in anyway, because they generally don't need an arrest warrant. Make it clear to the police by stating: "No you may not come in", or "I am comfortable talking right here", or "You need a search warrant to enter my home." If they return, your attorney can arrange for you to turn yourself in should that be necessary and you will spend no time in jail between the hearings.
9. Outside Your Home Arrested, Do Not Accept Offer to Go In Your Home for Anything.
The officer may say to you, how about you go inside and change, freshen up, talk to your wife, husband, get a jacket, or any other reason. The police will graciously escort you in and then tear your home apart searching through it. Also, do not let them secure your car. Your car is fine. Remember they are lying to you. They don't give a damn if you are really cold or if you need to talk to your wife or husband.
10. Don't say a word.
It's incredible how many people feel that they can convince the officer, the booking officer or a detective (if your case reaches that stature) that they are not guilty. YOUR CASE IS NOT DECIDED BY THESE PEOPLE. They have no affect on your records. Wait to speak to your lawyer! The courts give enormous weight to "confessions" during this stage. A suspect is almost NEVER released after being arrested.
Follow these ten simply rules religiously and many of your rights will remain intact. I don't care how nervous, scared or drunk you are, THESE RULES ARE VERY IMPORTANT, and will help you tremendously in the short and long run.
Quick Test Question
An altercation occurs with your live in girlfriend. When the police arrive they find you on the sidewalk, a few houses down the street. Your girlfriend points you out and the officers then arrest you for assault. During the arrest, they let you know that they do not intend to question you. They just need your name and address. What do you do?
Answer
Well the police are lying to you and rule number 1 is to keep your mouth shut, so you don't say anything. Your name is all you may need to give. If you give your address, that may indicate that you live together converting your alleged crime from a misdemeanor to a felony. An officer will attempt to get you to make an admission, especially when they have no evidence. KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!
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I have a few more practical suggestions. I am not trying to sound alarmist anymore because nothing can surprise me the days, my paradigm has totally shifted!! Hell I am not even a realist anymore, I’m more of an acceptance-ist?, working on the courage to change. A few thoughts from experience, some observations and critical scenarios I have put under scrutiny. In no priority, but to be aware.

We are non-violent, we are not there to shout down the oppressors, we are there to make a statement, an appeal to the American public, the neocon’s call them talking points, if you cant defend your position verbally, keep your mouth shut…and the media ignore us we have a constitutional right to petition the gobernment, you will, like above, appear smarter and above abusive and petty “might make right arguments“….note them as fools and walk around them…find the PRESS, the press will ignore until all of us get out in any real numbers, and show them how many of us believe there is a better way.. because we have the capacity to reason, violent denomination is counter to most all life sustaining mechanisms and organisms our current path is seppuku.

representing our selves and the country we love.
We do not owe our loyalties to a party or a family, we owe our loyalties to our country, our nation, the liberty of the people, the very land we stand upon.
The bush regime is not the commander in chief of me.
The money congress spends is our money, period! .we got the sheet music to a new musical chair game.
All three branches of government belong to the people, accountable by our proxy
Out supreme court is impotent, both figurative and literal…?
We want everyone in the bush held accountable, start to finish, to impeach bush now would be a pardon,
We will spend our money on education and infrastructure instead of arms, aircraft and illegal wars, spying on people, star wars shit?. Our security depends on the quality of character of our educators be they in the home or state, fear and demagoguery will no longer be tolerated.
Our continental borders will be secure when we quit arming everyone. guns, drugs, intel money
I personally didn’t ask bush to beg the Saudi for the second time for more gas, then go to isreal and kiss ass……saying basically that at least 290 million of us don’t mean fuck to you…….much less what the rest of the world thinks…prince gorge the fool, has selfish-heart been takeN?
Wearechange has identified agent provocateurs. (if you don’t know what agent Pee’s are, well….you might not need to be protesting-war alone at a peace functions). All ways, every minute out, make sure someone’s got your back, and sees everything you see, as above camera phone’s may be our salvation, if possible and even if familiar with the area go ahead and scout out the area of the protest, note the resources and connivances, potential hazards and emergency/escape/evac/ redeploy locations at secondary. rally points
don’t worry about their tesla ray guns the got at big crowds here yet, they are just to serendipity scare us into submission…(if anyone got killed, social change happen for real after kent state, I know, I was very socially aware and a potential target at the time)

Remind them historically when the first amendment doesn’t work, the seconded one will!! And I mean that, there are some mad hostile folks on both sides, most of us true hardcore libertarians have grown weary as peacemakers………some body pick-up the torch or the fire is going out.Country joe

keep fighting the good fight....with your minds as weapons!
......................kosmicdebris......................................

Ultimately, it all comes
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 18:37.
Ultimately, it all comes down to who you know. ie: I was followed on the highway by an off-duty police officer one evening, there was nothing I could do to get him off my ass! He changed lanes every time I did!!! I became so fed up with him following me after about an hour that I got off at the next exit...as you can guess, he followed me! He parked behind me in the right lane of the exit, got out of his unmarked car, came over to my driver side door. I rolled down the window and asked the man why he continued to follow me around the interstate? He said that I passed a car from the center lane ending up in the right lane. I replied, "Yes, I was trying to get you off of my ass, Sir!!! I then pulled out one of my Dad's business cards(my Dad was a Lieutenant on the police force, at that time...he is now retired) and stated that I would be happy to let my Dad know that you followed me for at least an hour on the highway, putting me in danger and the others on the highway in danger with your irrational following techniques. He handed me his business card in return, apologized very nervously and asked me to call him if I needed any legal help in any way in the future and asked me to please not tell my Dad about this. How empowering!!(sp) I have been pulled over for speeding, as well, in the past and got out of it EVERY TIME by mentioning who my Dad is!!! This may sound unfair to those of you that think I used my resources to my benefit unjustly. My reply to you is, your damn right I did!!!; if the police in USA continue to use their resources unjustly, you are damn right that I will do the same to them!!!!

fate, destiny, karma, providence, luck, fortune, coincidence, accident, kismet, chance
antonym: design

Occupy

2011-11-03T22:28:00.000-05:00

Document Your Arrest

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Document Your Arrest.....
Designers have begun to tackle the erosion of our rights. Gabriel Lam has created Miranda, a wearable black box-like arrest documentation device that records video, audio, motion, impact, location, and other data and streams it over cell phone networks to third party observers such as the ACLU. By creating a visual, aural, and data snapshot of an arrest, it can provide evidence of police brutality (or stop it before it happens), or can prove that officers conducted themselves properly.

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the buzz on the net this weekend is that the fema disaster drills currently being held at various locals throughout country may go live....repeat may go live. what does this mean? That a catastrophic event of 911 proportions is possible. given the previous false flag blunder, the neocons have nothing to lose pushing wwlll agenda. again if nothing else but to prevent the eminent economic collapse and maintain american lifestyles at current levels. why is this bad? 1. devastates the population, 2. consolidates the power base of the elite. [nwo], resist shock doctrine and media manipulation. think independently about own personal choices for preservation and significant others...like, all of us are significant. mkay?

attention are you looking for the men behind the curtains of secrecy? these things may be impossible to prove, but painfully obvious for explaining how america went down the tubes so fast....if we could just wake-up and look objectively around. things are not as they seem.......demand truth so at least we can prepare for the hardships to come.

while i do not always agree with some of the content i post, i will stand by them by defending their or anyone's right to speak them....society can only make informed intelligent choices when all facts, both sides of an issue, or all the variable are presented without the ethno and egocentric spin.

keep fighting the good fight....with your minds as weapons!
......................kosmicdebris......................................

repost nothing has changed

2011-11-01T14:03:00.001-05:00

Irwin Redlener: How to survive a nuclear attack

The face of nuclear terror has changed since the Cold War, but disaster-medicine expert Irwin Redlener reminds us the threat is still real. He looks at some of history's farcical countermeasures and offers practical advice on how to survive an attack.................

watch the ending, know what to expect, not as an alarmist, but reality as a realist. ignoring and ignorance will not make this go away, but to happen sooner than later.

Surviving the good fight, with your minds as weapons!!
.......................kosmicdebris..............................

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Nasa's message from Mars: There's water here. I've tasted it

Nasa scientists last night confirmed that there is water on Mars. The space agency's Phoenix lander has identified ice in a soil sample analysed by its on-board laboratory.

Previous orbiting missions had beamed data such as the view of the planet's surface, above. Others indicated there was ice on the red planet - but Phoenix's discovery is the first direct evidence. "I can now say I'm the first mission to Mars to touch and then taste the water," came the message from Phoenix's Twitter feed yesterday.....................WOW!! Why is this not on the front page of every newspaper, magazine, ect. across the globe? i mean, is this history or what?

NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended
07.31.08

This partial view of a full-circle panorama shows NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander and the polygonal patterning of the ground at the landing area. The image is in approximately true color. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University Arizona/Texas A&M University Full image and caption Go to related audio clips Latest images and 3D images Animations and videos

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples. "We have water," said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, or TEGA.

"We've seen evidence for this water ice before in observations by the Mars Odyssey orbiter and in disappearing chunks observed by Phoenix last month, but this is the first time Martian water has been touched and tasted."

With enticing results so far and the spacecraft in good shape, NASA also announced operational funding for the mission will extend through Sept. 30. The original prime mission of three months ends in late August.

The mission extension adds five weeks to the 90 days of the prime mission. "Phoenix is healthy and the projections for solar power look good, so we want to take full advantage of having this resource in one of the most interesting locations on Mars," said Michael Meyer, chief scientist for the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

The soil sample came from a trench approximately 2 inches deep. When the robotic arm first reached that depth, it hit a hard layer of frozen soil. Two attempts to deliver samples of icy soil on days when fresh material was exposed were foiled when the samples became stuck inside the scoop. Most of the material in Wednesday's sample had been exposed to the air for two days, letting some of the water in the sample vaporize away and making the soil easier to handle.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

burning up all the nation's revenue and its infrastructure

They used be paranoid preparation nuts who built bomb shelters for a place to duck and cover during nuclear dustups with communist heathens, but their tangled roots go back to the Great Depression for a reason. If you want to get sociological about it, survivalism started out as a response to economic catastrophe. And now, with a cratering stock market, a housing meltdown that has devalued everything in sight, and skyrocketing prices for food, gas and pretty much everything else, survivalists are preparing for -- and are prepared for -- the rerun. In fact, they may be the only people in America feeling good about the prospects of a major crash.

And the interesting thing about the once-fringe movement at this moment in history is that survivalism has now gone green -- at least in theory.

From peak oil and food crises all the way to catastrophic payback from that bitch Mother Earth, there are more reasons to hide than ever. Conventional society as we know it is already undergoing some disastrous transformations. Ask anyone ducking fires in California, floods in the Midwest or bullets in Baghdad. Maybe it didn't make sense to run for the hills, stockpile water and food, grow your own vegetables and drugs, or unplug from consumerism back when America's budget surplus still existed, its armies weren't burning up all the nation's revenue and its infrastructure wasn't being outsourced to a globalized work force.

But those days are gone, daddy, gone...... >>read more

You tell me........ is this next guy right? partially? Who to believe, another point of view on the weather from a politically incorrect POV.

A few people have e-mailed me, taking issue with my characterization of Environmentalism. Allow me to cite one example of "Environmentalism gone bad" to prove my point. Take "global warming" for example. There have been several studies that show an increase of global temperatures of about 1/2 of a degree over the last 100 or so years. Environmentalist take this data and extrapolate it over the next century and claim that global temperatures will rise as much as 10 degrees, causing floods, famine, etc, etc.

The basis for these wild claims are studies which show a minute change of about 1/2 of a degree over the course of recorded history. But, all of these studies have one basic flaw - These studies rely solely on temperature data collected from weather monitoring stations. Every one of these studies chooses to ignore weather balloon data, which for some reason shows no indications of global warming what-so-ever.

You may be wondering why is there a discrepancy between these two data sets? Allow me to explain. Weather stations are often located in urban centers, and are thus susceptible to the "Urban heat island effect". You may have never heard of this term before, but I'm sure you are familiar with its effect. Have you ever been listen to a news report, and wonder why the temperatures in heavy urban areas are almost always a few degrees higher than the surrounding rural areas? If you've never noticed it before, I'm sure you've heard the weatherman say something like, The temp is currently 85 degrees in the country, 88 in the city. This is the "urban heat island" effect. It is caused by the fact that concrete absorbs more heat (reflects less light) than trees and other vegetation, and some of these weather stations are smack dab in the middle of this concrete jungle. As more areas become urbanized, more of the data which is collected will be skewed by this effect. Don't be alarmed. This does not mean that the planet is warming. It just means that the air inside the few square miles of the inner city is being warmed, but this has no real effect on the planet at large, since urban areas account for a very small percentage of the Earth's surface area - and only effect the atmosphere near the surface of the planet. This is why weather balloon data shows no increase in temperature.

This "urban heat island effect" can easily explain the .5 change in surface temperatures. Any meteorologist can tell you that. When you consider this fact along with the fact that weather balloon data shown NO increase in temperature, the only conclusion one can reach is that there IS NO GLOBAL WARMING! NONE! Any scientist worth his salt would have to agree, yet politicians choose to ignore the facts, and continue citing these flawed studies in order to push through their globalist political agenda. Even worse, anybody that does not fully accept all these theories as fact is branded as a heretic, and an enemy of the planet.

Don't get me wrong. I believe that we should be finding ways to limit pollution and save energy. I just have a problem with the federal government passing frivolous legislation - legislation that will end up having little of no effect on the environment, and will end up costing consumers billions of dollars - and justify these extreme actions with fraudulent studies.
We computer nerds have a saying -- Garbage in, Garbage Out. If you don't have accurate studies on the environment, you will never be able to find out if anything is actually damaging the environment, and therefore, you will never be able to fix any problems. Why are we wasting our time and money with vehicle emissions tests, when there is no sign that it is having any impact on the environment! Emission tests may be warranted in L.A. (Which has a very high population density, unique geographical features, and lots of industry, which combine to produce their smog problem), but leave St. Louis alone! Don't force consumers to waste money on removing Freon if you aren't really Sure that the hole in the ozone isn't natural phenomenon! Don't ban pesticides & other chemicals if there isn't any proof that these things have any significant impact what-so-ever on the environment. If there are any genuine environmental dangers, they will surely be obscured by all of these fabricated studies. wtf????

Official federal studies appear skewed along partisan divides......someone better get this right, our childrens future rides on this gamble. remember a text without context is a pretext. half truths are whole lies when looking at the shadows hidden agenda.

keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapens!!
...................................................komicdebris.......................

Monday, July 21, 2008

MOHAMED ATTA IN OKLAHOMA CITY SEPTEMBER 2001

WORLD EXCLUSIVE! breaking truth............shocking information!

THE LAST NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF THE 911 MYTH
MOHAMED ATTA IN OKLAHOMA CITY SEPTEMBER 2001

By Jack Blood
www.jackblood.com
July 20th 2008

For almost a year and a half I have been in the loop on a most fantastic story involving the Herculean investigative reporting of Chris Emery, Holland Van den Nieuwenhof and crew from www.okcbombing.net

As hard as it was, I kept quiet and off the record, as the team investigated an angle of the 911 terrorist attack of 2001 which had Mohamed Atta (pictured right) and five of his alleged hijackers in Oklahoma City just days before 911, drunk, boisterous and brawling� Not a Koran, or prayer rug in site.

Last week - July 2008, they had reached the end of their investigation, and impenetrable walls of resistance prohibited them from going any further. Last Friday July 19th 2008 the Emery team decided to go public on my syndicated radio show, DEADLINE LIVE w/ Jack Blood. The result of which has sent shockwaves throughout the 911 truth community.

For the safety of all involved, the witnesses wish to remain anonymous until such time they can be guaranteed protection. All of the witnesses have given signed affidavits to Chris Emery. Documentation of the facts and evidence has been tucked away in safe houses in the USA and Canada. The evidence will later be released to Network Media, and the proper authorities.

The story started as the team was continuing their exhaustive research into the OKC Bombings of 1995. Almost accidentally they ran into witness after witness wanting to report that they had seen Atta and five 911 hijackers in Oklahoma City September 6th - 8th 2001.

On September 6th 2001 at 10 AM - 12 Noon - Mohamed Atta and four 911 hijackers were spotted at, of all places, the OKC National Memorial Museum by an employee who later told Emery that the five were speaking in a Middle Eastern dialect, and they had become "boisterous" inside the museum. The employee had to tell them to "Shut Up" and behave themselves or leave the premises. The five left the building immediately after calling attention to themselves.

The employee remembers the five lucidly, as in the entire history of the museum, no one had ever had to be asked to contain themselves. It was burned in the brain of the employee, and was recalled again a few days later when Atta's cold stare was shown back on National TV after the 911 attacks.

The employee allegedly tired to report the incident to authorities but was ignored.

The 911 hijackers seen by witnesses with Atta have been revealed as: Abdulaziz Alomari, Saeed Algamdi, Ahmed Alnami, and Hamza Algamdi. (pictured in order below)

On Friday, September 7th 2001 (evening) Atta and crew turn up again at an OKC bar. ( To be named at a later date, but known to be frequented by police and spooks ) The group returned to the same bar the next night. The five were drinking beer and hard liquor, dancing, and eventually picking a fight with two local patrons. (Again very high profile / anti fundamentalist behavior, not easy to forget)

Atta, according to witnesses was the ring-leader and the one picking the fight, while his four cohorts stood at the ready to jump into the fray if necessary.

Chris Emery and team were able to obtain the Credit Card receipts from that night, and have spent most of the last 18 months attempting to trace the card numbers, and the authorization of the cards themselves. This was not an easy task as you could imagine. When fellow investigators found out what information Emery was trying to obtain, most decidedly bailed on any involvement. What was discovered in the end, was that the sequence of numbers on Atta's credit card revealed a unique application only found on U.S. Government Credit cards. (Arranged such as to simplify accounting structures) Unfortunately, at this time� Any further search for information about the card was halted, mainly through a lack of resources to continue the investigation.

One card number used by Atta and crew had been EXPIRED a full six months before the September 7th and 8th dates the card was used and approved at this local Oklahoma City establishment. ( Now you try to use a credit card that is six months expired and see what happens) This transaction was approved without delay.

But� That is not all. There's more� A lot more!

What can only be deemed as Totally Damning to the case presented by the U.S Government, and the 911 Commission� A fifth hijacker, was back in this bar FOUR DAYS AFTER 911. He ordered the very same brand of hard liquor (never before sold in this bar) as had Atta. It was a unique brand of Dewers. This was also paid with another U.S. Government credit card, also 6 months expired.

On Saturday - 9/15/01 (FOUR DAYS AFTER 911!) a mutual friend of Atta (who shook Atta's hand and said something very briefly in Atta's ear about an hour after Atta picks the fight with two club patron's on Friday 9/7/01) comes back to the club with yet ANOTHER alleged hijacker identified in the photo line up as being Marwan Al Shehhi. (pictured left)

One witness notices this mutual friend of Atta and this new 'guy' are sad and somewhat depressed.

This mutual friend was a regular patron of the club for years and known by the witness as a trouble maker whom he's kicked out of the club several times.

Saturday 9/15/01 this mutual friend brings in Mr. Al-Shehhi and says "they had friends that were killed..." and within seconds of answering this witness, Mr. Al Shehhi jumps over the bar and grabs this witness by the shirt collar and wants to fight with him. The witness pushes Al Shehhi away and yells at the mutual friend "What the Hell is his problem..." or something to that effect...

The witness repeatedly said he will NEVER forget the face of Al Shehhi as it was only 12 to 18 inches away from his for a full 10 seconds before he could push him away and off the bar.

There is much more to this amazing story which we will reveal in the coming days and weeks on DEADLINE LIVE and at www.jackblood.com

The purpose of this article is to lay a foundation to add evidence on top of. The Emery team, including blogger and radio host Andrew Griffin at www.reddirtreport.com will be doing everything they can, along with myself, to see this story through and to hopefully find some sympathetic reporters in the Main Stream Media. We are also seeking honest persons in law enforcement to follow up on leads we currently have.

At some point, like in every story� The search for truth itself becomes the headline.

We are asking you, the people of the USA, citizens of the world, and truth seekers everywhere to help get this story out as is, and to help circulate every new addition to the story as they come out.

JACK BLOOD is a syndicated talk radio host with the Genesis Communications Network.
DEADLINE LIVE is also heard online on www.wtprn.com, and www.revereradio.net
Monday - Friday (4pm - 6pm EDT) More information at www.jackblood.com

More info on Chris Emery and Holland Van den Nieuwenhof can be found at www.okcbombing.net and they, along with Andrew Griffin of www.reddirtreport.com host a live talk radio show every Saturday at 6pm CST: THE RED DIRT REPORT / RADIO FREE OKLAHOMA on www.wtprn.com

Also of note:

On the DEADLINE LIVE interview originally broadcast on July 19th 2008 - Chris Emery and team presented the date of the incident with Al Shehhi as Sept 21 2001. This date has been corrected after re confirming with eyewitnesses to the date mentioned in the above article to Sept. 15th 2001...... full story>>>

more Oklahoma news.....

Recents news... From (TT) Tulsa Truth

TT Weekly#71 (07/19/08)

Hello All,

Welcome to another edition of Tulsa Truth Weekly. This week's articles, petition and videos include;

1) Monsanto film showing

2) Liberty Talk Radio now on RBN!

3) Tulsa Truth on RFOK

4) Let's overturn FISA

5) The Next Battleground

6) Rumsfeld Disease

7) Economic Trouble

8) U.S. Government's Secret Plans

9) Progressive Media & 9/11

10) AE911Truth wants your help

11) Michael Franti, YELL FIRE!

12) Quotes of the Week

1) The World According to Monsanto will be shown on Monday, July 28th, 6:30pm at Hardesty Library. Immediately following, renowned Dr. Andre Kulisz will speak about the topic and lead a discussion. To learn more about Dr. Kulisz link to: http://myfoodforhealth.com/drkulisz%20bio.htm

2) Our friend and fellow patriot, Joe Cristiano will soon be broadcasting his radio show, www.LibertyTalkRadio.com on www.RevolutionBroadcasting.com. This will increase the listening audience dramatically. Congrats Joe!

3) Our friends at RF Oklahoma air every Saturday, 6 - 8 PM on www.wtprn.com, 89.9FM in East Tulsa! Next Saturday, July 26, They will interview Tulsa Truth and Joe Cristiano (Liberty Talk Radio). We encourage you to listen live and call in. (The broadcasts are also archived.)please help support oklahomas own truth movement......

4) Let's overturn FISA! Did you know that Congress has signed away our right to privacy? It’s true! By making FISA law, the President and Congress have made it legal for US agencies to spy on our text messages, email, and phone calls to people outside the US, without any cause, reason or warrant. Help us overturn FISA by sharing your message of support now! http://www.aclu.org/fisaaction

5) The Next Battleground: The World's Food Supply Do you know what's in your food? Did you know that 60-70% of the foods on your grocer's shelves contain genetically-modified ingredients? Who is this courtesy of? Why, none other than Monsanto, the former manufacturer of Agent Orange and contributor to about 50 EPA Superfund sites. If you thought they were bad as a chemical company, wait until you learn about them as an agricultural company.

6) Rumsfeld Disease: http://www.rense.com/general67/rum.htm

7) Ten Signs Americans Are In Deep Economic Trouble: link here

8) U.S. Government's Secret Plans: http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=63810

9) Why Are "Progressive" Media Burying 9/11? Journalists in what are traditionally considered "progressive" and left of center outlets continue, like corporate journalists, to avoid coverage of "unanswered questions" surrounding the 9/11 attacks.

10) AE911Truth.org would like your help. If you know any architects or engineers, please print and send them this "evidence letter". Their goal is to have 1,000+ professionals supporting a new 911 investigation. This is an excellent letter, please open and print: The letter from Richard Gage is found here.

11) Michael Franti, Yell Fire! (music video): http://youtube.com/watch?v=H7WASrQFg8o&feature=related

12) Quotes of the Week:

"The real war is not a "war on terror." The real war is a war against constitutional government, personal liberty, and national sovereignty. It is a war against the fundamental principles of America's Founding Fathers, that America should be a friend and trader with all, but engaged in entangling alliances with none. It is a war against the Bill of Rights. It is a war against the very heart and soul of everything this country has stood for ever since our patriot forebears stood on Lexington Green and Concord Bridge. And this war is not being waged from Baghdad or Tehran. It is being waged from Washington, D.C." - Chuck Baldwin, Founder-Pastor of Crossroads Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida and Constitution Party Nominee

"For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life." - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. - (1888-1965)

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

"A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn't have an air force" - Unknown

We encourage you to forward TT Weekly far and wide. (To opt-out, simply reply and type "delete" in the subject line.) Tulsa Truth shares information mostly dismissed or discredited by corporate media. We can not verify all the facts, nor do we endorse or support everything contained in these e-mails. Please send contributions to support our efforts to; Tulsa Truth, 6528 E 101st St., D1-411, Tulsa, OK 74133. We thank you and welcome your comments and suggestions .

Peace, Truth and Justice, your TT Team

keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons!!
...........................kosmicdebris.................................................

Friday, June 27, 2008

Now Shut Up, Welcome Home, Soldier: the war mainstream media refuses to cover.

Published on Friday, June 27, 2008 by The Black Commentator
Welcome Home, Soldier: Now Shut Up
by Paul Rockwell

There are two kinds of courage in war — physical courage and moral courage. Physical courage is very common on the battlefield. Men and women on both sides risk their lives, place their own bodies in harm’s way. Moral courage, however, is quite rare. According to Chris Hedges, the brilliant New York Times war correspondent who survived wars in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, “I rarely saw moral courage.......Moral courage is harder... It requires
the bearer to walk away from the warm embrace of comradeship and denounce the myth of war as a fraud, to name it as an enterprise of death and immorality, to condemn himself, and those around him, as killers. It requires the bearer to become an outcast. There are times when taking a moral stance, perhaps the highest form of patriotism, means facing down the community, even the
nation.”

More and more U.S. soldiers and Marines, at great cost to their own careers and reputations, are speaking publicly about U.S. atrocities in Iraq, even about the cowardice of their own commanders, who send youth into atrocity-producing situations only to hide from the consequences of their own orders. In 2007, two brilliant war memoirs — ROAD FROM AR RAMADI by Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia, and THE SUTRAS OF ABU GHRAIB by Army Reservist Aidan Delgado — appeared in print. In March 2008, at the Winter Soldier investigation just outside Washington D.C., hard-core U.S. Iraqi veterans, some shaking at the podium, some in tears, unburdened their souls. Jon Michael Turner described the horrific incident in which, on April 28, 2008, he shot an Iraqi boy in front of his father. His commanding officer congratulated him for “the kill.” To a stunned audience, Turner presented a photo of the boy’s skull, and said: “I am sorry for the hate and destruction I have inflicted on innocent people.”

The Winter Soldier investigation was followed by the publication of COLLATERAL DAMAGE: AMERICA’S WAR AGAINST IRAQI CIVILIANS, by Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian. Based on hundreds of hours of taped interviews with Iraqi combat veterans, this pioneering work on the catastrophe in Iraq includes the largest number of eyewitness accounts from U.S. military personnel on record.

The Courage to Resist
We cannot understand the psychological and moral significance of military resistance unless we recognize the social forces that stifle conscience and human individuality in military life. Gwen Dyer, historian of war, writes that ordinarily, “Men will kill under compulsion. Men will do almost anything if they know it is expected of them and they are under strong social pressure to comply.” “Only exceptional people resist atrocity,” writes psychiatrist Robert Lifton.

How much easier it is to surrender to the will of superiors, to merge into the anonymity of the group. It takes uncommon courage to resist military powers of intimidation, peer pressure, and the atmosphere of racism and hate that drives all imperial wars.

Silencing the Witnesses to War
War crimes are collective in nature. Especially in wars based on fraud, soldiers are expected to lie — to their country, to their community, even to themselves.

The silencing process begins on the battlefield in the presence of officers, power-holders who seek to nullify the perceptions and personal experience of troops under their command.

In his war memoir, Aidan Delgado describes attempts of his commanders to suppress the truth about Abu Ghraib. First his captain says the Army has nothing to hide, Abu Ghraib is just a rumor. But then the captain continues: “We don’t need to air our dirty laundry in public. If you have photos that you’re not supposed to have, get rid of them. Don’t talk about this to anyone, don’t write about it to anyone back home.” In the U.S. military, the truth is seditious.

Two years ago, Marine Sergeant Jimmy Massey published his riveting autobiography (written with Natasha Saulnier) in France and Spain. How the Marine Corps - through indoctrination and intimidation - transforms a homeboy from the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina into a professional killer who murders “innocent people for his government” is the subject of Massey’s unsettling, impassioned, Jar-head raunchy, and ultimately uplifting memoir, COWBOYS FROM HELL. (No U.S. publisher has picked up the book. A Marine who speaks truth to power is not without honor save in his own country.) In Chapter 18, Jimmy describes a seemingly minor encounter with his captain. Here Massey gives us a look into the process of human denial in its early phase.

Massey has just participated in a checkpoint massacre of civilians. His sense of decency, his sanity, is still in tact. Like any normal human being, he is distraught. The carnage of the war, the imbalance of power between the biggest war machine in history and a suffering people devoid of tanks and air power — the sheer injustice of it all — begins to take its toll on Massey’s conscience.

In the wake of the horrific events of the day, his captain is cool. He walks up to Massey and asks; “Are you doing all right, Staff Sergeant?” Massey responds: “No, sir. I am not doing O.K. Today was a bad day. We killed a lot of innocent civilians.”

Fully of aware of the civilian carnage, his captain asserts: “No, today was a good day.”
Relatives wailing, cars destroyed, blood all over the ground, Marines celebrating, civilians dead, and “it was good day”!

The Massey incident goes beyond the mendacity of military life. It concerns the control, the dehumanization of the psyches of our troops.

As one Vietnam veteran put it years ago: “They kept fucking with my mind.” ....read more>>>

fighting the good, with your minds as weaponz.....................
..................kosmicdebris..............................................................

TED | About TED | TEDTalks

summer watching..................................Ideas worth speading!!

Top 10 TEDTalks of all time
1. Jill Bolte Taylor: "My stroke of insight"
2. Jeff Han: "Touchscreen demo foreshadows the iPhone"
3. David Gallo: "Underwater astonishments"
4. Blaise Aguera y Arcas: "Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo"
5. Arthur Benjamin: "Lightning calculation and other 'Mathemagic'"
6. Sir Ken Robinson: "Do schools kill creativity?"
7. Hans Rosling: "The best stats you've ever seen"
8. Tony Robbins: "Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better"
9. Al Gore: "15 ways to avert a climate crisis"
10. Johnny Lee: "Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote"

(as of June 2008)

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Sunday, June 22, 2008

belowgroundsurface.org

belowgroundsurface.org

thank you Amy, stand for 'democracy now'!!

kosmicdebris......

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes had justified the sterilization of 17-year-old Carrie Buck on the grounds that “three generations of imbeciles [were]..?

Posted on Jun 20, 2008
By Tony Platt

The 1942 U.S. Supreme Court case of Skinner v. Oklahoma is remembered for protecting “the right to have offspring,” and by implication the right not to have offspring. Skinner, according to Victoria Nourse, the author of an important new book on American eugenics, typically “sits in the shadow of the abortion and gay marriage debates.”

“In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics” demonstrates that Skinner also opens a window into a little-known chapter of American eugenics: how prisoners at a hardscrabble prison in Oklahoma in the aftermath of the Depression led a sophisticated struggle to limit the practice of compulsory sterilization in the United States.

Much has been written about the history of eugenics, but until publication of this book we knew little about how eugenic sterilization was used in prisons and against men, and even less about the views of its targeted victims. It’s a lively tale, well told, until the author, a law professor at Emory University, tries her hand at historical generalizations.

In Reckless Hands
By Victoria F. Nourse
W. W. Norton, 256 pages

At the core of eugenics was a belief in a central role of heredity in both determining and explaining social inequality. Influenced by 19th-century developments in genetics, medicine and public health, eugenics was not a crank science. At the height of its influence, support came from some unlikely ideological bedfellows. It was endorsed by Fabian socialists in England and racial scientists in Germany; linked to birth control and progressive economic reforms in Denmark, and to racial policies against itinerant gypsies in Sweden; an expression of Fascist ideology in Germany and Argentina, and of cultural hybridity in Mexico; and closely associated with the sterilization of those defined as “feebleminded” in Germany, the United States, Sweden and Denmark.

In the 1930s, Nazi Germany made eugenics an official state policy, first openly sterilizing hundreds of thousands of women, then secretly murdering many of its disabled and mentally ill patients judged leading “lives unworthy of life.” Until the onset of World War II, when selective murder turned into organized butchery, Nazi racial scientists were appreciated around the world, especially in the United States, where eugenics was dominated by right-wing hard-liners.

American eugenicists boosted “Anglo-Saxon” and “Nordic” types as the engine of modern society and promoted policies of apartheid to protect the “well born” from contamination by impoverished and mentally ill “degenerates.” Believing that social failure and success could be traced to “racial temperament,” its leaders advocated “positive eugenics” to increase the birthrate of privileged, white families, and “negative eugenics” to reduce the birthrate of groups considered a burden on civilization.

In addition to promoting utopian visions of a brave new world and exploiting cultural anxieties about racial degeneracy, eugenic scientists were hands-on activists, campaigning against “miscegenation,” and in favor of welfare and immigration restrictions. Their greatest success in the United States during the first half of the 20th century was lobbying for the compulsory sterilization of 60,000 mostly poor women, considered “feebleminded” or “socially inadequate.”
Until recently, the conventional scholarly wisdom claimed that Hitler’s reign of terror ended scientific infatuation with eugenics. Writing in 1963, Mark Heller argued that by the time of World War II, racism ceased to have scientific respectability and “as a result, American eugenics and racism faced a parting of the ways.” In 1985, Daniel Kevles, the distinguished historian of science, similarly made the case that “the Nazi horrors discredited eugenics as a social program.”
But spurred by interest in the relationship between the new genetics and old eugenics, and by concerns about the misuses of science and medicine, a new generation of scholars is revising how we understand the timeline and scope of eugenics. They have drawn attention to the ties between biological theories of race and nation building; to the rebranding of pre-World War II eugenics as population control in the 1950s; and to contemporary uses of hereditarian arguments to bolster anti-feminism and justify racial inequality.

“In Reckless Hands” focuses on the use of sterilization against poor white men in Oklahoma during the 1930s and 1940s and adds a new dimension to our understanding of class prejudices within the American eugenics movement.

In 1931, Oklahoma followed the lead of many states by passing a law authorizing sterilization of persons in institutions “afflicted with hereditary forms of insanity,” as well as “idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, or epilepsy.” The state Legislature added two more grounds for sterilization in 1933: If the patient was “likely to be a public or partial public charge” or was a “habitual criminal,” defined as “any person convicted of a felony three times.”

Two years later, in an atmosphere of moral panic about crime, Oklahoma passed the Habitual Criminal Sterilization Act, which made prisoners convicted of two felonies involving “moral turpitude” subject to sterilization. The state Senate made sure that politicians and their cronies would preserve their right to have offspring by exempting “offenses arising out of violations of the prohibitory laws, revenue acts, embezzlement or political offenses.” /read more...>>>

fighting the good fight with my mind as ultimate weapon!!
................kosmicdebris....................................................................................................

Friday, June 13, 2008

The FreeBees have re-upped it

I hope everyone will forward the Free Bees link to everyone they know. This has the potential to go viral in a big way! Some professional musicians obviously put real effort into making this as good as it is. Not only is it professional, it manages to hit exactly the right note of conveying a serious message while also being hilarious and fun to watch.

I know there was alot of hope in certain quarters that Steve Alten s book would propel 9/11 truth into the big time, and it didn t. This little gem offers greater potential, in my opinion, than the Steve Alten book. That book was over $25, this video is free. A book requires a significant commitment of time, this video can be watched in 3 minutes. You can t forward a book to a friend, but a link is quick and easy.

Why is the potential power of the Free Bees video being underestimated by the Truth community? I think it s because most of us who have figured out the truth way ahead of our peers are by nature serious, disciplined and intellectual. I know for a fact that none of my friends and family will ever plant their behind in a chair and do the kind of research I've done. So there is a reason I know and they don't......

So being somewhat nerdy by nature, Truthers may overestimate the power of, say a recorded lecture from David Ray Griffin and underestimate the power of a terrific little piece of entertainment like the Free Bees video.

Please put yourself in the shoes of every fun loving, non-intellectual friend you have, and consider how much more effective the Free Bees music video could be than mountains of information about the melting point of steel and the speed of the fighter jets that should have intercepted the "hijacked" planes.

I had nothing to do with creating this video, but having worked in advertising most of my life, I recognize a winner. Please do all you can to get it out there, especially to young people who live online and will forward to friends.

The video has been removed from YouTube but is still available for DOWNLOAD here:

http://www.4shared.com/account/file/51127785/2eda57db/Freebees_disco_911...

I'm about to put it on my hard drive so we don't lose it.

Thanks, Sheila

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Arizona State Senator Karen Johnson Honors Blair Gadsby & Brings 9/11 Truth to the Arizona State Senate - June 10, 2008.

keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons!!

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Monday, June 9, 2008

O Reilly producer Porter Barry ambushes journalist Bill Moyers

Disinfo.com - Fox News Producer Ambushes Bill Moyers and Gets Taste Of His Own Medicine: "Fox Ambushes Bill Moyers and Gets Taste Of His Own Medicine

Nicole Belle writes on Crooks and Liars:
At the National Conference for Media Reform, Bill O Reilly producer Porter Barry ambushes journalist Bill Moyers and asks him why he won t appear on The O Reilly Factor. Moyers, a class act to the last, makes Barry look like the small and petty man he is. But the joke is on Barry, because other journalists, including Uptake correspondent Noah Kunin, who got this raw footage, turned tables on ol Porter and gave him a little taste of the FOX News-style ambush journalism. I don’t think he liked it much."

trying to keep it real, news is happening blisering fast around the world!!
.......kosmicdebris...........

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Dan Rather delivered a blistering critique of corporate new

Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather delivered a blistering critique of corporate news on Saturday night at the National Conference for Media Reform hosted by Free Press.

The following are Dan Rather's prepared remarks:

I am grateful to be here and I am, most of all, gratified by the energy I have seen tonight and at this conference. It will take this kind of energy - and more - to sustain what is good in our news media... to improve what is deficient... and to push back against the forces and the trends that imperil journalism and that - by immediate extension - imperil democracy itself.

The Framers of our Constitution enshrined freedom of the press in the very first Amendment, up at the top of the Bill of Rights, not because they were great fans of journalists - like many politicians, then and now, they were not - but rather because they knew, as Thomas Jefferson put it, that, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was and never will be."

...But it is rare, now, to find a major news organization owned by an individual, someone who can say, in effect, "The buck stops here." The more likely motto now is: "The news stops... with making bucks."...........

.....The stakes could not possibly be higher. Scott McClellan's book serves as a reminder, and the current election season, not to mention the gathering clouds of conflict with Iran, will both serve as tests of whether lessons have truly been learned from past experience. Ensuring that a free press remains free will require vigilance, and it will require work. Please, take tonight's energy and inspiration home with you. Take it back to your desks and your workplaces, to your colleagues and your fellow citizens. magnify it, multiply it, and spread it. Make it viral. Make it something that cannot be ignored - not by the powers in Washington, not by the owners and executives of media companies. Write these people. Call them. Send them the message that you know your rights, you know that you are entitled to news media as diverse and varied as the American people... and that you deserve a press that provides the raw material of democracy, the good information that Americans need to be full participants in our government of, by, and for the people..>>>read more

keep fighting the good fight, with your mind as weapons....

WE THE PEOPLE: are responsible for the actions of our government today.

Building A Constituency For World Peace
By Casey Butler
We are America, the City on the Hill: An enlightened land that hosts an enlightened and educated generation. The year is 2008. We have world history at our fingertips - the successes and failures of the entire human race are open to our view. No generation before us has had so much historical and scientific information available to it.

The overwhelming evidence provided through the history of humanity on planet Earth tells us that World Peace is not in the interest of any human government, no matter what it is called, nor is World Peace in the interest of any known organized religion condoned and supported by any human government, no matter what that religion is called.

Recent events testify against the intentions of our own government and the organized religions practiced under it's tax umbrella. In the current conflict scenario known as "The War On Terror", the duly elected United States Government has shown no interest in exempting itself from the harsh judgment of human history. Having rejected the tenets of international law in favor of unilateral gunslinging, history's judgment of the USA will be the same as other outlaw states and empires that have preceded us. Historical comparisons with previous failed governments abound.

Ours is a system of government founded upon the highest of evolved human ideals of justice, liberty, reason, and global human equality. They are ideals compiled and instituted by our founders, ideas evolved through millinea of suffering around the world.

However, since its founding, ours is also a system which we, the people, have evolved our way.
Over the last 231 years, through hard times and prosperity, the last 60 years as a nuclear superpower, we the people have "democratically" re-designed and modified our system to be a government dedicated to the efficient and ruthless advancement of our own interests by threat of force. These interests at which we have become so adept in advancing are best summarized as the interests of acquiring and protecting wealth of embarrassingly disgusting proportions when viewed in the face of the global poverty and suffering that surrounds us.

We, the American People, every single one of us who participates in American society, are responsible for the actions of our government today.

The unvarnished truth is that we have only begun to suffer the consequences of those actions.
In our arrogant determination to protect, sustain, and yet further inflate our acquired wealth, in our paranoia of losing our vaunted "life-style" of unlimited consumerism, we are rapidly descending into a new dark age of self-legislated totalitarianism. On the international "front", to sustain American economic power we have implemented a 'diplomacy' marked by international corporate blackmail backed by economic and military threat. To sustain our craving for non-renewable resources we now justify aggressive and brutal imperialistic hegemony and illegal occupation of third-world nations.

The strategy of the Empire of the United States is the strategy of subjugation, to keep third-world nations in the third world, to oppress free thought there, to limit education and the development of scientific knowledge there.

But we are not that way, you may say. America doesn't support oppression. America doesn't use its power to blackmail. America doesn't attack first. American troops don't kick down doors behind which cower women and children. We are not the bullies we convince ourselves we are blessed to save others from.

But we are that way.

Since the morning of September 11, 2001, we the people of the United States have been on our knees, literally cowering behind the brutality of American military and nuclear power, because we can't face the truth of what we've become over the last 6 decades. The truth is that on the 11th of September some 19 fellow human beings sacrificed their lives and three thousand of "our" lives in an attempt to open our eyes to ourselves.

The truth is that they succeeded.

As a result of these sacrifices and their effect upon the American Spirit, what was America is fast devolving into a house of cards, a house divided, a house built on the sand - politically, economically, and environmentally. More and more of us understand this each day.

The American Spirit we all share is a powerful force. It is the sum of all human Spirit, the sum of all the joy and sacrifice since history began.

It cannot lie to itself for long. Through report after report of killing done in our name, of torture performed in our name, of the suppression of human rights done in our name, of lying and cover-ups performed "for our own good", etc... Our American Spirit has been searing us within, crying out for justice and truth as we live our "lifestyle" - as we play the game of normal-every-day capitalism. So far, other than a few token gestures, some "protests", and many words, we've been "good Americans".

Under direct orders of our designer government we've continued shopping.
History will record our excuses too: "We were just following orders. It was really Bush, Cheney, the Neocons, the Christian Zionists, the Fascists..."

We have an endless list of scapegoats for our own apathy and neglect of humanity.

When does the American Spirit manifest itself? Do we continue pointing fingers while more people die every day? When yet another war of aggression is in the offing? Are we really going to await the next "election" before we stop ourselves? Are we going to watch more blood spilled pointlessly while the "wheels of democracy" turn? And then what? Await still another election, if by chance there are any more elections?

Most of us who understand the nature of this war also know deep within our American Spirit what has to be done.

Yet we continue to procrastinate, many waiting for some Great Leader to arise. We think, "If only we had a Thomas Jefferson...", "If only we had a Gandhi...", "If only we had a Martin Luther King, Jr..."

But we do have Jefferson. We do have Gandhi. We do have Martin Luther King, Jr. We have the words and lives of ALL who have participated in the human struggle for World Peace against the oppression and tyranny of government and the religions that suborn government.

Through these great leaders and many others, the evolution of successful revolution for change is laid out before us on history's stage. We are fortunate to be the beneficiaries of the efforts of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., whose actions made the traditional revolutionary's sword and musket, then machine guns and grenades, obsolete.

Today we know that the most efficient way to effect change in a Western society is non-violent resistance, economic boycott, and the surrender of the very lifestyle that requires the oppression and exploitation of others to begin with.

These modern weapons of revolution, applied without hypocrisy as they have been in the past by Gandhi most effectively, will bring about the societal paradigm change to Peace, if we truly want Peace.

We need to put our money where our mouth is. We need to start a Peace Revolution. Not really even a revolution, more of an exercise of our freedoms of choice to live as a peaceful people. But it is a revolution still.

In order to stop the ongoing bloodshed and oppression that WE THE PEOPLE continue to be responsible for:

We must initiate non-violent civil disobedience now, most effectively by refusing to pay any tax levied by our government, state or federal. WE THE PEOPLE must withhold from our government the means to finance war against any other people.

We must stop buying and selling now. From automobiles to gas to homes to fast food and knick knacks, WE THE PEOPLE must stop contributing to the corrupt corporate American economy that drives this war.

We must surrender our lifestyle now, surrender our possessions now. WE THE PEOPLE must become equal with those whom we have oppressed. WE THE PEOPLE must become the servants, our possessions theirs. WE THE PEOPLE must live as they live until they live as we live. WE THE PEOPLE must eat as they eat, until they eat as we eat. Those who cannot surrender their lifestyle due to health conditions or other reasons must financially support those who can. Our children and grandchildren will not need our possessions or our wealth, they will need World Peace.

We must stop financing any organized religion or any other non-profit organization that is dependent upon tax-exempt status of any kind from the government. All organizations that accept tax-exemption are basically paid to keep silent. They are threatened with loss of their non-profit status if they do not toe the government line, which means convincing their membership to toe the government line as well. WE THE PEOPLE must stop financing all such organizations, religious or secular.

We must show genuine solidarity with oppressed people everywhere. To do so, WE THE PEOPLE must overcome the false barriers erected between humanity, past and present, regardless of race or nationality, culture or religion, sex or any other consideration, now. WE THE PEOPLE must embrace our world and its history as they exist, both the good and the bad. WE THE PEOPLE have created our own circumstances. WE THE PEOPLE must stop pointing fingers, we must accept and embrace who we are and where we are, we must accept and embrace all who carried us here, and we must accept and embrace all who are here with us today.

This is a revolution that will necessarily be spontaneous on all our parts, an action of the individual American Spirit we all share. Such a revolution has been building for a long time, and it embraces all revolutions.

As you can see, there will be no leadership available as yet for this revolution, except from leaders of the past. Those currently running for office hoping to effect change and bring an end to the war are not going to succeed. Our wealth-driven democratic system is too far gone, our "needs" to maintain our lifestyle, as it exists, are too great to allow America to stop. Along the way even the most well-intentioned politician will be forced to compromise through flattery, bribery, and/or political threat.

For the time being if we need a leader to inspire us, each of WE THE PEOPLE, through our American Spirit, can resurrect a leader in our mind as required to help us do our part.

For example, when I was in fourth grade I set out to memorize the first and last paragraphs of Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, because the words just rang so true to me, even at that age. They are eternal words. The parts I managed to memorize read as follows:
"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness..."

"We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states...

"And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

The concepts here, especially the concept that ALL people are created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, will sustain and inspire me through this revolution. To me Jefferson still lives through all of his words. I have resurrected him. He has taken his place as one of my leaders through all the injustice, killing, oppression, lying, and violence that WE THE PEOPLE are propagating today.

What about a living leader for the revolution?

For a living and breathing great leader to stand up and lead humanity to World Peace, he or she first needs a constituency.

Great leaders do not arise from a void. They arise to fill the void created by the will of a leaderless constituency. Jefferson's constituency were the people of the 13 colonies. Gandhi's constituency consisted of the people of colonized India. Martin Luther King, Jr's constituency were the oppressed African Americans of the United States.

Though desperately needed, there is no World Peace constituency around whose members walk the walk described above today.

Let WE THE PEOPLE who want peace resolve to create a living constituency for World Peace now. Let us build a constituency whose ardent desire is World Peace, whose self-evident truths include the rights of ALL PEOPLE ON EARTH to equality, life, liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness within the culture and traditions that best suit them.

Let us build a constituency whose participants are ready to die to bring World Peace, a constituency having surrendered its lifestyle, having stood forth against the aggression and subsequent oppression wrought by our own government to sustain that lifestyle, a constituency having rejected violence and oppression of any kind against any other human being.

Let us build a constituency for that leader of the future who awaits such a constituency in order to lead all of humanity into lasting World Peace.

If we, the American People, the enlightened population of the City on the Hill, do not build a constituency now that is wholly dedicated to Peace among all of humanity, WE THE PEOPLE can read our future in the history books of any failed society that has preceded us.

If we do build it...

My endorsement to the above: what Casey said...........
Casey Butler is an American Spirit, now a Constituent for World Peace.
Kosmicdebris is follower of Jesus Christ's teachings., an American spirit, a constituent for world peace. Patriot For Humanity, -Fight the good fight, with your minds as weapons!
………………….Kosmicdebris…………………………

Saturday, June 7, 2008

A Roy

this particular piece received 2 million, yes, two million global hits!!...a few more than my local news source, about 1,992,000 or so more. gannet wishes, larry fishes. this one....even more.

Arundhati Roy……
The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place. The Algebra of Infinite Justice September 29, 2001.

Where there is oppression, it will always be challenged by those of us who will challenge it with greater intensity, you know? So that's why I don't believe that there can ever be peace without justice, you know? The two go together. And there cannot be peace in the world with full-spectrum dominance or, you know, nuclear warfare or any of those things. They won't help, because always there will be people who demand dignity, who demand justice, who demand their rights.

She goes on to say "Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead."

I expect the dems will go for a tandem American leadership where the line between veep and la’ prez get blurry, post convention. They know for sure they can win popular in landslide fashion and the media cannot stop it, save self destruction. The dems also have populace Edwards for a “kenedi-esq.,” wild card, if either obami or hilly are too damaged post convention.

The thing that bothers me about the split ticket pez, truth is….. they make the most ripe targets for assassins, by so many different factions, together someone could make it happen. Mydoom martyrdom, sort of a bloodless French revolution….ghandi-mlk style. Obama-Billery ticket.

If we have a McCarthy like era targeted at the media, audio visual, news print photo editors, could get messy, considering all the lies and incompetence. Like I said before…this gross breach of public trust cannot easily be repaired. I have nothing to hide, but am bound by conscience to speak out when I witness something unjust, and certainly not knowingly or fraudulently finance some dubious enterprise…

To advocate withholding almost thousand year old magna carta rights? Attention media…did you really think the public was that stupid? Just remember, none of us are as stupid as all of us without your (mainstream media’s) help…you might want to report information as fact before someone comes for you and you have no oracle to speak.

“…It explicitly protected certain rights of the King's subjects, whether free or fettered — most notably the writ of habeas corpus, allowing appeal against unlawful imprisonment. The magna is the historical default document for handling humans when one kingdom or city state conquers or surrenders another.”

As far as I know, as long as there is a monarchy, then it is still on the books and in full effect, to this day, in both England and whales. I thought ours, the us constitution and the bill of rights, was even better at protecting humans. At least more humane, advanced further than medieval Spain.
Justice for Dead Journalists | War on Iraq | AlterNet Justice for Dead Journalists

By Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. Posted May 15, 2008.
A military whistle-blower has come forward with information that contradicts the government's official story about the deaths of two journalists.

This is why I am ashamed of my government, because this does not represent me, the is not what my own government taught me. Yes, I was mad when I realized I had been duped by the people I trusted……but I can get over that. What I cannot let go of is the fact I can no longer trust my government to tell me the truth. That is what makes me want to rebel, this is where I have a problem controlling my passions, when I see cover-up and collusion by institutions I plead my loyalties, was willing to bleed and die for those ideals.

(my guess is the pharma industry has a pill for truth long developed by now, negating the need for torture! Which is more profitable?, the rack or the apothecary? KBR…Kellogg-brown-root or ely lilly, s.c Johnson, dow?)

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.".... Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Communist regime of the Soviet Union has been considered to be evil by a number of western liberal democracies, especially under the rule of Joseph Stalin for its mass persecutions of political opponents, religious, and cultural minorities (e.g. the Cossacks). Also the political writings of Niccolò Machiavelli in The Prince often used by Hitler and Mussolini, are considered to be a source of evil in politics, as they often speak of ignoring accepted morals for the pursuit of ultimate power, as "the ends justifies the means".

Machiavelli favored a prince creating a climate of fear in order to rule a population, rather than relying on popular support. Machiavelli supports the use of deception and manipulation as means to increase a prince's personal power. The following statements in The Prince on how to gain control of a principality show little concern for traditional moral and ethical considerations.

Will history add George W. Bush to the list? ...the ends justifies the means... The world consists mainly of vulgar people and the few who are honorable can safely be ignored when so many vulgar rally around the prince….' '…..Benefits must be conferred gradually so they are appreciated more thoroughly and harm should be inflicted all at once. Both harm and benefits should not serve as quick solutions to problems. Force is the most effective and efficient means to do something and the virtuous prince will employ its leverage. History marches on….truth is truth, a duck is……..to deliberately lose a trick; a cunning action or plan that is intended to cheat or deceive.

The liberal left or the religious right are not off the hook…..Authoritarian, totalitarian, and elements of religious fundamentalism regimes tend to hold a common view that liberal-democratic regimes are evil and blame liberal democracy for high crime rates, profiteering, corporate crime, materialist individualism replacing common bonds of similar people, destruction of culture and its replacement with sleaze. All of which, the regimes claim will result in the destruction of humanity if liberal democracy is not restrained. Therefore, liberal democracy provides the ideal environment for corruption to thrive, greed at all levels of society becomes to rule rather the exception. In other words, we become so open-minded our brains fall out, leaving a fertile breeding ground for state sponsored exploitation of the masses. This is why the u.s. constitution is so important. The constitution protects 'we the people' from our own government. The bill or rights is the guarantee.

Machiavelli wrote: "...there will be traits considered good that, if followed, will lead to ruin, while other traits, considered vices which if practiced achieve security and well being for the Prince," (dub'ya) truth is truth. A duck is….is found all over the world, with the exception of Antarctica, but the prince doesn't care, for that reason we should send him there. History marches on….

The international relations theories of neo-conservatism (neocon), advise politicians to explicitly disavow absolute moral and ethical considerations in international politics in favor of a focus on self-interest, political survival, and power politics, which they hold to be more accurate in explaining a world they view as explicitly amoral and dangerous. Neocons usually justify their perspectives by laying claim to a "higher moral duty" specific to political leaders, under which the greatest evil is seen to be the failure of the state to protect itself and its citizens, not protecting the citizens from the state. Truth is truth, a duck is…. what ever the state labels it. History marches on……

There is a back door to circumvent free speech and the original ideals America was founded on. Dumb down America by omission of certain schools of thought, thereby limiting critical thinking to only the facts presented and imbedded in the education system as a whole. One of the best tools is to limit the information being taught in public schools is not to teach it to the teachers to teach. Every generation is gradually being short changed. I clipped the next piece a couple of years ago to research, some of the items may be dated. I have added to it from things I have found, reading a few books, rereading history, hundreds of hours on the internet, but things have only gotten worse.

I found this trend startling and set out to disprove, I could not, I have now not only confirmed this downward spiral, it is one of the main reasons I have become so political to do my part to reverse this national (international?) conspiracy.

Just because we are told America is number one does not make it so. This is why I stress independent thinking and common sense (rational thought), and the need to become better informed in all areas. Like I said before above: we have become so open-minded that our brain fell out, and developed and an appetite for destruction of the truth. Go look for yourself like I did, a caveat: government statistical data is not a reliable source, tends to only report the positive, withholding negative data is the norm because of political and bureaucratic job security.

Truth is truth, a duck is a….what's a duck? What's that quacking nose? A duck is what politicians do to avoid answering tough questions, avoid lying or telling the truth, whatever is convenient to conceal or promote hidden agendas, dedicated to self service. History marches on….

credit steve ventura....for education work, all verifiable data. my vetting process is much simpler, does what i see match what i hear against what i know? truth somewhere there?

Statistics on American education tell a dreadful story. No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is "No. 1," "the greatest." Our broadcast media are, in essence, continuous advertisements for the brand name "America Is No. 1." Any office seeker saying otherwise would be committing political suicide. In fact, anyone saying otherwise will be labeled "un-American." We're an "empire," ain't we? Sure we are. An empire without a manufacturing base. An empire that must borrow $2 billion a day from its competitors in order to function. Yet the delusion is ineradicable.

We're No. 1. Well...this is the country you really live in: the story of an advanced technological society slipping back to a state of ignorance and superstition. If that sentence seems extreme, consider these facts:

The United States is 49th in the world in literacy (the New York Times, Dec. 12, 2004).

The United States ranked 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004).

Twenty percent of Americans think the sun orbits the earth. Seventeen percent believe the earth revolves around the sun once a day (The Week, Jan. 7, 2005).

"The International Adult Literacy Survey...found that Americans with less than nine years of education 'score worse than virtually all of the other countries'" (Jeremy Rifkin's superbly documented book The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream, p.78).

Our workers are so ignorant and lack so many basic skills that American businesses spend $30 billion a year on remedial training (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004). No wonder they relocate elsewhere!

"The European Union leads the U.S. in...the number of science and engineering graduates; public research and development (R&D) expenditures; and new capital raised" (The European Dream, p.70).

"Europe surpassed the United States in the mid-1990s as the largest producer of scientific literature" (The European Dream, p.70).

Nevertheless, Congress cut funds to the National Science Foundation. The agency will issue 1,000 fewer research grants this year (NYT, Dec. 21, 2004).

Foreign applications to U.S. grad schools declined 28 percent last year. Foreign student enrollment on all levels fell for the first time in three decades, but increased greatly in Europe and China. Last year Chinese grad-school graduates in the U.S. dropped 56 percent, Indians 51 percent, South Koreans 28 percent (NYT, Dec. 21, 2004). We're not the place to be anymore.

The World Health Organization "ranked the countries of the world in terms of overall health performance, and the U.S. [was]...37th." In the fairness of health care, we're 54th. "The irony is that the United States spends more per capita for health care than any other nation in the world" (The European Dream, pp.79-80). Pay more, get lots, lots less.

"The U.S. and South Africa are the only two developed countries in the world that do not provide health care for all their citizens" (The European Dream, p.80). Excuse me, but since when is South Africa a "developed" country? Anyway, that's the company we're keeping.

Lack of health insurance coverage causes 18,000 unnecessary American deaths a year. (NYT, Jan. 12, 2005.) That's six times the number of people killed on 9/11.

"U.S. childhood poverty now ranks 22nd, or second to last, among the developed nations. Only Mexico scores lower" (The European Dream, p.81). Been to Mexico lately? Does it look "developed" to you? Yet it's the only "developed" country to score lower in childhood poverty.

Twelve million American families--more than 10 percent of all U.S. households--"continue to struggle, and not always successfully, to feed themselves." Families that "had members who actually went hungry at some point last year" numbered 3.9 million (NYT, Nov. 22, 2004).

The United States is 41st in the world in infant mortality. Cuba scores higher (NYT, Jan. 12, 2005).

Women are 70 percent more likely to die in childbirth in America than in Europe (NYT, Jan. 12, 2005).

The leading cause of death of pregnant women in this country is murder (CNN, Dec. 14, 2006).

"Of the 20 most developed countries in the world, the U.S. was dead last in the growth rate of total compensation to its workforce in the 1980s.... In the 1990s, the U.S. average compensation growth rate grew only slightly, at an annual rate of about 0.1 percent" (The European Dream, p.39). Yet Americans work longer hours per year than any other industrialized country, and get less vacation time. Economic slavery.

"Sixty-one of the 140 biggest companies on the Global Fortune 500 rankings are European, while only 50 are U.S. companies" (The European Dream, p.66). "In a recent survey of the world's 50 best companies, conducted by Global Finance, all but one were European" (The European Dream, p.69).

"Fourteen of the 20 largest commercial banks in the world today are European.... In the chemical industry, the European company BASF is the world's leader, and three of the top six players are European. In engineering and construction, three of the top five companies are European.... The two others are Japanese. Not a single American engineering and construction company is included among the world's top nine competitors. In food and consumer products, Nestlé and Unilever, two European giants, rank first and second, respectively, in the world. In the food and drugstore retail trade, two European companies...are first and second, and European companies make up five of the top ten. Only four U.S. companies are on the list" (The European Dream, p.68).

The United States has lost 1.3 million jobs to China in the last decade (CNN, Jan. 12, 2005).
U.S. employers eliminated 1 million jobs in 2004 (The Week, Jan. 14, 2004). Since 04, who knows? Government data lag time 2 years, estimates range from 3 to 7 million jobs, depends which duck is quacking, today 07 estimates are conservative. This includes jobs created minus jobs lost, the trend is about 2 million net loss per year and dropping, that is jobs lost increasing. Accurate data impossible to confirm. Shush, don't tell nobody, might create a panic. 17 million illegals just might have jobs here, ya think? Most of them pay federal income tax, is I should say the tax is deducted from their paychecks most of the money stays with the employer who knows the undocumented worker will not file for refunds with the feds, and actively reminds Pedro to do so risks deportation by the la migra offeciosos. Por qua? No la guardia, see.

Three million six hundred thousand Americans ran out of unemployment insurance last year; 1.8 million--one in five--unemployed workers are jobless for more than six months (NYT, Jan. 9, 2005). Does not count illegals and those that quit looking, also day labor, nor those working for cash, drug trade, e.g.

Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea hold 40 percent of our government debt. (That's why we talk nice to them.) "By helping keep mortgage rates from rising, China has come to play an enormous and little-noticed role in sustaining the American housing boom" (NYT, Dec. 4, 2004). Read that twice. We owe our housing boom (bust today) to China, because they want us to keep buying all that stuff they manufacture. American poison toys, conspiracy? To narrow trade gap, who knows, more to the point who's not telling? Wal-Mart toys Chinese lead, ignorant children, stupid adults: connection or coincidence?

Sometime in the next 10 years Brazil will probably pass the U.S. as the world's largest agricultural producer. Brazil is now the world's largest exporter of chickens, orange juice, sugar, coffee, and tobacco. Last year, Brazil passed the U.S. as the world's largest beef producer. (Hear that, you poor deluded cowboys?) As a result, while we bear record trade deficits, Brazil boasts a $30 billion trade surplus (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004). Rainforest is the planets lungs, declining at 10%(?) annually feeding fat Americans.

As of last June, the U.S. imported more food than it exported (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004). Relabeled and sent back as u.s. relief aid, you think I'm kidding. Go look. Product of china, labeled u. n for relief not to be sold. I have got a feeling the food stuff is relabeled again and sold back to us, that one boat load of rice has been around the world ten times, meanwhile fewer hungry, less humans, bigger banks, morbidly obese Americans.

Bush: 62,027,582 votes. Kerry: 59,026,003 votes. Number of eligible voters who didn't show up: 79,279,000 (NYT, Dec. 26, 2004). That's more than a third. Way more. If more than a third of Iraqis don't show for their election, no country in the world will think that election legitimate. Al Gore won the last one here. Us *plebs still lost. *….common people of ancient Rome: the ordinary citizens of ancient Rome, as distinct from the (re)patricians, wealthy

One-third of all U.S. children are born out of wedlock. One-half of all U.S. children will live in a one-parent house (CNN, Dec. 10, 2004).

"Americans are now spending more money on gambling than on movies, videos, DVDs, music, and books combined" (The European Dream, p.28). Future native American survival.

"Nearly one out of four Americans believe that using violence to get what they want is acceptable" (The European Dream, p.32) that one already got his that way.

Forty-three percent of Americans think torture is sometimes justified, according to a PEW Poll (Associated Press, Aug. 19, 2004). As long as it's not themselves,100% agree torture hurts.

"Nearly 900,000 children were abused or neglected in 2002, the last year for which such data are available" (USA Today, Dec. 21, 2004). These are only what's reported to social services. Dead ones don't count, 70% plus of incarcerated adults where also neglected or abused. Psychological abuse accounts for 80% of mental illness, including addictions. Allowing children to be raised by schools and television is abuse and the root cause to me.

"The International Association of Chiefs of Police said that cuts by the Bush administration in federal aid to local police agencies have left the nation more vulnerable than ever" (USA Today, Nov. 17, 2004). The plan is working.

No. 1? In most important categories we're not even in the Top 10 anymore. Not even close.
The USA is "No. 1" in nothing but weaponry, consumer spending, debt, and delusion. Denial
The United States once ranked first in the world in high school graduation rates. We have slipped to 17th (the New York Times, Feb. 1).

Respect for the free exchange of ideas is dimming among our young. USA Today, Jan. 31: "One in three United States high school students say the press ought to be more restricted, and even more thought the government should approve newspaper stories before people read them." Which means that our Bill of Rights often is taught poorly or not at all--a very dangerous sign for the future of our liberties.

The United States is 49th in the world in literacy (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004). Those who can read and don't are equal to the man that cannot read.

We rank 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy (NYT, Dec. 12, 2004). Accounts for acceptance of the 38% tax rate, that's means you only get to keep 62 dollars for every $100 you earn. If you tithe faithfully you get to keep$56 gross dollars or $52 net to buy food, shelter, clothes, heat, electric, petrol, insurance, health care…add sales tax….wondering why you can't save anything or seem to get ahead? If you forgot to vote, that's ok they assume you don't mind the taxes then.

"Our students, a new report has found, are lagging far behind the pace set by scientific whiz kids in Europe and Asia, and the number of Americans choosing science as a career continues to dwindle" (Los Angeles Times, quoted in The Week, Jan. 14).

Thomas L. Friedman reports "a mounting crisis" (NYT, Dec. 5, 2004). "Because of the steady erosion of science, math, and engineering education in U.S. high schools, our Cold War generation of American scientists is not being fully replenished. We've been filling the gap with Indian, Chinese, and other immigrating brain-power. But...many of those foreign engineers are not coming here anymore." He adds that many who had emigrated here have recently chosen to leave, and there aren't enough Americans with sufficient knowledge to replace them. The Chinese lead toy generation.

The Christian right's influence in Congress is no doubt the source of headlines like this: "Money to Fix Space Telescope May Be Cut by House" (NYT, Jan. 23). The Hubble is our most successful space project to date. The Hubble "established the age of the universe at 13 billion years.... Every week, the Hubble transmits about 120 gigabytes of data...the equivalent of 36,500 feet of books on a shelf. More than 2,600 scientific papers based on these findings have been published so far" (The Week, Jan. 21).

Hostility to science exists at the highest levels of our government. "With rising intensity, scientists in and out of government have criticized the Bush administration, saying it has selected or suppressed research findings to suit preset policies, skewed advisory panels or ignored unwelcome advice, and quashed discussion within federal research agencies" (NYT, Oct. 19, 2006).

These stats combine to paint the portrait of a poorly educated people seeking to compensate for their ignorance with beliefs that spread such ignorance further--while the rest of the developed world laughs in pity or contempt, and leaves us behind.

I believe one cannot claim to be a cultured human being without knowledge of the great religions, their histories, and scriptures. The Bible hit America's shores 300 years before the Constitution and no one unfamiliar with the Bible can claim to understand America (which disqualifies many so-called intellectuals). The great religions should be required study in every high school and college, if only because there is no greater historical force than religious passion. But religion should be taught as religion, not as science. Interesting to note the last pope, John Paul II, held the position that creation and evolution do not conflict with current Catholic doctrine.

Makes no difference to me when we got here only what we can do to stay here and advance our society. How to keep adapting to our changing environment with a moral compass pointing toward goodness, the light, away from darkness and ignorance. Hostility to science is spreading, like an infection, to history...

The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, by Thomas Woods Jr., "is being snapped up on college campuses and helped along by plugs on Fox News... Was No. 8 on the New York Times paperback nonfiction bestseller list." The book features far-right revisions of the Civil War, the Marshall Plan, Jim Crow, and the New Deal . It is "one of a wave of books like this." They include Michelle Malkin's In Defense of Internment, which claims that the World War II internment of California's Japanese-Americans was justified and benign; also, a booklet used in a North Carolina school called Southern Slavery: As It Was, claiming slavery to have been "a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence." This isn't history. This is propaganda. You don't justify old internment camps unless you hope to build new ones. That's how I found that list from the friends of liberty website, newly built idle camps waiting to be housed, no one told me I had to go find the truth.

The teaching of history is usually slanted one way or another, but not long ago the blatant distortion of science would have been unimaginable. The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and Maoist China excluded or distorted whole branches of science that conflicted with their ideologies; not long ago no thinking person imagined it could happen here. But it is happening. On a massive scale. From the highest levels of government to the littlest rural school. Power-savvy factions are spreading an easy-to-digest but ultimately fatal ignorance. Poorly educated, well-intentioned, fearful people, craving order in a chaotic world, are eating it up. They're no more or less stupid than the well-informed, but they haven't the resources for research and they've no body of knowledge by which to weigh what they're told. The poorly skilled and scantily educated have nothing to judge information by except whether it satisfies their emotions. If it makes them less afraid, it must be right.

Sam Adams, like many of our founders, believed democracy would flourish "as long as education was extended to the masses." An ignorant people cannot remain a free people.

keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons!!
...............................kosmicdebris.....................................................................

Friday, June 6, 2008

d-day.....operation 'overlord'

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education/ more social problems

2010-04-15T20:26:00.002-05:00

Education

There must be a commitment to a free education for all. There should be free school lunches, school supplies, and free athletic events, free insurance, transportation. If we provided for all children rich or poor then there would be no stigma attached to poverty. All would have equal access to programs offered. Children should not be forcibly segregated by financial status. Offering free education to everyone equally would reduce drop out rates among low income children.

* special supplemental food program for women, infants and children has reduced rates of infants mortality and low-birth weight babies. One dollar invested in pre-natal component of WIC (women, infant, children) saves three dollars in short term hospital costs.

* Prenatal coverage by Medicaid has led to a decrease in neonatal and infant mortality. One dollar on comprehensive prenatal care saves three dollars and thirty-eight cents.

* The success of childhood immunization program has meant dramatic decreases in mumps, rubella, measles polio and other diseases; one dollar spent saves ten in later medical costs.

*Head start has had great results in preparing youngsters for school; one dollar invested in quality preschool saves $4.75 in costs of special education, public assistance and crime.

* extra educational help provided by chapter 1 compensatory education to disadvantaged students has been linked to achievement gains in reading and mathematics; for every 500 dollars annually saves 3,000 dollars repeating a grade.

* Job corps and youth training programs resulted in gains in employability, wages and success while in school and afterwards; one dollar yields $1.45 to the American society.

……………….Education is the most important variable in determining the success of our society as a whole, education or the lack there of decides our social order. How we solve the social problems facing us now and in the future will depend upon the resources invested now into education.

Keep fighting the good fight, with our minds as weapons………….kosmicdebris
　
　

crime/ social problems

2010-04-15T16:23:00.001-05:00

Crime…………
First……….Organized crime(oc) supplies illegal goods and services that are in great demand! For that reason oc fills a need and that leads to it’s existence. Organized crime fills a vacuum left by legitimate entrepreneurs. If victimless crimes were decriminalized oc would be left with products and services that could easily and cheaply supplied by legitimate sources.

Second…oc thrives on corruption on police and government officials for survival and continued profitability. Bribery, campaign contributions, delivery of votes from lobbyist etc…. are used to influence police, city counsels and legislators to look the other way.

One of the most important characteristics of oc is its use of violence to enforce conformity within the organization. There are strict rules for conduct and means of enforcing those rules. Individuals who cheat or fail to meet their obligations are disciplined severely, violence is used to eliminate competition. When rival organizations vie for distribution of a particular service or product the struggle is often extremely violent.

Should we legalize drugs, prostitution…. Etc? wtf?

Keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons……..kosmicdebris

Abortions and bailouts

2009-08-11T21:59:00.006-05:00

Abortions and Bailouts: How Pro-lifers and Conservatives can prevent approximately 400 million fetuses from being aborted.

According to the most up to date estimates available from the National Right to Life, there were 1,287,000 abortions performed in the United States in 2004.

I personally found this number to be appalling, especially considering that three-quarters of women who had aborted a fetus stated that the reason they were getting an abortion was because they could not afford a child. This means that money, the lack of financial security, is the reason for 75% of all abortions performed in the United States. For 2004, that’s equivalent to 965,250 lives being extinguished for fear of poverty.

I found this to be absolutely horrific, however, there is a way to save all those lives and prevent millions of innocent souls from being aborted. The solution is simple, instead of giving $700 billion to rich bankers for their crimes, we could provide financial assistance to all expecting mothers.

The 2007 median income in the United States was $50,740. If we guaranteed that in the first year after giving birth all women would receive the median income in the United States, then approximately 1 million additional miracles, as Bill Hicks would put it, could be born into this world. In fact, based on this median income, the proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street could prevent the next 13,795,822 abortions. At current rates, that’s approximately equivalent to all the abortions that will be performed in the United States for the next 10 years.

But it gets even better than this. The official poverty threshold in the United States for a two person family unit is $14,000. Since fear of living in poverty is the main reason for most women getting an abortion, then if we commit to keeping all expecting mothers above the poverty line, we should be able to save millions of lives not only in the United States but the world.
If we commit to this, than the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street could prevent the next 50 million abortions. Now isn’t that a kicker. But it even gets better than this.

By bailing out Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the United States government added an additional $5.5 trillion to the US national debt. Based on the US poverty threshold, if we guaranteed to keep expecting mothers above the poverty line for the first year after giving birth, then we could save 392,857,143 lives. That’s more than the total population of the United States right now, and 8 times the total number all abortions since 1973 and Roe v. Wade.

If organizations and individuals that cherished the sanctity of life wanted to prevent the majority of abortions in the United States then they could. It is a fact that poverty and abortion are related, so it is up to us to choose what is more important to us, saving bankers or the unborn.

I hope that all those Pro-lifers and Conservatives who think voting into office the same people who are robbing the nation and causing all these abortions get to see these numbers.
Who would you save, the banker or the fetus?

Irwin Redlener: How to survive a nuclear attack

2008-09-13T11:17:00.002-05:00

Nasa's message from Mars: There's water here. I've tasted it

2008-08-02T00:47:00.003-05:00

burning up all the nation's revenue and its infrastructure

2008-07-26T06:19:00.008-05:00

And the interesting thing about the once-fringe movement at this moment in history is that survivalism has now gone green -- at least in theory.

But those days are gone, daddy, gone...... >>read more

You tell me........ is this next guy right? partially? Who to believe, another point of view on the weather from a politically incorrect POV.

MOHAMED ATTA IN OKLAHOMA CITY SEPTEMBER 2001

2008-07-21T21:08:00.007-05:00

WORLD EXCLUSIVE! breaking truth............shocking information!

THE LAST NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF THE 911 MYTH
MOHAMED ATTA IN OKLAHOMA CITY SEPTEMBER 2001

By Jack Blood
www.jackblood.com
July 20th 2008

For almost a year and a half I have been in the loop on a most fantastic story involving the Herculean investigative reporting of Chris Emery, Holland Van den Nieuwenhof and crew from www.okcbombing.net

As hard as it was, I kept quiet and off the record, as the team investigated an angle of the 911 terrorist attack of 2001 which had Mohamed Atta (pictured right) and five of his alleged hijackers in Oklahoma City just days before 911, drunk, boisterous and brawling� Not a Koran, or prayer rug in site.

Last week - July 2008, they had reached the end of their investigation, and impenetrable walls of resistance prohibited them from going any further. Last Friday July 19th 2008 the Emery team decided to go public on my syndicated radio show, DEADLINE LIVE w/ Jack Blood. The result of which has sent shockwaves throughout the 911 truth community.

For the safety of all involved, the witnesses wish to remain anonymous until such time they can be guaranteed protection. All of the witnesses have given signed affidavits to Chris Emery. Documentation of the facts and evidence has been tucked away in safe houses in the USA and Canada. The evidence will later be released to Network Media, and the proper authorities.

The story started as the team was continuing their exhaustive research into the OKC Bombings of 1995. Almost accidentally they ran into witness after witness wanting to report that they had seen Atta and five 911 hijackers in Oklahoma City September 6th - 8th 2001.

On September 6th 2001 at 10 AM - 12 Noon - Mohamed Atta and four 911 hijackers were spotted at, of all places, the OKC National Memorial Museum by an employee who later told Emery that the five were speaking in a Middle Eastern dialect, and they had become "boisterous" inside the museum. The employee had to tell them to "Shut Up" and behave themselves or leave the premises. The five left the building immediately after calling attention to themselves.

The employee remembers the five lucidly, as in the entire history of the museum, no one had ever had to be asked to contain themselves. It was burned in the brain of the employee, and was recalled again a few days later when Atta's cold stare was shown back on National TV after the 911 attacks.

The employee allegedly tired to report the incident to authorities but was ignored.

The 911 hijackers seen by witnesses with Atta have been revealed as: Abdulaziz Alomari, Saeed Algamdi, Ahmed Alnami, and Hamza Algamdi. (pictured in order below)

On Friday, September 7th 2001 (evening) Atta and crew turn up again at an OKC bar. ( To be named at a later date, but known to be frequented by police and spooks ) The group returned to the same bar the next night. The five were drinking beer and hard liquor, dancing, and eventually picking a fight with two local patrons. (Again very high profile / anti fundamentalist behavior, not easy to forget)

Atta, according to witnesses was the ring-leader and the one picking the fight, while his four cohorts stood at the ready to jump into the fray if necessary.

Chris Emery and team were able to obtain the Credit Card receipts from that night, and have spent most of the last 18 months attempting to trace the card numbers, and the authorization of the cards themselves. This was not an easy task as you could imagine. When fellow investigators found out what information Emery was trying to obtain, most decidedly bailed on any involvement. What was discovered in the end, was that the sequence of numbers on Atta's credit card revealed a unique application only found on U.S. Government Credit cards. (Arranged such as to simplify accounting structures) Unfortunately, at this time� Any further search for information about the card was halted, mainly through a lack of resources to continue the investigation.

One card number used by Atta and crew had been EXPIRED a full six months before the September 7th and 8th dates the card was used and approved at this local Oklahoma City establishment. ( Now you try to use a credit card that is six months expired and see what happens) This transaction was approved without delay.

But� That is not all. There's more� A lot more!

What can only be deemed as Totally Damning to the case presented by the U.S Government, and the 911 Commission� A fifth hijacker, was back in this bar FOUR DAYS AFTER 911. He ordered the very same brand of hard liquor (never before sold in this bar) as had Atta. It was a unique brand of Dewers. This was also paid with another U.S. Government credit card, also 6 months expired.

On Saturday - 9/15/01 (FOUR DAYS AFTER 911!) a mutual friend of Atta (who shook Atta's hand and said something very briefly in Atta's ear about an hour after Atta picks the fight with two club patron's on Friday 9/7/01) comes back to the club with yet ANOTHER alleged hijacker identified in the photo line up as being Marwan Al Shehhi. (pictured left)

One witness notices this mutual friend of Atta and this new 'guy' are sad and somewhat depressed.

This mutual friend was a regular patron of the club for years and known by the witness as a trouble maker whom he's kicked out of the club several times.

Saturday 9/15/01 this mutual friend brings in Mr. Al-Shehhi and says "they had friends that were killed..." and within seconds of answering this witness, Mr. Al Shehhi jumps over the bar and grabs this witness by the shirt collar and wants to fight with him. The witness pushes Al Shehhi away and yells at the mutual friend "What the Hell is his problem..." or something to that effect...

The witness repeatedly said he will NEVER forget the face of Al Shehhi as it was only 12 to 18 inches away from his for a full 10 seconds before he could push him away and off the bar.

There is much more to this amazing story which we will reveal in the coming days and weeks on DEADLINE LIVE and at www.jackblood.com

The purpose of this article is to lay a foundation to add evidence on top of. The Emery team, including blogger and radio host Andrew Griffin at www.reddirtreport.com will be doing everything they can, along with myself, to see this story through and to hopefully find some sympathetic reporters in the Main Stream Media. We are also seeking honest persons in law enforcement to follow up on leads we currently have.

At some point, like in every story� The search for truth itself becomes the headline.

We are asking you, the people of the USA, citizens of the world, and truth seekers everywhere to help get this story out as is, and to help circulate every new addition to the story as they come out.

JACK BLOOD is a syndicated talk radio host with the Genesis Communications Network.
DEADLINE LIVE is also heard online on www.wtprn.com, and www.revereradio.net
Monday - Friday (4pm - 6pm EDT) More information at www.jackblood.com

More info on Chris Emery and Holland Van den Nieuwenhof can be found at www.okcbombing.net and they, along with Andrew Griffin of www.reddirtreport.com host a live talk radio show every Saturday at 6pm CST: THE RED DIRT REPORT / RADIO FREE OKLAHOMA on www.wtprn.com

Also of note:

On the DEADLINE LIVE interview originally broadcast on July 19th 2008 - Chris Emery and team presented the date of the incident with Al Shehhi as Sept 21 2001. This date has been corrected after re confirming with eyewitnesses to the date mentioned in the above article to Sept. 15th 2001...... full story>>>

more Oklahoma news.....

Recents news... From (TT) Tulsa Truth

TT Weekly#71 (07/19/08)

Hello All,

Welcome to another edition of Tulsa Truth Weekly. This week's articles, petition and videos include;

1) Monsanto film showing

2) Liberty Talk Radio now on RBN!

3) Tulsa Truth on RFOK

4) Let's overturn FISA

5) The Next Battleground

6) Rumsfeld Disease

7) Economic Trouble

8) U.S. Government's Secret Plans

9) Progressive Media & 9/11

10) AE911Truth wants your help

11) Michael Franti, YELL FIRE!

12) Quotes of the Week

1) The World According to Monsanto will be shown on Monday, July 28th, 6:30pm at Hardesty Library. Immediately following, renowned Dr. Andre Kulisz will speak about the topic and lead a discussion. To learn more about Dr. Kulisz link to: http://myfoodforhealth.com/drkulisz%20bio.htm

2) Our friend and fellow patriot, Joe Cristiano will soon be broadcasting his radio show, www.LibertyTalkRadio.com on www.RevolutionBroadcasting.com. This will increase the listening audience dramatically. Congrats Joe!

3) Our friends at RF Oklahoma air every Saturday, 6 - 8 PM on www.wtprn.com, 89.9FM in East Tulsa! Next Saturday, July 26, They will interview Tulsa Truth and Joe Cristiano (Liberty Talk Radio). We encourage you to listen live and call in. (The broadcasts are also archived.)please help support oklahomas own truth movement......

4) Let's overturn FISA! Did you know that Congress has signed away our right to privacy? It’s true! By making FISA law, the President and Congress have made it legal for US agencies to spy on our text messages, email, and phone calls to people outside the US, without any cause, reason or warrant. Help us overturn FISA by sharing your message of support now! http://www.aclu.org/fisaaction

5) The Next Battleground: The World's Food Supply Do you know what's in your food? Did you know that 60-70% of the foods on your grocer's shelves contain genetically-modified ingredients? Who is this courtesy of? Why, none other than Monsanto, the former manufacturer of Agent Orange and contributor to about 50 EPA Superfund sites. If you thought they were bad as a chemical company, wait until you learn about them as an agricultural company.

6) Rumsfeld Disease: http://www.rense.com/general67/rum.htm

7) Ten Signs Americans Are In Deep Economic Trouble: link here

8) U.S. Government's Secret Plans: http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=63810

9) Why Are "Progressive" Media Burying 9/11? Journalists in what are traditionally considered "progressive" and left of center outlets continue, like corporate journalists, to avoid coverage of "unanswered questions" surrounding the 9/11 attacks.

10) AE911Truth.org would like your help. If you know any architects or engineers, please print and send them this "evidence letter". Their goal is to have 1,000+ professionals supporting a new 911 investigation. This is an excellent letter, please open and print: The letter from Richard Gage is found here.

11) Michael Franti, Yell Fire! (music video): http://youtube.com/watch?v=H7WASrQFg8o&feature=related

12) Quotes of the Week:

"The real war is not a "war on terror." The real war is a war against constitutional government, personal liberty, and national sovereignty. It is a war against the fundamental principles of America's Founding Fathers, that America should be a friend and trader with all, but engaged in entangling alliances with none. It is a war against the Bill of Rights. It is a war against the very heart and soul of everything this country has stood for ever since our patriot forebears stood on Lexington Green and Concord Bridge. And this war is not being waged from Baghdad or Tehran. It is being waged from Washington, D.C." - Chuck Baldwin, Founder-Pastor of Crossroads Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida and Constitution Party Nominee

"For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life." - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. - (1888-1965)

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

"A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn't have an air force" - Unknown

We encourage you to forward TT Weekly far and wide. (To opt-out, simply reply and type "delete" in the subject line.) Tulsa Truth shares information mostly dismissed or discredited by corporate media. We can not verify all the facts, nor do we endorse or support everything contained in these e-mails. Please send contributions to support our efforts to; Tulsa Truth, 6528 E 101st St., D1-411, Tulsa, OK 74133. We thank you and welcome your comments and suggestions .

Peace, Truth and Justice, your TT Team

keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons!!
...........................kosmicdebris.................................................

Now Shut Up, Welcome Home, Soldier: the war mainstream media refuses to cover.

2008-06-27T21:21:00.005-05:00

TED | About TED | TEDTalks

2008-06-27T20:27:00.001-05:00

belowgroundsurface.org

2008-06-22T19:00:00.002-05:00

belowgroundsurface.org

thank you Amy, stand for 'democracy now'!!

kosmicdebris......

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes had justified the sterilization of 17-year-old Carrie Buck on the grounds that “three generations of imbeciles [were]..?

2008-06-22T14:51:00.004-05:00

The FreeBees have re-upped it

2008-06-13T17:15:00.005-05:00

The video has been removed from YouTube but is still available for DOWNLOAD here:

http://www.4shared.com/account/file/51127785/2eda57db/Freebees_disco_911...

I'm about to put it on my hard drive so we don't lose it.

Thanks, Sheila

Don t underestimate the potential of the Free Bees music video | 911Blogger.com: "Bee Gees | viral | YouTube
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Arizona State Senator Karen Johnson Honors Blair Gadsby & Brings 9/11 Truth to the Arizona State Senate - June 10, 2008.

keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons!!

....................................kosmicdebris....................................................

O Reilly producer Porter Barry ambushes journalist Bill Moyers

2008-06-09T11:23:00.004-05:00

Dan Rather delivered a blistering critique of corporate new

2008-06-08T15:55:00.002-05:00

Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather delivered a blistering critique of corporate news on Saturday night at the National Conference for Media Reform hosted by Free Press.

The following are Dan Rather's prepared remarks:

keep fighting the good fight, with your mind as weapons....

WE THE PEOPLE: are responsible for the actions of our government today.

2008-06-08T11:17:00.002-05:00

A Roy

2008-06-07T12:41:00.005-05:00

this particular piece received 2 million, yes, two million global hits!!...a few more than my local news source, about 1,992,000 or so more. gannet wishes, larry fishes. this one....even more.

“…It explicitly protected certain rights of the King's subjects, whether free or fettered — most notably the writ of habeas corpus, allowing appeal against unlawful imprisonment. The magna is the historical default document for handling humans when one kingdom or city state conquers or surrenders another.”

By Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. Posted May 15, 2008.
A military whistle-blower has come forward with information that contradicts the government's official story about the deaths of two journalists.

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.".... Marcus Tullius Cicero

d-day.....operation 'overlord'

2008-06-06T21:40:00.003-05:00

live bogging cspan fridays.........

2008-06-06T12:47:00.003-05:00

wonder whats in the new farm aid program?? every ton of corn produced sustains one person. for every gallon of gas we produce using corn..... twenty-two people go to bed hungry, there thats my bleeding heart statement.

giust/just sos' you know, aint scyird......bring-it!!! there seems to be alot of knew information disiminated, as was well predicted. my sugestion is to aim for the middle of what-ever isssus the real or imagrained puts forth....i misspedl words to fool scrubbersyah!! living connerctions to the earth, family, friends, unknown others, of the first signiture design
...I would just as soon assemilate, the old walk a mile with a broke leg(and have, on me and god have my true medical record)

This is what i propose/resolve to do. new blog.....the idea i will support and even start since i already did. live-blogging friday on C-span, here on my site every friday.....i will attempt real time blogging both houses;.
the discusson at the moment tranport/infra iraq has better road than..2008 pennsylina, ohio vally west to wash state. steel/coal/tar/asphult, may be viable? again i think the giant corps want to save american resources??? get some of the rest of other worlds natural, and human gratifications.....first?? its finite ,you know, unless you got 13 bil l o'reily years....

just a vet.1975-1981

Barbaric united states advocates torture

2008-06-04T11:42:00.005-05:00

Barbaric united states advocates torture.
Category: News and Politics
Seems I have made some friends uncomfortable and have attacked my blog on myspace(9sept.07-oct.31), I must have afflicted some very comfortable people democrap and repugnicon(dim and dimmer).

I stand by my content and for every one I post I have 10 stories waiting to be posted and I have other places and friends that will post for me if I cannot, my resolve is now even stronger to the get the word out about the hypocrisy.

Now that the u.s. advocates torture...........instead of a simple beheading of troops captured by the enemy, our soldiers will also be tortured first… unmercifully before death, and by our silence, we as Americans are really the ones doing the torture.

The path we are on is mass suicide. We send our youths to blow up foreign countries, protect their borders and leave ours wide open.

While the rest of the world grows to hate us for the untold damage/murder we do. The U.S. citizen is left at the mercy of dangers too numerous to list in this venue. Political correctness is doing its job; it is murdering Western civilization. Immoral relativism is winning … we are headed back to the jungle with little resistance because of the loss of our founding concepts. Enlightenment (education) has been snuffed, which means the death of individual freedom. Will the'Third World’ engulf us as the barbarians did Rome?

……here is one, John Edwards-AG can he contain the illegal/illogical/irrational depopulation newspeak? at the justice dept.? can anyone?

There is in northeastern Oklahoma, to this day, an American ‘Spanish/American war’ veterans colony. We can re-search shallow united states history. STUDY THAT WAR FOR NEW AGE CONCEPTS,CONCERNING EMPIRE BUILDING...Spain south American encroachment north continues to day

....look closer at ww#1 and these next history makers opine of the future....little, but convenience, has really changed in the new ideas/ideology schools, we are all still little islands of banded protection.

Sam L Clemens-

Citizenship? We have none! In place of it we teach patriotism which Samuel Johnson said a hundred and forty or a hundred and fifty years ago was the last refuge of the scoundrel -- and I believe that he was right. I remember when I was a boy and I heard repeated time and time again the phrase, 'My country, right or wrong, my country!' How absolutely absurd is such an idea. How absolutely absurd to teach this idea to the youth of the country......There has never been a just one, never an honorable one -- on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The loud little handful -- as usual -- will shout for the war. The pulpit will -- warily and cautiously -- object -- at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, "It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it." Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers -- as earlier -- but do not dare to say so. And now the whole nation -- pulpit and all -- will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception. (samual was bff with n.tesla)

William Jennings Bryan-

Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.

Oliver Wendell homes jr-

It is only the present danger of immediate evil or an intent to bring it about that warrants Congress in setting a limit to the expression of opinion where private rights are not concerned....To allow opposition by speech seems to indicate that you think the speech impotent, as when a man says that he has squared the circle, or that you do not care whole-heartedly for the result, or that you doubt either your power or your premises. But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas -- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution....I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country...Only the emergency that makes it immediately dangerous to leave the correction of evil counsels to time warrants making any exception to the sweeping command, "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech."

No one will gain except the elite few who hold the reins of power, and history repeats itself over and over, always to the detriment of individual life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Our nation had its chance and squandered it; pity the young and those briefly to come.

During his confirmation hearings earlier this month, Mukasey said he believes torture violates the Constitution, but he refused to be pinned down on whether he believes specific interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding, are constitutional.

"I don't know what's involved in the techniques. If waterboarding is torture, torture is not constitutional," he said.

But after World War II, the United States government was quite clear about the fact that waterboarding was torture, at least when it was done to U.S. citizens:
[In] 1947, the United States charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for carrying out another form of waterboarding on a U.S. civilian. The subject was strapped on a stretcher that was tilted so that his feet were in the air and head near the floor, and small amounts of water were poured over his face, leaving him gasping for air until he agreed to talk.
"Asano was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) told his colleagues last Thursday during the debate on military commissions legislation. "We punished people with 15 years of hard labor when waterboarding was used against Americans in World War II," he said.

Mukasey's non-answer has raised doubts among Democrats, and even some Republicans, on the Senate Judiciary Committee:
[The] Democrats on the committee signed a joint letter to Mukasey, making sure that he knew what's involved, and demanded an answer to the question as to whether waterboarding is torture.
Then two days later, the doubts grew louder. Two key Democrats, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT ) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) both said publicly that their votes depended on Mukasey's answer to the waterboarding question.
Then it was Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) who saw an opening after Rudy Giuliani refused to call waterboarding torture ("It depends on who does it."). Most certainly it's torture, McCain said. When pressed, he stopped short of saying that he would oppose Mukasey's nomination if he didn't say the same, but he added to the chorus of those who professed to be interested.
Waterboarding has become an isssue because the Bush White House signed off on it as an interrogation technique — and thus moved the United States into the company of pariah states that permit torture — after the 9/11 attacks

2050 headlines

Here are some points to ponder, the year is 2050 and the headlines from your daily news hologram are as follows.

Official - fraud and waist in the Federal government now exceeds the Federal budget. (this happen sooner than 2050, like 2009?)

Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest country in the world, Mexifornia formally known as California. Anglo minorities still trying to have English recognized as Mexifornia's third language.

Global Freezing confirmed as a scientific fact.

Lesser Spotted Long Eared Owl plague threatens North Western United States crops and livestock.

Baby conceived naturally - scientists stumped.

Couple petitions court to reinstate heterosexual marriage.

Last remaining Fundamentalist Muslim dies in the American Territory of the Middle East (formerly known as Iraq/Iran, Babylon/Persia ).

Iran still closed off; physicists estimate it will take at least 100 more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels.

France pleads for global help after being taken over by Jamaica.

President Chelsea Clinton has banned all above ground burials due to silicone leaching of ground water table.

George Z. Bush says he will run for President in 2056.

U.S. postal service raises price of first class stamp to $17.89 and reduces mail delivery to alternate Wednesdays.

85-year, $75.8 billion study: Diet and Exercise is the key to weight loss.
Average weight of Americans below 250 lbs.

Japanese scientists create camera with such a fast shutter speed, they now can photograph an American politician with mouth shut.

Massachusetts executes last remaining conservative.

High Court rules punishment of criminals violates their civil rights.

Average height of basket ball players now nine feet, seven inches.

All nail clippers, screwdrivers, fly swatters and rolled-up newspapers must be registered by end January.

Capitol Hill intern indicted for refusing sex with congressman.

Oklahoma IRS sets lowest tax rate at 75 percent.

Florida voters, having trouble with voting machines, instituted mandatory relocation of all democrats to fema concentration camps for republicization.

Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association. April, 27 1961. John F Kennedy. "The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control….

These comments were gleaned from different sites around the country and the world.
The People speak….

…….Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and then Iran? I reckon there is a limit to what the huge, decent majority of the world's Muslims will take. A strike like this wouldn't guarantee oil supplies, but it would assure eternal Muslim hatred of the west. Cruel, unnecessary and a damned stupid idea.

…….Maybe there will be an outside chance that when an order to war is issued it will be ignored. On the other hand maybe we need to get the war started so that the next civilization can start over. It would seem that we are a failed species and are incapable of making the proper connections to live within our environmental limits.

……….Of course they will attack Iran. They will also ignore Museums and head right to the oil fields to protect goo as they did in Iraq.

Incidents such as the flying of LIVE nuclear weapons over the US are staged to get us used to the idea that these weapons may be used. Can't wait for the fallout. Its obvious that the end of easily obtained Oil is coming. Bush will have to move to an island to be safe after his pres-dent-cy is over, if ever. He and the heartless one truly are Devils.

…….I am nearly overwhelmed by feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. No one outside of the neocons and Christian millenialists want a war with Iran, yet no one with any power seems capable or even interested in preventing it. I have yet to hear a Democrat stand up in Congress to demand that the President obtain Congressional approval before starting such a war, nor have I heard any threats of impeachment if he proceeds without it.

…….Anyone who thinks that the United States is still a democracy needs to be shaken vigorously until he comes to his senses.

…….Hey, here is a chilling thought: what if Bush declares martial law in the middle of his next self-manufactured crisis and suspends the constitution? Voila, it's not longer an election year and he can have all the power he wants. Can't happen here you say … that is exactly why it CAN happen here; too many people are complacent with this power grabbing, lying, duplicious administration. We get the government we deserve if we are not willing to stand up and do something before it's too late. Don't count on those spineless democrats. The window for political solutions in this nation is rapidly closing, leave us with only a revolutionary one. God help us all.

……It appears to me that the elite of both parties running the US Government apparently have decided that the American people will refuse to tolerate the inevitable decline in our quality of life and national power as the oil starts to run out. They are certain that it will cost them their power and wealth, so they want to defend that with all of their power.

Of course, many of us already understand the implications of Peak Oil and want to start working on preparing for the post-petroleum world now. That is not in the elite's interest, so they will fight it tooth and nail.

Therefore, they will continue to invade until the entire Middle East is either under US control or the whole thing blows up in their faces and into a shooting war: World War III. This, of course plays into the hands of the military-industrial complex, as well as the easily manipulated far Right Fundamentalists with their fears/hopes of Armageddon. Remember, their sick theology "predicts" this, so they will be cheering loudly as the blood gets deeper and deeper.

……I think that this situation may already be far outside the control of the American electorate, even if they knew what all of this really means.

As far as where the US would get the troops, it is already well-established that the US has been quietly arranging for a new draft for a few years now. A long bombing campaign gives them time to hurry a bunch of cannon fodder through basic training and into place. Remember, we have about 2 years of Dubya's administration left to go. That's ample time to do this if they start soon. Thus, no matter who is voted in after Dubya will face a fait accompli. The US will "own" 60% of the remaining oil in the world, and the US Dollar will be secured as the only currency for petroleum, thus securing its position and stability.

……The Democrats understand Peak Oil as well as the Republicans do, which is why they will make lots of noise but will be 'unable' to stop the current push towards war with Iran by the Republicans. They can 'blame' it all on the Republicans if they are elected, and if they lose there will BE no blame. Of course, many involved are in effect neck deep in what is essentially treason, but they think that they won't be caught or punished.

……..I believe Americans who oppose Bush's illegal, immoral and unethical actions, resulting in the murder of tens of thousands of innocent people, should start bringing this government to a halt. We should 1. refuse to pay taxes, 2. take to the streets in mass protest, 3. block access to US government buildings, especially those relating to war…how long are we going to tolerate this evil? The Democrats are worthless. We elected them IN January to end the war and they are more agreeable than the Republicans in handing Bush on a silver platter anything he wants.

Albert Einstein once said, "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones". I personally hope that we will not fulfill Einstein's prophecy.
keep fighting the good fight, with your minds a waeapons!!
.........................kosmicdebris.................

The under is above!!!!

2008-06-03T19:37:00.003-05:00

IRAN’S DICK…CHENEY IS SCREWING US
*10.28.07, everything but invading iran/syria/subduehezbullah….this is the blog I posted on another blog site that mysteriously disappeared…..all of it….puff… gone, everything. So much for my first amendment rights. The Iranian prez is addressing the united nations today, somehow I don’t think my grandpa would have let Hitler sleep-over in 1939. I cant spell his name but a rough translation is: asshole. What’s Tehran saying? Well….and I quote with thumb on nose….“nani-nani-boo-boo…you cant touch me“…..translates in any language, ask Jimmy Carter……see you tomorrow, maybe, maybe not.)
They say disasters happen in slo-mo, and Iraq has been as slow and predictable as a Super Bowl match-up between ice and sunlight, melting into a big bloody mess. That gives plenty of time for the geniuses who started the mess to come up with new excuses. But after a while….say three>>>>> years….excuses aren't satisfying enough, and they want something a little more aggressive, something that sticks to the ribs, some kind of Hungry-Man dinners for disasters. Chunky Soups for fiascos. So now Cheney's office has come up with a recipe for a new, finger-lickin' good Middle East.
Their idea is pretty simple: you just admit that Iraq has blown up into a mess, claim you always meant to do it that way, and then smile at the camera and say, "Just look what a great set of ingredients we've now got scattered all over the kitchen! Gosh-golly, let's make something great out of all this! Grab those intestines off the ceiling, gimme that hunk of thigh off the wall-clock, and toss that gob of smoking skull off the sink! Let's get cookin'!"
Step one is chopping up Iraq into three pieces - the P-word, "partition." It's got a kind of sense to it: if the Sunni, Shia and Kurds can't stop killing each other, let's just give each group its own little tribal homeland.
The reason Bush's people haven't latched onto this idea sooner is that they're supposed to be creating a free, democratic Iraq and it doesn't look good to break the place down into tribal homelands when you've gone around promising to make Iraq the Jeffersonian Democracy of the Middle East. But things are so bad now that nobody in the administration can afford to worry about PR problems like that any more. Torture killings are now officially the national sport of Iraq. When somebody gets out a power drill in Baghdad, nobody thinks Home Improvement. Instead, I hear Black & Decker is getting its own volume in the next edition of Jane's Weapons Systems.
There's just one little problem with splitting Iraq into three nice little homelands: Iran. If you smash Saddam Hussein's united Iraq, you've destroyed the one army in the region that could have held the Iranians in check. If you go in after that and replace a united Iraq with three little ethnic states, you've just made a big litter-box for the Persians to shit in. They can easily destabilize all three of the Iraqi statelets; in fact, the biggest, the Shia Iraqi statelet, won't even need to be stabilized. It'll side with Iran every time against the Sunnis. It won't have a choice.
Iran is the problem with the whole Iraqi adventure. It's like nobody who planned this war even thought about Iran, even noticed there's that big scary country just to the east of the place we're going to go invade and Mall-of-Americanize. So far, Iran has been the big winner in this war, and they haven't fired a shot or lost a man. Pretty incredible. Make me dizzy to think of it, as I said before, makes me wonder if Cheney isn't actually a mole parachuted into Wyoming a while back by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Must've taken months of electrolysis, but hey, those Iranian fanatics were willing to charge into minefields in the Iran-Iraq War; stands to reason one of them could put up with getting his back-hairs zapped and even having to live with that smartass Mrs. Cheney and their dyke daughter. It's the only thing that makes sense: Cheney has "Product of Iran" all over his DNA.
Because we've been doing the Persian Empire's dirty work for it from the moment we took out Saddam. What is it with these supposedly patriotic types always sucking up to Iran? In the late 80s it was Ollie North bringing them cakes, Bibles, and Hawk AA missiles on behalf of Ronald Reagan; now it's Bush and Cheney actually going to war to destroy the Persians' one local rival and leave Tehran in total control of the Persian Gulf. And now, by way of fixing the mess, we're going to make Iranian dominance permanent by splitting up every other state in the Middle East.
See, that's the beauty of Cheney's new plan: it doesn't stop at Iraq. The idea is to divide up every state in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia gets split into a Shia state on the Persian Gulf (where all the oil is), a "Sacred State" with Mecca and Medina, and someplace that ought to be called The Republic of Leftover Sand, with Riyadh and not much else. Lebanon turns into teeny, ethnically pure neighborhood states for Christians, Sunni, Shia and maybe Mormons. Yep, turns out all that Lebanese unity was a danger to the region, we've gotta go in there and break the place up a little more.
The really great thing about the plan is that it rewards America's long-term allies by totally destroying their borders. Turkey, the one country that stuck with us through all sorts of idiotic mistakes, gets rewarded for loyalty by having the eastern third of the Anatolian Peninsula lopped off and handed over to an independent Kurdistan. If you're a Turkish military planner, you must be jumping for joy over that one.
You may be wondering at this point, is Cheney insane? Well yeah, he is, but there's a kind of idiot's logic behind his insanity. You know how they talk about "a method in his madness"? And you know how every time somebody says that about anyone you know, you actually think to yourself, "yeah fine, but method or no method, he's still crazy and an idiot"? It's like that.
Y'see, our leaders have finally figured out that there's this Sunni/Shia split in Islam. I mean that literally: they've just figured out that there IS a split. Bush didn't even know about it, according to some Iraqi exiles who talked to him before the invasion. Well, all it took to get the Administration's attention focused like a laser beam on the Sunni/Shia family feud was a mere three years of chaos, half a million mangled Iraqi bodies, and two zillion IEDs. Minds like steel traps, these guys. Or lead fishing weights anyway - soft and heavy.
Even now, I don't think most people see why the Shia/Sunni split should matter to anybody. It's like, OK, they have a fight over the Caliphate way back when ….so what? Can't they all get along, like the man said?
Simplest way to understand it is think about how religion plays out in a place you actually know. Take Europe: the Europeans used to have religious wars all the time, pretty serious ones like the Thirty Years War - a third of the population of Germany wiped out….right up till Europe stopped having religion. And those wars weren't really all about dry theological stuff like what Jesus' middle name was, or what color the priest's collar had to be. On the ground, religious hate like that always translates into tribal hate about sex and hygiene and how those people smell.
Even in Oklahoma, where it's pretty calm in terms of religious wars, I grew up hearing Brother Art talk about the Osage….."Heathens" he called them….worshipping idols and having too many kids and being generally Indians and dirty. That was the main thing: they smelled, didn't have showers. (Wait….I am part Cherokee, sniff, sniff….mom, are Cherokees Indians? Sniff, sniff…..now get out of the tub and go play in dirt with filthy sister) Come to think of it, Shia are kind of like Osage Islamic types: stay-behind, ignorant people with too many kids, no money, weird gaudy ways of making religion. That Shia festival where they slash themselves, whip themselves, try to get attention in the street by bleeding on law-abiding hardworking Sunni….it's a lot the way we thought about “war tribes“. Of course sometime back in the fifties most native Americans turned into just another batch of white people, cleaned up and got on the pill, but that never happened to Shia. For the Sunni, Shia are like rats, swarming up out of the sewers unless you keep them down every minute.
That's the real hate that keeps the power drills and suicide Plymouths powered up in Baghdad. The Sunni who blow themselves up in Shia markets see themselves as pest exterminators for God, cleaning up the neighborhood one bomb at a time. Truth is, it's not hard to understand how a suicide bomber thinks; a lot easier than understanding how a republican accountant thinks, if you ask me.
And now Cheney's bright boys have suddenly decided that they no longer side with the Shia (the "majority") and instead to agree with the Sunni - even though it's Sunni Iraqis who've been killing our soldiers for the past three years, and even though they only make up 20% of the population. One thing about neocons, you'll never find them losing sleep over the deaths of American soldiers. They're totally willing to forgive all the Sunni bombers, because it's just dawned on them that these Sunni dudes are right: those dirty black-wearing self-slashing Shia are getting way too powerful. Shia rule Iran and they're the majority in Iraq (60% of the population). And hey, what about Hezbollah in Lebanon?
Shia! Total Shia! And they're all getting uppity at the same time!
This is where you want to grab Cheney by the throat and say, "That's because you took out Saddam, who kept the Shia in line, you idiot!" But it's no use. You might as well try to do missionary work on that little brain dinosaurs used to carry in their tails. Those brains work on their own time, and they swing a big spike. Only thing you can do is just get out of the way.
So now they're thinking…. real, real slow…. "Duh, Shia too strong now. Huh! Us better give lotta billion dollars to...duh, to other guy who no like Shia!"
And that, friends, is why the US government is now in the business of funding radical Sunni groups from Lebanon to Afghanistan. If it's Sunni, we'll fund it. If it promises to kill Shia, we're for it. Of course, Al Qaeda itself fits the bill that way, so would we fund them? Probably, according to a recent article by Seymour Hersh I just read.
Supposedly we're already funding the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, and they're kissing cousins with Al Q. We're annoyed with Syria for being next door to Lebanon - those durn pesky maps! - so we're funding the beheaders, just because they don't like the Syrian regime. And because the Israelis keep thinking that if they convince us to fu&k Lebanon up even more, somehow it'll be to their advantage.( Lebanon is dear to my heart and soul ever since I read about that roman pack-man headed to Damascus…seems he had a flame-broiled involuntary extreme make-over, the Beautician worked miracles, convinced me, thanks Big Guy) The Israelis seem to be on a crusade to disprove stereotypes. In their first years the Israelis disproved the stereotypes about Jews being wimps; since then they've been working overtime to disprove the one about Jews being smart. They haven't been right about anything in 20 years, but Bush and Cheney keep betting on them.

The idea behind all this weirdness, if you can even call it an idea, is that we'll keep breaking up Middle Eastern states till we've got a map the old-time British Empire could love, made up totally of little ethnically-pure states we can easily bribe or terrorize. And best of all, these little states will have most of the oil. The Persian oil fields are mostly along the Gulf coast, so we'll detach them from Persia and link them up with the Iraqi Shia state. Shouldn't be a problem turning a little place like that into a US protectorate. *(I do pray that my gonzo wit and caustic sarcasm is not lost on laughter.)
Brilliant, except no matter how you try to Balkanize the region, there are some ethnic realities in the way. Like, once again, Iran. Iran is a stable, powerful state with one overwhelmingly dominant ethnic group. They might not like it if you tried to detach their oil fields, and they could send in hundreds of thousands of troops to register their disapproval. And we'd counter with what? It's not like we can go to war with Iran. If we could, we'd already have done it, can you say Reagon or Carter?
Every dog in the gutters of Tehran knows we don't have the manpower to attack Iran. Bomb it, sure. But bombs won't do the job; even Cheney knows that. (I think.) If we manage to break the Middle East up into little Balkan states, we get a lot of chaos and an even more powerful Iran. There's that word again: Iran. It's like nobody in Cheney's office can hear that word. You want to say it at them all night, lie under the bed whispering it at them: Iran, Iran, Iran. Except I don't know if my patriotism actually goes that far, lying under that wedded-bliss bed all night. I'm willing to die for my country, but there's worse things than dying. Somebody else, a way finer man than me, needs to spend the night under the Veep's bed whispering, "Iran! Your homeland is calling, Cheney! Go back to Tehran where you belong!"

i forgot who wrote this credit to authur, likely those Canadians from bakersfield?, G.BREACHER....thanks info....
keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons.....
............................kosmicdebris...................

Twelve Issues that Matter for 2008

2008-06-03T12:32:00.001-05:00

Twelve Issues that Matter for 2008

Remember, these twelve issues represent the tip of the political iceberg. But they are indicative of the corporate domination of the Democratic and Republican parties. There are many more where these came from. We’ll be adding them as we go along. Click on any of the issues below for more information

	Nader	Obama/Clinton	McCain
Adopt single payer national health insurance	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Cut the huge, bloated, wasteful military budget	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
No to nuclear power, solar energy first	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Aggressive crackdown on corporate crime and corporate welfare	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Open up the Presidential debates	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Adopt a carbon pollution tax	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Reverse U.S. policy in the Middle East	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Impeach Bush/Cheney	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Repeal the Taft-Hartley anti-union law	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Adopt a Wall Street securities speculation tax	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Put an end to ballot access obstructionism	On the table	Off the table	Off the table
Work to end corporate personhood	On the table	Off the table	Off the table

True definitions for common political terms

2008-06-03T00:20:00.006-05:00

True definitions for common political terms
Now, it's my turn to do a little cooking and stew the English language. But instead of trying to create misleading definitions on the menu, my aim is to provide more realistic definitions for modern political terms being served. These ideological terms are, of course, jaded by my own tastes due to socialization and education seasonings, while I may or may not agree with some, this is how I honestly see the world. Basically boils down to: pick your poison, all our beliefs are chosen from the same buffet. No two people on the planet will load their plate exactly the same. Broccoli anyone?

Anarcho-Capitalism - An extreme form of Libertarian-Capitalism, where ALL (or most) services currently provided by government would be provided by private companies (This even includes services such as police forces, military, and judicial agencies). The only government would be weak local communities (perhaps with some state and national affiliations) that would contract this work out to private companies.

Anarcho-Socialism - An extreme form of Libertarian-Socialism, where ALL companies would be directly controlled by employees through workers councils or other such arrangements. Most private property would be abolished, but everybody would be given a fair share of the 'collective property' for his own use. And most importantly, all this would be done without a central government. (or with a VERY limited coalition of communities)

Anarcho-Syndicalism - An combination of Socialism and Capitalism, where the basic properties of the capitalist system would be maintained, but ownership of corporations would be handed over to the worker's (or to their Unions). The basic corporate structure would remain in tact, with the one exception that workers would hold majority ownership of all corporations, and only people that actually work for a company (the laborers who belong to trade unions) would be allowed to own stock. This majority ownership of corporations by the workers will empower them to make all key decisions in that organization, and entitle them to share directly in the profits. All leadership positions in the corporation would be filled by the workers themselves who would return to their old jobs after their term of service has ended. All government positions (if any) would be filled in a similar manner. Such a system would eliminate the need for current trade restrictions, since it is unlikely that a worker-owned company would elect to ship their own jobs across the border.

Anarchy - This is defined by The American Heritage College Dictionary as "The theory or doctrine that all forms of government are unnecessary, oppressive, and undesirable and should be abolished." However there are various schools of Anarchist thought -- raging from pure Anarchism, which favors absolutely no centralized control, to those that wish to temper this complete chaos with some sort of order (such as Anarcho-Capitalist, Anarcho-Syndicalist, and Anarcho-Socialist)

Anti - Smoking Religion - Belief that nobody would ever die if they succeed in banning tobacco. They seem to believe that people will live forever if they don't smoke. But in all actuality, a smoker's life expectancy is only diminished by about 6% ... and even that cannot be attributed entirely to smoking. This is because smokers generally not "health conscience" people to begin with. If they were, they probably wouldn't be smoking in the first place. (You don't see too many smokers hangin' around the gym or at health food stores.)

It is also a belief that tobacco related illnesses cost the government money. In reality, it generates billions of dollars in tax revenues while at the same time saving billions of dollars in Social Security and Medicaid payments by killing smokers off early. It is much cheaper to pay for a 65-year-old's cancer treatment, than to pay for his prescriptions & social security for 6 more years, then still have to pay for his cancer treatment - or even worse - his Alzheimer's treatment.

Capitalism - The belief that every man should be able to keep the fruits of his own labor, without them being stolen by the government for re-distribution.

Communist Party - Socialist. Enjoys single party rule, and complete government control of production.

Democratic Party - Primarily, a belief in State-Socialism (detailed below) heavily tempered by State-Capitalist beliefs along with some anti-nationalist, anti-religious, and pro-environmental tendencies. They favor control of the government by 2 parties, that way they can have somebody to blame when thing go wrong. Enjoys block votes from gays, teachers, blacks, immigrants, welfare recipients, members of the press, NAACP members, environmentalist, pro-choicers, Union leaders, and people who hate Republicans.

Dictator - An evil man who maintains power by intimidation and force, and refuses to obey the United States.

Educational System - An opportunity for special interest groups to re-program children. The prime obstacle to this agenda is the fact that local and state governments run the schools. This makes it difficult to enact these programs over the whole nation, since you have to convince every legislature and every local school board that you are right. But don't worry - both Republicans and Democrats are looking into ways for the federal government to 'improve' local school systems.

Fascism - To understand this term better, let's look at the dictionary definition:
Fascism - A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
Contrast this to the definition of another political system.

Monarchy - An autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority.

Although these two terms are often treated as separate ideologies, I really can't figure out how "Fascism" differs from "Monarchy" in any significant way. Both are ruled by a single dictator, who often is strongly nationalistic. Both heavily suppress their opposition (as do most governments). Both control the economy, to some extent. The only notable difference is that a "monarchy" is typically concerned with bloodlines, while fascism is generally founded around a particular political ideology. But a "fascist" government could easily transform into a Monarchy after upon the death of its principle leader. I suppose the real reason for the separate moniker was to differentiate the leaders of embryonic Italian and German Empires of the 1930's from the "royal" leadership of the British Empire, which had already conquered a large part of the world.

Free Election - Supposedly, an election in which people are free to choose the candidate of their choice, completely unencumbered by the government. Of course, no such thing has ever truly existed, since all elections are regulated by the party(s) currently in power. As I have stated before, if voting really made any difference it would not be allowed.

Full life - Living to be old enough to develop Alzheimer's and multiple other ailments, and die a degrading death in a pool of their own feces in a nursing home (which they pay outrageous fees to stay in.... usually resulting in all of their assets being sold). This luxury is being mandated by politicians that wish to guarantee a safe world, in which nobody will die prematurely from their lifestyle choices.

Fundamentalism - Belief that government should be based on the fundamental principles of one particular set of religious beliefs, and that government should be intolerant of other religious views and to secularism. While this term is normally only used to describe Islamic nations, it can be argued that all societies posses some sort of Fundamentalist beliefs. (See: Religious-Right)

Liberal - Used to mean : "Free from narrow prejudice; open minded, especially, open to the reception of new ideas or proposals of reform.". Now means "Full of hatred for past Ideas, and completely intolerant of the people that still believe in them. Socialist." Most liberal arguments basically boil down to "Shut up in the name of open-mindedness and free speech!". The liberal observes evils in society, and then attempts to remedy the problem with an even greater evil.

Libertarian Party - Free-Market Capitalist. The U.S. Constitution is their bible. They favor multi-party rule of government, and believe that the state's power should be extremely limited. Receives block votes from people who have taken the time to actually read the constitution, and people who hate Democrats & Republicans.

Libertarian-Capitalism - The most prevalent form of libertarianism in the United States (When one hears the term 'Libertarian', you can be pretty sure they are not actually referring to this type). It is a belief in free-markets (little or no state intervention in the economy) and a strong belief in personal freedoms. Governments would only provide basic services (police, a judiciary system, and military). For the most part, this was the type of government supported by most of the founding fathers of the United States, but over the years our system has succumbed to various State-Socialist and State-Capitalist elements.

Libertarian-Socialism - The type of Libertarianism supported by people such as George Orwell and Noam Chomsky (more or less - it's difficult to quantify a person's personal beliefs in such a way). They despise oppression in all it's forms - whether it comes from an oppressive government, or from all-powerful corporations - and therefore seek to suppress all forms of power while at the same time allowing for a large numbers of personal freedoms. Like their Libertarian-Capitalist counterparts, they believe that there is a legitimate role for government in society (police, a judiciary system, etc.), but wish to expand the power of the state slightly so that the state has the power to promote economic equality.

Machiavellian Politics - Modern Politics.

1. cunning and unscrupulous: using clever trickery, amoral methods, and expediency to achieve a desired goal, especially in politics (disapproving)

2. relating to Machiavelli: relating to or characteristic of the statesman and political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli.

Moral Majority - Neither "Moral" nor a "Majority". (See: Religious Right)

Native Americans - 1.People whose ancestors immigrated here over 10,000 years ago, and who were forced from their homes by European immigrants. 2. People who were born in the US, and are being driven from their neighborhoods by modern immigration.

Narrow Minded Bigot - One who does not speak Newspeak (political correction) as their sole language. Individuals who are oldthinkers.

Neo-colonization - The modern means of colonization. The whole reason nations of the past desired colonies was so they could obtain the goods produced therein. (England colonized India to obtain tea, and South America to obtain labor, United States attempts in progress to obtain Persian oil, post shah era)

We realized some time ago that attempting to govern a colony with too much work. A revolution could disrupt the flow of supplies, and turn these economic assets into economic liabilities. So today we allow our colonies to believe they are governing themselves, but we maintain puppet governments in order to protect our interest. It doesn't really matter who makes that laws - as long as those leaders allow us to take the produce of their county's labor through 'trade'.

People often complain about 'trade deficits', but this really isn't a bad thing. Do you really think that the British Empire really worried about having a 'trade deficit' with its colonies? I think not. That was the whole point of colonization - to take their stuff! Rape foreign lands for natural and human resources. Just think of where America would be if Japan didn't make our cars for us. We would only have half as many cars as we do today, also autos would be two or three times more expensive, however the trade off would be more american jobs. And everybody wants a car, don't they?

Organized Crime - Groups that make profit from actions deemed "illegal"... and these groups also posses enough political clout to make sure these actions are kept illegal.

If prostitution, drugs and gambling were made legal, organized would loose their primary reason for being, and would be force to become a legitimate business. But, that would mean they wouldn't be allowed to kill their competitors or charge outrageous prices for their services.....Plus... They would have to put up with government regulation, and they would have to start paying taxes ....that just wouldn't be good for business!!!

Open-Minded -. One who vigorously attacks anyone that isn't as closed-minded as themselves.

Prejudice - Acknowledging that there are differences between the various races and cultures, and preferring to be among people of like interest and culture.

Propaganda - The American Heritage® Dictionary defines this word as:
prop•a•gan•da - n. The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.

When correctly used, this word can be used to describe any advertising campaign. But to most people, this word implies lies and deceitful information. Our media often accuses our foreign enemies of practicing propaganda - a statement which is a form of propaganda in and of itself. Most often, propaganda consist of simple catch-phrases which are easily digested by the masses. Is "don't taze me bro" one?

Racist - Belief that race is more important than culture. Would rather be among ignorant members of his own race, than intelligent members of a different race.

Religious-Right - Belief that government should enforce some of the basic fundamental principles of Christianity. (See: Fundamentalism)

Republican Party - Primarily, a belief in State-Capitalism heavily tempered by Libertarian and free-market beliefs along with some pro-nationalist, pro-religious, and militaristic tendencies. They favor control of the government by 2 parties, that way they can have somebody to blame when things go wrong. Enjoys block votes from Businessmen, Christians, Hunters, KKK, pro-lifers, and people who hate Democrats.

Rule of Law - A state in which all government officials obey the same laws that they lay down for their subjects. Of course, this is very rare - most often being found in countries that have recently gone through a revolution.

Sexual Misconduct -. A charge which must be taken seriously if the accused is conservative, but should be carefully examined if the accused is liberal.

Since liberals are the ones that created most of these laws in the first place, it is unthinkable that any of them would be guilty of committing this sort of crime themselves. The only explanation is that they are being harassed by gutter sluts that only want to become famous by harming an honest politician.

But, of course, if the charge is brought against a politician with conservative beliefs, we must applaud the honest woman who had the courage to stand up against these evil tyrants.

If you need to see examples of this policy in action, just compare how differently Clarence Thomas, Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and Bob Packwood were treated by the press and the so-called "woman's rights" groups ... Clarence Thomas was nearly denied a seat on the supreme court because he flirted with a co-worker... Bob Packwood was hounded to do the "honorable thing" and resign ... Ted Kennedy is, of course, a Kennedy - what else would you expect from royalty? ... and Bill Clinton was simply a victim of a vast "right-wing conspiracy".

State-Socialism- The belief all members of society should receive a portion of what that country produces -- with this distribution of wealth under the direct control of the state. There are various schools of thought on just how equal those 'portions' should be - and how exactly redistribution should be achieved. At the very least, a Socialist wants to make sure all of their fellow citizens are 'cared for' by the state, and at most, they want to institute a system under which everyone receives equal pay - regardless of what kind of work they do. But in either case, they feel that centralized control of the economy by some sort of national government is the best way to supervise this redistribution. Under such a system, every able-bodied person would have a job and those who couldn't work (elderly, disabled, etc) would be cared for by the state.

State-Capitalism - A capitalist system which is heavily influenced by the State. This differs from traditional 'Free-Market Capitalism' in that the State is permitted to enact trade-barriers, give tax-breaks to certain companies, regulate industries, 'bail-out' companies and investors that run into financial trouble, and engage in huge government expenditures in the private sector -- In short, the current American system. (although the American system also has many State-Socialist elements as well)

World Peace - Single world government, more of an impossibility than an ideology. Many think this idea will ultimately kill us all trying to achieve this goal. Problem solved, world peace.

Political Correctness (PC) is simply mind control advanced by a self-appointed elite who are attempting to make the people, especially the young, ignorant of their rights and RESPONSIBILITIES of being Citizens in a free and open society. The PC elite are trying at all levels to take away our God-given and hard fought freedoms and rights by using the courts and bureaucratic regulation to bypass the will of the people and short circuit the duties and obligations of our elected representatives.

The ultimate goal of these socialist/fascists is to impose a Social Democracy based not on the individual, but the rights of society in place of the Republic created by the founding fathers as spelled out in the greatest document of all time, the Constitution of the United States. You will no longer have "rights" that predate the Constitution but "privileges" granted by the government that they can give, limit, regulate, or take away at their whim.

"In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own... Who ever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech." "Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."
--- Benjamin Franklin

These last few word and definition posts has been a collaborative effort by myself and many others of like mind who have found or exposed our language as a useful tool for concealing the truth by redefining the common accepted meanings.
I am flattered that I was sought out for my input on this endeavor. True visionaries throughout history were labeled heretics first before conventional acceptance. I do not consider myself a visionary nor a revolutionary but only a member of the human race that has been able to see through hypocrisy and peer into the hidden agendas, both personal and political, of those in leadership positions. The best tool I have is my God given common sense and the two eyes and ears He has blessed me with. I cannot say with any certainty if what the liberals or conservatives are doing or saying is right or wrong, facts and information are spun to fit a perceived truth based on popularity and not actual truth based on empirical knowledge.
What I can say for certainty is all of us are being misled by con men and these demagogues should be taken off their political pedestals and tried for treason. Truth is for sale and the cost is ultimately paid with our, "we the people", sweat and blood. The U. S. constitution may not mention God, but the very document that declared American Independence from England most definitely does. NO MORE BLOOD, BRO
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