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81  General / General Discussion / Yet Another Response to Yet Another Piece of NeoCon Imbecillity on: May 13, 2011, 01:14:44 am
God, I'm getting sick of this chore!

Here's the email:

The TRUTH about Bin Laden's burial at sea.



Bin Laden Given Religious Funeral Prior to Sea Burial.

Published May 02, 2011

Osama bin Laden was given a religious funeral prior to his burial at sea, senior Military officials told Fox News.

Religious rites were conducted on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier at about 1:10 a.m. Monday in the Persian Gulf .

In accordance with Islamic practice, bin Laden's body was washed and wrapped in a white sheet before buried at sea at 2 a.m. local time, senior U.S. military and intelligence officials said.

Then, "In accordance with common US Navy SEAL practice, the Team pissed on him, stuck a pulled pork sandwich in his mouth and a kosher hot dog up his ass, and pushed the worthless bastard overboard with the other garbage," a senior SEAL officer said.

***
 
And here's my response:

Actually, even the official story regarding his burial is a lie to the extent that they say it was in conformity with Islamic practice, as the Islamic religion forbids burial at sea unless the person died at sea.  I certainly don't think the US government would have allowed desecration of the corpse of their cherished, long-term servant, neither would the bin Laden family, whose long association with British intelligence gives them effective veto power over US policy (remember the post-9/11 airlift, when all civilian aircraft were supposed to have been grounded?), allow the US government to do so.

Personally, I believe that bin Laden's body was tossed overboard to conceal evidence of his having been frozen for nine and a half years, which would have resulted in a considerable degree of "freezer burn" (dehydration mummification).  Even the idiots who came up with the "Man Who Never Was" disinformation operation knew enough not to freeze that Welsh alcoholic, as any competent pathologist would have noticed the effects of even short-term freezing.

In any case, President Obama has performed a valuable service by claiming bin Laden was killed while in custody, and, thus, hors de combat under the Geneva Convention (no small matter, as US treatment of POWs in general renders US servicemen and women non-entitled to Geneva Convention protection by their captors),  as that constitutes an admission of guilt of a war crime as well as first degree murder (a class A felony), which makes the SEALs who dumped the body over the rails guilty of hindering prosecution in the first degree, which, under New York law, is a class D felony. (Of course, they would actually be charged under the UCMJ, but I don't have a copy of that in front of me right now.)   If these SEALs are so charged, they might be forced to defend themselves by asserting the fact of bin Laden's having died a natural death nine and a half years ago.

(I'm uncertain as to the ethical validity of charging someone with a crime you know they didn't commit in order to force them to spill the beans, but there is precedent in the prosecution of Mickey Featherstone (underboss to Jimmy Coonan, in turn senior Gambino Family associate).)
Either way, it would be interesting.
82  General / General Discussion / A Couple of Suggestions for Effective Activity on: May 13, 2011, 12:28:26 am
Never say that I only complain about problems without offering solutions, as this post contains nothing but solutions.

First, this Monday (which would have been my father's 84th birthday), PBS' "American Experience" show will broadcast an episode entitled "Freedom Riders", about the 1960's civil rights activists who integrated interstate bus facilities in the south.  It's an excellent example of non-violent resistance and amateur self-organization, which is what the Constitutionalist movement is all about.  Here's the trailer:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/watch

I'm not only going to watch this show, I'm going to positively study it, and I'm encouraging everyone I know to do the same.

***
Second, I managed to amaze myself with the success of a little poster campaign I concocted the night Obama began lyin' re: Osama bin Laden.  My poster read as follows (sorry for the pompous language, but this is what I was able to pound into my keyboard when I was bleary-eyed at three in the morning):

OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD!

THIS IS THE END OF THE "GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR"!

(That line originally read: "Thus ends the "Global War on Terror"!", but, even at three in the morning, that proved too pompous to pass!)

NOW IS THE TIME FOR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL TO CEASE AND DESIST FROM TERRORIZING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN THE NAME OF "HOMELAND SECURITY"!

NOW IS THE TIME FOR LEGAL CONSEQUENCES TO ENSUE FOR (that last word should, of course, have been "from", but, as I said, this was three in the morning) THE ACTIONS OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL IN FURTHERANCE OF THE "GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR", WHICH CRIMINALLY CULPABLE ACTIONS (once again, should read "acts") INCLUDE THE TORTURE OF PRISONERS OF WAR AND THE SEXUAL MOLESTATION OF AMERICAN CHILDREN ON AMERICAN SOIL!

www.infowars.com

***

Stealing a move from Martin Luther, I even posted a couple of these on the doors of the Federal building.

The posters stayed up much longer than I thought they would (a few are still up), and there were Homeland Security police cruisers, manned and with engines running, guarding the Federal building for a whole week after my little poster campaign.  (Isn't it positively insane how terrified of tiny little me the mighty Federal government is?  Nevertheless, I am thrilled with the idea that my little action may have diverted Federal resources away from criminal shenanigans.)

I also emailed my poster to other antiwar organizations.  To my knowledge, none of them picked up my poster, but, hey, I tried.

The essential point I'm trying to get across is to not wait for orders from headquarters (as Alex Jones would say), but to get going, even if you have to be a one-man or one-woman revolution (like the famous song by "The Nightwatchman" says).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZnuGbCxN0o

***

Cheers, blessings, and liberty to you and yours!
83  General / General Discussion / Intervention in Yahoo! Discussion re: US Anger at Loose CDN Border Security! on: May 13, 2011, 12:16:21 am
Join in the discussion!

It's at: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/report-sheds-light-american-lawmakers-think-canada-180823225.html

It's called: New report sheds light on what American lawmakers think of Canada

And I was responding to this post:

re: border security. Might I remind those politicians in the USA that the 9/11 terroists did not come into the USA from Canada. They were in the USA with american VISAs !!!!

And here's my response:

Right you are! Not to mention the fact that the "underpants bomber" was actually escorted past Dutch airport security and seated aboard the plane he attempted to bomb (without a passport!) by US diplomatic personnel.

Also not to mention the deliberately open US southern border. It seems to me that the US government (which we, the ordinary American people, are increasingly beginning to resist) isn't concerned with infiltration by terrorists so much as they're concerned with being infiltrated by fre [s/b "free"] men and women -- Canadians!

As an American, I cannot help but invite any free Canadian man or woman to join us in our struggle. (Keep in mind that you must be willing to give your life in non-violent struggle.)

Come join us! You won't like it, but you'll help decrease the greatest military and political threat to your own land.
84  General / General Discussion / Smedley Butler's Error in His "War is a Racket" Pamphlet on: May 12, 2011, 02:21:36 am
Here's the text of a letter I sent to the American Friends' Service Committee:

I am a long-time antiwar activist, who, although neither a Quaker nor an ideological pacifist, have frequently worked with Quakers in the past in opposing various unjust military actions, including all of the many wars (way more than the two that are currently being publicized) that the US is currently imposing upon the world.

In the course of my studies in support of my activity, I (of course!) came upon the famous pamphlet by the great Friend (do people still use the term "Mighty Quake?") Smedley Butler, entitled "War is a Racket!", which pamphlet (available at:


http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=ldymls&pq=cavalry%20regiment%20us%20france%20world%20war&xhr=t&q=war+is+a+racket&cp=8&pf=p&sclient=psy&biw=1280&bih=599&source=hp&aq=0&aqi=&aql=&oq=war+is+a&pbx=1&fp=1dfb2b2222d7e658

contains the statement:

"There was still lots of leather left. So the leather people sold your Uncle Sam hundreds of
thousands of McClellan saddles for the cavalry. But there wasn’t any American cavalry
overseas! Somebody had to get rid of this leather, however. Somebody had to make a profit
in it -- so we had a lot of McClellan saddles. And we probably have those yet. "

***

Having conducted extensive research into the US intervention in the World War (the war's official designation, as the Second World War obviously hadn't happened yet), I am aware of an error commonly made by researchers who confuse the forces known as the American Expeditionary Force (AEF), commanded by General John J. Pershing, with the entire US effort in France.  Such an error is easily understandable, as much has been written concerning the AEF, while little has been written concerning the various units which deployed to France under the command of the US Army General Staff, outside of General Pershing's AEF chain of command.  I believe General Butler's statement concerning the absence of US horse cavalry in France to be properly interperable in the light of this pitfall.  (Mind you, I am much less generous with modern historians who fall into this trap, as one of the non-AEF units in France was the First US Tank Brigade, commanded by (the now ultra-famous) Brigadier General George Smith Patton, Jr.  At the time General Butler wrote his pamphlet, General Patton, like the Second World War, hadn't "happened" yet, so I understand General Butler's statement to be the consequence of simple research error, rather than evidence of total academic incompetence.)

Anyways, here's my evidence for the presence of US horse cavalry in France during the World War:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/5-15cav.htm

5th Squadron - 15th Cavalry Regiment

"When the United States entered World War I, the Regiment sailed for France as one of the four horse mounted Regiments on duty with the Allied Expeditionary Force. The fighting had already bogged down into trench warfare and the role of horse Cavalry was nearly over. The 15th was called upon to dismount and relieve exhausted infantry units in the trenches. It was the tank that finally broke the trench lines to end both the war and the role of the horse soldier. The 15th served occupation duty after the war until June 1919 when it returned to the United States."
85  General / General Discussion / Samoa move across date line, trading America's yesterday for Asia's tomorrow on: May 12, 2011, 12:05:59 am
See it at:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/samoa-jump-forward-day-moving-across-international-dateline-035509397.html

Samoa to move back across Pacific date line, trading America's yesterday for Asia's tomorrow
The Canadian PressBy The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – Mon, 9 May, 2011


APIA, Samoa - Samoa plans to leap 24 hours into the future, erasing a day and putting a new kink in the Pacific's jagged international date line so that it can be on the same weekday as Australia, New Zealand and eastern Asia.

It'll be Back to the Future for the island nation, offsetting a decision it made 119 years ago to stay behind a day and align itself with U.S. traders based in California.

That has meant that when it's dawn Sunday in Samoa, it's already dawn Monday in adjacent Tonga and shortly before dawn Monday in nearby New Zealand, Australia and increasingly prominent eastern Asia trade partners such as China.

Samoa has found its interests lying more with the Asia-Pacific region and now wants to switch back to the west side of the line, which separates one calendar day from the next and runs roughly north-to-south through the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

"In doing business with New Zealand and Australia we're losing out on two working days a week," Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi said in a statement. "While it's Friday here, it's Saturday in New Zealand and when we're at church on Sunday, they're already conducting business in Sydney and Brisbane."

Samoa's change will have a cost: The Polynesian nation has long marketed itself as the last place on Earth to see each day's sunset.

"It will be really confusing for us. I just don't see the point, and we don't know the benefits yet," multimedia company official Laufa Lesa, 30, told The Associated Press in an interview from the Samoan capital Apia.

"The government says it's good for the economy, but it's totally fine the way it is now," Lesa said.

The prime minister already has a new tourism angle: You can easily celebrate the same day twice, because the next-door U.S. territory of American Samoa will stay on the California side of the date line and remain one day behind.

"You can have two birthdays, two weddings and two wedding anniversaries on the same date — on separate days — in less than an hour's flight across (the ocean), without leaving the Samoan chain," Tuilaepa said.

Tuilaepa has proposed leaping forward by scratching this year's Dec. 31 from the calendar and holding New Year's celebrations one night early, though the date hasn't been confirmed.

The original shift to the east side of the line was conducted in 1892 when Samoa celebrated July 4 twice, giving a nod to Independence Day in the U.S.

The date line drawn by mapmakers is not mandated by any international body. By tradition, it runs roughly through the 180-degree line of longitude, but it zigzags to accommodate choices of Pacific nations on how to align their calendars.

Nearly as many Samoans now live in Australia and New Zealand as the 180,000 living in the islands, which are located about halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii and rely on fruit and vegetable exports as well as tourism.

In 2009, Tuilaepa enacted a law that switched cars to driving on the left side of the road instead of the right, also to bring Samoa in line with Australia and New Zealand. He said at the time the change made it easier for Samoans in Australia and New Zealand to send used cars home to their relatives. Opponents predicted major traffic problems, but they never happened.

"Today we do a lot more business with New Zealand and Australia, China and Pacific Rim countries such as Singapore," the prime minister said, adding that his latest idea will make commerce with the region "far, far easier."
86  The Wall / Off Topic / Whining / Re: Royal Wedding: Morganatic Marriage on: May 11, 2011, 04:57:57 am
Rebelitarian:

Agreed!

And I further hope that this nice young couple will embrace the ideas of the Constitution of the United States of America, which was founded, in major part, upon Thomas Jefferson's study of the egalitarian Proto-West-Germanic society (ancestral to the English, Dutch, German, and Yiddish societies (aw, man, why can't you get decent German or Yiddish food in NYC anymore?Huh?  BAAAAWWWWW!!!!!)), right down to the six-mile square township of the Northwest Territories Ordinance of 1787, which was based upon the Proto-West-Germanic concept of the "hundred", which was a unit of land (in North Western Europe) with arable land, forested land, streams, ponds, marshes, and what not sufficient to support one hundred families, approximately extending to six statute miles to a side.

Another major basis of the Constitution of the United States of America was the federal system originated by the Six Nations' Confederacy of Upstate New York, sometimes referred to as the "Iroquois Empire".  This Native American political system was so exciting that it provided the basis, not only for the federal United States of America, but also for the Swiss Federal government in Europe!  (The Swiss love their liberty and their guns!)

Cheers!
87  The Wall / Off Topic / Whining / Re: Royal Wedding: Morganatic Marriage on: May 11, 2011, 02:10:15 am
Two Tenners:

Let's see: in the past few days, you've made a crude sexual comment to Amazon, and you've ridiculed me on account of my class, and, now, you've done the same on account of my ethnicity.  It seems to me that you have some work to do on your own head!

Fine!  I don't care!  One of my favorite accomplishments of the old Hapsburg Empire (besides Franz Kafka and Wolfgand Amodeus Mozart) is the technical perfection of the Albatross D5a, the finest fighter plane of it's era.  And here's a little song lyric I wrote, to the tune of your own ethnic group's band, the Beatles' "Back in the USSR":

Took the train to Budapest from Duesseldorf
The station's coming into sight
On the way the phrasebook shivers in my hands
Hungarian's a dreadful fright

I'm back in the Ay-yay-H-E
You don't know how lucky you'll be
Back in the Ay-yay-H-E!

The Viennese girls really knock me out
They leave the west behind
And Budapest girls make me sing and shout
And Temesvar is always on my my my my my my my mind

Let me have some Wiener Schnitzel for my meal
Washed down with some Tokay wine
Pilsner beer just gives you an amazing feel
And gulyas sure tastes mighty fine!

I'm back in the Ay-yay-H-E
You don't know how lucky you'll be
Back in the Ay-yay-H-E!


88  General / General Discussion / More Evidence that Obama's Been Lyin' Re: Osama bin Laden on: May 09, 2011, 01:38:10 am
One question that concerns me with respect to the official Osama fable is: how were they able to ascertain the identity of the body?  The declaration of his identity having been confirmed by DNA testing in a few hours seems to me to derive more from the science-fiction world of the "CSI" television franchise than from the reality of forensic science practice.  Having some familiarity with the processes of forensic medical examination, the idea of a proper autopsy having been conducted is belied by the documented non-existence of mortuary facilities within the medical suites aboard US Nimitz-class CVN's.  I quote here, in relevant part, from a document describing the medical suite aboard a Nimitz-class CVN (and, no, the existence of surgical facilities is no substitute for the existence of a proper autopsy suite, which is a highly specialized equipment setup which this ship-type clearly lacks).   This raises the question as to why the body wasn't transferred to a USNS hospital ship, which has proper mortuary facilities.  The question as to the immediate burial at sea stands in further contrast to the care taken by the Chief Medical examiner of King County, Washington, in his refusal to release the body of grunge singer/songwriter Kurt Cobain for several weeks following his death.  Is the fate of "St. Kurt of Seattle" really more important to recent US history than that of Osama bin Laden, whose alleged acts have resulted in the imposition of a police state in this country?  (Similar police states are already further along in the construction process in the UK and Canada, which were never attacked to the extent the US was on 9/11.)  And, as far as as the denial of a worship site for Moslem fanatics as an excuse for the immediate burial at sea, how does that square with the historical example of the Soviets' having kept the body of Adolf Hitler for decades following his death (and the most scientifically interesting portions of his skull are still kept today)?

***

Anyways, here's the quote:

a. Clinical Services  Direct patient care is the most obvious function of the medical department in the execution of its mission. Out patient sick call is usually the initial point of entry into the health care function of the medical department. In addition to sick call the medical department maintains an active emergency room, general surgery clinic, physical therapy clinic and optometric services. Inpatient services include the ward, intensive care unit, and operating room functions. This is the "hospital" function of a carrier medical department and the one, which requires constant attention to ensure the highest quality hea care.

***

And here's the whole piece:

http://www.brooksidepress.org/Products/OperationalMedicine/DATA/operationalmed/OperationalSettings/Naval%20Aviation%20Medicine/AircraftCarrierBasedMedicine.htm#Carrier%20Medical%20Department%20Mission%20and%20Capabilities
89  General / General Discussion / Re: Repeat Lessons for Alex re: Canadiana on: May 02, 2011, 06:31:37 pm
Amazon:

Thanks for the support!
90  General / General Discussion / Re: BREAKING: US Claimed They Just Killed Osama bin Laden on: May 02, 2011, 06:28:26 pm
TwoTenners:

Who cares about views?

Look at my time and date stamp: I scooped the board, and that's what I'm all about!
91  Mass Mind Control / Social Engineering / Mind Control / Re: TRUTHER UNDER ATTACK again! on: May 02, 2011, 06:00:23 am
Two Tenners:

I sympathize with the fact that your home was vandalized.

But, please understand that I, myself, am a member of the working class/lower classes, and I'm OK, aren't I?

I understand that you feel victimized and violated, but you might just want to take a deep breath and GET A GRIP ON YOURSELF!!!

Otherwise, I really admire your response to the indifference of your middle-class neighbors by threatening their property values: the middle-class concern for the value of their property in preference to any other concern is truly what irks me most about your class.  (That, and that insane concern for "respectability" which seems to me primarily to involve worshiping your social superiors to the point of believing what you know to be their lies, while denying the very humanity of your social inferiors (such as myself)).

Think about it!
92  General / General Discussion / Re Canadiana: OK, Alex, I Give Up! Be as Stupid as You Want to Be on: May 02, 2011, 05:44:27 am
On yesterday's program(me), Alex said that Queen Elizabeth recently "suspended" Parliament in order to keep the Harper government in power.

The fact is that Queen Elizabeth (of whom I am absolutely NO admirer) DISSOLVED Parliament, in order that new elections (I'm really not kidding you: elections are currently underway!) might create a new Parliament, which fact does, indeed, throw Harper's future up into the air.

As I've said before, the fall of the Harper government is due to the action of a party (Bloc Quebecois) which I do partly support, whose Parliamentary actions stuck the stick into Harper's spokes!

But, if Alex wants to continue to destroy his own credibility in front of 33 million people, then I'm perfectly willing to acknowledge his right under the US Constitution so to do.

I only ask him to recognize the consequences of his willfully ignorant statements vis-a-vis the viability of our movement north of the border.
93  General / General Discussion / Infowars Isn't Posting My Stuff: My Guardian Post Was a Troll on: May 02, 2011, 04:07:06 am
OK, so I posted the jist of my shouts here on GG to the Infowars.com article entitled: "Osama bin Laden is Dead".  Sheesh, talk about the late news!  I mean, really, really late, as it's perfectly obvious that Bush's friend has been dead for some time!

And, every time I check on whether or not this post has taken, the infowars.com site winds up linked to the Guardian thread on which I posted the following piece of crap in an effort to troll that site:

CageMatch

11 January 2011 7:55AM

I, for one, find it absolutely disgusting that the so-called "New Media" demagogues who use inflammatory language against the State are cowering behind the flimsy pretext of "Freedom of Speech" in excuse of their complicity in the murder of an innocent 9-year-old girl. Every right-wing demagogue in the US who opposes the normal operation of the Federal State (be that in the collection of taxes, or the securing of the transportation network against the global curse of terrorism (and, isn't it funny how the terrorists, like the right-wing US demagogues, always seem to aim their verbal vitriol (not to mention their insidious and perfidious weaponry!) against our evolving Global earth-nurturing State?

Upon which defunct ideological construct do these American fascist brats base their insistence that the needs of the individual outweigh the needs of Global society as a whole? (Not to mention the "right" of lunatics to bear lethal arms against little girls?) Oh, yeah, I forgot: it's that stupid Constitution authored by Thomas Jefferson, the slave-owner.

We must not shrink from, but positively accelerate, the creation of a Global society and a Global State in which so-called "Freedom of Speech" will never again be employed to justify the act of confusing the public to the point where they can no longer understand nor appreciate the instructions which the State issues to them FOR THEIR OWN BENEFIT!!!, nor can such an empty and ancient argument be used to foster hatred against the innocent and heroic servants of the State, who, in today's United States, are in fear for their very lives at the hands of those Yankee yokels who think their own county in Texas has power to oppose the establishment of humanity's Global Ecology State.

***

This was obviously an effort on my part to troll that thread (which, by the way, failed), but how does that diminish the truth of my piece concerning the "recent" death of Bush's friend which seeks to clothe President Obama with the cloak of 9/11 falsehood?
94  General / General Discussion / BREAKING: US Claimed They Just Killed Osama bin Laden on: May 01, 2011, 10:32:30 pm
See it at:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/obama-statement-sunday-white-house-says-015437966.html

Osama Bin Laden killed in mansion outside Islamabad: U.S. source

Reuters

By Steve Holland, editing by Will Dunham | Reuters – 3 minutes 25 seconds ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital Islamabad, a U.S. source said on Sunday.

(Reporting by Steve Holland, editing by Will Dunham)
95  General / General Discussion / Repeat Lessons for Alex re: Canadiana on: April 30, 2011, 05:16:30 am
I truly hate to bore you all to death with a thread that consists entirely of excerpts from previous posts, but yesterday's Alex Jones show had Alex panicking, once again, over the throne speech and the periodic closure of public thoroughfares in demonstration of the Queen's proprietorship over them.

***


Here's an excerpt from an earlier post of mine concerning the first part of my statement:

"When the new parliament opens, the Governor General (or, perhaps, even the Queen herself) delivers a speech written for her by the new government, outlining their legislative agenda for the coming term.  This speech is known as the "Throne Speech"."

Please note that I've clearly stated that the Throne Speech is written for the Queen, or for her Governor General of Canada, or for her Provincial Lieutenant Governor, by the local government in question: it's not the Queen's agenda being promulgated in the Throne Speech, but, rather, the sitting Government's agenda, which is why the Queen, or her Governor General of Canada, or her Provincial Lieutenant Governor sounds like a Socialist one year only to sound like a rock-ribbed Conservative the following year.

Here's an excerpt from an earlier post of mine concerning my second point:

"Alex has, in the past, referred to the practice of Queen Elizabeth closing off access to certain of her properties (including highways) with the implication that this behavio(u)r on her part was some sort of arrogant power play.  In fact, this is standard practice among owners of property that might be construed as public thoroughfares if the general public were allowed to use them constantly without obstruction.  Allowing someone other than the owner or his invitees or licensees to allow free access to one's private property is known in law as "Sufferance of Open and Notorious Adverse Possession", which is a way of saying that one's allowing free use by others of his property constitutes a constructive quitclaim deed to the property, i.e., you lose the property on the basis of your having abandoned it.  While the statute of limitations for allowing squatters on one's property without losing it is usually around twenty years, it's simply sound practice to close it off one day per year (usually the slowest Sunday of the year).  I am aware of a private property parcel in downtown Hartford, Connecticut which had a little street running through it: one Sunday every summer (at the height of vacation season, when the street would be little used), it was roped off.  It wasn't that noone could use it, it's just that, if you had legitimate business on the property, you had to explain your purpose to the owner's agent (in this case the security guard), and he would let you enter; the essential point is that access to the property was thereby limited to the owner's invitees and licensees."

Once again, closure of public thoroughfares is simple (and advisable) legal precaution in demonstrating one's proprietorship over realty, and not necessarily an exercise of aristocratic arrogance.

***

Alex. would you PLEASE familiarize yourself with these matters?

PLEASE?Huh??


96  General / General Discussion / Big Surprise! Birther Movement Called Racist in Lamestream Media on: April 28, 2011, 04:54:15 am
What a total load of crap!

It begins by pointing out the "fact" that questions concerning John McCain's constitutional qualifications for the presidency were quelled soon after they were revealed: I believe Alex has never let go of that issue, and I know perfectly well that I never have; I've always pointed out the fact that our rulers presented the US electorate with a Hobson's choice between two constitutionally unqualified candidates in 2008, and, if memory serves me (but I'm gittn' old!), so has Alex.

I also hope everyone notices that this article follows the recent revelations publicized by the great Wayne Madsen, which revelations were, in turn, soon followed by the "revelation" of President Soetoro's "long-form" Hawaiian birth certificate

See:

Wed Apr 27, 5:34 pm ET

Birtherist response highlights racial undertones of ‘debate’

By Rachel Rose Hartman

at:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110427/ts_yblog_theticket/birth-certificate-wont-end-race-related-attacks-on-the-president

During the 2008 campaign, questions about John McCain's birth in the Panama Canal Zone on a U.S. military base prompted some to ask whether McCain was eligible to be president, since the Constitution stipulates that anyone not born in the United States is not eligible to be president.

Amid a flurry of news reports, McCain's own campaign announced in February 2008 that it was conducting an investigation. When a bipartisan pair of lawyers announced the following month that McCain was indeed eligible, the issue virtually died--apart from a Senate resolution that pretty much laid the question to rest by attesting to the facts surrounding McCain's birth and citizenship.

But the winner of the 2008 election, Barack Obama, has faced a relentless campaign questioning his U.S. citizenship--and thereby the legitimacy of his presidency--that has disregarded the facts.

Questions regarding Obama's birth certificate have persisted for more than two years, as the president noted Wednesday at a press conference announcing the release of his long-form birth certificate. A vast array of evidence attests to Obama's citizenship--including a certificate of live birth, signed affidavits from people who viewed Obama's long-form birth certificate, confirmation by Hawaiian officials, and independent investigations by news outlets. Nevertheless, "this thing just keeps going" as Obama said this morning. Even after the White House released the long-form certificate of Obama's birth, birther leader Orly Taitz—who has filed unsuccessful lawsuits seeking to obtain access to Obama's birth certificate—sought to cast doubt on the document's authenticity, suggesting that in 1961, Hawaiian officials would have classified Obama as "Negro" rather than using designation "African," which suggests, in her view, a more contemporary concern for "political correctness."

So what's fueling the dogged questioning of Obama's origins? Many critics of the birther movement say its core tenets--and its stubborn resistance to evidence disproving those beliefs--can be traced to racial hostilities. The fundamental birtherist conviction, these critics say, is that an African-American can't have legitimately won the presidency--and that his elevation to power therefore has to be the result of an elaborate subterfuge.

"There is a real deep-seated and vicious racism at work here in terms of trying to de-legitimate the president," Peniel Joseph, a professor of history at Tufts University, told The Ticket.

"This is more than just a conspiracy," Peniel added. "I think this is fundamentally connected to white supremacism in this country."

Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. in early April called for the connection to be publicly drawn between birthers and racism: "So it is time to call this birther nonsense what it is--not just claptrap, but profoundly racist claptrap."

And columnist Michael Tomasky wrote for The Guardian Wednesday that the birther conspiracy "had to be the only explanation for how this black man got to the White House." He added: "And if you think race isn't what this is about at its core, ask yourself if there would even be a birther conspiracy if Barack Obama were white and named Bart Oberstar. If you think there would be, you are delusional."

In a similar vein, Rev. Jesse Jackson told Politico yesterday that Donald Trump's campaign to get Obama to release his birth certificate is deeply rooted in race.

"Any discussion of [Obama's] birthplace is a code word," Jackson said. "It calls upon ancient racial fears." Jackson later added that, in his view, Trump "is now tapping into code-word fears that go far beyond a rational discourse."

Birthers emphatically deny such criticism. But it's difficult to apprehend the ongoing resistance to proof of Obama's citizenship without crediting racial fear as a significant factor. At first, after all, many adherents of birtherism argued that the administration fueled speculation by failing to release the long-form version of Obama's birth certificate, but now that this version has been released to the public, the call continues to go out for other kinds of information about Obama's past to be released--a level of scrutiny that neither McCain nor Obama's 43 predecessors in the Oval Office were expected to face.

Trump, who has railed against Obama as he floats himself as a presidential contender, on Wednesday at a press conference in New Hampshire called for Obama to release his academic transcripts:

The word is, according to what I've read, that he was a terrible student when he went to Occidental. He then gets to Columbia. He then gets to Harvard. I heard at Columbia he wasn't a very good student. He then gets to Harvard. How do you get into Harvard if you're not a good student. Maybe that's right or maybe that's wrong. But I don't know why he doesn't release his records. Why doesn't he release his Occidental records?

Trump and others have accused Obama of not authoring his memoir, while many Obama detractors continue to argue he is secretly Muslim. Both Jackson and Peniel noted that never before has a sitting president's nationality been questioned.

Meanwhile, an eye-opening recent study from the University of Delaware appears to confirm that race-minded detractors of Obama view him as "less American"--as Dan Vergano writes for USA Today.

The study, which surveyed blacks and whites on their opinions of Obama compared to Vice President Joe Biden, found that whites classified as "higher prejudice-predicted Whites" viewed Obama as "less American"--a view that, in turn, resulted in lower evaluations of the president's performance.

"Finally, many in the media have speculated that current criticisms of Obama are a result of his race, rather than his agenda. We believe that the current results are an empirical demonstration that this is sadly the case," the study concluded in its analysis. "As the United States approaches important decisions regarding issues such as economic reform, health care, and overseas military interventions, the intrusion of racial attitudes in the evaluation of political leaders' performance is ironically inconsistent with what many believe to be 'American.' "

Two separate national polls conducted this spring found that about half of Republicans don't believe Obama was born in the United States.

But Democrats and Republicans alike say that "birther" talk will be a political liability for whoever propagates the discussion.

"I don't think it's an issue that moves voters," Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus told reporters Tuesday. "It's an issue in my opinion that I don't personally get too excited about, because I think the more important question is what's going on in this country in regards to jobs, to debt, and the deficit and spending. Those are the things that people are worried about. People aren't worried about these other issues."
97  The Wall / Off Topic / Whining / Royal Wedding: Morganatic Marriage on: April 27, 2011, 01:45:45 am

There has been much speculation in the blogosphere as to whether the marriage between Prince William and Katherine Middleton will be morganatic in nature.  (For those of you not born or raised into cultures with a monarchical tradition, the definition of a Morganatic marriage is, concerning the marriage of an aristocrat with a non-aristocrat, the non-aristocrat could not marry the aristocrat unless she (the wife was usually the social inferior) agreed that she would not become Queen, and her children would not be included within the aristocratic line of succession.)  While it is generally agreed that such has never been the law in Great Britain, questions have arisen as to the eligibility of Mrs. Wallis Simpson and Mrs. Camilla Parker-Bowles for coronation as Queen of England upon their husbands' succession to the throne.  The fact is, neither of these women were eligible for succession, not as a result of their common birth, but as a result of their ineligibility to marry due to their already having been married (notice the title Mrs. before each of these women's names), with their ex-husbands still living.  (Don't forget that, traditionally, only the husband (a la Henry VIII), could sue for divorce.)  As Kate Middleton has never been married, her marriage will not be morganatic; she will become queen, and her children will inherit.

The final death blow to the entire concept of the morganatic marriage was probably delivered by the bullets of Gavrillo Princip, the Serbian-state-supported Bosnian terrorist who assassinated the Hapsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his morganatic wife, Countess Sophia.  The fact that this couple, known to be madly in love, lay in state with Countess Sophia's coffin being visibly lower than her husband's, disgusted commoner and aristocrat alike.
98  General / General Discussion / Once Again: Will Alex Please Educate Himself Concerning the Canadian System? on: April 27, 2011, 01:36:20 am
What about Queen Elizabeth's having prorogued the Canadian Parliament three times in the last three years?

As I've already explained, the first and third of these incidents lay well within the proper Constitutional purpose of the prorogation of Parliament, which is, within the context of Parliament having been dissolved due to new elections having been called, to allow the Government of the dissolved Parliament to continue in a caretaker capacity.  Only the second of these three incidents of the prorogation of Parliament constituted an unconstitutional act establishing an executive dictatorship over Canada.  Even at that, it was limited to the 45-day period (which, once again, constitutes the Constitutionally permissible period between the dissolution of Parliament and the next elections)

I'm not here justifying the prorogation of Parliament in the absence of elections, and I've already indicated my opposition to the current British dynasty (in the context of it's apparent assignment, since the early XVIII Century, as the German guardian of the tyrannical, continental Bank of England), but what Canada's currently undergoing is the prorogation of Parliament in the CONTEXT OF DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT, TO ALLOW THE OUTGOING GOVERNMENT TO CONTINUE IN A CARETAKER CAPACITY DURING THE PERIOD OF NEW ELECTIONS!

Alex, on today's program(me), complained about the Queen's having prorogued Canada's elected Parliament, which, in the instant context, ignores the fact that the current elections (believe me, they're really underway!  I've seen the debates!)  will create a new elected Parliament!  The Canadian electoral system, with paper ballots publicly counted, would be much more difficult to rig than the current US system of electronic voting machines built by politically connected companies.  And, I've already explained that the current elections were called (consequent to the dissolution of Parliament) due to the Government's having failed, due to the fact that the duly elected Parliament, through normal democratic procedures, have indicated their refusal to support the legislative program(me) of the current Government.  If Alex, in today's panicky response to the current Canadian political situation, denounces the Queen's dissolution of Parliament through preference of the continued rule of the failed executive power, he is, in fact, demanding the unconstitutional prorogation of Parliament, and the establishment of an executive dictatorship of the current failed Government over Canada!!!!

Would Alex PLEASE educate himself on the subject of the Canadian political system, and stop embarrassing me in front of my friends?  Will he please realize that Texas is not the whole world, and that tendentiously ignorant provincialism, although it may be seen as commendably macho within the context of Texan culture, is neither Jeffersonian (you'll notice that the US Constitution establishes the Electoral College with the specific purpose of preventing the success of any Presidential candidacy with exclusively regional appeal?) nor convincing?
99  General / General Discussion / Alex Jones and Bob Chapman: How will Fed Buyout of Ag Contracts Work, Without Ag on: April 23, 2011, 04:14:22 am
I've just heard yesterday's show on rebroadcast, in which Alex Jones and Bob Chapman agree that a Federal Reserve bailout of Ag futures and put options holders is the most likely scenario for resolving the big call fail next month.

My question is: how do they expect the investors to be satisfied with redemption of their contracts in FRNs (the Fed's only option, seeing as they lack sufficient Ag to cover all the naked shorts outstanding), when the whole reason the investors purchased the contracts in the first place was to gain access to Ag as a hedge against the falling value of the FRN?

WELL?Huh?
100  General / General Discussion / Survey: 30% of Canadians Can't Afford to Live! on: April 22, 2011, 05:33:17 am
See:

http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/Survey-finds-nearly-one-third-capress-886125985.html?x=0

Survey finds nearly one-third of respondents didn't have enough money to live on

The Canadian Press, On Wednesday April 20, 2011, 10:28 am EDT

By The Canadian Press

TORONTO - Nearly one-third of Canadians that responded to a recent survey backed by a major Canadian bank said they didn't have enough money to cover living expenses.

An online survey completed for TD Canada Trust (TSX:TD) also found that 54 per cent of the 1,003 people who answered said it was a real struggle or impossible to save.

The report, released Wednesday, says that 38 per cent of respondents said they had no savings and 30 per cent said they didn't have enough money for their living expenses.

On the flip side, 30 per cent of the respondents said they had enough money saved to cover living expenses for at least four months.

The online survey, based on a representative sample of Canadian adults, was conducted before Christmas from Dec. 2 to 7 by Environics Research for the bank.

TD used the survey results to publicize its services for helping customers with their savings.

The survey found the top goals for the respondents were: saving for retirement (73 per cent), paying off credit cards (72 per cent), and major purchases or vacations (53 per cent each).

On a regional basis:

— 22 per cent of respondents in the Atlantic provinces said they found saving "impossible" and 43 per cent indicated any left-over money was being used to pay down debt.

— 54 per cent of respondents in Ontario said they found it a "real struggle" or impossible to save and 33 per cent said they didn't have enough money to cover living expenses.

— 33 per cent of respondents in Saskatchewan and Manitoba indicated it was a real struggle to save but a larger portion (37 per cent) said they had enough money saved to cover at least four months of living expenses.

— 55 per cent of respondents in Alberta said it was a real struggle or impossible to save but 31 per cent said they had enough money saved to cover at least four months of living expenses.

— 44 per cent of respondents in British Columbia said it was a real struggle or impossible to save; 30 per cent said they didn't have enough money to cover living expenses.
101  General / General Discussion / Interesting Exchange on Another Forum on: April 20, 2011, 03:56:18 am
The thread to which I refer, whose original poster was other than myself, is entitled: Civil Warriors -- Teacher's Pride Over Ancestor's Loyalty to the Confederacy

Here's the original post:

I found it appalling to hear teacher Cornelia Granbery, descendent of southern slave owner Cornelia McDonald, talk about gaining, "a better sense of pride", over learning of her ancestor's refusal to take an oath of loyalty to the Union --which would have enabled McDonald to obtain food for her starving children. What kind of teacher today would value loyalty to the confederacy over the welfare of children?

I am also a descendent of southern slave owners and I feel nothing but shame over my ancesters' involvement with slavery and their commitment to the confederacy, in order to maintain such a terrible injustice against fellow human beings.

I am a teacher, too, and, as such, I know very well that teachers must serve as models to children and the community. I would, therefore, never, ever want any of my students to think that I feel anything but disgust over my slave owning ancestors' sorely misguided commitments and priorities. Granbery needs to think about the message she is sending to her students as well.

***

Here are my responses:


You may wish to read my earlier thread "Political Correctness in 'Civil Warriors'".  While I certainly empathize with your position of guilt over your ancestors' actions and beliefs, and while I certainly agree with your analysis of the moral turpitude and social oppression of slavery, I believe you're viewing their situation through a Twenty-First Century lens which clouds your judgement.  While it's hard for us to understand how anyone could have believed as the pro-slavery crowd in the US did, we have benefit of having lived in an integrated society, whereas 19th Century Americans had no such experience.  (Don't forget that even many abolitionists refused to believe that the great Frederick Douglass had ever been a slave or that he had been self-taught.)  The big money men ran the ante-bellum South as their own little fiefdom (recall that the Confederate Army exempted from service anyone who owned more than twenty slaves, which raised the cry among the poor whites: "Rich man's war; poor man's fight!"), and these rich men constructed a very powerful propaganda apparatus which took advantage of the penchant (and conscience-salving need) of the bulk of the population for rationalization of their denial of the nature of the atrocity which they were committing.  I see the bulk of the Southern white population of the period as being, not so much evil, as deluded, and not necessarily self-deluded.

It's certainly difficult for us to understand why a mother would risk starvation for her children in order to make a political point, and yet look how many modern-day American parents will allow their children to be improperly touched by airport security personnel, not in order to support some cause, but simply in order not to miss their flights.


***

By way of clarification, my favorite period of history is the ancient Anglo-Saxon world, and I can't help but notice that the CSA corresponds to a cultural pattern that I've seen many times in the historical record, which I call "Conquest Pathology".

I can't help but notice that the vast bulk of white Southerners derive from the region of Northern England and Southern Scotland which was known, in ancient times, as the Kingdom of Northumbria.  This region enjoyed a cultural florescence that made it the most advanced culture in Europe in its day, only to be, first terrorized, then conquered, by the savages of the isolated and backward North Germanic Radiation (i.e., the Vikings).  This type of situation creates, among the conquered, a period of defiant resistance, which changes, once the immediate crisis of the post-conquest period is resolved, by chauvinism.  Should the subject population then attain power, the chauvinism becomes narcissism, which mind-set absolves it's proponent of the need to conform to the prevailing moral code, from which they see themselves as exempt.

This is to be contrasted with the experience of post-Norman-Conquest England, in which the post-conquest crisis was resolved by the conquerors becoming converted to the cause of the conquered, which results in a cultural self-confidence which falls well short of unhealthy chauvinism.

I'm not excusing evil, but I am suggesting that people can become trapped within their own cultural mind-set to the point that they view reason itself as a threat to their own sense of morality (as warped as that sense of morality may seem to outsiders to be).  And I"m also suggesting that, in such situations, understanding might be the wiser opening move than confrontation, although I believe that, based on what I've said above, confrontation between normal and pathological societies is usually inevitable.

I hope this little digression may prove useful to you.
102  General / General Discussion / Re: Political Correctness in National Geographic Channel's "Civil Warriors" on: April 20, 2011, 03:36:07 am
Ooops!  Made a mistook!

The Freedmens' Bureau wasn't actually established until after the war had ended.  But we can clearly see its inspiration and historical inception in the civilian activities adjoining the Sea Islands operation.
103  General / General Discussion / New NeoCon Email Campaign re: Obama Undefeatable in 2012 on: April 16, 2011, 05:38:09 am
Here's yet another nutty NeoCon email I received, together with my response:

Scary... Really Scary!!!
Subject: Fwd: FW: For some of us, the worst news ever -(Larry)




                    

    
               IF THIS DOESN`T SCARE THE ----OUT-OF-YOU.  

      



                  For some of us, the worst news ever -
        

                
                We can only HOPE that Dr. Williams is 100% wrong.......
                everyone MUST come out and vote in 2012 - - -
                we just can't let this happen.....



                    Maybe you have read some newspaper articles written by Dr. Walter Williams, a conservative economist, who happens to be Black. He has taught at several
                    Universities and is currently teaching at George Mason University.  He has also
                    substituted on the Rush Limbaugh show when Rush was away.
                    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    
                    No Matter What
                    

                        By Dr. Walter Williams
                        
                        Can President Obama be defeated in 2012?     No.     He can't.  
                        I am going on record as saying that President Barak Obama will win a second term.
                        
                        The media won't tell you this because a good election campaign means hundreds of millions (or in Obama's case billions) of dollars to them in advertising.  But the truth is, there simply are no conditions under which Barak Obama can be defeated in 2012.
                        
                        The quality of the Republican candidate doesn't matter.  Obama gets reelected.
                        Nine percent unemployment?  No problem.  Obama will win.  Gas prices moving toward five dollars a gallon?  He still wins.  The economy soars or goes into the gutter.  Obama wins.  War in the Middle East?  He wins a second term.  America's role as the leading Superpower disappears?  Hurrah for Barak Obama!  The U.S. government rushes toward bankruptcy, the dollar continues to sink on world markets and the price of daily goods and services soars due to inflation fueled by Obama's extraordinary deficit spending?  Obama wins handily.
                        
                        You are crazy Williams.  Don't you understand how volatile politics can be when overall economic, government, and world conditions are declining?  Sure I do.
                        And that's why I know Obama will win.  The American people are notoriously ignorant of economics.  And economics is the key to why Obama should be defeated.  Even when Obama's policies lead the nation to final ruin, the majority of the American people are going to believe the bait-and-switch tactics Obama and his supporters in the media will use to explain why it isn't his fault.  After all, things were much worse than understood when he took office.
                        
                        Obama's reelection is really a very, very simple math problem.
                        Consider the following:
                        
                        1) Blacks will vote for Obama blindly.  Period.  Doesn't matter what he does.  It's a race thing.  He's one of us,  
                        
                        2) College educated women will vote for Obama.  Though they will be offended by this, they swoon at his looks and oratory.  It's really not more complex than that,
                        
                        3) Liberals will vote for Obama.  He is their great hope,
                          
                        4) Democrats will vote for Obama.  He is the leader of their party and his coattails
                        will carry them to victory nationwide,
                          
                        5) Hispanics will vote for Obama.  He is the path to citizenship for those who are illegal and Hispanic leaders recognize the political clout they carry in the Democratic Party,
                        
                        6) Union members will vote overwhelmingly for Obama.  He is their key to money and power in business, state and local politics,
                        
                        7) Big Business will support Obama.  They already have.  He has almost $1 Billion dollars in his reelection purse gained largely from his connections with Big Business and is gaining more everyday.  Big Business loves Obama because he gives them access to taxpayer money so long as they support his social and political agenda,
                        
                        Cool The media love him.  They may attack the people who work for him, but they love him.  After all, to not love him would be racist,
                        
                        9) Most other minorities and special interest groups will vote for him.  Oddly, the overwhelming majority of Jews and Muslims will support him because they won't vote Republican.  American Indians will support him.  Obviously homosexuals tend to vote Democratic.  And lastly,
                        
                        10) Approximately half of independents will vote for Obama.  And he doesn't need anywhere near that number because he has all of the groups previously mentioned.  The President will win an overwhelming victory in 2012.  
                        
                        --  Dr. Walter Williams

***

That's the dopey NeoCon email.

And, now, as I promised, here's my response:

If this is all that scares you, then you're courage is clearly superior to mine!

How on earth can it even matter whether Obama or anyone else is President, when all of our presidents under the current Federal Reserve regime continue exactly the same policies?

But this email is problematic even beyond that, in that its premise assumes the fact of free elections in the US, which premise is clearly false in the light of the demonstrably rigged elections of 2000 and 2004.  (And don't forget that the "birther" issue applies to McCain as well as to Obama, as McCain was born in off-base housing in the Panama Canal Zone.  (He claimed he was born in an on-base hospital, but the hospital he claimed he was born in didn't yet exist in the year he was born.)  Why do you think our rulers would present us with a pair of major party candidates BOTH of whom are constitutionally unqualified to serve as President?  Don't you see that it's to destroy the legal precendential value of the Constitution as standing law?)

What this email really seeks to accomplish is to lay the blame for the crimes of the second Obama Administration upon the American people (who have no choice in the matter), rather than upon the banksters who run this country through the Federal Reserve.

There is so much more going on the world, and in the country, that's so much more important than this, that I can't imagine why any aware and awake person would even think this "issue" important.
104  General / General Discussion / Re: The Tradition of US Acquiescence in the Exploitation of Non-Citizen Labor on: April 15, 2011, 07:08:55 am
Oh, yeah, I actually managed to forget (how could I have forgotten) the explolitation of prisoner labo(u)r in this, the most imprisoned society on the planet.  This goes even to the point of a factory right here in Rhode Island having to cease operations and fire law-abiding workers in order that the US government-contracted work be transferred to US Bureau of Prisons contract labo(u)r!

Talk about slavery!
105  General / General Discussion / Re: Time Magazine Hit Piece vs. Constitutionalist Movement on: April 15, 2011, 05:13:38 am
Right you are, but, you must understand, that the glory and wisdom behind the Constitution of the United States of America is a single gossamer strand binding me to this country.  The American people are hardly an inspiration to me, seeing as I am an Ellis Island-descended foreigner whose family never bought into this country's self-conceit, not because there was anything wrong with our founding ideals (which I truly believe to be the greatest ever proclaimed on this earth, to the point that I believe the founding documents of this nation to have their origin in Divine inspiration), but there just seems to me to be something very sick and wrong with the great mass of the American people.
106  General / General Discussion / Re: AJ Needs a Little Education in Canadiana on: April 15, 2011, 04:56:29 am
The states should 'STATIZE' their banks and work to establish a new national congress.


***

Absolutely!

I keep reading about how the state of North Dakota is the most prosperous state in the union, without any mention being made of North Dakota's state-based banking system.

And of course the states need to establish, not a new national Congress, but a REAL national Congress, as opposed to the bankster-run fake now in existence.

Nevertheless, I did make, not one, but two major oversights concerning the British Constitution: the first being that no Parliament may exist for a term greater than five years, such that, even were everyone in Canada deliriously delighted with the way things have been going over the previous five years, Queen Elizabeth is required by law to dissolve Parliament under the terms of the British Constitution.  The second major oversight I made was to ignore the fact that the governing party may call "snap elections" anytime they choose, such that when the government's popularity is high, they may extend their term in power by "going to the country" (i.e., asking the Queen to dissolve Parliament and to call for the election of a new Parliament under conditions extremely favo(u)rable to the Government.)

Sorry for these oversights, mate!

Cheers!
107  General / General Discussion / Re: The Nuclear Nightmare on: April 14, 2011, 04:58:53 am
Hey, Two Tenners:

I'm an an American hippie (to a certain extent) myself, and I'm not advocating the de-industrialization of the US.

As a peace offering, here's yet another little piece of American hippie culture: (OK, so it has a lot of photos of Grace, but the female singer in this song is actually our beloved Signe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PCM76vlCS8


Anyways, there's realy no reason to have nuclear power plants anywhere on earth, given the safety of clean-burning coal plants and the plentiful global supply of coal.  My chief concern here is for the criminal neglect of safety among coal mine operators in the US, apparent from the film "Harlan County USA" available here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pa80stR7U0&feature=related

(You see, most American hippies derive from the middle class, whereas I'm a working class boy, which I believe makes a difference.)

And I can definitely sympathize with your life story, as my family moved out of my neighborhood in Milwaukee in 1972, and, in the ten years following that move, every single housewife in that neighborhood died of cancer.  My own mother didn't (she died of an obviously genetically caused disease decades later), so whatever was buried beneath that neighborhood obviously didn't spring a leak until after my family moved out.
108  General / General Discussion / Political Correctness in National Geographic Channel's "Civil Warriors" on: April 14, 2011, 01:41:24 am
I could hardly believe my eyes and ears when the "Civil Warriors" show started guilt-tripping the 54th Massachusetts descendant over the burning of the white peoples' houses in the Sea Islands, which was a matter of absolute military necessity.  The Sea Island landings were purposed with the primary objective of freeing slaves and establishing the Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina for the purpose of enabling survey teams to conduct demographic and cultural study of a representative slave population in their instant condition, in order to assist policymakers in determining how best to absorb our four million new citizens into our society.  The newly freed slaves would never have cooperated with the survey teams if they thought the soldiers were going to go away and let their former owners reclaim them, so burning their houses was the only way to convince the freed population that their masters weren't coming back and that they truly were permanently free.  If they hadn't done that, the whole operational objective would have been frustrated.

All in all, it was an excellent program but for that side-trip into ridiculous political correctness.
109  The Wall / Off Topic / Whining / OK, So I'm Not Totally Giving Up On Science Television, But... on: April 13, 2011, 05:42:42 am
I  just saw a program on the National Geographic Channel entitled: "Search for the Ultimate Survivor", which got a lot right, and a little bit wrong.  The program correctly identified the ancestor of modern man, but erred in claiming the total extinction of Neanderthal Man: HEY, 'SCUSE ME, BUT MY STATUS AS A MEMBER OF THE ALPINE SUBRACE OF THE CAUCASIAN RACE (red hair, short stature, broad face) CLEARLY MARKS ME AS A DESCENDANT OF NEANDERTHAL MAN, SO SHUT UP CONCERNING MY NEANDERTHAL ANCESTORS, YOU STUPID BLEEPETY-BLEEP JERKS!!!!

The most critical error that this program makes is in failing to indicate the fundamental difference between anatomically modern man and the other great apes: the obvious fact of our aquatic adaptation (short, fine body hair, aqueous feces, dilute urine, the dive reflex, the webbing between our fingers and toes which make partial flippers of our hands and feet, the fact that children brought up to swim in seawater from infancy enjoy underwater vision superior to their vision out of water) which explains how we first obtained the protein which allowed our brains to grow: by swallowing fish, oyster, clams, crabs, and the such.

The program hinted at the idea, by showing girls swimming in an athletic competition near the end of the program, but never explicitly enunciated it.

Man, with their huge budgets, why can't science television get it right?Huh???
110  General / General Discussion / The Tradition of US Acquiescence in the Exploitation of Non-Citizen Labor on: April 11, 2011, 07:04:48 am
This is a (hopefully) improved version of a piece I first posted to the forum half a year ago:


Here's something I've wanted to say for a long time, inspired by the talk I heard some time ago delivered by the Rev. Mr. Clenard Childress, as further informed by Dr. Stanley Monteith's earlier statement concerning the "veering off" of the straight line of history occaisioned by the victory of the American Revolution, and of Katherine Austin Fitts in her exposition of the willingness of the American people to sacrifice others on behalf of their own financial well-being.  While I certainly agree with Dr. Monteith's analysis that the concept of the state as the servant of the people represented a revolutionary concept in his day, I also recognize that President Jefferson's opposition to the vile institution of slavery is only partially reflected in the US Constitution.  Now, I consider the US Constitution to be the greatest document ever produced by mortal man, the only superior document being the Holy Bible, which I accept as the Divinely inspired Word of God.  But, you must understand that the seeds of the sins of 1913 were laid at America's foundation, such that, at first, slavery was protected as a valid institution, and, as soon as slavery was abolished as the chief result of the American Civil War, the Northern industrialists, having inherited the mantle of the governing class from the vanquished Southern Planter class, suddenly found themselves with an eager African-American populace willing to be employed as industrial workers, which would-be proletarians the US Constitution, as eventually amended, required the industrialists to recognize as fellow citizens, with all the rights and privileges appertaining thereunto, Rather than avail themselves of this rich resource, the Northern industrialists chose to recruit European immigrants, who were not citizens, in order to gain access to a workforce who could not enforce the rights and privileges of citizenship against their employers, even as those same Northern industrialists allowed Southern Jim Crow laws and vagrancy laws to reduce the newly freed African-Americans to a condition of slavery under another name.  With great respect for the native-born American generation which rose in rebellion against the exploitation of European immigrant labor (in many cases, causing them to rebel against their own parents), beginning in the mid-1880s, I must say that the majority of native-born white Americans during this period saw themselves as a privileged elite descended from the first humans to have set foot upon American soil (well, except for those pesky Indians, who had recently been subjected to the superior force of arms wielded by the descendants of early European immigrants), and whose rationalization of the exploitation of recently immigrated Europeans and recently freed African-American slaves is still reflected in the academic literature of West Virginia as the company store system of debt bondage being fraudulently characterized by the establishment academics as a free and fair credit system which was abused by the miners!

In saying this, I fully realize that I stand in the shoes of my ancestors who, in turn, stood in the shoes of the illegal immigrants who are currently serving the purposes of the ruling class (with Ellis Island and Angle Island serving as guarantors of the then-popular idea of US "white racial identity").

So, it seems to me that there's some fundamental evil within US society that requires economic benefit on behalf of the self-chosen few at the expense of the voiceless, non-citizen many, which resulted in the horrific defeat of the US Constitutional order in 1913, which internationaiized the scope of exploitation of the US' rulers beyond the scope of the very borders which held the promise of eventual citizenship for the descendants of the immigrant workers, such that the exploitation of workers overseas could work hand-in-hand with the repression of recent European immigrants (few Americans who lack my working-class background remember that the current US War on Terror began as the War Against German Anarchism in the 1890's, which evolved into the War to Preserve Civilization Against the Kaiser's Huns when the US entry into World War One made instant enemy aliens of many of the employees of little factories (who may have begun "talking union" (not that that was convenient or anything!)) who suddenly found themselves subjects of Hohenzollern or Habsburg or Wittelsbach (all three in the case of my ancestors) in the midst of a Republic which had economic need of laborers lacking the rights of citizenship.  OK, so World War 2 allowed the US to play with the Japanese-Americans (except for those in Hawaii, where war workers were needed, or NYC, where brains were needed.  No, it was just on the US West Coast where Japanese-Americans were generously removed to camps where they were graciously allowed to perform the back-breaking agricultural labor previously performed by Mexican migrant labor, the supply of which had been cut off by the closure of the US-Mexican border occasioned by the outbreak of the Second World War.  The precedent set here: US citizens were forced to perform labor without bargained-for compensation, with such condition of involuntary servitude being imposed upon them in the absence of due process of law.

Today, our rulers not only have benefit of illegal immigrant labor serving as a disenfranchised, underpaid workforce, but, through the magic of “offshoring”,  they possess the ability to exploit the labor of workers who remain in their native countries (once again, with no possibility of US citizenship).  Even this is in addition to those foreign workers in the scientific and technical fields       who are being imported into the US under temporary work visas, to cure a claimed shortage of native-born Americans possessing such skills in the face of an actual surplus of native-born Americans possessing such skills.

This history is the primary reason underlying my self-characterization as a US Constitutionalist rather than as an American patriot.
111  General / General Discussion / Swedish Gov't Lies to Parliament re: Cost of EU Military Commitment on: April 11, 2011, 01:42:05 am
See:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Battlegroup

2010 Evaluation by the Swedish National Audit Office

On October 29, 2010 the findings of an official audit by the Swedish National Audit Office was published which concluded with fundamental weaknesses in the organization's logistics capabilties, internal cooperation and personnel supply. According to the National Auditor, Jan Landahl, the Nordic Battle Group also suffered from inadequate control over expenditures and reporting from the Swedish cabinet to the parliament was also unsatisfactory. The audit office's report found that twice as many Swedish soldiers were assigned to the Battle Group compared to what the 2004 mandate had assigned, and the costs to the Swedish government was in the multiples of what the parliament had been told.[5]

In advance of fiscal year 2008 the Swedish Armed Forces were critically underfunded, and this led to Battle Group personnel being dismissed.[5]

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Here's a Nordic Battlegroup recruiting ad (the .nu at the end of the web address stands for "Nordic Union") which clearly refers to a third-world interventionist role for the battlegroup (more likely for the entire EU military force):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP4i_OfMukk


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EDIT: Why a recruitment ad for a country with universal conscription (the ad is in English probably to to attract Irish recruits, as Ireland is a contributor of forces to the Nordic Battlegoup, but it was clearly filmed in Sweden, indicating that it was, at least partly, intended for a Swedish audience)?  Because the Swedish army doesn't conscript for units to be deployed (such as in UN operations or in EU Battlegroups).  These billets are filled by volunteers, thus the recruitment ads.
112  General / International News / Re: Two Shot, One Dead in British Nuclear Submarine Shooting on: April 10, 2011, 12:31:29 am
Route:

Don't they have psychiatric standards for men who work with NUCLEAR WEAPONS???

TT:

I don't think a launch by an out-of-control crewman is possible, as there are built-in safeguards that, at least in theory, make it impossible for a single person to launch a weapon.

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Anyways, questions have been raised re: the quality of RN u-boat construction, particularly by those of us with ties to Canada.  Look up the history of HMCS Chicoutimi, and also check this out at:

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1717479

"As for the comment about these boats not having problems while they were in the Royal Navy, what about HMS Upholder (now Chicoutimi) having problems while on sea trials in 93/94? They were on full speed propulsion trials when the main engine came off its mounts and began sparking violently causing a fire. So you see these problems are not new and they are inherent to their class. There will be teething problems for all 4 subs and the Canadians know this and are dealing with them very professionally."

Hmmmm!


113  General / General Discussion / Time Magazine Hit Piece vs. Constitutionalist Movement on: April 09, 2011, 10:36:31 pm
See:

The Way We Weren't
By David von Drehle

at:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2063679,00.html

which contains, under the chapter heading "Why it Matters" (at:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2063679-4,00.html )

the statement:

"Robust controversies rage and always will, but the distortion and occluded memory that shaped the Lost Cause story is found now only on the academic fringe. What energy exists in the modern version comes from a clique of libertarians who view the Union cause as a fearsome example of authoritarian central government crushing individual dissent. Slave owners make odd libertarian heroes, but by keeping the focus narrowly on Big Government, this school uses the secession cause to dramatize issues of today."

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If anything, this underscores the convenience to our rulers of controlling both sides of an issue, in that a strong central government and slavery are both in their interests, so by putting one of these political "poison pills" into the ideological justification of each cause, they ensure that part of their program is advanced regardless of who wins.  It's a little like the beer advertisement where the Indians and the Cavalry are fighting over "Tastes Great" vs. "Less Filling", while they're both advertising the same brand of beer.

We must not forget that, in the end, Lincoln's issuance of state-sponsored fiat currency (the famous "greenbacks") made a huge difference with our rulers, as is evidenced by the famous Times of London "Hazard Circular of 1865":

"If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origin in North America, shall become endurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains, and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe."

which, in turn, is a more hyperventilating version of the less well-known  Hazard Circular of 1862:

"Slavery is likely to be abolished by the war power, and all chattel slavery abolished.  This I and my friends are in favor of, for slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care of the laborers, while the European plan, led on by England, is that capital shall control labor by controlling wages.  The great debt that capitalists will see to it is made out of the war must be used as a means to control the volume of money.  To accomplish this, the bonds must be used as a banking basis.  We are now waiting for the secretary of the treasury to make this recommendation to Congress.  It will not do to allow the greenback, as it is called, to circulate as money any length of time, as we cannot control that.  But we can control the bonds and through the bonds the bank issues."
114  Science & Technology / Tech Talk / Possible Explanation for 4/7/2011 Janan Earthquake "Blue Light" Phenomenon on: April 08, 2011, 01:45:44 am
Yes, I agree it could be another sign of HAARP at work, but the "Blue Light" could also be the piezoelectric effect, such as that observed in Marfa, Texas in a phenomenon known as the "Marfa Lights".  The piezoelectric effect occurs when quartz is placed under pressure, stimulating the emission of radiation from the rock.  The "Marfa Lights" are caused by stress building up within the infamous New Madrid fault line.  Although the new Japanese earthquake occurred out to sea (and seabed contains no quartz), pressure transmitted through the seabed to the island of Honshu could have caused quartz within Honshu to "light up".
115  General / General Discussion / Re: AJ Needs a Little Education in Canadiana on: April 07, 2011, 04:33:14 am
Rebelitarian:

I'm not trying to be hard on Alex: I'm trying to let him know that, in spite of his superior knowledge of the New World Order, certain of his statements concerning the Canadian political system may make his Canadian listeners wonder whether or not he knows what he's talking about: it's true that the earlier prorogation of parliament in the absence of a pending election was unconstitutional and dictatorial, but, when the Queen dissolved Parliament a few days ago, Alex seemed to be panicking out of ignorance of the fact that this is simply how the Canadian political system works: when relations between the Government and Parliament have reached such a point of tension that the Government has become ineffective, the proper solution is to "go to the country" (i.e., dissolve Parliament so that the people can elect a new Parliament which can select a new Government with which the new Parliament can work).  That's called normal life, not aristocratic arrogance.

I'm well aware of the checks and balances provided by the US Constitution, which is only one of the major reasons why I realize the total superiority of the US Constitution to every other form of government on this planet.  But, I must tell you, while I realize that the sovereign states have, to a certain extent, been resisting the North American Union, the chronic abuse of the administrative power of the executive branch to circumvent the political process guaranteed by Article One of the US Constitution (which Article creates the Legislative Branch of the Federal Government) has created our present situation to which the only solution is for the several States to convene a new, and law-abiding, Federal Government.

Clearly, THE BANK MUST DIE THAT THE PEOPLE MAY LIVE!  The several States have the power to accomplish this end, so let's run for state and local office to make sure it happens.

I wish you peace of mind and revolutionary zeal, brother!
116  General / General Discussion / Re: The Kent State University Massacre: A Military Analysis on: April 05, 2011, 07:32:33 am
Here's an item I sent to another website:

Allow me to begin by expressing my deepest sympathy to you and to the families of all those wounded and killed in the events of 4 May 1970 in the utterly outrageous and inexcusable act for which that day will forever be held in infamy by every just society this planet will ever host.

I must, however, in the interest of keeping the historical [record (sorry: typo!)] free from any possible accusation of bias which the enemies of freedom might use to impugn the cause of peace and justice, indicate several problems I have with some people's interpretation of purported orders audible on the famous audiotape of that day's events.

First, I do not hear the word "guard" on the tape.  There are those who claim that the word "guard" would never be part of a military order, but this is false.  The word "guard" would be the opening of any order directed towards one standing static guard at some government installation, as a salutation informing the guard on duty to stand on the alert for some subsequent order.  The Ohio National Guard, on that day, were obviously not standing static guard duty, so an order including such a salutation would have been contextually nonsensical.

Further, the command "point" is clearly audible on the tape, and, once again, there are those who claim that such a word would never be part of any military order.  This claim is false, but the truth of it also renders the order irrelevant to a study of this atrocity; this command, once again, is a salutation directing the "point" (i.e., the man furthest forward in the formation) to be on the alert to receive some subsequent order, which the tape clearly proves was never actually issued.  As the men who turned and fired constituted the rear rank of the formation, the order was obviously not directed at them.  In no event was the command "point" an order to aim weapons: that order would have been "Aim!".

Indeed, the sequence of orders which would have caused the actions observed in the film footage would have been:

"Rear rank: HALT!"

"Rear rank: ABOUT FACE!"

"Rear rank: AIM!"

"FIRE!"

None of these commands are heard in the audiotape.

The point is that, in that time and place, armed soldiers fired upon unarmed protestors, which fact plainly constitutes an inexcusable abuse of state power by any rational standard.

Peace!

Robert
117  General / General Discussion / Re: AJ Needs a Little Education in Canadiana on: April 05, 2011, 03:52:21 am
Just a couple of final points, after which I promise to shut up (except to respond to replies):

Alex has, in the past, referred to the practice of Queen Elizabeth closing off access to certain of her properties (including highways) with the implication that this behavio(u)r on her part was some sort of arrogant power play.  In fact, this is standard practice among owners of property that might be construed as public thoroughfares if the general public were allowed to use them constantly without obstruction.  Allowing someone other than the owner or his invitees or licensees to allow free access to one's private property is known in law as "Sufferance of Open and Notorious Adverse Possession", which is a way of saying that one's allowing free use by others of his property constitutes a constructive quitclaim deed to the property, i.e., you lose the property on the basis of your having abandoned it.  While the statute of limitations for allowing squatters on one's property without losing it is usually around twenty years, it's simply sound practice to close it off one day per year (usually the slowest Sunday of the year).  I am aware of a private property parcel in downtown Hartford, Connecticut which had a little street running through it: one Sunday every summer (at the height of vacation season, when the street would be little used), it was roped off.  It wasn't that noone could use it, it's just that, if you had legitimate business on the property, you had to explain your purpose to the owner's agent (in this case the security guard), and he would let you enter; the essential point is that access to the property was thereby limited to the owner's invitees and licensees.

My second point is that Alex seems to have reacted to the Queen's dissolution of parliament in Ottawa as though it constituted her abolition of parliamentary democracy in Canada.  On the basis of what I've already said, it is clear that the dissolution of parliament and the calling of new elections is a vital part of parliamentary democracy, not its abolition.

My third point is that I recognize that the two prorogations of parliament in the absence of an impending election under the Harper government were clearly unconstitutional acts intended to circumvent the political process and establish a temporary (45-day) executive dictatorship, I'm not certain that I agree with Alex that the primary responsibility for this situation lies with Queen Elizabeth.  While I'm not familiar with the second instance of this type, I recall quite well the first time this happened, and it seemed to involve Prime Minister Harper visiting the Governor General to request the move, with the Governor General spending forty-five minutes on the phone with the Queen before assenting to Harper's request.  This doesn't sound to me like the Queen acting on her own initiative; it sounds to me like the Governor General of Canada, under pressure from her Prime Minister, begging and pleading with Buckingham Palace for permission to accede to her Prime Minister's demand.  Prime Minister Harper was clearly the instigator of this move, to which the Queen was clearly reluctant to assent.

Alex clearly knows more about the forces that seek to crush free humanity than anyone else, and is rightly frustrated by the incredulity of the general public in the face of his facts, but he also suffers from the handicap of coming from a unique culture (Texas) that most people in the world would regard as being very strange, indeed.  (I, myself, having lived under a monarchy, do not find the trappings of that form of government to be threatening in the least, despite my commitment to the United States Constitution.)  I feel Alex would benefit from separating his knowledge of the New World Order from his culturally inculcated prejudices.
118  General / General Discussion / Re: AJ Needs a Little Education in Canadiana on: April 05, 2011, 02:08:53 am
Rebelitarian:

Sorry I failed to answer your first question.

What happened in 1982 was that Canada gained the right to amend her own constitution (the British North America Act), which, previously, could only be amended by Parliament in London.  The constitutionality of this event has been challenged, as the Province of Quebec was excluded from the process.  (Quebec has long been terrified at the prospect of being at the mercy of the Rest of Canada (ROC).)

Canada never declared independence from Britain
119  General / General Discussion / The Kent State University Massacre: A Military Analysis on: April 05, 2011, 12:19:18 am
The events at Kent State University at Kent, Ohio, on May 4th have been analyzed from many viewpoints, but, so far as I know, have never been subjected to forensic analysis from a military perspective.  Here's my attempt to rectify this situation.

It has been said that the Ohio National Guardsmen of A Co, 1st Bn, 145th Rgt, US Inf and G Trp, 2nd Sqn, 107th Rgt, US Amd Cav. believed themselves to be endangered by the large mass of students they faced, which may be true, but this cannot explain the shooting.  The guardsmen had just cleared the students from an assembly area known as "The Commons" and had driven them over a rise known as Blanket Hill into an area containing parking lots for Taylor and Prentice Halls.  They became susceptible to being surrounded when they advanced from Blanket Hill upon an athletic field on the opposite end of the parking lot area.  Having gained the athletic field, the guardsmen lingered for some time, and then, appreciating the vulnerability of that position, advanced upon Blanket Hill once again, effecting a tactical retreat.  Gaining the military crest (the line at which the concave, lower portion of a hill meets the convex, upper portion of a hill) of Blanket Hill, over one-third of the guardsmen wheeled around and opened fire.  The military crest of a hill is the place where tactical manuals suggest you form your firing line to deliver fire upon an enemy below you.  The geographical crest of Blanket Hill, just feet away from the military crest, represented the threshold of safety from the threat of being surrounded.  The idea that the guardsmen, being just feet away from having completed their retreat to safety, suddenly felt themselves to be in mortal peril just at the point where your ROTC instructor would give you an "A" for forming your firing line is not tenable: it's clear that, for at least one man in the 77-man formation (the one with the .45 who was the first to wheel around and open fire), the advance upon Blanket Hill represented, not a retreat to safety, but an advance to a firing position.  That most of the guardsmen did not join in, combined with the fact that the overall commander of the little formation spent the entire thirteen seconds trying to get his men to cease fire, shows that the firing was not ordered or conspired.
120  General / General Discussion / Re: AJ Needs a Little Education in Canadiana on: April 04, 2011, 11:09:31 pm
Just some housekeeping odds and ends:

The new government is  known as "Her Majesty's Canadian Government", while the largest party not included in the government is known as "Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition".  Each out-of-power party forms a shadow cabinet, with one member being named "critic" for each major cabinet office, such that the Minister of National Defense will have, as his counterpart, a critic for national defense in each non-government party's shadow cabinet.  The government and shadow cabinets are known as the parties' front benchers, all other members being known as back benchers.

The same process occurs at the provincial level as well, except that the provincial lieutenant governor takes the role of the Governor General of Canada, and members of provincial parliaments are referred to as MPP's, as opposed to federal MP's.
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