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| Protected, my ass. |
| 08.31.04 (1:13 pm) [edit] |
"A few years ago I got a great object lesson. I
lived in a gated' community in Las Vegas. It
even had the 'fingers of death' to blow tires if
someone tried to go in the out drive.
I felt secure.
Then one day I came home just as an appliance
company was moving a refrigerator in the out
drive by the simple expedient of a 4 x 8 sheet of
plywood over the 'fingers of death.'
I didn't feel so safe anymore.
Then a friend in a really high security
building just up the street -- full time guards,
surveillance cameras in the halls, the Full Monty
-- had a sizable amount of money stolen right out
of his apartment, apparently while he was
sleeping.
But the final object lesson -- till now -- was
the high security enclave in Atlantic City where
robbers conned the security guards into helping
them carry a particularly heavy safe out of the
building.
All those object lessons prepared me for 9-11.
You see, there is no security. Like the
fingers of death, it's all show to make
us fools and dupes think we're safe."
So, how many do you suppose will continue to
demand the unattainable...this illusion of
security from someone else? And how much are
they willing to continue to pay for this
illusion?
Full article.
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| Overcooked Malto Meal |
| 08.31.04 (4:00 am) [edit] |
"If you put all these articles together you
might have one good popcorn fart." --Lysander X
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"In other words, cyberspace emerges as an
ambiguous heterotopia rather than an unambiguous
utopia, and in so doing should reaffirm the
importance of democratic spaces where human
beings can realize their rights."
Bwahahahaha.
Is this English?
All the blather.
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| Johnny git ur gun. |
| 08.30.04 (3:19 pm) [edit] |
Are you happy to be a part of Empire?
Or would you rather pack it in and leave?
If so, what's holdin' ya back?
_________________________
"So Bush, a lousy president but ludicrously over-
demonized,[as they all will be]is bracketed
by a Democratic candidate, Al Gore, who was calling
for immediate war on Saddam back in 1999, flanked
by all the neo-Cons who subsequently flocked to
Bush, and by Kerry who now says he holds exactly
the same position, rationalized by the same neo-Cons.
If the war on Iraq bothers you, a vote for Kerry is
a vote thrown away."
Time to think again about the ruling concept of
power, rather than the actors on the stage.
Look at the forest, friends, the forest.
Forget the trees. They're a distraction.
All of it.
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| Voices from the march |
| 08.30.04 (12:58 pm) [edit] |
Every day in every way, more folks are pissed.
The Prez of the hour won't matter.
Neither will any political party or "savior".
_________________________ ______________
"While many protestors were clearly driven to the
march by the war in Iraq (and other Bush
administration horrors), fears of loss of
liberties were also a powerful motivator.
Marchers -- at least those I talked with --
almost uniformly felt that their presence was a
statement in favor of the very existence of civil
liberties. I was struck as well by how many
people made the decision to come in the face of a
sense of intimidation and how many were willing
to travel sometimes surprising distances to
attend. In the course of perhaps six hours on my
feet (from the first gathering moments downtown
until I peeled off at 34th street and Broadway
and headed for Central Park), I did my best to
talk to as many people as possibly in a crowd
that, though predominantly white and young, was
nothing if not varied."
Full story.
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| The Shit storm |
| 08.29.04 (4:18 pm) [edit] |
I have to agree.
Taken from what I call the shit storm
forum.
_________________________ ___
But from what I can gather it´s the perfect free-
for-all where anybody can post anything anywhere
and *almost* ANYTHING goes!!! The epitome of free
speech!
And it appears to be a good cross section, from
mind numbingly normal people, to geniuses,
science-types, paranoid schizoids, bipolar
depressives, assholes, wackjobs, NWO agents,
loveable innocents, gays, fountains of
information, straights, punks, trolls, psych ward
escapees, chicken littles, veg-heads, Carnivores,
bible thumpers, spooks, sweet cherubs, tools,
warmongers, aliens, bookworms, mind control
victims, inside informants, sheeple, welfare
cases, airheads, Einsteins, zoophiles, astral
projectors, useless eaters, debunkers,
intelligent discussers (or is it discussors?)
suicidals, news hounds, brainless wonders, dope
smoking hippies, cyberbartenders, ultrarich
snobasses, Bush haters, Kerry haters, racists
(not many thankfully) juvenile
scatological/masturbatory goofs, lardasses,
gorgeous women, dogs, gods, net junkies,
egomaniacs, new agers, urbane Starbucks sippers,
old farts, young farts, navel gazers, reptilians,
walking encyclopedias, doomsayers, ´fucktards´,
and yes, many very nice sane level headed average
schmoes from just about every country in the
world... I´m addicted! Did I leave anyone out? []
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| Self-seeking |
| 08.29.04 (8:04 am) [edit] |
"The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is
ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness
sustained by dedication to a holy cause. 'God
wishes,' said Calvin, 'that one should put aside
all humanity when it is a question of striving
for His glory.'" -- Eric Hoffer
Yet aren't there many more "holy causes" than
Eric mentions?
Your club, your political party, your organization,
your nation, etc, etc, etc. The list is long
ain't it?
But what about you?
How do you feel?
What do you think?
Do you know in what ways you've been taught
to dedicate yourself to someone else's "holy
cause"?
What is your holy cause, your very own self,
what is it?
Do you even acknowledge that you have a self?
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| Hidden. |
| 08.28.04 (11:56 am) [edit] |
One method of shunning is to avoid all contact.
What do you think Skype is?
So now you can talk privately to anyone in the
world, at no additional cost, instead of having
to meet in a back alley to do it.
One on one.
Isn't that the New World Disorder, One on One
or even up to 5 in a conference call with
SSL instant messaging and file transfer?
What a glorious trip it'll be.
_________________________ ____________
"Skype, which now boasts 7 million users,
specializes in such encryption. The company's
system is designed to thwart potential
eavesdroppers, legal and otherwise. The
difference begins with how the networks are
designed: Both Time Warner and Vonage offer VoIP
services that run through centralized networks.
For instance, when I place a call through Vonage,
it starts by going to a centralized Vonage
computer, which in turn looks up the phone number
I am dialing and routes the call over to the
traditional phone system. This is a classic
instance of a 'hub and spoke' network. But Skype,
built by the same people who brought us Kazaa, is
a totally distributed peer-to-peer network, with
no centralized routing computers. (That's
possible in part because Skype calls can only be
sent and received by computers?you can't call a
friend with an analog phone.) As a result, the
company's network looks more like a tangled
spider web, and the packets that make up your
voice in a Skype call are sent through myriad
routes to their destination. Part of the
brilliance of the Skype software is that it has
learned to use desktop PCs as 'supernodes,' each
sharing some of the load needed to route Skype
calls quickly to their destination. From the
caller's perspective, this is all invisible: The
call just works.
Since it's exceedingly difficult to follow the
path that a Skype call makes through the network,
law enforcement agents would be hard-pressed to
figure out where to place a tap. But even if they
could, the company has built in such strong
encryption that it's all but mathematically
impossible with today's best computer technology
to decode the scrambled bits into a conversation.
Here's how Skype explained it: 'Skype uses AES
(Advanced Encryption Standard)?also known as
Rijndel?which is also used by U.S. government
organizations to protect sensitive information.
Skype uses 256-bit encryption, which has a total
of 1.1 x 1077 possible keys, in order to actively
encrypt the data in each Skype call or instant
message.' The point of all this mumbo-jumbo is
that Skype uses an encryption algorithm* known as
256-bit AES. The National Institute of Science
and Technology states that it would take a
computer using present-day technology
'approximately 149 thousand-billion (149
trillion) years to crack a 128-bit AES key.' And
that's for the 128-bit version; Skype uses the
more 'secure' 256-bit standard. Since computers
have a way of quickly getting more powerful, the
institute forecasts that 'AES has the potential
to remain secure well beyond twenty years.'"
http://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000076.html" title="http://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000076.html" target="_blank"http://www.financialcryptogra...
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| The Incompetent |
| 08.28.04 (4:45 am) [edit] |
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
--Isaac Asimov
Why is this?
Dya suppose the incompetent don't know how to sell
you...or aren't interested?
Isn't sales the opposite of beating someone over
the head? You don't need incentives when you're
beating someone over the head to get what you want,
do you.
And then there's that incompetent shit who says,
"Do this or you go to jail."
Have you ever heard a salesmen say that?
Now, here you might be thinking, "What's his
point?"
Do I hafta tell you everything?
Just think about it.
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| Angels and devils. |
| 08.27.04 (5:48 pm) [edit] |
Seen any of these "angels" lately?
Aren't most of 'em politicians?
So what does this saying mean?
Perhaps it's much better to associate
with an obvious devil.
Another glorious paradox for you to
digest, eh?
_________________________ _______
"The devil, when he dresses himself in angel's
cloths, can only be detected by experts of
exceptional skill, and so often does he attempt
this disguise that it is hardly safe to be seen
talking to an angel at all." -- Samuel Butler
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| John Kerry, Hawk |
| 08.27.04 (10:31 am) [edit] |
[We already know all about the Shrub.]
The Democratic Party...hmmmm.
Can anyone tell me what is "democratic"
[or "republican"] about killing without
first being attacked? I always thought
that was a form of insanity. In real
life, as opposed to "political" life,
the ones who do it are called psychos,
if you haven't yet noticed...and we try
to lock 'em up or stay away from 'em.
Advisers, admirals, generals, conventions and
conventional hoopla...
Why am I not impressed?
Are you?
_________________________ ___
"THE WORD FOR WEDNESDAY at the Democratic
National Convention was 'unprecedented.' A dozen
retired generals and admirals, all of high rank,
are endorsing John Kerry for president. And this
is 'unprecedented' for a Democratic presidential
candidate, said Rand Beers, Kerry's top national
security adviser. James Rubin, also a Kerry
adviser, said the same, noting that 'this is
unprecedented in the recent history of the
Democratic party.' He compared the endorsements
to 1992 when Bill Clinton was thrilled in 1992 to
have the backing of a single former member of the
Pentagon's top brass, Admiral William Crowe."
http://tinyurl.com/4dkf4" title="http://tinyurl.com/4dkf4" target="_blank"http://tinyurl.com/4dkf4
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| Who owns you? |
| 08.26.04 (3:41 pm) [edit] |
Subversive, isn't it, that you should even think
about owning yourself.
Think about the consequences of not doing so.
Think hard and long.
Is that what you want?
Then think some more.
_________________________ __
"The first case I have students read in my
Property Law class is Dred Scott v. Sandford, in
which a slave raised the question of whether he
ought to be considered a 'person' under the U.S.
Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
he could not, that he was the property of his
slave master. I then demonstrate to my students
how 'ownership' is a function of 'control' over
an item of property; that whoever is able to
effectively control property is its owner,
regardless of what some document might suggest.
I go on to ask my students if they claim 'self-
ownership.' 'Do you own yourself?,' I inquire. I
then warn them about their answer to this
question, and how we shall have occasion to visit
the implications of their answers throughout the
school year. 'If you do claim self-ownership,' I
ask, 'how do you tolerate the state controlling
your life through various laws? And if you do not
claim self-ownership, what possible objection can
you raise to anything another might choose to do
to you? If you do not want to own yourself – and
to insist upon the control that goes with such a
claim – should you be surprised that others might
choose to assert a claim of ownership over that
which you have rejected?"
The entire article.
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| Security |
| 08.25.04 (6:45 pm) [edit] |
Which do you want?
_______________________
"If you want total security, go to prison. There
you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so
on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
--Dwight Eisenhower
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| Where are the fools? |
| 08.25.04 (4:37 pm) [edit] |
What do you think?
Do you think fighting men know how to think?
I don't.
_______________________
"The country that draws a broad line between its fighting men and its thinking men will find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards." - Sir William F. Butler
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| Oil analysis |
| 08.24.04 (5:03 pm) [edit] |
"Oil at $50 a barrel, and on its way to $60, is
an absolute disaster for oil-importing countries
(and this means most of the world). Business
costs are automatically higher - leading in many
cases to job cuts, which means higher
unemployment. The days of cheap oil may be over -
as most analysts agree. But beyond the current
hysteria over oil at $50 and the failure of
Cheney's US energy policy, the world seems to be
failing to address at least four extremely
important questions on which the common future
depends: how much oil - proven reserves - is left
in the Middle East? How much oil does Russia
have? What is the real amount of proven reserves
in the Caspian Sea? How long will all this oil
last?"
I predict we'll never know and the only
indicator to watch is the price of it. The higher
it goes, the less there is.
All of it.
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| Yet more Free Energy |
| 08.24.04 (12:06 pm) [edit] |
"Young group of scientists has designed a wheel
that uses gravity and the kinetic force of
spinning arms and firing bullets to generate
output torque that can be tapped for work.
Working proof-of-concept demo to be unveiled."
http://pesn.com/2004/08/21/6900036_SP EGG_demo/" title="http://pesn.com/2004/08/21/6900036_SP EGG_demo/" target="_blank"http://pesn.com/2004/08/21/69...
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| Building the pyramids agin. |
| 08.24.04 (4:16 am) [edit] |
"How things change. For the past nine months,
Gates has spent hundreds of millions of dollars
to have his best programmers build a free update
to an operating system that many people still
don't want."
I don't want it either. I just want a machine
that works, and I'm not interested in building
the pyramids all over again.
http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/0" title="http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/0" target="_blank"http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020505,39164369,00.htm
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| Comments |
| 08.23.04 (7:45 pm) [edit] |
The "comment" link hasn't been working for a while.
It seems to be back in order now.
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| Common sense? |
| 08.23.04 (7:40 pm) [edit] |
"all men of common sense disregard authority."
--Lysander Spooner
But common sense isn't, is it.
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| A Game Called "Countries" |
| 08.23.04 (12:49 pm) [edit] |
"There is a game called 'Countries.' The game
consists of subgames with names such as 'U.S.A.,'
'France,' 'U.K.,' 'Australia,' 'China,' etc. Each
subgame has its own 'territory,' often 'bordered'
by rivers or seas, which is shown on a map with
all the other 'territories,' to define the area
of each subgame, so all players 'know' which
subgame they are playing.
The players have different pieces they move
around. Some pieces are considered more important
and more powerful than other pieces. The pieces
are called names like 'king,' 'queen,' 'emperor,'
'president,' 'prime minister,' 'senator,'
'representative,' 'secretary,' 'judge,'
'general,' 'captain,' 'governor,' 'attorney,'
'marshall,' 'sheriff,' 'policeman,'
'policewoman,' 'lawyer,' 'businessman,'
'businesswoman,' 'doctor,' 'soldier,' 'citizen,'
'employer,' 'employee,' 'taxpayer,' 'voter,'
'parent,' 'child,' 'teacher,' 'preacher,'
'journalist,' 'unemployee,' 'criminal,' 'illegal
immigrant,' etc.
The pieces considered to be most important
(joined in associations called 'governments,'
'monarchies,' etc.) make up the rules of their
games as they go along. The rules are called
'laws.' The 'most important players' change the
rules whenever they like. The scores of the games
are kept with tokens called 'money.' "
The whole sordid story.
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| Another IE flaw |
| 08.22.04 (11:05 am) [edit] |
This is why I use Firefox.
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"Another flaw in Internet Explorer has been
uncovered by Danish security firm Secunia, which
said that the gaffe left all PC users open to
attack, even those who had updated Windows XP
with the massive Service Pack 2 upgrade.
According to the alert that Secunia posted
Thursday on its Web site, the vulnerability
affects Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 on
fully patched PCs running either Windows XP SP1
or the newer SP2...
It recommends either disabling Active Scripting
within IE or using another browser until the
problem is patched."
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=29116685" title="http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=29116685" target="_blank"http://www.informationweek.co...
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| Play It Backward |
| 08.22.04 (4:52 am) [edit] |
More of the hyuman comedy...
___________________
"A headline in the comic weekly Onion reads,
'Homosexual Admits to Being Governor of New
Jersey.' And you know, all the news sounds as if
it's being played backward. Here's Bush proposing
to bring some troops home--and Kerry saying
that's reckless. Here's a key Republican in the
House saying he wouldn't have voted for the war
if he knew what he knows now, and here's Kerry
saying HE would have -- and what's more, if he's
elected, he may send MORE troops to Iraq."
The whole short, entertaining article.
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| Abstract this. |
| 08.21.04 (4:04 am) [edit] |
"The last official act of any government is to
loot the nation." -- Michael Rivero
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While I agree with this, I'm gonna do a little
"surgery".
How does one loot a "nation"? Isn't a nation
a collection of individuals? Aren't some looting
others here? What might be the purpose of this
obfuscation? [No, the obfuscations aren't Michael's
fault.] Perhaps the reason is to control those
who think they're members/citizens etc? What is
so fucking important about this tribe we call a
nation?
Where did The Victim and The Guilty Party go?...
You know, The Individual?
And "government" is another abstraction. How does
one prosecute an abstraction? Is that the reason
it's called "government", so the guilty escape
without being accountable?
Collectives are abstractions. They live only in
our minds. They are not connected to the real
world.
Someday I'm confident that these abstractions
will jump up and bite a bunch o' folks on the ass,
bringing the dreamers back to reality.
The sleep is deep, ain't it?
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| The human parade. |
| 08.20.04 (6:48 pm) [edit] |
Why have so many missed this?
Isn't this basic to the human parade?
____________________
"The individual is not a killer, but the group
is, and by identifying with it the individual is
transformed into a killer." --Arthur Koestler
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| Well, is there? |
| 08.20.04 (5:54 am) [edit] |
Is there a political solution to a politically
created problem?
Think about it.
Write your answer.
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| Are you being watched? |
| 08.19.04 (6:19 pm) [edit] |
This is funny and ironic as hell...Want to bet
that anyone less powerful, would still be on the
list?
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Aug 19, 1:12 PM (ET)
"WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Judiciary
Committee heard this morning from one of its own
about some of the problems with airline "no fly"
watch lists. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., says
he had a close encounter with the lists when
trying to take the U.S. Airways shuttle out of
Washington to Boston. The ticket agent wouldn't
let him on the plane. His name was on the list in
error.
After a flurry of phone calls, Kennedy was able
to fly home, but then the same thing happened
coming back to Washington.
Kennedy says it took three calls to Homeland
Security Secretary Tom Ridge to get his name
stricken from the list. The process took several
weeks, in all."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040819/D84I DV9O2.html" title="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040819/D84I DV9O2.html" target="_blank"http://apnews.myway.com/artic...
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| The origin of the US income tax. |
| 08.19.04 (1:19 pm) [edit] |
Just so you know when it started and where it
will probably be headed...well, you'll have to
figure out where it's headed.
_________________________ ______
"The personal income tax in its present form was
first levied by the federal government in 1913.
The rate was 1 percent on taxable net income
above $3,000 ($4,000 for married couples), less
deductions and exemptions. It rose gently to a
top rate of 7 percent on incomes above $500,000.
The law was class legislation and deliberately
so."
http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/r cah/html/ah_044900_income tax.htm" title="http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/r cah/html/ah_044900_income tax.htm" target="_blank"http://college.hmco.com/histo...
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| Fred again. |
| 08.18.04 (4:46 pm) [edit] |
Damn. Fred, the mostly consummate observer of
the hyuman parade has done it again.
Donchathink?
_________________________ ____
"Watch the eyes of a man quietly having a drink
in a bar. Often his gaze wanders to the screen
because it moves, it changes. Even if the sound
is down and he cannot follow what is happening,
even if he isn’t interested, he watches. People
cannot not watch a screen.
No dictator has every enjoyed such a tool for
social control, for near absolute power over what
people see, over the news, over a culture. Like
the bite of a leech, television is painless. Two
decades later, the country is unrecognizable.
We underestimate the box. It is tasteless,
dumbed-down, and commercial, yes, yes. All the
adjectives apply. We have heard them. We agree
with them. But we miss the point. We miss the
point because the fare is so contemptible:
Nothing that stupid can be dangerous.
Oh yes it can."
The whole story.
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| Another look at climate change. |
| 08.18.04 (2:56 pm) [edit] |
Keep in mind that we really don't know shit about
this, even tho you hear so much to the contrary.
After all, it took our ancestors 2000 years to find
out earth was not the center of the Universe.
_________________________ _____
"Some proponents of the theory argue that changes
in the number of cosmic rays reaching Earth can
explain past climate change as well as global
warming today. Nir Shaviv of the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem, Israel, and Jan Veizer
of the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada,
claimed in 2003 that changes in cosmic-ray flux
are the major reason for temperature changes over
the past 500 million years (GSA Today, July 2003,
p 4)."
Find out why they think so.
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| So where do we go from here? |
| 08.18.04 (2:37 pm) [edit] |
Can we even get there from here?
____________________
"There is no social mechanism to place
knowledgeable people in positions of social
governance, regardless of their percentage in the
population. In fact each existing mechanism
creating social governance is counter productive
to achieving knowledge, wisdom, intelligence or
any such concept as a governing process.
All the existing mechanisms create power, the
antithesis of logic, knowledge or wisdom."
--Doug Buchanan
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| Just do it. |
| 08.18.04 (10:10 am) [edit] |
"The key to establishing liberty, if anyone
sincerely wanted such a thing, is contained in
three lines of this article: the title line,
'Liberty, if you can grasp it,' the line, 'you
don't need to leave home to do it,' and the line,
'it doesn't look anything like conventional,
authoritarian, domination movements for political
change.'
A real liberty movement doesn't require an
organization. It doesn't work within the
framework. It doesn't even challenge the
framework. It supplants and displaces the
framework. It works invisibly, or nearly so."
Full article.
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| Are you ready for this? |
| 08.18.04 (5:55 am) [edit] |
Makes sense, doesn't it.
Why not take a lesson from Switzerland?
"The violent strategies chosen by our government,
not properly questioned by a compliant and
uninformed mainstream, will blow back to haunt
us, for in destroying human lives in other parts
of the world, we destroy parts of ourselves;
ultimately, we sow our own destruction."
Full essay.
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| One of many paradoxes. |
| 08.17.04 (5:22 pm) [edit] |
"To this day their leaders so intensely defend
NRA as an organization, and thus its power, above
all reasoning process, that NRA can be proven,
against all questions, to be the primary
organization having most eroded and still most
eroding the free exercise of gun owner rights,
much to the knee slapping, howling laughter of
the observers. Read that again, proven against
every question any human can ask. And gun owners
still pour over a hundred million dollars per
year into that cash cow for corrupted NRA leaders
and their sweetheart contractor executives. NRA,
like European gun organizations, will still
exist, still paying its leaders and sweetheart
contract executives repugnantly huge salaries and
benefits, in the name of defending citizen gun
owner rights, when the last citizen owned gun is
seized in the US, and only government police and
military thugs hold guns, to protect you from
terrorist gun owners and other witches. You will
then do as the armed Federal Homeland Security
Gestapo says, just as the disarmed German
citizens did in the 1930's and 40's, for awhile."
The long story.
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| The army on the march |
| 08.17.04 (12:34 pm) [edit] |
"The mentality of an army on the march is merely
so much delayed adolescence; it remains
persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously
infantile." -- Albert Jay Nock
Why not include all collectively inspired
marching? Isn't the collective just a mindless,
moving bigger target?
Why not get your own blog and shoot from there?
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| Blue blood counts? |
| 08.17.04 (9:28 am) [edit] |
"LONDON (Reuters) - When it comes to American
presidential elections, blue blood counts.
Kerry is a descendant of the former Kings of
England, Henry III and Henry II and is distantly
related to Richard the Lionheart, who led the
third Crusade in 1189, according to Burke's."
Do you suppose King Kerry would continue the
current Crusade?
I do.
Remember, you heard it here first.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=6 15&e=4&u=/nm/20040816/pl_ nm/usa_kerry_royalty_dc" title="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=6 15&e=4&u=/nm/20040816/pl_ nm/usa_kerry_royalty_dc" target="_blank"http://story.news.yahoo.com/n...
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"The requirements for such co-operation, and
hence for modern economic life, which is founded
on specialisation and an infinitely elaborated
division of labour, are more demanding than you
might suppose. It is not enough to say that
specialisation and the division of labour yield
enormous economic benefits. Co-operation would
nonetheless quickly break down if individuals
could enjoy the advantages of division of labour
without making a contribution of their own. Two
traits were needed, says Mr Seabright, to bring
the fruits of co-operation within reach, and
evolution had equipped humans with
both—accidentally, as it were. The first was an
intellectual capacity for rational calculation.
The second, somewhat at odds with the first, was
an instinct for reciprocity—a tendency to repay
kindness with kindness and betrayal with revenge,
even when rational calculation might seem to
advise against it.
Neither of these tendencies could support co-
operation without the other, and the balance
between the two is delicate. Calculation without
reciprocity often favours cheating: this
undermines trust, so co-operation either cannot
get started or quickly breaks down. On the other
hand, reciprocity without calculation exposes
people to exploitation by others. Again, fear of
exploitation inhibits co-operation. For
specialisation and division of labour to get
going, one needs both instincts, each pushing
against the other, so that cheating and free-
riding are both kept in check. This balance was
probably needed for the development of social
life, Mr Seabright notes, even before our
ancestors embarked on complex co-operation with
strangers. Given those dispositions, however, co-
operation with strangers—and modern economic
life—became possible."
Later on in the article, the dude, Mr.
NotsoBright, alludes to the idea that A Structure
such as the current Regoolators is necessary to
assure that this game is played "fairly", when
in fact all that he describes started without
central direction, i.e. evolved, being the product
of may known and unknown minds.
What does that tell you of your current world?
Think about it.
The whole megillah.
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| The ultimate insanity of power |
| 08.16.04 (5:05 am) [edit] |
"Welcome to sunny Cold War America, those 'golden
years' of Ozzie and Harriet and Father Knows
Best, a time when species-suicide lay on the
brain just below the consumer wonders of
television or the frozen TV dinner you could eat
on a specially produced tray while watching it.
This was a time when, on a lazy afternoon in the
East you could stay home and catch CBS TV's
Walter Cronkite from News Nob at the Nevada Test
Site, narrating an atomic test in real time
('ten…. nine… eight…), or listen to the young
Morley Safer reporting from the frontlines where
troops in trenches waiting only miles from the
blast were then to 'take' the nuclearized
battlefield. (The only sponsors -- I wonder why --
were public service civil defense ads and the
like.) Or you could turn to a Disney special, Our
Friend the Atom -- such shows, plugging 'the
peaceful Atom,' invariably had portentous male
voiceovers invoking humanity's 'choice' between
eternal (atomic) doom and (atomic) paradise -- to
view animated farm animals and plants sparkling
like so many Tinkerbells with irradiated promise;
or you might play with your H2O Missile, a water-
powered 'ICBM' (though there was something so
palpably unplayful about 'nuclear toys')."
The full story.
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| Boobus eletorus |
| 08.15.04 (6:30 pm) [edit] |
It's a tired old tune.
When will they get over singin' it...the voters,
that is?
_________________________ ______________
"The distinctions between presidential candidates
are about as thin as a slice of English roast
beef. There has to be some way of differentiating
the Republocrat from the Democan offerings. A
popular definition of an insane person is one who
keeps engaging in the same behavior under the
same circumstances, expecting a different result.
Those who continue to stagger into voting booths
to confirm their faith in 'the system' – a faith
they exhibit to others by wearing an 'I voted'
sticker on their clothing – may exhibit such
traits of insanity. They are not, however,
thoroughly brain-dead. As a result, even Boobus
electorus must be convinced that there is some
meaningful purpose to his or her participation in
this charade.
In recent elections, voters were led into voting
booths, spellbound by such major political
questions as whether Willie Horton should have
been placed on parole, whether the 'pledge of
allegiance' is a good thing, or the sexual
peccadilloes of an incumbent president. The idea
that Boobus should have any relevant input in
determining major political decisions – such as
United States’ interventions into the affairs of
other nations, the political structuring and
direction of economic activity, or whether the
state should have decision-making power over the
bodies of individuals – is never to be
considered. Should Boobus become sufficiently
agitated, however, the establishment will allow
for the introduction of such subset issues as gay
marriage, cloning, or legalized marijuana to
divert attention from the deeper questions,
underlying such issues, that relate to the
question of power."
The whole sad story.
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| Porter Goss is afeared of you. |
| 08.14.04 (9:58 am) [edit] |
Actually it looks like your entire gummint is
afeared of you.
How does that make you feel?
________________________
"Rep. Porter Goss, President Bush’s nominee to
head the CIA, recently introduced legislation
that would give the president new authority to
direct CIA agents to conduct law-enforcement
operations inside the United States—including
arresting American citizens...
But in language that until now has not gotten
any public attention, the Goss bill would also
redefine the authority of the DCI in such a way
as to substantially alter—if not overturn—a 57-
year-old ban on the CIA conducting operations
inside the United States...
Do you suppose an institution wrapped in
secrecy ever gave a shit about the law?
'This is just a proposal,' said the congressional
official familiar with the drafting of Goss’s bill.
'It was designed as a point of discussion, a point
of debate. It’s not carved in stone.'..."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/081404Z.shtml" title="http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/081404Z.shtml" target="_blank"http://www.truthout.org/docs_...
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| Pieces of a much bigger puzzle. |
| 08.13.04 (6:43 pm) [edit] |
Is this a series of "news" reports designed
to drive the price of a barrel of oil higher?
Isn't The Media a mouthpiece for someone or other?
Whoa, hold on, Dull Spark. All is not as you've
been lead to believe just coz you think the oil
companies are in collusion. That's conventional
wisdom and the world no longer works on that.
Maybe the people at dieoff. org are right, and maybe
they're part of the problem.
What do you think, irrespective of what you've
been taught?
Go on, give it a shot.
Nothing is as it seems so you gotta do your own
thinking. Try doing it differently than you've
done previously then maybe you'll see the Big
Picture.
Time for homework. Gonna be a test coming soon.
_________________________ ___
07 August 2004
"SINGAPORE: Oil prices hit fresh records
yesterday, climbing close to $US45 after a fire
at a big US refinery underlined the vulnerability
of supplies at a time when global demand is
accelerating at the fastest pace in more than 20
years."
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/1" title="http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/1" target="_blank"http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/...,2106,2994706a6026,00.html
07 August 2004
"The latest in a string of rallies this week came
after a fire shut a gasoline-producing unit at BP
Plc's 470,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in
Texas, the third-biggest plant in the United
States. The flash fire was quickly extinguished."
A previous report of this said nothing about
the fire being "quickly extinguished".
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/1" title="http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/1" target="_blank"http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/...,2106,2994706a6026,00.html
August 14, 2004
"An explosion at America’s third-largest oil
refinery, in Whiting, Indiana, concerns about
sabotage in Iraq and robust demand from China
helped to send US light crude futures to $46.30 a
barrel. In London, Brent crude set a record high
of $43.40 a barrel, later trading at $43.13, up
84 cents on the day."
There something going on here with these
refinery fires, something hidden from view.
What do you suppose it is?
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0" title="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0" target="_blank"http://business.timesonline.c...,,8209-1215921,00.html
"Continued robust demand from China, which said
that crude imports last month sustained an annual
growth rate of 40 per cent, added to the upward
pressure on oil prices. China’s crude imports
averaged 2.49 million barrels a day in the first
seven months of 2004, the official Xinhua news
agency said."
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0" title="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0" target="_blank"http://business.timesonline.c...,,8209-1215921,00.html
Remember. Whale oil was replaced by oil with barely
a ripple. What will replace oil?
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| Do you really know your genetic history? |
| 08.13.04 (3:30 pm) [edit] |
"There are, however, a growing number of
those who have freed themselves from the imprints
and conditioning of their cultures and their
religions sufficiently to be able to integrate
both halves of the alien paradigm into their
thinking and worldview. They have reached the
genetic enlightenment afforded by the restoration
of our true history and it has enabled them to
expand to integrate the UFOA phase. This
expansion has empowered them to think and decide
for themselves concerning the overwhelming mass
of evidence for both the UFOA presence and the HH
Sitchin worldview, and to move beyond both
governmental and religious obfuscation and
obstructions. For them, the Paradigm Clock has
struck twelve long ago and they are about the
business of becoming their own evolutionary
artists and preparing to meet the aliens and
prepared to restore relations with the Anunnaki.
They have already experienced and passed beyond
the profound paradigm shift anticipated and
predicted by so many. In a real sense they are
the paradigm shift: they are finished with this
phase of investigation, speculation, the forcing
of revelation. The current UFOA situation is like
an old ‘40’s movie: the resistance to the HH
Sitchin phase like an academic soap opera in the
faculty room. They are free to answer the
question "What does it all mean?" with "Whatever
we wish to make it" because they are free to
experience the universe as a plenum of radical
freedom in which interaction with other species
is only another significant activity.
If the aliens choose those with whom they
will make first overt, public contact it will
most likely be from this group. They are their
own persons with an unassailable integrity and
self knowledge and confidence and sensitivity
that will allow them to interact easily and
intelligently without fear, subservience or
cramping preconceptions."
Are you one of this group?
Full article.
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| Hyping Skype |
| 08.13.04 (9:32 am) [edit] |
This is a bit of old news as SkypeOut is
up and running...
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At one end of the emerging market for online
calling, freebie pioneer Skype Technologies
announced it will launch a new service this
week allowing Skype users to call anywhere in
the world at rates mostly under 2 cents a minute.
Skype's new SkypeOut service will differ from
many rivals' -- and from its earlier service --
in that it will charge by the minute. Skype works
only between computers equipped with its software
and a microphone; SkypeOut, announced Thursday,
will let users place calls from their computers
to any regular phone. Company spokeswoman Kelly
Larabee said calls among most industrialized
countries will cost less than 2 cents a minute.
See the Skype site for the details. Voice quality is
superb and the software is easy to install and use.
The article.
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| What Yeats said. |
| 08.13.04 (4:35 am) [edit] |
"A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies
by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams
them down your throat. So stay at home and drink
your beer and let the neighbors vote."
--William Butler Yeats
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| Declaration of Individual Independence |
| 08.12.04 (4:59 pm) [edit] |
When in the lives of free men, it becomes
necessary to dissolve the political bonds of self
and state, it is altogether fitting and proper
that the causes which impel them to separation be
stated in open declaration.
I hold this truth to be objective and rationally
sustainable, that all men can and should stake
their claim to act in accordance with the
dictates of their own will, provided their
actions do not infringe upon the equal ability of
others to do likewise. I recognize this principle
as the foundation upon which my claim to self-
determination is morally established.
In an effort to secure this claim, the
government of the United States was instituted,
deriving its limited power from the consent of
the governed. But as ultimately befalls all
governments, the United States has become
destructive to this end. It has claimed unto
itself powers not granted. It has perverted the
understanding of liberty. It has asserted
democracy and state as ends in themselves, rather
than means to the morally justifiable end of
defense of individual claims. It has
systematically destroyed the autonomy of its
subjects by regulation, subjugation, theft,
coercion, and violence.
I have petitioned the government for fair
redress of these grievances, and have done so in
good faith. I have asked that government desist
in its theft of my property for redistribution to
those it deems more worthy. I have requested that
government cease its intrusive and violent
regulation of my otherwise peaceful actions. I
have protested the extortion of funds by
government, for the execution of foreign intrigue
and military adventurism.
But my objection to an ever-growing trend of
abuses has fallen upon deaf ears. Under these
circumstances, it is unreasonable to assume any
intent for government, other than to reduce men
to serfdom, toiling under absolute despotism for
the advancement of collectivist ideals. It is
therefore consistent with my claim of self-
determination to throw off such government, and
to provide new guards for my future security.
I hearby abolish my association with government
and institute direct control of my own life in
such form as to most likely secure my safety and
happiness. While I did not offer my consent
initially, it is generally assumed that consent
to be governed is inherent in my choice to
continue living within the geographical confines
of the United States.
I reject such an assertion, but am nevertheless
compelled to state my intent clearly. I hereby
formally withdraw my consent to be governed by
agents of the government of the United States,
and will henceforth seek to sever any
contribution to its advancement. I declare myself
a free and sovereign individual. I commit to
living in peace with my fellow men and will
foreswear the initiation of force or fraud in
accordance with my principles.
In Liberty,
jomama
Note: The original was written by OWK.
I have published this [modified] in its
entirety here because the original link was
broken.
There's another link to the original in the left
panel so now there will be at least two links to
it, the one on this page and the one at the other
link.
I've modified the original to suit my taste,
mostly by eliminating the word "right(s)" and
substituting "claims". "Rights" only apply
if you're a supplicant. That I am not.
[Language affects the way we think.]
Isn't this the only revolution that counts...
one at a time?
Why not write your own Declaration or modify
this one?
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| Toutatis |
| 08.12.04 (9:15 am) [edit] |
Take a look here: http://tinyurl.com/3scbz
Then click on "orbit diagrams" near the top of
the page on the left.
On the page that comes up, go near the bottom
of the page and click on "Toutatis" and watch the
java simulation, paying particular attention to
Sept 29-30 when the thing is within .0105 AU
of Earth. Do the math.
The thing is, this asteroid has a chaotic orbit.
Another link to help understand.
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| Duty? |
| 08.11.04 (10:28 am) [edit] |
So much for "duty"...
Aack!
_________________________ __
Fromm, in his 1941 classic Escape from
Freedom,wrote: 'A person can be entirely
dominated by his sadistic strivings and
consciously believe that he is motivated only by
his sense of duty.' And on June 23, the
Associated Press (AP) reported that an August
2002 US Justice Department memo 'argues that
torture - and even the deliberate killing - of
prisoners in the terror war could be justified',
with torture being redefined as 'only actions
that cause severe pain akin to organ failure'.
In her book Eichmann in Jerusalem: The
Banality of Evil, Arendt highlighted the
unexceptional nature of the Nazi bureaucrat
responsible for killing untold numbers in
extermination camps. Burston noted that
'with one very questionable exception, Eichmann
tested normal on all psychological tests that
were administered to him by mental health
experts before his trial'.
Clinically speaking, Eichmann - an individual
who worked daily at mass murder for a period of
years - was quite sane.
In instances where a group's behavior becomes
deviant, even destructive to themselves or
others, 'it [the pathological action] becomes a
source of solace and security for a person who
adapts that way', said Burston. Eichmann had
'adapted'. And Fromm noted that, in most cases,
destructive impulses are rationalized, ensuring
'at least a few other people or a whole social
group share in the rationalization and thus make
it appear to be 'realistic' to the members of
such a group.
In effect, an emotional-support network is
formed, providing its individual members with a
mistaken sense of legitimacy.
'Crowds can be persuaded through specific
formulas that involve frequent repetitions, in an
authoritative tone, by someone who is considered
authoritative. And for many people, this works -
it just works,' Burston revealed. Paralleling
that, in an autumn 2003 interview with this
journalist, Ray McGovern - a former 27-year
Central Intelligence Agency analyst who had
regularly briefed the White House - had similarly
said that Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels
'was good, and his dictum about say it five times
and people will believe it, turns out,
unfortunately, to be true'.
Though Burston judges that many members of the
Bush administration are sincere in their pursuit
of 'a global climate that's more conducive to
democracy ... to diminish terrorism', he notes
that the means the administration has employed
brought 'consequences that are very often the
reverse of what they intended'. But he discussed
how noted psychologist R D Laing's theory of
'social phantasy systems' could explain this.
Citing his book on Laing's work, The Crucible
of Experience, Burston highlighted that Laing
believed most people develop a form of 'pseudo-
sanity', doing so as a function of the emotional
imperative of adapting to 'pseudo-realities'. The
upshot is that they live within a 'social
phantasy system' of varying degrees.
The described result for the individual is a
proportionate loss of the ability to think
critically, as well as limited ability to
consider anyone or anything outside one's
particular group, especially in a positive
light.
I've said it before: groups need enemies
to survive. That's how wars start, to name
just the worst of the concept. If we're hard-wired
to be hypnotized by any group-think--I
don't think we are--won't the human race likely
be short-lived, blasting each other's tribe
into dust?
'What we see now, increasingly, is the erosion
of that [truth-loving disposition] - people are
becoming more and more suggestible, more and more
willing to be seduced,' Burston related. Far
earlier, Fromm had noted: 'With the rise of
fascism, the lust for power and the conviction of
its right has reached new heights. Millions are
impressed by the victories of power.'
'The essence of fascism, I believe, is in its
output. And its output is a system which
systematically redistributes wealth from the many
to the few,...
Whereas their opposite numbers want to
distribute wealth from the few to the many,
both of which will fail, eventually bringing
any given area to its knees. The Former Soviet
Union was a prime example. Argentina was another,
and coming soon to a street near you.
...and ensures the domination of giant
cartels over the whole political economy,'
Parenti said. By eliminating the traditional
fascist symbolism and mannerisms, by putting
white gloves on it, if you will, Parenti sees the
use of 'plain old Americanism' as the 'cloak
around which people will rally and give the
president these extraordinary powers, and
surrender their own liberty and the like'.
'In spite of a veneer of optimism and
initiative, modern man is overcome by a profound
feeling of powerlessness which makes him gaze
towards approaching catastrophes as though he
were paralyzed,' Fromm had far earlier warned. He
also observed that 'truth is one of the strongest
weapons of those who have no power'."
Trouble is, most wouldn't know the truth--
a very mushy term--even if it jumped up and bit
'em on the ass, aside from the fact that the
truth is exceedingly hard to get to, unless
you believe everything you read and hear.
All of it.
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| Where The Big Boys will go. |
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The rapidly changing business climate is going
to bring many more Big Boys down, I expect.
Look for the large and ponderous to disappear...
almost all of them, including the biggest debt
creator the world has ever seen.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Deutsche Bank reiterated a
"sell" rating on AT&T after Moody's downgraded
the company's debt rating to non-investment
grade, or "junk," status and said the move was
inevitable as the company's strategy continues to
be reshaped. The downgrade affects $6.5 billion
of debt and will bump up the company's annualized
debt costs by $32.5 million, said analyst Viktor
Shvets. "This development is in-line with our
expectations, and we had already largely built
this into our estimates," he said in a note. "The
increased interest charge equates to a large
portion of earnings (7 percent of 2004 estimated
income), but a small portion of free cash flow
(1.6 percent of 2004 estimated FCF). We believe
the risk of further credit downgrades, however,
is mitigated by the ongoing rapid balance sheet
deleveraging." AT&T shares ended Thursday
unchanged at $15.00.
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| The essence of the destruction of civilization. |
| 08.10.04 (6:33 pm) [edit] |
"When we move from a more personal sense of who
we are to such collective identities as race,
religion, nationality, ideology, gender, or other
groupings, we have prepared our minds to be
energized on behalf of institutionally-defined
causes. The state has long been the primary
conductor of such practices. As Carl Jung and
others observed, our willingness to identify with
groups of any sort, produces a herd-mentality
that is easily mobilized on behalf of
destructive, collective purposes. Evidence of
such dynamics can be seen in the sudden emergence
of American flags after 9/11, and the continued
willingness of many Americans to support their
government’s enraged, high-handed reaction to
this event by attacking and killing innocent
Iraqis...
The creative richness of a civilization derives
from the behavior of individuals, not from some
imagined collective genius. The creative process
depends upon men and women being free to
experiment; to generate and pursue any of a
variety of options; to be mistaken; and to offend
the habits, tastes, sensibilities, or established
interests of others. Individuals may combine
their efforts with others but, as one experiences
in brainstorming sessions, it is the interplay of
individual insights and responses that gives
birth to the new...
The lesson to be taken from all of this is that
civilizations are created and sustained by
individuals; they are destroyed by
collectives..." [My emphasis]
Read the whole essay.
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| Vote for privacy with your pocketbook. |
| 08.10.04 (10:57 am) [edit] |
"Below are some companies that millions of
Americans do business with every single day. We
need you to help us find out which ones are
willing to take the "no-spy pledge" by promising
that they will not voluntarily become an
extension of government efforts to snoop on the
activities of regular people."
Check it out.
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| Another Bad Con |
| 08.09.04 (10:10 am) [edit] |
"In November 1910, seven men representing
roughly one-fourth of the world’s wealth took a
clandestine train ride from New Jersey to a
resort on Jekyll Island, Georgia, ostensibly to
hunt ducks. But instead of shooting birds, they
shot us the bird and drew up plans for a cartel,
which served as the blueprint for the Federal
Reserve Act of 1913...
Griffin is detailed and clear about how the Fed
works. In the old days, when governments wanted
more money but were afraid to increase taxes,
they printed it and forced citizens to accept it
by making it legal tender. It was too crude a
scheme to fool most people, but now, with modern
central banking, the theft is virtually
imperceptible.
First, government doesn’t create money directly;
its central bank does. Second, the bank rarely
needs to turn to the printing presses. Instead,
it often buys government debt, such as bonds, by
writing a check. 'There is no money to back up
this check,' Griffin explains. 'By calling those
bonds "reserves," the Fed then uses them as the
base for creating nine additional dollars for
every dollar created for the bonds themselves.
The money created for the bonds is spent by the
government, whereas the money created on top of
those bonds is the source of all the bank loans
made to the nation’s businesses and
individuals..."
The rest of the short article.
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| A first since the Great Depression |
| 08.09.04 (5:20 am) [edit] |
An excerpt from the link below:
"The employment growth rate is far slower than
the typical growth seen after a recession. In
fact, this is the first time since the Great
Depression that post-recession employment levels
have gone more than 40 months without regaining
their peak."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20040807- 9999-1n7jobs.html" title="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20040807- 9999-1n7jobs.html" target="_blank"http://www.signonsandiego.com...
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| Cold fusion report. |
| 08.09.04 (4:29 am) [edit] |
Report on cold fusion experiments with hundreds
of references attached...
_________________________ _____
"Many people still believe that cold fusion is
the result of bad science. In contrast, numerous
laboratories in at least 10 countries have now
claimed production of anomalous energy using a
variety of methods, many of which are now
reproducible. This energy is proposed to result
from nuclear reactions initiated within a special
periodic array of atoms at modest temperatures
(energy). Evidence for nuclear reactions
involving fusion of deuterium, transmutation
involving both light and heavy hydrogen, and
nuclear interaction between heavy nuclei has been
published. The claims, if true, reveal a new
method to release nuclear energy without harmful
radiation and without the radioactivity
associated with conventional methods. This paper
examines published evidence describing this new
phenomenon in order to test its reality and to
extend an understanding of the process."
The whole story.
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| Are you servant or leader? |
| 08.08.04 (4:10 pm) [edit] |
Why do you need to be either?
_________________________ ____
"I salute you - the self-owned, the self-reliant,
the independent heroes of freedom! You have
refused to submit and surrender to the iron boots
of slavery. You eschew tyranny and refuse to
sanction the officious, pigheaded, bureaucratic
assaults and intrusions upon your life. To you
these assaults are as impotent as rag dolls. Yet
they continue each day, fed by the mentality of
the mindless mob granting what they have no right
to grant, sanctioning what no one can sanction,
and legitimizing what no one can make legitimate.
If it were not for a swarm of obedient servants,
myriads mired in the morass of the mob mentality,
even a Caesar or a Napoleon would be reduced to
flaccid, vagrant nobodies. For whom is a Caesar,
a Napoleon, or an Alexander the Great without
their armies, their hordes of servants, and the
greedy solicitous masses humbly beseeching them
for perks?"
Full story.
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| Like I've said... |
| 08.08.04 (10:37 am) [edit] |
...we've been politicized beyond
all human recognition:
_________________________ _
"As if the dating game weren't hard enough
already, now there's a new twist to the age-old
practice of pitching woo: More singles want Mr.
or Ms. Right to belong to the 'right' political
party as well. And a slew of new political dating
websites have popped up to help people find a
pool of like-minded candidates.
If that sounds like preelection hoopla, consider
the fact that politics has invaded every other
facet of American life in the past three years.
It's on TV, in movies, and in mainstream
publications. 'Who are you voting for?' is
becoming an icebreaker for many who feel that the
November election is this century's D-Day."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0806/p11s02-ussc .html?s=ent" title="http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0806/p11s02-ussc .html?s=ent" target="_blank"http://www.csmonitor.com/2004...
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| Stargate and Dimensional Doorway Carved in Solid |
| 08.08.04 (6:49 am) [edit] |
Could the "golden disc" described in the link
have been required as a toll fee?
A very small excerpt of the report:
_________________________ _____
"A huge mysterious door-like structure has been
rediscovered in the Hayu Marca mountain region of
Southern Peru near Lake Titicaca. Hayu Marca, 35
kilometres from the city of Puno has long been
revered by local indians as the "City of the
Gods" and has never been fully explored because
of the rugged mountain terrain. Although no
actual city has ever been discovered, many of the
rock formations of the region resemble buildings,
dinosaurs, and artificial structures. The door or
the "Puerta de Hayu Marca" (Gate of the Gods) has
been at some time in the distant past carved out
of a natural rock face and in all measures
exactly seven meters in height by seven meters in
width with a smaller alcove in the center at the
base, which measures in at just under two meters
in height."
http://www.labyrinthina.com/amaru.htm" title="http://www.labyrinthina.com/amaru.htm" target="_blank"http://www.labyrinthina.com/a...
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| Why not just say "no"? |
| 08.07.04 (5:10 pm) [edit] |
"Free people can say 'no'. Free people can refuse
demands for their money, time, and children.
Slaves cannot. There is no freedom without the
freedom to say 'no'. If someone demands that you
do something and you can say 'no' and refuse to
do it, then you are a free human being. If you
can be forced to do something or surrender
something that you do not wish to, then you are a
slave. No other test need be applied."
[My emphasis.]
There's more.
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| In Praise Of Mexicanas |
| 08.07.04 (11:28 am) [edit] |
Again, Fred tells it like it is.
_________________________ ________
"Living in Mexico as I do, I often hear from
North Americans that gringos move to Mexico
chiefly for the women. Well, yes. The women are
certainly an attraction. Indeed they are. The
North American tendency however is to confuse
women with sex. American men in the United States
usually see Mexican women as LBFMs, 'little
brown, er, sex machines,' faceless,
indistinguishable, and cheap. So do American
women, though with resentment instead of longing.
Permit me if you will a different view of
Mexicanas."
All of a true story.
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| Anybody got any horses or donkeys for sale? |
| 08.07.04 (5:26 am) [edit] |
"'All revenues coming into our bank accounts are
immediately transferred (by bailiffs) to the
public exchequer. As of Thursday a total of $900
million had been written off. It is definitely a
threat to our operations,' a YUKOS source told
Reuters."
Last I heard, Yukos produces 2% of the world's
oil.
Did I just hear someone whisper "$100 a barrel"?
Might be a good idea to buy all the donkeys and
horses you can get your hands on now. Their
prices will likely be going up soon. For those
who are a little slow on the uptake, I'm just
pointing to a possible business opportunity for
you.
(sarcasm) Praise be. Your government's at work,
wherever you live. (/sarcasm)
http://tinyurl.com/5z2sj" title="http://tinyurl.com/5z2sj" target="_blank"http://tinyurl.com/5z2sj
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| Stealth taxation. |
| 08.06.04 (5:50 pm) [edit] |
"Prices can increase or decrease faster or
slower than the printing of the money supply, the
amount and speed of which prices can increase or
decrease depends on people's desire to hold cash
or save to spend another day. Ludwig Von Mises
points out that because prices increase only
relative to one another, bank inflation brings
about redistribution of wealth, from savers and
earners to banks and government and its connected
interest groups. It is a form of stealth taxation
and confiscation of ones savings.
When governments decide that they are going to
interfere in the free-market it causes
distortions in the market place, because they
wish to build massive institutions or create
giant welfare state programs for the so-called
'betterment of society.' Where does the money
come from which is needed to build these
projects? It comes from the printing off of more
money; it is backed by nothing for all intents
and purposes. Furthermore the elimination of the
gold standard paved the way for states of all
political persuasions to play the deficit and
debt games to disastrous ends, where future
generations are forced to pay for past and
current mistakes simply because past and current
people feel the state owes them something
immediately no matter what the cost for whatever
reasons."
The whole article.
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| Who's turning the lights out? |
| 08.06.04 (9:59 am) [edit] |
Where will you be when the lights go out and your
SUV gathers cobwebs in your garage?
Excerpted from the link below:
_________________________ ____
"A fire at a Texas refinery and Russia's decision
to revoke permission for beleaguered...
"beleaguered", a euphemism for "fucked" by the political
economy.
...oil company Yukos to use previously frozen bank
accounts to keep itself afloat have added to anxiety
in energy markets.
'There is a lot of speculation. Hedge funds are
still buying, expecting prices to go even
higher,' said Victor Shum, an analyst with Texas-
based energy consultants Pervin & Gertz in
Singapore."
http://www.forbes.com/business/manufacturin g/feeds/ap/2004/08/06/ap1 494261.html" title="http://www.forbes.com/business/manufacturin g/feeds/ap/2004/08/06/ap1 494261.html" target="_blank"http://www.forbes.com/busines...
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| Bushapropism |
| 08.06.04 (4:25 am) [edit] |
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and
so are we. They never stop thinking about new
ways to harm our country and our people, and
neither do we," Bush said on Thursday.
http://tinyurl.com/3woa3" title="http://tinyurl.com/3woa3" target="_blank"http://tinyurl.com/3woa3
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| Immortality...not with My Institution you don't. |
| 08.05.04 (4:18 pm) [edit] |
An email from a friend with
my response:
______________________
From Cancer-coverup.com/
http://tinyurl.com/6ro4j" title="http://tinyurl.com/6ro4j" target="_blank"http://tinyurl.com/6ro4j
"But why would the American Cancer Society
cavalierly dismiss evidence that might point to
the underlying causes of so many types of cancer?
Why would it also discount most alternative
medical therapies out-of-hand? To answer these
questions you have to follow the money."
I didn't read all of this. I stopped here.
It's a tired refrain.
The anti-life forces are in full force,
swinging their hammers at these "forces of
evil." (/sarcasm)
But, how to identify The Evil Ones?
I know this:
Institutions look for enemies...always. They
can always create 'em, if they don't have 'em
handy. And I see plenty of these institutions
in this url.
It reminds me of what I think of what The Church
musta done before its downfall from power, as they
were also in control of all the info...until
the Gutenberg Press. Today it's the net.
These "agencies"/"scribes" of the Current Church are mightily
busy, aren't they?
But I'm sure there's some truth there in the Current
Church.
How to separate it, is the question.
The current political machine...these propaganda
proponents...lie peddlars...will put just enuf truth
in their Holy Pronouncements to fool all but the most astute.
Can ya dig it?
Let's go for the root:
We don't know shit about shit and it might be a long
time before we do....(and The Institution is covered
in it and passing it on)...
...coz we won't live long enuf.
Catch 22.
Maybe the aliens are in charge, keeping us from this
immortality so many have searched for, only to fail.
Why not try to burn thru a little of the fog?
You that know how, know who you are, and you know
how, bud.
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| Republican National Convention Schedule |
| 08.05.04 (3:08 pm) [edit] |
New York, New York
August 30, 2004
SCHEDULE
6:00 PM Opening Prayer, led by the Reverend Jerry
Falwell
6:30 PM Pledge of Allegiance
6:35 PM Burning of Bill of Rights (excluding 2nd
amendment)
6:45 PM Salute to the Coalition of the Willing
6:46 PM Seminar #1 "Getting your kid a military
deferment"
7:30 PM First Presidential Beer Bong
7:35 PM Serve Freedom Fries
7:40 PM EPA Address #1: "Mercury, it's what's for
dinner"
8:00 PM Vote on which country to invade next
8:10 PM Call EMTs to revive Rush Limbaugh
8:15 PM John Ashcroft Lecture: "The Homos are after
your children"
8:30 PM Round table discussion on reproductive rights
(MEN only)
8:50 PM Seminar #2 "Corporations: The government of
the future"
9:00 PM Condi Rice sings "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"
9:05 PM Second Presidential Beer Bong
9:10 PM EPA Address #2 "Trees: The real cause of
forest fires"
9:30 PM Break for secret meetings
10:00 PM Second prayer, led by Cal Thomas
10:15 PM Lecture by Carl Rove: "Doublespeak made
easy"
10:30 PM Rumsfeld demonstration of how to squint and
talk macho
10:35 PM Bush demonstration of trademark "deer in
headlights" stare.
10:40 PM John Ashcroft demonstrates new mandatory
kevlar chastity belt
10:45 PM Clarence Thomas reads list of black
republicans
10:46 PM Third Presidential Beer Bong
10:50 PM Seminar #3 "Education: a drain on our
nation's economy"
11:10 PM Hilary Clinton Piqata
11:20 PM Second Lecture by John Ashcroft:
"Evolutionists: The dangerous new
cult"
11:30 PM Call EMTs to revive Rush Limbaugh again.
11:35 PM Blame Clinton
11:40 PM Laura serves milk and cookies
11:50 PM Closing Prayer, led by Jesus Himself
12: 00 AM Nomination of George W. Bush as Holy
Supreme Planetary Overlord
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| The Need and Greed Screed |
| 08.05.04 (11:37 am) [edit] |
"'Need' now means wanting someone else's money.
'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. And
'Compassion' is when a politician arranges
the transfer.'" --Joe Sobran
Same goes for your life, even tho few know it
yet...or see the connections here.
The slumber is profound.
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| More conspiracies, lies and cover-ups |
| 08.05.04 (4:58 am) [edit] |
And you're paying for this "protection"?
If I were you, I'd demand my money back.
_________________________ ____
"But while Edmonds' letter delivered a cascade
of specific allegations, perhaps the most
explosive charge she makes concerns information
the bureau was said to have received four months
prior to September 2001, information warning of
the September 11 plan. While both President Bush
and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice
have repeatedly denied that there was any
indication that airplanes would be used as a
terror weapon, Edmonds revealed that in April
2001 the bureau had information that bin Laden
was 'planning a major terrorist attack in the
United States targeting four to five major
cities'; 'the attack was going to involve
airplanes'; some of those involved were already
'in the United States'; and the attack would be
'in a few months'. Edmonds states that the
information came from 'a long-term FBI
informant/asset' and that it was sent to the
'special agent in charge of counter-terrorism' in
Washington. She also charges that after September
11 'the agents and translators were told to "keep
quiet" regarding this issue'.
Further to that, she writes, 'The Phoenix Memo,
received months prior to the [September 11]
attacks, specifically warned FBI HQ of pilot
training and their possible link to terrorist
activities against the United States. Four months
prior to the terrorist attacks the Iranian asset
provided the FBI with specific information
regarding the 'use of airplanes', 'major US
cities as targets', and 'Osama bin Laden issuing
the order' ..."
Full story.
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| The nut bin |
| 08.04.04 (6:43 pm) [edit] |
"Like those who refuse to acknowledge a naked man
at a party, nobody was willing to take note of
the fact that millions of Americans have become
painfully aware of the utter meaninglessness of
political activism and voting to their lives. We
have long had a one-party system in America – the
Establishment Party – with indistinguishable
candidates from indistinguishable branches of
this party offered as 'choices' to voters. The
2004 elections make this abundantly clear. At a
time when cloning has become a 'bioethical'
issue, we have George Bush and John Kerry as
clones of the Establishment Party: each favors
the war in Iraq, and Kerry has announced his
desire to expand it; each favors the Patriot Act
and its attendant police state; each favors a
more intensive raid on taxpayers’ incomes to
support social programs they favor. Voters are
expected to become delirious over this choice?
The sacker at our neighborhood supermarket offers
me a far more significant choice when he asks
'plastic or paper?'
Even asylum inmates can appreciate distinctions
between sane and insane behavior: they just don’t
always know which position to take. As Abraham
Maslow observed, this is why brain-injured
persons try 'to maintain their equilibrium by
avoiding everything unfamiliar and strange and by
ordering their restricted world in such a neat,
disciplined, orderly fashion that everything in
the world can be counted upon.' To have to listen
to the mad babblings of fellow inmates and then
hear more lunacies on television, blurs the
distinctions between sanity and insanity upon
which a return to rationality rests..."
Anybody looked at the comparative asylum
populations figures lately? Could it be decreasing
since it's getting harder to tell who is nuts and
who isn't? Are we living on the inside or the
outside? Does anyone know?
Is that why all the many political supporters are
each whining about the particular order they want
to impose, coz they're brain-damaged? (Could it
have been a food additive that was the cause
of this?)
I never thought of any of that before.
It doesn't look good, does it.
But then, any collective is an unthinking mob,
isn't it.
All of the article.
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| Your vote is important in this... |
| 08.04.04 (2:31 pm) [edit] |
Vote for Anybody. You´ll just die with what he has
in store for you in the next 4 years.
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| Dialogue between two libertarian views. |
| 08.04.04 (11:36 am) [edit] |
This is a summary of a dialogue between a
political Libertarian and an apolitical
libertarian...
_________________________ ________
"This brings me to a fundamental difference in
our view of what libertarians should strive for.
You wish to work directly through the political
process. I maintain that this reinforces the
legitimacy of that process. You tell people, in
effect, that the way to assert their natural
rights is to ask the government's permission.
When the government gives you permission to keep
your earnings, or to teach your children, or to
live a particular lifestyle, then it's O.K. to do
so. It's all very proper; the game is played by
the State's own rules.
I maintain on the contrary, that libertarians
should breed a thorough and uncompromising
disrespect for the government and its laws. We
should tell people, in no uncertain terms, that
decrees of the government have no moral
legitimacy whatever - that they are on par with
decrees of the mafia. We must work to minimize
and demystify the State. Of course, there is the
practical problem of avoiding penalties, and
individuals may choose to obey particular laws in
order to escape punishment. But a government that
must rely entirely on fear cannot long survive.
All governments must cloak themselves in
legitimacy in order to win the passive
acquiescence of their subjects. Libertarians must
seek to dissolve this aura of legitimacy. We must
tell people: you have certain rights, period; and
what the government does cannot change that. The
government is a thug and a thief; be on your
guard, watch it with caution, for it is powerful.
But do not be awed by it. Do not grant it respect
or moral sanction. Treat it as you would any
villain.
I submit that if this disrespect could be
inculcated on a wide scale, we would experience a
rebirth of liberty in America. Politicians would
would be beside themselves if only one percent of
the population showed up to vote. Politics would
be a laughing stock. One law after another could
be passed, and nobody would pay any attention.
The government would die of neglect. This rather
than political action, is the course I would
recommend to libertarians. And the likelihood of
its success is no less than the prospect of
dismantling the government from within. Granted,
it lacks the flashy trappings of political
campaigns. There would be no campaigns and media
hype. It would be a quiet revolution and one that
is largely decentralized. It would entail dozens
of different strategies. It would take a long
time, and it wouldn't be glamorous. There would
be few, if any, positions of power to fight for.
It would require dedication and knowledge. But it
could be deadly.
This strategic vision, as I have argued, is
incompatible with political action. We wish
people to look elsewhere than government for
their freedom. We wish them to view government
with contemptuous indifference. This cannot be
achieved through political action."
...or thru any kind of ol' fashioned
revolution which is just another form of political
action.
But, hey. You folks who believe in the legitimacy
of the power of one person over another
need not worry. The above will never happen. At
least, it wouldn't be anything you'd notice.
The entire dialogue.
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| A fantasy world. |
| 08.03.04 (3:29 pm) [edit] |
"The coming civil war in the United States will
be disruptive, yes. But not as disruptive as
implementing true liberty. The difference is only
that one will degenerate into lower rungs of
hell, and the other would establish a common
ground upon which to build. It wouldn’t build
upon historical documents, religious beliefs, or
other chosen values, but upon what everyone holds
in common by virtue of being human...
Haven't thought about that civil war, have
you.
Against the contradictory nonsense that is
blithely accepted as 'common knowledge,' runs an
undercurrent of fear that everything they have
ever learned or grasped is false. Rather than
running forward, toward whatever truth or light
they can find (for they have been diseducated
into believing there is no such thing as truth or
reality), they hedge against the warm, clan
bodies of their fellow slaves, and grope for
comfort in their darkness, rather than for light
from an 'outside' world that is nothing like what
they have known, a real world that’s never even
heard of Plato...
Hie thee to a natural space with no evidence of
humanity as far as the eye can see. Arrive alone
and under your own power, by foot, bicycle or row-
boat. It can be a desert, forest or a strip of
ocean beach. Look into the vastness of it ... its
unknown potential ... and wander apace, if only
mentally, therein to its opposite reaches where
you will find a people unlike any you have ever
encountered, with no empowered institutions, no
police, no bureaucracies, and each person
sovereign and free. As they are wise, and seeing
that you are filled with harmful, destructive
nonsense in every aspect of your mind, carriage
and morals, they will turn you back. You are not
welcomed there, for you are contaminated.
And there you are, stuck between what you 'know
and believe' and what should be your human
condition, but one you have not earned admittance
to. Will you go back? Or will you stay in the
wilderness until you become human? It is common
clan thinking that you would strive to become
acceptable to the group of humans you wish to
join. But you will only be 'acceptable' to human
beings when you no longer need to 'join' any
group, when you are free from the conditioning of
groups; when remaining in the wilderness is
perfectly acceptable to you; when you are no
longer lost ... in the wilderness ... but are at
home in your self on the planet earth, a child of
the stars and the moon and God – and subordinate
to no one.'"
The whole thing.
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| Another news item in the ongoing tragicomedy. |
| 08.03.04 (1:49 pm) [edit] |
Something odd here. The military is painted
in glowing colors at the bottom of the link.
I wonder why. Hmmmmmm.
Dysinfo?
Believe this or not:
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TBR News- August 2, 2004
The Voice of the White House
In previous issues, we carried comments from a
reporter assigned to the White House press corps.
Some of these remarks, most especially one about
Bush’s physical and mental problems, drew an
enormous number of viewers and hundreds of
inquiries, most especially from foreign press
entities. The reporter advised us by email that
there was rampant fury in the White House and
security was becoming very tight. As a result of
this, he decided to lay low for a few weeks and
see how the wind was blowing. Yesterday, he sent
us the following material which we are now
posting. Some of it is outrageous in the extreme
but to date, no one has proven him wrong.
July 29, 2004 "First there was your posting of
my notes on our sick President and then Capitol
Hill Blue just did another number on the same
theme. You can imagine the mess around the Monkey
Palace today! Now, it appears that there are at
least three stool pigeons loose here and they
have brought in the FBI and the Secret Service to
do damage control. Bush is almost literally
foaming, Karl Rove and other great lights are
threatening the Patriot Act against anyone who is
caught! 'This is a wartime Presidency and anyone
passing out secrets will be charged!' is the
word. All phones are tapped now and all laptops
are rudely grabbed and checked for notes,
harmless secretaries are bullied and threatened
with lie detector tests. In fact, the Head Monkey
now want all White House personnel given lie
detector tests every week!..."
The whole sordid story.
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| A source for magnetic motor research |
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All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
A web page of various attempts at creating magnetic
power.
http://www.greaterthings.com/News/FreeEnergy/Direc tory/MagneticMotors/index .html" title="http://www.greaterthings.com/News/FreeEnergy/Direc tory/MagneticMotors/index .html" target="_blank"http://www.greaterthings.com/...
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| A new blitzkrieg. |
| 08.03.04 (9:58 am) [edit] |
"Artists Against 419 (AA419) has organised a 48-
hour online protest against advanced fee fraud,
otherwise known as the 419 scam. The protest is
an organised version of the SlashDot effect –
whereby a huge number of visitors turn up at a
site, overwhelming its bandwidth allocation. The
virtual flash mob began at midnight on 1 August
and has already taken down three of its targets.
The organisers describe the event as the
nightmare of all fake lotteries:
Basically our aim is to shut down 4 fake
lottery web sites in less than 48 hours!
Furthermore this online event shall make web
hosting companies, the authorities and the media
more aware of the problem of the Nigerian 419
fraud, it's lottery variant and particular of the
problem with criminal fake websites."
Full article.
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| Exposing the Libertarian Party |
| 08.03.04 (5:15 am) [edit] |
This is a summary of a dialogue between a
political Libertarian and an apolitical
libertarian...
_________________________ ________
"This brings me to a fundamental difference in
our view of what libertarians should strive for.
You wish to work directly through the political
process. I maintain that this reinforces the
legitimacy of that process. You tell people, in
effect, that the way to assert their natural
rights is to ask the government's permission.
When the government gives you permission to keep
your earnings, or to teach your children, or to
live a particular lifestyle, then it's O.K. to do
so. It's all very proper; the game is played by
the State's own rules.
I maintain on the contrary, that libertarians
should breed a thorough and uncompromising
disrespect for the government and its laws. We
should tell people, in no uncertain terms, that
decrees of the government have no moral
legitimacy whatever - that they are on par with
decrees of the mafia. We must work to minimize
and demystify the State. Of course, there is the
practical problem of avoiding penalties, and
individuals may choose to obey particular laws in
order to escape punishment. But a government that
must rely entirely on fear cannot long survive.
All governments must cloak themselves in
legitimacy in order to win the passive
acquiescence of their subjects. Libertarians must
seek to dissolve this aura of leg | |
